On February 19th, AKB48’s leader, Takahashi Minami, and AKB48’s ace, Maeda Atsuko, both met up to watch “GANTZ” at the movie theatres.

The two met up after work to see the movie, which they had been promising to do for quite some time. Afterwards, both girls expressed that they were pretty impressed with “GANTZ”, but were also scared.

Maeda blogged, “It’s been a really long time since I’ve seen a movie with such power. I…held my breath like 10 times x_X I spent the entire time watching it while sitting really close to Takamina haha. It was great. Even now, the two of us are still excited about it.”

Takahashi also commented in her blog, “In the beginning we watched and ate popcorn, but when the aliens came, I had to stop because my hands were trembling lol lol. In conclusion…..!!!!!! It was really interesting!!!!! The onion aliens were awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I want to read the manga!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lol lol”

However, the girls were most impressed with actor Yamada Takayuki. Takahashi wrote, “Atsuko and I said this at the same time…”I can still feel Yamada-san’s presence!!!!””.

The girls are now waiting for the sequel and Takahashi left a final comment to those who haven’t seen the movie yet: “Definitely head on over to the theatre!!!!!!!”