High Tension (song)

"High Tension"
"High Tension"
Single by AKB48
from the album Thumbnail
A-side	"High Tension"
B-side	Osae Kirenai Shoudou; Happy End (type A); Better (type B); Hoshizora o Kimi ni (type C); Shishunki no Adrenaline (type D); Junjō Tired (type E); Mata Anata no Koto o Kangaeteta (theater edition);
Released	November 16, 2016
Genre	J-pop; club music; hip-hop;
Label	You, Be Cool! / King; Genie Music; Stone Music Entertainment;
Songwriter(s)	Yasushi Akimoto (lyrics); Satori Shiraishi (music); Hiroshi Sasaki (arrangement);
Producer(s)	Yasushi Akimoto
AKB48 singles chronology
Music video
	High Tension on YouTube

High Tension (ハイテンション, Hai Tenshon) is the 46th single by Japanese idol girl group AKB48. It was released on November 16, 2016 (2016-11-16) through You, Be Cool!/King Records.^[1] This is the final single appearance of Haruka Shimazaki, who left the group shortly after the release. The single's choreography is also centered by Shimazaki.^[2]^[3] The title song is used as the theme song of their drama Cabasuka Gakuen premiered on October 30, 2016^[4] and was used for one of the team battles during Produce 48's group battle stage.

The single's title is an example of Wasei-eigo and refers to a state of high excitement instead of any of the usual meanings of "tension" in English.

Track listing[]

Type-A[]

CD^[1]^[5]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Tension (ハイテンション)"
2.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou (抑えきれない衝動)" (performed by Waiting Circle)
3.	"Happy End (ハッピーエンド)" (performed by Renacchiizu)
4.	"High Tension" (off vocal ver.)
5.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou" (off vocal ver.)
6.	"Happy End" (off vocal ver.)

DVD^[1]^[5]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Tension (ハイテンション) Music Video"
2.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou (抑えきれない衝動) Music Video"
3.	"Happy End (ハッピーエンド) Music Video"

Type-B[]

CD^[6]^[7]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Tension (ハイテンション)"
2.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou (抑えきれない衝動)" (performed by Waiting Circle)
3.	"Better" (Haruka Shimazaki's graduation song)
4.	"High Tension" (off vocal ver.)
5.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou" (off vocal ver.)
6.	"Better" (off vocal ver.)

DVD^[6]^[7]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Tension (ハイテンション) Music Video"
2.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou (抑えきれない衝動) Music Video"
3.	"Better Music Video"

Type-C[]

CD^[8]^[9]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Tension (ハイテンション)"
2.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou (抑えきれない衝動)" (performed by Waiting Circle)
3.	"Hoshizora o Kimi ni (星空を君に)" (performed by Team 8 EAST)
4.	"High Tension" (off vocal ver.)
5.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou" (off vocal ver.)
6.	"Hoshizora o Kimi ni" (off vocal ver.)

DVD^[8]^[9]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Tension (ハイテンション) Music Video"
2.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou (抑えきれない衝動) Music Video"
3.	"Hoshizora o Kimi ni (星空を君に) Music Video"

Type-D[]

CD^[10]^[11]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Tension (ハイテンション)"
2.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou (抑えきれない衝動)" (performed by Waiting Circle)
3.	"Shishunki no Adrenaline (思春期のアドレナリン)" (performed by Team 8 WEST)
4.	"High Tension" (off vocal ver.)
5.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou" (off vocal ver.)
6.	"Shishunki no Adrenaline" (off vocal ver.)

DVD^[10]^[11]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Tension (ハイテンション) Music Video"
2.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou (抑えきれない衝動) Music Video"
3.	"Shishunki no Adrenaline (思春期のアドレナリン) Music Video"

Type-E[]

CD^[12]^[13]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Tension (ハイテンション)"
2.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou (抑えきれない衝動)" (performed by Waiting Circle)
3.	"Junjō Tired (清純タイアド)" (performed by Tentoumu Chu!)
4.	"High Tension" (off vocal ver.)
5.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou" (off vocal ver.)
6.	"Junjō Tired" (off vocal ver.)

DVD^[12]^[13]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Tension (ハイテンション) Music Video"
2.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou (抑えきれない衝動) Music Video"
3.	"Junjō Tired (清純タイアド) Music Video"

Theater edition[]

CD^[14]
No.	Title	Length
1.	"High Tension (ハイテンション)"
2.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou (抑えきれない衝動)" (performed by Waiting Circle)
3.	"Mata Anata no Koto o Kangaeteta (またあなたのことを考えてた)" (performed by Team Vocal)
4.	"High Tension" (off vocal ver.)
5.	"Osae Kirenai Shoudou" (off vocal ver.)
6.	"Mata Anata no Koto o Kangaeteta" (off vocal ver.)

Senbatsu members[]

"High Tension"[]

The center performer is Haruka Shimazaki.

AKB48 Team A: Anna Iriyama, Haruna Kojima, Haruka Shimazaki (center, last single), Yui Yokoyama
Team K: Mion Mukaichi
Team B: Yuki Kashiwagi, Rena Katō, Yuria Kizaki, Mayu Watanabe
Team 4: Nana Okada, Saya Kawamoto, Mako Kojima, Haruka Komiyama, Juri Takahashi
Team 8: Yui Oguri
SKE48 Team S: Jurina Matsui
NMB48 Team N: Sayaka Yamamoto
HKT48 Team H: Haruka Kodama, Rino Sashihara
Team KIV: Sakura Miyawaki
Team TII: Hana Matsuoka
NGT48 Team NIII: Rika Nakai

"Osae Kirenai Shoudou"[]

This song was performed by this single's unit, Waiting Circle which consists of the following members:

Team A: Megu Taniguchi, Yui Hiwatashi
Team K: Tomu Muto
Team B: Ryoka Oshima, Moe Gotō, Seina Fukuoka (center)
Team 4: Yuiri Murayama
Team 8: Narumi Kurano, Nanami Yamada, Nagisa Sakaguchi
Kenkyusei: Satone Kubo, Kira Takahashi

"Happy End"[]

This song is performed by this single's unit Renacchis, a unit that was created on "Renacchi's Sousenkyo" made by member Rena Katō as a joke on the app "755".

Team A: Natsuki Kojima
Team K: Yūka Tano, Mion Mukaichi, Mogi Shinobu
Team B: Ryoka Oshima, Rena Katō, Yuria Kizaki
Team 4: Ayaka Okada,
Team 8: Yui Oguri (center), Kurena Cho
Team KII: Yumana Takagi
Team E: Sumire Sato
Team BII: Miori Ichikawa
Team H: Natsumi Tanaka
Team TII: Hana Matsuoka
Team NIII: Rika Nakai, Maho Yamaguchi

"Better"[]

This song serves as Haruka Shimazaki's graduation song, with the Senbatsu members being her good friends from AKB48's 9th Generation.

Team A: Haruka Shimazaki (center), Mariko Nakamura, Yui Yokoyama
Team K: Haruka Shimada
Team B: Miyu Takeuchi
Team S: Suzuran Yamauchi
Team KII: Mina Oba
Graduates: Mariya Nagao

"Hoshizora no Kimi ni"[]

This song is performed by Team 8 EAST, with members belonging from the eastern region of Japan, where their prefectures belong.

Team 8: Mei Abe, Yui Oguri (center), Erina Oda, Nagisa Sakaguchi (center), Akari Sato, Shiori Sato, Nanami Sato, Maria Shimizu, Ayane Takahashi, Hijiri Tanikawa, Kurena Cho, Haruna Hashimoto, Yuna Hattori, Tsumugi Hayasaka, Ayaka Hidaritomo, Hitomi Honda, Kasumi Mogi, Yuri Yokomichi, Yui Yokoyama, Nanase Yoshikawa, Hinano Noda, Hatsuka Utada

"Shishunki no Adrenaline"[]

This song is performed by Team 8 WEST, with members belonging from the western region of Japan, where their prefectures belong.

Team 8: Mei Abe, Nao Ota, Momoka Onishi, Yurina Gyoten, Narumi Kuranoo (center), Miu Shitao, Karin Shimoaoki, Kaoru Takaoka, Yuri Tani, Ikumi Nakano, Serika Nagano, Sayuna Hama, Riona Hamamatsu, Kotone Hitomi, Natsuki Hirose, Rena Fukuchi, Rira Miyazato, Karen Yoshida, Moka Yaguchi, Nanami Yamada, Ruka Yamamoto, Miyu Yoshino, Misaki Terada

"Seijun Tired"[]

This song is sang by the unit "Tentoumu Chu!", which was originally a Kenkyuusei unit soon turned into active unit.

Team 4: Nana Okada, Mako Kojima (center), Miki Nishino
Team S: Ryoha Kitagawa
Team BII: Nagisa Shibuya
Team H: Meru Tashima
Team KIV: Mio Tomonaga

"Mata Anata no Koto o Kangaeteta"[]

This song is sang by this single's unit Team Vocal, who are known to be the best vocalists of their Teams.

Team A: Miho Miyazaki
Team K: Yūka Tano, Minami Minegishi (center)
Team 8: Erina Oda
Team S: Rion Azuma, Suzuran Yamauchi
Team KII: Akane Takayanagi, Nao Furuhata
Team N: Natsuko Akashi
Team M: Miru Shiroma
Team TII: Erena Sakamoto

Release history[]

Region	Date	Format	Label
Japan	November 16, 2016	CD digital download streaming	King Records (YOU BE COOL division)
Hong Kong, Taiwan	November 16, 2016	CD digital download streaming	King Records
South Korea	September 7, 2018	digital download streaming	Stone Music Entertainment Genie Music King

References[]

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^ ハイテンション＜劇場盤＞ AKB48 (in Japanese). King Records Official Site. Retrieved 2016-10-30.

External links[]

Official website (in Japanese)

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[4] MUSIC｜キャバすか学園｜日本テレビ (in Japanese). Nippon Television Network Corporation. Retrieved 2016-10-30.

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[14] ハイテンション＜劇場盤＞ AKB48 (in Japanese). King Records Official Site. Retrieved 2016-10-30.

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Kamikyokutachi	"Ōgoe Diamond" "10nen Sakura" "Namida Surprise!" "Iiwake Maybe" "River" "Sakura no Shiori"
Koko ni Ita Koto	"Ponytail to Shushu" "Heavy Rotation" "Beginner" "Chance no Junban"
1830m	"Sakura no Ki ni Narō" "Everyday, Katyusha" "Flying Get" "Kaze wa Fuite Iru" "Ue kara Mariko" "Give Me Five!"
Tsugi no Ashiato	"Manatsu no Sounds Good!" "Gingham Check" "Uza" "Eien Pressure" "So Long!" "Sayonara Crawl" "Koi Suru Fortune Cookie"
Koko ga Rhodes da, Koko de Tobe!	"Heart Electric" "Suzukake Nanchara" "Mae shika Mukanee" "Labrador Retriever" "Kokoro no Placard" "Kibōteki Refrain"
0 to 1 no Aida	"Green Flash" "Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai" "Halloween Night"
Thumbnail	"Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby" "Kimi wa Melody" "Tsubasa wa Iranai" "Love Trip / Shiawase o Wakenasai" "High Tension"
Bokutachi wa, Ano Hi no Yoake wo Shitteiru	"Shoot Sign" "Negaigoto no Mochigusare" "#Sukinanda" "11gatsu no Anklet"
Non-album singles	"Jabaja" "Teacher Teacher" "Sentimental Train" "No Way Man" "Jiwaru Days" "Sustainable" "Shitsuren, Arigatō" "Nemohamo Rumor"
Other singles	"Kibō ni Tsuite" "Nekkoya (Pick Me)"
Other songs	"Sugar Rush" "Hanarete Ite mo"
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