"Uza"
Type-A Regular Edition cover
Single by AKB48
from the album Tsugi no Ashiato
B-side	"Tsugi no Season" "Kodoku no Hoshizora" (Type-A) "Scrap & Build" (Type-K) "Seigi no Mikata ja Nai Hero" (Type-B) "Otona e no Michi" (Theater Edition)
Released	October 31, 2012 (2012-10-31) (Japan)
Genre	J-pop, electropop
Label	You, Be Cool! / King
Composer(s)	Yoshimasa Inoue
Lyricist(s)	Yasushi Akimoto
Producer(s)	Yasushi Akimoto
AKB48 singles chronology
"Gingham Check" (2012) "Uza" (2012) "Eien Pressure" (2012)
AKB48 songs singles chronology
"Sugar Rush" (2012)
Music videos
Uza (preview) on YouTube
Uza (Dance Ver.) on YouTube
Tsugi no Season (preview) on YouTube

"Uza" (stylized in Japanese as "UZA", meaning "Annoying" and pronounced "oo-zah") is the 28th major single by the Japanese female idol group AKB48, released in Japan on October 31, 2012.^[1]

Background

The single was first announced on Yasushi Akimoto's Google+ and the title song premiered live on September 18, 2012, at the AKB48's rock-paper-scissors tournament at Nippon Budokan.^[2] This is also the first single without ace Maeda Atsuko, and this is also the first senbatsu participation of Sakura Miyawaki.

Mayu Watanabe was originally one of the centers, along with Jurina Matsui, however due to heavy choreography involved in this song, Yuko Oshima, a more experienced dancer, later replaced Watanabe's center position.^{[citation needed]}

It was released in four versions: Type-A, Type-K, Type-B, and Theater Edition.

The music video for the title song was directed by Joseph Kahn, the director of the music video for "Gingham Check".^[3][4]

Track listing

Type-A

Type-K

Type-B

Theater Edition

Members

"Uza"

Center: Yūko Ōshima, Jurina Matsui.^[5]

• Team A: Haruna Kojima, Mariko Shinoda, Minami Takahashi
• Team K: Tomomi Itano, Yūko Ōshima, Minami Minegishi, Yui Yokoyama
• Team B: Yuki Kashiwagi, Mayu Watanabe
• Team 4: Haruka Shimazaki
• SKE48 Team S / AKB48 Team K: Jurina Matsui
• SKE48 Team S: Rena Matsui
• NMB48 Team N / AKB48 Team B: Miyuki Watanabe
• NMB48 Team N: Sayaka Yamamoto
• HKT48 Team H: Rino Sashihara, Sakura Miyawaki

"Tsugi no Season"

The song is performed by Under Girls.^[6] Center: Rina Kawaei

• Team 4: Miori Ichikawa, Anna Iriyama, Karen Iwata, Rena Katō, Rina Kawaei, Juri Takahashi, Miyu Takeuchi, Yūka Tano, Mariya Nagao
• Promoted Kenkyūsei: Ryoka Oshima, Tomu Muto
• SKE48 Team S: Yuria Kizaki
• SKE48 Team KII: Manatsu Mukaida
• SKE48 Team E: Kanon Kimoto
• NMB48 Team N: Nana Yamada
• HKT48 Team H: Haruka Kodama

"Kodoku na Hoshizora"

• New Team A: Karen Iwata, Rina Izuta, Anna Iriyama, Ryōka Ōshima, Tomomi Kasai, Rina Kawaei, Ayaka Kikuchi, Riho Kotani, Marina Kobayashi, Sumire Satō, Natsuki Satō, Mariko Shinoda, Juri Takahashi, Minami Takahashi, Yūka Tano, Tomomi Nakatsuka, Shiori Nakamata, Moeno Nitō, Sakiko Matsui, Ayaka Morikawa, Yui Yokoyama, Mayu Watanabe

"Scrap & Build"

• New Team K: Sayaka Akimoto, Maria Abe, Tomomi Itano, Yūko Ōshima, Mayumi Uchida, Rie Kitahara, Asuka Kuramochi, Kana Kobayashi, Amina Satō, Haruka Shimada, Shihori Suzuki, Rina Chikano, Chisato Nakata, Sayaka Nakaya, Mariya Nagao, Nana Fujita, Ami Maeda, Yuka Masuda, Jurina Matsui, Natsumi Matsubara, Kaoru Mitsumune, Miho Miyazaki, Tomu Muto

"Seigi no Mikata ja Nai Hero"

• New Team B: Anna Ishida, Haruka Ishida, Miori Ichikawa, Misaki Iwasa, Ayaka Umeda, Mina Ōba, Shizuka Ōya, Yuki Kashiwagi, Haruka Katayama, Rena Katō, Natsuki Kojima, Haruna Kojima, Mika Komori, Haruka Shimazaki, Miyu Takeuchi, Miku Tanabe, Mariko Nakamura, Wakana Natori, Misato Nonaka, Reina Fujie, Minami Minegishi, Suzuran Yamauchi, Miyuki Watanabe

"Otona e no Michi"

The song is performed by kenkyūsei (trainees).

Aigasa Moe, Iwatate Saho, Uchiyama Natsuki, Umeta Ayano, Omori Miyuu, Okada Ayaka, Okada Nana, Kitazawa Saki, Kojima Mako, Saeed Yokota Erena, Sasaki Yukari, Shinozaki Ayana, Takashima Yurina, Nishino Miki, Hashimoto Hikari, Hirata Rina, Maeda Mitsuki, Murayama Yuiri, Mogi Shinobu

charts

Oricon

G-music (Taiwan)