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Originally Posted by Klashikari
Consequently, there is no evidence the note was sincere either, -however- there are aggravating points that make the apology totally not convincing:
1) deleting the videos (It is highly questionable why, because they weren't tampered. if it was really a mere prank, why are they afraid of letting these live anyway? Especially the radio event)
2) cancelling the radio event (same point above: no reason if it was really a joke, so supposing it is that, there is no reason for them to cancel them).
3) Sueing people who will upload the videos
4) no direct mention of Ichiki whatsoever
5) absolutely no detail whatsoever nor the purpose of all of this.
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1+2) i agree
3) the threat of sueing people did kind of stop last year's escalated seiyuu "scandal" with Toyosaki and Tomatsu and maybe the other members of sphere.
4) on the kokoro connect hp he was mentioned:
"アニメ「ココロコネクト」では、宣伝活動の一環としまして、声優・市来光弘さんを宣伝活動のメインに迎え "
It's true that this was meant for the audience though.
5) the publicity backfired completely, eventhough i can't see the point of this kind of publicity in the first place.
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Originally Posted by Klashikari
As it is, it has absolutely no weight in sincerity, since it doesn't cover the core problem of the prank: the damn reason of that.
So far, we have "business like" apology note, which are nowhere close to apology, and taking them for face value is dubious imho, especially how Japanese Society works a lot on the facade, requiring tricks to save face, or using someone to take all the blame for a company in general.
And frankly, there is a huge difference between Ichiki deciding to make that blog post because he really believes things went out of hand or him being forced to do that. The latter is absolutely not "his" decision at all. It is the usual context of people forced to quit their job instead of being fired: the former being "softed" to the public, despite pressure from highers up would be the cause, which means it is actually the latter.
We will probably never know the absolutely true stance for Ichiki unless the responsible behind that admit what they actually have done. But, wait... even with this "apology", we don't know jack why everything has happened so far, so it is back to square one. basically speaking, these apologies aren't any, and it will just add oil to fire, for those who feel unsatisfied by these and continue their boycott or whatever reckless actions they may perform.
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Yeah, that was kind of my point of my earlier post about that an apology also means admitting. Who has the guts to admit that he was wrong and take the blame of it?
edit: after browsing through some the blogs of the involved seiyuu, they all speak of 誤解. But then again that is the official statement and like others have already pointed out that they can't write something that would contradict those statements. So of course, they can't be 100% sincere about this whole affaire.