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Originally Posted by Siegel Clyne
Whatever the reason, that's still a lot
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Also not healthy for the industry and the environment (I'm serious about this latter point). You can read reports in Japan how the second hand shops now all refuses to buy back AKB48 CDs because the AKB48 otaku used to buy tens if not hundreds of the CDs then takes out the tickets inside the CD and sells the CD back to the shop. Every time a new AKB48 CD is released you see people post pictures of the stacks of the CDs they buy and the receipt which shows them spending a few hundred thousand yen on the stack. Good for a quick laugh, but the underlying implication of the supposed "boom and popularity" of AKB48 is worrying when viewed from the industry as a whole.
As for the latter point, the most ridiculous stories I've seen are multiple pictures of different boxes of AKB48 CD left in the open with a sign "free - please take" on it. That's just such a waste of resources.