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Originally Posted by Malkuth
Shinning Musume by Shiwasu no Okina, started in 2001 and is still running
AKB48 uses the same group structures and promotion practices (minus the demons and rituals) since 2005
This anime has the futuristic version of the above two.
... and by the way there is a doujinshi some of the live groups' members, but needs a strong stomach to flip even the first couple of pages 
Anyway, I thought the inspiration for the live group, as well as its producer's and fangirls' aspirations and fears about the future were on-topic  |
Shining Musume is itself a parody series based on a separate idol supergroup referred to as the Hello! Project...it's a complete stretch to claim that the fan parody of an alternate idol group is the
source of this obviously self-promotional multimedia project.
Hello! Project and AKB48 probably have plenty of similarities being in the same industry but given that they are
competitors, and especially given that Morning Musume has somewhat faded out of relevance whereas AKB48 is the current really big thing you would do well not to assume any further connections between them.