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is this so?
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I don't have much knowledge on the idol business, but I suspect that's what's exactly happening here.
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2013-03-05, 09:29 | Link #282 | |
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It's not like the other girls don't know how to find a man, most likely they made the decision to follow the rules of the management. Just like not every fan of AKB is a lonely wanker. Now whether those rules make sense or not is a completely different story. In my eyes the whole idol system in Japan (and maybe other asia as well but I don't really know about idols outside of Japan and Korea) is very ancient. While I'm not expecting them to conform to the US model which is quite dumb in its own way but a more liberal approach not only in the idol business but Japan in general certainly wouldn't hurt. Are you really comparing shaving your head to middle-east? Really? |
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2013-03-06, 07:43 | Link #283 | |
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Tonight is Sayaka Nakaya's final performance at the theater. Thereafter she'll pursue a new career as a full-time voice actress.
New personal blog: http://nakaya1015.exblog.jp/ Last 4 G+ entries as AKB member: https://plus.google.com/117151902078...ts/G74UDcKmeSm https://plus.google.com/117151902078...ts/87xhM5NRNfP https://plus.google.com/117151902078...ts/cNzZAvXLUC1 https://plus.google.com/117151902078...ts/B1P2fSQgyMv Quote:
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She'll graduate later this month, and by the next, she'll enroll at a seiyuu school.
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2013-06-15, 12:09 | Link #288 | |
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In other observations: Future Girls can also be called Generation 7 with sister groups. 5 of the 6(7) Gen 7 members are in the bottom group this time. Both sad and interesting. Interesting that #64 got almost 2x what last year's #64 got in votes. |
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2013-07-07, 22:59 | Link #289 | |
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Those are a lot of CDs.
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2013-07-08, 09:58 | Link #290 | |
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2013-07-13, 00:00 | Link #291 | |
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2013-07-14, 00:55 | Link #292 |
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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.
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2013-07-14, 12:48 | Link #293 | |
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Cite more than your own anecdotal evidence. Not saying that you don't have them, but... Why don't you write an article about "the supposed 'boom and popularity' of AKB48," back it up with sources and documentation, post it on your website, blog, this forum, or elsewhere, give links to it, and we'll take a look. P.S. I'm no fan of AKB48 - in fact, I mostly don't care for their music, but I don't dislike the girls personally nor do I slime them and anyone else with hearsay personal attacks (like someone else posting on this thread) - so if you can write a well sourced article on them, then do it.
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2013-07-14, 16:44 | Link #294 |
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^What they do aren't criminal, or illegal, or even immoral.
But their exploitation of consumerism and destructiveness to music industry, while trying to present themselves as victim of criticism, IS appalling. When one of them said "why can't I be treated normal!" I sighed and thought to myself "I dunno, at the point you CHARGE PEOPLE MONEY to shake your dirty little hand, you gave up your 'normal girl card' "
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2013-07-14, 18:00 | Link #295 |
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Is it AKB48 thread? The only relevance that I could come up....was one retired singer said she was going to become a voice actress.
Many voice actresses are aspired singers, but only few make the moderate success in the niche market. The veteran voice actors/actresses either retired or became the supporting casts. I remember Nana Mizuki break a record. Anime music is the underdog in JPN music industry. They hardly make it on the J-Pop chart. The sale of Nan Mizuki's record made to the number one spot once.
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2013-07-15, 17:02 | Link #297 | |
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I do searches on Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc., all the time and I don't usually finds links to your websites, blogs, etc., unless I put "houkoholic" in the search, so it probably would be a waste of resources with you writing articles on them. But that shouldn't stop you. I just pointing out that that what the top selling seiyuu sell in music in Japan still greatly trails top selling acts like AKB48, regardless of "questionable business practices." And I see AKB48 covered everywhere, for better or for worse, in American mainstream media like The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic. I don't see any Japanese seiyuu getting that sorta coverage - which virtually amounts to nothing - in U.S. mainstream media.
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2013-07-15, 17:42 | Link #298 | |
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2013-07-15, 17:53 | Link #299 | |
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Dozens of people may read them. How can an industry force someone to buy something? Are they sticking a gun to the heads of hundreds of thousands, over a million, people in Japan to buy this stuff?
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2013-07-15, 17:57 | Link #300 | |
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If anything, AKB's producers should start shitting their pants if their sales drop below seiyuu singers, given how large their marketing engine is.
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