Lately I've been extremely obsessed with this girl group. They managed to sell 1 million copies of their single on the first day of release which broke a 15 year record! Their songs are mediocre but catchy, although singing is not how they became so popular. It's the drama. Firstly, there are too many members. The picture above is just of AKB48, one group out of the 3 group franchise consisting of AKB48, SKE48 and NMB48.
I first got hooked when I heard that they had a reality TV game show named "AKBingo" where the you see all the cute girls do funny and interesting things. They would eat fried lizards, get cream pied in the face, dress up in moe costumes to seduce 50 year old men, be portrayed as a slut, bitch about each other whilst being hooked onto lie detectors and such, doing all this whilst maintaining a cute image.
One of the girls who graduated from the idol group has changed careers and is now doing AV. Rina Nakanishi (now as Riko Yamaguchi) started attracting more attention after she decided to become a porn star. What I found interesting was that her sister is following in her footsteps and is now also doing porn under the alias Riku Yamaguchi.
This is Rina..and this photo of her is sooo pretty..
A fan bought US$109,000 worth of CDs (5,500) just to promote Yuko Oshima (one of the favorites) as the most popular girl in the group. Each CD allows you to vote for your favorite member. The most popular girl gets to be on the center of most of the singles, commercials and other acts. Seriously with that amount of money you can probably rent her to be your maid for a couple of days. Let's not forget that the majority of the AKB girls are under 18. Even after all his efforts, on June 9 2011, in the 3rd Senbatsu Election results, Maeda Atsuko still ended up winning by a 17,000 vote difference.
Very recently, a new girl who apparently auditioned for NMB48, joined the frontlines of AKB48. Her name is Aimi Eguchi and Akimoto Yasushi, the founder of the AKB franchise describes her as the reason AKB48 was created - to "meet the heroine of the new age". So before Aimi has even been introduced to all the members in AKB or even participate in any live shows or PVs, she was placed front and center in the Glico ad below and on the front cover of Weekly Playboy.
How did Aimi get promoted so quickly? It's because many think that she is not real. I for one think that she is definitely not real. If she was real, then her promo photos have been heavily photoshopped because the photos of her are not even proportional. In the Glico ad, her eyes do not change in shape or blink, in her photos her chin is shaped like how one's chin would be shaped if their mouth was closed, whilst her mouth is wide open. There are also clues in her profile that can be found on the Glico website. The Glico product she was created to promote is called "Ezaki Guriko hitokuChi saizu Aisu no Mi" and her birthday February 11 is the date Glico was founded in 1922.
Speculation is that she was created using the faces of members, Maeda Atsuko, Oshima Yuko, Shinoda Mariko, Itano Tomomi, Takahashi Minami and Watanabe Mayu. But personally I think any one of those girls alone looks better than this CG creation.
Just as a final note, AKB48 has also donated more money to the Japan earthquake relief than either Sony or Nintendo!!♥ Anywayyyys.. I need to finish this post with my favorite, Tomomi Itano.
so dreamy...
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