Non-fans of top otaxploitation idol group AKB48 are aghast at their latest money-making venture: AKBaby, which allows their notoriously creepy fanbase to have babies with the group’s members in exchange for a monthly subscription – much like regular parenthood, in fact…
A ¥1,480 subscription gives fans membership on AKB48’s official site, and access to AKBaby, a freakish application which allows fans to merge their personal photograph with that of one of the idols to create the hypothetical spawn of their unlikely coupling:
“Won’t you make a baby with me? On the net.“
Quite a few seem to be of the opinion that the idols and their promoters are at least as creepy as their fans:
“This is messed up!”
“Crazy!”
“How did they think of some like this…”
“Madness!”
“This is gross.”
“Disgusting!”
“Your pictures…”
“I like AKB but this is…”
What is the point of this?”
“Isn’t that baby sucking her breast?”
“This is utterly horrible.”
“Total mega-madness.”
“They’re actually doing it…”
“No way.”
“Japan is just getting started.”
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Hm..sounds like a sneaky scheme to get photos of their fans and collect a database.
1. Make site to get fans to up load photos to a data base.
2. ??????
3. Profit
More like "Get the really creepy fans to upload their pictures to a site so we can document them and both milk them and have extra security at anything they show up at...
It's like making a "creepy people" registry that you're having the creepy people both come to voluntarily and fund it as well.
They're asking $227 a year. That's a pretty nice racket they've got going there. Even if only a few hundred people signed up, that's still several thousand dollars a month in revenue. Plus, they've got their photos, in case anything happens. It's a win-win.
Jee-SUS! o.0
Photo recognition software and matching it to concert tickets paid over the internet to track their address.
Too bad this won't work with middle east terrorist. If you and the President have a child...
They are clearly forming a new group! Orz48, an all male group who sing and dance, and follow potential fans around. They'll buy their own CDs to give away to those they obsess over, or just stockpile them. It doesn't matter, as long as they sell.
#2 Upload entire database to national sex criminal listing.
>“Won’t you make a baby with me? [On the net?]“
>On the net?
/mass disappointment envelops
damnit!
I thought they were cereal for a minute there~
this is Artefact we're talking about
you can't come to SanCom and expect seriousness
I said that earlier. Anon 1:31 31/10/2011.
However, If it is the plan of "Marriage with an Anime character" and "Child creation of an Anime character", you will do what?
Then the idiots here will be acting like it's a gift from god.
Its really both funny and pathetic that the ppl here are so against this idea, when they'll all jump at a chance to 'Create a Child' with their 2D characters.
Kind of agree. I mean I find nothing wrong or really creepy with this. Is a though experiment, a novel use for image processing technology. It really only one step ahead of playing with web cam effects [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3xd8bXlzeU].
If you are creeped out by this you need a thinker skin.
THIS.
and not only here. the comments in 2ch are all bashing the management and the idol otakus... but 99% of the 2ch users ARE OTAKUS THEMSELVES. in other words, they are so "freak" as the ones that spend money with this. maybe more.
First of all, Sankaku the trickster strikes again. Even though I know it is coming, you still trip me up with your titles :)
Second, even tho I am all for capitalism, this has got to be a bad idea. Whatever sympathy or moral high ground idols currently have regarding "stalkers", this will cost the idols a lot of it. It really does come across as someone teasing crack addicts with cheap methadone. This whole marketing concept seems dangerous and irresponsible :(
I would have to agree, this really goes beyond the pale. I'm really behind free market, free speech, and all the associated ideals...but this seems almost dangerous.
They already set up these idols on pedestals for guys to worship and adore, and set up this mythos around them of how wondrous and pure they are. When they fall short of that, you end up with scenarios just shy of riots. Is furthering and profiting off that obsession legal? Well, yes. But is it right? Probably not.
You could say it's a similar sense to taking a gambling addict and trying to hook them in farther and deeper ways into gambling, with no regard what that does to a person, or how it can ruin their life...except their replacing gambling, which is just a machine and easily replaceable, with a real person, who has their own life and feelings.
I'm sure these idols feel like something approaching a machine or shrine. People come to them to worship and offer their money and praise onto them, but when they try to act like an actual person, they get attacked. "How dare you not live up to our ideals and dreams!?" I can understand the feeling on both sides, and I certainly can understand the attraction, but it just feels...wrong.
In the states, the guys and girls that would be the targets of this almost always fall fairly quickly to the temptations swirling about them, and either fall entirely or reinvent themselves as adults, be it actors, musicians or whatnot. The illusion falls quickly here.
That raises a question. If singers/actors and such in other countries didn't fall quickly to the temptations around them, if their agents and production companies pushed them in line like these guys do...would we all have the same scenario as these idols?
-K.D.S.
Good points, but there is a sort of X-factor that I think is finally coming into effect, and acts like this are almost like the beginnings of the death of this ideal. The free market system is actually incredibly strong. In the US, the issue is that many people are exceptionally short-sighted about how it actually works. When it functions incorrectly, then companies fall, and rightfully so, because it means they aren't giving people what they want. Right now, people in our economy are still trying to force business as usual, and the result is the economy is still tanked. Unless people learn and adapt to the completely adjusted perceptions on the system, then nothing will survive. But that is what is happening, the system is adjusting despite any attempts to hold on to the past, it's just causing more pain than was necessary if those who could change more readily would do so.
It's like BPH. The market moved like a beast when we found out BPH in plastics can cause all sorts of issues in babies and adults alike, and within weeks BPH was out of plastics across the board because it actually became profitable to say "BPH free!" because as much as we hate the fact that health can be considered a marketing buzz word, it also is what drives the market. The country is more health-conscious due to to new science. Businesses are machines based on the emotion of those they serve, so if we change, they will change.
In this case, the same is true. The current idol craze has come to a head, with the likes of Aya and the scandals and the reaction in general just feels... wrong, as you said. This collection of lies cannot exist in the current paradigm that the world has entered. Dictators are falling left and right and people are rising up without anyone seeing it coming because we're in a time where truth is unavoidable, so you have two choices, face it and grow, or deny it and fall.
The Otaku who are in denial of their own life are pathetic to most people, because they ARE pathetic. Lying to yourself is one of the greatest 'sins' a human can do for themselves, yet we all do it. When things become too absurd, then the 'market' shifts based on the perceptions of the people. When things like this happen, and they begin to fail, then the market will change accordingly.
Politic fails here. Some sort of "child protection law" is missing. In other countries you would get into jail for this and your child would have taken away from you for it's own good.
The Legion commends Akimoto Yasushi for this ingenious idea.
(He shall make an EXCELLENT Promotions Manager)
We thought long and hard (fufufu!) about this plan. One one hand, we do not want anyone thinking unpure thoughts about our spotless virginal beauties who are Akihabara's pride and joy. On the other hand, we know that it happens regardless, so this is a way to channel those lonely desires in a technical way rather than a filthy way, and it may keep the creepier elements at a safe distance whilst satisfying their perverted lust.
The one big plus is that every yen going to these wholesome young ladies is one less yen available for dirty ero manga and H-anime. We learned from the USA's "war on drugs" that if you can strangle the demand, then the supply will wither. Mwuhahahaha!!!
You sir, have earned my respect and support.
Keep up with the awesome work.
If you are the real Ishihara I understand now why you are where you are today politically .
If this is the real Ishihara....god bless your soul.
If I were you Ishihara. I keep my ideas to myself and leave other people out of it.
This actually makes a funny amount of sense.
I'm sure it doesn't help your birthrates though. You're thinning out the gene pool but you don't exactly have a big supply to begin with.
Anyone else just COMPLETELY misread that and think it was about them offering to HAVE their fan kids?
Me, at first. Until I scrolled down...
You never get what you expect on SanCom
Not really, sometimes a real thing appears.
I like that word; otaxploitation.
yeah, there should be a new B movie genre where we see poor Otakus
exploited, then again who would pay to see a movie of everyday life, at leas for most people.
People who watched it will be otaxploited.
True, true!
400 babies!!! From... Kenyans!!!
You sure that's not POWERTHIRST in that tit there, lady? Maybe in that Rocket-Gun-shaped baby bottle? Because I wouldn't want my kid deported back to KENYA because he's as fast as KENYANS when he runs as fast as KENYANS against actual KENYANS from KENYA!!!!
God yes.
Same here until I read it but it is still creepy though now with big brother connotations.
Nope. That's exactly what the headline said, so you didn't misread anything. It was just misrepresented to make us go "WHA?!"
damn that what I thought, they were promoting AKB members as surrogate "idol" mothers.... lol
I misread that as well and got my hopes up.
Me too, thought about having sex with them.
Bangarama
i want to be that baby
I would appreciate to do this job even no salary.
...do they accept visa?
>_>
<_<
I laugh at the 2ch creepy Otakus calling the AKB otakus creepy :3
And on the topic of this (ridiculously hilarious idea that only the most insane of minds could've thought of): Imma so spending my money on this application :D
*high-fives*
Imma spending my money on this as well <3
The most hilarious thing: 2ch Otakus are still creepier than AKB Otakus.
I find the overreaction to this news to be more hilarious than the creepy sadfucks criticizing ideas like this when the anime industry has churned out more disturbing shit in its run to pander to them.
@18:55 - My guess, they'll spam and rage so hard that they'll feel it in the morning when they wake up.
In the mean time, anyone in this anon group wanna spend money on this idea?
lol, same time comment fail XD
Heres a thought, wtf will these creepy right-wingers do when Ishihara drops the B-bomb on the anime industry?
@19:03 - Whatever bro.......
I don't give a fuck lol.
Have a vitural baby with Maeda? FUCK YES!
If the need calls for it, sure :D
To all you AKB-anons here, I call dibs on Yukirin! <3
@You - And I call dibs on Maeda :D
Nov 1 2011....thats tmrrw.
This shall be fun :]
Imma already buying AKB stuff so imma spending money on this.
Beats supporting the anime industry to pander to the 2ch Otakus by a fucking milestone.
@You: Al'right. But Mayuyu is mine =]
Since we're all calling dibs, I place mine on Kasai Tomomi :P
Oh and, FREE UP VOTES FOR ALL OF YOU ANONS HERE IN THIS MESSAGE REPLY BOX!
@20:45 -> Oh jesus christ, she's 23. How creepy can that be?
I bet you'll find it hot if it is a 2D character breast-feeding, even if the 2D character is underage.
It doesn't make the promotion any less creepy especially that picture of her breastfeeding.