Which is creepier – the marketing tactics of ABK48 or their notorious fans – is once again the subject of much debate after the group has begun giving away pantsu with its latest calendar.
The 2013 AKB48 calendar includes a pair of “godly” pantsu, and various photos and other minor trinkets:
Once again, AKB48′s marketing is coming under fire:
“Gross.”
“This is more like something some shady idol outfit would do.”
“What kind of eroge mag is this?”
“What about AKB48 spit flavoured goodies or NMB48′s teeth alignment charts?”
“This is as bad as one of those creepy shops selling used underwear.”
“These aren’t even their used pantsu, they are paper pantsu or something. Charlatans.” [The pantsu are described with the kanji for "god," "kami," which also happens to pronounced the same as "paper," also "kami"]
“At least include a sample of their pubic hair!”
“Who things up this horrible stuff?”
“Hurry up and crack down on this damn group.”
“This is shaming Japanese culture.”
“And these are our ‘national idols’?”
“Our national idols, AKB48:”
“Come on and ban them!”
“Have they no sense of shame at all?”
“Their transformation into a band of prostitutes continues apace…”
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so you can be arrested for holding an orgy in a private secluded place, but THIS is OK ?
corporations are untouchable..
Money makes untouchable.
Money can you buy you touching.
I want to be touched.
And other make money by letting themselves get touched.
LOL
OK or not has nothing to do with being legal or not...it's all about if the right money is being paid to the right people...
More like "exclusive" rights with some of the girls to the right people >.>
Or to the police for their permits.
Alright, let's not over-react. They're not having an orgy. Chill out.
For selling (cardboard) underwear? What kind of world is it that this goes unpunished?!
You can be arrested if you only dare to ask a schoolgirl for directions. But yes, THIS is okay.
...
I'm having difficulty following your logic leap to those being connected.
I'll stop feeling this stuff is out of place when it again becomes ridiculous to allow elementary school girls to wear ass-gripping jean shorts. I haven't figured out how that is allowed or why nobody seems to care. A female friend of mine looked at me with incredulity when I brought up kid skimpy bikinis and the tiny shorts, and she said "Well that's what they sell" as if it was the most natural thing in the world and I was the strange one for wondering.
All in all, I give up. I don't consider them whores necessarily, because frankly I'd rather we got to a point as a culture where women recognized that all men want to see them naked and sexy as much as possible. Once that's acknowledged, maybe it'll stop meaning so much.
WTF is this bullshit, AKB?
Used pantsu or no deal!
careful what you wish for. used panties by WHO?
And for what purpose?
okay "pantsu worn by cute female Idols from AKB48" (I put in the female just to be on the safe side)
what you implied was... disturbing. Damn my good imagination
"so it's not embarrassing"-argument, i guess
Would you fap vigorously onto their used pantsu?
Do you have to ask such obvious question?
Yes, I believe the question was rather legitimate.
I knew it would become better than porn.
It would be cool to watch them do a group lesbian orgy party with just them and sex toys... but they are still "pure".
AKB48 must go through a lot of pantsu if they plan to please their fan base - like 90% of Japan
This is not the AK48 I fell in love with.... It's even better!!!
The whole Used Pantsu thing is so weird.
tsundere, tsundere everywhere
all of your comments, above, enabled me to fap perfectly to this news story. I thank you all for helping me reach orgasm xxx i did boy faps, not girl faps, by the way. Whatever, i love you all the same, no matter what panties you all wear xxx
Groups like these and their supporters, especially because they're so are only enforcing the bad stereotypes surrounding idol fans, lol. As a fan of Morning Musume I can tell you that not everyone that follows idol groups does so for perverted reasons. I do so because, similar to watching K-on, it's funny to watch them interact and kid around. You end up really liking some members but not in an OTL AKB48 kinda way...although some certainly do.
Seems to me that the progression to child porno is just the natural history of this idol thing.
Currently Morning Musume is waaay worse on the "creepy 40 year old guy" scale. AKB48 is mainstream right now so it's totally normal to like them, but Morning Musume is reserved for the worst basement-dwellers.
Who cares about what people think of you for being a fan? Morning Musume's got mountains more class.
MM more class? more like more desperate for sales.
More class with their cheap PV's, outfits and crap music (except for 1 2 3, Onna to otoko no lullaby game and Nanchatte Renai)?
Which is true because while AKB members (except trainees) are over 16 and usually much older by the time they break into PVs and CMs, MM is full of 11/12-year olds.
Um... Wow...
OK...now they're just asking for it. They really can't complain about their creepy fans anymore since their pretty much the only ones who will buy into this stuff.
Give me Acchan's pantsu please.
Leave the poor girls alone!
There's a hell of a lot more than this that's "shaming" japan.
Yes there is. Let`s begin with the worst case - Ishihara!
Well let's face it, most people, and that would be the whole spectrum from religious prudes to humanist scientists would look at that and turn away. It's low brow, vulgarity. Does it do Japan any good? No. Do things like this occur in the West? Sure but not involving such young girls. Pedo-fetish is a clinical disease, like it or not.
All the girls involved in the promo are 18 or older.
We are AKB48.
We are Legion.
We sell Panties.
Expect us.
I thought this was pretty tame for Japan/AKB48, same old :P
If you had REALLY folowed them from 2006, you would know there has been great development! And they were good from start already: Aitakatta!
As good as a thousand other K-Pop, Thai and J-Pop bands. Bubble gum music.
Comparing AKB48 with K-pop is just wrong...
Now this is something worth supporting.
So one of them gets fired because she had a boyfriend but selling their panties is ok?