Top AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda has expressed her dismay at one of her sweet cookies being sold for some $12,000 to one of her creepy fans.
The cookie itself was distributed along with various other idolatrous bric-a-brac at limited access reception party organised by a fashion label, and was apparently intended to be eaten rather than enshrined, or worse.
According to remarks on her official blog (published prior to the wayward cookie being sold), she “will be baking cookies until tomorrow morning” and “will bake 300 in a day!”
However, after learning of the million yen cookie auction she remarked on Twitter:
“I’m sad. And after I put my heart and soul into making it!”
In response to dismay amongst her followers at a hint of an emotion other than radiant happiness, she responded “it’s OK, I can always make more!”
Idol fan watchers yet again waste no time in leaping to bash the notoriously creepy AKB48 fans:
“Sad indeed.”
“She’s probably sad that she didn’t get to sell it herself.”
“Enjoy your cookie, buyer. It was probably made by another creepy old guy.”
“If she made 300 that would be 300 million yen… that’s how the cookie crumbles!”
“Expect them to start doing this.”
“Who cares!”
“Selling cookies rather than CDs sounds like a plan.”
“CD + cookie = profit”
“I’m suspicious – couldn’t the whole thing be a setup between the seller, the buyer, and her agency?”
“Probably all arranged to generate attention for this fashion brand.”
“A million yen would be worth to these guys just to get her to acknowledge them on Twitter.”
“This is great news surely. She has found her true calling and can now switch to being a baker and become fabulously wealthy.”
“Any otaku who’d drop a million yen on this ‘homemade’ cookie is an utter retard.”
“If you were a real fan you’d not want to eat this so your only recourse would be to sell it…”
“I could at least comprehend doing this with a K-ON! guitar – but not a cookie, no.”
“Maybe she is just sad it fetched a paltry ¥1,000,000?”
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“She’s probably sad that she didn’t get to sell it herself.”
yep.
I would like to know how these people get that kind of money, just to spend it on a cookie.
They work as software developers: $$$
And they live at home with their parents: No Rent
Times are changing man. Not everyone can afford to live on their own when the cost of living is so god dang high.
Any parent who doesn't give their child the traditional "get the fuck out" 18th birthday present deserves any misery their child brings them. I saved mine the trouble and left home well before I was 18.
Congratz to a pathetic no life loser who bought it.
He's probably going to put it on display under glass and preserve it as a family heirloom, next to his anime posters or whatever.
Yeah, put if it was distributed in such an package then it would be no surprise if someone sells it.
I just wonder who buys this stuff. OR more like who has the money?
Doesn't family heirloom imply that the pathetic no life loser is going to actually have children?
Well, he can always be *that* creepy uncle, I guess.
"She's probably sad she didn't get to sell herself with it"
Fixed that for you.
Shes making 300 more isn't she? I bet she can hand them out later.
By baking 300 cookies, she contributed more to the Japanese GDP than most people do in a lifetime!
Imagine what these girls can do if they start selling their bodies!
“Who cares!”
^
Would buy a beer for him.
Ms. Shinoda is a sad panda.
“Maybe she is just sad it fetched a paltry ¥1,000,000?”
My thoughts exactly.
Question is. who are worst: MOETARDS or IDOL FANATICS??
I vote for moetards!
I think Ignorant bastards such as yourself are the worst kind.
I think the ignorant bastard hit it too close to home for you, right?
Ignorant?
Tell that to moetards that know nothing but moe!
Me I know anime series from the 60s till know, INCLUDING MOE series!!
^
1UP to this.
Definitely idol fans. At least 2D girls can't completely fuck their fans over.
Indeed, 2D girls cannot fuck their fans AT ALL.
Moe's the pity... XD
Their fans fuck themselves over. Nobody holds a gun to their heads and says, "Buy this!".
you are wrong.
Moetards. That's usually the beggining of an Idol fanatics
I'm the only one who caught the cookie joke?
I like this comment:
①アイドルが手作りしたものを配布
②ファン（を装った関係者）がそれを手に入れる
③オークションに出す
④１００万円の稼ぎwww
1.) Idol puts out her homemade stuff.
2.) Someone she knows acting like a "fan" obtains it
3.) Put it up for auction
4.) ...
5.) (1 million yen) Profit! trololol.
I'd rather eat her than the cookie.
Not if you saw the cost: every cent you now own and will ever earn and a lifetime of Japan style servitude. There ain't nothing more pathetic in this world than a Japanese husband.
Then return the money...
Oh... you're not THAT sad? :)
So if an idol were to sell her urine/feces would otaku buy that too?
That would certainly fetch much more than the cookie. More so if the fan can collect the fresh goods himself.
Probably .... probably yes.
Don't give them ideas.
i can totally imagine someone tapping the sewer main coming from the akb offices...
Am I the only one who thinks that all these news and auctions are "faked" by the AKB management to make people talk about them? It's suprising that it is almost exactly 1 Million Yen, better than 2324174yen.
No, you are not the only one, I think exactly the same. This and "guy buy $5000 worth of CD for handshaking events are just merchandising tactics.
I don't doubt there are lot of strange people with lots of money but the numbers are too high to be mere stupidity.
I wouldn't be surprised if this were true, knowing Akimoto's antics... (the group's producer)
"I d-don't usually do this, you know! I-it's not like I wanted to sell that cookie or anything, b-baka!"
I am pretty sure she didn't even actually make them, they are just preying on the stupidity of otaku over there. I don't blame them either those guys tend to be total fucking morons who will believe anything their idol or whatever says.
what is creepier? The otaku or the otaku industry? Is the otaku not more like a "victim" of the shiny promissing money sucking otaku industry?
Bitch is UGLY! Fuck, even I wouldn't buy it or given for free.
And you're just one doosey of a fucking spring chicken, aren't you? You could just go to japan and stand still in the middle of a busy city street and have all the female jap porn stars gush all over you, right?
I'm sure she is grateful for your lack of interest, Trollboy.
Don't understand it eihter>>
AKB48 is an anime....why would I be interested in a girl that just give the voice? Even if she is "hot", or "boobalicius"? (what mariko obviusly not is) it would have nothing to do to the anime.
Awww, there's no need to be so jealous.
Sad panda.
I see what you di.. oh.. well, nevermind.
... anything more than 50¢ for a single fucking cookie is too much.
Poor Mariko having some otaku sell her cookie online.
I have always been kind of shocked of her popularity. I like her, but she has never been the most outgoing, funny, attractive, quirky best singer/dancer of the bunch.