A crazed otaku fan of idol group AKB48 has been proudly showing off his ¥8,800,000 purchase of 5,500 of the group’s latest single.
The newly released AKB48 single “Everyday, Katyusha” retails for ¥1600 and sold 922,475 on its first day, securing Oricon’s number 1 spot.
Amongst the buyers, one fan posted on Mixi pictures purportedly showing himself with the 5,500 copies of the single he bought “to make absolutely sure Yuuko will win” (each copy contains a voting slip for a popularity contest for the girls of AKB48, giving him a possible 5,500 votes).
2ch airs a variety of alternatives to the obvious “crazy otaku” hypothesis:
“He’s crazy.”
“If you just offered this Yuuko girl 5 million yen to sleep with you she’d most likely go for it…”
“You could get a handjob from all 48 for that much.”
“How many times could you go to a soapland for that?”
“It must be a setup!”
“Perhaps this is stock for his own company?”
“AKB fans are truly insane.”
“It’s like a religion.”
“He’s got more money than you lot at any rate.”
“I’m jealous.”
“A real fan wouldn’t need to expose his purche to others!”
“What’ll he do with them all? A fan couldn’t just throw them away.”
“It doesn’t look like 5,500 – more like 500. His whole room would be piled high with 5,500.”
“Such greed.”
“You mean lust.”
“You get a handshaking ticket with one edition. Perhaps he intends to sell those to finance the purchase?”
“If you’ve got millions in the bank you can afford to play around, but he looks pretty poor…”
“With this much you could get a nice woman though.”
“With this much you could accomplish a lot. But he chose to use it on this…”
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I have a few questions on this. One what is he going to do with all that? won’t he run out of space soon?
Where does he get the money to finance it? His parents? Wouldn’t that bankrupt his parents?
And while I kinda understand you want to do anything possible to get your idol to win..but wouldn’t you want to play fair? This seems really unfair to me and it doesn’t show the individual’s true popularity. I mean if she does win wouldn’t that mean that most of the votes came from select individuals and the majority of AKB48 fans were voting for some other girl? I don’t see this is as anyway bragging how great the idol is when the results are corrupted. I mean if he’s trying to spread the greatness of his idol to all AKB48 fans all over the world, this is more like a cheap shot to win more than trying to get her popularity to rise. It seems like he more care about his own self satisfaction than the Yuuko’s feelings, pride, situation or whatever.
Call me be an idealist, but a true fan would want an idol to win by her talent, that captures the hearts of the people. This really feels like a punch in the stomach to both Yuuko and all other AKB48 idol girls.
Otakus live in their own reality and ideals. They dont know what is right and wong.
The worst kind of parasite that triumphs even nature.
I feel so insignificant, only having bought 2 copies just so I could vote for Shinoda twice? I bow to this guy’s dedication and love for Yuuko.
nice marketing