The crazed fan who spent over $100,000 on 5,500 AKB48 CDs seems to have been outdone – no sooner had he been exposed than an earlier report about a similar creature who spent 20 million yen ($250,000) on AKB48, though he only bought CDs in lots of 1,000.
“Kachiyosu-san” is introduced as the manager of a video store who “uses most of his wages on AKB48,” having done so to the tune of 20 million yen.
Once again the fact that 20 million could undoubtedly buy an encounter with one (if not several at the same time) of these girls seems not to have occurred to him.
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If they keep buying, why stop selling ahaha
As long as the money keeps rolling in id continue to maintain the girls if it were me.
No one has mentioned this, but this is the single for the AKB48 senbatsu election; since there are so many members in the AKB48/SKE48/NMB48 groups, there’s an annual popularity election to see who gets to make the senbatsu, the main group to sing in the single. There are various ways to get tickets, but the easiest way is to buy singles. This guy is a fan of Minegishi Minami, I believe, who’s fairly popular but is really in the area where she’s not QUITE popular enough to get a lot of screentime but makes it into the single. So the reward for this guy is for every single he gets, the chance to see more and more of Minegishi grows. Furthermore, in each single there’s probably an event ticket, so he has more and more chances to see her live.
i could use all that money
It no wonder japan has a low birth rate.