Reports are surfacing of AKB48 fans who have somehow managed to get married, and of how tenuous this status appears to be in light of their creepy obsessions with shaking the hands of underage girls – including one case in which a wife threatened her husband with divorce after he bought 480 copies of the same AKB48 CD so he could attend a handshaking event.
One 37-year-old creepy otaku fan afflicted with AKB48 mania for the last 4 years reports how his wife threatened him with divorce when she found out he had bought 480 AKB48 CDs so he could attend a handshaking event:
“And you didn’t even get me a birthday present!” she told me.
She was saying stuff like “If you buy lots of them again, I’ll divorce you!” I was just enjoying the savings I had from my bachelor days, why can’t she just let me be…
On the other end of the spectrum, one 38-year-old accountant is trying to brainwash his wife and unborn child into becoming loyal AKB48 fans:
My pregnant wife and I used to listen to classical music together as part of our baby’s antenatal training, but at 6 months she started listening to AKB48 with me, saying ‘this rhythm will be good for the baby, won’t it!’
If it’s a girl, I’ll name her after one of AKB48’s members and hopefully she will join them one day, though I am trying to work out how to broach this with my wife…
Online there is continuing exasperation at the antics of AKB48 fans, and more than a little amazement at the fact some of them managed to get hitched:
“At least buy your wife a birthday present!”
“So how much did he actually spend?”
“480*1600 = ¥768,000 [$10,000]”
“You could keep a family for a year on that…”
“I’d want to kill someone who did that.”
“She’d be better off divorcing him. He’s clearly an imbecile. Having his kid was a mistake.”
“How did he get married in the first place!”
“This is really no different to spending it on a hobby like cars or golf. Whatever you spent it on, your wife would still moan about it.”
“What an age to still be an idol otaku. These guys are the acme of creepiness.”
“Amazing that someone thinks AKB48 will still be around in 10 years.”
“Wives are probably better off with them going with prostitutes than with them turning to AKB48…”
“At least the money would be in better hands if you spent it on some idol-level prostitute.”
“They should at least curb the waste and sell the votes on their own for ¥500 or whatever.”
“How much of an idiot do you have to be to be married at 37 and still falling for AKB’s marketing tricks? She ought to divorce him. He’ll just be the first to get sacked in any case.”
“These guys are obviously not satisfied with their wives. For their own sake, they should divorce these guys as soon as possible!”
“Buying more than 10 AKB48 CDs ought to be grounds for a divorce.”
“Being divorced just for going to a handshaking event might be a bit much, but for 480 CDs I can sympathise with her.”
“He could have spent it on his kids or on a trip for the family. Instead he offered it up to Akimoto. A painful tale!”
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cant blame her. << he is a dumbass. 1 cd is enough
One CD is never enough for hardcore idol otaku.
No you need 3 CDs
Hell yeah! Konata's words truly are wisdom at it's finest!
480 CDs are not enough.
640 000 should be enough for anyone
This was either a brilliant move by the marketing guys or a sign of the level of stupidity o AKB48's fans.
Buying all those CDs will not significantly benefit the girls in AKB48, but will line the pockets of their managers.
or a bit of both
Or he could just send them money directly!
How could they possibly return the favor if he paid them directly.
@Dia We all know the answer to that and it also would make for an interesting story.
Poor CDs they'll just be thrown away.
May be she wants 480/2 = 240 AKB48 CD from the divorce? LOL
I Don't Want to Live on This Planet Anymore
Then rid us of your stupidity and kill yourself!
Well, no one force you to live here.
He should have spent the money on 48 hookers, at least that way he would be sure to get his money worth of "handshakes".
It's all down to marketing and myths, yo. Believing that those girls are pure and shit. Hell, we're talking about a country where the mainstream kids would feel ashamed of themselves if they are about to finish high school and are still virgins. What the fuck were those guys thinking?
I couldn't care less about the woman because we don't know her side of the story, but that man's destroying himself. I mean drugs ain't no good, but at least you can feel them physically. Men like this though spend millions of yen for repeat copies of a single album just to shake hands with a carefully crafted myths of a pop idol. Just a product, yeah product, of Japanese mainstream media marketing machine. Man oughtta do better picking up whores and shake more than just hands, know what I'm sayin'?
Being that this site is catered towards Japanese entertainment industry whores though, including the ignorant weeaboos who know jackshit thinking they're so smart, I can't say this comment will survive downvoting, if the shitty site displays it properly anyway. Well fuck them. They ain't that popular really, with less than a few thousand guys buying dozens of copies making them look like they sell to more people than they really do. Let them with their circlejerking.
If he went with enkou it would've prolly got him cuter teen girls too.
Weak. I can't even begin to fathom the logic they use to justify this. Just to shake hands? Is that the highlight of their fantasies? I pity their wives.
Government should pass a new law and forbid the handshaking events. Obviously it's destroying lives.
Also, the wife better divorce her husband. Any guy who says spending money from my bachelor days clearly isn't committed to his marriage.
You sound like a fucking close-minded lunatic.
How do you know the guy isn't committed? because he spends some of his cash he saved up from his bachelor days? You're fucking nuts!
lol only 480, thats pretty light :P
You're missing the point.
She should've got to know him better before marrying him.
This issue is almost like a exploit bug in a MMO online some where. Not intended purposes or use but being used to magnify a non wanted situation to the point patches have to be made to stop it and the players are banned for using it.
No, this isn't almost like an MMO exploit at all. More like the 'pay-to-win' philosophy in a lot of asian MMOs.
Faith in humanity slipping.
You have/had faith in humanity? What's it based on?
Candy and sweets.
Well, at least if married life ever becomes unbearable he knows how to earn a quick divorce.
At this rate he should be grateful that his wife didn't divorced him right away, instead of wondering why she reacted like that at all :/
Yeah, down-vote me with your multiple accounts, you net trolls lol
don't make it so obvious you were stung that your comment was voted down.
better to stay quiet and walk away dignified. or dignified as you can, anyways.
Stung? Hardly..
Amused with the atrocious state of posters here? Yep
If they would at least complain on stuff that's terribly biased ects. But look at that, half the page downvoted for whatever reason.
Surely, it's not Hivemind at work here.
PS. Dignity on the Internet..hahahaha~
you know your not doing yourself any favour with that avatar.
So now it's all about avatars? lol
Truly..the locals (not all of them) must have some sort of mental disorder.
yes, but doesn't all those otakura prove that the group isn't as popular as they think they are?
Are you some kind of idiot?
AKB48 has to be one of the most popular and successful groups currently in Japan. Do some research before making a fool out of yourself.
This might be true. But it's also true that their popularity is mostly limited to kids and teenagers. Most grown ups - which means most people in general - don't care for any girlie groups at all. That's exactly why adult AKB48 fans stick out and look weird for most people.
He deserved it.
Yeah, I'm glad he spent his hard earned cash on something he can enjoy. Life Is just too short to be miserable.
Oh, he's gonna be miserable when he comes to his senses and realizes he wasted his income on horseshit. :D
No, he's genuinely happy with what he's done, so I don't see any problem, just a lot of unhappy miserable trolls :D
I'm really tired of hearing all this stuff with AKB48. At first I was like holy shit but now its really pointless.
There's nothing to say about Hirano Aya anymore, so sancom moves on.
she's still in the japanese news, it's just that artifact got bored writing about her.
of course, since your only source of news about japan is apparently sancom, you wouldn't know about that.
she's still in the japanese news, it's just that artfact got bored writing about her.
of course, since your only source of news about japan is apparently sancom, you wouldn't know about that.
are there really people out there whose only viewpoint about japan is ****ing sankaku complex???
seriously, that's just pathetic.
I wouldn't go as far as describing sancom as a source of information. Well, maybe some comments. I really like the comments here. Fun to read, fun to write.
"I wouldn't go as far as describing sancom as a source of information. Well, maybe some comments. I really like the comments here. Fun to read, fun to write."
naw, it's already obvious it's a source of information for you.
i appreciate that you would backpedal for me though.
If you broaden the definition, anything you look at becomes a source of information. I just don't look at sancom that way. It's mainly a source of entertainment.