AKB48 imouto group NMB48 has courted fan ire after it was discovered that a sign in the background of a backstage shot of the group revealed they were throwing all the gifts their adoring fans gave them straight into the trash as a matter of course.
After buying hundreds of CDs in order to get a handshaking event ticket, many fans bring gifts for the girls to the events, which are graciously accepted.
The group does however publish detailed regulations about what will be accepted, with prohibited gifts including animals, foodstuffs, electronics, data storage media of all kinds, cash and coupons, cosmetics, drugs, explosives, and – of course – underwear.
What actually happened to the gifts may not have weighed too heavily on the minds of the kind of people to buy 100 copies of the same CD, but the mystery was in any case solved by a chance glimpse of signage in the back of a recent group photo.
Why they were doing this is perhaps best not dwelt upon, but fans examined the photo in forensic detail and soon deciphered the writing on a handwritten sign in the background:
In translation (in Japanese it reads “プレゼントは11/23処分します 置いてある物は各自で処理してください”):
Presents to be disposed of on the 23rd. Please deal with anything left over individually.
Amongst fans perhaps expecting the girls to sleep with their creepy gifts by their beds, the revelation that they will soon be consigned to a landfill will likely not be taken well:
“Harsh!”
“Poor fans…”
“If you are just going to bin it all, don’t accept it in the first place!”
“How did he spot this!”
“If it’s not money, it’s garbage!”
“Difficult issue. If they really did use any of it they would only encourage more.”
“Looking at the list, what exactly can you give them anyway?”
“Money?”
“That’s NG according to the list!”
“I’m sure this sign is just for what is left over after they have taken out what they want!”
“The fan letters go straight into the shredder too I guess.”
“Definitely throw away any food your fans give you!”
“I bet they did get some weird stuff sent them, so it seems a given they’d do this.”
“Expect cameras and recorders in those soft toys.”
“Their fans are a bunch of perverted maniacs so there is no telling how those presents have been interfered with.”
“I appreciate they are not wise to eat any of their gifts, but some of that stuff is expensive and can at least be resold.”
“It seems the correct decision by their management.”
“Warning: Please sort your gifts into the following categories: plastic articles, glass and other incombustibles, paper, articles including batteries, and miscellaneous combustible materials.”
Those with a taste for irony may note that fan treatment of ***48 CDs is not much better…
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Temptress Wives – “Older Women Are Better!”
“Is It Really Emi!?” – Amateur Selection Guide 07
Zero Time Dilemma Merrily Murderous
Maki Nishikino’s Birthday Widely Welcomed
Caligula Schools Viewers
Sailor Moon Exhibit Brimming With Nostalgia
Svelte Saber Alter Figure
Onizushi Web Anime & Smartphone Game Surfaces
Marshmallow Imouto Succubus Hits The Beach
Bishoujo Mangekyou Fan Translation Emerges
Samurai Rising – Square Enix: You Guessed it!
Mangaka Pay Tribute to Kyushu
Street Fighter V Enlists Guile
Chinese Death Simulator “Hopefully Won’t Explode”
Re:Zero “In The Nick Of Time!”
Muma Astacia Sultry Succubus Ero-Figure
Hundred Sloppy Kissing Anime
Greek Woman “Born Without A Vagina!”
Let It Die Trailer Unforgettably Fierce
Shinjuku Station Reveals “All Yu-Gi-Oh Cards Ever!”
Kashiwazaki Sena Ero-Cosplay An Immense Tease
Goddess of 2ch: “What A Cute Hole!”
Alice Margatroid Ero-Cosplay by Hiyo Nishizuku Full of Cheer
Sheryl Nome Bunny Girl Cosplay by Mike Super Scandalous
Marvelous Madoka Mizugi Cosplay by Mashiro Yuki
Marie Rose Cosplay by Mike Undeniably Sexy
Tasha Tracer Cosplay Truly Tantalizing
Witch Craft Works Cosplay by Kagune Intensely Seductive
Kaine Cosplay by Yuricha Flawless
Kasumigaoka Utaha Cosplay Pretty Pure
They are too lazy to just inspect what the girls might actually want to keep?
Why does that make any sense? Your comment makes no sense...lol
Some of the gifts wilt away even if you like them.
After looking at the list of things you can't give them, I can't find anything that would be worth keeping to give them in first place.
dumb bitches.
More like dumb otaku. Like any of those girls want to touch their jizz covered photos, underwear, money & electronics. In fact the fact that they do not is proof they're far from "dumb". You idiot.
Nah, they're definitely dumb. If they were smart bitches they would have hidden the fact they throw away all the junk gifts a bit better
That's management's doing, numbnuts.
Don't bother. He doesn't get it.
smart bitches actually
otakus trash their cds for handshake events
why they (xxx48) couldn't make the same :p
No proof. Sankaku is full of lies and if you really believe any of it then...well you know what? Keep on doing that. You're prolly better off here.
No one asked you to come here.
Yes a lot of them are probably something gross but what if some had actual money in them?
the group does however publish detailed regulations about what will be accepted, with prohibited gifts including animals, foodstuffs, electronics, data storage media of all kinds, cash and coupons, cosmetics, drugs, explosives, and – of course – underwear.
No electronics,drugs, or explosives well there goes all the fun in receiving a gift.
*Starts looting the trash for free stuff*
One man's trash is another man's treasure.
True, true
specifically, one man's treasure is another woman's trash which becomes another man's treasure
And with that, the (re)cycle is complete.
Don't you mean was?
If it was, it would be, "One man's trash was another man's treasure."
Why would that make sense? Why would a man throw away his treasure, or part with it?
Gotta find that underwear somehow.
Got to get them all....................
Some may call this junk... me? I call them treasures.
i see what you did there...
ゴ、ゴミじゃないよ！・・・レナにとっては宝の山だもん。
Oh my god, a Higurashi reference...
+1 respect.
if you found a panty, are you gonna put it on your head? just like your avatar?
What better way to smell it.
if they're panties in the trash, just hoped there is no jizz in there.
implying that's a bad thing
We're also talking MALE panties here. Or do guys also throw their trunks on stage?
I support Recycling
ahh.. a mindset that is needed in the zombie apocalypse.. you will survive long enough
Maybe they didn't have enough hands to sort their trash, and decided to enlist the help of potential shrewd sign-readers.
You'll probably find a lot of "white gold"
*see that all of it are semen in a cup*
"drugs, explosives, and – of course – underwear."
was considering the topic normal until I read this, makes me wonder =/
Considering every gift was likely soaked with semen I'm not surprised they get chucked.
you know the soaked semen handshake event is actually a fake story by sankaku
Right... because no one has ever ejaculated into their hand, food, figures, etc before. If you believe it has never happened before, you really think too highly of society. This world is full of sickos.
Everything posted here is fake 90% of the time. The stories, the translations, the 2ch goddesses.
There's no sources, the 2ch quotes aren't real, what's the point of coming here other than the lulz? This website's a giant dumpster fire...yet people congregate here and worship the site...
Can you back up any of these assertions or are you just irritated at critical coverage of an AKB group? The source is an official NMB photo shared by the group on Google Plus...
I've seen some bad sources on Sancom; but never outright lies or the like. Sources may lie sometimes; that I have confirmed for myself; but hey...are regular newspapers any better? I think not.
I'm also guessing you are the same Anon as the one I adressed above?
What's the real point of you coming here and trashtalking if you don't present any facts?
Just seems like slander to me.
If you think there are never any lies on this site just look critically at your average 'WOMEN ARE EVIL' article thats posted up regularly. Hell, the last one said 'most women think' and then went on to reveal something that one single woman said.
Source please.
Know it's had some bullcrap; but I can appreciate it for what it is.
The source on the "semen handshake" story was the Weekly Jitsuwa (which was linked directly in the original story, so claims of it being fake or made up by us are rather desperate), a weekly gossip magazine of some standing.
Their most recent scoop was Goto's porn debut [-1000000-porno-debut/] - whilst far from a highbrow publication, strangely enough they do have a reputation for serious journalism [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shukan_Jitsuwa] alongside their coverage of all things seedy.
Some of what is published here may be presented on a strictly "as is" basis as with any similar coverage of Internet controversy, lurid scandals or the like, but we certainly do not present falsehoods as fact - it would be trivial to expose such stories as fabrications were they such, yet strangely the best critics under the circumstances can manage is a stream of anonymous attacks on our credibility.
Guess that makes Anon 04:44 one big liar then. Shame on him/her/it.
@artefact Not the same anon but really, artefact? It's pretty clear that most of the AKB stories you post are outright fabrications or stories you picked up off of 2ch with no real source other than some anonymous Japanese man on the internet.
Semen-handshake was from weekly jitsuwa...which is no better than the National Enquirer, the publication that tells everyone about wolf boy or bat girl every couple years.
Throw-away CDs: I know you're a smart guy. You've made a successful site by baiting cynical otaku. You knew those weren't AKB CDs but you posted the story saying they were anyways because you know AKB criticism gets hits and click throughs on your porn ads.
"Guy buys thousands of CDs for handshake tickets": If you would have seen this story posted elsewhere it was revealed that the man was actually a reseller and the tickets stacked up in the picture were an external bonus. He takes pictures like that fairly often.
What do you like anyways, arte? You dog on everything lol
How is writing visible in one of their own official photos a fabrication? What you chose to make of that sign is open to interpretation, and the interpretations presented in the article are a representative selection - most if not all of them were not favourable.
Most of our other AKB48 coverage is based on TV or newspaper coverage, or the reaction to their own official marketing. There are no "outright fabrications" (and when we did cover news with an element of fabrication, you'll note we clearly identified it as such as part of the narrative), and we always present online opinions as such. In my opinion they are no more or less reliable than the uncertain allegiances of mass media commentators in any case, but that is another matter.
I just offered evidence demonstrating the Weekly Jitsuwa is in no way comparable to the National Enquirer... There is no direct US equivalent, but it is more akin to Playboy.
You've chosen to ignore this.
The issues surrounding multiple CD purchases have been widely covered by the Japanese media for some time, and in that case the photographs were widely circulated and controversial. We presented this controversy. You also ignore the evidence surrounding the mass oversupply of used CDs.
No less than NHK aired a special on the controversy just after the election in question - a transcript [http://ponko.iza.ne.jp/blog/entry/2713360/] describes them moaning about the flood of used CDs amongst other things.
Individuals who buy vast numbers of CDs have been widely covered by the Japanese media on a great many occasions - if they are all fabrications, then they are those of the Japanese media.
This is obviously not an AKB48 fan site so you'll have to forgive the lack of non-scandalous general AKB48 coverage - visitors are predominately not going to be interested in such coverage, and we must respond to this by not providing it.
The site is intended to be provocative as you correctly identify, but it does not achieve this at the expense of factual accuracy as you seem so keen to assert.