AKB48 “super-carnivore” Rino Sashihara has apparently managing to secure 9108 votes (worth some 14 million yen), thanks to a new cohort of creepy Chinese otaku as flush with funds as their Japanese counterparts.
Rino picked up “9108” votes:
Mayu Watanabe managed a more modest extreme of obsessive devotion, with only 5566:
Jurina Matsui’s 5211:
Baidu’s forums are starting to put even 2ch to shame, with big-spenders putting almost as much effort into making sure their creepy competitors know their boasts are genuine as they do into actually casting the votes:
Just go to her directly and give your money…She probably will sleep for you at least for a night
If anything I applaud the guy who came up with the popularity contest. Because of his idea sales skyrocket.
This is seriously messed up…These people are obviously mentally ill, and the people in charge of this stuff ought to take measures to prevent people from throwing away their entire fortunes on stuff like this, because not doing so really is morally questionable at this point…They should make some kind of rule that says that each person can only vote once on each of the girls or something.
Wait, that sounds like you don’t get it at all.
Yakuza or not, it was never about morale.
It’s just a clever marketing ploy which makes use of japanese demographics and milks them for money. Nobody in japan would care, because a) it’s legal and b) creepy otaku guys get relieved of their money? great! can you do similar with homeless as well?
As for china, they would probably start to care if the amounts of money flowing to the spineless japanese bastards would take on another magnitude.
The girls, the music and all of that are nothing but replaceable fodder.
That was longest, boobless scrool down I’ve ever had on Sankaku.
What’s with all those duplicate phot- Oh, nvm…
This is truly pathetic! Even if you’re a fan of someone or something, spending so much money on the stuff is simply retarded.
I’m a fan of Nana Mizuki’s singing voice. If I really wanted to show my support, I’d buy the CDs, music DVDs, concert BDs and whatnot… but I’d buy them once, because I don’t need a copy.
Buying those goods en mass and that only to get some voting ticket or s♥♥t… is stupid! It’s not like you profit from it… even if you could get a handshake or talk with the idol for 30 seconds… that’s NOT worth it. If the idol had sex with you for one night, that would be nice, but it’d still be one really expensive prostitute -_-
There is simply no gain in spending one’s money and life on unreachable idols!
People are so retarded to do stuff like this…