China’s SHN48 “Make AKB48 Look Even Uglier”
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Jul 3, 2013 05:45 JST
- Tags: AKB48, China, Idol, Made in China, Music, Photoshop, Shanghai
SHN48, China’s answer to AKB48, have lately been making waves amongst the Japanese – although so far more thanks to the undeniable impact of their photographs than the media saturation and obsessive followers which have helped make AKB48 such a “national” institution.
Charitably dismissing AKB48 as merely “orthodox” and Korea’s 2NE1 as “a plastic surgery group,” Chinese state media instead pushes the purely Chinese charms of Shanghai’s own (officially licensed sister group) SHN48 – which it patriotically praises as “both natural and moe”:
Amazingly, even creepy idol fans find them objectionable for some reason:
“Those eyes!”
“The eyes are too scary.”
“Made with Adobe’s help.”
“Can’t this lot manage to take normal pictures of themselves or what?”
“What the hell are these supposed to be?”
“Pretty extreme Photoshop usage.”
“Looks like China has chosen to use freaks for its idols too.”
“They look like love dolls…”
“Why can’t France or someone make a knock-off 48 group instead.”
“Was that Akasan I just saw at the end there…”
They have their believers even amongst the Japanese however – “They are actually super-cute!”:
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Wow, I thought the chinese only made ripoffs of good stuff, guess I was wrong on that.
The Chinese make ripoff versions of everything.
it's not a ripoff and not a "china's answer to AKB48" neither. in fact, it's just one more branch of the -48 group, with a different management but still related/obedient to the main group (Akimoto).
good or bad doesn't matter, as long as it sells.
Yup that song is as obnoxious in Chinese as in Japanese.
it's all squeaks and squeal to me
It's just not very good.
just like porn, only with bad electric beats
Not just the United States. Most part of the world or even the moon in the future if they are gonna land there.
Racisss
Too much 'eye'cancer...
pardon me, but have otaku wota look at themselves in the mirror?
name calling = lowest form of argument.
excuse me , but it seems otaku "wota" is nowhwere to be found as noone answers. maybe you should create games which tell them persons EXACTLY " you are now otaku wota". then you can start using your bat shit insane "beautify argument" with your mirrors.
else they gonna create again new names for themselves and group themselves how they want it.
i do not even argument. i merely post my frustration off.
You did not argue at all, you're correct about one thing at least. Most otakus = pasty neck bearded Aspie nerds. These girls are much prettier - will need alpha male, not otaku.
somehow looks like those purikura where they abuse the "big eyes" function.
Oh well, they'll get better...in time.
MY GOD!!! I look into those eyes and my penis is turning to stone... yet i'm still stoking it
i thought those pics were photoshoped...
aside from the weird shoped images at the top they look pretty cute enough but at the same time like akb48 just a bunch of cute but ordinary schoolgirls.
I'm all for Loli's but this is uneasy on me. There eyes are too fake, they are trying to be way to young and I fear to hear them speak, as Chinese is not a very pleasant sounding language to my ears.
I'll stick with AKB48 or an idol group that tries to take notes from Anime style or goth loli style.
agreed, onii-chan, chinese language is not for my ears :)
i wanna slap someone when they speak chinese.
racist weaboo
@ 08:22 With Artefact's brainwashing on this website, what did you expect?
This website thrives on the myth that Nipponese are oh-so-wonderful and they are better looking than all other Asians(Which is true if you only show good looking pictures of the Japanese that dresses well).
Looking at those eyes.... I no longer have a soul.
Kill it with fire.
Don't have to, they'll eventually blow up one day...like everything else made in China.
I heard the concert was a blast!
so the United states will blow up one day?
nah we blew up many nukes in nevada and we're fine. chinese might have to top that but not before we do on them :)
wow, that was CREEPY !
Wow could they possibly be photoshopped any more?
What the fuck is this? Their eyes look like they came from aborted fetuses.
One of Chinese or Japanese aborted fetuses since both love to abort their babies?
the pictures are all of the same girl (Tang Min, 1st pic is a picture of Xinfang and Tang Min), who is incidentally, the most popular girl of the group. Except for the group pic which is a picture of unsuccessful first generation applicants. SNH really are cute though
http://i.imgur.com/80rngTf.jpg
I don't know much about Japan so i can't speak for AKB48, but I'm a Chinese (4th generation immigrant) who frequently travels to China due to my job, i will "guarantee with warranty" that these girls are all sleeping with the people who owned them(showbiz director?).
They probably didn't only sold their bodies but prolly their soul as well if ｗｈｅｎ needed.
Thats how extreme everything is in China now, every government officers i come upon is hinting me to give them money (bribe？ ｅｖｅｎ ｗｈｅｎ ｔｈｅｒｅｓ ｎｏ ｒｅａｓｏｎ ｏｒ ａｄｖａｎｔａｇｅ ｆｏｒ ｍｅ ｄｏｉｎｇ ｉｔ， ｔｈｅｙ＇ｄ ｓｔｉｌｌ ｍａｋｅ ｃｏｎｓｔａｎｔ ｈｉｎｔｓ）
Same as Korea.
sick because the ace and center of the group is 14 and tang min is 16...
That's how it mostly is these days around the world...
The problem with underage children getting involved sexually at a young age, is getting more and more common.
@12:07 08/07/2013: Get your head out of your ass.
As a first generation immigrant who lived in China over 20 years and lives in Australia over 5 years,I'm ashamed for you.
Are you really can recognize today's China? Or just get the information from Falong Gong and think you have already know everything?
China Quality idols.
i think their eyes are "forced" open. they want to look as cute as possible thats why they choose to adapt this "i am staring into your soul" and look cute with it. it can look cute but i think its to much in these pictures.
did anyone notice the mouthes of these girls? their cheeks or jowls. i think the cheeks look actually cuter, but i am one of these "duck face people" which think duck faces look cute.
With those eyes they look like Shingeki no Kyojin titans.
They must be deformed because no one has eyes that big.
They're just as ugly as AKB.
Their eyes only look huge because of make up, without it they probably look like monstrosities just like AKB.
Nah, those irises are decor contact lenses. No amount of makeup can make someone have irises looking that big.
Junk made in China now in human form.
AKB48 is just a money-hog scam. An imitation is even worse.
The girls are cute, though.
More creepy than cute. Although it's very impressive that they're natural. AKB48 girls don't come close to this even after going under the knife.
Not sure if an imitation that surpass the original by this much qualify as a ripoff.
Natural.
Like the Korean claims?
Every "celebrity" is all natural until proven guilty.
teh eyes....THEY'RE STARING INTO YOUR SOUL!
Overly attached girlfriend, out now in China.
Chinese knock offs?? wait until they explode....
Explode into your heart?
Ciscotaku will cream his pants. He has trouble with mixing his pronouns. He meant "wait till I explode".
How is it money-hog scam when you admit the GOODS is GOOD?
A delicious non-Haagendaz ice cream that proclaim itself as Haagendaz is still a scam.
ITT: Plebs can't spell Häagen-Dazs.
Too much Haagen-Dazs leads to need for Non Protein Hagedorn. (insulin)
The bitch is so bitch ,zhose bitches' photos are ps,or their eye can't be so big
As long as they dont explode on stage.
As long as your pants don't explode - just use Kleenex.
Iunno how anyone can see that as "cute". They look like some possessed, disproportion porcelain dolls.
Paint them blue and they'll look like my avatar
beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
beauty is in the eye of my cock
Your one eyed trouser snake. But herpes and syphilis would make it blind by now.
You hate that and you watch Anime. Get out, you fucking hypocrite.
-any negative disgusting immoral shameful embarrassing destructive worthless thing in the world..-
"The girls are cute, though."
and suddenly nothing else matters.
-Society
I luv how this site had a crown like you lol
Did you try to insult me and misspell the word clown? Good job.
You sir took a single tiny sentence and completely fucked it up. You had one job... I'm embarrassed for you. Yeah I'm a 'crown' alright.
Or maybe he's referring to your asian origin (or whatever the fuck happened to fuck your grandmothers) about R and L pronunciation difficulties. But you were too busy bitching to even notice that shit/
Judging by the fuckups in the rest of his sentence I doubt that. And who the fuck said I was asian? Lol dumbass. I've been called just about every ethnicity in existence on here by you retards desperately and embarrassingly attempting an insult. If you have to resort to random ethnic insults trying to guess what I am then you're pretty pathetic and stupid.
hahaha trying too hard to deflect and deny. You sure sound like one so maybe you fit right in. Keep yourself from writing paragraphs on each and every fucking comment if you want to be taken seriously,
Taylor from Vox Day?
Gaylor is fucking back
Except a group of young girls singing is not "shamful, immoral, embarrassing, destructive", etc. thing in the world.
They are cute and they're singing. There's nothing immoral there. Good for them. Maybe they can siphon off some money which would otherwise go to Western hacks.
If you don't understand the social destruction and failures created by akb, then thats your own fault and you deserve to be entertained by bright colors, children's songs, what you have been taught to think is cute.
And Got Talent, Idol, etc shows in the west aren't the same? Of course the Japanese ones cater to the creepy weirdos while western ones tend to cater to the dumbed down TV watchers.
A distinction without a difference. Japan weirdos = western dumbed down TV watchers.