Creepy otaku favourite DokiDoki Precure has stunned viewers (the older ones at any rate) with its less than subtle lambasting of AKB48’s notorious efforts to manipulate music charts and drain otaku wallets by bundling handshaking event tickets with discs.
At issue is a recent episode of DokiDoki Precure (notionally aimed at ten-year-old girls) which features an evil music producer hawking his pop by entreating fans to “buy CDs for the handshaking event tickets.”
The character has been widely interpreted as a thinly veiled parody of AKB producer Yasushi Akimoto, famed for everything from mob ties to not forbidding his girls sex:
“This anime is truly godly, isn’t it? Well done.”
“Precure is pretty bold to take them on…”
“Don’t make enemies of those guys!”
“I don’t think they were solely targeting AKB though.”
“I don’t really see Precure as being in much of a position to criticise AKB though…”
“Precure or AKB, pick your poison.”
“Anime BDs are nothing but special extras, aren’t they?”
“Precure are busily brainwashing little girls into buying anime goods so who are they to talk.”
“They are both targeting creepy otaku with dodgy marketing techniques so who cares.”
“Nice to see some satirical content in a show like this, keep it up!”
“Who cares about them bilking otaku for tickets, the real issue with AKB is them abusing the human rights of these poor children they exploit in their shows.”
“How they market to maniacal fans is not really the issue. The issue is them taking over the music charts and mass media and trying to push their horrible group as ‘national idols.'”
“I’m somehow expecting Precure to be suddenly cancelled very soon.”
“My 6-year-old daughter loves Precure – to think it contains this kind of satire as well…”
Kinda unhappy with the way this article starts out.
Why isn’t Madoka ever referred to as “Creepy otaku favorite”? Because it was made for them?
Every time Precure ends up on this site it’s usually because of one bad example of human kind who just happened to like the series.
Hey it’s DokiDoki! Precure!
They’re famous now (^ω^ )
I dunno, all I get from PreCure is that the apocalypse can come in really odd ways, schoolgirls are beyond military grade weaponry, and that shoujo and shounen are basically the same genre sometimes. Amusing reference though, to those who compare AKB48 to PreCure due to marketing, at least PreCure episodes have a decent message for kids. The only thing I will give AKB48 is that even the dregs of Japanese pop far surpasses the pop garbage produced by the U.S. these days. At least in the 90’s we had the dance choreography to make up for the lackluster product.
“My 6-year-old daughter loves Precure – to think it contains this kind of satire as well…”
This is pretty normal in western animation. Of course most of the things they satirize aren’t run by The Mob.
so……. when will i get the japanese equivalent of south park cause i have been waiting for one for years.