In the wake of two AKB48 girls being viciously sawed at one of their own handshaking events, police have told the group’s management they must improve security – starting by putting a stop to their infamous handshaking events, widely believed to be the only thing keeping the group on top of the charts…
Akihabara police (in whose jurisdiction lies both AKB48’s original venue and the company who manages the group) have demanded they take immediate steps to improve security.
In addition to the pathetically rudimentary measure of actually searching attendees for concealed saws, police want the events to increase the distance between the stage and seating so as to avoid any wayward otaku getting onto the stage.
Most notably they want handshaking and “high-touches” banned at AKB48 events throughout the country.
AKB’s management have so far said they will “consider” implementing the police security measures – though for once even the online masses seem to agree with the police:
“About time!”
“I can’t believe the girls are keen to do it as it stands now.”
“Somebody tried to cut their arms off, banning these events is reasonable. Put a stop to this prostitution marketing.”
“AKB are finished now.”
“Amazing – the powers that be are actually acting to crush AKB’s evil marketing shenanigans! Stick at it!”
“Paying money for tickets to touch girls should fall under prostitution laws anyway.”
“I don’t think they can rid of it that easily.”
“Don’t just cancel it, ban it!”
“Cancel the general election too! It would be scandalous to allow it in the wake of something like this.”
“AKB are worthless with no handshaking events. They’d be lucky to sell 200,000 copies for a single which sells 1.4 million now.”
“God I can’t wait to see how their CD sales do with no handshaking event tickets in them…”
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Too much trouble about 3DPDs.
So, that means they should make music from now on?
No, AVs.
If they did, Japan would burn... Have you seen what those nutjobs do when there is even a rumor that one of the idols was dating and possibly "second hand goods."
Thats because they themselves can't do it with them. With porn it's another mater entirely, because those creepy idol otaku can project themselves, or get hard from NTR.
A former AKB member did in fact turn to porn. In Japan it's not unprecedented for established actresses and singers to enter the adult industry.
They are too old for that. Maybe if they were 11 again.
AKB48 music is better than ni99er rap jungle ape noise.
Well maybe these guys can do something more productive or worthwhile with $10,000 than waste it all just to get a handshake.
This news was posted on The Guardian.
Though it more or less derailed to comments from British morons how "anime figures are child pornography."
Oh wow, that's pretty bad.
To be fair, what else can you expect from a nation of censorship loving morons?
Are you talking about Britain or Japan?
What about Australia?
Japan censors genitals, Britain just outright censors naked bodies?
in Britain, we censored urine using tea!
Britain censors everything that is attractively cute. Cute must be sexless at all times. Christmas cake is too young. All naked women must be at least wrinkly.
Says the country rife with high-profile pedophilia scandals and child sex rings. As usual.
"DONT LOOK AT US RAPING KIDS! LOOK AT THE OTHER COUNTRIES!!!"
Citation needed.
@02:36 Anonymous
To be fair, it's because of the immigration system in England, virtually all of those stories have Muslims as the cause.
bring an official article, or you're just another religiously prejudiced asshole
No, they don't. Pedosexuality is not the sole purview of Muslims, there are plenty of whites, blacks, etc. who are sexually attracted to children in the world today.
"Though it more or less derailed to comments from British morons how "anime figures are child pornography.""
wait..wut? They ARE, you moron! Just because you find children sexually attractive, doesn't justify it happening!
ftfy
"anime figures are better than child pornography"
wut...anime figures=real kids...by this logic, every actor that potraied a villain and every writer that have a villain in his book should be commiting a crime...because a crime in fiction is the same as beeing done by real persons against real persons...
Urm, no, they're not. And neither is lolicon.
Child pornography has a victim, hence why it's illegal. The same goes for murder, rape, etc.
Just because some assclown passes a law making lolicon illegal doesn't make it a crime.
People should follow the spirit of the law, not the letter of the law. If a law is unjust it deserves to be broken.
I can masturbate to loli, yet find actual child abuse abhorrant, in the same way you can kill people in video games and find murder utterly reprehensible.
Also, it's not a crime to be a pedophile. It's a crime to molest children and have images of actual children being abused[1], but simply having a sexual attraction to children is not a crime. Otherwise, it would be a crime to be a misanthrope or a sociopath.
However, the obvious fact that you can't distinguish fiction from reality means you're more dangerous than anybody else.
[1]: I do side with Rick Falkvinge on why possession should be legal; but knowingly distributing child pornography and manufacture (with intent of distribution) needs stricter sentencing.
04:45 27/05/2014
yeah but still...
PEOPLE ARE FUCKING MINORS ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!
Drawn pictures are not people.
@09:39
Anyone who fucks a child *deserves* to go to prison.
LEARN 2 ENGRISH A22H0L3!
duh, just crank up the security. glass partition like in the pic above works perfectly also, unless they're letting people bring baseball bats into the event hall.
One lunatic had to ruin it for all the AKB maniacs lol
They're all lunatics...
Lunatics that drives an economy, apparently.
A useless one that shouldn't exist.
They even managed to ruin anime. It's 80% moe and idol shit now. Barely any good stories come around anymore.
I'm surprised nobody was suspicious of a man with a chainsaw in a hand shaking event.
its a saw, not a chainsaw.
Wasn't it just a normal saw? Easy to hide in a backpack
probably that small saw for plumbing works; the one with curved backbone.
I have a saw meant for wood that no more than a few inches long thats foldable like a pocketknife. like so http://i.imgur.com/63ze208.gif
I think it was the japanese wood saw that can be held like a "sword", the type that gained some infame in School Days for example.
or maybe its a bread knife. you know how media exaggarates sometime
Though it's important to note the lunatic wasn't a fan apparently. His room was checked and this was the first cd he bought of them.
*One hero had to end it for all the AKB maniacs.
Lunatic? I say Nay! He is their saviour! Free them from their money milking addiction!
One Lunatic put fear into the public, making creepy obsessive fans look like a danger to society.
Never expected any of this tbh. I don't really know much about AKB48 except that they're a popular band and have many h8ers, when is aw the Saw incident on sankaky complex yesterday, iw as like "Woah." Now that I see this, i'm all like "WOAH."
when I saw the saw incident*
sawception
i saw what u did there
They are not a band.
Band:
1. a group of people who have a common interest or purpose.
2. a group of musicians who play together, in particular.
- a small group of musicians and vocalists who play pop, jazz, or rock music.
- a group of musicians who play brass, wind, or percussion instruments.
AKB48: "AKB48 (read "A.K.B. Forty-eight") is a Japanese idol girl group, initially named after the Akihabara..."
Also, im pretty sure they make music or something. like J pop or something like that.
this is the point...they aren't a popular band. They have big sale numbers obviously due to "buy cds to vote for your favorite" and "buy cds to have a chance to handshake one of them". It's not a secret that every fan buy hundred of cds to get their chances...http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2014/05/24/akb48-sales-higher-than-ever-heres-why/
Btw, it's not a secret that they change members everytime some of them are past their 20-30's, and that those ex-members frequently become porn actress. It's their right to chose to do wathever they want, but a backlash in their fame is expected.
well I just thought they were popular in japan. Idk, at the very least they're Kind of well known, I guess i'd say.
They would still sell better than 80% of the competition based on the plain cds (no handshake tickets) and are also on top of digital sales (downloads) every time they have a release even though digital sales don't have any bonuses.