An enraged AKB48 fan is attempting to sue the maniac behind the saw rampage which has led to the next handshaking event being cancelled, demanding the cost of the 330 CDs he bought along with payment for the emotional distress of the cancellation.
This being Japan, the amounts involved in the proposed litigation are miserly – 346,440 yen for the 330 CDs he apparently now has no use for but to listen to, and a further 250,000 yen to compensate him for the trauma of not being able to shake his favourite idol’s hand.
AKB48 still provokes fierce passions online, not least when handshaking events are somehow involved:
“Blame the buyer!”
“At least sue the organisers as well.”
“They are the ones who held an event with a total lack of security.”
“He just proved CDs have no value at all to these fans…”
“The handshaking event tickets are supposed to be an extra.”
“Disrupt an event and you have to pay for all the CDs the attendees bought to be there.”
“AKB otaku are just insane.”
“Anyone who buys 330 copies like that is nuts.”
“AKB48’s marketing tactics surely can’t withstand this amount of public scrutiny now it is all out in the open.”
“I somehow doubt this will survive in court. Anyone can argue he has the CDs and it was the management who were negligent in their event handling.”
“These guys are about as crazed as the sawer really.”
“All we can really conclude from all this is that without those tickets the CDs will never sell at all.”
“He still has the CDs to enjoy so I don’t see the problem!”
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I should have expected this I guess, damn crazy AKB fans.
The crazy part is buying all of those CDs. Trying to sue the person who destroyed his investment (no matter how crazy an investment) is perfectly sensible.
Not really an investment, the dumb ass is not getting anything in return
Sure he would. Or what more do you get in return if you pay Virgin Galactic $200k to get to the space for a few minutes? People with expensive hobbies always find it worth the pennies spent. It wouldn't be a hobby otherwise.
I read "Pennis spent" as penis. sry
I dunno if buying CD's for a shitty idol group just to grab their hand for a few seconds is a hobby, it's a little creepy even to me.
And considering some people buy CD's numbering in the three to four hundred...Yeah. And personally I consider his investment fully intact and untouched, you know the 300 CD's he bought.
Just because you wouldn't do it doesn't mean it isn't a hobby for someone however weird it might be.
Agreed, he's suing the person responsible for disrupting the event. Not at all unreasonable (even if both parties are a bit touched).
“He still has the CDs to enjoy so I don’t see the problem!”
hahahh
And that's exactly what the judge & the defense lawyer will say.
Back to the trees boogies.
He's dumber than a nig.
Just a daily reminder to sankaku readers that the Jews are responsible for all the world's wars
yeah! slice up the jews and stuff them back in auschwiz!
You nazi nuts should be put on a government watch list and legally barred from going into any town with a temple or a synagogue.
And here I thought Japanese didn't use sarcasm.
Do you know nothing at all about how the japs talk?
*Everything* is sarcasm.
I thought that was the English.
it is, my understanding is that the "japs" don't even understand sarcasm as we use it.
Sarcasm seems to be a purely English concept. It does not exist in Japan, nor is it understood.
Fortunately, it exists in English making a language with bizarre spelling and grammar that much harder to understand.
You are idiots, Japanese understand sarcasm as any other one in the civilized world.
Understanding sarcasm requires the ability to read into or between the spoken/written words, which is something that easily gets lost in translations.
I can say with relative certainty that sarcasm exists in every language spoken on Earth, since people are basically the same everywhere and sarcastic bastards flourish.
I always got the impression that all nationalities except Americans were able to grasp sarcasm.
Brit here. I see sarcastic humour in both Japanese and American comedies all the time. It's certainly a concept both cultures understand. The things people are sarcastic about differ though.
For example, I once heard a story about a bloke working in Japan who, during a heavy rainstorm, said to one of his colleagues "Lovely weather we're having, eh?", to which he got the completely straightfaced reply "Oh, I don't really like the rain.". The idea that someone would be sarcastic about the weather was alien to that Japanese man.
tons of articles on the internet about how the japanese don't use or understand sarcasm as others do, an easy google search will tell you that.
Funny that people making these claims about sarcasm and japan when their animes, mangas, games, etc have sarcastic characters.
People are people, doesn't matter the era or the nationality.
There are some small variants making certain traits more common or more rare but the base is the same.
He was being sarcastic.
That's right goy, none of that matters.
Back to the trees boogies.
Ship them all back.
“AKB otaku are just insane.”
Best quote
Damn with all that money he could have fucked actual JC/JK for a month straight. Don't they go for 3000 yen a pop? Crazy otaku, u so silly/
they dont want to lose their wizard powers
Wizard powers are overrated. I have an insider's perspective.
they dun want to risk being arrested. Nor would I. Cops would arrest u for dat stuff, wouldn't they?
he buy 330 same copies ryt ?
what a waste of money.
He can't sue AKB themselves since it's not their fault. It's like you pledge a ton of money to get some cool prototype from Kickstarter and then some arsonist destroys all of their work, and they can't refund. I'd do the same in that situation.
Anyway, I care more about condition of the girls. Because if at least one of them will get back to AKB, I'd be happy. No, I'm not a fan, but I will be a fan of that particular girl for her heroism (and sexxy scars).
(and sexxy scars).
+1!
Then what about that guy that bought 1000 or even 10000 copies? What a waste, literally trash now.
Reminds me about back in the 90s when i bought probably 100 bags of PB crisps and threw 90 or so away because i wanted to go to a pre screening of Star Trek the experience.
Pretty savvy.
Dumbass spent 3400$ on cd's and is trying to sue the sawer 2450$ for emotional distress...
BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
"demanding the cost of the 330 CDs he bought along with payment for the emotional distress of the cancellation."
He wants refund for 330 CSs AND money for his emotional distress.
CDs* Sry for my typo. it's CDs not CSs
Do you need more than one ticket to attend the event? Or is it lucky draw, so better chances with more ticket?
That's what I was wondering.
same here, someone please explain
I have no idea, But I was thinking 1 ticket = 1 handshake or something. "Maybe he wanted over 300 hand shakes" was my guess.
Sometimes I really have to wonder what these people are like. They just dont seem real to me.
That's why these events are so popular, everyone what to know what they are like and if they are real.
These prostitutes & their pimps are literally sucking the future out of their crazy stalkers. And if it were any other industry, their pyramid scheme would have ended in arrests years ago.
WHAT ? I thought he bought all those CDs because he was such a fan of the MUSIC... ??? WHY IS HE SUING?????
I don't fucking understand this shit!!!!
well, idk about other fans, but this one in particular probably only got the CD's to be able to shake the hands of the Idols. If you bought a CD, if I recall correctly, You'd get a ticket which would let you shake a member of AKB48's hand. Since the hand shaking thing was cancelled, he had nothing to use the CD for. He probably only got the CD for shaking the idols' hands, not for the music.
Also, he's suing the Sawyer, not the AKB48 band. Because some crazy dude came with a saw at one of these hand shaking events and injured 2 idols I believe and 1 staff, these hand shaking events were cancelled. Since the person who bought the CD's only got them to shake hands, he got mad at the cancellation of the hand shaking events and tried suing the Sawyer.