
“Angelic” idol Kanna Hashimoto has lately been attracting much admiration from AKB48 watchers, with her cuteness “blowing away” her fellow Hakata idols from HKT48…
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The desperate efforts of NMB48’s 14-year-old Natsuko Akashi to escape her creepy fans have been causing a stir online, with opinions divided as to whether it is the poor girl or her pathetically short-changed fans who are more deserving of sympathy…
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Typhoon photos posted by SKE48 idol Kaori Matsumura have been causing a storm of their own after the gulf between them and her official appearances became too obvious for AKB48 watchers to ignore.
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After a series of cosplay efforts which seemed more designed to provoke angry fans into a publicity inducing furore than win them over with cuteness, SKE48’s Rena Matsui and Nogizaka46’s Rina Ikoma have saved the day by earning much praise for their “too cute” portrayals of magical puellae Homura and Madoka.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 25, 2013 10:43 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Dating, Idol, Interviews, Marketing, Mass Media, Music, Otaku, Virginity


AKB48’s notorious sexual predator and top idol Rino Sashihara infuriated AKB48 fans yet again by bluntly expressing her disdain for her critics, saying she couldn’t care less about them as she gets paid all the same.
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The latest AKB48 starlet to be attracting attention with her fashion choices on the rare occasions she is out of uniform is NMB48’s 19-year-old Sayaka Yamamoto with her “dasakawaii” ensembles coming in for both criticism and appreciation, to say nothing of what she looks like underneath them…
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The latest scandal to be released by AKB48 sees Minami Takahashi uncovered passing off “blatantly plagiarised” art as her own copyrighted logo designs.
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HKT48 idol Haruka Shimazaki disastrous efforts at cosplaying no less than Asuka Langley herself have proven even more provocative to Eva fans than her efforts at Miku were galling to Vocaloid devotees…
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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.
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AKB48 “graduate” Erena Ono’s efforts to rescue her independent career with her own especially liberal take on the concept of a “handshaking event” have been causing plenty of shock amongst fans – and more than a little envy.
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The widely derided general election victory of AKB48 “super carnivore” Rino Sashihara looks to have enraged even other members of the group, as comments from a number of them savaging Sashihara and her unclean victory as an affront to the very serious business of feigning virginity in order to extract creepy otaku cash have been made public.
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Otaku have elected HKT48’s “super carnivore” Rino Sashihara as their “national idol” in the 5th AKB48 “general election.”
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