

Top AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda has expressed her dismay at one of her sweet cookies being sold for some $12,000 to one of her creepy fans.
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The behaviour of ardent ***48 fans is again causing waves of revulsion online – this time provoked by a SKE48 fan who spent $12,000 on handshaking event tickets in order to secure several hours of “quality” time with his favourite maiden, and another maniac auction in which a single cookie made by AKB48’s Mariko Shinoda reached a similar sum at auction.
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AKB48 member Yuka Masuda has been forced to quit the group in scandalous circumstances after the outrageous revelation that she “stayed the night” at a man’s house.
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AKB48 imouto group NMB48 has courted fan ire after it was discovered that a sign in the background of a backstage shot of the group revealed they were throwing all the gifts their adoring fans gave them straight into the trash as a matter of course.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, Japan, News
- Date: Nov 13, 2012 13:41 JST
- Tags: AKB48, AV, Censorship, Fuji TV, Guro, Idol, Music, Prostitution, TV


AKB48 fans have been taken aback by the horrifying decline of AKB48 “graduate” Rina Nakanishi, whose promotion from AKB to SOD certainly seems to have taken its toll…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Sep 25, 2012 19:06 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Comparison, Fashion, Gravure, Idol, Makeup, Marketing, Otaku, Photoshop



Yet another of AKB48’s endless ranks of identikit idols is courting controversy – this time by daring to appear without makeup, with 21-year-old Atsuko Maeda’s natural appearance brutally distressing fans with her “ugly” and “below average” looks.
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Which is creepier – the marketing tactics of ABK48 or their notorious fans – is once again the subject of much debate after the group has begun giving away pantsu with its latest calendar.
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AKB48’s latest marketing antics have earned yet more condemnation, with their transformation into kindergarteners being widely denounced as “sick,” “creepy” and “psychologically unsettling” – to say nothing of the obvious sop to their creepy lolicon fans.
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Japan, News
- Date: Jul 19, 2012 01:48 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Events, Idol, Marketing, Mental Illness, Onanism, Otaku, Prostitution, Stalkers

The creepiness of AKB48 fans appears to be too much even for the long-suffering AKB48 members themselves, amidst reports that one of the poor maidens suffered a handshake so suspicious she had to run off and scrub the soiled extremity as soon as she could.
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Whilst it may be a vast understatement to say AKB0048 has not been widely acknowledged as the outgoing season’s highpoint, it has at least recovered some credibility with a rather well received beach service episode…
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jul 1, 2012 02:58 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Censorship, Idol, Internet, Marketing, Otaku, Production Controversy, TV, Twitter

Major anime broadcaster Tokyo MX has been forced to make a grovelling apology after one of its bosses called the company’s involvement in the creation of an AKB anime “shameful.”
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- Author: Artefact
- Categories: Anime, News
- Date: Jun 28, 2012 04:10 JST
- Tags: AKB48, Bizarre, Courts, Idol, Litigation, Marketing, Mental Illness, Otaku, Virginity

One creepy AKB48 fan is so outraged at the news that idol Rino Sashihara was actually a “super-carnivore” busily having sex with one of her fans whilst telling the rest of them she was a pure little virgin schoolgirl that he is attempting to sue her for the monetary damages he suffered buying scores of her CDs.
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