After police predicted an unprecedented amount of fans would gather, the last chance to "meet" Atsuko Maeda while she is still a member of terrible pop "music" band AKB48 has been cancelled at the last moment.
On August 20th some five hundred thousand people were in Ginza to watch the victory parade of Japan's returning Olympians (despite many of them putting in slightly mediocre performances). Not sure if half a million were expected to witness pre-solo career Atsuko head to her swan song concert at the AKB theater in Akihabara, but apparently public safety fears prompted a change in ...
Another one bites the dust. Yuko Sugamoto from HKT48, the Fukuoka spin-off of AKB48, has announced she is quitting. It is an open secret that this is due to her management finding out about a "relationship" she had, including possibly drinking and smoking with a fan.
However, the official line is that all she did was exchange email addresses and answer a mail... which hardly seems taboo-breaking to us.
Japanese girls are just not allowed to have relationships if they are in an idol group. Heaven forbid that reality infringe on the "pure" fantasy that their management have crafted so ...
Something strange has happened. Despite having said that AKB48 just had no genuinely sexy members -- except, perhaps, at a push Haruna Kojima -- I've been changing my mind recently about at least one of the ubiquitous girls.
She might not be as famous as the main ladies but in my humble opinion, she is far better looking in both a cute (kawaii) and genuinely sexy way. This is a hill I am willing to die on.
This lady is none other than Rie Kitahara.
Rie was born in 1991 in Aichi, a pretty dull prefecture, it must be said. Well, she's left that all behind her now and, although she hasn't yet ...
AKB48 handshaking events, when fans can "meet" their idols, have come into attention again.
Team B's Rie Kitahara (21) -- and probably only one of the only two genuinely hot AKB48 members -- has fallen under the obsessive attention of one male fan, who wrote on an anonymous message board:
We argued about her hair [at a handshaking event]. It's bad of me but I think of Rie-chan totally as my think. It pains me that other people are appraising her.
Countless otaku believe they are the actual boyfriends of the girls, which is why they react so ferociously when Rina Sashihara ...
In the same week that the AKB48 moneymen claimed victory in the amount of hype and advertising cash their well-greased PR machine could turn their "election" campaign into -- comes a scandal that proves just how controlled and fake they are.
A minor member of the band, Rino Sashihara (b.1992), has sort-of admitted to the rumors started by a tabloid that she seduced one of her otaku fans.
Shock horror! A girl exploiting her fame to get some fun and pleasure for herself?!! Well, it's okay if it's men (unless you go as far as, say, Edison Chen), but with an idol, and especially for ...
It was the last time that Atsuko Maeda would be appearing -- though she wasn't actually "running" -- and inevitable the latest AKB48 "general election" has been an insane blitz of publicity, with massive ads on TV (in collaboration with Google+) and on major websites.
It was shown live on TV for several hours and streamed online too. However, given how anemic viewing figures for AKB48-starring dramas and movies have been, and, compared to the advertising and hype, how, despite being touted as "top-sellers", the music sales have also been relatively modest (compared to market leaders, say, ...
In an example of brilliantly timed PR, as the much-trumpeted AKB48 "general election" is having -- with Atsuko Maeda for the last time -- the women's fashion magazine Anan features a very sexy, semi-nude shoot with Yuko Oshima on its front cover this issue.
This got us thinking. Forget the gravure idol magazines and weekly mags like Playboy. The really sexy photo shoots with famous models are actually these mainstream women's fashion magazines!
Anan in particular has carved out a reputation for scoring deals with well-known stars to strip off in body-flaunting shoots.
Such ...
She might well have recently announced her departure from Japan's biggest girl band, but you can still keep a bit of Atsuko Maeda in your life.
In fact, you can get even more of the former AKB48 star than usual with this Acchan Kojiri masturbator, a realistic tight onahole which, very unofficially, models itself on Atsuko's (aka Acchan) cute small butt (kojiri).
Not only is this an onahole masturbator with a hole to pleasure yourself, there is also a pair of Acchan's sexy panties AND even lotion based on her own love juices.
This is of course not designated official ...
Shock news of the week! Atsuko Maeda (前田敦子), probably the most popular and famous member of AKB48, has suddenly announced she is quitting the idol super group!
At a concert on Sunday she made the surprise announcement to thousands of fans, while choking back tears and being comforted by the other girls. It is apparently an individual decision, made in consultation with AKB48 supremo Yasushi Akimoto.
Atsuko entered AKB in 2005 when she was just 14 and now she is heading towards adulthood -- or age 20 -- she said she had to make a new. No doubt she will head onto other and ...
Let the otakus start salivating now. AKB48 and their taskmasters have demonstrated that, yes, there are further depths to be plumbed with their new TV ad for Puccho candy.
The ads feature the ladies passing candy to each other from, yes, from each other's mouth! I can hardly type this I can so excited by the prospect of fake lesbian kissing from child-like idols. Or not, as the case may ...
