AKB Scandals Thread

[Daisuki Daiiyo]

So Long débuted on Oricon with 817,530.

I think we all knew the 1million first day sale wouldn't last forever but I really loved the c/w's on this song.

They haven't had million first-day sales since Manatsu no Sounds good. Everything since Gingham Check has been in the 800-900k range on the first day. It's up to 978k now though, and they will most likely still hit 1 mil when the week is through. They had been tapering off about 50k per release since Gingham, but they're still pretty consistant. I'm sure they'll be alright

[randompasserby]

So uhhh... apparently this was immediately buried under the more popular Kasai and Minegishi scandal but it seems there's another one from the ***48 that made the shift to AV back in January.
Kenkyuusei 9th generation Takamatsu Eri --> Tachibana Risa AV debut
http://blog.livedoor.jp/akbip/archives/22090911.html

Spoiler: show

She's... actually pretty cute
Might need to look into this further

[boinsie]

I feel like someone mentioned it somewhere, because I know I read this article about it...

http://aramatheydidnt.livejournal.com/4641477.html

She basically says that her first sexual encounter was date rape with an older man from the entertainment industry, it scarred her mentally, and that to become more open to sex/men she's decided to star in AV.

Which... um... yeah.

[randompasserby]

Ok that broke my wtf meter I can't even-
I'm surprised her former management didn't catch any flak nor give her any since she basically pointed at them being involved in some shady shit

Though... after digging around a little bit more and found the source of that translated interview ends up in men's cyzo which is full of these kinds of rag articles and wishful thinking. So not sure how credible that is

[Pavlova]

I don't know how to put it for it to sound uh.. how could I put it.

I think it is.. maybe not a common thing, but at least something that does happen, for girls who were raped or otherwise sexually assaulted to subsequently only be able to feel pleasure when they are being somehow abused.

She really... should be getting help instead of doing that. I have nothing, at all against doing AV, obviously, and I see nothing wrong with it if.. done in the right.. psychological and emotional context.. and this isn't it.

[boinsie]

It's one of those cases where I really hope that the whole thing is a farce, made to promote her AV debut to a specific fetish audience, rather than the actual truth of what has happened behind the scenes, and what terrible decisions people in charge of management are allowing her to make.
As awful as it would be to lie about your first time being rape and wanting to get over it by having taped sex for money, it's somehow even worse if it's the truth of what's happening.

[Rm88]

Yeah, that's really messed up if true. But it does sound a bit... fetish-like, yeah. Hope it's not true.

[Moh]

Yahoo! Japan is reporting on Tuesday that the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has decided that it will not prosecute Kodansha on child pornography charges due to AKB48 idol Tomomi Kasai's photo collection book.

The book's one-page promotion in the January 12 issue of Kodansha's Young Magazine featured an "inappropriate" photo of Kasai, and that led to the issue's delay and recall. The cover of the Tomo no Koto, Suki? photobook, as previewed inside Young Magazine, would have featured Kasai nude from the waist up with a child standing behind her and concealing her nipples.

Kodansha then reissued the contents of that issue one week later without the photo (reissued version pictured at right). Kasai's photo book itself was originally scheduled to ship on February 4, but Kodansha has since cancelled the release altogether.

The police decided that because Kodansha did as much as it could to stop the circulation of the photo — by delaying the January 12 issue, recalling all copies of that issue from bookstores, reissuing the magazine after removing the photo of Kasai, and then cancelling the photo collection itself — that further investigation and prosecution was unnecessary.

[Zunu]

I hope nobody at all was surprised by this. Kodansha was shamed, paid off whoever they needed to pay off, the end. If Kasai's career prospects get nixed in the process, well, that's her fault for just being a low-status idol.

[Pavlova]

I wouldn't call her a "low-status" idol. It's not like this was her decision.