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INTEREST: Elementary Idol Group 'Girlfriend's' Producer Bans Fan From Future Events After Incident


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DmonHiro





PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:01 pm Reply with quote
"Elementary Idol Group".
Stop the universe, I want to get off.
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TG72



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:09 pm Reply with quote
They really should've given more thought to the name of the group...
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:33 pm Reply with quote
DmonHiro wrote:
"Elementary Idol Group".
Stop the universe, I want to get off.

All of this.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:38 pm Reply with quote
Agreeing to having your child be in such a group should probably be grounds for child protective services to take your children away.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:39 pm Reply with quote
This type of idol group should not exist in real life and they definitely shouldn't be doing handshaking events until they are 13 at least, poor things, the old men are probably thinking every dirty thought in the book and they don't even realize it unlike their older brethren, it's one thing thinking of teenage idols and 2D idols who are lolis but this is not good even by the lowest standards of the human imagination.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:39 pm Reply with quote
How about banning the group, period, 'cus the idea in itself's hella creepy?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:56 pm Reply with quote
VORTIA wrote:
Agreeing to having your child be in such a group should probably be grounds for child protective services to take your children away.

As reprehensible as this in particular, and Japan's Junior Idol industry in general, is, let's not forget Toddlers and Tiara's in your very own Land Of The Free...
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:59 pm Reply with quote
and that totally totally makes this fine right?
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:59 pm Reply with quote
Hoppy800 wrote:
This type of idol group should not exist in real life and they definitely shouldn't be doing handshaking events until they are 13 at least, poor things, the old men are probably thinking every dirty thought in the book and they don't even realize it unlike their older brethren, it's one thing thinking of teenage idols and 2D idols who are lolis but this is not good even by the lowest standards of the human imagination.


If a regular kid idol makes you that upset, you shouldn't look up what a junior idol is then. Preventing kids from being an idol and doing what they want just because of what some adult fan is thinking seems totally unfair and over protective especially with how popular idol-ism is with little girls.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 4:59 pm Reply with quote
Blanchimont wrote:
VORTIA wrote:
Agreeing to having your child be in such a group should probably be grounds for child protective services to take your children away.

As reprehensible as this in particular, and Japan's Junior Idol industry in general, is, let's not forget Toddlers and Tiara's in your very own Land Of The Free...


Just because it happens in America too does not make it any more less wrong. Toddlers and Tiara (child pageants in general) is under the same sentiment Vortia expressed


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Hoppy800



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:03 pm Reply with quote
Blanchimont wrote:
VORTIA wrote:
Agreeing to having your child be in such a group should probably be grounds for child protective services to take your children away.

As reprehensible as this in particular, and Japan's Junior Idol industry in general, is, let's not forget Toddlers and Tiara's in your very own Land Of The Free...


Toddlers and Tiaras can't be compared to junior idols because the show isn't made for sex appeal, it's made for shock factor and for viewers to be grossed out resulting in controversy and more ratings.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:14 pm Reply with quote
DmonHiro wrote:
"Elementary Idol Group".
Stop the universe, I want to get off.


EYYAAAA!! KONO HENTAI!! SCEBEEH!!!

Go get a tatoo, please.



Lol
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Kaioshin_Sama



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:15 pm Reply with quote
I get the whole general idol group thing kind of being like teen pop groups, but why is there even a need for an elementary idol group? Who are these peoples fans and what can their music possibly even sound like? The prospect terrifies me. Shocked
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Hoppy800



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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:22 pm Reply with quote
Kaioshin_Sama wrote:
I get the whole general idol group thing kind of being like teen pop groups, but why is there even a need for an elementary idol group? Who are these peoples fans and what can their music possibly even sound like? The prospect terrifies me. Shocked


Dirty old men in their 30's and up, there was a pic of some junior idols on a bus that was posted here months ago, the fans were men, all looking in their mid 30's.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 01, 2014 5:33 pm Reply with quote
rockman nes wrote:
and that totally totally makes this fine right?

I never said it did. I called it a 'reprehensible' practice. And I consider the latter to be under that label as well.

Hoppy800 wrote:
Toddlers and Tiaras can't be compared to junior idols because the show isn't made for sex appeal, it's made for shock factor and for viewers to be grossed out resulting in controversy and more ratings.
I wouldn't count on too many mice living on the difference...
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