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Originally Posted by Trinu

Ayu had ir hard? Ayu had to go to the street at night and hand around flyers to see them tossed on the floor?

No, she didn't even have money to pay the rent for an own place OF COURSE she didn't have money to pay for flyers

Originally Posted by Trinu

Ayu was called the "panty-showing show"?

No, Ayu quit her job when she was told to seduce old men in order to get more jobs as an idol (Way before she debuted with avex), unlike AKB members that love to seduce old men, right?

Originally Posted by Trinu

Ayu had to combine the ordinary life of a high-schooler and the idol one even if nobody went to see you perform?

Yes, nobody bought Ayu's movies when she was an idol, she even quit high-school because of her problems.

Originally Posted by Trinu

C'mon, compared to the first gens of AKB, Ayu had everything handed over to her when she was discovered at karaoke.

Ayu had everything handed over? Excuse me but do you know that AKB manager is millionaire even before producing that group? Do you know he produced another "48 group" back in the 80s? Do you know that AKB manager is the president of an arts university and he uses free manpower of its students to design the 48+ clothes AKB members wear for every single event/covers/PV/etc. ? Who is the lucky one?

Originally Posted by Trinu

I love Ayu too, but I don't like how people talk about AKB as a "group of lolitas prancing around with fake smiles". It shows how little attention some people have put to them and how much they want to criticize for the sake of it.

So I'm just gonna leave a couple of their lyrics here so you can read them...

http://stage48.net/studio48/mokugekisha.html
http://stage48.net/studio48/yumenokane.html
http://stage48.net/studio48/imcrying.html
http://stage48.net/studio48/inochinotsukaimichi.html
http://stage48.net/studio48/suifuwaa...umewomiru.html
http://stage48.net/studio48/inochinoimi.html

... and now say "They're just a bunch of girls in bikinis singing non-sense".

Lol, they are just a bunch of bikini girls making fake smiles in order to please old men to buy zillions copies of their CDs. Did you know they don't even have a word on producing their music? That means that every single lyric that you posted there doesn't portray the girls feelings because it was written by an old men, you're pitiful, seriously..

Originally Posted by Trinu

Also, the AKB system is designed to stay relevant for years to come. Some wotas might graduate the fandom, but others will come and there will always be people who'll buy the singles to shake their favourite's hands.

And seeing how well received the new gens are, you can expect other 8 years of AKB topping the charts (and opening the Tokyo Olympics, if everything goes well).

Yes! The AKB system is so perfect that they already had their peak 2 years ago selling 8 million copies while Ayu had her peak in 2001 and sold 10 million copies for 2 years in a row!! talk about a perfect system, AKB sales has been going downhill since Acchan's graduation!!

Let me inform you about the current situation

AKB yearly sales
2010: 4,489,539 copies
2011: 7,960,753 copies
2012: 8,085,094 copies
2013: 6,972,118 copies <- NEW GENS ARE SO WELL RECEVIED!!!11
2014: 2,140,937 copies <- AKB WILL BE RELEVANT FOR YEARS11!11!