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Originally Posted by Evan Odinson
uhmmm some people have a weird concept of "fat", I mean, if you think that she looks fat on those videos you have a real mental issue, seriously go see a doctor.
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I think the problem is, she is NOT fat, as evidence by all her pictures she posts online. But somehow lately her costumes are such that they are extremely unflattering on her. And I just don't understand how things that are so obviously unflattering are getting put out on stage.
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Originally Posted by Norrel
They just seem overly protective of their idols I suppose. This was my very first Ayu concert and Japanese concert experience as well, and in all honesty, I think the fans may have been the most jarring thing about the whole experience, and unfortunately I don't know if it's just differences between American culture and Japanese culture or what, but I was kind of let down by how stand off-ish people were at this concert. Not just at the concert, but around the arena, everybody was just very stand offish, and perhaps maybe Yokohama people are a bit different from those in Tokyo, but it was really offputting how unfriendly some seemed to be, even though we were all about to see an Ayu concert!
Perhaps someone can shed some perspective?
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Yokohama people are Tokyo people.
And it is a difference in cultures for sure. My boyfriend had the same jarring experience last year. First trip to Japan; first concert was the Ayu TA tour and he was just not used to the orderliness or comparatively sedated nature of the Japanese crowd as compared to American concert crowds.
They enjoy concerts differently. Also, Japanese is a culture of the many, not the individual. So in many ways, because you are a foreigner in their land they have an expectation that you are going to assimilate to their way to at least some extent even if you're just a tourist. So things like filming during the concert or getting hyped and jumping around etc (I don't know what you were doing, lol) is something that makes you stand out from the group. It's just like foreigners coming to America, you know? We at least hope that even though they come from different cultures than us, that they at least put in an effort to follow our traditions and what are acceptable behaviors for us that may be contrary to where they come from.
Japan, especially, is very far behind in terms of accepting cultural differences in general. As I'm sure you can tell from my ramble though, I can see both sides of it.