8th September 2017, 05:24 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Madrid, Spain
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Originally Posted by SunshineSlayer
Now, I was living in Tokyo during the boom and they did have some level of general popularity, but outside of their otaku fanbase, it was primarily limited to elementary school aged children. I didn't see them quite have the pervasive fanbase that you find with say, Arashi (every age group in the country across both genders, essentially); but yet AKB is selling over a million every single and Arashi is not. Hmmm wonder why? It couldn't possibly be the insane sales tactics. (sarcasm).
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Is Arashi that popular among boys? I thought 90% of their fanbase (and other JE's groups) were girls.
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