[Pannchoa] Knets are infuriated over Ohori Megumi's treatment during her AKB48's days

[My Everything]

[AKB] 48 Producer Akimoto Yasushi (Aki-P)

At that time, the average age in AKB48 was 17.5, however Ohori Megumi was already 25 y'o and the oldest on the group so she couldn't appear on broadcasts performances, and she was also always at the end of the AKB theater

Aki-P: Regarding your solo debut

Ohori: Yes!

Aki-P: If you can't sell more than 100K copies, we'll force you to graduate

 

????
 

She was told that if she can't sell over 100K albums, she'll graduate from AKB48 (t/n: withdraw)

 

 

The MV set was a real Kyabaukra (adult entertainment)..

And the concept was a "woman with no name"

 

The choreography and her outfits was freaking hopeless

The solo debut's title was "Sweet Hip Joint"^^;;

 

- My knees slide 

I poke you with my elbow 

My hip joint is sweet and supple (hip joint/groin being supple means that you're sexually ill) t/n: lyrics trans here

 

The poster is also an actual picture of her own hip joint

 

She came out in a crowed area dressed like that (In the rear cart behind her is filled with her solo CB boxes)

 

 

She herself doesn't understand why she had to be dressed like that and come out

 

She also wore those clothes to go around CD stores and bowed her head down directly to greet the stores to "treat her well/take care of her"

She said she will give something special to the people buying her CDs

 

"But what~ (looking forward)"

"A hug"

But we're not talking a trivial type of hug

She has to hug people while saying "Please mess me up<3"

 

Anyways, she had to sell over 100K copies so they took her on a suburbia tour

She performed at the market

and since nobody was giving her attention, they turned off the music/accompaniments 

 

She did that at the onsen

and even in motels

They didn't even offer her a car or lodging to move around so she was either hitch hiking or sleeping in the streets

In her autobiography, she said she thought that they would only make her sleep in the streets for filming footage so she asked when she will be only to her dorms and the director got f*cking mad at her; 

Every day, she would dress like that, wear those 8cm heels and even walked the mountainous fields so her feet ended up bleeding..

 

On the day of the end of her [solo] project... There were only a little bit of time left and she wasn't able to sell 100K 

 

This was the event during the last moments, and Ohori didn't show up 

 

She was thinking she would be done for so she was crying. The MC next to her asked her "Are you giving up now? Is it the end?" I wanted to beat him up so bad

In the end, she even started hyperventilating 

Eventually, she got the strength to show up at the final count..

 

And the members all ran to her and turns out she ran a hard race and was able to achieve over 100K TT TT

In the end, they read her the letter from the producer ^^; 

"Congrats^^ about 2 years ago, when your sales weren't improving and your smile disappeared, I scolded you right? 

Even though everyone expected this~ You showed us a tenacity and never gave up! blah blah blah if you work hard you can achieve anything^^!"

Some people hearing those bullsh*t starting to laugh, but maybe it was out of emotions.. 

 

Ohori Megumi is so amiable towards her members, she has a lot of tears but also has a strong mentality, she was a good member. 

 

Later, in her autobiography, she wrote that she was having it so hard back then that she was hyperventilating everyday, she was self-mutilating, her parents were hearing mocking remarks like "your daughter is doing this, isn't she embarrassed?"

Her mother ended up falling into depression, her dongsaeng looking at her family told Ohori in a phone call to stop tormenting their family and cried TT TT

The only person who was supporting her was her grandmother, but 2 days before her solo album went on sale, she passed away. Still, she was able to call her after hearing the news of her solo and her grandmother told her she happy that she was able to achieve this...

 

At that time, when she listened to her song, her mind would go blank, regarding her revealing clothing, she also lost her words for them... However, she didn't have any time to think about them because she would get scolded for her choreography when she was learning it. She was thinking this opportunity was something that might never come again TT TT

 

 

Right now, she's married to a famous play writer and she said she's living happily raising their daughter. 

She looks happy 

 

original post: here

 

1. F*ck... Are they insane? 

 

2. My Japanese friends likes our country's girl groups so much... One time, we were talking about this one group and they said "They're so pretty and talented, but why do they have to be idols? They will be much better as model, I feel bad for them being idols" I went "huh? What are they saying?" back then, but now I understand... The human rights of Japanese idols are so low.. 

 

3. Japan's women rights are on the floor level... It's not like that for actresses, but especially for idols, it's so severe

 

4. Aren't normal fans looking at this going to get mad at the company for doing this? The way that they think that this is a normal thing for idols to do just shows you the gender disparity reality there. They're an upgraded version of our country, but in a bad way

 

5. If I went through all this, no matter how much time has passed, I'll never be able to get over it and personally go beat the sh*t out of all of them... 

 

6. I feel so bad for her that this brought me to tears... I'm so relieved that she's living a good life now 

 

7. This made me want to barf

 

8. Bang Sihyuk f*ck don't go play with a f*cker like himㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗ Ah f*ck 

 

9. Isn't this ijime....? What is this? It's literally abuse

 

10. This is crazy.... This went on air legally and nobody had an issue with this????????

 

11. If Japan wants JPOP to become a global thing, they need to retire this PD ASAP 

 

12. Wow... My heart f*cking hurts

 

13. Making her wear this and sing this type of song while telling her to sell 100K copies is such bullsh*t

 

14. I'm happy that she's living happily now, but this f*cking broke my conscience.. ㅠㅠ

 

15. This would've made me want to retire as an idol 

 

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[Walmart Goddess]

never liked any of those 48 groups and don't get their appeal. don't hire her if you are just going to be ageist against her.

[Aphrodisiac]

I’m grateful that I live a normal life... 

[Guest]

This is so humiliating, i would've sued their asses off in her place. But i can also understand that she must've been traumatized. 

[lighterxx]

It is a bitter feeling to try to succeed in your dreams only to get humiliated. I am glad she is happy now, I hope she can forget past and not.let.it drag herself. For pd, I hope someone burns his d Infront of him. 

[chamber]

Seems like they were purposefully trying to humiliate her.

 

Keep heariing lots of bad things about  the management of AKB48. 

Edited April 23, 2021 by chamber

[Mami3chan]

5 hours ago, Walmart Goddess said:

never liked any of those 48 groups and don't get their appeal. don't hire her if you are just going to be ageist against her.

 

3 hours ago, chamber said:

Seems like they were purposefully trying to humiliate her.

 

Keep heariing lots of bad things about  the management of AKB48. 

well I can't speak for Japanese fans but at least for International fans we try to speak against a lot of shit, I find a lot of adult Japanese fans "fans in their 30s, 40s, 50s" to be just too accepting or sympathetic towards the agencies or maybe they're just conservatives themselves idk but do came across a lot of their comments be like "hey just work a bit harder make sure your makeup is done right and do better on sns etc.." 

they will hire the likes of her, the whole idea here is to sell some kind of drama or storyline "look this women managed to go against all the odds" to attract more fans who sympathize with her.

i can already tell from looking at the pics it's very old school AKB stuff, that's like old school version of things like survival shows/PD101 

5 hours ago, My Everything said:

4. Aren't normal fans looking at this going to get mad at the company for doing this? The way that they think that this is a normal thing for idols to do just shows you the gender disparity reality there. They're an upgraded version of our country, but in a bad way

there's always two sides fighting but unfortunately the big agencies & their right wing fans/supporters are powerful af.

 

Edited April 23, 2021 by Mami3chan

[avarice]

this is beyond trying to embarass her.. she had to sleep in the streets??? and she was being recorded while going through all of that?????? what the actual fuck

[campfire]

This is insane, how was this allowed? Everything they made her do was to embarrass her. Dragging her around to promote outside motels, sleeping on the streets, filming the MV in an adult bar...everything was just a mess from start to finish. And she probably couldn't get out of her contract.

[schue]

8 hours ago, chamber said:

Seems like they were purposefully trying to humiliate her.

 

Keep heariing lots of bad things about  the management of AKB48. 

Well apparently to them, this is considered a joke instead of humiliation. It's really funny to them and they're doing it for ratings on tv. Japanese tv shows are just so fucked up sometimes.

But yes personally, I do agree with you this is so humiliating. I feel so sorry for her. I'm just glad she's doing well now.

[Mami3chan]

1 hour ago, campfire said:

This is insane, how was this allowed? Everything they made her do was to embarrass her. Dragging her around to promote outside motels, sleeping on the streets, filming the MV in an adult bar...everything was just a mess from start to finish. And she probably couldn't get out of her contract.

you wonder how was that allowed there were way worse shit in Japanese shows back in the day they had some of the weirdest and shittiest shows they make America's fear factory look like child play, but those shows kinda died as time passed by..

regarding the contract tho 48g members can graduate from the group pretty much any time except for popular members cause the company tries do delay their graduation and milk them as much as possible before the graduation.

31 minutes ago, schue said:

Well apparently to them, this is considered a joke instead of humiliation. It's really funny to them and they're doing it for ratings on tv. Japanese tv shows are just so fucked up sometimes.

But yes personally, I do agree with you this is so humiliating. I feel so sorry for her. I'm just glad she's doing well now.

good thing a lot of those shitty shows kinda died I remember watching a show long time ago of which they brought school bullies & their victims and discussed things like suicide of which the bullies openly said they have no responsibility for victims who commit suicide due to bullying they even victim-blamed them and said those who commit suicide are mentally I'll and bullying have nothing to do with that they were literally bullying their victims right there on TV while the hosts/adults were trying to make things as light hearted as possible or even laughing at victims who were unable to talk properly

Edited April 23, 2021 by Mami3chan

[Thigh-high feminist]

8. Bang Sihyuk f*ck don't go play with a f*cker like himㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗ Ah f*ck

 

What does this even mean? Idgi.

[RIPHaldir]

1 hour ago, Thigh-high feminist said:

8. Bang Sihyuk f*ck don't go play with a f*cker like himㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗㅗ Ah f*ck

 

What does this even mean? Idgi.

In 2018 Akimoto (the pd) made a japanese song for BTS but due to fan backlash it was scrapped, idk why knetz still bring it up since bang pd/hybe havent had any involvement with him since tho

[Thigh-high feminist]

1 minute ago, RIPHaldir said:

In 2018 Akimoto (the pd) made a japanese song for BTS but due to fan backlash it was scrapped, idk why knetz still bring it up since bang pd/hybe havent had any involvement with him since tho

Yeah, that's just unnecessary.

[arx3721]

that shitty company and group wants Nako, Sakura and Hitmomi back...........

[Mami3chan]

49 minutes ago, arx3721 said:

that shitty company and group wants Nako, Sakura and Hitmomi back...........

only hitomi cause if SakuNaku went back HKT is under a new company named "Mercury" also SakuNako are not AKB48 members but members of a sister group called HKT48 which debuted in 2011 when they moved to the new company we felt like it's a victory nobody likes "AKS"

AKS probably faced it's worse scandal in 2019 of which they made big changes to some of their management team but I doubt much improvement were made tbh good thing you don't have to worry about SakuNako since they won't be back to work for that garbage company but Hitomi..

back to the topic I am not sure how old that show is but Ohari's single "Amai Kokansetsu" was released in 2008 those type of shows no longer exists thanks to some part of the Japanese public who fight against that kinda shit.

Edited April 24, 2021 by Mami3chan

[Aegyo]

That's soo fking sick !! wtf is wrong with this PD and company...i really hope such acts of abuse are not common in Japan...because if yes..that's sick!!