/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>38584793
The music is simply a tangible asset used to monetarily exploit and sell the parasocial relationships they're enforcing between idol and fan.
The primary goal of akb48 is to amass a following of very loyal fans to the girls/groups and have them become emotionally attached to them. This emotional attachment will lead to near unconditional support of said girls/groups and the way in which management can can actually benefit (monetarily) is by moving a product that requires very little (relative) capital input to receive large revenue outputs from. In this case, it would be music.

The girls don't need to be trained in song or dance. They don't need to be good at actually being musicians as Sasshi said. if you're cute, your wotas will love you no matter how bad of a singer and dancer you are. Jpop is a predatory industry made entirely to exploit the emotionally unstable and those susceptible to becoming very emotionally attached to idols.

>>38256382
my cute girlfriend who I will soon make my wife, Ami chan!
>>38256391
idiot none of them hav ever had plastic surgery unlike youre oshi
>>38256414
(o)tona!