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  1. I mentioned a few comments ago, that I’d be watching a documentary on Japan’s Idol industry. I just finished it there. To start, this was actually done by a Japanese director, it isn’t one of those BBC or Channel 4 things. It was called Tokyo idols.
  2. This didn’t mention stalking, killing of idols nor the incident K-off mentioned a about the singer who did the head shave.
  3. The men mentioned in this are generally people who failed at relationships, out of work or never felt passionate about anything in their lives or had broken dreams or senses of inferiority, in some cases the men wanted to be children again or were generally irresponsible/lazy about relationships. One mentioned blowing all his cash on 700 idol concerts instead of buying an apartment.
  4. One man seems to have stopped seeing his family.
  5. Obviously some are of course pedophiles. Some of the men actually are self-aware.
  6. The women are described as being conditioned to it, some people believe its female independence, one woman signed up feeling it was a gateway into the music industry, another did so out of a lack of confidence. It also focuses on much younger girls/women, that naively want to be part of it.
  7. Love live is shown multiple times.
  8. In other cases its old fashioned traditional misogyny, commodification of youth and virginity. or hierarchal society .
  9. As the earlier anon stated, a large focus is the industry springing out from disenfranchisement resulting from the collapse of the Japanese bubble economy.
  10. Obviously I, and some of us know a fair bit about this but as with most things seeing it in your face in front of you makes you feel it differently, cringy and depressing really and it makes me hate idol anime/manga more and the fake cheery veener it all puts up while ignoring whats behind it. I think watching anything involving idols or hearing some of that mostly crap music will feel just that bit more awkward after watching this documentary, but I still plan on watching shoujo starlight when it finishes, Perfect blue feels even more important now.
  11. I was surprised that I actually knew who the idol who was mainly spoken to, I also spotted almost every anime poster and they mentioned a guy named Hyadain who I’m familiar with from stuff I’ve found on youtube.
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  13. Obviously I would never consider myself the casualty some of the men in this are but as a man, well I do feel some sense guilt watching it, even if its shallow guilt, it does make me feel a bit weirder about myself, given that I’ve probably paid attention to a lot of doujins/fetish art/hentai/ecchi images for shows that involved characters like those in love live even though I hate all the characters personalities and don’t like the show.
  14. As someone who is nearly 35 though….it does also make me feel weirder about finding women in their early 20s attractive.
  15. At least I don’t put emotion on any of this, I don’t find anime characters attractive because of any sense of lack of worth or due to being a failure at communication or relationships, I don’t celebrate characters birthdays or do sexualized handshakes with women.
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