In idol trolling on fans moves, J-pop tends to be way ahead of the curve, and NMB48‘s Sutou Ririka continued the trend recently. As a reward for fans who voted …
Read More »Sashihara Rino does charity work, will collab with Morning Musume on AKB48’s album
GOAT idol Sashihara Rino of HKT48 has deemed it necessary to do charity work, and will collab with Morning Musume on AKB48‘s ‘Thumbnail‘ album set for release on January 25. …
Read More »Sashihara Rino (The GOAT Idol) has won AKB48’s 2016 Senbatsu Election
Sashihara Rino has won AKB48‘s 2016 Senbatsu Election with 243,011 votes. You can find the rest of the results here, but I don’t care about anything except the fact that …
Read More »C-netizens don’t support SNH48 declaring independence from AKB48
SNH48 are going rogue and breaking away from the AKB48 brand, as we covered yesterday, but they actually might run into more trouble than anticipated because Chinese netizens don’t seem …
Read More »SNH48 have gone rogue from AKB48 and have declared their independence
Glorious contract drama has finally hit J-pop shores, as SNH48 in China has recently basically declared they are independent from AKB48 and that entire brand. It started when AKB48 announced …
Read More »AKB48’s Okada Nana comes out as bisexual in interview
AKB48 member Okada Nana had been hinting at this for a while now in terms of her sexuality, but in a recent interview she basically made it official that she …
Read More »Dust Off: A Reminder On Why Sashihara Rino Is The Best
There have been many casualties of the The Great Server Crash Of 2015 at Asian Junkie, and one of the losses I regret most is not being able to link …
Read More »AKB48’s company set to expand the brand to Thailand, Taiwan, and Philippines
AKS, AKB48‘s company, is now expanding into three new foreign markets in their quest for Asian domination. The announcement included the groups MNL48 in Manila, Philippines, TPE48 in Taipei, Taiwan, …
Read More »AKB48’s shameless “Kimi Wa Melody” PV is out, members kiss and stuff
As mentioned previously, AKB48 failed to sell a million singles in a week for the first time in like forever, so out of complete desperation to not lose ground to …
Read More »Ex-Morning Musume member Lin Lin is producing China’s answer to AKB48
Former Morning Musume member Lin Lin seems to be doing quite well, as she took the lessons she learned from the Japanese idol industry and is now producing her own …
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