by Sohee » Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:28 am
Having photobooks is part of being an idol no matter the company. The difference is HOW the photobooks are done - what outfits, what poses, what make-up etc etc. And now, I haven't seen every single photobook from an *48 girl, but I've seen enough to say that I'm really happy that H!P girls doesn't do their photobooks that way. I'm not even thinking about the Kasai Tomomi scandal with the little boy covering her nipples right now, but that could be one example. One of Acchan's photobooks were quite bad in the way at least 50% of the photos were directed in the way that they were obviously taken to imply something. A pose here or a photo taken from a certain angle there and enough of all that just adds up to be really... not classy, IMO. H!P can have suggestive poses and all too of course, but it's far from the same thing as far as I'm concerned.
The girls themselves aren't no better than any other idol (biases aside lol), but I really do prefer UF's management so much compared to other idols'. I don't know the details about *48's management as much as I'd like to, and definitely not about MomoClo, but at least the big picture and all is easy to grasp without being into it too much and that alone makes me really happy that H!P is managed by UF.