[8/28] Morning Musume。54th single - Wagamama Kinomama Ai no Joke / Ai no Gundan [#1 single, 144k]

[LarcKen]

[Celedam]

Obviously it's a staffer. The photo is taken at such an angle that the staffer is much farther off to the side of the stage than you might think at first glance, and if you watch the Toxyo MX report, you can see that the sides of the stage are obscured by equipment. So all the people who say "But there was no one else on stage!" just didn't notice the staffer momentarily peek out from the behind the equipment.

[Yattaruchan]

Sound like a job for Wota ISI (Idol Scene Investigation).

Looks photoshoped to me. It has no shadow, and it's edges are more blurred then any of the girls, or their shadows. It doesn't look right.

[Celedam]

The person has no shadow because they're all the way back against the white screen, and they're more blurred because they're in the far background out of focus.

[Zunu]

Obviously it's a staffer. The photo is taken at such an angle that the staffer is much farther off to the side of the stage than you might think at first glance, and if you watch the Toxyo MX report, you can see that the sides of the stage are obscured by equipment. So all the people who say "But there was no one else on stage!" just didn't notice the staffer momentarily peek out from the behind the equipment.

I agree with that. They're wearing the unobtrusive all-black that a staffer would wear, their expression is that of someone attempting inconspicuousness, and in performances like that, the staff become quickly "invisible" to onlookers. That they are out of the range of direct lighting and casting no/minimal shadow is the way it is supposed to be.

[Celedam]

Indeed, the Japanese have been conditioned to ignore stagehands. It's part of the culture…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuroko

[Yattaruchan]

The person has no shadow because they're all the way back against the white screen, and they're more blurred because they're in the far background out of focus.

Obviously it'll be a staffer (who else is it gonna be). And I didn't mean that I thought it was PS'ed, but that it just looked PS'ed. Even taking into account what you said, which I already did.

[Celedam]

Silly me, I don't know how I could have misinterpreted "Looks photoshoped to me."

[Echidna]

They keep getting all these delicious treats. It's like part of them could just be working hard for treats.

staff should stop with that amount of ice cream though, girls have to sing a lot and smth warm is better for their throats.

[resop2]

[silliness] Maybe it is the ghost of a staffer who died of a broken heart some 20 years ago when he confessed to a member of the Onyanko Club and was laughed at? [/silliness]