AKB Scandals Thread

[DSQueenie]

If it is photoshop they it is very good photoshop because making objects look like it is touching other objects is one of the hardest edits there are. The lighting is to realistic in my opinion to be photoshop but I could be wrong.

No-one is saying it isn't photoshop though but no-one is saying it is either.

[Zunu]

Shopping the kid into the photo is worse than him being there in the first place. It's basically an admission that your plan is creepy as fuck but going ahead and doing it anyway. And it wouldn't absolve you of legal charges if that photo was at the level of porn.

But it's not. It's just ordinary artsy-fartsy stuff. You can find similar stock photography examples via google. Still seems kinda inappropriate though, tbh. If it helps, imagine that Tomomi's wearing little pasties. So there's never actual hand to nip contact. I'm totally sure that's true.

[DSQueenie]

I dunno most nude photos with five year olds tend to only be with their parents rather than strangers.

[boinsie]

Pasties somehow make things seem much dirtier to me. ^^;;

[esm]

Also looks really dirty because of how the kid looks really uncomfortable, like he just knows it's wrong or was forced to do it.

[Pavlova]

I don't think the kid looks like anything, but maybe that's just me, this remains wrong and unclassy, what the F where they thinking?

[sb]

The kid is just salty looking cause she's not his favorite member.

[Moh]

@akb48journal Publisher YM Kodansha is being questioned by police regarding child pornography act at Kasai's PB http://t.co/ZlKYQt1V

[DSQueenie]

Whoa.

[TotallyUncool]

I hadn't even been aware of any of this until last week, when I was at a Japanese-language meetup group at a crowded cafe in Koreatown. A Japanese girl plunked her iPhone down on the table and said, "Here - what does everybody think of this?" And it was that picture.
I looked at it, shrugged, smiled, and just thought, "Whatever." Because at my age, and after all I've seen, done, and been through, it really is just whatever..
Most of the other people at that end of the table (guys in their 20s and 30s) liked it ("I think it's beautiful!"), and said that it would never fly in the U. S. -- "we're just too puritanical here."
The girl said that most people in Japan would think it was BFD -- it wouldn't really bother them.
After that, we got off onto a discussion of who the girl in the picture was -- somebody recognized her as an AKB member. Then the girl with the iPhone showed us the photoshopped version with Akimoto in place of the kid.