Poor Idol group AKB48 are getting a bad name due to their management company deciding to continue to raep its fans. They announce on their official blog that if one manages to collect 44 special edition posters then that fan will be invited to some special gig. The thing is that the posters come with a CD and you dont know what poster is going to come with the CD. One has to collect all 44 unique posters... Still, I'm sure that the fans who love watching girls dancing around in school uniform will jump at the offer... Via Itai News.
They are kinda cute and all, but just... No... Hell no... How do you even read the name?!
The name stands for "Akihabara48" There are 48 girls and they're split into teams, "A" "K" "B" with 16 girls in each.
44! What a bad bad number...Truly asking the fans to die(4) i think?
Nice one there. Yeah, it's quite a dumb idea... The superstitious fans will not answer well to this I suppose.
better than 69 i guess. ('~')
hey gordon, 69 isnt actually so bad after all. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/69_position
LOL! DieDie!! They are planning mass murder, it seems. ^^
OT: Danny gonna clone himself?! *gasp* Teach!!! :P
i only heard one song from them, the ED song for the skull man, i think it's pretty good. my friend really like them
I only ever remember the opening of The Skull Man ^^; Can't remember the ending at all..
44?! Im not sure if there is anyone dumb enough to buy 44 CDs (minimum!) to get into some special event -.-
Guess there will be trading and Ebaying for that kind of stuff... If not a boycott.
If my calculations are correct you would need to buy on average in the 200+ range to get every single one if the chances are perfectly random. Me thinks this AK47 group must thinks very highly of themselves if they thinks that some noob would buy that many CD's.
thats what ebay is for, let everyone buy the cd's for you and you just buy everyones extra posters.
They are cute... almost like a full classroom filled with cute girls. As for the promo... lol, no freaking way! With that kinda money I could just like, have one of those pop idols of my own. :P Even more with my bad luck
What? 44 unique posters? Right. Excuse me, I need to go jump off a building right now.
errr...no. that's a very big no no.
Jeeebus....that ONE whole group? man...it's morning musume all over again...lol
it may be a bad idea but if you look at a marketers point-of-view, this a great idea to leech money from their devoted and loyal fans and earn money at the least possible time and at the least possible cost lolz XDDD
Henry.. I think what you're trying to say is.... They're desperate.
yeah...and that XD lolz
Then comes the day of the gig, they enter the stage to only see 3 fans there. That will be hilarious.
But those fans will have earned their place (if they didn't do anything dubious) and they sure will enjoy being just near the stage and so on.
That is a group @_@? too much people for one group to management. It's like a school girl class. And why is 44 and not 48?
I just read about this promotion and it is as ridiculous as it sounds. So you get a poster when you buy the new single but it's completely random and you have to collect 44 of them. Below calculations were done by people from 2ch. What are the odd of collection all 44 posters? 44/44×43/44×42/44×41/44×……2/44×1/44=super crazy odd Just so that you get ultra lucky and able to collect all 44 posters at once: 044枚(1 set)→0.000000000000013% 55,000yen So just to attend this gig, you need at least 55,000yen, which is already super ridiculous price to attend something(normal concert ticket price range from 6000yen to 9000yen).
All hail 2ch and their super calculators :0
Thank you for the headache right in the morning... This is why I hate math. ^^
Using MATLAB's RNG, I calculated that on average you need to buy around 214 CD's to collect them all. Maybe a pokemon fan would be able to collect them all?
Here is the code if someone wants to try it:
z = 48;trials = 1000;A = zeros(trials,z);n = zeros(1,trials);
for t = 1:trials
while (sum(A(t,:)) < z)
x =ceil(rand.*z);n(t) = n(t) + 1;
for i=1:z
if x==i
A(t,i) = 1;
end;end;end;end;
final = sum(n)./trials
this is so marketed for otaku but still they are all soooooooooooooo cute
lame girl band is lame
LOL, do I sense a hater?
Can't blame him; what lousy managing...
and when these girls already done for, what would your expectations they will do next?
I guess the gig's for the most hardcore of hardcore. 44 unique posters! What's one gonna do with all the extras they bought later on...
Ummm... "Gotta catch 'em all?"
the gig is that if you collect them all, you can bring any 3 of the girls home, and they're yours
Now if I got to keep the girls all night than it would be worth it. *wink* *wink*
That was painful. Even if there are a bunch of cute girls dancing in the videos, I'm still not going to listen to their crappy music just for that. And what's the bad luck deal with the numbers 44? I don't get it..
Hey danny, the latest news is that this business strategy has been canceled by the management company.
DefSTAR Records has cancelled AKB48's [sarcasm]wonderful marketing strategy[/sarcasm] 'coz they think that it might be against the law as compensation for those devoted and loyal fans who bought the 150 unopened CD copies of AKB48's single will get a refund http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Arch/DF/Akb48/m_info.html
is this the right time to say...."I'd hit it.."?
