Posted 11 June 2011 - 08:19 PM
That was more of a failed attempt at humour, no trolling intended. Sorry.
But you said something that irked me a bit in your response. Yui no doubt works hard, she works hard because idol work is hard, and in AKB is specially intense. There is practising, stages, filming and so on, lots of hours that make very difficult to keep a normal life, normal friends, and a regular school and home life. And there are girls that are far away from their homes too, like Yui yes, but also like Yuki or Rie or Sasshi. But you know, a lot of these girls, most of them, where there enduring this before Yui entered the group , enduring it form a younger age and for a longer time, Working hard, very hard. And some of them got chances, made good on them and got really popular, and the group with them, others wasted them, and others never reached that point, but at the very last all of them are, or have been, great at the theatre, the core of the group. And all of them bring fans, some more than others, but all work hard, and all benefit form the success of the others, big or small. Many girls have worked really hard for the attention Yui gets now instead of them, it hasn't been always so easy for AKB to have magazine covers and TV time and whatnot.
I'm not actually against the promotion, Yui is getting popular, it's working, so there has to be something in her that fans like and thats good for her and the group. Management has plans obviously and they had to choose someone and Yui it is. I guess Yui's real worth will be measured now. I don't think there is much pushing can do for you once you are close to top senbatsu if you are not worth it.
So defend Yui because you like her looks or because she is a sweet girl or because you like how she sing or dance, but defending her promotion because she works the hardest, its kind of very ofensive to all the other girls and their fans.