Volume Five: Sweet Sweet Jailbait | Serial: SweetS TBT

• Essay

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• 27.Mar || Essay
• Giving In || Second Blossoming

• I think living in a Western society which has a huge responsibility to protect a child’s innocence has something to do with my resistance of liking junior idols. I see women pose in bikinis for men’s magazines at the bookshop but never will I see Irie Saaya or any other U15 idol on the cover of a men’s magazine because it just simply isn’t right. Imagine conservatives complaining about how they are exploiting the innocence of a young girl just because of her “assets”.

  Second Blossoming examines his descent into the world of junior idols, and why he fought it every step of the way.

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  About Second Blossoming: SB is a blogger and scientist-to-be living in New Zealand. He dedicates most of his free time looking at little girls, procrastinating and on his motorcycle.

• Idol Theory

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• 27.Mar || Idol Theory
• How Young is Too Young? || Vee

• The wota populace at large gets eerily somber when pre-pubescents are discussed, and for good reason: two of the main modes of appreciation suffer, and the stigma isn’t worth the Novelty. Is it, therefore, our responsibility as wota who are distressed by the influx of U12 idols to voice our opinion in an effort to preserve what little integrity the idol industry might have?

  Vee carefully considers the moral dimensions of appreciating U15 idols, and reaches some interesting conclusions.

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  About Vee: Vee is a novelist and J-Pop blogger living in Florida. She dedicates most of her free time to cosplay and singing, between lazy jags.

• Profile

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• 27.Mar || Profile
• The Seed That Sprouted || Kimitsu

• Fandom’s a funny thing, really. It’s like politics. The things you can say and can’t, the alliances and pandering and insult-lobbying, the image you need to keep up if you’re known for any sort of reason… it’s all there. That last one in particular.

  Kimitsu considers the lure of actor Saitou Ryuusei and how he changed her perspective on younger idols.

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  About Kimitsu: Kimitsu is a college student and blogger living in the state of denial. You may know it as New York. When not writing for minnaSTAR, she can be found avoiding other obligations through gaming or singing.

• Idol Theory

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• 27.Mar || Idol Theory
• Idoling is More Than This: Shifting Priorities and the Decline of Hello! Project || Vee

• The 2005 en masse shuffle group and the super-publicizing of Koharu Kusumi as a new “ace” seemed, even from a fan’s perspective, to be dying grabs at something transformatory. It’s rather easy to switch the blame around, and say that Hello!Project began to decay and the humor suffered from it, rather than what I believe: that the humor faded from Hello!Project’s idols, and the group began to decay.

  Vee considers how some Hello! Project youngsters usher in a return to the good old fashioned value of childish fun…

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  About Vee: Vee is a novelist and J-Pop blogger living in Florida. She dedicates most of her free time to cosplay and singing, between lazy jags.

• Essay

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• 27.Mar || Essay
• Notes From The Other Side || Misa

• I was more shocked by the fact that men the same age as my own father went to concerts and screamed for tiny little Mai Hagiwara. That put horrible mental images of my dad in a too-tight bright pink t-shirt waving around a fan with Mai’s face on it.

  Misa provides some thoughts as a fan who’s actually under the legal age.

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  About Misa: Misa is the writer of Cutie Party and an Editor on International Wota. She dedicates just about all of her time to her favourite music, and her idea of fun on a Friday night is sitting back, relaxing and getting down to a good night of blogging.

• Meta

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• 27.Mar || Meta
• Volume Five Poll

• You’ve read the articles.

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  • Idoling Is More Than This by Vee
  • The Seed That Sprouted by Kimitsu
  • Giving In by Second Blossoming
  • How Young Is Too Young? by Vee
  • The Other Side of the Fence by Misa

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