You mentioned this a couple of times now, but that is just a ridiculous statement. First of all, you can't group the five girls from the 4th generation together like this. They are all individuals with their own strengths and weaknesses.
Technically speaking, you are absolutely 100% correct, but I think you are trying to take a cheap shot as well if your only ammo is being politically correct. The only reason I have grouped the 4th gen. together is out of convenience, it's just a lot of hassle for me to separate them individually and point out how they are talent-less one by one when the final verdict on them is the same. If it was the 1st or the 2nd gen. that I was evaluating, I wouldn't refer to them in a group as the talent level within each group varies greatly. But you have to keep in mind that being judged as a gen. group is not uncommon way of being judged when you view them as a unit whether it's unfair or not, that's just reality. I mean do you ever say it's unfair to compare Team A and Team K and Team B because they are all individuals? No, you say it's unfair because they are all different as a unit. AKB fanatics of each Team get into fist fights every day because it probably matters to them to identify as Teams as well as individuals.
Kurata has X-factor? Could you be more specific? I mean if you are going to throw around vague terms to justify that Kurata has talent, you are not going to convince me. I don't think Morita's IVs fly off the shelves because of how entertaining her IVs are, IVs for the most part has nothing to do with talent because it's just about the looks. I've seen the first IV by Kurata out of curiosity as an Idoling fan, but yeah I didn't get anything out of it that you say you have, sorry.
It's not that I don't think Kurata is this hopeless, worthless, nothingness person, by talent-less I'm saying her downsides far outweigh any upside she may have, such as her dancing, that it just doesn't matter to me in the whole scheme of things, because she's vastly inferior to her peers. I'm sure there are a select few who think Kurata is the best thing to happen since sliced bread, but I'm talking more in the context of reality, not fantasy.
Ojima being goofy and acting like a buffoon does not equal being funny to me. Take the concept of a clown for example, it's sole job is to be funny, but does every person find clowns funny? No, some even think clowns are creepy and weird. Only kids may find clowns funny because they are kids and they don't know any better. Yeah once in a while something she does in one of those game episodes amuses me, but I can't simply take that and turn her into a comedic genius and claim that she has talent, no way.
I literally could write 5 pages on each of the 4th gen. members individually as to why they have no talent, but I really don't think any of you care that much about them so I don't see the point to do that, and believe me I probably wouldn't be able to keep my interest in 4th gen. this long for me to write 5 pages worth if they weren't in Idoling for sure.
Again, you are 100% correct in pointing out that I was wrong in judging them as a group because my intent was to evaluate them as individuals, and I wasn't careful enough to make that clear. But I must say, you are way off if you think your selective personal impression of Kurata and Ojima along with your self-admitted non-impressionable rest of the 4th. gen group is good enough case to over-take my evaluation on them because you clearly don't seem to have that much interest in them to know much about them that I do to lay that claim.