[News] Kago gets Friday'd (New interview)

[BakHamNoi]

this is so bad in some idol still life
maki -> sick
nacchi -> plagarist
ayaya -> boyfriend
tsuji -> underweight
aibon -> smoking
rika -> hates some fans
miki ->

 :evil:

+mari -> boyfriend too

[Loki!]

Miki -> drooling while cackling too much

[ctz]

I don't really understand UFA... I thought their goal as a business company is to make money, not to act as an ultimate moral guardian. I'm pretty sure UFA is just losing money when they are suspending their artists because of any reason.

They just help magazines to sell when they're making the biggest fuss of nothing. Does UFA own these magazines or something?

[Linus]

Mari wanted to leave. H!P never forced her.

Ayaya had the same affair, but she's solo and she didn't care.

Nacchi's plagiarism is, actually, the most serious thing of all them.
But she means money, gold and sells, so she came back.

Nono can't hold a solo career. In some circumstances, Aibon could go back. However, their group audience is -18, I'd say. Now she's a bad influence. Damnit. It's sad...

[Krusha]

UFA's goal is to make money yes, but they have artists who they have to be responsible for. Japanese music scene is not as degenerated as the US one, or EU one, where artists are caught shooting up heroin on a daily basis, or involved in gangfights [to exaggerate a little...] (Norwegian metal scene in the early 90's was marred by artists commiting murders, churcharson, and violence)

In any case, they have to show the Japanese society that UFA are in control, and are the bosses, and that they can handle a situation where one of their artists gets out of hand. So, in this case, we have Kago who is underage so far regarding the law of smoking, then she is caught smoking [breaking the law], and thus they have to react. Not only that, but I assume that it's not a very pretty image for an idol to be smoking, so they have to react on that as well. If she was 20 I bet the reaction would have been a public apology.

In effect, Kago's actions hurts herself, hurts the unit W, hurts the other member of W; Tsuji, and hurts H!P.

It hurts Kago on 2 levels: Careerwise and healthwise.

I never understood people who smokes, and Kago included-- your health is at risk. Is it really worth it, sucking on cancersticks? Just imagine if Kago was one of the very unlucky ones who got lungcancer? That'd be far worse than a suspension...


Anyways, my $0.2...

[Masa]

I don't really understand UFA... I thought their goal as a business company is to make money, not to act as an ultimate moral guardian. I'm pretty sure UFA is just losing money when they are suspending their artists because of any reason.

UFA is losing money no matter what they do with Kago. W and Kago lost tons of fans today and in my opinion she deserves to be punished. W is one of the main acts in H!P and Kago's actions might have killed one of UFA's best money makers.

Word.

[tamatron]

I don't really understand UFA... I thought their goal as a business company is to make money, not to act as an ultimate moral guardian.

She's an IDOL. She has lots of young fans idolising her. This is where moral image comes to play.

[chocolate]

That is really unfortunate. I don't smoke and wouldn't have guessed Aibon wants to have a cancer.  

[Ame]

Well.. I guess the only evidence to see if W lost a lot of their fans is to see how much this new single will sell. I mostly feel bad for Nono, Aibon's actions have also affected her as well.

[tamatron]

http://www.helloproject.com/newslist/kago_060210_060210047.html

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Official apology on H!O's behalf. Some event is postponed. No mention about punishment.

[Krusha]

chocolate,

My guess is that Kago doesn't want to have cancer either. But then, see, the Japanese youth in particular aren't very informed about these issues.
What I would like to see is a large campaign in the same vein of the "6%" one we recently saw, with information about smoking, and what it can do to you as a person. The world doesn't need smoking. It's an unnecessary evil which harms the persons doing it, and other people + the environment.

Someone said another place something about what if Kago had only had a beer? Well, then she'd still be breaking the law, but atleast it was a beer. A beer is not as harmful as smoke is, and it doesn't hurt people around you either.

We all have faults and flaws, and some are perhaps worse than others, but if there's something we all should work on eliminating, then it's smoking. We don't need that problem anymore. And if Kago has heart and guts, she will quit smoking. But if chances are as they usually tend to be, she will have sheep-mentality and do as most sheep do: follow the rest of the sheep, and continue smoking.

[maliciel]

Now we're discussing the implications of smoking vs implications of drinking? Lol.

So she's gonna be suspended eh. I just hope it's not too long. ;_;

[yurinachan]

Its the price to pay for being in the public spotlight, everything an idol does in under a microscope.

[Asmodai]

Well yeah. Kago having to do an anti-smoking PSA would make a lot more sense than a suspension.

[shirenuファクトリー]

Well, we could start a petition for UFA to educate their idols on the side-effects of smoking, and then maybe make them educate others about it.

I really can't stand smoking, either. x__x

[tenkei]

jesus, this blows... i really hope the suspension isnt much. what if that was like her first cigarette ever and she didnt even like it and wasnt going to smoke anymore... and she got caught...? look at the pics, it looks like shes never even held a cigarette before.

imo, the smoking pales in comparison to plagiarizing, but thats just me. if she actually is a regular smoker, i think it wouldve been better for her to do it in private as she is an idol and lots of little kids adore her... but then again, everyone and their uncle smokes in japan so maybe those kids wouldve started anyway lol...

[chocolate]

My guess is that Kago doesn't want to have cancer either. But then, see, the Japanese youth in particular aren't very informed about these issues.
.

I know in restaurants they start smoking when other people at same table still are eating. They just don't understand all the people don't like smoking.
Actually today I read an article from uutislehti 100 that each year more people die illnesses caused by tobacco than from alcohol, murder,suicide, aids, traffic accidents together.

[Asmodai]

" i think it wouldve been better for her to do it in private "

She did do it in private. She just got caught by spy-cameras.

That happened in the toilet video, so should Musumes never go to the washroom?

[Masa]

That happened in the toilet video, so should Musumes never go to the washroom?

Peeing ain't illegal, unless you pull an R. Kelly  

[Akito]

These photographers r almost as evil as the one north america has. I say even better. But a suspenion. wow this is going to make things very strange for hello project.