Jul 30 2008
*Shakes Head*
Really. I leave for two minutes and a major scandal breaks out? What’s up with that? Well…it looks like the Jimusho has essentially gone to war with that publisher, so I take that as a sign that no one is getting fired or anything, so there’s no need to panic. I just hope there won’t be any long term consequences for Arashi as a whole.
It’s interesting, all the politics of this. The timing for one thing, and you can’t help but wonder how much that magazine paid those girls for that story. I imagine that the editors of that magazine sat down and carefully calculated how much money they would lose by pissing off the jimusho and decided that the revenue for the magazine sales would put them in the positive column. I can’t imagine they anticipated that Johnny’s would official shun then entire parent publishing company though. It seems that Johnny’s is choosing to make an example of them by reacting this way. It’s a message to all the other publishing companies, that message being “Don’t you dare fuck with us”. Sometimes I think the management is a little scary. *shrugs*. Oh well. Nothing to stop me from loving the individual boys, groups, and their music.
This is why I can never go on vacation. I swear, they just wait for me to leave to publish this stuff.
so what exactly is the Jimusho doing? I just heard about the ohno thing the other day.
Poor guy. I really hope this all blows over in his favor. =C
Oh, they’re refusing to do any business with any company associated with that magazine, so not just the magazine, but the whole larger “parent” company which means no Johnny’s in their magazines, no Johnny’s images on their manga, and, the most important part, Johnny’s will be going to a different company to have their calendars printed. It all amounts to a huge amount of money lost for that publishing company
lol damn they’re scary. its funny, how they support and believe in some of their artists and not the others…
depends on how important the artist is. This, they can deny because there’s no photographic evidence of the illegal part. With the News members who got expelled, there was photo evidence of them drinking, so they couldn’t deny it.