You know, I swore to myself I wouldn’t blog about this. Everyone else has. It’s a big issue. Some people, like myself and Vulpi, think it’s the most lolarious thing we’ve ever seen from Hello! Project. But others, like actual fans of Melon Kinenbi, are SHOCKED & APPALLED at this:
Really, what’s the big deal? So Melon Kinenbi got some cardboard cut-outs of four black men and hid behind them for the shooting of the cover of their single’s big debut. Maybe they were having bad hair days/the airbrushing tool broke/Shibata Ayumi suddenly gained two pounds and a state of emergency was called.
But as I said, it can be perceived in a number of different ways. Tsunku wanted to go for broke (bad pun) and try a drastically new marketing scheme, Tsunku is smokin’ up, or Tsunku wants to kill Melon Kinenbi. Either way, my judgment stays the same.
Me: Somehow, “Liberi Fatali” is appropriate for writing this post to.
Vulpi: I can just see Black Kinenbi charging down a battlefield with, like, gunblades and shit.
Me: …
Me: That is so cool.
