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Japanese pop star revealed to be computer generated, fans in shock
By Kelly BourdetJune 23rd, 2011, 2:40 pmComments (31)
This week, Eguchi Aimi, the newest member of the all-girl Japanese pop group AKB48, was revealed to be a fake human. She was perfectly cute, but Eguchi was nothing more than a computer composite of her six band mates; she existed only in a virtual world. The bizarre, and clever, publicity stunt was unveiled in the above video, which shows exactly how the virtual beauty was created.
Fans of the newest band member are understandably disappointed. But it's not hard to see how many were fooled during Eguchi's short run as a pop star. Watch the video above and see if you can pick out the fake girl before she's revealed. I couldn't. And even when I knew who was fake, she still didn't look fake to me.
Also, the group has released an application on their site where you can create the perfectly fake pop star of your dreams.
Commentarium (31 Comments)
Weird, like so much Japanese culture. Now I'm going to go cry into my body pillow.
so weird. so awesome.
This is hilarious! Not sure if it intended to be satire of modern pop music, but it definitely plays out that way.
Pretty good but it will never match the real and perfect greatness of Yatta!
Having watched it - the fake girl's eye movements don't match her mouth and her upper cheeks don't move, which is weird. Very clever tech though.
Errr, they all looks the same to me.
Yay for racist ignorant comment!
I know that in large girl groups, it's hard to tell the difference between the girls but in this video, you can obviously tell them apart by their hair styles. (Oshima Yuko, Takahashi Minami, Maeda Atsuko, Tomomi Itano, Shinoda Mariko and Watanabe Mayu.)
I'm a white girl, and all young white girls look alike to me, too. So there's that.
Creepy and weird and strangely sexy, as we've come to expect from Japan.
William Gibson predicted this 20 years ago in Idoru.
William Gibson knew there would be an all-girl group by the name AKB4 with a fake digitised singer going by the name of Eguchi Aimi? That is just too freaky!
OF COURSE HE DID, DUH!
Creepy. But my god I'll never understand Japan's fascination with "idols"
wow, fantastic !!!
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Aren't all pop stars virtual to a point?
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Almost exactly the plot of the movie S1m0ne with Al Pacino.
I remember watching something like this on Arthur!
They all look the same. Slanty eyes and black hair.
ur eyes must be slanted if their eyes looked slanted to u O:
The CGI chick is hotter than the rest of the group. I wonder what them tittles look like.
Sadly... this will be our future.
i'd still bang all of them..including the CG one
and depending on where you live, that could be a crime
he couldn't care less
AWESOME!!
Called it. It was a clever composite, but the movement of the features didn't exactly match when put together.
I think this is amazing. The Japanese are well known for their advances in technology and I think this is pretty cool. Perhaps this could be turned into a way to re-create a face in plastic surgery for people with like burns and stuff
wow.
Fans of the newest band member are understandably disappointed. But it's not hard to see how many were fooled during Eguchi's short run as a pop star. Watch the video above and see if you can pick out the fake girl before she's revealed. I couldn't. And even when I knew who was fake, she still didn't look fake to me
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