Fanwars: The Beginning

There’re many kind of fanwars happening around my life and I’ll just state those who related to me in the ranking manner.

1.       Berryz Kobo vs C-ute

2.       Morning Musume vs AKB48

3.       Berryz Kobo vs SNSD (SJ)

4.       Morning Musume vs SNSD (SJ)

5.       AKB48 vs SNSD (SJ)

6.       S/mileage vs SNSD (SJ)

The most mentioned group is SNSD which is 4/6 of the wars. Followed by MM, AKB48 and BK. C-ute and S/M had a very nice day without much competition. Some of the fanwars even have sub-fanwars happening. Number 1 has [Risako vs Airi] fanwar. The fanwar are sometimes set by themes such as Number 2 has [Who is more professional] fanwar. Number 3 has [who is more original] fanwar. Number 4 has [Who is better & who is natural beauty] fanwar. Number 5 has [Who is more slutty] fanwar and the last one has [Who has fresher legs] fanwar.

Do the fanwars even needed when we just want to enjoy something we like? The point of fanwars are to find who is better and who is not deserve to be called a performer. BK vs C-ute has the fans to argue who is better at singing and dancing as both groups comes from the same audition. MM vs AKB argue that performer shouldn’t lip sync and deny AKB as a performer. BK vs SJ is yet another shocking fanwar birth this year by the release of Ai no Dangan. MM vs SJ is a pretty hard competition where both of them really has the quality. However, the fanwar started when SJ is formed with 9 members coincidentally same as the number of members of MM by that time. AKB vs SJ is yet another difficult battle by the terms of national idol. SJ fans targeted their girls to beat MM first and then beat AKB and be the best all-girl idol group in Japan. S/M vs SJ is however a lame battle.

I’ve read a comment of someone in BK’s official YT saying that the best commentator of YT called BK’s music as horrible and that one is certainly from anti fan. I’ve also saw SNSD fans called BK a horrible existence and they do not deserve being called a performer. These kinds of comments are really disappointing for me as we people are different in many matters.

All of us can’t be the boss who runs business because no one would do the works for us. We can’t all be genius in one career the world because if we are, life would be boring. Too many competition and we might wasted our talent. If everyone makes classical music, everyone will gradually leave music because they’re too alike. If everyone like good music, then who will like the less good music then? Who will help them to gain their confidence and who will help them to make their dream comes true. If one person calls Mariah Carey a great singer, the other person might disagree. Some people might see Justin Bieber a very annoying existence but some might love him. There are people who think SNSD is a good group with talent, some might go against it. Some might say BK’s music is horrible but some might say it is beautiful. Some think war is bad but some might see it as the opposite. Some might say killing other person is bad thing, but some might enjoy and celebrate it.

There is no need to go against other people opinion. It is better to be a listener than a people who need to debate about everything. Like what you love, dislike what you hate. You’re free to give out your thoughts but think of the suitability of the place and the atmosphere. You do not have to go all the way from Kpop to Jpop group just to say groups other than Kpop groups are awful. The same to the opposite. You don’t have to go all the way from AKB forum to MM’s just to say AKB is the current national idol group. The terms doesn’t limited to above statements. You don’t have to go to C-ute forum just to deny the ability of AKB members and annoy the forum’s community. If you want to deny a group, make your own forum of blog and say as much as you want and no one will say you’re wrong. Indeed a forum is for community to discuss but there unwritten rules which you yourselves should have known even without being told.

I will further the discussion on each fanwars in the future. I will do my best not to be biased while writing them.