WinterStar96 said:Zarator said:
To be honest, I don't mind realism when it comes to comedy, but I kinda want realism for drama - especially for a show set in the real world like this one. I just can't feel sad for a character if I can't find the entire situation believable.
Also, Spice & Wolf was kinda realistic, economically-wise^^
I mean stuff like that really happens in Japan whether you want to believe it or not, especially when it comes to managing agencies.
(This is going to move away from the topic of the anime as a whole and more into the topic of managing agencies so feel free to delete or edit this post if needed, mods.)
I'm not sure if there are any articles in English or not but try searching up Yurina Hirate. She was an idol for the group Keyakizaka46 and she was the "center" for all of the songs they have released so far, reason being is that she had a huge potential as an idol. Her management agency treated her as a tool though, the reason why I say that is the one who chooses the center is the management agency.
She was always put in the center position whether she liked it or not and had no way of refusing. And thanks to that, her life as an idol became more of a torture than a dream. If you take a look at the pictures of what she first looked like when Keyakizaka46 was first created, you'd see she looks nothing like what she does in the more recent photos.
This is something I read from an interview with someone that used to work at the agency but basically she knew the adults around her needed her more than anything so she literally cancelled at the last second when it came to filming the MV for the groups latest song, literally forcing the filming crew to cancel the whole production on that day. When it came to appearing on a live TV broadcast to sing their latest single, she suddenly started saying she doesn't want to do it and didn't appear on TV, there's actually an image of show where the group is singing and she is clearly not there.
Basically she got sick of how the adults in that agency were treating her and well, she quit the group only a few weeks ago. Usually when an idol leaves the group, people consider it graduating but she literally told the agency she wasn't graduating, she was quitting and that's how she wanted them to announce it and that's how they did.
She wasn't sweet talked, she didn't get a raise, she was treated like trash and tried to destroy the group from the inside.
This is what happens in Japan's management agencies whether you want to accept that as reality or not. To us, it feels like fiction because we've never experienced it ourselves but in that kind of business, it happens, though is very rare. I mean there are agencies that don't do that because they're humane but it does happen. Anime and manga just show us that kind of stuff more than usual so it always seems unrealistic is all.