Keekihime recently became an aidoru in Japan.
Beckii (Cruel) used to be an aidoru for half a year.
What are the differences between these two girls?
(1) Beckii's debut was a
windfall, while Keekihime
earned it.
(1-1)
Beckii uploaded her dance videos. I don't think she made efforts to become aidoru or anything. She was not going to become one in the first place.
Keekihime wanted to become H!P type aidoru. I guess she wanted to be part of it.
Besides aidoru, she liked anime and cosplay.
She began to study Japanese. She watched videos on
Youtube, wrote articles on
ameblo (I don't remember if she also wrote Mixi), used
Skype often,
tweeted a lot. In other words, she
interacted a lot with her fans in Japan.
And she set up her community on
Nico Nama. She instantly became a popular Nama Nushi (broadcaster).
Now her community has almost 25,000 members.
About a year passed, and she came to Japan to contact agencies.
Earlier this year, she became a member of aidoru group Tone Jewel.
Granted, she's done some controversial things and had some problems with people.
She won the title アイドル. She earned it by efforts.
She may not be a top aidoru, still it is an aidoru. By definition, she is a professional who is admired by her fans.
Before she became an aidoru, she WAS a person whom a lot of fans admired.
There was a thread on 2ch dedicated to her, in which one or more of her fans wrote admiring comments each time Keekihime posted her pic on her Twitter.
She was a person who had admiring fans before becoming an aidoru.
She was an aidoru before even becoming an aidoru.
(1-2)
What about Beckii? She was a lucky girl. She posted her dance videos on Youtube. They became popular on Youtube.
A former producer with Fuji TV
found her. He made her a star, with barely training for becoming aidoru.
He brought along two accompanying girls, one from UK, one from France, and put together an aidoru group. Japanese people viewed their music video.
They found it lame. Mucic was 翼を下さい (Give Me Wings), which Japanese students often sing for chorus cotests.
And they found the two accompanying girls, especially the French one, were so obasan.
Some thought Beckii herself was not so cute as they had seen on Youtube. They thought here was another Magibon (i.e., "disappointment").
Beckii's aidoru period lasted half a year.
Still I can't help considering it as a great event in the history of entertainment industry in Japan.
Before Beckii, there had been
no one who became aidoru through just uploading her videos on Youtube.
If the former Fuji TV producer didn't find her, Beckii wouldn't have been Beckii now.
She owes her success to him.
What has Beckii kept saying?
She's kept saying the producer is an insincere man who deceived her.
We've read only Beckii's side of the story. What was the reality like?
I don't know, but this much is certain. She was a lucky girl. Some able man found her and made her a star. She turned out to be talent-less and her looks was not so impressive, so her fans abandoned her. Her aidoru period lasted only half a year.
Beckii almost made us believe it was all due to the former producer's fault.
There must have been some complicated issues which haven't even been disclosed.
Beckii, after her aidoru period, became successful as a singer in UK. Wasn't it possible only because she had attained aidoru status, even if it was short-lived?
Mico 
