i find it so weird.
either all these eighters are new.
or fandom mentality has changed cause if this was legit 10 years earlier there would have been some serious kanjani8 is not kanjani8 without subaru majority in the fandom.
eh, lol, its so weird. it is so fuuuuuuuuuuuucking weird to see kanjani8 fandom just move on like, oh, yeah he’s gone. hey, time to support the new incarnation. whoo new music.
like.
its so weird.
so goddamn weird.
also fuck ohkura. i don’t care how many times his fans try to spin that comment, 勝手な決断, was fucked up passive aggressive bullshit.
Not really a veteran but I’ve been here since 2011 so I guess I’m closer to a…. middle aged man facing a mid-life crisis? That auntie from your mother side that still gets laid while kicking her seventy? I dunno.
From my point of view the fandom has to move on and not because it doesn’t give two shits about Subaru but because… what else is it supposed to do? Mass suicide? Buy poison for everyone? Have you looked at my wallet? We don’t have that kind of money. Subaru is moving on, Kanjani are moving on, my ear will probably move to a different state as soon as Yoko/Hina get more line than the one they already have and there’s nothing we can do to stop events from happening.
Subaru is not dead, Kanjani have not disbanded yet and even if he was worth 25 cents at some point we already went through the loss of a member. It’s all about being able to re-adjust once again. Find a new kind of balance, I guess.
Moving on and hoping for the best is the only thing we have left.
And memes, don’t forget we also got the memes. Shitty, just as we love them.
Subaru has contributed two decades to Kanjani, I would have expected a bit more … time from the fans to allow the departure to settle in and not completely write him off and start trying to act as if it never happened.
It’s also hard for some fans to really readjust when majority of fandom is trying to shove 6 member kanjani in everyone’s faces and the news isn’t even a week old. Gotta support the members, gotta look at their feelings, gotta think about them, etc etc
They already knew he was going to leave. The decision was made a loooooong time ago. The question was a matter of when it was going to happen. Personally, I don’t like how it was presented to make it seem as if Subaru was being completely selfish and that we need to feel sorry for the boys cause they did everything in their power to stop him but he just wouldn’t listen.
It reminds me of that shitacular drama called Papadoru. Except rather than support him in their comments, like in the fictional scenario, it seems more like a victims statement.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re upset. It sucks. I feel bad for the group.
But Subaru having to ghost the rest of his contractual obligations is pretty fucked up. The fact he is not participating in the would be final tour weeks before balloting even starts for FC members who are fans of Subaru and were anticipating him being there is fucked up.
There’s a lot of fucked up shit about this whole damn situation and I just find it weird that so many are so willing to just move on and try to paint this “awww eighters would support kanjani no matter what” front so damn soon when there’s fans out there who are pretty damn mad and don’t feel comfortable to really vent or morn or whatever they want to do.
Maybe this is karma for my early days in fandom and my opinion on Uchi, but to my defense, Uchi was only apart of two singles and he acted selfishly by doing something really stupid.
Subaru is over five albums and nearly forty something odd singles over a span of fifteen years and all he wanted to do was master his craft, something Johnny’s would not let him do.
That’s not being selfish.
TL;DR — Eighters are eighters regardless if they support kanjani7 or kanjani6
I can’t speak for other fans, so take this as a “reply from Iside” just as it is.
The main reason why I don’t personally mourn about Subaru is because it’s something I’d find… unusual to do, given the circumstances. Subaru has not being kicked out from the agency, no one has forced him to leave. Subaru has simply looked back at the past 20 years and at some point found out that he has spent them doing something that didn’t fully make him feel appeased, so he has decided to quit.
Being any other circumstances, being any other person leaving a job that made them feel caged, I’d congratulate to them, I wouldn’t be sad. That’s not being selfish, that’s self-care. I’ve been selfish for being mad at Subaru for the first hours after the press conference, mostly because I couldn’t understand. Was he lying when holding his shirt during concerts and calling himself a member of KJ8 proudly? Was he faking for the sake of member-ai? While hugging Maru during JUKE was he thinking “He’s one of the reasons keeping me back from what I’d really like to do?”. I couldn’t understand. I kept thinking about all those things and kept getting mad at him, but then I realized there was no lie. Subaru told those words while trying to believe in them himself. He tried to make things work somehow for as long as he could, because he cared about the group and the guys and the individual members.
But something brought him on the verge of a breaking point and eventually he decided to quit anyway. Thinking about himself, wanting to take care of himself. Wanting to be selfish? If we want to use the dictionary. And what’s wrong with that? After giving 20 years of his life to us, what’s wrong with wanting to take the last ones for himself?
That’s why I’m trying to keep a positive attitude here, because Subaru is doing this for himself, is being selfish in order to safe himself and there’s nothing wrong with that. Knowing what I know now, that he still wanted to quit, I wouldn’t enjoy a new KJ8 concert even if he was in there anyway. It would feel like catch a sparrow and put it in a cage just because you like its singing, and me liking my pets free I’d feel like a monster for allowing so.
My group not being a whole anymore is breaking me apart, even if I don’t show so I beg you to trust me on this one, I know it might sound strange coming from me but it’s real. But at the same time I prefer this than to a whole and a lie.
I’ll support KJ8 no matter what - well, not really nooooo matter what, let’s say for now - because the group wasn’t Subaru&KJ8 it was KJ8 and I still have six members to watch grow, that’s it.
For what concerns the memes, I can’t speak for the others, but I suck when it comes to conforting people. Me bringing Nishi to the level of a dog poop is the equal of giving you a pat on the shoulders and telling you, everything is gonna be fine.
Still, if you want to talk about how the whole matter affected you, affected all of us, in a more serious way here I’m.
I love you woman, I’ll always have your back, even if I suck at doing so.
Mourning for a day or a thousand won't change the situation. Subaru is going for his dreams and he has all the right to do so. He's given us plenty of himself for all those years. His departure is not the situation anyone wanted (us or the members) but it's what's there and we either accept it and move on or stomp our feet and yell and cry (and change nothing), or we just leave too (that's also an option). Moving on is not desregarding his importance to the group, it's being mature to accept things we can't change. Of course everyone is free to be mad at him (even Okura!), no one has to agree, but we owe him the respect. Anyone who still has their heart on it should be supporting 6-member eito, it's what Subaru wants in the first place, but if you can't that's fine too, you know? But being mad at the fandom who is trying to move on is not nice. Moving on is not desregarding Subaru's importance.
This is coming from a 11-year Eighter who is having a reaaaaally hard time moving on, but I'm still trying because we still have 6 amazing people who need us, and the best way to ease Subaru's mind and care for him is caring for the legacy he left behind.


















