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Net idol (ネットアイドル, Netto aidoru) is a Japanese term for a person who achieves celebrity status through the internet. Unlike an Internet celebrity, a net idol is more focused on Japanese pop culture.[citation needed]

History

Net idols emerged as an offshoot of Japanese idols in the late 1990s. The world's first "cyber idol" or "virtual idol" was Kyoko Date in 1997[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28] She has a fabricated history, statistics, and her own songs. Meanwhile, gravure idols (グラビアアイドル, gurabia aidoru) such as Yoko Matsugane, Rio Natsume and Eiko Koike, net idols themselves, have largely appeared skimpily clad in "cheesecake" photographs.

Net idols by country

International:

  • Flusay Girls was formed in 2010[29] as a global online based group. They are managed by Nanami Uehara. Since 2010 they have released over 12 singles with an ever-changing lineup of members and sub-units.[30]
  • Crystal Rose: Formerly known as KRP28, this group was formed in 2014. Their leader, Katana Niara, writes original music for the group, which contains 20+ members. As of April 2015, they had released six original songs.[31]

United States:

  • SHEawase: Formerly known as Happy!Project, this group was formed in 2007 as a duo with Melissa Shows and Kristy Valdez. It currently has four members: Melissa Shows, Tara Muchmore, Morgan David, and Maxine Ortner. They have released two original singles and are working on an EP.[when?]
  • Aidolize!: Formerly known as AiUta, this group first formed in 2011 with three members: Carry, Amanda, and Anthony. They disbanded for two years and reformed under the name Aidolize! The group currently has two members.
  • Miki: This group started out as a net idol back in 2015.

France:

  • CHiC!Pro is a France-based net idol group with three covers.
  • Tasaina Project: This group formed in 2013 with 21 active members ranging from six different generations.

Italy:

  • Honey☆Hime: In January 2015 they debuted as J-pop idol cover group on several anime convention stages. They started with three members (Doki, Kanako, and Kotomì), and then added Hachi to the group. Now the group is still three members (Kotomì and Hachi left, but they added Puchiko in December 2015). In 2016 they planned to start producing original songs.

Philippines:

  • Catherine Guittierez, a.k.a. Alicia Mayer, formerly known as Alicia Bonifacio, is a Filipina celebrity. She first gained fame through her personal website containing her sexy photos. This eventually led to her acting career. She was crowned as Miss Internet Philippines. In 2007 she posed for PETA wearing only a bikini made from lettuce as advocacy of veganism and vegetarianism, as well as against animal cruelty. She was voted as the sexiest vegetarian in the world in a PETA poll in conjunction with the ad; other stars in the campaign were Pamela Anderson and Maggie Q.
  • In the anime and manga Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei. Kotonon, one of the net idols in the show, in real life is obese and unattractive. Her website of heavily photoshopped images is extremely popular. A real-life net idol is also mentioned on the show but she is given a pseudonym.
  • In the anime and manga Death Note. Kira (killer), a.k.a. Light Yagami is a mass murderer who uses a mystical object, the Death Note, to kill criminals. His killings make an uproar on the Internet. People say that a new god has come to punish criminals. Using this method of fame and publicity, he gains huge public support.
  • The anime and manga Mahou Sensei Negima has Chisame Hasegawa as the net idol among her class. She is an introverted recluse who, behind the scenes, is the top net idol. She features herself in risque outfits or cosplay outfits. Ironically, when she, the hero, and his crew go into "Cosmo Entelechia", the perfect world designed to be a prison, she resists the spell because her life is that of a "Rea-Juu", internet slang for "fully fulfilling life", when she thinks of herself as the complete opposite of a Rea-Juu.
  • In the anime and manga Kaichou wa Maid-sama, a young boy named Aoi Hyoudou cross-dresses and becomes a well-known net idol, much to the dismay of his father.
  • In the game The iDOLM@STER: Dearly Stars, the hikkikomori character Mizutani Eri begins her career as a net idol.

See also

References

  1. ^ Kyoko Date: The world's first virtual pop star
  2. ^ Physical Culture, Power, and the Body
  3. ^ Stardom and Celebrity: A Reader
  4. ^ Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture
  5. ^ Billboard
  6. ^ Virtual idol Kyoko Date gets a ‘Second Life’
  7. ^ Creating Kaya
  8. ^ BBC News | Teenage trends | The teen dreams of Japan
  9. ^ Experiential Marketing: How to Get Customers to Sense, Feel, Think, Act, Relate
  10. ^ FCJ-054 Digital Bodies and Disembodied Voices: Virtual Idols and the Virtualised Body
  11. ^ Virtual idol breaks new ground in cyberspace project
  12. ^ Virtual idols blur line between real and imaginary
  13. ^ Kyoko Date reddit
  14. ^ Digital Bodies and Disembodied Voices: Virtual Idols and the Virtualised Body
  15. ^ Examining the Rise of Hatsune Miku: The First International Virtual Idol
  16. ^ The making of a woman
  17. ^ REMADE IN JAPAN:THE CASE OF AUDREY HEPBURN
  18. ^ Japan Dreams: Notes from an Unreal Country
  19. ^ Performing Science and the Virtual
  20. ^ The Oxford Handbook of Music and Virtuality
  21. ^ Virtual Idols: YouTube's Next Generation Stars Are Made, Not Born
  22. ^ The Virtual Idol: Producing and Consuming Digital Femininity
  23. ^ The Age of Anime by Finn Lectura - issuu
  24. ^ 1 6 Are Chatrooms Public or Private? - . 4 - Uchebana5.ru
  25. ^ The making of a woman | Technology | The Guardian
  26. ^ Kyoko Date - OoCities
  27. ^ 以互聯網為題材的中文歌曲 - CUHK Last Page
  28. ^ [%AA%A9%C5v%AD%B6%A5[%A7@%AA%CC%A4%B6%B2%D0%A5[%AFB%A4%F4%A6L.pdf 體驗行銷~ 烏來西雅圖的天空 - 德明財經科技大學 Page 9
  29. ^ "flusay girls". YouTube. Retrieved 14 April 2018.
  30. ^ "History". フルセイ 少女. Retrieved 2017-01-21.
  31. ^ Niara, Katana. "Kirakira Project".
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