Yeah, I agree, though what happened with Ebi when KisuMai's debut was announced was pretty darn awkward... >__>;; So idk how much Johnny's cares about sparing others' feelings, but yeah.
Yeah, I guess I'd say more like 5-10 is a good number, with the right management, especially after time. I agree with you that balance and identity are important, but as a JUMP fan, I think that they actually have managed to maintain those things and have also had advantages to a large group, like not having drama between two members because there are plenty of others to buffer everyone out, which I think is a problem in groups of five or six who are really just stuck with the same members day in and day out. But more than 10 is definitely out of the question, and I honestly would feel bad for the kids stuck in a 40 member unit since basically about 35 of them would never get any promotion whatsoever. So yeah, I really agree with you on that.
I think it's pretty hard for people not to focus on that sort of thing, though. Debuts are few and far between, and for me, the disappointment outweighs the happiness if a few people I like debut and others I like are left behind, especially at first. It really hurts to have someone you're a fan of passed over for debut while others in their junior unit are debuted, and I think a lot of people sort of feel like they'll have forever with the debuted ones now, but their days being able to enjoy the undebuted ones may be numbered. I guess it just varies, because I feel like most of the people on my flist, etc, had a sort of feeling of "well, it sucks for Fujii and Kamiyama, but oh well." I know I'm really abnormal, because a large percent of the time, I'm a fan of the underdog, but I really just felt bad for those two to see so few people, be it the fans standing around me at countdown or the Japanese fans on twitter or the people LJ or the bloggers across the internet, spare much thought for them.
But I know that my feelings are really coloured by my own opinions and experiences, so... I think I just need to step back and ignore the whole thing for now. XD; I'm not a Kansai-anything fan, so at the end of the day, what I think definitely is secondary.
Sorry that I keep posting so many words >__>;; Thanks for always putting up with my wordiness and having detailed conversations with me, though! XD;
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Date: 2014-01-02 04:20 pm (UTC)Yeah, I guess I'd say more like 5-10 is a good number, with the right management, especially after time. I agree with you that balance and identity are important, but as a JUMP fan, I think that they actually have managed to maintain those things and have also had advantages to a large group, like not having drama between two members because there are plenty of others to buffer everyone out, which I think is a problem in groups of five or six who are really just stuck with the same members day in and day out. But more than 10 is definitely out of the question, and I honestly would feel bad for the kids stuck in a 40 member unit since basically about 35 of them would never get any promotion whatsoever. So yeah, I really agree with you on that.
I think it's pretty hard for people not to focus on that sort of thing, though. Debuts are few and far between, and for me, the disappointment outweighs the happiness if a few people I like debut and others I like are left behind, especially at first. It really hurts to have someone you're a fan of passed over for debut while others in their junior unit are debuted, and I think a lot of people sort of feel like they'll have forever with the debuted ones now, but their days being able to enjoy the undebuted ones may be numbered. I guess it just varies, because I feel like most of the people on my flist, etc, had a sort of feeling of "well, it sucks for Fujii and Kamiyama, but oh well." I know I'm really abnormal, because a large percent of the time, I'm a fan of the underdog, but I really just felt bad for those two to see so few people, be it the fans standing around me at countdown or the Japanese fans on twitter or the people LJ or the bloggers across the internet, spare much thought for them.
But I know that my feelings are really coloured by my own opinions and experiences, so... I think I just need to step back and ignore the whole thing for now. XD; I'm not a Kansai-anything fan, so at the end of the day, what I think definitely is secondary.
Sorry that I keep posting so many words >__>;; Thanks for always putting up with my wordiness and having detailed conversations with me, though! XD;