Product: Sone 153 Njav Extra Quality
Verdict: Highly impressive—excellent build and performance for the price.
AKB48 and its sister groups have turned scarcity into an art form. They release multiple singles a year, each containing a "senbatsu" (election) ballot. Fans vote for who gets to sing on the next record. Consequently, dedicated fans buy hundreds of copies of the same CD just to vote more times. The product is not the music; the product is the feeling of participation.
When the West thinks of Japanese film, it thinks of Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai or the horror of Ringu. However, modern Japanese cinema operates in two distinct lanes: the Live-Action Adaptation and the Director-for-Hire system.