Controlled Karaoke: Probably Going To Jail For Googling Naked Boyz, The Male AKB48
On one hand, the existence of the terribly named Naked Boyz…a 44-member strong performance group basically taking the AKB48 blueprint and replacing “girls” with “guys”…signals a tiny bit of gender progress in Japan. Now women have a large mass of pop stars to stare at! Yet on the other hand…anything that continues growing the AKB48…