Why Japanese fall out of love with their pin-up idols

By Ken Y-N ( February 25, 2013 at 00:15) ? Filed under Polls, Rankings

goo Ranking has a survey that shines a little bit of light in a corner of Japanese culture that gives me the willies, quite frankly, with a look at why people fall out of love with a liked idol.

Demographics

Over the 9th and 10th of January 2013 1,072 members of the goo Research monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 59.4% of the sample were female, 8.5% in their teens, 14.1% in their twenties, 29.8% in their thirties, 27.1% in their forties, 10.4% in their fifties, and 10.2% aged sixty or older. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.

The idol culture (note that both boys and girls can be idols) is a bit scary at times, in particular the grown men who chase AKB48. From a female point of view, I would guess that Takarazuka Revue stars would be considered idols.

Ranking result

Q: What caused your heart to wander from your liked idol? (Sample size=1.072)

Rank	?	Score
1	I found a different hobby that I could get more into	100
2	I fell in love with a different idol	96.9
3	The songs were no longer the kind I liked	69.9
4	There were reports that my idol was badly-behaved	68.0
5	My real life got busy and I could no longer chase my idol	58.7
6	I fell in love in real life so my idol dropped to second place	46.7
7	I felt I was too old to be chasing idols	46.3
8	I found out my idol had a lover	43.6
9	My idol changed their image and it no longer suited me	28.2
10	My idol hit the big time so they were no longer mine alone	26.6
11	I saw my idol in concert, etc, and felt they weren?t putting their heart into it	15.4
12	I saw my idol at a meet the public event but they were cold	13.5
13	I realised how much money I was spending chasing my idol	12.7
14	My idol left the group they were in	11.6
15	It became difficult to get tickets for my idol?s events so I could no longer meet them	10.0
16	I no longer liked the way they were selling my idol?s CDs	7.7
17	My idol was curt when I shook their hand	7.3
18	My idol stopped doing meet-and-greets	6.6
19	I realised we would never be a couple	6.2
20	People around me teased me for being an idol fan	4.2

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