IZONE News and Discussion Thread

I highly doubt it.

Indeed. Vampire promotion period ended and AKS expected Korean promotion period to kick in for a while, AKS side would be relatively dormant now in any case until the next Japan promotion period.

It would be cool if Izone could do a Japanese concert or two (even at Tokyo Dome City Hall or something and stream thru NicoNico/Youtube if activity in Korea is hibernated for a while.

 

@JPN48 Pardon me, I got the news from someone whose friend is an "internal person" in Korea. And also they said that AKS is also a victim. The court doesn't discuss voting fraud, it is just discussing whether IZONE should be disbanded or not(or anything else).

sorry, I got it not from portal news site.

 

People who have "internal person" tips are almost always lying.

 

I'm going to ask my friend that audition for Team 8 what she knows about this case.

 

could u ask your internal-friend to leak the album instead. its only stage48 people that will know

 

To think that whole this mess is happened during Korean promotional period which lead to cancellation of promotional activities in Korea makes me wonder if there is someone behind this which use this specific time to ensure maximum damage.

 

Well, it happened exactly the same with X1 and their debut single which is all just “a coincidence”.

 

More speculations from online https://danmee.jp/knews/k-pop/produce48-suspicion/

Spoiler

Comment from Kim Doah during produce48:
"Is Produce finally being fair? Or so I thought but in the end..."

(Mod edit: removed oversized photo)
Her expression when she was called as 23rd, people inferring the grin meant she knew what was going on in the program and that it was expected. + meaningful speech "Thank you for giving me a high rank even though I didn't get much screentime"

 

I didn't give any kind of rating, but I do disagree with the IZ*TWO suggestion. Everything else I agree with

 

IZ*TWO OMG IM SCREAMING!!

2nd Gen seems more doable. And double Asides for Japan. That’s the best strategy, but who knows what’s gonna happen.

feeling bad for Sakura.
Hitomi and Nako on the other side are fine.

 

If (some of) the girls were found complicit, do you think that would ruin their careers?

 

I think it's pretry obvious it would. But I think at most some members got the chance to learn the choreographies and songs before the rest. I can't imagine the girls being involved in the rigging.

 

At least in Korea, it would and I sorta think it should. I really hope they weren't really a big part of all of this.

 

I don't think the main issue is "the group is rigged, so they should disband". There are two outcomes that might happen from this incident:

1. The issue will be die out and business as usual.
2. Iz*One will be like T-ara post-scandal, being exiled by KPop world.

The main two main question are:

1. If the second possibility happen, are Iz*One worth continuing until the end of their contract?
2. Are your solutions will help to change the situation from second possibility to first possibility?

 

I am so gutted about this. Really hope the album at least gets released eventually with all the work that was put into it.

 

Even if they were not, the stain is already there. Asia is not big on the idea of 'innocent till proven guilty'

I feel for the KR line more as their post-IZONE future is more at stake

 

For Nako is there no upside, even before this scandal. For Hitomi, being only 1 of 8 backup dancers, is better than being 1 of 50 backup dancers. For Sakura, if promotions are limited to Japan and with the stain by association, is there an upside?

 

Time to stan Yui.

 

I'm not sure that we should believe this complicit thing based on what's going around. If mnet can just manipulate the results, I'm not sure why there's a need to give preferred candidates these "small" advantages.

 

Since someone here is curious with 5ch's reaction , here's some of them (USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE AT YOUR RISK):
When the news broke
When the comeback show went cancelled
When the release went delayed
When #WIZONELOVESIZONE became TTWW #2
Refund time
Talks about K-lines final ranking (+ mentioning STU 2nd gen audition)
[TRIGGERED] What happened with the J-lines??