I wrote something in response to a forum discussion on Sayu’s narcisstic image, or so it seems.
I need to clear up two things: One, Sayu’s not who she tries to act like. If you’ve listened to Miki on DokiMiki Night and Ai-chan HaroPuro Yanen, you should know that she’s actually the exact opposite of what some of us call “annoying.” She’s selfless, mature, and I dare say maybe even serious. It bothers Miki that Sayu’s putting up a cute image when Miki knows that Sayu’s not like that at all, and Miki wishes she would stop. It bothers me sometimes, too, that Sayu rarely shows her true self, but you have to take the definition of “entertainment” into consideration here. She’s doing it for TV. Some fans like it, and it’s just bad news for the other half. Another thing is, what exactly do we know about Morning Musume behind the camera? When you read lengthy deep posts about them, the content will always be based on the materials available to us, VERY limited material. Limited material is good in the sense that it’s all we have, and we want to make the best judgment out of it. Limited material is bad in the sense that we often forget the lives of these members off the camera, and we cross the line between the on- and off-screen. We start to make dangerous assumptions because we don’t know everything.
I’m sure that all of us have already acquired the right mentality here. It’s just often times we forget that there’s more than what we see on TV off the camera – a curtain of privacy that we long to rip open, but should never.
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