The biggest downside of jpop groups (1 Viewer)

[Michael]

I guess it's all of them; but there are many lineup changes. I don't see that happening on kpop. I get interested on a group, and then I either know of the many exmembers they have on a relatively short time, or one of the current members is leaving. That's puts me off it. Underbeasty, a group I got interested in stanning, yet a member is graduating. Yes, I still don't know them as I should; but I remember what happened with Necronomidol.

 

[Chaeee]

Why do they “graduate” from groups in the first place?

 

[Willow]

I guess that is because they don’t have such long contracts. They can leave whenever they want

 

[Willow]

Didn’t Underbeasty get two new members?

 

[Michael]

Didn’t Underbeasty get two new members?

I don't know the details; but they just did a concert with 8 members where one was new and one was graduating. The rate of graduations is still low compared with Zenkimi or Shingeki; but it's off putting to learn the group I'd just been newly interested on stanning is changing their lineup again.

 

[Bopper]

Stanning groups with a graduation system is like not getting attached to a character in a book, because you know sooner or later they’ll be killed off.

 

[Michael]

Stanning groups with a graduation system is like not getting attached to a character in a book, because you know sooner or later they’ll be killed off.

It is not even that they have a graduation system. They're free to leave whenever they want which may be seen as something positive; but it has this side effect; a history of lineup changes.