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J-Pop Idol is Actually a CGI Composite 

Welcome to the future of media, where the frontman of your group lives on a hard drive owned by the sponsor:

This past Sunday, Ezaki Glico, the candy company which aired the commercial,confirmed what many of AKB 48’s fans had come to suspect: Aimi Eguchi wasn’t real. The new group member, it turns out, was a computer-generated composite of the real band members. Her pretty face was actually made up of the “best features” of six other members: her eyes, nose, mouth, hair/body, face outline and eyebrows were not flesh-and-blood, but cut-and-paste.

Click through for the video showing their process.

Also: I bet the girl who ‘donated’ her eyebrows is teased constantly by the others.

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    Surprised? Admittedly, it’s horrendously creepy.
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