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Akane is still one of the cutest girls and 星歴13夜 is still the cutest music group in the universe I think. However, with more time I begin to feel less like I can obsess. If they released a full album, maybe I could then try to obsess again but still I would have lost the autistic squeeze. Life is not so simple, that all there can be is happiness. There is also sadness and pain. My pains are insignificant and nothing compared to the pains of many others, yet I wake up with the sweat and often cry because I remember a time when I did not suffer. I think back to the times I was a child, picture books with talking animals and nature trips and such, and think what I'd do differently if I had another chance to relive those same times. Many things, I'm glad from, they've shaped my personality and I like being who I am but I also dream of different lives. What if I didn't isolate, remained social and open? What if I had instead of going home crying at the knowledge I never would again speak to the girl I liked most in my class in elementary school, who liked me too, been courageous and talked to her the last time on the last day of school? Would we now be married and have children ourselves? Would I have a dream job and we would live in a scenic town in a house by a lake, with a wooden porch extending over the lake shielded from above with a gabled canopy, where we would sit with our feet in the water at evening?

Listening to 星歴13夜 helps with these thoughts because it's very cute music. It brings memories of childhood together with future dreams, and as I today again listen to all of their songs which I have downloaded (probably not all) while saving every new pic Akane has posted on Twitter. This is what makes me smile, so much that it brings tears in my eyes. It is the music of happiness, yet not an illusion of bubble life. Idols do not live in a bubble, and I believe that all members of the group are intelligent and aware of not only the problems in the industry but the essence of flawed capitalism that fuels the many of the pains. At least, Akane is... I believe. When the bubble that fans try to project on idolism bursts, she will certainly have a plan to proceed into the future brightly.

Today, this site is 16 years old. Many changes have undergone in the world, but if one thing can be said, it is that cuteness will always prevail. Akane is the cutest. I have no illusions but want nothing but happiness for her. If anybody hurts her, then that person deserves pain because Akane does not deserve any pain at all. She deserves only the best of life, as do all members of 星歴13夜. Even Mauru, though she looks from at least certain angles more like a crossdresser than Ladybeard.