Is your faith in TVXQ only as shallow as a puddle of water?

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While the vast majority of TVXQ (Tohoshinki / DBSK) fans are greatly concerned about the group’s current situation, there are a few who have taken it upon themselves to spazz in an unwarranted way. Some have even threatened to delete their TVXQ-related youtube accounts or stop using the phrase ‘Always Keep the Faith’.

Don’t let this post fool you into thinking that there is a fan problem. There’s no problem with fan support, as far as what I’ve seen. But there are things I have to say about that type fair-weather attitude in general.

The phrase ‘fair-weather fans’ have plagued individual artists and groups since the first boyband in history was ensnared in a situation beyond its control.The first time a crisis happens is not the time to give up on the very people you claimed to have admired for so long.

The problem with such overly dramatic actions is that they change absolutely nothing. What’s worse is that it shows just how fickle and shallow an incredibly tiny percentage of certain fan support may be. 

TVXQ Group Activities in Japan to Stop for an Undetermined Amount of Time; AVEX Pres Blog Post

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Despite continuing to set records in Japan, TVXQ’s Japanese management company AVEX announced that there will be an indefinite hold on activities for the 5 members in Japan.

Solo projects will still go forward but the halt to activities was decided after “the 5 members…repetitive discussions with officials from both Japan and Korea” according to translated reports.

TVXQ’s Japanese fanclub’s website was flooded with more than 1500 emails in the couple of hours after the announcement.

These are the times in which the connection and love for each other will be tested. They love each other too much and they will find their way back to each other as soon as external interference from SM is removed (either consensually or forcibly). The red string of destiny ties these guys together in a way I have not seen before.

April 3 2010 Max Matsuura Twitter Updates

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I already did everything I could. In the end, the result is a bitter one. I will do my best to support their decision. If it is what they wish for, I believe that I should do everything I could within my limitation to support all of them who are already flying high. It doesn’t matter what my standpoint is, my feelings are no different from the sadness of every Tohoshinki’s fan.

Toki wo Tomete #1 on Oricon Weekly Charts

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Tohoshinki (TVXQ / DBSK ) have yet another #1 hit on their hands. Though they can’t be out as a group of 5 promoting their singles on various television shows, they have scored #1 on the Oricon Weekly chart (Japan) which breaks a record they themselves set previously. The single sold just over 195,000 copies.

What’s going on now is rather historical. The Korean supergroup is the only non-Japanese artists to have 8 Japanese number one songs at the top of Japan’s Oricon Charts (akin to the Billboard chart in America).