One of the really fun parts of being a non-Japanese idol fan is trying to come to grips with something so far outside of your own cultural experience. Yes, one can always draw parallels to something familiar, but idol as cultural phenomenon is often almost incomprehensible to Western minds.

So of course the collision of two countries’ pop culture phenomena would give me a friggin’ headache.

What does this mean? @homicidols #idol pic.twitter.com/K1L0JcYtDR

— Octoyaki (@Octoyaki) October 21, 2016

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