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idol star
A "manufacturered" teeny-bopper sensation, as a result of lot of hype by a production company. Usually young adults of questionable talent, their personal lives are closely guarded and tightly controlled (an idol star's marketability is basically zero if it's discovered that he/she has a significant other.) One of the first was a young J-Pop singer named Yamaguchi Momoe back in the mid 70's. Today, one of the up-and-comers, Date Kyoko, is a manufactered star to the extreme -- she's a computer-generated composite, similar to Macross Plus' Sharon Apple!
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