Crazy World: Singer fools 'em all

Fans followers of the supposedly 16-year-old star in the Japanese girl group have been left shocked. Although she looked like the perfect pop star, the Japanese singing sensation Aimi Eguchi wasn't even real. The young starlet was a hoax, said Daily Mail. She was computer generated from composite pictures of six of the most attractive members of the band AKB48. Her high-pitched singing voice was an auto-tuned actor's, said the daily. Earlier this year Aimi joined the musical group AKB48, a musical super group in Japan. The Daily Mail reports Aimi’s AKB 48 profile said that she was 16,competed in track and field, and that she was from Saitama, a prefecture on the island of Honshu. But diehard fans began to realise that something was not quite right after Aimi, who was initiated as a lowly trainee, starred in a candy advert alongside the group's most established members soon after. AKB48’s management company initially said: "She’s real. She didn’t take the 12th generation auditions, so we had to quickly accept her (into generation 12.5)," in a statement. But the hoax was finally unveiled when a website released a video showing how the show's producers had composed her features.