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A gravure photo of Hinatazaka46’s Emi Ono, published in issue 40 of Weekly Shonen Magazine, drew a wave of “it looks like she has six fingers” claims on social media. On September 2, the magazine explained the situation on its official X account and posted a corrected version of the photo. On 5ch, opinions split between those who argued it was simply the blurred boundary where her overlapping right and left hands had been retouched — creating a webbed-finger illusion — and those who suspected automated AI editing was to blame.
Weekly Shonen Magazine issues statement after “six fingers?” claims flood social media over gravure photo: “Some images did not turn out as intended” — publisher explains and posts corrected photo on official X
ORICON NEWS, Wed 9/2, 19:04
On the 2nd, Weekly Shonen Magazine released a statement regarding a gravure photo of idol group Hinatazaka46 member Emi Ono, published in that same day’s issue 40 of Weekly Shonen Magazine (Kodansha). The magazine explained the circumstances behind social media claims that “it looks like she has six fingers.”
Source: oricon.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Knowing who Chiaki Naomi is makes you 50+, huh (she's a veteran enka singer from that era)
Probably.
A finger or two extra or missing is nothing.
I've seen AI turn an acrobatic pose into a girl with two upper bodies before.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HRMXH8QWAAQHADs.jpg
Really?
Isn't that just the backs of her hands overlapping?
Maybe they mistook the line where the right and left hands meet for a wrinkle and edited it out?
What's even going on here? If the hand underneath is the right hand, shouldn't the thumb be the one poking out? lol
Anyway, this girl's way cuter when she's actually moving.
Being cuter in motion than in photos is kind of a death sentence for the photographer.
Or did they let AI touch it up and never even check the result?
So the punchline is the people complaining just weren't looking closely?
Yeah, you'd think that at first glance, right? But look closely — the line where the overlapping right and left hands meet is blurry, and it forms something that looks like webbing.
That makes it clear.
Makes no sense.
Exactly that.
While trying to erase skin wrinkles, they accidentally erased the line between her right and left hands too.
But for some reason four fingers is the one that's not okay.
Even though mice and frogs only have four…
https://www.thefirsttimes.jp/admin/wp-content/uploads/5026/08/20260812-ha-142701.jpg
Background and Key Points
Digital retouching in gravure magazines is nothing new, and cases where smoothing out wrinkles and shadows flattens skin texture to the point that contours disappear have been pointed out before. This time too, the thread split between two camps: those speculating it was “AI-generated,” and those pointing out that “it’s just the blurred boundary where the overlapping right and left hands created a webbed-finger illusion.” The magazine’s own explanation leans toward the latter, stating that lightening the shadow made the boundary between the hands unclear. Because it’s become widely known in recent years that automated AI editing tends to get finger counts wrong, readers should be wary of jumping to “it must be AI” without confirming the actual cause. Magazine retouching can drastically change how a photo reads, and as this case shows, when the intent behind an edit doesn’t match the result, it can create misunderstandings that have nothing to do with the subject’s actual appearance.
*This article is compiled as excerpts and a summary from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Weekly Shonen Magazine issues statement after “six fingers?” claims flood social media over gravure photo: “Some images did not turn out as intended” — explains circumstances & posts corrected photo.”
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