Mulboyne wrote:
Not sure about the symbolism of the vegetable
My web fu terrifies me sometimes...I hope my destiny is not to die of TB while living in a cardboard box in Shinjuku subway station while trying to commune with an AI idoru....With no prior knowledge of this specific meme, I googled "idolmaster and onion" (both of which are, at face value, the completely wrong terms to use) which produced answers to all questions in link #5
http://hangmen13.blogspot.com/2007/10/vocaloid-2-hatsune-miku.html
Which leads to this
http://abstractnonsense.info/moe/2007/09/vocaloid-idolatry/
as well as this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocaloid
as well as this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leekspin
Which explains Tsuru's reaction