NGT48 Assault Case Summary for July 23, 2020

My translation of the summary from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1553736787 for 7/23 (Thursday).

• Maho and Rena in Aidaman’s Instagram
  • https://i.imgur.com/qi9pdXP.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/fk6yCiv.png
• Rena’s tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/BNrkdBW.png
    • https://i.imgur.com/HxkF8OQ.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/NqbXOxA.png
• Riko’s tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/7tzPibp.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/0HVvHhQ.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/zHbnExD.png
• NGT’s new single’s second day sales are unlisted but it is ranked at #4, with the 3rd place entry selling 5,836.
  • https://i.imgur.com/9H61p5d.png
• Ogino sends a reply that immediately breaks the rule prohibiting replying to fans.
  • https://i.imgur.com/WF0nIpG.png
• NGT management’s comment on the breaking of the rules: “Yesterday Ogino, Nakai, Nakamura, Nishimura, Homma, and Yamada broke the rules, however these will be disregarded as the rules are planned to go into effect in August. Please rest assured that at the current time these were not rules violations.”
  • https://i.imgur.com/x5bBJOB.png
  • Cinnamon attorney’s retort: “You lose credibility when you say vague things like, “We announced them but they’re not rules yet””
    • https://i.imgur.com/c1dWXjw.png
  • Ryuta snips at the Cinnamon attorney: “This guy saying he’s losing confidence was uninterested in trusting them from the outset”
    • https://i.imgur.com/cPXF6EK.jpg
• A request for information regarding Homma Hinata handing over CDs in Murakami city.
  • https://i.imgur.com/HMWkTKD.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/NLNlsjr.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/9oZ4yvr.png
• Tano Ayaka follows Oguma Tsugumi who she hadn’t been following on Instagram
  • (*Not following based on a July 16th matome)
  • https://i.imgur.com/fn22MME.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/N7aMbIA.png
• Nishigata restarts Twitter
  • https://i.imgur.com/s25EiQV.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/joBgO4Y.png
• TakkenTaro videos
  • “NGT — The history of incidents (The NGT48 assault incident and others)”
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOETdNghIzc
  • “NGT — President Okada’s apology to Yamaguchi Maho”
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sE9Ef9pbvkI
• NGT article
  • From M-ON! Press: “Through tears, NGT48 tells fans their feelings. “I think being able to put out a single at a time like this is an amazing blessing” (Nakai Rika)”
    • https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/e0812c2fe5714c32ea64fbb73aa80448f7b114cf

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Note: I try to repeat the Japanese thread as closely as possible here. Where I do make some editorial additions I’ll put them in [ ], though I do occasionally soften the posters’ tone.

Why is this here? My original announcement