NGT48 Assault Case Summary for July 31, 2020

My translation of the summary from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1553736787 for 7/31 (Friday).

• Riko’s tweet
  • https://i.imgur.com/SJH9KuP.png
• An article of interviews with NGT members is published. With an excess of feigned innocence and portraying themselves as victims, there’s a huge amount of backlash in the comments.
  • From Yahoo News: “The wind is blowing against them, yet they will keep looking forward –– This is NGT48 after a long period of despair”
    • https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/eac0f4f6c35d60dbfd34c58bcaea8fc5fea9a444?page=1
  • Rika’s tweet
    • https://i.imgur.com/Z3X7kbU.png
• Is this a HoriPro charade? A thread created about a photo of Ogino Yuka, “It looks like she’s the Mona Lisa”, is filled with praise of Ogino. It is written up in a MusicVoice article but seems to have gathered an abnormal string of comments that are also oddly all from the Tokyo area.
  • https://i.imgur.com/OFtTssJ.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/ul3guVO.png
  • From MusicVoice: “Ogino Yuka’s recent photo becomes a topic “that she’s like the Mona Lisa””
    • https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/a073e75ecd404d10573c3433d7b903b037b11135
  • The thread in question
    • “(Good News) Ogino Yuka-chan’s latest photo is so beautiful, people think she’s the “Niigata Mona Lisa””
      • https://rosie.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/akb/1596092435/

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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