NGT48 Assault Case Summary for August 20, 2020

My translation of the summary from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1596542732/ for 8/20 (Thursday).

• Rena’s tweets and Instastory
  • https://i.imgur.com/oPvWDaS.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/6LSY32x.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/vmKZ8mJ.jpg
• According to Avex, there are apparently as of yet no plans to establish a Sugahara Riko fan club.
  • https://i.imgur.com/od3KcGF.png
• Nakai Rika: “The management in Niigata now is divinely kind”, “They’re thinking about us members an absurd amount”
  • (*It seems the staff that interacts with the members is mostly unchanged. Manager Hayakawa is the one that’s gone.)
  • https://i.imgur.com/aVaFyhs.jpg
  • A Showroom in February and tweets in March where Nakai complained about the management.
    • https://i.imgur.com/KnOYl7u.png
    • https://i.imgur.com/Q8Ht1JZ.png
  • In a July Jcast interview: “But there is not much change in the makeup of the staff that are directly interacting with members”
    • https://i.imgur.com/3BaOCl6.png
    • From Jcast News: “The members are determined… there are definitely things we can only do because this is Niigata — NGT48 Interview”
      • https://www.j-cast.com/2020/07/19390382.html?p=5
• The NGT48 public schedule, which has up to this point been full of theater performances, TV jobs, and gravure work, is now only showing articles for sports paper and newspaper interviews.
  • https://i.imgur.com/zsYUwoD.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/bZLfy4w.png
  • https://ngt48.jp/schedule

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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