NGT48 Assault Case Summary for September 27, 2020

My translation of the summary from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1596542732/ for 9/27 (Sunday).

• Riko’s tweet
  • https://i.imgur.com/rni83Zk.png
• Rena’s tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/R7NpNAI.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/9gpc3Gr.png
• An episode from the curtain call at the final performance of “Run, Melos!”
  • “They revealed that before the final performance that day, Mahochan went around asking all the cast members, “Aren’t you feeling sad? On a scale to 10, about how sad are you??””
  • https://i.imgur.com/sR9lsVc.png
  • https://i.imgur.com/snphvkr.png
• Takazawa Tomoka opens a Twitter account
  • https://i.imgur.com/rkgLcJu.png
  • https://twitter.com/tomoka_takazawa
• The subject of Maho’s real-time rebuttals [from the press conference] comes up in an interview with EXIT
  • https://i.imgur.com/N4nALup.png
  • From au: “Popular duo EXIT talk honestly about how “We’re deliberately competing with TV””
    • https://article.auone.jp/detail/1/5/9/2_9_r_20200927_1601158472682607
• Appearing on Ogino Yuka’s YouTube channel, while Ogino steps away Yamane Chika talks about how they became good friends (52:00)
  • We became friends at a time when a lot of different things were being said about Yuka online
  • On the internet, well this is not really limited to Yuka, but there are a lot of things that get said aren’t there, both true and false?
  • Well actually being there with Yuka, being able to see her feelings and everything about her, I truly felt from the bottom of my heart that I had to support this kid
  • I thought things like, why does she have to bear all of this herself, why does she have to be told all these things?
  • Back then it didn’t seem like Yuka had anyone around her to support her, like there probably wasn’t anyone she could rely on
  • I felt like among the NGT members, Yuka was the core member
  • As someone’s who’s like the face of NGT, and as a member, I thought maybe there’s things that I couldn’t say to her, but starting from there I listened to tons of her stories and as we became good friends I could start to understand
  • https://youtu.be/hvL34tjG_pc?t=3114

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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.

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