NGT48 Assault Case Summary for April 21, 2021

My translation of the summary from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1596542732/ for 4/21 (Wednesday).

• Maho’s tweet
  • https://i.imgur.com/U3mv2tJ.png
• Riko’s tweet
  • https://i.imgur.com/BuvUwKC.png
• Rena’s tweet and video
  • https://i.imgur.com/ZLdTG38.png
  • “(tvk) From Olympic athlete to voice actor! Interview with Narita Domu (This is great!)”
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE6X3J9piRU
• This article calls the NGT incident a major cause of AKB48 falling out of popularity.
  • https://i.imgur.com/rWy1PQq.png
  • From AERAdot.: “With conspicuous graduations, is AKB48 “past its prime”? “
    • https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/6c791fc65b93a6dd2a413b3005d3177e6ca38aea
    • https://dot.asahi.com/dot/2021042000029.html?page=1

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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