NGT48 Assault Case Summary for October 12 – 31, 2021

Thanks to @speranzom again for translating the summaries from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1596542732/ for 10/12–31.

October 12th (Tuesday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/m9F6Huw.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets＆ Instagram posts
  • https://i.imgur.com/pN4nk7B.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/aLL8BJO.jpg
• Contrasting with from the NGT management, the management company of STU, which recently had scandals of their own erupting all at once, went on to fire everyone of the scandal members instead
  • https://i.imgur.com/g5MdLdL.jpg
  • A second coming of the NGT controversy? Self-defense explanations given without the authorization of the agency, and members striking back to it live … Kiss photos from STU48 leaking outside? Live streams being forcibly shut down, as turmoil continues
    • https://npn.co.jp/article/detail/200016636
  • 【STU48 Scandal Summary】 Secret accounts, kiss photographs, frictions, live streaming bans, alcohol drinking, bullying 【Long-time 48 fan weighs in critically】
    • https://www.kouzu3.net/entry/2021/10/11/113000
• Ryuuta: “Since Smiley Kikuchi was saying some shallow stuff, I took a jab at him and I got nitpicked. lol” …Apparently he doesn’t even understand the meaning of “to nitpick”
  • https://i.imgur.com/N5iN3zt.jpg
  • Daijisen dictionary “To nitpick: To criticize or to make fun by bringing up a person’s erroneous expression or a slip of tongue”

October 13th (Wednesday)

• Sugahara Riko passes the auditions in the 1st place, next she’ll head towards the second stage of examinations
  • https://i.imgur.com/iV8J8NW.jpg
  • “Singing voice of the hero ~Tamashii no Kizuna auditions~” episode #2 【Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai – Tamashii no Kizuna -】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dx9H4QIK_4
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/yUosYhe.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/SD3zLpY.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/5Bd31SV.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/ZjfUYsk.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/YGR6dDu.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/dg9wEYg.jpg

October 14th (Thursday)

• Hasegawa Rena scheduled to appear on a theater stage
  • https://i.imgur.com/lCqnBpq.jpg
  • Murder ☆︎ Mistery: Theater edition ~Detective Madarame Misuo’s Case Record~
    • https://bandainamco-am.co.jp/am/vg/murdermystery/
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/5J8gaWd.jpg
  • 【Kozakai Yurie – Hasegawa Rena】11/6 (Saturday) Duet Live performance 2021 – Giving a presentation of the must-see features
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjSVrQXBbYI
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/N2KLTnJ.jpg

October 15th (Friday)

• Sugahara Riko scheduled to make an acting appearance in the Persona 5 theater play
  • https://i.imgur.com/jmIbrin.jpg
  • Official website
    • https://p5-the-stage.jp/
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/XNHxyac.jpg
• Ogino Yuka’s photobook: first week sales is 3581 copies
  • https://i.imgur.com/E1i9xwO.jpg

October 16th（Saturday）

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets [note: Dropkick on my Devil’s online event]
  • https://i.imgur.com/jwLgene.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/lf7Wd0W.jpg
• Ogino’s photobook, which sold 3581 copies on its first week, still gets deferential treatment from Oricon: “2nd place, selling 4000 copies over the week” [note: what makes it stranger is how in the original article the sales number is more exaggeratedly written as “0.4万”, using the marker 万 for the tens of thousands]
  • https://news.nifty.com/article/entame/showbizd/12173-1290969/
  • https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/8a6bd9cbea9c9c8f9dddd1a54784b3490f34edf3
• Seems like Kato Minami will make an one-day only comeback as an idol and work in the production of the school festival stage for idol group “Toita-doori Tsuukou-chuu”
  • https://i.imgur.com/EanJzP0.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/WciU7Xu.jpg

October 17th (Sunday)

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets [note: Day out with Oda Erina]
  • https://i.imgur.com/jRdRjS5.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/DusAK4e.jpg

October 18th (Monday)

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets [note: Tainai’s beer and wine products promotion]
  • https://i.imgur.com/Hhi39SH.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/5IJXeUI.jpg
    • https://twitter.com/seiyu_paradise/status/1450068489058721793
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/lyBiDJp.jpg

October 19th (Tuesday)

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/aNLDeYV.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/WKQMMf3.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/nIgr1OB.jpg
• Girl A, aka Otsuka Nanami, is chosen in the heroine role for some tokusatsu drama raising their production money through crowdfunding
  • Morohashi, who in the past was found provoking around with a series of blurred moving photos, also to appear
  • https://i.imgur.com/yyyY478.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/MW8s0Qv.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/JPm1aAZ.jpg

October 20th (Wednesday)

• The companions that will take on the second examination stage in the Singing Voice of the Hero auditions [together with Riko in the group karaoke competition] will be Hasegawa Rena and Otaki Yuria
  • https://i.imgur.com/JiI4lAt.jpg
  • “Singing voice of the hero ~Tamashii no Kizuna auditions~” Revealing a little preview of some scenes from the second examination! 【Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai – Tamashii no Kizuna -】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeCoszaWzUw
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets ＆ videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/0q1x3Uk.jpg
  • Stage play “Isshun no Kaze ni nare” Pre-show dry run rehearsals (Tomimoto Soushou, Oribe Yoshinari, Iikubo Haruna, Sugahara Riko, Shimura Reo)
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2f035yMXt0
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/lcE4HNf.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/GBX0o5g.jpg
• Ryuuta has a falling out with other jinboumin Nabe
  • https://i.imgur.com/r0BNWSZ.jpg

October 21st (Thursday)

• Yamaguchi Maho’s Instagram stories
  • https://i.imgur.com/Idc7bRG.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/EKIU8St.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/tamHpYI.jpg
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/uYtAsQO.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/aUSasSb.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/Vm9N5sV.jpg

October 22nd (Friday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/TDyBXnV.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets, Showroom stream & videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/jtiIEOS.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/UY04g1A.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/YzbrVby.jpg
  • 【Voice acting vocational school】 Are the school rules severe?? Replying straightforwardly to questions from applicants for school enrollment!!
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV2rAtlyvqA
  • Takahashi Nanami’s Tweets [note: regular acting appearance in the February 2022 TV drama “Nibiiro no Chocolabile”]
    • https://i.imgur.com/Ckweoqe.jpg
• Ogino’s photobook drops out of the rankings in its 2nd sales week
  • https://i.imgur.com/31UlIzL.jpg
  • https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/obp/w/2021-10-25/
• The title of Nishigata’s photobook was given by Akimoto Yasushi
  • NGT Nishigata Marina, lingerie photos in her first photobook – For the next work, it will be even more provocative?
    • https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/fde5303bd03a0bb4de7514f538ea66635700909a
    • https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/news/202110210000487.html

October 23rd (Saturday)

• Yamaguchi Maho featured on [hairdresser] Aidaman’s Instagram story
  • https://i.imgur.com/vDyom6K.jpg
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/FVbICfT.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets [note: Den’on-bu live rehearsals]
  • https://i.imgur.com/CD4npTQ.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/PbF8lhi.jpg
• Faced with Ryuuta’s recent reckless actions, even his own pals are creeped out and are deserting him
  • https://i.imgur.com/0cFUQv5.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/ifzWMxX.jpg

October 24th (Sunday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/PmXDXyB.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ Instagram posts
  • https://i.imgur.com/aOX2UmH.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/yK3D8pI.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/amiOZe7.jpg
• Nishigata’s photobook is quite possibly not coming with an obi strip with Akimoto Yasushi’s message written on it
  • https://i.imgur.com/s7N1zA8.jpg
• Ogino’s photobook, which does have an obi strip by Akimoto Yasushi
  • https://i.imgur.com/JBAHXbC.jpg

October 25th (Monday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/KGLBOWF.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/cpP7BTn.jpg
  • 【Voice acting vocational school】 So, what kind of people would go on to become voice actors, at the end of the day? Replying to questions from applicants for school enrollment!
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jctirvXBXY
• As per what Rika told [note: on Showroom], NGT is said to be out of money nowadays
  • https://i.imgur.com/pZHHl6A.png

October 26th (Tuesday)

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/LaaFgqX.jpg
  • 【Voice actors in training】 The individual characteristics of each voice acting academy student coming bursting out upon having an interview with them!?【Human Star Academy】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLlCmZ2_f8k
• Nishigata’s photobook does come with an obi strip written by Akimoto Yasushi
  • https://i.imgur.com/RPIJVXo.jpg
• Even with Nishigata personally coming to visit the Kinokuniya chain’s store in Niigata, they hadn’t stocked up on any copies by that day
  • https://i.imgur.com/9OPCNpe.jpg
  • They also issued a message saying “Right at this moment, we are not open to orders for it on our web store”
    • https://i.imgur.com/jSNiF4t.jpg
    • https://www.kinokuniya.co.jp/f/dsg-01-9784096823682
  • In fact, the stores handling it are exceptionally few
    • https://honto.jp/netstore/pd-store_0631193596.html

October 27th (Wednesday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets ＆ news about the [Dragon Quest theme song] Yuusha no Utagoe auditions
  • https://i.imgur.com/xQUrnuK.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/ih6wkjn.jpg
  • “Singing voice of the hero ~Tamashii no Kizuna auditions~” episode #4 【Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai – Tamashii no Kizuna -】
    • https://youtu.be/INZxMGbcu4Q?t=522
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/5Fy8ORT.jpg

October 28th (Thursday)

• Yamaguchi Maho is employed in the online publicity for Suntory’s canned wine product “ONE WINE”
  • https://i.imgur.com/j5L9z9t.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/06EahQs.jpg
    • https://twitter.com/Newstv_jp/status/1453647729763053571?t=CaGtuZ3AiR9QCa6TjQzeRA&s=19
  • Even actress Yamaguchi Maho feels like spontaneously smiling with glee at it!? Authentic brand wine, beginning with one glassful at a time. Suntory’s authentic brand canned wine “ONE WINE”
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME76-mwZ_tI
  • ONE WINE’s official website
    • https://onewine.direct.suntory.co.jp/
• It looks like that a message of support towards Yamaguchi Maho was displayed on screen on the Shibuya Ai Vision, back on September 17 [note: Maho’s birthday]
  • https://i.imgur.com/kFFwpmc.jpg
  • Starting from the point where the clock on the bottom right corner of the video says “12:04:37”
    • https://youtu.be/FIXnLvUy208?t=262
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/mL7ipBM.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/n5msYW3.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/HZhyZ5Y.jpg
• Blog entry by a person who followed from the audience’s seats the court proceedings between the Tsukuba University professor, and Vernalossom (formerly AKS) + the University of Tsukuba [note: over the deletion by the Tsukuba University of the professor’s dissertation papers on the NGT48 Assault Case from their online repository, after a complaint from Vernalossom, resulting in the professor taking the other two to court]
  • https://ameblo.jp/0084ani/entry-12706662446.html
  • Turns out that Vernalossom’s attorney was not attorney Endo [note: who otherwise handled the lawsuit against the yakkais who committed the assault, and always appeared on media after each court session]
  • The statements submitted by both the University’s side and Company V’s side are completely foggy and nonspecific in their content
  • The statements from Company V’s side only say, essentially, that there was no secret accord going on with the University [to keep the dissertation deleted from the repository]; for more precise particulars they’ll give them in next session
  • On the other hand, the University said: “We decided not to have the dissertation papers be published on the repository anymore on account that it had not been accepted for review by the editorial committee”
  • Judge replied: “Given how dissertation papers are understood as being published at the personal responsibility of their author, it means that them being denied publication (or being deleted) on account of them not having been accepted for review by the editorial committee has no connection to the matter, does it?”
  • The University side was unable to provide a precise response to that
  • The judge tasked professor with the duty to demonstrate, for the next session, how there was a secret accord [between Vernalossom and the University of Tsukuba] in place
  • There was a proposal from the judge asking “May we arrange the points of contention, and conduct the next oral proceedings, via web conference?”, however the attorney from the professor’s side proposed back “Being this a case which is receiving a high level of interest in a societal way, we wish it to be held publicly”
  • Both the University side and Company V’s side wish to have a web conference, instead

October 29th (Friday)

• Yamaguchi Maho’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/pf0LEzp.jpg
• Tatsumi Marie’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/DT5iiRs.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ interview article
  • https://i.imgur.com/vDhdr56.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/Z23lXqO.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/KURreCX.jpg
  • Bringing it to you through song and dance, the new, never seen, charms of Den’on-bu – 〈
    Den’on-bu 1st LIVE – Make Waves〉 Insider look report of the pre-show rehearsals
    • https://ototoy.jp/feature/2021102902/1
• Ogino Yuka wants to try out doing stage acting
  • ” – What is it that you would like to do once graduating?
    Ogino: I want to try my hand at anything, without refusing whatever is coming at me. I also want to try out doing stage acting, when up till now I kept shying away from it. Lately, I’ve been taking acting lessons from Kubota Maki-san, also from Horipro, so she has taught me a lot.”
    • https://entamenext.com/articles/detail/13855/3/1/1

October 30th (Saturday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/JWJQrsX.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/BqZnMmm.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/EETpfYW.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/xjjJiSt.jpg
• A song has been written by Akimoto Yasushi for Ogino, now graduating. This was however not a song for Ogino herself to sing personally, but rather one where the other members sing it to Ogino
  • https://i.imgur.com/8q8nUzB.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/8V1wevP.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/yJHMtqw.jpg

October 31st (Sunday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets [note: day out with Kaon Yuki, who also acts in the Isshun no Kaze ni Nare stage play]
  • https://i.imgur.com/GJNt10m.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets [note: greetings after the Den’on-bu live stage performance]
  • https://i.imgur.com/8flagXS.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/UPbLt19.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/5IQ1cs5.jpg

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