NGT48 Assault Case Summary for December 26, 2021 – January 17, 2022

Thanks to @speranzom for translating the summaries from December 26th to January 17th from https://jbbs.shitaraba.net/bbs/read.cgi/music/29852/1596542732/ for 12/26–1/17.

December 26th (Sunday)

• Yamaguchi Maho’s Tweets ＆ Instagram posts
  • https://i.imgur.com/LFU63wR.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/x5nZpNS.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/qJRVB1J.jpg
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets ＆ Video recording of her radio appearance
  • https://i.imgur.com/gg6nQ4c.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/3vwZpER.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/yu1d3MJ.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/FtJOJdt.jpg
  • 【GameCampus】Guests: Hayashi Yuuki-san (Background soundtrack composer), Sugahara Riko-san (actress, entertainment personality) 【Episode aired on 12/25】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBPxu2Pbdaw
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ related videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/sIqFLHs.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/guCDfNj.jpg
  • 【They’ve got quite a quirk to them】 The unique and peculiar members of the Oomiya school of the Human Star Academy
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bysqitlQkV4
  • 【Super-important】 All that a novice voice actor must do when at the post-production dubbing recording studio!
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDPUINtgw2I

December 27th (Monday)

• Yamaguchi Maho’s Tweets ＆ Video archive of her Instagram Live
  • https://i.imgur.com/LAzMIYc.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/B5u5uHX.jpg
  • https://www.instagram.com/yamaguchimaho_official/tv/CX872q3lESB/?utm_medium=copy_link
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets [note: Announcement of the next Denonbu live concert next March] ＆ related videos ＆ TVer link to her program appearance
  • https://i.imgur.com/CZoAOFD.jpg
  • TVer link: All in a Voice Actor’s Breath
    • https://tver.jp/corner/f0093638
  • 【Is there a quick way to the goal?】 What’s the method for a novice voice actor to perform in a famous work…
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my1s_Hov2FY
  • 【Presenting the executive staff】 For any doubts about school enrollment and everyday student life, and for any insecurities, feel free to come have a consultation with us! 【Human Star Academy’s Oomiya school】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ1g4RRY65U

December 28th (Tuesday)

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ related videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/ufRLG5g.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/6fuXZZz.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/cSqCOdu.jpg
  • 【Trying out one’s skills at radio shows】 For a voice actor, free-talk skills are of utmost importance! 【Human Star Academy’s Oomiya school】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jbFTVbSGGs
• Takkentaro’s video: “A plea, from professor Hirayama on the court litigation over the NGT incident’s dissertation paper! Currently looking for signatures to continue having court proceedings be held publicly!!”
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=_BEJ72uHGwU

December 29th (Wednesday)

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ related videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/7M8L0Al.jpg
  • 【I want to become a voice actor!】 A scholarship student program made to support their professional debut in every aspect
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V_TYZFfTCk
  • 【Voice acting vocational school】 We are holding trial classes for high schoolers to participate in
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIDZA_OYeh4
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/FZMuZiW.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/0Ss4w3j.jpg
• NGT’s new song: 62,530 copies sold on their first week
  • https://i.imgur.com/GfowB3t.jpg
  • https://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/js/w/2022-01-03/

December 30th (Thursday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/zUmHfwn.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ related videos. Also, a two-shot with Oguma Tsugumi
  • https://i.imgur.com/ZlKtnlQ.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/Wal4TXK.jpg
  • 【Top 5 handsome voice actors】 We asked 500 students at the voice acting vocational school 【We tried out dancing】 #Shorts
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfzwPvYpgAU
  • 【Top 5 cutest voice actors】 We asked 500 students at the voice acting vocational school 【We tried out dancing】 #Shorts
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sXrMT8RlHw
  • 【Top 5 mangas we want to see an anime adaptation of】 We asked 500 students at the voice acting vocational school 【We tried out dancing】 #Shorts
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niBxSE948mw
  • 【Top 5 anime hiding superb plot development in the last part】 We asked 500 students at the voice acting vocational school 【We tried out dancing】 #Shorts
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL5kpRDyVy4
  • 【Top 5 anime with superb stories】 We asked 500 students at the voice acting vocational school 【We tried out dancing】 #Shorts
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3AbAvDQ-TY
      —
  • 【A look at the practice routine】 Publishing a little of the highlight scenes from the play 【Human Star Academy! Theater play project】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggRe6soX9Eg
  • 【I knew that I would end up laughing!】 Voice acting vocational school’s students tried out “giving answers without first looking at the questions”
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQftryD7nQs
• NGT-related articles
  • The reason why arguments about the disbandment of NGT48 have begun surfacing. Downsizings and restructurings underway for them?
    • https://npn.co.jp/article/detail/200018013
  • NGT48’s Yamaguchi Maho suffering aggression from “idol hunters” at her apartment’s entranceway, leaving the group ~ A history of assault incidents on showbiz entertainers, part ⑥
    • https://weekly-jitsuwa.jp/archives/42976

December 31st (Friday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/hXdthz2.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/8MggSpX.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/93sCOdc.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ related videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/73Kif7I.jpg
  • 【Top 5 favorite anime】 We asked 500 students at the voice acting vocational school 【We tried out dancing】 #Shorts
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axt5hZjMq80
  • 【Top 5 favorite female voice actors 】We asked 500 students at the voice acting vocational school 【We tried out dancing】 #Shorts
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAQm-Y9_yy4
  • 【Top 5 favorite male voice actors】 We asked 500 students at the voice acting vocational school 【We tried out dancing】 #Shorts
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsBRSXT1w_Q
  • 【Top 5 anime with a super planning production】 We asked 500 students at the voice acting vocational school 【We tried out dancing】 #Shorts
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UImIhB1iPc
  • 【Top 5 anime featuring enticing food portrayal】 We asked 500 students at the voice acting vocational school 【We tried out dancing】 #Shorts
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AELfk-tHHYs
      —
  • 【Presenting the executive staff】 For any doubts about school enrollment and everyday student life, and for any insecurities, feel free to come have a consultation with us! 【Human Star Academy’s Oomiya school】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5WluH9qEx0
  • 【Big announcement】 At last, the title of the theater play has been finalized! 【Human Star Academy! Theater play project】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBrEz47k7VI

January 1st (Saturday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/l5xUlYv.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/Zr0JiT2.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/YrVDzos.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s related videos
  • 【Happy new year!】 Our dreams are big! Presenting one’s goals for this year! 【Hasegawa Rena】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-o1DGBZtokk

January 2nd (Monday) to 4th (Wednesday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/LLzXAQp.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/wuVgUbw.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ related videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/ViOXBqk.jpg
  • 【Fantasies bursting out open!?】 What anime characters would you want to marry?
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1bvHqHpwnw
  • Giving a retrospective of the play rehearsals done until today! The last home stretch before the actual performance! 【Human Star Academy! Theater play project】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNkQVbNk5I0
• Nakai Rika has her discontent burst open about some certain Nishigata otaku fans who had been lying in wait for certain members as they exit from work, or hidden along their way to their destination. It seems like that the NGT management is still lax even after the incident and even instances of reckless behavior from fans are let go with hardly a slap on the wrist.
  • https://i.imgur.com/BeEQwor.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/3ujSTSC.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/B1YRDLp.jpg
    • https://twitter.com/sr_ngt_48/status/1477946186095296514
    • https://twitter.com/sr_ngt_48/status/1477947735093702667
    • https://twitter.com/sr_ngt_48/status/1477951118844248069
  • “If there is one thing I’ve been hating the most, it’s when they …’wait for you at the exit’. There have been fans who were standing in wait for us right at the station, you know…”
  • “Sooo, yeah of course, members for their part try responding back at them a little bit while at it, but they do feel frightened anyway. So they would be saying «Thank you», when in front of these people.”
  • “That happens like clockwork. Also, they are there every time on the train platform directly opposite to ours, constantly staring at the members. And then, while at it, there would be those messing around with those cameras they brought along, some other people right next to them… So the feeling at it was, like, «What the…!?’.”
  • “That’s really creepy, and the members themselves hate that, so you’d better stop with it — I had said that back then, before. «Cut it out with this thing, already», I said. And when I did so, they answered right back at me «That’s not really what it’s supposed to be». Isn’t it so, actually?”
  • “Even though I had been telling them to seriously quit with that, they kept being there all the time at the train platform on the other side as ours, watching us from there continuously. That was extremely unpleasant.”
  • “Maybe they wouldn’t be there waiting for me specifically, but the fact is that there are also all the members there. Even if it means that they are waiting there for some other member or another, it’s still a disturbance to me and them.”
  • “The members too get like «What are they even there for…?», they feel frightened. So, please stop with this, simple as that.”
    —
  • (A comment comes in from a fan, saying “They should issue an official notice about that”) “About that, actually, fact is that NGT is still lax on those things”
  • “Personally I have been constantly been calling it out as being creepy, but the response to it had always been, like… wishy-washy.”
  • “When I told that this was some really creepy behavior and so I wished for them to cut it out… well, at least I had others acting as a cover so that we couldn’t get photos taken by these people”
  • “I mean… (Nishigata) Marina is accommodating, she would end up responding back to them, so they in turn let themselves go wild at it.”
  • “And then, well… I just hate that, myself, to have them waiting for us at the exit. I’d hate it to have them following us around, and if they begin writing around who and who they saw at what time and at what place or another, then we’ll get the location of our whereabouts identified as well, I mean…”
  • “I hate that. Therefore, someone should better give them a warning admonition to them when they spot them, but still — If there’s some place where they must not be overstepping into, then they just shouldn’t. But even then, there we found them at a place where they absolutely shouldn’t have, after all. That was, I mean, inside the area past the ticket validation gates.”
    —
  • “Ugh, there he has come. There’s one of these creepers who had been waiting for us at the exit. Lemme block that guy.”
  • “…«but I haven’t done that», he says… Then why is it that you were there? It was truly a nuisance. You could have better gotten away, or stuff like that, in that case.”
  • “Also, is there any reason, for the fact that you were standing at that place, with us being at the train platform exactly in front of there? None, yeah?”
  • “You may not have been waiting for me specifically perhaps, but even if you were waiting for Marina, there are other members there anyway, and that’s annoyingly intrusive. Cut it out, please.”
  • “I had already asked you to please stop it, you know. Is there any necessity, for you to have to be always there over at that place? Is there any necessity for you to have to keep staring all the time right at our side?”
  • “They feel frightened, the members. The other members — Marina is accommodating and all so she would respond back, but there are also other members there apart from her. That makes it a nuisance.”
  • “The juniors would get the wrong impression about Marina doing like that. They would think that this is what the perfect fan reception must be like, and they would end up doing the same as well — and when that happens there are are many members, too, who feel unpleasant, in fact. To be seen like so, when in the private…”
  • “It’s creepy! Quit it, I have already told you, myself. When you were into the ticket gate area…”
  • “That even though it was a place you shouldn’t be absolutely overstepping that far into. For what reason, then, were you over there?”
  • “It’s frightening. I’d hate it even if so much as I got people tweeting around that, say, they’ll be going to the same place as us.”
  • “Maybe they won’t be doing it in the future, but I’d hate it if by any chance it turns out there’ll be any such people standing there waiting for us once again.”
  • “I’d hate it if, due to that, anyone else would begin imitating the people doing this stuff.”
  • “Just spend what money it takes and come to meet us, then, y’all. Doing that stuff — engaging in actions like that, which has people outside thinking of it in that certain way, for that matter, is another thing that we, on our side, got extremely unpleasant at.
  • “Also because you’ll get yourselves blacklisted for that, as ordinary procedure. So please stop it.”

January 5th (Thursday)

• “Chocolat no Mahou” also included among the works eligible for user voting for the Popular Buzz Award at the Japan Academy Awards
  • https://i.imgur.com/tF4JaOU.png
  • https://ssl.1242.com/aplform/form/aplform.php?fcode=academy#list
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/YdwXu4q.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/2xNaR6b.jpg
• Watanabe Ayusa signs up to the entertainment agency “highcloud”
  • https://i.imgur.com/erlgNLP.jpg
  • https://high-cloud.shopinfo.jp/pages/2461729/TALENT

January 6th (Wednesday)

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/JS9qc78.jpg
  • Information livestream! On-stage reading recital “If, one more time on the town by seaside, I were to meet again with the girl from that day”
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9_PpoeUdTE

January 7th (Friday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/QkJFYpy.jpg
• “RISE”, sung by Sugahara Riko, is currently in the 5th place in the TV advertisement ranking, listing the number of times it went on air
  • https://i.imgur.com/QKL8a46.jpg
  • http://cmsong.hotexpress.co.jp/cmsongranking_all.php
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ related videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/2DSHeQt.jpg
  • Information livestream! On-stage reading recital “If, one more time on the town by seaside, I were to meet again with the girl from that day”
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9_PpoeUdTE

January 8th (Saturday)

• Yamaguchi Maho’s Tweets ＆ Instagram posts
  • https://i.imgur.com/yH81zjH.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/A2yfK1U.jpg
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/3s7HLNu.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/5io8gLW.jpg
• NGT’s theater shows reportedly having lots of unclaimed audience seats
  • https://i.imgur.com/5bz5Vbr.jpg

January 9th (Sunday) to 10th (Monday)

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets [note: brief visit and PR for Tainai’s skiing facility] ＆ Instagram posts ＆ related videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/oiKOoyK.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/tHFgPe6.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/FQ5osbG.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/Nk7QVPl.jpg　
  • Promotional video for the soirèe performance of the on-stage reading recital “If, one more time on the town by seaside, I were to meet again with the girl from that day”
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnCrHe1zGac
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/580tpzh.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/R6GcW0b.jpg
• Kado Yuria, who made an appearance at the three members [Maho, Riko, Rena]’s graduation theater show at the time, announces her graduation. She [admittedly, in her Twitter message] had communicated her intention to the management 2 years ago already, and agreement talks on it had proceeded on thereafter.
  • https://i.imgur.com/jyKLw3U.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/ynekcdT.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/vsP0SFG.jpg
• NGT starts auditions for 3rd generation members. A namesake program running for a limited duration of one half of the year is also slated.
  • https://i.imgur.com/gKjZp8U.jpg
• As has been the norm, information on the recruitment of new 3rd generation members and other subjects transpired to the outside and got already leaked in advance
  • https://i.imgur.com/Mc31KSs.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/cCpQUo2.jpg

January 11th (Tuesday)

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/W7gySn0.jpg
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/pZZaCM8.jpg
• Takahashi Nanami begins streaming on Showroom
  • https://i.imgur.com/zYiGUf6.jpg
  • https://www.showroom-live.com/nanami_takahashi

January 12th (Wednesday) to 13th (Thursday)

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ Showroom video recordings
  • https://i.imgur.com/3oMaDWs.jpg
  • January 10, 2022 20:32:53 Hasegawa Rena * Pon
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xj5889XhIkA
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/N5spqTy.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/A9oAl5w.jpg

January 14th (Friday)

• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/69ABTE1.jpg
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/IPEaH8n.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/uEpHMtD.jpg

January 15th (Saturday)

• Yamaguchi Maho is featured on the Instagram post of [hairdresser] Aidaman
  • https://i.imgur.com/H9bQHQx.jpg
  • https://www.instagram.com/aidaman321/p/CYvo1H9vRTV/?utm_medium=copy_link
• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets
  • https://i.imgur.com/D8Rq46A.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/cXvunRA.jpg
• At TV Niigata’s the Deliberation Assembly of Broadcasting Programs, the attending members of the assembly gave their program review about “NGT48 Ramen Club”. The opinions of the assembly members were rather unflattering.
  • https://i.imgur.com/W1cGxHm.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/YoykMD3.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/Mim9AWO.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/fzz8Oug.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/YhrCbDO.jpg
  • https://www.teny.co.jp/company_info/shingi/giji/teny383_2111.pdf

January 16th (Sunday) to 17th (Monday)

• Hasegawa Rena’s Tweets ＆ related videos
  • https://i.imgur.com/mJaO20j.jpg
  • 【A look at the practice routine】 Publishing a few of the highlight scenes from the play 【Human Star Academy! Theater play project】
    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHchhM-T40c
• Sugahara Riko’s Tweets: Kitahara Rie gifted some of her clothes to her
  • https://i.imgur.com/lMQdidg.jpg
  • https://i.imgur.com/JJhXpj4.jpg
• Watanabe Ayusa’s acting appearance in the drama series “HareKon”
  (Shows up from the 2:09 mark)
  • https://tver.jp/corner/f0095242?s=09

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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