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NGT48 Assault Case

Discussion in 'General NGT48 Discussion' started by Cisalpine88, Jan 9, 2019.

  1. wlerin

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    Good job, you found the one article he wrote for Sponichi. I guess in your world that's proof enough, just like those 2-shots were for people desperate to see a connection between Maho and the criminals.
     
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  2. Cisalpine88

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    Congrats on Sponichi for having their article publicly ridiculed on evening television yesterday, I guess this is what they were aiming for right? ┐(´ー`)┌
    Along with Maho's debunking, they also went around asking wotas to show what other similar poses they have themselves requested for members to do at past events, for any which reason. As a matter of fact, days earlier the Jouhou 7Days staff even asked people on Twitter for permission to use for their coverage the photos they had posted in objection to the article, like in this guy's case.
    [​IMG]
    Cheers.
     
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  3. primermicarrucha

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    by "desperate people" you mean AKS and their lawyers/anyone on their payroll? oh, you... :1st:
     
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  4. Cisalpine88

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    Oh, anyway, the latest news is that the November 25 court session came and went without so much of a mention on decent media (and with the AKS lawyer literally hurrying away from the courtroom's backdoor), which is curious compared to the fanfare I saw from a certain side until the last session. And the funny thing is, the next court session won’t be until January 29, 2020 (!) -- given how they are apparently now in no hurry anymore to claim their 30 million yen in damages (the spurious reason to get a civil litigation going in the first place, about which they basically admitted "It never was about the money" anyway), to "find out the truth on the incident" (the purported reason, a mantra ofter repeated by the AKS lawyer throughout this time), or to dig up any dirt about Maho that they could recycle as gossip fodder against her as a payback, by using court material only available to defendant and plaintiff (the actual reason, or what used to be at least).

    All I gotta wonder is; once the whole operation, a defamatory one to boot, of trying to establish an intimate association of Maho with her own assailants fails as expected, what with the AKS-yakkai joint team already scraping the bottom of the barrell in terms of "proofs" as it is now, then what happens next? Who pays for the media smear campaign on Maho enacted since around the end of August by AKS-aligned publications, like Sponichi and Tokyo Sports, which banked it all on this narrative and helped propagate it also with their own fanciful stories from "AKS-related informants", fictional or otherwise?

    More to the point, is AKS going to hold a conference after giving up on the court trial, saying "Guess we couldn’t determine the troof, despite our best attempts. I assume that to regain trust we’ll now have just to ganbaru on with ~the power of music~. ┐(´ー`)┌"?
    Do they roll out yet another black member to put up a crying show, just like they did last time with Nishigata that "untruthful stories are being spread out"? Except that AKS and the AKS-friendly newspapers have since dirtied themselves with the same guilt that they accused random people of doing and have completely lost any right to do so. Crying out of pain while you try stabbing a former member in the back -- I sure wouldn’t put it past AKS to be this slimy, anyway.
    Do they repeal the pardon on all consorting members given by Matsumura at the AKS press conference (by Matsumura’s own admission to the journalists, without even first looking into how deep this association with fans went) and finally probe into their relationships past to see what comes out, the same way they tried and failed with Maho, instead of just limiting it to "there’s no signs of criminal collusion detected, they are clean, nothing to see here" (Note that was officially also AKS's very narrow definition of "(no) member involvement" all along, by the way. It took them until last month's preparatory papers to make it clear, as the defendants asked what the word they kept using was intended to mean. This was never explained publicly, though. AKS's hope was for the public to misconstrue that there was no member correlated to this altogether, who knows...)?
    Because, although media isn't relaying this part unlike others, the defendant’s latest statement paper sure does admit about a lot of members whom the yakkais and their friends had direct, private associations with (and others, left unnamed, that they tell they did consult with on what way they might "meet" Maho; keep in mind they aren't going back on this claim, either), when confronted about their own utterances found in the recordings: Otsuka and Hagiri; Tano just with "some other fan"; whoever G is. Also, Nishigata with the third man, Kaisei -- yeah the two, about which they especially claim Maho knew of their consorting since before; those are all the members whose letter notations could be figured out by comparing the trial docs and audio transcripts.
    What's more laughable is that they have recordings sitting around of current members admitting with their very own voice to have had interactions and relationships with the perpetrators since who knows how long. And while being surely aware of these statements coming out of the member’s very own mouths, Hayakawa still had the nerve to _lie_, as she did on Twitter back in May, that the only episode of consorting she heard from the members was sending a thank you message to a crepe vendor who just so happened to be a NGT fan. Yeah, I’m not kidding. Go check.
    Or rather, does the management run away even this time without either them or their allied media cronies ever publishing so much of a notice, a rectification, or an apology (not to mention holding a press conference, that's already a given)?
    I hope they’ll pay their 4 (!) lawyers this time, because I’m sure that the third party committee is still there waiting for their compensation since March...

    Just so you know, since this civil case turned out more of a farce than I had prefigured, I guess I might at least say that the defendant's papers are so retarded that this is literally their new version of the story now:
    "I asked Yamaguchi at one handshake event if I could directly deliver to her presents without going through the management, maybe it was early 2017, maybe it was late 2016, I can’t remember and keep changing dates all the time, silly me. And since she couldn’t resist to my inviting proposal she eagerly agreed on my first try and gave me her building’s name, apartment number, AND telephone number for texting, there all at once" ...and the hagashi staff standing right behind me and listening didn’t even pull me out of the booth and curbstomp me on the spot because this is all an alternate excuse that I’m trying to push now, all with the tacit consent of AKS (irony added).

    And last month the AKS lawyer, who certainly was never in shortage of loopy declarations to make, even looked so content with it that he needed no further investigation on its veracity before accepting it, which is both perplexing and unprofessional at the same time. As he puts it, 2:13 into this video:
    "Anyway, as for the [defendant's] statement papers -- about this member who was living in front of Yamaguchi-san ... and that she might have informed the defendants about Yamaguchi-san's apartment number and was thus 'involved' in the incident, which was a rumor that was causing a fuss on the Internet [*] -- about that part the defendants denied too, saying it was none like that. Well, I find it relieving in that regard..."
    [* note: in reality that was what the perpetrators themselves were recorded letting out in the audio data; that the lawyer lied in this video claiming it to be ~Internet rumors~ says a lot on the intellectual honesty behind this whole operation]

    So yes, that's the excuse that the plaintiff is willing to concede and flow uncontested right now, since to actually contest it, it would then beg the question "Then who’s responsible for it?" and for the millionth time AKS would find themselves with fingers pointed at them, both the management and the consorting members they have foolishly pardoned, AKS will have to admit it is a result of their malfeasances that the stalking and the resulting assault happened, and the civil case will end there with an own-goal from the plaintiff admitting their own fault.
    Because, you know, this is a trial meant to save each other’s asses, not for each to admit to their own criminal neglicence/misdeeds, after all.

    Anyway, I'm going to have some nice rest until then, y'all.
    Post over.
     
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  5. wlerin

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    Of course nowhere in that farcical wall of bile do you mention that AKS has buckled down on an assault occurring, despite the defendants trying to claim none occurred. What else are you leaving out because it doesn't fit your narrative?

    Legal cases take time, especially considering the whole country practically shuts down this month. So sorry it leaves you with nothing to do but twiddle your thumbs until January. Maybe you should find a more productive hobby.

    Yeah, the trash bin liner that invented (or rather, stole from 5ch) the story about a manager being tied up with duct tape is definitely "AKS-aligned". ... This Us vs. Them mentality you have going here is unhealthy and irrational.
     
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  6. Cisalpine88

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    >Of course nowhere in that farcical wall of bile do you mention that AKS has buckled down on an assault occurring, despite the defendants trying to claim none occurred. What else are you leaving out because it doesn't fit your narrative?

    This?

    25日は、AKS側が再反論の書面を提出。被告と山口さんの間でドアの引き合いなどがあり、「暴行はあった」と改めて主張した。
    On the 25th, the AKS side submitted a written paper with a counter argument, asserting again that "the assault did occur", such as in the defendant and Yamaguchi-san actually yanking the door back and forth and such.
    https://www.niigata-nippo.co.jp/news/national/20191126509533.html

    LMAO, just LMAO. AKS needs to downgrade the definition of the assault to simply mean yanking a door back and forth now just to keep the other side friendly. If I'm leaving this out, it's just out of pity for the sheer stupidity of it, and also because I have yet to see any memo reconstructions of the document's content since media is untrustable on this.
    This isn't doubling down, this is "pulling your pants down" level of appeasement, my dear. Neville Chamberlain would be proud of this shit.
    Also, as expected, turns out these idiots are completely locked (and they forever will be, legally speaking) out of the police and prosecutor records to make any judgement: They never thought of wanting to request them (or somehow just "the defendant's statement report"...) until now. In case anyone wonders if this is based on an educated research (it's not).
    Lesson learned: never count on AKS to guarantee your rights.
     
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  7. minaeshi

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    He's giving us relevant information, alongside his interpretation of the events, and leaving us with points to come up with our own opinions on the case. Why do you constantly try to pick at every little point or opinion he gives that seems to go against AKS? Being the devils advocate is one thing but at this point you just look like a AKS supporter.

    Even though this thread is filled with informative posts from Cisalpine, to whom you have clearly shown your discontent for, we are 203 pages in and you still come back to debate Cisalpine's posts with a counter argument supporting AKS in some way, every time. Maybe it's you who should find a more productive hobby.
     
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  8. wlerin

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    His posts are close to 100% "his interpretation of events", with what little relevant information they contain either skewed or distorted so badly that they remove any chance of readers forming accurate opinions without doing their own research, which many of you sadly aren't doing. It's not like this is a new thing, either, he's notorious for doing this with his translations and updates here since forever ago, promoting his girls and turning people against those he dislikes (e.g. Rika). I was fooled by it myself in the past because I was too casual a reader.

    Because his hatred for them is unjustified. The fact is, if you look at AKS's behaviour overall instead of myopically zeroing in on this one incident and its aftermath, they are one of the better agencies in Japan as far as treatment of their talent is concerned (less so for actually getting them jobs, but...). They handled this incident with extreme incompetence, but there is no malice in trying to protect the girls who are left from the daily slander perpetrated by people like Cisalpine. Said slander perhaps even being why things turned out the way they did, Maho's own suspicions being continually strengthened not by anything that actually happened to her, but by the online rumour mill--which we know she was reading--until continuing as a member was simply no longer an option. It's damaging and should be opposed.

    He still believes they are responsible for leaking the 2-shots to Sponichi, because of course the defendants denied they did it. They've never lied ever, so it must be AKS. (I'm not saying their denial is proof of anything, only that it isn't disproof.)

    How much time do you suppose I spend responding to one or a handful of obvious errors that stand out to me every few weeks, as opposed to Cisalpine who spends seemingly his entire life on Twitter spamming this or that conspiracy theory only to come here once he's gathered enough material for another 5+ paragraph rant? What I do here can't be dignified as a "hobby". I wish I had the time and interest to respond to them properly, but I don't.
     
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  9. minaeshi

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    So you've cured yourself of Cisalpine's brainwashing and now you want to be the savior of S48 who rights the wrongs of their posts that have defamed the members of the group?
    Looks like I may have misjudged you. :flower:

    Thing is @wlerin, you haven't actually written anything in support or defense of the actual ngt members in a while, but you have for the organization that clearly doesn't care about these members, as shown by their actions. So it makes me wonder whether you're truly even interested in the members well being or if you just enjoy coming here to nitpick at everything he posts. Also interesting to note that you don't do this when other people post relevant information with their own biased opinions attached, just Cisaplines. It's almost always directly after he posts too. And you only do it to others when it's in support of his. If any other user did this to someone for almost a whole year they w̶o̶u̶l̶d̶ should have been banned by now.

    :)

    If your posts are to make people aware of this so called distortion of events that turns people away from the members, you would post actual productive points to counter his points and lead us to a well rounded discussion, but you don't. Instead you come on here to make a snarky comment or two, while throwing jabs at the same few users views or anyone who says anything bad about the company, because "they're one of the better ones", even though there are many events in AKB's history to disprove this belief.

    You don't have the time to make interesting posts that lend to the discussion, but you do have time to make these annoying comments that don't lend to the discussion at all but only mocks the efforts of posts that do. Now, any sane person who understood the severity of this incident and the affect it's had on the members, would not find enough joy to come back to this thread time and time again to post something in support of the management who mishandled the event, suspended the members activities, and allowed for the group to rot. So what is it exactly that you "do" here?

    thanks again to those users who do actually post information or opinions that lead to the discussion, i lurk this thread for information and I read and appreciate them all even if i don't agree with some of them.
     
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  10. wlerin

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    Because no one has attacked them in a while? (At least not in this thread.) Why are you suddenly acting like my posts exist in a vacuum? Cisalpine (and those parroting him) is the one going on and on about AKS this AKS that. There's not really anything else going on right now, as far as this thread goes. As for what their actions show, they clearly do care, or they wouldn't be burning their entire empire to the ground to protect a few girls from hate and slander.

    I don't think that's accurate, not over the history of this thread. Recently, sure, because he's the only one posting anything that merits a response or rebuttal. Arguably I shouldn't even be responding to your posts, since this discussion is entirely tangential and Cisalpine's posts are on topic, even if I find them reprehensible.

    edit: If you're talking specifically about the way I respond to others vs. Cisalpine, then yeah, sure. Because of the way he posts. I still have enough respect for his dedication to try to do more than just Dislike, as opposed to certain others. It wasn't as bad when Maho was still active, at least then his updates about her were respectful and accurate. He has turned increasingly bitter, however, and I... well...

    I tend to respond in kind. AKS, Yoshinari, etc. aren't actual posters here, but his walls of text about them are full of thinly veiled insults, disparaging remarks, and belittling--much more so than anything I've written--and with a dearth of actual reasoning--in part because that reasoning was done months ago and he's just rehashing the same stuff over and over again with every post, but still.
     
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  11. Cisalpine88

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    >He still believes they are responsible for leaking the 2-shots to Sponichi, because of course the defendants denied they did it. They've never lied ever, so it must be AKS. (I'm not saying their denial is proof of anything, only that it isn't disproof.)

    Cute, but don't speak on behalf of me before asking.
    I'll clear up just this one: one thing you forgot to add is that both AKS and their yakkai pals did, actually: the former by having their statement released on Tokyo Sports (oh, lookie, they chose it as their official mouthpiece now!) and the latter following up by doing that on his friend Buntoku's Showroom (to quote him, even empathizing that he got permission from his own lawyer to show up in the public just to deny that, and adding he never shared those anywhere or to any acquaintance before, mind you).
    The problem still remains that these evidences don't grow legs of their own and go wherever they want without someone taking them there. Especially not without that explanation attached to it as they did, since by then the civil case documents didn't even become available for public viewing yet for anyone but the two sides in the litigation, and any court session except for the first one took place privately without any audience present to hear.
    For that matter, Paragraph 1 and 3 of Article 91 in the Civil Procedure Code tells me the following:
    1) 何人も、裁判所書記官に対し、訴訟記録の閲覧を請求することができる。
    1) Anyone can request to the court secretary to view the trial documentation.
    3) 当事者及び利害関係を疎明した第三者は、裁判所書記官に対し、訴訟記録の謄写、その正本、謄本若しくは抄本の交付又は訴訟に関する事項の証明書の交付を請求することができる。
    3) Only the participating sides [note: legal term for plaintiff and defendant] or any third party who could prove to have their own interests connected to it can request to the court secretary to have a copy of any of the trial documentation, the original, or for the delivery of a transcript or an abridged summary, or otherwise of a certificate of the matters relative to the trial.

    I doubt that a little Sponichi journalist who is too shy to even put his name at the end of the article can ever claim to have their interests directly at stake in this case to ever be personally granted the permission to use it for his little piece, so that leaves us with just the plaintiff and the defendant.
    With Bunshun we can still play on the speculation that they may also have yakkais providing them raw material through their "clandestine activities" ("ura-katsu", to use their jargon) -- even though you think at the same time Inaoka and their pals are just jokesters, which contraddicts your notion of it, I don't know. But with that shit ending up on Sponichi especially at the conclusion of a long paper trail of AKS-pandering articles and already several months of passive-aggressive articles on Maho (poor Mofu never got the graduation article she deserved, thank you Setsu)? All you have to wonder is: who is that newspaper historically closer to, out of the two sides?
    Court material leaking out this easily and for the most frivolous of reasons should be taken as a serious issue, however laughable this is as an "evidence", but once again we find ourself in a proverbial situation of throwing the stone and hiding the hand, everyone shrugging and saying "it wasn't me" but nobody claiming responsability, much less even pledging to look into the source of the issue, or ever formally acknowledging it as such. A common leitmotif in this whole story, I shall say.

    And the most hypocrite things of all about it is how the AKS lawyer went on for months about him accepting to have the court proceedings private, saying it's also out of respect for the privacy and reputation of Yamaguchi they are agreeing to (awww...), saying after months that they are still "considering" whether they need to have her as a testimony (that I know of, they aren't even contacting her for confirmation on what the defendants say about her, it's media like Sankei that does once it's already out), only to have shit like Sponichi publish this right on the day after because someone got a little too excited. Cowards, backstabbers, and dishonests don't even beging to describe this company.

    By the way Yoshinari seems genuinely convinced, going by that infamous recording of the parent's meeting, that the yakkai must know the troof. To quote the harpy herself saying it to the very respectable families of the NGT48 members:
    実は私は第三者委員会の呼び出しに応じてくれなかった2人の被疑者の男性に対して、彼らが本当の事を知っていると思ったので、訴える前に、内容証明じゃないですけど『本当の事を知りたいので、是非話し合いに応じてください。応じてくれないのであれば、裁判にします』というふうに出していました
    To tell the truth, before suing them, I tried sending out a letter to the two suspects who didn't comply to the summons of the third-party committee because I thought that they must be knowing the truth, it wasn't a certified mail or anything but it was to the effect of: "I want to know the truth, please agree to having a discussion together. If you don't agree, we shall do it in court."
    ...the rest, I have already translated it before.

    So don't disappoint her on this one just now by calling them liars... At least I don't have to pretend anymore that AKS isn't a company with the same level of governance as Somalia, one which has their inside informations leaked around since the beginnings when you think about it, just because the members I care about are unfortunately still signed up to it.
     
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  12. EinhanderX

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    You folks don't mind to close out argument soon?

    I get the point of both side, at least trying to be.

    First, I think none of us here are fully satisfied with how AKS works. Everyone has that disappointment.
    Second, I think none of us here are AKS representative. Which means throwing that disappointment to each other face is misplaced.

    I don't really have to talk about rules, you folks get it. What I'm gonna say is, you guys are indirectly the representative of this forum. So yeah....

    On light note, this is why female idol group doesn't last really long, but football club does despite having typical Somalia-ness managerial.
    Somehow I have to respect those Juventini during and after Calciopoli. We idol fans (or former fans) have much to learn.
     
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  13. wlerin

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    As it says in the article itself, AKS gave this information to "some sports papers" (一部スポーツ紙, including at least Tokyo Sports and Nikkan Sports, and probably excluding Sponichi). Tokyo got their article up first by a few minutes and because of that it's the most quoted, but that doesn't make them anyone's "official mouthpiece". This interview also reiterates what they said immediately after the Sept. 28th meeting, that the evidence provided by the defendant was insufficient (something Tokyo Sports got wrong, to AKS's detriment, which error you then spread here). Note that they first said this before the 2-shot photos leaked. Why would they leak something they know isn't good enough?

    Quoting the civil procedure code only has bearing on AKS. AKS likely only has access to the photos through the trial documentation, but they're the defendant's own digital 2-shot photos. It's not like he entered the only existing copy as evidence. Moreover, he's had these photos for 2 years, and it's not uncommon for wota to share such photos among themselves. He could easily claim not to have leaked them while still being the source of the photos. Besides which I'm sure he still has a copy of them outside those documents. Yes, okay, the fact that they leaked immediately after they were entered as evidence is suspicious, and I think it's enough to conclude one or the other was involved in that leak. But the defendant is much better positioned to do so without exposing himself to legal problems.

    I think they are shitposters. There's a difference. Inaoka has openly admitted to claiming to do things he didn't (e.g. leaking Tano's scandal)* basically just for the attention. That doesn't mean he hasn't done other equally bad or worse stuff, it just means his word is worth nothing. I do think, and I've said since the beginning, that Bunshun is if anything on the Yakkai's side, not AKS's. Their recent articles are more evidence of that. Even when their stories almost aligned with AKS they were still at odds, e.g. trying to lay the blame on unnamed members, Rika and "Z-kai" when AKS was claiming no member was involved.

    * Admittedly here it's his word vs. his word, since he has both claimed he leaked it and claimed it was someone else. The context of the former was bragging, the latter was seemingly him being serious and introspective for once, but both are untrustworthy.

    So, in the end you have nothing but speculation. And yet you feel justified in calling them hypocrites, cowards, backstabbers, and dishonests. Based on a separate paper by an independent company that's only been published by Sponichi for a little over a year.

    Here's hoping it is formally acknowledged and investigated.

    It's only "hypocrite" if anyone in AKS was involved in leaking this, which is not even the most likely explanation, let alone proven. Why would anyone on AKS' side try to use these photos as evidence? It should be painfully obvious to anyone with any knowledge of handshake meetings that they demonstrate nothing. It's much more up 5ch shitposters like the yakkai wotas' alley, even knowing as they do how weak it is, and it argues for their version of events rather than the one AKS has been presenting.

    ... because they do? They were the only other persons on the scene for the whole incident and aftermath, and if any planning went into it, they were involved in that too. Whether they're actually willing to share those facts is another question. How is one supposed to respond when you take simple and obvious statements of fact like this and try to spin them into a heinous crime?

    Because they don't and never have exercised draconian control over the members' lives. Most of them still live with their families where possible, instead of under partial house arrest in dorms. For the others, they got in trouble a few years back over giving members a sizeable housing allowance to live on their own. Even in Niigata, where there were member "dorms", those dorms were treated as normal residences, with the members free to do as they please. And apparently members and staff aren't so in terror of AKS's retribution that they're too afraid to leak the contents of meetings... because AKS is a fluffy old teddy bear of an agency.

    Should they have been stricter? Given what eventually happened, yes. If you want to call AKS weak, I can't really argue against that. If you want to call them incompetent, yeap, I'll be the first to agree. But when you start making them out to be this evil black agency pulling all the strings in the dark, I really have to laugh.
     
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  14. Cisalpine88

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    Just thought of leaving a notice even here for convenience.
    Seeing how massively this thread has ballooned and how it has become too unmanageable to go around finding translations (thanks not in the least to the search function of this forum being long gone) of basic infos, I decided to go collect, organize, and then sort out inside of Google Doc files all the translations done by me of what is exclusively primary material found in this thread, while adding some more updates I had lying around wherever I found it fit. That should be all for the moment (for the masochists, let it be known there's reports about the trial material too in store, but that's basically just two bandits haggling between each other).
    Take it as an one-year special memorial if you will.
    Cheers.

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uk3xHtRXbtKvenGrHhCMkZUzcfTqHPRjmqZuDmiJu0Y/
     
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  15. iainus

    iainus Future Girls

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    Hard to believe it's been a year. Even harder to believe NGT capped off 2019 with a bloody DATING sim. Who thought that was a good/not completely tasteless idea?

    New management, same lousy decision making.
     
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  16. gish0046

    gish0046 Upcoming Girls

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    yeah thats a terrible idea.

    *quickly turns off phone screen*
     
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  17. Mayoi

    Mayoi Kenkyuusei Stage48 Donor

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    I caught up by reading through a few of the most recent pages, although I've not read every of the 200 pages. I just wonder, why hasn't this group (NGT48) completely shut down (yet)? :shock:
     
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  18. wlerin

    wlerin Next Girls

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    Because the members aren't ready to give up yet?
     
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  19. bonjourmarlene

    bonjourmarlene Under Girls Wiki48 Editor

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    I doubt that they'll be shutting down. They haven't had a single since 2018, but they performed at the 2019 Spring Concert and Tokyo Idol Festival 2019, plus they had a few songs rank in at Request Hour 2020 already.

    [HIDE]
    Ogino Yuka, Kato Minami, Sato Anju, Seiji Reina, Takakura Moeka, Tano Ayaka, Nishigata Marina, Nishimura Nanako, Yamada Noe, Oguma Tsugumi, Kado Yuria, Kusakabe Aina, Nakai Rika, Nakamura Ayuka, Nara Miharu, Homma Hinata, Murakumo Fuka, Otsuka Nanami, Ogoe Haruka, Kawagoe Saya, Komiyama Sara, Sogabe Yume, Takazawa Tomoka, Terada Hina, Tominaga Yu, Furusawa Mana, Furutate Aoi, Mashimo Kaho, Mimura Hino, Morohashi Hinata, Yamazaki Mirii, Watanabe Ayusa
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    46. Haru wa Doko kara kuru no ka? (plus Kashiwagi Yuki)
    43. Seishun Dokei (plus Kashiwagi Yuki)
    42. Sekai wa Doko Made Aozora na no ka? (plus Kashiwagi Yuki)
    19. Shita no Na de Yobeta no wa...
    (that's as much as there is revealed now, the concert is currently happening
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  20. marioworldakb

    marioworldakb Under Girls Stage48 Donor

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    Leave my baby nuggets alone!
     

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