The reach... I'm so glad I've already seen Endgame so I thought I'd read it. How anyone could come up with an analogy like that is absolutely beyond me. For those that don't want to read it and don't want to be spoilered, he basically wants one of the Avengers to kill Inapooh and his gang. I actually had to laugh because I couldn't take it seriously.
I learned today that someone used Maho as an excuse to post a movie spoiler. This thread has it all now.
i don't think he's necessarily got the wrong idea. what justice left to be had might be up to members of the public rather than the system. it probably doesn't need to go so far as his idea. but i wouldn't be surprised if some people wanted blood.
I think the repetitions, the irrelevant metaphors, are increasing. The sun shines outside. In the summer there will be sea, funs, concerts, travels. People will slowly lose interest in this. When we reach the month of September, we will no longer want to talk about it.
Maho's last handshake events are now "chat only"? https://jshowbiz.com/english/component/k2/item/5537-yamaguchi-maho-handshake-event-chat-only.html
I'd imagine it could be a matter of her health. She still looked skinnier than normal at the stage last weekend and probably gets fatigued quicker.
Assuming that Katomina's dad is this guy as everyone says, Kato Ryuuji, people are speculating the reason that the Prefecture's government hasn't entirely cut off NGT48's sponsorship contract for the National Cultural Festival and it has strangely put it just on an indefinite hold, the only instance ever while every other company has long pulled the plug out of disgust, is because he has a personal interest in it and he's personally holding things by a thread. http://www.jikenjiko-hukabori.com/article/465373729.html Would have liked to wait for today's batch of news from the assault case's thread to be translated so as to expand on it more (there's actually some more interesting tidbits, too), since this interview had popped up inside, but @Dirkkun has apparently taken a period of vacation these last days, so I'm personally taking the initiative here. From the bit pointed by the arrow: "- What are your company's initiatives for the current year [note: 2019]? There are many projects in store, with ones for G20 and the National Cultural Festival on top of that, so we are endeavoring to have an internal restructuring of the company in the meantime. Up until now it was split into 4 sub-departments, one for management and one for projects, each for our own company headquarters and the Toki Messe's business offices, which we have now reorganized into 2 sub-departments, respectively for the company HQ and the business offices." Addendum: Oh wait a fucking second, he REALLY is Katomina's dad. Hey, Maron, long time no see you... https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1196246327133582 Unless this turns out to be another thing imposed one-sidedly by the management, people (like here) were speculating it had something to do with dealing with the PTSD which resulted from the assault itself.
Just wanted to point out that Maho's last tweet has 103k RTs and 335k likes. That's a lot! Even on the English-speaking side of Twitter it's not that common to see a tweet with +100k likes, occasionally there's a +200k liked tweet. In comparison Sasshi's highest-liked tweet is 275k likes.
There should be enough extra security guards there for good measure, imo. Even if it is for "just chatting". Someone could pose as a fan to give well wishes and support but instead lash out at her. I haven't read fully the news for the last handshake event. For Rena and Riko's last handshake events, extra security should be present around them, too. Spoiler Sarcastically speaking, I wonder where those so called "security buttons" they spoke highly about are going to show up
while I don't disagree, I genuinely think the same as @Cisalpine88 here that it's most likely PTSD. I mean Anna and Rina were pretty clear that after their horrible incident it was too hard to really be that close to fans again. I really hope Maho is seeking therapy tho. IDK what it's like in Japan for assault survivor's, but your friends shouldn't be ur counselors u know, nor should random strangers. Even tho I don't remember someone saying it here (probably someone did), but I doubt management gave her treatment for her assault which is even more unreal considering the money they have and that she's an employee under their care; they could easily find a trauma counselor for her in tokyo if Niigata doesn't have good mental health care. But it wouldn't surprise me tbh if they completely chose to not do that.
Nothing AKS or NGT did since the start of this mess or even before that, made me think they would care for Maho or others enough to put in place measures so to protect her. All they did was put up an act and give us, the media, and, most important, the girls, a ridiculous safety surrogate. Why should I think that today they bagan to care enough to want protect her? I'm genuinely asking because as I watch back I can't find one moment in which those two mngmnts gave a s**t abot Maho or about the way they would be seen by fans or media. If whatever they thought this time manages somehow to really protect Maho, good! I'm the first to be glad for it. But nothing so far makes me think this is NGT and AKS reason to make her last HS events, "chat only"
I bet that's the one thing they did manage to do. They're refering to personal safety alarms - you know, those little electronic screamers that most elementary schoolers carry on their randoseru.
Easy. Giving her extra safety at HS event is protecting the brand as well, maybe even more so. Plus they already did it before (aka Paruru) so they know it's easy to do. Even they know they'd be done if anything happened at an official Event. Especially now. So it's self-preservation, not really caring about her.
Since I enjoyed the daily summaries, I'll fill in today's (4/27/2019 http://40298ch.com/test/read.cgi/karakoro/1548413013/374-): Please correct me if I made a mistake! An article claiming that, from sources inside NGT, there are factions split between continuing operation and dissolving the group. Also that up until her graduation announcement the intention was to foster reconciliation with Maho. https://headlines.yahoo.co.jp/article?a=20190426-00000128-sasahi-ent The TV show 王様のブランチ [The King's Brunch] had a segment on Maho's graduation. https://i.imgur.com/xngEl8R.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VVRevgp.jpg Claims that Bunshun's latest story on Maho is full of inconsistencies. Zammataro's twitter https://i.imgur.com/r3eXIZR.jpg https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1121942491215925249/pu/vid/640x360/nCwtKdW9TzYMRdDA.mp4 From Rittan's mobame https://i.imgur.com/IAjx6VE.jpg Kojima Mako mentions the case during her own graduation ceremony. https://i.imgur.com/cXr8YVx.jpg Kobayashi Yoshinori* says "Yamaguchi Maho is already winning". https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=69&v=DAfdey6ISmM *I'm not sure who he is, maybe a manga artist? Seems he's commented on Maho before: https://www.nikkansports.com/entertainment/akb48/news/201904230000170.html] Rittan's mobame (about the graduation stage and last handshakes) https://i.imgur.com/wdlkzuS.png Forum suspicion that a mobame from Team N member Seji Reina about the triple graduation was prepared with the help of management. http://www.jikenjiko-hukabori.com/article/465394403.html
Translation of her speech by innosu (from Mako's thread). Here is the relevant part. I want every persons who are entangled with 48G to be happy. But even then, recently there are a lot of news. When you repeatedly hear those, you become gloomy. I really don't want us to be a 48G like that -- the one that make you gloomy. The 48G that I loved are build by everyone. So from now on, I believe all the members and staffs can build even better AKB48, so please continue your support as before. http://stage48.net/forum/index.php?threads/kojima-mako-kojimako.5234/page-208#post-1590753