oh, i thought someone graduating might have something more ballsy to say, but alas... i've heard the same speech from at least 4 or 5 people now. is it meant to guilt-trip fans into moving on or what?
it's just the same wishy-washy "expected to say something but can't actually mention Maho" speech that a few members have said.
Someone needs to tell them with the wishy-washy speeches that you can't 'build' anything if the foundations are !! I'm surprised we didn't get a 'sorry for making you worry' & 'please watch over us warmly' thrown in for good measure.
OK, someone has to tell it... Today's Sasshi graduation concert - there was just Takakura Moeka from NGT48. There were aces from each 48 Group, but no Ogiyuka as NGT48's ace, also in Jiwaru DAYS. Also she's not tweeting by so long. I'm worried that this concert tells us so much that there's more than 50% chance that Ogiyuka is involved to this case in negative way During yesterday's concerts public reaction to NGT48 was also so cold after all what has happened.
Mashimo Kaho (2nd gen) was there too. Could it be that Sasshi chose the members she wanted? If that's the case, she doesn't like Ogiyuka neither Rika... Also it could be that Ogiyuka and Rika had outisde work but that's a lot of coincidences. Hmm... I don't know what to think about it.. Edit: Mashimo Kaho said it was Sasshi's choice. https://www.instagram.com/p/BwzSuwKhEZR/?igshid=1odllylq96rkn
https://twitter.com/Rie_Kitahara3/status/1122487103558807552 Kitarie also wrote that "Thank you for calling me" So I think that should be Sasshii is the one choose which members to join
I don't think that is relevant to this thread. Rie was invited as a 5th gen and Team B member, as well as a member of Not Yet.
Since it's the weekend, I have time for today's updates as well (4/28/2019 http://40298ch.com/test/read.cgi/karakoro/1548413013/374-) Please let me know if there are any mistakes! Maho deletes a large number of her old tweets https://i.imgur.com/2taoYdn.jpg Image of an NGT photolog from KKS Otsuka Nanami (suspected to be "Person A" from the 3rd party report) talking about the Spring Festival performance. It has the line "Here on out let's do our best. Please." near the end. https://i.imgur.com/eOXpxc6.jpg Posts about writings on 5ch from January insulting Maho that seem to be from a member. https://i.imgur.com/J83t1TT.jpg https://i.imgur.com/O44Laya.png https://i.imgur.com/yWAa95N.png Discussion of a post from January linking the bullying of Maho to the assault. https://i.imgur.com/WFc0fng.png For Sasshi's gradcon, the only NGT members in attendance were Takakura Moeka and Mashimo Kaho. Notably senbatsu members Ogino and Nakai were absent. https://i.imgur.com/o2cxyBK.jpg A report about Sasshi's gradcon speech in relation to the events in NGT https://i.imgur.com/2s6zEu2.jpg Tweets from former AKB manager Togasaki causing a lot of responses. It seems to have started with a tweet congratulating Sasshi. In response to comments he apologized for Imamura not explaining things before he was fired, and when asked if he would reveal his conversations with Imamura important to the case he said "of course". https://i.imgur.com/Sojyb4n.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4iiWKb7.jpg https://i.imgur.com/VWJe0mz.jpg Leaked LINE messages from Katomina's father about the prefecture governor's election https://i.imgur.com/rigp99D.jpg At the handshake events on the following two days, there will again be security cameras in the lanes of NGT members and Yukirin. https://i.imgur.com/TbF4vRf.jpg A few days ago in Tano's mobame, discussing cute things Moeka had done, she said it seemed that Moeka had told story about Tano to a manager while crying. https://i.imgur.com/9KAnWVP.jpg Mofu updated her official photolog (after the Spring Festival live) https://i.imgur.com/qjp1TJt.jpg A report from yesterday's TBS news on Maho https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1122147348660965377/pu/vid/720x404/OFQ9Zi1eYPHLxPZP.mp4 A video from the NGT performance at the Spring Festival when a fan shouted "Marina!" and "Where is Maho?", with Tano and Marina seeming to look at each other and smile in response. https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1122140631793422337/pu/vid/1280x720/XLsNS3Tbq24V99f-.mp4 GYAO offical video of the NGT portion of the Spring Festival https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/player/10045/v00012/v0000000000000000653/
She's clearly aware of the ongoing backlash against NGT, and against the "suspect" members. She advertised her concert goods by telling people the money would go to her agency and not AKS, so of course she's not going to risk any other such trouble in her final concert. Not super important, but that's a photolog post and can still be viewed at the present moment. But since when are people suspecting Nanami? 太野 is Tano, 荻野 is Ogino.
Thank you, fixed! I watched the video and somehow replaced Tano with Ogino in my head since she's in the center.
For those who haven't watched it yet: if the video does not show watch the video here The amount of dislikes and negative comment are in different level
OK I feel I have to say this... I was at the Live FES on Saturday where I saw the NGT performance. Yes I enjoyed it and no I didn’t see or hear any protests but the atmosphere felt much ‘flatter’ than for the other SG stages. From my own point of view, the biggest personal thing I noticed is that the goosebumps I normally get when I hear the intro for ‘Max Toki’ just didn’t happen. I also felt more subdued than usual on seeing Yuka but I still felt I had some appreciation for her. However I felt nothing for Katomina whose beauty I’ve always admired - but for Noeppi I felt downright anger. That girl who used to make me smile so much and who I enjoyed meeting last year is now for me an obnoxious bully. Earlier I saw the Sucheese stage which included Tsugumi and when she introduced herself I did hear one person boo her but otherwise she was generally welcomed by the audience. Right then, in a few hours I’ll be meeting Ogiyuka in HS. I’ll report on the encounter in her thread sometime later this evening. My feelings about that now? Apprehension when there should be excitement. Well I’ll see what happens.
Regarding why Japanese prosecutors only take cases they think they can win, and might not try to prosecute the assaulters: Reminds me of game Phoenix Wright (a defense attorney), because he takes a lot of cases that he thinks he can't win (to defend) but he believes in the defense client's innocence. The prosecutor in the game always believes he will win.
That's exactly why I know that fact; I'm a huge Phoenix Wright fan and so I did some studying up on actual Japanese courtroom procedure. The game was after all created as a reflection and satire of Japan's court system. It was quite disheartening, but not very surprising, to find out how it tends to work - though there have been reforms in the recent past, I'm given to understand that cases that aren't open-and-shut are pretty rare. From Wikipedia: Yep, I'm sure these guys are "rehabilitated" after their adventure to a holding cell
I'm sure the 2nd girls not picked were merely because they weren't in Sasshi's radar. For the 1st gen, she picked Moeka because she's likely her favorite out of the bunch, but going for anyone else not knowing who's good and who's bad for sure might be problematic and she just wanted a peaceful concert without issues. Not even Sasshi is completely sure of the whole picture.
Another article ripping Aki-P. Yasushi Akimoto's irresponsibility continues to ignore the NGT 48 problem "The critics of Yamaguchi are not only the members who taught idol hunters their time to go home, etc., but also the operating company AKS, which does not take any effective hand or takes any responsibility, even though such cases have happened. I think that it is directed to Yasuki Akimoto who is the creator of the dangerous AKB commercial law and the producer of NGT48. ... With this, re-forming of NGT48 will not create the same excitement as before. It is the end of the AKS, the management side that just made wrong initial response. Even though these various problems have sprung up, why is Akimoto Yasushi, who has created and made a big profit from the AKB Commercial Law, why he is not speaking outrightly?" https://president.jp/articles/-/28567 Written by Motoki Masahiko, who has written other articles about the assault in the past.
