A couple of days in the past it was introduced that NGT48 member Tominaga Yu would depart from the group. Whereas that in itself isn’t particularly odd by way of members coming and going, the timing was definitely suspicious because it got here a month after she her stay broadcast on SHOWROOM the place she spoke out concerning the state of issues behind the scenes, together with how the administration solely appreciated and gave particular therapy to those that sucked as much as them.
A translation* of the SHOWROOM broadcast has been emerged, and it offers perception into not solely her pondering and the way NGT48 is being run, however is a have a look at how the business may be at instances as nicely.
*The interpretation additionally highlights the rationale journalists don’t actually transcribe the whole lot the topic says. It’s normally to the good thing about the topic … and the reader’s sanity.
“How one can say? The best way the scenario is, as of late, it’s actually…how ought to I put it? Severely tousled. Or, saying it extra exactly, insane. I used to be kinda debating inside myself whether or not or to not say it to followers, however…what can I even say? What’s seen…solely that aspect of issues that’s being proven to everybody of you out there’s the beautiful one. However on the within, as a substitute, it’s actually…learn how to say? Issues have hit the tip of the road — it’s tousled. It’s downright irregular.”
“Extra so than favourite members, these folks basically that they personally like, these are the one ones that they’d give preferential therapies to. That’s just about how issues are like.”
She mainly talks about how she needed to be an idol to carry out for followers and what not, however the political aspect of issues behind the scenes is demoralizing.
“Talking of myself personally, what I needed to do by turning into an idol is to seem in entrance of all of you followers, dancing and doing performances, basically. It’s these issues that I desired to do. I desired to usually perform the job of idol. It was merely that, but regardless of that, after having lastly gotten to be an idol, no matter how a lot exhausting work you place into it, this one is such a world the place should you don’t butter as much as folks, you gained’t get to maneuver up the ladder, and I actually dislike that. Personally, I haven’t change into an idol in order that I must butter as much as any particular person. So yeah, I’m not the one one who appears like that about it — so I do think about. … The actual fact is that, in any case, there really are lots of people who do suppose that they gained’t have the ability to ever climb up the ladder until they try this kind of factor. And so, as a matter of reality, I occur to personally witness these types of conditions. Although I’m not prepared to do any of that, myself. That’s mainly the sense of it.”
Later, she particularly says she didn’t have intention to graduate. Although clearly now we all know she resigned.
“So far as I’m involved…I’m not going to graduate anytime quickly, but. However when in the future, in some unspecified time in the future, I lastly go on to graduate…perhaps I gained’t have the ability to graduate precisely in a very good style!”
“Anyway, personally, I truthfully can’t discover the motivation in the direction of my job as it’s. However I’ve everybody of you on the market. Plus I’m additionally working to personally create one thing gratifying to folks, so…a way or one other, I wanna strive preserving my emotional temper up anyhow.”
NGT48 is, after all, the group that got here to worldwide consideration when former member Yamaguchi Maho got here ahead about being assaulted after which scandal ensued. Thus, it’s reasonably exhausting to be shocked that the folks in cost proceed to have points it doesn’t matter what they stated publicly about issues altering.
