Takane no Nadeshiko's Haruno Riri announces an indefinite hiatus after intimate moments with a man were leaked

On the 26th, idol group Takane no Nadeshiko announced on their official website that member Haruno Riri will be going on an indefinite hiatus. 

The situation blew up after private photos surfaced on social media showing someone believed to be Haruno getting close with a man. Haruno also updated her own social media, saying, “To everyone who supports me: I sincerely apologize for causing so much worry and trouble to all of you and everyone involved due to my careless actions.”

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Source: Girls Channel

1. [+388, -2]

Who the heck are you

2. [+147, -1]

The line between underground idols and regular idols is getting pretty blurry lately.

3. [+96, -0]

Anybody knows who this is?

>> Takane no Nadeshiko is pretty well-known among idol fans. Their song “Kawaikute Gomen” got a bit of buzz too.

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Banning relationships because of someone’s job honestly feels like a violation of human rights.

>> Hmm, I’m not sure. No one’s forcing them to become idols anyway. Either way, since it affects their business, I think that matters more than the whole human rights thing.

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Scandal-for-hype dating strategy.

>> Yeah, that’s exactly it—making a fuss to get attention. I’m curious how she got stuck with that role.

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Trying to be an idol and have a boyfriend at the same time? That’s asking for way too much. Y'all aren't just regular girls, just put up with it.

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Yeah, I don’t really know how serious some unknown idol is about their work.
If they’re not careful, it’s no wonder stuff like that leaks. Honestly, it wouldn’t make much difference if they were there or not.

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Hmm, don’t you think she could just keep going like nothing happened?

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Was it a fan who took those photos? If it were me, I probably wouldn’t even notice.

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It’s fine if she has a boyfriend, but she should've used a better disguise. And on top of that, now people know that she wears cheap ass clothes, poor thing lol. 

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Big agency idols or underground ones, it’s all the same. It’s like they all become idols just to get guys now. They don’t really care about chasing dreams or getting famous and they clearly aren’t thinking about their fans at all.

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If it was a slip-up by herself, that’s one thing, but having secretly taken photos spread around by some shady account and then going on hiatus just seems kind of unfair.

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She looks like a mix of Yamamoto Sayaka and Miyawaki Sakura, but the underground scene version. 

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There’s a former Last Idol member in the group, so I was kinda following them a bit. Haruno quit her office job and got serious about being an idol, so I thought she wouldn’t do stuff like this—definitely surprised me.

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If she’s gonna date this openly, she should just say "I don’t think having a boyfriend should be seen as a bad thing!" I genuinely think that'd be more fun and get her noticed more, lol.