About a decade ago, I covered a horrific story out of the Chinese entertainment industry where SNH48 member Tang Anqi was severely burned over 80% of her body. The official …
Read More »More women share interactions with Kris Wu following allegations, netizens highlight some past red flags
Following the disturbing allegations of rape and predatory behavior towards minors that have emerged against Kris Wu, he eventually denied everything as other women came forward, and now further women …
Read More »Kris Wu denies allegations of being predatory towards minors & rape, other women come forward
Kris Wu has been embroiled in a controversy for the past couple months, with the severity of things ramping up exponentially as of late, as he’s now facing allegations of …
Read More »Tencent is suing Yuehua & Maverick over withdrawing from Rocket Girls, get support from SNH48 staff
Following Yuehua Entertainment announcing that they were withdrawing Meiqi and Xuanyi of WJSN from ‘Produce 101 China‘ group Rocket Girls (and Maverick Entertainment withdrawing Zining as well), Tencent stated that …
Read More »SNH48 reenact ‘Battle Royale’ for 17-minute “Forest Theorem” MV, complete with killing
A few weeks ago, China’s SNH48 dropped a 17-minute music video for “Forest Theorem“, which is basically a shorter version of the ‘Battle Royale‘ movie. I’m late as hell on …
Read More »SNH48’s Tang Anqi making progress on way back from suffering severe burns
Many of you have been asking me about the status of SNH48‘s Tang Anqi, who was severely burned after catching on fire/being set on fire in a coffee shop. I …
Read More »C-netizens don’t support SNH48 declaring independence from AKB48
SNH48 are going rogue and breaking away from the AKB48 brand, as we covered yesterday, but they actually might run into more trouble than anticipated because Chinese netizens don’t seem …
Read More »SNH48 have gone rogue from AKB48 and have declared their independence
Glorious contract drama has finally hit J-pop shores, as SNH48 in China has recently basically declared they are independent from AKB48 and that entire brand. It started when AKB48 announced …
Read More »SNH48’s Tang Anqi gives us a video update, says she’s recovering well
A day after somebody asked for an update on SNH48‘s Tang Anqi and I had to unfortunately report that there was no update, she posted a video update for everybody …
Read More »Ask Asian Junkie: So are there any updates on SHN48’s Tang Anqi?
In today’s Ask Asian Junkie, a feature that I should get started again since it’s easy to do, I fielded a relatively commonly asked question about the situation with Tang …
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