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Taken from a post from a Japanese lawyer on twitter, sorry i know it's long. The arrest of SIMON. The more I learn about how hard the XG members have worked up until now, the more it makes me cry. Fans, if there’s anything inaccurate here, please let me know. I researched this on my own, but there may be omissions or mistakes. â–Œ In 2017, the project began after they were selected from about 13,000 auditionees. COCONA and MAYA were only 11 years old at the time. Normally, that’s the age when kids are playing dodgeball in elementary school. JURIA was 12, and JURIN, CHISA, HINATA, and HARVEY were 14–15. Those girls left their parents and moved into a dorm. From morning to night, more than 10 hours a day: dance, vocals, rap, English, Korean. Even if they wanted to cry, their mothers weren’t beside them. No after-school time hanging out with friends. While their peers were enjoying school festivals and class trips, they were repeating the same choreography hundreds of times in front of the studio mirror. And this wasn’t just “club activities are tough.” If you were cut, it was over. If you couldn’t produce results, your dream disappeared. In that environment, 11- and 12-year-old children survived every single day. â–Œ There were “evaluation tests” almost every week—four times a month. They were judged on singing, dancing, and rap. If their results were poor, their rank dropped, and at worst, they could be dismissed. Even ordinary K-pop trainees are tested only once or twice a month—this was more than double that pace. Every week was a battle against the fear of being eliminated. At 14, JURIN stayed up until 5 a.m. memorizing rap lyrics for tests. She said she “memorized lyrics in her sleep.” At 14, HARVEY didn’t stop practicing even when she had a nosebleed. She stuffed tissues in her nose and kept going. JURIA, at 12, later said she approached practice “with a killing intent.” This was when she would have just started her first year of middle school. â–Œ This continued for five years. Five years. That’s long even for an adult. But for an 11-year-old child, five years is nearly half of the life they’ve lived so far. The entire span from entering middle school to graduating high school— they spent that time almost entirely inside practice rooms. While classmates were taking entrance exams, falling in love, and posing for graduation albums, these girls kept dancing without anyone even knowing they existed. And this project was completely undisclosed. In today’s K-pop and J-pop world, trainees are filmed in audition programs, and they gain fans even before debut. That’s how many groups are introduced. XG had none of that. No TV show. No social media updates. Not even an introduction saying, “These girls are working hard.” From the outside world, it was as if XG didn’t exist. Which means that for five years, not a single “I’m cheering for you” reached them. The only people they could rely on were the teammates dancing beside them and SIMON’s words: “You can reach the world.” No fans supporting them on social media. No outside voices saying, “You’re doing great.” Not even a guarantee they would debut. If you had to compare it to something: It’s like swinging a bat for 10 hours a day in a gym with zero spectators, enduring five years without even knowing if you’ll get to play a game, and then suddenly finding yourself on the mound in the finals at Koshien Stadium. â–Œ During that time, members who barely spoke English created their own “English Day” and “Korean Day,” fully memorized speeches and filmed each other, and brought themselves to the level of using three languages fluently. They practiced for two years for a single song, “MASCARA.” Two years for one song. â–Œ And then, in 2022, they debuted. JURIN, CHISA, HINATA, and HARVEY were 19–20. JURIA was 17. MAYA and COCONA were still only 16. At an age when most people are living ordinary high school lives, they debuted globally. They became the first Japanese act to reach No. 1 on Billboard’s weekly chart. They were the first Japanese girl group in history to appear on the cover of Billboard magazine. A world tour: 47 shows in 35 cities, drawing 400,000 people. Headlined Coachella as the first Japanese artist to do so. 50,000 people at Tokyo Dome. Tickets sold out instantly. At 19, COCONA stood on that stage in tears and said: “When I was 11, I told my mom I would stand at Tokyo Dome. Mom, Dad, I made it to the stage.” It was the moment she fulfilled a promise she made in fifth grade—nine years later. â–Œ The one who designed all of it, who led them as a “demon instructor,” who told them, “Never forget your戝濃 (original intention),” who said, “This is destiny,” was SIMON. And SIMON himself had once belonged to a group called DMTN, which disbanded after a member’s marijuana scandal. He should have known better than anyone the pain of a group collapsing because of drugs. â–Œ That person— just hours after the Nagoya show of the 2nd world tour ended— was arrested for possession of cocaine and marijuana. That same night the members were sweating on stage: COCONA (20), MAYA (20), JURIA (21), JURIN (23), HINATA (23), HARVEY (23), CHISA (24). â–Œ If SIMON had only been a solo artist, perhaps the anger wouldn’t be this deep. But he took responsibility for the lives of 11-year-old children, made them run for five years with no guarantee of debut, kept telling them, “You can reach the world,” and truly led them to the top of the world— and now may be destroying all of it with his own hands. Of course people feel angry. Of course they want to cry. It’s natural to not want to believe it, and to feel betrayed. â–Œ As a lawyer, let me add one thing. Whether he is guilty or not will be decided in court. At this point, nothing has been confirmed. The presumption of innocence applies to everyone. However, this must also be said: SIMON was “present” in the hotel room where cocaine and marijuana were seized. That is a reported fact. And in Japanese society, the word “arrest” carries enormous weight— separate from its legal meaning. Sponsors leave. The media reports it. Even at the stage of mere “suspicion,” the damage to a group’s image does not simply disappear. Guilty or not, the fact that a shadow has fallen over what the members built over nine years is, above all, deeply tragic.

sora

I read somewhere that Simon might have dyed his hair to reduce the probabilities to find drug concentration on his body or something like that....