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Fact check: Post Title: What's up with Narumi Runa meme recently? Post Content: Keep seeing this meme in my Facebook feed with some issue/scandal(?) going on. [Said meme](https://i.imgur.com/8YtoY8F.jpg) I assume people just getting triggered with idols having their personal relationship (fan toxicity) but I may be missing the point here. Would like some source to overall story with how recent yet big this issue is among the community. Apologize in advance, should I mark it as NSFW and how do I tag it? New in this subreddit. Comment Chain: 1. Answer: It's a meme that hit the top Twitter trends on Friday, I'll try to break down the events and characters accurately. 1. Narumi Runa is a voice actor, known for voicing Mitsumine Yuika in the highly popular IdolMaster Shiny Colors game. 2. She lives with her boyfriend, a fairly well known Youtuber ["Mokou"](https://www.youtube.com/user/mokoustream/featured). They began dating about 3 years ago. He has a bad history with women: domestic abuse from a mentally ill ex, then cheated on by another streamer. 3. Her previous boyfriend was an entrepreneur who owned a couple of bars around Tokyo. (We'll refer to him as the Entrepreneur) 4. Apparently Narumi Runa wanted to get back with the Entrepreneur but he only wanted to be friends with benefits. 5. The Entrepreneur had a girlfriend/fiance who suspected him of cheating and went through his phone, confirming her suspicions. She contacted Narumi, asking her to stop hooking up with the Entrepreneur. According to the chat logs, Narumi said something to the effect of "I don't want to share him with a nobody like you either. Don't you know who I am?", which was ironic considering that her career is mediocre at best. Narumi Runa threatens suicide if the girlfriend leaks anything. The Girlfriend also receives death threat texts that she suspects is from Narumi's agency. 6. The Girlfriend goes nuclear and takes a ton of texts and private messages to ["Kore Kore"](https://www.youtube.com/c/korekorech/videos), a youtuber who does a ton of trashy scandal drama which is obviously incredibly popular. 7. "リアルNTR" (lit. *Real NTR*), "Narumi Runa" hits the Twitter trending hashtags and blows up. Currently it's mostly contained in the Japanese web sphere. 8. Narumi Runa's agency declines every upcoming appointment and goes quiet. 9. Mokou releases a video making fun of the situation with monetization and gets a decent viewership boost. The leaks included a lot of information that resulted in how much this blew up. 1. The Entrepreneur was cheating with 5 other women as well. 2. Around Feb 2021, Mokou was invited to do a ["Can't Go Home Until You Beat Nioh 2"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83uv1dwxg1A) stream. Narumi invited the Entrepreneur to their home and, according to the texts, had sex 4 times without any contraception. 3. The Entrepreneur then asked her to take morning-after pills and gave her 9800JPY (~85USD). In the texts, they go back and forth about birth control a few times, where Narumi was reluctant to take them, but the Entrepreneur was insistent and reassured her about the side effects. Narumi also says that she has always used condoms with Mokou, but enjoys the sensation of internal ejaculation. Memes: 1. "Cheating" (NTR) and "creampie" (Nakadashi) are both common 'tags' in japanese porn of both filmed, animated, and drawn varieties. Lots of the memes involve taking an image of Mitsumine Yuika, Narumi's role, and captioning it with "Nakadashi" 4 times. 2. It costs almost 100,000 JPY to maximize the game character in IdolMaster Shiny Colors, which has significant "gacha" or lootbox mechanics. The price disparity between her video game character and what the money she received post-coitus resulted in further memes. 3. Another reason this scandal received so much attention was because of its resemblance towards plotlines of the aforementioned Japanese porn. I would say that using the "Real NTR" hashtag was quite a stroke of genius. Given that Narumi Runa was an aspiring celebrity, playing a character who is *also* an aspiring celebrity, in a game about Japanese idols, these factors resulted in a lot of, shall we say, [fan art](https://twitter.com/QSX3EE/status/1446558574755385354). Original Reddit link: https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/s/33WKTs1r6X
1. Summary of the results
The Narumi Runa scandal was a significant controversy in the Japanese entertainment industry that led to concrete professional consequences. The incident involved her alleged infidelity, which was exposed publicly, leading to her suspension from activities on October 15, 2021 [1], and ultimately her retirement on December 31, 2021 [2]. The scandal resulted in her removal as the voice actress for Yuika Mitsumine in The Idolmaster Shiny Colors game, and her departure from the voice acting unit SoundOrion [2].
2. Missing context/alternative viewpoints
Several important contextual elements are worth noting:
- The official reason given for her initial hiatus was "health issues" [2], suggesting a possible attempt to manage the public narrative
- This incident fits into a broader pattern of similar controversies in the Japanese voice acting industry, where personal scandals have resulted in performers losing their roles [1]
- The hashtag "Real NTR" trending on Japanese Twitter [1] indicates how the scandal resonated with certain aspects of Japanese popular culture
3. Potential misinformation/bias in the original statement
The original statement contains several details that cannot be verified through the provided sources:
- The specific details about the entrepreneur, Mokou, and the explicit nature of the text messages are not confirmed by any of the verified sources
- The monetary amounts and specific details about the game's gacha mechanics are not verified
- The meme analysis and fan art references cannot be confirmed through the provided sources
It's worth noting that different stakeholders had varying interests in this situation:
- The entertainment agency attempted to manage the situation through careful wording ("health issues") [2]
- The gaming company had to protect their brand by removing her voice lines [1]
- Social media users and content creators potentially benefited from the viral nature of the scandal and its hashtags [1]