>>127041760
strap in
this happened in 2018, sakura was the face of akb48 at that time, the biggest jpop group
every year, the akb groups hold a voting event called "senbatsu" where the fans vote for their favorite girls
the girl in the middle is called jurina and is basically the villain in this story, she's a akb old timer and was working really hard for first place (her and sakura have history)
during the pre election performance in the senbatsu, jurina said to sakura "you need to dance better or akb is finished", something like that
after that sakura was visibly unwell and unable to really dance or perform well
sakura ends up getting third place, while jurina got #1
a huge drama melty and fanwar ensues, people call jurina a snake and sakura a push-over
it was truly an anime moment lol, national news and all that
they discontinued the senbatsu after that
