entries tagged with „j-pop“

Watwing is a 6 member JPop-boygroup under TOY'S FACTORY. They were formed trought the 'Star Boys Auditon' in 2019 and released their first pre-debut single 'Only One Life' on January 15th, 2020. Later on they made their official major debut on September 22nd, 2021 with their first EP called 'Take Off,' . Member Suzuki Asahi (鈴木 曉) Born: May 8th, 1998 Height: 1,80m Takahashi Fu (髙橋颯) Born: May 8th, 1998 Height: 1,72m Fukuzawa Nozomi (福澤 希空) Born: February 22nd, 2004 Height: 1,73m Hachimura Rintaro (八村倫太郎) Born: July 28th, 1999 Height: 1,78m Furuhata Ryo (古幡 亮) Born: November 8th, 1997 Height: 1,74m Kuwayama Ryuta (桑山 隆太) Born: January 27th, 2004 Height: 1,74m

BE:FIRST is an 7 member big J-Pop Boy Group. The group was founded through the survival show 'THE FIRST' created by the Japanese rapper SKY-HI and aired on Hulu and fully English subed on Youtube. The group is signed to BMSG as their agency, a company owned by rapper SKY-HI and Avex Entertainment as the producing company. BE:FIRST made their debut on November 3rd, 2021 with their first single called 'Gifted' Pre-debut: BE:FIRST was formed through the reality competition show THE FIRST from April 2nd to August 13th, 2021. The first episode was uploaded later on May 1st fully English subed to Youtube. The final member where annoucned in the last episode and released a pre-debut MV called 'SHINING ONE' later on the 16th of August. Endorsement Even before their official debut, 3 member of BE:FIRST endorsed and collaborated with PRADA. Member: Ikagame Junon (池亀樹音) Born: May 23rd, 1998 Height: 1,83m Position: Main Vocalist Mayama Ryoki (三山凌輝) Born: April…

BUGVEL is a 6 member big JPop-group under Dream Passport. Pre-debut: The group's member, Guno and Mahiro, were trainees under the Korean agency YG Entertainment and also apeared on the show "TREASURE BOX" and than later on "Produce 101 X" before they decided to join a Japanese agency together instead. All other member apeared on "Produce 101 Japan season 1" before. Debut and after: The group debuted on the 27th of October with their first single 'Warning'. The MV to the single followed a few days later. Member Kitagawa Hikaru (北川 暉) Born: February 9th, 1999 Height: 1,71m Weight: 53kg Position: Leader Wang Jyun Hao (王俊豪) Born: May 8th, 2000 Height: 1,73m Weight: 57kg Hidaka Mahiro (日高 真尋) Born: March 28th, 2001 Height: 1,76m Weight: - Komatsu Koshin (小松 倖真) Born: October 22nd, 2001 Height: 1,65m Weight: 50kg Sato Raira (佐藤 來良) Born: May 9th, 2000 Height: 1,76m Weight: 63kg Minato Inoue (井上 港人) Born: December 26, 1999 Height: 1,80m Weight: 58kg

MADKID is a 5 member boygroup under Nippon Columbia as their producing company and formely managed under SAMURAIM RECORDS, who debuted on May 18th, 2014. On December 14th, 2016 MADKID released their first album. On the following day, they held their first concert. In 2017 they held a few very successfull concerts that led the group into a major debut under Nippon Columbia on January 31st, 2018. MADKID was the first group ever to debut under Nippon Columbia, wich gave the group a lot opportunities on being a mainly selfproducred group. Member Yuki for example produces, composes and choreographes a lot fot the group. MADKID originaly debuted with a member called Rikito. After him leaving they invited a close friend, Casey Anderson. Only half a year later Casey left the group to return to the United States where he grew up. Later on Youta (stylised as You-ta) tried to convince Shin to join the group. However Shin declined the offer for over a year and only joined after Youta…

Born: October 30th, 2002 Height: 1,71m Weight: 51kg -He was born on the Okinawa islands, Japan -He likes to play basketball and read manga -He likes to take photos and has a folder of pics of his member sleeping on his PC -His nickname is MJ -His rolemodel is Jungkook from BTS

Born: August 30th, 2001 Height: 1,78m Weight: 63kg -He was born in Fukoka, Japan -He likes watching movies -He can speak English -He can play the guitar and drums -His most favourite group is BTS

Born: August 10th, 1999 Height: 1,68m Weight: 58kg -He was born in Nagano, Japan -He likes singing -He likes to visit the sauna and playing basketball -He used to own a TikTok account -His rolemodel is EXILE ATSUSHI

Born: June 14th, 1999 Height: 1,73m Weight: 60kg -He was born in Osaka, Japan -He used to be member of two groups called Jump Up Joy and α-X before -He likes to watch anime -His most favourite group is ARASHI

Born: June 3rd, 1999 Height: 1,76m Weight: 56kg -He was born in Osaka, Japan -He likes reading, playig basketball and soccer -He can speak Spanish and studied it at the university -He is a big fan of BTS and the Japanese group ARASHI

Born: April 4th, 1999 Height: 1,67m Weight: 49kg -He was born in Tokyo, Japan -He can play the guitar -His most favourite food are shrimp sushi -He dislikes mushrooms -He used to work at a pet store before -His rolemodel is Sota from the Japanese group Da-iCE -He used to be in an acapella group before

Born: June 12th, 1998 Height: 1,76m Weight: 58kg -He is Chinese and was born in China -He came to Japan in 2016 as exchange student -He likes Pokemon, visiting museums and photography -In his Japanese university he used to be part of a dance-crew -He is fluently in Mandarine, Japanese, English and Korean -He is a big fan of JO1, SEVENTEEN and THE BOYZ -His rolemodel is Juyeon from THE BOYZ

Born: June 1st, 1997 Height: 1,73m Weight: 64kg -He was born inKagoshima, Japan -He used to work as background dancer before -He had cameos in many MVs as for example of Taemin and Chanmina -He likes to play soccer and weight lifting -He is a big fan of DPR

Born: October 10th, 1997 Height: 1,75m Weight: 60kg -He was born in Aichi, Japan -He is INI's leader -He used to work as background dancer before -He used to work with SEVENTEEN -He is a close friend of Ren from JO1 -He likes to bake cookies -He likes playing games, watching movies, eating and walking

Born: October 13th, 1998 Height: 1,79m Weight: 60kg -He was born in Tokyo, Japan -He used to be trainee under the Japanese company Johnny's Entertainment -He also used to be trainee under CUBE Entertainment -He can speak Korean -He likes dancing, playing the drums and making his own music -He loves watching movies and going to cafes -Hos most favourite musicians are Travis Scott and Kanye West -He used to be in a group galled G=AGE

INI (アイエヌアイ) is an 11 member big J-Pop Boy Group. The group was founded through the second Japanese season of the popular survival show "Produce 101" with the goal to debut an 11 member big group through a voting system where viewers vote between 101 participants from all over the country. The group is signed with Lapone Entertainment, a joint company between Yoshimoto Kogyo and CJ, E&M. INI will make their debut with their first single "A" on November, 3rd 2021. The group's name, INI, was chosen by Lapone Entertainment among the suggestions given by "National Producers" through Produce 101 Japan's official website. According to the suggestion, INI stands for "Connecting members (I) and you (I) with Network (N)". The name was announced during the final episode of the show. Pre-debut: INI was formed through the reality competition show Produce 101 Japan from April 8th to June 13th, 2021. Due to COVID the second season only contained out of 60 participants this time.…

原因は自分にある。(Genin wa Jibun ni Aru, Eng: The cause lies in me) or short Genjibu is a 7 member boygroup under Stardust Records and EBiDAN. The group was formed on August 14th, 2018 first known under the name 'BATTLE STREET'. On August 7th, 2019 the group changed their name and made their major debut with their first single titled after the group's name. At this time it was also decided that their main genre would be Jazz-Pop for most of their songs. Prior to their debut member Masaya allready used to work as actor before. Takato is curently also working as MC for th TV-show 'Neko no Hitai Hodo Waido'. Member: Sakuragi Masaya (桜木雅哉) Born: March 19th, 2006 Height: - Okura Takato (大倉空人) Born: April 12th, 20002 Height: 1,75m Koizumi Kohsaku (小泉光咲) Born: March 11th, 2003 Height: 1,72m Nagano Ryota (長野凌大) Born: July 16th, 2003 Height: 1,68m Muto Jun (武藤潤) Born: August 18th, 2001 Height: 1,76m Mokudai Kazuto…

WARPs UP (ワープスアップ) is a Japanese-Chinese group signed to AVEX. Their name stands for "Wave Assemble Radical People-Syndicate" Before their debut the member were active as dance choreograph, background dancer or idol in other groups with Rikimaru being the most popular for his work with different KPop-idols as for example Taemin, NCT and Red Velvet. It's also said that Rikimaru was the dance teacher of Niki from the KPop-group ENHYPEN. Altho they debuted on November 17th 2019 under the name WARPs, the group released their first MV called "Rock Tonight" on December 18th 2019 with a Japanese and a Chinese version. In June 2020 member Shori announced to have left WARPs to become a soloist. He is now working under the stagename $HORI WINBOY. After being on hiatus for a year WARPs came back under the name WARPs UP with their second MV "Halli Galli" on November 13th 2020. As of 2021 Santa and Rikimaru participated in the Chinese survival show 'Chuang 2021'. Both placed in…

MAGICOUR is a 7 member JPop-group under WHOLE WIDE MEDIA. The member are also signed as models with Popteen. The original plan is that MAGICOUR will be a unit under the group 7+ME LINK, wich concept will be to be able to debut different girls in different units and change the members alot. They made their debut on November 25th, 2020 with their single "MAGIC" On December 15th, 2020 it was announced that Taru has left the group. It was revealed that she decided to become trainee under the Korean agency MysticStory instead. On June 4th, 2021 it was stated that Amu and Myuka have left the group. Yua is curently on hiatus from the group. It's said that Yua is recovering due to poor health conditions. Member Hasegawa Mitsuki (はせがわ みつき) Born: September 16th, 2002 Height: 1,63m Position: Sub-Vocal Kawabata Yume (かわばた ゆめ) Born: April 14th, 2004 Height: 1,63m Position: Main-Vocal Kawanishi Rico (かわにしりこ) Born: October 2nd, 2005 Height:…

GENIC is a 7 member dance & vocal CO-ED group under avex. The group was found in 2019 trought the survival programm 'a-genic project' where from over 100 trainees 12 female and 12 male trainees got selected to participate against eachother. At the end 5 male and 2 female member made it to GENIC. The show was held each week on Youtube. Trought out the programm the participants released 2 songs ' READY GO' and 'Natsukoi' together. Ttroughtout the show the participants also opend up a concert for the group Da-iCE. Later on they also opend up for the concert-event 'a-nation 2019' troughtout different locations allover Japan. At the middle of the show only 12 participants were left and at the end the final 7 member were announced. On November 1st, 2019 the member made their first official apearance on Instagram via a live event. At the same day it was announced that the group's name would be GENIC. GENIC held their first concert event on December 16th, 2019. They made their official…

Born: May 30th, 2002 Height: 1,73m Weight: 69kg -He was born in Okayama, Japan -He has a sister -He likes to use TikTok -He likes singing and dancing -He likes to play basketball -His most favourite color is red -His most favourite artist is GEERATIONS -He used to work as dance teacher -His most favouritr food is pork soup -He hates insects -He was on Produce 101 Japan and ranked 1st