Bad news
I don't have any real confirmation, but it's likely that Otsuka Yuya has left Johnny's today after the last show of Takizawa Kabuki.
During the introduction part at the start of the last Kabuki show
Otsuka : 「滝沢歌舞伎で最後、夕焼けのように輝きたい、大塚祐哉」= "I want to shine like the sunset for the last time in Takizawa Kabuki, Otsuka Yuya"
During other shows, he would just say "I want to shine like the sunset" (it's a pun on his first name (Yuuyake no you ni kagayakitai))
I know the "for the last time" could just have been because it was the last show.
But the biggest hint was what Kaneda Yosei said after that.
Kaneda : 「大塚くん、ジャニーズ生活お疲れさまでした！金田ようせい」= "Otsuka-kun, otsukaresama for your life as a Johnny's! Kaneda Yosei"
Seems like Otsuka smiled a bit shyly after that.
I guess that everyone knows what "otsukaresama" means.
I found all these on several twitter accounts of fans who went to see that last Kabuki show.
And then, his birthday has already disappeared from Takichannel.
Edit : I've been told by chapstickmurmur that he had never had his birthday there. Even though I thought I had seen it before, I'll believe her.
Please note that it's not a confirmed news. But you hardly get any confirmed news when a Jr leaves. So I'm just informing everyone about what we know for the moment.
Otsuka will still be in the next SMAPxSMAP 100 Jr episode though.
During the introduction part at the start of the last Kabuki show
Otsuka : 「滝沢歌舞伎で最後、夕焼けのように輝きたい、大塚祐哉」= "I want to shine like the sunset for the last time in Takizawa Kabuki, Otsuka Yuya"
During other shows, he would just say "I want to shine like the sunset" (it's a pun on his first name (Yuuyake no you ni kagayakitai))
I know the "for the last time" could just have been because it was the last show.
But the biggest hint was what Kaneda Yosei said after that.
Kaneda : 「大塚くん、ジャニーズ生活お疲れさまでした！金田ようせい」= "Otsuka-kun, otsukaresama for your life as a Johnny's! Kaneda Yosei"
Seems like Otsuka smiled a bit shyly after that.
I guess that everyone knows what "otsukaresama" means.
I found all these on several twitter accounts of fans who went to see that last Kabuki show.
And then, his birthday has already disappeared from Takichannel.
Edit : I've been told by chapstickmurmur that he had never had his birthday there. Even though I thought I had seen it before, I'll believe her.
Please note that it's not a confirmed news. But you hardly get any confirmed news when a Jr leaves. So I'm just informing everyone about what we know for the moment.
Otsuka will still be in the next SMAPxSMAP 100 Jr episode though.