Special Unit
You already know I like to dig in the past and remember some stories. This time is Olympic, we have a year to Paris 2024. (July 25th to Aug 11th)
So thinking in that I would re- introduce Johnnys back to 2013 were the Tokyo bid elecction was made.
That year Arashi in "Arafes" announced the bid and lit up the calaudron in Tokyo Olimpic Stadium. The same year decided Japan would re-build the whole stadium. So Arashi was the last male group/band in play and the last show was actually AKB48.
If you want to know the tied arashi-olympics here you have the "olympics songs"
At the time, Johnny announced the creation of a special unit called "johnny 2020" or in japanese トニトニ. The idea of JK was scauting a new generation of 40 Jr. And the scouting begun in Osaka and Tokyo.
Later Johnny named Tacky in his place in front of "Jr" division in 2018. So he changed the original project they would be the last groups debuted: King & Prince (5), Sixtones (6), Snowman (7), naniwa danshi (7), HiHi jets (5), Bishounen (6) and Travis Japan (7) ⇒ 40 people in 6 groups.
But with the pandemic and the Olympic suspension, the project also changed.
This time Julie with Tackey decided form Twenty★Twenty for Smile up! Proyect to collect found for pandemic relief. This time will have all the groups in the agency and only the debuted ones.
Until then people sympathized with Tackey like "taking Johnny's to another level". Only a few fans critizised the decision about the jr groups without the opportunity to show up even more fans and magazines pointed out to Julie. So how was the real role of Takizawa?
So thinking in that I would re- introduce Johnnys back to 2013 were the Tokyo bid elecction was made.
That year Arashi in "Arafes" announced the bid and lit up the calaudron in Tokyo Olimpic Stadium. The same year decided Japan would re-build the whole stadium. So Arashi was the last male group/band in play and the last show was actually AKB48.
If you want to know the tied arashi-olympics here you have the "olympics songs"
At the time, Johnny announced the creation of a special unit called "johnny 2020" or in japanese トニトニ. The idea of JK was scauting a new generation of 40 Jr. And the scouting begun in Osaka and Tokyo.
Later Johnny named Tacky in his place in front of "Jr" division in 2018. So he changed the original project they would be the last groups debuted: King & Prince (5), Sixtones (6), Snowman (7), naniwa danshi (7), HiHi jets (5), Bishounen (6) and Travis Japan (7) ⇒ 40 people in 6 groups.
But with the pandemic and the Olympic suspension, the project also changed.
This time Julie with Tackey decided form Twenty★Twenty for Smile up! Proyect to collect found for pandemic relief. This time will have all the groups in the agency and only the debuted ones.
Until then people sympathized with Tackey like "taking Johnny's to another level". Only a few fans critizised the decision about the jr groups without the opportunity to show up even more fans and magazines pointed out to Julie. So how was the real role of Takizawa?