▲Vice President Takizawa, who inherited the legacy of Mr. Kitagawa of the Janis Office, will demonstrate his skills as a manager in the future
The impact on The age limit for Janis Jr. is growing.
Janis's office quickly attracted attention after announcing the introduction of Janis Jr. 22-year-old retirement system on its official website on January 16. The new system stipulates that Before March 31 of the first March after reaching the age of 22, Janis Jr. will negotiate with the company on whether to continue to carry out activities as Janis Jr., and if the results of the negotiations are inconsistent, the activities will be terminated on the same day. The new system will be implemented from March 31, 2023.
At present, the Kanto Kansai combined, the total number of active Jr. personnel is more than 200. On the one hand, the new system hopes to strengthen Jr.'s internal competition, and on the other hand, it hopes that at the age of 22, which is equivalent to college graduation, Jr. will be given the opportunity to examine their own life path again.
In recent years, the constant occurrence of Jr. scandals is also a major reason for the new system. In September of the previous year, Ryo Hashimoto and Dragon Dou of The Five-member Group "HIHI JETS" of Janis Jr. flowed out of the "bed photos" one after another. Akiyama Okawa, who is also Jr., was also blown up and actress Sa kanda was also suspected of cheating.
In October last year, Ryota Yamamoto of "Cosmic SIX" was often in and out of underground casinos. In addition, last summer, a former Janis Jr. was arrested in a telecommunications fraud case disguised as a gas overhaul. When questioned by the police, the man replied that "he is unemployed now".
"The arrest of the original Jr. brought a great impact to Vice President Hideaki Takizawa, who is now in charge of cultivating Jr., and because he was very familiar with the other party, Vice President Takizawa reflected every day whether joining Janis was 'a negative impact on their lives'." (Performing Arts Related Persons)
The new system seems to be telling the hopeless Janis Jr. to "stop doing it" in the hope of dissuading them. But even so, many people say they "can't give up."
"In fact, what is really paying attention to this new system now is other brokerage companies. The discovery of new talents in the Janis firm and the cultivation of Jr. have always been secret tricks. But in the future, with the retirement of these Jr., I am afraid that the 'Janis Secret' will also flow out. (People in the music industry)
▲7ORDER
According to the relevant people in the music industry mentioned above, there are also some positive cases, such as the "7ORDER" group formed by Yasui Kitaro, Sanada Yuma, Shoki Sanada, Mito Morita, Keigo Hagitani, Akira Hagi, Abe Kenrashi, and The Elder Wife, who were still active in The previous year under the name of "LOVE-TUNE", and officially debuted on January 13 with their debut album "ONE". On the day of the album's release, an independent concert was suddenly held at budokan in Japan.
"The official debut album is all self-created. The two singles released, "SABA OF LOWER" and "GIRL", were immediately sold out. Due to the epidemic, the number of concerts held at the Budokan must be controlled to less than half of the maximum capacity of the venue, that is, about 4400 people, and even so, it was successfully held. Needless to say, the fans of the Janis period have successfully accumulated new fans through word-of-mouth. The president of the record company he belongs to also sighed that "it is worthy of being cultivated by Janis, and the quality of the personnel is not a level at all". ”
In the future, there will certainly be a second and third "7ORDER" on a continuous basis. The reporter in the sports section believes that "from Janis's point of view, it will become a situation of 'friends of yesterday and enemies of today'." The singing programs of various TV stations may 'secretly speculate' and not allow the original Janis members to appear in the program, but now that it is the era of online social networking, this will not be a big disadvantage. In the future, there may be a situation in which Jr., who retired from Janis, shines at other companies and eventually becomes a strong opponent of Janis. ”
The Internet is widely regarded as a well-intentioned Jr. The "22-year-old retirement system" may become a double-edged sword for Janis & Company... (Cang Yu /Translation)