<figure id="attachment_287053" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-287053" style="width: 835px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="ffaa84ff"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2022/12/4fdc72e62dec30acf5f9f2c9fbf1dd73-2.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-287053" class="wp-caption-text">Shiyoh Hirano will be leaving Johnny&#8217;s in 2011. For fans, Cowcon is a rare opportunity to see &#8220;Kimpuri&#8221; with all the members.</figcaption></figure>
 Even at the end of the year, Johnny&#8217;s is still in a flurry of activity.
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 Starting with the departure of Hideaki Takizawa, president of Johnny&#8217;s Island, at the end of October, Shiyoh Hirano, Yuta Kishi, and Yuta Jinguji of the popular group &#8220;King &amp; Prince&#8221; announced that they would be leaving the company next year. The Weekly Bunshun reported that all members of &#8220;IMPACTors,&#8221; Takizawa&#8217;s &#8220;bikini&#8221; group, will leave the group.
 On a different note, Mariusuha of &#8220;Sexy Zone&#8221; will graduate from Johnny&#8217;s after the countdown concert on New Year&#8217;s Eve. It was announced that he would retire from the entertainment industry.
 Johnny&#8217;s was quite upset with the news of IMPACTors&#8217; departure. The Johnny&#8217;s Jr. corner was set up at the countdown concert, and they were scheduled to perform there. Inside Johnny&#8217;s, it seems that a search for the culprit has begun, asking &#8216;Why did this story get out?
 However, the &#8220;breakup&#8221; of IMPACTors was a foregone conclusion. The tickets for &#8220;Johnny&#8217;s Countdown Concert 2022-2023&#8221; are going platinum. The price is 9,800 yen per ticket. Only members of the Japanese group&#8217;s fan club can apply for up to two tickets per person.
 The reason to pay an annual fee to join a fan club is to get concert tickets. Kinpuri alone has nearly one million members, and almost all of them apply for Cowcon tickets. If you add up the membership of all the groups, there are over 8 million members. Only Johnny&#8217;s can do such a huge business.
 (According to a music insider) &#8220;If the Tokyo Dome, the venue, has a capacity of 50,000 people, the odds of winning a ticket are about 150 times higher.
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 According to a fan in his 30s, &#8220;Even though it was said to be the last live for the five members of Kimpuri, it was also the last stage for Marius of Sekzo. The office had announced in advance that Marius would not be performing at Cowcon, but this was an unusual move to reverse the announcement.
 Perhaps it was his own will. Thanks to this, tickets for Cowcon are at a premium.
 He said, &#8220;The illegal resale of tickets is not allowed by law.
 Illegal resale is strictly prohibited by law, but even so, the price on resale sites is far above the list price. On a certain resale site, the price starts at several tens of thousands of yen per ticket, and some seats are priced at several hundred thousand yen.
 From a fan&#8217;s point of view, the recent &#8220;exit dominoes&#8221; have made some fans fear that something may happen to their &#8220;favorite group&#8221; at any moment. Various names have been mentioned in the media as &#8220;the next group to leave Johnny&#8217;s&#8221;.
 In addition, Yoshikazu Azumaya, a.k.a. &#8220;Garsy,&#8221; held an emergency live broadcast on his online salon &#8220;GASYLE,&#8221; saying that &#8220;clipping and spreading are OK,&#8221; and mentioned &#8220;Kis-My-Ft2 He named &#8220;Kis-My-Ft2&#8221; as the next group to follow the IMPACTors.
 GASYLE says that Kis-My-Ft2 has been talking with the office executives every day. Gershey said that something always happens to groups that talk to executives every day, and Gershey expects them to leave.
 However, it is unclear whether there is any basis for this, and since Gershey himself is releasing information for free, there may be an aim to encourage people to visit his online salon&#8221; (sports newspaper reporter).
 What will happen in &#8217;23 after Cowcon&#8230;? What will happen in 2011 after Cowcon&#8230;? One cannot take one&#8217;s eyes off Johnny&#8217;s next year.

 Yusuke Kondo

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