<figure id="attachment_296466" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-296466" style="width: 1000px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="84751b8a"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/02/f9d3b8ae2297b4a9c7aff14855856b78.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-296466" class="wp-caption-text">Ren Nagase of &#8220;King &amp; Prince&#8221; will stay with Johnny&#8217;s after May</figcaption></figure>
 The popular Johnny&#8217;s group &#8220;King &amp; Prince&#8221; will come to an end in May this year.
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 Shiyou Hirano, Yuta Kishi, and Yuta Jinguji left the group, and each left the office. The remaining members, Ren Nagase and Kaito Takahashi, have started new activities with the signboard of &#8220;King &amp; Prince&#8221; on their backs. It has become clear that they will shift their focus to acting rather than singing.
 Among them, Nagase is being pushed hard.
 He is currently co-starring with actress Suzu Hirose in the drama &#8220;Yugure ni, Te wo Tsunagu&#8221; (TBS), which is currently airing, but unfortunately, the ratings are not up to par. Although the first episode had an average household rating of 8.0%, the second episode was at 6.6%, and the third episode at 5.9%. According to a TV station official.
 According to a TV station official, &#8220;The previous season&#8217;s &#8216;Kimi no hana ni naru&#8217; averaged a sluggish 5.3% for its 10 episodes. So we decided to make a fresh start and cast the popular Ms. Nagase and Ms. Hirose in an attempt to make a comeback&#8230;. If things continue as they are, the result may be no different from the previous season.
 He said, &#8220;If we continue as we are, the result may be no different from the previous season.
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 Even so, Johnny&#8217;s&#8217;s &#8220;Nagase&#8217;s&#8221; support is unwavering. The drama &#8220;Shin Nobunaga Kouki: Classmate is a Warlord of the Warring States&#8221; (NTV), in which Nagase starred last July, has already been unofficially confirmed as a movie. The drama is based on the manga &#8220;Shin Nobunaga Kouki: Nobunaga-kun to me&#8221; by Shinobu Kaiya, and brings together high school students who are clones of famous warlords such as Nobunaga Oda, Shingen Takeda, and Kenshin Uesugi. Nagase plays the main character Nobunaga, and the cast also includes Naniwa Boys and Daigo Nishihata.
 The ratings were a big loser, but the story was originally set to be a movie version. Even if the drama is a flop, the movie version will be repeated two or three times by the fans. To put it another way, it can be said that the whole plan was based on Nagase&#8217;s popularity.
 In addition, Nagase is scheduled to make her first appearance in the TBS Sunday drama &#8220;The Last Man: The Blind Investigator,&#8221; starring Masaharu Fukuyama, which will start in April. Nagase is said to be one of the important cast members.
 It is too early for Nagase to play a leading role in &#8220;Sunday Gekijo,&#8221; but he will have a status by being cast in this drama. It takes a lot of power just to book her, which shows how much Johnny&#8217;s expects Nagase to do.
 On the other hand, fans of Kimpuri, commonly known as &#8220;tiaras,&#8221; view this &#8220;Nagase push&#8221; with mixed feelings.
 While Nagase and Takahashi, who remain with Johnny&#8217;s, are treated well, the members who are leaving the group are being &#8220;left out&#8221; of the group. In addition, Bunshun Online reported that a famous scene involving Hirano and Kishi that aired on the January 22 episode of Nippon TV&#8217;s &#8220;Nino-san&#8221; was entirely cut from the Hulu distribution.
 The scene in which Hirano and Kishi appear was blacked out on a screen divided into four parts, and the scene in which Hirano and Kishi appear was cut out entirely.
 The message &#8220;For rights reasons, we are unable to distribute this video.
 This is not a &#8220;pressure&#8221; situation.
 This was not pressure, but literally &#8220;for rights reasons&#8221; in anticipation of Hirano and the other three leaving the group, but needless to say, Tiara was in an uproar.
 Although there are still five members of Kimpuri, it is emotionally impossible to treat them equally since three of them have already decided to leave the group. Nagase and Takahashi are the &#8220;future&#8221; of the office, while Hirano and the other three are the &#8220;past.
 However, it would have been better for the fans if the office had backed up the five members until May,&#8221; said a music insider.
 The group&#8217;s flagship program &#8220;King &amp; Prince Ru&#8221; (NTV) was also aired on the same day. (Nippon Television Network), the group&#8217;s flagship program, is also said to be considering ending its broadcast as early as the end of September after the departure of the three members.
 Preparations for the &#8220;closing of the store&#8221; of the five members of the Kinpuri are steadily underway. At the same time, the distrust of Tiara&#8217;s office is growing&#8230;

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