The end of “SHOW Channel” and “Ki7 ◎× Club” announced… The crisis of the “disappearance” of Arashi’s programs has increased the longing for a “reunion”.

On January 15, it was officially announced that the variety show “130 Million People’s Show Channel” (NTV), in which Sho Sakurai (42) of “Arashi” fame serves as MC, will end in March. The once popular “Arashi” program, “Ki7 ◎× Club” (Fuji Television), a variety show on Thursdays at 7 p.m. with Masaki Aiba (41) as MC, will also reportedly be moved this spring and “downgraded” to the Kanto local area, The “extinction crisis” is becoming clear.

The “SHOW Channel” on Saturdays at 9 p.m. is the successor program to “Arashi ni shiyagare,” which started in April 2010. It started in January 2009 following Arashi’s hiatus in December 2008, but it has now come to an end after about three years.

The predecessor of “Ki 7 ◎× Club” was “VS Arashi” which started in 2008. Due to the same circumstances, it became “VS Soul” in January ’21, then was broadcast under the name “VS Soul Gradation” from April ’22, and just became “Ki7 ◎× Club” from October ’23.

However, at the end of December last year, several sports papers reported that the slot would be moved to the Kanto local area from April 2012. In addition to sluggish viewer ratings, it is believed that the sponsors of the program have been disengaged due to the sexual assault issue at the former Johnny’s office (now SMILE-UP.). Since these two programs were the successor slots for the “Arashi” crown program, the possibility of their “disappearance” is becoming more and more real.

(Sports newspaper desk) Under these circumstances, the members of Arashi, with the exception of Ono Satoshi (43), who is on leave, Sakurai, Aiba, and Ninomiya Kazuya (40), who became independent from the former Janis last October, continue to appear in regular TV programs and TV dramas. On the other hand, Matsumoto Jun (40) is the only one who is still “not scheduled to work” since the beginning of this year.