Mr. Children’s Heir Makes Debut with Unconventional Commercial Sparks Speculation

Minami Tanaka (37) appeared in a commercial for “Calbee Body Granola” that started airing on February 22. The “good-looking younger brother” of Tanaka Minami is Kaine Sakurai (22), who has been attracting a lot of attention for his role.

It is a well-known fact that his father is Kazutoshi Sakurai (54) of Mistill and his mother is Mika Yoshino, a former gravure idol and popular member of the Giri Giri Girls. However, for some reason, a release from the PR company asked that information and topics related to “family” and “Nisei” not be mentioned, which has caused controversy among people involved in wide-ranging TV shows.

The notice reads, “We often have opportunities to cover information about new commercials, mainly on morning live wide programs, but in this case, Minami Tanaka, who has appeared in many commercials, was somewhat short of material. The appearance of “Mistill’s Sakurai’s eldest son” was a great opportunity for a long piece of information on this commercial, but it was a waste of time and money.

In the interview video uploaded on YouTube’s “oricon channel” after the crank-up of the commercial, Sakurai talked about how he created his original guitar and how Tanaka immediately searched for him on SNS when he first saw him on the screen, asking “Who is this handsome guy? and that Tanaka immediately searched for him on SNS when he first saw him on screen. It would have been natural to talk about “Kazutoshi Sakurai’s son,” but there was no mention of him, which was unnatural.

Sakurai was a member of the junior youth team of a famous soccer club as a child, played drums for the band Inner Journey under the name Kaito, and was active in a wide range of activities, including modeling and setting up his own YouTube channel.