Fuji TV did not invite the press to the joint press conference for the drama series.
A joint press conference titled “Fuji TV Drama Live 2024 Summer” was held on July 11 at the station in Daiba, Tokyo. Media outlets reported that a total of 15 actors attended the event, including Ren Meguro (27) of the idol group Snow Man and actress Mayu Matsuoka (29), who just announced her marriage to Hiroki Arioka (33) of Hey! Say! JUMP (hereinafter “JUMP”) on July 7 this month.
According to the reports, those attending the event were Meguro and actress Kasumi Arimura (31), who star in the Tsuki 9 drama “Umi no Hajimari”; Yosuke Sugino (28), who stars in the Tsuki 10 drama “Mountain Doctor”; Eiko Koike (43) and Taiga Nakano (31), who are the W stars in the Wed 10 drama “Shinjuku Field Hospital”; and the Thu 10 drama and Thu 15, including Matsuoka, starring in the theater “Geeks: Police Station Freaks”, and Ryosuke Yamada (31), starring in the Fri. 9 drama “Billion X School”. Of the 15, Matsuoka’s comments attracted a lot of attention as it was his first public appearance since announcing his marriage.
However, Matsuoka did not report his marriage. The host, Hiroya Yamazaki (48), congratulated him, saying, “Congratulations on your marriage! and the actors and spectators applauded. Matsuoka smiled and bailed, giving off an aura of happiness. ……
The 15 cast members in the group photo were originally in the spotlight because of their marriage, so they should have been in the center of the photo. However, his position was toward the front, near the edge, and his costume was plain. The photos distributed by Fuji did not seem to convey a “congratulatory mood” at all.
Normally, each station holds a press conference to announce the production of each drama, but since the COVID-19 crisis, TBS has made it a tradition to hold a joint press conference for dramas in the GP (golden and prime time slots, 7:00pm-11:00pm).
Fuji, which has five drama slots in the GP zone, was larger than TBS, but the situation was clearly different from that of TBS.
