Hideaki Takizawa Takes the Most Important Thing from Johnny’s to TOBE After the Collapse of the Dominant Force

Hideaki Takizawa’s Gaze

However,

Okura is in distress. Perhaps due to the burden of balancing being an idol and a producer, he developed hearing loss and went on a break. He joined the agency at age 12 and has lived as an idol for 25 years.

He grapples with the question “What is an idol?” on top of an experience-based approach to life. Struggling to reach the “intuition” that should lie at the end of that path, he endures pain that is both poignant and beautiful, and moving.

The world of BTS, with its latest technology and scientific approach, contrasts sharply with the experience-based and intuitive approach of Johnny’s. 

And that intuition is something built up by the lost legend in a single generation. Can such intuition be inherited? After the founder’s death, perhaps Johnny’s agency was destined to follow the path of decline.

But, however, If it is him. If it is that man to whom the now-deceased person entrusted everything in the end.

The chosen one, Hideaki Takizawa.

His mission is to achieve Johnny Kitagawa’s unfinished dream.

“I’m completely absorbed in turning Johnny-san’s ideas into reality. (Omitted) He is truly more than a parent to me. So, I feel a strong sense of needing to give something back. (Omitted) I wonder how much of my life I have poured into the talents. That’s why I sincerely want to emulate that as a man” (Weekly Shincho, October 4, 2018).

Having said that, the Johnny’s agency, where he was appointed vice president, no longer exists in this world. The name “Johnny” has vanished as something cursed.

Yet,

The group King & Prince, which Johnny Kitagawa last debuted, had three of its members taken on by President Takizawa’s TOBE and sent out into the world as Number_i. They performed an impressive show on the stage of Coachella in California, Johnny’s hometown, astonishing the world.

This is only the first step.

Johnny’s soul—taking on all its light and shadow, Hideaki Takizawa is now aiming for the world!!