<figure id="attachment_389960" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-389960" style="width: 1060px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="3436dc11"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/09/070971677dbf4b06de34ed3c66a94712.png" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-389960" class="wp-caption-text">Meguro&#8217;s statement caused a stir among fans</figcaption></figure>
<h2> I want to get married after all.&#8221;</h2>
<p> Ren Meguro (27) of &#8220;Snow Man&#8221; is one of the most popular young idols in STARTO ENTERTAINMENT (formerly Johnny&#8217;s).</p>
<p> He played the leading role in the July drama &#8220;Umi no Hajimari&#8221; (Fuji TV), the first drama in the traditional &#8220;Geki 9&#8221; slot, and has been called &#8220;Post Takuya Kimura&#8221;. Meguro&#8217;s comments have caused a stir among fans.</p>
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<p> It all started on the talk show &#8220;Bokura no Jidai&#8221; (Fuji TV) broadcast on September 15. In addition to Meguro, Ken Murase, the producer of the drama, and Yori Shimizu of back number, who sang the theme song &#8220;For New Lovers,&#8221; gathered for a three-person talk show.</p>
<p> When the topic of &#8220;marriage,&#8221; which is related to the theme of the drama, came up, Meguro revealed his true feelings, saying, &#8220;I am one person, and I want to get married.</p>
<p> Idols are jobs that require a &#8220;fan base,&#8221; and Meguro revealed his honest feelings, saying, &#8220;I don&#8217;t want the people who support me to feel happy only with me,&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to be a presence that fans would be sad if they didn&#8217;t have. I want to be a presence that people would wish they had,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Meguro, who has many fans, received a variety of opinions on the Internet. I think it&#8217;s an idol to give happiness to her fans.　Some people said, &#8216;Idols are supposed to sell dreams, but it&#8217;s okay to have an idol who is honest like this. It&#8217;s not surprising because it&#8217;s been obvious for a long time that Meguro has a strong desire to get married and that she draws a line between herself and her fans.</span></p>
<p> Meguro&#8217;s comments were picked up by the Internet news, and fans who support other idols also posted their personal opinions on SNS. The top idol&#8217;s views on marriage attracted a lot of attention.</p>
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<h2>Explaining on Instagram</h2>
<p> Meguro then updated his personal Instagram Stories on the 18th. The first one was &#8220;To my fans,&#8221; and then he explained, &#8220;I&#8217;m not sad if you don&#8217;t have it, but I wish I had it, and I wish I could have it.</p>
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<p> I&#8217;m sorry.&#8221; Netizens responded, &#8220;Meguro has a poor choice of words,</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Meguro is not very good at choosing his words, isn&#8217;t he?</span></p>
<p> Meguro&#8217;s choice of words is terrible.</p>
<p> Meguro&#8217;s excuse reminded some people of his blog after joining Snow Man, which originally consisted of six members.</p>
<p> In February of the same year, a poster for &#8220;Takizawa Kabuki Zero,&#8221; a play in which all members except Raoul performed, was posted at Umeda Station in Osaka, and it was discovered that Meguro and Mukai&#8217;s faces were marked with a cross.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The posters were found to have Meguro and Mukai&#8217;s faces marked with a cross. On the 5th of the same month, Meguro mentioned in his blog that he was in charge of at the time, &#8220;Don&#8217;t bully us lol,&#8221; &#8220;spoiled kittens,&#8221; and &#8220;Don&#8217;t sharpen your nails there! LOL!&#8221; and so on. He must have a personality that makes him want to say something back.</span></p>
<p> It could be said that a person with a high sense of pride and a strong competitive spirit is suited for a TV personality, but idols are in the business of popularity. Although Meguro himself called out to &#8220;my fans&#8221; in his Stories, it seems that this time he made people other than Snow Man fans feel uncomfortable.</p>
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 Kazuhiko Nakamura

 Ren Meguro of Snow Man is one of the most popular members of STARTO. One comment he made on a TV show has drawn the ire of his fans. A reporter for this magazine explains the sequence of events.

Meguro Ren apologizes on SNS for a series of comments that are not typical of “idols”: “I want to get married after all.

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