TV TOKYO ban,” a separate fan club, and the departure of a popular TV personality… STARTO’s “causes for concern.

As you can see from the stage set, their concerts are extremely expensive to produce. Each concert is almost always in the red, at best. We make up for that by selling merchandise. The overall revenue is not that much.

Another source of concern is the lack of new talent.

I don’t see any new talent being developed,” he said. It is fine as long as the existing groups are active, but all idols will stall at some point. We have to discover and nurture new talent more and more. Acting agencies may not have to worry so much about this, but agencies with many idols will taper off if they don’t do so.

However, this is not to say that “STARTO” does not discover and nurture new talent at all.

Some of them left the company following “Bishonen’s” Kanazashi.

At the concert, there were boys around 8 or 9 years old dancing in the background of the older members. There were quite a few of them. The audition program of “timelesz” was talked about the other day, and it seems that they are holding regular auditions as well. The new company clearly separates management and operation, and the operation is being led by Mr. Yoshihiko Inohara, who has been appointed CMO of the company. He is also in charge of training new employees, but I think it takes time to bring them up from the ranks of amateurs.

(A reporter for a sports paper mentioned above) Perhaps as a “stopgap measure,” a “reorganization of the old Johnny’s Jr.

On October 11, it was announced that “Bishonen” Issei Kanazashi would leave STARTO on November 1. However, it seems that there are other members who will also be leaving the company. In fact, I heard that there is a member who is not in the picture of the group that will appear in an idol magazine to be released this month. It is a very popular member of the group and it is ……” (a reporter for a women’s magazine).

We sent a letter of inquiry to “STARTO” regarding the impact of the fan club becoming a separate company on the management of the company, as well as the departure and reorganization of the junior members, but we did not receive an answer by the deadline.

The independence of a popular talent is a major blow to the agency. The “spell” of Johnny’s seemed to have been lifted, but the future of the new company seems to be more difficult than expected.