Even those involved were surprised at the “behind the scenes” of “Arashi’s” last concert.

The number of tickets sold is 700,000.

The “Arashi” concert tour is set to begin on March 13. Since it will be the last time that Masaki Aiba (43), Satoshi Ono (45), Sho Sakurai (44), Kazunari Ninomiya (42), and Jun Matsumoto (42) will be together, the battle for tickets among fans has been fierce.

Currently, there are more than 3 million members of the Arashi fan club. The number of tickets sold is said to be 700,000, and the competition is about five times higher than the number of tickets sold. Fans who were lucky enough to win tickets are probably rejoicing.

When the first round of winners was announced on January 13, fans’ joys and sorrows flooded SNS. A female fan in her 60s, who has been supporting Arashi since her junior days, told this website, “When I applied for the tickets, I was told that the location and the time would be different,

When I applied for the ticket, I didn’t write down my choice of place, date, and time, but just said that I would go anywhere. As I expected, I won a ticket for the Sapporo Dome, where the competition was the lowest. As soon as I was notified that I had won, I tried to arrange for airfare and hotel accommodations, but the price had more than doubled. That alone cost more than 100,000 yen, but it was a small price to pay for the chance to see Arashi.

He said of his joy at winning the ticket.

Starting with Sapporo Dome on March 13, the tour will travel to Tokyo, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Osaka, culminating in the final performance at Tokyo Dome on May 31.

I thought it would be an alibi and that would be the end of it.

Still, one person involved in the music industry was surprised that the group would go on such a large-scale last tour.

In the old days of Johnny’s, the office would have held the concert venues, such as domes, years in advance, regardless of which group would use them, so it would have been relatively smooth. But now that each group is under an agent’s contract, it has become more difficult to coordinate the schedule. That is why I was honestly surprised to see Arashi do such a large-scale tour,” said a source from the record company.

Arashi suspended the group’s activities at the end of ’20. It took about two years from the establishment of “Arashi” in April 2012 until the dome tour, but it seems that administrative arrangements had to be made.

When we announced last May that we would be doing our last tour next spring, we had not yet revealed the details of the tour. I thought that even though Arashi would be taking a break from their activities, they would still perform two days at the Tokyo Dome or the National Stadium as an alibi for those who had continued to pay their fan club dues, and that would be the end of the tour. But when I opened the door, it was a five-dome tour from Sapporo to Fukuoka. I was really surprised that they were going to do it on this scale.

Arashi’s last tour was so large-scale that even those involved were surprised. What was evident was their concern for their fans.

The reason for this is that they want to show their last performance to the fans who have supported Arashi for a long time. In fact, although they received offers to perform at NHK’s Kohaku Uta Gassen and other major music programs at the end of last year, they did not perform at any of them, probably because they wanted to show their performance only to the fans who have always supported them.

The last tour alone is said to have brought in 30 billion yen or 50 billion yen in revenue for Arashi. What will the final stage of this truly out-of-the-box national idol be like?

On the “Entertainment Reporter Channel” of FRIDAY Digital on YouTube, entertainment reporters are discussing the live concert of Arashi starting on March 13 under the title “Behind the Scenes of Arashi’s ‘Last Concert’ (Entertainment Reporter’s In-depth Commentary #12)” based on their interviews with Arashi. The reporters discussed the Arashi concert that will start on March 13 based on their interviews. The article also details the excitement within the group and how the media handled the event.