<figure id="attachment_447683" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-447683" style="width: 5472px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="12b6d492"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2025/11/dceeb54795a5f6c551b53fb0ee50d867.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-447683" class="wp-caption-text">Number_i&#8221; is a popular unit of the entertainment agency TOBE. Many fans came to the TOBE joint concert to see them.</figcaption></figure>
<h3> Is the popularity of &#8220;Number_i&#8221; having the opposite effect?</h3>
<p> TOBE, an entertainment agency headed by Hideaki Takizawa (44) and featuring Ken Miyake (46), Hiromitsu Kitayama (40), and &#8220;Number_i,&#8221; will hold &#8220;to HEROes ~TOBE 3rd Super Live~&#8221; concerts in Aichi Prefecture and Hokkaido from April to May, Some are concerned about whether the venues will be filled.</p>
<p> TOBE started in March 2011. Since then, Miyake, Kitayama, former &#8220;King &amp; Prince&#8221; members Shiyou Hirano (29), Yuta Kishi (30), and Yuta Jinguji (28), and former junior members have joined the group one after another. The elite group held its first joint concert &#8220;to HEROes ~TOBE 1st Super Live~&#8221; at Tokyo Dome from March 14 to 17, 2012, and for the second time last year, the group performed at Kyocera Dome Osaka (April 6 and 7) in addition to Tokyo Dome (March 6 and 7). This year&#8217;s event will be held on April 20~20, 2012.</p>
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<p> This year, the event will be held at the Bantelindome Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture from April 20 to 22, and at the Daiwa House Premist Dome (Sapporo Dome) in Hokkaido Prefecture from May 16 to 17. The schedule was a surprise to TOBE fans when it was announced.</p>
<p> In early March, after the announcement of the ticket prices for each fan club member, there were a series of puzzled comments on SNS, such as &#8220;All my friends who had said &#8216;let&#8217;s go together&#8217; were successful&#8221; and &#8220;I was troubled by the duplicate winners; I wonder if many people do not go to TOBE&#8217;s joint concerts.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> The three days in Aichi are weekdays (Monday through Wednesday) starting at 6:00 p.m., which must be a tough schedule for fans who are traveling to the area. It seems that many fans made the decision to &#8220;flush&#8221; (waive the right to win) without paying for the tickets because they had won multiple tickets to the same show with their friends.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> In addition, for this performance, admission is based on &#8220;face recognition,&#8221; in which visitors&#8217; face photos are registered in advance, and if there is a companion, not only the representative (ticket applicant) but also the companion must register their face photo within the designated period&#8221; (entertainment writer).</span></p>
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<h3>Is it because of the &#8220;Number_i&#8221; fanmeet?</h3>
<p> In the midst of all this, TOBE announced &#8220;TOBE ID Member Ticket Acceptance&#8221; on SNS on March 16. It announced that those who registered for the free &#8220;TOBE ID&#8221; would have a chance to apply for tickets prior to the general sale (the application period is from March 17 to 22). In addition, some members who were not selected in the first fan club application had received a &#8220;resurrection&#8221; notice around the middle of the same period.</p>
<p> According to TOBE&#8217;s official website, Lawson Ticket, a ticket sales service, is handling both the Aichi and Hokkaido performances, while Ticket Pia, e+, CN Ticket Pia, e+ (e+), CN Playguide, and ticket board seem to cover only the Hokkaido show.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Ticket Pia, e+, e-plus, CN Playguide, and ticket board seem to cover only the Hokkaido performance. Tickets for the Aichi event were on sale at Lawson Ticket, but the application period for both events ended at 10:00 p.m. on March 24.</span></p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Among the shows, the one that is drawing anxious crowds is the Hokkaido show, where fans are talking about a huge advertisement for &#8220;to HEROes&#8221; that has appeared in the underground shopping mall at Odori Station in Sapporo since around the 23rd, as if TOBE is also making an effort to promote the event. There was also an ad in the Hokkaido Shimbun dated the 20th of the same month announcing the show, with information on advance and general ticket sales at CN Playguide&#8221;.</span></p>
<p> This was the third &#8220;to HEROes&#8221; show and the first time that opportunities such as &#8220;TOBE ID member ticket acceptance&#8221; were made available after ticket applications at each fan club had been closed. From fans on the Internet,</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> I guess there must have been a lot of overlap and overflow in terms of dates and venues for &#8220;to HEROes&#8221;. I hope the seats fill up.</span><br>
<span class="strongInContent"> For once, people who are a little interested in TOBE are going to get in with general tickets. It would be sad to see the show rattled, so I think that&#8217;s a good thing.</span><br>
<span class="strongInContent"> I&#8217;m going to the Aichi show, but I&#8217;m going to buy general tickets for the shows on the days I didn&#8217;t win. I don&#8217;t want to see a rattled Dome.</span><br>
<span class="strongInContent"> I&#8217;m glad that tickets for this year&#8217;s &#8220;to HEROes&#8221; will be sold to the general public, and I hope that the charm of TOBE artists will be conveyed to the world.</span></p>
<p> I hope that more people will come to the venue.</p>
<p> Meanwhile, Number_i has the largest number of fans among the performers. They have announced that they will hold their first fan meeting this summer at &#8230;&#8230;.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Some Number_i fans have even held off on signing up for the &#8220;to HEROes&#8221; event because they want to make the most of the fan meeting that is coming up. (A writer mentioned above).</span></p>
<p> Against this backdrop, TOBE posted a &#8220;Notice Regarding Fan Club Tickets&#8221; on its official website on March 13. Regarding the influence of whether or not the &#8220;to HEROes&#8221; application and the lottery results &#8220;on the future lottery for each artist&#8217;s performance,&#8221; TOBE posted the following statement on its official website on March 13: &#8220;Lotteries are held for each performance. The lottery is conducted on a per-performance basis, and the results of the lottery for a particular performance will not affect the next and subsequent lotteries,&#8221; he explained.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Although he did not explicitly mention Number_i&#8217;s fan meeting, the message may have been that he wanted their fans to feel secure in applying for tickets to &#8220;to HEROes&#8221; at &#8230;&#8230; for future openings.</span></p>
<p> As mentioned above, tickets for &#8220;to HEROes&#8221; went on sale to the general public on March 28, but both Aichi and Hokkaido tickets were not &#8220;sold out immediately&#8221; and were still available for purchase as of 1:00 p.m. on March 30. Will the Aichi and Hokkaido performances of &#8220;to HEROes&#8221; really avoid becoming an &#8220;empty seat festival&#8221;?</p>


 The entertainment agency TOBE, headed by Hideaki Takizawa and featuring many popular artists, may not be able to sell enough tickets for a concert featuring the majority of its artists.

Popularity of “Number_i” having the opposite effect? Worries that “TOBE Joint Con” will not be able to fill the venue.

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