Johnny’s announces Kis-My-Ft2 will make their CD debut this May

Kis-My-Ft2 will make their CD debut this May, it was revealed at their concert in Tokyo on February 12, reports Oricon.

The group has been signed to record company Avex, and embark on a national concert tour this summer which will also include performances of their upcoming debut single.

It has been reported their debut was kept a secret even to the members themselves until they received a letter during today’s concert.  While the group were telling fans about their upcoming summer concert tour, a Johnny’s Jr. member handed over an envelope to them.  Reading it, the group found out for the first time about their official debut and broke out in surprise and tears.

Kis-My-Ft2 is made up of Hiromitsu Kitayama (KI), Kento Senga (S), Toshiya Miyata (M), Wataru Yokoo (Y), Taisuke Fujigaya (F), Yuta Tamamori (T), and Takashi Nikaido (NI=2).  Despite not having released any singles, the group already have a large number of followers, and had attracted close to 140,000 fans to their spring concert tour in 2010.

Since December 28 to today the group have been on tour.  Group members Fujigaya and Kitayama are currently starring in TV drama “美咲ナンバーワン!! (Misaki Number One!!)”, and will also take part in the Pattaya International Music Festival in Thailand on March 18, while the other five members will be starring in Hideaki Takizawa’s upcoming stage show “滝沢歌舞伎 (Takizawa Kabuki)”.

Karina gives Yamapi 15 kilo chocolate present

Yusuke Iseya with Karina's chocolate present (photo thanks to Walker plus)

Tomohisa Yamashita (25) and the cast of his movie “Ashita no Joe”celebrated the opening of their film in Tokyo yesterday, reports Daily Sports and Walker plus.

 

The cast had met fans who had gathered in TOHO cinemas, Roppongi, on February 11.  As snow engulfed most of the country yesterday, Yamashita started by thanking people for braving the chilly weather to come and see their movie.

 

With Valentine’s Day on the way and knowing her co-stars Yamashita and Yusuke Iseya had lost a significant amount of weight for the movie, actress Karina delighted them with a 15-kilogram chocolate in the shape of a boxing champion belt.

“I hope that the movie will be a champion too,” she said.

 

Yamashita had looked back on his hard training and said at times he felt uneasy with playing a character in a much-anticipated film.

“(Joe’s) really famous, and I felt a lot of pressure playing a character who had so many fans.  But as a man I admired the way Joe would stand up again and again and how he faced his challenges up front.  Joe taught me how to face my own challenges.  I was moved by him, and I was happy to have taken on this challenge.”