Kanjani8 members visit Hiroshima town for crime prevention class

Kanjani8 members Shingo Murakami and Tadayoshi Okura helped out a how-to-stay-safe class for families on July 15, reports Sankei News.

 

It has been reported Hiroshima police department had invited the two to teach local children about how to stay safe during their summer holidays while also promoting their upcoming film “Eight Ranger”.  After 2000 fans and families gathered to the event in Fuchu town, they cheered on Murakami and Okura, who came out in their Eight Ranger costumes.

 

The two picked out give lucky schoolchildren from the crowd, and they played a series of quizzes designed to teach children things like shouting out when they felt threatened, or not to follow strangers.  It has been reported the two Johnny’s talents asked all of the parents in the crowd to look after their children over the holidays, and to go see their Eight Ranger movie together.

 

It has been reported the event had been organized by film company Toho, local shopping centre Aeon Mall, and local police.

Tadayoshi Okura goes nude for anan magazine

Kanjani8’s Tadayoshi Okura is the latest Johnny’s talent to go nude for magazine anan, which goes on sale on August 31, reports Sports Hochi.

 

The magazine runs a sex feature every year, and past male models have included actor Osamu Mukai and Johnny’s talent Toma Ikuta.  It has been reported Okura said he felt nervous going into the shoot.

“I mean, really?  Me?  I honestly thought they were joking,” he said.

 

The eight-page spread includes nine shots of the Johnny’s talent.

 

It has been reported Okura had spent a month building up his body for the shoot with the help of a personal trainer.

Kanjani8’s Murakami and Okura attend anime movie event

Cast of Crayon Shinchan at today's event (photo thanks to Nikkan Sports)

Crayon Shinchan couldn’t help but be happy when a large number of women showed up to the anime’s movie’s opening event in Tokyo on April 16 where Kanjani8 members Shingo Murakami and Tadayoshi Okura also appeared, reports Oricon and Eiga.com.

The two Johnny’s talents made their voice acting debuts in the latest Crayon Shinchan movie “クレヨンしんちゃん 嵐を呼ぶ黄金のスパイ大作戦 (Crayon Shinchan Arashi wo Yobu Ougon no Spy Dai-sakusen)” playing a bad guy duo.

“I was so thrilled to be Shinchan’s co-star, I’ve been watching him for years,” said Okura.

“I want to become a Johnny’s spy and find out the truth about a lot of things,” said Murakami with a sneaky grin.

The movie follows Shinchan as he becomes a spy and goes on dangerous missions and adventures with Lemon, a mysterious girl spy.

It has been reported Murakami and Okura used their Osaka dialects to their best in the movie, although getting what the director had wanted was more difficult than said.

“I was nervous about watching myself in a movie with Shinchan.  But this has been something really special to me,” Murakami said.

“(Voice acting) was really hard, and it took hours of practice to get it right.  To be honest, I’m still not sure how to do a few things,” said Okura before Shinchan made the crowd laugh by responding to Okura’s comments with, “both of you did sort of good”.

With Johnny’s talents being involved with this movie, it has been reported today’s crowd was made up of an unusually large number of women.

“There are so many girls who are in the crowd as well as families.  I’ve been working on Shinchan for 20 years so I know how much Shinchan likes pretty girls.  I guess it’s his lucky day,” said Crayon Shinchan’s voice actor Akiko Yajima.

Kanjani8’s song, “Yellow Pansy Street” has already been announced as the movie’s theme song.

* Photo source here.