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KAT-TUN Idol Group to Disband
posted on by Egan Loo & Alex Mateo
KAT-TUN performed the opening theme song "Tragedy" for the second season of The File of Young Kindaichi Returns television anime, and Kamenashi previously played the titular character in a 2005 live-action special. The group inspired the Ai wa KAT-TUN (Love is KAT-TUN) mobile phone anime shorts in 2012.
Kamenashi has appeared in various live-action shows inspired by manga such as The Gokusen, Kindaichi Case Files, Kami no Shizuku, and Humanoid Monster Bem series.
The group debuted in March 2006 with six members, but Jin Akanishi left the band in 2010 and Koki Tanaka left in 2013. Junnosuke Taguchi left the band in March 2016.
The group went on hiatus starting in May 2016 to "recharge," and the individual members planned to focus on their solo careers during the hiatus. The group resumed activities in January 2018.
Starto Entertainment is the talent agency previously known as Johnny's and Associates. The former Johnny's and Associates agency publicly admitted for the first time in September 2023 that Johnny Kitagawa did sexually abuse a large number of aspiring pop star teenagers from the 1970s to 2010s.
Sources: Starto Entertainment, Oricon
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