At the end of 2022, the year will end with appearances on “The 73rd NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen (Kohaku)” (NHK General) and “Johnny’s Countdown 2022 → 2023 (Kakon)” (Fuji TV). Johnny’s members who decorated brilliantly. In particular, “Kaukon” will host Taichi Kokubun and Yoshihiko Inohara for the first time in three years, and KinKi Kids, who participated in “Kohaku” for the first time in six years, and all 14 groups and Johnny’s Jr. will gather. A shuffle medley with selected members from each group, a group change medley singing songs from other groups, and other valuable performances for this day only delighted many fans.
Furthermore, this year, a pleasant surprise was delivered on the day following the broadcast of “Kaukon”. These are the two photos that were suddenly uploaded on King & Prince’s official Twitter account on January 1st. This post with the hashtags “#Snostoppuri” and “#Snopuri” shows three groups, King & Prince, Snow Man, and SixTONES, who shared the dressing room of “Kaukon”. The impactful group photo of a total of 20 people who crossed the boundaries of the group aroused a great response. Originally, when King & Prince and SixTONES co-starred in a music program, they started posting off-shots as “#stoppers”. There have been several opportunities to post group shots of the two groups so far, but this time it seems that Snow Man has joined.
#snostoppri#sunopuri pic.twitter.com/0xULxpDKDl
— King & Prince (@kingandprince_j) January 1, 2023
Snow Man and King & Prince will be remembered for their collaboration performance at “Johnny’s Festival ~Thank you 2021 Hello 2022~” held at Tokyo Dome on December 30, 2021. Two sets of classic/unique idol songs, “Cinderella Girl” (King & Prince) and “I want to be your boyfriend” (Snow Man), performed in perfect harmony. The two dance numbers, King & Prince “Magic Touch” and Snow Man “Grandeur”, which were performed respectively in that flow, were worth seeing, clearly conveying the high level of skill and expressiveness of both. In this year’s “Kaukon” group change medley, Snow Man performed King & Prince’s romantic love song “koi-wazurai”. It embodied the idol-like charm of King & Prince with the Snow Man-likeness. If it comes true, I’m the only one who would like to see King & Prince challenge cool dance numbers such as “JUICY” and “Crazy FRESH Beat” from Snow Man’s repertoire. I wonder.
