On the 12th it was revealed that V6 will disband. It was announced on the official website of Johnny’s office. Members Go Morita (42) left the office, Masayuki Sakamoto (49) Hiroshi Nagano (48) Yoshihiko Inohara (44) Ken Miyake (41) Junichi Okada (40) remained in the office.

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It was a group of “adults”. Every time we interview, the V6 members agree. “In my private life, I don’t get involved with the members.” “I’m not good friends. It’s not bad.” Of course, some of them are pranks and lip services, but they don’t lie. They do not interfere with each other more than necessary. It is a group of 6 members.

There were frequent reports of dissolution, probably because there was no more entanglement than work. When reported on the dissolution theory in 2010, Ken Miyake (41) denied that “strange rumors often arise”. Even in the dissolution crisis report that came to light in 2017, Miyake simply denied that there was no such thing in Nikkan Sports coverage. A close person speculated that “due to the appropriate sense of distance, it may have continued for 25 years without any loss.”

Each is a group of 6 members who spent more than half of their lives together. Regarding the reason for the dissolution, the interested party explained: “It is not a ‘disagreement’ or a ‘difference of course’. It is probably the result of everyone in their 40s thinking about their future life again.” The disbandment itself can be a sad event for fans and related parties, but rather, V6’s 25 years can be filled with “ability to continue group activities without losing a person.”[Kei Yokoyama]