Johnny Kitagawa
Sexy Zone was announced as a group in a press conference on September 29, 2011. Johnny &amp; Associates's CEO Johnny Kitagawa said, "The group name came from Michael Jackson's sexiness". The members were revealed to be Kento Nakajima, Fuma Kikuchi, Shori Sato, So Matsushima, and Marius Yo. Kitagawa chose the members considering the "sexiness of men".