Tsurubo Shion

## Tsurubo Shion鶴房(つるぼう) 汐恩(しおん)

Tsurubo Shion promoting "Your Key"

**Tsurubo Shion** (鶴房汐恩) is a Japanese idol as a member of JO1, the group formed in PRODUCE 101 JAPAN. He made it in the final lineup after placing 5th in the finals.

His JOCHUM character is CHULALA.

## Biography

### Early Life

Tsurubo Shion was born on December 11, 2000 in Shiga, Japan.

### 2015

In 2015, Tsurubo participated in the Junon Superboy Contest held by the magazine JUNON to become a male model, however he did not pass.

Afterwards, he dropped out of high school and went to South Korea to become a trainee under FNC Entertainment, a Korean entertainment agency. When he did not pass the debut evaluation, he went back to Japan and auditioned for PRODUCE 101 JAPAN.

### 2019

On September 3, Tsurubo was revealed to be a contestant of PRODUCE 101 JAPAN.

On December 11, he placed 5th in the finals, making him a member of JO1.

## PRODUCE 101 JAPAN Participation

### Teams

* **Audition Team:** SION
* **Position Battle Team:** GPS (center/main dancer)
* **Group Battle Team:** FIRE (rapper 1)
* **Concept Battle Team:** DoReMiFaSolLaSiDomino (rapper 1)
* **Debut Evaluation Team:** YOUNG (rapper 1)

### Rankings

Online votes
* **Week 1:** 7th place
* **Week 2:** 5th place (+2)
* **Week 3:** 5th place (=)
* **First Ranking Announcement:** 5th place (=)
* **Week 6:** 3rd place (+2)
* **Second Ranking Announcement:** 3rd place (=)
* **Week 9:** 3rd place (=)
* **Third Ranking Announcement:** 3rd place (=)
* **Final Ranking Announcement:** 5th place (-2)

On-site votes
* **Position Battle:** 2nd place in team, 57th place overall
* **Group Battle:** 2nd place in team, 17th place overall
* **Concept Battle:** 1st place in team, 9th place overall

## Personal Life

* Family
* Nicknames

Tsurubo has one younger sister.

The following list are nicknames that have been used to refer to Tsurubo Shion:

* **Bonbon** (ぼんぼん): Most common nickname used by fellow trainees and fans alike.

## Trivia

* His hobbies are to sing, to dance, to play video games, and to listen to music.
* His special skills are dancing and singing.
* His pledge for debuting in the top 11 was reading a self-composed letter he wrote for the national producers. He read out the letter during JO1's first fan meeting.
* His favorite colors are red and green.
* His favorite food is potato salad.
* The things he dislikes the most are spirits and demons.
* He thinks the most attractive feature of himself is his nature.
* He thinks the most attractive feature of someone is their legs.
* He knows basic Korean from his time as an FNC trainee.
* He is one out of two PRODUCE 101 JAPAN trainees in the series to be from Shiga, both being in season 1.
* He is the first member in the series to have debuted on their birthday. The second one is Yamamoto Suzu from ME:I.
* He originally wanted his member color to be wine red.
* His emoji is based on his alien suit that he wore in his 1 minute PR video.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "PRODUCE 101 JAPAN Profile" PRODUCE 101 JAPAN. 2019-09-03.
2. ↑ "JO1｜【公約実践 #1】鶴房汐恩「JAMの皆さんへ向けて手紙を読む」". YouTube. 2020-02-20.
3. ↑ "JO1｜『メンバーカラー決め会議』でメンバーカラーが決定しました！". YouTube. 2020-03-26.

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