Bishounen

**Bishounen** (美少年), formerly **Tokyo B Shounen** (東京B少年) and **Sexy Bishounen** (Sexy美少年), is a 6 member Johnny's Jr. unit which started in December 2016.

On 14 March 2018 Bishounen was chosen to be on the Johnny’s Jr YouTube channel alongside with Snowman, Travis Japan, SixTONES and HiHi Jets.

 Members

 Kanasashi Issei | Purple

## Background

Fujii Naoki, Sato Ryuga and Nasu Yuto first performed together on The Shounen Club on October 12 2016, as main dancers of the junior Dance Medley with members of Tensai Genius.

As Classmate J disbanded Fujii Naoki and Iwasaki Taisho was moved into Tokyo B Shounen. With HiHi Jet also reforming as Ukisho Hidaka was moved into the unit as well.

Formed in November 2016. The unit was announced on November 23 at the Johnny's Jr. Information Bureau movie. The group name at the time of formation was Tokyo B Shounen.

The group made their first official appearance on Shounen Club on December 21st - Christmas Episode.

On 16th January 2017, Inoue Mizuki made a formal announcement during JOHNNY'S ALL-STARS ISLAND, that members of HiHi Jet and Tokyo B Shounen would band together to become Universal Boys. Although there is was some uncertainty about the joint unit, both groups performed together on Shounen Club (Most notably トーク, BE COOL).

On January 12th 2018, Tokyo B Shounen performed their first original song 'Cosmic Melody' on the Shounen Club, with all six members given a solo.

    On June 5th, Tokyo B Shounen  alongside HiHi Jets performed みなみなサマー on June 5th which was the theme song for the Minami Summer" ("TV Asahi Roppongi Hills Summer Festival SUMMER STATION)
From June 9th, Tokyo B Shounen and HiHi Jets were the next generations to bring back original Johnny's Jr. variety show 'Hadaka no Shounen (裸の少年)'. The show previously aired from 2001-2003 and then 2004-2009 starring previous juniors before they had their official debut. The new generation of Hadaka no Shounen is now referred to as Second Stage or Phase 2 and airs every Saturday from 10:30 AM – 11:10 AM JST.

On March 1st, they were one of 11 units regularly participating in Johnny's Jr. official entertainment website 'ISLAND TV.'

On June 12th, it was announced that Taisho Iwasaki and Sato Ryuga would be starring in a new drama Koi no Yamai to Yarougumi with other juniors from HiHi Jets, 7 MEN samurai, Shounen Ninja and Aぇ！group.

On July 4th, the unit starred in an infomercial promoting the movie Toy Story 4 alongside HiHi Jets.

On July 6th 2019, it was announced that all five members would be performing in 2019's DREAM BOYS alongside HiHi Jets and & members of 7 MEN samurai.

## Performances

**Shounen Club Performances**:

 Work

###  Stage

* JOHNNY'S ALL-STARS ISLAND (2016 December - January 2017, Imperial Theatre)

* Johnny's Jr. Festival (March 24 - 26, 2017 Yokohama Arena / 8 April - 9 April, Saitama Super Arena)

* Johnny's Ginza 2017 (29 April - 5 May 2017) - joint show with HiHi Jet

* Samaste ~ you guys ~ KING'S TRASURE (July 20 - 26, 2017 [ joint performance with Mr. KING · HiHi Jet] · August 22 - 27 [ joint performance with Mr. KING · Prince · HiHi Jet] EX Theater Roppongi )
* JOHNNYS 'YOU & ME IsLAND (September 6 - 30 September, Imperial Theater)
* JOHNNYS 'YOU & ME IsLAND (September 6 - 30 September, Imperial Theater)
* Odaiba Landing Saturdays and Sundays playground (November 25th, 26th, December 23rd and 24th, 2017,

###  Music program

* The Shounen Club (December 2016 - present, NHK BS Premium )

## Trivia

* Fujii Naoki and Iwasaki Taisho were both members of Classmate J and Ukisho Hidaka was a member of HiHi Jets.

* Nasu Yuto and Sato Ryuga are both fresh juniors