Well like usual it looks like Johnny's made sure to have everything ready when they made their announcements yesterday as there is a special website just for Jin's solo U.S. tour, which is being treated as an extension of his You & Jin concerts as it's being called You & Jin U.S.A. and is still listed as being produced by Johnny H. Kitagawa.
Jin's tour website (English)
So far the website only has the information for when & where the L.A. concerts will take place and the date the tickets for it will go on sale, April 15th. The venue listed, Club Nokia, only holds 2,000 people so I would recommend to anyone trying to go to make sure to be ready for the mad grab it's bound to be when the tickets go on sale that day as I have the feeling that this is going to sell out quick even with three shows scheduled.
Of course the thing I'm most amazed at is that they actually have a picture of Jin on the website that doesn't look like it's had some weird filter put on it. It is black and white but still much clearer than any of the other pictures of Johnny's you will usually find on official websites. I guess it might be a sign that Johnny's realizes that they have to approach the U.S. market differently and need to lax some policies as most are actually not going to know who their talents are here.
On another note Johnny's net has the information up for KAT-TUN's spring-summer tour. It's broken up into two legs, the first being called Part 1: Arena Tour, which of course has them performing at various arenas around Japan. This part begins in early May and ends near the end of June. The second part is Part 2: World Big Tour, which has the overseas venues as well as the dome concerts in Japan in Tokyo and Osaka. Under each part it lists the five that will be participating in the tours, but for the Part 2 Kis-My-Ft2 is also listed so it can be assumed that they will also be heading overseas with KT-TUN.
What's also interesting is that there are two empty brackets at the end of this. In the article yesterday it was mentioned that they were thinking of doing a concert in Hawaii, which would at least make calling this tour leg a 'world tour' a bit more valid as it's just an Asian tour as things stand now. So it will be interesting to see if those brackets fill with new stops or just disappear as the tour dates get closer.
Wonder what happens with Playzone then...
ReplyDeleteIt might just get skipped this year or retired. It was mainly for Shounentai so last year it was a surprise that they decided to continue it after the group decided to stop doing it.
ReplyDeleteBut I guess another thing they could do is pass it on to other Juniors, like maybe Uchi as he was in last year's or something.
But if they don't make an announcement for it in about a month I'd say they're just not doing it this year at least.