| Nizi Project | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Reality competition |
| Created by | Park Jin-young |
| Theme music composer | Park Jin-young |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original languages | Japanese Korean (spoken) |
| Production | |
| Production locations | |
| Running time | 50–55 minutes |
| Production companies | |
| Original release | |
| Network | |
| Release | July 21, 2023 – |
| Related | |
| Nizi Project | |
Nizi Project Season 2 (lit. "Rainbow Project Season 2") is a 2023 Japanese reality competition show, and is the second season of Nizi Project series, which formed girl group NiziU. The series is a joint project between JYP Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan with the intention of creating a global Japanese boy group. Nizi Project is centered on JYP Entertainment founder Park Jin-young selecting members for the boy group out of 20 boys.
Background
On July 12, 2021, Park held a press conference announcing that Nizi Project will have a second season to create a 9-member Japanese boy band set for debut in March 2023.[1] Applications for boys from 14 to 22 years old are open from July 2021 to October 2021.[1] Auditions will take place from November to December 2021 in eight cities in Japan, as well as New York and Los Angeles in the United States, and Seoul in South Korea.[1] The contestants will be evaluated in five categories: vocal, dance, rap, modeling, and composing/lyricism.[1] The members for the group will be finalized and announced in December 2022.[1]
Contestants
| Division | Contestant | Age | Birthplace | Background |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tokyo | Eiji Ito (伊藤 瑛史) | Aichi | ||
| Ken So (蘇 建) | Tokyo | |||
| Kohei Nagatsuka (永塚 康平) | Shizuoka | |||
| Miraku Hoshizawa (星沢 弥樂) | Tokyo | |||
| Kobe | Yu Tomiyasu (富安 悠) | Fukuoka | ||
| Reito Kitagawa (北川 玲叶) | Fukuoka | |||
| Sean Matsubara (柗原 翔音) | Hyogo | |||
| Yuki Nishiyama (西山 裕貴) | Hyogo | |||
| Naoya Kida (紀田 直哉) | Kobe | |||
| Shokei Wataru (渡 祥恵) | Osaka | |||
| Hiroshima | Takao Yamaguchi (山口 恭生) | Fukuoka | ||
| Takato Otsuka (大塚 天翔) | Fukuoka | |||
| Okinawa | Riki Irei (伊礼 吏輝) | Okinawa | ||
| Sapporo | Rio Takahashi (高橋 理央) | Hokkaido | ||
| Seoul | Tomoya Uemura (植村 朋哉) | Fukuoka | JYP Entertainment trainee; trained for 2 years and 7 months | |
| Taichi Inagaki (稲垣 太地) | Kanagawa | JYP Entertainment trainee | ||
| Sodai Miura (三浦 颯大) | Miyazaki | JYP Entertainment trainee; trained for 1 year and 1 month | ||
| Haru Inoue (井上 陽) | Osaka | JYP Entertainment trainee; trained for 6 months | ||
| Takuto Matsuda (松田拓翔) | Osaka | JYP Entertainment trainee | ||
| Seita Kawashima (河嶋 星太) | Saitama | JYP Entertainment trainee; trained for 7 months | ||
| Taiga Fujimaki (藤牧 大雅) | Tokyo | JYP Entertainment trainee | ||
| Yuhi Komori (小森 優陽) | Wakayama | JYP Entertainment trainee; trained for 3 years | ||
| Yuito Enomoto (榎本 唯人) | Aichi | |||
Rankings
Summary
- Color key
| Cube was awarded | |
| Cube was awarded as a runner-up | |
| Cube was awarded later in the end of Part 1 | |
| Ranked last; at risk of elimination | |
| Eliminated or withdrawn | |
| Region | Contestant | Part 1 | Part 2 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dance (eps. 4-5) [2] |
Vocals (eps. 5-6) [3] |
X factor (eps. 7-8) [4] |
Personality (eps. 9-10) [5] |
Part 1 Ranking | Growth (eps. 11-13) [6] |
Teamwork (eps. 14-15) [7] |
Image (eps. 17-18) [8] |
Finals (eps. 19-20) | ||
| Seoul | Tomoya Uemura | 6 | 2 | Won | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | |
| Kobe | Yuki Nishiyama | 12 | 3 | Won | Won | 2 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| Seoul | Haru Inoue | 4 | 5 | Won | Won | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | |
| Tokyo | Eiji Ito | 1 | 9 | Won | Won | 4 | 7 | 8 | 7 | |
| Tokyo | Miraku Hoshizawa | 5 | 10 | Won | 1 | 5 | 12 | 10 | 9 | |
| Seoul | Yuhi Komori | 7 | 7 | Won | Won | 6 | 4 | 3 | 3 | |
| Kobe | Yu Tomiyasu | 10 | 11 | Won | Won | 8 | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
| Seoul | Seita Kawashima | 17 | 6 | Won | Won | 11 | 9 | 6 | 4 | |
| Tokyo | Ken So | 18 | 17 | Won | Won | 12 | 3 | 5 | 6 | |
| Seoul | Taiga Fujimaki | 13 | 14 | Won | Won | 7 | 11 | 11 | Eliminated | |
| Kobe | Sean Matsubara | 3 | 16 | 1 | Won | 9 | 8 | 12 | Eliminated | |
| Seoul | Sodai Miura | 9 | 1 | Won | Won | 10 | 10 | 9 | Eliminated | |
| Sapporo | Rio Takahashi | 14 | 4 | — | — | Eliminated | ||||
| Kobe | Shokei Wataru | 8 | 8 | — | — | Eliminated | ||||
| Hiroshima | Takato Otsuka | 20 | 20 | Won | — | Eliminated | ||||
| Seoul | Taichi Inagaki | 15 | 12 | Won | — | Eliminated | ||||
| Tokyo | Taichi Takahashi | 11 | 15 | Won | — | Eliminated | ||||
| Hiroshima | Takao Yamaguchi | 19 | 18 | — | — | Eliminated | ||||
| Yuito Enomoto | 16 | 19 | Won | — | Eliminated | |||||
| Tokyo | Kohei Nagatsuka | 2 | 13 | — | — | Eliminated | ||||
| Kobe | Reito Kitagawa | Eliminated | ||||||||
| Kobe | Naoya Kida | Eliminated | ||||||||
| Okinawa | Riki Irei | Eliminated | ||||||||
| Seoul | Takuto Matsuda | Eliminated | ||||||||
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 "NiziU弟分発掘へ『Nizi Project』シーズン2始動 J.Y. Park&NiziUが韓国から中継で会見". Oricon (in Japanese). July 13, 2021. Retrieved August 4, 2021.
- ↑ "『Nizi Project』デビューまでの道のり【Part 1前編】 地域予選～東京合宿を一気に振り返る". Oricon (in Japanese). June 18, 2020. Archived from the original on April 25, 2021. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
- ↑ "#5-2 天使の歌声にメロメロ 「14歳だなんて信じられません」". Oricon (in Japanese). June 18, 2020. Archived from the original on April 25, 2021. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
- ↑ "#7 少し変わったテニス講座 「その人をもっと好きになったら成功」". Oricon (in Japanese). June 18, 2020. Archived from the original on April 25, 2021. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
- ↑ "#9 起死回生の"大逆転" 「来てください」に待機室も涙". Oricon (in Japanese). June 18, 2020. Archived from the original on April 25, 2021. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
- ↑ Toma, Toriko (May 11, 2020). "『Nizi Project』Part 2第3話、「個人レベルテスト」1位はミイヒ "訴えかける力"が評価に". Real Sound (in Japanese). Archived from the original on April 26, 2021. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
- ↑ Toma, Toriko (May 25, 2020). "『Nizi Project』Part 2第5話、チームミッション最終ランキング発表 マヤが初の1位に". Real Sound (in Japanese). Archived from the original on April 26, 2021. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
- ↑ Toma, Toriko (June 15, 2020). "『Nizi Project』Part 2第8話、モモカが脱落 残る12名はデビューメンバー選抜のファイナルステージへ". Real Sound (in Japanese). Archived from the original on April 26, 2021. Retrieved April 25, 2021.
External links
- Official website (in Japanese)
- 実況！ニジプロ2 (Jikkyō! Nizi Project 2) (in Japanese)
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