D-Boys


D-Boys is a young male actors group affiliated with Watanabe Entertainment. The D in the group's name stands for "Drama", "Dream", "Debut", "Discovery" and "Development".
Although the D-Boys are promoted as a group and members occasionally work together on the same projects, each actor develops his career independently from his fellow members in their own television, cinema and theatre projects. New D-Boys members are regularly selected through public audition events with interactive participation of fan club members.

Members

Current members

In addition to their individual careers, the D-Boys are also involved in collective projects, as part of the group promotion work.

''DD-Boys''

DD-Boys was a drama-documentary variety series, featuring the D-Boys members as themselves. Each episode had a short staged section following the plot of the members living in the fictional D-House and seeking ways to raise money for rent, followed by a documentary section showing the members undertaking tasks or challenges to raise that money. Some tasks were inspired by the actor's own personality -e.g., a member who was known to enjoy singing or dancing would have a task related to that hobby, etc. The show was 23 episodes long and aired from 10 April 2006 to 25 September 2006 on TV Asahi.

Stage works

Fan club events

The D-Boys hold special events where fan club members have the opportunity to meet the actors in person and interact with them in camp activities and games such as cook-offs, tug-of-war, etc., in which the members are split into teams, leading groups of fans to compete with each other.
During the summer of 2009, 19 D-Boys members, including Yu Shirota participated in performances for fans at Akiba Plaza called "Kotoshi no Natsu wa Mainichi Dokoka de D-Boys Uki-uki Yatta Hohohoy" or for short, Natsu Doko. There were 49 performances in total of dances, songs and skits. New D-Boys member, Yusuke Yamada, was introduced to fans during these performances. Three CD+DVD sets featuring different recorded audio theater by separate groups of D-BOYS members and footage of Natsu Doko were released on December 16, 2009.
Due to the success and demand of Natsu Doko, a live tour called Fuyu Doko 2009 was held in the winter of 2009 with 19 D-Boys members and Yu Shirota visiting major cities in Japan to promote the Natsu Doko 2009 CD+DVD release. It was the first live tour around the nation for the group.

Radio

D-Boys members have released merchandise in the form of photobooks, DVDs and CDs individually, or in relation to a work project. As a group, they have released a calendar featuring all D-Boys members and the following items:

Official photobooks

DVD series

Discography

The D-Boys have released on December 16, 2009, three CD+DVD sets featuring different recorded audio theater by separate groups of D-Boys members on CD and footage of Natsu Doko on DVD. Natsu Doko 2009 debuted on the Oricon Charts in .
YearTitleCD infoMembersChart debutTrack listings
2009Natsu Doko 2009 Kaze - Team Wind versionAudio Theater album by D-BoysTeam Wind members
  • Tomo Yanagishita
  • Endo Yuya
  • Masato Wada
  • Hiroki Suzuki
  • Masaya Nakamura
11D-Boys CD and DVD
  • Natsu no Kakehashi
    • 2009Natsu Doko 2009 Yama - Team Mountain versionAudio Theater album by D-BoysTeam Mountain members
  • Shunji Igarashi
  • Kotaro Yanagi
  • Osamu Adachi
  • Masashi Mikami
  • Yusuke Yamada
    		• 11D-Boys CD and DVD
  • Natsu no Kakehashi
    • 2009Natsu Doko 2009 Kawa - Team River versionAudio Theater album by D-BoysTeam River members
  • Yuichi Nakamura
  • Hirofumi Araki
  • Masaki Kaji
  • Tetsuya Makita
  • Masahiro Usui
    		• 11D-Boys CD and DVD
  • Natsu no Kakehashi