Yasuhisa Soga before The Good-Bye

[meitantei_toma]

Every time a new bunch of kids gets to debut there are always the detractors saying, "they are getting younger", but that is simply not true. Johnny's have always promoted young boys.
The leader of The Good-Bye, Yasuhisa Soga, actually debuted as early as 1975, with the duo Little Gang, when he was twelve.
The other guy, Hideki Matsubara, was

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[kamichan_ya3]

Every time a new bunch of kids gets to debut there are always the detractors saying, "they are getting younger", but that is simply not true.
One can't mention that often enough I guess.

[meitantei_toma]

Apparently one can't, only today I read one such comment about NYC's new single.
As another even earlier example, Eiji Nagata was originally to debut with Four Leaves. As he was 13 at the time, Johnny's did decide to wait a year and gave him a solo debut when he was not too busy with school.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n20dOA6uJhc&feature=related

[shavashava]

[thenylonkid]

Exactly! It's 'us' that are getting OLDER so they only seem younger.