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The D-BOYS are a Japanese Watanabe Entertainment group that consists of fourteen members.

The D-BOYS

The D's meaning in the group's name, stands for "Drama (stagework)", "Dream (dream)", "Debut (debut)", "Discovery (discovery)" and "Development (growth and advancement)".

Each member also has an online blog that can be found on the D-Boy official website.

History

The three original D-Boys are Yamazaki Ichitaro, Yuya Endo, and Yanagi Kotaroh. On July 27, 2004 open auditions were held with Yuichi Nakamura, Shunji Igarashi, and Katsuki Nakamura auditioning. Then in October 2004, Adachi Osamu, Araki Hirofumi, Kaji Masaki, Shirota Yuu, Suzuki Hiroki, Masato Wada, Shintaro Tetsu, Shunji Igarashi, Yuichi Nakamura, Katsuki Nakamura, and Yuma Minakawa joined the D-Boys. Finally, on July 31, 2005, Kohei Kumai, Kouji Seto, and Shingo Nakagawa became the new members to join the D-Boys. However, there have been members of the D-Boys who have left or transferred, including Yamazaki Ichitaro (who graduated in March 2005 to pursue a solo representation), Katsuki Nakamura, and Shintaro Tetsu.

Current Members

Yuu Shirota

Yanagi Kotarou

Yuya Endo

Masaki Kaji

Osamu Adachi

Hirofumi Araki

Hiroki Suzuki

Masato Wada

Yuichi Nakamura

Shunji Igarashi

Koji Seto

Shingo Nakagawa

Kohei Kumai

Yuma Minakawa

Past Members

Media

Photobooks

The D-Boys so far have released two Photobooks. Each photobook contains multiple photographs of each member. The first photobook released on April 27, 2005 was self-titled D-Boys, while the second, released on March 15th, 2006 was called Start.

D-BOYS (Tokyo News Agency, April 2005, ISBN 492456642X)
START! (Gakken Co., Ltd., March 2006, ISBN 4054030351)

Radio

Marvelous Radio Vibration (May 5th, 2005 - April 1st, 2006) - hosted by Yuu Shirota, Yanagi Kotaroh and Yukki

Selected Personal TV Appearances

43rd Secret New Years' Performance Tournament "Young Man Colosseum" (January 1st, 2006) - Masaki Kaji and Hiroki Suzuki
DD-BOYS

Stage

D-Live

Musicals

The D-Boys will star in the June of 2007, in their very own musical.

June 2007 D-Boys Musical

Bus Tours

Official Fanclub Day Camp Bus Tour - November 13th, 2005
Official Fanclub Limited Bust Tour - August 25th to Augst 27th, 2006

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 * ''D-BOYS'' (Tokyo News Agency, April 2005, ISBN 492456642X)
-* ''YA-NA-GI'' (Kadokawa Publishing Co., Ltd., August 2005, ISBN 4048944622)
+* ''START!'' (Gakken Co., Ltd., March 2006, ISBN 4054030351)
-* ''START!'' (Gakken Co., Ltd., March 2006, ISBN 4054030351)
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