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Kurokawa Akihito (黒川明人), better known as Kuro-chan (クロちゃん) a Japanese comedian/TV personality, and the co-producer of MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN and TONAi BOUSHO.

Biography[]

Kuro-chan attended a Buddhist junior college during his adolescence, the time during which he adopted his trademark shaved head look. After graduating junior college, he transferred to a course at Hanazono University before dropping out after one year.

In 2001, his entertainment career took off after forming Yasuda Dai Circus (安田大サーカス; Yasuda Great Circus) with comedians HIRO and Dancho Yasuda (団長安田; Grandmaster Yasuda). Kuro-chan's persona plays upon his cute sounding speaking voice juxtaposed with his masculine appearance. He frequently says unsettling things and loses his temper often, which he will be taunted for during comedy skits and by television viewers.

Throughout the next two decades, Kuro-chan would make repeated prime time TV appearances on numerous shows, notably Wednesday's Downtown and the AKB48 variety show "AKBINGO!". Kuro-chan's persona and style of humor also extended to his inability to find love, with his repeated attempts to get a girlfriend thwarted and mocked by everyone around him.

In 2018, Kuro-chan made an appearance on the Wednesday's Downtown branded spinoff of popular TV show "Terrace House"; Monster House. The premise of which was a parody of Terrace House's "getting a bunch of strangers to live together and seeing what happens" (like the English language show "Big Brother") with added devious pranks, at which Kuro-chan was the focal point of.

In 2019, Kuro-chan appeared on the show MONSTER IDOL; an idol survival style show where contestants would be eliminated week after week and the winners of which would become the next big WACK group, who Kuro-chan would be the producer of. As with Monster House, the heavy script would rely on Kuro-chan on a quest for romance which would be repeatedly thwarted as much as possible.

The winners formed MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN. Their debut single, Restart, was sold in three formats, with each version representing Kuro-chan's future with the group. The version which sold the most copies would decide Kuro-chan's fate:

  • Zokkou (続行; Continuation): Kuro-chan will continue as the group's producer and will regularly interact with the group.
  • Kainin (解任; Dismissal): Kuro-chan will no longer be involved with the group.
  • Kainin & Batsu (解任&罰; Dismissal & Punishment): Kuro-chan will no longer be involved, but he will also be forced to undergo a bizarre punishment.

On December 25th 2019, the results of the sales campaign were revealed with "Dismissal & Punishment" the resounding winner. As such, Kuro-chan was seemingly fired from managing MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN and dunked into freezing water while suspended upside down from a crane, with MAMESHiBA performing their song behind him.

During February 2020, MAMESHiBA's second single and campaign were revealed: if fans want Kuro-chan to manage the group instead of Watanabe, the song written and composed by Kuro-chan (Rocketstart) has to have more views than the song written, produced and composed by WACK & SCRAMBLES (Daijoubu Sunrise) by the 19th of February. Rocketstart ultimately garnered more views, and Kuro-chan was reinstated as MAMESHiBA NO TAiGUN's producer.

On July 19th, 2021, Kuro-chan was hospitalized with coronavirus, after complaining of discomfort and chills. He was discharged on July 29th, and resumed entertainment activities soon after. Upon leaving the hospital, Kuro-chan stated that he will live his life without forgetting what he learned in his hospital stay.

In late 2022, Kuro-chan starred in a new miniseries on Suiyoubi no Downtown, MONSTER LOVE. Presented as a Bachelor-esque dating show, Kuro-chan was to choose from a selection of young women competing for his love, while also attempting to figure out which finalists actually wanted to date him, and who were faking their affection for a chance at fame. Partway through the series, Watanabe Junnosuke appeared and revealed that the competition was actually a stealth audition for his and Kuro-chan's second collaborative idol group. The resulting idol group, TONAi BOUSHO, were announced in the penultimate episode on December 14th.

Discography []

  • [2019.12.19] Restart (original demo vocals)

Lyricist Credits[]

Composer Credits[]

  • Start: Restart, Rocketstart
  • MUST CHANGE: Seishun Sonata

Trivia[]

  • Kuro-chan's natural speaking voice is able to hit falsetto notes
  • Episode 552 of AKBINGO! received a lot of scrutiny due to a skit where Kuro-chan's ass is slowly shoved into the face of an idol tied to a chair, which was resoundingly unpopular with everyone.
  • He has Type 2 Diabetes and has survived a brain aneurysm
  • While his TV persona is lewd and foolish, his real life self is allegedly more tolerable
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