STARTO Artists Celebrated the New Year with Unique Live Streams!

Artists from STARTO ENTERTAINMENT, including Snow Man, Travis Japan, and Naniwa Danshi, held live New Year’s Eve streams on YouTube, their official fan club sites, and social media on December 31, sharing the moment of the new year with their fans.

Snow Man hosted a special live stream, “Snow Man Special Live – A Fun New Year’s Eve with Everyone! 2024-2025,” once again wowing viewers with their spectacular performance. The stream featured elaborate CG effects and lighting, as well as the same costumes from their recent dome tour. Fans enjoyed a special medley where Snow Man covered songs from their seniors, such as Hey! Say! JUMP’s “DEAR MY LOVER,” NEWS’s “Chankapana,” and Naniwa Danshi’s “UBU LOVE.” The stream attracted over 1.26 million concurrent viewers, proving their immense popularity.

Travis Japan celebrated the new year more casually, enjoying toshikoshi soba (year-crossing noodles) while streaming on Instagram and TikTok.

Naniwa Danshi held “Crossing the Year with Naniwa Danshi 2024→2025 All-Out Idol Scene on New Year’s Eve! Drawn into Alpha’s Radiance, 100% Fall in Love with Naniwa♡ A Heartfelt Live Stream Full of Thanks” on their official YouTube channel. Their performance featured 22 popular songs in a nonstop, 40-minute set without any breaks for MCs. During the countdown to the new year, they relaxed in a kotatsu, and right after midnight, Ryusei Onishi, born in the Year of the Snake, appeared in a snake kigurumi costume.

SixTONES streamed the first part for fan club members on FAMILY CLUB online, while the second part was a live New Year’s Eve stream on their official YouTube channel, from Tokyo Skytree. Before midnight, they performed the song “Neiro.” As is their tradition, the group held a rock-paper-scissors game to decide the leader for the new year, and Shintaro Morimoto was chosen as the leader for 2025. The fun stream concluded with a performance of “NEW WORLD.”

WEST. celebrated with a YouTube stream, “Thank You for the 10th Anniversary Debut & Reaching 1 Million Subscribers on New Year’s Eve Special,” where they enjoyed drinks while streaming from a kotatsu. Although their goal was to reach 1 million YouTube subscribers during this New Year’s Eve stream, they had already surpassed the milestone at Christmas, reaching 1.01 million by the time of the broadcast. The event featured announcements of individual members’ news from 2024, a karaoke competition, and an acoustic live performance, all delivered with WEST.‘s signature humor and passion.

Ae! group marked the end of their debut year with their first-ever New Year’s Eve streaming, “#AkemaomAe 2024→2025,” where they appeared in traditional kimono in front of a kin byobu, a golden folding screen.

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Other groups, including Hey! Say! JUMP, King & Prince, NEWS, Kis-My-Ft2, 4U., and ACTaLE, also celebrated the countdown to the new year with their fans in their own unique ways. 2025 promises to be another exciting year for artists from STARTO ENTERTAINMENT!