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The story
Yonsentoshin’s Takumi Goto revealed he’s in dire financial straits while discussing the group’s future with his partner, Ryota Ishibashi, in a segment on their official YouTube channel. According to a Yahoo News report on the 3rd, Goto said he had quit a gym he used to attend because he could no longer afford the membership. On 5ch, many took the explanation — that TV appearances, live bookings, and YouTube revenue were all scarce — at face value and used it as a springboard to preach the importance of asset management, while others were skeptical he could really be that hard up given how much he used to earn, splitting opinion on how to read the confession.
9/3 (Thu) 21:10
Comedy trio Yonsentoshin updated their official YouTube channel by the 3rd, and in it, Takumi Goto (29) revealed he’s facing serious financial difficulties.
The video was part of a segment where he discussed the group’s future with his partner, Ryota Ishibashi.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article
What people said
2020: ¥28 million
2021: ¥18 million
2022: ¥9 million
2023: ¥6 million
2024: ¥5 million
2025: ¥5 million
so playing the 'look how pathetic I am now' card is probably the smarter move.
TV work: nothing
No bookings either
YouTube: nothing
He genuinely has no money…
These guys pull in at least ¥200,000 a gig.
There's not three of us anymore, so that's gone too…
60% goes to the agency, leaving ¥80,000 split three ways, minus travel costs and taxes
Fewer people means a bigger cut each.
No, it means there's less work to go around…
Any comedian who gets TV appearances should've made decent money.
Well, maybe he just blew it all, though.
Lived in a luxury high-rise, burned through his cash,
lost his work, and now here he is…
Who's Matsumoto?
Isn't the actual member Tsuzuki?
Well, if you say it's just because they didn't have the talent, there's not much comeback to that.
Even among fellow '7th Generation' comedians, Seiya's talk-show skills were on a whole different level — comparing them to him felt almost silly.
That's seriously popular.
Maybe playing up being broke makes for better material?
If he'd bought even one condo unit back when he was popular and rented it out,
he could've had steady income by now.
My impression is he wasn't popular long enough to save up that much anyway.
But if he'd banked what he spent on that high-rise rent, he'd probably be a lot more relaxed now.
Keep grinding, man lol
For some reason they were popular with high school girls.
But the '7th Generation' boom fizzled out fast,
and the '6.5 Generation' — guys like Kamaitachi and Dian — rose up in their place, and that's where things stand now.
This is probably one of those places with monthly fees in the tens of thousands, maybe even over ¥100,000.
Regular people pay a few thousand yen.
A city-run gym would run you a few hundred yen.
There's never been a comedian who stayed popular being gloomy, deadpan, and mumbling without ever cracking a smile.
But that's literally where Hitoshi Matsumoto started out.
Matsumoto mumbled too, but he kept landing genius one-liners over and over.
Background and Key Points of Debate
Comedians’ income is structured so that booking fees are split with the agency, with travel costs and taxes deducted from there — meaning that when TV exposure drops, booking income tends to collapse right along with it. It’s worth noting that the year-by-year earnings figures cited in the thread (from ¥44 million in 2019 down to ¥5 million in 2025) come from posters’ speculation and hearsay, not any official statement from Goto himself, and shouldn’t be taken as confirmed fact. The debate split over whether he’s genuinely struggling: some took the claim that TV work, bookings, and YouTube revenue were all scarce at face value, while others were vocal in suspecting it might be for show, given how much he presumably earned before. The discussion also touched on how Yonsentoshin won over a young fanbase early in the ‘7th Generation’ comedian boom, only for that popularity to prove short-lived — cited as part of the backdrop to his current money troubles.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “Yonsentoshin’s Goto Reveals Dire Financial Struggles — Quit His Gym Because ‘I Couldn’t Afford It Anymore’.”
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