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Tetsuya of the popular YouTuber group Tokai On Air revealed on his channel the new home he built with his wife, former AKB48 member Minami Minegishi, after five years of planning — and it became a hot topic online. The exterior is done in Tetsuya’s signature color, orange, and the house is equipped with security features including vein-pattern authentication. On 5channel, the thread quickly moved past the mansion itself into a debate over “who’s the biggest winner among former AKB members,” with names like Haruna Kojima, Rino Sashihara, and Kayo Noro brought up as posters compared income sources and the caliber of their husbands.
“The Biggest Winner from Ex-AKB”: Tokai On Air’s Tetsuya and Minami Minegishi’s “Mansion” Stuns the Internet — “On a Completely Different Level,” “Way Beyond What I Imagined”
On the 28th, Tetsuya of the popular YouTuber group Tokai On Air posted an update on his personal YouTube channel “Please Search for Veritan,” unveiling in full the new home he spent five years planning together with his wife, former AKB48 member Minami Minegishi — and it’s become a huge topic of conversation.
The new home is unmistakably “Tetsuya” from the outside in. The couple went back and forth on using his signature orange as the design motif, weighing the risk that it might make the house easy to identify, but ultimately agreed orange was the way to go — a decision they reached after making sure to install top-tier security features like vein-pattern authentication.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
The kids' room too.
Guess those tiny windows are for security reasons?
Kinda feel bad for them, honestly.
Yoshida Seisakusho (a fellow YouTuber) built a pretty solid house too.
That one's just tacky through and through.
So Yoshida moved back to Aichi from Gunma, huh.
Japan's politicians, bureaucrats, and corporations exploit people way worse than that.
Then there's Rino Sashihara, who stays out of the spotlight splitting idol profits with (producer) Akimoto and still out-earns everyone.
In terms of showbiz standing and future prospects, I feel like Kayo Noro takes the crown.
Sashihara's got a good position, but her face has changed so much she's mostly only popular with plastic-surgery fans and sketchy beauty accounts, so her long-term prospects are shaky.
For pure business success, Kojiharu (Haruna Kojima) wins by a mile.
For husband caliber, it's either Yuko Oshima or that one whose name I can't remember who married some rich CEO and won't stop flaunting her celebrity lifestyle.
There is no room next door.
Nah, Tokai On Air genuinely has money.
Gotta be Kojiharu.
Exactly why they'd better be saving hard now.
Sashihara's got royalties, merch, and rights income from the idol groups she produces (=LOVE, ≠ME, ≒JOY) plus colored contacts and cosmetics; Kojima's got profits from selling off shares in her brand.
Sashihara's whole thing depends on (producer) Akimoto though.
It's basically like she's just been handed AKB's resources.
She was getting attention again just the other day too.
Mariko Shinoda
Tomomi Itano
Yuko Oshima
Atsuko Maeda
Oshima's a different case — Kento Hayashi is a solid catch.
For celebrity mansions, like 70% of the price tag is just the land, huh.
These two are in Aichi Prefecture.
Ad revenue comes straight from Google, no middlemen.
Just shows how much TV loses to all those ad agencies skimming off the top.
I know a guy with like tens of thousands of subscribers who said he quit his salaryman job because he was making way more than he ever did as an office worker.
Most of the money's probably from the restaurants they run, not YouTube itself.
They must be paying serious property tax on the land plus the house itself, but stuff like this still feels like living the dream, in its own way.
Mii-chan (Minegishi) showed up in the video too — looks like she's doing great as a wife.
They can probably write it off as a business expense, so it's fine.
It's the most livable place in Japan once you actually live there.
Barely any snow, minimal typhoon damage, great transport links,
and the food's amazing too.
The Nozomi bullet train doesn't even stop there.
Lived there for 3 years —
can't get Kanto local TV channels.
Also it's full of homebody types with no ambition, kind of boring.
No concerts or anything either, so you have to trek out to Tokyo.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Minami Minegishi is best known for the 2013 video in which she shaved her head and apologized after a relationship scandal broke; she continued her career from there and eventually married Tokai On Air’s Tetsuya. The reveal of their new home is being read by many as a symbol of how far she’s come since that chapter. What split the thread was the single question of “who’s the biggest winner among former AKB members” — one camp judges it by romantic/marital status (the social standing of one’s partner), while another, pointing to figures like Rino Sashihara and Haruna Kojima, judges it by entertainment-business earnings, so no simple ranking emerges. It’s also worth noting that celebrity mansion price tags are often quoted assuming central-Tokyo land prices, but Tokai On Air is based in Aichi Prefecture, where the math is different — something easy to miss from the thread alone. The point that YouTuber income comes through direct contracts rather than being skimmed by ad agencies the way TV income is gets raised as a reason they can earn so much, but it’s worth flagging that this isn’t backed by verified figures.
*This article is composed from excerpts and a summary of the 5channel (Geinou/Sports News+) thread ““The Biggest Winner from Ex-AKB” — Tokai’s Tetsuya and Minami Minegishi’s Mansion, “On a Completely Different Level,” “Way Beyond What I Imagined”.”
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