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
2AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:11
Minegishi's room is basically a prison cell
191AnonymousSep 30, 2026 08:10
Re: #2
The kids' room too.
Guess those tiny windows are for security reasons?
Kinda feel bad for them, honestly.
20AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:19
Didn't realize Tokai On Air pulls in that much money.
Yoshida Seisakusho (a fellow YouTuber) built a pretty solid house too.
118AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:47
Re: #20
That one's just tacky through and through.
126AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:49
Re: #20
So Yoshida moved back to Aichi from Gunma, huh.
25AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:19
Google's just a shady company that poaches workers and mass-produces nouveau-riche beggars.
162AnonymousSep 30, 2026 08:02
Re: #25
Japan's politicians, bureaucrats, and corporations exploit people way worse than that.
35AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:24
People always say Kayo Noro is the only real winner — the sole survivor — from ex-AKB.
37AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:25
Re: #35
Then there's Rino Sashihara, who stays out of the spotlight splitting idol profits with (producer) Akimoto and still out-earns everyone.
46AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:29
Re: #35
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.
38AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:26
The room next to Nobita's is where his grandma lives (Doraemon reference).
50AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:30
Re: #38
There is no room next door.
42AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:27
People who flaunt money surprisingly often don't actually have much of it.
149AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:55
Re: #42
Nah, Tokai On Air genuinely has money.
44AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:29
Isn't Nozomi Kawasaki the top winner though? (´・ω・｀)
224AnonymousSep 30, 2026 08:23
Re: #44
Gotta be Kojiharu.
48AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:29
Makes you wonder where YouTubers will even be in 10 years.
131AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:51
Re: #48
Exactly why they'd better be saving hard now.
52AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:31
Gotta be either Sashihara or Kojima, right?
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.
138AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:53
Re: #52
Sashihara's whole thing depends on (producer) Akimoto though.
It's basically like she's just been handed AKB's resources.
61AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:35
Tomochin (Tomomi Itano) is the real biggest success story.
She was getting attention again just the other day too.
71AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:37
The "three sisters" who married down (slang for pairing with a less accomplished/lower-status partner):
Mariko Shinoda
Tomomi Itano
Yuko Oshima
Atsuko Maeda
204AnonymousSep 30, 2026 08:17
Re: #71
Oshima's a different case — Kento Hayashi is a solid catch.
76AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:38
Mikitani's mansion in Shoto was said to be worth 3 billion yen, but apparently the land alone is 2 billion.
For celebrity mansions, like 70% of the price tag is just the land, huh.
94AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:43
Re: #76 That's because it's Tokyo.
These two are in Aichi Prefecture.
86AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:41
Do YouTubers really make this much money?
104AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:44
Re: #86
Ad revenue comes straight from Google, no middlemen.
Just shows how much TV loses to all those ad agencies skimming off the top.
110AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:46
Re: #86
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.
141AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:54
Re: #86
Most of the money's probably from the restaurants they run, not YouTube itself.
100AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:43
Ever since I started paying property tax on my parents' place, I realized how huge the gap is between tax on residential land versus farmland.
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.
112AnonymousSep 30, 2026 07:46
Re: #100
They can probably write it off as a business expense, so it's fine.
167AnonymousSep 30, 2026 08:03
Don't go dissing Shizuoka.
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.
189AnonymousSep 30, 2026 08:09
Re: #167
The Nozomi bullet train doesn't even stop there.
227AnonymousSep 30, 2026 08:24
Re: #167
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”.”
