Yamada Ryosuke

Yamada Ryosuke (2013)

Yamada Ryosuke (2006)

Yamada Ryosuke is a Japanese actor, singer, and member of the Johnny's Entertainment group Hey! Say! JUMP and NYC.

Profile

• Name: Yamada Ryosuke (山田涼介)
• Nickname: Yama-chan, Yamada-kun, Ryo-chan
• Meaning of his name: The "Ryo" means great then brilliantly alive. "Suke" can mean help. The image he have is that great breeze going up the mountain. (Yama means mountain)
• Birthdate: May 9, 1993 (1993-05-09)
• Birthplace: Kanagawa, Japan
• Blood Type: B
• Height: 165cm
• Weight: 54kg
• Languages: Japanese, Korean (learning)
• Family: Father, mother, Chihiro (older sister), Misaki (younger sister)
• Hobbies: Cooking, fishing, reading manga, sleeping
• Bad habits: Making strange faces
• Pets: A Chihuahua "Cookie", a Toy Poodle "Kuu", two Guinea Pigs (Hoppy and another one), 3 turtles (Soda, Cola and other one), 8 goldfish (Take-chan, Yuri and others)
• Admired Senior: Domoto Koichi
• Favorite Hey! Say! JUMP Song: "Ultra Music Power"
• Favorite Johnny's Song: "Ai no Katamari" by Kinki Kids
• Favorite Movie: " Star wars "
• Favorite Actors: Ninomiya Kazunari and Morita Go
• Favorite Dramas: "Remote","Gokusen"
• Favorite Food: Strawberry, eggplant, meat
• Favorite Color: White, orange, blue
• Favorite Number: 4
• Favorite Sport: Soccer
• Favorite Subject: Social studies
• Former Group: J.J. Express, Hey! Say! 7, Tap Kids, Kitty Jr.
• Johnny's Status: 2004.08.12 (Trainee), 2007.09.21 (Member)

Information

Ryosuke entered Johnny & Associates on August 12, 2004 as a trainee. Among the members of the original Hey! Say! 7, he was the last to enter. He was a member of Johnny's Jrs. group Kitty Jr. until April 3, 2007, when he was made part of the temporary unit Hey! Say! 7 with Arioka Daiki, Takaki Yuya, Nakajima Yuto and Chinen Yuuri.

On November 17, 2012, it was announced that Yamada will be making his solo debut.

Trivia

• He has one older sister and one younger sister, Yamada Chihiro and Yamada Misaki.
• He studying in Horikoshi High School, with the other three Hey! Say! JUMP members. Chinen Yuuri, Nakajima Yuto and Morimoto Ryutaro are some examples of Johnny's idols that have studied/are studying in Horikoshi High School. Hey! Say! JUMP members who went to Horikoshi High School Arioka Daiki, Yaotome Hikaru, and Yabu Kota
• He has the biggest fanbase within Hey! Say! JUMP.
• He was the most popular member of Johnny's Junior before he debuted as Hey! Say! JUMP and is the most popular member of Hey! Say! JUMP now.
• Since the agency knows the popularity of Ryosuke, people that working at the concert make more of his goods than the other 9 members' so it wouldn't be sold out, because they don't want the differences in popularity(the number of fans) to be so obvious.
• He thinks that collecting coins is fun.
• He is currently learning how to speak Korean.
• He says he does not want to have a girlfriend yet because he wants to be more successful in his career.
• He doesn’t like criticism.
• He is a loud person
• He gained of 20 Jr. Awards in 2008 which broke Akanishi Jin’s (KAT-TUN) record of 16 Jr. Awards and is currently the most award winner.
• He has received many awards and is usually in the top 5 in rankings. Some of the awards are: Best Actor (2007), Best Helping Actor (2007), Most wanted as a boyfriend (2007 and 2008), Most wanted as a pet, Most wanted as a brother, Most wanted as a senior at school, Most wanted as a friend, Want to Kiss, Nicest, Most good-looking, Best at cooking, Most in style, Best to go for help, Most sexy, Most likely to be a good father, Want to go to Karaoke together, Funniest, Best Photo of the Year (2007,in a magazine), Star Raking (1st place(2007 and 2008), 3rd place(2007 and 2008), etc.), Favorite Male On-Screen Talent (1st place, 2 times), Most likely to have a major breakthrough in 2008, etc
• He gained the largest popularity in the TV drama Tantei Gakuen Q.
• At Hey! Say! JUMP concerts, the screams of fans are the loudest when Ryosuke sings since he is the most popular.
• He likes hanging out with other Hey! Say! JUMP members, especially with Chinen Yuuri.
• He began to become friends with Nakajima Yuto when he asked Ryosuke to walk home together after school.
• He treasures his two pet guinea pigs, his rabbit, and his hamster.
• He is afraid of ghosts, dark places, and airplanes.
• He likes girls who are kind and honest.
• When they were filming the PV of Ultra Music Power, he and Nakajima Yuto fought over Chinen Yuuri for being their younger brother.
• He joined Johnny's Jimusho at age 12. He got interested after going to a KinKi Kids concert, but it were his parents that sent his application without telling him.
• He had already done some modeling before joining Johnny's. He was already in a magazine when he was only 6 years old.
• When he auditioned Johnny's Entertaiment with Morimoto Ryutaro, he would always be with him.
• His parents were going to name him Shinnosuke at first, but there was a manga character with the same name and they thought he might get bullied for it.
• Besides his family, Chinen Yuuri is the only one to call him by his first name, Ryosuke. Everyone else calls him either Yamada or Yama-chan, though he'd like to be called Ryosuke.
• He says chubby cheeks are his charm point.
• He refers JUMP members Arioka Daiki and Chinen Yuuri as his best friends. Arioka and Chinen know all his secrets, and they can talk about everything.
• He usually wears a jersey to sleep. It's black with golden lines in it.
• He's known for being a strawberry maniac. He eats them so much that he's afraid his face will turn red!
• He also dreams about a pool filled with strawberries.
• Despite all that, he actually prefers soft cream/vanilla instead of strawberry flavor, when it comes to ice cream.
• The "I love you" he says during Hitomi no Screen -lives is made up by him, when he was told to say something in it. Although he suggested it himself, he feels very embarrassed everytime he does it.
• He's not skilled with using a computer, and usually needs Chinen's help.
• He has beat all JUMP members in arm-wrestling.
• His eyesight has gotten a lot worse since his debut, and nowadays he needs glasses almost all the time. He usually wears contacts, but always carry glasses with him.
• He always sings Ai no Katamari by KinKi Kids in karaoke. He also refers to it as his favorite song.
• He can play the trumpet a little, and would like to learn saxophone.
• When he was little, he wanted to become Ultra man. Later he changed it to (more realistic) soccer player.
• He's afraid of ghosts, but interested in them.
• Some fans having been stalking Yamada and the rest of the Hey! Say! JUMP members. Some went to far by putting hidden cameras in Yamada's house. There are some fans that camp outside their houses.
• He loves the sea. Because of it, he also dreams about a vacation in Dubai, and mentions it all the time.
• If he sees peoples with pimples on anyone's face or anywhere, he'll rush and pop it.
• His cellphone wallpaper is his dog Kuu wearing sunglasses, and his ringtone is Chiisana Koi no Uta by MONGOL800.
• He hates roller-coasters. Once Arioka Daiki forced him to go into one and made him cry. Twice.
• His favorite type of sushi is anago (conger eel).
• One of his hobbies is skateboarding, but later he's become also interested in J-board. It's similar to a skateboard, except that it has only two wheels and it narrows in the middle.
• Arioka Daiki got him interested in air guns, and nowadays there's 7 of them in his collection.
• He also collects manga and has over 600 of them.
• He's known from making "monomane" (impersonations). His specials are Yamashita Tomohisa, Bobby Ologon and for the latest, Japanese dub of T-Bag from Prison Break.
• When asked what he would do with 1,000,000 yen, he said he'd buy a sloth. He loves them and thinks they have a special aura.
• He is the third Hey! Say! JUMP member to have his ear pierced. The first being Takaki Yuya and the second being Arioka Daiki.
• In episode 5 of the 2011 anime "Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day," Yamada is mentioned in a conversation between the characters Naruko and Atsumu when talking about Jinta. Naruko states he (Jinta) looks "a bit like Yama-chan from Hey! Say! JUMP when he fixes his hair.

Discography

Singles

• [2013.01.09] Mystery Virgin (ミステリーヴァージン)

TV & Cinema

Dramas

• [2006] Tantei Gakuen Q Special (as Amakusa Ryuu)
• [2007] Tantei Gakuen Q (as Amakusa Ryuu)
• [2008] 1 Pound no Fukuin (as Mukoda Katsumi)
• [2008] Sensei wa Erai! (as Gunjou Hayato)
• [2008] Furuhata Chugakusei (as Furuhata Ninzaburo)
• [2008] Scrap Teacher (as Takasugi Toichi)
• [2009] Niini no Koto wo Wasurenaide (as Kawai Yuji)
• [2009] Hidarime Tantei Eye Special (as Tanaka Ainosuke)
• [2010] Hidarime Tantei Eye ( as Tanaka Ainosuke)
• [2012] Risou no Musuko (Perfect Son) ( as Suzuki Daichi)
• [2012] Shirarezaru Bakumatsu no Shishi: Yamada Akiyoshi Monogatari (as Yamada Akiyoshi)
• [2013] Kindaichi Shonen no Jikenbo: Hong Kong Kowloon Zaiho Satsujin Jiken (as Kindaichi Hajime)
• [2013] Kyou no Hi wa Sayonara (as Harada Nobuo)

Music Videos

• [2005] Shuuji to Akira - Seishun Amigo
• [2006] Tackey & Tsubasa - Venus
• [2006] GYM - Fever to Future

Publications

Magazines

• [2010.02.xx] Popuri 2010 April Issue Additional Volume (Pinup)