About Yanagi

(Yanagi got sing for Prince of Tennis - Tenimyu musical)

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柳浩太郎 [Yanagi Koutarou] was born December 21st, 1985 in Berlin, Germany, and currently resides in Japan.He moved to Japan at age 3, then moved to India in first grade (due to his father's work). From fourth to sixth grade he attended an American boarding school in India, after which he finished school and currently resides in Japan. He is fluent in English and Japanese. In Japanese, surnames are written before first names, his first name is "Kotaroh" and his last name is "Yanagi". Approximately 165cm (5 feet 4 inches{Damn short}) tall and weighs 48kg (105 lbs, which is very skinny, but we'll forgive him for that). One of his most-known hobbies is karaoke, and a few of his specialties are "street dance, lock dance, & pantomime". He likes to go by the preferred nickname "Yana" or "Nagi".

Roles

Yanagi is a member of the young men's stage acting troupe, D-Boys, which plays in various skit-like performances. He acted in the web drama, Hice Cool!～沖縄BOYS!2005~ and had a supporting role in the movie Aa~! Izakaya Puroresu, a wrestling film, as well as the drama Rocket Boys. He also acted in his D-Boys troupe's TV drama DD-Boys. His first major film role is as the otaku lead character in Chikan Otoko, based off of a book by the same name.

His most famous role, however, is as Ryoma Echizen in the Prince of Tennis Musical series (based on the manga and anime series of the same name), specifically:

• The Prince of Tennis Musical
• The Prince of Tennis Musical: The Special Match Fudomine SIDE (alongside fellow D-Boy Endo Yuya, who also played Echizen)
• The Prince of Tennis Musical: Dream Live 2nd (he again shared the role with Endo)
• The Prince of Tennis Musical: The Imperial Match Hyotei Gakuen
• The Prince of Tennis Musical: The Imperial Match Hyotei Gakuen in winter
• The Prince of Tennis Musical: Dream Live 3rd

Yanagi graduated from the role of Echizen in Dream Live 3rd; he will henceforth be replaced by Doori Sakurada.

Yanagi also has one Idol DVD,"Hice cool！～沖縄BOYS！2005～,"20-2 Eighteen," and a DVD/Photobook, "YA-NA-GI."

Miscellaneous

Yanagi's hobbies are hanging with friends and karaoke, which may help explain his singing skill in the Prince of Tennis Musicals. His major skills, as he personally states, are "street dancing, lock dancing, and pantomime." His dream was to become a professional dancer, however his dancing skills were impeded by his injuries from his accident (see below).

Accident

After leaving a rehearsal for The Prince of Tennis Musical: The Special Match Fudomine, Yanagi was hit by a car. He had extensive damage to his body and vocal cords and was unconscious for two weeks. Doctors predicted he would be bedridden for the rest of his life, but he was able to make a miraculous recovery and is currently strong enough to act again, although he has difficulty with his dancing and singing. His recovery time prevented him from playing in that and the next 2 Prince of Tennis Musicals (in which he was replaced by Kimeru and Endo Yuya, respectively).

Send To Yanagi

If you would like to write to Yanagi or send him cool things, you can do so (I believe) at this address:
    

Yanagi Kotaroh ,
    Watanabe Entertainment ,
    4-2-12 WES3F Jingumae, Shibuya-ku ,
    Tokyo 150-0001 ,
    Japan .

Webside

Kotaroh is part of the Watanabe Entertainment group named "D-BOYS". He is one of the original members of the group. You can check out the D-BOYS official site here http://www.d-boys.com

D-Boys:(sit)  ^This is Shirota  ^This is Endo                               ^This is Yanagi

(I can't tell all the D-Boys name cause too many!)

O.o

Endo every time take picture not smiling also(Yanagi is better cause he smiling all the time)

But Endo is taller that Yanagi(Cause Endo is 167 cm (5'6") and smaller that Yanagi 2years)

And then Endo is fatter that Yanagi(About 53 kgs)