Nizi Project Season 2 ( "Rainbow Project Season 2") is a 2023 Japanese reality competition show, and is the second season of Nizi Project series. The series is a joint project between JYP Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan with the intention of creating a global Japanese boy group. Nizi Project Season 2 is centered on JYP Entertainment founder Park Jin-young selecting members for the boy group out of 20 boys, who eventually debuted as NEXZ.
Background On July 12, 2021, Park held a press conference announcing that Nizi Project will have a second season to create a Japanese boy band set for debut in March 2023. Applications for boys from 14 to 22 years old are open from July 2021 to October 2021. Auditions will take place from November to December 2021 in eight cities in Japan, as well as New York and Los Angeles in the United States, and Seoul in South Korea. The contestants will be evaluated in five categories: vocal, dance, rap, modeling, and composing/lyricism. The members for the group will be finalized and announced in December 2023.
Contestants DivisionContestantBackground Tokyo Kobe Hiroshima Okinawa Sapporo Seoul JYP Entertainment trainee; trained for 2 years and 7 months JYP Entertainment trainee JYP Entertainment trainee; trained for 1 year and 1 month JYP Entertainment trainee; trained for 6 months JYP Entertainment trainee JYP Entertainment trainee; trained for 7 months JYP Entertainment trainee JYP Entertainment trainee; trained for 3 years
Rankings
Summary
Color key Cube was awarded Cube was awarded as a runner-up Cube was awarded later in the end of Part 1 Ranked last; at risk of elimination Eliminated or withdrawn
Region Contestant Part 1 Part 2 Dance Vocals X factor Personality Part 1 RankingGrowthTeamworkImageFinals Seoul Tomoya Uemura data-sort-value="2" Kobe Yuki Nishiyama data-sort-value="3" data-sort-value="3" Seoul Haru Inoue data-sort-value="2" data-sort-value="3" Seoul Yuhi Komori data-sort-value="4" data-sort-value="3" Kobe Yu Tomiyasu data-sort-value="2" data-sort-value="3" Seoul Seita Kawashima data-sort-value="4" data-sort-value="3" Tokyo Ken So data-sort-value="2" data-sort-value="3" Tokyo Eiji Ito data-sort-value="2" data-sort-value="3" Tokyo Miraku Hoshizawa data-sort-value="2" 12 10 Seoul Taiga Fujimaki data-sort-value="2" data-sort-value="3" 11 11 data-sort-value="7" colspan="2" Kobe Sean Matsubara data-sort-value="3" 12 data-sort-value="9" colspan="2" Seoul Sodai Miura data-sort-value="2" data-sort-value="3" 10 data-sort-value="10" colspan="2" Sapporo Rio Takahashi data-sort-value="5" data-sort-value="13" colspan="5" Kobe Shokei Wataru data-sort-value="5" data-sort-value="13" colspan="5" Hiroshima Takato Otsuka 20 20 data-sort-value="2" data-sort-value="13" colspan="5" Seoul Taichi Inagaki data-sort-value="2" data-sort-value="13" colspan="5" Tokyo Taichi Takahashi 15 data-sort-value="2" data-sort-value="13" colspan="5" Hiroshima Takao Yamaguchi 19 18 data-sort-value="5" data-sort-value="13" colspan="5" Hiroshima Yuito Enomoto 19 data-sort-value="2" data-sort-value="13" colspan="5" Tokyo Kohei Nagatsuka 13 data-sort-value="5" data-sort-value="13" colspan="5" Kobe Reito Kitagawa data-sort-value="21" colspan="9" Kobe Naoya Kida data-sort-value="21" colspan="9" Okinawa Riki Irei data-sort-value="21" colspan="9" Seoul Takuto Matsuda data-sort-value="21" colspan="9"
Aftermath The top 7 finalists debuted as Nexz. Some trainees joined other companies: Taichi Takahashi joined BMSG as a trainee. Sodai Miura, Eiji Ito, and Yuito Enomoto joined Sony Music Japan's trainee team, M:Rea1. Taichi Inagaki joined Bill Entertainment as trainee. Taiga Fujimaki joined IX Entertainment as trainee. Some trainees debuted in other groups: Naoya Kida debuted in MAZZEL, a boy group under BMSG. MAZZEL profile Some trainees participated in other survival shows: Miraku Hoshizawa participated in KBS2 reality competition program, Make Mate 1. He placed 3rd and thus made the final line up of Nouera. Yuito Enomoto participated in the SBS survival show Universe League. He was eliminated in the finale after ranking 18th. Taichi Inagaki and Taiga Fujimaki participated in the Mnet survival show Boys II Planet Taichi was eliminated in the second episode after ranking 95th. Taiga was eliminated in the fifth episode after ranking 65th. Taiga Fujimaki is currently participating in Produce 101 Japan: Shinsekai.
References
External links
実況！ニジプロ2 (Jikkyō! Nizi Project 2)