Handwritten Profile Name: Kawashiri Ren How are you called by the members? Ren, Renren Birthday: 1997.3.2 Blood type: O Home prefecture: Fukuoka Charm point: Smile Interests: cooking, games, manga Skill: magic Habit: “Honto?” (really?) I think about what others could think right now Favourite music: songs that have a beautiful feeling Favourite sports: vaulting box (an apparatus from Artistic gymnastics) Favourite food: Fruits, chocolate Favourite phrase: You need to be really good, if you want to truly have fun in a competition. (A quote from his favourite manga Haikyuu!) For success you need passion and self management Your favourite item that you cherish using each day: socks A place where you want to go: the sky Some you admire/respect: BIGBANG’s G-Dragon SEVENTEEN’s Hoshi and Woozi Some words to the fans: I want to meet everyone soon!! ☺︎
My childhood was a time when I moved around a lot because of the work of my mother. Whenever we lived at a new place, my mom made me take extracurricular activities for some reason. In Fukuoka where we moved to when I was in the 5th year of elementary school, there were tennis, swimming and a dance school available in the neighbourhood. Because I did tennis and swimming already, I said “This time I want to try dancing” and went together with my mom and my two younger brothers to inspect it. The day before, I dreamed about dancing. It was a dream about the hand movement of twirl, a part of lock dancing which for example SMAP was doing back then. When we went to visit the dance school on the next day, just that lock dance was done and I thought “I know this!”. Just for that visit I was even allowed to get a first hand experience and I enjoyed it. From them on I got into dancing. This moment was my turning point. Because I wanted to dance, I went to Tokyo and became a teacher at a dance school and back dancer. Someone who went to that school told me about PRODUCE 101 JAPAN and I applied on the spot. Working as a back dancer had been worth it, but the feeling that I wanted to stand in the center of the stage as an artist had become strong. Until that point I had applied for various auditions and failed… repeatedly. I’m not a person whose emotions go up and down much, so I didn’t get angry. I think before I became angry I just gave up. But in the middle of the program, when the trainees who had trained with me were eliminated after dreaming and challenging the same thing as me, I cried even though it wasn’t about me. Because I also experienced this kind of sadness and pain... Now, when I’m having a good time with the JO1 members, it’s so much fun. Compared to before I can express my feelings much better now. It’s something good as someone who makes music and I feel that I became happy. There are 11 members and there are people with various personalities. From the steadfast youngest one to the lively big brother -laughs- we are still rookies, but when we come to the front, we are seen as pros, so I think it’s one thing that our leader Sho-kun and me should address, too, so that everyone can switch over to doing it properly when it’s time. However, because of my personality I can’t scold, so I’m more like “Let’s calm down a bit” and I try to say it gently. In JO1 my role is something like their dance teacher. I’m teaching them while being helped by everyone, but there are also times I’m too much like a teacher and I’m told “you are too detailed” and the others are annoyed -laughs- Because I’m watching my surroundings even while dancing, I tend to say something like “Junki, your hand was late”. I’m told that’s amazing, but if I say it too much, Junki for example tells me “You are too detailed!” -laughs- However after all, it’s because it’s the coolest when the whole group’s level is high. I’m also working hard, so I hope they will follow me. Keigo and Junki might be the ones whose personalities are very different from mine. Keigo is the optimist. I have a cautious personality and I’m the wishful type who prepares to a great extent. Keigo says something like “We can do it!” and he’s a positive personality. Junki is someone who loudly leads everyone. I’m not really good at speaking loudly -laughs- Junki leads everyone and Sho-kun and I are pushing from behind. I feel that we have attained an amazing balance. There is something that my mother told me often since my childhood and that I value until today. It’s the words that I will always be seen by someone, so I should live with the conscience that I am seen. I try not to forget that. Greeting in a proper way, not ignoring traffic lights and separating trash in the right way are obvious things. When you hope that small kids tell you “Ren-kun is cool, JO1 is cool. I want to become like them.”, it’s not cool to ignore traffic lights in private. I keep in mind that even in the small things of daily life that nothing seems shameful if it’s imitated. That’s serious, isn’t it? -laughs- I’m really serious and not funny. Even during TV appearances I like to answer seriously, but I can’t make any funny comments. Especially in that Keigo and Junki are funny, so I’m just breaking out with laugher at the side. My colour is blue after all. It’s the member colour that JAM have decided for me, but actually right now, I’m learning how to write songs. It’s a bit embarrassing to say but -laughs- some days ago, I wrote a song. The theme of that song is my member colour blue. I've been a crybaby since I was a child. Even before joining JO1, I had a lot of setbacks, worried a lot and just cried. So, blue is the colour of tears. However, a flame is hotter when it is blue than when it’s red. Like the blue flame, quietly and cooly. I have the feeling I want to burn the hottest. I made the song with that feeling. That’s why I like blue. I don’t want to forget gratitude. That I was born, that I was able to become a healthy adult is all thanks to my mother and the surrounding environment. That I was able to debut, is thanks to everyone who voted for me. That I’m able to work, is thanks to everyone who supports me. My life is full of gratitude.
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