The 'Despair' After the Forum, Graduation from Oneness FES, and Future Activities

Good morning! This is Genkai.

As a premise,
the 1,500-person event at the Tokyo International Forum
was a huge success, I enjoyed it from the bottom of my heart, and
truly, it was a joy like no other!

I have been holding Oneness FES for 5 years
because I genuinely wanted to create a stage where everyone could shine at the same time
and release their true selves.

While doing it in this style, at the same time, I personally
also had the feeling that I myself as an artist
was not growing.I really did.

This time, because there were so many people who came to the Tokyo International Forum
for the first time or saw Genkai for the first time, from their perspective,

'So this is what Genkai Shota's stage is like!'
'It was amazing!'

Some people said that, and I am grateful, but
I had a conflict within myself.

For the past few years, I felt like I was doing the same thing, and in a sense,
it had become a 'copy and paste of the past'.

In business terms, it might be a success formula.
A template where if you do this = you succeedexists, so
that is whymanagement works.

But unexpectedly,I felt a sense of discomfort with that.

To put it bluntly, I did similar things this year to what I did
at 'Zepp TOKYO' last year.

The act of repeating the same thingis,
as a leader promoting the [100 Million Artist Era],
I thought it was an 'unforgivable act'.
I really thought so.

The event was a success and the 148 performers
said they enjoyed it, but

this time, due to the background I mentioned above,'I despaired in myself'.That is what happened.

Because I am an artist, in the end, continuing to do the same thing,
not taking on new challenges, playing it safe to make the event
a success and earn money, when I thought about whether that is

'truly wealthy',I thought,
'It's not really that wealthy',I really thought so.

So, I decided I wanted to flip the table on everything
once and for all here.

I also realized that I had been running towards a kind of 'power game'
of increasing the capacity of large-scale events.

I thought that if I kept expanding in larger venues,
I might be able to 'see something new'.

And, this is the biggest reason for my despair, but...

Even as I increased the scale of the venue,
I realized that 'I was not moved any differently'.

Strangely enough, since the Billboard LIVE Tokyo show two years ago,
the range of my emotional resonance hasn't changed.

Even if the venue gets bigger, the way I tremble and the vibration remain the same.

That's why I want to make it tremble even more,
and I want to do something even scarier (laughs).

I'm no longer afraid
of holding Oneness FES.

If I wanted to hold it in a larger venue than this,
I think I could do it
if I forced it using marketing power.

In that moment, I robbed myself
of my own vision.

For about three days after the forum ended,
I couldn't articulate my words and could barely speak.

I even thought, maybe it would be okay
if I just disappeared from this world as I am,
and I became super negative.

With no vision or dreams left,
I wondered what I should do starting next year...

'Will I even be able to live from next year on?'
I became depressed thinking things like that.

So, thinking this is bad, I meditated,
did Pilates, and stared into myself while repeating
a call-and-response with my inner self.

I realized that what's important to me now
isn't 'numbers' or 'size'.

When I thought about doing something else,
I imagined an environment where no one knows Shota Genkai,
and the language isn't even understood.

I want to do street performances overseas,
where I assume no one would even listen to my singing.

That's what I wrote in my birthday post the other day.

In an environment where absolutely no one knows who Shota Genkai is,
I want to test my


pure ability as an artistto see how many people stop and how many people listen.

When I dare to sing in an environment where no one is listening to me anyway,
if there is even one person there who listens
and is moved by it,
the joy will be immense.

When that happens,
I thought I might be able to think again,
'I am still allowed to sing. I am still allowed to express myself.'


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So,I am graduating from Oneness FES!
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And I also thought that someone other than me
should go ahead and hold the 'Oneness FES' next!
I thought that too.

Because, you know, I've been doing it for 5 years and it's been successful,
so I've created a template or a model.
If you imitate that, you can do it to some extent.

That's why,it's not a negative graduation,
but a feeling of returning to the basics.
Reaching the 10th anniversary, I am being reborn. It's a re-entrepreneurship.

From 10 years ago when I started my business from scratch,
the 'let's work hard and get the company on track!'
or 'let's contribute to our customers!!' kind of feeling

I realized that I had lost that pure enthusiasm and feeling from back then,
and I felt that I had become a complacent entrepreneur
over the past 10 years.

That is also why,'Genkai Juku'

The reason why I am giving everything I have,
like the 139 bonuses this time or the total of 1550 hours of bonus content,
to the point where there is nothing more to give,
is because of that.

I will surrender and let go of everything I currently possess.

I want to clear the land, plant new seeds again,pour water,
let the sun shine, and have new sprouts come out little by little,
and I want to make different flowers bloom than before,that is my
state of mind.

10 full years of entrepreneurship.Truly, it is back to zero from here.
That is the determinationbehind it.Genkai Juku is.

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Finally, I want to convey this to those who have been supporting
my activities as Shota Genkai, resonating with the flag I have been raising since 2019,
'Aiming for the Nippon Budokan in 2025!'

and cheering me on.

Once this year, I will return both my music and business activities to zero,
and when I have grown again,

I feel that a day will come when I can
fill the Nippon Budokan in a sense that is not
about influencer marketing or brute force as it has been until now.

I feel that a day will come when I can do that.

Conversely, if things stayed as they were, I think I would have likely
been satisfied with achieving worldly success by
utilizing brute-force marketing.

That is why I released Genkai Juku because I also wantcompanions who can see that up close
to join me.

It is not that I have put a period on the dream of the Nippon Budokan,
but rather that I have placed a large comma.

■ For now, a turning point ■

Letting go once. And I already know thatbecause I let go,
there are things that will come in.

So I have stopped obsessing over it.

If it is truly necessary for my life, it will come to me
on its own. I trust the universe.


I absolutely believe there is nothing more correct than one's own intuition.

Intuition isthe number one evidence
and the number one basis.

There is nothing in this world that you should do
at the expense of the feeling of wanting to do it.

This was my honest report regarding the 'despair' that occurred after the forum,
my graduation from 'Oneness FES', and my future activities!!!

Thank you for reading this long post.
Please continue to support me in the future!!

Shota Genkai