GANG PARADE Is Disbanding on October 29 — Inside a Decade of WACK Idol Culture and Its First-Ever UK Tour

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One of WACK idol agency's longest-running groups is heading toward its final show — and spending its last months on the road further from home than ever before.

The End of a 12-Year Run

GANG PARADE will disband on October 29, 2026, with a final one-man live, "GANG PARADE LAST SAY HELLO!!," at Zepp Haneda. The date and venue were revealed at "GANGFUL PARADE," a free outdoor show held June 20 at Kabukicho Tower Stage in Shinjuku marking the release of the group's farewell compilation album, "GANG FINALE."

WACK's "Chapter 1" Comes to a Close

GANG PARADE's disbandment is part of a larger shift at WACK: agency head Junnosuke Watanabe declared the end of the label's "Chapter 1" in December 2025, with five groups — GANG PARADE, KiSS KiSS, ASP, BiTE A SHOCK, and ExWHYZ — set to disband. ASP and BiTE A SHOCK have already done so. Before its own ending, GANG PARADE is playing its first-ever overseas shows this August: three UK dates in Manchester, Bristol, and London, as part of the group's farewell "SO LONG TOUR" — the largest tour by venue count in its history.

What To Know

A 12-year-old group choosing to end its career with its first overseas tour, rather than skipping international dates entirely, says something specific about how WACK idol culture treats a farewell — as one last, genuine expansion of the group's reach, not just a victory-lap tour of home venues.

WACK's "chapter" structure — explicitly framing its idol groups' lifespans as a bounded, planned era rather than an indefinite ongoing project — reflects a distinct philosophy within Japanese idol culture, where many agencies instead try to extend a group's run as long as commercially viable; WACK's founder has been notably open about treating group endings as a deliberate creative choice.

What Fans Are Saying

• "Spending their last months touring the UK for the first time is such a meaningful way to close things out."
• "WACK treating group lifespans as deliberate chapters is such a different philosophy from most idol agencies."
• "12 years is a genuinely long run for an idol group — this is a real ending, not just a lineup change."

Original Japanese

• 「最後にイギリス初ツアーを行うのは意味のある締めくくり方」
• 「グループの寿命を意図的な『章』として扱うWACKの哲学は他とは違う」
• 「12年はアイドルグループとして本当に長い活動期間、単なるメンバー変更ではなく本当の終わり」

Easy Japanese

アイドルグループ「GANG PARADE」が、10月29日に解散することが発表されました。今は初めての海外ツアーでイギリスを回っています。