Member Profile: Yamada, Ryosuke

 PROFILE:
Name: Yamada Ryosuke (山田涼介)
Nickname: Yama-chan, Yamada-kun, Ryo-chan
Birthdate: May 9, 1993 (age 19)
Birthplace: Kanagawa, Japan
Blood Type: B
Height: 164cm
Weight: 54kg
Family: Father, mother, younger sister, older sister
Hobbies: Cooking, fishing , reading manga
Admired Senior: Domoto Koichi
Favorite Hey! Say! JUMP Song: "Ultra Music Power"
Favorite Johnny's Song: "Ai no Katamari" by Kinki Kids
Favorite Movie: " Star wars "
Favorite Actors: Ninomiya Kazunari and Morita Go
Favorite Drama: "Remote","Gokusen"
Favorite Food: Strawberry, eggplant, meat
Favorite Color: White, orange, blue
Favorite Sport: Soccer
INFORMATION:

Ryosuke entered Johnny & Associates on August 12, 2004 as a trainee. Among the members of the original Hey! Say! 7, he was the last to enter. He was a member of Johnny's Jrs. group Kitty Jr. until April 3, 2007, when he was made part of the temporary unit Hey! Say! 7 with Arioka Daiki, Takaki Yuya, Nakajima Yuto and Chinen Yuuri.
TRIVIA:

• He has one older sister and one younger sister, Yamada Chihiro and Yamada Misaki.
• He studying in Horikoshi High School, with the other three Hey! Say! JUMP members. Chinen Yuuri, Nakajima Yuto and Morimoto Ryutaro are some examples of Johnny's idols that have studied/are studying in Horikoshi High School. Hey! Say! JUMP members who went to Horikoshi High School Arioka Daiki, Yaotome Hikaru, and Yabu Kota
• He has the biggest fanbase within Hey! Say! JUMP.
• He was the most popular member of Johnny's Junior before he debuted as Hey! Say! JUMP and is the most popular member of Hey! Say! JUMP now.
• Since the agency knows the popularity of Ryosuke, people that working at the concert make more of his goods than the other 9 members' so it wouldn't be sold out, because they don't want the differences in popularity(the number of fans) to be so obvious.
• He thinks that collecting coins is fun.
• He is currently learning how to speak Korean.
• He is very close to Nakajima Yuto.
• He says he does not want to have a girlfriend yet because he wants to be more successful in his career.
• He doesn’t like criticism.
• He is a loud person
• He gained of 20 Jr. Awards in 2008 which broke Akanishi Jin’s (KAT-TUN) record of 16 Jr. Awards and is currently the most award winner.
• He has received many awards and is usually in the top 5 in rankings. Some of the awards are: Best Actor (2007), Best Helping Actor (2007), Most wanted as a boyfriend (2007 and 2008), Most wanted as a pet, Most wanted as a brother, Most wanted as a senior at school, Most wanted as a friend, Want to Kiss, Nicest, Most good-looking, Best at cooking, Most in style, Best to go for help, Most sexy, Most likely to be a good father, Want to go to Karaoke together, Funniest, Best Photo of the Year (2007,in a magazine), Star Raking (1st place(2007 and 2008), 3rd place(2007 and 2008), etc.), Favorite Male On-Screen Talent(1st place, 2 times), Most likely to have a major breakthrough in 2008, etc
• He gained the largest popularity in the TV drama Tantei Gakuen Q.
• At Hey! Say! JUMP concerts, the screams of fans are the loudest when Ryosuke sings since he is the most popular.
• He likes hanging out with other Hey! Say! JUMP members, especially with Nakajima Yuto.
• He began to become friends with Yuto when Yuto asked him to walk home together after school.
• He treasures his two pet guinea pigs, his rabbit, and his hamster.
• He is afraid of ghosts, dark places, and airplanes.
• He likes girls who are kind and honest.
• When they were filming the Pv of Ultra Music Power, he and Nakajima Yuto fought over Chinen Yuuri for being their younger brother.
• He joined Johnny's Jimusho at age 12. He got interested after going to a KinKi Kids concert, but it were his parents that sent his application without telling him.
• He had already done some modeling before joining Johnny's. He was already in a magazine when he was only 6 years old.
• When he auditioned Johnny's Entertaiment with Morimoto Ryutaro, he would always be with him.
• His parents were going to name him Shinnosuke at first, but there was a manga character with the same name and they thought he might get bullied for it.
• Besides his family, Chinen is the only one to call him by his first name, Ryosuke. Everyone else calls him either Yamada or Yamachan, though he'd like to be called Ryosuke.
• He says chubby cheeks are his charm point.
• He refers JUMP member Arioka Daiki as his best friend. Daiki knows all his secrets, and they can talk about everything.
• He usually wears a jersey to sleep. It's black with golden lines in it.
• He's known for being a strawberry maniac. He eats them so much that he's afraid his face will turn red!
• He also dreams about a pool filled with strawberries.
• Despite all that, he actually prefers soft cream/vanilla instead of strawberry flavor, when it comes to ice cream.
• The "I love you" he says during Hitomi no Screen -lives is made up by him, when he was told to say something in it. Although he suggested it himself, he feels very embarrassed everytime he does it.
• He's not skilled with using a computer, and usually needs Chinen's help.
• He has beat all JUMP members in arm-wrestling.
• His eyesight has gotten a lot worse since his debut, and nowadays he needs glasses almost all the time. He usually wears contacts, but always carrys glasses with him.
• He always sings Ai no Katamari by KinKi Kids in karaoke. He also refers to it as his favourite song.
• He can play the trumpet a little, and would like to learn saxophone.
• When he was little, he wanted to become Ultra man. Later he changed it to (more realistic) soccer player.
• He's afraid of ghosts, but interested in them.
• Some fans having been stalking Yamada and the rest of the Hey! Say! JUMP members. Some went to far by putting hidden cameras in Yamada's house. There are some fans that camp outside their houses.
• He loves the sea. Because of it, he also dreams about a vacation in Dubai, and mentiones it all the time.
• If he sees peoples with pimples on anyone's face or anywhere, he'll rush and pop it.
• His cellphone wallpaper is his dog Ku wearing sunglasses, and his ringtone is Chiisana Koi no Uta by Mongol 800.
• He hates rollercoasters. Once Daiki forced him to go into one and made him cry. Twice.
• His favourite type of sushi is anago (conger eel).
• One of his hobbies is skateboarding, but later he's become also interested in J-board. It's similar to a skateboard, except that it has only two wheels and it narrows in the middle.
• Daiki got him interested in air guns, and nowadays there's 7 of them in his collection.
• He also collects manga and has over 300 of them.
• He's known from making monomanes (impersonations). His specials are Yamashita Tomohisa, Bobby Ologon and for the latest, Japanese dub of T-Bag from Prison Break.
• When asked what he would do with 1,000,000 yen, he said he'd buy a sloth. He loves them and thinks they have a special aura.
• He is the second Hey! Say! JUMP member to have his ear pierced.