Talk:Jean Luc Ponpon/@comment-26503811-20170217054326

After I've seen Japanese and English-speaking fans alike talking about Jean Luc Ponpon after the BNM preview, I've tried to do some digging on them. 🕵️ Because this is speculation I didn't want to add it to the page.

The members are believed to be all five or only a few of the "The Middle Management ~Josei Chuukan Kanrishoku~" composers/arrangers: Daniel Merlot, Tsunoda Takanori, Aurélien Poudat, Stefan Broadley, and Hyon D. However none of them mention being in Jean Luc Ponpon on their official websites/social media. I can only find anyone-can-edit sites (like the English wiki that only cites another anyone-can-edit site) claiming that any of them are in Jean Luc Ponpon.

Luckily, I found that Tsunoda Takanori and Aurélien Poudat posted the same photo to their Twitter and Instagram of them working in the studio with Daniel Merlot in October 2016 (Tsunoda out of shot). Poudat was kind enough to let us know what they were working on by tagging his with #helloproject and #ハロプロ. Going further into his Instagram, I eventually found Poudat's inactive "Road to Music Producer" blog, and in a post he finally says that he works with two other people in Japan which leads to me to believe that Jean Luc Ponpon is just the three of them.

Also, Poudat's Instagram is quite revealing:

TL;DR Jean Luc Ponpon is most likely Daniel Merlot, Tsunoda Takanori, and Aurélien Poudat but they haven't said so. Follow Poudat's Instagram for sporadic production leaks.
 * In March 2015, he was apparently working on a song for ANGERME, but he has never been credited for one so I wonder what became of it...
 * In July 2016, he had a meeting with UF about a Morning Musume song that he then began working on. He had another meeting in August. If this was "Mukidashi de Mukiatte" which wasn't announced until September, I'm surprised his Instagram photos went unnoticed until now.