NEXZ: Members, Music, Videos and 2026 Group Guide
Group profile and current lineup
| Members | TOMOYA, YU, HARU, SO GEON, SEITA, HYUI and YUKI |
|---|---|
| Companies | JYP Entertainment and Sony Music |
| Formation | Nizi Project Season 2 |
| Global debut | May 20, 2024 |
| Current status | Active seven-member group across Korean and Japanese markets |
| Fandom | NEX2Y |
Seven members, two markets, one deliberately strange performance identity—and a publicity trail international fans should not have to reconstruct alone.
BLUF: the current NEXZ lineup
NEXZ is the seven-member global boy group formed through Nizi Project Season 2: TOMOYA, YU, HARU, SO GEON, SEITA, HYUI and YUKI. JYP Entertainment and Sony Music launched the group across Korean and Japanese markets, beginning with the pre-debut “Miracle” in December 2023 and the formal global debut Ride the Vibe on May 20, 2024.
As of August 2026, all seven remain current members. None has a verified solo music release requiring separate Artist routing. Every name below opens one canonical member page that carries biography, career context and the exact-video tracker without duplicating identity.
Why NEXZ exists
The name compresses “Next Z(G)eneration,” connecting the final group to Nizi Project while framing the members as a team intended to open a new era. The corporate phrase only becomes meaningful when the catalog does something with it. NEXZ’s best material answers through unstable grooves, playful concepts and choreography that looks clean without becoming polite.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
From an audition to Miracle
Nizi Project Season 2 was a JYP and Sony Music audition project, not a documentary with neutral cameras. The final seven performed “Miracle,” then released Japanese and Korean versions on December 18, 2023. That song belongs in the pre-debut chronology: it records the lineup’s formation, but it does not move the formal debut date.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
Ride the Vibe and the global debut
Ride the Vibe arrived on May 20, 2024 and established a useful tension between confidence and uncertainty. The production bends rather than marches. The choreography depends on rebound, body angle and a shared sense of timing, which lets the group appear young without making inexperience the entire concept.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
Keep on Moving and the Japanese debut
The August 21 Japanese EP paired “Ride the Vibe (Japanese Ver.)” with “Keep on Moving” and reached number one on Oricon’s daily album ranking. The Korean-version performance video deserves its own React because the arrangement and camera make ensemble mechanics unusually visible. It is bright, but it is not empty calories.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
NALLINA: making noise on purpose
The first mini album NALLINA arrived in November 2024. Its louder percussion and mischievous posture could have become chaos for its own sake. The group’s advantage was formation discipline: seven personalities pushed at the frame, while the choreography kept the song legible.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
The 2025 expansion
O-RLY? extended the comic confidence, One Bite anchored a Japanese national tour and the tour itself covered eighteen performances in fifteen cities with more than 50,000 attendees. Beat-Boxer added another harder performance edge. This was the year NEXZ stopped looking like a promising debut package and started looking like a working touring group.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
The 2026 chapter
The One Bite Budokan concert film reached number one on Oricon’s weekly music DVD and Blu-ray ranking in February. Mmchk followed on April 27, won Show Champion on May 6 and pushed the group’s physical sales to a career high. The Hellmate arena dates and Japan EP then kept the Korean and Japanese calendars connected.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
Sound and performance identity
NEXZ is strongest when the beat behaves like a moving floor. Members have to negotiate bounce, interruption and sudden changes in emphasis rather than simply landing on a square count. That design makes individual habits visible: Tomoya organizes, Haru cuts cleanly, Hyui accelerates, Seita settles and the full lineup keeps the weirdness coherent.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
International-follow rant: the trail is too fragmented
Outside Korea and Japan, following NEXZ closely can feel like doing unpaid archive work. A Korean comeback notice lives in one ecosystem, a Japanese physical edition in another, performance clips appear on different official channels and region-limited fan-club benefits are mixed into the same search results. The lack of one clear global calendar creates the illusion that nothing is happening.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
How to follow without rumor accounts
Bookmark the official profile and discography. Subscribe to NEXZ’s Official Artist Channel and JYP Entertainment. Follow Sony Music’s NEXZ notices for Japanese releases, and check the official news page before treating a translation screenshot as fact. Use fan translators for access, then click through to the original date, title and status language whenever possible.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
What the companies could fix
One bilingual global schedule would do more than another week of cryptic teaser fragments. Every notice should link the exact official video, identify whether the release is Korean or Japanese, state whether a physical edition is region-limited and preserve an accessible archive after the promotion ends. International interest cannot follow information it cannot reliably locate.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
The no-duplicate profile rule
A group profile owns roster, shared discography and group tracking. A member page owns one person’s chronology. That same page becomes an Artist profile only after a verified solo release; it is never cloned. NEXZ currently has seven member pages and zero separate solo-artist identities.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
RaeRae verdict
NEXZ does not need a manufactured mystery. The interesting story is already on screen: seven performers learning how to make cheerful material strange, hard material playful and two-market promotion feel like one career. The frustration is not a lack of work. It is that international fans have to assemble the work from too many official drawers.
The practical test is the official record: verify the date, watch the exact upload and separate current membership from temporary participation or market-specific promotion.
NEXZ group facts
- Name: NEXZ, pronounced “next z”
- Formation: Nizi Project Season 2
- Global debut: May 20, 2024 with “Ride the Vibe”
- Japanese debut: August 21, 2024 with the Ride the Vibe / Keep on Moving EP
- Companies: JYP Entertainment and Sony Music Entertainment Japan
- Members: Tomoya, Yu, Haru, So Geon, Seita, Hyui and Yuki
- Fandom: NEX2Y
- Current status: Active seven-member group; SAUCIN’ released August 24, 2026
Formation: Nizi Project Season 2
NEXZ came through the second season of JYP and Sony’s Nizi Project. Tomoya, Yu, Haru, So Geon, Seita, Hyui and Yuki were selected from a program built for a Japan-facing boy group with Korean training infrastructure. The final lineup is seven; eliminated contestants remain part of the show, not hidden current members.
“Miracle” arrived as the pre-debut digital mini album in December 2023. It belongs in the formation chapter because the seven were publicly fixed, but the global debut date remains May 20, 2024, when “Ride the Vibe” entered the Korean market as the official first single.
Seven members and a performance-first center
Tomoya leads with JYP trainee experience and a habit of making difficult choreography look socially connected. Yu brings a calmer visual center and steady movement. Haru attacks rhythm with a dancer’s clarity, while So Geon supplies the Korean-Japanese bridge and a vocal color that keeps the group from becoming all percussion.
Seita works through line and expression. Hyui adds compact energy and growing writing participation. Yuki, the youngest, gives the upper register and the quick changes in expression that the brighter material needs. Credits and later releases can expand those roles; this page does not freeze seven teenagers into audition-show labels.
Ride the Vibe and two debut doors
“Ride the Vibe” uses unstable floor, clipped rhythm and a deliberately restrained hook to introduce a group interested in movement more than instant vocal grandeur. The Korean single is the global debut. The August Japanese EP is a separate market debut with its own version and “Keep on Moving.”
The Korean version of “Keep on Moving” arrived September 23, 2024 as a separate single and performance video. Its exact React below uses the Korean-version title and local canonical image. The Japanese original does not inherit that review automatically.
NALLINA, O-RLY? and noise with a point
“NALLINA” increased the impact without asking the seven to become generic tough rookies. The track is noisy on purpose, built around how bodies hit pauses and how a group can make disorder look rehearsed. O-RLY? followed in April 2025 with comedy folded into the structure rather than pasted over a serious song.
The catalog does not hold one fixed genre. Performance timing is the connective tissue: who creates the interruption, who releases it and whether the chorus gives the choreography somewhere to go.
One Bite and Beat-Boxer
The Japanese EP One Bite arrived in July 2025 and became a touring-scale hook rather than a dainty food metaphor. The exact review below tracks its official video and the way appetite becomes group momentum. The Budokan live release in February 2026 documents how quickly the songs moved from rookie rooms to a larger stage.
Beat-Boxer followed in October 2025, including an English version released four days later. Language variants stay separate in the tracker. One canonical image cannot stand in for both because the upload, metadata and audience promise differ.
Mmchk, Hellmate and SAUCIN’
“Mmchk” arrived April 27, 2026 with members participating in lyrics and a title built around refusing prescribed manners. The Japanese EP Hellmate followed June 24. SAUCIN’, the fourth Korean mini album, was released August 24 and is the current chapter as of this audit.
JYP’s current release page and NEXZ’s official discography list all seven members and the full sequence. That direct catalogue evidence outranks an old profile that stops at “Ride the Vibe” and calls itself current.
Current status in August 2026
NEXZ remains Tomoya, Yu, Haru, So Geon, Seita, Hyui and Yuki. No member departure or hiatus is current. SAUCIN’ and the 2026 live schedule establish an operating seven-member group across Korean and Japanese markets.
The page preserves two debut dates because they answer different questions. It does not split one group into Korean NEXZ and Japanese NEXZ, and it does not merge different-language videos into one tracker row.
Two companies create two filing systems
JYP’s Korean notice board and the Sony-supported Japanese site do not always publish the same material in the same order. That fragmentation can make a current fan feel as if one market disappeared whenever the other posts first. The hub therefore records country, language, release date and official source instead of choosing one company’s navigation as the whole truth.
This is also why “Japanese debut” and “global debut” both appear in the facts box. May 20 and August 21 are not competing answers. They identify two releases and two market entrances by the same seven-member group.
Member participation is becoming measurable
All seven have appeared in JYP Publishing records as writers or composers, while individual projects give different members different levels of credit. The tracker names actual credits release by release. “Self-producing” is not awarded as a permanent personality badge after one lyric line, but member work is not erased because JYP still supplies professional producers.
Fandom file: NEX2Y
NEX2Y is the official fandom name and the name of the active Japanese fan club. It is a wordplay connection between NEXZ and the people beside them on the way to the “next” stage.
The fan club’s current ticket, magazine and member-content services are useful evidence that the name remains active. Release dates and credits still come from JYP, Sony and the official discography.
Official music video tracker
- “Miracle” — seven-member pre-debut project
- “Ride the Vibe” — May 2024 global debut
- “Keep on Moving” — Japanese debut track; Korean-version performance has its own exact React below
- “NALLINA,” “O-RLY?,” “Beat-Boxer,” “Mmchk,” “SAUCIN’” — Korean title sequence
- “One Bite,” Hellmate chapter — Japanese catalogue; exact One Bite React below
RaeRae verdict
NEXZ is most convincing when the song gives seven dancers a problem instead of one synchronized answer. The floor can bend, the hook can interrupt itself and the members can make the instability look chosen.
The companies need a less fragmented international trail, but the group is not waiting for the website architecture to catch up. Seven members released three projects in 2026 before August ended. The hub should move at least that fast.
Current member profiles
TOMOYA
Tomoya makes difficult choreography feel social rather than mechanical. His strongest habit is distributing energy across the formation: he can pull focus when the song needs a center, then return it to the group without looking switched off. Read the full TOMOYA profile.
YU
Yu gives NEXZ a composed visual line, but the useful analysis begins after the close-up. He controls pace, finishes shapes cleanly and lets a quieter expression make the brighter members around him read more clearly. Read the full YU profile.
HARU
Haru is the precision specialist whose clean angles, controlled weight changes and exact expressions keep complicated formations readable. He does not need to overstate a move for the viewer to understand its finish. Read the full HARU profile.
SO GEON
So Geon is a tonal hinge. He can put a little grit into a polished arrangement, then move back into the group blend without making the change feel pasted on. His performance reads best when the concept allows some mischief. Read the full SO GEON profile.
SEITA
Seita performs with an unusually calm center. He can hold an eye line without freezing the phrase, and that restraint gives the group a necessary pocket of stillness when the production becomes busy. Read the full SEITA profile.
HYUI
Hyui keeps energy bright without making it weightless. His attack is quick, his facial changes are readable and he can move from a focused verse into a loose group section without looking like two performers were stitched together. Read the full HYUI profile.
YUKI
Yuki’s higher vocal color gives NEXZ lift, but youth is not a musical position. His progress is clearest in steadier entrances, firmer breath choices and the confidence to let a line stay simple. Read the full YUKI profile.
Official video archive notes
Sources
- NEXZ official profile
- NEXZ official discography
- Sony Music official NEXZ profile
- JYP Entertainment NEXZ artist site
A clean grid is part of discovery. Two completed Reacts produce two cards; removing duplicate legacy summaries makes the choice clearer without shrinking the actual catalogue history documented above.
