2016 is gone, and what a year it was for Arama! Japan! We had many popular posts over the past year, but which ones received the most comments?

The post with the most comments from 2016 was “Disbandment of SMAP Confirmed!” with 355 comments. Next was “Blind Item: 17-year-old pregnant after orgy with “super popular” idols?” with 352 comments. And rounding out the top 3 is “Utada Hikaru Is the Least Interesting Thing about ‘Fantôme'” with 341 comments. It should be noted that these are now Arama! Japan’s 3 most commented on posts, garnering more comments than our former most commented on post, the 319 comments of 2014’s “Tourists upset over Arashi concert; call it ‘psychological torture’, ‘awful'”.

Check out the rest of 2016’s top 10 below!

1. Disbandment of SMAP Confirmed!: 355 comments

2. Blind Item: 17-year-old pregnant after orgy with “super popular” idols?: 352 comments

3. Utada Hikaru Is the Least Interesting Thing about “Fantôme”: 341 comments

4. Is Arashi’s Matsumoto Jun Involved with a JAV Actress?: 301 comments

5. Has SMAP Disbanded?: 239 comments

6. Which Johnny & Associates members have the most sex appeal?: 216 comments

7. Gesu no Kiwami Otome. / indigo la End’s Kawatani Enon Is Secretly Married and Having Affair with Becky: 208 comments

8. Former KAT-TUN member, Taguchi Junnosuke to release solo Single!: 208 comments

9. LDH Revealed to Use Bribery to Win Japan Record Awards: 176 comments

10. Utada Hikaru, Kinki Kids, Arashi, and more announced for Kohaku Uta Gassen: 166 comments

 

Note: Some of the articles may have a different number of comments on the article itself, but this ranking was done by looking at the total comments on the admin panel.