Cocorico started to do solo activities from around 2000 and from 2005 it has begun to increase. They also started to appear in dramas and get major roles at movies. At 2000's Cocorico's shows like Cocorico Miracle Type and Cocorico Million Kazoku was starting to increase, most of those was broadcast by Fuji TV. The duo won their first prize at 2001, that was the Entertainment Award from the 39th Golden Arrow. At the same year, Cocorico appeared for the first and only time on a drama called Ashita ga Arusa, along many other popular rookie comedians at that time. Ashita Ga Arusa made Tanaka win his first prize at acting, 29th The Television Drama Academy Awards. He won the New Actor Award. At 2002, Tanaka, for his acting in Minna no Ie, won the 25th Japan Academy Awards as Newcomer of the Year and the Popularity prize, the only category in Japan Academy Awards chosen by popular voting. In the 2000's Endō's popular gag "Ho-ho-hoi" became a real trend. He won the 1st place on a High Tension Series from Gaki no Tsukai with this gag. Endō has also garnered much attention for be a good looking comedian, and frequently has ranked in high positions in the Yoshimoto Kōgyō's most handsome entertainers rankings. In 2019 Cocorico was invited to be the hosts of the Tokyo Olympics countdown events. On November 26, 2021, the duo opened their YouTube channel, called "Cocorico Channel", focused on conte. The debut video, "Panda No Shazai Kaiken" (パンダの謝罪会見 "Panda's Apology Press Conference"), surpassed 10,000 views in less than 48 hours. Personal life Although Endo and Tanaka were childhood friends, at their early days as a comedy duo their relationship wasn't good. Hosei Tsukitei related that at those times at Gaki no Tsukai backstage had difficulties to talk with Cocorico members when the three were together. Endo and Tanaka didn't liked when Housei talked only to one of them. Their friendship was recovered with the time passing. Endo married Japanese tarento Chiaki Fujimoto in July 2002. 6 years later, they divorced in December 2007. They have a daughter, Iroha, born in May 2003. In 2015, he later remarried a woman who was an ex-manager of Tsutomu Sekine. Their first son was born in the summer of 2016. Tanaka married japanese model Shie Kohinata in 2003 and had two sons, born in 2004 and 2008. According to