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Japanese female idols, entertainers marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in other performance skills such as acting, dancing, and modeling. Idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements by talent agencies, while maintaining a parasocial ...
Today, over 10,000 teenage girls in Japan are idols, with over 3,000 groups active. Japan's idol industry has been used as a model for other pop idol industries, such as K-pop. Sub-categories of idols include gravure idols, junior idols, net idols, idol voice actors, virtual idols, AV idols, alternative idols, underground idols, Akiba-kei idols ...
This is a list of gravure idols (グラビアアイドル, gurabia aidoru), who are glamour models in Japan that are generally more provocative than regular idols, though not to the point of posing nude.
AKB48 (pronounced A.K.B. Forty-Eight) is a Japanese idol musical girl group named after the Akihabara area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48 has sold more records than any other female musical act in Japanese history. [2]
I. IA (software) Yuri Ichii; Miori Ichikawa; Kaori Iida; Raura Iida; Riho Iida; Rina Ikoma; Akiko Ikuina; Erika Ikuta; Toma Ikuta; Yui Imaizumi; Miyuki Imori; Goro ...
AKB48 is a Japanese idol girl group formed on December 8, 2005. As of 2024, the group consists of 42 members, including 29 official members and 13 trainees. [1] [2]The member lineup often changes as members graduate from the group and are replaced by members promoted from trainee status.
A junior idol (ジュニアアイドル, junia aidoru), also known as a chidol (チャイドル, chaidoru, shortening of the words "child idol") or low teen idol (ローティーンアイドル, rōtīn aidoru), is a type of entertainer under the age of 18 [7] or 16 [8] who are manufactured and marketed for their image, attractiveness and ...
Mikie Hara (原 幹恵, Hara Mikie, born July 3, 1987 in Murakami, Niigata [1]) is a Japanese gravure idol and actress. Her debut role was in Cutie Honey: The Live as the lead role of Honey Kisaragi/Cutie Honey. [2]