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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 ...
A film titled Wake Up, Girls! – Seven Idols (Japanese: Wake Up, Girls! 七人のアイドル, Hepburn: Wake Up, Girls! Shichi-nin no Aidoru) opened in Japan on January 11, 2014, [2] [3] and a television series aired in Japan between January and March 2014. [4] The film was streamed online in 108 countries upon its release.
Kamen Rider Girls (group) Kamiyado (group) Kanjani Eight (group) ... The following is a list of the 20 all-time best-selling Japanese idols in Japan as of 2011, ...
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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]
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.
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 ...