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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 ...
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]
On July 23, 2024, Kawaii Lab. announced that they would form a new girl group. [1] The group's name "Cutie Street" and eight members were revealed on July 30. Before joining Cutie Street, Risa Furusawa and Kana Itakura were models, Aika Sano was an actress, Ayano Masuda and Miyu Umeda were members of A♡Z (2021) and Lapilaz (2022–2023), Emiru Kawamoto was a member of Amorecarina Tokyo (2015 ...
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 is a Japanese idol girl group formed on December 8, 2005. As of 2024, the group consists of 45 members, including 29 official members and 16 trainees. [1] [2]The member lineup often changes as members graduate from the group and are replaced by members promoted from trainee status.
The following is a list of the 20 all-time best-selling Japanese idols in Japan as of 2011, according to the Japanese music television program Music Station. [ 1 ] Rank
Keekihime became interested in Japanese culture after playing the video game Tales of Symphonia, which she received as a Christmas gift. [3] [4] At the time, she was also a fan of Japanese anime and manga, with her first manga series being Minami-ke, as well as Japanese idol singers, particularly Hello!
Japanese-Korean idols (日韓アイドル, Nikkan aidoru): While Japan and South Korea agencies have created collaborative idol groups in the past, with Route 0 in 2002, [55] during the third Korean wave in the mid-to-late 2010s, the term saw usage again to refer to collaborative idol groups promoting primarily in Japan, but with music, styling ...