SKE48
SKE48 is an all-female Japanese theater/idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. The audition was held during the summer and is set to debut in October 2008. SKE48 will perform in the newly built studio in the renewalled Sunshine Sakae in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, every Saturday. The first SKE48 stage will be a revival of Team A's Party ga Hajimaru yo. They will start performing at Sunshine Sakae from October 15, 2008. By May 2009, they will perform regularly.
Akimoto was offered to start a production in Nagoya along with the renewal of the Sunshin Sakae, when he was thinking of making his "48 project" a nationwide project. He had a couple of offers even from outside of Japan, so he decided to use Nagoya as the place to move on with the project. Akimoto has said that selected members from both AKB48 and SKE48 may release a single, rather than releasing two different singles.[1]
In AKB48's single "Ōgoe Diamond", Matsui Jurina became the first and only member of SKE48 to be featured on a single cover and in the song itself. Including Jurina Matsui, some members of SKE48 have appeared in the PV marking the first collaboration made by the two groups, so far.
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Members
Team S
- Aki Deguchi (March 14, 1988 in Mie)
- Kanako Hiramatsu (November 14, 1991 in Aichi)
- Rikako Hirata (August 7, 1989 in Aichi)
- Mizuki Kuwabara (February 16, 1992 in Kōchi)
- Jurina Matsui (March 8, 1997 in Aichi)
- Rena Matsui (July 27, 1991 in Aichi)
- Yui Matsushita (July 25, 1988 in Fukuoka)
- Sayuki Mori (November 3, 1996 in Aichi)
- Yūka Nakanishi (January 24, 1989 in Aichi)
- Haruka Ono (November 24, 1987 in Ōita)
- Masana Ōya (November 6, 1990 in Aichi)
- Rina Shinkai (August 1, 1992 in Aichi)
- Shiori Takada (July 19, 1990 in Aichi)
- Tsukina Takai (July 6, 1995 in Aichi)
- Kumi Yagami (June 13, 1994 in Aichi)
- Moe Yamashita (October 27, 1992 in Aichi)
Team KII
- Ririna Akaeda (July 3, 1996 in Aichi)
- Airi Furukawa (December 18, 1989 in Aichi)
- Yuri Ichihara (May 15, 1987 in Aichi)
- Shiori Iguchi (March 29, 1995 in Mie)
- Anna Ishida (May 23, 1996 in Aichi)
- Tomoko Katō (April 28, 1987 in Aichi)
- Momona Kitō (February 16, 1994 in Aichi)
- Eiko Maeda (February 25, 1986 in Hyōgo)
- Rina Matsumoto (September 3, 1993 in Aichi)
- Manatsu Mukaida (May 10, 1996 in Aichi)
- Makiko Saito (June 28, 1994 in Ōsaka)
- Mieko Satō (June 24, 1986 in Aichi)
- Seira Satō (April 30, 1992 in Mie)
- Akane Takayanagi (November 29, 1991 in Aichi)
- Mikoto Uchiyama (November 14, 1995 in Mie)
- Reika Yamada (July 28, 1995 in Gifu)
Trainees
- Riho Abiru (July 17, 1993 in Aichi)
- Ayumi Hashimoto (February 5, 1989 in Fukui)
- Seika Hayashi (November 21, 1996 in Aichi)
- Kyōka Isohara (August 8, 1996 in Aichi)
- Rumi Katō (March 9, 1995 in Gifu)
- Aika Maekawa (March 11, 1997 in Aichi)
- Haruka Mano (April 27, 1995 in Aichi)
- Fūka Ōshima (December 2, 1995 in Aichi)
- Aiko Shibaki (October 18, 1990 in Aichi)
- Tomoka Wakabayashi (April 23, 1996 in Aichi)
Former members
- Team S
- Kirara Suzuki (July 31, 1993 in Kanagawa) Graduated on November 24, 2008.
- Trainees
- Honami Inagaki (March 25, 1989 in Aichi) Graduated on April 30, 2009.
- Kiharu Ozeki (December 24, 1994 in Aichi) Graduated on April 30, 2009.
Discography
Singles
強き者よ (Tsuyoki Monoyo)
Debut Single
- Released August 5, 2009
- Track Listing:
- 強き者よ (Tsuyoki Monoyo)
- 強き者よ (Instrumental)
See also
