Tokyo Girls' Style (東京女子流) is a Japanese idol girl group created by Avex Trax. Originally consisting of five members, Miyu Yamabe, Hitomi Arai, Yuri Nakae, Ayano Konishi and Mei Shyoji, the group was the first idol group that Avex had created in seven years. Konishi retired from the group in December 2015.
The group's name symbolizes that the group is full of surprises and it is unknown how they would develop in the future, much like Tokyo's image. They also hope that they can one day emulate Tokyo's success in areas such as entering overseas markets and coming up with their own unique style.
Avex created the group Tokyo Girls' Style in 2009 to capitalize on the rising demand for Japanese idol girl groups, a trend fueled by the success of the female idol group AKB48. Members of the group later said that they had previously worked with this record label before, and were reportedly encouraged to audition for the new group. On December 1, 2009 the Japanese media made reports about this new group, though Avex kept the identities of the group's members a secret until January 1, 2010. From January 1 to January 5, 2010, Avex gradually released more information on the members of the group and launched the group's official website.
The group's debut single, "Kirari" (キラリ☆ , lit. "Sparkling"), was released on May 5, 2010, reaching a peak position of 30th place on the Oricon charts. Their second single, "Onnaji Kimochi" (おんなじキモチ, "Same Feeling"), was subsequently released on May 19, 2010. Their first album, Kodou no Himitsu, which is a compilation of their previous singles, was released in Japan on May 4, 2011. This album peaked at the 25th position on the Oricon charts.
In order to break into other Asian markets, Tokyo Girls' Style re-recorded the song in their second single, "Onnaji Kimochi", in Mandarin Chinese. This version of the song was included in the album entitled 心跳的秘密 (Xīntiào de mìmì), which was released in Taiwan on May 4, 2011, and in Hong Kong one week later. The group admitted that "They were worried that their singing is not good because the Chinese pronunciation is so hard [to grasp]."
There is no schedule or ticket right now.
日本、〒150-0043 東京都渋谷区道玄坂２丁目２９−５ 渋谷プライム6F Map
This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Tokyo", "Tokyo Girls' Style", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.
Content listed above is edited and modified some for making article reading easily. All content above are auto generated by service.
All images used in articles are placed as quotation. Each quotation URL are placed under images.
All maps provided by Google.