is a singer and a former member of the Japanese all-girl pop group

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Biography

In December 2005, Oshima became one of the 24 inaugural members of

's Team A. Over the course of her career, she participated in most of AKB48's A-side singles. On April 26, 2007, it was announced that her contract would be transferred to

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. Upon joining the new talent agency, she was put on the roster of Xanadu loves NHC, a

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team consisting of idols from Horipro; her jersey number was 18. Oshima made her first appearance on '' Kouhaku Uta Gassen'', an annual music show where the most successful artists compete, with AKB48 on December 31, 2007. On March 24, 2008, she participated in the opening party of Channel Café, a channel broadcasting simulator event, at

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, Tokyo. From April 2008, Oshima appeared regularly on the Movie Plus navigating show, ''Plus Style''. On February 21, 2009, she announced that she would be leaving AKB48, and, on April 26, she gave her final performance at NHK Hall. Oshima made her solo debut in 2010 with the single "Mendokusai Aijō". It reached number seven and charted for 5 weeks. In 2012, she debut as an actress in the

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drama ''

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''.

Discography

Singles

* (May 5, 2010) – Oricon Peak: 7, sales: 16,447 * (August 11, 2010) – Oricon Peak: 25, sales: 6,501 * "Second Lady" (July 27, 2011) – Oricon peak: 44, sales: 2,804

Filmography

Films

* '' Crayon Shin-chan: The Storm Called: The Singing Buttocks Bomb'' (2007), Sarara * ''Torihada: Gekijōban 2'' (2014)

Dubbing

* ''

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'' (2011)

TV dramas

Bibliography

Photobooks

* ''B.L.T. vivid 2'' (Tokyo News Service, March 21, 2008) * ''Benkyō Sasete Itadakimashita'' (

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, September 10, 2008) * ''Fairy Tale'' (Wani Books, January 25, 2010)

References

External links

* at Avex
Official agency profile
at HoriPro
Mai Oshima
at Oricon {{DEFAULTSORT:Oshima, Mai AKB48 members People from Noda, Chiba Japanese women pop singers Voice actresses from Chiba Prefecture Avex Trax artists Living people 1987 births Japanese gravure idols Japanese voice actresses Japanese television personalities Musicians from Chiba Prefecture 21st-century Japanese women singers 21st-century Japanese singers 21st-century Japanese actresses