is a former member of multiple
Japanese idol
An is a type of entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese popular culture, Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in other performance skills such as acting, dancing, and modeling. Idol ...
girl group
A girl group is a music act featuring two or more women in music, female singers who generally vocal harmony, harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female p ...
s. She is a former member of
NMB48
NMB48 (read "N.M.B. Forty-eight") is a Japanese idol group that debuted in 2011 as the second sister group to AKB48, produced by Yasushi Akimoto. NMB48 is named after the Namba district in Osaka city of Osaka Prefecture, where the group is based ...
's Team BII, and a former member of
SKE48
SKE48 (S.K.E. Forty-eight) is a Japanese idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. SKE48 is named after the Sakae, Nagoya, Sakae district in Nagoya of Aichi Prefecture, where the group is based. The group performs at SKE48 Theater on 2F of Sunshi ...
's Team S. She was also on
AKB48
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. AK ...
Team B.
Career
Watanabe passed NMB48's first-generation auditions on 20 September 2010, and debuted on 9 October the same year. Her theater debut was on 1 January 2011.
On 10 March 2011, she was selected to form NMB48's Team N. Watanabe and
Sayaka Yamamoto
is a Japanese singer-songwriter signed to Universal Sigma. She is a former member of the girl group NMB48, where she served as captain, and a former concurrent member of AKB48. She made her debut as a solo artist in October 2016 with her firs ...
were chosen as a ''senbatsu'' member for AKB48's 21st single "
Everyday, Katyusha". Watanabe held an AKB48 Team B concurrent position from March 2012 to April 2014. Following that, she has a concurrent position in SKE48's Team S since April 2014.
In AKB48's 2013 general elections, Watanabe placed 15th. In AKB48's Janken Tournament in 2014, she won first place, and had a solo debut. Her first solo single, "Yasashiku Suru Yori Kiss o Shite", was released on 24 December 2014.
On March 26, 2015, it was announced that her concurrent position in SKE48 would be canceled.
On April 13, 2016, she announced her graduation.
On July 3 to 4, 2016, Watanabe's graduation concert titled "Until The End Warukī, I'm Sorry" was held at
Kobe World Memorial Hall.
Watanabe graduated from the group and had her last stage performance on August 9, 2016.
Discography
Solo albums
Solo singles
NMB48 singles
SKE48 singles
AKB48 singles
Appearances
Stage units
;''NMB48 Kenkyusei Stage ''
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;''NMB48 Team N 2nd Stage ''
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;''AKB48 Waiting Stage''
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;''NMB48 Team N 3rd Stage ''
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;''NMB48 Team BII 3rd Stage ''
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;''SKE48 Team S 3rd Stage ''
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;''Team Surprise 2nd Stage ''
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TV variety
* ''
AKBingo!
''AKBingo!'' (stylized in all caps) is a Japanese television variety show featuring Japanese idol girl group AKB48. The show aired weekly on Nippon Television. In each episode, members of AKB48 and occasionally their sister groups participate in ...
'' (2011–2016 )
* ''AKB48 to XX'' (2011-2016)
* ''NMB48 Geinin!'' (2012)
* ''NMB48 Geinin!! 2'' (2013)
* ''NMB48 Geinin!!! 3'' (2014)
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* ''NMB48 to Manabukun'' (2013-2016 )
* ''SKE48 Ebisho'' (2014)
* ''SKE48 Ebicalcio'' (2014-2015)
TV dramas
* ''So Long! 3rd Night'' (2013)
* (2015), Coby
* (2015), Coby
* Ep.9 - Live Broadcast (2015), Miyu
* Ep. 17 - Comical Love (2016), Ayaka
Movies
* ''NMB48 Geinin! The Movie Owarai Seishun Girls!'' (2013)
* ''NMB48 Geinin! The Movie Returns Sotsugyou! Owarai Seishun Girls!! Aratanaru Tabidachi'' (2014)
References
External links
NMB48 Official Profile
Official website on King RecordOfficial website on Warner Music Japan
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1993 births
Living people
Japanese idols
Japanese women pop singers
Japanese female models
Singers from Nara Prefecture
NMB48 members
SKE48 members
AKB48 members
21st-century Japanese women singers
21st-century Japanese singers
Warner Music Japan artists