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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 ...

's original Team A, produced by

Yasushi Akimoto is a Japanese record producer, lyricist, and television writer, best known for creating and producing some of Japan's top idol groups, Onyanko Club and the AKB48 franchise. Total sales of the singles he has written exceed 100 million copies, ma ...

. The group is commonly referred as no3b, a stylized version of the group's name, which is a ''

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clothes.

History

The trio debuted officially under the name No Sleeves in November 2008, but were previously grouped together and performed the songs "Junai no Crescendo" and "Bye Bye Bye" at AKB48 concerts and stage DVDs. , they have had eight

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top 10 singles. The group has released two digital singles under the name for the

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''Men Dol: Ikemen Idol'' in which they starred. After a year of inactivity following the release of their eighth single, "Pedicure Day" in December 2011, no3b joined as MC in

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together with

Tetsuya Komuro is a Japanese musician, songwriter and record producer. He is recognized as the most successful producer in Japanese music history and has introduced contemporary electronic dance music to the Japanese mainstream. He was also a former owner of t ...

Kosuke Suzuki is a Japanese actor. He is represented with Sis Company. His wife is actress Chihiro Otsuka. Biography Suzuki graduated from Seinan Gakuin High School and Aoyama Gakuin University Faculty of Business Department of Management. He joined athleti ...

, and

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, where they held their first recorded performance of the next single, "Kirigirisu Jin". No Sleeves' songs featured in different media: "3seconds" and "Christmas Present" in the

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''Men Dol: Ikemen Idol'' as insert songs, with "Relax!" as the theme song. "Tane" was used as the ending theme for the anime '' Birdy the Mighty Decode:02''. "Kiss no Ryūsei" was used as the opening theme for the TBS

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show from December 2009 to January 2010. "Lie" was used as the ending theme for the TBS TV show . "Kimi Shika" as the mobile drama theme song, theme song and the variety show theme song (August 2010). "Answer" was used as the ending theme to the anime ''

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''. "Asatte, Jamaica" as the mobile drama theme song. "Kirigirisu Jin" as

variety show ''Snack Kissa Eden'' insert song and ending theme. "Iin Ja Ne?" as the TV drama theme song. The group reunited for their 10th Anniversary Live Performance on November 26, 2018.

Members

Haruna Kojima is a Japanese entrepreneur, actress, model, and former singer. From 2005 to 2017, she was a member of idol group AKB48 under Team A. In 2018, she founded her own brand, "Her lip to". Career Kojima was born in Urawa-ku, Saitama, Saitama Pref ...

Minami Minegishi is a Japanese singer and actress, represented by :ja:プロダクション尾木, Production Ogi. She was a member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48, and its subunit no3b. She is noted for having the longest tenure among the group's origina ...

Minami Takahashi is a Japanese idol, singer, tarento and a former member of the Japanese girl idol group AKB48. She is in Team A of AKB48. She became the first of AKB48 and its sister groups. In an interview with Nippon Television in June 2010, AKB48 produc ...

Discography

Albums

Singles

* Unofficial figure obtained by adding together Oricon sales numbers for different periods of time when the single or album charted on Oricon.
** RIAJ Digital Track Chart was shut down in July 2012.

Media appearances

TV programs

Dramas

Radio

References

External links

*
Sony Music profile

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