, also known by her stage name is a Japanese

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who is a former member of the

Japanese idol An is a type of entertainer marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality in Japanese pop culture. Idols are primarily singers with training in acting, dancing, and modeling. Idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements ...

groups

Yoshimotozaka46 is a Japanese idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. It was created on February 21, 2018. It is Nogizaka46's second sister group, after Keyakizaka46 (now split between Sakurazaka46 and Hinatazaka46). This was named after the Osaka-based enter ...

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 base ...

and

AKB48 AKB48 (pronounced ''A.K.B. Forty-Eight'') is a Japanese idol girl group named after the Akihabara (''Akiba'' for short) area in Tokyo, where the group's theater is located. AKB48's producer, Yasushi Akimoto, wanted to form a girl group with it ...

. She is a former member of NMB48's Team N, and a former member of AKB48's Teams A and 4.

Biography

Kotani passed

's 1st generation auditions in September 2010. Her debut was on October 9, 2010. In March 2011, she was selected to Team N. She held a concurrent position with AKB48's Team A from August 2012 to April 2013, before holding another concurrent position in Team 4 from February 2014. In the 2014 general elections, Kotani ranked for the first time, placing 61st with 12,913 votes. Kotani's height on her official profile is 149 cm, but she is actually 147 cm. Her future dream is to be someone who appears frequently on variety shows, commercials and information programmes. On March 26, 2015, it was announced that she would be released from her concurrent position in AKB48. On February 4, 2016, Kotani graduated from NMB48 Team N and changed her stage name to . On August 20, 2018, she became a starting member of the

Sakamichi Series refers to a Japanese idol group franchise that began with Nogizaka46, an "official" rival group of AKB48. It currently consists of four groups: Nogizaka46, Sakurazaka46, Hinatazaka46, and Yoshimotozaka46. Despite the name, the groups are not ...
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