Moe Kamikokuryo
| Angerme | |
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S/mileage at their first Performance in the Nippon Budokan 2014
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Japan |
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| Years active | 2009–present |
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| Website | www |
| Members |
Ayaka Wada (2009-2019) Kana Nakanishi (2011-) Akari Takeuchi (2011-) Rina Katsuta (2011-) Mizuki Murota (2014-) Rikako Sasaki (2014-) Moe Kamikokuryo (2015-) Momona Kasahara (2016-) Ayano Kawamura (2017-) Musubu Funaki (2017-) |
| Past members | Maho Aikawa (2014-2017) Meimi Tamura (2011-2016) Kanon Fukuda (2009-2015) Yuuka Maeda (2009-2011) Fuyuka Kosuga (2011) Saki Ogawa (2009-2011) |
Angerme (アンジュルム Anjurumu), formerly S/mileage (スマイレージ Sumairēji), is a Japanese idol girl group from Hello! Project, which originally consisted of four former Hello! Pro Egg (Hello! Project trainees) members that left Egg in 2010 and became full-time members of Hello! Project. In 2010, they won the Japan Record Award for Best New Artist. In 2011, five new girls were added to the group as part of the second generation, with two being former Egg members and three new girls. With 3 members graduating, S/mileage continued the rest of their career as a 6-member group.
Since the formation of ANGERME, there has been 3 more generations, and 3 more graduations. As of December 2017 the total members of the group stands at 10 members.
On April 4, Japanese music producer Tsunku announced on his blog that a new girl group consisting of Hello! Pro Egg members would be formed. He later revealed that the members would be Ayaka Wada, Yuuka Maeda, and Kanon Fukuda, all formerly of Shugo Chara Egg!, as well as fellow Egg Saki Ogawa, and announced that Ayaka would be the leader. A month later, on May 7, 2009, he revealed that the group would be called "S/mileage". The name is a portmanteau of the English words "smile", "mileage", and "age", and together the name means "the age of smiles".
S/mileage's first single, "Ama no Jaku", was released at the Hello! Pro Egg: Nakano Step! concert on June 7, 2009.
After releasing three singles, Tsunku announced that the group would become a full-time group in the spring of 2010 and their debut set for May 2010. A "Smile Campaign" (笑顔キャンペーン, "Egao Campaign") was embarked upon to collect 10,000 smiles from people, where fans were asked to send in photographs of themselves smiling, compiled into a big mosaic. The group made their official event debut in Nagoya on March 19, with their fourth single "Otona ni Narutte Muzukashii!!!", released March 14, their first release on the Up-Front Works label. It peaked at the #1 spot on the Oricon weekly indies chart. After the deadline on March 25, it was announced that the result of the campaign would be announced during the joint S/mileage and Erina Mano concert on April 3. It was then announced that the group would be leaving from Hello! Pro Eggs.
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