Mayu Watanabe

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Mayu Watanabe (, Watanabe Mayu) is a Japanese singer, actress, and former member of Team AKB48, a Japanese idol girl group AKB48. She had consistently been voted by supporters to place as one of the top candidates in the annual AKB48 General Elections contest.

She has released five solo singles, some of which have risen to the top of the Oricon charts, as well as one solo album.

On the last day of 2017, she left the company and pursued acting until she resigned from the entertainment industry in June 2020 due to health issues.

Personal life

Watanabe is described as a girl who used to be "otaku obsessed with illustrations, anime, and special effects shows," according to Tokyo Mode. Many fans dress in such costumes at her meet-and-greet functions, and her public appearances are often accompanied by life-sized animated characters, and many others wear such costumes. She demonstrated her ability of drawing various manga characters in seconds in several episodes of AKB48's variety show AKBingo! Pompompurin was also endorsed informally by the actress for the 30th Sanrio Character Awards in 2015.

She is a music lover, and she appears in Japan and overseas. Takarazuka Revue, an all-female group, has also performed.

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Career

Watanabe served in AKB48's 3rd generation as a member of Team B, which she had been working with since its inception. Mayuyu, her official name, was coined by then colleague Rumi Yonezawa.

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This was the first appearance of a Team B member in an AKB48 single championship track. Except for when the lineups were determined by rock-paper scissors tournaments, she has appeared on all of the company's singles since then.

In 2009, she came fourth overall in the organization's first general election to establish the lineup for the company's 13th single. She came in fifth place overall for the group's 17th single.

She and Airi Suzuki from Cute were on the front page of the Downing of the UP to boy magazine in December 2010. That was the first gravure collaboration between Hello! AKB48 and Project AKB48.

Mayuyu, her photo book, was published on May 13, 2011. "The book is packed with a lot of words that I hadn't seen until now, so it's a book I'm really excited about." "I'm embarrassed, I did my best on the front cover, so I want a lot of people to read it." Watanabe came in fifth overall in AKB48's general election in 2011.

Watanabe's first lead role in the Japanese television drama Saba Doru, where she portrayed a 38-year-old high school teacher who is loathed by her students, but she wasn't having a back-up as the highly popular idol Mayu Watanabe. Watanabe's debut solo single, "Synchro Tokimeki," was also the drama's opening theme.

In the anime film AKB0048, Watanabe appeared as a voice actor. Chieri Sono, the anime's main character, appears in the series and is a member of AKB48's NO NAME, which plays the series's opening and ending themes. Mayu Watanabe Mark 3, a supporting character who is modeled after her appearance and voiced by Yukari Tamura, is included in the series. For the second season of Chieri Sono, she reprised her role as Chieri Sono.

Watanabe received 72,574 votes in the 2012 AKB48 general elections, placing second overall. She was transferred from Team B to Team A on August 24, following the company's reorganization announcement at the AKB48's Tokyo Dome concert.

On July 25, she released "Otona Jellybeans," her second solo single, which debuted at number three on the Oricon weekly chart. "Hikaru Monotachi," her third solo album, was unveiled on November 21, 2012, and it ranked at number one in the Oricon singles chart. There were five versions of the single, including one that had an illustration book. "Sayonara no Hashi" on her B-side was the theme song to Nerawareta Gakuen, for which she sang one of the lead characters. She released her fourth solo album in July 2013. "Rappa Renshchchchchch" was a raging word. The cover art for one of its editions was determined by a competition.

In comparison, she was first center position on AKB48's 30th single "So Long!" The film "was announced on February 20, 2013" and was subtitled "independence on February 20, 2013. Seifuku Zukan Saigo no Seifuku, her second photo book, was published on April 19. She came third overall with 101,210 votes in the AKB48 election for their 32nd major label single.

Watanabe made a regular appearance on television show Utage! and semi-regular on Renai Sosenkyo in 2014. She was promoted from Team A to Team B in the "Daisokaku Matsuri" in AKB48. At AKB48's Natsu matsuri, she gave an hour-long solo live concert. She came first in the national polls to determine the member line-up for AKB48's 37th major label single, receiving 159,854 votes. She took center stage for the song "Kokoro no Placard."

Watanabe's debut in a prime-time TV drama, Tatakau!, came in 2015. Shoten Girl, a Fuji TV and Kansai TV show, broadcast by Fuji TV and Kansai TV. At 10 p.m., this drama aired from April 25, 2015. Watanabe's theme song for this drama, "Deai no Tsuzuki," was also released as her fifth solo single on June 10, 2015. On September 19, she performed solo live to promote the single. According to a study conducted by My Navi Student in 2015, she was the second Cutest Idol from both the men's choices and women's choice lists, behind idol group Rev. Kanna Hashimoto. DVL is a cable television network.

Watanabe's third book "Shiranai uchi ni" was released on October 26, 2016.

Watanabe declared at the 9th General Election on June 17, 2017 that she would graduate from the organization. Watanabe's graduation concert was held on October 31, and she was adamant. On November 18, 2017, she had her last handshake. On December 26, 2017, she appeared at the AKB48 theatre for the final time. On December 31, 2017, she sang and performed on the stage of the "68th NHK Kouhaku Uta Gassen" in Bangkok, Australia, and it was her last activity as a member of AKB48.

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In January 2018, it was announced that Watanabe would play the titular role in the Japanese version of the Amélie, which is based on the same film. The performances lasted from May 18 to June 3 at the Galaxy Theater in Shinagawa, Tokyo, and June 7-10 at the Morinomiya Piloti Hall in Osaka.

Watanabe's first drama post-AKB48 named Gan Shoumetsu no Wana () where she worked as an insurance investigator.

Watanabe appeared in the special drama Meibugyou in August 2018. Tooyama no Kinshirou (! ), a sequel to the same series released in 2017.

Watanabe became the lead actor in a late-night drama Itsuka Kono Ame ga Yamu made () in August 2018. Hikari, a girl whose aspiration was to be a singer, but her hopes were shattered when her brother allegedly committed murder.

Watanabe was also a sponsor of Yakult in late 2018. Ikeda Kazumasa, who has produced music videos for Keyakizaka46 and Nogizaka46, was in charge of the commercial, while choreographer Sasao Isao choreographed one of Keyakizaka46's singles. Spinboy Aichi, SORI, and HICKY of the dance team SHIFFLE are among the commercial's 33 professional dancers and performers, as well as Spinboy Aichi, SORI and HICKY of the dance team SHIFFLE!! Among other things, there are others.

Several music festivals, including Utacon and UTAGE, were also attended by Watanabe. She performed musical numbers in Utacon, as well as collaborations with several well-known musical artists.

Watanabe was the ambassador for JAL Honolulu Marathon in 2018 until the end of the year.

Production Ogi announced her resignation from the entertainment business on June 1, 2020, citing health reasons. Her website was terminated amicably on the same day.

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