Original. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. *March, 16 1st generation members get selected, SKE48′s first “Team S” is formed. She started performing at the theater as a Team S member thereon. *March 4th, she was selected again into AKB48′s 11th single “10nen Zakura” senbatsu. Since then, she was selected as a senbatsu member for [...]

Original. Part 1. Part 2. *July 30th, she passed the final examination of the 1st SKE48 auditions, and become an SKE member (out of 2670 people, originally 22 people passed). At the time she was the youngest at 11 years old. “When I took the auditions, I was in 6th grade primary school. It was [...]

Part 1. *Born on March 8th 1997, in Aichi Prefecture. Single child. Weight was slightly below average at 2600 grams. *At first, her name was decided as “Juri”. However, because an acquaintance of her mother’s had a child called “Kiri” (it was confusing since it could be read as “Juri” too), they added the “na” [...]

I realize the western fanbase has far too mistaken an idea of what Matsui Jurina is like, especially those who follow AKB only, so I figured it’s about time I translated a certain wiki page about her. There’s a lot of info in there, the most interesting (in my opinion at least) being the bits [...]