#s/mileage

[sa-yummy]

#Murota Mizuki #Angerme #アンジュルム #S/mileage #スマイレージ #Hello! Project #H!P #ハロー!プロジェクト #Idol #Idols

[magicmorningmeteora]

Who is your birthday oshi? ~Early April 2024~

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#Kishimoto Yumeno #Miyazaki Yuka #Nakayama Nana #Otsuka Aina #Sugaya Risako #Heike Michiyo #Katsuta Rina #Tsubaki Factory #Juice=Juice #SI☆NA #Berryz Koubou #Soloist #S/mileage #ANGERME #Birthday Oshi Poll

[momuse]

just a moment before they stroke me with their performance like a lightning

#hello! project #takeuchi akari #katsuta rina #kawamura ayano #angerme #s/mileage

[haropro-confessions]

I'm so happy Sakichee is back ppecially to sing with Maro at her birthday event! 💚💜

#Ogawa Saki #Fukuda Kanon #S/mileage

[arbitrarygreay]

At Maro's 2024 Bday event, Nishii Marina, Shizume Nodoka, and Ogawa Saki (!!!) guested. Marina and Nodoka are zoc members with Maro.

Here they are doing Uchouten Love

#ogawa saki #fukuda kanon #kannagi maro #nishii marina #shizume nodoka #zoc #category: idols #s/mileage #Youtube #none for you aizome apparently

[girlgroupnetwork]

ANGERME :: PIECE OF PEACE for anon

#angerme #jpopgroup #jpopnetedit #jpopnet #jpopedit #hello! project #hello project #アンジュルム #by moonbyulys #request #*gifs #jpop #S/mileage

[sweetdropsart]

Take-chan 🥺💙

またね!

#takeuchi akari #akari takeuchi #Take-chan #ANGERME #s/mileage #hello project #竹内朱莉 #graduation #卒業おめでとう #卒業

[sneek-m]

Dreaming Fifteen: The 10 Best of S/mileage

The best retrospective for S/mileage is actually written by one of its former members. “The short skirt I took off before I even knew it, and the short hair that drastically changed my look / it’s now a remote past,” the group’s Ayaka Wada reminisces in her graduation single “Yume Mita Fifteen,” the lyrics penned by another former member Kanon Fukuda. A lyrical nod to the early phases of the group, these adolescent details get a look back with the same fondness from Wada as though she’s browsing through a book of her awkward baby photos: she understands these moments may have been formative for her, but thank goodness it’s all behind her now. 

But Wada really did that, so hopefully the future generation won’t have to go through that. S/mileage came up during an era of desperation not only for its home company Hello! Project but also the idol industry at large. The group debuted at the dawn of an age referred in retrospect as the Idol Warring Period — Idol Sengoku Jidai — with a resurgence of idol bringing a deep saturation of groups which inspired the roughest of competition. The short skirts were part of the many attention-seeking schemes — a strategy that would definitely not fly now. The less we bring up “Dot Bikini,” it might also be for the better.

While it adds context to the not-so-proud creative choices, understanding the era that S/mileage hail from also better makes sense of the narrative that informs much of their music. The idol-group peers that find kinship with them are ones like Shiritsu Ebisu Chuugaku or Sakura Gakuin, school-girl-themed acts developed in response to AKB48. Compared to those groups, the school grounds were more implied for the music and visuals of S/mileage: the lockers and classrooms set the stage for the video of their indie debut single as they dance in uniform. But their music still centers on the life of a teenage girl, one who’s ready to find out what love really means.

For better or worse, the adolescent point of view defined S/mileage from their peers in Hello! Project the most. The company’s flagship group Morning Musume had been lamenting their own teen-girl woes in what in retrospect would be known as their Platinum era yet they weren’t nearly as obsessed about going on dates as S/mileage had in a song like “Asu Wa Date Nanoni, Imasugu Koe Ga Kikitai.” As the Colorful era dawned for the former and their topics transitioned into more grand philosophies about self-improvement, the latter stayed grounded in their everyday spaces while navigating their own in-between of youth and adulthood.

My choice for S/mileage’s number-one is fittingly their major-label debut as it introduces the themes, narrative and the age bracket that would inform the songs thereafter. The B-sides and minor singles would expand the school-centered world introduced by “Yume Miru Fifteen”; “Onaji Jikyuu De Hataraku Tomodachi No Bijin Mama” is one of the best that precisely add to their teen-girl universe. Their later minor-key ballads deal with the push and pull of being no longer a 15-year-old girl but not yet a woman. Their latter years had them trying to convince the world they’re no longer young nor innocent, and so it was inevitable they’d shed the name and become Angerme, where talks of age and experience were set aside for reinforcing values and attitudes. With their legacy so steeped in adolescence, it’s only fitting, then, that the group’s best retrospective places their best song in the past tense.

Here's my top 10 songs by S/mileage.

"Yume Miru Fifteen" (2010)

"Samuine." (2012)

"Mystery Night!!" (2014)

"Sukichan" (2009)

"Amanojaku" (2009)

"Watashi, Choito Kawaii Urabancho" (2012)

"Sukiyo, Junjo Hankoki" (2012)

"Otona No Tochuu" (2013)

"Uchoten Love" (2011)

"Eighteen Emotion" (2014)

#Angerme #Smileage #S/mileage

[fly-to-rainbow-ray]

S/mileage remixes

#My palettes #Musical palettes #Palettes #Hello! Project #S/mileage

[supereuroflash]

#S/mileage #Hello! Project #Eurobeat #J-Euro #2010s #2013

[darkcloudxero]

https://darkcloudxero.com/2024/04/05/meimi-tamura-twin-braids/

A while back Meimi had this cute hairstyle that I wanted to try drawing and painting. This time I went for a mixture of my style but also a flat anime style. I need to play with this style more.

Hasta la proxima,

-NUBE

#DarkCloudXERO #Meimi Tamura #田村芽実 #braids #anime #manga #aesthetic #S/mileage #ANGERME

[sa-yummy]

#Kitagawa Rio #Kasai Yuumi #Ise Layla #Morning Musume #モーニング娘。 #Hello! Project #H!P #ハロー!プロジェクト #Idol #Idols #Angerme #アンジュルム #S/mileage #スマイレージ #Tsubaki Factory #Camellia Factory #つばきファクトリー

[magicmorningmeteora]

Who is your birthday oshi? ~November 16-30~

#Tsubaki Factory #Tanimoto Ami #Hello Pro Kenshuusei Hokkaido #Nishimura Karin #S/mileage #Ogawa Saki #Up Up Girls (Kakko Kari) #Arai Manami #Hello Pro Kenshuusei #Kosuga Fuyuka #Berryz Koubou #Ishimura Maiha #Shimizu Saki #ANGERME #Takeuchi Akari #Yamagishi Riko #Gatas Brilhantes H.P. #Sawada Yuri #Hello Pro Egg #Kitahara Sayaka #Morning Musume #Kaga Kaede #Birthday Oshi Poll

[momuse]

和田　自分は何度かインタビューで「なぜ世界を変えられると思っているんですか？」というようなことを聞かれたんですけど、日本にいた頃は自分でもわからなかったんです。生まれつきでもないし、そういう性格だとも思っていませんし。でもフランスに来てわかったんですが、自分は20代になってから美術に絡めてフランスの革命の歴史を学んで、革命の精神を自分に取り入れていたんですよ。だから自分は、世界は変えられると思ってるんだよなと！　フランスに来て、自分のことも知りました！　それはフランスに来て、一番大きな発見かも知れないです。

Wada Ayaka: I've been asked many times in interviews "Why do you think you can change the world?" I myself didn't really understand why while I was in Japan. I suppose I wasn't born that way, and I don't I have that kind of personality. But after I came to France, I realized that I've unintentionally introduced the spirit of the Revolution into my own life since I studied the history of the French Revolution in connection with fine arts in my 20s. Now I understood that's why I think I can change the world! I've learned a lot about myself as well here in France. That may be the biggest discovery I've made since I came to France.

留学中の和田彩花が、フランスでの生活と未来を語る！ 日本でのライブ予定は…！？

#hello! project #S/mileage #angerme #wada ayaka

[haropro-confessions]

The original S/mileage line-up will always have a special place in my heart. They were the inspiration of stories I wrote when I was 14. It depicted 4 best friends who were in a girl group trying to make their way into stardom all while navigating through high school in their small town. It was a comedy-drama kind of story, with some coming of age elements.

#S/mileage

[arbitrarygreay]

15 years of Takechan, set to Aisubeki Beki Human Life

#angerme #s/mileage #takeuchi akari #hello! project #hello pro eggs #category: idols