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AKC Courtneyyyyyy Culture Festival #221: Nagatomo Ayami
May. 13th, 2026 05:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sonofgodzillaFrom Kanagawa Prefecture to you! Nagatomo Ayami joined AKB as a kenkyuusei in 2016 and debuted alongside Taguchi Manaka, Suzuki Kurumi, Taya Misaki, and Yamauchi Mizuki, and it feels somewhat ridiculous that we have yet to talk about her! As of Colorcon Wink, Ayamin has been a familiar face in the senbatsu, appearing successor single Koi Tsun Jatta and due to return for the recently announced 68th single due in early August.
Ayamin is the dependable older sister type at age 25, always there, always supportive despite her concerns regarding her own capability when it comes to dancing. In 2017, she was moved over to Team K, then under the stewardship of Minegishi Minami before passing to fifteenth generation member, Komiyama Haruka, and, at the last, to Manaka in 2022. As Manaka was taking up the reins in Team K, however, Ayamin was heading towards the last ever iteration of Team 4, then under Kuranoo Narumi. Team 4 was the last team Ayamin was assigned to before the final big rearrangement in 2023 and where we are to-day.
Throughout her time in AKB, Ayamin has been keeping things ticking over, appearing regularly in the theatre and also in plays based on Majisuka Gakuen &c. Because we've just had two entries in a row about sixteenth generation members and their impending graduations, I have some small amount of trepidation in saying this, but when I mentioned above that it was ridiculous that we have not already spoken of Ayamin, it is because I genuinely think she is one of AKB's future stars, a member whom we will soon see as centre in an upcoming single. Having attended university in 2019 and then withdrawn a year later in order to focus more on AKB, there's no doubting Ayamin's commitment to the group, so this really gives me some hope. Last year, her first photobook debuted, this year I expect us to see a lot more of her!
Ayamin is super cute; she has the sort of charm and presence of older idols from previous eras. Her number of fans is definitely only going to increase as we see more of her in the senbatsu!
Ayamin is the dependable older sister type at age 25, always there, always supportive despite her concerns regarding her own capability when it comes to dancing. In 2017, she was moved over to Team K, then under the stewardship of Minegishi Minami before passing to fifteenth generation member, Komiyama Haruka, and, at the last, to Manaka in 2022. As Manaka was taking up the reins in Team K, however, Ayamin was heading towards the last ever iteration of Team 4, then under Kuranoo Narumi. Team 4 was the last team Ayamin was assigned to before the final big rearrangement in 2023 and where we are to-day.
Throughout her time in AKB, Ayamin has been keeping things ticking over, appearing regularly in the theatre and also in plays based on Majisuka Gakuen &c. Because we've just had two entries in a row about sixteenth generation members and their impending graduations, I have some small amount of trepidation in saying this, but when I mentioned above that it was ridiculous that we have not already spoken of Ayamin, it is because I genuinely think she is one of AKB's future stars, a member whom we will soon see as centre in an upcoming single. Having attended university in 2019 and then withdrawn a year later in order to focus more on AKB, there's no doubting Ayamin's commitment to the group, so this really gives me some hope. Last year, her first photobook debuted, this year I expect us to see a lot more of her!
Ayamin is super cute; she has the sort of charm and presence of older idols from previous eras. Her number of fans is definitely only going to increase as we see more of her in the senbatsu!
