We're still talking about Team 8, I'm so sorry, but we
have to, Team 8 is what makes the backbone of current AKB.
So, alongside her fellow members,
Abe Mei,
Okabe Rin, Okubora Chinatsu,
Nagano Serika,
Fujimura Natsuki,
Onishi Momoka,
Kuranoo Narumi,
Shitao Miu,
Cho Kurena,
Hamamatsu Riona,
Fukuchi Rena,
Honda Hitomi,
Yokomichi Yuri, the
other Yokoyama Yui,
Yoshino Miyu,
Oda Erina,
Oguri Yui,
Yoshikawa Nanase,
Hayasaka Tsumugi,
Hirose Natsuki,
Iwasaki Moeka,
Yaguchi Moka, and
Takahashi Ayane,
Hashimoto Haruna, born in the early summer of 2000, made her debut 14 years later!
Like her peers, Harupyon debuted as part of Team 8's revival of
PARTY ga Hajumaru yo—performing
Skirt, Hirari—and the later revival of
Aitakatta—performing
Nagisa no CHERRY. Also like the rest of Team 8, her first recorded debut was
47 no Suteki na Machi e on the B side of
Kokoro no Placard in 2015. I won't go through all the B sides that Harupyon has appeared on—
you can guess them based on previous Team 8 entries alone—but I will mention that during her time in the group, she became close friends with
Rissen Airi, who joined Team 8 in 2018, and now works
elsewhere for
another agency. I will also mention how much I instantly fell in love with her introductory speech as soon as I read it:
"I will work hard to deliver smiles to everyone! Wait for my visit with smiles as a souvenir!!"If that doesn't tell you all you need to know then I don't know what does!
Initially debuting at the SKE48 theatre performance with Yaguchi Moka, Hirose Natsuki, Hayasaka Tsumugi, and others, she also joined Moka in gaining a concurrent position in Team K in 2017, and then moving to
Team B in 2021 where she stayed until the teams were eventually all folded up into the situation we have here. This gives me an opportunity to talk about
Team B Oshi once more. I was a little hard on the idea of
Team AKB Oshi last time we spoke about the song.
Team B Oshi implies the existence of
Team A Oshi. As far back as 2014, when Harupyon was first joining the group, this was being performed at concerts. The difference is that I will excuse this because it's
Takahashi Team A. If Takamina says it's okay, it's okay, basically.
Haruna, always hopping like a rabbit, dreamed of being an idol since elementary school, and now here she is, the self-styled girl with glasses from Toyama Prefecture. Team 8 may be "on hiatus" but, at the same time, Team 8 now
is AKB48, and in the spirit of that sentiment:
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