Hamamatsu Riona (Riona) / Team 8

UPDATE Riona was joined by Mogi Kazumi and Hirose Natsuki. Together they performed ponytail shushu and Riona's Single TELL ME WHY.

Riona will perform Sun. 19-JUL 15:40 Japan Time
http://www.japanexpomalaysia.com/timetable/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKVmSQl7QqyhbwapmrfrhrA


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We have come to terms

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I don’t understand. She’s literally fluent in English but did the entire interview in Japanese while the host translated for her???

 

Breaking news!
Riona will be joining a japanese-korean Kpop group.


The members




Google translated from their homepage:

Japan-Korea Girls K-Pop Group NEW GIRLS GROUP G (tentative name) will make a major debut in Korea in June 2021.

This group is a joint unit of selected members of No.1 Media JAPAN who passed the Mikucha distribution audition held in 2020 and members of Korea's No.1 Media led by CEO Jun Kang.

The purpose of this audition is to recruit Japanese members of the girls unit who are scheduled to debut in Korea from their debut in Japan.

The members who passed the Mikucha distribution audition were sent to Korea in 2020, and they were planning to make their debut in Korea within the same year, but the spread of the new coronavirus that involved the world forced the project to stop.

However, participation in the Korean debut program and steady work to improve skills continued under the hood, and I was able to send some members to Korea.

Currently, they have firmly participated in the debut program and have come to the point where they can make their Korean debut in June 2021.

Even so, the next girls K-pop group's Korean audition will start with Korea's No. 1 Media, and recruitment will start in Japan at that timing.
https://no-1media.jp/audition/

According to their IG page, the group will be called ZDreamZ. This was posted before the updates on their official homepage. Google translated:

Japan-Korea girls k-pop group "Z Dream Z" will debut in Korea at the end of June 2021 ❗️ The Japanese-Korean girls k-pop group "Z Dream Z", which was born at the audition last year, will finally make its debut in Korea at the end of June 2021. Digital single & PV simultaneous release! Debuted in Korean media! !! Details will be announced on our website and SNS. In addition, we will release information about members as soon as the information is lifted. Please look forward to it. The video is practiced by the members of "Z Dream Z" with the songs of the K-POP group produced by No1 Media.
https://www.instagram.com/1mediajapan/

I know a bit of this project, because the people behind is the ones who made the infamous Zpop Dream, Zgirls & Zboys. No1mediaJapan is the japanese sub-office of No1media Korea, formerly Zenith Media Contents.

 

I know she's a Kpop fan but that's still a sentence I didn't expect to see!

 

If this is the debut song, it sounds good: https://twitter.com/1mediajapan/status/1381504941064249344
She's been hinting about this since late last year and wish her the best cause, this company is really flop honestly with 3 girl groups already that haven't gone anywhere and it seems like this new one is part of the company's "zpop" movement too, hoping there's also a chance she gets Girls Planet 999! I'll be gladly be buying the promo digital single once those leak out on ebay in the summer

on another note, she'll be labelmates with ex-nogi46 Mahiro lol

 

I've never heard of this company, but I hope it works out well for Riona. I know I, for one, will try my best to promote her in the small circles of kpop fans that I know, and hopefully it'll help. She's been trying hard to become successful, as an AKB48 member, solo and now as part of a Kpop group. She deserves to see her hard work come to fruition.

 

It's not a original song, but from one of Zenith's former group LipBubble. I think they just covered or maybe they will remake it to a japanese version

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And btw, Zenith or No1media is not a part of Zpop anymore. They discontinued operation with another agency that they worked with last year. So sadly no Rotti & Riona interaction
https://zpopdream.com/news/cozmic-group-rebranded-to-divtone-entertainment/

 

Ah, that makes this tweet (https://twitter.com/zpop_official/status/1364874971441295362) make even more sense, hoping for the best to her new group!

 

1mediaJapan has been releasing the official members for the group. Today, is Riona's turn, all though we already known that. You'll find the others on their IG account

https://www.instagram.com/1mediajapan/

 

1mediajapan has uploaded a video of Riona. Can somebody translate?

https://twitter.com/1mediajapan/status/1389864323619508228

 

Here's a rough transcript and translation by Google:

ZP WORLD PROJECTのK POP ガールズユニットメンバー今日は浜松りおなです実は私以前に akb48チーム8のメンバーとして下田卒業後はソロでみならず海外での活動もしていましたもっともっとグローバルに活動したいという強い思いがあり昨年行われましたこちらのNo.1Mediaオーディションに応募しいただきなんと皆さんの応援のおかげで1位起きたそして最終審査を経て今年の6月末にデビューグループメンバーの一員として選ばれることになりました改めましてたくさんの応援本当になり皆さんも今回のオーディションで一人でも多くの方に夢を叶えることを願っています応援しています
ZP WORLD PROJECT's K-POP Girls Unit Member Today is Riona Hamamatsu. Actually, after graduating as a member of akb48 Team 8, I was also active overseas as well as solo. I applied for this No.1 Media audition, and thanks to everyone's support, I got up in 1st place, and after the final screening, I was selected as a member of the debut group at the end of June this year. I really hope that this audition will make as many people as possible realize their dreams.​

 

Thank you!

 

Riona's group has a official name and logo. Translation from Google:





The unit name of the Japan-Korea joint K-POP girls held at the audition in Mikucha last year has been officially decided!!

"Posh Girls"

Debut schedule, member names, photos, music information, pre-PV, etc. will be opened according to the timing of publicity to the Korean TV magazine media.
https://twitter.com/1mediajapan/status/1399675676718866438

 

Posh Girls has revealed all the members

4 koreans and 4 japanese.
From upper left: Yejin, Doyeon, Jiln and Jiwo
Bottom left: Tsugumi, Ni_Na, Riona and Miyu
https://www.tiktok.com/@poshgirls.official?lang=en
https://www.facebook.com/POSHGIRLSofficial-107858671489067
https://www.instagram.com/poshgirls.official/
https://twitter.com/POSHGIRLSOFFIC1


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That could be an interesting concept but the company will need a good budget for wardrobe and accessories so that they really pull off the "Posh" sobriquet

 

Posh Girls will debut in August with a mini-album

https://twitter.com/POSHGIRLSOFFIC1/status/1409793122293354503

Group photo


https://twitter.com/1mediajapan/status/1409848426200584192

J-Line and K-Line

 

Posh Girls japanese line has released a Olympic Tokyo song

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is it just me or is the video only available in 360p....

 

Unfortunately only in 360p