B-Komachi

B-Komachi (「B小町」) is an idol group affiliated with Strawberry Productions. In its current incarnation, it has three members; Ruby Hoshino, Kana Arima, and Mem-Cho. Its previous incarnation had many members, one of which was Ai Hoshino.

Current Incarnation

 * Ruby Hoshino
 * Kana Arima
 * Mem-Cho

Previous Incarnation

 * Ai Hoshino
 * Meimei
 * Ari
 * Kyun
 * Takamine
 * Nino
 * Watanabe

Songs

 * B Is The Sign
 * STAR☆T☆RAIN
 * HEART's♡KISS

Previous Incarnation
The previous incarnation of B-Komachi was active for more than ten years, starting from when Ai Hoshino debuted at twelve years old, and disbanded two years after she was murdered at the age of twenty.

Current Incarnation
The current incarnation started as Ai's daughter, Ruby Hoshino, joined Strawberry Productions to become an idol, officially relaunching an idol group after more than a decade. As Strawberry Production look forward to add more members to the new idol group, she was joined by Kana Arima, someone that Aqua Hoshino recommends and goes at great length to get her to agree on joining. Ruby came up with the idea of taking the B-Komachi mantle and resurrected the group into a new incarnation after filming a collaboration with Pieyon.

After the conclusion of the production of LoveNow, Mem-Cho joined the group after being recruited by Aqua.

Trivia

 * According to the novel 45510 by Aka Akasaka, the 4 founding members of B Komachi were Takamine, Nino, Ai & Watanabe.
 * Ai's smartphone & blog account  password was "45510," (which is the same title as the novel) the initials of the 4 founding members. The number corresponds to the Japanese flick keyboard:
 * Takamine (た Ta): 4
 * Nino (に Ni): Double 5 (If using a flip phone, double press な Na to get に Ni)
 * Ai (あ A): 1
 * Watanabe (わ Wa): 0