B-Komachi

B-Komachi (「Ｂ小町」) is an idol group affiliated with Strawberry Productions. The band has two incarnations, sharing the same name.

The original incarnation was formed by Ai Hoshino and three other members, before becoming affiliated with Strawberry Productions. After more than ten years of activity, it disbanded two years after the Ai's death, who was its Ace and Center.

In its current incarnation, it has three members: Ruby Hoshino, Kana Arima, and Mem-Cho.

Current generation

 * Ruby Hoshino
 * Kana Arima (graduation confirmed)
 * Mem-Cho

Original generation

 * Ai Hoshino (founding member)
 * Takamine (founding member)
 * Nino (founding member)
 * Watanabe (founding member)
 * Meimei
 * Ari
 * Kyun

Original Generation

 * B Is The Sign
 * STAR☆T☆RAIN
 * HEART's♡KISS
 * More than 30 unnamed songs

Current Generation

 * Pop in 2
 * 1 unknown song title

Original generation
The original generation of B-Komachi was active for around ten years, starting from when Ai Hoshino debuted at twelve years old. Originally, the band had four members, including Ai, which later got increased after they become affiliated with Strawberry Productions.

Ai Hoshino, being uniquely captivating, had been the center of attention and popularity the band had accumulated. This brought about tension and jealousy within the group, and even alleged favoritism at the agency level. Nevertheless, every involved parties were aware of Ai's importance and indispensibility, and Ai would since become the unchanging Ace and Center of B-Komachi.

At the summit of their populaity, Ai Hoshino was murdered on her very own birthday, and the very day of the confirmed Tokyo Dome performance. This caused a sudden disruption on the band and its agency. Two years later, the original B-Komachi disbanded. It also marks the deactivation of Strawberry Productions's Idol department.

It appeared that each of the members used distinct animal mascots for themselves, with Ai using a bunny.

Current generation
The current generation 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.

Through every connection channels utilized by the band, its members, and its agency, the new B-Komachi rose to significant popularity, following the footstep of fame by its original incarnation. Their trip to Miyazaki for a Music Video production yieded a notable success. In particular, Ruby Hoshino had also followed Ai's footstep in becoming uniquely captivating, albeit by a darker atmosphere.

Later, after Arima Kana graduated high school, she announces her graduation from the new B-Komachi, returning to her focus on being an Actress.

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
 * A flip phone mechanic: double press な Na to get に Ni
 * Ai (あ A): 1
 * Watanabe (わ Wa): 0
 * Besides Ai, no other members of the past incarnation have been identified in the manga.
 * However, the behind-the-scenes anime video has identified Meimei as the one with the bob cut and, therefore, the one who wears the orange dress.