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.

First generation

 * Ruby Hoshino
 * Kana Arima
 * Mem-Cho



Second generation

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

Songs

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

First generation
The first generation 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. It appears that each of the members used distinct animal mascots for themselves, with Ai using a bunny.

Second generation
The second 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.

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
 * Besides Ai, no other members of the past incarnation have been identified in the manga.
 * However the anime behind the scenes video has identified Meimei as the one with bob cut and therefore the one who wears the orange dress.