SKE48

SKE48 is an all-female Japanese theater/idol group produced by Yasushi Akimoto. The audition was held during the summer and debuted in October 2008. SKE48 performs in the newly built studio in the renovated Sunshine Sakae in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, every Saturday. The first SKE48 stage was a revival of Team A's "Party ga Hajimaru yo".

Akimoto was offered the chance to start a production in Nagoya along with the renewal of the Sunshine Sakae, when he was thinking of making his "48 project" a nationwide project. He had a couple of offers even from outside of Japan, so he decided to use Nagoya as the place to move on with the project. Akimoto has said that selected members from both AKB48 and SKE48 may release a single, rather than releasing two different singles.^[1] But they released their first single in 2009.
In AKB48's single "Ōgoe Diamond", Jurina Matsui became the first and only member of SKE48 to be featured on a single cover and in the song itself. Including Matsui, some members of SKE48 have appeared in the PV marking the first collaboration made by the two groups, so far.

Members

 Team S

• Masana Ōya (大矢真那^?) (November 6, 1990 in Aichi)
• Haruka Ono (小野晴香^?) (November 24, 1987 in Ōita)
• Rumi Katō (加藤るみ^?) (March 9, 1995 in Gifu)
• Yuria Kizaki (木﨑ゆりあ^?) (February 2, 1996 in Aichi)
• Yukiko Kinoshita (木下有希子^?) (December 20, 1992 in Aichi)
• Mizuki Kuwabara (桑原みずき^?) (February 16, 1992 in Kōchi)
• Akari Suda (須田亜香里^?) (October 31, 1991 in Aichi)
• Shiori Takada (高田志織^?) (July 19, 1990 in Aichi)
• Aki Deguchi (出口陽^?) (March 14, 1988 in Mie)
• Yūka Nakanishi (中西優香^?) (January 24, 1989 in Aichi)
• Rikako Hirata (平田瑠香子^?) (August 7, 1989 in Aichi)
• Kanako Hiramatsu (平松可奈子^?) (November 14, 1991 in Aichi)
• Jurina Matsui (松井珠理奈^?) (March 8, 1997 in Aichi)
• Rena Matsui (松井玲奈^?) (July 27, 1991 in Aichi)
• Yui Matsushita (松下唯^?) (July 25, 1988 in Fukuoka)
• Kumi Yagami (矢神久美^?) (June 13, 1994 in Aichi)

 Team KII

• Ririna Akaeda (赤枝里々奈^?) (July 3, 1996 in Aichi)
• Riho Abiru (阿比留李帆^?) (July 17, 1993 in Aichi)
• Anna Ishida (石田安奈^?) (May 23, 1996 in Aichi)
• Shiori Ogiso (小木曽汐莉^?) (September 15, 1992 in Aichi)
• Tomoko Katō (加藤智子^?) (April 28, 1987 in Aichi)
• Risako Gotō (後藤理沙子^?) (May 29, 1997 in Aichi)
• Seira Satō (佐藤聖羅^?) (April 30, 1992 in Mie)
• Mieko Satō (佐藤実絵子^?) (June 24, 1986 in Aichi)
• Akane Takayanagi (高柳明音^?) (November 29, 1991 in Aichi)
• Sawako Hata (秦佐和子^?) (September 14, 1988 in Ōsaka)
• Airi Furukawa (古川愛李^?) (December 13, 1989 in Aichi)
• Rina Matsumoto (松本梨奈^?) (September 3, 1993 in Aichi)
• Manatsu Mukaida (向田茉夏^?) (May 10, 1996 in Aichi)
• Miki Yakata (矢方美紀^?) (June 6, 1992 in Ōita)
• Reika Yamada (山田澪花^?) (July 28, 1995 in Gifu)
• Tomoka Wakabayashi (若林倫香^?) (April 23, 1996 in Aichi)

 Team E

• Kyōka Isohara (磯原杏華^?) (August 8, 1996 in Aichi)
• Kasumi Ueno (上野圭澄^?) (June 29, 1994 in Gifu)
• Madoka Umemoto (梅本まどか^?) (July 17, 1992 in Aichi)
• Shiori Kaneko (金子栞^?) (June 13, 1995 in Saitama)
• Kanon Kimoto (木本花音^?) (August 11, 1997 in Aichi)
• Ami Kobayashi (小林亜実^?) (January 12, 1993 in Aichi)
• Mei Sakai (酒井萌衣^?) (December 13, 1997 in Aichi)
• Aya Shibata (柴田阿弥^?) (April 1, 1993 in Aichi)
• Yumana Takagi (高木由麻奈^?) (August 23, 1993 in Aichi)
• Mai Takeuchi (竹内舞^?) (August 31, 1993 in Mie)
• Rika Tsuzuki (都築里佳^?) (November 8, 1995 in Aichi)
• Yūka Nakamura (中村優花^?) (July 4, 1997 in Aichi)
• Minami Hara (原望奈美^?) (December 24, 1995 in Aichi)
• Haruka Mano (間野春香^?) (April 27, 1995 in Aichi)
• Yukari Yamashita (山下ゆかり^?) (March 12, 1996 in Aichi)
• Erika Yamada (山田恵里伽^?) (December 26, 1995 in Gifu)