NiziU

NiziU is a Japanese-Korean idol girl group. In the word NiziU, “Nizi” means the symbol of the audition project, and “U” means you, that is to say, members and people who like this group. In the group, there are nine members.

Audition

Japanese music company called “Sony Music” and, Korean entertainment agency called “JYP” began a project called “Nizi Project”. This is an audition program, and it was held in Japan and Korea. The producer of NiziU is J.Y Park (박진영). He is a record producer, and founder of the JYP and also one of the singers in Korean. He is famous as a wheeler-producer. There are a lot of artists who became big artists thanks to him.

Members

In the group, there are nine members. They were elected from 100,000 people.

(Name) (Birthday)

Mako Yamaguchi　-April 4th, 2001 – Leader, main dancer, lead vocalist　　　

Rio Hanabashi -February 4th, 2002 – Main dancer

Maya Katsumura -April 8th, 2002 – Lead dancer

Riku Oe -October 26th, 2002 – Lead vocalist

Ayaka Arai -June 20th, 2003 – Visual

Mayuka Ogou -November 13th, 2003 – Lead rapper

Rima Yokoi -March 26th, 2004 – Main rapper

Miihi Suzuno -August 12th, 2004 – Main vocalist, lead dancer

Nina Hillman -February 27th, 2005 – Main vocalist, youngest

Discography＆Performance

Song

Make You Happy

This is one of the songs in the Digital Mini Album. It is famous for being used in the nizi project. The song was released as the pre-debut song on only music streaming. The release day was before their debut. However the album became a big hit. Also the dance of this song is very famous for “Nawatobi Dance”.

Step and a Step

This is the first debut single. It was released on December 2nd in 2020. The dance is famous for “Rabbit Dance”. The high point of this song means that it’s ok to make progress on our own pace if the pace is slower than other people. The lyrics mean we don’t need to be upset about the people’s step around us.

Commercial

LOTTE [Fit’s] ( December 8th, 2020 - )
Coca-Cola ( December 14th, 2020 - )
KOSE ( January 16th, 2020 - )

Record of Awards

Best Dance Video Award - MTV VMAJ 2020
Special Award - The 62nd Japan Record Awards
VOGUE JAPAN Women of the Year 2020

Fans

People who love this group and members are called “WithU”. “U” means, of course, you ( = fans ), and that fans usually think of NiziU. Also, there is a meaning behind “WithU”. It is that NiziU works toward the world with fans.

Additional points

In addition to the above information, there are the featuring guide videos on YouTube. The featuring videos are the lecture videos of shouts and calls during the song. In the video, NiziU members lecture the shouts and calls for “WithU”, which they want “WithU” to sing the song together during their performance. “WithU” can find pleasure in the moment with NiziU members.