Analysis Of Momoiro Clover

"2008-2009: Conception and beginnings Formed in the spring of 2008 as a six-member unit, the group was originally named Momoiro Clover (""Pink Clover"" or, literally, ""Peach-Colored Clover"").
The name was chosen to imply that the group was composed of innocent girls who wanted to bring happiness to people.
Later in 2011, after the departure of Akari Hayami from the group, management added the letter ""Z"" to the group 's name.
The group 's slogan is ""Idols you can meet right now"" .
Momoiro Clover began as a street act in 2008, performing for bystanders in Tokyo 's Yoyogi Park.
As most members were students attending school on weekdays, the group was active mainly on weekends, leading them to be nicknamed ""Weekend Heroines"".
In a one-year

Live at Japan Expo 2012 in ParisThe group recorded an ending theme song for Pokémon 's Best Wishes series (titled ""Mite Mite Kocchichi"" and included in the eighth single ""Otome Sensō"" as a coupling track).
In July, Momoiro Clover Z performed at Japan Expo 2012 in Paris.
Momoiro Clover Z 's ninth single ""Saraba, Itoshiki Kanashimitachi yo"", which appeared in November, topped the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart, becoming their first single to do so.
On December 31, Momoiro Clover Z performed at Kōhaku Uta Gassen, an annual New-Year-Eve music show hosted by NHK, for the first time.
Going to Kōhaku had been the group 's goal for a long time.
During the January 1 Ustream broadcast, Momoiro Clover Z made several announcements: that the band set a new goal for itself — to give a concert at the National Olympic Stadium, an arena with 60–70,000 capacity, that they would release a new album in spring, and that Momoka Ariyasu had to undergo a throat treatment and she would not sing or even talk until the end of January.
The treatment was subsequently prolonged for another month, until the end of

""Kimutaku"", the abbreviation of his full name which had been popularly known in Japan, was later added to the ""Encyclopedia of Contemporary Words"".
He became a phenomenal hit which was called the ""Kimutaku Phenomenon"", creating an economic impact in total of 152 billion JPY in one year by Dentsu Communication Institute Inc.
In 1996, he won his first Television Drama Academy Awards as Best Actor for Long Vacation.
Kimura played a young shy pianist, Sena, who falls in love with an older ex-model, became a phenomenal hit.
Thousands of men went to take up piano lessons. In the same year, SMAP began to host a weekly Japanese TV variety show SMAP×SMAP which made SMAP even more popular.
In 2000, he played a leading role in the TV series Beautiful Life, the finale of which had the highest ever viewing figures in the Kantō region.
Takuya, as well as the show, swept all the awards that year.In 2001, Kimura starred in Hero, which set a record with its high TV ratings of about 36.8%.
Hero has the highest TV ratings since 1989 in Japan.[8] Even a Hero SP which was on broadcast five years later recorded viewer ratings surpassing the 30 percent