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Nanami Abe, who once served as the center of idol group Last Idol, has announced her retirement from the entertainment industry. Following the announcement on the official site of her talent agency, Full Course, Japan’s 5channel Hello! Project board lit up with posts looking back on her career. She began her idol career at age 3, performing under a string of names — “Ichigo Rex,” “rex,” “mImi,” and “Pax Puella” — before becoming the center of Last Idol in 2017. She later re-debuted with Full Course, a group under the Heroines label. Posters also brought up the anecdote that her parents were Hello! Project fans who named her after Natsumi Abe, with many lamenting that she never actually joined Hello! Project itself.
An Announcement Regarding Nanami Abe’s Activities
Source: fullcourse-fc.com / Original article here
What people said
Heroines.
The lineup was really solid and expectations were high, but once it actually launched it struggled way more than the hype suggested.
Rimika-chan from Nippon Produce 3 (a Produce 101-style survival show) is in there too
the only thing she never got was luck
Pretty sure she could sing well too
She was even unveiled at Heroines Fest at LaLa Arena, their biggest event yet
She's in the same group as Mizukami, a former HKT48 member who got eliminated from Produce 101 Japan
Guess she's realized she's never going to break through
Since she's the kid of a Hello! Project fan, people were calling for her to come to Hello!
I think she'd given up on being an idol for a while and was doing livestreaming or something
Full Course only just started up as an idol group recently, right?
If you only look at what's around iLiFE! it looks all sparkly, but the reality is the bottom-tier groups are no different from any random underground idol act
So she was on Last Idol together with Momoko Hashimoto, huh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Uc5euNZ_o4&t=10
Guess if you fail right out of the gate…
her biggest failure really was Last Idol
Those people are probably swinging a different stick by now 😔
Takaneko I could maybe see, but Full Course is out of the question —
she doesn't have that kind of name recognition among the "Ookami" fandom (nickname for the group's fanbase)
They're probably just milking iLiFE! for cash while it lasts and will scale everything back the instant things look shaky
I've already started calling them the "Tokyo Chikara Meshi" of the idol world (a chain famous for overexpanding fast then collapsing)
That untouched, transparent charm she had up through junior high was the best part
Last Idol → Full Course
Momoko Hashimoto
Last Idol → Takane no Nadeshiko
Reina Doi
Ange et Folletta → SCRAMBLE SMILE
Kotomi Tachibana
Ange et Folletta → CANDY TUNE
She should've gone solo as a talent under a major agency
filling the Osaka slot that opened up when Ogata graduated
Guess she figured she'd sell better under an Akimoto Yasushi production
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
Abe began her idol career in 2005 at age 3, moving through a string of groups and stage names — “Ichigo Rex,” “rex,” and “mImi” (later renamed “Pax Puella”) — before becoming the center of “Last Idol” in 2017. After leaving that group, she re-debuted with “Full Course,” a new group under the idol production collective Heroines. Heroines is an agency that has launched more than 30 groups in a short span, and some posters in the thread noted that her name recognition and scale of activity never quite lived up to the early hype. The anecdote that her parents were Morning Musume fans who named her after Natsumi Abe also drew attention, though it’s worth clarifying this is only the origin of her name — it does not mean she was ever actually a member of Hello! Project.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (Hello! Project board) thread “Former Last Idol Center Nanami Abe Announces Retirement from Entertainment Industry.”
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