Ota Yuuri, Team N

755: http://7gogo.jp/lp/m...DAWkVIvojdMdG==

Blood type: AB

Lives in: Nara (means geographically flat country on a basin, neighbouring Osaka)

Height: 161.5cm (“755”, May 4/2015)

Nickname: Yuuri (official), Tansan (soda water, via Yuuri+tan (pet name) +san (honorific)), Mannen (an angel per10 millenniums, associated with Hashimoto “Sennen (a millennium)” Kanna)

Trivia:

- Favorite vegetables: Tomatos, corn, eggplants, spinach and broccoli

- Favorite fruits: Strawberries, peaches, grapes, apples, pears and Açaí palms

- Favorite snacks: Chocolate chip cookies and popcorn

- Specialties (she’s begun cooking in her childhood): Hamburg steaks, Karaage (fried chickens), Omuraisu (fried rice with an omelet sheet), and onion tomato soup

- Would like to do: Space travel

- Favorite animals: Sea otters and dogs

- Favorite drink: Vegetable juice

- Refreshes herself by: Watching animation while soaking half body in bathtub

- Favorite films: Gantz (’11) and April Fools (’15)

(Above trivia are taken from Self-introduction, “755”, Apr. 29/2015)

- Would like to be: A member of an all-female band (like the one in “K-ON”), voice actor, musical theater performer and a fashion model

(I just decided my dream(s)!!, “amebro.jp”, Apr. 29/2015)

- Is told that she’s calm, cool and a little cynical, but at the same time, honest, polite and a Tsundere (a girl gradually becomes to show her warm side).

- Is an enthusiast of cartoons and animations and likes listening animation soundtracks and songs of voice actors.

- Is fair-skinned and has slightly brown hair by nature (i.e. non-dyed).

- Simplified Chinese (continental) spells Loli (-ta) as 萝莉, though, strictly speaking, 萝 (radish) is different from 夢 (dream). 莉 comes from jasmine.

- Was one of girls who’s got last 2 seats for launching Team BII (the other girl was Umehara Mako). She’s kept the backmost stage position thru the first team BII stage “Aitakatta” for 2 years. In the next BII stage “Tadaima Ren’aichuu”, she could progress a little forward to the front line. It's only a year ago when she’s begun to be apparently promoted by the offices, by being picked out for one of two-top position (w/ Shiroma Miru) of the single C/W song "Yamae Ikou”. It took 2 and a half years till then from her NMB joining. She was selected as a member of next single title song “Ibiza Girl”, but by the well-known incident in AKB’s handshaking event, “Ibiza Girl” was not released as an single title song. It took one more year for Yuuri to be re-selected in the single title “Don’t Look Back!“. Her television exposure’s been also limited to very low level, even in Osaka area, till this spring.

- Was poker-faced and not good at dancing in her early NMB days, but is showing big growth against these problems.

- Goes to high school from this spring.

- NOW everything seems to begin changing for her. She’s starting to appear in many photogravures and recently selected as one of the nominees for “755 (a smartphone chat app)” photographic album competition. It’s fantastic. Realistically, the chance of winning is against her. Her direct competitors are Kotani Riho (Team N, 4) and Takahashi Juri (Team B, one of the closest AKB friends for Yuuri), but even if looking thru the whole 18 nominees, Yuuri's name recognition degree is supposed to be dozens of times lower than those of other 17 nominees. All the same, that's why it's wonderful. She’s nothing to lose and I’d like to consider this competition to be a substantial debut for Yuuri to the 48s community outside NMB.