Murakami Megumi

Murakami Megumi (村上愛) is a former member of Hello! Project Kids and the Hello! Project group ℃-ute. On October 31, 2006, she resigned from the group and Hello! Project without a graduation ceremony to focus on her studies. In 2011, she signed to the dance agency, WANTS.

2002
On June 30, Murakami Megumi passed the "Hello! Project Kids Audition" along with 14 other girls.

2003
On June 7, She became an elected member of ZYX, a group led by Morning Musume member Yaguchi Mari.

2004
She sang alongside Tanaka Reina and Suzuki Airi in "Suki ni Nacha Ikenai Hito", one of the coupling tracks on the "ALL FOR ONE & ONE FOR ALL!" EP, making her one of only seven girls to be chosen from the entirety of Hello! Project to sing on a separate track.

Murakami also appeared on multiple occasions as a backing dancer for other Hello! Project acts. She also appeared on the Goto Maki's PV "Yokohama Shinkirou".

2005
Murakami was featured in the 2005 shuffle group, Sexy Otonajan. She was one of the only two Hello! Project Kids featured in any shuffle group.

Murakami was assigned as a member of Hello! Project group ℃-ute alongside seven other Hello! Project Kids members. These seven members had been passed over when it came to the forming of Berryz Koubou, which had originally been formed to teach the Hello! Project Kids about being in a group by rotating the line-up amongst the kids until the idea was dropped.

2006
Amateur photographs of Murakami holding hands with her supposed boyfriend in the street appeared on the internet. Later on October 31, she retired from ℃-ute and Hello! Project, shortly before ℃-ute made their major label debut. Though the official reason stated was because she wanted to return to an ordinary school life, it is believed that she left because she was afraid of these people following her, but some fans believed that Hello! Project fired her because it is against Hello! Project contracts to date boys.

2011
On April 4th, 2011, she returned to show business by signing on to WANTS, a dance agency.

Profile

 * Name: Murakami Megumi (村上愛)
 * Nickname: Megu, Meguru, Muramura
 * Birthdate: June 6, 1992 (age 21)
 * Birthplace: Saitama Prefecture, Japan
 * Blood Type: A
 * Height: 154cm (5'0.5")
 * Western Zodiac: Gemini
 * Eastern Zodiac: Monkey
 * Former ℃-ute Color: Grey
 * Audition Song: "Pittari Shitai X'mas!" (Petitmoni)

Hello! Project Daihyakka (2004) Details

 * Hobby: Exercising
 * Special skill: Hurdles and dancing
 * Strong point: Not giving up and doing things till the end
 * Weak point: Getting mad easily
 * Habit: Saying "tte yuu kaa" before every word
 * Favorite color: Black and white
 * Favorite flower: Hydrangea
 * Disliked thing/thing to do: Drawing
 * Scared of: Monsters!
 * Favorite movie: "The Matrix"
 * Favorite book: "Kiri no Mukou no Fushigi na Machi"
 * Favorite word: "Konjou" (will power/guts)
 * Favorite season: Summer
 * Favorite food: Strawberries
 * Least favorite food: Vegetables...
 * Favorite song: "Choo Choo TRAIN" (EXILE)
 * Hello! Project Status:
 * 2002-06-30: Member
 * 2005-06-11: ℃-ute Member
 * 2006-11-01: Left
 * Years in ℃-ute: 1 Year
 * Charm point: Eyes and overlapped teeth
 * Hello! Project Groups:
 * Hello! Project Kids (2002-2006)
 * ZYX (2003)
 * ℃-ute (2005-2006)
 * Shuffle Groups:
 * H.P. All Stars (2004)
 * Sexy Otonajan (2005)

℃-ute

 * Massara Blue Jeans
 * Soku Dakishimete
 * Ooki na Ai de Motenashite
 * Wakkyanai (Z)

H.P. All Stars

 * ALL FOR ONE & ONE FOR ALL!

ZYX

 * Iku ZYX! FLY HIGH
 * Shiroi TOKYO

Sexy Otonajan

 * Onna, Kanashii, Otona

DVD

 * [2004.07.07] Yokohama Mirage ( with Goto Maki)
 * [2006.08.06] Music Kyutibijuaru ~ ~ V Special
 * [2007.11.22] Hello Pro vol.1
 * [2007.03.21] Hello Pro vol.9

Movies

 * [2002] Koinu Dan no Monogatari (仔犬ダンの物語, "Puppy Dan's Story")
 * [2003.01] Little Hospital (リトル・ホスピタル)
 * [2006.03] Takaramono (たからもの)

TV

 * [2003] Pretty Diary III Ritoruhosupitaru (with Murata Aiko)
 * [2003] Tintin TOWN! "Kingdom of Lilliput" (with Murata Megumi)
 * [2005] What treasure

Internet

 * [2005.08.26] Haropurobideochatto 24th (Hello! Project on FLET)
 * [2006.03.03] Hello Pro Hour # 1

Trivia

 * On one of the episodes of Hello! Morning, where the members of Hello! Project Kids were introduced, Abe Natsumi accidentally called her "Ai-chan". This is because the kanji for the given name is rarely read as "Megumi".
 * One of the leading Hello! Project Kids as part of ℃-ute and the 2005 shuffle unit Sexy Otonajan.
 * Murakami did not have a graduation ceremony, making her one of the few outgoing Hello! Project acts, except Hello! Pro Kenshuusei, not to receive one.
 * Videos of her in dance rehearsal at WANTS have been uploaded onto the YouTube channel NAKAJIMA3104.