Haruka Shimazaki

Haruka Shimazaki
Shimazaki at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October 2015
Background information
Native name	島崎 遥香
Also known as	Paruru (ぱるる) (nickname)
Born	March 30, 1994
Origin	Saitama Prefecture, Japan
Genres	J-pop
Occupation(s)	idol, singer
Years active	2009–present
Labels	King Records
Associated acts	AKB48

Haruka Shimazaki (島崎 遥香 Shimazaki Haruka, born March 30, 1994 in Saitama Prefecture) is a Japanese singer and member of the Japanese idol group AKB48. She is in Team A.^[1]

Career

Haruka Shimazaki took part in the AKB48 6th Kenkyūsei Audition (9th generation AKB48 audition) in 2009, and on September 20, it was announced that she was accepted. In the AKB48 17th single senbatsu election, which took place from May to June 2010, Haruka Shimazaki ranked 28th, the highest of all trainees. In June 2011, it was announced that she would be promoted to a newly created Team 4. In the AKB48 27th single senbatsu election, which took place from May to June 2012, Haruka Shimazaki ranked 23rd. In August, she was transferred to Team B after Team 4 was disbanded. In September, Haruka Shimazaki won the 3rd AKB48 rock-paper-scissors tournament, held in Nippon Budokan, earning the center position in a new AKB48's single.^[2] The single was titled "Eien Pressure" and was released on December 5, 2012.^[3][4][5][6]

In October 2012, she appeared at the premiere of Gekijōban Shiritsu Bakaleya Kōkō,^[7] a movie starring her. The movie was based on the 2012 TV series Shiritsu Bakaleya Kōkō. Later in October the same year, she appeared together with Minami Takahashi in an automated external defibrillator (AED) training session, sponsored by the Japanese Red Cross.^[8] On February 23, 2013, she appeared on the cover of the April issue of the Japanese fashion magazine Smart.^[9]

Discography

Singles with AKB48

Year	No.	Title	Role[10]	Notes
2010	16	"Ponytail to Shushu"	Theatre Girls	Sang "Boku no Yell"
	17	"Heavy Rotation"	Under Girls	Sang "Namida no See-Saw game
	19	"Chance no Junban"	Team Kenkyusei	Sang "Fruit Snow"
2011	20	"Sakura no Ki ni Narō"	Team Kenkyusei	Sang "Ōgon Center"
	21	"Everyday, Katyusha"	Team Kenkyusei	Sang "Anti" & "Yankee Soul"
	22	"Flying Get"	Team 4	Sang "Seishun to Kizukanai Mama"
	23	"Kaze wa Fuiteiru"	Under Girls, Tem 4 + Kenkyusei	Sang "Kimi no Senaka" & "Tsubomitachi"
	24	"Ue kara Mariko"	Team 4	Sang "Hashire! Penguin"
2012	25	"Give Me Five!"	Special Girls A	Sang "New Ship"
	26	"Manatsu no Sounds Good!"	A-side	Also sang on "Choudai, Darling!"
	27	"Gingham Check"	Under Girls	Sang "Nante Bohemian"
	28	"Uza"	A-side, Team B	Also sang "Seigi no Mikata ja Nai Hero "
	29	"Eien Pressure"	A-side, Center	Also sang "Totteoki Christmas"
2013	30	"So Long!"	A-side	Also sang on "Sokode Inu no Unchi Funjau kane?" as Team B.
	31	"Sayonara Crawl"	A-side, Center	Also sang on "Romance Kenjuu" as Team B & "Haste&Waste" as OKA 48 .
	32	"Koi Suru Fortune Cookie"	A-side	Ranked 12nd in 2013 General Election. Also sang on "Namida no Sei Janai" and "Saigo no Door".
	33	"Heart Electric"	A-side	Also sang on "Tiny Shirt" as Team B.
	34	"Suzukake no Ki no Michi de "Kimi no Hohoemi o Yume ni Miru" to Itte Shimattara Bokutachi no Kankei wa Dō Kawatte Shimau no ka, Bokunari ni Nan-nichi ka Kangaeta Ue de no Yaya Kihazukashii Ketsuron no Yō na Mono"	B-side	Sang on "Mosh & Dive" and "Party is over".
2014
	35	"Mae shika Mukanee"	A-side
	36	"Labrador Retriever"	A-side	Also sang "Kimi wa Kimagure" .
	37	"Kokoro no Placard"	A-side	Also sang "Oshiete Mommy" .
	38	"Kibōteki Refrain"	A-side	Also sang "Jūjun na Slave" as Team A.
2015
	39	"Green Flash"	A-side	Also sang "Majisuka Fight", "Haru no Hikari Chikazuita Natsu", Hakimono to Kasa no Monogatari.
	40	"Bokutachi wa Tatakawanai"	A-side,Center	Also sang "Barebare Bushi" as Wonda Senbatsu & "Kimi no Dai Ni Shō".
	41	Halloween Night	A-side	Ranked 9th in 2015 General Election. Also sang "Ippome Ondo", "Yankee Machine Gun", and "Gunzou".
	42	Kuchibiru ni Be My Baby	A-side	Also sang "365 Nichi no Kamihikōki", Senaka Kotoba", and "Yasashii place".
2016	43	"Kimi wa Melody"	A-side	Marked as the 10th Anniversary Single. Also sang "Mazariau Mono" as NogizakaAKB and "M.T. ni Sasagu" as Team A.
	44	"Tsubasa wa Iranai"	A-side	Also sang "Set me free" as Team A.

Albums

Koko ni Ita Koto

• "High School Days" (Team Kenkyūsei)
• "Koko ni Ita Koto" (AKB48+SKE48+SDN48+NMB48)

1830m

• "First Rabbit"
• "Chokkaku Sunshine" (Team 4)
• "Itsuka Mita Umi no Soko" (Up-and-coming Girls)
• "Yasashisa no Chizu"
• "Aozora yo Sabishikunai Ka?" (AKB48 + SKE48 + NMB48 + HKT48)

Tsugi no Ashiato

• "After Rain"
• "Boy Hunt no Houhou Oshiemasu"
• "Boku wa Ganbaru"
• "Ponkotsu Blues"
• "Dōki"
• "Kanashiki Kinkyori Renai"

Koko ga Rhodes da, Koko de Tobe!

• "Ai no Sonzai"
• "Oh! Baby!" (Takahashi Team A)
• "Tomodachi de Irareru Nara"

0 to 1 no Aida

• "Toy Poodle to Kimi no Monogatari"
• "Clap" (Team A)

AKB48 theater acts

Team Kenkyūsei "Idol no Yoake"

1. "Kataomoi no Taikakusen" (片思いの対角線)

Team B 4th Stage "Idol no Yoake"

1. "Kataomoi no Taikakusen"

   substitute for Moeno Nitō

Team Kenkyūsei "Renai Kinshi Jōrei"

1. "Tsundere!" (ツンデレ!)

Team A 5th Stage "Renai Kinshi Jōrei"

1. "Squall no Aida ni" (スコールの間に) (dancer)
2. "Manatsu no Christmas Rose" (真夏のクリスマスローズ) (dancer)
3. "Tsundere!"

   substitute for Tomomi Itano

Team Kenkyūsei "Theater no Megami"

1. "Candy" (キャンディー)

Team B 5th Stage "Theater no Megami"

1. "Romance Kakurenbo" (ロマンスかくれんぼ) (as part of zenza girls, i.e. the opening number performed by trainees)
2. "Candy"

   substitute for Amina Satō

Team A 6th Stage "Mokugekisha"

1. "Miniskirt no Yōsei" (ミニスカートの妖精) (zenza girls)
2. "Ude o Kunde" (腕を組んで)

   substitute for Sayaka Nakaya

Team K 6th Stage "Reset"

1. "Lemon no Toshigoro" (檸檬の年頃) (zenza girls)
2. "Gyakuten Ōjisama" (逆転王子様)

   substitute for Tomomi Nakatsuka

Team 4 1st Stage "Boku no Taiyō"

1. "Idol Nante Yobanaide" (アイドルなんて呼ばないで)

Team B Waiting Stage

1. "Kimi no C/W" (君のC/W)

Team A Renai Kinshi Jōrei

1. "Heart Gata Virus" (ハート型ウイルス)

Team A 7th Stage "M.T. ni Sasagu"

1. "Risuke" (リスケ)

Appearances

Films

• Gekijōban Shiritsu Bakaleya Kōkō (October 13, 2012), Fumie Shingyōji^[11]
• Ataru The First Love & The Last Kill (September 14, 2013), Rumi Mizuno^[12]
• Ghost Theater (November 21, 2015), Sara Mizuki^[13]
• Haunted Campus (2016), Koyomi Nada^[14]

Dubbing

• Yo-Kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! (December 20, 2014), Yukippe^[15]

TV dramas

• Majisuka Gakuen (final episode, March 26, 2010, TV Tokyo)
• Majisuka Gakuen 2 (April 15 — July 1, 2011, TV Tokyo), Kanburi^[16]
• Shiritsu Bakaleya Kōkō (April 14 — June 30, 2012, NTV), Fumie Shingyōji^[17]
• Majisuka Gakuen 3 (July 13 — October 5, 2012, TV Tokyo), Paru^[18]
• Ataru Special: New York kara no Chōsenjō (ATARU スペシャル ～ニューヨークからの挑戦状!!～) (January 6, 2013, TBS)^[19]
• So long! (2013, NTV), Asuka Hashimoto^[20]
• Fortune Cookie (2013, Fuji TV), Michiko Shintani^[21]
• Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi 15-shunen Special "Sasoi no Mori" (2014, Fuji TV), Aoi Sumida^[22]
• Majisuka Gakuen 4 (January 19 — March 30, 2015, Nippon Television), as Salt^[23]
• Majisuka Gakuen 5 (August 24 — October 27, 2015, Nippon Television, Hulu) as Salt^[24]
• AKB Horror Night: Adrenaline's Night Ep.24 - Music Box, as Mariko (2015)^[25]
• Yutori Desuga Nanika (2016, NTV), as Yutori Sakama^[26]

TV variety shows

• Ariyoshi AKB Kyōwakoku (March 29, 2010 — March 28, 2016, TBS)
• Shūkan AKB (週刊AKB) (August 13, 2010, TV Tokyo)
• AKBingo! (December 22, 2010 — present, TV Tokyo)
• AKB48 Nemōsu TV (AKB48ネ申テレビ) (Family Gekijō)
  • Special: Atarashii Jibun ni Annyeong Haseyo Kankoku Kaiheitai (スペシャル〜新しい自分にアニョハセヨ韓国海兵隊〜) (July 17, 2011)
  • Season 7
  • Season 8
• Atsushi Paruru no OO baito! (2015 — 2016)

Bibliography

Magazines

• Myojo, Shueisha^[27]
• SEDA, Hinode Publishing^[28]

Photobooks

• Paruru, Komaru. (July 19, 2013, Shueisha) ISBN 9784087806885^[29][30]
• ParU (November 20, 2015, Shufu to Seikatsu Sha) ISBN 9784391147797^[31][32]

References

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2. "レコードチャイナ：AKB48じゃんけん大会、センターを射止めたのは島崎遥香！". Record China. 2012-09-19. Retrieved 2012-11-27.
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5. ぱるる、初センターは王道アイドルソング！じゃんけん選抜曲「永遠プレッシャー」で勝負！！ (in Japanese). The Hochi Shimbun. 2012-11-08. Archived from the original on 2012-11-08. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
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8. 高橋みなみ、活動辞退の光宗薫にエール 島崎遥香とAED講習会に参加 (in Japanese). Kyodo News. 2012-10-24. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
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11. 映画 劇場版 私立バカレア高校. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
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19. "中居主演ドラマ『ATARUスペシャル』に堀北真希、岡田将生、AKB島崎遥香が出演" (in Japanese). Oricon Style. 2012-11-29. Retrieved 2012-11-29.
20. TV So long!. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
21. TV フォーチュンクッキー. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
22. TVM ほんとにあった怖い話15周年スペシャル. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
23. TV マジすか学園4. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
24. TV マジすか学園5. allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
25. 島崎遥香、恐すぎて"放送禁止"問題作に主演 「人の感情が一番恐い」 (in Japanese). oricon ME inc. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
26. 島崎遥香、岡田将生の妹役で“真性ゆとり”の一人に！「ゆとりですがなにか」 (in Japanese). IID, Inc. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
27. AKB島崎遥香、Twitterを初開設 1日経たずにフォロワー9万人超え (in Japanese). J-CAST, Inc. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
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29. "AKB48's Shimazaki Haruka to release her 1st photobook". tokyohive. 6Theory Media, LLC. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
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31. ParU : Fashion Issue (主婦と生活社) (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Retrieved 2016-03-16.
32. AKB48島崎遥香、人生で一番つらいのは「今」…塩対応？ポンコツ？ストイックな素顔に迫る (in Japanese). modelpress. Retrieved 2016-03-16.

External links

• Official profile on AKB48's website
• Haruka Shimazaki on Google+
• Haruka Shimazaki on Instagram(Japanese)
• Haruka Shimazaki on Twitter
• Haruka Shimazaki on 755(Japanese)