page_title: Junior idol
hierarchical_section_title: Junior idol
caption_attribution_description: English: The Japanese idol group Momoiro Clover Z performs at the 2011 Jingu Gaien Fireworks Festival. Chichibunomiya Rugby Stadium, Tokyo, August 6, 2011.This image has been losslessly cropped from the original that was posted to Flickr. The photo was taken using a Panasonic DMC-FZ50.
context_page_description: A junior idol, also known as a chidol or low teen idol, is a type of entertainer who is 15 years of age and under, manufactured and marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality. It is a sub-category of the idol culture in Japanese pop entertainment. Junior idols are primarily gravure idols who are marketed through photo books and image DVDs, but some are also trained in singing and acting. Unlike other child models, idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements by talent agencies, while maintaining an emotional connection with a passionate consumer fan base.
  Junior idols have been seen as controversial due to their age, marketing demographic, and involvement in gravure modeling. In Japan, junior idols stand on legally ambiguous ground, but since the revision of Japanese child pornography laws in 2004 and 2014, many distributors of junior idol content have closed or removed from markets.
context_section_description: A junior idol (ジュニアアイドル, junia aidoru), also known as a chidol (チャイドル, chaidoru, shortening of the words "child idol") or low teen idol (ローティーンアイドル, rōtīn aidoru), is a type of entertainer who is 15 years of age and under, manufactured and marketed for image, attractiveness, and personality. It is a sub-category of the idol culture in Japanese pop entertainment. Junior idols are primarily gravure idols who are marketed through photo books and image DVDs, but some are also trained in singing and acting. Unlike other child models, idols are commercialized through merchandise and endorsements by talent agencies, while maintaining an emotional connection with a passionate consumer fan base.
  Junior idols have been seen as controversial due to their age, marketing demographic, and involvement in gravure modeling. In Japan, junior idols stand on legally ambiguous ground, but since the revision of Japanese child pornography laws in 2004 and 2014, many distributors of junior idol content have closed or removed from markets.
caption: Momoiro Clover Z used to be a junior idol group, until the member grew to adulthood. Momoiro Clover Z is ranked as the most popular female idol group according to 2013–2017 surveys.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
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