Question: Information: - History. 19972000: Beginning, Michiyo Heike & Morning Musume. In 1997, Japanese rock group Sharam Q, fronted by Tsunku, began auditions for a female vocalist. These auditions aired via the reality show Asayan, and resulted in Michiyo Heike being crowned winner. Tsunku, however, decided to give five of the runners-up, Yuko Nakazawa, Natsumi Abe, Kaori Iida, Asuka Fukuda and Aya Ishiguro, a chance to become a group in their own right. The girls were set the task of selling 50,000 copies of their demo single "Ai no Tane," in just five days. The girls sold the required number of copies in four days, and subsequently became an official group. - , better known by her birth name is a Japanese singer, writer, TV personality, fashion designer. She is most famous for her participation in Japanese pop girl group Morning Musume - , also known as My Guardian Characters, is a Japanese "shjo" manga series created by the manga author duo, Peach-Pit. The story centers on elementary school girl Amu Hinamori, whose popular exterior, referred to as "cool and spicy" by her classmates, contrasts with her introverted personality. When Amu wishes for the courage to be reborn as her would-be self, she is surprised to find three colorful eggs the next morning, which hatch into three Guardian Characters: Ran, Miki, and Su. - Shugo Chara Egg ! ( ! Shugo Kyara Eggu ! ) was a Hello ! Project unit , originally consisting of four Hello ! Pro Egg members : Ayaka Wada , Yuuka Maeda , Kanon Fukuda and Akari Saho . The group was announced on September 20 , 2008 and debuted with a live performance . Shugo Chara Egg 's purpose was to sing the opening theme songs for the anime Shugo Chara ! Doki -- , the anime that the Hello ! Project group Buono ! had previously performed opening and ending songs for . Even though Shugo Chara Egg ! performed the anime 's opening songs , the ending songs were still sung by Buono ! . Additionally , each of the four members wear costumes based on the '' character transformations '' ( a key element of the series ' plot ) of Amu Hinamori , the main character of the series . Shugo Chara Egg 's debut single was titled '' Minna no Tamago '' , and was used as the first opening theme for Shugo Chara ! ! Doki - . It was released on the Pony Canyon label on October 12 , 2008 . A new second generation Shugo Chara Egg ! was created in August 2009 , adding Mizuki Fukumura and Irori Maeda to replace Yuuka Maeda and Kanon Fukuda respectively . Nanami Tanabe was chosen as the new Amulet Diamond . The girls are the hostesses for the live action segments of Shugo Chara ! Party . Wada and Fukumura are currently still members of Hello ! Project , as members of Angerme and Morning Musume respectively . - The two of them grew up together and went to the same elementary school and have been best friends ever since. Both started as doujinshi manga artists, but not as Peach-Pit. Then they were scouted by Dengeki Comic Gao!. In 2008, one of their manga, "Shugo Chara!", was awarded the Kodansha Manga Award for best children's manga. Shugo Chara was also turned later into an Anime television series. - It was first performed on August 22, 2007 at Odaiba's Palette Town and later on Cute's 'Hkago no Essence' Fall Concert (September 30, 2007) and the 2007 Morning Musume Cultural Festival, on October 7 and October 8, 2007. - Biography. Yuko Nakazawa was one of five runners-up in a 1997 talent contest for a new Japanese rock idol. After the contest, musician and producer Tsunku offered Nakazawa and the four other runners-up (Natsumi Abe, Kaori Iida, Aya Ishiguro, and Asuka Fukuda) the chance to be taken under his wing under one condition: they must sell 50,000 CDs of their debut song "Ai no Tane" with five days of live promotion. The quintet accomplished that task in four and thus Morning Musume was born. The group has since grown increasingly popular and is infamous for its fluctuating lineup, with members leaving and joining frequently. - Asayan, originally known as , was a talent search variety show that aired on TV Tokyo from 1995 to 2002. Some idols that were originally discovered through Asayan auditions produced by Tsunku, formed groups that worked under the umbrella group, later to be named as the Hello! Project. - Biography. Career. She was born in Muroran, Hokkaid, Japan. - The earliest commercial Japanese animation dates to 1917, and production of anime works in Japan has since continued to increase steadily. The characteristic anime art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of Osamu Tezuka and spread internationally in the late twentieth century, developing a large domestic and international audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, by television broadcasts, directly to home media, and over the Internet. It is classified into numerous genres targeting diverse broad and niche audiences. - Overview. In 1997, Fukuda joined Morning Musume along with Yuko Nakazawa, Aya Ishiguro, Natsumi Abe, and Kaori Iida. Although she was the youngest member at that time, she was the first to graduate in April 1999. She left to continue her schooling and rumours of a return to a musical career have not been realized. Her last single with Morning Musume was Memory Seishun no Hikari. In 2005, she was working as an assistant at her father's nightclub "Philippine" in Tokyo. On November 9, 2011, her long-awaited comeback album "Double Fantasy", as a part of Peacestone, was released. - Like Shugo Chara Egg!, the four members of this group wear costumes inspired by the anime. In this case, the costumes are based on the school uniform of the Seiyo Academy (a key location in the series), but with the "royal cape" also worn by the "Guardians" (the student council that main character Amu Hinamori "joins"), hence "Guardians 4". Each of the members wear the same color, although that color changes with each single. - It was later included in many other Morning Musume releases: in their first official single "Morning Coffee"; their first album, ; and their first "Best of" compilation, "Best! Morning Musume 1". An instrumental for this song was included in the bonus karaoke disc in the "Early Single Box". - History. The unit was officially announced at the "Nakayoshi" magazine Festival 2007 on July 21, 2007, at Sunshine City in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, and formed to sing both the opening ("Kokoro no Tamago") and ending ("Honto no Jibun") themes for the anime adaptation of the "Shugo Chara!" manga. Buono! continued to record the ending and opening themes for the first season of the anime. As of the second season, Buono! only recorded the ending themes, as the opening themes were handled by Shugo Chara Egg! and Guardians 4, two other groups formed for the sake of performing Shugo Chara! music. On March 10, 2008, a collaboration album with Guardians 4 and Shugo Chara!Egg was released titled as "Shugo Chara!Song Best", and on the same day a DVD titled as "Shugo Chara! Clips Best" was released with the same artists Guardians 4 and Shugo Chara!Egg. - He is best known for having two major roles in the Japanese music landscape: first as the lead singer of the popular rock group Sharam Q, and now as the producer, primary composer, lyricist, and (until 2014) primary studio backing vocalist for highly acclaimed idol group Morning Musume, in addition to Aya Matsuura and other associated idols under the Hello! Project banner, for whom he has written and produced the vast majority of their chart-topping hits. He has also produced music for other Japanese artists, including Ayumi Hamasaki's . As his musical influences he cites The Beatles, Japanese popular music (especially kaykyoku), American and European hits being played on the radio when he was a schoolboy, disco acts such as Chic, Kool & the Gang and Earth, Wind & Fire, and bands like Duran Duran and The Power Station. - , formerly simply and colloquially referred to as , is a Japanese female idol group, holding the second highest overall single sales (of a female group) on the Oricon charts as of February 2012, with the Oricon record of most top ten singles with an amount of 50, and they have sold over 21 million copies in Japan alone. - Biography. They debuted with in 1992. They were not an instant hit initially, but their fourth single broke the top 50 of the Oricon charts. Eventually, the single got a lot of attention since it was used in the DNA^2 anime series, breaking into the top 10. The next single , also broke into the top 10. "Zurui Onna" is the 84th best-selling single in Japan of all-time. Their 11th single, , topped the charts in 1996. - During the 1990s, then editor-in-chief, Yoshio Irie attempted to move the magazine away from "first love" stories and introduced several fantasy manga such as "Sailor Moon". During that period, "Nakayoshi" pursued a "media-mix" campaign, which involved close coordination of the magazine, anime productions based on the manga, and character merchandising. Nakayoshi is also published on the 6th of each month. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'genre' with the subject 'shugo chara egg!'. Choices: - album - anime - biography - concert - fantasy - history - japanese - love - magazine - manga - musical - pop - popular music - radio - rock - television - television series - variety show
Answer:
pop