Uemura Akari

**Uemura Akari** is the co-leader of SKE48's Team KII.

## Profile

* **Name:** Uemura Akari
* **Birth Date:** December 30, 1998 (age 25)
* **Birth Place:** Osaka, Japan
* **Status:**
	+ 2013-02-28: SKE48 Member
	+ 2014-02-24: Team KII Member
* **Hobbies:** Talking with friends
* **Specialty:** Running high jump, Pedometer
* **Strong Point:** Her Kansai dialect
* **Weak Point:**  Easily forget something
* **Scared of:** Haunted houses
* **Favorite Animal:** Dogs
* **Favorite Subject:** Japanese language
* **Favorite Color:** Purple and Yellow-green
* **Favorite Flower:** Cosmos
* **Favorite Food:** Strawberries, Pork-flavor ramen, Carbonara, Chocolate
* **Least Favorite Food:** Melon
* **Favorite Drinks:** Cocoa, apple juice
* **Charm point:** Mouth

## Trivia

* She was raised as an only child. When her father had her, he was 18 years old.
* She has a pet bird named Happy, she previously owned another bird named Toppy, but it escaped and flew away.
* She graduated from high school on March 8, 2017.
* She gets along best with Nogizaka46's Kanazawa Tomoko.
* She wants to use her Kansai dialect in talks and MCs.
* She says the source of her energy is talking to people.
* When she first joined SKE48, she had difficulty holding a microphone while dancing.
* On a rainy day she would watch TV at home alone, or sing the song Dot Bikini by S/mileage.
* She'd like to have a pet dog.
* She is a fan of the rock band Sekai no Owari.
* She wants to become a dancer like Sayashi Riho, and would like to switch places with her.
* Has expressed her love for Sayashi Riho many times.
* On a T-shirt, she wrote that "AKARI" stood for "Acquire Kind Achieve Recollect Idea".
* It has been said that she has the best eyesight in SKE48.
* She does not like melons, despite it being her image fruit.
* She ranked 3rd most stylish idol by high school girls in a 2014 women's magazine.
* She is allergic to cats.
* People often say she’s an airhead, but among the members of SKE48 there’s a suspicion that she’s not an airhead, but is actually just careless.
* It has been said that she resembles her mother.
* After her relationship with somebody reaches a certain depth, she doesn’t like using “~chan” and she'll give strange nicknames.
* On July 20, 2013, she appeared solo in Photo Technic Digital.
* On September 19, 2015, her first solo photobook was announced, titled *AKARI*. It was released on October 29.
* On December 16, 2015, she released her first solo image Blu-ray, *Akari*.
* On July 25, 2016, she released her second solo photobook, titled *AKARI II*.
* On August 17, 2016, she released her second solo image Blu-ray, titled *Take It Early*.
* On January 9, 2019, she released her third solo photobook, titled *AKARI III*.
* On June 13, 2019, she opened an official Instagram account.
* On September 30, 2019, it was announced that she would become a regular on the MBS Radio show *Akina no Shuukan Young Friday* starting from October 4.

## Singles

* Bukiyou Taiyou
* 12gatsu no Kangaroo
* Coquettish Juutai Chuu
* Maenomeri
* Chicken LINE
* Kin no Ai, Gin no Ai
* Igai ni Mango
* Muishiki no Iro
* Ikinari Punch Line
* Stand by you
* FRUSTRATION
* So~Yu~Toko Aru Yo Ne?