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矢口真里 (Arrow Mouth True Village)Name: 矢口真里 (Yaguchi Mari)
Nicks: Marippe (used by 1st and 2nd gen MM members, used once in Midtown TV, and self-reference in Ai~n dance no uta), Yaguttsuan (used by 5th and 6th gen MM members), Yagucchan.
Birthdate: 1983.01.20
Height: 145 cm (4 ft. 9 in.)
Mari joined Morning Musume through the 2nd generation on 1998.05.03, being the youngest from this gen and the smallest MM member ever. Her first official works were Summer Night Town, Morning Musume's second single, released on 1998.05.27, and "First Time", Morning Musume's first album. She's participated in 25 MM singles, and in the first six MM albums.
While she was in Morning Musume, she had roles in the Hello! Project movies "Morning Cop", "Pinch Runner" (playing Kanzaki Tomoko), "Nama Tamago" and "Koinu Dan no Monogatari". She also was a voice actress for "One Piece the movie: Episode of Alabasta: The Desert Princess and The Pirates". She's done three solo photobooks ("Yaguchi" - 2002.02.07, "Love Hello! Mari Yaguchi" - 2003.06 and "OFF" - 2004.06.12), and two essay books ("Oira - MARI YAGUCHI FIRST ESSAY" - 2003.10.10 and "Chicchai Yaguchi no Dekkai Anata ni Ai ni Iku no da!!" - 2007.06.25).
Besides her irrespective character (which made her an outstanding personality), she's done lots of work outside MM. Tanpopo, her first non-MM H!P unit, showed us two sides of Mari, first gen Tanpopo was mature and second gen Tanpopo was more child-like. She came out with the Minimoni concept and became leader of this succesful MM sub-unit, that featured Kago Ai, Tsuji Nozomi and Todd Mika. After she left Minimoni, she showed us again her mature side, in ZYX (two singles unit, that also featured the oldest H!P Kids) and Romans (one-shot unit). She participated in the shuffle units all the years, Aoiro 7 (2000 shuffle unit,
Aoi Sportscar no Otoko single released in 2000.03.08), 7nin matsuri (2001 shuffle unit,
Summer Reggae Rainbow single released in 2001.07.04), Sexy 8 (2002 shuffle unit,
Shiawase desu ka? single released in 2002.07.03), and was of course part of the H!P All Stars (2004's only shuffle unit, All for one and One for all single released in 2004.12.01). In 2003 MM got divided in teams, the Sakura Gumi and the Otome Gumi, and Mari took part of the first one. Sakura Gumi's style was the traditional japanese one, the two SG singles were ballads, but they also did covers for
Dekkai Uchuu ni Ai ga Aru,
Say Yeah! ~Motto Miracle Night~ and
Daite HOLD ON ME!. In May 2003, Mari became subleader of MM (after Yasuda Kei's graduation), and in January 2005, she became Morning Musume's leader (after Iida Kaori's graduation). In April 2005, FRIDAY magazine reported that Mari was in a relationship with Oguri Shun (actor), and she herself announced her resignement from MM, because she "betrayed (her) position as an idol" and "want(ed) to move on with (her) career as an adult".
Since she resigned from MM, she stopped her regular activies as an idol, and started doing many other activities. She was one of the voices in a Berryz Koubou's Nigiyaka na Fuyu, althought she didn't have a solo line. She was the main actress in the japanese dorama "Sentou no Musume?!" ("Daughter of the Bathhouse?!", 45 episodes, aired in Japan early 2006), playing the role of Yume, a loud, demanding-attention girl. She also had a main role in the japanese dorama "Gal Circle", where she played Yurika, and had constant fights with Toda Erika, who played the role of Saki. She co-hosts two TV shows,
Yaguchi Hitori and
Kanrui! Jikuu Times, appears in Midtown TV, and hosts Ciao TV, that features some of the H!P Eggs. She has her own radioshow, called "Yaguchi to Yamaken no radio" (airs every Thursday). In 2007 she started singing in Hello! Project concerts again, and being one of the MCs. She's also appeared 25 times in
Uta Doki! (old pop songs covers program), singing ballads, up-beat songs, and the infamous YMCA (in a duet with Yasuda Kei).
Mari has two projects for 2008, the first one is "Damn Yankees", broadway musical, where she'll play the role of Gloria, a comical girl who sings and dances. The first show for this musical is May 25th. Her other project is a small role in the movie "Kung Fu Kun" (that'll premiere next year), the story of a kid Shaolin Master that travels to Japan as part of his training.
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