Miume

Miume (みうめ) is a Nico Nico Douga odorite with a strong performance and joyful smile.

Miume is a distinguished choreographer, responsible for some of the most famous odottemita dances, particularly "Girls", "Lamb." , and "Romeo and Cinderella".

Name
(Orgins of stage name, real name, etc.)

Appearance & Personality
Miume is most striking for her short, white layered hair and edgy eye makeup. Her loose sweaters and oversize pants hide her curvy, muscular figure. She often wears vests, ties, shorts, and black thigh highs. She is most commonly seen in loose ankle length boots or tight thigh high boots, depending on the desired theme. She is 163 cm (about 5'4") tall.

Her blood type is B. Miume is quite cheerful, and her motto is: "Fortune comes in by a merry gate!" Outside odottemita, she loves to wrestle.

Dance Style
The origins of her dance style are based on her early years of ballet and hiphop later evolving at school performances and the flash fad of idol dancing.

Miume is highly proficient in waacking and hip hop. Her smooth dance movements and intense sharpness work together to complement her fearlessness.

Miume's dance style can range from happy and cheerful to mature and sexy.

Her most remarkable features in her sensual dance performances are her whipping hair and coy smile. She combines fierce moves with a playful attitude.

Her most remarkable features in her fun dance performances are her bright smile and happy personality. Her happy persona enhances her happy movements to create her style.

Pre-Debut
Prior to Nico Nico Douga, Miume worked at the maid cafe @home cafe from 2006-2010. During her time as a maid, Miume was a part of the dance groups DANCE POP GIRLS and TEAM Junjou with her fellow maid Hitomi from 2008. As part of TEAM Junjou, she released original music, demonstrating her singing ability. Although TEAM Junjou became inactive in 2011, Hitomi and Miume reformed in 2015 for a one time live at @home cafe.

She changed her natural brown hair to her signature white color around September 2010.

Origin
Miume began dancing solo on Nico Nico Douga in 2011. Her very first video which is "Luka Luka☆Night Fever" won 14th place in the Odottemita Ranking. It is a very rare case for first-timers. In her early days, she covered popular dances such as "Luka Luka☆Night Fever" and "Massara Blue Jeans". She also covered some K-pop songs.

Popularity
Later in 2011, she began collaborating with other odorite, such as Aira* and Kimagure Prince, either with covers or original choreography. Her original choreography of "magnet", which she danced with Aira*, was extremely well received and has been covered many times by other odorite.

She has remained consistently popular since this, with both her original choreography and dance covers, receiving an average of 100,000 views on each video.

Choreography
Some of Miume's notabl1 original choreography are "Romeo to Cinderella", "Rimokon" and "MERRY GO ROUND".

Miume has experience choreographing behind the scene; for example, she choreographed "Last Regret" for Morning musumen. as well as choreographing for Kozue Aikawa's idol group, I LoVU.

Utattemita Activities
Miume has made several utattemita covers with other odorites such as Kozue and 217.

Iconic Performances
Miume has participated a number of times in Odottemita Off.

Dance Units

 * 1) Leader of COJIRASE THE TRIP
 * 2) Member of Guilty†Hearts
 * 3) Member of Ushi Dorobou
 * 4) Member of Miumelochin
 * 5) Member of ODOROOM
 * 6) Member of TEAM Junjou
 * 7) Member of DANCE POP GIRLS

Iconic Collaborative Projects
Since her debut, Miume has collaborated with a wide variety of odorite including Aikawa Kozue, Nora, Kimagure Prince, K'suke, Melochin, and Ririri. She also took part in the NND collaboration for "Blessing".

From 2011-2014 she frequently collaborated and created original choreography with Melochin, their duo known as "Miumelochin." Miume and Melochin were both active in Guilty†Hearts, along with Ry☆, K'suke, and Kamen Liar 217, creating original choreography, most notably to Root Five songs. Starting in 2013, Miume also collaborated with 8 other iconic female odorite in Ushi Dorobou, producing a cool, sexy original choreography almost annually through 2016. She works with Kamen Liar 217 and popular utaite MARiA to choreograph sassy trio dances to GARNIDELiA songs such as "Girls", "Lamb." and "Gokuraku Jodo" , which have all been extremely popular, often gaining over 1 million views on NND. In 2015, she became the leader of a new idol group called COJIRASE THE TRIP, which also includes fellow odorite Kamen Liar 217, Asupara, and ATS.

Trivia

 * She was born in Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan.
 * She runs a small private dance school with a few other dancers, membership is invite only.
 * Her phone is filled with pictures of cats she finds along her walks.
 * She is known for her silly excuses for being late. ("I saw a cute cat and I had to pat it!")
 * She appeared in Shiina Pikarin's music video for Toro Amachu as one of the two female background dancers, the second being Kamen Liar 217.

Official

 * Twitter
 * Instagram
 * LINE Blog
 * Blog
 * Miume's Chinese blog
 * Old TEAM Junjou blog
 * Miume's old blog on the @home cafe website
 * LINE ID (old)

Unofficial

 * Miume Japanese to English Translations (by clock08)
 * Photos of pre-odorite Miume