S/mileage's new name is ANGERME, 3rd gen members announced

[Amped]

why does it have to be Smile? not very creative.

[CaptainBerryzGiraffe]

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[resop2]

why does it have to be Smile? not very creative.

I think they will want to have some sort of a name that people will associate with the original name of the group. Otherwise they will be starting from scratch in name recognition.

I think that the three most iconic things about the original name was "Smile" (Their two challenges were based on getting people to smile), the "/", and the "age". I think you could get away with not having Smile in the name so long as you had the "/" and the "age" at the end. However, they would get more recognition with the Smile intact.

For example, you could add a sentai team name to the end of "Smile" and I think people would still associate the name with S/Mileage.

For example:

Smile Kamen
Smile Girls
Smile Rider
Smile Team
Smile Rangers

[Menno]

Keeping with something Smile... it will also mean that they can keep the iconic S logo.

[Denki]

Sasaki Rikako for 3rd Gen!

[otaku_blue]

Sasaki Rikako, Inaba Manaka and Hamaura Ayano are my top priority.

There are too many kenshuusei who are debut ready, and not enough money to debut them all. I just.

[koregaboku]

I just realized...

Does it feel like they might be taking away some of 12th gen's thunder? They're going to be announced not even a week apart.

[Starra]

Nah, not really. Maybe if they were adding non-KSS members then yeah, but this still feels like a lesser announcement to me.

And the name change probably won't happen for a while yet, so it makes it not as big of an announcement.

[Jessi]

After the 12ki announcement I think Tsunku is going to chose all of the least favorite KSS to debut in S/mileage.

[sada*]

Fujii Rio and Yamaki Risa for 3rd gen.