was a Japanese
idol project group associated with
Hello! Project
is a Japanese musical collective consisting of all female recording artists and groups under Up-Front Promotion, a subsidiary of Up-Front Group. The name was initially used as Michiyo Heike and Morning Musume's fan club name in 1999, but has s ...
. It was formed by
Up-Front Promotion in 2003. Its members consisted of
Morning Musume member
Mari Yaguchi and
Hello! Project Kids
is a Japanese musical collective consisting of all female recording artists and groups under Up-Front Promotion, a subsidiary of Up-Front Group. The name was initially used as Michiyo Heike and Morning Musume's fan club name in 1999, but has s ...
members
Erika Umeda,
Saki Shimizu,
Maimi Yajima,
Momoko Tsugunaga, and
Megumi Murakami. The group remained active until 2004.
History
The name ZYX is a kind of
acronym using a somewhat intricate play in notation. "Z" and "Y" are taken from the phrase "Bai ni," meaning "double in size," is represented not as "B" but as a multiplication sign "×" which was then represented by the letter "X." Also, the letters ZYX are the last letters of the English alphabet in reverse order. In
Hello! Project
is a Japanese musical collective consisting of all female recording artists and groups under Up-Front Promotion, a subsidiary of Up-Front Group. The name was initially used as Michiyo Heike and Morning Musume's fan club name in 1999, but has s ...
, this inverted order naming is followed by the groups "
W" created in 2004, "
v-u-den
was a Japanese idol girl group associated with Hello! Project. The group was formed in August 2004 and consists of members Rika Ishikawa (Morning Musume), Erika Miyoshi, and Yui Okada, with Ishikawa being the leader. The group officially disband ...
" in 2005, "
The Possible" in 2006, and SI☆NA in 2008. This line-up of groups continues the reverse alphabetical naming (ZYX-W-VU-T-S).
On February 28 and March 1, 2015, ZYX reformed for Berryz Kobo Matsuri with Momoko Tsuguana, Saki Shimizu and Maimi Yajima to perform "Shiroi Tokyo", the first time members of the original ZYX line-up have reformed under the name ZYX since 2006.
Members
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Mari Yaguchi (Leader)
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Erika Umeda
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Saki Shimizu
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Maimi Yajima
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Momoko Tsugunaga
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Megumi Murakami
Legacy
In 2009, ZYX was revived as ZYX-Alpha (stylized as ZYX-α) as a
Hello! Project Shuffle Unit. Tsugunaga and Umeda, now members of
Berryz Kobo and
Cute
Cuteness is a subjective term describing a type of attractiveness commonly associated with youth and appearance, as well as a scientific concept and analytical model in ethology, first introduced by Konrad Lorenz. Lorenz proposed the concept ...
respectively, rejoined as members of the group. New additions to the group included
Morning Musume members
Risa Niigaki and
Koharu Kusumi; Berryz Kobo member
Chinami Tokunaga and
Maasa Sudo; and
Smileage
, formerly , is a Japanese idol girl group from the musical collective Hello! Project, which originally consisted of four former Hello! Pro Egg (''Hello! Project'' trainees) members that left Egg in 2010 and became full-time members of ''Hello! P ...
members
Ayaka Wada and
Saki Ogawa. The group released songs for Hello! Project's compilation albums ''Champloo 1: Happy Marriage Song Cover Shū'' and ''Petit Best 10''.
The group was also active as a concert-only unit until 2011. In 2013, for Hello! Project's 15th anniversary, Tsugunaga, Sudo, Wada, Tokunaga, and Niigaki (as a special guest) performed together.
Discography
Singles
DVDs
References
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Japanese girl groups
Japanese idol groups
Japanese pop music groups
Musical groups established in 2003
Hello! Project groups
Musical groups from Tokyo