Especia

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Especia
Origin Japan
Genres
Years active2012 (2012)–2017 (2017)
Labels
Website especia.me
MembersHaruka Tominaga (2012-2017)
Erika Mori (2012-2017)
Mia Nascimento (2016-2017)
Past membersAkari Imai (2012)
Erena Inoue (2012)
Mizuki Uesaka (2012)
Yuka Itatsuda (2012)
Akane Sugimoto (2012-2014)
Chika Sannomiya (2012-2016)
Chihiro Mise (2012-2016)
Monari Wakita (2012-2016)

Especia were a Japanese idol girl group formed in 2012. [1] They participated in the 2015 Tokyo Idol Festival. [2] Their single "Aviator/Boogie Aroma" reached the 28th place on the Weekly Oricon Singles Chart. [3]

Contents

Discography

Albums

Release dateTitleOricon [note 1] Ref.
EP
November 30, 2012DULCE-
May 22, 2013AMARGA52 [4]
February 18, 2015Primera30 [5]
August 10, 2016Mirage145 [6]
Studio albums
May 28, 2014GUSTO42 [7]
February 24, 2016CARTA29 [8]
Best-of album
March 22, 2017WIZARD219

Singles

Release dateTitleOricon [note 2] Ref.
antonio silva49 [9]
figueredo34 [10]
santos28 [3]
- [11]

DVDs

Release dateTitleOricon [note 3] Ref.
October 1, 2014Viva Discoteca Especia 2014110 [12]

Notes

  1. Peak ranking on the weekly Oricon Albums Chart.
  2. Peak ranking on the weekly Oricon Singles Chart.
  3. Peak ranking on the weekly Oricon DVD Chart.

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