All About Haruna Iikubo

Introducing This 10th Generation Member of Morning Musume

Haruna Iikubo is famous for being a 10^th generation member of the group Morning Musume along with Masaki Sato, Ayumi Ishida, and Haruka Kudo. She is even more famously known for serving as a sub-leader for the group.

Date of birth: November 7, 1994

Place of birth: Tokyo, Japan

However, just like these other former Morning Musume members, Haruna got her career started in other ways before advancing. It was in 2007 that she became a “talent” under the agency Heart’s Agent. Iikubo would then leave that agency around early 2009. It was in that same year that she won an award in a model audition for the girls fashion magazine Love Berry. Iikubo signed a contract with the agency FOSTER under the name of Dan Hau.

It would be at Reina Tanaka’s graduation concert in May 2013 that IIkubo and Mizuki Fukumura were appointed as sub-leaders of Morning Musume. On July 21, 2014, Iikubo was featured as a special guest on the Nico LIVE stream event for the game Zelda Musou which is known as Hyrule Warriors outside of Japan. During this event she talked about the Legend of Zelda series and she played the demo. It would be on September 20, 2017 that Iikubo would set a record for the longest serving sub-leader in the history of Morning Musume surpassing Risa Niigaki’s previous record of 4 years, 3 months, and 28 days.

Photo book releases put out by Haruna

Haruna‘s solo photo book releases are as follows:

Haruiro (2017)

Female (2018)

Note: all images are from the hello-online picture board unless otherwise noted.

Other facts about Haruna Iikubo

• Haruna Iikubo has two younger sisters, one of them being nine years younger than her.
• Her grandmother is a florist.
• When Haruna was born, both of her parents were only 19 years old.
• Her hobbies are shopping and reading.
• She has several favorite colors which include pink, black, red, orange, and light blue.
• Haruna is skilled at arranging flowers, staring at people during contests and even making her stomach rumble!
• Her favorite foods are ramen, chocolate, takoyaki, and okonomiyaki.
• She looks up to former Morning Musume leader Sayumi Michishige and Momoko Tsugunaga of the idol group Berryz Kobo.
• She likes to say that hard work always pays off.
• Haruna’s motto in life is each day, do 100 good deeds.
• Her life philosophy is being slim.
• Haruna believes that she can never lose at being positive.
• If she were not a member of Morning Musume, Haruna says that she would work as a maid in a maid café.
• When she was in high school, she wrote that she wanted to be in Morning Musume. That was her career choice.
• Haruka Kudo called her Meshi by mistake because she (Kudo) had forgotten her nickname and it had been written on her shirt.
• She has a very close relationship with Ayumi Ishida and Ayaka Wada.
• Iikubo considers Mizuki Fukumura as her biggest rival.
• She is famous for her long, straight hair.
• She has two pet cats.
• Haruna writes part of her blog posts in English by using a translator app.

Haruna Iikubo’s Career After Morning Musume

What has Haruna Iikubo done since her graduation from Morning Musume? Well, for starters, she has switched talent agencies because in early 2019, she transferred from Up-Front Promotion to J.P. Room. A few months later in April 2019, Iikubo along with fashion model Chihiro Kondo became a regular cast member in the CBC TV show Chant! It is part of something called the Oshare Sampo corner and this is the same corner in which Risa Niigaki and Ai Takahashi had become members a month prior to Iikubo. It would be in October 2020 that Haruna would begin a bi-weekly gaming show on the Japanese LIVE streaming service called Mildom. The name of this show is called Harunan’s ROOM. More recently as of November 2021, there was an announcement during the yearly Tales of Festival that celebrates the Tales of Video game franchise that she (Iikubo) would perform in Tales of Arise Online Theater: Liberators as the heroine Shionne. However, due to restrictions put in place as a result of the COVID-19 situation, the stage play would only be released online. This stage play was set to make its premiere in March 2022.