Miyagi, Japan | 1997-11-12

Moriya Akane is known as the "Drill Sergeant" of the group because of her competitive spirit. This is evident from the amount of times she cried on "Keyakitte, Kakenai" when her team would lose. One of her legendary scenes in the aforementioned show was during the "Spicy Queen" episode, where she chugged spicy mapo tofu and ended up in the hospital after shooting the episode. She revealed that she needed to take medicine for a month after that. Akane is also known as the role model for "beauty" in the group. Because of this, she landed a job at popular magazine "anan" where she regularly writes a beauty-related column. In April 2022, she announced she is now officially affiliated to Ten Carat agency.