Dempagumi.Inc

Dempagumi Inc (でんぱ組.inc)


Dempagumi Inc. is a group formed of 6 members. Their catchphrase is "Deliverying Moe-kyun songs to the world: We are Dempagumi Inc!"

History
In 2008 Mirin Furukawa, who was working at the DearStage which had just moved to the DEMPA building, approached the manager Maiko Fukushima(Mofukuchan) requesting to form an idol group. At the time DearStage had a focus on anisong and girls looking to become artists so this was their first time trying out an idol group.

Dempagumi was formed with Mirin and Akari Owata, named after the DEMPA building. The group released the single Mirror Magic?. It was well received so in 2009 they rebranded as Dempagumi Inc and added members Nemu Yumemi and Risa Aizawa(previously named: Meme Nishimura).

With this chance, Fukushima thought about “Renewing Dempagumi with a new style” and consulted with Saeki. Saeki suggested the name Chape no Izumi (チャペの泉) but Fukushima “wanted to keep the name Dempagumi.” and that “It would be good to have an Akiba-esque name (such as MOSAIC.WAV and LOVE.EXE”, settling on adding .inc to the original name to create Dempagumi.inc. The reasons for adding “.inc” spanned from “Not really sure” to “It’s an evolution from Dempagumi.” According to Saeki, he wanted to avoid the “Gumi” suffix being viewed as copying the former idol unit “Ushiro Yubisasare-gumi.” He felt “The company-esque meaning behind ‘Incorperated’ would be an interesting addition”, and so the group name was born*.

Although, according to Yumemi, “It’s not that the name was changed from Dempagumi to Dempagumi.inc because Aizawa and Yumemi joined.” It just happened to be that the four of them were the members who passed an audition for PC game theme song. Dempagumi.inc was never intended to be connected to Dempagumi.

The group released 2 singles under Lantis. With the 4 person lineup they released Kiss+kiss de Owaranai (Kiss+kissでおわらない)/Star☆tin and then later 2 new members joined - Eimi Naruse(previously named: Eitaso) and Miu Atobe and then Akari left right after the release of '''Piko Piku Pikatte Koishite yo (ピコッピクッピカッて恋して). '''

After this they moved from Lantis to MEME TOKYO, a joint project between Fukushima and and Toys Factory which is the label they have stayed with to this day. The group stayed as this person lineup for their first album '''Nee Kiite? Uchuu wo Sukuu no wa, Kitto Osushi... de wa Naku, Dempagumi.inc! (ねぇきいて?宇宙を救うのは、きっとお寿司…ではなく、でんぱ組.inc!)'''