After Haruka Shimazaki joined AKB48 as a graduate student in 2009, she initially attracted the attention of fans for her cute appearance, but many people thought she was not so cute after attending the handshake meeting, which led Shimazaki to the nickname "Island Fraud (Japanese "Saki" and "Fraud" are pronounced similarly)" in the early days of AKB48. Although it is not very nice, Shimazaki won the record for the highest number of votes for graduate students at that time with a position of 28th place in the second general election of the following year!
Although it attracted a lot of attention, it was not until the official establishment of Team 4 that Shimazaki slowly had a chance to emerge. Always outspoken, she said after performing in place of her predecessors that she "doesn't feel like a full member at all, just a substitute." It was also because of this passage that it sparked a lot of discussion at that time.
It wasn't until 2012 that Shimazaki became a representative of the next generation of members, and his unique "salt correspondence (a cold correspondence, used by young Japanese people)" began to be discovered by the world, and the classic "confused face" trend began! The cold and unreasonable attitude towards the fans at the handshake unexpectedly made people want to go to her handshake meeting even more! Not only do you shake hands, but you don't talk on the show, you don't pay attention to your performance, and the seniors are also perfunctory in two sentences when they speak. It may not be true in others, but it is also a strange phenomenon that it can be forgiven by everyone in Shimazaki!
In the 2012 boxing competition, Haruka Shimazaki broke through her glasses and won the championship and stood in the center. In "Eternal Pressure" created by producer Yasushi Akimoto for Shimazaki, the lyrics mention "Don't expect anything from me, I'm not the material to be an ideal girlfriend", although funny but aptly described Shimazaki's personality and characteristics, and it is still Shimazaki's representative song!
Although everyone knows Shimazaki's cold attitude, in fact, Shimazaki often has some unexpected performance. For example, although she usually doesn't like to talk, she will reply to fans with her heart in the chat app "755" (and a lot of replies), and her testimonials in the 2016 general election also said "Thank you to all my fans who support such an idol", etc., it can be seen from a small place that this girl is not really cold, just can't express it!
With the rise of popularity, in addition to revealing his acting skills in AKB48 performances, in 2016, Shimazaki also successively took on TV dramas "What about the loose generation", "Metropolitan Police Department Indonesian fried rice class" and movies "Theater Spirit", "Paranormal Research Society", etc., and his brilliant achievements gradually set the road for Shimazaki's future development to be "actor"!
On October 3, 2016, Shimazaki announced through the endorsement press conference of the part-time work platform "Baitoru" that he would officially graduate at the end of 2016. Let's stay tuned!
Grinning personality, Haruka Shimazaki has always given people a good impression of being naturally unpretentious, coupled with a sweet baby face, clear and cute eyes, quite a feeling of a little sister next door, very pitiful! It's just very remnant, I don't have a sister like this~!!