Rabbits was a trainee group under management of EXPG (EXILE PROFESSIONAL GYM). The group was announced on January 27, 2015 with the announcement of the E-girls Pyramid. All of the members were of high school age or older, while the other unit, Bunnies, was composed of members of junior high school age or younger.
Rabbits and Bunnies underwent a series of reviews configured annually.[1][2][3][4] Members who qualified as performers got to join the E-girls line-up.
With the discontinuation of the E-girls Pyramid in June 2017, Rabbits (and Bunnies) became part of EXPG Lab, a sub-division of EXPG which includes a selection of the best students across the schools in Japan.
Former Members[]
- Oishi Miyuu (2014)
- Miyata Nana (2014)
- Murashima Miyu (2014)
- Inagaki Rio (2015)
- Ikuta Risa (2015)
- Hanayama Mizuki (2014-2015)
- Ogawa Miyu (2016)
- Nakamoto Mizuki (2016)
- Hagio Misato (2015-February 2016)
- Watanabe Marina (2015-April 2016)
- Gushiken Sae (2015-2016)
- Nishimura Yuumi (2015-2016)
- Hagiwara Yuuki (2014-2016)
- Ono Nanako (since 2014)
- Nishizumi Rio (since 2014)
- Araki Futaba (since 2015)
- Yoshimura Reo (since 2016)
- Ikeuchi Kaho (since 2016)
- Fujii Rino (since 2016)
- Miyokawa Hijiri (since 2016)
- Hashimoto Moa (since 2016)
- Saeki Marin (since 2016)
- Asaka Mirai (since 2016)
Members added/re-added to E-girls[]
- Takebe Yuzuna (January-December 2015)
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Trivia[]
- Takebe Yuzuna, Hagio Misato, Inagaki Rio, Ikuta Risa and Watanabe Marina were moved from E-girls to Rabbits.
- Gushiken Sae was, for five months, a Bunnies member. In June 2015, she got moved to Rabbits.
- Hanayama Mizuki is a former E-girls member who left the group after the release of the single "Follow Me".
- In 2016, Takebe Yuzuna got re-added to E-girls' line-up. She is the first member to be admitted from Rabbits to E-girls, also the first to be admitted after implantation of the E-girls Pyramid.
- In December 31, Inagaki Rio started a twitter account, and in January 2, 2016, she posted that she started a new goal, implying that she left Rabbits.
- In February, it was revealed that Hagio Misato wasn't part of the Rabbits line-up anymore. The reasons were not revealed yet.
- In April, Watanabe Marina posted in her Instagram account that she is starting a new goal in April and thanked everybody for supporting her, implying that she left Rabbits.[5]
- Towards 2016, Ogawa Miyu, Yoshimura Reo, Fujii Rino and Nakamoto Mizuki were transferred to the Rabbits' line-up, while Ikuta Risa, Hanayama Mizuki and Gushiken Sae's names were removed, implying that they have left EXPG.