Former AKB48 music idol Nana Owada has announced her marriage. The 24-year-old gravure idol and actress told fans on June 13 that she had married a 28-year-old video editor.
The pair also made a video together to share their news with her fans.
Nana joined AKB48 in 2013 and graduated in 2017.
Following her departure from the group, she has carved out a name for herself in the competitive world of gravure. She also did occasional acting and had her own YouTube channel.
She doesn’t specify in her announcement but her marriage is likely to mean the end of her gravure career.
We feel like it’s too soon to lose Nana (just 24!). Normally when a celebrity gets married at such a (by today’s standards) young age, it’s because she’s pregnant, but that doesn’t seem to be the case this time.
Though her career wasn’t storming, she also hadn’t disappeared from the gravure scene.
She was, by AKB48 idol standards, on the curvier side of the spectrum and her regular semi-nude shoots were very nice, and really showed off her increasingly mature body and sex appeal.
Between 2019 and 2023, she released an impressive four print photo books and numerous digital ones, though none this year (no doubt because she was winding down her gravure career ahead of her marriage).
In January, she announced ambiguously that she was going to “put some distance between herself and her entertainer activities.” She joined her current agency in April. We suspect she will limit herself to acting roles until she starts a family with her lucky husband.
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