Obana Maaya Leaves Dream Kids — Announces New Social Media Accounts

Obana Maaya (小花真彩), former member of Andoll, quietly and unexpectedly announced today that she has left her agency. She did so via her Twitter account, which she also set to private and removed her profile image from. However, she left a link to her new social media accounts.

Below is the tweet where she announced her departure. I believe you need to be logged in to Twitter and following Maaya to view it. In any case, here’s a screenshot and a transcription of her message.

https://twitter.com/Maaya0403Obana/status/1917531683219464416

お知らせ

今後の移行先のアカウントを下の画像に載せておきますのでご確認お願いします

X @maayachan_04

インスタ・TikTokにつきましては画像からプロフィールに飛んでください。

The first image is Maaya’s message, which says:

As of today, I am retiring from Dream Kids, who have supported me until now.

I hope to make use of the experience I’ve gained over these six years in my next activities.

Regarding my future activities, I will be moving to a new SNS account, so please check it.

I will definitely come back in front of everyone — please wait for me.

2025.04.30
Obana Maaya (小花真彩)

In her tweet, she linked to her new Twitter account, and the other two images show her new Instagram and TikTok accounts. There’s nothing posted yet on the first two, but they’re clearly new: the Instagram account is marked as recently created, and Twitter shows it was opened this month. The TikTok account, however, surprised me — I wasn’t following it (even though I followed her old one), but it already has two videos, with the oldest one dated February 28 of last year. In any case, here are her new social media links:

Maaya is the second former member of Andoll to leave the company since the group disbanded, after Fujii Seia did the same the last day of the last month. If past group history is any indication, eventually all the members will move on. Now that I think about it, I’m not sure what happened with Ayane — she hasn’t posted anything since Andoll’s graduation, but she wasn’t very active even when she was still in the group.

The good news is that most former Imouto Sisters members tend to come back in new groups or projects. And Maaya doesn’t seem to be the exception — she clearly wants her fans to keep following her.

About Obana Maaya (小花真彩)

Obana Maaya is a Japanese singer and gravure model from the talent agency Bambina. She was part of the idol group Imouto Sisters, and debuted with Andoll (アンドール) in May 2023, and graduated with the other members a little after a year.