Guilty Kiss

Guilty Kiss is a sub-unit under Aqours. The unit consists of three members, namely Riko Sakurauchi, Yoshiko Tsushima, and Mari Ohara. They debuted with the song Strawberry Trapper.

Group Formation
The group was formed in phases:
 * 1) On December 2015, six different configurations were offered to be chosen from.
 * 2) On January 2016, the unit compositions were revealed, and people were asked to submit names for them.
 * 3) On March 2016, the choices for unit names were revealed.
 * 4) On April 2016, the chosen unit names were revealed.

Etymology
Due to the image presented by the members, many of the name submissions had a dark or gothic feel to them.

Guilty Kiss' name was meant to symbolize the slightly grown-up and little devil-like image the unit has.

Other highlighted submissions are "RYM" and "Chrom Cross."

Group Introduction
Their group introduction goes: 「愛こそ全て、Guilty Kiss」"Ai koso subete, Guilty Kiss", which translates to "Love is everything, Guilty Kiss".

Songs
All of Aqours's songs and albums can be found here.

Guilty Kiss' first single is "Strawberry Trapper."

Tracks:
 * Strawberry Trapper
 * Guilty Night, Guilty Kiss!

Release Date: June 8, 2016

"Guilty Eyes Fever" is a bonus CD by Guilty Kiss for purchasing the entire set of Season 1 Blu-ray Volumes from Animate.

Tracks:
 * Guilty Eyes Fever

Release Date: March 24, 2017

Guilty Kiss' second single is "Kowareyasuki."

Tracks:
 * Kowareyasuki
 * Shadow gate to love

Release Date: June 21, 2017

"Guilty!? Farewell party" is a bonus CD by Guilty Kiss for purchasing the entire set of Season 2 Blu-ray Volumes from Animate.

Tracks:
 * Guilty!? Farewell party

Release Date: June 22, 2018

"New Romantic Sailors" is a Love Live! School Idol Festival collaboration single sung by Guilty Kiss.

Tracks:
 * New Romantic Sailors
 * Love Pulsar
 * Phantom Rocket Adventure

Release Date: November 27, 2019

"Shooting Star Warrior" is an album sung by Guilty Kiss

Tracks:
 * Shooting Star Warrior
 * Deep Sea Cocoon
 * Strawberry Trapper REMIX
 * Nameless Love Song
 * New Romantic Sailors REMIX

Release Date: July 28, 2021

Trivia

 * Guilty Kiss is widely regarded to be the most popular sub-unit as well as the fan favorite among the Aqours sub-units, substantiated by their stronghold over the majority of both single sales and fan response.
 * Other polls also determined the names of the sub-units: CYaRon!, AZALEA, and Guilty Kiss.
 * The sub-unit's voice actresses all have "Ai" in their names. This is the origin of their unit introduction "Ai Koso Subete" or "Love is Everything" in the 7th episode of It's A Trio! One, Two, Sunshine!!.
 * In their version of Hop Step Waai! Mari calls Riko "Lily/Lili/Riri" during "Riri, shoukan". In the anime version, Mari did not call Riko "Lily".
 * Guilty Kiss can be compared to either μ's' BiBi or lily white, but it's more similar to the former.
 * Guilty Kiss is composed of a member from each year like lily white.
 * Guilty Kiss gives a mature feeling and has an attribute lineup of two Cool (Riko and Yoshiko/Eli and Maki) and one Smile (Mari/Nico) like BiBi.
 * Guilty Kiss first appeared on Season 1 Episode 9 at the start of Mari's verse of Mijuku DREAMER.
 * Many of their songs include the word “guilty” in their titles, such as “Guilty!? Farewell Party”, “Guilty Night, Guilty Kiss!”, and “Guilty Eyes Fever”.
 * Mari, Guilty Kiss' eldest member is the tallest while her voice actress Aina Suzuki is the shortest and youngest, while Yoshiko is Guilty Kiss' youngest member is the shortest while her voice actress Aika Kobayashi is the tallest.
 * One of the chapters (written and illustrated by Harutsugu Nadaka) for the Comic Anthology Training Camp Chapter book is named after the sub-unit.