It was formed by Masahiro Mizuguchi, a producer for Fuji TV who had the idea of creating "an Onyanko Club for the Heisei era (1989-2019)".
Like Onyanko Club, Checkicco also hosted their own TV show, called DAIBAtteki!.
Checkicco held their final performance in November 1999, in front of an audience of 10,000 at Tokyo Bay NK Hall.
[1] Anime theme singer Mikuni Shimokawa and gravure idol Asami Kumakiri are two well-known former Checkicco members.
They had several subgroups such as chee's, METAMO, and M@M, however, they were not very successful (their highest selling single, "Hajimari", only sold 32,450 copies with its highest rank as 40 — this was back in the days when best-selling CDs were the ones that sold over 100,000 copies).