AKB48 Cooking Senbatsu
AKB48 Cooking Senbatsu is an AKB48 single unit and SHOWROOM competition. The unit was formed by the winners of the AKB48 Cooking Senbatsu competition held on the streaming service SHOWROOM. They will appear in a coupling track on the upcoming AKB48 61st single (to be released in 2023) and will perform the song on an NTV music program.
The competition began on September 29th, 2022. 61 members entered the contest, and the Top 10 members with the most points collected on SHOWROOM moved ahead to the next stage. An additional 10 members were chosen by a special jury who judged the actual cooking content of the streams.
On October 7th, 2022, during an episode of AKB48 Sayonara Mouri-san, these 20 chosen members were sorted into 4 different clubs: Takoyaki Club, Omurice Team, Croquette Team and Dessert Team. They all came up with a dish together to fit the theme. This dish would then be sold in three different cafés across Japan, and the sales would be added up.
A week later, 8 more members were added (2 to each team), creating teams of 6 members total.
A second round of SHOWROOM streaming began. On December 1st, 2022, the Dessert team won first place in the SHOWROOM Appeal Battle (21,024,565 points total).
On January 12th, 2023, the Dessert Club was announced to have won the physical sales battle, too (1,874 dishes sold), making them the overall winner of the competition.
Contents
Individual Round Results
- Winning members
- 10 - Ma Chia-Ling
- 09 - Shinozaki Ayana
- 08 - Hattori Yuna
- 07 - Iwatate Saho
- 06 - Taniguchi Megu
- 05 - Otake Hitomi
- 04 - Fukuoka Seina
- 03 - Okada Nana
- 02 - Hashimoto Haruna
- 01 - Shimizu Maria
- Jury special prize
- Utada Hatsuka
- Okabe Rin
- Nagatomo Ayami
- Komiyama Haruka
- Chiba Erii
- Muto Orin
- Kuranoo Narumi
- Fujizono Rei
- Hidaritomo Ayaka
- Yamabe Ayu
- Additional Members
- 08 - Yoshihashi Yuzuka
- 07 - Hashimoto Eriko
- 06 - Yumoto Ami
- 05 - Ichikawa Manami
- 04 - Kobayashi Ran
- 03 - Gyoten Yurina
- 02 - Yamada Kyoka
- 01 - Ishiwata Sena
Team Round Assignments
| Takoyaki (Red) | Omurice (Blue) | Croquette (Green) | Dessert (Yellow) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utada Hatsuka (captain) | Komiyama Haruka (captain) | Taniguchi Megu (captain) | Fukuoka Seina (captain) |
| Okada Nana | Ichikawa Manami | Shimizu Maria | Ishiwata Sena |
| Gyoten Yurina | Otake Hitomi | Hashimoto Eriko | Iwatate Saho |
| Kuranoo Narumi | Chiba Erii | Hattori Yuna | Okabe Rin |
| Muto Orin | Ma Chia-Ling | Hidaritomo Ayaka | Kobayashi Ran |
| Fujizono Rei | Hashimoto Haruna | Nagatomo Ayami | Shinozaki Ayana |
| Yamada Kyoka | Yumoto Ami | Yoshihashi Yuzuka | Yamabe Ayu |
Showroom Appeal Battle
Team Ranking
- Dessert: 21,024,565pt
- Takoyaki: 20,944,630pt
- Croquette: 19,129,479pt
- Omurice: 18,770,330pt
Individual Rankings
- Okada Nana - 7,508,188 (Takoyaki)
- Taniguchi Megu - 5,240,944 (Croquette)
- Iwatate Saho - 5,177,117 (Dessert)
- Hashimoto Haruna - 4,931,081 (Omurice)
- Shinozaki Ayana - 4,713,256 (Dessert)
- Otake Hitomi - 3,850,895 (Omurice)
- Shimizu Maria - 3,537,845 (Croquette)
- Kuranoo Narumi - 3,564,464 (Takoyaki)
- Hashimoto Eriko - 3,242,622 (Croquette)
- Kobayashi Ran - 2,934,097 (Dessert)
- Nagatomo Ayami - 2,818,053 (Croquette)
- Fukuoka Seina - 2,704,635 (Dessert)
- Yamada Kyoka - 2,619,837 (Takoyaki)
- Utada Hatsuka - 2,329,905 (Takoyaki)
- Ma Chia-Ling - 2,253,530 (Omurice)
- Ishiwata Sena - 2,154,961 (Dessert)
- Ichikawa Manami - 2,102,995 (Omurice)
- Komiyama Haruka - 1,936,293 (Omurice)
- Okabe Rin - 1,817,691 (Dessert)
- Hattori Yuna - 1,807,853 (Croquette)
- Chiba Erii - 1,656,828 (Croquette)
- Yamabe Ayu - 1,521,998 (Dessert)
- Yoshihashi Yuzuka - 1,500,723 (Croquette)
- Fujizono Rei - 1,493,069 (Takoyaki)
- Yumoto Ami - 1,036,152 (Croquette)
- Muto Orin - 957,684 (Takoyaki)
- Hidaritomo Ayaka - 981,439 (Croquette)
- Gyoten Yurina - 862,329 (Takoyaki)
Physical Sales Battle
- Dessert: 1,874 dishes sold
- Takoyaki: 1,283 dishes sold
- Croquette: 889 dishes sold
- Omurice: 887 dishes sold
Trivia
- Fans noted that the portion of omurice sold was fairly big, which made it difficult for fans to buy more than one portion at a time.
- Takoyaki Team won a taste test on AKB48 Sayonara Mouri-san, which allowed them to hold a virtual Takoyaki party with fans at the café. The members appeared on a big screen in the café and directly spoke to the customers.
