AKB48 Taiwan Audition
The AKB48 Taiwan Audition was announced on December 7, 2014 during the HKT48's Taiwanese Concert. AKB48 Group would have auditions starting on April 17, 2015, for Taiwanese members. This members will be active in Japan. To promote the auditions, Takahashi Minami, Mukaichi Mion and Kawamoto Saya visited Taiwan on April 16, 2015, during the "AKB48 Fan meeting in Taiwan". Several promotional videos were also uploaded on AKB48's Official YouTube channel. Girls from 11 to 23 years old could apply. From 2152 candidates, 170 girls were selected for the second round and 60 for the final round.
17 girls were revealed to have completed the audition on August 17, 2015. They will undergo training lessons which will lead to a "final judgement," as there were more winners than intended. One member left before the training started.
On December 16, 2015, it was revealed that Ma JiaLing was the winner of the audition. She will be moving to Tokyo in February 2016 to perform and participate in events alongside the group.
Finalists (Understudy)
- Zhang YuLing (張羽翎) (12)
- Zhou JiaAn (周家安) (11)
- Xiong ZiNing (熊子甯) (20)
- Lin YuXin (林于馨) (13)
- Guo XingYu (國興瑀) (12)
- Lin Jie (林倢) (14)
- Cao ShuoLing (曹碩玲) (17)
- Xu ChunLing (許純翎) (17)
- Yang YiTong (楊宜潼) (14)
- Qiu PinHan (邱品涵) (15)
- Ma JiaLing (馬嘉伶) (18)
- Tang ZhiQing (湯芷晴) (17)
- Yang FuXuan (楊馥瑄) (18)
- Chen ShiYuan (陳詩媛) (20)
- Wang Xin (王馨) (21)
- Chen ShiYa (馬嘉伶) (20)
