AKB48 Team B

Team B (チームB) is the third team that forms idol group AKB48.

Members

Names in bold denote Team Captain.

Ishida Haruka Kasai Tomomi Kashiwagi Yuki Kitahara Rie Kobayashi Kana Komori Mika Sato Amina Sato Sumire

Sato Natsuki Suzuki Mariya Chikano Rina Hirajima Natsumi Masuda Yuka Miyazaki Miho Watanabe Mayu

Former Members

Watanabe Shiho (Graduated October 2007) Kikuchi Ayaka* (Fired August 2008) Inoue Naru (Graduated September 2008) Noguchi Reina (Graduated February 2009) Matsuoka Yuki (Graduated February 2009) Saotome Miki (Transferred to AKB48 Kenkyuusei February 2009) Saeki Mika (Graduated August 2009) Urano Kazumi (Transferred to SDN48, April 2010) Oota Aika (Transferred to Team A, April 2010) Katayama Haruka (Transferred to Team A, April 2010)

Kohara Haruka (Transferred to SDN48, April 2010) Sashihara Rino (Transferred to Team A, April 2010) Tanabe Miku Transferred to Team K, April 2010) Nakagawa Haruka (Transferred to Team A, April 2010) Nakatsuka Tomomi (Transferred to Team K, April 2010) Nakaya Sayaka (Transferred to Team A, April 2010) Nito Moeno (Transferred to Team K, April 2010) Yonezawa Rumi (Transferred to Team K, April 2010) Oku Manami (Graduated April 2011)

Promoted Kenkyuusei to Team B

Saeki Mika (Promoted February 3, 2008) Sashihara Rino (Promoted August 2, 2008) Nito Moeno (Promoted August 5, 2008) Kohara Haruka (Promoted January 24, 2009) Nakatsuka Tomomi (Promoted January 29, 2009)

Ishida Haruka (Promoted May 21, 2010) Komori Mika (Promoted May 21, 2010) Sato Sumire (Promoted May 21, 2010) Suzuki Mariya (Promoted May 21, 2010)

• Kikuchi Ayaka was fired from AKB48 following a scandal, but was allowed to re-audition for AKB48 Kenkyuusei

Information

AKB48 held its third audition in 2006, and the 3rd generation of members who were meant to be Team B made their first appearance in the theater on December 8, 2006. Around the same time, it was announced that Urano Kazumi, Hirajima Natsumi, Masuyama Kayano and Watanabe Shiho would be transferred to Team B to act as a teacher figure for the new members. After Orii Ayumi's graduation, however, Masuyama Kayano remained in Team A.

Team B debuted on April 8, 2008, and performed two revival stages throughout 2007. After Team B's first stage, Watanabe Shiho graduated from AKB48 and was replaced by Saeki Mika, the first kenkyuusei to be promoted to a team. In February, 2008, they began performing their first original stage. In August, 2008, Kikuchi Ayaka was fired due to a scandal.

In August 2009, Saeki Mika graduated and the announcement was made that the teams would be shuffled. Kitahara Rie, Sato Amina and Miyazaki Miho were transferred from Team A, Oku Manami, Kasai Tomomi, Kobayashi Kana, Sato Natsuk, Chikano Rina and Masuda Yuka were transferred from Team K, and Ishida Haruka, Komori Mika, Sato Sumire and Suzuki Shihori were promoted from Kenkyuusei. Suzuki Shihori withdrew from AKB48 shortly after the announcement, and Suzuki Mariya was promoted to Team B instead of Team A.

Discography

Stage Albums

• [2009.08.11] Team B 4th Stage "Idol no Yoake" (チームB 4th Stage 「アイドルの夜明け」)
• [2010.08.07] Team B 5th Stage "Theater no Megami" (チームB 5th Stage 「シアターの女神｣)

Stage DVDS

• [2008.03.26] Team B 1st Stage "Seishun Girls" (チームB 1st stage ~青春ガールズ~)
• [2008.09.26] Team B 2nd Stage "Aitakatta" (チームB 2nd Stage「会いたかった」)
• [2009.04.03] Team B 3rd Stage "Pajama Drive" (チームB 3rd stage 「パジャマドライブ」)
• [2010.06.12] Team B 4th Stage "Idol no Yoake" (チームB 4th Stage 「アイドルの夜明け」)

Other

• [2008.06.13] AKB48 - Baby! Baby! Baby! (#4 Shonichi)
• [2008.10.22] AKB48 - Oogoe Diamond(Regular) (#4 Oogoe Diamond (Team B ver.))
• [2009.06.24] AKB48 - Namida Surprise! (#3 Shonichi)
• [2010.12.08] AKB48 - Chance no Junban (B Ver.) (#3 Love Jump)
• [2011.06.08] AKB48 - Koko ni Ita Koto (#4 Renai Circus, #11 Team B Oshi)