AKB48 Team TP

AKB48 Team TP
AKB48 Team TP
	AKB48 Team TP performed at the Cool Japan Fest 2018 on December 8, 2018.
Background information
Origin	Taipei, Taiwan
Genres	Pop; J-pop; Mandopop;
Years active	2018–present
Labels	Muses & Nymph Entertainment
Associated acts	AKB48 Group
Website	www.akb48teamtp.com
Members	List of members
Past members	List of former members

AKB48 Team TP formerly known as TPE48, is a Taiwanese idol group and the fourth international sister group of AKB48, after Indonesia's JKT48, China's AKB48 Team SH, Thailand's BNK48. The group is named after Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan.

History

2011–2012: Creation

On October 10, 2011, AKB48 announced the creation of TPE48, and will build the theater next year summer.[1] At that time, AKS cooperated with Yoshimoto Kogyo and expected to start audition work in 2012. However, the two sides failed to reach a consensus in the preparation work, and thus they were discontinued after the second half of 2012.

2014–2015: AKB48 Taiwan Audition

Ma Chia-ling

December 7, 2015, during HKT48's Taipei concert, AKB48 said that it will hold an audition for members of the AKB48 in Taiwan someday, but there is unclear whether the audition is related to TPE48. Subsequently, AKB48 officially announced its will hold the "AKB48 Taiwan Audition" on April 1, 2015, which is the first AKB48 audition event held besides Japan. From 2,152 who auditioned, 17 were chosen as member of the "AKB48 Taiwan Kenkyusei" (AKB48台灣研究生) to have completed the audition on August 17, 2015.

Ma Chia-ling was passed the audition and debuted on December, 2015 in AKB48 Kouhaku Utagassen (AKB48紅白対抗歌合戦). February 21, 2016, she promoted as the "Taiwan Ryugakusei" (台灣留學生) to AKB48 Team B, and becomes first foreign member of AKB48 and the fastest AKB48 member to be promoted.

2016–2017: Resume

March 26, 2016, the creation of TPE48, BNK48and MNL48 was announced at the Takahashi Minami's concert.[2]

Later on July 9, 2017, AKB48 announced specially will hold audition for 1st graduation members of TPE48 in September during the Kizaki Yuria, Yokoyama Yui and Shimada Haruka's event "AKB48 Fan Meeting in TAIWAN". September 1, TPE48 runs audition[3] and all members of AKB48 Taiwan Kenkyusei were become the seed members in audition. The same day, Abe Maria, a member of AKB48 Team K, says will transfer form AKB48 to TPE48. In the end, on November 30, 2017, Abe Maria performed the final performance at AKB48 Theater and officially transferred to TPE48 next day.

2018–present

February 4, 2018, 72 girls were selected for the final round, next 45 girls were revealed for 1st graduation members. But at the end, only 40 girls were formally joined into the group, 13 of whom were official members and 27 were trainees. In 2019, their TTP Festival and 看見夕陽了嗎？(Kan chien hsi yang le ma) rank No.1 and No.4 in Guangnan 2019 yearly chart[4] and No.6 and No.11 in Fivemusic yearly chart.[5]

Financial crisis and group restructure

On June 16, 2018, TPE48 Entertainment (熙曜娛樂), TPE48's management company, suffered a financial crisis, members and staff didn't get paid about 3 months ago.[6] On July 30, 2018, AKS had canceled a joint venture and license agreement with TPE48 Entertainment and created AKB48 Team TP.[7][8]

Members

Member list as of December 21, 2019[9]:

Daisy

Official members／Trainees	Name	Date of birth (age)	Place of birth	Generation	Date of promotion	Notes
Official members	Chen Shih-ya (陳詩雅)	(1995-04-24) April 24, 1995	Taipei	AKB48 Taiwan Audition		Captain Unit Daisy leader
Official members	Pan Tzi-yi (潘姿怡)	(1996-07-28) July 28, 1996	Taipei	1st
Official members	Sin Tik-kei (冼迪琦)	(1999-02-13) February 13, 1999	Hong Kong	1st
Official members	Tsai Ya-en (蔡亞恩)	(2000-10-21) October 21, 2000	Keelung City	1st	January 19, 2020
Official members	Kuo Shin-yu (國興瑀)	(2002-10-11) October 11, 2002	Taipei	AKB48 Taiwan Audition
Trainees	Chia I-chen (賈宜蓁)	(1999-08-18) August 18, 1999	Hsinchu City	1st
Trainees	Po Ling (柏靈)	(1999-09-13) September 13, 1999	Taipei	1st
Trainees	Lee Meng-chun (李孟純)	(2002-06-04) June 4, 2002	Pingtung County	1st
Trainees	Lin Chieh-hsin (林潔心)	(2003-03-27) March 27, 2003	New Taipei	1st
Trainees	Tung Zih-syuan (董子瑄)	(2003-12-04) December 4, 2003	Taipei	1st		Former member of Unit Bellflower
Trainees	Li Cai-Jie (李采潔)	(2004-03-15) March 15, 2004	Taipei	1st
Trainees	Miyata Ruka (宮田留佳)	(1996-04-22) April 22, 1996	Yamanashi, Japan	2nd
Trainees	Wu Wan-ling (吳婉淩)	(2004-08-10) August 10, 2004	Taipei	2nd
Trainees	Lin Chia-ni (林佳霓)	(2005-01-16) January 16, 2005	New Taipei	2nd

Bellflower

Official members／Trainees	Name	Date of birth (age)	Place of birth	Generation	Date of promotion	Notes
Official members	Liu Yu-ching (劉語晴)	(1996-07-14) July 14, 1996	Taoyuan	1st		Unit Bellflower leader
Official members	Liu Jie-ming (劉潔明)	(1997-04-19) April 19, 1997	Taipei	1st		Currently on hiatus since January 30, 2020[10][11]
Official members	Chiu Pin-han (邱品涵)	(1999-12-24) December 24, 1999	New Taipei City	AKB48 Taiwan Audition
Official members	Lin Chieh (林倢)	(2001-02-14) February 14, 2001	Hsinchu County	AKB48 Taiwan Audition
Official members	Lee Jia-li(李佳俐)	(2001-11-05) November 5, 2001	Taipei	1st	January 19, 2020
Trainees	Fujii Mayu (藤井麻由)	(1998-11-30) November 30, 1998	Osaka, Japan	1st
Trainees	Tsai Yi-jou (蔡伊柔)	(2001-07-15) July 15, 2001	New Taipei	1st
Trainees	Gao Yun-jue (高云珏)	(2001-10-20) October 20, 2001	Taichung	1st
Trainees	Wang Yi-chia (王逸嘉)	(2001-11-18) November 18, 2001	Chiayi City	1st
Trainees	Chang Fa-fa (張法法)	(2001-12-27) December 27, 2001	Taipei City	1st		Former member of Unit Daisy
Trainees	Cheng Yu-we (鄭妤葳)	(2003-11-11) November 11, 2003	Tainan	1st
Trainees	Lo Jui-ting (羅瑞婷)	(2004-08-06) August 6, 2004	Taipei	1st
Trainees	Weng Tung-hsun (翁彤薰)	(1997-05-19) May 19, 1997	Taipei	2nd		Currently on hiatus since July 29, 2020[12]
Trainees	Chou Chia-an (周家安)	(2003-10-09) October 9, 2003	Taichung	2nd		Former AKB48 Taiwan Kenkyusei (Dropout during the debut)

Sakura

Official members／Trainees	Name	Date of birth (age)	Place of birth	Generation	Date of promotion	Notes
Official members	Tseng Shih-yu (曾詩羽)	(1995-02-12) February 12, 1995	Yunlin County	1st
Official members	Lau Hiu-ching (劉曉晴)	(2000-08-02) August 2, 2000	Hong Kong	1st	June 15, 2019[13]	Unit Sakura leader
Official members	Lin Yu-hsin (林于馨)	(2002-01-14) January 14, 2002	Yilan County	1st	June 15, 2019[14]	Former AKB48 Taiwan Kenkyusei (Dropout during the debut)
Official members	Chang Yu-ling (張羽翎)	(2003-07-11) July 11, 2003	Hualien County	AKB48 Taiwan Audition
Official members	Honda Yuzuka(本田柚萱)	(2006-03-15) March 15, 2006	Hsinchu City	1st		Currently on hiatus since December 9, 2018 due to health problem[15]
Trainees	Zhou Jia-yu (周佳郁)	(1997-11-19) November 19, 1997	Taipei	1st
Trainees	Lin Yi-yun (林易沄)	(2000-11-21) November 21, 2000	New Taipei	1st
Trainees	Lin Chia-ying (林家瑩)	(2000-12-04) December 4, 2000	New Taipei	1st
Trainees	Oyama Mirei (小山美玲)	(2002-06-28) June 28, 2002	Fukuoka, Japan	1st
Trainees	Cheng Chia-yu (鄭佳郁)	(2004-04-28) April 28, 2004	Taipei	1st
Trainees	Kao Yen-chen (高硯晨)	(2006-07-16) July 16, 2006	New Taipei	1st
Trainees	Wu Chi-hui (吳騏卉)	(1998-10-25) October 25, 1998	Taipei	2nd
Trainees	Yuan Tzu-chu (袁子筑)	(1999-05-07) May 7, 1999	New Taipei	2nd
Trainees	Lin Ting-li (林亭莉)	(1999-06-01) June 1, 1999	Taoyuan	2nd

Former members

Name	Date of birth (age)	Notes
Chen Shih-yuan (陳詩媛)	(1995-04-24) April 24, 1995	Left in August 2018 before the AKB48 Team TP debuted[16]
Lee Chen-si (李晨熙)	(2000-07-25) July 25, 2000

Wen Li-fei (翁立霏)	(2000-02-11) February 11, 2000
Chen Lin (陳琳)	(2006-01-03) January 3, 2006
Liu Yen-ting (劉姸廷)	(2003-10-13) October 13, 2003
Maria Abe (阿部瑪利亞)	(1995-11-29) November 29, 1995	Graduated from AKB48 and AKB48 Team TP on AKB48 in Taipei 2019 event: "Are You Ready For It?"[17]

Discography

Singles

No.	Year	Title	Details
1	2018	Yungwang chihch'ien (勇往直前)	Released date: December 25, 2018 Label: Universal Music Taiwan
1	2018	Yinghua pan (櫻花瓣)
2	2019	Lu ts'aoti shang te ch'ichi (綠草地上的奇蹟)	Released date: April 15, 2019 Label: Universal Music Taiwan
		TTP Festival	Released date: July 26, 2019 Label: Universal Music Taiwan
		LOVE hsiuhsing (LOVE修行)	Released date: July 26, 2019 Label: Universal Music Taiwan
3	2019	Kan chien hsi yang le ma？ (看見夕陽了嗎？)	Released date: December 25, 2019 Label: Universal Music Taiwan
		Only Today
		Hsin hsing ping tu (心型病毒)

Filmography

Television and radio shows

Team TP Youth Weekly (Team TP 青春週記) (KKBox, March 14, 2019 – present)

Commercials and endorsements

Aikatsu! (Sega Amusements Taiwan, 2018–present)
Breeze Nan Shan (Breeze Center, 2019)

gollark: Anyway, to summarise the rest of it, as I'm sure you've seen, eventually the reshuffling thing began actually happening in earnest, and today another thing happened (I forgot what), various people left, more of them joined new esolangs without leaving, and palaiologos pushed ahead with stricter rule updates in a rather authoritarian way.

gollark: Yes.

gollark: Anyway, at some point palaiologos seems to have decided that the server needed a substantial overhaul.(For video purposes you should of course find screenshots of all this stuff; I think much of it was in staff chat though)

gollark: The only person to actually *leave* due to the initial thing was cyan, who remains on the other esolangs.

gollark: Many things happened, yes.

References

『ＴＰＥ４８』プロジェクト発足！ (in Japanese). October 1, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2011.
"New AKB48 sister groups to be formed in Manila, Bangkok and Taipei". japantoday.com. March 28, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2017.
"AKB台灣姊妹團「TPE48」徵選開跑　不怕韓團來勢洶洶" (in Chinese). 蘋果日報. September 1, 2017. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
"guangnan yearly chart 2019".
"fivemusic 2019".
TPE48出道難產？台灣營運方遭爆欠薪300萬! – Yahoo! Taiwan
AKB48運営会社が「TPE48」の契約解消　「AKB48 Team TP」発足へ
"TPE48有救了！AKS霸氣聲明重組「AKB48 Team TP」". 聯合新聞網 (in Chinese). 聯合新聞網. July 30, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
"2020年三月起，AKB48 Team TP將以分組模式活動". AKB48 Team TP官方臉書 (in Chinese). December 22, 2019. Retrieved December 24, 2019.
"⚠️ AKB48 Team TP 正式生 – 劉潔明暫停活動公告". AKB48 Team TP官方臉書. January 30, 2020. Retrieved January 30, 2020.
"【聲明書】針對成員劉潔明提出聲明一事，我方已協同律師提出聲明如下". AKB48 Team TP官方臉書 (in Chinese). February 8, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
"【成員】翁彤薰活動暫停告知". AKB48 Team TP官方網站. July 29, 2020. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
"AKB48 Team TP 研究生升格公告" (in Chinese). AKB48 Team TP官方臉書. June 15, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
"AKB48 Team TP 研究生升格公告" (in Chinese). AKB48 Team TP官方臉書. June 15, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
"⚠️AKB48TeamTP-本田柚萱暫停活動-通知" (in Chinese). AKB48 Team TP官方臉書. December 9, 2018. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
AKB48 Team TP (September 2, 2018). "雖然不想說，但還是必須說....這次，有一位正式成員、四位研究生選擇了另一條路。". AKB48 Team TP 官方臉書. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
Abemaruchan (October 19, 2019). "きょうまでわたしを応援してくださった全ての皆さんありがとうございました😊！これからグループから離れて一人で台湾を拠点に活動していきます💭🌟AKB48、そしてTeam TPで活動できて本当に本当によかったなぁ💛最後にいままで出会った全ての人に感謝の気持ちを捧げます。ありがとうございました！！". Abemaruchan. Retrieved October 19, 2019.

External links

Official website (in Chinese)
AKB48 Team TP on Facebook (in Chinese)

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[1] 『ＴＰＥ４８』プロジェクト発足！ (in Japanese). October 1, 2011. Retrieved October 1, 2011.

[2] "New AKB48 sister groups to be formed in Manila, Bangkok and Taipei". japantoday.com. March 28, 2016. Retrieved February 19, 2017.

[3] "AKB台灣姊妹團「TPE48」徵選開跑　不怕韓團來勢洶洶" (in Chinese). 蘋果日報. September 1, 2017. Retrieved September 1, 2017.

[4] "guangnan yearly chart 2019".

[5music-5] "fivemusic 2019".

[6] TPE48出道難產？台灣營運方遭爆欠薪300萬! – Yahoo! Taiwan

[7] AKB48運営会社が「TPE48」の契約解消　「AKB48 Team TP」発足へ

[8] "TPE48有救了！AKS霸氣聲明重組「AKB48 Team TP」". 聯合新聞網 (in Chinese). 聯合新聞網. July 30, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2018.

[9] "2020年三月起，AKB48 Team TP將以分組模式活動". AKB48 Team TP官方臉書 (in Chinese). December 22, 2019. Retrieved December 24, 2019.

[fb200130-10] "⚠️ AKB48 Team TP 正式生 – 劉潔明暫停活動公告". AKB48 Team TP官方臉書. January 30, 2020. Retrieved January 30, 2020.

[fb254548323905-11] "【聲明書】針對成員劉潔明提出聲明一事，我方已協同律師提出聲明如下". AKB48 Team TP官方臉書 (in Chinese). February 8, 2020. Retrieved February 8, 2020.

[12] "【成員】翁彤薰活動暫停告知". AKB48 Team TP官方網站. July 29, 2020. Retrieved July 29, 2020.

[13] "AKB48 Team TP 研究生升格公告" (in Chinese). AKB48 Team TP官方臉書. June 15, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.

[14] "AKB48 Team TP 研究生升格公告" (in Chinese). AKB48 Team TP官方臉書. June 15, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.

[15] "⚠️AKB48TeamTP-本田柚萱暫停活動-通知" (in Chinese). AKB48 Team TP官方臉書. December 9, 2018. Retrieved December 9, 2018.

[16] AKB48 Team TP (September 2, 2018). "雖然不想說，但還是必須說....這次，有一位正式成員、四位研究生選擇了另一條路。". AKB48 Team TP 官方臉書. Retrieved September 2, 2018.

[17] Abemaruchan (October 19, 2019). "きょうまでわたしを応援してくださった全ての皆さんありがとうございました😊！これからグループから離れて一人で台湾を拠点に活動していきます💭🌟AKB48、そしてTeam TPで活動できて本当に本当によかったなぁ💛最後にいままで出会った全ての人に感謝の気持ちを捧げます。ありがとうございました！！". Abemaruchan. Retrieved October 19, 2019.