Sakura Ishiyama Set to Appear on “Peko Mogu Kitchen” Next Week — 5ch: “She Landed a Good Gig”

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The story

A preview clip for the next episode of TV Tokyo’s cooking show “Peko Mogu Kitchen” showed Morning Musume。’25 member Sakura Ishiyama, sparking discussion on 5ch’s Hello! Project board. Rio Kitagawa has been serving as assistant on the September 13 broadcast, and the thread’s main focus became whether Kitagawa would continue next week or be swapped out for Ishiyama. Talk also touched on the show’s history as “Danshi Gohan,” hosted by Taichi Kokubun and Shimpei Kurihara, the fact that Kurihara is the son of cooking expert Harumi Kurihara, and past appearances by Ai Kago and Maki Goto — all framed around the topic of Hello! Project members’ outside work.

What people said

1AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:15
Apparently Rio Kitagawa-chan is the assistant too
12 Anonymous (name pending)。。。 2026/09/13 (Sun) 11:30:21.10 0
So it's Sakura-chi next week, huh?
3AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:18
Re: #1
Same old weirdness here too, reliable as ever
4AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:18
Looks like they've started selling Sakura-chi separately now (solo gigs, like items sold à la carte)
5AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:19
Just go with either one of the "Homamei" pair, please (a fan nickname pairing — not totally clear who)
7AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:19
So does that mean Kitagawa got an amicable send-off? (joking that she's basically been "retired" from the role)
8AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:19
25AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:25
Re: #8
Her face just keeps getting more intense
10AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:19
It'd be hilarious if she and Kitagawa did the cutesy "Kurakura" TikTok dance together, all filtered up to look extra cute
11AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:20
If she doesn't go say hi backstage, she's gonna get trashed on somebody's secret account
13AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:20
Apparently the assistant announcer rotates week to week
19AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:22
Between the location-shoot shows and now this,
Sakura-chi really keeps landing in offbeat spots on these programs
20AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:23
Is the AKB side actually okay with this?
21AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:23
Since announcer Kitagawa's done two weeks already, I bet next week it's fellow rookie announcer Suzuki
23AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:24
Is Kurihara actually related to that Harumi Kurihara?
28AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:25
Going up against AKB's ace, huh — tough odds
78AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:35
Re: #28
This is just my own biased impression, but doesn't AKB call literally everyone their "ace"?
And yet none of them ever seem like that big a deal to me?
30AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:26
■ TVer Catch-up Streaming
Peko Mogu Kitchen
[Taito Iwasaki Aims to Become the Pasta Prince] Making Tagliatelle from Scratch!
TV Tokyo
September 13 (Sun) broadcast
Over a week left to stream
Cast: Rio Kitagawa
(Playback starts from the top of the show)
https://tver.jp/episodes/epowb26jgz?p=3
Sakura Ishiyama appears in the next-episode preview (around 23:48~)
https://tver.jp/episodes/epowb26jgz?p=1424


Nonstop! Juice=Juice & Sachiko Kobayashi
https://tver.jp/episodes/epnchcnp40?p=3
31AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:26
Peko Mogu Kitchen next-episode preview (23:47~)
https://tver.jp/episodes/epowb26jgz?p=1427
32AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:26
At least put the TV Tokyo Music crew on the show
35AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:28
A show Morning Musume。will never, ever get to appear on
63AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:32
Re: #35
Kitagawa's the assistant, and the guest two weeks back was Kago, plus Goto's been on too

Peko Mogu Kitchen
[Kago-chan's Homemade Bento] Leveling Up Moves Her Daughter to Tears!
https://tver.jp/episodes/epunzfm2i7
36AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:29
Ishiyama's great at cooking, so she landed a good gig
Arisawa and Ishiyama both quietly have some solo work going
70AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:33
So Ishiyama's finally started getting booked solo too, huh
71AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:33
No idea if they'll actually appear together next week, but Kitagawa and JJ (Juice=Juice) aren't on bad terms or anything
They were on the TV Tokyo Music Festival together too
72AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:33
I'm out in the countryside — is this on TVer?
74AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:34
Re: #72
Yep, it's up
Today's broadcast is already available too
75AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:34
Honestly what gets me is that just being Harumi Kurihara's son is enough to land you your own show
112AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:38
Re: #75
Kentaro, who stepped down from the previous show after a serious traffic accident, also had a cooking-expert mother
Feels like a lot of these cooking families run two or three generations deep
76AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:35
So Rio-Rio (Kitagawa) finally got a connection to Johnny's (the major male idol agency), huh
84AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:36
Did bringing up Kago set someone off?
127AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:39
Re: #84
Every thread about Juice=Juice or BEYOOOOONDS doing outside work gets brigaded, so I think "outside work" is just a trigger topic for someone
89AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:36
Kitagawa's only filling in as a sub, so who even knows if she'll be on next week
97AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:37
Wait, isn't this the show that used to be Danshi Gohan?
118AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:39
Re: #97
Yep

Danshi Gohan (Taichi Kokubun & Kentaro's cooking show)
      ↓
Kentaro's badly hurt in an accident, Kurihara steps in as his replacement
      ↓
Show gets cancelled over Kokubun's scandal
      ↓
New Kurihara-led show launches
105AnonymousSep 13, 2026 12:38
It was originally a cooking show called Danshi Gohan that Taichi Kokubun and Shimpei Kurihara ran together for about 10 years, but after Kokubun ended up the way he did, it became a solo cooking show for Kurihara

Background and Key Points

“Peko Mogu Kitchen” is a spin-off of “Danshi Gohan,” the long-running cooking show hosted for years by Taichi Kokubun and Shimpei Kurihara; it launched after Kokubun’s departure, with Kurihara taking over as main host. Kurihara is the son of cooking expert Harumi Kurihara, and the show has previously featured guest appearances from Hello! Project OGs and current members alike, including Ai Kago and Maki Goto. The thread’s focus centers on whether Rio Kitagawa, who has served as assistant for the past two weeks, will continue next week or be swapped out for Sakura Ishiyama — though it’s worth noting this is speculation drawn from the show’s next-episode preview footage, not an official announcement.

※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Pro board) thread “Looks like Sakura Ishiyama-chan is appearing on Peko Mogu Kitchen next week.”

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