When Juice=Juice’s Ishiyama Sakura and an AKB48 member appeared together on TV Tokyo’s cooking show “Pekomogu Kitchen,” the male chef hosting the segment seemed visibly distracted by Ishiyama the whole time — and it became a hot topic on 5ch’s Hello! Project board after the broadcast. While plenty of posters chalked it up to “well, she’s beautiful, so what can you do,” others dug up footage of Ishiyama’s 2022 appearance on “Hello! Kitchen.” There was also plenty of back-and-forth comparing the AKB48 member’s variety-show chops and Hello! Project-style looks against Ishiyama’s, with posters pitting the two against each other throughout.
She's got the looks, she's considerate, and she's got that homey side too — can't really blame the guy.
16AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:48
She's stunningly beautiful, honestly.
Tall too.
17AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:48
She was supposed to be billed as the 'acts a little off' one, but it was the AKB girl who ended up moving the way Ishiyama normally does.
19AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:48
He's got a wife, you know, and a kid who's about middle-school age too.
20AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:49
Isn't this the show suspect Kokubun used to host?
Danshi Gohan (Guy's Meal).
21AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:49
Did the Kitagawa-senpai and Ishiyama collab ever actually happen?
39AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:53
Re: #21
Ignored it on the blog too.
22AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:49
His surname's Kurihara — wonder if that's a nod to Kurihara Harumi (the famous Japanese cooking celebrity)?
25AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:50
If anything, the AKB girl's got more of a Hello! Project face.
27AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:51
Ishiyama might've been nervous — her expression looked kind of scary at times.
30AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:51
The AKB girl's probably the variety-show specialist, so Ishiyama's got no chance in a talk battle.
32AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:52
The chef was totally smitten and fawning over her while 'helping,' and Kitagawa called him out for breaking the rules.
41AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:53
If he gets too touchy-feely he's gonna blow up online like that old guy did on the Chidori show.
55AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:55
Announcer Kitagawa posted a two-shot with her.
60AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:55
Watching the AKB girl, I thought: even just leaving a 'scar' on variety TV is hard work.
67AnonymousSep 21, 2026 10:57
Why would you leave a 'scar'? You mean leave your mark — it's 'claw marks,' not scars.
75AnonymousSep 21, 2026 11:00
Yeah, actually the AKB girl did have a lot of scars now that you mention it —
like on her ears.
76AnonymousSep 21, 2026 11:01
Total 'face type hostess-club girls dream of having' energy.
77AnonymousSep 21, 2026 11:03
She looks like she'd fit right into fripSide (the anime theme-song duo), yet she's stuck on variety duty.
Background and Points of Debate
Ishiyama Sakura joined Juice=Juice as a new member in October 2022, and back then she also appeared in a segment on “Hello! Kitchen” trying her hand at cooking — which is why posters in this thread dug up footage from that earlier appearance. Where opinions split was over which of the two, Ishiyama or the AKB48 member, had the more “Hello! Project-style” look, with support running about even on both sides. The thread also contains a number of mentions of another announcer, Kitagawa, who appears to have had some role in the broadcast, but since the thread posts alone don’t clarify exactly what that role was, this article focuses mainly on the crossover episode between Ishiyama and the AKB48 member. One point worth flagging for readers: the 5ch reactions are strictly viewers’ subjective impressions — the chef himself never made any official comment.
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