Kobayashi Kana was a member of AKB48's Team B.
Catchphrase
- いでよバカの扉、バカ脱出、香菜こと小林香菜です。よろしくお願いします
- Ideyo baka no tobira, baka dasshutsu, Kana koto Kobayashi Kana desu. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu
- (I'll walk out of the door of silliness, I'll escape from the "silly character", I'm Kobayashi Kana also known as Kana. Please be nice to me)
Team History
- 2006.02.26 - Joined AKB48 as Team K member
- 2009.08.23 - Transferred to Team B (2009 Team Shuffle)
- 2012.08.24 - Transferred to Team K (Tokyo Dome Team Shuffle)
- 2015.03.26 - Transferred to Team B (AKB48 Spring Shuffle 2015)
- 2016.04.01 - Graduated from AKB48 Team B (Announcement: January 17, 2016 | Graduation Stage: March 31, 2016 | Last activity: April 1, 2016)
AKB48 Senbatsu Elections
- 1st Senbatsu Election - Not Ranked
- 2nd Senbatsu Election - Not Ranked
- 3rd Senbatsu Election - Not Ranked
- 4th Senbatsu Election - #41 (Next Girls)
- 5th Senbatsu Election - Not Ranked
- 6th Senbatsu Election - Not Ranked
- 7th Senbatsu Election - Not Ranked
- 8th Senbatsu Election - Didn't Participate
AKB48 Janken Tournaments
- 1st Janken Taikai - #11 (Lost to Uchida Mayumi)
- 2nd Janken Taikai - Round 2 (Lost to Oya Shizuka)
- 3rd Janken Taikai - Round 2 (Lost to Itano Tomomi)
- 4th Janken Taikai - Round 1 (Lost to Shimada Haruka)
- 5th Janken Taikai - Round 1 (Lost to Yagura Fuuko)
- 6th Janken Taikai - Round 2 (Lost to Uno Mizuki)
Singles Participation
AKB48 A-Sides
AKB48 B-Sides
Other Singles
Albums Participation
AKB48 Albums
- Anata ga Ite Kureta kara (SET LIST ~Greatest Songs~ Kanzen ban)
- Kimi to Niji to Taiyou to (Kamikyokutachi)
- Renai Circus (Koko ni Ita koto)
- Koko ni Ita koto (Koko ni Ita koto)
- No Can (1830m)
- Aozora yo Sabishikunai ka? (1830m)
- Tsuyosa to Yowasa no Aida de (Tsugi no Ashiato)
- Kyouhansha (Tsugi no Ashiato)
- Conveyor (Koko ga Rhodes da, Koko de Tobe!)
- Music Junkie (0 to 1 no Aida)
Units
Stage Units
- K1 (PARTY ga Hajimaru yo)
- Skirt, Hirari
- K2 (Seishun Girls)
- Ame no Doubutsuen
- Cinderella wa Damasarenai
- K3 (Nounai Paradise)
- Kurukurupaa
- K4 (Saishuu Bell ga Naru)
- 16nin Shimai no Uta
- H1 (Boku no Taiyou)
- Idol Nante Yobanaide (2nd Unit)
- H2 (Yume wo Shinaseru Wake ni Ikanai)
- Tonari no Banana (2nd Unit + Revival)
- K5 (Saka Agari)
- Wagamama na Nagareboshi
- B5 (Theater no Megami)
- Locker room boy
- Team K Waiting Stage
- Arashi no Yoru ni wa (Under)
- Hajimete no Jelly Beans (New Units) (Under)
- K4 (Saishuu Bell ga Naru)
- 19nin Shimai no Uta (Revival) (Under)
- K6 (RESET)
- Ashita no Tame ni Kiss wo (Revival) (Under)
Concert Units
AKB48 First Concert "Aitakatta ~Hashira wa Naize!~"
Live DVD wa Derudaroukedo, Yappari Iki ni Kagiruze! AKB48 Natsu Matsuri
AKB48 Masaka, Kono Concert no Ongen wa Ryuushutsushinai yo ne?
Nenwasure Kanshasai Shuffle Sumaze, AKB! SKE mo Yoroshiku ne
"Kami Kouen Yotei" AKB48 NHK Hall Concert 2009
Yokohama Arena 2010 'AKB48 Manseki Matsuri Kibou Sanpi Ryouron'
AKB48 Kouhaku Utagassen 2011
AKB48 Kouhaku Utagassen 2012
AKB48 Group Rinji Soukai "Shirokuro tsukeyou janai ka!"
- AKB48
AKB48 2013 Manatsu no Dome Tour ~Mada mada, Yaranakya Ikenai koto ga aru~
- Fukuoka Dome
- Osaka Dome
- Tokyo Dome
AKB48 8th Anniversary
AKB48 Kouhaku Utagassen 2013
AKB48 Zenkoku Tour 2014
- Nara
AKB48 Kouhaku Utagassen 2014
Team K 2nd Generation 10th Anniversary Celebration Special Performance
Media Appearances
Radio Shows
- Aigaku Ooedo Aidoru Gakuen (2011)
Movies
- Ultraman Saga (2012)
Dramas
- Sakura Kara no Tegami (桜からの手紙) (2011)
Variety Shows
- AKB 0ji 59fun!
- AKBINGO!
- Shukan AKB
- AKB48 Nemousu Terebi (Season 4/5/7)
- AKB48 no Anta, Dare?
Etymology
- Kobayashi means "small" (小) (ko) and "forest" (林) (hayashi/bayashi).
- Kana means "fragrance, fragrant" (香) (ka) and "vegetables, greens" (菜) (na).
Trivia
- Favorite artist: Tanaka Reina
- Favorite talent: Ueto Aya
- Good friends with: Suzuki Mariya, Akimoto Sayaka, Kuramochi Asuka
- Former member of Cooking Club
- Failed AKB48's 1st generation auditions
- She was the member with the most performances at the AKB48 Theater (889 performances) surpassing former member Hirajima Natsumi. This record has since been broken.
- She declared she wanted to be the first AKB48 member to reach 1000 theater performances. However, she graduated before she could accomplish this.
- Murayama Yuiri would reach that milestone on January 18, 2020, nearly four years after Kobayashi's graduation.
- One of the 50 winners of the Young Jump Gravure Competition
- Original 2nd Generation ace
- Considered the original "baka" (idiot) member
- Has a tsundere personality
- Members often say she seems cold at first, but has a gentle heart
- Last member of AKB48's 2nd Generation to graduate.
- Was signed to Promage, but announced on September 15th, 2018, that her contract with the talent agency had ended.
- On September 27th 2019, a website was opened for her own clothing line, called "1you".
- She got married to a non-celebrity man on July 8, 2021.
- On March 26, 2022, she announced the birth of their son.
- On January 16, 2023, she announced her divorce.