All-Star Thanksgiving

All-Star Thanksgiving
Genre	Game show, variety show, Television special
Directed by	Takayuki Kyuno (52nd – current, stage director)
Presented by	Shinsuke Shimada (1st–40th) Koji Imada (41st–current) Wakako Shimazaki (1st–current)
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
No. of episodes	55 (as of 2019)
Production
Production location	TBS Headquarters
Running time	5 hours 18 minutes
Production company	TBS
Original release
Network	TBS Television
Release	October 5, 1991 (1991-10-05) – present

All-Star Thanksgiving Festival (Japanese: オールスター感謝祭), commonly referred to as All-Star Thanksgiving, is a Japanese television panel game and special program which airs twice a year in April and October on TBS since October 1991.

In this article, the prototype Quiz! 25% Hit (Japanese: クイズ!当たって25%) is also explained.

Format

The program features a large cast of celebrities such as actors, comedians and other tarento of around 160 to 200 people. The panel answers multiple quizzes every round until one person is deemed the winner either by elimination of those that answered incorrectly or by fastest response if there are multiple winners by the end of the round. During the program, numerous events and activities such as a mini-marathon are played by different contestants. It is a live broadcast which lasts about 5½ hours.

The winners of each quiz round and event earn a cash prize and the top overall performer at the end is considered the winner of the entire program.

This is one of most known programs of Shinsuke Shimada and Wakako Shimazaki, especially of Wakako Shimazaki. In the program in which Wakako Shimazaki appeared, three programs All-Star Thanksgiving, Quiz! 25% Hit (its regular version) and Moero! Top Striker started in October 1991. All-Star Thanksgiving has become a masterpiece of Wakako Shimazaki, as well as Moero! Top Striker is the first anime of Wakako Shimazaki and a success story of Hikaru Kikkawa – a Japanese living abroad. The personalities of Wakako Shimazaki and Hikaru Kikkawa are incompatible, but both programs are similar in that they are "success stories".

Results

No.	Year	Season	Winner	Akasaka Mini Marathon Winner
8	1995	Spring	Yonesuke	Makoto Nonomura (1st race) Junichi Ishida (2nd race)
9		Autumn	Aki Mukai	Makoto Nonomura (1st race) Katsuo Tokashiki (2nd race)
10	1996	Spring	Takuro Tatsumi	Mudou Oda
11		Autumn	Yōko Nogiwa
12	1997	Spring	Sonomanma Higashi	Sonomanma Higashi (1st race) Valentina Yegorova (2nd race)
13		Autumn	Mikihisa Azama	Sonomanma Higashi (Men's) Riho Hashimoto (Women's)
Special		Year-end	Sonomanma Higashi	Sonomanma Higashi
14	1998	Spring	Masakazu Mimura (Summers)	Masayuki Izumikawa
15		Autumn	Hirohide Yakumaru	Not held
16	1999	Spring	Akira Hara	Kanpei Hazama
17		Autumn	Kenta Aoshima	Masayuki Suzuki
18	2000	Spring	Miho Shiraishi	Meisui Kinoshita (Jovi Jova)
19		Autumn	Takashi Matsuo	Lidia Șimon
20	2001	Spring	Emiri Henmi	Satoshi Iida
21		Autumn	Hirofumi Suga (Rozan)	Mari Tanigawa
22	2002	Spring	Hiromi Iwazaki	Lidia Șimon
23		Autumn	Yoshiko Nakada	Akihiro Nishino (King Kong)
24	2003	Spring	Kiriko Isono	Takeshi Mizuuchi
25		Autumn	LaSalle Ishii	Kenji Moriwaki
26	2004	Spring	Jun Hasegawa	Akihiro Nishino (King Kong)
27		Autumn	Masayuki Watanabe
28	2005	Spring	Mari Tanigawa	Vanderlei de Lima
29		Autumn	Kumiko Okae
30	2006	Spring	Masato Yamada	Erick Wainaina
31		Autumn	Yuko Mizuno	Yusuke Yamamoto
32	2007	Spring	Tooru Hotoharu (Ameagari Kesshitai)	Erick Wainaina
33		Autumn	Junichi Ishida	Antonio Koinoki
34	2008	Spring	Hiroshi Shinagawa (Shinagawa Shoji)	Neko Hiroshi
35		Autumn	Satoko Urata	Erick Wainaina
36	2009	Spring	Motohiro Takewaka (Buffalo Goro)
37		Autumn	Shintaro Yamada	Yuya Yamamoto
38	2010	Spring	Ken Maeda	Tomoya Warabino
39		Autumn	Kumiko Okae	Erick Wainaina
40	2011	Spring	Kunikazu Katsumata	Neko Hiroshi
41		Autumn	Emiri Nakayama
42	2012	Spring	Guadalcanal Taka	Kin'nikun Nakayama
43		Autumn	Takeshi Mizuuchi	Erick Wainaina
44	2013	Spring	Kentarō Kokado (Lotti)	Wataru Mori
45		Autumn	Honoo-no Taiiku-kai TV (Team) Keisuke Okada (Individual)	Neko Hiroshi
46	2014	Spring	Masato Wada	Bedan Karoki Muchiri
47		Autumn	Nagiko Tōno	Kentaro Uno
48	2015	Spring	Takushi Tanaka (Ungirls)	Harry Sugiyama
49		Autumn	Team Kono Satte Nandesuka?	Gaku Sano
50	2016	Spring	Hideo Higashikokubaru	Tatsuya Ueda
51		Autumn	Neko Hiroshi	Mo Farah
52	2017	Spring	Shōfukutei Shōhei	Kenji Moriwaki
53		Autumn	Akira Hokuto	Mo Farah
54	2018	Spring	Miho Kimura	Yūta Shimoda
55		Autumn	Nao Asahi	Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich
56	2019	Spring	Osamu Mukai	Kenji Moriwaki
57		Autumn	Haru	Wataru Mori
58	2020	Spring	Not held (due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
59		Autumn	Tomohiro Kamiyama	Kazuki Sawai
60	2021	Spring	Mizuki Yamashita (Nogizaka46)	San'yūtei Yūko
61		Autumn	Eiji Wentz	Kenji Fujimitsu
62	2022	Spring	Soshina (Shimofuri Myojo)	Hironori Kishimoto
63		Autumn	Hiromasa Yashiki (New York)	Rinne Sugeta

Quiz! 25% Hit

All-Star Thanksgiving
Genre	Game show, variety show
Presented by	Shinsuke Shimada, Wakako Shimazaki
Country of origin	Japan
Original language	Japanese
Production
Production location	TBS Headquarters
Running time	53 minutes
Production company	TBS
Original release
Network	TBS Television
Release	October 17, 1991 (1991-10-17) – March 26, 1992 (1992-03-26)

The prototype of All-Star Thanksgiving is Quiz! 25% Hit (クイズ!当たって25%, Kuizu!Atatte nijūgo pāsento).

• The time zone is from 22:00 to 23:00 every Thursday on the TBS network, as a live broadcast.
• The hosts are Shinsuke Shimada and Wakako Shimazaki.
• Rules of the quiz are the same as for the All-Star Thanksgiving, with 200 people participating in 8 groups.
• As regular participants, Jimmy Ōnishi and Shiro Suzuki. Shiro Suzuki is not the answerer in the studio, but a reporter who provides gifts from the location.
• Different from the All-Star Thanksgiving events such as mini-marathons are not inserted, and only quiz is spent.
• The content of questions is generally focused on current topics.

See also

• Moero! Top Striker

  A host of All-Star Thanksgiving Wakako Shimazaki sang the theme songs. The first time was October 1991 same as All-Star Thanksgiving, and the broadcast date are every Thursday same as the prototype Quiz! 25% Hit. This was from 19:30 to 20:00, TV Tokyo network.

• Samma's Super Karakuri TV

  Shiro Suzuki was appointed as the host of the Longevity Quick Push Quiz corner in the program, triggered by Quiz! 25% Hit. This was every Sunday from 19:00 to 20:00, TBS network.