# エンディング「リポD文学賞・最終結果発表」 - Show: 東京ポッド許可局 - Published: 2026-09-25 - Canonical: https://podc.club/en/episode/1123725677_badf654dd1e1.html - Audio: https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TBS9061435556.mp3 - Source: Edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. Not an official summary. In this ending segment of Tokyo Pod Kyokakyoku, the hosts announced the final results of "The Lipo D Literary Prize: Uncles' Lipovitan Days," a collaboration with Taisho Pharmaceutical. After introducing three new submissions — a memory of grandmother and pro wrestling, a childhood spent drinking "Lipovitan D Kids," and a nurse's pre-surgery ritual — the hosts selected the grand prize winner from all six entries combined with the three announced in August: a piece submitted under the pen name "Eien no Poromeria" from Ibaraki Prefecture. ## What this episode answers ### What is the "Lipo D Literary Prize" project? It's a collaboration with Taisho Pharmaceutical soliciting memories tied to Lipovitan D, which launched in 1962; three submissions were introduced as a midway announcement in August, and this episode added three more before selecting the grand prize from all entries. ### What were the three newly introduced submissions about? The three were a memory of summers spent with a grandmother watching pro wrestling, a childhood longing for "Lipovitan D Kids" given by the submitter's mother, and a nurse's "fight, one shot" ritual of drinking it before surgery. ### Which submission won the grand prize? The grand prize went to a piece by a woman from Ibaraki Prefecture writing under the pen name "Eien no Poromeria," valued for her childhood memory of "Lipovitan D Kids" from her mother and her closing wish, now a 42-year-old single mother, to bring Lipovitan D home to her tired mother. ### How many submissions were there in total? Six submissions in total were nominated: three from the August midway announcement plus three introduced in this episode. ### What prizes were given to the winner and other entrants? The grand prize winner receives a year's supply of Lipovitan D, and ten people chosen by lottery from all entrants each receive one box of Lipovitan D. ## Article ## Three more submissions for the Lipo D Literary Prize This was the final episode of "The Lipo D Literary Prize: Uncles' Lipovitan Days," a collaboration with Taisho Pharmaceutical soliciting memories tied to Lipovitan D, which launched in 1962. Three submissions had already been introduced as a midway announcement on the August 29 broadcast. This time, the hosts added three more entries and chose a grand prize winner from the full pool of submissions. ## Grandmother, pro wrestling, and a goodbye at 104 A man wrote in about the summer vacations he spent at his grandmother's house, where she ran a small eatery in Osaka. He'd grown up in a strict household where the only TV was NHK and the only juice was Pon Juice, so his grandmother's house felt like a world of freedom. After closing up the shop each day, she would watch pro wrestling broadcasts while drinking a Lipovitan D, and it was there, sitting beside her, that he first tasted a carbonated drink and was startled by it. From junior high onward, watching pro wrestling became a lifelong pursuit for him. His grandmother passed away this spring at age 104. He recalled her as someone who never developed dementia and stayed considerate of her family right to the end, writing that whenever he wants to lift his spirits, drinking a Lipovitan D brings back both her and his childhood. ## "Lipovitan D Kids" and a 42-year-old single mother today A woman from Ibaraki Prefecture, writing under the pen name "Eien no Poromeria," submitted a piece about her early elementary school years, when she longed for Lipovitan D, which was marketed for ages 15 and up. Her mother would occasionally let her have "Lipovitan D Kids," a version children could drink, which she shared with her brother three years older. Having her mother twist open the stiff cap for her made her feel a little more grown up, and she was happy about it. Thirty-five years later, she is now a 42-year-old single mother. On a recent phone call, her mother's voice sounded tired to her, and she closed her submission by writing that she wants to bring home a whole box of Lipovitan D for the Obon holiday this year. Taisho Pharmaceutical notes that "Lipovitan D Kids" was launched in 2012. ## "Fight, one shot" in the operating room A female nurse from Hokkaido wrote in that she never drank Lipovitan D during her time on hospital wards, but after transferring to the operating room, she found a culture there where each nurse kept a box of it in their locker. Facing endless overtime, or emergency surgeries in the middle of the night when her pager went off while she was on call at home, she would down a bottle in one go to psych herself up, telling herself "alright, let's go." Pagers have since given way to smartphones, and she has since left nursing, but every time she sees Lipovitan D, it brings back the tension of the operating room and the faces of her colleagues. She closed by writing that for her, Lipovitan D isn't the taste of youth — it's the taste of the days she spent carrying real responsibility at work. ## Grand prize goes to Ibaraki's "Eien no Poromeria" The selection was made from six submissions in total: today's three plus August's three. The hosts noted how often newspaper delivery work and Lipovitan D appeared together across the entries, and how the exhaustion of labor came through in the writing. Among the August nominees, they recalled being struck by a piece where a mother suddenly holds out a Lipovitan D to her child. In the end, the grand prize went to "Eien no Poromeria." The piece was praised for the way it carries the memory of Lipovitan D forward into the next generation. The grand prize winner receives a year's supply of Lipovitan D, and ten people chosen by lottery from all entrants each receive one box of Lipovitan D. ## Takeaways - Tokyo Pod Kyokakyoku wrapped up its Taisho Pharmaceutical collaboration "The Lipo D Literary Prize" by selecting a grand prize from six total submissions — three newly introduced plus three from August. - The grand prize went to Ibaraki's "Eien no Poromeria," whose piece paired a childhood memory of "Lipovitan D Kids" with a grown daughter's gratitude toward her mother and a wish to pass the memory to the next generation. - The submissions repeatedly tied Lipovitan D to the memory of labor and family, from pro wrestling nights with a grandmother to a nurse's pre-surgery ritual in the operating room.