# 放課後PODCAST #383 これだけ言っているのに…！

- Show: アフター6ジャンクション 2
- Published: 2026-10-02
- Canonical: https://podc.club/en/episode/1505337177_6da435bccf06.html
- Audio: https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TBS3173625801.mp3
- Source: Edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. Not an official summary.

Producer-director Minoda (三野田) sat out episode #383 of Hokago PODCAST with COVID, leaving a stripped-down crew to handle recording. The session covered the TBS Radio 75th-anniversary event's daunting 5,000-seat target, a listener who finally decoded a cryptic Hollywood studio logo by connecting it to the Odyssey, and a café friend who praised a latte art design and then stirred it into oblivion two seconds later — an anecdote that may become a recurring segment.

## What this episode answers

### Where does the '2' in the show's title After 6 Junction 2 actually come from?

No definitive answer was reached, but Yamaguchi Momoe (山口百恵)'s 1978 hit 'Playback Part 2' was cited as an indirect reference — Momoe herself said the title was 'a joke,' and the hosts noted that 'Part 2' was a buzzword in the late 1970s, roughly equivalent to today's '2.0' sensibility.

### What does the TSG Entertainment logo that appears at the start of Hollywood films represent?

The animated logo depicts an ancient-looking man drawing a bow and shooting it through holes in a row of axes — a reference to Odysseus's trial in the Odyssey. A listener realised this only after hearing the show's earlier episode on the epic.

### What is the 'latte art friend' episode, and why did it catch the hosts' attention?

A friend exclaimed 'wow, amazing!' when latte art arrived at the table, then calmly stirred it flat with a spoon two seconds later without even adding sugar; asked why, she replied 'doesn't it matter?' The hosts found the contradiction — fully recognising a value and then serenely erasing it — fascinating enough to consider as the basis for a new segment.

### How does the host evaluate the morning drama Blossom (ブラッサム)?

The host is still watching and rates the cinematography highly, praising the non-glossy look and careful use of shadow; Ishibashi-san's dancing and Watanabe-san's performance as a memorably awful father were also highlighted.

### How does the host view ticket sales for the TBS Radio 75th anniversary event?

The host described 5,000 seats as 'not an easy number at all,' speaking candidly from personal experience running small solo shows, but expressed relief at enthusiastic listener messages and called on fans to apply during the early-ticket window.

## Article

## Recording in an Unusually Small Formation

Producer-director Minoda, who normally handles video and thumbnail photography, was out with COVID. Studio 6 gathered only personality Kabu (歌舞), scriptwriter Furuka (フルカー), and Thursday director Katayama (カタヤマ). Minoda sent a text message saying he would handle the YouTube shoot the following Monday — prompting the observation, delivered with a laugh, that delegating tasks only via text is 'the worst management style, though perhaps that's his life's work.' Recent broadcasts have seen a string of staff call-outs, including Kabu's solo episode, leading to the half-worried comment that 'having everyone knocked down in such scattered fashion is probably unprecedented in the show's history.'

## TBS Radio's 75th Anniversary Event: 5,000 Seats and Honest Nerves

Multiple listener emails arrived about the TBS Radio 75th anniversary event scheduled for February 11, with fans in Osaka and Fukuoka writing things like 'I'm definitely going' and 'I've already booked the next day off for a pilgrimage.' Kabu was candid: '5,000 is not an easy number. I've experienced what a genuinely small turnout feels like at my own solo shows, so honestly I feel a little anxious about this.' At the same time, some listeners wrote in saying they were more worried about people being turned away at the door. Kabu closed with a call to action: 'Tickets should be fine, but a strong opening gives us peace of mind too — please do apply in the early window.'

## Decoding the '2' in the Show's Name

A listener pointed out that the show has never actually explained why it is called After 6 Junction *2*. That prompted a discussion of Yamaguchi Momoe's 1978 song 'Playback Part 2.' When Momoe herself was once asked about the title, she reportedly said it was 'a joke.' The hosts noted that 'Part 2' was a fashionable phrase in the late 1970s and may carry roughly the same 'version 2.0' connotation for that era. No firm conclusion was drawn, but the conversation ended warmly with the acknowledgement that 'there are plenty of unexplained 2s out there in the world.'

## That Hollywood Logo Was the Odyssey All Along

Listener Yokomaru Packet Dish (横丸パケットディッシュ) wrote in about the TSG Entertainment logo — TSG is a financial backer of many 20th Century Fox releases — which opens with an animation of an ancient-looking man drawing a bow and passing it through a hole in an axe head. For years the image had seemed 'completely meaningless,' but after hearing the previous week's episode on the Odyssey, the penny dropped: it depicts Odysseus's trial of shooting a bow through the holes of twelve axes lined up in a row. Kabu seized on the puzzle's thorny details: where exactly is the hole in an axe, how do you stand the axes upright, and could a real arrow actually fly true through all of them? The discussion of the epic's logistical absurdities resumed with evident enjoyment.

## New Segment Candidate: 'Destroying What You Fully Understand'

Building on last week's interest in the theme of consciously undoing something one recognises as valuable, two listener stories arrived. In the first, a friend at a café let out a 'wow, amazing!' when latte art was set in front of her — and then, two seconds later with the server still standing there, stirred it flat with a spoon, no sugar added. Asked why: 'Doesn't it matter?' In the second, a manager at a late-night consulting office took one look at a junior employee's freshly printed document, tore it to pieces with a smile, and said nothing. Kabu drew a clear distinction: the manager's act was 'plain malice,' whereas the café friend's case was 'genuinely interesting — the contradiction is perfectly resolved inside her own head.' The hosts want to avoid the label 'psychopath' and are still searching for the right name; if one emerges, the topic could become a regular corner. Director Katayama added his own anecdote: he once tore a page out of his planner to hand someone a note during a meeting, and the room went awkwardly silent.

## Takeaways

- The episode was recorded under exceptional conditions with producer Minoda absent due to COVID and multiple staff members having recently fallen ill in scattered succession.
- Listener Yokomaru Packet Dish connected the TSG Entertainment Hollywood logo to the Odyssey bow trial introduced in a previous episode, reigniting the hosts' affectionate dissection of the epic's logistical details.
- The story of a friend who admired then immediately destroyed a latte art design sparked a new potential segment on 'consciously erasing something you recognise as valuable,' with the hosts still hunting for the right name.