S26-第8回「絆」
Reiji and Yamaguchi of Kaname Stone (カナメストーン) open with a listener-prompted skit about a bar of soap worn down to nothing, then pivot to a backstage Netflix swap with senior comedian Miyazawa-san of Zigzag Jigi (ジグザグジギ)—an innocent hangout that Yamaguchi immediately reframed as evidence of yakuza-lieutenant behavior. The episode closes on a hometown high: the two are appointed Kashima Ambassadors at the Kashima Festival in Ibaraki Prefecture, where Yamaguchi's seven-year-old niece steals the stage by bellowing a pachinko-born catchphrase to a crowd of hundreds.
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What this episode answers
What kind of broadcast slot is the "Flash" slot that Kaname-chan Village belongs to?
The Flash slot is a niche weekend block—Kaname-chan Village on Saturdays, Shishigashira (獅子頭) on Sundays—so obscure that nobody can say who coined its name. Both shows have nonetheless reached the M-1 Grand Prix finals through the losers' bracket, a record the duo celebrate with self-deprecating pride, dubbing it the "Drainage Formation slot" (a pun on the Japanese do-or-die idiom haisuinojin, swapping the character for "back" with the one for "drain").
What exchange did Reiji have with senior Miyazawa-san (宮沢さん), and why did Yamaguchi tease him for it?
Reiji quietly slipped into a large dressing room where Miyazawa-san was sitting alone before an 18:00 recording—Miyazawa-san had already arrived at 10:30—and the two swapped show recommendations. Yamaguchi latched onto the image, relentlessly framing Reiji as "the young lieutenant of Miyazawa-san's crew," and every indignant denial from Reiji only made the bit worse.
What Netflix content did Miyazawa-san recommend to Reiji?
Miyazawa-san recommended a Netflix documentary about the backstage world of the American pro-wrestling organization WWE, which shows producers feeding real-time instructions to referees through earpieces and handling unexpected situations such as mid-match injuries.
Where did the phrase "kanari no tōmi no Reiji" come from, and how did it end up being shouted on stage at the Kashima Festival?
The phrase started at a pachinko parlor where Yamaguchi and Reiji were playing side by side; when a pending light turned gold, the excitement produced the cry "Kanari no tōmi no Reiji jan!" Yamaguchi's nieces—ages 7 and 3–4—had since learned it through YouTube and other videos, and one of them shouted it into a microphone in front of hundreds of people on the Kashima Festival stage.
How was senior Hyperpero-chan (ハイパーペロちゃん) described on the show?
Hyperpero-chan is a senior comedian who finds conversation difficult and often asks people to repeat themselves, yet is famously big-hearted about being teased by juniors. A well-known anecdote has Hyperpero-chan deliver a one-liner in front of Nobu-san (ノブさん), but garbled pronunciation turned "the first person to eat chinpo" into what Nobu-san heard as "the first person to send a gold belt—are you Korean?", and no amount of correction got through.
Opening with the Wafer-Thin Soap Skit
The episode opens with a skit requested by "Ōja Maneko-san" (王者まねこさん), a village resident from Saitama Prefecture, who asked Reiji and Yamaguchi to speak from the point of view of a bar of soap that has worn down to a translucent sliver. The two ran with it, mining the small indignities of bathroom life—why an old bar stops lathering, how it cracks apart—and building rapid-fire boke and tsukkomi around chinge, a mesh lathering net, cast as the soap's arch-nemesis.
The "Flash" Slot Revealed, and Dream Lineup Talk
Reiji and Yamaguchi explain the "Flash" broadcast block that their Saturday show Kaname-chan Village shares with the Sunday show Shishigashira. Stacked against well-known radio slots like ANN and Junk, Flash is so niche that nobody can trace who gave it the name—the duo mock themselves freely for it. Yet both shows have reached the M-1 Grand Prix finals through the losers' bracket, a fact they frame with a mixture of pride and dark humor, calling it the "Drainage Formation slot." The nickname is a pun on the Japanese do-or-die idiom haisuinojin (背水の陣), swapping the character for "back" with the one for "drain" (排水).
The conversation turns to potential recruits for the slot. Bernardo (ベルナルド) and Usshy (うっしー) are floated, then immediately shot down as "too Flash." Rainbow (レインボー) is ruled out because they are signed to Yoshimoto. The original Ichigo-chan (元祖いちごちゃん) already has a past M-1 final to their name, and Bernardo, it emerges, has competed before too.
Senior Stories: Hyperpero-chan and Miyazawa-san
Reiji opens the seniors segment with Hyperpero-chan (ハイパーペロちゃん): someone who struggles with conversation and often asks others to repeat themselves, yet is genuinely delighted when juniors needle him. The defining story involves Hyperpero-chan debuting a one-liner in front of Nobu-san (ノブさん). The gag rested on the phrase "the first person to eat chinpo," but unclear enunciation caused Nobu-san to hear "the first person to send a gold belt—are you Korean?" Every attempted correction failed to land.
The episode's comic centerpiece follows: Reiji's account of a backstage run-in with Miyazawa-san of Zigzag Jigi (ジグザグジギ). Before a recording with an 18:00 start, Reiji walked into a dressing room—the size of a large conference room—to find Miyazawa-san sitting there alone, despite having arrived at 10:30. The two fell into relaxed conversation about Netflix and WWE documentaries. Miyazawa-san was particularly keen on a Netflix documentary about the behind-the-scenes world of the American pro-wrestling organization WWE: producers feed real-time instructions to referees through earpieces, guiding matches and reacting on the fly to unexpected injuries like a live director's cut.
When Reiji brought the story back to Yamaguchi, the response was immediate and pitiless. Yamaguchi declared that Reiji had positioned himself as the "young lieutenant" (wakagashira) of Miyazawa-san's crew, and refused to let the frame go. Reiji's flat denials—"That's completely wrong!"—served only as kindling. Yamaguchi's killing detail: Reiji had been sitting three or four seats away from Miyazawa-san at a square table. "What kind of young lieutenant keeps that much distance?" The more Reiji pushed back, the worse things got.
Named Kashima Ambassadors, and a Niece's Big Moment
The closing story unfolds in their home prefecture of Ibaraki. After performing at the Kashima Festival, Reiji and Yamaguchi were officially appointed Kashima Ambassadors (鹿島大使) for Kashima City before a crowd of hundreds. Yamaguchi's two nieces—ages 7 and 3–4—were watching from near the front row.
Yamaguchi held a microphone toward his niece and prompted her: "Go on, say it." She shouted into the mic: "Kanari no tōmi no Reiji!" The phrase traces back to a pachinko parlor where Yamaguchi and Reiji were playing machines side by side. When a pending light turned gold, the surge of excitement produced the cry "Kanari no tōmi no Reiji jan!" The nieces had since absorbed it through YouTube and other videos, and brought it to the Kashima stage.
Also in the crowd were friends of Yamaguchi's older brother, a group in tight compression shirts who spotted Yamaguchi on stage and loudly announced to each other, "That's Shinsuke-san's little brother!" (しんすけさんの弟だ). That detail, delivered as the episode's closing punchline, wrapped up the main segment.
Takeaways
- Despite being too niche to trace its own origin, the Flash slot has sent both Kaname-chan Village and Shishigashira to the M-1 Grand Prix finals via the losers' bracket—a record the duo wear as a badge of honor.
- The episode's comedic engine is Yamaguchi casting Reiji as Miyazawa-san's "young lieutenant" after an innocent backstage Netflix chat, with every denial from Reiji making the framing stickier.
- At the Kashima Ambassador ceremony in their hometown, Yamaguchi's niece stole the spotlight by shouting the pachinko-born catchphrase "Kanari no tōmi no Reiji" to hundreds of people from the stage.
This article is edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. It is not an official summary — please listen to the episode itself.