# 2026年10月19日(月) ナイツ ザ・ラジオショー(パートナー平野ノラ)

- Show: ナイツ ザ・ラジオショー【最新回のみ】
- Published: 2026-10-20
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- Source: Edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. Not an official summary.

Hanawa Nobuyuki and Hirano Nora swap birthday gifts one week apart — mini canvases for an Ultraman umbrella — before Hanawa recounts a Friday location shoot at a Mito plum wine brewery where a single barrel holds 100,000 plums, and a Kasama chestnut festival where deep-fried chestnuts stole the show. The episode closes with the pair's takes on King of Conte 2026, where Jeraldoon claimed the title and Spicy Garlic's run from the losers' revival drew Hanawa's highest praise.

## What this episode answers

### What presents did Hanawa and Hirano Nora exchange for each other's birthdays?

Nora gave Hanawa a set of eight 5×5-cm square mini canvases; Hanawa gave Nora an Ultraman-print umbrella featuring only aliens — Baltan Seijin, Metron Seijin, and others — with not a single kaijū in sight, and he accidentally ordered two copies. The show added a wine-and-cheese assortment, which Nora called the best possible gift.

### What was the scale of the plum wine brewery in Mito, Ibaraki, and what left the biggest impression?

The Mito brewery ages its umeshu three to five years and is known as Japan's number-one plum wine maker; the standout feature is a row of giant wooden barrels, each holding 100,000 densely packed plums with the wine filling every gap. It also produces whisky and sake, and carries four umeshu varieties ranging from light and clean to rich and full-bodied.

### How do you make the age-guri (fried chestnuts) from Kasama?

Peel the hard outer shell, leave the thin astringent inner skin (shibukawa) intact, and deep-fry at 180°C for about twelve minutes — the skin turns crispy and the flesh becomes sweet and savory. Hanawa called it easy enough to make at home and said it pairs perfectly with plum wine.

### What were the results of King of Conte 2026, and which performers stood out?

Jeraldoon won; Ganso Ichigo-chan opened the competition and scored 629 points but fell short; Spicy Garlic advanced from the losers' revival to the final, and Yahhoi's sushi-and-shisha skit and Nanamagari's set were also highlights.

### Why does Hanawa rate Spicy Garlic so highly?

Their zombie skit reliably gets laughs from any audience regardless of their low public profile, and they proved their raw skill by delivering two strong skits on national television even after coming through the losers' revival bracket.

## Article

## Birthday Gifts One Week Apart

Hanawa Nobuyuki (塙宣之) and Hirano Nora (平野ノラ) share birthdays just one week apart, and the two exchanged presents before recording. From Nora to Hanawa: a set of eight 5×5-centimeter square mini canvases. Nora explained that painters have a tradition of creating works on these palm-sized frames — "it tests your taste in what you choose to paint," she said, adding that if you were going to paint Tokyo Skytree you would only have room for the very tip of its needle. Hanawa declared he would devote one panel to painting Nora.

From Hanawa to Nora: an umbrella printed with Ultraman characters. The design features Ultraman alongside Baltan Seijin, Metron Seijin, and other aliens — and on closer inspection, every figure on the umbrella is an alien (seijin); not a single kaijū appears anywhere. Hanawa accidentally ordered two, so one is being kept as a spare. The show itself also gave the pair an assortment of wine and cheese. "Consumables are what make me happiest," said Nora, adding that she would sell her husband a slice for a few hundred yen. The recording came the day before her 48th birthday.

## Mito Plum Wine Brewery: 100,000 Plums in a Single Barrel

The Friday before the episode, Hanawa headed to Ibaraki for a location shoot with Davidson's Jun'ichi (ダビットソンの純一). Their first stop was a Mito brewery that claims the title of Japan's number-one plum wine maker, producing umeshu aged three to five years. The highlight of the tour was a row of enormous wooden barrels. Hanawa guessed each one held about 500 plums; the real answer was 100,000 — the fruit packed in so densely that the plum wine simply fills the gaps between them. The brewery carries four varieties of umeshu, ranging from a light, clean style to a rich, full-bodied one.

Jun'ichi was running a GoPro for the shoot and could not drink, so Hanawa sampled all four on his own. "I had no vocabulary left for praising plum wine and ended up just saying 'rich' about all of them," he laughed. The brewery also produces whisky and sake and is one of Mito's most storied distilleries. The shoot ended with an outdoor camp session where Hanawa and Jun'ichi finally drank together.

## Kasama's Marron Festival and the Fried Chestnut

The same trip took Hanawa to a roadside station in Kasama, a city known for its chestnuts that was in full marron-festival mode even on a weekday Friday. Staff had warned him to "brace yourself — it gets incredibly crowded," and indeed the chestnuts sell out the moment they hit the display. The production team arranged their chestnuts in advance and filmed only the scene of placing them in the basket.

A local staff member introduced Hanawa to age-guri (揚げ栗) — deep-fried chestnuts — and they turned out to be exceptional. The method: peel the hard outer shell, leave the thin, slightly bitter astringent inner skin (shibukawa) intact, then deep-fry at 180°C for about twelve minutes. The skin crisps up beautifully while the flesh inside becomes sweet and savory. "You can easily do this at home," Hanawa said, raving about how well the chestnuts paired with umeshu. Jun'ichi dampened the mood somewhat by muttering "I don't really need these" — killing the atmosphere in an instant.

## King of Conte 2026

Jeraldoon (ジェラードン) took the top prize at King of Conte 2026. Ganso Ichigo-chan (元祖いちごちゃん) performed first and scored 629 points, but it was not enough. Hanawa joked that they should get extra points for being such good people — then conceded that was not how it worked.

The biggest talking point was Spicy Garlic (スパイシーガーリック), who advanced from the losers' revival to the final. "Hayasaka-san's (早坂) long-time protégé finally made it," Hanawa said, visibly delighted. Their zombie skit is so polished that it reliably kills at corporate gigs regardless of audience, and Hanawa praised their ability to deliver two full skits on national television despite low public name recognition. On a personal note, members Jon (ジョン) and Sakai had once been close enough to eat late-night ramen together, but apparently something happened recently and they are no longer on good terms. Hanawa also revealed that Jon had been consulting him about a skin condition for three years, and that his advice — washing with hot water only, no soap — had brought significant improvement.

Yahhoi's (ヤッホイ) second skit — combining a sushi restaurant with shisha (water pipe) smoking — was widely praised. Hanawa lamented that it could have been perfect with five minutes, but the four-minute slot left the shisha only half assembled. As for Nanamagari (七曲), their skit had Hanawa's five-year-old daughter in fits of laughter. "More laughs than Toy Story," Hanawa reportedly said — to which someone shot back, "don't pit a comedy skit against a feature film on laugh count."

## Takeaways

- A single barrel at the Mito plum wine brewery holds 100,000 plums packed tightly together, with umeshu filling every gap after three to five years of aging.
- Age-guri — chestnuts deep-fried in their astringent inner skin at 180°C for twelve minutes — is simple Ibaraki home cooking that Hanawa says is easy to replicate and pairs perfectly with plum wine.
- Jeraldoon won King of Conte 2026, while Spicy Garlic's run from the losers' revival earned Hanawa's highest praise for their ability to guarantee laughs from any crowd with zero reliance on name recognition.