# ep.260 壊れかけの肛門 - Show: アンガールズのジャンピン[-オールナイトニッポンPODCAST-] - Published: 2026-10-01 - Canonical: https://podc.club/en/episode/1588687062_5d2910b8848e.html - Audio: https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/67122501-9b17-4d77-84bd-a93d00dc791e/84a2a599-ad92-4ddb-93d6-adb7007ce8de/6d9441c0-221f-4e8e-88b3-b4d50108bc65/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=608eb2c7-1b0b-42cf-82c1-b2a000729d2a - Source: Edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. Not an official summary. Tanaka (田中) unpacks two recent solo appearances by his partner Yamane (山根): one where Yamane answered "no impression" to a Nagoya MC and killed the room, and another where a flat reply about his cooking specialty left host Kotake-san (こたけさん) lost for words. The episode then takes a sharp detour when Yamane confesses that years of pressing his anus against chair corners to suppress bathroom urges have left it "half-broken," and closes with Tanaka opening up about the growing stress of new parenthood four to five months in. ## What this episode answers ### Why did Yamane answer "no impression" on the Nagoya program? Yamane genuinely felt there was nothing new to say about Nagoya — miso katsu and uiro have been said to death — but staying silent in front of an audience that doesn't know his character just creates an awkward atmosphere, and Tanaka said he should have said something, even if not entirely sincere. ### What was the problem when Yamane was asked about his specialty dish on Kotake-san's show? Yamane gave a dead-end answer and returned no conversational ball; he already knew his daughter's favorite food — a thinly fried beaten egg — but didn't mention it because he didn't consider it a "specialty," and Tanaka called it a textbook case of conversation going nowhere. ### How does Tanaka think Yamane should handle solo TV appearances? In solo situations, the goal should be to make people think "this person knows what they're doing" rather than to surprise them; when Tanaka isn't there to follow up with a retort, Yamane needs to ease into honest answers or add a hook — like a story about his daughter's favorite dish — that keeps the conversation moving. ### What caused Yamane's anus to become "nearly broken"? Yamane confessed he had repeatedly pressed his anus against chair corners to cut off blood flow and numb the nerves enough to suppress the urge to use the bathroom, and over time the sensation faded, leaving what he called a "nearly broken anus." ### What did Tanaka share about life as a new parent? Four to five months into fatherhood, Tanaka said night crying and other disruptions kept wiping out his personal time in an instant, and that physical and mental fatigue was accumulating for both him and his wife despite knowing that thinking of it as time "being taken" is the wrong frame. ## Article ## Yamane Freezes a Nagoya MC with "No Impression" On a solo Nagoya television appearance, Yamane was asked by the MC what impression he had of the city. His entire answer: "None." When the MC pushed for something more, Yamane did not budge, and the studio briefly froze. The story reached Tanaka via their manager, Okawa-san, who was so frustrated he brought it up in a taxi on the way home. Yamane's defense: everything there is to say about Nagoya has already been said — bringing up miso katsu or uiro at this point is too obvious. Tanaka's counterargument was that even a brief callback would have been enough — the time Ungirls held a regular show in Nagoya, or a line about the city having its own culture wedged between Osaka and Tokyo. The content barely mattered. Tanaka's central point was that the issue was not what Yamane said but when he said it. When Yamane's character is already familiar to an audience, "there he goes again" lands as a laugh. With strangers, the same move just makes things uncomfortable. In solo situations, the job is not to surprise people but to make them think "this person knows what they're doing" — and Yamane had failed that test. ## The "Zero Return" Problem on Kotake-san's Show A listener email raised another solo appearance, this time on a show hosted by Kotake-san. When asked whether he had a specialty dish, Yamane replied that he had none — he could make anything, and with Cookpad recipes he could manage most things. Kotake-san was visibly at a loss. Tanaka called it a textbook case of returning zero balls in conversation. The right answer, he explained, would have been something like: "I wouldn't call it a specialty, but there's one thing my daughter always lights up for." Yamane already knows the answer — his daughter's favorite is a thinly fried beaten egg. He chose not to mention it simply because it did not feel like a "specialty." Tanaka's verdict: if Yamane had brought up his daughter, Kotake-san would not have been caught off guard and the mood of the show would have stayed intact. ## "Don't Sweep Away 26 Years of Work Like Crumbs Off a Table" A separate listener email pushed Tanaka over the edge. The message claimed that Kotake-san and Yamane had incredible chemistry, and that Tanaka had never managed to draw out Yamane's appeal — not even one millimeter in 26 years. Tanaka erupted: "For 26 years I have been thinking about what kind of material suits Yamane. Every YouTube project, every bit — all of it. Don't sweep that away like rice cracker crumbs off a desk. Pick those crumbs up with your finger and lick them." That said, Tanaka acknowledged that part of Yamane's freedom on YouTube comes from the security of having Tanaka there as a backstop. He also noted that people inside the industry have started calling their YouTube content genuinely funny, and that Yamane's character is finally reaching a wider audience. ## "I Kept Pressing My Anus Against Chair Corners and It Broke" The origin of the episode title. Yamane confessed that his method for suppressing the urge to use the bathroom had been to press his anus against the corner of a chair — cutting off enough blood flow to numb the nerves until the urge passed. Repeated over time, the sensation in the area faded. When Tanaka asked whether that was actually what broke it, Yamane replied: "You can call it a 'nearly broken little gate' if you want — it still works." A listener had also written in to say toilet talk made them feel sick. Tanaka's response: the flow of conversation usually signals when things are heading in that direction, so listeners who sense it coming should turn the volume down and skip ahead. He made clear he has no intention of stopping entirely, since plenty of listeners enjoy it. ## Parenting Stress at the 4–5 Month Mark Tanaka closed with an honest account of where he is four to five months into fatherhood. Night crying and other disruptions kept erasing his personal time in an instant, and the toll was adding up for both him and his wife. "I know that thinking of it as time being 'taken' is the wrong way to look at it," he said, "but the physical and mental fatigue accumulates somewhere, and sometimes when I'm exhausted it just comes out as a sigh." ## Takeaways - Yamane's blunt "no impression" answer in Nagoya illustrated how his character only reads as comedy when the audience already knows him — with strangers, the same move just kills the room. - Yamane confessed that years of pressing his anus against chair corners to suppress bathroom urges have left it "nearly broken," giving the episode its title. - Tanaka gave an unusually candid account of the physical and mental fatigue building up four to five months into new parenthood, for both himself and his wife.