ep.261 サッカー観戦？

Tanaka Appears on "Delete" — and Gets Eliminated in 20 Minutes

"Delete" (デリート) is a TBS quiz special in which a veterans' team and a rookies' team each face 10 questions, and whichever side answers fewer correctly loses a member — who is literally "deleted" from the show. Tanaka joined the veterans' side alongside Nakayama Hideyuki (中山秀征, known as Hide-san) and Takarakuji-san, while the rookies' team featured Okabe of the duo Hanako (花子), among others.

When it came time to pick who would go first, Tanaka tried to put himself last, but Hide-san pointed at him and said, "Let's go with Tanaka, then" — and that was that. His opponent was Okabe, a Waseda University graduate. Tanaka missed question 3 and questions 6 and 7, and by question 9 Okabe's victory was mathematically confirmed. Roughly 20 minutes after recording started, Tanaka was out the door. He said it felt like "the least work I've done all year," and recalled sitting in the taxi on the way home with an unpleasant cold sweat running down his back.

The Two Wrong Answers

Two of Tanaka's missed questions were revealed on air. The first: "Of Seven-Eleven, Lawson, and FamilyMart, which is not a foreign company?" The correct answer is FamilyMart, but Tanaka chose Seven-Eleven. Okabe immediately shot back that Seven-Eleven originated in the United States, leaving Tanaka with nothing to say. The second: "Of Hashimoto Kanna (橋本環奈), Dean Fujioka (ディーン・フジオカ), and Eguchi Noriko (江口のりこ), who does not have a twin?" The answer is Dean Fujioka, but Tanaka chose Hashimoto Kanna. The fact that Hashimoto Kanna has a male twin is apparently common knowledge in show-business circles — Tanaka only found out when his manager told him backstage, with an air of "everyone knows that." Yamane, for his part, said smugly that he was good at this kind of trivia.

Distance from Hide-san and the Sting of Missing Hide Live

Tanaka's regrets went beyond the quiz result itself. Normally the only time he gets to interact with Hide-san is during large-scale recordings of "Do Re Mi Fa Don!" (ドレミファドン！), so this appearance was a rare chance for the two of them to actually talk one-on-one — and he squandered it by getting kicked out early. He was especially frustrated that he never got to show Hide-san his trademark style of spirited, rambling banter.

Yamane added another layer to the story. Angirls used to appear at "Hidelive" (ヒデライブ), the annual live event Hide-san hosts every year. But as the event grew after the karaoke chain Manekineko (招き猫) came on as a sponsor, guest invitations increasingly went to comedians with closer personal ties to Hide-san — names like Takatoshi (高俊) and Hanadai (花大) — and Angirls quietly stopped being asked. Both men described feeling "a touch of loneliness" about it, while also making clear they hold no grudge against Hide-san as a person.

Yamane's High Hopes for Meeting Milkboy's Komaba-san

A listener named Teshiripe Penpei (てしりぺんぺん, Tokyo) sent in a message welcoming the news that Milkboy (ミルクボーイ) would be guest-appearing at an upcoming Angirls event. The message noted that the fan community for Milkboy's Komaba-san (駒場さん), called "Kazuko no Kai" (カズコの会), has 590 members in a LINE open chat.

Yamane has long been vocal about his fondness for Komaba-san, and his excitement here reached near-theatrical levels. He described exactly how he wanted the first meeting to unfold: both of them walking out from opposite wings of the stage and not moving toward each other for about five minutes. At the same time, he fretted that he might be so self-conscious that he can't speak naturally, and that everything he says might come across as forced. He brought up a video of a fan hugging Kimura Takuya (木村拓哉) and bursting into tears as a reference point, adding, "It probably won't go that far, but I want people to look forward to it."

Yamane Invited to Watch Japan's National Team in Hiroshima

Near the end of the episode, Yamane revealed that the day before recording he had been invited to an international match featuring the Japan national soccer team (日本代表), held in Hiroshima. He described the lineup as star-studded, including players with World Cup experience. He mentioned that he had wrestled with whether it was acceptable to talk about the invitation in the media — and the transcript ends right there.