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M-1 Grand Prix Second Round: Dansei Buranko Pass in Their Final Eligible Year

Dansei Buranko (Urai and Hirai) appeared as guests and reported passing the M-1 Grand Prix second round. The duo revealed this is their final eligible year — the last year they qualify before hitting the age limit — and Urai said he was "dead nervous from the very first round." When the results came out, they tried to check via Instagram Live but could not get a signal, so their manager called the organizers directly to confirm. When Kawashima asked, "Did this change your life?" Urai laughed back, "For the second round?" — but both conveyed genuine emotion at having come this far without any finalist experience. "From here it is all about what the judges prefer," Urai said, while pledging to perform their best material with no regrets.

Urai Forgets Every Pair of Underwear on an Italian Trip

Urai shared a travel disaster from a roughly week-long trip to Italy, traveling south from Milan through Florence to Venice. He had intended to pack a full week's worth of underwear but discovered upon arrival that not a single pair had made it into his suitcase. In a pinch, he bought replacements at Tezenis, an Italian underwear brand — but the designs turned out to be "a little sexy," brief-style with conspicuous emphasis on the crotch area. He initially offered to show a photo, then revealed he had actually brought the physical underwear to the studio and held them up for everyone to see. Kawashima promptly dubbed him "the Tezenis husband."

Kawashima Akira, 47, Gets Wrecked by Chiikawa

Kawashima confessed that he fell hard for Chiikawa in October, at age 47, after his regular hairdresser recommended the film. He went in with zero prior knowledge. On the surface, the series depicts a gentle daily life of cute creatures happily eating Charimera (a food item in the series), but Kawashima explained that beneath this lies a grim world where characters must slay external enemies to earn their keep and where abductions and deaths occur with regularity. He mentioned seeing four middle-school girls at the cinema who sat in silence after the film ended, their popcorn virtually untouched.

He then went back and read the original manga from volume one on e-book and was struck by the precision of its foreshadowing. As one example, he analyzed a story arc in which the self-centered character Momonga-chan is chased by a giant powerful enemy called Deka-Tsuyo, arguing that the two characters have actually swapped inner selves — supported by scenes of Deka-Tsuyo gazing at the full moon in tears and wishing on a shooting star. He also noted that the film's bonus Secret Book looks like nothing more than a cute cover before you watch the film but becomes genuinely terrifying afterward, and added that Chiikawa collaborations at convenience stores give you a cold chill once you have seen the movie.

Unanimous Praise for Wareware wa Uchuujin and Meitantei Precure

It emerged that Urai and Hirai had also seen the film Wareware wa Uchuujin (我々は宇宙人), and all three joined Kawashima in praising it. The film was made by a director in his 30s who spent five to six years completing it, even going into debt. It uses rotoscope animation — a technique of animating over live-action footage — and the child actors were selected through auditions and allowed to develop genuine relationships with each other on camera. Kawashima called the final 40 minutes "overwhelming — you cannot breathe; you would want to bring an oxygen tank."

The conversation also turned to the Meitantei Precure (名探偵プリキュア) film. Kawashima described its unusual structure, in which it remains unclear until the very end which character will join the team, with multiple candidates on the villain's side keeping audiences guessing. He was also struck by a moment where children in the audience began cheering spontaneously — without any on-screen prompt — and called it "a film that makes heroes of the children precisely because it does not tell them what to do."

Quiz! Gyaku Time Shock! Gets Under Way

The second half launched into Kawashima's original segment, Quiz! Gyaku Time Shock! He had started devising questions at 9:22 p.m. the night before and could not stop. The format: every word in a show or film title is replaced with its opposite meaning, and contestants must buzz in with the original title. The last-place finisher gets a smack on the wrist (shippei). Ten questions were prepared per contestant.

Starting with variety show titles: "Buchigire Gomen" → Waratte Iitomo (buchigire ↔ warau; gomen ↔ iitomo); "Hosoude Toho Ido" → Tetsuwan Dash (hosoude ↔ tetsuwan; toho ↔ dash); "Doyoubi nanoni Hayame" → Getsuyou kara Yofukashi (doyoubi ↔ getsuyou; hayame ↔ yofukashi); "Taatoru" (Turtle) → Urai buzzed in with "Rabbit" (the turtle-rabbit pairing). The audio cut off as the fifth question, "Kasa Chinmoku," was posed.