# #349 クソの子it定点観測

- Show: ラランドの声溜めラジオ｜GERA
- Published: 2026-09-27
- Canonical: https://podc.club/en/episode/1729114614_212aa7556c9e.html
- Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/FNCOMMUNICATIONSINC8520470274.mp3
- Source: Edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. Not an official summary.

In the final broadcast of September, Laland (ラランド) ran through Halloween costume candidates including Chiikawa, Grogu, and Monaki, got caught out by a listener who has been tracking Nishida's Instagram follow count week by week and documented a recurring cycle of private-account women appearing and disappearing, and closed with Saaya breaking down the structural formula shared by all four Odoru Daisosasen (踊る大捜査線) films ahead of the 2026 entry. Nishida admitted the private-account women are exactly what everyone imagines, and the duo also mourned the previous film's revelation that Muroi-san died searching for a lost Akita dog in a snow-covered mountain.

## What this episode answers

### Why does Nishida's Instagram follow count keep rising and falling in a repeating cycle?

Every time the count rises by one, a private-account woman appears at the top of his following list, and a few days later the count drops by one before the same cycle repeats, which a listener suggested might be him deliberately balancing the numbers so it doesn't spike suddenly and draw suspicion.

### Which costume characters came up as this year's Halloween candidates?

Grogu from Star Wars, Chiikawa, Monaki (with Saaya proposing to go as Monakilah/Junretsu), and Judy or Nick from Zootopia were raised as candidates, with dressing as Kotake Seigikan also noted as a trend this year.

### What three pieces of evidence did a listener cite to argue that Nishida belongs to the secret government unit 'Beppa'?

The listener cited Nishida's physical capability as a nationally indispensable asset, his childhood years abroad and foreign-language degree making him multilingual, and a past YouTube video showing him hiding an IQOS in his sock, which mirrors a scene of a public-security officer concealing a gun in a sock.

### What is the 'sukashi' fake-opening structure that Saaya says appears in all four Odoru Daisosasen films?

It is a fake opening in which Aoshima appears to be commanding some high-stakes operation, only for the reveal to be something anticlimactic, such as escorting a VIP's golf trip or handling a moving job.

### How did Muroi-san meet his end in the previous Odoru Daisosasen film?

After leaving the police force, Muroi-san went into the snowy mountains of Akita to search for a missing Akita dog; rescue teams could not enter during the night, and by morning he was gone.

## Article

## The Annual Halloween Costume Debate

The episode opened with the pair revisiting their perennial Halloween question: are they actually going to dress up this year? The first characters to come up were Grogu from Star Wars — both spoke with genuine enthusiasm, noting he is 'moved by animatronics' and 'adorable' — followed by Chiikawa, whose film had just been released, and Monaki. When Saaya announced she would do Monakilah (Monakira) and take the role of Junretsu herself, Nishida deflected by telling her to get a producer to do it, leaving Saaya once again pushing the plan forward alone. Asked whether he would go as Judy or Nick from Zootopia, Nishida said, 'I'd probably end up as one of them if it came to that, but I'm not doing it.'

The conversation spun out into a quality hierarchy for costumes: 'Chiikawa is fine if you properly paint your face, but a Chiikawa that keeps too much human in it is the most annoying.' The absolute bottom tier, they agreed, is 'the guy in a cheap Don Quijote onesie trying to pick someone up.' On the comedy side, dressing as Kotake Seigikan (こたけ正義感) was apparently a trend this year, but lugging a large monitor around all day was ruled out as impractical. As with every year, the episode ended with 'next month is already here,' and the question of whether they will actually dress up remained unresolved.

## The Surveillance Report: Nishida's Instagram Follow Count

The undisputed highlight of the episode came from a letter signed by the listener name 'Kuso no Ko it' — a listener who has set their Instagram pronoun to 'it.' The confession: 'I had so much free time that I started the hobby of running weekly surveillance on Nishida-san's Instagram follow count.'

The pattern the listener documented is precise. Each time the follow count ticks up by one, a private-account woman appears at the top of Nishida's following list. A few days later the count drops by one. A few days after that, the same cycle repeats. The letter included the sharp observation: 'Maybe he's balancing the books so the number doesn't spike suddenly and get him stabbed?' The listener also noted that Instagram displays the most recently followed account at the top of the list, so even when the count returns to its previous number, 'there's always a different private-account woman at the top — I find myself thinking, ah, so this week it's this person.'

The studio erupted. Nishida defended himself on the count dropping, saying he genuinely does not notice, and that accidental taps while scrolling Reels are a real phenomenon — but on the private-account women, he conceded: 'That is exactly what everyone is imagining. You're right.' As for why the count falls, someone raised the possibility that he gets blocked, which prompted Nishida to laugh and admit his 'aftercare is lacking.' Saaya then revealed that she herself was once blocked by him — the result of using a feature during an Instagram Live that drags another user into your stream — though the block has since been lifted. The episode title, 'Kuso no Ko it Teiten Kansatsu,' is taken directly from this listener's name and hobby.

## The 'Beppa' Theory

Another letter argued that Nishida is secretly a member of Beppa (別班), the off-the-books government unit from the TBS drama VIVANT. The listener's three-point case: first, Nishida's physical capability represents a nationally indispensable asset; second, his childhood years abroad and degree from a foreign-language faculty make him multilingual; third, a past YouTube video showed him hiding an IQOS in his sock — mirroring a scene in which a public-security officer conceals a gun in a sock. Nishida laughed the theory off, pointing out that he only speaks Japanese and that keeping an IQOS in your sock is perfectly normal, but added, 'This is exactly how urban legends get born.'

## The Odoru Daisosasen Formula — and Muroi-san's Death

Saaya admitted she has not been feeling motivated to watch dramas lately, but said the 2026 Odoru Daisosasen film is the one exception she is genuinely looking forward to. She has loved the series since childhood, yet stated flatly: 'All four films do the exact same thing.'

The shared skeleton, she explained, rests on what she calls the 'sukashi' (すかし) fake opening: Aoshima appears to be commanding some high-stakes operation, only for the reveal to be something anticlimactic — escorting a VIP's golf trip, or handling a moving job. The main plot follows the same groove every time: a major murder case is taken over by the career-track officers, who tell the precinct detectives including Aoshima to stay out of it; Aoshima insists 'This is our case too'; and ultimately local knowledge held only by the precinct detectives proves decisive in cracking the case.

In the previous film, Muroi-san finally died. After leaving the police force, he went into the snowy mountains of Akita to search for a missing dog — an Akita dog — rescue teams could not enter during the night, and by morning he was gone. 'Dying while looking for a dog — is that really the send-off?' the two muttered, half-laughing, half-baffled, agreeing there must have been a better way to go. Two spin-offs have since been released, and the new film is said to hint that Aoshima has crossed over to the bureaucratic side. Saaya predicted the sukashi this time will be either 'he looks like a top-level official running things but turns out to be a karaoke shop employee' or the reverse — 'he looks like he's doing something trivial but is actually undercover' — and said she is confident one of those two is coming.

## Takeaways

- A listener has been tracking Nishida's Instagram follow count weekly and exposed a repeating cycle of private-account women appearing at the top of his following list before the count quietly drops back; Nishida confirmed the women are exactly what everyone is imagining but said he genuinely does not know why the count keeps falling.
- Saaya laid out the structural formula shared by all four Odoru Daisosasen films — a fake-out opening ('sukashi') plus a precinct-vs-bureaucrats jurisdiction battle — and revealed that the previous film ended with Muroi-san dying in the Akita mountains while searching for a lost dog.
- Halloween costume candidates including Chiikawa, Grogu, and Monaki were floated, but as in every previous year the two went in circles without reaching a decision, ending the discussion with 'next month is already here.'