# #29 ケンカハゲ肉「すべては復讐のため」 - Show: 岡野陽一の肉の塊 - Published: 2026-10-15 - Canonical: https://podc.club/en/episode/1887460829_06b3fd1b42ff.html - Audio: https://pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TBS3348989070.mp3 - Source: Edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. Not an official summary. Okano Yoichi opens the episode in a fury over a Friday magazine article that turned a routine dog walk into a manufactured marriage-announcement scoop. Guest Kenka-Hage-Niku (ケンカハゲ肉) Minamikawa then takes the mic to recount how comedy-live organizer K-PRO branded him an F-rank 'crowd shrinker,' broke him mentally, and accidentally handed him the revenge-fueled drive that finally brought him work past the age of 40. ## What this episode answers ### How does Okano explain how the 'marriage announcement' headline ended up in the Friday article? Okano claims the reporter stripped the opening clause from his answer—'I am thinking about it, sure'—leaving only 'I intend to,' then ran it as a marriage-announcement scoop alongside a photo of him simply walking his dog, which he called unforgivable. ### What are the details of the 'Akasaka Namaniku Matsuri' event, and who is the newly announced additional guest? The all-night event runs on Monday, November 30; general tickets go on sale Saturday, October 24 at 10:00 AM by smartphone, with streaming tickets available at the same time. In addition to previously announced guests Yamazoe and Yakuchi Mari, Takano was revealed as an additional guest. ### How did guest Minamikawa come to be called a 'crowd shrinker' by K-PRO? Merely announcing Minamikawa's appearance at K-PRO shows caused audience members to cancel their reservations, with one viewer explicitly saying 'I won't come if Pimanz Standard is on the bill,' after which K-PRO staff began labeling him F-rank and calling him a 'crowd shrinker.' ### After his mental breakdown from being rated F-rank by K-PRO, what did Minamikawa use as his driving force to keep going as a comedian? The desire for revenge—specifically, 'destroying Shochiku and K-PRO.' After his duo disbanded he had planned to quit comedy, but realized he had one thing left to do: get successful enough to come back and say it to their faces, and that vow alone kept him going until work finally came after he turned 40. ### What is Minamikawa's purpose for doing jiu-jitsu at 6:30 AM, and how does he describe his lifestyle? To reset his mind like a sauna: being choked for real by inexperienced middle-aged amateurs forces his head completely blank and wipes away everyday stress. He does not drink, smoke, or gamble, making jiu-jitsu his only form of stress relief. ## Article ## The Friday Ambush and the "Thai Pants" Incident Opening the episode, Okano Yoichi reported that a Friday magazine article he had written off on last week's radio show as "too trivial to ever run" had in fact been published. The piece showed nothing more than Okano walking his dog, yet he found himself fielding the same comment from every direction: "those Thai pants are embarrassing" and "you're wearing the kind of glasses a cool actor like Sakaguchi Kentaro wears off-duty." Okano's rebuttal was blunt. "Walking a dog means getting bitten and ruining your clothes, or stepping in poop—I grabbed the Thai pants because they were nearby, that's it." As for the glasses: "Contacts are a waste to wear around the house, so I wear glasses." He was even angrier about the headline. When the reporter asked whether he had marriage plans, Okano says he answered, "I am thinking about it, sure"—the magazine stripped the first clause, ran the remainder as "I intend to," and splashed it as a marriage-announcement scoop. Adding insult to injury, the same Friday reporter appeared at a recording for the pachinko show Kuzu-Pachi (クズパチ), grinning and saying "thank you very much." Okano reflexively replied politely and immediately regretted not pushing back harder. "I should have confronted him properly," he said. ## Event Announcement: "Akasaka Namaniku Matsuri" and New Guest Reveal Okano gave an update on Akasaka Namaniku Matsuri (赤坂生肉祭り), an all-night live event on Monday, November 30. Advance tickets through Pia exceeded capacity. General sales open Saturday, October 24 at 10:00 AM via smartphone, with streaming tickets available at the same time for those who cannot attend in person. Previously announced guests Senta Wakeniku's Yamazoe (山添) and Oshaberi Shittaka Niku's Yakuchi Mari (八口真理) are joined by a newly added guest: Takano (高野). "You'll genuinely be glad you bought a ticket," Okano declared. ## Kenka-Hage-Niku Minamikawa Takes the Mic This week's guest is Kenka-Hage-Niku (ケンカハゲ肉), real name Minamikawa, born in Osaka in 1982 and now 44. He debuted in 2004, performing first as part of the duo Arabikidan (アラビキ団) and later the unit Code Name Sistema (コードネームシステマ), which built its comedy around the Russian martial art Systema. After his duo dissolved, he has continued as a solo comedian. He was introduced by the previous episode's guest, Kinpatsu Baka Niku's Shinichi (金髪バカ肉・新一), who recommended Okano "listen to a member who is struggling mentally." Minamikawa rejected that framing on the spot: "I'm not struggling at all." He then opened by needling the show itself—"This podcast doesn't need to exist. My Code Name Sistema brought in academics and experts for genuinely useful conversations"—and the two fell straight into thirty minutes of gleeful sparring. ## The F-Rank Hell and the Mental Breakdown The lowest point of Minamikawa's career came when K-PRO effectively branded him a liability. Whenever K-PRO announced that Minamikawa—then performing as Pimanz Standard (ピーマンズスタンダード)—would appear in a show, audience members would cancel their reservations. One complaint was delivered directly: "I'm not coming if Pimanz Standard is on the bill." K-PRO staff began calling him "kyaku-herashi" (客減らし)—a crowd shrinker—and quietly slotted him into their F rank. "That was the moment my mental state collapsed," he said. When his duo broke up, he had intended to quit comedy altogether. Fifteen years—2004 to 2019—without a single month of real income. But before walking away he realized there was unfinished business: "destroying Shochiku and K-PRO." He remembers every word said to him by staff at both organizations. "I'll get successful and then come back and say it to their faces." That vow became his only fuel, and past the age of 40, work finally started arriving. Okano drew a parallel to fellow comedian Iguchi (井口さん), famous for channeling the energy of proving people wrong. Minamikawa agreed, but insisted on a distinction: "I'm genuinely furious. This is not just passion." ## Jiu-Jitsu at 6:30 AM and the Art of Going Blank Despite being described as something close to a hot commodity these days, Minamikawa brushed off Okano's concern that he might be overworking. His morning routine: jiu-jitsu class starting at 6:30 AM. On this very recording day he had trained from 6:30 to 7:30 before coming in. He compares the effect to a sauna. Getting choked in earnest by an inexperienced, middle-aged civilian—struggling to avoid having his arm snapped—empties his mind completely and dissolves the noise of daily life. "Everyone has football or kickboxing to blow off steam. You're the ones just drinking and doing pachinko," he shot back at Okano. Minamikawa does not drink, smoke, or gamble. Jiu-jitsu is his one and only reset. ## Takeaways - Okano blasted Friday magazine for fabricating a 'marriage announcement scoop' by stripping context from a single quote captured during an ordinary dog-walking photo op. - Guest Minamikawa suffered a mental breakdown after K-PRO labeled him an F-rank 'crowd shrinker,' then rebuilt his career past 40 on nothing but the drive to get revenge on Shochiku and K-PRO. - Minamikawa starts every morning with jiu-jitsu at 6:30 AM as a sauna-style mental reset, living without alcohol, cigarettes, or pachinko and directing all remaining energy into work and training.