# #14「単独ツアーを振り返る」

- Show: チョコプラのP
- Published: 2026-09-30
- Canonical: https://podc.club/en/episode/1896946420_7aef82e4874f.html
- Audio: https://cdn.listen.style/p/01kwcyz11n0371spagw9dzqphb/audio/1RRGp8xApZlFrfjtmgTNRTZlS7tnddGic66bAXTl.mp3
- Source: Edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. Not an official summary.

Chocolate Planet (チョコレートプラネット) look back at their solo tour, leading with the Nagoya show where a torrential rainstorm halted their Shinkansen near Hamamatsu for roughly an hour, left the city flooded, and cut the audience to less than half. The episode then spirals into an extended tangent about stage crew member Yanisuke-san (ヤニスケさん) — whose cigarette smell borders on legendary and who dropped a pack onto the stage mid-sketch — before closing on Matsuo's confession that he smokes, but only when he's in Okinawa.

## What this episode answers

### What happened at the Nagoya show, and how did the two respond?

On the day of the Nagoya show, heavy rain halted their Shinkansen near Hamamatsu for about an hour; they barely made the venue, but all local trains and subways in Nagoya had suspended service and roads were flooded, leaving attendance at less than half. Matsuo walked out on stage before the curtain to explain the situation and announce that alerts were nothing to worry about, mid-show exits and entries were welcome at any time, and refunds would be available — then the show went ahead.

### How bad was the cigarette smell from stage crew member 'Yanisuke-san,' and what did it cause during the show?

Yanisuke-san, who helped Matsuo quick-change up close during seven sketches, carried a cigarette smell Matsuo described as 'Mogura-san from Kuukaidan (空気階段のもぐらさん) levels' — strong enough to identify who had passed through a corridor, and Matsuo said just standing next to him you could passively absorb nicotine. He also caused the incident where a cigarette pack dropped onto the stage mid-show.

### When a cigarette pack fell onto the stage, how did Matsuo react and what did he do?

During a blackout, Matsuo stepped on something soft on the dark stage and confirmed it was a cigarette pack when the lights came up; deciding in under a second that picking it up would look like an intentional acting choice to the audience, he kicked it toward the wings, but it fell short and stopped at the stage-left edge where it was still visible from some seats, and with no time for a second kick he continued the sketch.

### When did Yanisuke-san finally apologize, and what was his excuse?

The apology didn't come on the day of the incident or the day after — it came for the first time at the very end of the closing-night wrap party, while every other crew member (stage manager, sound, wardrobe) had apologized on the night itself; Yanisuke-san's explanation was that he layers two pairs of trousers and keeps his cigarettes in the inner shorts, so they absolutely should not have been able to fall out, and he had no idea why they did.

### What is Matsuo's reason for smoking only 'when he's in Okinawa'?

His reason is that 'the environment changes the taste' — the open sea breeze of Okinawa makes a cigarette feel uniquely exceptional, just as beer tastes better on the beach; in daily life he has no urge to smoke at all, but Okinawa's sense of being somewhere extraordinary acts as the trigger.

## Article

## The Nagoya Show: Stopped by Heavy Rain

The most nerve-wracking moment of the entire solo tour came during the Nagoya leg. The schedule called for wrapping up an afternoon show and boarding the Shinkansen straight to Nagoya, but heavy rain brought the train to a standstill near Hamamatsu for roughly an hour. The duo and their manager kept a running group LINE chat going — debating whether to push the start time back, or whether getting there at all was even on the table — while the train sat motionless.

The Shinkansen eventually moved and they scraped into the venue just in time, only to face a new crisis: Nagoya city itself was under warning-level flooding. Every local train and subway line had suspended service, and taxi stands were swamped with queues stretching out of sight.

"Will the audience even be able to come?" The answer, when doors opened, was a turnout of less than half. Emergency alert tones kept going off on everyone's phones throughout. Before the curtain rose, Matsuo (松尾) walked out on stage and made an announcement: alerts were nothing to worry about, mid-show exits and mid-show entries were fine at any time, and refunds would be available. Then they performed. "It was a genuine relief that the venue was within walking distance of the station," he said, adding: "The rain we're getting these days is on a completely different level from the past. The concept of a linear rain band didn't even exist when we were kids."

## The Overwhelming Cigarette Stench of Stage Crew Member "Yanisuke-san"

One person who left an indelible impression on the tour was the stage crew member everyone calls Yanisuke-san (ヤニスケさん). His job during the final sketch was to wait in the wings and dress Matsuo in his alien costume — a full-body suit with an open back — as Matsuo quick-changed. Every time Yanisuke-san leaned in close to fasten the costume, a wall of cigarette smell hit Matsuo at point-blank range. "It was Mogura-san from Kuukaidan (空気階段のもぐらさん) levels," Matsuo said. "You could tell he'd been in a corridor just by walking through it after him. Standing next to him, you're passively absorbing nicotine."

Curious how someone could smoke during a show packed with seven back-to-back sketches, Matsuo asked him directly. Yanisuke-san was adamant: one cigarette, five minutes before curtain, and absolutely nothing during the show itself. Other crew members — stage manager, sound, wardrobe — flatly contradicted him: "He's been smoking the whole time." Stranger still, on the final night of the run there was no smell at all. "I can't explain it," Matsuo said with a wry laugh. "The man blew smoke in my face and then vanished in a puff of it."

## The Cigarette Pack That Fell onto the Stage

During a blackout mid-sketch in the Chinese restaurant bit, Matsuo stepped onto the darkened stage and felt something soft and crumpled underfoot. "Food props are hard — they wouldn't squish like that. An oshibori towel, maybe?" He stood on it and thought it through. When the lights came back up, it was a cigarette pack. "It's absolutely Yanisuke's," he knew instantly. He glanced into the wings: Yanisuke-san was standing there, visibly mortified.

Matsuo weighed his options in under a second. Picking it up would look deliberate to the audience — like a prop choice written into the script. So he kicked it, aiming for the wings. He didn't get enough power behind it; the pack stopped short and came to rest at the stage-left edge, still visible from the seats in that corner. There was no time to go back for a second kick. He left it and kept going. "The saving grace," he said, "was that we were in a Chinese diner setting, so a random cigarette pack on the floor wasn't completely out of place."

Yanisuke-san's apology did not come that day, nor the day after. It came at the very end of the closing-night wrap party — the last possible moment of the entire run — even though every other crew member had apologized on the night of the incident. His explanation: "I layer two pairs of trousers and keep my cigarettes in the inner shorts. There's no way they could fall out. I genuinely have no idea how it happened."

## Why Matsuo Only Smokes in Okinawa

The cigarette talk led somewhere unexpected: Matsuo confessed that he smokes, but only when he's in Okinawa. The tour had given him two free days upfront, and he used them to rent a villa with a private pool in the northern part of Okinawa's main island, entirely alone. He hired a convertible and drove around the island, then spent evenings at the villa's large screen and projector marathoning the Fast & Furious series from the very first film.

As for why only Okinawa: "The environment changes the taste. It's like how beer tastes better on the beach. Out there in Okinawa's open sea breeze, a cigarette is something else entirely." He noted the same logic applies to smoking on a ski slope or right after a meal — there's a flavour that only exists in that specific place and moment. In everyday life, he has no urge to smoke whatsoever; Okinawa's sense of the extraordinary simply flips the switch.

The episode closed with a digression about how Okinawa's stray cats don't run from people — and a note that stray dogs in Thailand are similarly unbothered by humans.

## Takeaways

- Heavy rain and flooding halted the Nagoya Shinkansen for about an hour and cut attendance to under half, but Matsuo stepped out on stage before the show to explain the situation and outline the response — and the performance went ahead.
- Stage crew member Yanisuke-san's cigarette smell was so extreme that other crew corroborated it, he dropped a pack onto the stage mid-sketch, and his apology didn't arrive until the very end of the closing-night wrap party.
- Matsuo is essentially a non-smoker but smokes exclusively in Okinawa because 'the environment changes the taste,' and on this trip he spent his two free days alone in a northern villa with a pool, driving a convertible and marathoning the Fast & Furious series.