#8 人間冷笑♡

The Origin of "I'm Getting Botox All Night!"

This episode's title comes from a watch party Miyako recently attended for the Netflix drama "Downtime," a show about plastic surgery. In one scene, a skilled female doctor hosts a party where Botox is poured into the glasses of a champagne tower, and guests inject each other with it on the spot while declaring, "Today I'm getting Botox all night!" Miyako recalled being stunned by how shocking the scene was.

The Moment Real Syringes Showed Up at the Screening Party

After the screening, an influencer-focused promotional party followed. While Miyako was enjoying the catering, real doctors showed up and a champagne tower was wheeled in, making her brace herself and think, "Wait, are we injecting again?" It turned out to be an actual drink this time. Looking back on Netflix watch parties in general, including one she'd attended earlier for "You're Going to Hell," she noted they tend to satirize influencer culture and always come with lavish catering, and said she'd love to be invited again.

Overseas Dramas and Actors She's Currently Obsessed With

The conversation moved to shows she wants to recommend: a Thai Netflix original centered on Nano, a girl who keeps transferring schools; the Korean drama "The School Nurse Files," starring Nam Joo-hyuk; and Korean actor Song Seok, whom she'd stumbled across just the day before. She admitted she hasn't actually watched any of Song Seok's work yet — she got hooked purely on short clips, which she described as "sexy."

Flo's Japan Tour and Universal Music Japan

Talk turned to Flo, the UK-originated girl group Miyako adores, often called "the Destiny's Child of the Reiwa era," and their Japan tour. She'd already bought her own ticket when Universal Music Japan, a partner label, offered her an invitation; she replied rather coolly, but ended up getting to take photos backstage with the members after the show. She encouraged listeners to check out the photos on her Instagram.

YouTube Hiatus, the "Cynical Artist" Declaration, the Exchange Diary, and a New Segment

Explaining why her YouTube channel has gone about three weeks without an update, Miyako said the approaching release of her photo book brought on a shift in mindset, leading her to start visiting art exhibitions alone. She described being struck by an exhibit in Harajuku featuring what appeared to be video artist Nam June Paik, and, referencing the story of Banksy shredding his own work right after it sold at auction, self-mockingly dubbed herself a "cynical artist."

In the exchange-diary segment that followed, she read out and commented on listener submissions: a 21-year-old from Kumamoto's story about a friend who is a "love monster," a 14-year-old from Okayama's cringeworthy memory of blurting out "Can I please change?" back in elementary school, and a love-triangle dilemma from a 22-year-old in Hiroshima, whose boyfriend studying abroad posts intimately on social media while she herself had been hit on at a bar.

The episode closed with the debut of a new segment called "Earlicking: Ariha Nashiha," in which listeners weigh in with "Ariha" (I'm into it) or "Nashiha" (not for me) on cultural phenomena Miyako can't quite wrap her head around. The inaugural topic was ear-licking, with submissions read from Saitama, Shizuoka, Tokyo, Mie, and elsewhere, covering a range of positions — from "my ears are an erogenous zone" to "I just don't get it" to those who say they understand it through situational-voice audio dramas.