Did Itao [url=https://twitter.com/itao_itsuji/status/664417864418365440:yxfxqyjm]tweet out a picture from filming the batsu game[/url:yxfxqyjm]?
[img:yxfxqyjm]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTh8hv2UEAAvdtk.jpg:large[/img:yxfxqyjm]
I think he may have.
[quote="Hohiro":i1ula4rc]Oh okay, i was a bit uncertain about the future of the show because of that, since i don’t watch their regular show i don’t see him very often. i heard somewhere ( i don’t know if it’s false or not ) that young adults or teenagers doesn’t really like the show and downtown .[/quote:i1ula4rc]
I think that most younger people in Japan see Downtown and to a lesser extent, Cocorico and Hosei as ‘those old guys doing that No Laughing special against the Kohaku Uta Gassen’ and don’t really know just how long they have been in the business for. Teenagers for example tend to be more invested in younger and more recent hit comedians, so veterans like the Gaki no Tsukai crew would probably not gain many new fans from this age bracket. The one thing veteran comedians have over these more recent hits though is reputation: many might not like the veterans, but they know who they are, due to the influence of the older generations who have followed them in previous years. Newer comedians have to get their big break early or they can easily vanish into obscurity very quickly in the Japanese comedy world. Take one of the newer duos 8.6 Seconds Bazooka for example. Almost everyone was talking about them and their rhythm gag only a few months ago, especially teenagers and young adults, but they’ve pretty much exhausted their fame from that and are now not appearing on many variety programs in the Kanto region. Downtown and their contemporaries are like a safe option: their audience and ratings might not big compared to some others, but there is a core group of people who always watch them and have done so for a very long time and it provides consistency, compared to the dog-eat-dog in which the younger comedians have to live in.
[quote="natsilane":3q5u0nkm]Did Itao [url=https://twitter.com/itao_itsuji/status/664417864418365440:3q5u0nkm]tweet out a picture from filming the batsu game[/url:3q5u0nkm]?
[img:3q5u0nkm]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTh8hv2UEAAvdtk.jpg:large[/img:3q5u0nkm]
I think he may have.[/quote:3q5u0nkm]
A robber gag for Itao in the upcoming special maybe?
[quote="natsilane":140zxa5f]Did Itao [url=https://twitter.com/itao_itsuji/status/664417864418365440:140zxa5f]tweet out a picture from filming the batsu game[/url:140zxa5f]? I think he may have.[/quote:140zxa5f]
Nice find!
Doing Google Translate-fu on his tweet says something like:
On location for the New Year’s holiday special.
Today I sure am tired …
[quote="Vatican":140zxa5f]A robber gag for Itao in the upcoming special maybe?[/quote:140zxa5f]
Ooh, blacked out for the eyeholes in the mask? Good idea!
It’s a hilarious photo, I thought he was punched in both eyes haha.
[quote="Vatican":3m2uyw8q][quote="Hohiro":3m2uyw8q]Oh okay, i was a bit uncertain about the future of the show because of that, since i don’t watch their regular show i don’t see him very often. i heard somewhere ( i don’t know if it’s false or not ) that young adults or teenagers doesn’t really like the show and downtown .[/quote:3m2uyw8q]
I think that most younger people in Japan see Downtown and to a lesser extent, Cocorico and Hosei as ‘those old guys doing that No Laughing special against the Kohaku Uta Gassen’ and don’t really know just how long they have been in the business for. Teenagers for example tend to be more invested in younger and more recent hit comedians, so veterans like the Gaki no Tsukai crew would probably not gain many new fans from this age bracket. The one thing veteran comedians have over these more recent hits though is reputation: many might not like the veterans, but they know who they are, due to the influence of the older generations who have followed them in previous years. Newer comedians have to get their big break early or they can easily vanish into obscurity very quickly in the Japanese comedy world. Take one of the newer duos 8.6 Seconds Bazooka for example. Almost everyone was talking about them and their rhythm gag only a few months ago, especially teenagers and young adults, but they’ve pretty much exhausted their fame from that and are now not appearing on many variety programs in the Kanto region. Downtown and their contemporaries are like a safe option: their audience and ratings might not big compared to some others, but there is a core group of people who always watch them and have done so for a very long time and it provides consistency, compared to the dog-eat-dog in which the younger comedians have to live in.[/quote:3m2uyw8q]
Those are mostly gag comedians though. They always disappear in a year or so because all they have is the gag. If a gag does well, you have to fiercely transition to or find talent in talk comedy as a tarento (or something else, like non-comedic singing or acting) if you want to stay on TV. I don’t know if he still gets on TV these days, but Kojima Yoshio (Sonnano Kankei Nee/That Doesn’t Matter) is someone that did seem to try to transition to talk comedy. Rola, if you can consider her mannerisms to be a type of gag, definitely found her talent in talk comedy as a tarento and stayed relevant that way.
There are some younger (relative to Downtown) comedians or comedian-hosts that are popular and may be considered better draws for primetime or among younger people than Downtown these days. I’m not that up-to-date with Japanese TV, but I’d say London Boots, Cream Stew, and Bananaman Shitara are up there. Downtown used to have several highly-rated/major primetime shows a week (in the 90s and 2000s), but currently only has Downtown DX (but even that starts at 10PM, which I don’t think counts as prime time. I’m still bitter that Gaki was recently pushed back to 11:30PM instead of their usual 11PM) (Wikipedia also lists Wednesday’s Downtown (10PM) and Downtown Now (8PM), but I don’t know how major these shows are). But I don’t know how much it matters to them now, since they’re at a certain age, and they seem to do a lot of programs that are more late-night (post 11PM) where they appear with others (not as Downtown) and it’s just my speculation but it feels like they really enjoy the creative freedom they get on those shows.
I got high hopes for this year!
Go Gaki Go!
Have anyone observed that in around 2013 or so up to the current date, Matsumoto has kinda change a little? Usually he’ll laugh pretty easily when jokes were being made but what I noticed was Matsumoto tends to just giggle a little or not even laughing at all. Probably a smile at most. Also, he sort of have changed into a serious-comedic type of personality where he will just keep on nagging & nagging while still in a comedic manner. Sorry, I don’t really know how to explain it in words but if u compare the 90s & early 2000s Matsumoto to the recent one, I find that he has become a little different.
Aaaanyway! I’m not trying to make a big deal out of it but just curious if anyone else have realise the same thing as me. Hahaha
Hey guys! Not trying to make a big deal out of it or anything instead I’m just curious if anyone shares the same sentiments as me. I observed that Matsumoto has sort of changed in the recent years like around 2013 or so onwards. He hasn’t been laughing as much as he used to. Usually he’ll laugh it out pretty easily but what I noticed was that Matsumoto just giggles a little and thats it. He also kinda changed into a serious-comical personality. He’ll simply criticise or nags away while still speaking in a funny way. I mean if u take the 90s and 2000s Matsumoto to compare, u’ll see he laughs a lot and way more than the current Matsumoto.
Anyway, I just feel kinda weird and not used to it…
any bets how many time tanaka will get thai kick this year
or yamazaki getting slapped ?
I wonder if Housei will get accused of tampering with evidence for a case or something
[quote="soudou":92wplqfz]I wonder if Housei will get accused of tampering with evidence for a case or something [/quote:92wplqfz]
"or something" is guaranteed.
I’ll guess Chono will be investigating a crime and confront Housei with evidence of his guilt. I like when they set up his guilt in advance ("injuring" Chono’s son, befriending the alien).
Though, I’d rather see a swerve which ends up with Hamada, Matsumoto, or Endo getting the slap.
[quote="Dynasty":7rcvw9wa]I’ll guess Chono will be investigating a crime and confront Housei with evidence of his guilt. I like when they set up his guilt in advance ("injuring" Chono’s son, befriending the alien).[/quote:7rcvw9wa]
Yeah that slow realization is funny, and it was great when he was trying to hide from Chono’s son.
[quote:7rcvw9wa]Though, I’d rather see a swerve which ends up with Hamada, Matsumoto, or Endo getting the slap.[/quote:7rcvw9wa]
It was pretty funny when Tanaka got it first and lulled Housei into a false sense of security, the others certainly do need a turn!
So long as Housei still gets harassed by Chono in some other way I’m happy. Last year Chono didn’t really improvise much which was a shame, EDF was great when he started wrestling with him etc.
What I’d really like to see is for them to move away from the stage setting for Chono, he should pop out in random places and give Housei a shock, for example Housei could be looking closely at a crime scene with a magnifying glass and when his attention is all focused, Chono bursts in and starts accusing him of the crime.
Will they ever do Firefighters?
Yay awesome, thanks so so much ErnieYoung! I was wondering when they’d put the page up.
Fujiwara looks like he might be dressed as Detective Conan
I wonder if there will be no tag game this year, or if they’re keeping it as a total surprise (I remember some years they hinted at it in the announcements but not always). I guess it might be tough to fit it into this theme.
Here’s a rough translation with Google Translate-fu.
[quote:3svbekmo]Broadcast two years ago on New Year’s Eve was "Absolutely No Laughing 24Hr Earth Defense Force."
Then last year’s New Year’s Eve broadcast was "Absolutely No Laughing 24Hr Jailbreak."
These New Year’s Eve specials continue into 2015 as we give you "[b:3svbekmo]Absolutely No Laughing 24Hr Great Detectives![/b:3svbekmo]"
The theme is detectives, these 5 people will be enrolled as rookie detectives at an investigators office. To begin their training they’ll come face to face with the chief, impersonated by a major celebrity, before moving on to carry out various activities.
Detectives, criminals and such will be among the decidedly ‘unique’ range of people involved at the "Detective Agency". Utilizing the track record of achievements so far within the "No Laughing" series to stage new amusements while ramping up the scale! Those 5 cast members will receive various traps of laughter!
[b:3svbekmo]Summary[/b:3svbekmo]
As rookie detectives of the [b:3svbekmo]Gasu Kurobikari Detective Agency[/b:3svbekmo] they will participate in a variety of activities. While being placed in harsh conditions they absolutely must not laugh no matter what happens, for laughing at a trap of laughter will recieve a punishment!
But of course, in the setting of detectives, a number of incidents and events can occur, along with the bus loaded with joke material. Downtown, Tsukitei Housei and Cocorico will stand in the path of various unexpected "Absolutely No Laughing" traps!
In addition to "No Laughing" will be "Don’t Get Scared" and many other sections which will be provided as a rich variety of laughter is delivered to your living room![/quote:3svbekmo]
The [url=https://twitter.com/gakitsukatter:fymlwhz9]Gaki no Tsukai Twitter account[/url:fymlwhz9] has a few extra images from the batsu game.
[img:fymlwhz9]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CT9_qduUYAAscQF.jpg:large[/img:fymlwhz9]
[img:fymlwhz9]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CT-gLOvVEAA-A3r.jpg:large[/img:fymlwhz9]
[img:fymlwhz9]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CT-gvqHU8AA1TiM.jpg:large[/img:fymlwhz9]
[img:fymlwhz9]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CT-r4dlUwAAZ_fE.jpg:large[/img:fymlwhz9]
That last one interests me. It’s a safe guess that the building in the background is the headquarters for the detective agency. That is definitely not the same location for the Police and Earth Defense Force batsu games.
Thanks for sharing.
Hm that’s true, different colour and roof style, looks a bit like a school or something. I wonder if one of the people in Japan commenting on Twitter will spot what building it is.
Based on [url=https://twitter.com/wolfkazu1/status/663603672102780928/photo/1:3845xhiw]this image[/url:3845xhiw] I figured out the sign in the upper-right is for [url=http://www.zchain.co.jp/:3845xhiw]ZChain[/url:3845xhiw] which helpfully has a web page listing [url=http://www.zchain.co.jp/shop/shizuoka.html:3845xhiw]all ZChain shops in Shizuoka[/url:3845xhiw]. I did a street view on each one and, of course, it was the last one on the list.
[url=https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3325768,138.9806807,3a,75y,310.08h,84.68t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sd7hId8ksFVQfdnkUhdpeOQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656:3845xhiw]Here is the street view image from where that Twitter picture was taken[/url:3845xhiw].
Knowing the bus was traveling at the camera, I used the maps to follow the road back, looking for parks (they typically use a local park as a starting point) and I found the [url=https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3363904,138.9790765,136m/data=!3m1!1e3:3845xhiw]Ashigarafureai Park[/url:3845xhiw] which is where they start for the batsu game. You can tell this because, luckily, there’s street view data going all the way around the park. From [url=https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3357335,138.9797612,3a,19.8y,191.81h,95.85t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s3kS8Nl4uSsRe5WGQIM8R-A!2e0!7i13312!8i6656:3845xhiw]this vantage point[/url:3845xhiw] you can see the white house with the wide, short windows and the yellow house farther to the left that you also see in the background of [url=https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CT9_qduUYAAscQF.jpg:large:3845xhiw]this image[/url:3845xhiw].
Haven’t found the headquarters yet. The only image to go off of is [url=https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CT-r4dlUwAAZ_fE.jpg:large:3845xhiw]this one[/url:3845xhiw]. It’s almost certainly an old school building. Finding those using Google Earth is pretty easy, just look for the playground areas (big, square area of dirt) usually behind the schools where the kids would play.
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[url=https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3294632,138.9740295,3a,75y,313.48h,84.49t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sFNAn0P8fxI9SGZCjSZDCQg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656:3845xhiw]Found it![/url:3845xhiw] Looks like it’s some kind of training center. [url=http://all.rokin.or.jp/info/fuji/fuji_top.html:3845xhiw]Its official homepage (I think)[/url:3845xhiw] and [url=http://www.cafe-nous.com/mimura/blog/2014/10/20141029.html:3845xhiw]here’s a blog from someone who attended an event there and includes a bunch of photos.[/url:3845xhiw]
I wonder if there will be a onigokko game this year. [url=https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3298343,138.9737755,173m/data=!3m1!1e3:3845xhiw]It looks like there’s space to run around[/url:3845xhiw], but maybe there will be a secondary location like the Earth Defense Force batsu game.
Wow, amazing sleuthing! You’d fit right in with the detective theme
I tried to look before you edited your post and at first I thought it was a local grey looking high school but it didn’t quite match. That space does look like they could do the tag game on it, or there is the Fuji speedway that they used before, it’s not as close though but I guess they could ship them up there. Of course they could skip it this year since it’s not as much of a staple as the "Don’t Get Scared" bit but I hope not, I love the tag!
Lmao, Fujiwara is Conan.