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On TBS Radio’s “Ijuin Hikaru: Shinya no Bakajikara,” Ijuin Hikaru’s remark that the September 19 episode of Crayon Shin-chan, “It’s the Nohara Couple’s Afternoon,” was “boring enough to make your legs give out” sparked controversy. The episode barely featured the show’s protagonist, Shinnosuke, and after screenwriter Sho Hasumi responded on his own radio show, Ijuin apologized during the ending segment of the September 28 late-night broadcast, saying, “I caused Hasumi a great deal of trouble.” Reactions on 5ch split between those praising Ijuin for apologizing sincerely, those who felt no apology was needed since he was just sharing his opinion, and those who rewatched the episode themselves and weighed in on its merits.
Talent Ijuin Hikaru appeared on the late-night broadcast of “JUNK Ijuin Hikaru: Shinya no Bakajikara” (TBS Radio) on September 28 and addressed, during the show’s ending segment, the controversy that had erupted following the previous week’s broadcast.
The episode Hasumi wrote was the September 19 installment of Crayon Shin-chan, “It’s the Nohara Couple’s Afternoon” — an unusual episode that barely featured Shinnosuke, focusing instead on a conversation between his parents, Hiroshi and Misae.
On the late-night broadcast on the 21st, Ijuin had said the episode was “boring enough to make your legs give out,” among other remarks. Hasumi responded on his own radio show, revealing that he had been a listener of Ijuin’s program back in his college days.
Source: sirabee.com / Original article here
What people said
We'll always be on Ijuin's side, so don't let this get you down!
From the great beyond, probably (a nod to creator Yoshito Usui, who passed away in 2009).
Think about it for a second:
the more noise this makes, the more this writer gets branded "the boring writer," regardless of the facts.
Whether Ijuin "wins" or "loses" this, that's how it plays out.
The more it gets rehashed, the worse it looks for the writer.
Ijuin's already known for being like this, so even if it blows up, it's just fodder for his radio show.
Why would you promote a TV Asahi show on TV Tokyo?
Hasumi might not be funny, but the way he's handled this whole thing shows he's smart.
He lit the fire himself and now says this?
Blaming everyone else, lol.
The second he finds out someone's a listener of his show, his attitude does a total 180.
It's nothing new.
Yeah, even Yarenz, who he'd taken a liking to, used to rib him about it.
Maybe his tongue got a little too sharp and people stopped liking him.
Oh right, Hakuzan.
He was already teasing it on last week's "Towazugatari." He said: "The movie I watched for the first time in twenty-odd years was boring enough to make your legs give out — say that and people call you an out-of-touch old man, but this is an homage to Ijuin. This year's buzzword of the year is either 'Riku/Ryu' (the figure-skating pair's nickname) or 'boring enough to make your legs give out.'"
That recording was made before Hasumi's rebuttal, so he'll probably really dig into it on tomorrow's broadcast.
That's the kind of guy who'd get pulled off a show for power harassment.
If Ijuin were doing some kind of creative work himself, they'd be on equal footing —
but if he's not, he's not "above" anyone.
As a comedian/variety personality, he's in a higher-status position —
it'd make sense if the complaint were aimed at the anime production as a whole rather than at an individual.
He's actually planned and hosted variety shows himself. A lot of people don't know because they aired on BS.
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First off, what they're talking about has almost nothing to do with Misae and Hiroshi themselves.
And it's not like the conversation is even funny either.
I just watched it too — no climax, no punchline, basically a self-deprecating episode that indirectly jokes about Crayon Shin-chan in a bad way. I was going "???" the whole time.
Because on TV, Ijuin comes across as smart and like a nice guy.
Like it says in Re: #56, Hasumi actually accepted the "it was boring" opinion —
his pushback was about other stuff, telling him not to spread misinformation.
He probably couldn't find a solid source for that, so he figured apologizing would let him fudge it and put the whole thing to rest.
I don't really get why Ijuin got so groveling about it.
There's nothing weird about that part.
Don't use the chaos as cover to start some low-level argument.
What even is the "peanut gallery" here?
People who criticize without even listening.
Like you.
That doesn't explain anything.
He said it on the radio — what does "peanut gallery" even mean in that context?
Is that really a word a radio host should use about people he doesn't even know, talking on the air?
The "peanut gallery" means people who criticize without listening, just going off summary sites and the like.
Kuruma's different, since he actually talked to Hasumi directly.
Background and Key Points of the Discussion
“Ijuin Hikaru: Shinya no Bakajikara” is a long-running flagship TBS Radio program hosted by Ijuin Hikaru, known for his trademark style of giving blunt, honest opinions. Sho Hasumi is a broadcast writer and actor who, among other work, writes for Crayon Shin-chan; the episode at the center of this controversy, “It’s the Nohara Couple’s Afternoon,” was an unusually structured installment that barely featured the show’s protagonist. What split opinion in the thread wasn’t so much whether the apology itself was warranted, but a clash between two positions: that there’s nothing wrong with stating an honest opinion, versus that remarks from someone with influence require more consideration. The real sticking point was where to draw the line on who gets to criticize what, and how. Some commenters also pointed out that Hasumi himself never disputed the “boring” opinion — Ijuin’s apology was actually about a separate issue — meaning that treating the apology as a simple retraction of his review may not match what actually happened.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “Ijuin Hikaru Apologizes to Crayon Shin-chan Writer Sho Hasumi for Calling His Episode “Boring”: “I Caused Hasumi a Great Deal of Trouble”.”
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