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During a street interview filmed in Kochi City for the October 4 broadcast of TBS’s “Bananaman’s Sekkaku Gourmet!!”, a group of female middle and high schoolers was asked to recommend a local restaurant but couldn’t come up with an answer — so a separate group of passersby jumped in and suggested one instead. This “interruption” sparked controversy online, with 5ch users split between those who suspected “scripted staging” and those who saw it as simply “helping out the flustered schoolgirls.” Criticism also piled up calling the group that butted in “pushy,” fueling an even broader debate.
Mon, Oct 5, 16:24
Footage from a location shoot for the TBS variety show “Bananaman’s Sekkaku Gourmet!!,” aired on the 4th, is causing a stir online. During a street-interview segment, a separate group of ordinary people stepped in to “interrupt,” and viewers are now sharply divided over the scene.
The scene in question happened during a shoot in Kochi City featuring Snow Man’s Tatsuya Fukasawa and the twin comedy duo “The Tucchi.” Fukasawa and the others approached a group that appeared to be female middle and high schoolers and asked them to recommend some local food, but the group was stumped and couldn’t answer.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article here
What people said
It's all scripted anyway.
Exactly that.
but was it some kind of queue situation?
Makes no sense.
Though I didn't actually watch it, so take it with a grain of salt.
But that doesn't mean 'you have to watch or you'll miss stuff like this'… no.
Himura-bot, Gal Sone-bot (a famous competitive eater), and Mendy-bot…
Even with the robot/remote setup, interruptions happened a lot.
Especially when a Johnny's (major idol agency) talent was on.
That reminds me — after Himura's underage-conduct scandal, he suddenly stopped approaching schoolgirls (JC/JK) at all, even though he used to do it constantly before. The segment itself stopped running for a while too.
This too is just part of the staging.
Understanding that and still enjoying it is what watching TV is about.
No way that's true.
It's just filler to pad out the broadcast slot.
It reeked of being staged.
Remember that you and I — everyone on 5ch, really — rank even lower than that.
But here they put the first group on the spot, someone threw them a lifeline, and now people are saying 'poor first group!' I don't get it — were they supposed to just leave them hanging?
That's adorably naive, I'm almost jealous.
Do you have some twisted desire to watch them squirm instead?
Maybe it's because that particular restaurant just didn't feel right?
The Kochi episode was a mess overall — they even revisited the same restaurant more than once.
Background and Key Points of the Debate
“Sekkaku Gourmet” is a variety show format in which cast members ask locals on the street to recommend a “hidden gem” restaurant, and some posters note that similar “poaching” reportedly happened on a previous episode too (the Akita one, by some accounts). Since viewers only ever see the edited broadcast, there’s no way to tell from the footage alone whether this scene was scripted or genuinely unplanned. The thread split between those who read it as “helping out the flustered schoolgirls” and those who saw it as “butting in just to grab the spotlight,” and little evidence exists to settle which reading is correct. Sympathy for the schoolgirls who couldn’t answer and one-sided criticism of the group that interrupted circulated side by side — and it’s easy to overlook that neither side actually knows what the producers intended.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisokuho+) thread “‘So pushy,’ ‘Felt like they were throwing them a lifeline’ — ‘Sekkaku Gourmet’ location-shoot ‘interruption’ sparks controversy, snowballs into a major online debate.”
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