Sanma Lives Just a 2-Minute Walk From the Studio — 5ch: ‘Did Not Expect the Kyururun Beam to Get Dissed’

Background and Talking Points

“Young Town Saturday” is MBS’s long-running late-night radio show, hosted for years by Akashiya Sanma and Murakami Shoji, with Hello! Project members traditionally appearing as assistants. As for the phrase “Churira” that came up in the thread, one theory floated was that it originated from a song by Ayaya (Matsuura Aya), but it’s actually said to come from “Tururira” in “Nobara no Etude” (The Wild Rose Etude), with either Sanma or Matsuo Bannai having started using it to mean “frills” — a point some posts in the thread got mixed up. Meanwhile, “Kyururun Beam” appears to be a signature pose the guest performs, and the fact that Shoji has previously pushed hard for a call-and-response bit around it is part of the show’s running gags — context that doesn’t quite come through from the text alone.