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The late-night spin-off of TBS’s “All-Star Thanksgiving Festival,” “All-Star Night Festival ’26 Autumn,” aired on October 10 and sparked discussion over its bikini-clad female assistant and a scene in a wall-climbing segment where a performer touched the assistant’s backside. In response to critical coverage calling it “swimsuits for no reason,” 5ch threads saw pushback — “it’s not meaningless if viewers are happy about it,” “there’s no problem if she’s doing it of her own free will” — clash with criticism that “even the Costume Grand Prix dropped its bunny outfits, so this is going backwards.” Opinions on the backside-touching also split between those who saw it as within the bounds of the bit and those who thought it went too far.
Questions have been raised about the swimsuit-clad female assistant and the behavior performers showed during an in-show segment on TBS’s “All-Star Night Festival ’26 Autumn,” which aired live on October 10.
The assistant’s swimsuit outfit: “She’s still being made to dress like this for no reason”
“All-Star Night Festival ’26 Autumn” is the late-night version of TBS’s “All-Star Thanksgiving Festival,” which aired the same day, hosted by comedian Hiroyuki Ariyoshi and former Nogizaka46 member Kazumi Takayama. Comedians take on quizzes and segments live with the kind of humor only late night allows, and whoever finishes last is permanently banned from the show.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Then just don't do the show at all lol
It's not forced labor, is it?
The viewers are happy about it
How did this even get past the compliance department's check?
What they're doing is way too Showa-era, it's not even funny
That's way too lame
Who's even into this?
Ariyoshi and Carnation Yoshida have already appeared together on 'Ladies Ariyoshi' and 'Ariyoshi's Wall'
You can't fight instinct
It's not about hiding it — it's whoever's forcing themselves to resist it who's the problem
Even Kin-chan's Costume Grand Prix dropped the bunny outfits
These days if you want something racy it's faster to just go find porn
This is just some perverted old producer's self-satisfaction
Background and Key Points of This Debate
“All-Star Thanksgiving Festival” and its late-night spin-off “Night Festival” are long-running specials that have made a tradition of racy, late-night-only segments, with swimsuit and costume bits having aired repeatedly over the years. At the same time, compliance awareness has grown across the TV industry in recent years, and networks have been rethinking how they treat female talent — for instance, NHK’s “Costume Grand Prix” discontinued its assistants’ bunny outfits. The point that split opinion in the thread was whether this counts as the kind of late-night-only entertainment viewers want, or as staging that’s out of step with the times — and differing assumptions about whether her appearance was truly voluntary caused people to talk past each other. It’s also easy to overlook that reactions to the “touched her backside” moment varied by how intense people perceived it to be, splitting opinion between those who saw it as part of the bit and those who saw it as an indecent act.
※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Geisoku Sokuho+) thread “[TBS] Questions raised over bikini-clad assistant on “All-Star Night Festival”: “swimsuit for no reason” — the segment’s “butt-touching” also causes controversy [Ailuropoda melanoleuca★]“.
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