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The story
On 5ch’s Hello! Project board, a thread about “Young Town Saturday” (“Yantan”), the radio show co-hosted by Morning Musume’s Riho Sakurai, has been picking up steam. After a birthday segment on the show, a line was read out — “From Sakurai to the Yantan fans” — which set off worry among listeners about whether she’s leaving the show and what might come next. Posters cited past cases like Yuna Iikubo and Reina Yokoyama leaving the program to speculate on what might happen, while others praised her chemistry with co-host Akoto Yuketa (nicknamed “Getta”). No consensus was reached.
What people said
Sanma's outfit was a gift from Kimura Takuya. Sanma also gave Sakurai a birthday present. Sato's rant kicks off right from the opening — the origin story of the nickname "Sato-chan," followed by a hungry largemouth bass. From Sakurai to the Yantan fans.
> From Sakurai to the Yantan fans.
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Grandpa, you've been saying that for 20 years and it still hasn't ended
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Background and key points of this topic
“Young Town Saturday” is a long-running radio show on Kansai’s MBS Radio, with a tradition of Hello! Project members rotating through as co-hosts. In the past, some members have kept the role for years after leaving their group, so graduating from the group doesn’t automatically mean leaving the show. The line that sparked discussion on the thread — “to the Yantan fans” — came from a birthday-segment remark, and wasn’t an explicit announcement of stepping down; it could just as easily be read as a simple thank-you to fans. Even so, the flurry of posts citing past departures to predict what’s next reflects just how much interest there is in the show and in who might take over.
※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project board) thread “[Morning Ace] Is Riho Sakurai Stepping Down from Young Town Saturday? [Riley]“.
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