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The story
Tsubaki Factory’s Yui Murata made a guest appearance on MBS Radio’s “Young Town Saturday,” hosted by Akashiya Sanma and Murakami Shoji. The live-thread lit up over the Hanshin Tigers game getting rained out and Sanma’s rapid-fire, blow-by-blow recap of the movie “Field of Dreams” — with fans reacting to everything from Murata’s enunciation to jokes about Sanma’s hairstyle.
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What people said
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Whoa lol
It's turned into a pond
https://ameblo.jp/tsubaki-factory-new/entry-12976491015.html
I'll be appearing tonight
from 22:00 on
MBS Radio's Young Town Saturday!
I was SO nervous!
But the one thing I absolutely wanted to say
if I ever got on Yantan —
I got to say it 👍🏻
Look forward to it!
I also got to learn a thing or two
about comedy from Sanma-san
and Murakami Shoji-san!
*Note: Yu isn't a comedian, just (technically) an idol
Watch it live if you can —
and tell me how it went!
Did I talk okay? 🤔
Sakurai-san and Yuketa-san
and I talk a ton normally,
so having the two of them there
was really reassuring!
Thank you so much!
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> The one thing I absolutely wanted to say
> if I ever got on Yantan —
> I got to say it 👍🏻
> Look forward to it!
So THIS is what she meant
TV Tokyo announcer Kitagawa Rio
comes out sounding like 'Murakami George'
and explaining what's great about it to someone who hasn't seen it is next to impossible
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/625951fb4de830b2a5dc98ddf30c9175574354ea
since it's a baseball movie
is what Yokoyan said
'Shabette Shabette 60-fun' (Talk and Talk for 60 Minutes)?
Some show where announcers do otaku talk, right?
Background and Key Points
Young Town Saturday (“Yantan”) is one of Japanese radio’s genuine institutions — an MBS (Mainichi Broadcasting System, Osaka) variety show that has aired continuously since 1967, with Akashiya Sanma anchoring the Saturday edition since the early 1980s alongside a rotating cast of comedians and young hosts. Getting booked as a guest on it is a rite of passage in Kansai entertainment, which is why Tsubaki Factory’s Yui Murata — a member of the Hello! Project idol subgroup — treated the appearance as a big enough deal to blog about beforehand. The “second Hamamura Jun” comment refers to Jun Hamamura, a legendary MBS announcer (d. 2009) famous for narrating movie plots live on air in exhaustive, spoiler-heavy detail during Kansai’s old “Movie Noon Show” tradition; invoking him is high praise for a specific, regionally understood style of unscripted radio rambling, not a generic compliment.
The thread wasn’t really split on Murata herself — most comments are just reactions (her diction, whether she’s Sanma’s type, the Hanshin rain-out clip). The one actual disagreement is over Sanma’s twenty-minute Field of Dreams tangent: some posters enjoyed it as classic, Hamamura-style radio; others found it dragged and pointed out he “spoiled the entire thing” while telling people to go watch it.
What outside readers will likely miss is that Sanma’s rant wasn’t random — MLB actually played a real “Field of Dreams Game” in Iowa this year after a four-year gap (linked in the thread), which is why the topic came up at all, and why Kansai fans reflexively read Sanma’s rambling through the Hamamura lens rather than as an ordinary movie discussion.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “■ Sakurai Rio, Yuketa Akoto, Guest: Murata Yui ■ MBS Radio (Osaka 1179kHz) ‘MBS Young Town Saturday’ ■ 22:00–23:30 ■“.
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