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The story
An old episode has resurfaced and gone viral on X: back in a March 2024 video, fighter-turned-YouTuber Asakura Mikuru revealed that he had once offered Kimura Takuya a YouTube collaboration—only for it to go nowhere. The story blew up again around Asakura’s September 10, 2026 comeback fight at ‘Super RIZIN.5.’ Asakura, a pioneer among fighter-YouTubers with 3.54 million channel subscribers, apparently never managed to connect with the actor. Reactions on 5ch ranged from ‘stop whining about being turned down’ to broader debate over the gap in status between a YouTuber and a movie/TV star.
“Got Casually Ignored”—Asakura Mikuru’s “Humiliating” Past Attempt to Collab with Kimura Takuya… Some Scoff: “There’s Nothing In It for Kimura”
MMA fighter Asakura Mikuru steps into his first comeback fight in nine months—since New Year’s Eve 2025—at ‘Super RIZIN.5’ on September 10. Now, an old story about him once pitching a YouTube collaboration to actor Kimura Takuya has spread on X, drawing renewed attention.
“Asakura, who boasts 3.54 million channel subscribers and is a pioneer among fighter-YouTubers, posted a YouTube video back in March 2024 showing an izakaya chat with fighters from BreakingDown, the MMA event he runs as CEO. When the topic turned to celebrities they’d like to meet, he suddenly revealed, ‘You know, I actually offered Kimura Takuya a collab,’ disclosing that he had reached out to the actor.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Read the original article
What people said
Casually throwing around stuff like 'ignored' that makes the other person look bad.
Sopu (the comedian) was kind of like this too.
Guess he never needed to collab with Asakura after all.
For young people and anyone who doesn't watch TV, YouTubers >>>>> Kimura though lol
YouTubers are basically local-TV-tier talent or below, come on.
He probably doesn't feel anything.
It's a two-year-old story—that's about as belated a reaction as it gets.
It's like posting a jab at something from the Part 1 thread of a Geisports board series, but doing it as your first post in the Part 30 thread.
Everyone who was around for Part 1 got bored and stopped watching ages ago.
It's not like they're producing fresh content for it, and it's all stuff from years back—fans probably aren't even watching.
Actually, they've been filming new stuff lately.
Talk like 'his views are down' or 'he got ignored'—
that kind of language only flies
with the empty-headed Gen Z crowd.
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still haven't gotten a reply.
Background and Key Points of Debate
The source of this whole story is entirely Asakura Mikuru’s own remarks in a video he posted back in March 2024—there has been no comment or reaction of any kind from Kimura Takuya’s side. In other words, the claim that he was ‘ignored’ comes solely from Asakura’s own telling, and how Kimura actually took it remains unknown. The two-year-old episode seems to have resurfaced now simply because it coincided with the attention Asakura was drawing ahead of his comeback fight at ‘Super RIZIN.5’ on September 10, nine months after his last bout. Where opinions in the thread split was over how to compare ‘fame’ across two very different yardsticks—YouTuber versus actor: some pointed out that by subscriber count alone, Asakura comes out ahead, while others countered that it’s simply a different arena from the career Kimura has built in television and film.
*This article is composed as an excerpt/summary of the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread ““Got Casually Ignored”—Asakura Mikuru’s Humiliating Past Attempt to Collab with Kimura Takuya… Some Scoff: “There’s Nothing In It for Kimura”.”
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