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As part of a first-anniversary special for the video streaming service ‘DOWNTOWN+,’ it’s been decided that an episode featuring Chidori’s Daigo in conversation with Hitoshi Matsumoto — ‘I Want to ___ With Hitoshi Matsumoto! The Chidori Daigo Edition’ — will begin streaming on November 6. The two, said to be close friends off-camera as well, will have their talk released almost entirely uncut. On 5ch threads, rather than the content of the conversation itself, attention focused on the peripheral details: comments pointing out the service’s low subscriber count and the sparse number of Yahoo! comments, plus speculation that Yoshimoto Kogyo is grooming Daigo to become ‘the next Matsumoto.’
Chidori’s Daigo Shares Drinks with Hitoshi Matsumoto, ‘I Want to Talk Things Through’ — First Installment of DOWNTOWN+’s 1st Anniversary Project
■ The conversation between the two, said to be close friends off-camera too, airs almost entirely uncut
As the first piece of content marking the 1st anniversary of the video streaming service ‘DOWNTOWN+,’ it has been decided that ‘I Want to ___ With Hitoshi Matsumoto! The Chidori Daigo Edition,’ featuring Chidori’s Daigo, will begin streaming on November 6.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
And yet here I am opening the thread and posting anyway
The fact that Hamada never shows up kind of makes it feel like they've effectively disbanded
It's probably partly a scheduling issue, but he's like the last trump card — in a way, whether they appear together is basically a barometer
And it's paid, too
You can catch it on Netflix, right?
Looks like all of Yoshimoto is throwing its weight behind Matchan (Matsumoto)
has now basically become Yasushi himself (a nod to Yokoyama Yasushi, the legendary comic whose career was wrecked by scandal)
Daigo's got at least some young female fans too, and Yoshimoto's being pretty dumb about this
Well, maybe they've just given up, figuring nobody's watching anymore anyway so it's 'safe'
When they came up from Osaka to Tokyo and showed up on Pikaru dressed as mushrooms, I thought they were done for
Now there's not a day you don't see them on TV
https://hayabusa9.5ch.io/test/read.cgi/mnewsplus/1790923177/
No comments means
people aren't even interested enough to love or hate it.
And yet you went and looked that up specifically
Probably getting ready to hand DOWNTOWN+ off to Daigo while Netflix swallows the whole thing up
You really never know
And with content-sharing deals with Netflix and all that, renewal numbers must be dropping quite a bit
Is there even anyone who wants to watch Daigo
Maybe if Kimutaku showed up out of nowhere subscribers would tick up
Even that's a stretch
He was dropping hints he might show up on Plus
Though even if he did, it probably wouldn't get much buzz
Background and Key Points of This Topic
‘DOWNTOWN+’ is a paid streaming service Hitoshi Matsumoto has been running since the period of reduced public appearances that followed the Shukan Bunshun reports in late 2023, and this casting of Chidori’s Daigo is the first piece of content for its 1st-anniversary celebration. The flood of comments pointing out low subscriber numbers and poor viewership can be read as the flip side of people’s interest in whether Matsumoto, since his comeback, has managed to recapture his old level of buzz. Some posts floated the idea that the service is ‘effectively disbanded,’ pointing to how rarely Masatoshi Hamada appears on it, but this could just as easily come down to programming or scheduling decisions, and nothing conclusive has actually been shown. It’s also worth keeping in mind that the idea of Yoshimoto grooming Daigo as ‘the next Matsumoto’ is speculation from bystanders, not something either man has actually said.
*This article is compiled by excerpting and summarizing the 5ch (Geinou Sokuhou+) thread “[Entertainment] Chidori’s Daigo Makes First Appearance on ‘DOWNTOWN+,’ ‘I Want to Talk Things Through With Hitoshi Matsumoto’ — Shares Drinks with Matsumoto.”
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