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The story
A regular thread popped up on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” (Anything-Goes Live Commentary board) for watching and live-commenting on the TV anime “Ojarumaru.” Early in the broadcast, commenters noticed the appearance of “Bicycle Old Man,” a perennial fixture in the show’s character popularity polls, reacting with lines like “Isn’t he like 4th place in the popularity poll?” — and chatter built around this minor character’s cameo. Partway through, a poster claiming to live in Kagawa Prefecture brought up local broadcast details, keeping the conversation rolling with the kind of niche trivia only a long-running anime produces. True to the thread’s title, most of it stayed “friendly,” though regulars traded some light jabs along the way.
What people said
For real? Isn't he like 4th place in the popularity poll?
He's already gone, you missed him
Back in the day I was the one who kept getting accused of "impersonating Okera!"
Wait, does Kagawa even air Ojarumaru?
Guess I can't actually comment on it after all
Well, the thread title itself has "minande" in it too (a pun — reads as "all together" but sounds like "don't even watch")
What do you mean, "mano"? (likely local dialect slang, unclear without more context)
https://yuyuyu.tv/daimankai/story/img/01/01_06.jpg
Maybe the night-shift folks went to bed
Background and Talking Points
“Ojarumaru” is a long-running anime that has aired on NHK Educational TV since 1998, and the culture of live-commenting on a broadcast in real time is specific to the “Nandemo Jikkyo G” board. A hallmark of these threads is that a side character’s standing in popularity polls — like “Bicycle Old Man” here — tends to spark conversation more readily than the main story, and this time his appearance kicked off the thread’s first wave of excitement. The conversation also touched on local broadcast details after a poster identifying as living in Kagawa Prefecture chimed in, though it’s worth noting this was just one commenter’s personal account and doesn’t guarantee the same broadcast applies uniformly across the prefecture. Meanwhile, the back half of the thread mixed in some identity-poking jabs and sexual remarks among apparent regulars, so those posts have been excluded from this article. On the whole, rather than splitting opinion over any single issue, the thread mostly consisted of casual chatter about characters and broadcasters.
※This article is compiled by excerpting and summarizing the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Let’s All Watch Ojarumaru Together and Commentate Nicely🏡.”
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