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The story
On the night of the 25th, King Kong’s Ryohei Nishino posted a lengthy statement on his X account saying he was preparing a “notice of intent to sue” against Impulse’s Atsushi Tsutsumishita. On the thread, reactions focused less on whether the claims were true and more on “we can’t tell if this is a bit or if he’s serious,” sparking a mixed debate over Nishino’s comedic style and his recent popularity.
Nikkan Sports [August 26, 2026, 3:43 PM]
Ryohei Nishino Announces “Notice of Intent to Sue” Against Senior Comedian, Weighs Legal Action: “He Committed Violent Acts Against Me”
Ryohei Nishino (46), of the comedy duo King Kong, updated his X account on the night of the 25th, writing at length that he is considering “legal action” against Atsushi Tsutsumishita (48) of Impulse.
Source: nikkansports.com / Original article here
What people said
Comedians have no common sense to begin with.
Is this even supposed to be comedy?
Or is it another one of his usual smug, backhanded-politeness bits?
Can't you tell just from reading it?
It's obviously a bit and nothing else.
Oh, can the amateur please pipe down?
The article itself was so boring that this is the funniest thing in this whole thread, lol
Being able to dish it out AND take it — leave it to Nishino to be the only one who can pull that off.
Comedy where nobody actually gets hurt.
I mean, he's been showing up as a pair on Tsutsumishita's completely unpopular YouTube channel a lot lately.
Wait, it's Tsutsumishita?
Nishino's the one who's still got both feet planted firmly in the comedian world.
It's boring and way too long to be worth your time, so don't bother.
He's supposed to be smart — summarize it in fewer words.
A watered-down Reiwa-era version of Dacho Club's "I'll sue you!" bit (a famous catchphrase from the comedy trio Dacho Club).
Stop using X to air your personal complaints and gripes, lol
Sort it out directly with the person involved.
Fine, just go with that then — tear Nishino to pieces already.
He'll just assume it's haters talking, so ideally one of his own fans should break it to him quietly.
That fan would just get dogpiled and lynched by the rest of the fanbase.
Best policy: don't look, don't touch, don't bring it up.
Background and Key Points
King Kong is one of Japan’s best-known owarai (comedy) duos, and within Japan’s showbiz world seniority is strict: “senpai” comedians who debuted earlier are treated with public deference regardless of age, which is why Nishino (46) accusing Tsutsumishita (48) of Impulse of “violent acts” registers as unusually explosive — attacking a senior performer, especially in public, breaks an unwritten rule of the industry. A “notice of intent to sue” (訴訟予告) is normally a formal step before litigation, but Nishino announced his via a long personal post on X rather than through lawyers, which is the detail the thread fixated on.
The actual split in the thread wasn’t over whether Tsutsumishita did anything — almost no one engaged with that claim as fact. It was over genre: is this a real grievance or one of Nishino’s trademark long, oddly polite/backhanded “bit” posts, the kind he’s done with other comedians (Kajiwara was named) and reportedly performs together with Tsutsumishita on the latter’s YouTube channel. Posters also floated that the real target/collaborator might be Hitori Gekidan rather than Tsutsumishita at all, and compared the routine to Dacho Club’s classic “I’ll sue you!” catchphrase — a decades-old fake-lawsuit gag format.
What outside readers will likely miss is that “senior comedian did something terrible” call-outs have become their own subgenre lately (posters reference Panther’s Ogata’s earlier exposé), so audiences reflexively parse these posts as content/promotion rather than as news, which is exactly why almost nobody in the thread treated the assault claim as something to actually be concerned about.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “Ryohei Nishino Announces “Notice of Intent to Sue” Against Senior Comedian, Weighs Legal Action: “He Committed Violent Acts Against Me”.”
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