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The story
A thread on 5ch’s News VIP board (a freewheeling, anything-goes chat forum) celebrating the Dodgers’ advance to the NL Championship Series. The thread’s starter is a regular known by the emoticon handle (っ´ω`c), and the actual topic — Shohei Ohtani and the game itself — got sidelined almost immediately in favor of casual chatter between regulars. Talk soon turned to a poster’s relaunched YouTube channel and view-count updates, then exploded into a discussion of Showa-era (1960s-80s) Ultraman and kaiju gachapon (capsule-toy) collecting, complete with shared photos of the haul. Watching a baseball thread morph into a full-blown hobby chat session is the real draw here.
What people said
You've been starting a lot of threads lately
Guess you're in a good mood?
(っ´ω`c) Hey there. I guess I'm just bored enough to keep starting them. Though I'm not really in that great a mood, honestly.
(っ´ω`c) It's less that I like baseball and more that I like Ohtani-kun, I think… though I am into baseball video games.
(っ´ω`c) Hey, Gay-kun! Do you make YouTube videos or something!? (just this poster's handle, not a description)
(っ´ω`c) Huh? What is it?
(ꐦ·᷅ὢ·᷄ꐦ ) The Nobel Prize, for starters.
(っ´ω`c) Well… yeah, that is something worth celebrating.
(っ´ω`c) Sorry, but keep at what exactly?
(っ´ω`c) Nice, that'll get you to Platinum rank for sure.
(っ´ω`c) Ha-ha… what are you, a little kid?
(´;ω;`) So you like Shohei… I'm a degenerate gambler myself, so I kind of get where Ippei was coming from… (Ippei Mizuhara, Ohtani's former interpreter, was caught up in a gambling scandal)
(っ´ω`c) Wonder how Ippei's doing these days. Probably still behind bars, huh.
(´;ω;`) Yeah, I do! Just small-scale stuff though.
(っ´ω`c) Tell me your channel!
(´;ω;`) I actually retired once, but made a comeback recently.
https://youtube.com/@jyaku1919?si=J2sv5mra4JCwrMus
(っ´ω`c) Thanks for sharing! Your view counts are already in the four digits, that's impressive. You on X too?
(ꐦ·᷅ὢ·᷄ꐦ ) Brewers, drawers, whatever! (a pun — "Brewers" sounds like "drawers," old slang for women's underwear)
(っ´ω`c) Not interested in that one, pass.
(´;ω;`) Hehe, thanks~ ///… no, I'm not on X though…
(っ´ω`c) Your YouTube's great, you're putting in real effort with it. Cute thumbnails too — are those hand-drawn?
(´;ω;`) I'm 28~
Wish my family wasn't around for it.
(ꐦ·᷅ὢ·᷄ꐦ ) Then get outside and go to work.
(っ´ω`c) Maybe hold an offline meetup while your family's out.
(´;ω;`) That could work…!
(っ´ω`c) So what exactly do you do for this Ultraman hobby of yours?
(´;ω;`) Lately it's mostly collecting figures… I keep adding to the pile! I'm only into the Showa-era shows, but I've also been collecting the DVD box sets.
https://gzo.ai/i/Q7BChAm.jpg
(´･ω･`) …Is that a household Buddhist altar?
(っ´ω`c) Whoa! How much did this whole thing cost!?
(´;ω;`) They're gachapon capsule toys, so retail is 200-500 yen each. But some have gone up in resale value now, so a few go for around 2000 yen.
(っ´ω`c) Nice, you could fill a whole shelf with these. I figured you only collected Ultraman himself, but turns out you're into the kaiju too. Got a favorite monster?
(´;ω;`) Honestly, I like the kaiju even more! He's not in the photo from before, but this one — Bemstar — is my absolute favorite.
https://gzo.ai/i/4YdiL9C.jpg
Background and Key Points
This thread was ostensibly started to celebrate the Dodgers — Shohei Ohtani’s team — advancing to the NL Championship Series, but almost none of the discussion actually touches on the game or Ohtani’s performance. Instead it’s dominated by back-and-forth between VIP’s signature emoticon-handle regulars, drifting from a passing mention of Ohtani to the Nobel Prize, Google reward points, and an update on a relaunched YouTube channel. Things picked back up near the end with a deep dive into Ultraman and kaiju gachapon (capsule-toy) collecting, including the detail that figures originally priced at 200-500 yen now fetch around 2000 yen on the resale market — a glimpse into the collecting scene among fans of classic Showa-era tokusatsu shows. Judging by the title alone, this looks like a baseball news thread, but the content is really just everyday small talk between emoticon-handle regulars — something you’d only catch by reading past the headline.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News VIP) thread “(っ´ω`c) Congrats Dodgers on Advancing to the NL Championship Series.”
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