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On October 21, Travation, the agency representing railway YouTubers Saionji and ZAKI, posted an apology on its official X account titled “An Apology Regarding Inappropriate Conduct by Our Staff.” The agency came under fire after one of its staff members was found to have torn down a celebrity’s signed memorabilia displayed at a takoyaki shop in Osaka, calling the act “extremely rude and malicious” and reportedly handing down severe punishment to the staffer involved. The shop itself also issued an apology that same morning, stating “We consider this to be our own doing and our responsibility,” which split opinion on 5ch over whether the shop had consented to the sign’s removal or whether the staffer had acted on their own.
Railway YouTuber Saionji’s Agency Apologizes Over Takoyaki Shop Sign Removal — Staff Severely Punished for “Extremely Rude and Malicious Act” – YouTube News | Yutura
October 21, 2026, 19:00
Travation Co., Ltd., the agency representing railway YouTubers “Saionji” (910,000 subscribers) and “ZAKI” (310,000 subscribers), published a statement titled “An Apology Regarding Inappropriate Conduct by Our Staff” on its official X account on October 21.
Source: yutura.net / Original article here
What people said
Classic Kansai banter.
That joke's stone cold, pal. (mock old-Osaka dialect for "that's lame")
And ZAKI's apparently a regular salaryman on weekdays.
Those two are seen riding the same train a lot — guessing the agency was arranging that.
Isn't this the agency Saionji started himself?
So does that mean the shop agreed to having it taken down?
Sounds like it was the takoyaki shop that uploaded the video, so maybe they just thought it'd be funny?
"Nobody of note, worthless" — that's exactly the kind of line anonymous-forum posters love to throw around.
Not just in real life but online too, you're basically treated as a non-person.
Their job is riding the choo-choo and showing off how much they know.
I've seen a couple of Saionji's videos — one where he lived inside a train car for a week, and another where he basically lived at a station like he was homeless.
If anything, it's the older guy — the one who looks like he should have work experience and be setting a good example — who's the one causing trouble here lol
If they were just standing there laughing along, then there wasn't really a problem, was there…?
Couldn't agree more.
No doubt about it. People with no common sense are the scariest.
Toraneko's video concepts are good, but it's way too distracting when he keeps piling on useless trivia like "this city has a population of such-and-such" at every single stop.
There's something romantic about how a single driver can carry over 1,000 people on the Tokaido Shinkansen. Even a 747 only seats around 600 passengers, tops. (ウテシ, "utesh" — railway slang for train driver)
Pretty much, yeah.
Probably gave the okay. A sign from a YouTuber who isn't even that famous is just clutter anyway.
Suit's railway knowledge is amazing, but I cracked up at how bad his handwriting is whenever he explains stuff on the whiteboard. He should take a calligraphy class or something and learn to write neatly.
Background and Key Points of This Story
Railway YouTubers typically start out as solo creators, and even after forming an agency, many such operations keep growing while still run like a casual fan club behind the scenes. Travation appears to be a case where Saionji founded the agency himself, prompting commenters in the thread to suggest that “the executives are just his buddies” and that “the title has outpaced any actual work experience.” The real point of disagreement wasn’t whether tearing down the sign was wrong — that much was taken as a given — but rather how much the shop itself knew about or consented to it. The shop apologized, calling it “our own responsibility,” but there’s also information suggesting the shop was the one who uploaded the video, leaving open both the possibility that the removal was filmed and posted as a simple prank, and the possibility that the agency staffer acted entirely on their own. Based on the article alone, it’s impossible to say whether this rises to the level of legal property damage, and the agency’s apology statement stuck to the vague phrase “inappropriate conduct” without disclosing any specifics of the disciplinary action taken.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (Entertainment & Sports News+) thread “Railway YouTuber Saionji’s Agency Apologizes Over Takoyaki Shop Sign Removal — “Extremely Rude and Malicious Act”.”
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