Japan Reacts

Author: Japan Reacts Editorial

  • Hololive’s ‘ViVi’ Rating Survey Sparks Buzz — 5ch: ‘She’s the Strongest VTuber, Inside and Out!’

    In a late-night thread on 5ch’s “Anything Goes Live G” board, as tempting food photos and doodles kept piling up one after another, a long post praising the appeal of Hololive VTuber “Juufuutei Raden, now ViVi” appeared and split opinion among the thread’s regulars. In between, news broke that ‘Atelier Resleriana’ would be ending service, and word spread of 7-Eleven’s discount sale on ‘Kara-age Bo’ fried chicken sticks — giving the thread the lively, all-over-the-place feel typical of a general chat board.

    6AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:51
    https://asset.watch.impress.co.jp/img/hbw/docs/2136/021/018.jpg
    13AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:52
    Eat up 🥹
    19AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:53
    Re: #13
    I hate curry like this
    16AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:52
    Want this so bad 😭
    https://hobby.dengeki.com/ss/hobby/2026/08/S__78430273_0_JA7UUQTOnGtVmAV217-vegQXZ_x8Mt5f_6mmLfNx4lyfqJs6YfiNkfEIuQvcOmfYx.jpg
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    17AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:53
    😨😨😨

    59AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:04
    Re: #17
    BWAHAHA!!!
    23AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:55
    Slurped that down, so delicious
    28AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:56
    66AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:04
    Re: #28
    Raden-chan 😍
    30AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:57
    That guilty pleasure from shupideso is irresistible, huh ☺ (a running in-joke on this thread)
    https://dec.2chan.net/up2/src/fu7175578.webp
    https://dec.2chan.net/up2/src/fu7175583.webp
    31AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:58
    Thanks for this 🏠 reserved for the employed
    35AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:59
    Re: #31
    That'll bring some peace 👍
    32AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:58
    41AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:00
    What is this place 👊🏽👴🏽👊🏽
    69AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:05
    Re: #41
    Daboujii's HEEERE ━━━━(°∀°)━━━━!!
    47AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:01
    Spotted the shupideso 😍
    https://dec.2chan.net/up2/src/fu7175601.webp
    https://dec.2chan.net/up2/src/fu7175602.webp
    51AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:02
    Convenience store chain 7-Eleven is running a sale on its popular counter-side snacks, the "Kara-age Bo" fried chicken sticks and "American Dog" corn dogs. The sale runs for five days starting August 27.

    Both items get a 30-yen discount: the "Kara-age Bo" (normally 184 yen) drops to 154 yen, and the "American Dog" (normally 139 yen) drops to 109 yen. *Prices are before tax
    https://www.sej.co.jp/library/contents/cmp/kshs2608_2/img/KV_kshs2608_2.jpg
    52AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:02
    Nice vibe in here.
    Dropping a set of Hololive summer Fu-tan (Shirakami Fubuki) pics I really love












    60AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:04
    Wha-nyat is this thing!
    61AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:04
    Re: #60
    Vroom vroom-boom! 🐧
    65AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:04
    Re: #61
    Knock-knock-knock-knock-knock ✊
    67AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:05
    Re: #61
    Unchapuryapurya!
    73AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:06
    74AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:06
    Re: #73
    Pecowa 😍 (baby-talk for Pekora)
    76AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:07
    Re: #73
    So yummyyy 🥺
    80AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:08
    Sparkling, radiant ViVi

    • A natural charmer who's won over even Pekora — someone with notoriously high walls up — and keeps churning out top-tier Peko-ViVi content as a result
    • Her real personality is top-class cute, and on top of that, she's got a huge chest
    • Not a single shady rumor has ever surrounded her, even back in her previous incarnation — her name never even came up when Gaasyy was exposing dirt on a certain idol group
    • Has a voice and way of talking that's just easy on the ears
    • Also a strong streamer — she's even had the No. 1 total monthly stream time in all of Hololive



    Seriously, what's everyone's problem with ViVi? Why won't you rate her higher?
    88AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:10
    Re: #80
    She's the strongest VTuber, inside and out!
    94AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:12
    Sorry, I'm devoted to Rui-nee (Takane Lui) only 🥺
    114AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:14
    Atelier Resleriana @Atelier_Resleri
    [Important Notice (1/2)]

    We regret to inform you that, entirely at our own discretion, "Atelier Resleriana" will be ending service as of 2026/11/25 16:00.

    We deeply apologize for the suddenness of this announcement.
    Please check the link below for details on what happens next.
    https://www.gamecity.ne.jp/atelier/resleriana/topics/20260827.html

    #AtelierResleriana
    https://ohayua.cyou/card_img/2090389062398132224/Ey7f_cy-.jpg#.jpg
    https://x.com/Atelier_Resleri/status/2092811276724691395
    117AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:15
    Eat up 👴🏿
    122AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:15
    Re: #117
    Ho-no-chee 😰

    *This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Anything Goes Live G) thread “Yare yare nano rane…¯⁠\⁠_⁠(・o・🍬)_⁠/⁠¯🏰”.

  • Ryukoku University Baseball Team Suspended Over Violence, Theft, and Inappropriate Videos — 5ch: “The Conclusion Is It’s Not Working”

    Ryukoku University’s baseball team has been handed a one-month suspension over violence against underclassmen, theft of money and underwear, and the in-dorm sharing of videos showing players defecating in a river. It later emerged that new violence occurred even after an earlier incident came to light in 2025 and preventive measures were supposedly put in place. On 5ch, users criticized the leniency of the punishment — with comments like “banning outside games is basically the standard move for baseball scandals now” — and questioned whether the organization has a culture that keeps problems from reaching those at the top.

    Ryukoku University Baseball Team Suspended — “What Happened?” The Truth Behind the Violence, Theft Cover-up, and Inappropriate Videos – coki (Koki)

    2026.08.27

    What exactly was going on inside Ryukoku University’s baseball team? Punching and kicking underclassmen. A string of thefts in the dorm — money and underwear — with more than 20 victims. And videos of players defecating in a river, shared among the team in the dorm. What’s more, new violence occurred even after an earlier incident came to light in 2025 and preventive measures were put in place. At a storied program with 29 championships in the Kansai Big Six Baseball League, why couldn’t the problems be stopped?

    Source: coki.jp / Original article here

    5AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:50
    >Filmed themselves defecating in a river, then multiple guys watched it together on the dorm TV
    Scat-fetish baseball players or something…
    7AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:50
    Violence just comes with the territory in baseball
    If you don't like it, don't play
    11AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:54
    Does playing baseball give you brain damage?
    12AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:55
    Yakult's Yamamoto Itsuki was the coach a while back, huh
    Sounds like Yakult's Hongo Hiroki is the coach now
    75AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:16
    Re: #12
    Maybe the team's gone off the rails because it's all Yakult connections?
    Former Yakult player Furuno Masato arrested on the spot for drunk driving after hitting two oncoming cars — "We will respond strictly per our rules," team says; he's been a Ryukoku baseball coach since 2025
    https://hochi.news/articles/20260318-OHT1T51467.html?page=1
    13AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:55
    A ridiculously light punishment designed not to hurt their league standing
    They pulled all this and still only got a 1-month ban that dodges the league games…
    15AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:56
    Ryukoku always struck me as full of unusually well-raised, modest students
    Well, troublemakers turn up everywhere I guess
    18AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:57
    Lawless zone, lol
    That's the real charm of "yakyu" (baseball, using the mocking slang term)
    19AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:57
    And these are college students…
    Japan's club culture is seriously broken, needs to be torn down and rebuilt
    38AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:03
    Re: #19
    You really think stuff like this doesn't happen in America??
    21AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:59
    Baseball's always life-or-death
    A hard wooden bat smashes into your head and kills you
    Hard rock-like projectiles are constantly flying around, even hitting spectators
    22AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:59
    Re: #1
    This is straight-up criminal
    A 1-month suspension is way too lenient, garbage university
    23AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:59
    And baseball's the one sport where this doesn't even get the team disbanded, just a 1-month time-out
    25AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:01
    [Baseball] 5 Asahi University baseball players referred to prosecutors… homeless man killed — around 10 people, including minors, allegedly involved in "past rock-throwing" incidents
    http://hayabusa9.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/mnewsplus/1587801801/
    26AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:01
    Please stop pooping in rivers
    You're literally acting like pigs
    28AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:01
    >"This also points to a deeper organizational problem — whether there was ever a proper system for reporting issues up the chain when they occurred."

    There's usually a reason things don't get reported up the chain, though
    Telling the higher-ups is pointless, it just makes things more of a hassle once it does get reported, and when the higher-ups get involved it ends up worse for the victim
    Happens all the time
    39AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:03
    Re: #28
    Same thing happens in court cases
    They cook up some vague, nitpicky logic
    And it ends up not making sense
    44AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:04
    Re: #28
    >"Even after violence came to light in 2025 and prevention measures were put in place, new violence occurred"

    The conclusion's already clear: it's not working
    30AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:01
    Baseball doesn't involve enough physical activity, so they can't burn off their energy
    36AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:02
    The Buddhist teachings clearly haven't sunk in at all
    42AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:04
    Re: #36
    Fitting for a Jodo Shinshu Hongwanji-ha university — they've really taken the "even the wicked are saved" teaching (akunin shoki) to heart
    48AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:06
    Banning outside games during the off-season is basically the standard playbook for baseball scandals at this point
    56AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:09
    Re: #48
    Truly rotten to the core
    The fact that neither baseball insiders nor fans treat this as a problem tells you everything about where they're coming from
    49AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:06
    >"They filmed an inappropriate video at a river in Shiga Prefecture. On a separate occasion, they filmed a similar video again, then played it on the dorm living room TV for multiple people to watch together."

    Name the river already
    It'll be too disgusting to use after this
    51AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:08
    Re: #49
    If it's Shiga, it all comes back around eventually
    Everyone in Kansai's drinking that water anyway
    Bit late to worry about it now, no?
    57AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:10
    Repeated underwear thefts…

    What are you even gonna do with a pile of stolen guys' underwear?
    60AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:11
    Re: #57
    You know exactly what you're implying, lol
    61AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:11
    School sports teams can get disbanded over this stuff, and it can derail the lives of the serious teammates who did nothing wrong — yet the scandals never stop. Must be because the punishments aren't harsh enough.
    70AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:15
    Re: #61
    The players at these baseball-focused schools probably think "if we didn't play, the school would go under"
    66AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:14
    Re: #1

    If you're talking Tokyo equivalent

    It's Komazawa University
    104AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:23
    Re: #66
    Six of one, half a dozen of the other, but I'd say Kokugakuin over "Idiot Komazawa" (Ahokoma)
    69AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:15
    The underclassmen should just file a police report
    Need to blow this up bigger or these guys will never reflect on what they did
    72AnonymousAug 27, 2026 12:15
    Re: #69
    Do that and you'll get bullied and benched

    *This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Kansai] Ryukoku University Baseball Team Suspended — “What Happened?” The Truth Behind the Violence, Theft Cover-up, and Inappropriate Videos.”

  • Loch Ness Monster Sightings Already Hit 13 in 2026 — 5ch: “It’s a Vital Tourism Resource”

    Tourists at Scotland’s Loch Ness have reported a wave of Nessie sightings, with the tally for 2026 already reaching 13 reports. The thread buzzed with debate over whether the sightings are genuine, accounts of how other cryptids like Bigfoot and Tsuchinoko (a legendary snake-like creature from Japanese folklore) were later exposed as hoaxes, and a rundown of “-ssie”-named lake monsters found around the world.

    Tourists at Scotland’s Loch Ness have reported a series of sightings of the mysterious creature known as Nessie. New accounts include a report of a “head and tail” seen in the water and testimony describing a “mysterious shadow.”

    [Photo] Is activity surging this year? Sightings keep piling up at Loch Ness

    As of July, the 2026 sighting count had already reached 7, but further reports added to the “Official Loch Ness Monster Sightings Register” have pushed this year’s total to 13 so far. The latest entry, logged on July 27, comes from John Wallace and Jamie Wallace, visitors from Renfrewshire, Scotland, who reported a possible encounter with Nessie.

    Source: yorozoonews.jp / Read the original article here

    2AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:24
    Come to think of it, you don't hear about crop circles at all anymore
    20AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:31
    Re: #2
    Pretty sure some people already came forward and admitted it was their own prank
    92AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:04
    Re: #2
    Guess UFO performance specs have improved too
    203AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:29
    Re: #2
    One showed up on the top of my head recently (joking about a bald spot)
    6AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:25
    Just how long-lived is Nessie supposed to be anyway? She's gotta be over 100 by now
    130AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:34
    Re: #6
    Apparently some kinds of clams live that long too
    16AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:28
    We all know it's staged, but
    it's funny how nobody ever tries to actually settle it with real science
    26AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:34
    Re: #20
    Both the crop circles and that famous Nessie photo —
    the people behind them already confessed
    51AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:42
    Re: #26
    So Tsuchinoko and Bigfoot are both fake too?
    What a letdown
    135AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:39
    Re: #51
    Apparently the Bigfoot footage was staged by someone wearing a costume.
    As for Tsuchinoko, people point out it's suspicious that its appearance keeps changing depending on the era.
    The latest theory is that people were probably just mistaking a cat lying flat on the ground for it.
    210AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:36
    Re: #51
    Tsuchinoko is probably just a snake mistaken for something else while it's got prey in its belly (making it look bulged)
    Bigfoot, lol, just a prank
    42AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:39
    Isn't she like 100 years old or something by now?
    46AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:40
    Didn't the original discoverer confess on his deathbed that it was all a lie?
    Well, it's become a tourism cash cow at this point, so they can't exactly stop now lol
    44AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:40
    There was also that cattle "mootilation" phenomenon, remember
    55AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:45
    Re: #44
    What's "mootilation"?
    71AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:54
    If one's found in Lake Ashi, does that make it "Asshie"?
    99AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:10
    Re: #71
    The world's "-ssies"
    Asshie (Japan, Lake Ashi)
    Issie (Japan, Lake Ikeda)
    Ojasshie (Japan, Ojaga Pond)
    Kusshie (Japan, Lake Kussharo)
    Chusshie (Japan, Lake Chuzenji)
    Tessie (USA, Lake Tahoe)
    Tosshie (Japan, Lake Toya)
    New Nessie (off the coast of New Zealand)
    Nessie (Scotland, Loch Ness)
    Hasshie (Japan, Hashima City)
    Bessie (USA, Lake Erie)
    Hossie (USA, Lake Hodges) *also known as Hodgee
    Mini-Nessie (England)
    Messie (USA, Lake Murray)
    Mossie (Japan, Lake Motosu)
    73AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:54
    Rough life when even Scotland's tourism board has to keep milking this old legend
    184AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:12
    Re: #73
    Yeah, when you actually go to Inverness there's a ton of Nessie merch for sale lol
    And the buses to Loch Ness are always packed — it really is a vital tourism resource.
    87AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:03
    That's me

    https://imgur.com/Q2U7YEW.jpeg
    133AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:36
    The original sighting and photo that kicked off the whole Nessie legend were all fabricated — the guy admitted it right before he died
    Yep, case closed
    170AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:05
    Re: #133
    The one that actually started it was Hugh Gray's photo (1933)
    That's a different thing from the "Surgeon's Photograph" model shot
    134AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:38
    I could grill someone for an hour straight about where a creature that massive even gets the energy to keep itself alive
    139AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:40
    Re: #134
    Well if we're going there, you could just as easily ask how Japan's current finances are supposed to cover that kind of budget — tax cuts and the numbers clearly don't add up either
    I do think the target of "occult" belief has been shifting from cryptids and UFOs to politics lately
    138AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:40
    Hate to burst the bubble, but the plesiosaur that Nessie is supposedly modeled on isn't even a dinosaur's descendant — the true direct descendants of dinosaurs are alive worldwide today, as birds…
    141AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:42
    Re: #138
    And finding out a plesiosaur basically had a sea-turtle-sized body with a long neck stuck on totally killed the fantasy for me
    143AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:42
    Don't forget about Issie either
    150AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:51
    Re: #143
    Never heard of that one
    If we're talking Japan it's gotta be Kusshie from Lake Kussharo
    Or was it Lake Kutcharo? Can't remember
    158AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:56
    180AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:09
    Back in the day there were even sightings of it walking near people's houses
    With underwater drones these days you could fake as many sightings as you want
    It's pretty much done for as a mystery
    187AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:15
    Re: #180
    Right, right
    There was even a report of it crossing a road, wasn't there
    Here's the sketch from that one
    Doesn't look anything like a plesiosaur
    193AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:21
    Sighted on land while driving around Loch Ness
    A sketch of Nessie from that report
    199AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:25
    Re: #193
    There was real romance to it back in the day
    205AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:30
    Scoop

    *This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Breaking News+) thread “[Cryptid] Mysterious Sightings Keep Piling Up at Loch Ness — 2026 Reports Already at 13, What’s Behind the Surge?.”

  • Mitsubishi UFJ Makes Amex Platinum Free for ¥30 Million Balances — New ‘Emmet’ Brand Targets the Wealthy

    Mitsubishi UFJ Bank has announced “Emmet Excellent Club,” a membership program for wealthy clients built around a ¥30 million deposit balance, which will let qualifying members get an Amex Platinum card for free starting in March 2027. On the forum, comments ranged from “¥30 million is a low bar for a ‘wealthy’ program” and “isn’t this just a rehash of the service Mizuho scrapped five years ago?” to a split debate over whether Amex Platinum itself is even worth having.

    Mitsubishi UFJ Bank has announced “Emmet Excellent Club,” a membership program for wealthy clients centered on customers’ deposit balances, launching in March 2027. The bank also announced a digital inheritance platform, “Emmet Souzoku” (“Emmet Inheritance”), set to launch in the second half of fiscal 2026, expanding the reach of “Emmet,” which is billed as covering customers for their entire lives.

    “Emmet” launched in June 2025 as a new financial services brand representing a major overhaul of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group’s (MUFG) retail services. Its defining feature is that services are planned and developed across group companies’ domains — cards, trusts, securities, and more.

    Since Emmet launched, activity across areas like bank account openings, card issuance, and brokerage account openings has grown significantly year-over-year, with Tadashi Yamamoto, MUFG Executive Managing Officer and Head of the Retail & Digital Business Group / Group CDTO, describing it as “a strong foundation for the next stage of evolution.”

    Source: watch.impress.co.jp / Original article here

    2AnonymousAug 27, 2026 03:19
    So even someone who's failed a card screening before is fine as long as they deposit ¥30 million?
    16AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:12
    Re: #2
    Bank-affiliated cards have traditionally been aimed at the self-employed and business owners — this is similar thinking.
    As for people on a regular salary—
    3AnonymousAug 27, 2026 03:37
    I think it means putting up a deposit of around ¥20 million.
    Well, I don't actually know the real figure, but within the deposit range you can spend freely.
    If the balance runs low, they'll ask you to top it up.
    4AnonymousAug 27, 2026 05:27
    What about free transfers?
    5AnonymousAug 27, 2026 06:20
    ¥30 million is kind of low for this day and age, isn't it?
    Even I've got that much, and I'm 27 and graduated from a bottom-tier university ("F-rank").
    15AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:10
    Re: #5
    Only if you've deposited it with the MUFG group, though.
    Isn't the main target here Mitsubishi group employees and retirees?
    If you use SBI, Sumitomo Mitsui's "Olive" service has started something similar, so you could just go with that instead.
    I wonder if Rakuten has anything comparable.
    6AnonymousAug 27, 2026 06:36
    Who'd be dumb enough to park ¥30 million in a bank!
    7AnonymousAug 27, 2026 06:49
    Only ¥30 million for a "wealthy clients" program?
    8AnonymousAug 27, 2026 07:07
    Mizuho Bank used to issue Amex Platinum for a ¥30 million deposit, but they killed it 5 years ago.
    So Mitsubishi UFJ is just ripping that off and starting it up again?
    Premium banking perks for big depositors kept getting axed one after another as deposit rates fell — and now that rates are rising, the banks are all bringing them back?
    10AnonymousAug 27, 2026 07:14
    Re: #8
    Big depositors are profitable for the bank not just by parking money, but by taking out loans to build a house or start a business.
    But during the low-rate era, they did absolutely nothing.
    Once the economy improved and rates rose, they started borrowing again (for condo investment purposes).
    9AnonymousAug 27, 2026 07:08
    Don't need Amex.
    Make a Mastercard Platinum instead.
    11AnonymousAug 27, 2026 07:17
    A system where the rich just keep getting richer.
    13AnonymousAug 27, 2026 07:43
    Re: #11
    Professor Piketty already said that's just how the world works.
    The gap only narrows during wars and major disasters.
    17AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:12
    Re: #11
    The BOJ's quantitative easing under Abenomics, and the pandemic-era handouts for households exempt from resident tax, were both policies that hugely benefited people who already had assets.

    If you actually wanted to fix inequality, cutting income tax is the only way — but Japan has just kept effectively raising income taxes instead.
    12AnonymousAug 27, 2026 07:41
    ¥30 million just sitting there unused — some kind of wealthy person?
    Maybe they've got a huge stash of other assets too.
    33AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:24
    Re: #12
    If they're leaving that much in liquid assets alone, there's probably around 10x that behind it.
    14AnonymousAug 27, 2026 07:49
    I've got my savings spread across five banks, ¥12 million each.

    Every one of them runs preferential treatment and campaigns, but they're all way too lame.
    18AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:14
    Sounds like the name "Mobit" (a consumer cash-loan brand).
    19AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:30
    This is nice.
    I'd want to use Yahoo or Rakuten cards for everyday spending, and Amex Platinum just for airport lounges.
    25AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:30
    Re: #19
    Airport lounges are kind of a joke — all you get for free is udon or soba.
    20AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:42
    We live in a dumb world where depositing loose change costs a fee, so you can't exactly deposit ¥30 million worth of coins.
    23AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:59
    Re: #20
    ATMs let you deposit up to 100 coins a day fee-free, so I walk over there every single day — doubles as exercise.
    21AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:46
    Weigh that against having your address, name, date of birth, and family details sold off to shady "yami-baito" crews (anonymous "dark part-time job" gangs used for burglary and scam recruiting).
    22AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:56
    So Amex Platinum is the kind of card they just hand out for free at that level now. They've cheapened the brand.
    24AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:29
    Does Amex Platinum actually have any real perks?
    There's stuff like credits if you stay at hotels costing ¥500,000+, but none of it feels appealing at all.
    32AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:21
    Re: #24
    If you don't regularly use high-end hotels and restaurants or travel often, the card has zero value for you — so it feels like most Japanese people just aren't the target audience.
    26AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:46
    If anything it's an embarrassing card to carry. If it's supposed to be for the wealthy, the bar should start at ¥300 million.
    27AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:54
    Even with ¥30 million, I'd spread it across multiple accounts.
    28AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:01
    It's just the UFJ Amex Platinum.
    Not much different from the Saison Amex Platinum.
    29AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:03
    Re: #25
    Real connoisseurs go for the karaage (fried chicken) and curry.
    31AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:18
    Re: #29
    Seriously?
    What an incredible perk.
    It's all-you-can-eat!
    36AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:43
    Re: #31
    Too much vegetable oil and you'll get cancer.
    Go with sushi instead.
    30AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:11
    Carrying this around just makes you a target.
    34AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:42
    The era of banks locking in the wealthy.
    35AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:43
    Rather than hoarding ¥30 million just for show, I'd put it in a brokerage account where it actually earns money.
    37AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:45
    I forget if it was JAL or ANA, but I think their international first-class lounge had all-you-can-eat sushi too.
    38AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:46
    If you've got around ¥10 million moving in and out for payments, it's not strange to also have ¥30 million sitting in the account.
    It wouldn't make sense to put money you're actively moving in and out of into a brokerage account either.
    This is the kind of story aimed at that type of wealthy person — nothing to do with vanity.
    39AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:50
    Amex has been pushing the Platinum card really hard lately.
    A free one like the one in this article is fine, but with the regular annual fee being so high, it feels like the only people who'd actually get their money's worth are business people constantly flying overseas.
    40AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:05
    Re: #39
    People who pay the full annual fee for Platinum probably aren't thinking about "getting their money's worth" in the first place.

    *This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Business News+) thread “[Credit Cards] Mitsubishi UFJ Makes Amex Platinum Free at a ¥30 Million Balance — “Emmet” Wealthy-Client Strategy.”

  • Tattooed AV Actress Reacts to Poor Sales — 5ch Debates the ‘Four Mood-Killer Accessories’

    A thread on 5ch’s livestream-commentary board picked up on news that a tattooed AV actress is down in the dumps over disappointing sales. The discussion took off around whether tattoos themselves are the real problem, or whether opinions split between small accent tattoos and full traditional Japanese (“wabori”) ink.

    1AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:08
    Why do Japanese people hate tattoos so much?
    2AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:09
    I think they're hot.
    Guess a lot of guys just have some pretty rigid preconceptions.
    3AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:09
    The skin is what gets you excited, so if it's covered in ink it's like she never even took her clothes off.
    4AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:10
    If she got gangbanged by 10 guys, I'd watch it.
    5AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:11
    Is it even the tattoos that are the problem in the first place?
    6AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:11
    Tattoos
    Piercings
    Nail art

    The Four Heavenly Kings of Mood-Killing AV Accessories
    7AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:11
    Some pretentious 'artsy' tattoo or full traditional ink is just visual noise to me.
    Now if she got an 'inmon' (a fictional lewd magic-circle tattoo trope) or filthy words like 'Piggy Cum Dump' inked on her, I'd rub one out to that.
    11AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:12
    Tattoos on women specifically — please, just stop.
    12AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:12
    I want to see the body, and a picture on it just gets in the way. Same with that background music you get in a lot of overseas videos — that's a no too. It's distracting. When you're getting off, even your favorite song turns into something worse than garbage.
    35AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:21
    Re: #12
    Can't help it — overseas stuff gets released packaged like a music video.
    15AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:14
    You narrowed your own market and now you're bummed about it?
    Guess people who get tattoos really are idiots.
    16AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:14
    Shaved-side undercut
    Plastic surgery monster
    Ever-multiplying tattoos

    Feels like most of these girls just swapped their wrist-cutting scars for ink.
    17AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:14
    Tattoos aside, a sunburnt 'grilled squid arm' (deep, uneven tan) really does it for me.
    19AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:14
    Something cute like a little heart is fine, but full-on traditional ink, spiders, or skulls — that's a real mood-killer.
    20AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:14
    Sena Rumina, though — she's still fappable.
    21AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:16
    Whether it sells comes down to
    whether it's actually hot or not.
    22AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:16
    I'd honestly like to watch a woman who gets more tattoos with every new release.
    23AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:16
    Also, there were tattooed women who basically looked like an artist's practice canvas.
    25AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:17
    I mean, 'damaged goods' just gets disliked across the board, doesn't it?
    26AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:18
    Overseas, a small accent tattoo is totally normal though.
    39AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:22
    Way too gross
    50AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:25
    Way too scary
    https://tadaup.jp/8l4ytkla.jpg
    https://tadaup.jp/8o0uoZb1.jpg
    56AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:26
    Re: #50
    A full-back piece like that gives me a reptile-level sense of disgust.
    57AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:27
    Re: #50
    Full traditional ink gives off way too strong a 'yakuza's woman' vibe — can't get off to that.
    77AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:41
    Re: #50
    Gross
    Looks like fish scales or reptile skin
    People actually get turned on looking at that?
    61AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:28
    Anyway, if you don't have a tattoo yet, go get one
    All the young people have tattoos these days.
    70AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:34
    Re: #61
    Only monkeys have tattoos, dude.
    79AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:42
    Seeing it in person just makes your brain reflexively go to a bad place, and that's a dealbreaker for me.
    83AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:46
    If it were family, sure, but I'm surprised people care this much about the tattoo of someone they're just watching on a screen.
    Also don't get threads like Re: #1 that stir up hate without even linking a source.
    94AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:52
    Re: #83
    Fanning the flames like that makes you just as guilty.
    Can't you just ignore it?


    Oh wait — this is a self-posted affiliate thread, isn't it.
    97AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:55
    If you think tattoos are hot, you should just scribble all kinds of stuff on your body with a marker every day.
    Why does it have to be a permanent one-shot tattoo?
    101AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:57
    Re: #97
    Stickers that match your mood that day would work too, but for some reason that just feels lame.
    99AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:56
    C'mon, at least let a small accent tattoo slide.
    104AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:00
    Re: #99
    I don't mind letting it slide, but
    I've got no intention of paying money to watch an AV starring a tattooed actress.

    *This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Tattooed AV Actress Bummed Out Over Low Sales.”

  • Becky Names the Celebrity She’s ‘Conscious Of’ — A Former Rival

    During the popular “Nani wo Kiku Nen” segment on MBS’s variety show Tsukai! Akashiya Denshidai, Becky reportedly revealed the name of the celebrity she’s “conscious of.” On 5ch, names like Mari Yaguchi, Chinatsu Wakatsuki, and Mariko Shinoda came up, sparking discussion about their standing in the entertainment industry at the time and the truth behind their rivalries.

    Becky Names the Celebrity She’s “Conscious Of” — A Former Rival

    TV personality Becky appears on MBS TV’s Tsukai! Akashiya Denshidai (airing Saturdays at 3:00 PM, Kansai local broadcast) on the 29th, chatting with host Sanma Akashiya.

    In the show’s signature segment “Nani wo Kiku Nen,” where 50 members of the studio audience get to question the guest, each audience member writes down the name of a celebrity they think they resemble on a spinning “name board.” Sanma picks out a celebrity name that catches his interest, the audience member who wrote it shares their own story, and then poses a question directly to the guest.

    Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

    2AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:49
    Mari Yaguchi, Becky, Ruriko Kojima
    5AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:51
    Apparently her husband's a pro baseball player. Had no idea lol
    107AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:08
    Re: #5
    He played for the Seibu Lions and the Giants
    Kataoka Yasu

    He was a good-looking player I liked, so it was a shock he got snagged by someone like Becky
    7AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:52
    Chinatsu Wakatsuki is one of Sanma's favorites, after all.
    Becky's being calculating dropping that name — typical calculating Becky.
    10AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:54
    Chinatsu Wakatsuki's talk skills are on a whole different level,
    so going up against her on that front is a losing battle.

    It's Wentz. (i.e., entertainer Eiji Wentz)
    31AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:12
    Re: #10
    Becky's pretty good at it too, though
    32AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:12
    Re: #10
    Becky's pretty good at it too, though
    13AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:56
    Wakatsuki's talk skills are on a completely different tier
    14AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:56
    Does Sanma still think he's running a rehab factory for scandal-hit celebrities?
    15AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:56
    It would've been funnier if she'd said Mari Yaguchi
    18AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:58
    Re: #15
    Yaguchi wins since she didn't end up sticking it out with that Gesu whatshisname guy lol (ref. Gesu no Kiwami Otome affair scandal)
    64AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:37
    Re: #15
    That story on Ariyoshi Quiz where Yaguchi ran into Becky in private and the two of them bonded over it was hilarious
    16AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:57
    For someone who screwed up that badly, she's not committed enough to playing the disgraced clown
    24AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:03
    Re: #16
    Mariko Shinoda playing villain roles in dramas is terrifyingly perfect casting
    25AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:04
    Re: #24
    In "Ochitara Owari" (If You Fall, It's Over) there's a scene next week where she tries to jump off an apartment building
    27AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:07
    Re: #24
    Mariko Shinoda is basically a late-night drama regular at this point
    Feels like every season, on any network, she's always in some late-night drama involving cheating — either as the cheater or the cheated-on
    36AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:16
    Wakatsuki hasn't had any scandals
    She's a likability monster
    It's impressive she climbed all the way up to become the queen of commercials
    37AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:17
    There aren't many examples of a female talent staging a comeback like this
    Masayuki Shunou's judgment was spot on
    54AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:32
    Why is this person still blacklisted from TV?
    63AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:36
    Re: #54
    Nah, she's on TV and radio plenty
    56AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:32
    When Spike Matsuura appeared on a big show, he introduced himself with "I can still get angry about stuff from years ago," trying to leave an impression.
    After he finished telling his story, Wakatsuki asked him "When was that?" and he answered "Eight years ago," which got a huge laugh.
    It's a story about how sharp Wakatsuki is.
    The impressive part is she didn't ask "how many years ago," she just asked "when" — and let his answer land the joke itself
    69AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:39
    Re: #56
    Chinatsu Wakatsuki's really got that comedic timing down
    60AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:34
    When Chinatsu Wakatsuki first made her comeback, she was kind of a hassle — refusing to appear on TV unless billed with her "company president" title, blowing up on Twitter when TBS's talent directory listed her name, stuff like that
    76AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:43
    Re: #60
    Was that the talent directory thing?
    Or maybe it's the one where Jun named Chinatsu Wakatsuki as the ex-girlfriend among the talents he'd dated that he regrets breaking up with
    78AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:46
    Wasn't she the one whose career ended over an affair?
    84AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:51
    Re: #78
    I feel like it wasn't the affair itself but the leaked LINE messages — which came off mocking and nasty — that were the final blow
    Though I always felt there was a gap between how the industry saw her likability and how the public did
    92AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:57
    Wakatsuki came up through swimsuit gravure modeling
    Becky's never done swimsuit gravure, so they don't really feel like rivals
    Wakatsuki's more in the same lane as Yoko Kumada, Yuko Ogura, that group
    103AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:05
    Re: #92
    And Becky never once appeared in London Boots' "Women Ranking Each Other" segment either —
    she just watched from a safe distance
    She had her own regular show the whole time, sitting comfortably in a stable position
    Don't act like you saw her as a rival now, that sounds fake too
    106AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:08
    After variety show tapings, apparently Becky, Wakatsuki, gravure idols, and other female talents would all meet up at a family restaurant on the way home
    and hold debrief sessions like "you should've answered that way instead," studying how to play it next time — that's why they're strong
    They're not like the Sakamichi/AKB48-type groups where the group is strong but individuals are weak on their own
    113AnonymousAug 27, 2026 11:11
    Re: #106
    Becky wasn't actually at those debrief sessions though

    *This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News Speed+) thread “[Entertainment] Becky Names the Celebrity She’s “Conscious Of” — A Former Rival.”

  • Post Urging Nintendo Fans to Ditch Nintendo for Chinese Hit ‘Genshin Impact’ Sparks Debate

    A thread on 5ch’s console-gaming board (the “Geha” board) argued that “Genshin Impact is fun, so drop your Nintendo-style games and switch over” — and the replies split sharply between agreement and pushback. The discussion spread into technical debates over Genshin’s storytelling and character polygon counts, as well as the current state of the PlayStation Store charts, where Chinese-made free-to-play titles dominate the top sales rankings.

    1AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:24
    Ever think about looking at the wider world?
    5AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:30
    Post even one short clip that actually shows why it's fun. All that comes through is a 'cute-girl petting zoo' (slang for gacha games stuffed with pretty female characters) and nothing else.
    61AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:20
    Re: #5
    There's no 'good or bad' for a game whose story is only around for a limited time, lol.
    It's funny how anyone who hasn't been following it since day one is just a newbie who only knows the story in disconnected fragments.
    102AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:28
    Re: #5
    It's a story-driven game, so a clip alone won't make it make sense — that's just not gonna work.
    https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2061922509772251136/vid/avc1/1920×1080/Ul4vcVPF6gtfQCQQ.mp4
    8AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:30
    If you were pushing NTE or ZZZ (Zenless Zone Zero) I'd get it, but Genshin at this point? Lol
    86AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:02
    Re: #8
    They already announced Mugendai's shutdown date, so recommending NTE is off the table now too, lol
    15AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:32
    Why do you want the Nintendo fanboys ("Nishi-kun") to approve of you so badly?
    16AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:32
    Re: #15
    Classic case of Nintendo-fanboy inferiority complex.
    36AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:53
    What's this 'reasonable Chinese game' thing supposed to mean? (a garbled pun on 'いい加減、中華ゲー' — 'seriously, just play Chinese games already')
    So you call it a 'kiddie game' and figured I'd fall for that special-needs-level logic, huh?
    77AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:42
    Re: #36
    Guess Japanese is just too hard for them.
    81AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:51
    Re: #36
    That's the tricky part about Japanese —
    with kanji, katakana, hiragana, and the Roman alphabet all mixed together,
    you can write without spacing words apart, which backfires sometimes.

    Unless you clearly write it as 'いい加減に中華ゲー〜' ("Seriously, Chinese games…"),
    it can end up reading as one single garbled word.
    43AnonymousAug 27, 2026 08:59
    The only reason people buy dedicated hardware to play games — objects that serve zero practical purpose — comes down to one thing: 'because it's fun.' There's no reason beyond that.

    What I don't get is this mindset of 'they probably secretly want to play it but are stubbornly holding back.' If someone won't play a game they could just play on their phone, the only explanation is 'they're not interested' — there's nothing more to it.
    44AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:02
    So the Nishi-kun living in your head never does what you want, and deep down he's this higher being whose approval you're desperate for someday, huh?
    Hope Nishi-kun gives you that approval one day.
    57AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:17
    For reference, Genshin's character polygon counts run about 20,000 for early characters, and only recently hit around 40,000 for newer ones.

    Monster Hunter Rise's characters run 20,000-30,000 polygons, so quality-wise Genshin could run just fine on Switch — assuming you actually had proper optimization behind it, of course.
    60AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:20
    Re: #57
    It's an open world that's already implemented 7 nations with over 100 playable characters, so it'd blow way past Switch specs, easily.
    58AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:18
    PlayStation is really the only market where free Chinese games dominate the top charts, right?
    They're up there on PC too, but PC has plenty of its own mainstream free titles.
    63AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:24
    Re: #58
    I figured the Epic Games Store — aka 'Tencent's Shop,' given Tencent's stake in it — would be Chinese-game territory too, so I checked,
    but Fortnite and Rocket League are sitting at the very top, so it's less of a total Chinese sweep than expected.
    59AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:20
    You're still playing Genshin?
    Move on to NTE and Wuthering Waves already.
    62AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:21
    Re: #59
    Those are both total trash games though.
    The story especially is a lost cause.
    64AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:25
    Re: #63
    That store runs discounts, so PC users spend their money there.
    66AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:29
    Re: #64
    It's not just cheap — there are also quite a few Chinese games there that aren't even on Steam.
    Though honestly Fortnite is so dominant it's basically 'Fortnite and everything else' at this point.
    68AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:38
    They're really not picky anymore, huh.
    Are they losing their audience and struggling financially or something?
    71AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:38
    But spending money on a mobile game through PlayStation has basically zero upside, and yet it's topping the charts — so which is it:
    are there just a ton of clueless spenders out there, or does the ranking itself not actually mean much?
    73AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:40
    Re: #71
    Both, honestly.
    Even a game like Pragmata managed to hold a top spot.
    76AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:41
    Genshin is basically the ultimate kiddie game.
    80AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:51
    Re: #76
    You think kids are actually the ones playing it?
    It's nothing but creepy, smirking ("nichaa" — internet slang for a creepy grin) middle-aged men.
    82AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:52
    Re: #80
    Genshin's main player base is people in their 20s and 30s.
    83AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:57
    Re: #82
    LMAO, and you call it a kiddie game!
    Meanwhile it's the 40- and 50-somethings playing Nintendo games.
    84AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:59
    Re: #82
    Wait, don't tell me you actually still think of yourself as a kid in your 20s or 30s…?
    90AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:04
    'Games' means proper pay-once titles.
    Free-to-play? Gacha? Nintendo doesn't recognize that garbage as gaming, idiot.
    101AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:26
    Re: #90
    You mean Pokémon Trading Card Game Pocket?
    91AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:07
    Wasn't the 'real' Elden Ring PC-only?
    Guess it's finally starting to get abandoned by Chinese gamers too.
    103AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:28
    Re: #101
    Pokémon Pocket doesn't even have gacha mechanics, though…
    106AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:29
    Re: #103
    Same old wordplay, right on schedule.

    ※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry, “Geha”) thread “Hey Nishi-kun, why not ditch the kiddie games and accept Chinese games already? Genshin’s fun, you know?“

  • Hello! Project Song of the Year 2026: Frontrunners Split Opinion — 5ch Says It’s ‘Kurakura vs. Wacha’

    Opinions split on a 5ch thread over the frontrunners for the Hello! Project Song of the Year 2026 award, with several titles thrown into the ring. Juice=Juice’s “Kurakura☆Climax,” Tsubaki Factory’s new song “Ai=Un+En+On” (lit. “Love = Luck + Bond + Gratitude”), “Dantotsu,” and “Wacha” all came up as contenders, with posters citing YouTube view counts and the growth of live-performance clips as evidence for their predictions. Some comments also brought up how the bloc-voting system works and pointed to past winning songs.

    1AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:03
    [Breaking] Tsubaki Factory's new song "Ai=Un+En+On" is genuinely great! It might just become the group's answer to Juice=Juice
    15 Anonymous 2026/08/27 (Thu) 07:16:39.80 0
    This year's Hello! Project Song of the Year lineup is stacked
    2AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:16
    No way it's Kurakura.
    3AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:18
    It's gotta be Wacha.
    4AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:22
    Tsubaki's lineup is just too weak this year.
    5AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:23
    Climax is the only real contender here — everything else is way too much of a dud song.
    39AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:21
    Re: #5
    Ku-ra-ku-raaa
    Cliiiimaaax

    So cheesy.
    6AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:25
    Just kidding — it's actually Ninmin Friends.
    7AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:26
    It's Dantotsu or Wacha.
    8AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:26
    Juice fans (Juice=Juice otaku) were trashing Kurakura as a crap song for the longest time,
    but it's really not that great a song either.
    In that sense, Dantotsu might deserve the top prize.
    Though it'll probably win by vote count anyway.
    9AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:28
    The fact that nobody's calling out the blank "A" slot says it all.
    10AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:28
    Kura or Mizari.
    11AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:30
    Probably Wacha~
    That one's just fun.
    12AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:30
    Dantotsu, hands down (get it — "dantotsu" literally means "by far"), 'cause Mikumiku looked so cool.
    13AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:30
    Don't know it well, but wasn't "Celebrate Celebrate" from this year? Or was it last year?
    77AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:38
    Re: #13
    That's from last year's album.
    14AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:31
    So Juice=Juice's just excluding every song after "Moremi," huh.
    15AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:33
    Depends on BEYOOOOONDS' B-side track.
    17AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:40
    Dantotsu didn't break out as much as people expected,
    so it'll probably come down to a battle between Kurakura and Ai=Un+En+On.
    18AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:43
    Looks like it's shaping up to be a head-to-head between Kurakura and Wacha.
    19AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:46
    Kurakura☆Climax
    Ai=Un+En+On
    Liar Liner
    Ninmin Friends

    That's my shortlist so far.
    20AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:53
    Dantotsu's got the golden combo — Aoi, who Hello! otaku love, paired with Shunsuke Suzuki.
    That's the strongest contender for the award.
    21AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:57
    Re: #20
    That combo's song "A Woman's Charm" only ranked 5th though — what's so "golden" about it?
    22AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:00
    To the general public it's Kurakura✩Climax,
    but among Hello! otaku, opinions are split.
    40AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:22
    Re: #22
    What "general public" are you even talking about.
    23AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:01
    They're still doing a Song of the Year award even though literally nobody wants it, lol.
    27AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:09
    Re: #23
    It's just gonna feed Izuhara's ego for nothing.
    26AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:08
    In the very first year, 2002, an album track by Tanpopo took first place.
    28AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:09
    Let's just merge it into one big "Dekabo" category and cut out the pointless fighting.
    29AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:13
    It's gotta be Kurakura, Burabare, or Amaenna — settled.
    30AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:13
    Ba-ba-ba-niraaa!!!! lmaooooo
    32AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:17
    I like Dantotsu, but I think it'll end up being Kurakura.
    33AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:18
    If it's Wacha, I'd say "High Tension" is actually the better-made track.
    Though honestly, neither one's really all that special anyway.
    37AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:20
    No music video, no shot at first place.
    38AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:21
    Re: #37
    The Hello! Project YouTube video that grew the most this year is the Kurakura☆Climax live clip.
    42AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:27
    Re: #37
    Kurakura Live: 3.24M
    Burabare Live: 2.5M
    Amaenna Live: 2.25M
    43AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:27
    Now that streaming's unlocked and Spotify numbers are visible to everyone, there's something charming about the Song of the Year still being decided by a small group of otaku brute-forcing it with bloc voting — like real "public opinion."
    44AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:30
    But Spotify's only like 40% of the total anyway.
    46AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:31
    It used to be Morning Musume。's bloc vote against everyone else, but starting this year Juice=Juice's bloc vote joins in too.
    51AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:33
    More like a changing of the guard than "joining," really —
    Morning Musume。's been weak for a while now.

    *This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “[Great News] Hello! Project Song of the Year 2026 Is Shaping Up to Be Seriously Strong lolololololololololololololololololololol.”

  • “Turn Your Crush Into a Porn Star”: Free AI Service Generates Fake Adult Videos From a Single Photo — Lawyer Says “No Law Can Stop It”

    A free service that can swap faces onto adult video (AV) footage using just one photo of someone else is spreading online, boasting “over 300,000 cumulative users.” A lawyer points out that “currently there’s no law to crack down on this,” but on the forum thread, people debated legal interpretations like “wouldn’t this count as distribution of obscene material?” alongside others hunting for loopholes such as “it’s safe as long as you don’t publish it.”

    There are even fears that AV videos could be generated without permission from old graduation album photos… (photo is an illustration) [Photo: PhotoAC]

    A service that applies AI technology to generate AV videos from other people’s photos without permission is causing ripples online. Using AI face-swapping, the service lets users replace the face of an AV performer with that of any third party, and even offers a free plan. Its official site advertises “over 300,000 cumulative users” and emphasizes that it is a “reassuring, law-compliant service” offering “content that complies with regulations.” So how does this hold up legally? We asked for the view of attorney Kazuma Higuchi of Higuchi International Law Office, who is qualified to practice in both Japan and New York State.

    [Photo] The group hints at legal action… an idol victimized by AI-doctored images

    Source: encount.press / Original article here

    6AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:43
    Don't guys feel empty jerking off to something like this?
    Doesn't it feel hollow?
    15AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:45
    Re: #6
    Just help him out so he doesn't have to resort to this.
    Women really are heartless.
    88AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:53
    Re: #6
    If men ever lost their sex drive, humanity would go extinct.
    You should be thanking them, honestly.
    133AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:59
    Re: #6
    Lecture him during his post-nut clarity (the sudden regret guys feel right after finishing).
    9AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:43
    No matter how cute the actress or idol,
    she can't compete with the destructive power of a classmate or coworker.
    24AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:46
    Re: #9
    Well, some idols are pitched to the level of guys who can't get girlfriends,
    so they're not even that cute anyway.
    11AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:44
    So that girl is going to become an AV star, huh.
    Even knowing it's fake, there's probably still some emptiness to it.
    17AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:45
    Re: #11
    I mean, realistically, the girl you like is out there sleeping with someone else anyway.
    22AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:46
    There's a chance you've unknowingly starred in a gay porn video.
    31AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:47
    Re: #22
    "Yaoi" works using real people have been around forever.
    I guess AI just lets you turn them into actual videos now.
    23AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:46
    Guess we don't need FL masks anymore (realistic latex disguise masks people used to impersonate others).
    43AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:49
    Re: #23
    For now, let's set the password to "today's 8" (an old anonymous-forum in-joke for a shared daily password).
    114AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:56
    Re: #43
    "Today's 8" — that's nostalgic.
    Bet a lot of people these days have no idea what that even means.
    209AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:07
    Re: #43
    Merge it with Ayaya (nickname for pop idol Ayumi Hamasaki, referencing an old meme).
    30AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:47
    Making it for yourself is probably fine, but if someone else makes it and hands it over, wouldn't that count as distribution of obscene material?
    57AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:50
    Re: #30
    Even if they call it free, if they're taking requests from an unspecified number of people and making these,
    I doubt that'd be judged as falling within personal use.
    37AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:48
    I'm curious, but I feel like it'd just leave me feeling empty instead.
    44AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:49
    Re: #37
    Well… lol
    Everything below the face is a different person anyway lololol.
    56AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:50
    Re: #37
    It's so realistic you could practically step into an ero-manga's world.
    40AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:48
    If you trained it on every "Narou" trope out there, you could probably make an anime that screams peak Narou (referring to "Shousetsuka ni Narou," a web novel site known for formulaic isekai tropes).
    64AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:51
    Re: #40
    "Shousetsuka ni Narou" is already overrun with AI-generated works as we speak…

    and the AI keeps getting a little better each time lol.
    48AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:49
    Of course they'll get arrested.
    Embarrass the police and they'll
    throw everything at you.
    54AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:50
    Re: #48
    As long as you don't publish it, you're safe (^o^)
    58AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:50
    You guys are as gross as ever…
    79AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:52
    Re: #58
    Then what's that bulge in your pants, huh?
    66AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:51
    I'd like it to be legal as long as it's just for personal use.
    119AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:57
    Re: #66
    If the quality's good enough, people turn into validation-craving monsters.
    68AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:51
    AI users were saying current law can already handle this, so don't regulate it, right?
    So that means the lawyer's the one lying.
    Obviously the AI users know the law better.
    86AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:53
    Re: #68
    Publishing it is a no-go lol,
    but you're just handing over source material and getting a custom order made lololol.
    71AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:52
    Isn't there some brave soul out there swapping the male performer's face for his own? Pathetic.
    83AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:53
    Re: #71
    So you'd swap in Yoshimura Taku's face for your own and lick the actress all over? (Yoshimura Taku is a well-known Japanese AV director/performer)
    77AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:52
    This is exactly why I don't want my picture taken —
    there are probably guys into mature women out there too.
    91AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:54
    Re: #77
    Go look in a mirror lol.
    Don't flatter yourself, lady.
    110AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:56
    Re: #77
    Sounds like the type who watches mobile games and anime and complains about being "sexually exploited."
    131AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:59
    Re: #77
    With mature women, it's faster to just seduce them directly and sleep with them.

    *This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5channel (News Speed+) thread “[Society] “Turn Your Crush Into an AV Star” — Sexual Videos AI-Generated From a Single Photo… Free Service Spreads, Lawyer Says “Currently No Law to Crack Down On It”.”

  • Comedy Legend Yokoyama Yasushi’s Son Kimura Kazuya Splits From Wife After 2.5 Years — Drunken Meltdown at Grandma’s Celebration

    Kimura Kazuya (56), eldest son of the late manzai legend Yokoyama Yasushi, has reportedly been asked for a divorce by his wife after just two and a half years of marriage. The reported trigger: getting drunk and ruining a celebration held for his wife’s grandmother. On 5channel, the discussion spiraled into old anecdotes about the late Yokoyama Yasushi and even speculation over whether Kimura is really his biological son.

    Yokoyama Yasushi’s Eldest Son Kimura Kazuya, Marriage Collapses After 2.5 Years — “Take My Side!” Drunkenly Wrecks Wife’s Grandmother’s Celebration… Wife Files for Divorce

    Actor Kimura Kazuya (56) has been handed divorce papers by his wife.

    Yes — this is the eldest son of the late Yokoyama Yasushi, the manzai comedian famous for his wild, rule-breaking ways. What should have been a happy marriage, it turns out, fell apart almost as soon as it began.

    Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here

    4AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:58
    ♪ Don't get me started, but honestly— Kazuya's still living in a dream ♪

    Don't get me started (Yasushi's famous catchphrase)
    22AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:01
    Re: #4
    Wasn't there a version where someone swapped "dream" for "prison wall" in that line, the family complained hard, and the Yassan impression got banned after that?
    10AnonymousAug 27, 2026 09:59
    Turns out he's actually outlived his old man.
    39AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:04
    Re: #10
    Guess just not drinking yourself into an early grave is enough to survive
    17AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:00
    I saw this guy recently too — he was in "Itsuka Giragira Suru Hi" (Someday I'll Shine), that was a good movie

    Did he get blacklisted from showbiz?
    24AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:01
    Re: #17
    This is 17 — that movie also had Shoken (actor Kenichi Hagiwara) and Keiko Oginome? in it
    46AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:06
    Re: #17
    Dunno, but they used him because he was the "funny celebrity's son," though he turned out to be raised exactly like it says in post 1, so maybe that's why he got frozen out
    25AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:02
    He totally lost it at Matsumoto during that skit
    What a brat
    31AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:02
    That's what happens when your dad spoils you rotten
    32AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:03
    Kiyoshi Nishikawa's son (Hiroshi), who appeared alongside Kimura Kazuya, quit show business
    and now runs a restaurant in Fukuoka
    https://nishikawa-nakasu.foodre.jp/
    78AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:15
    Re: #32
    He was decently popular in Shinkigeki (Yoshimoto's comedy theater), but
    he quit
    84AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:16
    Re: #78
    That's not Hiroshi — that's the eldest son, Tadashi, isn't it?
    89AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:17
    Re: #78
    That's Tadashi
    33AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:03
    Wasn't he in commercials for Kokuyo study desks and Fujitsu computers?
    63AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:11
    Re: #33
    Not Fujitsu — it was Toshiba's Pasopia
    The Pasopia ad slot later got handed off to Yukiko Okada
    35AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:04
    And here's Hiroshi, quietly grinding away as a local celebrity and businessman…
    83AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:16
    Re: #35
    The eldest son, Tadashi, is a headline performer in Yoshimoto Shinkigeki
    36AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:04
    Yasushi was originally quiet and into plastic models as a hobby — back when he was Knock's apprentice he followed Knock's instructions to the letter
    But when it came to raising his own kids, it seems he stuck to the tough-guy "Yasushi" persona he built later
    45AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:06
    Re: #36
    I heard that back when Yasushi was apprenticed under Knock,
    Ryutaro Kamioka used to bully him relentlessly
    64AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:11
    Well, he IS the son of the guy who got blackout drunk and caused a scene at the Yoshimoto founder's wake, so…
    71AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:14
    Re: #64
    Founder Sei Yoshimoto died back in 1950,
    so that's probably not the founder — more likely her younger brother, Masanosuke Hayashi
    65AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:12
    Yokoyama Yasushi
    Yujiro Ishihara
    Hibari Misora
    They all died at 52
    As a kid I always assumed they were pushing 70
    All three, drinking-related too
    108AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:20
    Re: #65
    Right after these people died, a weekly magazine ran a piece saying
    people who die young are genetically wired for short lives,
    so watching your health and cutting back on booze would only buy you a few extra years anyway
    122AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:24
    Re: #65
    Hachiro Higashi also died at 52
    I thought he was some old man, but he was actually younger [than I assumed]
    72AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:14
    Just remembered
    🎤 Kimura Kazuya isn't Yasushi's kid, he's Kiyoshi's kid
    And the best proof of that is: sooner or later, the fists and feet start flying
    Heard that parody somewhere lol
    86AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:16
    Re: #72
    I heard that back in their comedy duo days, Kiyoshi used to smack Yasushi around to keep him in line
    75AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:15
    Didn't even know Yokoyama Yasushi had a son
    81AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:16
    Re: #75
    How old are you?
    82AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:16
    Is this guy actually Yasushi's biological son?
    His face and build don't look anything like his father's, or his sister's either
    There are cases where you're legally father and son but not biologically
    92AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:17
    Re: #82
    Kazuya is Yasushi's son from his first wife
    94AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:18
    Re: #82
    Now that he's in his 50s with sunken eyes, gray hair, and black-framed glasses,
    he looks just like Yokoyama Yasushi
    106AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:20
    Re: #82
    And the height is totally different
    Yasushi's wife was tall, and there are plenty of tall people in Yasushi's family line — makes you wonder if Yasushi himself was just the short one in the family
    112AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:21
    Re: #92
    Could there be a chance he's a stepson from the wife's side?
    118AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:23
    Re: #112
    Kazuya was born from Yasushi and his first wife
    119AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:23
    Whatever happened to the taxi driver this guy beat half to death?
    123AnonymousAug 27, 2026 10:24
    Re: #119
    Word was that at the time, the woman named in post Re: #1 was there with him

    *This article is compiled and summarized from the 5channel (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] Yokoyama Yasushi’s Eldest Son Kimura Kazuya, Marriage Collapses After 2.5 Years — “Take My Side!” Drunkenly Wrecks Wife’s Grandmother’s Celebration…“