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  • His Only Hobby Is Watching ‘Yuyake Nyan Nyan’ — 5ch: ‘Yu-Nyan Is My Life’

    A thread on 5ch’s “Nandemo Jikkyo G” board blew up after a poster showed up whose only hobby is watching the 1980s Fuji TV show “Yuyake Nyan Nyan” — and got grilled with questions. The show ran for two and a half years, but the poster said, “I died on August 31, ’87, and then again at the finale on September 20 — ever since, I’ve just been an empty shell,” revealing they haven’t gotten into anything else since the finale. They said they still support Onyanko Club member “Yuyu” to this day, and replies kept coming asking about her age back then, for images, and for other background info. The thread lit up with debate over the merits of such devotion, alongside plenty of nostalgic reminiscing.

    1AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:51
    What's your impression of that?
    15AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:55
    So it ran for two years?
    Don't you get tired of it?
    19AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:56
    Re: #15
    Nope, never get tired of it
    Anyway, no matter what — no matter what!!
    Yu-Nyan is my life
    24AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:58
    So you like Onyanko Club?
    Do you listen to their music or watch their other variety shows too?
    26AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:58
    Re: #24
    I especially like Yuyu from Onyanko Club
    31AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:01
    Is she still active these days?
    Sounds like a nice, relaxing retirement you've got going
    32AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:01
    Re: #31
    "Retirement"?? I'm 58, that's still young
    37AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:03
    What were you into in the '90s, 2000s, and 2010s?
    40AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:04
    Re: #37
    Nothing
    I died on August 31, '87, and then again at the finale on September 20
    Ever since, I've just been an empty shell
    39AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:03
    On video? Do you keep backup copies or something?
    43AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:04
    Re: #39
    I've saved stuff that used to be up on YouTube
    42AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:04
    If you're seriously still doing oshi-katsu (fan support activities) for her, wouldn't she actually agree to meet you?
    I don't know much about it, but Yuyu's not exactly a busy A-lister these days, right?
    46AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:05
    Re: #42
    Yuyu made a comeback appearance in 2002 after a long absence, but hasn't appeared publicly at all since
    I caught a brief glimpse of her face in a 2010 Flash (tabloid magazine) article
    48AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:06
    My mom banned me from watching it because it was such a risqué show
    51AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:07
    Re: #48
    Yeah, the PTA really hated it
    54AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:08

    Yuyu at 34
    55AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:09

    Marina, who was on TV two days ago
    56AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:10

    Yuyu, age 17
    58AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:11
    Have you got a complete set of Yuyu merch?
    59AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:12
    Re: #58
    Nope. Most Yuyu merch is cheap and easy to find, so I don't really feel the need to buy it all — most items only run a few hundred yen anyway
    61AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:13

    Yuyu at 27 — this was around the last time she showed up in the media
    64AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:15
    In 2002, she took part in the Onyanko Club reunion and appeared on "HEY!HEY!HEY! MUSIC CHAMP" (Fuji TV) and "FNS Music Festival 2002" (Fuji TV) — her first TV appearance in about five years.

    In 2007, she appeared by phone on "Kaikan MAP" (TV Asahi).
    67AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:16
    Re: #64
    Ah, that's Sanma's show
    She talked a bit about her falling-out with Mami-Mami
    65AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:16

    This hairstyle of Yuyu's is so cute
    74AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:19
    Re: #65
    What magazine is that from?
    Is there really demand for movie-themed cosplay?
    71AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:17
    How'd you get into Onyanko Club in the first place?
    73AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:18
    Re: #71
    Huh? Ever since "Ushiro Yubi Sasare Gumi" came out!
    By the way, how old are you?
    77AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:20
    Re: #73
    I'm from the "yutori" generation (the relaxed-education generation — i.e., much younger)
    80AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:22

    I wanna see you, Yuyu!
    87AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:31
    Other idols I like besides Onyanko Club:

    Minako Honda
    Miporin
    Yuki Saito
    Nanno
    Coco
    Babe
    101AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:38
    Re: #87
    I went to Yuki Saito's 40th anniversary concert
    103AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:39
    Re: #101
    Oh nice
    What did she sing? I really want to hear "Shiroi Honoo" (White Flame)
    107AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:41
    Re: #103
    She played pretty much all her famous songs
    105AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:40
    Sounds like the kind of guy who watches Go Yoshida's Showroom streams
    108AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:41
    Re: #105
    Yep, I watch it
    I also watch Hiroki Azuma's stuff
    117AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:44
    So what does that even mean?
    118AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:44
    Re: #117
    I think it means it was a risqué show airing in the evening slot
    121AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:45
    Re: #117
    "Nyan nyan" was slang for sex

    Background and talking points

    “Yuyake Nyan Nyan” aired in Fuji TV’s early-evening slot from 1985 to 1987, and is known as the show that launched Onyanko Club — born out of an amateur-audition segment — into overnight stardom, laying the groundwork for the idol boom that followed. As the thread itself notes, the show’s suggestive title and content drew criticism from PTA groups at the time. The main point of debate in this thread was whether to see the poster’s continued devotion to one member, some 40 years after the show ended, as “admirable” or “a bit much” — and the poster themselves noted that the spread of video streaming services has made it easier to preserve and rewatch old footage, which they credited as part of why the obsession has lasted.

    ※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “My only hobby is watching Yuyake Nyan Nyan — what’s your take?“.

  • Zion Suzuki Makes History as First Japanese Goalkeeper in Champions League — Aston Villa Win Opener

    Aston Villa, home to goalkeeper Zion Suzuki, faced Club Brugge in Matchday 1 of the Champions League league phase on September 8 and won 3-2. Suzuki became the first Japanese goalkeeper in history to appear in the Champions League proper, helping secure the win. He joined the club this season on a permanent transfer from Parma, and after also becoming the first Japanese player to debut in the Premier League, has locked down the starting goalkeeper role. On the 5ch “Geinou/Sports Sokuhou+” board, the thread buzzed with assessments of Suzuki’s performance, comparisons to Takefusa Kubo and legendary goalkeepers Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi and Seigo Narazaki, and discussion of how he had been Shusaku Nishikawa’s backup during his Urawa Reds days.

    [Sept. 8, UEFA Champions League League Phase Matchday 1: Club Brugge 2-3 Aston Villa]

    The UEFA Champions League (UCL) opened its league phase on the 8th with matches held around the continent, and Aston Villa (England), home to goalkeeper Zion Suzuki, defeated Club Brugge (Belgium) 3-2. Suzuki became the first Japanese goalkeeper ever to play in the Champions League, contributing to the winning start.

    Suzuki joined Aston Villa this season from Parma. After making the first-ever Premier League debut by a Japanese player in Matchday 2 against Arsenal and claiming the starting goalkeeper job, he also earned a starting berth in the Champions League.

    Source: web.gekisaka.jp / Original article here

    7AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:29
    Japan national team matches are where you go to watch Zion do his thing
    28AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:44
    Re: #7
    That's something the whole world already knows.
    No idea why you're bringing it up now — what's the point?
    12AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:33
    That long-feed technique straight from Nishikawa is paying off in the Premier League
    https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2096331821768183811/vid/avc1/1080×1920/uu0zHeLbdUi-L7PE.mp4
    14AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:35
    Re: #12
    Distributor Suzuki (a nod to his long-passing/ball-distribution skills)
    33AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:50
    Re: #1
    Moriyasu is the one who raised Zion.
    All thanks to Moriyasu.
    36AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:01
    He's a keeper who let in 2 goals, and people are calling that a great game?
    43AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:20
    Re: #36
    Football isn't a solo sport, you know.
    47AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:28
    Re: #36
    No chance on the first goal, and the second was a penalty.
    55AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:47
    They conceded 2 to a Belgian side, so they might switch to a keeper who plays it simpler.
    56AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:47
    This matchday's real star is Inter's keeper — brutal position to be in.
    62AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:54
    Re: #56
    Zion's miles ahead, no contest.
    Honestly makes no sense that people even compare them.
    61AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:51
    He's getting a bit of a sensationalized spotlight — including his background as an Afro-Japanese player.

    Though the Japanese media are probably the least interested in him, if anything.
    85AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:18
    Re: #61
    Don't steal the spotlight from Otani and Murakami.
    90AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:22
    Re: #61
    On sports news shows,
    Zion's coverage has been picking up steadily too.
    64AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:07
    Sometimes I imagine what would've happened if they'd kept developing him as a forward.

    My guess: he'd have ended up just another unremarkable mixed-heritage player who's only notable for being big.
    69AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:10
    Re: #64
    Just imagining it gets me excited.
    If he'd been battling through the middle as a striker, the attacking mids behind him could've piled up goals easily lol
    75AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:14
    Re: #64
    There's also a story that when it looked like he might not even hit 180cm as a kid, he was told, "You're a keeper — cut back on training if you have to, just sleep," and being forced to rest like that is credited with helping him grow all the way to 190cm.
    If he'd stayed a forward, he'd have ended up just an average-height guy with a strong mixed-heritage build, nothing more.
    66AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:08
    Has he already surpassed Kawaguchi and Narazaki?
    68AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:10
    Re: #66
    Not just them — he's surpassed Boss Zaru too (a nickname for a former Japan goalkeeper).
    67AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:09
    Why was he stuck as Nishikawa's backup the whole time at Urawa?
    Was he not that impressive back then?
    78AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:15
    Re: #67
    Whenever he started, he'd rack up mistakes.
    Plus Nishikawa won Asia with that team — tough guy to compete with.
    79AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:15
    Re: #67
    He lacked experience, and
    overall Nishikawa was just the better keeper.
    That's all there is to it.
    80AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:15
    Re: #67
    But even back then, didn't mighty Man United try to snap Zion up early, and he turned them down?
    77AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:14
    There really was a Japanese club unbelievable enough to freeze out both Wataru Endo and Zion Suzuki.
    101AnonymousSep 9, 2026 08:36
    Re: #77
    If that's the only way you can look at it, better not post on forums — you're just embarrassing yourself.

    Background and Talking Points

    Zion Suzuki’s given name, “Ayane” (彩艶), is read as “Zion,” and that’s the nickname used throughout the thread. He completed a permanent transfer from Parma to Aston Villa this summer, locked down the starting goalkeeper spot in the Premier League from the season opener, and was also handed the starting job for this Champions League match. During his time at Urawa Reds he had to settle for being backup to starting keeper Shusaku Nishikawa, but his career took off rapidly after his move abroad. While the thread lit up with comparisons to past national-team goalkeepers like Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi and Seigo Narazaki, some posts touching on Suzuki’s mixed heritage veered into discussions of race and immigration policy — those posts have been excluded from this piece.

    *This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports Sokuhou+) thread “[Soccer] History-maker Zion Suzuki becomes first Japanese GK ever to debut in the Champions League!! Aston Villa win on the road.”

  • Juice=Juice Fans Keep Announcing Themselves in Other Groups’ Comment Sections — 5ch: “We’re Juice=Juice Family!” (smug face)

    On the Hello!Project board, a discussion took off about how Juice=Juice fans tend to identify themselves as “Juice otaku” even in videos and on social media that have nothing to do with their own group. Some in the thread pointed out that fans of popular groups greeting and helping each other out at events by naming their group is a longstanding idol-fandom custom, while others suggested it might be tied to Juice=Juice’s growing activity outside Hello!Project in recent years. As the thread went on, it turned into a broader argument about the gap between “new” fans who flowed in through social media and longtime fans who’ve followed Hello!Project for years.

    1AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:14
    tps://i.imgur.com/wDeEZag.jpeg
    2AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:17
    Unlike the Juice otaku over on "Wolf" (a rival Hello!Project fan board) or X, these ones are actually decent.
    3AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:18
    It's a common thing among popular idols — leaving comments like "I'm a fan of X, but I came to cheer for Y" as a way of supporting each other.
    Juice=Juice's already made it out into the wider world, so that habit just spread from there.
    4AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:18
    Probably backlash from the delusion that "we've endured so much."
    5AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:19
    Must be a click-farm connection.
    6AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:19
    The Juice otaku who showed up from X, recruited there by BEYOOOOOONDS fans.
    8AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:23
    Re: #1
    They're riding high, so just let them enjoy it.
    It was the same with the "to each their own" crowd back then too.
    9AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:28
    Re: #8
    So is that why the snarky Morning Musume/ANGERME/Tsubaki Factory crowd has become Hello!Project's "Three Stooges"?
    10AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:28
    That helps.
    I want them to keep showing off as "Moremi newbies" more and more.
    Because then I get to make fun of those Moremi-newbie posers.
    11AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:29
    Re: #10
    Every group has to pander to the Moremi newbies now, or they'll never fill the big venues that switched to e-tickets.
    12AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:30
    I mean, "Moremi newbies" are the type with less than a year of Hello!Project knowledge
    who act like know-it-all veteran fans anyway, right? Hilarious lol
    13AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:31
    Re: #12
    If Tsubaki Factory could fill Akiyama's graduation concert with longtime fans alone, you'd have a point.
    14AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:32
    Do you even get it? Hello!Project has 29 years of history behind it.
    What would a bunch of posers who only discovered Hello! through Moremi → Juice even understand, you idiot lol
    16AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:34
    Re: #14
    If that history doesn't translate into popularity, what's the point?
    15AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:34
    "Moremi newbie" is old news.
    These days they're "Moremi veterans."
    17AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:35
    Re: #15
    These days it's the era of Harami-chan-collab newbies.
    18AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:36
    Re: #17
    Still comes back to Moremi in the end.
    20AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:38
    Sounds like there are a lot of "Teritama newbies" too.
    24AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:45
    There's no point showing off inside Hello!Project itself, is there?
    25AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:45
    Re: #24
    A Morning Musume otaku doing the "mutual-aid club" routine?
    26AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:48
    Re: #1
    If it's within a Hello!Project group, it's fine, isn't it?
    Not really something worth getting worked up about.
    Though if they pulled this on other groups' stuff, it'd be infinitely annoying.
    27AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:49
    Thread started by "Morukasu."
    28AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:51
    You're supposed to write your actual reactions in the comment section.
    29AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:53
    "I'm a Juice otaku" — so what?
    32AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:58
    Re: #29
    It means, "I went out of my way to watch this, so as a thank-you, come watch Juice=Juice's videos too."
    30AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:54
    Pretty much only Juice otaku do this.
    33AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:59
    Re: #30
    Well, Juice=Juice's fanbase is the only one that actually knows the outside world.
    31AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:54
    "We're Juice=Juice family!" (smug face)
    34AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:59
    Re: #31
    It's not really a smug face — they've genuinely earned it.
    35AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:00
    Can't help it, it's all done expecting something in return.
    36AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:01
    The great Juice otaku has come to hype up your likes~ Yeah!
    You know what to do next, right? Do it properly, counting on you.
    37AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:04
    Naturally, since they outrank everyone.
    38AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:05
    Maybe they just don't want to be mistaken for BEYOOOOONDS otaku.
    40AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:07
    Wanna talk about how ANGERME otaku also left comments like "I'm an ANGERME otaku but came to check this out! Please come watch Vanilla too!" on a Johnny's Jr. video, trying to funnel views to Vanilla — and it flopped hard?
    41AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:08
    This kind of thing's pointless unless you do it outside your own circle.
    44AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:10
    Re: #41
    It's precisely because they do it naturally outside that they can pull it off naturally inside too.
    42AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:09
    New Juice fans probably think Juice=Juice and the rest of Hello!Project are two completely separate worlds.
    45AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:10
    Re: #1
    (laughs). Not that many people know this, but—

    Background and Key Points of This Discussion

    Hello!Project has a culture where multiple groups share the same big venues, so fans naturally cross paths at events and on social media. Fans of popular groups leaving comments naming their own group under other fans’ posts is described in the thread as a longstanding, mutually-promotional custom within the idol fandom. That said, the real focus of the debate isn’t an evaluation of Juice=Juice itself — it centers on the temperature gap between “new” fans who recently flowed in via social media and longtime fans who’ve followed Hello!Project for years, making it more a reflection of generational friction within the fandom than a comment on the group’s popularity. As symbolized by the remark about “Hello!Project’s 29-year history,” this kind of old-guard-versus-newcomer debate is a recurring staple of Hello!Project threads.

    ※This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hello!Project) thread “What on earth is with Juice otaku’s habit of announcing they’re Juice otaku everywhere they go??.”

  • Switch 2 ‘Ocarina of Time’ Priced at ¥8,980, Sparks Fierce Price Debate on 5ch

    Nintendo has announced that the Switch 2 remake of “The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time” will be available as a digital download for 8,980 yen (tax included), releasing on November 5, 2026. On 5ch’s hardware/industry board, opinions split over whether that price is fair for a remake with roots going back through the N64 and 3DS versions, with posters repeatedly comparing it to Sony-camp title “FF7 Liberation” at 9,980 yen (roughly 30,000 yen for the full trilogy) and to Nintendo’s own new “Yoshi” title at 8,000 yen. The debate split between critics who felt only the graphics had been overhauled while the content stayed the same, and those who praised the smoother controls and rearranged soundtrack — with disagreement even over whether a full playthrough takes about 20 hours or more like 30-40.

    Digital version

    Release date

    Nov. 5, 2026 (Thu)

    Source: nintendo.com / Original article here

    2AnonymousSep 8, 2026 23:59
    It's a remake, so of course it costs this much.
    And it doesn't leave the story unfinished either — that's just normal.
    3AnonymousSep 8, 2026 23:59
    Charging 9,000 yen for a mere remake?
    That's just pathetic.
    30AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:17
    Re: #3
    FF7 Liberation is ¥9,980, you know? And for PS players who bought it around launch, it's a trilogy, so that's about ¥30,000 total lol.
    What do you make of that? On top of that, you can't even play Rebirth without a PS5… What a wild era we live in, huh?
    6AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:04
    Why does something that's basically just a graphics upgrade cost about 9,000 yen?
    The fields are still just as cramped, and you still get load screens entering towns and villages — that doesn't even clear the bare minimum bar.
    20AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:10
    Re: #6
    I bet you haven't even played Ocarina of Time yourself
    You really, truly don't understand anything.
    38AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:31
    Re: #6
    Have you actually played Ocarina of Time, or are you just faking it (エアプ, "air-play" — pretending you've played)?
    7AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:05
    The digital version is $60 in the US, so the physical version is probably $70.
    Same price as [Donkey Kong] Bananza and Kirby Air Riders.

    https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/the-legend-of-zelda-ocarina-of-time-switch-2/
    9AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:05
    Same price as Yoshi, huh.
    21AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:11
    Re: #9
    In the US, physical is $70 and digital is $60 — same price as Zelda.
    But in Japan, Yoshi is 8,000 yen physical / 7,000 yen digital, which is 1,000 yen cheaper than Zelda.

    https://www.nintendo.com/us/store/products/yoshi-and-the-mysterious-book-switch-2/
    https://www.nintendo.com/jp/games/switch2/aakga/index.html
    11AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:05
    Don't really care either way, but huh, so Koei Tecmo made this one.
    54AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:00
    Re: #11
    Lego's name showed up too, so isn't it just there because they tacked on a promo for a Warriors (Musou) game?
    13AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:06
    A full remake at full price is completely normal, isn't it?
    Is it different on PlayStation?
    17AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:09
    Re: #13
    The FF7 Remake that started on PS4 is split into a trilogy, and the final part is finally coming out next year.
    18AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:09
    Wow, this exceeded my expectations — really good.
    I'd love for the FF7 Remake team to hear these BGM arrangements.
    19AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:10
    Any predictions on how well this is going to sell?
    50AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:57
    Re: #19
    For a remake, this is about right.
    Star Fox < Zelda < Air Riders.
    Probably around 300k (5ch shorthand for 万, ten-thousands) in the first week.
    36AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:28
    Honestly it just felt like an even prettier version of the 3DS release.
    But for people who only remember the N64 version, it's probably going to blow their minds.
    41AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:43
    Re: #36
    Right?
    I just finished the 3DS version recently, so it really did just feel like a graphics bump to me.
    Even the combat looked like the same animations.
    The music didn't feel like it changed much either.
    Hearing the town theme I walked back and forth through a million times made me sigh lol.
    Feels like something I'd buy again once I've forgotten all that.
    42AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:45
    Remake Majora's Mask too, please.
    43AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:46
    Re: #42
    Seems likely it'll come out around the same time next year.
    59AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:08
    So the playtime is somewhere in the low teens of hours?
    67AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:21
    Re: #59
    If you play normally, poking around and collecting stuff like Heart Pieces, it's probably just under 20 hours.
    If you rush through it, it should be over in under 10 hours.
    66AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:19
    If it were cheap, people would call it a lazy, half-assed remake.
    At full price, they call this remake a rip-off.
    Cut it out with the unfalsifiable logic.
    71AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:26
    Re: #66
    If the content had actually been thoroughly overhauled, nobody would complain even at full price.
    It's this price for content that barely changed — that's the problem.
    73AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:27
    Re: #71
    If that's what you want, go play the FF7 Remake.

    The amount of content in that thing is insane.
    86AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:05
    Re: #71
    Play it before you talk.
    74AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:28
    But there are probably more people who got into Zelda starting around Breath of the Wild than people who've actually played Ocarina of Time — so for first-timers, this could be a lot of fun.
    76AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:30
    Re: #74
    Well, Breath of the Wild itself was pretty unusual for a Zelda game.
    Up until then, Zelda was all about dungeons as the main focus, with traversal as just an extra.
    How you take that difference matters.
    If you enjoy solving gimmicks/puzzles and pushing forward through them, this is a no-brainer buy — I think it's genuinely fun.
    75AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:29
    Re: #73
    I don't need that trash split into three parts.
    77AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:31
    Re: #75
    The FF7 Remake is exactly the thing you claim to love — completely overhauled content with a massive amount of playtime.

    Just go play the FF7 Remake already.
    79AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:34
    Twilight Princess isn't in the list of titles at the end of the trailer.
    Could this mean something…?
    81AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:43
    Re: #79
    Like it said in the description, that list is just showing Zelda titles currently playable on Switch (2), so it's normal that Twilight Princess isn't there.
    84AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:53
    Coming from Elden Ring, the Tears of the Kingdom-style item shortcut system builds up little bits of stress — I really wish they'd dropped that.
    85AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:55
    Re: #84
    That's still way more comfortable than Elden Ring, where you have to mash the D-pad to cycle items.
    87AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:15
    Honestly, I don't think this is going to sell well.
    Anyone who's felt that sting with Star Fox knows that even with upgraded graphics, 20 hours of gameplay just isn't enough to leave players satisfied.
    89AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:37
    Re: #87
    Ocarina of Time in 20 hours, lol.
    That's definitely someone faking having played it (エアプ, "air-play").
    95AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:18
    Re: #89,92
    > AI Overview
    Completing the story of 'The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time' takes roughly 20 to 30 hours.
    98AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:51
    Re: #95
    Aaand there it is lol.
    "The AI must be right" guy, lol.
    Well, that number's probably just copied from walkthrough sites, but still.

    The real average is more like 35 hours.
    For VTubers and the like, the average is over 40 hours.
    Even someone who's good at games and experienced, playing it for the first time, would normally take a good 30 hours, y'know? lol

    Background and Key Points of This Debate

    “Ocarina of Time” is a landmark entry in the Zelda series, originally released on the NINTENDO64 in 1998, and was remade for 3DS in 2011 as “Ocarina of Time 3D.” This new Switch 2 version appears to be built on that 3DS release with an updated graphics overhaul, and opinions on the thread split between those who felt it was “just the 3DS version looking even nicer” and those who argued that “the improved combat feel and rearranged soundtrack don’t come across unless you actually play it yourself.” The FF7 Remake brought up in price comparisons is structured as a trilogy continuing from the PS4 version, with the final installment not yet released — the three games together will run close to 30,000 yen. Without knowing this, it’s easy to misread the simple “FF7 is more/less expensive” comparisons; in reality, this is about the total cost of a split-release strategy, not a straightforward one-to-one price comparison. On playtime too, the estimates from walkthrough sites (roughly 20-30 hours) clashed with the felt playtime depending on how thoroughly one plays (30-40 hours), so the “time versus price” debate kept going with different posters working from different assumptions.

    *This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “Switch 2 ‘The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time’ 8,980 yen (tax included).”

  • Miyu Sawai, Divorcing Hiroyuki Takagishi, Worries Fans With Photo Showing Bruises All Over Her Body

    Hiroyuki Takagishi (33), of the comedy duo Timondi, and actress Miyu Sawai (38) announced their marriage in October 2022 and reported the birth of their first child in November 2024, but on July 30, 2026, Takagishi announced their divorce on X. About a month later, Sawai posted a photo on her own Instagram showing a bruise on her arm, and concerned messages poured in from fans. On the 5ch thread, comments split between criticism that the article’s headline is worded in a way that evokes domestic violence, and genuine concern after seeing the photo.

    Timondi’s Hiroyuki Takagishi divorces; ex-wife Miyu Sawai posts photo saying “I’m covered in bruises all over,” drawing concerned fan comments: “Are you okay?”

    Actress Miyu Sawai (38) updated her Instagram on the 7th, posting a photo showing a bruise on her arm, which has drawn concerned reactions.

    Sawai announced her marriage to Hiroyuki Takagishi (33), of the comedy duo “Timondi,” in October 2022, and reported the birth of their first child in November 2024. She had been sharing glimpses of parenting life on Instagram, but on July 30, 2026, Takagishi posted on X: “We have decided, out of respect for each other’s lives, to walk separate paths,” announcing the end of their roughly four-year marriage. The news drew reactions such as “Huh?! I’m shocked!” and “There are things you can pull off and things you can’t… especially between men and women…”

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

    4AnonymousSep 9, 2026 04:56
    With an older wife, I guess things get rough as they age.
    5AnonymousSep 9, 2026 04:56
    Which one is Takagishi again?
    52AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:53
    Re: #5
    The one who gives off the same vibe as Takanohana (the former sumo yokozuna).
    77AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:31
    Re: #5
    The one who's not the YMO one.
    78AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:33
    Re: #5
    He's the "if you try, you can do it" one (Timondi's catchphrase).
    8AnonymousSep 9, 2026 04:58
    Stop with headlines designed to make people think this is a DV divorce.
    What is this, trash tabloid journalism?
    11AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:04
    Re: #8
    A 5ch "cap" holder (a thread starter with title-editing privileges) is basically trash media themselves.
    13AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:05
    Takagishi's on-screen character is "that" type, so just imagining his hidden side is genuinely creepy.
    It's probably exactly what you'd think lol
    17AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:07
    Meanwhile her peers married a Japan national soccer team player or Noboru Takeshita's (former PM) grandson…
    18AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:17
    They're clearly trying to bait clicks, but…
    if it really were Takagishi committing DV, they wouldn't phrase the title like this.
    19AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:19
    If everyone's eating it,
    then proper shaved ice
    must be really something else, huh.
    22AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:27
    He's barely on TV at all these days.
    I still catch his partner sometimes on some show where he gets cats to warm up to him, but…
    for this kind of character, guys like Kinniku Nakayama already have it covered.
    26AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:33
    People have been saying for a while that he's got a hidden side.
    27AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:34
    Takagishi doesn't seem like the type to be violent.
    He just doesn't give off that vibe.
    43AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:43
    Re: #27
    Though some other comedians were kind of evasive about it.
    32AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:37
    "Eat the stink bug" — the high school baseball bullying scandal and the dark side of the Japan High School Baseball Federation
    https://www.itmedia.co.jp/makoto/spv/1408/21/news021.html
    34AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:37
    Takagishi went public about the divorce, but she herself hasn't made any official comment, has she.
    35AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:38
    Guess someone mixed up Timondi with Endymion.
    38AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:40
    This thread title is bad enough that they could genuinely get sued for it.
    42AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:43
    Re: #38
    It's literally just the source article's title, though.
    39AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:41
    He doesn't seem the type, but Takagishi does look like he'd suit playing that kind of role.
    41AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:42
    Even the Yahoo comments on this article are full of people slamming it — stuff like "malicious article" and "deliberately misleading readers."
    44AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:44
    Just because he's from Seibi High School doesn't mean you get to link him to violence.
    45AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:45
    He looks scarily like the twin assassins from Ichi the Killer.
    50AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:50
    Re: #45
    That's just the plate on my head! (kappa joke)
    47AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:46
    They should nail down the facts before running with this.
    Seriously, using social media to sic the public on someone like this — what kind of garbage move is that.
    51AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:51
    If she really was assaulted, she should just come out and say so clearly.
    53AnonymousSep 9, 2026 05:56
    They seemed like the last couple you'd expect to divorce.
    You really never know.
    73AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:26
    Isn't there a risk of getting sued over a thread title like this?
    Though if you're too big a celebrity, you probably can't be bothered to deal with every single one.
    90AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:58
    Re: #73
    Media outlets always carry that risk — even Shukan Bunshun pays out damages all the time.
    75AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:30
    I heard his comedy partner never laughs once when paired with Takagishi.
    76AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:31
    Re: #75
    Who'd you hear that from?
    79AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:37
    I'm honestly surprised reading this thread.
    I figured it'd be flooded with "so it WAS DV!" reactions, but there are a lot of people looking at this calmly.
    Guess that's how suspicious of the media people have become these days.
    84AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:49
    Re: #79
    It's not even about being suspicious — it's obvious the moment you actually read the article lol
    86AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:51
    The thread title is exactly as it was in the original article.

    Background and Key Points of This Story

    Takagishi and Sawai announced their marriage in October 2022, welcomed their first child in November 2024, and then on July 30, 2026, Takagishi announced their divorce on X. The “bruise” photo that sparked this discussion was posted by Sawai herself more than a month after the divorce was announced, and she has offered no explanation of how it happened. Opinions in the thread split into two camps: those who saw the photo and suspected domestic violence, and those criticizing the original article’s headline for being worded in a way that suggests DV beyond what the facts actually support. Some posts drew on unverified anecdotes from Takagishi’s school days to speculate about his character, but these are nothing more than unconfirmed rumors — it’s worth noting that no act of violence has been officially confirmed.

    *This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Geisports Sokuho+) thread “Timondi’s Hiroyuki Takagishi divorces; ex-wife Miyu Sawai posts photo saying “I’m covered in bruises all over,” drawing concerned fan comments: “Are you okay?”.”

  • Struggling Kubo Takefusa left out of the squad for the first time this season — 5ch: ‘Total victory for the Kubo-hating “Plala guy”‘ (a notorious anti-Kubo poster nicknamed after the Plala internet provider he posts from)

    In Matchday 4 of La Liga on September 7 local time, Real Sociedad beat Elche away 3-2 despite having a man sent off. Kubo Takefusa was left out of the squad entirely for the first time this season, and Kenyan international Oyie Otieno, who took his place on the right flank, scored his first-ever La Liga goal. On 5ch, posters pointed to the stats showing Sociedad have actually done better with Kubo on the bench, alongside technical critiques that his dribbling isn’t translating into goals — opinions split over what’s behind his slump and where he might transfer next.

    Sociedad took the lead in the 11th minute

    In La Liga’s Matchday 4 clash held on September 7 local time, Real Sociedad, featuring Kubo Takefusa, played away against Elche.

    With the out-of-form Kubo dropped from the starting lineup for the first time in two matches, Sociedad struck in the 11th minute — Otieno crashed home a powerful shot from a corner-kick sequence to open the scoring. The Kenyan international attacker, deputizing for the Japan international on the right side, delivered by netting his first La Liga goal.

    Source: soccerdigestweb.com / Original article here

    2AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:41
    Real Sociedad
    With Kubo starting: 0W-1D-2L, 1 point from 3 games
    With Kubo on the bench: 2W-0D-0L, 6 points from 2 games

    Kubo: 0 goals, 0 assists in 4 games
    8AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:46
    Re: #2
    Re: #7
    They bring in reinforcements and suddenly Kubo's benched, forsooth
    22AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:53
    Re: #2
    Big win for the Kubo-hating 'Plala guy'
    3AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:42
    ~The End~ (old-school 2ch-style sign-off)
    Time to fade away into the J.League
    5AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:43
    Forget the Premier League move the obsessive fanboys dream about — even staying at Sociedad looks shaky now
    In 2-3 years he'll probably get sold off to the Segunda Division or somewhere in Portugal
    6AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:43
    It's about time he went back to J3 and learned his place
    7AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:44
    Sociedad captain Oyarzabal on Kubo Takefusa's 'reinforcements needed' comment: 'Everyone knows what Take's [Kubo's nickname] personality is like. Either way, we should be focusing on the matches.'
    9AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:46
    Wild, right?
    Even when he doesn't play at all, he still makes sports news lol
    10AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:47
    If they bring in more reinforcements, won't Kubo get even less playing time?
    12AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:48
    Kubo Takefusa, who asked Real Sociedad for reinforcements: 'I already apologized to everyone. But it'd be a waste not to say what needs saying.'
    13AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:49
    Who was it that said the World Cup squad four years from now would basically be the same lineup because no new players are coming through?
    15AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:51
    He couldn't deliver at the World Cup either — just not his year
    17AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:52
    Guess he's the second-generation QBK guy lol (QBK: a famous 2006 meme mocking a player's excuse for fluffing an easy chance — 'the ball suddenly came at me')
    18AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:52
    Honestly, didn't expect him to plateau like this
    He's only good when the ball's at his feet — his off-the-ball movement and positioning are so bad he never gets those easy tap-in goals
    And he still hasn't kicked the habit of throwing up his hands and coasting ┐(´д｀)┌ after losing the ball
    23AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:54
    Could this be some lingering effect from his World Cup injury?
    26AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:56
    Re: #23
    That's probably part of it, but ever since Silva retired, his numbers have been dropping every year instead of improving, so it's no surprise the Sociedad brass have started souring on him
    24AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:54
    Once you strip away the inflated hype, well, yeah
    25AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:56
    I do think he's good on the ball though
    What's actually different between him and similar-type players on the Spain national team?
    54AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:09
    Re: #25
    In Kubo's case, the ball just doesn't go forward
    68AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:17
    Re: #25
    He just dribbles around in circles
    and while he's doing that the opposing defense gets time to reset, killing the chance
    Even in situations where all he has to do is smash it into the net, he sends it into orbit — they'd be better off using someone else
    27AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:57
    He's turning into soccer's answer to Kou Neo — all hype, no payoff (Neo: a Japanese baseball prospect hyped as a generational talent who never lived up to it)
    34AnonymousSep 9, 2026 06:59
    No need to worry, Barcelona's already got the next Kubo

    I think he's about 10 years old now
    44AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:05
    No way a big club takes him when he hasn't delivered results
    75AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:20
    Re: #44
    I think there was a chance if the transfer fee were cheap enough
    If his contract hadn't been extended, a move might've happened last summer with two years left on it
    There was probably a mix of factors — loyalty to Sociedad, wanting to keep his starting spot, and so on —
    but the biggest snag is that buy-back clause tying him to Madrid
    Madrid's right wing has been open for years and they show zero sign of bringing him back
    but since they'd take half the fee, Sociedad can't sell him cheap either
    45AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:05
    Hurry up and go to Barcelona already
    Sociedad's beneath Take
    48AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:06
    Wouldn't a transfer actually be a good thing for him?
    58AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:10
    Re: #48
    Where do you think he'd actually end up?
    The gap between realistic, non-fantasy offers
    and the leagues/clubs Kubo actually wants
    has gotten enormous
    70AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:18
    They rotated the squad so hard they nearly lost lol
    74AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:20
    Re: #70
    Honestly, I'd already braced for a comeback loss
    73AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:19
    Never even heard of Elche
    78AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:21
    Re: #73
    Elche already looks like a runaway favorite for dead last, the clear top relegation candidate
    so why was Sociedad rotating against them?
    79AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:22
    Re: #75
    He let it slip that multiple offers came in before the season started
    84AnonymousSep 9, 2026 07:24
    Re: #79
    What's the point of offers that never actually go through?

    Background and key points of this discussion

    Kubo Takefusa joined Sociedad on a permanent transfer from Real Madrid in 2023 and has been a regular starter ever since, but this season he’s gone without a goal or assist so far. The ‘reinforcements needed’ comment referenced in the thread refers to an incident this summer where Kubo publicly called on the club to strengthen the squad, prompting captain Oyarzabal to fire back with a pointed remark that ‘everyone knows what Take’s personality is like.’ Because of this backstory, the comments in the thread mix in more than pure performance criticism — some posters push back against his transfer ambitions, even calling him a ‘traitor.’ On the transfer front, some point out that his contract with Real Madrid includes a buy-back clause, which makes an easy departure difficult. Whether his absence from the squad stems from World Cup fatigue or injury, or purely from a dip in form and technical issues, is left unconfirmed even in the original article, and opinion in the thread remains divided.

    *This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geisports Sokuhou+) thread “[Soccer] Struggling Kubo Takefusa left out of the squad for the first time this season… rival delivers 1G2A in a tough spot for him. Sociedad win a dramatic 3-2 despite a red card“.

  • Former Manager Shinnosuke Abe Returns to the Giants, Back on the Field 4 Months After Resigning — 5ch: ‘Didn’t They Start Winning Once He Left?’

    The Yomiuri Giants have announced that former manager Shinnosuke Abe will return to the team’s front line roughly four months after resigning. Abe stepped down as manager early in the season, and is now rejoining the club just as it has been picking up form in the late stages under interim skipper Shinji Hashigami. Reaction on 5ch was split: some posters were harsh, arguing “he clearly hasn’t reflected enough,” pointing out that his resignation came with a vow to quit drinking, while others welcomed the move as reinforcement for the Climax Series push, noting the team’s win rate against the Hanshin Tigers had dropped since Abe left.

    Former Manager Shinnosuke Abe Returns to the Giants, Back on the Field 4 Months After Resigning (published September 8, 2026) – Livedoor News

    Source: news.livedoor.com / Original article here

    4AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:03
    Coming back as manager right away would make it look like he hasn't reflected at all — start him off as 'Assistant Manager' Shinnosuke Abe.
    7AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:04
    Guess they can't do the champagne shower even if they win it all —
    alcohol's banned now.
    13AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:07
    He swore off booze, not off coming back to the team — nothing we can do, just accept it.
    16AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:08
    Next season's Yomiuri Giants manager: Shinnosuke Abe.
    This is really happening.
    17AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:08
    He went on in that interview all humbled about how he'd tarnished the Giants manager's job — so this shouldn't be happening.
    24AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:10
    Re: #17
    It's the other way around — his return was already decided, so they ran the remorse story to beg the public's forgiveness first.
    18AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:09
    Seriously, being part of the elite really does mean you're never guilty, huh ("jōkyū kokumin" — slang for untouchable elites).
    19AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:09
    Are you serious. Guess I'll go ask ChatGPT ("Chappy") what to do about this.
    20AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:09
    Can't have an outsider like Hashigami actually going and winning it all, now can they.
    21AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:09
    Guy's unemployed, that's rough —
    just hire him as a ball boy or equipment manager.
    23AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:10
    The last piece for the Giants to take back the title falls into place.
    25AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:10
    Felt like it was going to be Matsui though (fans had been expecting Hideki Matsui to get the nod).
    27AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:11
    Could he go hang out with guys like Sho Nakata — the free agent who decked someone — or Shun Yamaguchi, who assaulted people at a hospital?
    30AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:12
    My local Yomiuri Shimbun branch had *just* finally taken down the Abe Shinnosuke poster too.
    32AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:13
    The alcohol company sponsors aren't gonna love this.
    33AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:13
    Spare a thought for Hashigami — stuck cleaning up after this guy and getting an earful from Hirooka on top of it.
    41AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:22
    Didn't they start winning once Abe left?
    48AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:27
    They stopped beating the Tigers after Abe left, so bringing him back in time for the Climax Series actually makes sense.
    57AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:34
    Re: #48
    Since Hashigami took over it's 3-9 against the Tigers — makes you suspect it's because Hashigami's a Tigers alum.
    50AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:30
    The players actually look like they're enjoying themselves right now — this is gonna kill the mood again.
    51AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:31
    Giants morale collapses, Tigers take the pennant!!!
    52AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:32
    Just have ChatGPT set the lineup and call the plays.
    53AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:32
    There's nobody else anyway.
    56AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:34
    Re: #53
    Just bring Hara back then.
    54AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:33
    And they'd finally started winning too.
    58AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:35
    Compared to what Hiroshima's going through, this is nothing.
    61AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:37
    ＞It's already September, so even calling it a 'return,' it's probably more of an advisory role.
    ＞He likely won't be in uniform, so the impact on games should be limited.

    Alright, thread's over then.
    62AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:37
    This'll boost morale, I guess —
    though that's probably the whole point.
    66AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:42
    Everyone involved in this must feel so awkward…
    69AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:48
    Bet the Tigers fans are loving this.
    73AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:50
    Re: #69
    More like they're shaking in their boots — with Hashigami still in charge they could go after the Giants directly.
    71AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:49
    Great, pennant's a lock now.
    72AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:50
    Apologizing by email, lol — guess like father, like son, lol.
    74AnonymousSep 8, 2026 15:52
    What face is he even going to make while he starts the power harassment back up?
    95AnonymousSep 8, 2026 16:06
    ・Front office gets to fire manager Hashigami for 'failing to win the pennant'
    ・Abe comes back, the team stumbles, so they can finally let Abe go too
    ・Meanwhile Hashigami gets credit for holding the team together and lands a coaching or front-office job next year

    Nothing but upside here.
    99AnonymousSep 8, 2026 16:07
    Re: #95
    So who's actually managing the team then?
    107AnonymousSep 8, 2026 16:20
    Ha, good luck with that (lol)
    108AnonymousSep 8, 2026 16:24
    Re: #107
    Don't come crying later.

    Background and Talking Points

    Shinnosuke Abe took over as Giants manager in 2024 but resigned early this season, with coach Shinji Hashigami taking over the reins ever since. Reports at the time of his resignation said he showed contrition, including a vow to give up alcohol, and the thread’s jokes leaned heavily on that detail. As the quoted article notes, this “return” is believed to be more of an advisory role rather than Abe putting the uniform back on and calling the shots himself — though most of the thread’s reactions treated it simply as a “return to managing” without factoring that in, so the actual scope of his involvement will have to wait for an official announcement from the club. Posters also cited conflicting numbers for the team’s record under Hashigami, especially against the Tigers, so it’s best to check primary sources for the exact figures.

    *This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Nanademo Jikkyo G) thread “Former Manager Shinnosuke Abe Returns to the Giants, Back on the Field 4 Months After Resigning.”

  • Ocarina of Time Remake Character Models Draw ‘Creepy’ Backlash — 5ch: ‘Needlessly Realistic and Gross’

    Images of character models believed to be from a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time were posted to 5ch’s hardware/industry board (Geha), sparking a wave of “creepy” and “gross” reactions. Many commenters pointed out that Link and Sheik’s proportions and textures lean toward a realistic, live-action style, comparing them unfavorably to the stylized, doll-like models from the Dragon Quest VII remake. Others praised the “high quality” of the work, and opinions split sharply over whether a stylized or realistic look is more desirable.

    1AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:27
    i.imgur.com/P9u8Xdu.jpeg
    ps://i.imgur.com/TTHkRzp.jpeg
    ps://i.imgur.com/Ojc04aP.jpeg
    3AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:28
    Didn't people use to praise the 2D-ish, cartoony look?
    4AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:28
    This is genuinely gross, lol.
    They should've just gone with a toon style like Breath of the Wild.
    21AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:35
    Re: #4
    Don't need that.
    5AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:29
    People have been trashing the character models in Dragon Quest, FF, Monster Hunter, and Street Fighter this whole time, and now Zelda goes and does this.
    6AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:29
    Looked to me like an evolved version of that doll-like style from Dragon Quest VII, though.
    8AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:30
    Re: #6
    Dragon Quest VII got it right with proper stylization.
    Ocarina of Time went needlessly realistic and it's gross.
    10AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:30
    Re: #6
    That's a downgrade, it's creepy.
    98AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:13
    Re: #6
    The producer of the Dragon Quest VII Reimagined remake apparently said something like "this is the doll look, right?" lol
    9AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:30
    Breath of the Wild's Zelda being kind of homely — like "whoa, that's a big butt" lol — was a funny thing you could laugh off, but this Ocarina of Time model is just gross.
    11AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:30
    Seen in the context of the game world it's fine, but against a plain white background it's pretty rough.
    12AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:30
    It's genuinely creepy, lmao.
    This was probably outsourced overseas.
    13AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:31
    It gives off the same unease as an AI-generated image.
    Uncanny.
    14AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:31
    Where'd all the cartoon-style-loving "boo-chans" (a mocking 5ch nickname for rival-console fanboys) go?
    16AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:32
    ?
    This is seriously high quality though.
    17AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:32
    As long as it's fun, I don't mind…
    but yeah, this makes me go "well… um…" lol
    19AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:34
    Everything except the face is fine.
    Thought maybe they were going for overseas appeal, but when I looked it up, people overseas are calling it a goblin.
    Hmm, now I'm torn on whether to buy it.
    20AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:34
    Kid Zelda still looks okay from this angle, but the courtyard scene was rough.
    Saria and the others aren't bad, so why'd it turn out like that?
    22AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:35
    Wait? This is supposed to be the realistic one?
    25AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:36
    Re: #22
    The design itself is stylized, but the realistic texturing is what makes it creepy.
    38AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:52
    Sheik's head is huge.

    39AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:53
    Both Sheik and Link are creepy.
    The Smash Bros. models would've been the ideal look.
    74AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:34
    Re: #39
    Everyone's already so used to that visual style that it can't feel fresh anymore.

    There's probably also an element of this being a showcase for something only the Switch 2 can pull off — blending a more realistic texture quality with that fantasy feel.
    46AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:02







    If Nintendo were the one making this doll-look style, people would be bashing it non-stop as a "realistic graphics" game lol
    48AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:04
    Re: #46
    Looking at it again, Dragon Quest VII's graphics are really good — the stylization works well.
    Ocarina of Time went needlessly realistic with its textures; it's creepy and tasteless.
    50AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:04
    Re: #46
    That's lower quality than Ocarina of Time.
    56AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:07
    Re: #46
    This one's creepy too.
    A plain anime style would be better.
    51AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:05
    Re: #50
    Dragon Quest beats Ocarina of Time.
    The art direction is well done.
    54AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:07
    Re: #51
    Not well done at all.
    The protagonist just looks like some random background character. Trash.
    65AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:22
    God-tier graphics
    67AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:24
    Re: #65
    And you can play this on a handheld.
    Seriously incredible.
    68AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:29
    Re: #65
    People have been mocking FF's "god-tier graphics" this whole time though lol
    75AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:35
    Looks like Killua (from Hunter x Hunter)
    76AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:35
    Kid Link's cheeks are puffed up way too much, making him look like a Kewpie doll, and the duck-lips on top of that make it even worse — not a fan.
    Zelda and Ruto are fine though.
    103AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:18
    Re: #76
    Women on X (Twitter) are calling it cute, so I guess it's a design meant to appeal to female fans.
    91AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:06
    I get this completely.
    This is built in Unreal Engine 5, right?
    They were originally going for realistic graphics, so maybe this is the correct call, but it looks just like those AI-generated "remake" videos that are all over the place lately.
    It kind of gives off a "fan project" vibe and doesn't feel very Nintendo.
    93AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:10
    Re: #91
    There's no random fan out there who could make something of this quality though.
    94AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:11
    If a fan made this and posted it, they'd absolutely get dogpiled for it.
    95AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:12
    Re: #94
    Why don't you actually make it first before saying that?
    Not sure how many hundred years that'd take you, though.

    Background and Key Points of Debate

    The thread doesn’t make clear where the images originated or whether an official remake announcement has even been made, and based on the material here alone it’s impossible to tell whether these are official assets or unofficial cuts. The central point of contention was the differing degree of stylization across series entries: some commenters championed a toon-style approach like Breath of the Wild, while others felt this model’s more realistic texturing fell into “uncanny valley” territory. Many comparisons were drawn to the visuals of the Dragon Quest VII remake and Final Fantasy, and it’s easy to miss on a quick read that even within Nintendo and Square Enix titles, the thread showed no consistent standard for judging graphical style.

    ※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[Sad News] Ocarina of Time Remake Modeling Is Just Plain Creepy“.

  • Lottery’s ¥800 million jackpot ticket among ¥1 billion in unsold prizes that turn into “worthless paper” — 5ch: “I want a time machine so I can go back and buy them”

    At the “Utsunomiya Bell Mall Chance Center” lottery shop in Utsunomiya City, Tochigi Prefecture, the Summer Jumbo Premium’s ¥200 million first-prize preceding award was won — but in the same drawing group, the ¥800 million first-prize ticket and the ¥200 million first-prize following award (both “loose” single tickets) went unsold, forfeiting the right to claim them. Had all three sold, it would have added up to a combined ¥1 billion payout — the largest ever won at a lottery shop in Tochigi Prefecture. On 5ch, distrust of the drawing system itself clashed with voices simply chalking it up to probability.

    Delivered 9/8 (Tue) 19:36

    Shimotsuke Shimbun Digital

    It came to light by the 8th that at the “Utsunomiya Bell Mall Chance Center” lottery shop in Utsunomiya’s Youtou 6-chome, the ¥800 million first prize and the ¥200 million first-prize following award for the “Summer Jumbo Premium” — which debuted as the highest jumbo-lottery jackpot ever, with first prize plus preceding and following awards combining for ¥1.2 billion — had gone unsold. Since the shop did sell the ¥200 million first-prize preceding award, had all three tickets sold, it would have made for the largest total ever won at a lottery shop in Tochigi Prefecture. All three were “loose” single tickets, and shop staff showed a mix of shock and frustration.

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

    3AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:16
    So the winning ticket really was in there lol
    Or is that the trap?
    4AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:16
    Isn't it more like: it became the winning ticket *because* it went unsold?
    6AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:18
    Well of course they're not gonna make a ticket that actually sold the winner lol
    Only the folks with a stake in it get to win lol
    9AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:18
    It's not that it "went unsold" — they ran a machine drawing among the numbers that didn't sell and picked the 1st prize from those.
    The prize money got split among the vested interests.
    32AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:34
    Re: #9
    Looks like pure luck, but apparently there's been a trick since before the war where you throw darts at a spinning target to intentionally pick the winning number.
    118AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:30
    Re: #32
    They get accused of rigging it that much and still won't change the system — must be some serious payoff in it for someone.
    172AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:42
    Re: #32
    Well, before the war they figured out how to fire machine guns through spinning propeller blades without hitting them (interrupter gear tech), so I guess anything's possible.
    13AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:23
    Since it doesn't roll over, they'd better actually spend the money on public good projects.
    34AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:34
    Re: #13
    A park bench oughta do it, right?
    65AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:50
    Re: #13
    Replacing flood-damaged cars.
    23AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:29
    The moment the drawing machine can be made to land on whatever number they like, well…
    31AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:33
    Re: #23
    Come on, in this day and age if there were any real fraud going on, word would definitely leak out from somewhere.
    36AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:35
    It's probably because the odds are so low that fewer and fewer people are buying tickets.
    They love turning this into news just to stir up buying interest.
    There must've been unsold winning tickets before too, obviously.
    40AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:37
    Re: #36
    Especially the "Premium" version, which cranked the rip-off factor up even more.
    45AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:39
    That's the ticket I had reserved.
    Guess I'll go buy it now (lol)
    186AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:15
    Re: #45
    Sure, go buy it, but it's obviously void now.
    Paying money on purpose for a piece of scrap paper — what a whim.
    56AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:44
    Do they already know every unsold number before running the draw like that on drawing day?
    Kind of kills my urge to buy one.
    157AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:20
    Re: #56
    Right? This genuinely pisses me off.
    It basically means there's zero chance of ever winning.
    The Special Investigation Squad should charge them with fraud.
    59AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:47
    If I had a time machine, I'd go back and buy up all the unsold tickets from this shop.
    Apparently it's about 1,000 tickets, so for around ¥500,000 you could win ¥1 billion.
    67AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:51
    Re: #59
    The moment you travel to the past, the timeline shifts massively — you might land in a world where lotteries don't even exist lol
    105AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:14
    Re: #59
    Okay, say you go back and manage to buy up every remaining ticket.
    Would you actually get to hold that ¥1 billion, though?
    It's only once the results are announced that you'd finally discover the dark side of the lottery.
    151AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:12
    Re: #59
    In that case, the winning ticket just wouldn't come out of that shop at all.
    The winner would come from unsold tickets at some other shop instead.
    My condolences.
    76AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:56
    Back when I was young I'd occasionally buy about ¥9,000 worth of just the Jumbo lottery.
    Never won for real and eventually gave up — the best I ever got back in one go was two ¥10,000 tickets, a pretty pathetic result.
    Also, maybe because it was a while back, but a clerk once tried to pretend one of my ¥10,000 winning tickets didn't exist. When I called them out on it, they gave this overly theatrical apology and handed over the cash.
    These days customers can at least see that checking-machine display, though.
    81AnonymousSep 9, 2026 00:58
    Re: #76
    Not lottery related, but you sometimes see footage circulating of pachinko cash-exchange booths skimming bills.
    130AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:48
    If there was no winner, they should roll it over and make next time's jackpot ¥2 billion.
    131AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:51
    Re: #130
    Doubling something that never wins anyway doesn't mean much.
    140AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:00
    Not sure if you could even calculate the odds of the same shop producing 1st prize winners back-to-back, but somehow I get the feeling buying here won't pay off for a while.
    143AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:02
    Re: #140
    Completely unrelated.
    Each individual ticket's odds are an independent trial.
    142AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:00
    ¥500 a ticket is pricey.
    Don't expect regular people to keep the sales up — go pull a "jibaku eigyou" move instead (forcing staff to buy stock themselves to hit sales quotas).
    180AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:05
    Re: #142
    With ¥500 you could get a bowl of ramen at Hidakaya, after all.
    158AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:22
    This one just ends up going straight to the national treasury and that's that, but with Loto-type lotteries, unclaimed money rolls over and makes next time's jackpot super hype.
    That's why you should be buying Loto 6 or Loto 7 instead of a regular lottery ticket.
    "Shipbuilder Taro" (the poster's own nickname for himself) always keeps his antenna tuned to that kind of exciting stuff going on in the world.
    164AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:27
    Re: #158
    Unsold tickets are treated as if they never existed, so that money doesn't go to the national treasury.
    162AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:27
    They sell that many every single time, yet there's never any "I won!" posts on social media — that's weird.
    Maybe they really are manipulating the unsold numbers into winners after all.
    165AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:30
    Re: #162
    There's no upside to bragging about winning on social media.
    166AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:31
    Re: #162
    Because if you say you won, your life could be in danger.
    169AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:38
    Re: #162
    Exactly. Even on the anonymous lottery board, you never hear that kind of story.
    I keep telling myself "I'll be the first!" and getting fired up, but my turn never seems to come.

    Background and key points of this discussion

    Lottery winning numbers are printed on the tickets in advance, and the drawing itself selects numbers without regard to whether they actually sold. Because of this system, it’s possible — if statistically unlikely — for high-value winning numbers to stay unsold all the way to the end, and this case, where the first-prize preceding award hit but the ¥800 million first prize and ¥200 million following award went unsold, is an extension of that same mechanism. Prize money tied to unsold tickets isn’t paid to anyone; instead it’s folded into the lottery’s proceeds, which are funneled toward public works and similar funding. The thread split between those who saw deliberate manipulation by the drawing machine or the operators, and those who chalked it up to simple probability — the latter camp pointing out that “there must be huge numbers of unsold tickets every single time.” What’s easy for readers to misread is that this story isn’t “proof of fraud” — it’s simply a case of bad luck where the preceding, main, and following prizes didn’t all sell at the same shop.

    *This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (News Speed+) thread “[Summer Jumbo Premium] ¥1 billion in winning tickets become “worthless paper” after going unsold — lottery shop in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture“.

  • Why Doesn’t Ocarina of Time Go Open World? 5ch: “Not Even Close, It’s a Trash Game”

    A thread on 5ch’s hardware/industry (Geha) board heated up over whether an Ocarina of Time remake should go open world. It started with criticism that the original’s field areas are flat and empty, splitting posters into a cautious camp who argued that going open world would mean “it’s no longer Ocarina of Time,” and a reform camp who countered that bold remakes—like Resident Evil RE2 or the FF7 Remake—are what remakes are for. Concrete points also came up, like the two-part structure of switching between child and adult eras, loading between areas, and the sparse enemy placement in the field.

    1AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:10
    WHY
    3AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:11
    W H Y
    8AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:19
    That would stop being Ocarina of Time.
    10AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:20
    Re: #8
    Resident Evil's remake ditched tank controls and the fixed camera and got huge praise for it, so there's zero need to stick to the original's specs.
    12AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:22
    Re: #10
    So, did Resident Evil's remake become open world?
    16AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:27
    Re: #10
    Isn't that just because the original was a trash game?
    14AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:23
    Re: #12
    The point is that going open world doesn't necessarily mean it stops being Ocarina of Time.
    15AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:26
    Re: #14
    Re: #10
    So, did Resident Evil's remake become open world?
    27AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:31
    Ocarina of Time is a remake, so even asking "why not make it open world" is dumb.
    29AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:32
    Re: #27
    It's exactly because it's a remake that it should change from the original — if it's the same as the original, you might as well just play the original.
    30AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:32
    I was genuinely shocked the field was left just as empty as the original, with barely any enemies.
    34AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:34
    Re: #30
    Keeping it as empty as the original is just dumb, honestly.
    Clear flaws like this really need to be properly redone.
    39AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:38
    Give it a rest, you still going on about this?
    If you make it open world it becomes a different game, so it's not a remake anymore, I keep telling you.

    Don't let them wing it on vibes like they did with FF7.
    46AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:41
    The Resident Evil remake thing is basically just turning painted backdrops into 3D, right?
    Ocarina of Time already did that too.
    Using that as an example to demand an open-world overhaul that changes the whole gameplay is off base — that's a completely different level of change.
    48AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:42
    Re: #46
    The Resident Evil remake has no fixed camera or tank controls ("radio-control" style movement) — the gameplay itself changed completely.
    50AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:44
    There's zero point making Ocarina of Time open world when the progression order is completely fixed.
    53AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:48
    Re: #50
    Changing exactly that kind of original spec is what a remake is for.
    55AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:50
    Re: #53
    So that's why they shot themselves in the foot turning an RPG into an action game, lol
    56AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:50
    Re: #53
    And the result of that is the FF7 Remake.
    58AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:51
    >55,56,57
    Just a reminder that RE2 changed a ton from the original and is a universally-praised masterpiece.
    62AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:52
    Re: #58
    That's basically the level of doing two Ocarina of Time dungeons and calling it done — just picking up a key and opening a door.
    The bar for getting praised is so low, lol
    60AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:51
    To begin with, Breath of the Wild didn't go open world just because they wanted open world — open world just happened to be the best fit for what they wanted to express.
    Demanding Ocarina of Time go open world is missing the point.
    65AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:55
    Re: #60
    That basically means they wanted it to be open world though…
    64AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:55
    Resident Evil, FF7, and Ocarina of Time were all born in the same era, but
    Zelda is the one whose system is so complete it doesn't need a gameplay overhaul.
    66AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:56
    Re: #64
    Ocarina of Time does need an overhaul too — playing it now, it feels dated.
    It's sad that Capcom and Square Enix clearly got that, but only Nintendo didn't.
    84AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:08
    Re: #64
    Still, I think there's room to improve the puzzles and the controls.
    I'd want the bow's stick-aim switched to gyro aim.
    I'd also want jumping to be doable with a single button.
    Though jumping would change the core gameplay, so if they want to keep changes to the content minimal,
    that part might be a bit tricky.
    67AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:57
    Re: #66
    Huh?
    Unlike Resident Evil and FF7, it's not dated at all.
    68AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:58
    Re: #67
    Nintendo themselves must have thought it was dated too, since they added a jump-anywhere feature…
    72AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:59
    Re: #71
    Lol, that's basically admitting Re: #67 was a lie.
    69AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:58
    Re: #66
    Genuine question, but what specifically do you think needs fixing?
    73AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:00
    Re: #69
    Things like the loading between areas or how empty the field is — there's plenty that should be fixed…
    71AnonymousSep 9, 2026 01:59
    Re: #68
    The only dated parts are that and the camera controls.
    It's on a different level from trash games with tank controls and painted backdrop backgrounds.
    89AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:12
    I don't get what "two-part structure" even means.
    90AnonymousSep 9, 2026 02:14
    Re: #89
    Not the whole game being open, but an open structure split into two parts, child and adult.
    　
    It doesn't have to be that way,
    but if they did make it open world, that's what it would inevitably end up being.
    97AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:06
    Using fade-to-black transitions makes it easy to convey distance and time.
    Open world has to express that through actual travel, which means you need to build huge connecting map areas.
    They probably judged that would hurt the original's pacing.
    98AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:09
    Re: #97
    More than that,
    I think Nintendo just wanted to make the classic look pretty.
    Same with Star Fox —
    they just want to do it with the best possible visuals right now.
    There's probably no going further up from here anyway.
    105AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:22
    "We deliberately kept the loading screens, lol"
    Why on earth would you do that
    109AnonymousSep 9, 2026 03:34
    Re: #105
    Because in Ghost of Tsushima it loaded so fast you couldn't even read the tips.

    Background and Key Points of This Discussion

    The “Resident Evil RE2” remake was highly praised even after ditching the fixed camera and tank controls, while the “FF7” remake split opinion by shifting from turn-based to action combat — posters repeatedly cited these two as a yardstick for “how far bold changes should be allowed to go.” N64-era software tended to have simplified field areas due to hardware constraints, and the empty plains of Ocarina of Time, despite their size, were brought up as one example of this. On the other hand, going open world doesn’t just mean making things bigger — it means altering the original’s core structure itself, such as the fixed order of puzzle-solving or the child/adult switching mechanic. Where to draw the line between “improvement” and “turning it into a different game” is what split opinion, and that’s arguably the heart of this debate.

    ※This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “Why didn’t they make Ocarina of Time open world?“