Aired On: 15th May, 2010
I’m going to start off by saying that I love Sho-kun’s mom. I wrote my post on the Bakatono episode sometime after watching it, so I forgot that one thing that annoyed me from that episode – when Aiba showed his messy make-up, someone (Sho?) said that he looked like someone from a transvestite bar at the crack of dawn. So after that episode, Sho-kun’s mom messaged him saying that it was offensive to transvestites, so he properly apologised. Thank you, Sho-kun’s mom!
This episode’s guest is actor/comedian Takada Junji, and it’s one of the episodes where I dislike the guest enough to not like the episode that much. I just don’t like his womaniser character, and I’m bored of that stereotype among older entertainers. His souvenir to Arashi were cute anime girl figures; he said that based on their choices, their personality would be shown.
Sho-kun and MatsuJun both wanted the figure of a character in kendo gear, brandishing a practice sword. Upon a janken round to see who’d get it, Sho won. He was told that the choice signifies that he might be a masochist, going for the strong female type. Sho said that he was usually told that he was a sadist, so Takada-san said that he could be an M who could switch to S, or something like that. Ohno chose a maid anime figure, which Takada-san said showed his preference to stay indoors and do his own thing. Aiba’s choice was a magical girl, and Takada-san said that it showed that he wasn’t human XD. He meant that Aiba was a bit out of touch with reality, or indulges in fantasy. Jun was stuck with an OL figure, which supposedly meant he was a bit perverted.
He didn’t really have anything real to teach Arashi – his three clauses were to help Arashi to “completely capture” a woman:
- Evaluating a woman from looking at them from the back. (Okay I can sort of understand that dudes may want to evaluate whether they’re interested in a woman or not, but does this actually help them “capture” that woman?)
- Praising a woman unexpectedly. (Not a bad point technically, but the way he went about it was just “eww” to me. Thankfully Arashi made this segment pretty funny.)
- Learn how to apologise. (Arashi’s apologies were cute; Takada-san’s annoyed me so much because he tried to steal a kiss after his apology, what kind of apology was that?)
In the Encounter the Unknown segment, Nino meets Terence Lee, who does crisis management in the series Sunday Japon. I’m not sure what exactly Terence was supposed to be teaching Nino (paranoia?) but Nino’s assignment was to encounter various dogs that tried to attack him, and correctly figure out the correct distance to stand from them so he wouldn’t get bitten. He didn’t do that well, and only got 30 points.
Anyway, after the third clause was announced and “taught”, Takada-san chose Sho to be his 2nd generation Takada Junji. Sho had to do the Takada Junji dance, which was funny, and the only thing I really remembered of this episode from the first time I saw it.
After Takada-san left, Arashi reflected on their lesson, and realised that they didn’t really learn anything that episode.
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