I got traumatized😭😭 I searched Ichikawa Ebizo on google and some kabuki horror movie poster popped up. That poster had a white kabuki motherfucker with a small mouth😭It's night in here

why do boys like playing with balls so much ?

Ayumi, I see that Haibara has influenced you too much, shame on booth of you

That's honestly such a weird comment, esp coming from Ayumi. She loves playing soccer as much as the boys.

Lol 😆

Wow didn’t expect this to be long

Surprised there wasn’t anything for 2015 for a new year a celebration

Oh yeah 2016 is an interesting year for anime especially in spring/summer at the time especially this special

Happy to see a new opening and ending

Smth about the writing of this episode seems off, some characters acted in an unusual way too, maybe bc it’s a special idk

You mean like hibari ?

yes that is the ACTUAL film, TV, and kabuki actor born Takatoshi Horikoshi in 1977.

yes he is playing himself.

yes that is a stage name Ichikawa Ebizo the 11th holder of that stage name. he is the eldest son and heir to one of the oldest kabuki families in Japan, their founder started the family and subsequent Ichikawa Kabuki Troop in the 1600's. this family raises the eldest son to be a kabuki actor and when his father deems him ready to perform (11th started acting when he was five years old with his first stage appearance) the son receives his first stage name. kabuki families have a fluid rotating stage name scheme that is individual to each family. since 11th father died in 2013 he's been the family head and with covid etc. delaying things in kabuki, 11th has not taken a new name. perhaps until his announced change to Ichikawa Danjūrō ​​XIII in November 2022, with his son Kangen Horikoshi taking the name Ichikawa Shinnosuke VIII (the first name 11th used when he started acting in kabuki theater) and making the son's Kabuki theater debut as an actor. 11th has two children, his daughter is older by 2 years than his son. in 2010 he married his wife, a news presenter but 11th and his wife were only together for seven years before she passed from complications with breast cancer in 2017.

this pair of specials actually aired in Japan as a one-hour episode after New Years in 2016. so at this time 11th was technically not a 'heartthrob actor' like he's portrayed in the anime, but a happily married man with 2 children and a wife trying to beat breast cancer. Ran ESPECIALLY should have been aware of this and Sonoko also, since Sono supposedly had met with 11th more than once at kabuki after-parties

That’s great

UNMEI NO ROULETTE!!!! GYAHHHHHHH😭😭😭

Waaaaay to Japanese for me ill skip sick of all those weird noises and shitty jap culture references

That’s the point though

the ed omg the nostalgic feeling 😢

Yeah I know and i remember listening to this in august