Those of you who live in the U.S. or have access to American television might be familiar with the reality program I Survived a Japanese Game Show. I didn’t watch the first season, and from what I’ve seen in episode 1 of season 2 it seems that I didn’t miss out on a whole lot. I mean, it’s a nice idea and everything, and it would probably be quite enjoyable, but why does everyone have to shout on these programs and behave like hyperactive brats? Why can’t the producers just pick, like, normal people? Or maybe they are normal people, I don’t know.
So yeah, it looks like a bunch of civilized people is having fun with a bunch of barbarians. I’ll leave it to you to decide who is who. I Survived a Japanese Game Show airs wednesdays at 9/8c on ABC.
And in other news, former Johnny’s Jr. member Enomoto Yuuta (28) was arrested for fraud yesterday. Apparently he filed false unemployment claims with the public employment office in Shibuya and received some 600,000 Yen in unemploment benefits. However, most of the money ended up with a group of 15 people who made a total of 70 million Yen with some 120 false claims to the unemployment office. (Source: Daily Sports Online)
Enomoto was a member of the Johnny’s Jr. units J-Eleven and Kinpachi Trio, and like many Juniors before and after him he also starred in the TV drama 3-nen B-gumi Kinpachi Sensei. After he left Johnny’s in the late 1990s he became vocalist in a band named Circle and appeared in the musical Bishoujou Senshi Sailor Moon.
There you go. Being a successful Junior doesn’t always work out for everyone.
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