Tokyo Friend Park (TV show) on May 7th!

Ok, I haven't been able to find any official sources, but on FSU it was reported that Miki, Mao, Kozu and Nobu are going to be on the May 7th episode of the variety show "Tokyo Friend Park II" on TBS!! (They taped it on Monday, apparently.)

I've never seen the show, but apparently they play a bunch of crazy games - like jumping against a cushion wall!

See the website here:
http://www.tbs.co.jp/tfp2/index-j.html

And all the "attractions" (games) are pictured here:
http://www.tbs.co.jp/tfp2/atr_wall.html

I think this is going to be ridiculous fun - I can't wait!!

Holy cow! One of my favorite variety shows and the Japanese team are going to be on it.

I do hope this pops up online in one form or the other after it airs, because this show is full of FUN (and its pretty light on dialogue so it's pretty easy to follow for those who don't speak Japanese).

The Hyper Hockey game continues to be my favorite part of that show. I wonder what each of the four members picked as their prospective prize for the spinning darts game in the very end...

I can't wait! This show sounds like so much fun.

Here's a promotional video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbK0tg7uYag

It's very funny!

Thanks for the link, Oscilla!

I really can't wait to see this!

It is said that Mao fails in all questions and Kozuka helps her a lot.
And Miki hugs with Kozuka

Another fluff clip, with actual clips from the show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ach7knh3w

The dialogue says that it was Miki's dream to be on this show, and she "pulled along" [ie convinced] the others!

Oooh, ooh, ooh!!!!!

Woah It's hilarious! They all look so funny,can't wait to see the whole show!

Batsuchan wrote:

Another fluff clip, with actual clips from the show!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8ach7knh3w

The dialogue says that it was Miki's dream to be on this show, and she "pulled along" [ie convinced] the others!

Oh, thank you, Miki! I can't wait to see the show.

I love the promo clips (especially the one when everyone laughed).

Here's the latest preview.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgVT1s1Yp5w

It's from Miki's interview on the TV show "Hanamaru Market."

Anyone know if we'll be able to watch this on TVAnts?

Thank you for the new promo!!

Can't wait for the show to air on 7 May!!!!!!

They all seem to be having such a great time. It's always great to see the Japan Team together with such unity. TAT is totally right!!! Team Japan is such a great team!!!

The latest preview from TV program "Oh-sama no Blunch"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0BhbihLqK0&feature=channel_page

It's said Mao's foot is opened too much! in the Wall Crush game.
When Mao sticks on the wall, Mao's face is so cute!!

A nice picture from Tono's blog:
http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/sports/message/oda/2009/05/post_13.html

SoMiTripleAxel wrote:

A nice picture from Tono's blog:
http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/sports/message/oda/2009/05/post_13.html

Thanks for the link SoMiTripleAxel!!

At the end of the post, Tono wrote something like, "I'm an idiot with pictures so I'm sorry. Takahiko - the picture is really cut off, so I'm really sorry."

But, I don't get it! Why is he apologizing to Taka-chan only?!

(Mao + Taka-chan next to each other again! Heeheeheee! )

SoMiTripleAxel wrote:

A nice picture from Tono's blog:
http://www.kansai-u.ac.jp/sports/message/oda/2009/05/post_13.html

Nice picture, not so nice product placement attempt from Nobunari.

Batsuchan wrote:

Anyone know if we'll be able to watch this on TVAnts?

There appears to be a TBS feed on TVAnts, so I can only hope someone pulls through tomorrow when it airs!

clovera wrote:

There appears to be a TBS feed on TVAnts, so I can only hope someone pulls through tomorrow when it airs!

Are you planning to watch live?! Isn't that in the middle of the night for you?

Anyone else planning to watch live? I think I will try to watch for a little bit, but I got scolded for coming in late to work, so I won't be able to watch it all...

Batsuchan wrote:

Are you planning to watch live?! Isn't that in the middle of the night for you?

Anyone else planning to watch live? I think I will try to watch for a little bit, but I got scolded for coming in late to work, so I won't be able to watch it all...

I'll definitely be working around my sleep schedule, but I just had my last finals...and I think watching the Japanese FS team on a long-running game/variety show I've watched for ages is a nice way to seal the academic year.

This particular episode will get saved to my HD once it makes it way online, that's for sure!

Hello? Is anyone watching?? They're doing the Wall Crash now!! There's no feed on TVAnts; I'm watching on Keyhole TV and it's very choppy, but this is fun!!

ETA I take it back; it's way too choppy!!! I totally need to watch this again.

They just cleared the Wall Crash in 4 tries out of 6 (they had to get 270 points) over 2 turns each for Nobu, Taka, Mao. Nobu was first and got 100, Mao got 40, Taka got 100, then Mao got 40, so they were clear. Then, in order to get more gold coins, Taka and Nobu aimed for the clear area at the very top.

(I feel kind of like I'm doing PBP for a skating event. )

I'm *trying* to watch it on keyhole... It's very fun though... I'll watch it again when someone hopefully uploads it.

PBP is very welcome! I can't watch it through KeyHole - I keep getting "Connection timed out" messages.

Ok, they just cleared the "Physical Mail" game - that was pretty awesome, they were really working hard together.

Now they're doing the "Never Wipe out" game. Nobu said they should split up in pairs by blood type; since Mao and Taka-chan are both B, they should go together, while Nobu and Miki are both A, so they'll go together. (Hmm, I wonder if that's the only reason Nobu picked that way to split them up...)

So far Mao and Taka are not doing too well...so it's up to Miki and Nobu next!

Oscilla wrote:

PBP is very welcome! I can't watch it through KeyHole - I keep getting "Connection timed out" messages.

Do you have the latest version of KeyholeTV?
http://xorsyst.com/japan/watch-japanese-tv-online/

When I tried watching something else a couple weeks ago, I couldn't get it to connect because I didn't have the most updated version...

ETA GAH, I need to go get ready for work now...

Miki and Nobu had trouble with "Never Wipe Out" as well; Miki and Mao are going to try together after the CM break!

Hopefully by the time I get back from work, the whole thing will be online!

Thank you, Batsuchan! It's choppy, but it works now!

Kozu and Nobu are doing something funny...

Aww, they cleared the stage!!! Miki was so happy she nearly killed Nobu

Oh, now Miki is popping baloons by blowing some things out of a long pipe-thing... She's doing well, actually! Clear!

Now Mao and Nobu are doing... something... Piling some stuff up. Miki and Kozu join them... Looks like Mao is supposed to throw those... saucers...

And she clears the stage as well!