The 'Tokyo Sports Research Circle' is too amazing lol! Even if it's 'off-kilter,' thanks to them, the history of 'occult programs' will never end [Don't Stop the Fake Documentary!]

Hello everyone, this is Yashiro.

I'm doing another review article for the 'Don't Stop the Fake Documentary!' magazine series ↓

But man,

what on earth,

I've discovered some incredible content again.

It's a supernatural phenomenon investigation documentary program put together by the famous Toshitaro Yamaguchi and Tokyo Sports... calling it that might sound a bit too serious, but

it's rare to find an occult program that has so little intention of taking the truth behind 'supernatural phenomena' seriously... or rather, it's starting to feel like this is the right way to make an occult program in the 21st century.

I just watched the 'UFO' episode for the first time, and

under the guise of a Tokyo Sports reporting team heading into Aokigahara to verify the urban legend that 'there is a UFO base' with the help of a local guide,

the local guide completely shatters all the material the Tokyo Sports research team had prepared in advance, saying things like, 'It's only the tourists who make a fuss about seeing UFOs; no locals have ever seen one,' and 'A mysterious door inside the wind cave? Oh, that's just a remnant from when they used to do sericulture here; it's a door for putting in silkworms,' lol

However, since that wouldn't make for a program,

the leader of the research team desperately tries to argue, 'That guide himself must be lying!' or 'No... it could be an entrance for small aliens disguised as a silkworm door!', making the accompanying staff cringe and effectively causing the program to fall apart... that's the kind of work this is.

Because the leader's isolation felt so pitiful,

at the very end, above Mount Fuji,

'Huh? There's some kind of black shadow! Isn't that a UFO?'

when they hurriedly turned the camera and succeeded in filming a lone black shadow that 'couldn't not look like' a UFO, even the viewers felt relieved, thinking, 'Well, at least it had some kind of punchline,' lol

So, in short,

this is an occult-style documentary overflowing with the Tokyo Sports vibe, where fakes are welcome, aimed at people who don't seriously believe in the occult but are still hoping that 'even if the footage looks fake, I hope something shows up on screen.'

It's a work that should be called a bizarre masterpiece, but

There are two points that deserve praise.

The first is that, although in the end there was no such thing as a 'UFO base' (which is obvious lol), the local guide showed us that it's true that compasses go haywire in the Sea of Trees if you do it in spots with a lot of basalt, saying 'Let's experiment!', and the trivia and scientific facts about the Aokigahara Forest were incredibly educational, making it genuinely interesting to watch.

And the second point, which is more important,

although it is a 'cynical' occult program that is very 21st century, the structure and atmosphere are brilliantly a parody of the 'occult investigation programs' of the late 20th century, which some generations will find nostalgic. The 'vibe' of this program itself is an homage to the kind of occult programs you no longer see on terrestrial television, so for those who miss this kind of program structure, it is incredibly nostalgic.

Indeed, such a 'cynical' structure is aimed at us in the modern age who can no longer naively believe in the occult,

but conversely, since works like this as a 'parody' of past occult programs are still being produced, in that sense, it seems the history of occult programs is far from over lol.