3/19 Live Proudly, Children of Single-Parent Households! | Yutanpo

Did you watch it?
Apparently, it was a project brought in by Kubota, but wait, doesn't Kubota have both parents! (At first glance, he looks the most like someone raised by a single parent).
According to my intuition (!?), Yoshimura, Kawai, Ito, and Kuma-Pro give off a massive single-parent vibe.
A disclaimer first: I myself grew up identifying as a child of a single-parent household. Because I am one, I don't have any negative impressions that we are less educated or immature as people compared to families with both parents present.
So, I will go ahead and use terms like 'single-parent vibe' normally.
I knew that Cotton's Nishimura was a graduate of Keio or Waseda and was quietly an intellectual comedian.
I had watched Cotton's YouTube channel many times, but I always thought the main act was Kyon, and Nishimura was just the guy who was good at quizzes and seemed a bit shallow (no offense).
So, among this lineup, he felt like the odd one out to me. (And my opinion of him went up for being included in this group.)
And, it's amazing that his mother, a single mom, managed to put both him and his sibling through private universities. She's incredible.

Somehow, people who grew up in single-parent households... or to broaden it a bit, people who didn't have a blessed family environment (though I personally think this phrasing is more offensive), can sometimes be identified by their faces, behavior, or personality.
Regarding Ito, that episode with his sister is famous, so it's not much of a reference, but Yoshimura and Kawai are incredibly easy to read.
I'm going to praise them to the high heavens now.
Both of them possess a survival instinct that only people raised by single parents have, though the types differ.
I wonder what this is. It's not a part that grew from interacting with children during childhood, but rather...a part that had to grow up among adults.Maybe?
The image is, for example, if you were growing carrots, it's like pouring all your fertilizer into just one stalk to make it grow huge. (???????)
Try to explain that more clearly. Lol
For example,unwavering brightness and smiles.I think people who carry sensitive memories from childhood end up in one of two states. Either they get crushed and become depressed or delinquent, or...for some reason, they become unfathomably bright.
There is no doubt that the comedians here are all on the side of those who became unfathomably bright.
They smile a lot, and...they give off an impression of being flawless, in a way.
However, regarding these smiles, they look pasted on to me, though I suppose it depends on the person.
I don't know, I hate that I feel like I can just tell, but...I feel like they have an obsessive idea that they shouldn't drag others down with their own bad moods.Also, purely...
they hate themselves for having flaws.And on top of that...
they tend to have landmines in inexplicable places.I think so too.During the show, when they were talking about their upbringings, Nishimura said he was wealthy. Kawai snapped at him for that.At the beginning, regarding why Tani from Pumpkin Potato Fry wasn't participating, there was a story about how his parents had a 'gray divorce' after he turned twenty. Yoshimura spoke with a stronger tone, like, 'That's a completely different story.'
Because I am one, I feel like I can just tell, but I feel an atmosphere where...

they can only talk to people they acknowledge as having 'suffered just as much' in their family environment.I think this...low level of empathy for othersis the biggest flaw of being raised by a single parent.And that arrow is no longer aimed at people who grew up normally in normal homes. Because those people aren't even on their radar. They aim it at people who say things like 'I had a bit of a hard time,' as if to say, 'You can't call that a hardship.' (Even though you can't measure other people's hardships.)I think this is unavoidable, though. I suspect there were many things they couldn't have overcome unless they had that mindset of 'I'll be fine' or 'I'm different from the rest.'
Yoshimura's project on 'Wednesday Downtown.' The theory: 'You can tell a comedian's true ability by how they handle a suspicious amateur who appears during a live broadcast.' A guy who looked like he shouldn't be on camera during a location shoot came in, or something like that. (And they did the theory with a few people, and the level of suspiciousness seemed to go up when it was Yoshimura's turn.) The way Yoshimura handled it then...


that response is scattered with things only someone raised by a single parent could do.I feel like I'm saying something that doesn't make sense, so to break it down...
it's like a way of handling things that only someone who has suffered can do.Lol. Ever since I saw that, I've secretly liked Yoshimura. I've never had a 'real crush' (middle-aged folks, that's short for 'really in love') on a comedian, but...the feeling I have for Yoshimura is a bit like a real crush, or a raw emotion.
It makes my heart flutter a little. I've never had this feeling for a comedian in the past. I have favorite comedians, but there are proper reasons like their skits are funny or I like their vibe. (Yoshimura doesn't have that...! Lol)Writing this much, I feel like I'm a really pathetic person. Oh well. LolHere is the family environment episode Yoshimura used this time.

He also talked about how he had to join the circle of his grandparents and their friends, who were from a generation so different from his own, so he became good at making conversation with such people.
Today, the final exchange between Yoshimura and his mother was in the online news.
Everyone was bashing the mother. I felt sad.
From the outside, she might be a failure as a mother. Even Yoshimura just left it at thinking, 'As expected of my parent.'
But really, don't say anything at all. It's sad.
They went to the trouble of telling that story and making a show, and in the end, it was a great episode, wasn't it?
Don't they realize that bashing the mother is no different from bashing Yoshimura?
It's a bit different from bashing celebrities for affairs. Though I suppose that's also what it is.

Not limited to Yoshimura, everyone looked back on their family environment brightly. (Because it's a show, that's to be expected.)
Like Kawai's story about living in a prefab shack on the roof of a multi-tenant building, or Ito's story about his family falling apart and living at a friend's house in the first grade.
Hmm... poverty x family breakdown is truly hard on children. I feel it deeply.
Setting aside whether that hardship is necessary or not, I think hope reached those who feel burdened by being raised by a single parent, and children who are currently in the midst of that hardship.

At the end, each of them left a word for their families.
The children who had become adults expressed their gratitude to their parents.
Kuma-Pro's message to her mother was too funny...
I'm going to write about this in a separate article, but I also think that being chubby is justice when you're a child.
Yoshimura's words to his father. He said he hasn't been able to repay him enough, so he should live a long life. I couldn't feel that way about my mother. I still have a long way to go. Even though there is no mother left for me to repay, I believe that living my life properly every day is surely a way of showing filial piety.
Kosugi's words were also good. He said that transferring schools and changing his character was a successful experience, and because of that, he became a comedian, won M-1, and is happy now.
It was good that Kubota ended it by looking like he might win a prize. It was the best episode.
Thank you for the wonderful show.

Tomorrow is the final day of my daughter's kindergarten pre-room.
I've been entrusted with greeting the teachers, so I'll do my best.
Goodnight, everyone.

Kawai is really something, isn't he? Lol