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The Guests of Room 0 – Maru is a dick, Yasu wants to ram a knife in his throat

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In this week’s Room 0 a new story begins telling the story of a Manzai duo that just can’t stand each other and barely hanging together by a thread. Maru plays Osamu, the egotistical self involved tsukkomi who believes that he is the embodiment of talent while Yasu plays Atsushi, the boke who is lesser […]

November 21, 2009 ・ merkypie

Why's you gotta be such a dumbass?

In this week’s Room 0 a new story begins telling the story of a Manzai duo that just can’t stand each other and barely hanging together by a thread. Maru plays Osamu, the egotistical self involved tsukkomi who believes that he is the embodiment of talent while Yasu plays Atsushi, the boke who is lesser serious of the two and always has a joke up his sleeve but is stomped on by Osamu for being stupid.

So, Osamu drags Atsushi to Hotel Point to find a justification in his career as a comedian. After winning the Japan Manzai King Competition three years ago, they’ve fallen out of the spotlight for the last two years and Osamu feels as if his talent is being wasted with Atsushi. He flaunts his stardom status in front of the Hotel Proprietor who isn’t phased by the celebrity status and then orders Atsushi around like his lap dog as he rails on him about how much his jokes suck and that he just won’t get a higher score than him.

Atsushi on the other hand grumbles and mumbles but does what Osamu says until the scores come back. When its revealed that Atsushi is just one point higher than Osamu in their personal scores, Atsushi suddenly has the courage to basically tell Osamu to go fuck himself and get him a juice from the fridge. Osamu gives at Atsushi a WTF face and cues to credits.

This week’s Room 0 pretty much follows the last story in the same storyline -> Overconfident character A brings lesser confident/clueless character B to Hotel Point, exploits why they’re so great, then get a rude awakening to find out they suck comparative to character B and thus have a mental breakdown.

I’m soooooooooooooooo blown away with Maru, ahahah! You see, Maru is my #1 favorite member of K8 along with Yoko…. and I’m so used to his ” boke ” and ” happy go lucky ” character that seeing him play an asshole was like ” OMG WHAT’S WRONG WITH MY BOO? ” Ahahaha, it was a bit hard to get used to.

They broke the 4th wall in this episode which was very hilarious and featured Ryo as another ” high score of Room 0 ” with a total point score of 90.

I wonder what next week has in store? What really did happen at that competition? Why has Osamu become so self involved with himself? And why have their relationship deteriorated to one of no respect?