Without any of the usual initial banter, this episode of VS Arashi (VS 嵐) started with an oddly grim and tired look from both Ohno-san and Ninomiya-kun . . .

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. . . and the emergence of the guests. The Ikkyu-san 2 team had Suzuki Fuku-kun, Narimiya Hiroki-san (成宮寛貴), Kobayashi Seira-chan, Isono Kiriko-san (磯野貴理子), Yamada Hanako-san, Nakao Akiyoshi-san(中尾明慶), and last but certainly not least, Higashiyama Noriyuki-san.

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Sakurai-san naturally addressed his senpai Higashiyama-san first . . .

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. . . but the focus quickly turned to Suzuki-kun, with whom it will stay for most of the episode. Fuku-kun was so good at introducing Ikkyu-san 2 that MatsuJun not only expressed wonder at it, but noted that Aiba-kun had much more trouble talking about his drama.

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