From the official Granrodeo and Abema TV twitter feeds. Click for a larger view.

Monday, June 13th, from 8:00 ~ 12:00, Abema TV will run back to back episodes of the previously aired GR TV show. View them here.

Last week’s show featured Hokkaido and had the theme “Marriage.” We got to see Kiiyan chow down on some tasty noodles, but barely hold in the thickest looking tomato juice (which he’s not that fond of to begin with) I’ve ever seen. Per usual they discussed musicians from the prefecture, such as Glay.

That image above comes from the viewer phone in corner. There were three callers this time, all Rodeo Girls. The last two were named Haruka (18) and Minami (20), which, if you’re familiar with KimiNozo is funny by itself (Kuribayashi Minami played Haruka, in case you don’t know). But … Kiiyan managed to royally screw up and call Minami Haruka. And then immediately turned to the camera and told guys that’s the #1 thing they need to remember — to always have the girl’s name in mind.  Amusingly, it was Kiiyan, the unmarried one, who gave out all the advice and e-zuka, who’s been married for 6 years now was mostly quiet. (Kiiyan was also perhaps a tiny bit cutely grumpy about the happily married young folk calling in.)

Three more shows to go!

Anime Times put up a summary of last week’s episode and some pics. The theme for last week was “Anything goes!” and the featured city was Nagoya. Kiiyan and e-zuka enjoyed what seemed to be miso katsu on a stick and some other Nagoya goodies. Kiiyan talked a bit about the beauty of Aichi women, and how it seemed to be increasing from year to year.

The first caller was a 19 year old Fukuoka Rodeo Girl who works in a maid cafe — she was also one of the fan artists whose work was displayed this week. One of the other callers was a 35 year old RG and Kiiyan really perked up … and was a bad, bad boy, asking her about her “night time activities” and how often she has them in a week. And then he got all cutely nervous about the Twitter comments he’d get after that.

They closed out by singing ‘We are the World,” which was quite, quite cute.

Sneaking this in just before episode 4 tomorrow. Only one screencap, since I was watching live, and there’s no way to pause the live stream.

The city focus in this episode was Sendai, which means gyutan (beef tongue), and specifically gyutan jerky, which they devoured. There was also a special Sendai daifuku they also liked a lot. The theme this time around was Relationships, and they had several women call in, most of them under 22. Kiiyan was downright ecstatic to finally get a 30 year old calling in, and we learned that his “strike zone” is women in their 30s. (He said anywhere from 30-40 was okay.)

This week’s episode followed the same format as last week:  a focus on one of the upcoming tour cities and a telephone corner. The theme of this week’s episode was tabi (journey), prompted, perhaps by the Ro-gumi bus trip this weekend.

Osaka was the city featured this week, and the staff provided snacks, including takoyaki treats (not actual takoyaki), almond mascarpone chocolate and something crunchy and fried that e-zuka described as being like karinto. Snacks which Kiiyan didn’t like at all, and wasn’t able to quite hide his dislike. (And this was after praising last week’s food from Fukuoka.) He needs to learn the fake UMAI that all talentos whip out for these occasions. They barely touched the food, though e-zuka devoured the chocolates.

As before, they talked briefly about the city (Kiiyan’s description of the men and women in Shinsaibashi was rather amusing) and discussed musicians/singers from Osaka, like aiko. Weirdly they didn’t mention L’arc en Ciel at all, arguably the biggest act ever out of Osaka. They discussed the various songs used at Osaka train stations, and the host asked what station should have a Granrodeo song. Kiiyan’s reply was that Minowa station in Tokyo should get 欲望∞.

There were four callers this time. The first one asked Kiiyan about places to go in Yamaguchi. He suggested Hagi (an old samurai town in western Yamaguchi). And he apparently couldn’t remember the name of Motonosumi Shrine, so he waved his arms about to describe the 120+ red torii leading to the shrine, accompanied by a lot of R trilling.

Can’t recall what the next caller asked about, but it was amusing that it was obviously a Rodeo Boy, but he felt the need to say he was a guy. And he cracked them up when they asked how much he worked (he’d said he wasn’t a student, but a member of the work force) and he must’ve misunderstood, because he said 10 minutes.

The third caller told them she had lived in Malta as an exchange student, prompting more R trilling from Kiiyan, as he said things like “PEPPERRRRRRRONCINI.” He also remarked that he thought Italian men were amazing.

Between calls, the host gently poked Kiiyan about his fear of flying, prompting an explosion of “BAKA BAKA BAKAs,” though he clearly wanted to say “F— you.” Poor Kiiyan.

The last caller was a Rodeo Girl who’s coming to the bus trip this weekend to Naeba, but her friends are giving her a bad time about going some place only old folks go. (Guess Naeba is not a youthful resort.)