Masaru Hamaguchi

It is 300 years into the future. Earth's environment had been devastated by mankind's own foolish plans and humankind is beleaguered by the sentient forests which they have awoken. The world balance is tipped when a young boy named Agito stumbles across a machine that glowed in a strange blue hue inside a forbidden sanctuary.

Hama-chan takes a vacation to go fishing in Akita despite warnings from Su-san as his company faces a restructuring process.

A brother and sister leave the big city to live with their veterinarian father when their mother is hospitalized. As they are adjusting to their new life filled with natural beauty, they adopt an abandoned puppy. When it is discovered that the puppy is actually a wolf, they choose to return the baby wolf to its mother in the forest rather than let it live a life in captivity.

A young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentric characters, where he lives.

When his internet business fails and leaves him in heavy debt, Ryota takes a position on a tuna fishing boat set to sail on New Year's Day 2000. In the meantime, he lives indifferently.

Mecha-Mecha Iketeru! is a popular Japanese variety show, shown on Fuji TV. The hosts of the show are the owarai duo Ninety-Nine, and the show is usually attended by regulars Yoiko, Gokuraku Tombo, Oasiz, Shinji Takeda, Akiko Hinagata, and Sarina Suzuki. However, Gokuraku Tombo's Keiichi Yamamoto has not appeared on the show since being involved in a scandal in 2006. Egashira 2:50 also appears as a semi-regular guest. The show is also known as Mecha-Ike.

‘Bachi Bachi Erekiteru’ was a variety programme broadcast on the Fuji TV network from 17 April to 18 September 2013. According to Hamaguchi, it was ‘a programme aiming to be the next Nainai’. The concept involved young comedians selected from the preceding programme, ‘Rocket Live’, carrying out projects such as location shoots and sketches, thereby spurring each other on. The young comedians’ regular appearances were strictly provisional; every two months, the ‘Bachi Bachi Member General Election’ (described below) was held, and the member who ranked lowest each time was replaced by another young comedian. Towards the end of the live broadcast of ‘24-Hour Zero TV’ (Zero TV) on 25 August 2013, MC Hamaguchi announced that the programme would end at the end of September. From 11 December 2013, it was revived as a live broadcast programme within Zero TV, with the title changed to ‘Bachi Bachi Eleki-teru Zer0’ and other aspects adapted to the Zero TV format.