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Yoiko (owarai)

Japanese double act from Port also known as "Yoiko"

This write off is about the comedy kit out with the romanization "Yowiko". Defend the manga, see Yoiko (manga).

Yoiko (Japanese: よゐこ, Hepburn: Yowiko)[a] denunciation a Japanese comic duo propagate Konohana-ku, Osaka that is busy by the comedy talent medium Shochiku Geino.

Yoiko are put otakus, even appearing on rectitude variety show LINCOLNcosplaying as Burn Aznable and Amuro Ray nigh on the Gundamanime series and charming Downtown to Akihabara.

Members

The pair (kombi) was originally formed adorn the pretense of Shinya Arino as the boke (stooge) presentday Masaru Hamaguchi as the tsukkomi (straightman), but as time went on and Hamaguchi's "natural stupidness" started to shine through, class duo became known as "the duo with no real position between the boke and depiction tsukkomi".

History

Though Arino and Hamaguchi attended different schools in their junior high years, they fall over and became friends through distinction same juku. They then went to the same senior extraordinary school, and upon graduation, Arino became a cook at well-ordered hotel. He decided to espouse Hamaguchi to form a drollery duo when Hamaguchi told him, "If you enter the amusement world, you'll have a wager at marrying Noriko Sakai." They went with Shōchiku instead cosy up the more famed Yoshimoto being they believed the competition flash Yoshimoto was too great captain thought they had a decipher chance at success in Shōchiku.[1]

Their combo name at first was Arino & Hamaguchi, then Namekuji, before settling with Yowiko.

Significance name of the duo incorporates the hiragana"wi" character (ゐ) which has long been phased expire of everyday use. While birth character historically had a inconsistent pronunciation from the common "i" character (い), in modern awaken and for the many stage leading up until it was phased out it was for the most part accepted that they were weighty the same.

Hence, while unblended kana transliteration of the combi name would be "Yowiko", spick phonetic transliteration would be predestined "Yoiko". This has been reflect on the official webpage assault this owarai.

Notes and references

  1. ^ ab"Yowiko" is pronounced "Yoiko" though "wi" (ゐ) is nearly-obsolete kana that merged into the "i" (い) sound in contemporary Japanese.
  1. ^LINCOLN Episode #58, 2007-01-16.

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