Tetsu and Tomo
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Tetsu and Tomo are an owarai
duo. They have made appearances on variety shows such as Bakushou. Tetsu usually dresses in red and Tomo in blue. Their act has been around since at least 2001, and is generally musical in nature. When not performing to recorded songs, Tomo plays the guitar and both men sing.
Tomo (real name ), born May 10, 1970
singer while Tomo aspired to be an actor), but the pair ended up in comedy.
One of their most notable themes is "", which pokes fun at unusual or incomprehensible things. This theme became famous as two ending theme songs to the anime Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo
, and the CD single, released in 2003, sold over 200,000 copies.
Owarai
is a broad word used to describe Japanese comedy as seen on television. The word owarai is the honorific form of the word warai, meaning "a laugh" or "a smile". Owarai is most common on Japanese variety shows and the comedians are referred to as owarai geinin or owarai tarento...
duo. They have made appearances on variety shows such as Bakushou. Tetsu usually dresses in red and Tomo in blue. Their act has been around since at least 2001, and is generally musical in nature. When not performing to recorded songs, Tomo plays the guitar and both men sing.
Members
Tetsu (real name ), born May 9, 1970- Tetsu, also nicknamed "Tetchan", is a graduate of Nihon UniversityNihon UniversityNihon University is the largest university in Japan. Akiyoshi Yamada, the minister of justice, founded Nihon Law School in October 1889....
. In the duo's manzaiManzaiis a traditional style of stand-up comedy in Japanese culture, which usually involves two performers —a straight man and a funny man —trading jokes at great speed...
acts, he typically pays the tsukkomi role.
Tomo (real name ), born May 10, 1970
- Tomo, likewise a Nihon University graduate, typically plays the boke role in their manzai acts. He is a practitioner of shiginShiginShigin is a form of Japanese poetry, which is usually chanted, either individually or within a group.Individual poems are termed gin , and are usually composed of four or more lines of Chinese characters, or kanji , each line having the same number of characters...
, and has won an amateur singing competition (specifically the NHK Nodo JimanNHK Nodo JimanNHK Nodo Jiman is one of the longest running TV programs broadcast on Japanese NHK TV and NHK radio.- History :Nodo Jiman features amateur singers who live in the locality where the competition is held....
).
History
The two were scouted after singing at a wedding as entertainment (although the song was not comedic in nature). Both originally intended to pursue serious entertainment careers (Tetsu had hoped to become an enkaEnka
is a popular Japanese music genre considered to resemble traditional Japanese music stylistically. Modern enka, however, is a relatively recent musical form which arose in the context of such postwar expressions of modern Japanese nonmaterial nationalism as nihonjinron, while adopting a more...
singer while Tomo aspired to be an actor), but the pair ended up in comedy.
One of their most notable themes is "", which pokes fun at unusual or incomprehensible things. This theme became famous as two ending theme songs to the anime Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo
Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari Kōen-mae Hashutsujo
, full title , is a long-running comedy manga by Osamu Akimoto. It has been continuously serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since September 1976, with over 1700 chapters published, making it the longest-running manga series in history...
, and the CD single, released in 2003, sold over 200,000 copies.