During the intro, while all the guys were clapping and YAY-ing, Ryo smacked Yassu on the head repeatedly. (He's just showing his love!)

The magician this time was Kazu Takayama (his name's written in katakana, and the order is different -- is he pretending to be a foreigner? or IS he one?) By the way, I'm not going to describe the tricks much, because you don't need to understand the language to understand the tricks. Also it's boring to write/read about.

Cup & Ball
After the first trick, Subaru was screaming "EH?! HOW!?" but Yoko looked kind of disappointed. I kept spotting extra balls in the magician's hand, so I figure Yoko could too and didn't want to pretend that it was amazing. Even when he replaced the balls with lemons at the end, Yoko didn't make a surprised face. He's such a grumpy pants!

Lesson 1 - Let's learn magic using paper money!
First, fold a bill lengthwise and then set it up so it stands up on a table. Tap your cheeks, then make a fist at the bill, and it'll fall down! Even if you cover your mouth and nose, or put a bottle in front of the bill, it'll still fall down. The reason? The force of the air from your hand moving towards the bill knocks it down. Since bottles are round, the air just flows around it and still hits the bottle. The guys stood around doing it, but kept patting their cheeks even though it really wasn't necessary.. When Subaru did it, he pulled his arm back in an attempt to be cool? *g*

Card Magic
Kazu gave Maru a little metal container to take care of until the end of the tricks. The first trick was to find the four versions of one number without looking at the cards. The first three were kings, but the last was an ace -- but when Subaru turned over the first three cards they were aces too! (I love Subaru's reactions to stuff like this LOL)

He gave Maru the kings and did stuff with the aces. Subaru took the 7 of hearts and wrote his name on it. Then Kazu asked him to write something that only he would know -- such as the PIN number for his ATM card! *g* Kazu took the red kings from Maru and put Subaru's card between them and did stuff with the cards. He took the black kings from Maru, and after playing with them for a second, Subaru's card was in between them! Then it was back between the red kings! Subaru looked kind of scared while he was clapping.

Afterwards he got Ryo, Maru, and Hina to sign the card as well and then he put it between the red cards, and put those three between the black cards. He put the five hards in Maru's hands and had him hold them. Kazu mentioned the metal container from the beginning of the segment, and Hina and Subaru looked at each other and screamed: "I FORGOT!!!" So Hina took it out, and Kazu opened it. There was a folded-up card inside, which Subaru unfolded and of course it was the signed card! While they were all freaking out about it, Uchi shook Yassu violently.

♪ Osaka Rainy Blues