24 Hour Food Camp
A 24 hour eating contest between teams of different sizes was recently held on a Japanese television program called “Food Camp”. The teams consisted of Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota as a single-person team, a two-woman team of Tomoko Miyake and her friend Kana, three wrestlers and six comedians. The comedians won by eating, 22.21 kg in total, but that was only .3 kg more than Shirota ate. Tomoko Miyake’s team was hurt by the medical disqualification of Kana.
Youtube videos: Part 1 Part 2
R Suzuki blog entry
Official program website
Kobayashi & Shirota go bowling
Kobayashi and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota recently faced off, but it was in a bowling alley and not an eating contest. Shirota reports that Kobayashi broke 200 in his blog entry about the competition.
In his blog entry, Kobayashi has a cartoon of Shirota and the Food Battle Club stars. Tomoko Miyake has a cartoon of herself suitable for placement on a button in her blog.
Gal Sone vs. magician & other videos
A video of Gal Sone competing in a noodle eating contest against magician Cyril Takayama can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNyJzl680l4 Cyril makes Gal Sone’s lead in the contest almost completely disappear. Japan Probe and R Suzuki have recaps of the program.
The entire rookie women’s qualifier for this years “Gluttonous King” contest can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/user/euromach2
“Gourmet Fighter” movie in production
R Suzuki reports that a movie based on the “Gourmet Fighter” anime is in production. Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota are in the cast listing.
Gyaruru vs. Shirota contest
(From R Suzuki) ntv.co.jp reports that Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota remains winless against girl groups after losing to Gyaruru (He lost to Morning Musume in their 2001 Christmas special) Shirota wore a wig and competed as “Jumbo Kurota”
Shirota faces a lion
R Suzuki reports that Nobuyki “The Giant” Shirota competed against a lion in on “Dream Vision”. The competitors had to eat 5 kg of meat as quickly as possible. Hopefully clips from the contest will appear on youtube soon.
“Dream Vision” gives Gal Sone & Shirota a checkup
japanprobe reports that the program “Dream Vision” did an episode about the science of competitive eaters. Gal Sone and Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota were given an MRI exam after eating over 100 sushi each. The body temperature after eating was also observed. Two clips from the program are available in the episode.
R Suzuki also has a blog entry about the program.
Eaters’ snack food page at fritolay.co.jp
The website for Japanese branch of Frito Lay has a page for the snack foods endorsed by Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota and Tomoko Miyake. The automatically translated page says that Shirota tried to reproduce “hormone pot taste” in his snack, whatever that is.
Shirota / Tomoko Miyake’s snack food commercial
A commercial for Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota and Tomoko Miyake’s snack foods can be found at Tomoko Miyake’s home page at http://miyaketomoko.com/ I am not sure if the commercial was televised or if it was on the web only.
The candy designed for beer
blog.gansotorokatsucurry.com reports that candy endorsed by Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota and Tomoko Miyake will go on sale on March 26.
In his blog, Shirota states his design goal for his candy:
‘Of the snack which is agreeable to the beer’ was thought in theme.
Gal Sone defeats Shirota in Wednesday morning contest
ntv.com reports that Natsuko “Gal” Sone defeated Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota in bunless hamburgers, 22 plates to 20. This is Gal Sone’s first victory against Shirota in her weekly Wednesday morning contest since early 2006.
GalSone vs. Shirota at Curry Museum
A video clip of Natsuko “Gal” Sone and Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota doing different 4.5 kg (10 pounds) curry challenges at the Yokohama Curry Museum (it is apparently an actual museum) has been uploaded to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCCEVUjR1yo
A middle age blonde Japanese woman eats with them.
Yama3 also did the 4.5 kg curry museum challenge and won the above prizes.
Japanese New Year’s Day competitive eating
R Suzuki reports that team eating contests were held during a New Year’s Day television special. The West team had Gal Sone and Takuya Yamamoto while the East team had Nobuyuki Shirota and Tomoko Miyake. The teams also contained some other celebrities. Men’s, women’s and mixed gender contests were held. The mixed gender contest was a 30 minute sushi contest which was won by the Galsone (154 pieces) / Yamamoto (174 pieces) team.
Tomoko Miyake reports about competing in the event in her blog.
Shirota gets married Christmas Eve
In his blog, Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota reports that he got married on December 24. No other information about the wedding or bride is provided.
Entire Morning Musume (& Shirota) Christmas special
If you would like to watch a competitive eating themed Christmas program, the Christmas special produced by the girl group Morning Musume which Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota can be viewed in its entirety at http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=13nin+Xmas+&search=Search The segment where Morning Musume faces a giant lizard shows that Kobayashi vs. the Bear was not the most bizarre appearance of a wild animal in television history.
What Shirota wants for Christmas: a 12kg stomach capacity
In a recent blog entry, Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota describes the current state of his stomach capacity:
It can make extremely simply to about 9kg, but
To fight with the people who are thought the rival, lowest we want 11kg.
As for ideal 12kg.
By the way, when most the stomach becomes large, 12.5kg.
At the time of gluttonous king decisive game of the other day there is 11.5kg, or isn’t?
To make Capa above 10kg, training (gluttony) it does
Another clip from the Japanese supersized meals show
A clip of the entire segment of the 3.5 kg noodle contest between Natsuko “Gal” Sone, Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Takako Akasaka from the Japanese supersized meals show has been posted to http://youtube.com/watch?v=9n3zXU6yJxI
New Poll: Shirota’s ranking
The new poll asks where Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota should appear on a unified ranking containing IFOCE, AICE and Japanese eaters. Shirota defeated Kobayashi in 3 out of 4 Food Battle Clubs and ate 38 hot dogs in 2004 Nathan’s.
Shirota & Tomoko Miyake endorse weight loss shorts
Nobuyuki “The Giant” Shirota and Tomoko Miyake are endorsing a garment called the turbocell. The turbocell looks like bike shorts, but its manufacturer claims that it raises body temperature and makes weight loss easier.
Most viewed youtube competitive eating videos
As far as I can tell, these are the most viewed competitive eating videos on youtube as of November 15
Gal Sone 40,000 calories, 319K views
Kobayashi – SNL TV Funhouse 122K views
Kobayashi vs. Bear, 99K views
Gal Sone vs. Shirota 6Kg curry, 85K views
End of 2004 Nathan’s finals 56K views
Kobayashi vs. Takako Akasaka Food Battle Club, 37K views
Kobayashi – Coffee Milk, Food Battle Club, 36K
Kobayashi at US Open, 28K views
Entirety of 2006 Nathan’s finals, 26K views
Gal Sone vs Shirota – 5kg udon, 23K views
Gluttonous King clips reposted to youtube
Some clips from last month’s Gluttonous King program are available at http://youtube.com/results?search_query=oogui&search=Search TV Tokyo will have the clips removed when they find out about it, so what it soon if you are interested.
Supersized Japanese meals (in regular sized bowls)
A clip from a program about supersized entrees served by Japanese restaurants is available on youtube. Some meals are served in conventionally sized bowls with messy results. The construction of a Japanese megaburger weighing 2.7 kg (6 lb) and costing 3675 Yen ($31) is displayed. Natsuko “Gal” Sone, Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota and Takako Akasaka make a cameo in which they attempt a large bowl of noodles.
Updated R Suzuki has a blog entry about the telecast, which was apparently part of a quiz show. The Monster Cafe is the restaurant where the BIG baga can be purchased.
Shirota impressed with Kobayashi’s KSO III performance.
Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota has a blog entry about the Krystal Square Off and is impressed with Kobayashi’s performance, calculating that it is less than 5 seconds per burger. He watched the youtube videos of the contest uploaded by Brian Seiken.
Gal Sone takes the mike for Food Battle Stadiums 3
Food Battle Stadiums #3 was held this weekend in Japan. Gal Sone did not eat at that event, but served as the contest MC. She was late which resulted in the entire program being delayed 30 minutes. Nobuyuki Shirota and Tomoko Miyake ate in exhibitions but did not participate in the main contest.
Shirota vs. 13 girl group in cake eating contest
The singing group Morning Musume, consisting of 13 girls, had a cake eating contest against Nobuyuki “the Giant” Shirota in their Christmas special. The totals of all 13 girls were combined and Shirota only ate for about 5 minutes of the 10 minute contest. (I hope Shirota got paid well for his appearance)
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