Koike vs. Renho, but also Hezuma, Kurokawa, NHK party… The Tokyo gubernatorial election is turning into an entertainment event.

I am ashamed to be a resident of Tokyo. ……

A woman in her thirties living in Tokyo said so.

The Tokyo gubernatorial election (to be held on June 20, with the election to be held on July 7) is a crucial election that will affect Japan.

According to preliminary polls, it appears to be a runoff between Governor Yuriko Koike, who finally announced her candidacy on June 12, and Renho, who left the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) to run for governor. Other celebrities who have announced their candidacies include Shinji Ishimaru, former mayor of Aki Takata City in Hiroshima Prefecture, TV personality Kuniaki Shimizu, and Toshio Tamogami, former chief of staff of the Air Self-Defense Force, but they are considered runners-up.

The problem is with the other so-called “bubble candidates. At this point, more than 40 people have announced their candidacies, making for a chaotic situation.

Atsuhiko Kurokawa, the leader of the “Tsubasa Party” who was arrested for obstructing other parties in the last by-election, was arrested again on July 7 on a different charge, making it impossible for him to breathe the “open air” during the gubernatorial election, but he still plans to run.

Hezumaryu, the original “annoying YouTuber,” also announced his candidacy early on.

He held a press conference at the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building on April 6, and even had a “Downtown” Matsumoto Hitoshi look-alike in attendance, turning the event into a theater. In response to a question about his evaluation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government