Saito’s joke, jumping on his back… “Janpoke” with a confident smile, even with a two-person lineup, drawing big laughs at a free live performance.

Janpoke is completely different from this.

Otake is,

We’re not saying that we’re breaking up or leaving. It’s just that he (Saito) is the only one who has left Yoshimoto.

Ota denied that the group had disbanded. However, Ota said, “But if the three of us are working together, then we can’t be together,

But if the three of us were to work together, it would still be Yoshimoto’s business. In other words, we will perform our material at theaters and live shows. Even if Saito were to resume his activities in the future, there is no realistic place for him to do so. The three of us may do something together someday, but at the moment, there is no place or platform for us to do our material as Jungle Pocket,” he explained.

He went on to explain the current situation,

[Some may see this as adversity, but Otake is rather gearing up. Saito didn’t like to improvise, but Otake, on the contrary, is the type who wants to change things up every time and do whatever comes to his mind on the spot. I liked both of them, so I felt that I could do things I couldn’t do before. I think Janpoke will become something completely different from now on. I’m excited about it, and I’m going to keep making new material!

I’m also very excited about the new material we’re going to be making!

In March, they will hold their first solo show “HYDROGEN” after becoming a two-person group. The two seemed to be getting a good response from the audience at their live performance that day. Comedy fans are not sparing no effort to support the two.