It was supposed to be a smooth sailing year in &#8216; 25 . &#8230;&#8230;
 In February, it was reported that Kuruma Takahira ( 30 ) of Reiwa Roman, who won the &#8220;M-1&#8221; championship two years in a row in 2011 and 2012, was being questioned by the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on suspicion of gambling at online casinos, and he refrained from his activities. His contract with Yoshimoto Kogyo was terminated at the end of April.
 In fact, about a month before the February report, this magazine had caught Kuruma spending a night with a beautiful woman . The following is a review of the details based on the article distributed on February 18, 2013.
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<h2> The two of them went to a luxury townhouse together.</h2>
 Kuruma&#8217;s first book, &#8220;Manzai Excess Consideration,&#8221; has been selling well.
 The book, in which the Keio University dropout and elite comedian, who has won an unprecedented series of &#8221; M-1&#8243; championships, elaborately analyzes and discusses comedy, including the trials and errors of creating and selecting material, the transition of &#8221; M-1,&#8221; and the differences between TV and Yose, was a bestseller, selling over 100,000 copies less than two months after its release.
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 FRIDAY witnessed in mid-January 2013 in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, was also a great success.
 There were as many as 400 fans at the event, and there were even people waiting at the service entrance. When asked to have his picture taken, Kuruma was very gracious in his response. On either side of him were gifts that he must have received from fans,&#8221; said an event attendee.
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 After the handover event, Kuruma, accompanied by two women who appeared to be staff members of the publisher, Tatsumi Publishing, picked up a cab on the main street in front of the venue and headed toward Ebisu. They headed for a popular yakiniku (grilled meat) restaurant, which cost about 10,000 yen per person.
 After two and a half hours of delicious meat feasting, the group moved to a crowded building with many snack bars.
 The after-party ended after 2 am. When Kuruma came out of the building, a cab pulled up, and one of the two women, a short-cut beauty resembling Hana Kuroki, got in the cab with him.
 Both Kuruma and the beautiful woman got out of the cab that stopped in front of a luxury condominium building. Both Kuruma and the beautiful woman got out of the taxi that stopped in front of the luxury condominium and walked into the entrance!
 It was before 11: 00 a.m., eight hours later, when she came out of the condominium.
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<h2>A direct hit on Kuruma!</h2>
 Who is this beautiful woman with whom Kuruma spent the night?
 Isn&#8217;t that Ms. A, the editor in charge of Kuruma&#8217;s book &#8220;Manzai Hyper Consideration&#8221; ? 　They look very much alike. She graduated from a famous private university and is still young, but she has a reputation for being very talented.
 Is she Kuruma&#8217;s editor A?　Are they dating?　In early February, we directly interviewed Kuruma after he finished recording a radio program in Tokyo.
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 &#8211;Congratulations on your book being a hit.
 Thank you.&#8221;
 &#8211;Are your relationships with women going well?
 &#8220;That&#8217;s not going well at all.
 &#8211;What can you tell us about what happened on the night of the book signing?
 &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8221;
FRIDAY sent a letter of inquiry to Kuruma&#8217;s agency, Yoshimoto Kogyo, but received no response by the deadline.
 A letter of inquiry was also sent to Tatsumi Shuppan, but a spokesperson commented, &#8220;As a company, we do not answer questions. Neither party denied that Bijo was the editor in charge of &#8220;Manzai Excessive Consideration.
 Her support may have been behind the consecutive &#8221; M-1 &#8221; championships and the birth of the bestseller, but the &#8220;online casino problem&#8221; was not revealed until after the direct hit.
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<h2 style="background: white;"> This time, allegations of infidelity were reported and &#8230;&#8230;</h2>
 On February 15, Kuruma apologized on his official YouTube page, admitting that he had played at an online casino. He also revealed that he had been interviewed,
 He explained, &#8220;I was invited by an acquaintance from my college days, and I recognized that it was not illegal because of the advertisements on the Internet.
 On February 19, he posted the following statement on his X-phone: &#8220;I take this matter seriously,
 In order to take this matter seriously and to take this opportunity to discipline myself, I have decided to refrain from performing for the time being, starting today.
 The announcement was followed by a further blow to Kuruma. Kuruma was further attacked by &#8230;&#8230;.
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 On February 21, NEWS Post Seven reported that Kuruma had been having an affair with a married woman for over a year. In response, Kuruma updated X on the same day. While admitting that he was dating the woman, he denied having an affair. As for his relationship with the female editor reported in this magazine,
 I have a professional relationship with the editor. I didn&#8217;t deny it when the article was published because I thought it would attract attention and cause trouble for the person I was dating.
 He denied that he was in a relationship with her.
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 On April 3, the Metropolitan Police Department&#8217;s Security Division filed charges against six people, including Dai Yoshimoto ( 40 ) of the comedy duo &#8220;Daitaku&#8221; belonging to Yoshimoto Kogyo, but Kuruma&#8217;s name was not among them. Since the statute of limitations is three years, it is likely that he was not punished.
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<h2>[Joon&#8217;s] trust in me has been broken.</h2>
 On April 28, Kuruma announced his departure from Yoshimoto Kogyo on the duo&#8217;s YouTube page. From Yoshimoto&#8217;s side,
 The Yoshimoto side confessed that they had approached Kuruma and said, &#8220;The relationship of trust with the company has been broken (by Kuruma&#8217;s apology on YouTube ), so if you want, we can terminate our contract.
 He confessed that he was approached by the company and agreed, although he did not mean it. However, they will continue to work as a duo.
On April 30, TBS held a regular press conference with the president, in which he mentioned the morning information program &#8220;Lavit! a morning information program in which the duo is a bi-weekly regular , and that they &#8220;will consider&#8221; Kuruma&#8217;s return to the program.
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 On the other hand, his partner, Kemuri Matsui ( 31 ), has been extremely busy as a pin-up, and in an appearance on &#8220;Sanma&#8217;s Comedy Improvement Committee&#8221; (Fuji TV) on April 12, &#8220;Reiwa Roman&#8221; was introduced with expectations for a third consecutive &#8220;M-1&#8221; championship, with host Sanma Akashiya ( 69)saying, &#8220;He is dramatic. It&#8217;s dramatic , and it has the power to do so,&#8221; said Kemuri,
 I&#8217;m wondering if (Kuruma&#8217;s scandal) will be forgiven if we win (the third consecutive championship),&#8221; said Kemuri.
 This made the studio laugh. I really hope they win the championship for the third year in a row to redeem themselves, but&#8230;.
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 On April 28, Kuruma Takahira of Reiwa Roman appeared on the duo's YouTube page and announced that he had left Yoshimoto Kogyo. We look back on their past, from the magazine's report of their passionate love affair to the "online casino fiasco," "allegations of infidelity," and more.

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