A Mishap Occurs When Masaya Fukunishi Requests AI to Create Their "Playground"—He Ends Up Looking 20 Years Older!?

On ABEMA, "Say You To Yo Asobi Saturday" #7 was broadcast on June 7, 2025 (Saturday), starting at 9 p.m.

In this episode, under the theme "What Should We Do With The Backdrop?", the hosts addressed the ongoing issue—since the first episode—of the set’s bare wall. With the help of generative AI, they played around with concrete ideas to liven it up.

They immediately asked the AI for suggestions for the set's wall. The AI managed to generate a cute, heart-filled space, but somehow, all three of their faces turned into completely different people. Masaya Fukunishi quipped, "Don’t I look about twenty years older?" and Syotaro Morikubo sharply retorted, "What kind of prompt did you enter for it to turn out like this?"

Next, the three of them examined several patterns, including a dark, Western-style horror mansion space, a kindergarten-like setting, or one with statues of the three of them. Morikubo commented with a hint of mystery, "I won’t say it just yet, but I have a groundbreaking idea. It might be the one that encompasses everything we've seen so far and every idea that’s about to come up." His comment stirred excitement in the studio.

When asked about their own ideas, Nobuhiko Okamoto requested "a space with cherry blossom petals fluttering about." When the image generated by the AI was revealed, the crowd was in stitches again, as they could not help but focus on how different their faces looked.

Next, Fukunishi requested, "I love Hello! Project, and when it comes to Hello! Project, it’s all about that silvery aluminum material—I want to see that." To his delight, the AI created a "glitzy space" just as he had hoped, prompting Fukunishi to exclaim excitedly, "This is it! The perfect aluminum!"