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A 6-Year-Old Girl's Quest to Obtain a Kintama

She did the math. There are two, so one should be available.

· 4 min · YouTube

What's going on

A mother from Fukuoka wrote to the long-running Japanese variety show Detective! Knight Scoop *(a beloved Osaka-based show where "detectives" — comedians — are sent to solve quirky requests from the public)* with an unusual family situation. While bathing with her 6-year-old daughter, the girl suddenly asked why girls don't have kintama — testicles. Upon learning that men have two, she reasoned, with impressive arithmetic, that since dad and her older brother each have two, that's four total — surely one could be spared. She has been going around asking every male relative to give her one, and has been turned down every time. Her wish for Santa this year: a kintama. She even told her kindergarten teacher about it, to her mother's great embarrassment.

The mother's request to the show: please help find a way to satisfy — or at least gently resolve — her daughter's kintama wish. The detective dispatched, Tamura *(Hiroshi Tamura, a veteran Osaka comedian)*, takes the assignment with full sincerity. The result is as wholesome as it is chaotic.

Comments

“Started wanting one around February” is sending me lmao
Hope she gets to watch this with her friends when she’s in middle or high school and just dies of embarrassment going “omg I was such an idiot lmaooo”
Actually I want her to come back on the show when she’s a teenager lol
She’s gonna be a high school girl who laughs super loud at everything
The mom’s name is Tamami 💀

The mom’s name contains tama (玉), which can mean “ball” — making it a perfectly unintentional match for the whole situation.

She’s treating them like Dragon Balls lmao (rare magical orbs from the anime Dragon Ball — collect all seven and get any wish granted)
Tamura telling her “I can’t give you my eyes, and same goes for kintama, sorry” — and her going “but I still wanna look for some” is just peak shonen manga protagonist energy (shonen manga are action/adventure comics typically aimed at young boys, known for protagonists who never give up)
This should feel like lowbrow humor but it doesn’t trigger a single dirty thought — it’s just pure cute and funny
Just because something sounds adult doesn’t mean you should shut down a kid’s curiosity. This is a good reminder that going along with them as much as you can is what matters.
Please, may she never see the real thing and be traumatized…
She already has a decorated display case ready for it lmaooo
My son asked me “why don’t you have any, mama? that’s sad” and I just blurted out “I had some but they were annoying so I threw them away last year” 😅
“Since when have you wanted one?” → “Since February” — this kid is a genius
“If I get two I’ll make a snowman” 💀💀
Wanting 10 of them is a bit excessive 😂
That’s 5 people lol
Impossible title. Impossible thumbnail. Impossible child.
This turned into an Easter egg hunt lmao
She is way too idealistic about what kintama actually are lol
“And so we have arrived at the mountain” LMAOOO
Adults who refuse to crush a child’s dream. 🥹
This isn’t that unusual actually — what’s called “penis envy” is apparently a pretty significant part of how young girls process the concept of biological difference. (The term originates in Freudian theory but is also used more casually in developmental psychology.)
In my case I wasn’t jealous exactly, I just genuinely asked my brothers in the bath “will mine grow in when I get bigger?” 🤣
No matter how you look at it, the word “kintama” is just inherently funny
She’s drawing pictures of them and imagining what color they are — that’s adorable lmaooo
“Golden Ball” 😂
Put kintama in a display case and yeah, Dragon Balls
The inexplicable faith she has in mountains lmao
What I genuinely love about this show is how it never mocks the people who send in requests — it takes every one seriously.
Please may no weird adults come near her…
Knight Scoop staff are plenty weird themselves though
Ugh, she’s too cute lol. Rather than just dumping cold facts on her, the way they found something she could accept and let her feel like her wish was granted — that’s really nice.
“Since around February” — the way she says it like it’s seasonal merchandise lmao
Hope this doesn’t get dug up when she hits puberty and she gets roasted at school
This is permanently on YouTube so when she grows up this is gonna be insane material lol
She is such an interesting person lmaooo
The only place the title is censored is YouTube lol (the actual broadcast had it uncensored)
Maybe the Phantom Troupe were also collecting with this kind of pure innocence (the Phantom Troupe is a group of thieves in the manga Hunter × Hunter who collect rare artifacts)
My stomach hurts I’m dying 🤣

My take

She's not entirely wrong, you know. If someone has one, wanting one for yourself is at least a logical desire. Can't fully argue with that reasoning.

Comments loosely translated for tone.

Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPJeJzVaWUA