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Detective! Knight Scoop is a long-running variety show from Osaka where viewers send in requests and comedians playing "detectives" go out to help. This request came from two sisters, 24 and 20, in Kumamoto in southern Japan. Their family has a car called "Rappy-chan," a mash-up of "lucky" and "happy." It has been around for as long as the older sister can remember, and she thinks of it less as a car and more as a member of the family. Its voice navigation reads song titles aloud in a strange intonation that always had everyone in stitches, and its sunroof meant many nights of stargazing while sleeping in the car.
Rappy-chan is now 18 years old. When their dad remarked that its steering had gotten really heavy, it felt to her as if the car was growing old, and she couldn't stop crying. Keeping it on the road became too hard, and the family took one last drive together. But their father still couldn't bring himself to part with it. The car has been sitting on their property ever since, tangled in weeds, its battery dead.
The whole family agrees this isn't good for Rappy-chan. So the sisters asked the show for a farewell like a famous scene in the anime One Piece, where a pirate crew sees off the Going Merry, the ship that carried them for so long, and they asked for help giving their dad the push he needs. The car turns out to be a Honda minivan, which matters for a few of the comments below.
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The people in Honda’s development department would be so happy to see this
この映像をホンダの開発部門の人達が見たら喜ぶだろう
How does Detective Maeda keep cranking out classics (Ken Maeda, one of the show’s comedian “detectives,” who took this case.)
なぜ真栄田探偵は名作を量産できるのか
I worked as a mechanic for over 20 years, and cars are living things. Dad’s got it right. This was really good.
自動車整備士を20年以上しましたが、自動車は生き物です。お父さんの言葉はあってます。とてもよかったです。
It was the “symbol” of the time when the family was closest and happiest, wasn’t it, Dad
家族が一番仲良しで幸せだった頃の「象徴」だったんだよね、お父さん
The older sister’s charm stat is maxed out
お姉ちゃんの愛嬌の良さがカンストしてる
What’s gonna happen to this dad when his daughters get married
娘さんたちの結婚式とかあったらこのお父さんどうなってしまうんや
Dad’s gonna be the one sailing off to sea. sob
お父さんが海に行っちゃうよ。泣
I ended up in this weird state of crying while laughing
笑いながら泣くという不思議な感情になりました
The world-famous HONDA Step WGN!! I bet the people who designed it are crying too. (The Step WGN is Honda’s family minivan.)
世界のHONDAステップワゴン！！デザイン開発に携わった方々も泣いていることでしょうね。
They grew up in such a gentle home… the way the requester talks is so soft too, you can really feel what this family is like 😭
優しいおうちで過ごしたんだなぁ… 投稿者さんの喋り方もほんわかしててこの家の人柄が伝わってくる😭
What Rappy-chan most wants to say is probably “stop leaving me out here” lol
ラッピーちゃんの一番言いたいことは「放置すんな」だろｗ
Everyone’s laughing, but this dad is genuinely considerate. He’s got a warm heart.
みんな笑ってるけど、このお父さん、思いやりがあるんだよね。 心があたたかい。
I really think it’s important to take good care of your things
物を大切にすることは本当に大切だと思う
Not sure they exactly took good care of it lol
大切にはしていない気がw
Oh, hush
やかましいわ
With a dad this good, no wonder the daughters turned out great
めちゃくちゃいいお父さんでそりゃいい娘に育つわ
I drive the car my late younger brother bought new. He passed away right after buying it, so I took it over and I’ve been driving it for 15 years. It’s something he left behind, so I can’t bring myself to let it go, but watching this made me realize the goodbye will come someday.. I teared up
私は亡くなった弟が新車で買った車に乗ってる 買ってすぐ亡くなって、私が引き継いで15年乗ってる 形見だし、なかなか手放す気になれないけど、これみていつか別れが来るんだなぁと、、涙がでた
4:30 He’s got the medals the kids probably brought home on display, what a devoted dad
4:30 子供がもらってきたであろうメダル飾ってたり、ほんと子供思いのいいお父さんやな
It’s buried in weeds, but the flowers are super cute, I like it
草まみれだけど、花がめっちゃ可愛くていい
The caption “Rappy-chan (18)” made me laugh, but then the older sister said “it’s like family” and I went “ah, I see……” Tears. (Japanese TV captions list a person’s age in parentheses after their name.)
ラッピーちゃん（18）のテロップで笑ったけど「家族みたいなもの」って依頼者長女が言ってて「ああ、なるほど……」となった。落涙
This is what Knight Scoop is all about. Director Nishida must be crying up in heaven (Toshiyuki Nishida hosted the show as its “director” for decades.)
これぞ探偵ナイトスクープ 西田局長も天国で泣いとるわ
Don’t go killing him off! lol
勝手に殺すな！笑
He did pass, in 2024…
2024年に…
Anyone who can feel this way about a machine has got to be a good person
機械にこんな気持ちになれる人は絶対良い人なんだろうな
Not sure why, but I cried so hard. Maybe it’s like time that had stopped finally started moving again… sob
なんでかわからんけど、すごい泣けた あれかな、止まっていた時間が動き出したみたいなことなのかな…泣
Treasuring something for that long is amazing. But the scene at the end where he’s crying over the letter… what are we even watching! lol
物をずっと大切にするのはすごい。ただ最後の手紙で泣いてるシーン …私たちは何を見させられているんだ！笑
The toughness of Japanese cars and their electrics is something else
日本車とか電装の強靭さがすごすぎる
Wait. I said goodbye to a car I’d driven for 20 years last year and totally bawled! I get it so much!!
ねえまって。 私も去年、20年のった車とお別れして大号泣したわ！ほんま分かる！！
Honda should put this car in their museum along with this whole story. Cars are wonderful.
この物語と一緒に、車をホンダの博物館に飾ってもらったらいいのに。 車って素敵だな。
How do they keep finding such funny people
なんでこんなおもろいひとばっかり見つけてこれるん
That mechanic’s grip!!! He picked up the battery with one hand!
整備士さんの握力！！！片手でバッテリー持ち上げた！
For better or worse, this dad is seriously nothing but feelings
マジでこのお父さん良くも悪くも気持ちしかねぇな
When I said goodbye to my CF6 Accord Wagon after 11 years, I cried in front of the car salesperson and thought “nobody else cries over parting with a car, sorry for the trouble.” But yeah, you do cry. I remember sniffling as I waved bye-bye 😢
僕も11年乗ったCF6アコードワゴンとお別れの時、車の営業さんの前で泣いちゃって「車とお別れで泣くひとなんていないんだろうな、ご迷惑かけたな」 って思ったことだけど、やっぱ泣いちゃうよね。ひくひく言いながら、バイバイしたの覚えてます😢
A dad sobbing over a letter he wrote himself, and his daughters cracking up at him 🤭
自分で書いた手紙で号泣する父と、それを大爆笑する娘たち🤭
That car must be packed with memories of the kids. We didn’t own a car either until our first was born, and rushed to buy one once we found out about the pregnancy. Zoning out in the maternity clinic parking lot waiting for my wife, flooring it in the middle of the night when our 1-year-old wouldn’t stop throwing up and ended up admitted, the first family trip… it made me think about how many more memories are going to pile up in there as the kids grow. Just thinking about their future got me crying.
子供との思い出がいっぱい詰まってそうだもんね。 うちの家も1人目が産まれるまで車持って無かったけど妊娠が分かってから急いで買ったもんね。 産婦人科の駐車場でボーッと嫁さんを待ってたり1歳の時に夜中嘔吐が止まらず車ぶっ飛ばしてそのまま入院になった時も初めて旅行に連れて行った時も子供の成長と共にこれからまだまだ思い出が詰まっていくんだろうなと考えさせられる。 子供たちの将来を考えるだけで泣けてきたぜ。
Reminded me of the first car I ever bought. So many memories that saying goodbye was really hard. But the next day I got in my new car and it was so good that I forgot all about yesterday’s sadness, and I hated myself for it….
初めて購入した愛車を思い出した。色々な思い出があり過ぎて別れが 本当に辛かった。 けど次の日に新しい車に乗ったら余りにも良すぎて 昨日の悲しみをすぐに忘れてしまった自分が嫌だった…。
The older sister is way too cute, she’s the Nami of this crew (Nami is the navigator of the pirate crew in One Piece.)
お姉ちゃん可愛すぎやろ、ナミ枠
130,000 km, it hadn’t actually been driven that much
13万キロ いがいと走ってなかった
Such a brute-force play, they got me crying too lol. Also both daughters are super cute
すんごいパワープレイで、こっちまで泣かされたわw あと、娘さん2人ともめっちゃ可愛い
I totally get it lol. When my dad tried to swap our beat-up family camper, the one we took on all our trips, for a newer model, my sister and I bawled and desperately stopped him. The new one is obviously more comfortable and convenient, but when the memories are soaked into the old one, that’s the one you want
自分も実家の色んな旅行をしたオンボロキャンピングカーを父親が新タイプに買い変えようとした時に姉と一緒に大号泣して必死に食い止めた思い出あるからめっちゃわかる笑 どう考えても新車種の方が快適だし便利なのに思い出が染み付いてるとそれがいいってなるんだよなー
We have a first-gen Alphard we bought new, now in its 22nd year, and it just passed 560,000 km. My son was in first grade when we got it, and now he’s 30 with a family of his own. An Alphard that’s been with us this long is family, no question. We’ll keep taking good care of it, aiming for 1,000,000 km! (The Alphard is Toyota’s large minivan.)
うちには新車で買って22年目の10系アルファードがいますが、現在56万km突破しました。このアルファードを買った時小1だった息子は30歳になり家庭を持つまでに、こんな長い期間一緒にいるアルファードは間違いなく家族です。これからも大切に乗り、目指せ100万kmです！
7:39 Look how big they’ve both gotten,,,
7:39 二人とも大きくなったなぁ、、、
6:47 No way, it has the rare factory option wood floor!?
6:47 まさかのレアOP、フローリングフロア付き！？
Both the requesters and the car turn out to be “Honda,” of all things (The family’s surname is Honda, same as the carmaker.)
依頼者も車もまさかの「ホンダ」
The steering feeling lighter after a wash, I get it~ 😢 My old bike’s clutch always felt great right after a wash too~ or at least I convinced myself it did and was happy about it
洗車するとハンドル軽くなる わかるよ〜😢 ずっと乗ってたバイクも洗車したあとクラッチの反応最高だもんな〜 って勝手に思い込んで喜んでた
Thought the thumbnail was the climax, but there was still half the video left 😂
サムネクライマックスかと思ったらまだ半分ある😂
A proper Knight Scoop tearjerker 🎉 Dad saying “my head hurts” at the end had my stomach hurting from laughing 🤣
ナイトスクープらしい感動作でした🎉 最後のお父さんの「頭痛い」で こっちはお腹痛い🤣
The weird guy beats the emotional moment
感動よりも変な人が勝つ
Why’d they leave it sitting there 😮?
何で放置しちゃったの😮？
Gave me a scare, I thought they were gonna set it on fire like the Merry
ビックリした、メリー号みたく燃やされるのかと思った
My take
I honestly can't tell whether I'm supposed to cry or laugh at this one. What I can tell is that the love was real.
Source & translation note
Comments loosely translated for tone. Reactions collected from Togetter and X threads.
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