Nippon Television's New Year's Eve special, "The biggest ever 32 people x paying for an extremely expensive meal out of their own pocket!! If you get it right, you'll win 10 million yen on New Year's Eve! Special," was broadcast on December 31st, and freelance announcer Takeda Shinichi was last in the list of people who had to pay for an extremely expensive meal out of their own pocket.
The "Gochi Battle" that unfolds on the show is a popular segment in which participants order food without checking the price, and the person with the biggest discrepancy between the set price and the price has to pay for everyone's meal out of their own pocket. This time, there are eight teams of four people each. The two teams that came last in the first round are left in a losing battle, with the eight members competing in a personal battle to decide who will win. Whoever comes last has to pay for the meals for all the contestants out of their own pocket.
In addition, the members of the winning team had to predict who would come in first among the remaining eight players. If their prediction was correct, they could split 300,000 yen among themselves, but if the player they predicted came in last, the members who voted had to pay half of the money out of their own pockets.
The losers in the first stage were the "ZIP! x DayDay. Team" consisting of Shunsuke Kazama, Fuku Suzuki, Ann Takeru Satoh, and Mika Anne, and the "Cells at Work " movie team consisting of Mei Mei Nagano , Takeru Sato, Seishiro Kato, and DJ KOO. Nagano came out on top with 50,200 yen, 200 yen more than the set amount, and Tetsuro Degawa, Tao Tsuchiya, and Misaki Emura split the 300,000 yen.
In the end, DJ KOO and Takeda were the only ones left, and the kabuki actor Ichikawa Danjuro made a surprise appearance to announce the results. Danjuro finally tapped Takeda on the shoulder and decided to pay the total amount of 824,400 yen out of his own pocket.
However, since Asako Ito and Taizo Sugimura had predicted that Takeda would come in first, they ended up paying half the cost, 412,200 yen. Takeda paid 412,200 yen, while Asako Ito and Taizo Sugimura each paid 206,100 yen, which was a huge amount out of their own pocket.