About this season
Shinya Arino, a member of comedy duo Yoiko, plays Japan's most popular video games and records his progress as he works through a time limit, usually lasting up to one day. He is supported by his Assistant Directors and Staff, both via moral support and actual gameplay. He also gets the chance to interview game designers and to play arcade games occasionally.
Episodes (6)
1. Hello 9th Season! The Spikey Kacho Takes On "Sonic The Hedgehog" (#64)
Aired 18 June 2008 • 60 min
2. The Kacho's Business Trip to the Cannes Film Festival
Aired 2 July 2008 • 60 min
Aired while Arino Kachou was hospitalized. Arino and the staff head to the Cannes Film Festival in hopes of selling the show overseas.
3. Welcome Back! The Kacho Returns! (#65)
Aired 16 July 2008 • 60 min
Arino was hospitalized after he discovered an abcess on his lung. Returning to work for the first time, Kibe "interrogates" the Kachou. Afterwords Arino enters "recovery mode". The staff decides it would be cruel to subject him to a usual challenge so soon. So Arino casually plays Super Mario Bros, and ends the episode playing Dr. Mario's VS mode with AD Nakayama.
4. Back to Work, Kacho! "Zombie Nation" (#67)
Aired 30 July 2008 • 60 min
Arino must save America from being completely zombiefied in the cult classic Abarenbou Tengu (Zombie Nation) for Famicom.
5. Fight! Sunsoft's Madonna, "The Wing of Madoola" (#68)
Aired 3 September 2008 • 60 min
Not since Clock Tower has Arino played as a girl in a challenge game before, but this season we have The Madoola no Tsubasa, starring the female knight Lucia.
6. The Perfect Missing Child!? "Legacy of the Wizard" (#69)
Aired 17 September 2008 • 60 min
After three victories, Arino faces what could be his biggest challenge this season. The game before him is Namco/Falcom’s Dragon Slayer IV, known in America as Legacy of the Wizard. This action-RPG featurs a humongous mazelike dungeon, and a family of five, the Worzens, who must defeat the dormant dragon living beneath.