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Kanako’s Trick Has Left Its Name in History

Miura Yasuo (X: @torinikukaraage), who has continued to advocate a one-person sport called “Freestyle Notebook,” in which commercially available school notebooks are manipulated by hand, posted a demonstration video for 2026 yesterday.

Miura has continued the “sport” on his own for 27 years, since he was a second-year junior high school student. He also revealed that he turned 41 this year.

The post has drawn a huge response, receiving around one million views in just one day. Among the trick names displayed in captions at the bottom left of the screen is “Kanako,” named after the person who developed the trick. That person is MCZ’s KANAKO.

At around the five-second mark at the beginning of the video, the trick in which the notebook is passed back and forth underneath the legs is identified as “Kanako.”

The connection between KANAKO and Freestyle Notebook dates back to the November 13, 2020 episode of TV Asahi’s “Momoclo-chan to!” Miura appeared on the program as the “world champion” of the sport, while the members of MCZ attempted various tricks. KANAKO mastered the techniques particularly quickly and went on to challenge Miura for the world title.

In 2023, Miura celebrated the fact that the episode had been included on DVD, writing that it was a “miracle” that “after 24 years of playing around alone by spinning notebooks, it ended up on a DVD,” adding, “and it’s Momoclo’s.”

Freestyle Notebook was born from Miura’s idea that notebooks, which had traditionally been used simply for writing, could be handled more freely.

The basic rule is simply to “manipulate the notebook without holding it.”

The sport features a variety of tricks, including “Tenchi-gaeshi,” in which the notebook is flipped 180 degrees inward in midair; “Side Toss,” in which it is tossed while turning outward; and “Leg Through,” in which the notebook is tossed underneath the legs before performing a Tenchi-gaeshi.

Miura himself says that the sport has only one participant, and his profile describes him as the “World No. 1 for 26 consecutive years.”

And perhaps the player who came closest to that “World No. 1” was KANAKO.

At the very least, there is no doubt that KANAKO’s name has been etched into the history of this strange and unique “sport,” which Miura has continued to practice alone for 27 years.


 

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