Chocolate Planet (チョコレートプラネット, Chokorēto Puranetto) is a comedy duo and pair of YouTubers managed by the Tokyo office of the Yoshimoto Kogyo entertainment conglomerate.
Shohei Osada (長田庄平), who was born January 28, 1980, in Kyoto, is in charge of creating much of this duo's comic material.
In the 2011 R-1 Grand Prix entertainment contest, which he participated in under the name of "Osada Shoulder," he advanced to the semi-finals and in 2018 he made it to the finals.
In 2000-2021 he also served as an occasional voice actor in NHK's educational "Eigo de Asobo with Orton" TV Series.
[4] Shohei Osada and Shun Matsuo first paired up in 2004, just before graduating from the Yoshimoto New Star Creation school for entertainers.
[5] From April 28, 2009, to May 2, they performed a play named Moukifuboku [盲亀浮木, Unusual Things] at the Yoshimoto Kogyo Theater in Osaka.
[9] Moreover, on January 14, 2019, they became the first MCs for the "Unbiased Reality Show Fetish Koi" which was video streamed on Abema TV.
Osada generally takes the role of tsukkomi (straight man), providing a chance for Matsuo to crack jokes, make blunders, or act stupidly.