Monomane Grand Prix

is an impersonation variety owarai special program broadcast on Nippon Television on May 3, 2009. It is a renewal of Monomane Battle, which ended its broadcast on January 4 earlier that year. Neptune serves as the presenters of the event with HÃÂ©lÃÂ¨ne Hayama and Mika Oguma providing additional assistance, replacing the previous Naoko Ken and Hiromi.

Rules

The event is held in a tournament fashion, with groups of competitors divided into blocks beforehand.
The contestants must prepare material for a match, the semifinal and the final.
The 24 competitors are split into three sets of eight blocks. The semi-finals are made up of the winners of each block. The final consists of four contestants.
The winner is awarded a prize of 1 million Yen (equivalent to approximately 10,000 dollars).

Hiroiki Ariyoshi, Ungirls, Ijiri Okada, Kannazuki, Kuwabata Ohara, KÃÂji Tomita, Yoshio Kojima, Croket Sakurazuka Yakkun, The Touch, Zabunguru, Shinobu-chan and Megumi Fukushita and Maki Aizawa, Tamiaki and Yoppi, ChÃÂshin Juku, Take2, Tony Hirota and Chihiro Sakurai and KÃÂenji Pulsar, Doburokki, Nakagawake, Yuki Nishio, YÃÂ«ki Ninomiya, Nobu and Fukkey, Hanawa, Akimasa Haraguchi, HarÃÂ Ueda, Vitamin S, Takashi Kanemitsu (of Plus Minus), Hori, Ken Maeda, Mitchy, HÃÂsei Yamasaki, KÃÂichi Yamadera, Ryu and Twotone Aoki and Hazuki Pal

A Block

B Block

C Block

D Block

E Block

F Block

G Block

H Block

A Block

B Block

C Block

D Block