This joke requires an actual explanation. The Byakkotai (White Tiger Unit) was a force of teenaged samurai fighting for the Tokugawa Shogunate in the Boshin War against the Meiji regime. When Meiji government forces besieged the Shogunate at the castle on IImori Hill in October 1869, a small 20 man detachment of Byakkotai were cut off from the castle, and could only watch the siege from a nearby hill. Government bombardment set the surrounding town on fire, but through the smoke and haze the Byakkotai detachment mistakenly thought the castle itself was on fire and thus had fallen to the Meiji forces. Believing their lord was now dead or captured the young men decided to commit seppuku, and 19 of the 20 were successful. The joke here is that, like the overly exuberant Byakkotai, Hinami gets carried away in her reenactment and accidentally destroys part of reality.

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Tsukino: Is there anything else you find offputting about me?
Hinami: The way you're always singing the lyrics to "Downeaster Alexa" despite having earbuds on.
Tsukino: I do that? Sorry.
Hinami: It's okay if you sing it normally. The socioeconomic plight of Long Island fishermen is an interesting theme.
Tsukino: How about "Uptown Girl?"
Hinami: I will throw you off the roof of this building with explosives tied around your waist.

DISNEY LAWYERS INCOMING

Relax. Disney only owns the rights to ITS version of AA Milne's characters. The latter's version entered USA public domain in 2022. Only the copying of specific Disney elements will trigger llegal action, things ike the character of Tygger or the appearance of Pooh's red shir.... oh no!

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This is the story of the time the Thousand Acre Wood was invaded by an eldritch bee-ing named Hinami....

It's not a real party unless there's a dead body to get rid of the next morning. Also, bearded guy getting handsy with Tsukino probably didn't end too good for him...

That's Fukurokujou, the God of Wisdom. Not very wise after he's had a few is he?

Correction: Seven Lucky Gods and that poor bastard lying on the floor.

Top Panel (top row left to right): Fukurokujou (God of Wisdom), Ebisu (God of Fishermen), Hotel ("Laughing Buddha", God of Happiness), Jurōjin (God of Longevity) (bottom row left to right) Benzaiten (Goddess of Music and Merriment), Bishamonten (God of War), Daikokuten (God of Wealth)

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Sundaes were only served on Sundays because it was a way that bars could stay open while getting around so-called Blue Laws. These laws prohibited the sale of alcohol on the Sabbath, and bars would stay open by offering non-alcoholic food to churchgoers after services. Interestingly ice cream and alcohol have a curiously conjoined history in the USA.

Is that kamen rider suit she's in?

Kamen Rider 1 to be exact.

In the Year 3737, a white haired girl is crying, denied her sapphic heaven!

The classic "I'm with Stupid" logo is superfluous?

If she's the medium, who is the small and large?

I'll see myself out.

RED CARD!!!!

A few blooms short of a bouquet, aren't we?

When she said that it uses rope I thought it would be a harpoon used to latch onto things and drag them…but this is effective, too.

Who are you? The good, the bad, or the ugly?

The rope would have been better. A matchlock musket is pretty inaccurate. And it still violates Japan's Guns and Swords Act.

So if I dress up in an outlandish costume and start acting like a cringey edgelord, I get canceled in person, and banned or blocked on social media. But if I write a web novel that persuades other people to do the same thing, I get a publishing contract and throngs of fans mobbing me? Gosh, capitalism is weird.

And now a completely useless Salad Day fact: The word salad is originated from the Latin Herba Salata, meaning salty herbs. The Romans made salad dressings from salt brines and put them on various raw vegetables. However the modern salad has only existed since the 16th century, and modern salad dressings only date back to the 19th century.

And.... it's back. Spreading cheer and glee once again.

Kikkoman: It's Good to the Last Drop

This is a really refreshing read, I really like both MCs and the humor is spot on for me.

Can I dare to hope this manga gets a long run time?

I dunno about that. This chapter is pivotal because it demonstrates Shouko's own growing awareness of Yukari (this is the second chapter in a row she's asked Yukari about her love life). Yukari is a self abnegating INFP: very empathetic towards others, but also very timid and pessimistic, and prone to be hypercritical of herself. But in this chapter we see her giving Shouko a decisive nudge from brooding over her unrequited love, and its a short narrative distance between this point and blooming attraction between the two protagonists. This author seems little interested in padding out the story with cliched melodrama, so it isn't likely to be a long manga.

Mushanokoji Saneatsu was an early 20th writer that was a member of an avant-garde literary movement known as "White Birch." He was heavily influenced by Leo Tolstoy, and unusually for his time, was a humanist (believing that Humans were capable of using their will to master their situation) that bucked the wider trend towards naturalism (believing that humanity was at the mercy of fate and their circumstances). The novel Friendship is semiautobiographical, and is about the complicated relationship between the protagonist and his best friend, after the former falls in love with the latter's sister. Its ironic that Yukari chose this novel for Shouko, since The author's philosophy about will overcoming circumstances probably applies more to Yukari herself.

It's been so long since the last posting, I've forgotten half the formula of this particular polycule. Who's the brunette, and who is the person(s) she's sleeping with again?

This is what dystopia looks like.

The Lipovitan commercial they're referring to:

https://youtu.be/cA0Q-DWsBfo?si=ZNvHKzu1oieVne8_

I cannot read Yukari's dialogue in my mind without a mousey voice just barely above a whisper. And her diction is in a carefully paced, well enunciated manner, like she's narrating an audiobook.

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