Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de - Volume 10 - Chapter SS5

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? Kudou’s character, like a certain alien overlord whose name starts with the letter F, had progressed through four distinct forms up to this point.

Once again, we’re long past the point where I feel the need to explain that Frieza had four forms in Dragon Ball. Rather, I’m adding this note to point out that the “a certain alien overlord” description was, in fact, present in the original text—Andou danced around Frieza’s name just as much in Japanese as you see here. Given that Frieza was referenced by name in volume 1, and (spoiler alert!) will be referenced by name again in the very next volume, I feel safe in concluding that Andou talking around the name was included solely for the sake of humor.

? I’d been caught in a Triangle Attack—I’d been struck by a Jet Stream Attack.

The Triangle Attack is a special maneuver present in many Fire Emblem games that can be executed by arranging three pegasus knights around an enemy, allowing them to attack in unison. The Jet Stream Attack, meanwhile, is a maneuver executed by a three-man team of mobile suit pilots in the original Mobile Suit Gundam, and it similarly involves three soldiers assaulting a single target in a coordinated attack.

? This’ll probably only make sense to a certain subset of people, but it was like she’d been hit by the Power to Change One’s Opponent into a Lover of Glasses.

The Power to Change One’s Opponent into a Lover of Glasses is a particularly unhinged special ability from a particularly unhinged manga called The Law of Ueki by Fukushi Tsubasa. Other powers from the series include the power to turn towels into iron, the power to turn tomatoes into magma, and the power to turn trash into trees, which—believe it or not—is the main character’s special ability. Note that the glasses power is rendered surprisingly useful by the fact that its user does, in fact, wear glasses. Personally, though, I think that Andou acknowledging the obscurity of this reference is actually the most shocking thing about it.