Epilogue
? Makes me wish I had that ointment that Rukawa Kaede used to get rid of his swelling overnight before the big match with Sannoh High.
Kiryuu’s referencing Slam Dunk, a basketball manga by Inoue Takehiko. Rukawa Kaede is a member of the main characters’ team who ends up taking a nasty blow to the eye in a match, leading to major swelling, only to recover overnight after a member of the team responsible for his injury gives him a seemingly sketchy but incredibly effective ointment in an effort to apologize.
Afterword
? Draw! Big Brother Card!
This title is a reference to a notorious scene from Yu-Gi-Oh! in which the main character absolutely brutalizes a bit villain in a children’s card game, drawing monster card after monster card until one of his friends has to run in and physically stop him. Interestingly enough, this is an instance of a meme that made the jump pretty directly from the Japanese-speaking side of the internet to the English-speaking side. You can find the scene in question by searching for “Draw! Monster card!” and I highly recommend doing so, since it’s absolutely hilarious.
And, that’s all the reference humor we have to unpack this time! Once again, I leave you with the author and illustrator’s comments from the inside cover of the original release, which you’ll find below. I hope you enjoy them, and I hope to see you again in the next volume!
-Tristan Hill
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