Chapter 3
? Like, Atobe’s special moves are the friggin’ best!
We may have left the tennis chapter, but we’re still in Prince of Tennis territory! This is another reference to Atobe Keigo, who has a ton of special moves with words like “rondo” and “fugue” in them on account of his love of classical music.
? Y’know that one where you take turns coming up with words that fit into a certain category, and whoever slips up first loses?
This is a pretty common game in Japan! Known as kokon tozai (古今東西, commonly translated as “all times and places”), it’s the sort of game you’re likely to see teachers appropriate to keep their lessons interesting.
? So, wait—pronunciation-wise, does that make my guitar the fusion of Colonel Muska and Colonel Roy Mustang?
Andou’s already identified Roy Mustang’s origins, but Colonel Muska is a villain from Miyazaki Hayao’s Laputa: Castle in the Sky.
? There’s that bit in Soul Eater where they say that a Meister and their Weapon work like an electric guitar and its amp!
Soul Eater is a manga by Ohkubo Atsushi that ran from 2004 to 2013. The core premise of the series revolves around humanoid weapons—as in, people who can literally turn into weapons—and the people who wield them, who are referred to as Meisters. The guitar/amp comparison that Andou brings up is a bit of exposition from early on in the series, used to establish how its power system works.
? Naming a guitar is cringe?! Oh, you didn’t! You’ve just made an enemy of every K-On! fan in the country!
K-On! is a manga by Kakifly that was adapted into an extremely popular anime by Kyoto Animation in 2009. One of the main characters, Yui, buys a guitar early on in the series and gives it a silly name (ギー太, a silly play on “guitar” that’s often rendered as Gita).
? Maria...since when did you learn the Shadow Clone Jutsu?!
The Shadow Clone Jutsu’s another Naruto ability—the signature ability of Naruto himself, in fact—that lets the user make duplicates of themself.
? Maria, don’t you know that you’re squandering your memory capacity by making a physical double of yourself?
Back to Hunter x Hunter again! In the original context of the line Andou’s paraphrasing, Hisoka (an early antagonist in the series) is explaining how he defeated an opponent who used his Nen powers to make an almost perfect duplicate of himself mid-combat.
? The copy acts as your En too, right?
Straight into yet another Hunter x Hunter reference! This one refers to a character called Kortopi’s ability to copy objects. The fact that his copies act as his En basically just means that he can perceive their surroundings. As a note, the English release of the Hunter x Hunter manga clarifies that “En is a field that works like radar.” The fact the official release felt the need to clarify that with a note sorta says a lot about the complexity of Hunter x Hunter’s power system, honestly.
? It’s not Ermes’s Stand ability either!
JoJo time! Ermes is a character in JoJo Part 6 whose stand gives her the ability to make magical stickers. When she puts one of her stickers on something, it creates a duplicate of that object, and when she removes it, the duplicate flies off at high speeds to merge back into the original, usually causing significant collateral damage in the process.
? Or maybe I should say I made like Jidanbou unleashing his ultimate Jidan Banzai Strike Festival technique?
The Jidan Banzai Strike Festival is a technique in Bleach. It involves its user, Jidanbou, swinging both of his axes down at the ground as hard as he can.
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