Chapter 4
? ...I was also planning on having her make the Sakabatou Shinuchi and Zabimaru’s Shikai form...
These are, respectively, a sword from Rurouni Kenshin and a sword from Bleach!
? A Shihakushou? Or maybe a Saint Cloth?
Shihakushou is the in-universe term for the outfits that the Shinigami in Bleach wear. Cloth, meanwhile, is the in-universe term for the armor that the characters in Saint Seiya wear!
? It’s friggin’ Don Patch!
Don Patch (potentially known as Poppa Rocks, depending on if you read the manga or watched the anime) is a character from Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, a comedy manga by Sawai Yoshio that’s maybe one of the single strangest series ever put to print in Weekly Shonen Jump. The main character fights with his nose hair, and it only gets weirder from there, basically. Don Patch is a character from the series who looks pretty much exactly like Hatoko’s costume is described, and the Wiggin’ Specialists (who Andou references in a line or two) are characters who fight using a particularly weird style of combat, one of whom is Don Patch.
? I mean, I guess it’s technically better than going into battle in a set of robust lingerie, defense-wise.
This is a Dragon Quest reference! Robust lingerie is a piece of equipment in Dragon Quest V and VI that’s only equippable by female characters.
? ...armor like that would really only be useful to practitioners of the Sexy Commando style of martial arts.
The Sexy Commando style originates in the series Sexy Commando Gaiden, a gag manga which was written by Usuta Kyosuke and ran in Jump from 1995 to 1997. The manga revolves around Hananakajima Masaru, a high schooler and martial arts prodigy who practices the titular Sexy Commando style. The style itself revolves around doing ridiculous nonsense to distract your opponent then taking them out with a cheap shot. It is, needless to say, an extremely silly series.
? What, am I out of usable Pokémon? Or did I get hit with a Cord-Cut? Did someone just sever my optic nerve?!
“Out of usable Pokémon” is another reference to the fact that when all of your Pokémon faint in the Pokémon games, your character blacks/whites out. Cord-Cuts, on the other hand, are a technique used in Baki the Grappler, a long-running martial arts manga by Itagaki Keisuke. The series is known largely for its absurdly muscular character designs and the ridiculous excess of the techniques they use. The Cord-Cut technique in particular involves the user severing an opponent’s “cords”—those being tendons, nerves, blood vessels, or anything else vaguely cord-shaped in a person’s body—using a single finger.
? Silver Skin Metal Jacket, Demon Magic Armor Lance, Shihakushou, Saint Cloth, Pain Packer, The Final Moon Fang Heaven-Piercer outfit
Out of all the submissions to the cosplay box, these are the ones that are references to specific works of media! They come from, respectively, Buso Renkin, Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai, Bleach, Saint Seiya, Hunter x Hunter, and Bleach again.
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