Inou-Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de - Volume 4 - Chapter SS4

Chapter 4

? Power Pros lets you make lefties into shortstops or catchers or whatever no problem.

Power Pros is an extremely long-running series of baseball video games. The series started out on the Super Nintendo in 1994 and proceeded to release at least one new game every year for the next two decades, its streak only being broken in 2015 (at which point it slowed down to a biennial release schedule). The series continues to this day, with modern releases coming out on the Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch. In spite of its fame and popularity, very few versions of Power Pros have been released internationally, with the most recent English release being MLB Power Pros 2008 for the Wii.

? Mr. Fullswing had Tomaru play second base too.

Mr. Fullswing is a baseball manga by Suzuki Shinya that was serialized in Shonen Jump from 2001 to 2006. In spite of its popularity at the time, it never received an anime adaptation and was never published overseas, meaning that at the time of writing, there’s currently no official way to experience the series in English.

? I’ve heard that Loki’s name’s supposed to mean something like “Bringer of the End” too!

There are many theories regarding the linguistic origins of the name Loki, none of which have been proven accurate in any sort of definitive way. The theory that Andou references here isn’t one that I was able to find any serious scholarly sources arguing for, though, so the odds are good that his knowledge of Norse mythology is somewhat tenuous.

? Now I know how Yugi-boy felt when Pegasus screwed with him through his VCR...

This is, of course, a Yu-Gi-Oh! reference! The sequence in question involves Pegasus, one of the series’ most well-known antagonists, sending Yugi a videotape through which the two of them play a magical card game. Yugi loses, and his grandfather’s soul ends up getting stolen as a result. It’s worth noting, by the way, that Pegasus does in fact refer to Yugi as “Yugi-boy”—in English—in the original Japanese, which I personally find delightful.

? TOMOYO makes a desperate attack!

This particular line very deliberately uses the exact phrasing that the Dragon Quest series uses when enemies score critical hits on party members! Similarly, the sequence in which JURAI joins TOMOYO’s party is a very direct pastiche of the sequences in which monsters join your party in Dragon Quest.