Joshiraku OAD – notes and the like

Best girl

Best girl besting in your OP.

Rakugo

She’s performing The Pike of Meguro (目黒のさんま). The punchline (on screen) is that the lord thinks Meguro’s pike is the best, while Meguro isn’t even on the seaside.

False

This screen is a lie. The Suehirotei is always full of people even before the first act starts.

Jugemu

Remember the ending song?

Music

The music is Schubert’s 8th (unfinished) symphony.

Group

Chunichi Dragons.

Striped

Do you happen to know a manga character with striped hakama? Oh right, it’s Itoshiki Nozomu. That also tells you who are those mangaka.

Toku

For a moment here I thought I was watching Nyarlko. Kamen Rider Stronger parody.

Ways

Pun on 真人間 (maningen, right/virtuous person) by replacing the “right/true” in it with 間 (also read as ma, meaning “spacing”). The way “pounding time” is said is probably a reference to Doraemon.

Misheard

Actually this line should be “We could do it lightly (un-tan), just how a certain band-like group did it”. Reference to K-On.

Flip

When pounding mochi, you need to flip it with water. You’ll see.

Jinbocho

If you don’t know what/where Jinbocho (神保町) is, you should watch Read or Die. It’s the city of books.

Brands

This part is full of references to various publishers and institutions, usually by twisting one or two characters. Just a few: Shueisha, Shosen, Houga Bookstore, Senshu University, Suit Select, Kimuraya, Imoya, Kitchen Nankai, Rice Curry Manten, Yousukou Saikan, Sankoen, Shinsekai Saikan, Shougakukan etc.

Visit

She wants to pay them a “visit”.

KK

Kumeta Kouji’s two previous works, the tropic ice hockey one and Katte ni Kaizou were both serialized in Shonen Sunday (by Shogakukan).

Ref

Doraemon (friendship), Case Closed (determination), Oishinbo (victory). Kukuru says it’s Jump because those three keywords are the “slogans” for Jump.

Slogans

Touch or H2 (love), Inuyasha (youth), Case Closed (Conan).

Hunter

Probably refers to the hilariously long hiatuses in Hunter x Hunter.

Slogan

She’s quoting the company philosophy of Shogakukan word for word.

Furry

She literally says that. He was a great nature lover (beside being the 5th Tokugawa shogun). He even issued a “green” law that Gan mentions the next line.

Song

Ozaki Yutaka, whose Night of the 15th was referenced in episode 4 too. The bike stealing thing is in the lyrics of the song. The Oyama Masutatsu and Kajiwara Ikki are just as Kigu explains. Google if you want to know more. Later Gan refers to Kajiwara’s most famous works (Karatebaka Daiichi, Ashita no Joe, Kyojin no Hoshi).

Strokes

Yeah well, just look at those kanji. It must be tiring to write them all the time. And as you know from episode 7, “misfits like complicated characters.”

Silhouette

The blue one is Yazawa Eisaku from Chameleon and the red one is Asagiri Shinnosuke from A-bout. What’s the black thing?

Event

They’re talking about themselves.

Quote

She’s quoting one of Terayama Shuji’s poems. He wrote the opening song of Tomorrow’s Joe.

Mourn

Just as Rikishi Toru was a fictional character. Mami from Madoka and Fire Fist Ace from One Piece. Spoiler alert, I guess.

Ref

Refers to Drops of God, a successful manga about wine, written by Kibayashi Shin.

Magazines

Mentioned here. ViVi, with, Bessatsu Shonen Magazine (abbreviated as Betsu-Maga).

Sa

Uzanu with Sanosuke from SZS.

Title

Literal translation of the Japanese title  (びっくり集中), which is a reference to the Taisho-era rakugo Surprise Double-Suicide (びっくり心中), which in turn is a parody of the rakugo Shinagawa Double-Suicide (品川心中). It’s about a guy who escapes the red-light district with a prostitute and they decide to commit suicide together, but of course it wouldn’t be a comedy story if it went that easy.

AKB

Reference to Maeda Atsuko from AKB48. On a mixer party she got so drunk that Sato Takeru (the actor of Kamen Rider Den-O) carried her home. The graduation ceremony part is about Maeda Atsuko’s too. She really moved to New York after graduation.

Boring

I think her intent is that since the bird hardly moves, it’s very boring to watch so you can’t concentrate on it.

Background

Those black lines are called the focus lines. Breaking the 4th wall, are we.

Manga

A reference to Shimamoto’s Transfer Student of Fire (炎の転校生).

Osamu

Reference to Dezaki Osamu’s art style. He’s worked on stuff ranging from Astro Boy to Clannad.

The usual

Ebizou, ashtray, tequila. Don’t make me go over the story again. The “dictator” is the former governor of Tokyo, Ishihara (he was jabbed at during the Tsukiji part in episode 7 too.

Truth

Rei from Evangelion, Yui from K-On, Madoka and Kirito from Sword Art Online.

Shinsuke

Shimada Shinsuke comedian, reporter and celebrity.

Focus

Also known as “intensive care”. Had to keep “focus” in there somehow.

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