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So, funny behind the scenes story about the translation... In the earliest drafts of my translation scripts, I thought I'd be clever by making all the cavepeople in what I call the Caveman Saga (not just the Unga Tribe in the first few chapters) talk in a more primitive-sounding way by dropping...

Getting this fixed soon, hang tight. EDIT: Fixed now. Secchie is an obvious reference to Sachiyo Nomura, affectionately known as "Sacchie" (which is what her name is actually a play on), TV personality and second wife of the Hanshin Tigers' manager Katsuya Nomura (who Nobura is a reference to)...

No, this is just a sight gag/pun that got lost in translation. Rimon called himself "kami no ko (son of god)" this whole arc, but ended up ruling over "kame no ko (sons of turtles)." Usually I'd change the pun to something that makes sense in English, but when there's a visual element involved...

Thanks for pointing out the typo, I'll get that fixed back to Hakuho as soon as possible. EDIT: It's fixed! Hakuho is this fictional character's shikona, while "Hakho" isn't even proper Japanese phonology, let alone a valid shikona, so that was an obvious typo. As you say, the champion with the...

Okay, this one could use some explanation, too... The character "Masturnami" is based on LDP lawmaker and ex-amateur wrestler Kenshiro Matsunami. (I took some liberty with the name, the character's name in the Japanese version is "Umanami" which means "like a horse," the implication being "hung...

You can in chapter 6 now

You mean the crossing of Lodi. Arcole was much later in the campaign, and we'll get to it. Either way, same thing goes, the battle was real but no evidence Napoleon did it himself.

That axing was fairly well-documented and one of the few cases where we know for sure that it was cancelled and why. It was a school that was pissed, not the yakuza. One of Miyashita's assistants accidentally snuck in the name of a real school in the list of schools the villain had taken over...

Fans of Y2K-era Japanese politics are going to love this arc. The character of Rimon is a sendup of prime minister Yoshiro Mori, a highly unpopular PM whose one-year term was defined by gaffes. The last line of the chapter is a reference to one such gaffe, where he said the word "IT revolution"...

Okay, you could've just said "it should be taken not took on page 24," you don't have to be a dick about it or imply my first language isn't English. Native speakers make these mistakes too especially when there are intervening words, did the four times I used this correctly not clue you in to...

I'm just gonna leave this here apropos of nothing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_sisters

The team working on it would probably think it was cool if you did take them down. It's why I took down our version.

I still remember being in elementary school in Canada in the early 2000s, just a few years after the Hep B vaccination programs began, and they played us this video in health class as a public awareness bit. To this day, I have not forgotten that Hepatitis B is a real bad rap.

Yeah, Gaki Daisho was the opposite of axed. Famously, Motomiya even wrote "The End" on a certain page and his editor splashed it with whiteout to cover it up. Most editions following the initial tankobon printing cut the second half of the story which was written after Motomiya's original...

How does that crow taste?

You can also figure that out by the "Vol. 18" in the title of the chapter.

The author takes a lot of creative liberties, because at the end of the day his goal is to write an interesting story more so than to stay accurate to history. His barely-obscured political beliefs also tend to influence what he focuses on. The "Grande Armee Battle Report" sections at the backs...

Nice stegoro you got there.

Nothing in His Name is 101 set up Harry Truman being the bad guy. This entirely comes from Noguchi's love of UFO conspiracy theories. Edit: right I forgot about the Dracula line. Pretty sure that's just a literary reference, nothing to do with Dracula being real in this universe.

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