Heisei Haizanhei ☆ Sumire-chan - Vol. 1 Ch. 7.5 - Omake: Pachinko Surviving Soldier Sumire-chan

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That fridge was all tiny handwriting. It was definitely practice.

If you're like 'wtf is mekabu' (middle shelf, on the left) here's a link. I'm also fairly certain you'll regret looking it up afterwards, but hey.


I'm also not 100% sure on the 'G-spot' thing. I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm right since it fits the context of a giant capital G (not exactly something you see a lot of in manga), but it's also possibly some slangy/meme reference thing that I've never run across. It's definitely not 'cockroach', at any rate.

Also also the title contains one of those weirdly specific Japanese words you get when you smash a few kanji together that doesn't really have a simple translation in English: "haizanhei". It's like the trope where two Sengoku era warlords clash, one army wins and the other one gets destroyed except for a few lucky scattered survivors who managed to get away and not end up dead in a ditch etc etc. Those dudes are the haizanhei (and one is usually the MC of whatever). So the title is basically a joke reframing the generation gap (and also idol groups battling to make it big) in the context of feudal armies. Heisei/Millenials/Sumire's idol group lost the war, she survived but is powerless/irrelevant/over the hill, that kind of thing.

Oh, and Sumire vol 1 digital is on sale for 77(!) yen on Bookwalker this week.
 
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I'm also not 100% sure on the 'G-spot' thing. I mean, I'm pretty sure I'm right since it fits the context of a giant capital G (not exactly something you see a lot of in manga), but it's also possibly some slangy/meme reference thing that I've never run across. It's definitely not 'cockroach', at any rate.
There's one other place that comes to mind and it's the title of G Joshi, which is about girls attempting to masturbate because of bad advice from a teen magazine. G might be onomatopoeia or a homophone for masturbation.
 
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There's one other place that comes to mind and it's the title of G Joshi, which is about girls attempting to masturbate because of bad advice from a teen magazine. G might be onomatopoeia or a homophone for masturbation.

Good point. Having done some more digging around in that direction I'm now confident "G" is a homophone for "jii" 自慰 (masturbation). Also, it doubles as a "G-spot" reference and triples if you consider the fact 'G' comes before 'H' to be an extra layer of punning. (Coincidence, or not? You decide.)

Though I think I'll leave the G-spot line as is because basically it's all the same idea anyway (and more importantly I just think it's visually funnier not to redraw the big ol' G).
 
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The author realized Zen, realizing that it is often female colleagues and bosses who are more cruel to women at work than men?

There's one other place that comes to mind and it's the title of G Joshi, which is about girls attempting to masturbate because of bad advice from a teen magazine. G might be onomatopoeia or a homophone for masturbation.
Lol, I never thought I'd see this manga mentioned anywhere again.
 
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