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Last year I had various health problems, starting with the presence of blood in my urine. And in the end, just before I was about to hand in the boards for the last episode of the year, I had to fight the final boss, “norovirus”… It’s as if Clift, with whom I had made a promise to defeat Death Pisaro* together, suddenly threw a Zaraki** at me just before the finish line. The awful thing about the norovirus is that it’s this Zaraki thrown at you by surprise by your teammates, and by the time you realise it, it’s too late.
Try to imagine the feelings the hero Hideaki had when he had only one option, diarrhea at will, despite wanting to end the challenge against the last deadline of the year, i.e. the decisive battle against Death Pisaro, by resorting to the tactic “Attack at will”! Imagine the feelings the hero Hideaki had when the medicinal herb he ate came out of his ass from straining a little while wielding the sky g-pen!
The situation was creepy, as even staying quiet from his ass spurted out hit points. So, both Alena***, Manya*** and Minea*** were completely covered in poo.
As long as I didn’t select the “have diarrhea” command eighty times, the “fight” command wouldn’t come up, so I couldn’t think of defeating Death Pisaro. By the way, he had diarrhea too, so Clift and Torneko, who had eaten earlier, were spewing out of his ass! The challenge had turned into the one where the winner would be the one who would first expel all the toxic substance accumulated in the body…
*Monster appearing in the Dragon Quest series.
**Magic formula that instantly kills enemies.
***Female characters appearing in Dragon Quest IV.
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 142
QUESTION FROM MISS “CLASS 3-Z! GINPACHI SENSEI LOVE”
In the episode about the sushi place that appeared in the 187th lesson, the customers say that the sushi cooked by Tama is “delicious”. But in the episode about the official meeting for the purpose of marriage in the 385th lesson, Yamazaki vomits after eating an anpan also prepared by Tama. Summing up, are the dishes cooked by her good or bad?
ANSWER:
Good. Yamazaki vomited because in the end he couldn’t understand it, and because he didn’t know whether the anpan was Tama’s vomit or not.
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 143
QUESTION FROM MISS “MY NAME IS AKATSU” OF KANAGAWA PROVINCE
When Gin-san asks someone for a favour, he often says inwardly, “I’ll give you three hundred yen*.” But why three hundred yen?
ANSWER:
Because it’s the limit amount that doesn’t make him feel pain… Even if it feels a little painful anyway.
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 144
QUESTION BY MR. HINATA OF YAMANASHI PROVINCE
Good morning, sensei! I’ll get straight to the point… I want to ask your advice about something: I lent a friend of mine a video game with a manual, but he hasn’t returned it yet. It will soon be a year, but I don’t have the courage to ask him. What should I do?
ANSWER:
Since you can’t, I suppose your relationship is like that between Gian and Suneo. Also, from the detail of the manual, it’s clear that Gian doesn’t even know how to play a video game, because he’s the kind of person who relies on manuals for everything. So, if you ask him normally, it is obvious that he will answer you following the manual: “All your things are, mine, and all my things are mine”. But the very manuals he relies on are his weak point….
He’s a person who can’t handle the unexpected, that is, he can’t improvise. So lend him another video game instead of asking for that one back, and say: “This one is really fun! You play it too, Gian!”. And you might add casually, as if you’ve only just remembered, “Ah, but did I lend you a game a while ago?”. Since Gian will be in a good mood, he will immediately give it back to you. In return you won’t get the new game back for about a year, but don’t worry… just lend him another one! If he doesn’t return that one either, then go with another game. And if he keeps that one too, call the police.
CONTACT WITH THE READERS: QUESTION CORNER 145
QUESTION BY MISS NYAKANYO
Congratulations on the anime’s resumption! When the Mantama show started, my eldest daughter, who’s in fifth grade, shouted “Sorachi!” (laughter). When she came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around her body, she said “Mom, look! I’m a soapland lady!” I was disappointed as hell. But since I saw them in Gintama too, I replied “Ooh… Yeah! It’s true…”. I wasn’t wrong, right?
ANSWER:
I WAS THE ONE WRONG
That said, volume 48, the “Noro” special, ends here.
You too, be careful. It seems that depending on the person, the symptoms vary a bit, but in my case the diarrheal problems were terrible, as I’ve already written, and I had so much diarrhea that I could recreate an entire Hideaki Sorachi body by collecting everything that came out of me. In fact, it seemed as if Hideaki Sorachi had already been flushed down the toilet and it was the diarrhoea that was writing this page… maybe the positions of the two were reversed; that was the diarrhoea and I was the diarrhoea… I mean, it was so copious that I started thinking nonsense like this…
Since I couldn’t eat anything, I continued to work, surviving on sports drinks, but in the end, the liquid started coming out of my ass just as I had swallowed it. I’m referring to the transparent liquid. Rather than a manga author, I looked like the plant of some sports drink factory. It seemed that as it passed through my ass, the drink was completed. In short, it was such an exceptional sports drink that I thought maybe I was better suited for this than for drawing manga!
In order not to experience a tragedy like the one that happened to me, try to be careful, wash your hands well and gargle to keep yourself clean every time you come home. And then, first of all, don’t forget to lock Clift in the carriage!
New topic: “A Zaraki from Clift indicates negligence on the part of the hero.”
Yorozuya Shinigami 