Poking Around Pt 152 (Patreon)

Thank you for waiting. That last panel was a bit of a pain to put together which is why this is a day late compared to the others, but here we are. Can you tell I’m not much of a Char​izard fan these days?  😅

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Anyway, couple more TL Notes – please look forward to more:

• “I volunteer as tribute”/”I hunger for this game”:In reference to The Hunger Games, a series of novels that were adapted as movies in the early 2010s. At the time this was posted, the prequel novel published in 2020 is to be adapted as a movie.
• “Sublime”: Spoofing the North American street wear brand Supreme.  In the latter half of the 2010s, the company sold a clay brick with the logo on it that became a prized collector’s item.
• “Any means necessary”: In 2020, there was a fad of drawing anime and cartoon characters in street wear. This was due to a popular fan-art depicting Drag​on​b​all’s Go​ku in a Hypebeast jacket, which later became known as Go​ku Drip (drip being slang for ‘fashionable/ attractive clothes’)
• “Ya Boi Era”: I keep hearing of some streamers or YouTubers using this as a greeting phrase. I just found it mildly amusing they used the phrase as English localisation of the manga, now anime,  パリピ孔明 Paripi Kōmei, or Kongming of the Party People
• “Fred Skirang – Magical You”: In reference to this song,which was the first English-language pop song to be officially used in the ending credits of a pair of video games released internationally—to my knowledge.
• End it By Bicker: Riffing on the 2002 British movie Bend it like Beckham.