Hi!  Long time no see!  I finally got around to doing chapter 6 of Itsuka Ma no Tsuku Yuugure Ni! (Someday in the Ma!Twilight!  aka ItsukaMa), Novel 6!  To be honest, I didn''t really like this chapter because Yuuri was irritating me so I was dragging my feet with it... BUT! The main reason this took so long was because this came in the mail recently:[Picture Spoiler].  Please excuse the Instagram quality.

    “Speak to me, Murata!  Tell me everything!  Hey, he was a guy that looked like an awesome fencer, right?  He was a guy that’s ridiculously charming and the girls would all love and, you know, is like a handsome supporting actor in a romance film that you can really relate to, right?  Hey, that’s right isn’t it!?  Who did he look like?  What famous guy did he look like?”

    “Hm, I didn’t really get a good look.  The candlelight was dim and I’m afraid of rats and I was nervous and shaky since it was my first night… maybe Bergkamp?” (7)

    I forget to even comment on that.

    “Tell me a baseball player, please.”

    “… Uhhhh…  I gueeeeess then… Kakefu?”

    Murata, are you Kunihiro Matsumura? (8)

    But Conrad…

    Gazing at the stars above me, I listen to Ken Murata drowsily prattle on with his soccer lingo as he drifts off to sleep.

    If that’s true, then why aren’t you here?

    (1)    This is an extension of the loooooong (and awesome) joke that Murata was doing when he was being ‘Tokyo Magic Robinson’ in chapter 3.  The Tokyo Comic Show was a comedy/magic act.  Here’s a vid on Youtube.  It’s not subbed, but I think it kind of makes the Magic Robinson scene funnier if you know what the dude looks like. OH, and this is the background music that Murata was providing himself with.   The German version neglected to mention that he was doing that right before he fell on his face.  Chalalalalaa- uwah! BAM! XD  … Ahem, the show came out a year before Murata and Yuuri were born (this is the reason why Yuuri kept on wondering how old Murata was in that scene).  ANYWAY, the only things that they’ve said so far are ‘Tokyo Magic Robinson’ and ‘Tokyo Comic Romantica’ (which was another joke and Flynn wasn’t even around when they said that) so yeah, they’ve got every reason to be completely floored that Flynn said ‘Tokyo Comic Show,’ especially since all of these words are in English XD

    (2)    He’s talking about this song.  The original song is Molly Darling.

    (3)    Okay, I have to admit, this is the first celebrity related joke in this series that made me laugh. Akiko Wada and Aya Matsuura are both singers.  I made their names links to songs they sing.  Fun fact:  That Aya Matsuura song was released a few months after this book.  I was on exchange in high school at the time and I heard that damn song so many times I wanted to gouge my ears out.  Could not go ANYWHERE without hearing it!  That yellow/orange poofy dress thing brought back bad memories XD

    (4)    Why yes, Yuuri did just use Luis Biron’s ‘-pon’ from novel 4.

    (5)    This is yet another Mito Koumon joke.  At the end of just about every episode, he’d raise up his medicine case and declare who he was, after some huge fight, of course.  Kind of like Sailor Moon’s “I’ll punish you” speech….  I can’t believe I just compared Mito Koumon and Sailor Moon XD

    (6)    This is the song from the first footnote~  El Bimbo, or ‘Oriibu no Kubikazari’ in Japanese, is the song Murata was singing in chapter 3 when he was being Tokyo Magic Robinson.

    (7)    Dennis Bergkamp.  Soccer player from Amsterdam.  Here’s his Wikipedia page.

    (8)    Combined footnote!  Masayuki Kakefu is a former baseball player for the Hanshin Tigers and is now a commentator.  His commentating style has a lot of drawn out syllables.  Kunihiro Matsumura is a comedian famous for his impressions and his impression of Kakefu is one of his better known ones.  So, since Murata was drawing out his speech, it sounded like he was doing an impression of Kakefu.