Alrighty, I hope we’ve made the most of the slow ramp-up, because we’re back to doing two chapters this week.
Chapter seventy-two’s title image is from “Imasara Wakaruna” by TETORA.
Chapter seventy three’s is from “Jersey” by Saba Sister
Before we start with chapter seventy-two’s notes, though, I realised I skipped over the omake page following chapter seventy-one. The magazine here is a reference to るるぶトラベル - here is the 2026 edition of their Kyoto magazine. The Kyoto locations listed down the right side of the magazine are the same in both the real magazine and the manga one - from the top, Kinkaku-ji, Ginkaku-ji, Kiyomizu-dera (all three I’ve linked already since they were in the chapter), Arashiyama, Fushimi Inari Taisha, Nijo Castle, Byodo-in and Uji (and considering that list is some of the most-touristed locations in and around Kyoto, I perhaps didn’t really need to link them all).
After an girls’ talk interlude for a few pages, at the top of 28 they’re now at Nara Park. Fourth panel of 29 is Yamcha’s death pose again (or maybe it’s just Bocchi’s death pose in the Enoshima chapter). Sixth panel of the same page is the Daibutsu at Todai-ji.
And then we skip over the rest of the trip. Bah. Top left of page 31 shows Fushimi Inari (already linked above) twice, and and Glico Man at Dotonbori. And then we’re back at the Shinkansen station. Seventh panel of page 32, nama yatsuhashi is a speciality of Kyoto - I bought a box on my trip last month (I’d had baked yatsuhashi a few times before, but never the nama stuff). Willing to bet the last panel of the page is a bunch of references I’m straight-up not getting, though.
Moving on to the next chapter, I feel like I’m missing the story behind this 最近何か変だった Kita, but on the sixth panel of page 34, HAL’s 来世にくる映像監督大賞 mentioned is possibly a reference to the 次にくるマンガ大賞 (in which Bocchi took eighth place in 2019).
Second panel of page 35, Voyager 2 was launched on August 20th, 1977, while Voyager 1 followed a couple of weeks later on September 5th
Top of 36, is this the first time we’ve seen modern-day Nijika without her bow?
First panel of 37, Kamata Station apparently has a reputation among locals for always having a bunch of drunk salarymen around it, though I never noticed that when I stayed three nights there in 2019. That might say more about me than it says about Kamata, though.
I hope we’re gonna get this music video in the next season of the anime. Or… the one after?
