And here we go! Time to get stuck in. Don’t let yourself get overwhelmed here - you just need to take it one strip at a time. And remember, read panels vertically.
On page 4, Papa Goto makes an aside comment about the family dog’s name - for some reason, the name itself is not mentioned here that I can see, so I’m not sure how the original readers would have understood this joke, but it’s Jimihen, after Jimi Hendrix.
The posters on the walls of Bocchi’s closet on page 7 and the badges on Bocchi’s bag on page 9 are references to real bands in the anime, but here in the manga they’re unreadable, sooo… pass.
Bocchi’s online name guitarhero is presumably a reference to the Guitar Hero game series.
Lastly, the live house Starry, which just manages to squeeze in on the final page of this reading, is based on Shelter in Shimo-Kitazawa. Which is also real.
Really like it so far! Light and funny.
I like how seriously she took learning the guitar, and the big gap there is between her perception of things and how she is probably perceived, for example here
But with band names or logos printed or engraved on them.
Is it really a spoiler? It’s page three of the story, and they’re not even particularly relevant to the plot. They’re just a thing that exists in the real world.
