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*The 52 pick-up looking thing the Autobots are playing here is ''{{w|Karuta#Iroha karuta|Iroha karuta}}'' (いろはかるた, roughly "alphabet cards"), a Japanese card game for young children involving a twinned set of cards: one with an illustration and a phonetic {{w|hiragana}} character (broadly, a letter) in one corner and another with a statement related to the image that begins with the syllable on the card. The deck includes one pair of cards for each of the 47-odd characters in the hiragana {{w|syllabary}}. The objective is to match the cards, with the player with the largest number of pairs at the end as the winner. | *The 52 pick-up looking thing the Autobots are playing here is ''{{w|Karuta#Iroha karuta|Iroha karuta}}'' (いろはかるた, roughly "alphabet cards"), a Japanese card game for young children involving a twinned set of cards: one with an illustration and a phonetic {{w|hiragana}} character (broadly, a letter) in one corner and another with a statement related to the image that begins with the syllable on the card. The deck includes one pair of cards for each of the 47-odd characters in the hiragana {{w|syllabary}}. The objective is to match the cards, with the player with the largest number of pairs at the end as the winner. | ||
*The foodstuff that Optimus and Bumblebee are going ham pulverizing with a big mallet (a culinary tool known as a '' | *The foodstuff that Optimus and Bumblebee are going ham pulverizing with a big mallet (a culinary tool known as a ''kine'' (杵)) is a kind of rice-derived paste the Autobots are using to make ''{{w|mochi}}'' (もち), a Japanese snack cake traditionally consumed as part of New Year's festivities, as previously seen in [[Go! Go! issue 33|issue 33]]. | ||
===Transformers references=== | ===Transformers references=== | ||
Revision as of 00:07, 17 January 2025
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| Publisher | Kodansha | ||||||||||||
| Published in | TV Magazine | ||||||||||||
| First published | January 15, 2025 | ||||||||||||
| Manga | Haruka Oda | ||||||||||||
| Editor | Minoko | ||||||||||||
Synopsis
Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance.)
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Notes
- This story was published as the January 2025 issue of the web comic and advertised Studio Series Rise of the Beasts Optimus Prime and Bumblebee, Kingdom Ultra Magnus, the Transformers Fan Book 2024, and the first collected edition of Go! Go!.
Real-world references
- The 52 pick-up looking thing the Autobots are playing here is Iroha karuta (いろはかるた, roughly "alphabet cards"), a Japanese card game for young children involving a twinned set of cards: one with an illustration and a phonetic hiragana character (broadly, a letter) in one corner and another with a statement related to the image that begins with the syllable on the card. The deck includes one pair of cards for each of the 47-odd characters in the hiragana syllabary. The objective is to match the cards, with the player with the largest number of pairs at the end as the winner.
- The foodstuff that Optimus and Bumblebee are going ham pulverizing with a big mallet (a culinary tool known as a kine (杵)) is a kind of rice-derived paste the Autobots are using to make mochi (もち), a Japanese snack cake traditionally consumed as part of New Year's festivities, as previously seen in issue 33.
Transformers references
- Each card in the Autobots' deck depicts a Transformers character or concept. Those that can be made out are, in order of appearance:
- こ (ko) - Optimus Prime
- ? - Beast Megatron
- に (ni) - Mirage
- し (si) - Tigatron
- く (ku) - Grimlock
- う (u) - Frenzy
- は (ha) - Megatron
- と (to) - Cosmos
- た (ta) - Chromia
- み (mi) - Energon
- よ (yo) - Getsuei
- ? - Arcee
- め (me) - Shockwave
- ? - Bluestreak
- あ (a) - Inferno
- ふ (hu) - Cybertron
- け (ke) - Cliffjumper
- そ (so) - Starscream
- さ (sa) - Suiken
External links
- Issue 46 at TV Magazine



