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Who can identify the location shown in the last panel?
- Richard: To alcohol! The cause of – and solution to – all of life’s problems!
- Man: Kanpai!
- Richard: Don’t cry for me, Argentina!
- Richard: A-
- Man: KI-
- Man: HA-
- Richard: ME-RI-CA!
- Man: HA-HA
- Man: BA-RA
- Caption: The next morning.
- Hitomi Saitō: Nani…?
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Ah, alcohol and mutual embarrassment. The only way to form a bond stronger than tungsten plasma welding.
How much to repair the smashed floor at the base of the stairs?
[meta] The advent of n-covid-19 seems to have heralded in the end of the days of the salary man.
Who can identify the location shown in the last panel?
@ Novil:
Is it the spot outside May Queen Nya Nya?
Or whatever the real life equivalent is? I know you like Steins;Gate.
In the LAST panel (the bottom of the stairwell) or the THIRD panel? (which looks like the drinking district outside Ueno, which is part of Tokyo– but it looks like just about any drinking district in Tokyo.)
She’s most likely coming from her shift at a maid cafe.
I wonder where Richard’s briefcase went.
Oh well, with any luck the men he karaoke’d with have it.
And honestly, after a twelve-hour flight with crying babies, Richard’s got the second-best explanation for being unprepared.
(The best is being dead.)
I call BS on the last panel. You go down any stairs in Akihabara, you’re instantly surrounded by posters of naked anime girls. The only way stairs would have such a PG scene at the bottom, is if they are either going into the street, or the train station. And, actually, I don’t think the train station is downstairs in Akihabara. But hard to recall, since it’s generally easier to reach by just walking from Ueno through Ameno.
@ Novil:
I’d say Shinjuku station, since it’s nigh on IMPOSSIBLE to find your way out of that place sober, let alone drunk!@ Novil:
@ Novil:
It’s in Tokyo. What do I win?
The location is stairs. What do I win?
… the fictional world of Sandra and Woo…
I’m getting an Excel Saga vibe from that last panel for some reason.
Roaming around Akihabara on Google Maps, the district appears to be on one level apart from rail lines / major roads which run on viaducts above. However, there are plenty of high rise buildings (and a bit of research indicates one Maid Cafe chain, who have a big advertisement outside the station, have no fewer than seven cafes in Akihabara alone!)
The station itself has conventional public area type stairways, so I’m guessing that as it’s the next morning, it’s at a hotel somewhere in the district. Hitomi may or may not be an employee.
He is on….
..his head.
@ mittfh:
Hotel employees in Tokyo don’t actually dress like that. This seems to be outside to me. I’m guessing that this place is quoted from a specific comic/anime/game, because we really don’t have enough information to identify it otherwise…
@ demarion:
The first thing I thought, when I saw the last panel, was that Richard had the best excuse now. Also that now Larissa’s parents will have someone to comfort them once Larissa moves to fulltime succubussing.
Hitomi? You mean from Hinamatsuri? So that last panel would be the Little Song bar that Nitta goes to?
I like the Homer Simpson reference.
Could it possible be the new step-mother of Sarah, that we met here?
Who knows…
Red5 wrote:
No, doesn’t look like her. “Hitomi” is such a common Japanese name, that even if you limit to anime characters, you’d have at least several dozens.
@ Novil:
Around one kilometer south of Ueno station is the Tokyo Metro Hibiya line Naka-Okachimachi Station and the stairs and wall paneling on the street level entryways match the image. This location is directly north of Akihabara. At least this is my best guess…
I believe the location of the 3rd panel is the stairway right next to the entrance of the maid cafe frequented in Steins;Gate?
SlugFiller wrote:
I agree. Hitomi from Hinamatsuri would probably wear a bartender uniform and not a maid uniform.
I honestly didn’t even consider the title before posting my comment. Now I’m 100% certain that it’s the MayQueen NyanNyan, after looking at how far away the real life equivalent is(Mai:lsh Cafe) on google maps, from Ueno. Now when I go in the summer I’ll have another landmark to visit, thanks Novil.
Is it just me, or does Richard’s karaoke partner in panel 2 look like Andrew Gilbert Mills?
OMG. It was a long time since I read Sandra and Woo comics, so I decided to read from the start to remember the best moments and wow, read all the comics on the weekend. It was basically coffee and comics all day, all night. Love you guys so much <3 I'll be looking for a raccoon to adopt very soon and it shall be named Woo The Second lol
I would say the location shown in last panel is “rock bottom”.
“Yo Hitomi, I’m really happy for you, Imma let you finish but Anzu is the best girl in Hinamatsuri…one of the best girls of all time!”
Kanye West at the 2019 Crunchyroll Awards.
@ Ratfox:
They do dress that way in Seoul. I terrified the poor girl at the hotel I stayed in because I am a 6’4” MeGook with dark hair, eyes, and (at the time) beard and was asking if there was a “convention” nearby, which sent a lot of wrong messages.
I was there to ask my wife’s father permission to marry- so no funny business implications. I did my best to explain that, which helped matters a bit.
@ Xiro:
Indeed, that looks about right: https://goo.gl/maps/acz8wJ1nLNjd95CM7
That reminds me of my first – and only – trip to Tijuana. I shudder to think what would have happened to me in Hong Kong if I didn’t have a friend with family there.
Never visit a foreign city without a friendly guide. Poor Richard had to learn that the hard way.
LOVE The Simpsons reference.