when is this comic series going to involve gakupo? :(

I hope they also turn him into a chibi.

must......win.......special prize

Someone care to explain tissues' significance? Shows up in Animal Crossing, too.

I take it the Japanese have a thing for tissues.

Nah, it's more like "Here's a tissue. Go cry about your loss."

its just a medium of street advertsing there. works better than just handing out leaflets because theyre something of practical use

It's a common consolation prize in street lotteries.

tissues for men to use to clean them selves after masturbating

women too

(just leaving this here in case anybody wants to study the Japanese)

Panel 1: サクサク *saku* *saku* – *crunch* *crunch*
Panel 1: よわねくじびき Yowane kujibiki “Yowane Lottery”
Panel 1: 50円分で1回 Go-Juu-En-bun de ikkai “Once for 50 yen”

(skipped transcribing the menu)

Wikipedia: “Tissue-pack marketing (ティッシュ配り, Tisshukubari) is a type of guerrilla marketing that attaches advertisements to portable facial tissue packages to move advertising copy directly into consumers' hands. Its origins date back to the late 1960s in Japan as a replacement for free promotional matchboxes, which were falling out of favor.”

Reddit Post: “For all of you that have played Final Fantasy VII. After doing a round in the battle arena in the Gold Saucer, you'd get a tissue consolation prize.” (came out 1997, so this mysterious trope has been around for a long time)

Panel 2: Chibi Miku reading the menu while still eating: *saku-saku*

Panel 3: the purple unicorn cat thing on right: なんかよくわからない物 Nanka yoku wakaranai mono – (translation without quotation marks for reading legibility) *Some* kind of thing not sure what the heck it is

Panel 3: 特筆ネギパラさん Tokuhitsu negipara-san “Special Mention Negipara-san” – his canonical name is actually “Negibara,” but there appears to be a Handakuten (open circle) on the ハ (making it “pa”), rather than a Dakuten (looks like a quotation mark, makes it “ba”) – ギ (gi) and パ (pa) are right next to each other in the name; they can be compared against one another to determine the artist’s manner of writing the marks; one definitely looks like Dakuten, and the other is definitely Handakuten (the open circle) (of course I'm not 100% certain about any of this, but it is at least worth noting that if you zoom in very close to the text, there is a noticeable difference between the marks that are put on the キ and ハ)

Panel 3: ゴクリ *gokuri* *gulp*

I came back to do the menu

2等 ・ネギスナック2箱 Nitō • negi-sunakku ni-hako – “2nd prize • 2 boxes green onion snacks”
3等 ・ネギサワー1箱 Santō • negisawā hito-hako – “3rd prize • 1 box Negi Sour”
4等 ・ガリゴリ君5本 Yontō • garigori-kun go-hon – “4th prize • Garigori-kun 5 sticks”
5等 ・うんまい棒1個 Gotō • unmai bō ikko –” 5th prize • Delicious stick 1 piece”

残念賞・ポケットティッシュ Zan'nen-shō pokettotisshu – I think Google Translate has a better / funnier translation than “consolation prize”

“Disappointing prize, pocket tissue”