MaruMA:Short-shorts:StorySpecial
TANGO[edit]
"Who told Greta the lie that the Tango festival[1] is an Argentinian celebration?! Thanks to that she ended up asking me "Are you an Argentinian child?"
"Wasn't it Anissina?"
"Ah, could it have been Anissina-san? Then, it can't be helped... Say Conrad, why is your younger brother inside a carp streamer? I wonder if he wants to be eaten by a Hiroshima Carp[2]"
"Who knows.... Lately, when it comes to that kid, not even I can understand him..."
"You know, no matter how cute he looks getting eaten up by that carp streamer, we can't let him continue this. Hey, Wolf! You know about that scary thing, right?! And knowing about the terrible curse of the Tango Festival carp streamers, you deliberately did it anyway?!"
"What's "deli- be- rate- ly"? Is it a "fruit"?[3]
"No, that's "Souseki", but no, I'm talking about the legend that says that if you do not put away the Boy's May Festival dolls and the carp streamers, then you won't get married while you're young..."
"Eeeeh?"
"Your Majesty, that's the Girl's fes...."[4]
"On the other hand, if you leave the decorations in the back of the closet and never put them up, you will never be able to get married."
"What did you say~?!"
"That's why I'm telling you, Your Majesty, that's a tradition of the Girl's Fes... "
"I'm putting it away, I'll put it away right now! Yuuri, give me a hand!
"Woah, woah, woah, Wolf, you don't need to panic like that, it's fine if you get married a little late. I mean, you're already 82 years old, right? Ah, you're stepping on the tail, the tail! Anyways, your little brother sure has a strong desire to get married, huh?"
"This is the first time I'm hearing about this. I guess in that way, he resembles my mother, huh?"
"Don't you want to give us a hand? I mean, it's for the sake of the cute youngest son..."
"I'd rather not. Because I myself don't care about the formalities of marriage. Besides, if Gwendal and I were to help, we'd end up becoming the Three Tango Brothers[5]"
"Hey, Yamada-kun! You're going to have to take away Lord Weller's tatami and cushion!"[6]
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References[edit]
- ↑ The Tango Seasonal Festival is also known as Boy's Day (端午の節句) in Japan and it is celebrated on May 5th. It is one of the five annual Japanese festivals. Tango is also a dance from Argentina.
- ↑ Hiroshima Toyo Carp is a baseball team, which is part of the Central League. (Remember Yuuri's a fan of the Pacific League)
- ↑ So the word for "deliberately" (actually it's part of an idiom the word itself means violence or confusion) sounds a bit like the last name of the guy on the 1000 yen bill, Souseki Natsume. So Wolfram asks what "rouseki" is. And then asks if it's a fruit (jujube to me more precise). And the word for jujube is "Natsume" which is the first name of the guy on the 1000 yen bill. So the word goes from rouseki (deliberately/violence) to souseki (the name of the famous guy).
- ↑ So, setting up and putting away the display for the dolls for Hinamatsuri (Girl's festival) is a drag. Japanese moms probably made told their daughters this so they would help clean up. XD Yuuri seems to be honestly mixing up this Girl's Day belief for a Boy's Day one (but then again, remember that he was forced to celebrate Girl's day as a kid)
- ↑ XD Conrad!!! That song didn't exist when you came to Earth! How do you know about it!? Aaaaanyways... the "Three Dango Brothers" is a very famous song. Here's the story behind it: http://web-japan.org/kidsweb/archives/cool/99-01-03/dango.html
- ↑ So there's an ancient form of comedy, where comedians tell jokes (puns really), wearing a yukata and sitting the Japanese way on a tatami. If they tell a good pun, they get a cushion to kneel on. If they tell a bad pun, a cushion gets taken away. The person who wins is the one with the most cushions. Yuuri is saying that Conrad's pun was so bad he should not only lose his cushion, but even the tatami. Yamada (Takao) is the host of a very popular comedy TV show that features this type of puns. Here's an image: http://stat.ameba.jp/user_images/20121104/19/cream-melon/cc/0a/j/o0640048012270350917.jpg
