Work-Study Episode 106: Announcing Kazutori-Kon

[Clovis15]

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Clovis Dye:

This here is the beginning of a very massive story-arc, or at least very massive by the standards of the somewhat random Work-Study. Don't worry, there will still be a ton of random humor during all of it. Case in point, those familiar with Robotech will find great humor in the directions to the convention given on the Katherine's whiteboard in panel 3. Anyways, did any of you first notice the poster to Kazutori-Kon when it debuted all the way back on page 90 (it's also appeared a few times since then)?

Jeff G:

This was a fairly straightforward page. The next chapter worth of pages, though, should be very interesting to make.

[ShadowDragon_26]

I was wondering if those posters would come to fruition. Also, wasn't Zombire something from... Yu-Gi-Oh! ?

[Clovis15]

Yes. Zombire is a reference to Yu-Gi-Oh. If you followed the Asterisk in panel-3 back to Page 52, then you'd see the original conversational exchange that was responsible for her calling him that. Work-Study is often full of dialogue back references like this, I put the asterisks in there as they're often too old for me to expect people to always be able to remember them 100% of the time on their own (this particular page came out during the summer of 2004, for example).

Anyways, congratulations on being one of the few people to actually notice those posters earlier on.

[ShadowDragon_26]

Hehe, I didn't follow the asterisk, I just remember it from reading the manga. That was an odd chapter... then again, a lot of the parts from the whole series could be considered odd.

[Clovis15]

There was a lot of very dark material in the early portion of the Manga that they completely bypassed in the show, all in favor of focusing entirely on the card game.

[ShadowDragon_26]

I did like the manga however. Especially the tabletop rpg they decided to end with.

[Clovis15]

Yes, that particular storyline was brilliant.

It actually makes me feel vindicated that I am getting to have this conversation with you right now. When I first made the reference to Zombire back on Page 52, I worried that letting loose to the fanbase that I willingly read (and liked) Yu-Gi-Oh was just going to result in their ridiculing me. Of course that was back when Work-Study didn't really have much of a fanbase to speak of, where as this late in the game the fanbase that I carry is probably heavily shaped precisely by the fact I freely throw around such references.

[Laserkid]

for the record Yu Gi Oh wasn't especially darker earlier versus later, its just less card riddled.

That said, there actually IS an anime that covers that period, but it was made by a different animation studio, was ignored by the famous anime series (Yu Gi Oh: Duel Monsters), and was never brought to the USA.

[ShadowDragon_26]

Yeah, Yugioh season 0 or whatever it was called. Eh, still thought it was interesting, that and it actually showed how big of a prick Kaiba was, mainly that he wouldn't be passed killing people to prove he was better.