Poking Around Pt 85

This part was a pain to write and re-write, not going to lie. I got stuck for a while because I wasn’t sure how I was going to write Kuroki’s salesmanship, something I’ve rarely succeeded in during my day-job… days. But things have a funny way of resolving themselves in life, and that’s how I kinda weaselled out writing myself into a dead-end – at least for this page anyway. Not much in the way of fanservice, but eh~. I prioritised the dialogue this time and easy readability. Enjoy.  The TL notes follow as this got way more foreign than I initially intended. Oops.

TL Notes: 

• “Mister Kanamori”: It’s a reference to a very tall character from the recent-at-the-time-of-posting this “Keep Your Hands Off My Eizōken (Proof-of-Concept)”: an anime adapted from a manga following three high-school girls trying to produce their own anime. 
• “My business card, Sir”/ “Sorry for accepting it one-handed”: Yep, there’s a particular way one hands over and accepts business cards in Japanese culture. 
• “Sendengakari”: For those who are curious, it’s written like this 宣伝係. Odagawara was able to read the kana written like this: せんでんがかり. There’s a whole thing about how Furiraga is often written above/beside Kanji so one knows how to pronounce it.
• ぼこぼこ: read as bōkobōko, it’s onomatopoeia for something bubbling furiously.
• “Sumoff”: a spoof on a slang-term used for meetings of certain like-minded individuals. I honestly couldn’t think of anything to convey a chat service outside of Facetime (only for iPhones) or Skype (which nobody I know uses anymore). 
• ゴゴゴゴ: read as gogogo, I clarified this back in Part 77. Basically that “menace intensifies” meme.
• ざわ: read as zawa, it’s onomatopoeia for uneasiness/anxiety. I probably explained it before, but it’s made famous by Kaiji. Parodied in multiple fashions in the black-comedy Mr Tonegawa: Middle-Management Blues (who himself was a character in Kaiji), Sentai Filmworks’ dub got around this with “ooh” (a groan induced from cringe or embarrassment) though I do recall a very intense hand-washing scene culminating with “riiiiiiiiinse.”
  
  The Beginning Bit: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,  13,
  The Eatery: 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. 26, 27 28, 29,
  Interlude: 30, 31,
  All About Albert: 32, 33, 34,  35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44,
  The Long Road Home: 45,  46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54,
  Another Interlude: 55, 56,
  Saruto vs Tori: 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 70,
  Hinomarusumo: 71, 72, 73,  74, 75, 76, 77. 78, 79 80, 81.  82,  83  84