Message #1798

[Genichiro]

Oh yeah, the gift of corn. To supply a little context for this one:

Hahahahahaha, holy [crap], it got into the comic.

I put E-mouse up to doing this to perpetuate an old tradition from a forum he and I used to go to. Corn was an well respected meme there, and it became kind of a rallying point for us during IRL meet-ups. At one meet-up (Otakon 2003, I think?), one of our members brought cans of corn and passed them out. So a friend and I took them and started bartering with them in the artists alley for sketches, and later with cosplayers for their props, trying to outdo each other with the stuff we got.

So I figured I might as well direct Mus to offer one to Mizuki as a continuation of this fine tradition.

I thought it was a reference to this:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/7KTB3t1t7dk?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/7KTB3t1t7dk?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US</a>

and this:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ryAO8Zmv4ag?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://www.youtube.com/v/ryAO8Zmv4ag?version=3&amp;amp;hl=en_US</a>

We were struggling not to laugh too hard; Sola was having a hard time explaining the gift to Mizuki-san. Don't know why E-Mouse was drawn as Momiji, though. He was cosplaying as Chen. I was there as Momiji at the time, so maybe Mizuki-san's memory was a little off.