I am soooo jealous!
This episode is indeed about parents and their children. For starters, to those who remembered, Saiko (I will call Moritaka in this name starting now) can’t communicate with his father and all messages coming from him are relayed to his mother. For the first time, he directly communicated with him… but he relays his messages via manga!
This was also the case with his uncle and his love interest which turned out to be Miho Azuki’s mom! Taro Kawaguchi relayed his message to his love via a character, Otoko Roman, a pun for men’s romanticism. Those scenes related to the guy touched Azuki’s mom deeply. Now she knew that both expressed the same feelings for each other.
Since we are talking about genetics in here, Saiko actually inherited something from his uncle! Both of them have the same taste for women and both of them have the same style on their relationship with them! Fun yes, creepy, absolutely.
Aside from that, we learned Saiko and Shujin’s (I will call Akito in this name starting now) respective favorite manga. Saiko loves manly titles, to be exact, Ashita no Joe (Which will have a film to be released next year) and does his moves along with Shujin. As for Shunjin, his favorite would be DragonBall… and calls both creators of the respective manga, geniuses.
Yeah, you can call Toriyama a genius all right; seriously, he let Oolong wish for panties when Shenron asked them what will be Pilaf’s wish and along with it, he tends to forget some characters as the series progress (The last few episodes of Z reminded us that they were never forgotten, only that their use in the plot is now over). You can really call Toriyama a genius all right.
Speaking of manga, we learned the process on how a manga ends up being published in weekly manga magazines. Aside that we learned about the name Saiko is talking about in the previous episode, we learned more on the strict process for a name to end up published in the magazine. After learning about it, I wonder how many hours it takes for the mangaka to create a very decent title worthy to be published in a magazine…
Overall, this episode is both fun and at the same time, heartwarming. I was right in my hunch that Saiko’s uncle would end up being a spiritual mentor in the series. Aside that they can use his studio, his presence is clearly felt out in this episode. Aside from that, we might say that Saiko’s dad can be considered one too. Sure, he likes to talk indirectly and we never saw his face but that is the beauty of it. It adds up the mystery about his character and the role that he will take in the series.