#rumicworld

Entry #1 (published in May 2019 alongside ch. 1 of MAO)

As I showed in a previous post, Rumiko has been making manga like a woman possessed for decades, but her break after finishing RINNE is the longest gap she's taken by far - a year and a half

Entry #2 (published in Oct. 2019 alongside ch. 20)

Movie Notes: the X-Men series should be self-explanatory; Death Proof is a 2007 film by Quentin Tarantino; Train to Busan is known as Shin Kansen (written as 新感染 "new infection") in Japan; Fly Me to the Saitama is a Japanese movie (there's a video with subs on dailymotion fyi); as part of his Act Against AIDS concert, Keisuke Kuwata has performed his own solo version of NHK's New Year's song battle

Entry #3 (published in April 2020 alongside ch. 43)

What the hell's a MiniDisc? you know what a cassette tape is though... right?

Entry #4 (published in March 2021 alongside ch. 85)

Four years later and, indeed, there's been no beach episode in MAO

Entry #5 (published in Sept. 2021 alongside ch. 108)

The "other project" was likely in reference to the COLORS 1978-2024 artbook that released last year (VIZ announced that an English version is planned for Fall 2025). An interview with these editors is available over here - they go over Rumiko's career, it's pretty neat :)

Entry #6 (published in June 2022 alongside ch. 145)

"Taisho" – you might've heard this word before. So Japan still has an emperor (a figurehead these days), but they continue to use regnal years. In modern Japan, every emperor's reign is its own era, and years are marked by the years that that emperor is on the throne. The Taisho era covers July 1912 to December 1926. It was followed by the Showa era (Dec. 1926–Jan. 1989), then the Heisei era (Jan. 1989–April 2019), and now is the Reiwa era which is the time period where Nanoka goes to school (MAO began publishing the week after Reiwa started)

The Heian era, or Heian period (794–1185), is not for a specific emperor though. There are regnal eras within that period but I guess nobody cares? idk, but that's the time period where the past events with the Goko clan all happen

Entry #7 (published in March 2023 alongside ch. 177)

Those noodles have their own Japanese wikipedia page (it's under the Maruchan brand). It's specifically kitsune udon, which is topped with aburaage (sweet, deep-fried tofu pouches) because it's said fox spirits (kitsune) like aburaage. And it's tanuki tensoba, which is topped with tenkasu (bits of deep-fried tempura batter).

In Japanese, "cat tongue" (猫舌 nekojita) refers to sensitive tongues that can't handle heat

Entry #8 (published in May 2024 alongside ch. 230)

For more context, this is what Rumiko said about her work schedue in 2021: Rumiko Takahashi reveals her insane working schedule, and a follow-up Takahashi's schedule is Even Crazier than we thought!

I think the "tel" in the pie chart is for "telephone"? the rest says like "storyboard briefing session" so I guess this refers to what the article mentions here: "she has another brief meeting with her editor about the storyboard progress so far"