====== Secrets of the Manga ====== In right-to-left reading order, references in the Otaking Edition manga include: ===== Page 1 =====
== Panel outside == [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comiket|Comiket]] 24 was held August 7, 1983 at the Tōkyō International Trade Fairgrounds convention center in Harumi, Tōkyō. The buildings were demolished in 1996 and replaced with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Big_Sight|Tōkyō Big Sight]]. == Panel 3 == Comiket 24 guidebook:\\ ** Left Page **\\ | (??) | (?) | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin_III|Lupin III]] | (?) | ** Right Page ** | | | | | (??) | (?) | | (??) | (?) | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgo_13|Golgo 13]] | (?) | (?) | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupin_III|Lupin III]] | | | (?) | (?)| [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lum_Invader|Lum Invader]] | (?) | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pirate_Captain_Harlock#Crew_of_the_Arcadia|Miime]] | | (?) | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch_%28manga%29#Characters|Asakura Minami]] | (?) | (?) | | (?) | | (?) | [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Super_Dimension_Fortress_Macross|Lynn Minmei]] | (?) | (?) | (??) | | ===== Page 2 =====
== Panel 2 == [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gunsmith_Cats_characters#Minnie_May|"Minnie" May Hopkins]]\\ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Char_Aznable|Char Aznable]]\\ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keitaro_Urashima|Urashima Keitarō]]\\ == Panel 4 == [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asuka_Langley_Soryu|Sōryū Asuka Langley]]\\ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rei_Ayanami|Ayanami Rei]]\\ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Negima!_Magister_Negi_Magi_characters#Chachamaru_Karakuri|Karakuri Chachamaru]]\\ == Panel 5 == The reporter is depicted as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaijin|"foreigner"]] stereotype, with light-colored hair, blue eyes, square jaw and a big nose. == Panel 6 == [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Neon_Genesis_Evangelion_characters#Mari_Illustrious_Makinami|Makinami Mari Illustrious]] ===== Page 3 =====
== Panel outside == [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wish_Upon_the_Pleiades#Characters|Subaru]] (character)\\ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Higurashi_no_Naku_Koro_ni_characters#Secondary|Tomitake Jirō]]\\ == Panel 2 == [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danbo_%28character%29|Danbō]]\\ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bubblegum_Crisis_characters#Priss_Asagiri|Priscilla "Priss" S. Asagiri]]\\ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nadia:_The_Secret_of_Blue_Water_characters#Electra|Medina La Lugensius Electra]]\\ ===== Page 4 =====
== Panel 4 == Comiket 88 was held during August 14-16, 2015 at the Tōkyō Big Sight. To commemorate the 88th Comic Market, Area 88 author Shintani Kaoru offered to draw the cover illustration for the event guidebook.\\ Area 88 is a military manga by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaoru_Shintani|Shintani Kaoru]]. The manga tells the story of Kazama Shin, an airliner pilot who is tricked signing up as a mercenary for a secret air base located in the Middle East. The rules at the Area 88 base are ruthless: "Kill or be Killed".