Happy Hour #83: Erozuke, Lost in the Goon Cave

⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode will almost certainly offend you. If you possess even a shred of conventional morality or a functioning conscience, for the sake of your own health and sanity, you may want to skip it.

This week, Jeff and Trevor plunge headfirst into the neon abyss of the Goon Cave, armed with nothing but questionable translations, half-finished cocktails, and a deep suspicion of gacha machines. We explore a ヤンキーソング about a man’s doomed life choices, speculate on whether bamboo spears are the ultimate anti-geriatric-robbery tool, and marvel at the inexplicable fact that the world’s oldest manga has been reincarnated as… a bra. Yes, a bra.

Somewhere between sake capsules that dispense like Pokémon and the unstoppable meme-force known as 自己防衛おじさん, we also attempt the cultural crime of translating Gen Z slang about gooning and edging into Japanese. It’s high art, low content, and entirely unsafe for public consumption. In other words: just another day in the Happy Hour multiverse.

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