Shou's Birthday Surprise! (part 1)

"Shou's Birthday Surprise!" A Future Reunion side story.
Part 1

So…where to begin?

I wasn’t really expecting myself to work quite this quickly, to the point where I busted out three pages of art in, what? 24 hours?   Suffice to say, my hand and back are protesting a bit right now, but I just really wanted to get started on the side story before the New Years holiday ends, so that’s what I did darn Muse is such a slave driver…

There’s a few little nuggets in these pages that people may pick up on. The “rice cooker” Asako is interested in, with its many functions, calls to mind a certain popular kitchen appliance cough*InstantPot*cough. I also renamed the “Fruit Parlor Crown” as “Fruits Juice Bar Crown”, cus, you know, after a thousand years you have to change up your business model a little to be with the times just don’t ask me about Motoki and Unazuki; my brain did not delve that deep into it.

One final note, I don’t actually know if supermarkets in Japan does lotteries or sweepstakes. When I was in Japan I didn’t see any, but I vaguely remember seeing one of those roll a numbered ball out of a box thing in the old 90′s anime, and I think it was Ikuko-mama or Usagi trying their hand at a lottery at a market or shop of some sort. The memory is really vague, but I ended up acting on it and built the plot around it. I know Japan has some pretty strict gambling laws (hence, pachinko parlors) so I don’t even know if my little “lottery prize” here can happen in real-life. But since we’re dealing with a magical girl story, I think a little suspension of disbelief with regards to that is doable.

P.S. Forgot to mention, but if you closely on Yuuko’s phone the name of the supermarket where the twins bought their lottery ticket from is “Meidou”, and is a play on the name of the upscale supermarket Meidi-Ya. I just couldn’t resist. XD;;;

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