Thread: Crunchyroll Nichijou
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Old 2011-03-18, 17:11   Link #103
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Originally Posted by OkamiNoKaze View Post
also what was that she was doing before the train showed up?
When a train is approaching or leaving a station in Japan there's almost always a platform superintendent present. He (usually male, very rarely female) does this little routine of looking along the tracks left and right and then looking up at the electric cable overhead to make sure people aren't standing too close to the platform edge and there's nothing in the way that might cause an accident. The pointing gestures are a sort-of mnemonic process to make sure he does it right and also to make it clear to people around that he is doing it right. Since the girls were alone on the platform with no superintendent Megane-ko carried out the "salute" instead.

My impression from glancing through the manga and this first episode is that the gags in Nichijou are going to be very Japan-centric as many 4-koma mangas tend to be, relying on knowledge of Japanese customs and the way of life there for the jokes to bite.
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