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We take a look at a lively chat thread from 5ch’s “Live News G” board. Topics ranged widely — from the design of rubber keychains featured in a Gundam Ichiban Kuji lottery, to reactions over the ending of A Certain Scientific Railgun, to preferences in Japanese rap artists like NORIKIYO, to photos of soy milk ramen. The ending was discussed only secondhand (“apparently”), and opinions were divided over which anime songs truly deserve to be called “legendary tracks.”
What people said
That's not even human
I'm into NORIKIYO and guys like that 👊😅👊
That's a sellout move
Sorry Mr. Normie-Punch, this is a loners-only zone — can't talk rap here… 😥
Nah, I'm sold out 🤟😎 ha-ha (wordplay on "sellout" vs "sold out")
There's "only my railgun"
That one totally counts
La-la-la-la-la~n, la-la~n, la-la~n, leave me beh-i-i-ind~~ 👊😅👊 (singing the Railgun theme song)
Every single Mami Kawada song is a legendary track, dammit! 👊😅👊
Love Live won (obviously a troll answer)
It wrapped up nicely, honestly
It felt like the culmination of Kamachi and Fuyukawa's collaborative spin-off work
"She's basically someone's aunt," as always
This is literally my mom 😍
Butter doesn't belong in tonkotsu ramen
Soy milk ramen's really trending these days
All four of them look so alike it makes you suspect AI
The E-Prize rubber keychain is getting attention
Scirocco's the best
Looking at this, you can really see the subtle difference between Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's character designs for the original series and his Zeta designs
Though in ZZ it's a totally different look since that's Kitazume's design
Background and Talking Points
Ichiban Kuji is a lottery-style merchandise draw run by the Bandai Namco group, and the Gundam franchise is one of the most consistently popular licensed lines for it. It’s not unusual for a lower-tier prize like an E-Prize rubber keychain to become a social media talking point, and this time it was the differences in character design that caught people’s attention. Meanwhile, the thread’s discussion of A Certain Scientific Railgun’s ending is grounded in fact insofar as the source material really is a collaboration between Kazuma Kamachi’s light novels and Motoi Fuyukawa’s manga — but the comment that kicked it off was itself secondhand (“apparently it ended”), and the replies that followed were obvious joke piggybacking, not confirmed information about what actually happens. It’s best read as casual banter on a live-discussion thread, not an official announcement. Likewise, the debate over which “Certain” series song counts as a “legendary track,” and the chat about NORIKIYO and Japanese rap, were simply a moment where generational and personal taste differences came out — good-natured ribbing rather than any real attack on the works or their creators.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Live News G) thread “A Fight for Life or Death at Home 🏡👊😅👊.”
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