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The story
The face of the “kanpyō roll enemy” character who appeared in a new Chiikawa episode has been pointed out on 5channel as resembling the president of the conveyor-belt sushi chain Kura Sushi. There was previously a Chiikawa x Kura Sushi collaboration that got cancelled after trouble over how a store handled things, and speculation is spreading that this episode might be a dig at that incident. Thread opinion is split between it being mere coincidence and it being the creator’s intentional jab, and creator Nagano has made no specific comment on the matter.
What people said
Everyone figured it was just Nagano goofing around
But sharp-eyed fans pointed out that the kanpyō roll enemy's face is a dead ringer for Kura Sushi's president
That's the answer right there
And here he was looking all excited too…
lol they straight up broke up on bad terms
Yeah now that you mention it, Kappa Sushi doesn't have it
Seriously? Tokyu Store always has kanpyō rolls on the menu — is that not common elsewhere?
Nah, plenty of places have it
Poor thing, having Itochu (major trading conglomerate) backing it…
Chiikawa doesn't have that kind of backing
That's a failure of oversight right there
Stuff like that is all handled by Fuji TV
What's so bad about having Itochu backing you? It's a trading company, it's not going under
O-oh really~! So Sensei Nagano had already expressed their anger over this through the manga~!
Well, the cast for the live-action movie adaptation is settled now
Nice try, hater
Sensei Nagano is legit competent — ordered the collab cancelled and got every collab product pulled overnight
It's still more worth theorizing about than One Piece, honestly
Racehorse owners
Nagano
What's the fourth one?
Wait, did something happen with racehorse owners?
But that doesn't explain why a kanpyō-roll monster suddenly showed up out of nowhere
Background and Key Points of This Debate
The backdrop to this thread is a Chiikawa x Kura Sushi collaboration reportedly in the works, which ended up cancelled after trouble over how a store handled things (see replies 35, 53). Thread opinion split between seeing this episode as a pointed jab referencing that incident and dismissing it as pure coincidence. That said, the claim that the “kanpyō roll enemy” character’s face resembles a real person is ultimately just fans’ subjective impression, and neither creator Nagano nor the production side has issued any official statement or explanation of intent (see reply 11). It’s also worth noting that fictional character designs happening to resemble real people is not unusual in itself, and there is currently no basis for concluding this was a deliberate dig.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5channel (Nanademo Jikkyō G) thread “[Breaking] Chiikawa creator Nagano revealed to have been furious at Kura Sushi — inside the manga wwwwwwwwww.”
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