Re: Cromartie 8

"D B Malmquist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Anthony D Baranyi wrote:
> >
> > Ah, Cromartie High episode 8.
> >
> > Okay, anyone want to venture a guess as to what the hell that blue thing
is
> > that's floating in the air during the doctor's examination?
>
> It's also in episode 1, at the end of the students' cigarettes.
>
> I found an explanation here:
>
>   Many guys in Cromartie have sticks with something(gel??) in the
>   mouths. Why?
>
>  They have them INSTEAD OF CIGARETTES, because TV TOKYO strictly
>  forbid them smoking, or any behavior that TV TOKYO doesn't consider
>  to be allowable to show. Look at the comic book 1, and you'll find
>  a guy smoking or having a knife(not "ichigo-aji"=strawberry-flavor
>  thing).
>
>  http://www.jascii.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=39
>
> It makes sense, given how there was smoke circling around the room
> in episode 1, but the students "only" had white sticks with blue blubs
> in their mouths.  I guess the blue blob is like pixelization in
> hentai?
>
> - dbm

I find that hard to believe - TV Tokyo may at times seems like a Japanese
version of CBS, but never-the-less there have been plenty of TV Tokyo series
with characters who smoke cigarettes - Saiyuuki comes to mind immediately.
Maybe Ishikawa Kazuo can drop into this thread and give us his ideas?

Dave Baranyi