• Editor's Note: 1 - Hiroshi Kawahara, President of the Nandenkanden franchise.

A little blog/review of the ramen: https://en.japantravel.com/kanagawa/nanden-kanden-ramen-in-ebina/2302

• EN: 2 - Kurata is a Japanese card game.

Here's a little video on how to actually play the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx2UqSxAPfk

• EN: 3 - All Nippon Airways is also known as ANA - https://www.ana.co.jp/en/ca/

Japan Airways is also known as JAL - https://www.jal.co.jp/ar/en/

The Japanese government was considering merging All Nippon Airways and Japan Airways in order to sustain the operations amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://internationalfinance.com/japan-mulls-merging-ana-and-japan-airlines/

• EN: 4 - Shinsuke was also in the TV Series "Quiz! Hexagon II: Quiz Parade" [Shinsuke Shimada also goes by "Cassius Shimada"]

• EN: 5 - Current Affairs News Show - https://dbpedia.org/page/Close-up_Gendai_Plus

• EN: 6 - Onita Atsushi is an actor/politician/semi-retired wrestler who took part in Deathmatch Wrestling events.

https://puroresusystem.fandom.com/wiki/Atsushi_Onita

• EN: 7 - Sisters that are Japanese actresses and models.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Hirose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzu_Hirose

• EN: 8 - American Wrestler/MMA Fighter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Frye

• EN: 9 - Daihatsu Mira Parco is a vehicle. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daihatsu_Mira

• EN: 10 - One of Japan's largest Department Stores.

https://www.hankyu-dept.co.jp/fl/english/honten/index.html

• EN: 11 - Jp Singer/Actor

Discography - https://www.discogs.com/artist/3173600-Hiroshi-Madoka

• EN: 12 - One of Cookie's favourite "props". It's a sex toy, so be warned if you want to look into it.

https://www.tenga.co/ (While the item is pretty NSFW, the website is pretty clean)

https://www.tenga.co/contents/athletes/ (Athlete Sponsorships)

• EN: 13 - "Pachi" is used here as onomatopoeia for the "popping" sound of the poprocks candy. The name he gives ("Pachio") is basically "Pachi-o"

• EN: 14 - So they finally told us who that man is. His name is Fuyuki Moto and he's an actor/singer/voice-actor. I'm still not sure as to what his connection to Cookie is, or why Cookie made a game about him.

https://asianwiki.com/Fuyuki_Moto

• EN: 15 - Takahashi Meijin (Meijin meaning "Master") - Real name: Toshiyuki Takahashi. He is famous for his "trigger finger" and was the star of the game "Adventure Island" on the NES. He created the "turbo" button on controllers.

Article about him - https://www.giantbomb.com/takahashi-meijin/3040-89831/

Video of him pressing a button 16 times in 1 second - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ4lmAFB7d4

Adventure Island - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adventure_Island_(video_game)

• EN: 16 - All of these women are Japanese Talents (Actresses/Comedians/etc)

• EN: 17 - English - High Heel. Japanese - ハイヒール (Haihiru). So when Chihara Jr is writing it out, he writes "Hai-Hi-Ru"

• EN: 18 - They're most likely talking about Confidentiality Agreements, or NDA's (Non Disclosure Agreement)

• EN: 19 - Hiroshi Kamayatsu. Singer in a Rock-band.

• EN: 20 - Film Classification and Rating Organization in Japan. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eirin

R15+ is "Restricted to 15yo and above". R18+ is "Restricted to 18yo and above).

R60+ doesn't exist; Matsumoto is essentially saying that the original S8 should only be watched by people aged 60 and above.