You Still Don't Know Gunma" Episode 2: Stand up, pay attention, and bow!

The short anime "You Still Don't Know Gunma" started this April.
Based on a comic serialized on the web comic distribution site "Kurage Bunch," it is a comedy in which " Gunma" (Gunma Prefecture/people in Gunma Prefecture), which is often disparaged on the Internet, is deformed with exaggerated action scenes with a lot of tension.

This work is so local that only the local commercial TV station, Gunma Television (Gunma Television), broadcasts it, which is a crying shame. However, it is also available on Animax and Gyao! The author, a native of Gunma, delves into the details of such a super-local work with love.

Episode 2, "Arise, Attention, Rei," is, as the title suggests, the order of greetings that everyone in elementary and junior high schools in Gumma Prefecture normally gives at morning assemblies and at the start of classes (I do not remember if such an order was also given in high schools). ) Generally, this order consists of two steps, "stand up and bow," but in Gumma Prefecture, for some reason, the "attention" step is inserted in between the two steps, making it a three-step order: "stand up, pay attention, and bow. I, too, thought this was normal until recently, and was unaware of the fact that "attention" was not generally required until a TV program pointed it out to me.

However, the main character, Kamizuki, who has transferred to his high school from Ciba Prefecture, is unaware of this and moves to "Rei" one step earlier than the others in the morning assembly at his first school day. There, he is treated as an "outsider" by his classmates. Incidentally, there is a scene in which he turns to Kozuki and asks, "Are you an agent of Tochigi?" But, let us point out that the actual Gummers do not regard Tochigi Prefecture as a rival.

As for the question of what the students are "paying attention" to, it would be correct to say that they are generally "paying attention to the teacher standing in the podium". Therefore, it is correct to understand that the students' actions are as follows.

1 "Stand up": Stand up from your seat (at this time, look ahead)
2 "Attention" ... Stand and turn your body toward the teacher.
3 "Rei" --- bowing

Incidentally, the "string noodles" that were then used to bind Kozuki for the last time are, of course, not restraints, but ordinary food (udon noodles). However, it is not eaten in all prefectural districts, and was mentioned in the corner "Directly from the place of production! As mentioned in the corner "Gumma Love," it is a specialty of the Kiryu area in the eastern part of the prefecture (called the Touge area). The eastern part of the region (called the Touge area) has become a specialty of the Kiryu area. The author, who is from Takasaki in the Nishiage (western) district, has rarely eaten it. It is hard to eat, isn't it? Even people from the same prefecture think so....

(Kamata, Editorial Department)