The event begins with the traditional singing of the national anthem, and as with many other aspects of the setting, I’ve simply combined the Japanese and Canadian analogues into a horrible mes… uh, I mean, clever pastiche.
The combined flag doesn’t even look all that bad, if you ask me (I might be partial, though). The combined lyrics…well, the less said, the better. I neutralized the one mention of a cardinal direction in order not to prejudice the geographic location of Japanada, in case I’ll ever need it to be in some specific location in the future. Not that continuity errors are a big concern for me…
I do like the bit from the Japanese anthem about pebbles growing into boulders with age. I mean, that’s so not how that actually works in real life, but it’s so poetic.
To perform the anthem, I’ve brought Justin Bieber back, we haven’t seen him in a while. And, yeah, I know he no longer looks like that, but the way he looked back then is basically the platonic ideal of a Justin Bieber look, so I’m not changing it. What he actually looks like is just a historical coincidence, it has nothing to do with the true nature of looking like Justin Bieber.
Yogi seems to have a slight case of memories of past futures, as if a faint shadow of a parallel timeline that never was has been encroaching on reality. He’s a details guy, he notices subtle effects.
More on Thursday.