[Amatarou] Melody Ch.04

04 - Love Suggestion

This story has a lot of references to the paranormal. Some of these are rather well-known, but I'll list everything anyway just to be thorough:

First off, most people probably know that UFOs are Unidentified Flying Object, but UMA stands for Unidentified Mysterious Animal (e.g., the Loch Ness Monster).

All the characters BBS handle names are based on UFOs/UMAs: Foo fighter, Bigfoot, Chupacabra, and Greys, with the exception of Addams, who's most likely named after the family and its creator.

The song on his phone is "LOVE PHANTOM" by B'z (the actual sentence can be heard [in Japanese] here), which was used as the ending theme for The X-Files in Japan. Between PreCure and now X-Files, I think we can conclude that Amatarou has excellent taste when it comes to TV shows.

The gist of "Misattribution of arousal" is that people can mistake one form of excitement (e.g., from fear, like in this story) with sexual arousal. Apparently watching scary movies with someone you're interested in works on several levels.

DF | RG | EX | FU

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