Done specially for "Iku Day" (Jan. 9, since 1-9 can be pronounced "i-ku").

Empty?

Why Iku day is not March 19?

And Iku's so cute on the next to last panel...

JakeBob said:
Empty?

What do you mean?

onyhow said:
Why Iku day is not March 19?

Perhaps because having the month come after the day is too much of a stretch to make it work.

And Iku's so cute on the next to last panel...

Indeed.

Moonspeaker said:
What do you mean?

It seems something funny happened with the first narration box; I filled it in, but I can't find a good English source for the info in the Japanese Wikipedia page to put in a translation note and the entire myth strikes me as a little long to explain in the box itself.

Oh, thanks—thought I'd pasted that in from the script I'd done up. Thankfully, I still had it to hand.

Edit: Tried summing up the core point of the J-Wiki article in a translation note.

Catfish?

fuzzbuster said:
Catfish?

holy crap my sides