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...and since Excel considered this dog as emergency food..

Sure. Wait, what ?

Claverhouse said:

...and since Excel considered this dog as emergency food..

Sure. Wait, what ?

I take it you haven't seen Excel Saga? The main character, Excel, is perennially starving as an aspect of her ridiculous bad luck, so she adopts this dog as an emergency food source, naming her Menchi. (Excel never actually eats the dog, of course, but not for lack of desire.)

Au, AU -- au-au-au ♪

MAGNUS-8M said:

Au, AU -- au-au-au ♪

Relevant.

djseifer said:

Relevant.

Man, every time I binge on Excel Saga, that song and the opening stays in my head for about a week.

Kadoya said:

Man, every time I binge on Excel Saga, that song and the opening stays in my head for about a week.

Uff, I think it's been over 10 or 15 years, and that song came to mind the instant I saw Minchi there. .__.