Baseball Bromides (Japanese baseball cards)
December 8, 2009 9:09 AM Subscribe
Besuboru Bromides (Japanese Baseball Cards) from the collection of John Gall, as featured at A Journey Round My Skull. Here is an earlier essay by Gall about Japanese baseball cards.
Bromide? So that's why the guy in Chrono Trigger wanted me to get the naga bromide. It was a trading card!
Thanks for incidentally solving a childhood mystery.
posted by demiurge at 10:58 AM on December 8, 2009
Thanks for incidentally solving a childhood mystery.
posted by demiurge at 10:58 AM on December 8, 2009
From my understanding, in Japanese culture a "bromide" is basically any sort of celebrity photograph. It's now seen as an old-fashioned term, sort of like when my grandfather calls a milkshake a "phosphate." On the other hand, the word has also found usage in video games and otaku culture, where it usually carries the implication of pin-up/cheesecake photography.
So I'm pretty sure the guards in Chrono Trigger just wanted you to retrieve their creepy serpent-woman porn.
posted by Strange Interlude at 6:18 PM on December 8, 2009
So I'm pretty sure the guards in Chrono Trigger just wanted you to retrieve their creepy serpent-woman porn.
posted by Strange Interlude at 6:18 PM on December 8, 2009
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