In spite of being clearly aware of the issues, Maru-maru decides to give the third of his drunken mentor’s suggestions a try. Mostly because it was the only technically legal one of the three, and it did work for Vince McMahon. Plus, Maru-maru doesn’t have any better ideas right now.

So he scrapes together the best offer he can muster. And by ‘scraping’, I mean ‘scraping the bottom of the barrel’. Oda’s suggestion foresaw an offer involving a beautiful young bride and a whole bag full of money. Maru-maru can’t quite get there. Not having any living relatives, female or otherwise, the best he can do are a few ancient erotic woodprints of his mother – backed up with all of the money he has. Hard to tell which half of this deal is the more pathetic one. The deal gets a bit better for a gay version of Snuka, since Oda Nobunari, Oda Nobunaga’s ice-skating descendant, is at least a living human being, and quite handsome at that. And he might be susceptible to influence by his drunken ancestor’s spirit, although that’s a pretty limited base for a relationship…

And, yeah…Snuka is making exactly the same unintelligent expression he made in Oda’s vision. But is it really for the same reasons?

More on Thursday.