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>So good!

>Sign: Umihotaru
Umihotaru is a rest stop area in Kisarazu, Chiba prefecture.

>Going strawberry picking was fun, wasn't it?
The term used for all the gathering activities throughout this chapter is "kari" (狩り), which more generally means "hunting".

>Strawberry picking.

>Pear gathering.

>Clam digging.

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>You can gather all kinds of things in Chiba,
>so why can't you do anything like that in Shibuya?

>Seems like Shibuya had stuff like that a long time ago, too.

>Like "Air Max hunting".

>Air
>Max?

>What's that!?
>A variety of grape?
>Sign: Air Max

>Or maybe some rare fruit species,
>originating from the South America!
>No...

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>It means finding someone walking around
>wearing trendy sneakers...

>And stealing them.

>That's a crime!
>Yes it is.

>Also,
>there's "geezer hunting".

>Geezer hunting...
>You mean...

>Giving haircuts to cool old men?
Ikko probably confuses "hunting" for "cutting, trimming", as they're both pronounced "kari".

>Like George Clooney!
>No, look... You got the kanji wrong.

>"Geezer hunting"
>means finding a weak-looking old guy,

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>And stealing his money and valuables.

>That's a crime!
>Yes it is.

>Recently, I've heard about some trends in Shibuya
>like "Meru hunting".

>Meru
>hunting?

>"Meru" sounds like it'll definitely be a fruit this time.
>No, it actually means...

>Finding goods that you think you'd might be able to scalp,
>and buying as many of them as you can get your hands on.
I'm assuming that the Japanese phrase "meru-kari" is a pun on the online marketplace Mercari, which presumably is a good venue for scalping.

>Shibuya's image
>just keeps going downhill!

>It's not all bad stuff, though.
>In fact, they've recently been doing some hunting in order to clean that image up...

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>"Word hunting".
>They went and banned expressions that could be seen as promoting competition or get-rich-quick mindsets.
"Word hunting" generally refers to policing the use of words that are seen as politically incorrect. Kumeta seems to be humorously conflating this with Tokyo's decision to tighten the regulation of ad trucks, which often advertise host clubs (the trucks seem here look like they're advertising "number-one hosts", hence the "competition" angle, I guess) or adult entertainment jobs offering easy money.

>Things are steadily getting cleaned up.
>But that just means that it started out as something really bad!

>Then there's something that's common around April,
>"loner hunting".

>Loner
>hunting?

>It means reaching out to new employees or university students who haven't been able to make friends after starting their new lives.
>Well, that sounds nice.

>By taking advantage of their loneliness,
>they can easily be encouraged to join cults or pyramid schemes.
>Again with that kind of stuff...!

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>You know,
>maybe we could try hunting them before they get hunted.

>Why? Sounds dangerous.
>We can stop those lonely rookies from getting loner hunted
>by becoming their friends first.

>All you new company recruits out there...
>Sign: You are not alone
>That does feel pretty cult-y.

>That guy looks like he doesn't have any friends.
>We need to help him!

>(*Grab*)

>Wait.
>Wh... What is it?
>A... A child abduction!

>Come with us!
>(*Grab*)
>Oh, I guess he had friends, after all.

>Let's help someone else who looks like they might get hunted!
>That person
>looks like a prime target for "geezer hunting".

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>It's true.
>He looks like he could be hunted for all he's worth...

>He looked like he would get targeted for geezer hunting, so you decided to escort him?
>Yeah.

>Although, while we were out,
>I ended up losing about much money as I would have in an actual geezer hunt.

>In the end,
>children might be the best protection the elderly have.

>I'm going to study nature
>to find ways of preventing dad from being hunted in the future.
>Book: Plant encyclopedia

>Shibuya Duty Diary - In olden times, it seems like they had a hunt called "ari wori haberi imasokari".
This is an old Japanese mnemonic for irregular verbs. As mentioned, "kari" also means "hunting", hence the pun.

>Sidebar: So the love of the kids wanting to protect their dad ended up remodeling the dad, too...

Thanks for reading! Pretty classic Kumeta wordplay stuff this week.

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>>287521258
Oh, sorry, I misread the second-to-last panel. It should say
>In the end,
>the people most likely to hunt geezers may be their own kids.

>>287522836
I see this whimsical art and I must bump.

>>287521101
Poor oyaji...

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>>287524388
Makes you want to shut out the entire world, doesn't it

>>287521258
Thank you for translating. Been a hot minute since I could catch this thread. Still waiting for that MV to be made into a comic…
Perhaps the injury gave him enough time to think of new puns and wordplay.

>>287521258
Thank you for posting and translating.

>>287520967
bumping
Thanks for the dump.