Well, to be fair, it’d be more surprising if PPD didn’t have a Mikan box, given the show is essentially Unlimited Meme Works (hell, it even created a few of it’s own in the process). As it goes, it actually gives the Mikan box actually significant in the show, if admittedly in something of a McGuffin fashion.

I am disappointed that ADVs Vidnotes didn’t seem to pick up on it, at least in these episodes.

I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before, and probably done a comic on it (twice, actually), but the random appearances “Mikan” boxes (that is, the shipping packages for tangerines) in anime shows is one of my favorite anime memes. In my infinite nerdishness (or, rather, the quest for easy content), I have decided that I feel the need to post every time I actually notice one in an anime show. That said, I have to say that I’m starting to think that they are far less prevalent than I’d somehow gotten it into my head that they were, or at least better hidden.

Shakugan no Shana-tan, however, makes absolutely no attempt to hide them – they stick them front and centre, nice and obvious.
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