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This is the end card for episode 11 of _Owarimonogatari_. (Click for larger
image.)

[![Episode 11 end
card](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gp3rvm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gp3rv.jpg)

Who is the guy left of Shinobu, in some sort of uniform?

I tried searching, but the most information I got was from
[Crunchyroll](http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/01/02-1/monogatari-
anime-site-offers-a-look-back-at-owarimonogatari-end-cards), which seems to
have only listed the _artists_ and _other_ works they are famous for. (In the
case of ep. 2, the title associated with the author is obviously related to
the content of the end card, but this isn't true of most of the others. I did
try looking up _Human Crossing_ , but wasn't able to find a character who
looked blatantly similar to the guy I'm curious about. This might be, however,
because I don't know anything about the series.)


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Who is the uniformed guy in this Owarimonogatari end card?


This is [a reference](https://i.stack.imgur.com/8tlM3.jpg) to a college-aged
Kosaku Shima, the titular character of Kenshi Hirokane's [_Student Kosaku
Shima_](http://evening.moae.jp/lineup/340) series.

College students in the [Showa
era](http://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/waseda-university-department-of-
engineering-mobilized-news-footage/505527691) wore uniforms like this. This
uniform and emblem is specific to Waseda University, Kosaku Shima's alma
mater.

[![早稲田大学の入学式に現れた島耕作](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pDFLs.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pDFLs.jpg)
[![早稲田大学の入学式に現れた島耕作](https://i.stack.imgur.com/soMJl.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/soMJl.jpg)

The public Twitter for the series even made a tweet about the end card:
<https://twitter.com/shimakosaku1966/status/675702573433663488>


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