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What is Kotetsu trying to parody in this scene from chapter 495?  
Apparently its really old.

![fundamentals](https://i.stack.imgur.com/L2YVK.png)


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What is Kotetsu trying to parody with the fundamentals of photography?


This is a reference to the manga [Kyuukyoku Chojin
R](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=44207) (究極超人あ〜る), a gag manga
running from 1985-1987 published in Shuukan Shounen Sunday (the same magazine
_Hayate_ runs in) about a robot student named R who joins a photography club.

More specifically, it's a reference to the somewhat well-known scene in the
first chapter of volume 8, titled 「これは基本だ」 ("These are the fundamentals"), in
which a couple club members get into an argument about what the most important
principles are to follow during photography. Here's the relevant 2-page spread
(click for full-size):

[![reference
image](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WHsOfm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/WHsOf.jpg)

You can see that the third panel on the left page is obviously a similar
posture to the one in the image from _Hayate_. The text there and in the next
panel translates to:

> These are the fundamentals of photography!
>
> "Triumph through backlighting!"
>
> "Divide the world in thirds!"
>
> "Never use direct sunlight!"
>
> "Overhead empty margins are the enemy!"

This is basically exactly what Kotetsu says as well. I don't have access to an
untranslated version of _Hayate no Gotoku_ chapter 495, but it's clearly the
same principles being said, and quite possibly the exact same dialogue in
Japanese.

Incidentally, this scene itself has a reference to [Kodak Tri-X
film](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodak_Tri-X). The right page contains the
phrase 「トライＸで万全」 ("Perfection through Tri-X"), which is used a bit satirically
to refer to people who believe that film quality alone will lead to great
pictures. This part of the scene is probably a bit more well-known, an has
been referenced as well, most notably in Genshiken Nidaime:

[![Genshiken
reference](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZjVE9m.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZjVE9.jpg)


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