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Shinichi jumps into a burning building in Episode 12 to save a copy of this
"rare" issue. He also mentions it in the classroom before it burns down. Given
this is a show with parody and otaku historical moments, what event is this
referring to?


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What's so important about "Comptiq, october issue"?


This year's October issue of [Comptiq
magazine](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comptiq) was in extremely high demand
because it came with a bonus artbook for [Kantai
Collection](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantai_Collection), a web game
featuring naval vessels as cute girls,1 which is the latest mega-craze among
otaku in Japan.2 Apparently, tons of people were hoarding this issue in order
to get multiple copies of the artbook.3 The character on the right side of the
cover is a parody of Kongou, a popular character from Kantai Collection.

Quite a timely joke, really.

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Addendum: here are the covers of the parody of Comptiq ("Comptiqle"?) shown in
the show and the actual Oct 2013 issue of Comptiq. (Click to view full-size.)

[![Oct 2013 Comptiqle
cover](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BJkfym.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/BJkfy.png)
[![Oct 2013 Comptiq
cover](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nIugOm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nIugO.jpg)

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# Notes

1 Not to be confused with the _other_ thing featuring naval vessels as cute
girls, [Arpeggio of Blue
Steel](http://myanimelist.net/anime/18893/Aoki_Hagane_no_Arpeggio:_Ars_Nova).

2 [It's getting an anime
soon](http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2013-09-26/kantai-collection-moe-
card-battle-game-gets-anime-new-manga).

3 See, for example, this piece: [Havoc Ensues Over Battleship
Bishoujos](http://seventhstyle.com/2013/09/11/havoc-ensues-over-battleship-
bishoujos/) (warning: SeventhStyle; NSFW). Because SeventhStyle is awful (but
unfortunately the only English-language commentator on this I can find), here
is some episodic commentary that mentions the joke (in Japanese): [some
blog](http://anicobin.ldblog.jp/archives/35774503.html); [some other
blog](http://animesokuhou777.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-849.html).


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