Compressed effort to get all the rest of the Mascots into this update all at once (though poor Blah still couldn’t make it in)

Also, irony: I bothered to include the caption explaining my cosplay here, so that I wouldn’t have to do it in some later pages… all of which got dropped to save time. Welp.

By the way: I actually saw a LOT of Naruto headbands, without any costumes to justify them. Is that seriously a thing again? REALLY?

(Historical Notes: The theory in the comments was that Naruto might have already become nostalgic enough for the headbands to become “cool” again in a sort of retro sense.  I have no idea if that’s even true, nor how the existence of Boruto affected that.)