This strip was a conversation between me and WrongMark before one of our ninjutsu gradings.

Our sensei had a habit of occasionally conducting the gradings in Japanese.  Mark & me seemed to manage consistently to learn the Japanese phrases before gradings when he spoke in English, and not to do the Japanese before gradings when that was the language chosen, with the result that we failed more gradings than we probably should have.

Here is one of the few times where we learned the Japanese before the grading: