The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya [Spoilers Aplenty]

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

... I'm gone for a weekend and there wasn't even one page of backlog? What happened...

[dkellis]

It's the completely wrong genre for Day of Sagittarius, but I've been conditioned to associate the Noblewoman's Laugh with Naga the White Serpent.

You have to admit that Naga's outfit is very risque. And also probably not so good for the less well-endowed to wear.

[Cat Megex]

It's the completely wrong genre for Day of Sagittarius, but I've been conditioned to associate the Noblewoman's Laugh with Naga the White Serpent.

You have to admit that Naga's outfit is very risque. And also probably not so good for the less well-endowed to wear.

...Would that make Kyonko Lina?

[dkellis]

...Would that make Kyonko Lina?

"Heko-mune! Heko-mune!"

Amusing as the thought is, Kyonko does not have Lina's blatant disregard for collateral damage, especially with how often Haruki has to be reined in.

It'll probably be therapeutic to plant a Dragon Slave in Haruki's skull, though.

[shaoron]

...Would that make Kyonko Lina?

only if she can shoot the starlight breaker...

oh.. wait.. wrong anime...

[DannyCat]

Itsuki could look good as a female Xellos.

[Cat Megex]

Itsuki could look good as a female Xellos.

Not "could". "Would". The image of Itsuko I have has facial expressions identical to those of Xellos (well, after taking the differences in drawing style into account).

...And why are there L's in words like "could", "would", and "should"? You don't pronounce them with the L, but L's aren't usually silent, so it doesn't make any sense. ...I guess english is

[Kaisos Erranon]

Okay, could someone please tell me what's been going on in my absence? Please tell me you haven't appointed a new writer...

[shaoron]

no, we're bored since NOTHING has happened for several days...

then we started talking what the computer club president would wear during the day of sagitarius bit

[CrowKenobi]

then we started talking what the computer club president would wear during the day of sagitarius bitYou forgot about what kind of maniacal laughter the cc prez would have...

As for the outfit, why not keep it the same? If not, let's try to keep it in the same genre, then. :D

:cool:

[Arceon]

I was thinking along of the lines of a modified low cut, if we were going for sex appeal. Personally though I'd keep it the same as they did in the series

[shaoron]

wait.. doesn't the computer club president have.. like... ZERO sex appeal?

[Arceon]

Point taken. REGULAR OUTFIT IT IS.

Now someone get to writing! Before I have to. Trust me, the latter happening is NOT a good thing.

[vivify93]

Wow, I lose Internet for a while, and zero progress is made.
Well this is lovely. Oh well, "REAL LIFE ATTACKS" and all that.
And now for some pointless rambling:
Hmm... everyone who isn't in a special position who reoccurs a lot in this topic would be a cheerleader, right...? So, would that make them "Seitenkan no Ouendan"? Hmm...
*ponders*

[Discreet]

Okay, could someone please tell me what's been going on in my absence? Please tell me you haven't appointed a new writer...

I saw that you sent in some work through Danchou, but I didn't edit it because I'm lazy. Disregard everyone else's post, the biggest news is that I did nothing and that you've missed nothing.

wait.. doesn't the computer club president have.. like... ZERO sex appeal?

In anime, as long as she's not downright ugly, she'll have sex appeal.

Plus pigtails are cute.

[beanbrew]

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Beanbag is back!

[SetTheTruthFree]

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Beanbag is back!

Yay
-dances around like a moron-:heh:
(the dancing is just fun to do ^^)

[ClockWorkAngel]

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Beanbag is back!

Yay XD Welcome back

[dkellis]

Personally speaking, I'm kind of glad that this thread isn't as hectic as others I frequent.

Or at least not as antagonistic. It's kind of nice, almost Aria-ish, to just relax in the general feel-good contemplation of Kyonko. (Or in my case, Itsuko.)

[HikariNiwa]

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Beanbag is back!

It seems our esteemed Lover of DFC has returned to grace us with his presence. All hail DFC Kyonko!!!!!! (Even if a B-cup is ok for Kyonko:p)

[Cat Megex]

(A little late on this)

WELCOME BACK, KAISOS AND BEANBAG. KYONKO HAS MISSED YOU.

<<note: uncolored due to this being a welcome after a long absence rather than a welcome for newcomers>>

[beanbrew]

Now I need to catch up...

(It'll take a while since I don't have an internet connection; I'm using the FCC's public internet)

[Roger Rambo]

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Beanbag is back!
Bloody hell. Time to Run to the Hills (http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZlDZPYzfm4)

[otai]

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

Beanbag is back!

Now if the dango would come back, we could party like it's March.:D

Now that Tsuruya's introduction is being written, I'm kind of terrified imagining a male Tsuruya going ~nyoron, ~megassa or other female Tsuruya patented cuteness. It's just weird.

[Arceon]

Somehow it'll have to work in a. . .hyper GAR fashion? Well, it'll work out in the end. . .I think.

[Johnsenesque]

Haha, Tsuruya's supposed to be a less crazy (or at least happy) version of Haruhi, right? So, that kinda translates to...uh, hell if I know. Though I'm totally picturing male Tsuruya randomly bursting out laughing at inappropriate moments.

Actually, that'd sound more disturbing if it came from a guy. Probably.

[shaoron]

actually...
Tsuruya is the never depressed, never go complete bonkers on her own, less crazy and have no "god mod powerz" (or so we think) version of haruhi.. plus common sense

[Discreet]

With a tint of mystery, don't you forget.

Like is s/he smarter and more in on things than s/he lets on?

[Roger Rambo]

Considering that her/his family is financially connected with the organization, and she's personally a friend of one of the time travelers, this would seem very likely.

[Cat Megex]

Considering that her/his family is financially connected with the organization, and she's personally a friend of one of the time travelers, this would seem very likely.

Not "organization", "Organization". Get it right. XD

[Roger Rambo]

Not "organization", "Organization". Get it right. XD
...I wasn't aware Organization needed to be capitalized.

[Cat Megex]

...I wasn't aware Organization needed to be capitalized.

Because just saying "the organization" could mean any organization. by capitalizing the initial "O", you indicate that the organization in question is specifically referred to as "the Organization". (If for no other reason than because you don't know the actual name.)

Besides, secret organizations always have capitalized names. XD

[Johnsenesque]

I wonder if it's possible to say that physically with this much emphasis. The Organisation. Cause, you know, that'd be awesome.

[Discreet]

Prologue of vol 3, Edited. Changes in bold, notes underlined and bold.

I’d like to say the club started because of the Melancholy of Haruki Suzumiya, but really it was probably because of my own.

The SOS Brigade was established in early spring and our little film experiment happened during fall. (It was an extremely stressful project for me, but Haruki seemed to have the time of his life.)

That’s six months from our conception to the movie and Haruki could not and did not let time pass by pointlessly. Not surprisingly, that time was filled with strange, illogical and impossible happenings. I still don't know if they were real, or just complicated accidents. For simplicity's sake, let's just say that we were pulled into everything against our will.

No matter what anyone says, seasons come and seasons go. As the average temperature rises, inconceivable, out-of-this-world ideas spring from Haruki's mind, similar to how different kinds of insects appear out of nowhere. It would be all right if he kept those ideas inside his head, where they couldn't hurt anybody, but no, those ideas always result in a huge variety of creepy situations that the rest of us are forced to deal with.

I don't know what Itsuko, Nagato, or Asahina-senpai think about all this, but here is what my self-analysis tells me, at the least. My mind and body are healthy, but every time something happens, I feel as if I'm some sort of tiny little round animal that can't move easily because I ate too much. The same thing always happens, and that is myself rolling on and on down a hill.

Perhaps I have already started rolling...?

Because, you see, Haruki has a very annoying habit: whenever his mind isn't filled with happy thoughts, he starts thinking up ideas that make you want to laugh and cry at the same time. For some reason, he can't possibly endure sitting still and doing nothing. So whenever he has nothing to do, he will go and find something to do. No matter how absurd.

Judging by my experience, as soon as Haruki says something, the rest of us will not be able to enjoy a single second of peace and quiet. Perhaps those good old days of peace and quiet will never come back.

Aggh! What a troublesome idiot! It doesn't matter if the end result is good or bad, as long as his life isn't boring. Well, that's Suzumiya Haruki for you.

Because this is such a rare opportunity, let me share with you how our SOS Brigade fought back boredom during the half a year when our melancholy became frustration. As to why I said this is a 'rare opportunity', I actually don't know. I just think that it wouldn't hurt if I shared my experiences. And, anyway, I really do hope that at least one person will share my indescribable feelings.

Alright... Let's start with that stupid baseball game...

[D-note: This shit is hell to edit. Not because of bad grammar or spelling or whatever, but because of all the rambling, I’m really not sure what’s being said and there’s a ton of redundancy. It doesn’t entirely sound right, but that actually is part of the style… So I’m stuck in between. I edited what I could, but there are some parts where I wished I really knew just what the hell Tanigawa was saying.]

[Jintor]

Yeah, I concede. That looks difficult to edit.

I stared at the opening sentence for a few minutes and gave up.

/EDIT Btw, Organisation has an S in it, you damnable yanks.

[Cat Megex]

Btw, Organisation has an S in it, you damnable yanks.

Note Johnsenesque's post, which does indeed have "Organisation" with an "s".

Also, which do you prefer? "honor" vs. "honour", "color" vs. "colour", "pie" vs. "cake"....wait a minute, something's off.....

[HikariNiwa]

Note Johnsenesque's post, which does indeed have "Organisation" with an "s".

Also, which do you prefer? "honor" vs. "honour", "color" vs. "colour", "pie" vs. "cake"....wait a minute, something's off.....

It's just your imagination.

[beanbrew]

Honour! Colour! The cake is a lie!

[shaoron]

Honour! Colour! The cake is a lie!

no! it's delicious dango cake! You must eat it!

[beanbrew]

But Dango wa inai! what colour does honour become if it ingests delicious dango cake that is a lie?

[Cat Megex]

But Dango wa inai! what colour does honour become if it ingests delicious dango cake that is a lie?

It becomes GlaDOS-colored. (...Dammit, I need to get the Orange Box.)

[Discreet]

Well, if you haven't played Portal by now, you've ruined the game for yourself a long time ago it seems.

That said, "There really was a cake, you know?"

[Jintor]

Did you know we're on the Genderbender (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenderBender) page at TVTropes? I suppose this was inevitable.

[Cat Megex]

Did you know we're on the Genderbender (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenderBender) page at TVTropes? I suppose this was inevitable.

I think that's been on there for a while; it was there the last time I stumbled across that page in my TVTrope travels.

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

wait.. doesn't the computer club president have.. like... ZERO sex appeal?

Girl. Who likes. Computers.

Unless she's intentionally made to be butt-ugly, she's got auto-appeal in the nerd demographic.

[Forceflow]

I added that first amendment to it. lawl.

And totally agree with Kogetsu.

The fact that my girlfriend is one is a totally different issue all together. ;)

[Ithekro]

Computer Club President: cosplay

Subject matter for male version: Desler Soto (Leader Desslok): Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers)

Subject matter for female version: ???

To fit the design style, the first suggestion would be for to place the President in a "evil" female character cosplay from a Matsumoto prodection:
Subjects include: Lady Sabera (Princess Invidia): Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers)
http://yamato.channel.or.jp/info/chara/sabera_s.jpg
She also is known for a version with white hair, and a color swapped version of this outfit as a skin tight outfit. The outfit is white with red where the black would be above.

Also this non-canon depiction helps sell it a little
http://www.starblazers.com/images/makingof/Bubble%2022.jpg

A Non-evil but fitting character choice:
Emeraldas (Harlock series)
http://kikiwai.com/images/wallscrolls/z114.jpg

Lulz would be placing the Computer Club President in Yuki Mori (Nova) or Kei Yuki cosplay.

[Johnsenesque]

Girl. Who likes. Computers.

Unless she's intentionally made to be butt-ugly, she's got auto-appeal in the nerd demographic.

Well, there's always Generic Cuteness (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenericCuteness) to fall back on. Plus, nerd demographic!

And when I was a littley, I always though gaol and jail were two different words. It rocked my world to learn otherwise.

[Egghead89]

Computer Club President: cosplay

Subject matter for male version: Desler Soto (Leader Desslok): Space Battleship Yamato (Star Blazers)

Subject matter for female version: ???


It's good to know that someone finally thought about it...
Thinking of it, female C.C. prez deserves it!!! :D

I have an idea: how about starting by photoshopping an actual image of the anime?

http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb153/Ganjalf89/tehprez-1.jpg

Just a humble suggestion... :)

[shaoron]

I herad from my mom that Today is the actual day of Tanabata...
Lunar calendar and all...

[Kaisos Erranon]

I herad from my mom that Today is the actual day of Tanabata...
Lunar calendar and all...

Yeah, but the Japanese tend to use the Western calendar, since WWII...

Didn't ZSZS do a short on that? The calendar change?

[Sute443]

Well, they celebrated Tanabata last month, and I think that's what counts. Wishes tied to trees all over the place.

Unless you actually believe the myth. Then yeah, the day they get to come together and relieve their various tensions is probably more important than what the changed calendar says.

[Cat Megex]

Yo, Kaisos, looks like the project has been classified as "Inactive" over at Baka-Tsuki.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Yo, Kaisos, looks like the project has been classified as "Inactive" over at Baka-Tsuki.

That would be because that page hasn't been updated in months...

Where are all the "final" edits at? And when was the last time dkellis's archive post was updated?

@Kaisos: When will you be free again?

[Ithekro]

If I remember correctly, the celebration of Tanabata varies on the region. Some regions use July 7 while others use August 7. I'm assuming Kyoto uses July 7.

[dkellis]

And when was the last time dkellis's archive post was updated?

Whan Discreet posted his edit of the Boredom Prologue.

I update, I just don't comment very often.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Whan Discreet posted his edit of the Boredom Prologue.

I update, I just don't comment very often.

You've gotta say stuff more often then. I usually don't keep track of what hasn't been said. :p

[Kaisos Erranon]

That would be because that page hasn't been updated in months...

Where are all the "final" edits at? And when was the last time dkellis's archive post was updated?

@Kaisos: When will you be free again?

I'll have more internet access after the 16th, but I won't be really "free" from now on until I'm 65... of course, that won't preclude me from ignoring my classwork and doing this instead...

[Cat Megex]

...What's Kang been up to these days? I don't think he's posted in here recently, but I think I've seen posts by him in other threads in recent days.

[DJ_RockmanX]

...What's Kang been up to these days? I don't think he's posted in here recently, but I think I've seen posts by him in other threads in recent days.

Only place I've seen Kang in recent weeks is the Geass forum, posting his thoughts in the speculations thread. I wish he'd use his time more productively, since I happen to think that trying to predict what Geass will do is an act in futility. :p

Meanwhile, I'm soon going to need an artist to do a v2 of my cheap ass storyboard of a Seitenkan MAD. Just putting that out there. :D

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

Anything I'd do would probably only end up about ten times worse... so sorry, I can't really help there :heh:

[dkellis]

I'd take a crack at Boredom, but my lack of any knowledge of baseball manga means that I can't really make any injokes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsuru_Adachi).

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

Attack of the Three Meter Kamadouma... or something to that effect...

Translation: Part three of the Shirogane version of Mysterique Sign is now available for viewing. Not that anyone ever seems to care :heh:

After we had left the condominium, Haruki declared that we were dismissed for the day for hunger reasons, then promptly left for home by himself. The case that Kimidori-sempai brought us was being put on hold for the moment; "It'll work itself out, eventually!" Haruki irresponsibly said, and stopped thinking accordingly. The day's matters all went up in the air with that.

Looks like he's already lost interest.

Haruki wasn't the only one who didn't have lunch yet, but I pretended to go home after everyone parted. After waiting restlessly for ten minutes, I returned to the front of the club president's condominium.

The other brigade members, sans Haruki, were already waiting together. The walking dictionary space alien and the argumentative esper had knowing looks, but Asahina-sempai asked, {Note: While it's actually a gender neutral term, "bastard" is generally only used in a negative light for males, with the female counterpart being a term that is otherwise used for dogs, and also something that is generally not allowed outside of the original usage. As a result, I've dropped it. That is all.}

"Um... What's the matter? You said we should reassemble without Suzumiya-san noticing..."

He was looking at me with a confused expression. My anxiety strenghtened when my eyes wandered over to Nagato and Itsuko. The one who was waiting for me the most was Asahina-sempai, at least that's how I'll think about it.

"Those two seem concerned about the room we were just in." I answered.

"Isn't that right?"

The smiling fool and expressionless mannequin nodded at the same time in agreement. {Note: I prefer this way...}

"I believe we'll understand if we go back there. Right, Nagato-san?"

Without saying anything, Nagato started walking, so we simply followed suit. Moving past the stairs without his footsteps even making a sound, Nagato quietly opened the door to the club president's home, silently removed his shoes, and walked to the center of the room.

The studio that was by no means spacious was already full with just four people standing in a line.

"Within this room,"

Nagato began to talk.

"A localized, non-corrosive amalgamation of asynchronous space is independently occurring in restricted condition mode."

{Note: Translation, "Insert technobabble here."}

.............

We waited for a while, but it seems that was the only explanation. Even if you're speaking with phrases that make it seem like you just pulled random words out of a dictionary and lined them up, I, having no dictionary, am helpless.

"What I'm feeling is close to closed space. The source origin of that is Suzumiya-san, but this somehow has a different scent."

Itsuko said what seemed to be a follow-through for Nagato. You make a fine combination. Hanging out would be good for you, you might even teach Nagato some hobbies other than reading.

"I will make considerations regarding that matter afterwards. However, there's something we should be doing right now. Nagato-san, was the president's disappearance caused by this abnormal space?"

"Yes."

Nagato raised one hand, in a gesture that seemed to be gently stroking the space in front of him.

An unpleasant premonition ran up my spine and stimulated my brain. Maybe I should've said, "Objection! Hold it!" But before I could even say anything, Nagato had whispered something in a voice that sounded like a tape running on twenty-speed fast forward, and, in one moment, a change took place as the scene before my eyes flickered.

{Note: Random musing, so sorry for interrupting. Isn't it a bit of an odd reference for a "This takes place in 20XX" story to be referring to something that died out in the mid-90's?}

"Hahi-!?" {Note: ... fuheho?}

Asahina-sempai leapt and grabbed my left arm with both hands, holding on to me tightly. I didn't have time to think much about that, as I was desperately trying to verify where I was.



Let's see, I was in the club president's cramped studio. Definitely not in an eerie place like this. I certainly wasn't in a wide, flat space, with an ochre haze hanging in the air preventing me from seeing the horizon. Who could have taken me to a place like this?

"Intrusion codes analyzed. This place is overlapping normal space. A phase has simply slipped off."

Nagato explained. Well, isn't this person the only one who seems like he could do this sort of thing? Itsuko, the only one who can have a head-on {Note: Apply directly to the forehead! ... sorry :heh:} discussion with Nagato, said,

"It doesn't seem to be Suzumiya-san's closed space."

"It is deceivingly similar. However, a portion of this data space is integrating with junk information originating from Suzumiya Haruki."

"To what extent?"

"A negligible level. He was merely the trigger."

"I see, so that's how it is."

Asahina-sempai and I are getting along fine with being left out of the conversation. No, really, it doesn't bother us at all. I probably should be grateful, though I'd be even more grateful if we could return to our world.

Asahina-sempai was nervously clinging to me as he looked around at our surroundings. It seems like this was unfamiliar territory for him. I was the same, really; my eyes were flying in all directions, observing. Though I could breathe, is it really safe to inhale this yellow-brown mist-like substance? The temperature of the floor that had felt pleasantly cool through my socks went right through to the soles of my feet. Whether it was the floor or the ground, the ochre plane seemed to continue endlessly. To think that a room no more than six tatami mats large would be accompanied by such a vast storage space. So this was a cross-dimensional space? Well, I had thought such an atmosphere would arrive soon. I was calm, if I can say so myself.

"Is Ya{MEOW!} the Computer Club president here?"

"It would seem so. This differing space appeared in her own room and trapped her somehow."

"Where is she? I don't see her."

Itsuko simply turned her face towards Nagato with a smile. As if it were a signal, Nagato again raised one of his hands.

"Hold it!"

This time I was able to make it. In all seriousness, I asked Nagato, who had gotten a Blue Screen of Death frozen up,

"Could you tell me what you're doing? I would at least want some time to mentally prepare myself."

"Nothing."

Nagato answered like chattering glasswork; with fingers curled, he tilted his hand upwards by about seventy-five degrees, and extended his index finger again. He then said a single word,

"It's coming." {Note: ... please don't point this out, I'm aware that's more than one word :heh:}

I turned my gaze to where Nagato's fingertip was pointing.

"Uhn."

I groaned unconsciously.

{Note: I'll just say this right now for those of you who spell it "ocher," as well as anyone who has noticed my odd mixture of British and American spellings. I've only actually seen the word one other time, and it was spelled "ochre." As the other source --namely one of the 2nd Edition Dungeons and Dragons rulebooks-- reached me first, its spelling takes precedence. As a side note, this is also why I cringe every time I see "homonculus."}

The ochre haze was slowly coiling into a swirl. It was a whirlpool of particles gathering into one place, grain by grain. I felt as though I were a pathogen that had just invaded someone's body. Somehow, an image sprung from somewhere of how this ochre swirl was taking it upon itself to carry out its duty like a white blood cell. {Note: ... Is anyone else glad that they simply made this scene a desert sandstorm in the anime?} My spirit's only solace was that Asahina-sempai's hands were warm.

"I sense definite hostility."

The freely talking Itsuko's voice, however, didn't make me any more strained, and I had no reaction as Nagato stood like an android that was in the middle of breaking down, his hand still stretched out. Nevertheless, I could not relax. Those two have the means to defend themselves, but I don't. It looks as though Asahina-sempai was the same, as he was hiding behind me. This is the perfect time to bring out a futuristic item, though. Don't you have a ray gun or something?

"Carrying weapons is prohibited. It's dangerous."

Asahina-sempai answered with a quivering voice. I can understand that. Even if Asahina-sempai had a weapon, not only would he be of no help, he's likely to forget it on a train. You'd expect that he'd improve a little as an adult, but when I think about it, his older self was also very much a careless person; he might just be scatterbrained by nature.

As I was thinking about that, a figure in the haze was gradually displaying the features of solid matter. There's probably some reason for this as well. I didn't want to know, but for some reason, I understood what kind of shape the ochre mass was taking.

"...Hieee!"

Asahina-sempai was the only one being frightened. It's certainly not something that would be considered a pretty sight, and it's something you rarely see in town. Even I, who had last seen it how-many-years ago, under the floorboards of my grandfather's house in the countryside, was silent for a while. {Note: No. Exceptions.}

Are you familiar with the insect known as the kamadouma?

If you aren't, I'd like to show you the spectacle before my eyes. You'll get to know it well, right down to the details.

Because, this kamadouma had a length of about three meters.

"What is this thing?" I asked.

"It's a kamadouma, isn't it?" answered Itsuko.

"Got it, thanks Captain Obvious.I already know that, as I used to be known for my knowledge of insects back in kindergarten. Though I haven't seen the real thing, I knew how to differentiate between an uma-oi and a kutsuwamushi. That's okay, but what is this?" {Note: Gratuitous Japanese!}

Nagato's answer seeped out like a trickle.

"The creator of this space."

"This thing?"

"Yes."

"Is this also Haruki's doing?"

"The origin is different, but what started it was him."

As I was going to ask what it was again, I noticed that Nagato was still obediently following my command.

"...You can move now."

"I see."

Slipping his hand down, Nagato looked intently at the materializing giant kamadouma. The dark brown benjo ko-orogi was settling down on a spot several meters away from us. {Note: More gratuitous Japanese!}



"Well, while imperfect, it seems like I can use my power here."

What Itsuko was holding in one hand was a blue globe of light as big as a handball. Since the last time I had seen it, I had thought I'd never see that sapphire a second tme. It seems as though it had come out from her palm. {Note: Kaisos decided to switch the red and blue around between the espers and Shinjin Celestials, I'm just following suit.}

"My strength here is at ten percent of what it would be in closed space. Moreover, it seems like I'm unable to transform myself."

For some reason, Itsuko turned to Nagato with the refreshing smile that I'd gotten tired of seeing and asked,

"Was it determined that this much would suffice?"

"............"

Nagato had no reaction. I went back to asking him.

"Anyway, Nagato. What is that bug's true identity? And where is the president?"

"That is a sub-species of data life-form. It is using the brain tissue of a young female student to heighten the probability of its existence."

Itsuko put her finger on the middle of her forehead. She looked as though she were considering something, and then appeared to be somewhat concentrating on those thoughts. Raising her face, Itsuko asked,

"By any chance, is the president inside this giant kamadouma?"

"Correct."

"This kamadouma...... I see, this is the president's image of an object of fear, isn't it? if we defeat it, this differing space will collapse. Am I wrong?"

"You are not mistaken."

"It helps that it was an easily-understood metaphor. In that case, this will be simple."

But it wouldn't be simple if it wasn't easy to understand, so let's just say that Asahina-sempai and I can understand it.

"It doesn't seem to be the time for that, does it?"

Without raising her last word, she put the blue globe somewhere with a suave smile, and then Asahina-sempai was hanging on to my waist, somehow. The way things are going, "somehow" is always how it's going to be.

"Hyoeee~"

Asahina-sempai wasn't just trembling, he was taking away my range of mobility. Under these circumstances, I won't be able to escape, will I? {Note: Sorry for interrupting again, but I just have to say it. While this is all innocent for Mikuru... can the same really be said for Mitsuuru?}

"That won't be necessary, I hope. I'll finish it in a moment. I have such confidence, for some reason. It should be easier than hunting wabbits Shinjin Celestials."

The kamadouma that had just finished materializing is not just going to be flying away any time soon, I suppose. How many meters can it jump, I wonder. I feel like estimating..... but let's not.

I abruptly said.

"Get on with it."

"Roger that."

{Note: If it were anyone else doing this, they'd probably go with the anime version. However, I'd rather not go through the trouble of describing an action scene that's pretty much a schoolgirl throwing blue balls at a giant insect, so I'll just stick to the novels. Sorry, no FMP referencing here.}

Itsuko tossed the sapphire upwards and struck it as though she were serving a volleyball. The blue handball flew accurately, crashing right into the front of the monster kamadouma, and made a sound like an exploding paper balloon. It was a stupid attack, but I suppose the opponent was rather stupid as well. Even though I had prepared for some kind of counterattack, the kamadouma didn't escape, jump, roar a mysterious sound, or call another insect to somehow heal it. Rather, it just stayed there peacefully.

"Is it over?"

At Itsuko's question, Nagato gave his assent. It really did finish quickly. The giant kamadouma diffused to its original misty form, then continued thinning steadily. The ochre haze that shimmered in all directions was disappearing as well. And so was the freezing sensation under my feet.

As for our supposed compensation, a girl in a familiar uniform had appeared. Falling on her back and facing upwards was the Computer Club's president.

In front of the PC rack, her eyes were closed, looking like she had slipped off her chair. She seemed to be alive. Itsuko leaned over her from the side and put her hand on her neck, and gave me a nod.

Nagato was standing before the bookshelves, gazing at Asahina-sempai, who was beside the bed looking dazed, and at me.

We were in a room of a studio condominium. I wondered where that vast space could've gone.

At any rate, it was all good. Whether it was grey or ochre, I've had enough of being trapped in wide spaces.

For those who can't remember and/or are to lazy to check the archive post...
Part 1 (http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=1690567&postcount=11027)
Part 2 (http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=1714633&postcount=11095)
{This is Part 3}
Part TheEnd (http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=1821263&postcount=11460)

[3dmadness]

Hey, I think what you guys are trying to do is truly alsome! I think it’s a wonderful idea and I would really love to see it finished. I have a dissimilar drawing stile to the series but im sure i can adapt. However I have experience with both flash and swift (if that’s of any use) I’ll post a link to a demonstration I recently posted on a website I administrate, so you can see the kind of work I do.

http://thencc.oxyhost.com/bbs/showthread.php?tid=143&pid=1017#pid1017

I hope I can help, but if I can not then no hard feelings.

[ClockWorkAngel]

Where has Cat gone to, a greeting isn't truely a greeting without our welcoming comitee.

For reference, what do we have done now?

[Cat Megex]

Where has Cat gone to, a greeting isn't truely a greeting without our welcoming comitee.

For reference, what do we have done now?
I'm right here, thankyouverymuch. It's just that I've been a little busy this morning (you know, work and all -- though tomorrow is my last day at my summer job, because I have to spend the rest of the week getting ready to move into a dorm room for the first time on Saturday).

*snip*

WELCOME. YOU AND YOUR DRAWINGS SHALL SERVE KYONKO WELL.

[3dmadness]

meany thanks, i will get started learning how to draw haruhi stile! so how do things work around here?

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

Roughly half of the regulars in this thread just goof off, while the other half actually does something productive every once in a while.

[DJ_RockmanX]

http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4239008

Dammit. They finally figured it out, but they are doing it wrong.

OTL

[Ithekro]

Anywhere else to see that one? For those not on nico?

[Cat Megex]

I second Ithekro's request.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Just for you guys, I made an account on the Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wd8jzXV4-Q

[Cat Megex]

Just for you guys, I made an account on the Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wd8jzXV4-Q

w00t! Thanks, Danchou!

...Also, what song was that? o_O

[DJ_RockmanX]

w00t! Thanks, Danchou!

...Also, what song was that? o_O

weeeek, by NEWS.

Here's the original:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZHeVpEDaLA

[Ithekro]

That was shorter than I expected.

Your version needs to be longer....and why male dancing?

[DJ_RockmanX]

That was shorter than I expected.

Your version needs to be longer....and why male dancing?

Not by me. If I was the one doing this, I'd put in Tsuruya, Kimidori, Asakura, Mitsuru, Yuuki, and Haruki, in that order. But alas, I still need an animator.

And it's males for the fangirls. And because Haruki-tachi doing HHY just seems off. And because I prefer real dancing to parapara anyway. :p

[ScreamIt]

Yo, what's up everyone. i like haruhi. i'm getting into this project cause i know Danchou in real life, he'll back me up on that one. he's been showing me this gender bending thing, its' pretty interesting, so i'm joining the team. from what i've seen, you guys take pride in your work. keep it up and i'll see what i can do to help.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Yo, what's up everyone. i like haruhi. i'm getting into this project cause i know Danchou in real life, he'll back me up on that one. he's been showing me this gender bending thing, its' pretty interesting, so i'm joining the team. from what i've seen, you guys take pride in your work. keep it up and i'll see what i can do to help.

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h201/jin0014/kyon02021mv.gif

Yes I know this guy. :heh:

[Ithekro]

"I shall back off for now. However you won't be so lucky next time. Use this opportunity to prepare your tombstone." Nagato Yuki


Que es?
What?

[DJ_RockmanX]

Que es?
What?

Es una cita de episodio 00, ¿verdad? ¿Prefiere usted que el nombre se Yuuki? :heh:

[Cat Megex]

*snip*

WELCOME. YOU SHALL SERVE THE DANCHOU WELL.

(In a completely platonic sense, of course. >_>)

XD


On another note, to my knowledge, no one has stepped up to the plate to create a new image megapack torrent with all the newer images, and thus I have finally taken it upon myself to go through all the images in the Image thread, sort them as best I can, and eventually create a .torrent for them.

A caveat: my organizational system may end up being too confusing, as I keep switching around the categories and subcategories even with just the images from the first page of the Image thread, so once this thing is finally done (in, say, several weeks, if not longer, though it's possible I may get it done within a week, but not likely at all) and has been downloaded, feel free to rearrange as you see fit.

[Ithekro]

Ah. I forgot.

(Note: My Spanish is not very good really. One word in ten is the best I can do these days. And that is with three years of high school equivalent Spanish. (two years middle school and two years of high school) Though I'll admit I took Spanish under protest. I wanted to take German, but they stopped teaching it a year or two before I go to that school. State requirements you know.).

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

(In a completely platonic sense, of course. >_>)

. . . why would anyone think otherwise?

[Cat Megex]

. . . why would anyone think otherwise?

Yaoi fangirls?

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

... Congrats, DJ, you apparently have yaoi fangirls now :heh:

[DJ_RockmanX]

. . . why would anyone think otherwise?

Yaoi fangirls?

... Congrats, DJ, you apparently have yaoi fangirls now :heh:

...

:twitch:

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

AAAAAAAANYWAY... um... *runs*

[Ithekro]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2/Mikataiyou/Even%20more%20recent/thirdfacepalm001.gif
So. Many. Uses.

[Cat Megex]

I was suggesting it as a possibility, not as a fact. *rolls eyes*

[3dmadness]

So you guys mostly make image packs ay? where do i post my first pic? just to see if its up to scrach? (assuming your image thread is for picks you want shown) :p

[Cat Megex]

So you guys mostly make image packs ay?

Not at all. I'm only doing it because NO ONE ELSE IS.

[3dmadness]

im doing it, i just need some time to learn the new stile, i already have a skech but im not used to using photoshop, i just need to figger it out and i will have my first pic.

any tips will be well recived ^^

[Puffendahl]

Hmmm... My slacking with the facepalm is giving me headache :p
Thanks to summer deciding to be pretty much over for me, I have very little time to fix it novadays... But I have got something done on it, at least. I just don't feel like the edits are quite major enough to actually post up as a version (I've only edited the hair in most frames, resized the hand a little and so on)...

So, in case someone will be needing it too soon in the future; I'm sorry. I'm going to fix it, honest :heh:

Oh, by the way, it looks like Seitenkan has become a Stalled Project in B-T (might not be news, but I just thought I’d mention it... just to be sure). I wonder if it would help if I posted some lineart to the chapters there? I finally got myself a new scanner. Yeppee :p

[DJ_RockmanX]

Hmmm... My slacking with the facepalm is giving me headache :p
Thanks to summer deciding to be pretty much over for me, I have very little time to fix it novadays... But I have got something done on it, at least. I just don't feel like the edits are quite major enough to actually post up as a version (I've only edited the hair in most frames, resized the hand a little and so on)...

So, in case someone will be needing it too soon in the future; I'm sorry. I'm going to fix it, honest :heh:

Ithekro's the one who uses it most. Ask him. :p

Oh, by the way, it looks like Seitenkan has become a Stalled Project in B-T (might not be news, but I just thought I’d mention it... just to be sure). I wonder if it would help if I posted some lineart to the chapters there? I finally got myself a new scanner. Yeppee :p

Whatever works. :heh:

[Aerii]

Umm, first post on this thread, I'm new here. Hi, I'm Aerii. How do you do?

How exactly does the Baka-Tsuki upload thingy work? *tilts head, confused* I don't mean to sound like an idiot, but you guys have (re)written the entire first book and it's only up to chapter 5 on that site. Is there a process you guys haven't finished? Sorry for being intrusive...

And I will do anything (well, most things, anyway) within my power to be of service to you guys!

[DJ_RockmanX]

Umm, first post on this thread, I'm new here. Hi, I'm Aerii. How do you do?

Fine thank you. :)

How exactly does the Baka-Tsuki upload thingy work? *tilts head, confused* I don't mean to sound like an idiot, but you guys have (re)written the entire first book and it's only up to chapter 5 on that site. Is there a process you guys haven't finished? Sorry for being intrusive...

I shall deliberate with the author and editing staff when they all get back. :heh:

And I will do anything (well, most things, anyway) within my power to be of service to you guys!

Yoroshiku. :cool:

[CatzCradle]

Er... I hope you guys don't mind if I want to spread some seitenken love at MangaUpdates? Of course, if you guys don't want me to, then it's okay with me as well.

I'll need some help because there's a lot of missing information I don't have, and I want to create an series/info page for releases there.... Or I could create the page, have you guys check it for mistakes and editing it again.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Er... I hope you guys don't mind if I want to spread some seitenken love at MangaUpdates? Of course, if you guys don't want me to, then it's okay with me as well.

I'll need some help because there's a lot of missing information I don't have, and I want to create an series/info page for releases there.... Or I could create the page, have you guys check it for mistakes and editing it again.

That's good and all, but what exactly were you planning on putting in terms of info? The only stuff I can think of is linkage over to Baka-Tsuki and back here.

And that again reminds me that we need to update the B-T page. orz

[CatzCradle]

That's good and all, but what exactly were you planning on putting in terms of info? The only stuff I can think of is linkage over to Baka-Tsuki and back here.

And that again reminds me that we need to update the B-T page. orz

I have a pretty good general idea. ;)
So do you guys prefer giving me the information first or if I just went ahead and made a page then edit it later?

[DJ_RockmanX]

I have a pretty good general idea. ;)
So do you guys prefer giving me the information first or if I just went ahead and made a page then edit it later?

Having the info would be nice. :p

[Aerii]

I'll need some help because there's a lot of missing information I don't have, and I want to create an series/info page for releases there.... Or I could create the page, have you guys check it for mistakes and editing it again.

Isn't MangaUpdates that site where they list scanlations, but then I try to figure out how to read it and it's always dropped or on IRC or whatever it's called?

[CatzCradle]

Having the info would be nice. :p

Sure, but can I get some help regarding:

whether Baka-Tsuki is considered a publisher ("Original Publisher")or a publication ("Serialized In")it appeared in.

Regarding author, I'm not sure whether to put it all under a group (for example, Seitenkan, Seitenkan Cult, The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya, etc?), leaving it blank/ N/A or listing out all the names (*shudder* :eyespin:)?


There is also the issue of wherther this would be considered an adaption or spinoff (what's the difference ???)

and group name/links which releases can be credited to...

edited:

Uh... Does anyone happen to have the cover of volume 1? Otherwise, I'll probably have to use this as the series info picture...
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4209/kyonmitsitscopyhl6.jpg

Isn't MangaUpdates that site where they list scanlations, but then I try to figure out how to read it and it's always dropped or on IRC or whatever it's called?

Yes, but they also do novels. They let people know when a release is out and sometimes include links, but otherwise they are not an online manga reading site.

[Aerii]

Yes, but they also do novels. They let people know when a release is out and sometimes include links, but otherwise they are not an online manga reading site.

I know they aren't. ^-^ I'm saying that it just so happens that the only times I go there are when I can't find it on OneManga (which I don't use anymore) and when I go to the scanlators site from MangaUpdates it's always dropped OR only on IRC (if that's what it's called now). I know NOTHING about this business, so I try to avoid having to deal with it.

I had no idea they did novels.

Adaptation: From one form of media to another. I.E. Novel to manga (Haruhi), manga to movie (Death Note), etc.

Spinoff: ...? Loosely related to the original? Like based on a minor character, or something? I guess it would fall under spinoff.

[CatzCradle]

I know they aren't. ^-^ I'm saying that it just so happens that the only times I go there are when I can't find it on OneManga (which I don't use anymore) and when I go to the scanlators site from MangaUpdates it's always dropped OR only on IRC (if that's what it's called now).

I had no idea they did novels.

My bad then. ^_^;;
Maybe just unlucky, I guess...?

[DJ_RockmanX]

Sure, but can I get some help regarding:

Of course you can get help. That's what I'm here for. :cool:

whether Baka-Tsuki is considered a publisher ("Original Publisher")or a publication ("Serialized In")it appeared in.

It could function as both, but let's call them our publisher. :heh:

Regarding author, I'm not sure whether to put it all under a group (for example, Seitenkan, Seitenkan Cult, The Genderbending of Haruhi Suzumiya, etc?), leaving it blank/ N/A or listing out all the names (*shudder* :eyespin:)?


This is a group project with many ideas, many contributions, and many editors, unified under a single author's writings. And that would be Kaisos Erranon.

There is also the issue of wherther this would be considered an adaption or spinoff (what's the difference ???)

An example of an adaptation would be making an anime out of the Haruhi novels.

We'd be considered a spinoff, which is taking an idea and running with it in another direction, like doujinshi and stuff like that.

and group name/links which releases can be credited to...

Baka-Tsuki? Animesuki's Seitenkan? Me? :D

Let's just go with those first two.

edited:

Uh... Does anyone happen to have the cover of volume 1? Otherwise, I'll probably have to use this as the series info picture...
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4209/kyonmitsitscopyhl6.jpg

Yes we do. I'll find it for you in a bit. :p

[shaoron]

so.. any PROGRESS ON THE PROJECT!?

[CatzCradle]

Of course you can get help. That's what I'm here for. :cool:

It could function as both, but let's call them our publisher. :heh:

This is a group project with many ideas, many contributions, and many editors, unified under a single author's writings. And that would be Kaisos Erranon.

An example of an adaptation would be making an anime out of the Haruhi novels.

We'd be considered a spinoff, which is taking an idea and running with it in another direction, like doujinshi and stuff like that.

Baka-Tsuki? Animesuki's Seitenkan? Me? :D

Let's just go with those first two.

Yes we do. I'll find it for you in a bit. :p


Thank you so much for all the help! :D

[otai]

This thread was so quiet over the weekend, i thought all the lolicons were out watching gymnastics. Glad there's fresh meat. :p

Only place I've seen Kang in recent weeks is the Geass forum, posting his thoughts in the speculations thread. I wish he'd use his time more productively, since I happen to think that trying to predict what Geass will do is an act in futility. :p. :D

Yeah, wasn't Kang supposed to produce a H-doujin? What's up with that?

[ClockWorkAngel]

We all demand it XD.

Yes, the lolicons have been vividly watching gymnastics, and swimming :)

[Aerii]

This thread was so quiet over the weekend, i thought all the lolicons were out watching gymnastics. Glad there's fresh meat. :p



Meat? What fresh meat? *backs away slowly*

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

Gymnastics? Swimming? What is this thing you speak of? Certainly it isn't some global-scale competition...

(Note: Obvious joke post)

[Ithekro]

Last report the writer type return by the weekend, so we might actually have material from them next week...hoping, sort of...maybe?

And since the lolicon(s) are away, plotting to take DFC Chineses loli and breed them for their own purposes, can we get back on track without a figure debate?

[Cat Megex]

Meat? What fresh meat? *backs away slowly*

...I forget. Did I welcome you?

Eh, no harm in one now, just in case.

WELCOME. YOU SHALL SERVE KYONKO WELL.



By the way, somebody on the Ragnarok Online server I play on (essenceRO) said they saw a Kyonko at Otakon. (Not Otacon. 'Cause that would be weird.) w00t!

[beanbrew]

This thread was so quiet over the weekend, i thought all the lolicons were out watching gymnastics. Glad there's fresh meat. :p



Yeah, wasn't Kang supposed to produce a H-doujin? What's up with that?

We all demand it XD.

Yes, the lolicons have been vividly watching gymnastics, and swimming :)

I need to get on that. Thanks for the tip.;)

Last report the writer type return by the weekend, so we might actually have material from them next week...hoping, sort of...maybe?

And since the lolicon(s) are away, plotting to take DFC Chineses loli and breed them for their own purposes, can we get back on track without a figure debate?

THEY'RE ONTO US!!!!:eek:

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

You best be running, then :heh:

[shaoron]

This thread was so quiet over the weekend, i thought all the lolicons were out watching gymnastics. Glad there's fresh meat. :p



Yeah, wasn't Kang supposed to produce a H-doujin? What's up with that?

more interested in men's swimming...

phelps just got 5 gold and 5 records...
not taht you pervs would know about... <_<

[CatzCradle]

:(:sad: :(

My request at MU was rejected...

[DJ_RockmanX]

more interested in men's swimming...

phelps just got 5 gold and 5 records...
not taht you pervs would know about... <_<

Don't put me in with these guys. I've been watching those events religiously.

:(:sad: :(

My request at MU was rejected...

Zannen.

[Ithekro]

I haven't really watched an Olympics since 1988, when I was a swimmer. After 1992 I sort of lost interest.
(1984 was fun though)

[besieger]

Just because I'm in an exam period doesn't mean that I should be lumped together with the lolicons.

I'LL BE LURKING~

[3dmadness]

Please excuse my lack of knowledge, but where do you guys stock up the work we produce? Sorry I know it is probably a rather silly question.

[Arceon]

Well if you looking for a particular image. . . have fun wading through the image thread. :heh:

As for any of the re-writes of the story and whatnot look towards this archive post (http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=1446680&postcount=860)

[3dmadness]

My thanks, i will start looking now.

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

I haven't really watched an Olympics since 1988, when I was a swimmer. After 1992 I sort of lost interest.
(1984 was fun though)

Thanks, I was tired of feeling old, what with all the teenagers here :heh:

[DannyCat]

I only vaguely remember the '84 ones. A bit too early for me. At least I'm not the oldest one here. :D

[kenjiharima]

Uh... Does anyone happen to have the cover of volume 1? Otherwise, I'll probably have to use this as the series info picture...
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/4209/kyonmitsitscopyhl6.jpg


Mitsuru is one lucky shota having Kyonko and Itsuko by his side like that...or is he? :heh:

[HikariNiwa]

~snip~

By the way, somebody on the Ragnarok Online server I play on (essenceRO) said they saw a Kyonko at Otakon. (Not Otacon. 'Cause that would be weird.) w00t!

There was a person on the thread who said she was going to Otakon as Kyonko wasn't there?

[Cat Megex]

There was a person on the thread who said she was going to Otakon as Kyonko wasn't there?

Possibly? I don't really know. ^^;

[DJ_RockmanX]

There was a person on the thread who said she was going to Otakon as Kyonko wasn't there?

Aye. Keruri.

[3dmadness]

haha, i like how Kyonko has kind of stolen the show from Haruhi :p

[ScreamIt]

haha, i like how Kyonko has kind of stolen the show from Haruhi :p

This will never happen! at least i hope so. it's the gender bending i tell you.

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

haha, i like how Kyonko has kind of stolen the show from Haruhi :p

Careful, that's dangerous talk right there...

[Arceon]

After all, we are all Haruhiist by heart. . .. or at least I think. . .

[3dmadness]

No worries, after all I don’t want the death sentence :upset: im Haruhist also, although I am not sure that’s quite the word for Haruhism...

[DJ_RockmanX]

The Inquisition will act against us if we continue to speak of such "blasphemies."

[Cat Megex]

The Inquisition will act against us if we continue to speak of such "blasphemies."

The Spanish Inquisition?

[3dmadness]

The Inquisition will act against us if we continue to speak of such "blasphemies."

The.... inquisition... :( of the Empress Haruhi Suzumiya, I suddenly find my self exuding loyalty ^^ no need to torture me :D im good

[Roger Rambo]

The Spanish Inquisition?
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/8284/motivator1103004vj4.jpghttp://img229.imageshack.us/img229/5033/motivator1976180xr7.jpg

[Discreet]

Haruhiism is false. Tis only the ramblings of an insane Koizumi and his fanatical group of psychics.

I should be getting the vol 3 chapter 1 edit hopefully up by this weekend. I am still alive.

Although now that I'm a heretic... I don't know for how long...

[3dmadness]

haruhiism is false. Tis only the ramblings of an insane koizumi and his fanatical group of psychics.

I should be getting the vol 3 chapter 1 edit hopefully up by this weekend. I am still alive.

Although now that i'm a heretic... I don't know for how long...

burn the heretic! For he is a witch!

[ClockWorkAngel]

Spanish Inquisition To Weak We'll Send These Guys Instead

The Imperial Inquisition fails basic English.

[DJ_RockmanX]

burn the heretic! For he is a witch!

Enough. We need not the spam nor attention of the Inquisition, and I do need his editing work.

Haruhiism is false. Tis only the ramblings of an insane Koizumi and his fanatical group of psychics.

I should be getting the vol 3 chapter 1 edit hopefully up by this weekend. I am still alive.

Although now that I'm a heretic... I don't know for how long...

You'd better be watching your back in the near future. We need you alive.

The Imperial Inquisition fails basic English.

Ouch. :heh:

[Roger Rambo]

The Imperial Inquisition fails basic English.
Who needs Basic English when you have High Gothic?

[Discreet]

You'd better be watching your back in the near future. We need you alive.


I'll be ready anytime.

And that post was meant as a promise, now that it's there for all to see, there's no way I can turn my back on Kyonko now.

[shaoron]

The Inquisition will act against us if we continue to speak of such "blasphemies."

i have the perfect weapon against them... worry not...

*redies the nice red robes and fish

[Ithekro]

Kyonko shall remain in the limelight until such time as Haruhi decides to cast her image upon the moving picture screen anew.

[ClockWorkAngel]

i have the perfect weapon against them... worry not...

*redies the nice red robes and fish

You forgot the comfy chair!

[Ithekro]

NO! Not the comfy chair!

[3dmadness]

So how much of this have you guys animated? or put in to comic format?

[DJ_RockmanX]

Uh... none. :uhoh:

And that's likely not gonna change unless you can somehow hook us up with people willing to draw this up as a manga or do animation for us.

[3dmadness]

I can probably get you a free forum, I know a couple of good hosts and a guy who is into web design, in fact he made my site:

http://thencc.oxyhost.com/bbs/index.php

When I say a forum I of coarse mean a forum dedicated to your subject. (Apposed to a thread on a forum.)

and as far as producing animations, you guys seem to be good at drawing, and that’s half the battle, my self I am making headway learning the haruhi stile of drawing. If you want to use Flash CS3 to animate mini eps I can help you learn, but that’s about all I can do.

[Arceon]

You know, I am just halfway from stopping being lazy and drawing a manga. Since any drawings I'm doing at this point are truly just half-assed.

[3dmadness]

I am proud to say i almost have this stile down, however i only have sketches at the moment :D

[Kagedanji]

New vectors yet?

[3dmadness]

No, mostly just pencil drawings, (as far as my work goes anyway) however I am working on vectoring the first drawing I produced, its not looking as good as what you guys have done but as I say I am getting there, if you like I can post up scans of my sketches so you can tell me if I am getting close. :)

[ClockWorkAngel]

News from Toronto :o

Kyonko is spreading!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/rougeone/0816081152a.jpg

[Cat Megex]

News from Toronto :o

Kyonko is spreading!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/rougeone/0816081152a.jpg

Nice. ^_^

Also, big news! I'm posting this from the dorm room I'm going to be living in for the next nine or so months. From today until whenever school lets out, I'm a college freshman. (Luckily, classes don't start for a few more days.)

[DJ_RockmanX]

News from Toronto :o

Kyonko is spreading!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v417/rougeone/0816081152a.jpg

Excellent. We must continue the conquest. :cool:

Nice. ^_^

Also, big news! I'm posting this from the dorm room I'm going to be living in for the next nine or so months. From today until whenever school lets out, I'm a college freshman. (Luckily, classes don't start for a few more days.)

Let's both have a good freshman year. :D

[Kaisos Erranon]

Hello, I have returned.

[ClockWorkAngel]

Welcome back :p

[Cat Megex]

Hello, I have returned.

w00t! We are honored by your reappearance, chief of writing.

[Kaisos Erranon]

w00t! We are honored by your reappearance, chief of writing.

Yeah, I probably need to get on that.

[beanbrew]

New vectors yet?

Apparently, Dango's back too.

[Discreet]

To celebrate the so many returns of our most valuable members, I present the edit of Vol3 part 1 that I finally got around to doing.

Edits in bold, notes in bold and underline.

What had been a quiet day in the headquarters of the "Save the world by Overloading it with fun: Suzumiya Haruki's Brigade," or “SOS Brigade” for short (in reality, the Literature Clubroom), was interrupted when Suzumiya Haruki suddenly burst into the room and announced with the enthusiasm of a baseball team captain who drew the first seed at Koushien:

"Good news, everyone! I entered us into a baseball tournament!"

It was after school one day in June, and it had been two weeks since my 'nightmare'. Since then, I had been unable to concentrate on my studies, and now my test results were becoming a real life nightmare. And although Haruki didn’t seem like he ever paid attention in class, his results made it into the top 10. If God truly does exist, I personally believe that he’s really just a mischievous man with a terrible sense of humor.

Well, that doesn’t matter at the moment… Right now, I'm more concerned with Haruki’s sudden announcement. What the hell is he talking about?

I looked around at the three other people in the room.

The first that caught my eye was Asahina-senpai, his face as innocent as a grade school student. If he had white fluffy wings, he would look like a cute little angel on his way back to heaven. His face and small body suit him, in a way.

[D-Note: I changed the elementary to grade school because it sounds a little smoother.]

For reasons I'm not entirely comfortable talking about, Asahina-senpai was the only person in the room not wearing his high school uniform. Instead, he was wearing a butler uniform. With his cute lips half opened, he looked intently at Haruki. He isn't a domestic servant or some costume-wearing weirdo, but is just following the insane instructions of Haruki, who must have found this costume online again. He keeps bringing in weird clothes and making poor Asahina-senpai wear them. If someone saw him now, I’m sure they’d ask: "Why is he wearing those strange clothes?"

And Haruki would reply: "It's his new class feature from gaining a level!" That is when most sane people would look in the other direction and walk away.

Haruki had instructed Asahina-senpai, "You must wear this costume whenever you're in this room, always! It's your latest award for your slowly increasing manliness!" Asahina-senpai would resist with "But, but..." Even so Asahina would always end up obediently following Haruki’s order with tears in his eyes. He looked so adorable that sometimes I just wanted to run away with him, but so far I've managed to control myself.

By the way, just for your information, two weeks ago his standard attire was a maid costume, but right now, it’s hanging on the clothes rack, thank god.I wouldn’t mind seeing it again, but I’m afraid we might start attracting the wrong sort of people.

[D-note: The awkwardness and weirdness is pretty well implied, no sense in overemphasizing it.]

After hearing Haruki’s announcement about the baseball tournament, Asahina-senpai the butler made his comment: "Um..."

He made a sound as sweet as a canary, then stopped. A reaction like that is pretty typical of him.

[D-note: “He made a sound like the sweet chirping of a canary.” Yeah, I’m gonna go ahead and say that doesn’t make much sense, so I’m sticking with the original.]

I turned my gaze to the other boy in the room.

His presence, compared to Asahina-senpai, was like that of a thin cabbage to a sunflower. Nagato Yuuki, tall and skinny was. as always, indifferent to his surroundings as his attention was fixed on an open hardback book.

About every ten seconds, he'd flip the pages with his fingers, the only sign that he was still among the living. A parrot would have a bigger vocabulary than he does, and a hibernating groundhog would be more active.

As his presence doesn’t really make much of a difference, there's not much need to describe him in detail. If I have to make a brief description, though, then he's a first year student, like Haruki and me, and is the sole member of the Literature Club - the original occupant of this room. So in other words, our club, the SOS Brigade, is borrowing the use of this room from the Literature Club. To be more precise, we have taken over this room like parasites. Of course, the school has yet to approve of this, since our application to form a club has been completely ignored by the student council.

"......"

I turned my gaze away from Nagato's expressionless face, and saw Koizumi Itsuko’s pretty face, a smile almost permanently planted on. If you ask me, her opinions are the least important out of the three. This Mysterious Transfer Student - according to Haruki, anyway - brushed aside her bangs, her smile widening. As our eyes met, she shrugged her shoulders meaninglessly, furthering my irritation of her.

"What did you say you entered us in?" As no one else was going to say anything, I, as always, replied on behalf of the group. Since when did I become the communication relay between Haruki and the rest of the world? Nothing could possibly be as annoying as this duty...

"This."

Haruki gave me a flyer cheerfully. I took a glance at Asahina-senpai, who had bad memories with flyers, and saw him backing away trembling. I read out the words on the piece of paper.

"The Ninth City Amateur Baseball Tournament."

It was probably a tournament to decide which baseball team was the best in the city. It was organized by the city council, and seemed to have some history, being held every year.

"Hmm..." As I raised my head, Haruki’s huge one-hundred percent smile almost blinded me. I moved backwards half a step involuntarily.

"So, who's entering this grass-lot baseball tournament?" Although I already knew the answer, I still decided to ask.

"We are, of course!" Haruki said firmly.

"When you say 'we', does that include me, Asahina-senpai, Nagato, and Itsuko?"

"Who else?"

"Maybe you could have asked for our consent first...?"

"We'll need to find four more people."

Of course, the moron only hears the things he wants to hear. I suddenly thought of something. "Haruki, do you even know the rules for baseball?"

"Eh, more or less. It just involves pitching, catching, base running, sliding and blocking. I joined the baseball team for a bit, so I know the basics."

"A bit? Exactly how long did you join them for?"

"Just under an hour. It was dead boring so I left."

If baseball was so boring, then why join a baseball tournament? And why are we participating as well?

Faced with my natural question, Haruki replied, like so: "This is a great chance to leave my mark on the world! If the SOS Brigade wins this tournament, we could become famous overnight! It's the perfect opportunity!"

Okay, first of all, I don't want the name of this Brigade being spread even further. Second, so what if the SOS Brigade becomes famous overnight? How will that change anything? And what do you mean by a 'perfect opportunity'?

I didn’t have any clue what to say, and Asahina-senpai looked stunned as well. Itsuko mumbled, "So, that's how it is," without looking concerned. As for Nagato, was he troubled by it at all? He probably hadn't even heard what was being said, as he remained as still as a clay statue, his face remaining as blank as ever.

[D-note: Quick Vocab Course, “murmur” has more negative connotations than “mumble,” more often used as a means of quiet complaint than just lowering your voice to inaudible levels. And knowing Koizumi s/he would never complain to anything Suzumiya says.]

"Isn’t it an awesome idea, Mitsuuru-kun?"

Faced with Haruki’s sudden question, Asahina-senpai seemed confused, "Huh? But... But..."

"Well?" Like a crocodile ambushing a little deer drinking water at the lake, Haruki moved behind Asahina-senpai, who was about to stand up, and grabbed him by the shoulder, perhaps a little too firmly.

[D-note: Grabbing Mitsuuru by the neck seemed a little too violent, even if it was supposed to be from behind, I can't shake off the image of Mitsuuru getting strangled. Possibly a bias on my part that is causing this image from appearing in my mind, but in the meantime, I'll go with the 'less' violent, 'firm grip on the shoulder.']

"Kyaa! Ge... Get off of me!"

"Listen up, Mitsuuru-kun! In this brigade, the orders of the commander are absolute. Insubordination is a serious offense, punishable by hanging! All opinions will be handled during the meeting!"

Meeting? Does he mean those meetings which he holds whenever he feels like stuffing weird ideas down our throats?

Haruki continued talking as Asahina-senpai struggled against his python-like grip. "Doesn't baseball sound like so much fun? Just so you all know, our goal is to win this tournament! Not a single defeat will be accepted! Not one! Because. I. Hate. Losing!"

"Wah..." Asahina-senpai squealed as Haruki rubbed his knuckles into Asahina-senpai’s head.

"So, any problems?" asked Haruki. Like it would matter if we had any. You never intend to listen to them anyway.

"I don't see why not." said Itsuko, her teeth a perfect white.

Hey! Don’t just agree like that! How about objecting every once in a while?

"Excellent! Then I'll go skillfully ‘acquire’ equipment from the Baseball Team!"

Haruki bolted out of the clubroom with the force of a small tornado. Asahina-senpai, finally free of Haruki's grasp, slumped onto the floor, exhausted.

Itsuko decided to express her thoughts. "Well, we're lucky that he's not starting a war to capture aliens or planning a trip in search of Unidentified Mysterious Animals. Baseball has nothing to do with the terrifying paranormal phenomena which we fear most, right?"

"Yeah, makes sense." I've decided to agree with her reasoning for now. No matter how insane Haruki is, at least he didn't ask to go searching for aliens, time travelers and espers. If that was the case, instead of wandering around the city searching for supernatural occurrences, a task that was nearly impossible (this, by the way, happened to be the main activity of the SOS Brigade), we might as well play a game of baseball. Besides, even poor Asahina-senpai was nodding his head in agreement.

However, our speculations were wide off the mark. Not only did they miss their target, the arrows fired by Haruki had shot through the ceiling and flown straight off into the sun. I only learned of this a little later, though.

At any rate, (I thought to myself), even if it's not baseball, anything that could attract attention would do for him. The SOS Brigade, which Haruki continued to carry the banner for, not only has an incredibly stupid name, it's not even a real club, not to mention it's not recognized by the school. It was only created because he felt like it.

The official name, "Save the world by Overloading it with Fun: Suzumiya Haruki's Brigade," is not only long and condescending, it just sounds abstractly absurd. After my suggestion to shorten the name got cruelly rejected, I hadn't been able to find a chance to change its name.

I once asked Haruki just what kind of activities this club would be involved in. Haruki replied with the face of a soldier who had just cut off the head of the enemy general:

"To find aliens, time travelers, and espers, and hang out with them!"

This was the famous quote by the eccentric Suzumiya Haruki, well-known around school since the beginning of the year, and has been associated with sheer weirdness ever since.
This was just like crows searching for glowing objects, cats leaping at any small rolling object, and a housewife rushing for the insecticide when she sees a cockroach in the kitchen. Once Haruki sees something that interests him, be it dodgeball, netball or cricket, he'd probably yell loudly, "I want to do that!" Maybe I should be grateful we aren't playing rugby, since we would need to find more people to make up the numbers.



In any case, to put it simply...

Haruki was just feeling bored.

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

Although now that I'm a heretic... I don't know for how long...
burn the heretic! For he is a witch!
Enough. We need not the spam nor attention of the Inquisition, and I do need his editing work.

But... he turned me into a newt! *notices staring* ... I got better...

[beanbrew]

But... he turned me into a newt! *notices staring* ... I got better...

If he weighs the same as a duck, burn him!

[3dmadness]

I see you guys have come a long way with your script, are you going to make this serise?

[ClockWorkAngel]

What do you imply when regarding making the series :p

Actual animation? The people of nico nico douga are accomplishing many things.

[Kaisos Erranon]

*snip*

To me, "murmur" has less negative connotations than "mumble", which sounds like "grumble". What about "mutter"?

As for the arm around the neck thing, think of a weird kind of hug. I mainly had to do that because it's hard to noogie somebody when you're just gripping their shoulder, and I wanted to avoid the ear biting.

[3dmadness]

What do you imply when regarding making the series :p

Actual animation? The people of nico nico douga are accomplishing many things.


Nico nico douga? sorry i dont understand.

[Kaisos Erranon]

Nico nico douga? sorry i dont understand.

The Japanese equivalent of YouTube.

[Discreet]

To me, "murmur" has less negative connotations than "mumble", which sounds like "grumble". What about "mutter"?

As for the arm around the neck thing, think of a weird kind of hug. I mainly had to do that because it's hard to noogie somebody when you're just gripping their shoulder, and I wanted to avoid the ear biting.

Mutter is fine.

And if it's an arm around Mitsuuru's neck, not a hand, than that sounds much better, I think. Haruki can pull Mitsuuru into a half-headlock and start the noogie with ease. They kinda follow through with one another. In fact, that'd probably be the better choice.

[Kaisos Erranon]

Mutter is fine.

And if it's an arm around Mitsuuru's neck, not a hand, than that sounds much better, I think. Haruki can pull Mitsuuru into a half-headlock and start the noogie with ease. They kinda follow through with one another. In fact, that'd probably be the better choice.

Eh? Did I say hand?

I meant "arm"... what I meant for him to do is exactly what you're saying...

[3dmadness]

seems to me the kind of thing a male haruhi would do, being as hyper as he is.

[Kaisos Erranon]

seems to me the kind of thing a male haruhi would do, being as hyper as he is.

He's a Keet (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Keet) without the gay.

[HikariNiwa]

He's a Keet (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Keet) without the gay.

Phew, I managed to go to the link and stay on track without wandering off to other tropes. This is a victory for me.

[Discreet]

Eh? Did I say hand?

I meant "arm"... what I meant for him to do is exactly what you're saying...

"Haruki moved behind Asahina-senpai, who was about to stand up, and grabbed him around the neck, pulling him close."

You didn't say "hand" exactly, but the "grab" implied it.

Maybe something like... "Haruki moved behind Asahina-senpai, who was about to stand up, and threw an arm around his neck, pulling him close.

[Kaisos Erranon]

Phew, I managed to go to the link and stay on track without wandering off to other tropes. This is a victory for me.

Hahaha. I love TVTropes.

"Haruki moved behind Asahina-senpai, who was about to stand up, and grabbed him around the neck, pulling him close."

You didn't say "hand" exactly, but the "grab" implied it.

Maybe something like... "Haruki moved behind Asahina-senpai, who was about to stand up, and threw an arm around his neck, pulling him close.

That works.

On a random note, the new Code Geass OP is win. God, I can't wait to catch up with this show...

[Cat Megex]

God, I can't wait to catch up with this show...

You need to. You...need to.

[Kaisos Erranon]

You need to. You...need to.

In retrospect, especially after playing MGS4, Lulu's scream at the end of Episode 13 is actually funny.

[otai]

"Haruki moved behind Asahina-senpai, who was about to stand up, and grabbed him around the neck, pulling him close."

You didn't say "hand" exactly, but the "grab" implied it.

Maybe something like... "Haruki moved behind Asahina-senpai, who was about to stand up, and threw an arm around his neck, pulling him close.

How about calling it a headlock or chokehold? For extra kyon snark she describes the scene as if a yakuza shakedown.

[Kaisos Erranon]

How about calling it a headlock or chokehold? For extra kyon snark she describes the scene as if a yakuza shakedown.

That works too.

[Cat Megex]

For extra kyon snark she describes the scene as if a yakuza shakedown.

...*pictures Haruki speaking with a yakuza-type accent*

XD

[Kaisos Erranon]

...*pictures Haruki speaking with a yakuza-type accent*

XD

Um, he kinda already does, in a way... that's how I imagine him, at least.

[Forceflow]

Nice. ^_^

Also, big news! I'm posting this from the dorm room I'm going to be living in for the next nine or so months. From today until whenever school lets out, I'm a college freshman. (Luckily, classes don't start for a few more days.)

Excellent. We must continue the conquest. :cool:



Let's both have a good freshman year. :D

Good luck you two. Don't drink and party too much. :p

...*pictures Haruki speaking with a yakuza-type accent*

XD

Isn't he like that most of the time? :D

[Cat Megex]

Um, he kinda already does, in a way... that's how I imagine him, at least.

Isn't he like that most of the time? :D

I meant the stereotypical sort of accent...sort of like that of Gilbert, from Hayate no Gotoku, or some other pompadour-bearing delinquent/yakuza-type. Possibly similar to, though more exaggerated than, the voice Norio Wakamoto (a.k.a. the narrator) uses in that same series.


Also, to complete the mental image, he'd walk with that bowlegged sort of swagger you see in anime and such.

[Kaisos Erranon]

I meant the stereotypical sort of accent...sort of like that of Gilbert, from Hayate no Gotoku, or some other pompadour-bearing delinquent/yakuza-type. Possibly similar to, though more exaggerated than, the voice Norio Wakamoto (a.k.a. the narrator) uses in that same series.


Also, to complete the mental image, he'd walk with that bowlegged sort of swagger you see in anime and such.

Well, he is a delinquent...

[3dmadness]

Oh that rebel, and his yakuza accent to boot. Although, I am fairly sure you cant draw a pick of said accent :p How about different themes? I my self have indulged in a "crime noir" one arm version of Kyonko (just for the laughs)

http://media3.dropshots.com/photos/228400/20080818/082440.jpg

not a great pic but i kinda like it =p

[Cat Megex]

Well, he is a delinquent...

He's less of one once the SOS Brigade is formed, though, isn't he?

...Y'know, I'm gonna have to read back through the stuff up on Baka-Tsuki, just to refresh my memory on all this stuff.

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

Unless it's being completely rewritten as to remove any character development, see volume two of the original.

[otai]

Oh that rebel, and his yakuza accent to boot. Although, I am fairly sure you cant draw a pick of said accent :p How about different themes? I my self have indulged in a "crime noir" one arm version of Kyonko (just for the laughs)

http://media3.dropshots.com/photos/228400/20080818/082440.jpg

not a great pic but i kinda like it =p
Interesting... What about Haruki & Kyon in the X-files setting?

Haruki: I've got it, Kyon! The residents of Hinamizawa are actually aliens in disguise! Because they become incredibly violent during their annual mating ritual, they evolved the ability to turn back time until they all manage to conceive! And Oyashiro-sama is actually your missing younger brother turned into the local goddess when the cigarette smoking president exchanged him to them for the ability to go back in time to assassinate JFK!

Kyonko: My scientific opinion is that you've inhaled too much smoke from the festival bonfire; the kindling looks suspiciously like marijuana plants.

[Cat Megex]

Kyonko: My scientific opinion is that you've inhaled too much smoke from the festival bonfire; the kindling looks suspiciously like marijuana plants.

You forgot the "nipaa~!" XD

[Ithekro]

Irony would be the "nippa!~" coming from one of the other brigade members.

[xkazex]

hi just found out about this thread this week, and i have finally caught up in 4 days of cracking through the thread i have at last reach the end. gotta say i actually learned some new terminologies going through these pages, dfc and so on. ehhh o yea i draw, but im real lazy, heres my deviant. www.tsubasa-san.deviantart.com . im thinking about drawing some kyonko pics, yes i got a case of kyonkoism. hope to get to know u all better. yoroshiku ne?

[Cat Megex]

hi just found out about this thread this week, and i have finally caught up in 4 days of cracking through the thread i have at last reach the end. gotta say i actually learned some new terminologies going through these pages, dfc and so on. ehhh o yea i draw, but im real lazy, heres my deviant. www.tsubasa-san.deviantart.com . im thinking about drawing some kyonko pics, yes i got a case of kyonkoism. hope to get to know u all better. yoroshiku ne?

WELCOME. YOU SHALL SERVE KYONKO WELL.

<<ignore this text>>

[xkazex]

the welcome committee is doing its work i say. this thread has slow down tremendously compare to the beginning pages.

[Kaisos Erranon]

Mostly because no one cares anymore, and because the writers have gotten lazy... >_>

[xkazex]

sad, the wave has perhaps come and left.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Not while Kaisos and I are still here.

[xkazex]

haha im glad to hear that, for a moment i was wallowing in the pits of despair thinking how i had missed the big wave and only got caught in its remnants.

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

Mostly because no one cares anymore, and because the writers have gotten lazy... >_>

Aren't you a writer? :p

(And yes, I realize the irony in this post)

[xkazex]

point taken, he is after all the main writer for this project.

[ClockWorkAngel]

Shh, we aren't lazy, we're just slow. Very very slow...

S o s l o w l y . . .

I need a project, what needs to be done?

[xkazex]

that's quite down the line of speed, have we fallen behind the snail or turtle. guess there goes that moral behind the rabbit and turtle race, never thought it would come in handy, good old fables.

[Discreet]

Aren't you a writer? :p

(And yes, I realize the irony in this post)

Hypocrisy, not irony.

Shh, we aren't lazy, we're just slow. Very very slow...

S o s l o w l y . . .

I need a project, what needs to be done?

Write me a story where Itsuko tries in her ever so cheerful tone to solicit Haruki's/Kyonko's affection. And predictably, it ends with dismal results, but Itsuko continues her bright facade while she just dies a little on the inside.

Of course, I have no real authority to do this, but I demand it of you because I WANT IT.

EDIT

hi just found out about this thread this week, and i have finally caught up in 4 days of cracking through the thread i have at last reach the end. gotta say i actually learned some new terminologies going through these pages, dfc and so on. ehhh o yea i draw, but im real lazy, heres my deviant. www.tsubasa-san.deviantart.com . im thinking about drawing some kyonko pics, yes i got a case of kyonkoism. hope to get to know u all better. yoroshiku ne?

You're an excellent artist, although I wish your drawings were on some quality paper... But that's irrelevant at the moment, the skill is there, now we just need to utilize it.

We need a killer application in this project and someone who can draw definitely is one.

[xkazex]

i support, it sounds fun, we need a good laugh, or maybe its just me.

i wonder if this thread will return to its former glories.

[Discreet]

Well, don't talk about the project like it's already dead.

It's not.

[xkazex]

of course its not. the project is still spreading far. though i am in want of more kyonko literature.

[Ithekro]

Keep poking the writers.

[Kogetsu Shirogane]

Hey, kids! Remember this? It's Mysterique Sign! Shirogane version. Part TheEND!

"Approximately two-hundred-and-eighty million years ago."

{Note: As a rule, I don't alter Nagato's dialogue outside of anything gender-specific. However, I will point out that the "and" shouldn't be there.}

So began Nagato's explanation, a cosmic mystery of electro-magnetic waves. If I had to break it up and boil it down, it would be as follows.

It was the Permian or the Triassic period when [that thing] descended to Earth, and at the time, there was nothing in the world for it to possess. Losing its basis for existence, it settled into hibernation for its self-preservation until an information accumulation body with which it can exist on Earth appears.

"It did not have the means to exist on the Earth. Freezing all action, it settled into slumber."

Before long, humans were born unto the world, and humans gave birth to computer networks. Though imperfect, utilizing that primitive (according to Nagato) digital information network as a seedbed was feasible. But it was insufficient, and the thing remained at a half-awakened state. However, an incident occurred which prompted its awakening. Instead of an alarm clock, floating in the net was a single detonator. It carried information that could not be measured by normal numerical values. Data that does not exist in this planet. An alien world's information data. For the thing, that was the physical medium it had been anxiously waiting for.......

{Note: ... Is it just me, or does that seem like it'd be the backstory for a Big Bad in a video game?}

Nagato ended his speech without flourish.

Nagato, who was doing something with the president's home computer, displayed the SOS Brigade online site, and projected the damaged SOS Brigade emblem on the monitor as he spoke.

"The invocation sign drawn by Suzumiya Haruki was the catalyst. It became the door."

"...It was this SOS Brigade emblem, from before, this thing, this summoning magic circle or something?" {Note: Trying to make sense of this makes my head hurt. :heh:}

"Yes." Nagato said while nodding. "Converting this SOS Brigade crest into Earth standard, it holds approximately four-hundred-thirty-six terabytes of information."

It can't be! That image wasn't even ten kilobytes! Nagato calmly replied,

"It does not correspond to any unit on Earth."

"Amazing odds, aren't they? Because, even though it was a symbol that he had just happened to draw, it was a perfect fit. He truly is Suzumiya-san. Astronomical figures are as nothing."

Looks like Itsuko is seriously impressed. However, I was seriously afraid. But what was I afraid of?

Most of the things Haruki does come from mere ideas. Forming the SOS Brigade and assembling its members was like that. Asahina-sempai, who was perfect as a mascot character, Itsuko, who had transferred schools, and Nagato, who was there from the beginning. And as it turned out, Asahina-sempai was a time traveler, Itsuko an esper, and Nagato a pseudo-alien. He's already accomplished more than enough. Itsuko would probably say it wasn't by chance, spouting some nonsense like it was because Haruki desired it. Even though I'm starting to believe just a little, I'm still not buying it. Because I, myself, am a simple, ordinary human being. That alone should be enough counter-proof. By Itsuko's theory, it would be strange if there were no electro-magnetic wave profile hidden within me. Though there was supposed to be...

If there was another side to Haruki's actions I had thought meaningless, what then? He, himself, does not know the consequence. Like his own original letters, which he had casually pictured in his head, becoming some kind of message for aliens somewhere. Like a cat hitting a keyboard and turning its owner into a bizarre superhero with blue skin producing meaningful sentences. What kind of odds were there on such things?

That delinquent of a guy named Suzumiya Haruki, who easily bursts through the heavens breaks through the walls of probability and statistics, and unconsciously arrives at the correct solutions; I'd be better off if he had me join the SOS Brigade because he considered me some kind of errand girl. Yeah, that's it. That's totally better than thinking that I could have such an idiotic and enigmatic alter-ego. So... do I? Perhaps my background is that there is some kind of unpredictable and unusual ability within me that I do not know about. {Note: Aside from being the master of the a--pull and actually getting two of the biggest introverts to open up, nothing that I've seen yet...}

Is that why I was chosen? A secret me that I don't know about, frankly, does not exist.

What scares me is the next point.

Who am I?



I shrugged, in an imitation of Itsuko. Ah well, as she says it. I'm the one who understands my own part the most. The long and short of it is, I am the SOS Brigade's only conscience. There is no mistaking that one. My nature differs from that of the other three brigade members. I'm in the SOS Brigade for the sake of persuading Haruki to live a normal high school life. Aside from stopping his unlawful club activities, it's my duty to make him freely disband the brigade. If you really think about it, that is the fast-track to arriving at a peaceful world. No, it is the only straight track.

Rather than changing how Haruki thinks of the world, changing Haruki's inner world would be simpler and wouldn't bother anyone else.

Then again, had I not given him that strange inspiration, there might not even be an SOS Brigade. So let's see, um, it's a case-by-case thing. Show it somehow, huh. But I don't know what day that will be, and why I'd have to do such a thing.

Let's put that aside for now.

"So in the end, what was that kamadouma, really?"

If I didn't ask this right now, the story will never end. In a tone that seemed to be saying that he was really exhaling carbon dioxide, Nagato answered,

"Information life-form."

"Relative of your patron?"

"It branched off in the distant past. Though their origin is identical, these evolved differently, and went extinct."

Or so they though, but here was a survivor. It didn't have to hibernate on Earth, of all places. I wish it could've gone to bed somewhere around Neptune. It could've frozen itself so it could've fallen asleep.

To think the development of the internet would become a pseudo-demon's breeding grounds. I figured it was mainly only good for weird fan fiction where the characters in a popular series all have their genders reversed. I suddenly thought of something. Going near the bed, I asked the petite upperclassman,

"Asahina-sempai, up to what extent have the computers of the future progressed?"

"Eh..."

Asahina-sempai opened his lips and froze. At any rate, it was probably prohibited, so I wasn't expecting anything, but someone else answered."

"Such primitive information networks will no longer be in use."

Nagato said, not sensing the atmosphere. Pointing at the PC, he said,

"For organic life-forms at the level of earthlings, inventing a system that does not depend on storage media is simple."

Nagato's gaze moved horizontally. When it got to him, Asahina-sempai grew pale.

Is that so?

"That is... Umm..."

Faltering, Asahina-sempai looked down.

"I can't say..."

In a whimpering voice, he said,

"I can't affirm or deny it; I was not given the authority. I'm sorry."

No, that's okay. No need to apologize, really. I don't particularly feel that I want to know ――― Hey, Itsuko, why are you making such a disappointed face, is there something you don't like?

To save Asahina-sempai, I decided to change the subject. Hmm, what could there be, ah yes.

"Something's strange."

After waiting until I had gathered everyone's attention on myself, I continued,

"I was present when Haruki was drawing that stupid portrait, but nothing was awakened. Why didn't that thing appear around the time Haruki finished the picture?"

The one who answered was Itsuko.

"As for the clubroom, it's because it had already been transformed into differing space for some time. Varying types of elements and force fields are battling and negating each other, and in contrast, it becomes just about normal. I guess you could say it's at the saturation point. Since various things have already met the fusion capacity, there is no room for further integration."

What a theory. In other words, the Literature Club room has become some kind ot terrible den of evil? I hadn't noticed at all.

"That's because ordinary people do not have such unnecessary sensors attached. That may be, but as it is, I think it's harmless. Probably."

Ah well. However, though it's good if prevailing temperatures would just cool down, I wouldn't want to be acting strangely or clawing at my throat before I knew it. {Note: ... What? :heh:}

"No need to worry, everything will be all right. Nagato-san, Asahina-san, and I are dutifully working hard so that won't happen."

Are you sure this isn't happening because the three of you are working hard?

"If it would help you sleep better, I'll gladly take you home with me."

No thanks. That would probably only make things worse.

Smiling, Itsuko said, "Ah well," then inclined her head as she turned up both palms.

I turned my eyes back to the computer screen. As I looked at the broken down symbol of the SOS Brigade, I felt uneasy for some reason. Manipulating the mouse to move the cursor, I scrolled to the bottom of the page.

"Geh?!"

The access counter was displayed. It had somehow returned to normal, and was banging out the number of visitors. The last time I had seen it, the number wasn't even three digits. Now, our SOS Brigade Site's counter had... Ones-tens-hundreds-thousands...... Turned to almost three thousand. How could this be? Where did it get such exposure?

"It placed hyperlinks on various locations."

Nagato quietly said.

"This information life-form did that in order to multiply. Exceedingly primitive. Its method was to copy its self-information into the brains of people who saw the sign, and create restricted space. It required as many humans as possible."

"So then, the people who had seen it... The almost three thousand of them, will end up the same as the president?"

"Negative. The data of the summoning crest had been damaged. The number of people who had viewed the correct information source is not many."

Though I had been thinking that the server was likely out-of-order, that might have actually helped.

"How many people? Those idiots that clicked such a dubious link and looked fully at that marking."

"Eight people. Five of whom are North High students."

So in that case, eight more people are trapped in ocher-colored space? In spaces governed, not just by kamadouma, but all sorts of metaphors? To help them ――― well, we'll probably need to go. Itsuko asked Nagato for the addresses of those people (I wasn't surprised that Nagato knew those things somehow), and it seems like Asahina-sempai is also intending to follow the pair. If that's the case, then I guess it wouldn't do for me to not go as well. Though Haruki did the worst of it, the one who had discharged this magic-circle-like thing on the net was me, so I'd better clean up my own mess.

And also for the sake of clearing up this guilty feeling.

Setting aside the victims from North High, it seems like we'll have to catch a ride at the Shinkansen somehow for the three other people that had to be rescued.



So.

It's the beginning of the exam break. The remaining act became nothing but waiting for summer vacation in the clubroom.

As for Haruki, when I had informed him that the club president had come to school,

"Hmm. Really."

Was all he said before flying out of the room. He's probably eating his heart out at the cafeteria right about now. Itsuko and Asahina-sempai have yet to come.

By the way, in the case of the Haruki-devised SOS Brigade symbol, I had fixed it by pasting on Nagato's retake. I was able to skillfully upload it this time. Why was that, I wonder? It should be okay for people who see this to stick their eyes onto it from now on. It almost doesn't differ from Haruki's clumsy illustration, but if you compare them carefully, you'll see that "ZOZ Brigade" is displayed. Having that as the only difference, it was at the brink of whether strange things would or wouldn't appear.

An epigram for the moment: I want to impulsively click the link to an unknown address, but how?

Thinking about such things, I gazed absent-mindedly at Nagato, who had been reading a technical book lined with numbers at the table's edge. Watching Nagato's face, I happened to think of something.

Though I don't know when this person noticed Haruki's summoning image, could he be the one who destroyed the data?

One more thing; there was Kimidori Emori-sempai, the one who brought this case to us. Just a while ago, when I went to inquire at the Computer Club's room, I heard that the club president had no boyfriend. She said so herself, seeming healthy, though she was troubled about having no memory of the past several days. Not all having the appearance of having lied, she was decidedly agape when I had mentioned Kimidori-sempai's name. The president wasn't some versatile entertainer who could give such a real performance.

I was suspicious.

Was Kimidori-sempai's coming to the SOS Brigade really, truly, for a request? If you think about it, the timing was too perfect. Haruki did his prank drawing, and I had pasted it onto the site. Then some people who had seen it were taking to some information life-form in some different dimension. After inquiring about the story from the visiting Kimidori-sempai, we turned towards the club president's home. And then, somehow did some exterminating.

It was a picture-perfect scenario. The one in the heart of all this was always Nagato. Though that all-purpose alien terminal having done something to Kimidori-sempai, which resulted in him having brought his case to us, would have been an elaborate method, I wouldn't be surprised at all.

Perhaps he had thought about staging a pretend-client to relieve Haruki's boredom even just a little. If it was an incident of this level, Nagato could have finished it off by himself without having to involve any of us. Hasn't it always been like that? Without saying anything to anyone and keeping silently behind the curtains, could he have been preventing these strange things before they happened?


A breeze blew in through the window, tossing Nagato's hair and the pages of his book. His white finger pressed softly down on the margin, his white face lowered; unmoving except for his eyes, which chased the book's letters.

Or... Could it have been Nagato's wish to involve us? Living in a dreary room for years, an alien-made organic android. Only seemingly emotionless, could it be he also has them?

Those feelings of loneliness one has when secluded.


Should be obvious by now, but whatever...
Part 1 (http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=1690567&postcount=11027)
Part 2 (http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=1714633&postcount=11095)
Part 3 (http://forums.animesuki.com/showpost.php?p=1794996&postcount=11313)
{This is TheEND}

[LesAmiesNoir]

Hi. I've been following this forum for quite some time now. But so far I've had nothing to contribute so there was no meaning in posting. But I really like the idea of the project and being a writer I could add something on the literature plane.
My english isn't hundred procent perfect so I wouldn't trust myself with helping you with the writing and editing of the project. You can, however, request fanfictions of me. I'm a rather busy girl, and studies are coming around so don't request any big projects, and I'll write to the best of my capability.

[3dmadness]

hey, welcome to the cult, i mean group >>, to be honist i havent contributed that much/anything my self, i think i will get a move on and draw haruhi and kyon in X-files stile =D

[Cat Megex]

Hey, kids! Remember this? It's Mysterique Sign! Shirogane version. Part TheEND!
...
{This is TheEND}

Nice Eureka 7 reference. XD

Hi. I've been following this forum for quite some time now. But so far I've had nothing to contribute so there was no meaning in posting. But I really like the idea of the project and being a writer I could add something on the literature plane.
My english isn't hundred percent perfect so I wouldn't trust myself with helping you with the writing and editing of the project. You can, however, request fanfictions of me. I'm a rather busy girl, and studies are coming around so don't request any big projects, and I'll write to the best of my capability.

Welcome to the group. ^_^

[ClockWorkAngel]

Hypocrisy, not irony.



Write me a story where Itsuko tries in her ever so cheerful tone to solicit Haruki's/Kyonko's affection. And predictably, it ends with dismal results, but Itsuko continues her bright facade while she just dies a little on the inside.

Of course, I have no real authority to do this, but I demand it of you because I WANT IT.



Alright, gunna go work on it XD, it sounds fun :D

[xkazex]

catz what happen to the bold green letters of the welcoming committee?

contributions contributions hmmmm blast i need a scanner...

[Forceflow]

I would just like to point out that the latest set of C74 scans are coming in; and lo and behold we have our snarkiness on one. :D

DDL (http://www.mediafire.com/?fjbdfxkev7v)

I would just like to point out the obvious fact that this link is NSFW and NSFB (Not Suitable for Beanbag).

You all probably know where this is going. :p

[Cat Megex]

I would just like to point out that the latest set of C74 scans are coming in; and lo and behold we have our snarkiness on one. :D

DDL (http://www.mediafire.com/?fjbdfxkev7v)

I would just like to point out the obvious fact that this link is NSFW and NSFB (Not Suitable for Beanbag).

You all probably know where this is going. :p

That was...weird. Not being able to read moonspeak (read: Japanese), it just seemed kinda random to me.

Also, I do have to lean towards the beanbag side of things and say that Kyonko's breasts should NOT be that large.

Itsuko's, on the other hand...

[3dmadness]

I quickly did a X-files haurhi/kyon pic

http://media5.dropshots.com/photos/228400/20080820/231806.jpg


Sorry about the bad cropping, my scanner was being difficult. If anyone knows how to stop it doing this please tell me, its got me stumped :confused:

[xkazex]

yay more kyonko stuff. as for 3dmadness try 1. aligning the paper to the indication lines or change the settings. each models different so try them anyways.

[beanbrew]

I would just like to point out that the latest set of C74 scans are coming in; and lo and behold we have our snarkiness on one. :D

DDL (http://www.mediafire.com/?fjbdfxkev7v)

I would just like to point out the obvious fact that this link is NSFW and NSFB (Not Suitable for Beanbag).

You all probably know where this is going. :p

I've inspired a warning label. I'm so proud.:smile:

[xkazex]

haha NSFB does that mean no dfc's and major melons? intense. very intense.

[beanbrew]

I probably shouldn't bring it up again, but after examining some Nagato figurines for "research" purposes, I'm going to disagree with Kaisos and insist that Kyonko be less than or equal to Nagato in chest size.

[xkazex]

i go with equal, i mean how much less can u get than yuki size ... and it contributes to the irresistible adorableness of kyonko.

[Kaisos Erranon]

I probably shouldn't bring it up again, but after examining some Nagato figurines for "research" purposes, I'm going to disagree with Kaisos and insist that Kyonko be less than or equal to Nagato in chest size.

Shut up, you like seven-year olds.

Kyon-chan is a B-cup. End of story. OVER AND DONE WITH.


(No offense, beanbag... >_>)

[xkazex]

hes firm with his ideals. beanbag ur revolution is not going to bring a change. quite regrettable

[Ithekro]

Kyon-chan is average. B-cup equals average.

[Roger Rambo]

I probably shouldn't bring it up again, but after examining some Nagato figurines for "research" purposes, I'm going to disagree with Kaisos and insist that Kyonko be less than or equal to Nagato in chest size.
SPARTAN! This discussion is over when I say it's over. And THIS IS OVER!

Prepare for DISCIPLINE!

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4798/zzzzzzzzsk1.jpg

[beanbrew]

Shut up, you like seven-year olds.

Kyon-chan is a B-cup. End of story. OVER AND DONE WITH.


(No offense, beanbag... >_>)

I like eight-year olds.

[Kaisos Erranon]

I like eight-year olds.

-_- You're not making things look any better for yourself, you know...

[HikariNiwa]

I've inspired a warning label. I'm so proud.:smile:

Congratulations. (Gives Beanbag-sama a cookie)

Kyon-chan is average. B-cup equals average.

Not where I'm from apparently... C-cups were the smallest I ever saw on average. (Then again, Kyonko lives in Japan...)

SPARTAN! This discussion is over when I say it's over. And THIS IS OVER!

Prepare for DISCIPLINE!

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/4798/zzzzzzzzsk1.jpg

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I like eight-year olds.

For me, I prefer girls six to 12.

[Kaisos Erranon]

Not where I'm from apparently... C-cups were the smallest I ever saw on average. (Then again, Kyonko lives in Japan...)

You must live in The Land of Large Breasts, then...

Besides, the Japanese C-Cup IS our B-Cup, so she's average anyway.

However, she is smaller and shorter than (original) Haruhi, and many of her female classmates, so she has a slight inferiority complex. Won't admit to it, though.

She's so cute! <3

[Roger Rambo]

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Do you want more Spartan?


For me, I prefer girls six to 12.Quick question here for everyone. Is it just this board, this Anime, or this particular project that's attracted all the pedophiles?

[Kaisos Erranon]

Quick question here for everyone. Is it just this board, this Anime, or this particular project that's attracted all the pedophiles?

This particular project.

(I'm attracted to girls 13-21. Not quite as broken as the others, but...)

[ClockWorkAngel]

WE all have our tastes :).

Many of us are loli-cons tho :p

[Cat Megex]

(I'm attracted to girls 13-21. Not quite as broken as the others, but...)

More 13-30/40 for me.

[xkazex]

so many pedophiles, young children who step in this thread should be cautious.. real cautious

[Ithekro]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2/Mikataiyou/Even%20more%20recent/thirdfacepalm001.gif
So. Many. Uses.

[DJ_RockmanX]

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e2/Mikataiyou/Even%20more%20recent/thirdfacepalm001.gif
So. Many. Uses.

Thank you. I've been waiting for that.

Now where's the productivity around here?

[Kaisos Erranon]

Thank you. I've been waiting for that.

Now where's the productivity around here?

Right here, boss:

I had no idea what Haruki had been doing, but he returned completely empty-handed.

“Um, what happened to the baseball equipment?” I asked.

Haruki chuckled awkwardly. “Well, let's not talk about that now... the match is coming up, so we had better practice! Practice!”

Don't we need equipment to do that, Haruki? "So when's the match gonna be held?"

"This Sunday."

"That's the day after tomorrow!! Isn't that way too soon!?"

"Eh, I already registered. Oh, but don't worry, I've decided the team will be called 'The SOS Brigade'."

I felt exasperated. "...So where are you going to find the other team members?"

"We'll just grab anyone who looks like they need something to do."

...Are you serious?

With one exception, anyone targeted by Haruki never turns out to be normal. That rare exception would be me, and I had no intention on getting acquainted with even more mysterious people.

"Look, just... you stay put.” I said. “I'll take care of choosing the team. First..."

I thought of the guys in Class 1-5... and realized the only one I ever talked to was Haruki. Putting aside this depressing thought, I thought of the other girls... The only ones who would come at once without hesitation... That'll be Taniguchi and Kunikida, I guess.

Hearing my suggestion, Haruki replied with, "Those'll do."

He seems to treat his classmates as mere objects.

"It's better than none."

Anyone else would probably flee at the mention of Suzumiya Haruki's name. Now, where to find the other two players?

"Excuse me," Asahina-senpai politely raised his arm and said, "If it's possible for my friend..."

"Then that'll do." Haruki responded immediately. Looks like anyone was fine.

Maybe for you it doesn't matter who it is, but I was concerned. Asahina-senpai's friend? When and where did he make this friend?

Asahina-senpai must have noticed my concerned look, because he said "It's fine. This person...is a friend I've met in class."

At this moment, Itsuko spoke up as well. "In that case, maybe I should bring a friend too? Actually, I know someone who's interested in our club..."

I shut her up before she could finish. There's no need to bring your girlfriends over, they're going to be total freaks anyway.

"I'll think of someone." If there was no selection criteria, then there is someone I know who would be very interested in playing baseball with us.

Haruki nodded his head as he looked out the window, pleased. "Then let us begin our training! We start now!"

“Haruki, I already said this. We need equipment to play baseball, equipment that we don't have!” I waved around the flyer. “Besides, this is a softball tournament. Even if you could find baseball equipment, it'd be useless!”

“Which is exactly why I have formulated my new plan.”

“What plan?”

In answer, Haruki pointed out the window at the track field.

Do our best! The sound of the Girl's Softball Team yelling their slogan could be heard outside the window.


-------


I know it's awkward to suddenly change the subject like this, (I'm sorry) but I have to let you know. Besides myself, the other four people gathered here in this room, for several reasons, are not normal in any sense of the word. The only person who isn't aware of this... is Haruki.

The other three have all willingly revealed their identities to me, and, apparently, 'hope that I would understand'. If my common sense was, say, like the Earth, then the three of them would be as incomprehensible as objects revolving beyond the orbit of Pluto. However, since the end of last month, I've gone through... certain experiences that have led me to believe that they might be telling the truth. I didn't want to know the truth, but ever since I was forced into Haruki's stupid club, I don't think that small wish of mine has ever been granted.

To put it in simpler terms, the reason Asahina-senpai, Nagato, and Itsuko attended this school was all because of Haruki, whom they all seem to hold a particular interest in.

To me, he was just a hyperactive idiot with too much time on his hands, but I was the only one who thought that way. Lately though, I myself am having doubts about that...

But I can guarantee that it wasn't me that was going crazy.

It was the whole world that was going crazy.


------


Thanks to the events I mentioned above, I was now standing in the dusty track field with the other out-of-this-world members of the brigade.

We were currently surrounded by the Softball Team, who looked stunned at the sudden arrival of a mysterious club, all of us dressed in normal school uniforms, with the exception of one butler. How could they not be stunned?

Not to mention the tall boy who appeared to be the leader of the club had started yelling at them.

“...And that's the story! So, let us use your equipment and the track field!” yelled Haruki.

“Um...” The captain of the Softball Team raised her hand. “You didn't tell us any 'story'. You just walked over here and said that.”

[Editor's note: This is damned funny if you get it and know the trope I'm invoking here, but I think the team captain's reaction is too vague for the joke to actually carry... help me make it make more sense here, please.]

“Exactly!” exclaimed Haruki, whose voice was so loud that it could rouse the dead. “So, I propose a trade!”

He grabbed Asahina-senpai and shoved him in front of the softball team captain.

“One, high-quality butler for your softball equipment! Sure, he still needs a bit of house training, but soon he'll be accustomed to all your needs, however perverted they might be!”

The softball team just stared at us in sheer disbelief. As I bore their pitiful gazes, I recognized one as a former classmate of mine. Great, now my reputation is going to be even more ruined.

I walked up to Haruki and touched his arm.

“Hmm? What is it? Can't you see I'm trying to conduct a business transaction here?”

I averted my gaze. “Please, just... let me deal with this... So stop, okay...?”

“H-huh?” Haruki sounded a bit shocked as he let go of Asahina-senpai. “Well, I guess if you think you have something better to offer than this, then go ahead, but...”

Ignoring him, I went up to my former classmate [Ed note: Who needs a name].

“Please,” I said. “Can I talk to you alone about this?”

Two minutes later, behind the storage shed...

“What's up, Kyon-chan?”

Please stop calling me that.

“Geez, I knew you were weird, but I never thought I'd see you hanging out with Suzumiya Haruki...”

...Exactly how far has his notoriety reached? “Look, can you guys just play along and let us practice? He signed us up for a tournament the day after tomorrow and we're totally unprepared... He won't listen to me, and there's nothing we can do to stop him, so please, let us use the track field and your equipment to practice...”

My former classmate looked thoughful. “I dunno... we have a game next week, so we have to get ready, and I don't even know if the captain would listen to me...”

Fortunately, I have a secret weapon. “If you let us do this, I can personally promise you that Haruki will never come near any of the members of the softball team ever again.”


------


Another two minutes later...

“I got us what you wanted.”

“Wow! That sure was effective! Did you offer her your body?”

“...” I kicked Haruki in the shin.

And so our rigorous training for a baseball tournament we never wanted to enter into began.

[DJ_RockmanX]

Right here, boss:

*snip*

Why didn't you post this sooner? :eyebrow:

[Kaisos Erranon]

Why didn't you post this sooner? :eyebrow:

I wasn't actually done with that until now?

There were problems.

[Ithekro]

Waiting for a dramatic moment?

[DJ_RockmanX]

I wasn't actually done with that until now?

There were problems.

Looked fine to me.

Waiting for a dramatic moment?

I'm more inclined to go with this explanation.

[xkazex]

banzai to the writer for his hard work.

[Kaisos Erranon]

Looked fine to me.

Problems = me being really lazy and losing hope in the series.

banzai to the writer for his hard work.

Gee, thanks.


Now, another problem:

The Kamigahara Pirates are real. Should we genderbend them too?

[beanbrew]

For me, I prefer girls six to 12.

I'm going with 8 to 16, mostly.

This particular project.

(I'm attracted to girls 13-21. Not quite as broken as the others, but...)

[Roger Rambo]

This particular project.

(I'm attracted to girls 13-21. Not quite as broken as the others, but...)
It's not really pedophilia if the girls have hit puberty. During the middle ages girls that age would get married off.

I'm going with 8 to 16, mostly.
Just as long as they're built like 8 year olds?

[Kaisos Erranon]

It's not really pedophilia if the girls have hit puberty. Still jail bait though...

I have my own moral boundaries that I don't cross. Still won't keep me out of prison.

[Roger Rambo]

I have my own moral boundaries that I don't cross. Still won't keep me out of prison.It'll keep you out of prison if you stick to women.

[HikariNiwa]

I'm going with 8 to 16, mostly.

Well, if you want the full truth, I prefer females ages six to forty-two, from DFC to an H-cup (possibly larger). Of course, that all becomes worthless if she's ugly. (And it has to be within the realm of manga)

Basically, Roger Rambo's discipline was actually quite appealing to me.

But not to worry Beanbag-sama, I still prefer DFC Kyonko over all others!:p