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さっく♥ゆうきゃん♥ほそやん
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: in the land down under...
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The potential pairings appeared ages ago...but I'll leave my comments for another time.
Quote:
Originally Posted by omimon
Oh I might as well point out that I'll be INCREDIBLY pissed if they pull the fake-boyfriend route two volumes in a roll. Of course I know no author would be insane enough to do that but I just want to throw that out there.
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From this interview:
Brief summary for 1-3, and detailed summary for 4
Spoiler for vol.07 ch1-3:
NB: Kyosuke spends a lot of the novel wondering
(1) why he's so against Kirino having a BF, and
(2) what his relationship with Kuroneko is like now, one year after they first met...
He seems to have resolved both of these by the end of the novel
ch1
A talent agent who was also a famous former model, Misaki-san, has scouted Kirino and wants her to go overseas. Kirino didn't want to, so she ended up saying she had a BF, which Misaki asked her to prove. Kirino asks Kyosuke to pretend to be her boyfriend. Things wind up such that they go on a date (which Misaki spying on them), and are seen by Manami, Kanako and Bridget, and Kuroneko. The chapter ends with Kirino declaring that "next time, I'll ask my real boyfriend".
ch2
Ayase, who has heard from Manami, calls Kyosuke to her place to get him to explain.
(Towards the end of this encounter, Kyosuke states clearly (in his head) that he thinks that he and Ayase aren't compatible with each other.)
After club activity during the summer (the Game Research society), he has to clear the air with Kuroneko, and comes to a strange realisation that has him at a loss for words at one point (p.113): "There's no way I can say that it's like a boyfriend trying to give excuses to his girlfriend for cheating on her!"
There is also a little segment where Akagi calls him for advice, having ended up in his sister's closet whilst his sister (unawares) is playing ero-games in her room. This has Kyosuke wondering about his relationship with his sister, and about what to make of her declaration at the end of 1st chapter.
ch3
Comiket preparation and the actual event.
LOTS of Kyosuke x Kuroneko hints (I can elaborate if people want)
His relationship with Kirino is compared to Sena and her brother's.
=> and Sena notes that she brought up the boyfriend to make her brother pay more attention to her (i.e. be more concerned about what she is doing). Kyosuke seems to think that this is probably what Kirino was doing.
The maid from the previous comiket...drew a BrotherxSister doujinshi with Kyosuke and Kirino as inspiration...LOL Can't wait to see Kyosuke's reaction animated!
Spoiler for summary for vol.7ch4:
ch4
Still at comiket, they meet Mikagami Kouki, who turns out to be someone Kirino knows from work.
Kyosuke's reaction to Mikagami is interesting:
- At first, he's worried because it seems like a repeat of the previous comiket
- Then, it turns to jealousy because Mikagami is the same age as him, but is a successful jewelery designer
- Finally, after seeing them go crazy with otaku-talk, he reflects that perhaps Mikagami is someone who can take his place in Kirino's otaku life.
And the last one is what Kuroneko guesses when they walk home together the next day. Which Kyosuke does not deny. Their first important talk occurs here (they touch on the "curse" and Kyosuke asks again "Do you like me?"), with them standing outside the Kousaka house.
Kirino interrupts them in the middle of it (giving Kyosuke a huge shock), wondering what they're doing outside. Kuroneko decides to finish what she wanted to say (she basically told Kyosuke that, after learning from someone, she's going to try and get what she wants, even though she knows that getting one thing may lose her the other).
They go inside for the party to celebrate a successful comiket, but the atmosphere between Kirino, Kyosuke and Kuroneko is incredibly bad. Kyosuke doesn't know what to say - he doesn't seem to understand it himself - when Saori asks about it...but she somehow manages to salvage the situation a bit...
...until Kirino declares that she has something to say, which turns out to be "Mikagami is my boyfriend."
Kuroneko snaps and leaves. Kyosuke decides to follow up on Kirino's declaration instead of going after Kuroneko (it's suggested that he's wondering why Kirino chose this moment to make this declaration, but he just asks "what is this about? This "going out with Mikagami" thing etc)
Kirino snaps at him and runs off to her room...
Kyosuke promises Saori that he'll try and fix things, but has absolutely no confidence in doing so. (This scene would be for the Kyosuke x Saori shippers, if there are any)
And Kirino brings Mikagami home the next day.
Kyosuke's pissed, but doesn't know why. His mum and Kirino kick him out of the living room after he is rude to Mikagami. After consulting his father, Kyosuke figures that they feel the same way (and this while he has to defend Mikagami, whom his father is just completely against): that he doesn't want to hand his sister over to anyone.
The reason he ends up giving is that, no matter what his relationship with her is like (he thinks she still hates him/thinks he's stupid etc), he's worried because she's his sister. She's his precious sister, and he doesn't want anyone else to take her away unless that person can prove that he cares for Kirino more than Kyosuke does.
Kirino breaks down and starts sobbing and yelling at him ("Why now, why so late!?" and "how can you say that when you always hang out with that plain girl and the black one?!"), leading up to "It was a lie! Everything was a lie!"
Mikagami confirms that it was a lie, that Kirino asked him to pretend to be her boyfriend, probably because she wanted her brother to be more aware of her.
Which Kirino denies...though she has difficulty saying what she wants. So Kyosuke tells her not to worry about it if she can't.
Their mum walks in at this point (she'd left to buy something), resulting in the misunderstanding "Are you finally making a move on your sister!" In the explanation that follows, we find out that Mikagami
(1) has been asked by Misaki to break the relationship between the siblings - yeah, she realised they were siblings because of the incredibly bad acting - and
(2) is in love with a 2D character...
Kirino makes up with and has a long talk (over the phone) with Kuroneko. The celebration party is re-scheduled for the day after next.
But the day after the phone call (the day before the party), Kuroneko calls Kyosuke out to "the place of the promise" and confesses formally.
=>この告白から数日後ー
俺と黒猫は、恋人になった。
Several days after this confession...
Kuroneko and I started going out.
Last edited by karice67; 2010-11-11 at 10:30.
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