Kokoro Connect [Light Novel]

[Sumeragi]

What do you mean it spread fast? I had it all this time.

[Lantern]

Oh I only meant to say I been seeing it everywhere.
I saw it the first day it came out,
Then the second day it showed up on another forum I always visit, then another, then another...
And now here

Spreads like virus XDD

Not that I'm complaining.

[Jmac]

Aww, I can't get enough of these two!

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Well, that feel good feeling didn't last long, now everyone is getting in touch with their inner child 24/7.

[frivolity]

So... any updates about the events in Vol 9?

[Lantern]

Originally Posted by frivolity

So... any updates about the events in Vol 9?

I have read quite a few things from 2ch discussions.

Besides from:

Spoiler for Asu Random:

<Heartseed> allying with CRC against the final crisis.

We also get some nice reveal about:

Spoiler for Heartseed:

The origins of the Heartseeds.

Meet <Number Three>, the mastermind and big bad behind everything up till now.
And say hello to his army of Heartseeds too, minus the one we know.
And let's not forget our little friend, <Number Two>.

Now I see why the title illustration of the cover is a bunch of heart seeds. So many Heartseeds

This time,

Spoiler for gimmicks, WARNING: MAJOR SPOILER:

There is no true gimmicks for the CRC, because this is no longer a single group event but rather a school-wide crisis where all first and second year students outside CRC were involved. Students are being mind-screwed with gimmicks both we've seen and have not seen before.

I read glimpse of <Number Three>'s plan to turn the whole school into a isolated experiment ground, something called "Isolated Dimension". He even manipulated time for that. It was planned long before the start of the series' event. I'm still not sure what it does as I will need to actually read it. But one thing's certain is that it ain't gonna be anything nice for the students.

<Heartseed> is working against them. I'm speculating that he used to be one of them and was either a scout or that he was curious/have doubts. So he got permission to observe a small group of students in advance. However, ever since his interaction with the CRC he made a heel face turn and decided to defect, and planned his move somewhere after the events of Vol 1 (Notice his gimmicks are all aimed towards specific members of the group) in hopes that the CRC will be able to serve as the spiritual support of the whole school while enduring the inevitable crisis and <Heartseed> himself would deal with <Number Three>'s faction.

Finally, the most heart-gripping crisis: CRC members' memories of each other are being erased over time.

Chihiro also entrusted something to Taichi's imouto. We don't know what it is yet.

Note that my spoiler may not be accurate as this are only bits of discussion I put together and I still haven't read it myself yet.

The finale will be a long wait. 2013 Spring. Sigh. This is worse than waiting for Michi to air

Originally Posted by Jmac

Aww, I can't get enough of these two!

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Well, that feel good feeling didn't last long, now everyone is getting in touch with their inner child 24/7.

Is is just me or does anyone find Yui's way of wearing her scarf incredibly cute? XD

[frivolity]

Huh, so the volume ends with something along the lines of

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

To be continued... ?

[skullheart]

Question about nise random

Spoiler for spoiler:

Does the 2 new members know about the supernatural events that occured before to the pentagon?

[Lantern]

Originally Posted by frivolity

Huh, so the volume ends with something along the lines of

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

Spoiler:

To be continued... ?

*Nods*

Originally Posted by skullheart

Question about nise random

Spoiler for spoiler:

Does the 2 new members know about the supernatural events that occured before to the pentagon?

Spoiler:

Yes.

Spoiler:

... Because Heartseed went ahead and confronted the two individually himself.

But not before joining the CRC though.

[skullheart]

Any word on the status of the chinese translation? is it still being translated?

[starlol]

I heard that some people at baidu tieba will continue to translate volume 7. Not really sure though.

[Lantern]

Originally Posted by starlol

I heard that some people at baidu tieba will continue to translate volume 7. Not really sure though.

I can confirm that it is true. The team consist of 6 people. One of them being the translator for Vol 6, but due to busy schedule he needed the help of the other 5. Well, actually the whole team was pretty busy to begin with. But hell, there was nobody else (The original translator of v7 ditched the project). So might as well make some progress over none.

It will certainly take some time to finish translating. But I can assure you it is progressing... albeit slowly.

The last update was that chapter 5 should be done in coming weeks. No guarantees though...

[Lantern]

For BT English readers,

Volume 3 Kako Random - Translation Complete

Now to fix those namings and grammars and wordings and structures and meanings and... (explodes)

Everyone in the CRC is so much better in the novel.

Aoki more manly.

Yui more determined.

Taichi doesn't give in without a fight.

And Iori, so much more complicated

Hm? What of Inaban? Well, she's awesome as always but this volume doesn't much to do with her- *Is Shot and Buried*

[skullheart]

Still wished the author talked about Taichi's past. He does seem like a mystery in that way.

[miow]

Spoiler for Asu random:

I found an illustration of Inaba having a short hair.(same length as Taichi!) I can see how the story can get very serious in the new volume...

[Mimi-Senpai]

Originally Posted by miow

Spoiler for Asu random:

I found an illustration of Inaba having a short hair.(same length as Taichi!) I can see how the story can get very serious in the new volume...

Spoiler for this one?:

I can't confirm it

[Sumeragi]

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Short Haired Girl

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If that is Inaban.....

NNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skullheart]

No captions or anything for that pic?

Spoiler for unknown pic of possibly inaba:

for sure the pic is a girl by noticing the bow. But this could be a random character since the novel does show us pics of minor characters

[Mimi-Senpai]

Originally Posted by skullheart

No captions or anything for that pic?

Spoiler for unknown pic of possibly inaba:

for sure the pic is a girl by noticing the bow. But this could be a random character since the novel does show us pics of minor characters

Welp, looks kinda like... Misaki Osawa

Spoiler for somewhat:

Spoiler for Second:

However, if is Inaba, then...Yeah.

[Lantern]

Pretty sure that's Ozawa Misaki from Clip Time and Cameo in Kako (possessed by #2)
She's the lesbian who has a crush on Yui in the Clip Time SS.

Spoiler for Ozawa in Asu:

She got owned big time in Asu, by #3.
"Force Termination" aka force memory wipe, much like what happened to Taichi and Yui in Nise Random.

[DrRadioNeon]

I still can't fathom why the author introduced us to yuri characters if he doesn't do anything with them in romance development with their love interests ( not saying I'm a yuri fan but come on...) ;.;