Episodes

1 - The other side of the path. The promised place.

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    Last year, the Society for the Study
    of Modern Visual Culture's attempts to recruit
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    new members ended in absolute failure.
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    What do you feel was the
    cause of this failure?
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    I guess it was all the cosplay
    outfits I brought...
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    And how I wore them during my heroics!
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    That's right. So this year you
    won't be doing either.
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    First, Ohno-sempai will not be cosplaying
    during our recruitment efforts.
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    And Kuchiki-sempai will not
    be allowed to be present.
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    I'm not even allowed to be there?
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    I had to do what I did to
    catch the cosplay thieves!
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    It's true that there was an
    attempt to steal the costumes.
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    But in the end, that
    meant that nobody joined.
SIGN    The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture
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    So these are my orders as circle president.
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    If we don't get any new members
    for two straight years in a row,
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    we might end up getting shut down.
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    Oh no. What an awful location.
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    But Ogiue-san...
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    It looks like a rabbit hutch!
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    Uwah!
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    We did get one new member.
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    Did you make her walk around
    campus wearing that?
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    Ogiue Chika is my waifu!
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    That's all she wants to say.
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    Now, now...
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    Kuchiki-kun, I'm confiscating your cellphone.
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    You're cosplaying anyway.
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    We just need to make sure
    Kuchiki-kun doesn't.
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    That's true, but...
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    I'd feel bad making Sue be the only one.
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    That's a lie.
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    I'd hoped we could get another guy to
    join, but I guess that's not happening.
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    Why is that?
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    The only guy we've got right
    now is Kuchiki-sempai.
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    I want another one to keep an eye on him.
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    He's been treating this place like
    his harem, come to think of it.
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    Oh, but if a guy joined...
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    Sasahara-san graduated.
    Wouldn't he be worried?
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    What are you talking about?
    That doesn't matter!
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    Are you confident about that?
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    No, I mean...
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    You're working hard at getting new members.
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    Are you trying to imply that's not like me?
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    That's not true.
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    Well, wouldn't it bother you?
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    If, a few years down the road, you heard
    that the circle you were in shut down.
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    Yeah, I guess that would bother me.
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    Good luck, Miss President!
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    You don't need to tell me.
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    By the way, Ogiue-san.
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    Yes?
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    I read the draft you gave me.
    Can I tell you what I thought?
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    Yes!
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    Please.
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    I stayed up all night fixing the draft.
    I don't have confidence right now.
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    Confidence isn't...
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    Hey, Sue! Those were for Comic Festival!
    Where did you get them?
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    Oh, did you find those in the circle room?
SIGN    By Your Side
SIGN    Alphabet Play
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    And those are mine! You're doing
    this deliberately again, aren't you?
SIGN    Shiiou University Manga Research circle
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    Oh, how's it going over there?
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    We're right next to you. Just look.
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    I'm not good with that blonde
    girl. And I know she'd find me.
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    We've got a lot of girls here this year.
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    If I see any really weird ones,
    want me to send them to you?
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    Huh?
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    Maybe with a nasty look in their eyes.
    Someone who'd jump out a second story window.
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    I'll pass.
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    Was that Yabusaki-san?
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    Yabu?
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    She was just bragging.
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    They must have a lot of new members.
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    Okay, it's time for me to get started too.
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    Okay!
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    This year I'm going to do this the right
    way. I'm going to do what I can do.
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    It's the only thing I can do.
SIGN    Genshiken Second Generation
SIGN    The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture Drawing Demonstration
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    Looking good!
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    The stage is set!
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    All that's left is for
    me, the main character,
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    to finish things off with my "Ramen Angel
    Pretty Menma - Elect Makeup Version" cosplay!
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    There's two more pieces
    of clothing to get rid of.
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    Sue's showing her cold face!
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    Wait! No! This was expensive!
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    Damn it! Kasukabe-sempai!
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    The other side of the
    path. The promised place.
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    I'm Yajima.
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    I'm Yoshitake!
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    You did it, Ogiue-san! Two new members!
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    Yeah...
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    Did you two join after you saw her drawing?
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    Yeah. I'm an artist too so I was impressed.
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    Yeah! All those people watching and
    she didn't look embarrassed at all.
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    Not many people could draw a picture of Yuki
    x Shige with so many people looking at them!
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    No, that wasn't quite like that...
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    No, no! That was totally Yuki x Shige!
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    I knew these are the kind of girls
    who my drawing would attract.
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    I guess it doesn't matter. I don't
    like the way Kuchiki-sempai is looking.
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    More for my harem!
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    Forty-five grams of confusion,
    and five grams of embarrassment.
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    Ogiue-san's a proffesional manga artist!
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    Seriously? Where?
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    No, I just have one work published.
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    And she has a boyfriend!
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    Y-Your life sounds really nice.
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    So do you, Ohno-sempai!
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    And her boyfriend's a manga editor!
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    He's got a real job!
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    Do you really get work
    by sleeping with someone?
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    The protagonist gets everything!
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    I don't even feel like answering that.
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    The president is my waifu!
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    Forget that, Sue.
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    If you love her that much,
    you should marry her!
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    Way to go, Sue!
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    Um...
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    May I come in for a while?
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    Of course, come in.
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    You can sit here.
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    What's your name?
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    Um, Hato.
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    Kuchiki-sempai is scared.
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    Do normal pretty girls scare him?
    I guess he is an otaku.
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    Hey. Can I ask a question, everybody?
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    How many of the girls here
    could be described as "rotten?"
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    Does that sort of topic bother you?
    If it does, I won't bring it up.
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    I'm fine.
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    She was just talking about Yuki x Shige...
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    I'm alright, I mean.
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    I like it.
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    Great, Hato-chan!
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    So while I'm introducing myself, why don't
    I hand out some of my favorite BL doujinshi?
[07:43] ---
    Do you carry those everywhere?
[07:44] ---
    I just happened to have some today. I hope
    you don't mind which character's on top.
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    If we do, are you going to quit?
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    Don't worry, I'm okay
    with almost any pairing.
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    I do not object to their marriage.
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    Seriously? Personally, I like it when one
    swears an oath of fealty to the other.
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    This is...
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    No! At this rate we won't even be an otaku
     circle, we'll end up as a rotten girl circle!
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    I'm sorry, Sasahara-san.
[08:07] ---
    Maybe I did something wrong... Or maybe it was
     going to end up this way no matter what!
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    Can I see them too?
[08:12] ---
    Here you go.
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    Is that a wig?
[08:24] ---
    Um, I...
[08:25] ---
    No, I mean I...
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    A guy? Dressed as a girl?
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    I see! That dedication to shaving!
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    The loose-fitting clothes that hide
    the figure! That natural makeup!
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    And voice training to sound like a girl!
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    My extensive training
    means I can tell for sure!
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    She did everything she could
    do before she came here today!
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    So she could talk with us!
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    Welcome to Genshiken, Hato-kun!
[09:06] ---
    Can you tell us your full name?
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    Hato Kenjiro!
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    I've got the perfect cosplay for you.
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    Um, I don't really do that.
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    No, now's not the time for that.
[09:22] ---
    This is gonna be fun!
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    If she loves these things...
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    I must summon Tanaka-san!
[09:29] ---
    Why is Kuchiki-sempai smiling harder
    than I've ever seen him smile this year?
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    I knew it. This is a circle of weirdos.
[09:39] ---
    Ogiue hates otaku!
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    She especially hates otaku women!
[09:46] ---
    This circle's a little
    crazier than I anticipated.
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    I guess university circles are like that.
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    How did you know?
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    "Rararame-san."
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    Um, well...
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    Should I play along?
[10:05] ---
    "Don't say my name like you're
    singing in a musical." Was that it?
[10:10] ---
    "I'm sorry, I bit my tongue."
[10:11] ---
    "No. That was deliberate."
[10:13] ---
    "I blit my twongue!"
[10:14] ---
    So we're doing the whole thing then.
[10:16] ---
    Bye.
[10:17] ---
    Did you come here just to do that?
[10:24] ---
    What? This is from Ogiue-san!
[10:28] ---
    You want me to answer it?
[10:30] ---
    Hello?
[10:32] ---
    Yes, this is Madarame.
[10:34] ---
    Madarame-sempai?
[10:37] ---
    Sue told me to pick up.
[10:39] ---
    No, no permanent damage.
[10:41] ---
    "Your house is haunted!"
[10:42] ---
    A welcome party?
[10:51] ---
    Okay, you're out of time!
[10:52] ---
    You think too much, Madarame-san.
[10:54] ---
    But I can't tell! Is one
    of them really a guy?
[10:58] ---
    Yup.
[10:59] ---
    I'll ask again at the end of the
    party, so pay close attention!
[11:04] ---
    Give me a break. I'm
    terrible at these things.
[11:10] ---
    I really can't tell.
[11:12] ---
    I kind of like him.
[11:14] ---
    He'd totally be the bottom.
[11:16] ---
    Nobody from Sasahara's year came, so why us?
[11:20] ---
    Kugayama had work.
[11:22] ---
    I'm sorry. I thought it would
    be better to have guys here.
[11:25] ---
    I had no luck with
    Sasahara-san or the others.
[11:28] ---
    I see.
[11:30] ---
    Okay, off we go to President Ogiue's house!
[11:32] ---
    We'll drink at her house!
[11:33] ---
    What are you talking about? We were
    going to go to a bar somewhere!
[11:37] ---
    It'll be more fun this way,
    and it's really close!
[11:40] ---
    But Madarame-sempai's house
    is five minutes on foot!
[11:43] ---
    My house?
[11:44] ---
    No, we should go to the
    current president's house!
[11:46] ---
    You should have at least warned me!
[11:47] ---
    Hello there. I'm Sasahara.
[11:50] ---
    I got these at a convienence store.
[11:52] ---
    There's the editor!
[11:54] ---
    So can you tell, Sasahara?
[11:56] ---
    Well, it's not that hard.
[11:59] ---
    Seriously?
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    You're out of time.
[12:04] ---
    I don't know.
[12:06] ---
    He's totally going to say it's me.
[12:08] ---
    I like what I'm seeing!
[12:09] ---
    
[12:10] ---
    Hello there.
[12:11] ---
    What? Is it all otaku women this year?
[12:15] ---
    Welcome, you two! Sorry for dragging you here.
[12:18] ---
    Otaku women and rotten girls are different!
[12:21] ---
    I'm sorry. I don't understand at all.
[12:23] ---
    
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    Hey, you're dressed like a girl.
[12:26] ---
    Only one glance...
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    Way to go, Saki-san!
[12:28] ---
    What are you talking about?
[12:29] ---
    We were just having a quiz about that!
    Madarame-san couldn't tell at all!
[12:33] ---
    
[12:34] ---
    You haven't changed a bit.
     You watch too much anime.
[12:40] ---
    I can't really disagree.
[12:49] ---
    Hey the--
[12:52] ---
    Is this like a game where
    I'm supposed to ignore her?
[12:55] ---
    You may not know it, but you guessed right!
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    Jeez. Recruitment time is over.
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    Don't make her cosplay all the time.
[13:03] ---
    No, we still don't know for sure.
[13:06] ---
    There have been people in the
    past who've joined and then quit.
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    And some people like you have
    come from other circles.
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    So as president, we need you to do all
     you can to make the three of them stay.
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    Hato-kun especially! Don't let her get away!
[13:29] ---
    You just want to make her
    cosplay, Ohno-sempai!
[13:33] ---
    What's wrong, Sue?
[13:35] ---
    My butt's cold.
[13:38] ---
    I let you wear panties and
    stockings, unlike the anime,
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    so it should be a little easier.
[13:44] ---
    I'm not saying a word.
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    Then why not sit in a chair?
[13:48] ---
    As president, she says...
[13:50] ---
    But I'm not good with that stuff.
[13:53] ---
    I knew that, and that's why I drew
    a picture for our recruitment.
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    Yo.
[13:59] ---
    Hey.
[14:00] ---
    Hato-kun probably changes somewhere
    before she comes to the circle.
[14:04] ---
    I would imagine so.
[14:06] ---
    I've never seen Hato-chan around campus.
[14:08] ---
    And I only saw her wig off
    for a second, and only once.
[14:11] ---
    If she was dressed like a guy,
    I'd never recognize her.
[14:14] ---
    Well you can't go around dressed
    like a girl at school all the time.
[14:17] ---
    Yeah.
[14:18] ---
    That's true.
[14:19] ---
    What did you say?
[14:22] ---
    I feel kind of betrayed. I was
    looking for her every day.
[14:26] ---
    But when I think that she might be changing
    somewhere on campus even as we speak...
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    I'm going to go on a search,
[14:35] ---
    and when I find what I'm looking for I
    might attack it, but that's just who I am!
[14:39] ---
    Wait!
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    He's horrible.
[14:43] ---
    You don't think Hato-kun changes at home?
[14:45] ---
    I think so too, but if she changes at
    school there'll be big, big trouble.
[14:50] ---
    Kuchiki-kun might actually do it!
    Contact Hato-kun now! Right now!
[14:54] ---
    
[14:55] ---
    He might actually do what?
[14:56] ---
    You know her number, right?
[14:58] ---
    I do, yes.
[14:59] ---
    Is that what he's like?
[15:01] ---
    It's your job as president to
    protect Hato-kun's chastity.
[15:05] ---
    What the heck?
[15:11] ---
    Hello?
[15:13] ---
    Is this Hato-kun? I'm sorry to bother
    you. This is Ogiue from Genshiken.
[15:17] ---
    Yes.
[15:18] ---
    Do you have a minute?
[15:21] ---
    Yes, I do.
[15:23] ---
    Are you changing right now?
[15:26] ---
    Yes, I am actually.
[15:28] ---
    I'm sorry.
[15:29] ---
    It's okay.
[15:30] ---
    Um, by the way, are you at home right now?
[15:37] ---
    Yes.
[15:37] ---
    I see. I'm glad.
[15:40] ---
    No, um...
[15:42] ---
    Kuchiki-kun is wandering
    the school looking for you.
[15:47] ---
    It's kind of a shame.
[15:48] ---
    Kuchiki-kun wouldn't work.
[15:52] ---
    You heard her.
[15:53] ---
    I'm glad, President. One of the members
    of Genshiken was about to go to jail.
[15:58] ---
    That was kind of thrilling!
    That's our president for you!
[16:01] ---
    What's our president? I'm not really sure.
[16:03] ---
    But we didn't stop Kuchiki-sempai himself.
[16:06] ---
    Isn't there still a chance he might
    commit a crime as he searches for Hato?
[16:10] ---
    I can't stop him.
[16:14] ---
    Let's forget about it.
[16:17] ---
    Anyway, didn't you guys get used to
    Hato's cross-dressing awfully fast?
[16:21] ---
    Did we?
[16:23] ---
    To be honest, I'm still a little...
    I mean a lot... bothered by it.
[16:30] ---
    It's probably 'cause we saw Kousaka-san.
[16:35] ---
    That guy we met? He crossdresses?
[16:37] ---
    Yeah.
[16:38] ---
    He did once, and unlike Hato-kun he didn't
    put any effort into it but he was perfect!
[16:44] ---
    It's not fair.
[16:45] ---
    I'd love to see that!
[16:47] ---
    And Saki-san cosplays too.
[16:50] ---
    She does?
[16:52] ---
    Of course, so does Ogiue-san!
[16:55] ---
    What?
[16:55] ---
    Don't say that!
[16:57] ---
    Tanaka-san and Madarame-san and
    Kugayama-san were all big otaku too.
[17:02] ---
    Kuchiki-kun and Ogiue-san were
    dropouts from other circles too.
[17:06] ---
    There's lots of weirdos in Genshiken.
[17:09] ---
    So a Hato-kun or two isn't that bad.
[17:12] ---
    I see.
[17:13] ---
    If you say that, it might scare
    off the new circle members!
[17:16] ---
    I'm sorry.
[17:19] ---
    What is it, Sue?
[17:20] ---
    It's time for the 500th...
[17:23] ---
    "Does Hato-kun have a dong
    in his heart?" meeting!
[17:26] ---
    His heart?
[17:27] ---
    Like, does he really believe in his dong?
[17:28] ---
    Sue's just as bad.
[17:29] ---
    Ignore her.
[17:30] ---
    Then let's talk about which Warring
    States general was the most attractive!
[17:33] ---
    I'm going to the bathroom.
[17:39] ---
    I think everybody's starting to settle in,
    but I guess we've got a long way to go.
[17:44] ---
    Yoshitake-san is always so hyper.
[17:46] ---
    Unlike Kuchiki-sempai, she
    has some sense though.
[17:50] ---
    Yajima-san's a little hard-headed.
[17:52] ---
    But she also seems a lot calmer than I am.
[17:56] ---
    Ignoring Sue, the exchange student...
[17:59] ---
    And I guess that leaves Hato-kun?
    There's a lot I don't know about her.
[18:04] ---
    Hello, Hato-kun.
[18:07] ---
    Hello there...
[18:10] ---
    You just said you were changing at home.
[18:18] ---
    Hato-kun, you're not...
[18:26] ---
    No, wait! Hato-kun!
[18:30] ---
    She's fast!
[18:31] ---
    If I lose her here she may stop cross-dressing,
    and never come back to Genshiken!
[18:38] ---
    Stop her, Kuchiki-sempai!
[18:55] ---
    I'm sorry, Kuchiki-sempai! I did judo until
    middle school, so it was just instinct!
[19:00] ---
    I'm sorry!
[19:02] ---
    She can protect her own chastity.
[19:05] ---
    So it's time for the first,
    "Hato-chan that's a crime," meeting!
[19:11] ---
    It really is, Hato-kun.
[19:14] ---
    I know.
[19:14] ---
    A cosplayer should never
    change in the toilet anyway.
[19:18] ---
    Is that the issue?
[19:19] ---
    And if you do it in the girls' bathroom,
    the police would have to get involved!
[19:23] ---
    I know.
[19:24] ---
    I figured if I was careful when I went in
    the girl's bathroom, that would be better.
[19:29] ---
    When you leave the boys' bathroom you
    don't know what it'll be like outside.
[19:32] ---
    That's not the issue.
    Can't you change at home?
[19:36] ---
    I did at first, but it's thirty minutes
    away, so it'd be an hour-long trip.
[19:41] ---
    And if you add in the time it takes
    to put on makeup and get dressed,
[19:44] ---
    I'd be really late to the circle sometimes.
[19:48] ---
    You could just change here. We can
    wait outside a little, right?
[19:53] ---
    Of course we could. Sue
    does her cosplay here.
[19:56] ---
    I don't want you guys
    to think of me as a man.
[20:02] ---
    I think we're past that point.
[20:06] ---
    Why don't you just come dressed as a guy?
[20:10] ---
    This is only a problem 'cause
    you're dressing like a girl.
[20:13] ---
    I don't know if I'm quite sure
    about a rotten guy, but...
[20:17] ---
    Wouldn't it be easier for both of
    us to get used to things that way?
[20:26] ---
    You don't understand anything.
[20:28] ---
    Kuchiki-sempai?
[20:30] ---
    You cannot accept the miracle
    you see before your very eyes.
[20:34] ---
    I shall tell you then, fool.
[20:37] ---
    Listen.
[20:39] ---
    "Someone this cute..."
[20:41] ---
    Don't say "couldn't possibly
    be a girl," please.
[20:47] ---
    If I could've said those words,
    I could've gone on to heaven.
[20:51] ---
    Go to the afterlife right now, please.
[20:53] ---
    It doesn't end, does it?
[20:54] ---
    I don't mind it though.
[20:56] ---
    What should we do, Ogiue-san? We may
    just have to have her change at home.
[21:02] ---
    There's a place she can change.
[21:08] ---
    Let's go, Hato.
[21:10] ---
    Yeah!
[21:15] ---
    Wha--
[21:18] ---
    Huh?
[21:20] ---
    Thank you!
[21:21] ---
    It's fine...
[21:22] ---
    Way to go, Hato-chan! You got a spare key!
[21:25] ---
    Is this circle really gonna be okay?
SIGN    Next Episode Preview
[23:10] ---
    It feels like every anime
    lately is a second season.
[23:13] ---
    Well, our title is "Second Generation",
    but this is actually season three!
[23:16] ---
    We're back for more!
[23:18] ---
    Are we allowed to talk about that on the air?
[23:21] ---
    We can if it's the preview, usually.
[23:23] ---
    There were OVAs too, so you could
    technically call it season four!
[23:27] ---
    I'll talk to the manga author later.
[23:30] ---
    I can see him smirking outside the studio.
[23:33] ---
    We'll wipe that smirk off his face!
[23:36] ---
    Next time on Genshiken Second
    Generation
: "Cross Over My Legs".

2 - Cross over My Legs!

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[00:07] ---
    Well, you see...
[00:09] ---
    I want to make a short pamphlet that
    introduces the members of the club.
[00:14] ---
    What do you mean?
[00:16] ---
    Something about half this size.
[00:20] ---
    I'd like you all to write a profile,
    and if you can, submit a drawing.
[00:25] ---
    We'll make copies and give them
    to all the members of Genshiken.
[00:29] ---
    I know you guys already
    know each other, but...
[00:33] ---
    I see! In other words, you
    want to bring back Mebaetame!
[00:38] ---
    Mebaetame?
[00:40] ---
    No, nothing that big.
[00:43] ---
    Genshiken's club magazine! I don't think
    we've made one for a long time, though.
SIGN    Mebaetame
[02:19] ---
    I've made a profile for myself
    to give you an example.
[02:23] ---
    That's pretty good!
SIGN    Chika Ogiue
     (Naruyuki Ogino) {
     3rd Year Literature Student} {
     Born in Yamagata Prefecture} {
     Birthday 3/28, Blood Type: A}
     Favorite Anime:
    Fullmetal Sorcerer
    Kujibiki Unbalance
     Attack on Rhea
[02:26] ---
    You work fast!
SIGN    An Ogiue beyond any other that
    man's history has ever known!
[02:32] ---
    Funz!
[02:33] ---
    I don't get it. What kind of Ogiue?
[02:36] ---
    It sounds like you, anyway.
[02:38] ---
    I see. Then in my case...
[02:42] ---
    Of course, I draw everything from
    originals to copyrighted characters.
[02:45] ---
    I think "Lord and Servant" and "Over
    Fifty” yaoi has roots in historical novels.
[02:51] ---
    Ikegami Shouichiro is a personal favorite,
    especially his Tale of Sanada.
[02:56] ---
    Okay. I think you should write about that.
[03:00] ---
    I'm looking forward to
    seeing yours, Yajima-san.
[03:02] ---
    Why?
[03:03] ---
    Um, well... you look like
    you'd be a good artist.
[03:06] ---
    Don't judge me like that.
[03:07] ---
    I'm sorry.
[03:09] ---
    But didn't you say you drew when you joined?
[03:15] ---
    I said I drew. I didn't say I drew well.
[03:18] ---
    So I'll make it clear now: I suck.
[03:22] ---
    Of course, that doesn't matter.
[03:25] ---
    I'll set the deadline
    for, oh, a week from now.
[03:29] ---
    When you're done, give it to me.
[03:31] ---
    Okay!
[03:35] ---
    U-Um... I'm sorry.
[03:38] ---
    No, don't worry. I'm glad I got it out there.
    I wouldn't want people expecting anything.
[03:43] ---
    Okay.
[03:44] ---
    Yajimacchi! Yajimacchi!
[03:46] ---
    Can I go to your place today?
[03:49] ---
    We can draw ours together!
[03:53] ---
    Cross Over My Legs.
[03:58] ---
    This'll do, I guess.
[04:01] ---
    That's a bit much. Why do you need so much?
[04:04] ---
    I eat a lot, even though I'm thin.
[04:06] ---
    I don't care! Are you making fun of me?
[04:08] ---
    Hato-chan, anything else you want?
[04:11] ---
    No.
[04:12] ---
    But, well... can I really come too?
[04:16] ---
    Sure! We're all in the same
    circle, so let's get along!
[04:21] ---
    It's my house, though.
[04:22] ---
    I wish Sue-san could've come.
[04:25] ---
    She refused.
[04:32] ---
    Found one!
[04:33] ---
    Right, right. Of course you did.
[04:37] ---
    I see. So you're into Champ manga
    series and collect doujinshi for them.
[04:42] ---
    Well, it's had a big effect on my life.
[04:45] ---
    Is this desk where you draw?
[04:48] ---
    Well, not just that.
[04:50] ---
    But I haven't opened all the boxes yet.
[04:53] ---
    I never thought I'd have a man
    in here right after I moved in.
[04:59] ---
    I never even imagined it.
[05:01] ---
    Okay, time for some girl talk!
[05:05] ---
    What about our profiles?
[05:07] ---
    We can do that some other time.
[05:09] ---
    Let's hear about how much you love Champ.
[05:12] ---
    So in Two Piece, are you into Zora x Yon?
[05:15] ---
    No, I normally like Ukki on top with
    anybody... wait, what are we talking about?
[05:19] ---
    Rotten girl talk!
[05:21] ---
    So let's have a toast!
[05:23] ---
    Cheers.
[05:24] ---
    Cheers.
[05:28] ---
    Come on! It's not like you'll lose anything.
[05:31] ---
    No, I've got my pantyhose on.
[05:33] ---
    Just take them off in the bathroom!
    I just want to touch you a little!
[05:37] ---
    But...
[05:39] ---
    Just think to yourself that we're all women,
    and there's nothing weird about it at all!
[05:42] ---
    It's important to get to
    know each other better!
[06:00] ---
    What's going on here?
[06:03] ---
    I think I actually ended up having fun.
[06:07] ---
    She looks like she's had
    more fun than anything.
[06:11] ---
    And of course, we didn't write anything.
    Why we even came here, I don't know.
[06:18] ---
    Oh well. It's nice to have another
    friend who's a rotten girl.
[06:28] ---
    No, wait! That's no girl!
[06:32] ---
    But that was a girl's voice
    I heard when she was sleeping.
[06:36] ---
    No, no! I just forgot, and that's a guy!
[06:41] ---
    Oh no. I was sleeping next to a guy!
[06:47] ---
    Just wait. In the morning,
    she'll need a shave.
[06:52] ---
    Wait, she said she plucked them.
[07:00] ---
    How soft and supple!
[07:03] ---
    I couldn't feel any pores at all!
    Did she use the Smooth-Smooth Fruit?
[07:13] ---
    It's smooth! She ate
    the Smooth-Smooth Fruit!
[07:16] ---
    Shut up.
[07:17] ---
    You should touch her too, Yajimacchi.
[07:25] ---
    No way in hell!
[07:36] ---
    Why is it so different?
[07:38] ---
    Well, I do it every morning and every night.
[07:42] ---
    I wash my face with facial lotion,
    beauty lotion, and milk lotion.
[07:45] ---
    You need to do it every single
    day, or it doesn't work.
[07:48] ---
    I never do anything for my skin!
    And I almost never wear makeup!
[07:51] ---
    I pluck out the hair when I bathe.
[07:54] ---
    I work up a lather on my whole
    body, then I use an epilator.
[07:57] ---
    But it really hurts in some places, doesn't it?
    Especially the bikini area.
[08:02] ---
    I only ever shave my armpits for summer!
[08:06] ---
    Oh no!
[08:08] ---
    I always thought since I was
    an otaku, it didn't matter!
[08:12] ---
    But because of her, something
    is falling apart inside of me!
[08:18] ---
    No. Maybe she's actually a girl!
[08:23] ---
    She'd have to be! "Someone this cute can't
    be a girl!" only happens in H-games.
[08:27] ---
    It doesn't matter what Kuchiki-sempai says,
    there's no such things as miracles!
[08:32] ---
    That wig, that male voice...
    those were both fake!
[08:35] ---
    She's just someone who's getting
    off to a weird start in college!
[08:38] ---
    I'm just looking. If she's
    a man she won't care,
[08:42] ---
    and if she's a girl then there's
    really no problem at all!
[08:45] ---
    Wait. If she really is a guy, then
    aren't I totally pathetic?
[08:50] ---
    I need to see. I just
    need to take a quick look!
[08:55] ---
    What are you doing, Yajimacchi?
[09:00] ---
    Nothing, really.
[09:02] ---
    You're flipping up the skirt of a rotten
    boy? How much of a pervert are you?
[09:07] ---
    Well, you see... I wanted to
    know if she was really a guy.
[09:11] ---
    I know how you feel.
[09:13] ---
    But you need to wake me up before
    you do something fun like this!
[09:27] ---
    Hello.
[09:30] ---
    You're early today.
[09:33] ---
    Yes. My lecture ended early.
[09:36] ---
    So I went to Madarame-sempai's room early.
[09:39] ---
    I see.
[09:44] ---
    Hmph! Hmph!
[09:45] ---
    I'm so sorry!
[09:45] ---
    Hello there.
[09:47] ---
    Hi there.
[09:48] ---
    Hello.
[09:49] ---
    Do you really understand?
[09:51] ---
    I'm really sorry. I just
    totally forgot about you!
[09:55] ---
    I'll redo the layout later!
[09:57] ---
    Ogiue-san, that doesn't help.
[10:00] ---
    Hmph!
[10:02] ---
    Um, this is my profile for the magazine.
[10:05] ---
    Okay, thanks.
[10:07] ---
    Here's mine.
[10:10] ---
    Okay.
[10:13] ---
    That's really something.
[10:16] ---
    Thank you.
SIGN    Hato Kenjiro {
     First year Economics} {
     From Niigata Prefecture}
     Favorite Works
     Dorarara!
     Evangeleo Theatrical Edition
     Hetarira
     Winter Wars
     Fuyume's Book of Friends
     Sweets Basket {
     Love and 9 Elements} {
     Suzuki-san and Rokuhara-kun Series} {
     Femt}
     When You Cry
[10:18] ---
    Hato...
[10:20] ---
    How far are you trying to go?
[10:38] ---
    What's wrong? You look uneasy.
[10:41] ---
    I do not--
[10:45] ---
    Hello? Thanks for calling.
[10:48] ---
    Yes.
[10:50] ---
    Yes. Thank you! Yes. Yes.
[10:55] ---
    Yes. All right. Thank you again.
[11:01] ---
    Ogiue-san?
[11:03] ---
    Well, actually...
[11:06] ---
    The editor accepted my one-shot manga.
[11:11] ---
    Does that mean you're
    going to be in a magazine?
[11:15] ---
    Yes.
[11:16] ---
    Congratulations!
[11:18] ---
    Wow.
[11:20] ---
    Thank you.
[11:22] ---
    I don't know how many times we fought...
[11:24] ---
    You and Sasahara-san, right?
[11:26] ---
    Why don't you give him a call?
[11:29] ---
    No, he's at work. I'll just send him a text.
[11:34] ---
    Some people here really can get
    published. College is so amazing.
[11:39] ---
    What a great response!
[11:42] ---
    Yeah, thank you. Thanks for your help.
[11:47] ---
    They'll run part one in the September
    edition and part two in October.
[11:51] ---
    The deadlines are 7/12 and 8/12.
[11:56] ---
    August?
[12:00] ---
    Yes. I didn't realize until I said it.
[12:04] ---
    I don't know if we made it or not,
[12:07] ---
    but that's right before
    Comic Festival, isn't it?
[12:11] ---
    W-What did you say? All the new
    kids went to Ogichin's room?
[12:16] ---
    Yes. They're going to help
    Ogiue as her assistants.
[12:20] ---
    They said they needed to move the schedule
    way up, or they wouldn't make it.
[12:24] ---
    Oh no! She'll steal my harem!
[12:26] ---
    Don't you dare go.
[12:28] ---
    Anyway, Kuchiki-kun, are
    you looking for a job?
[12:31] ---
    Oh.
[12:32] ---
    My dad's gonna get me a job at
    a local bank, it looks like.
[12:38] ---
    Oh no! Why don't you worry about
    yourself instead of someone else?
[12:42] ---
    You're not trying to take advantage of
    your skills as someone who's lived overseas.
[12:46] ---
    I really want to kill you right now.
[12:48] ---
    I'm, well, you know... Tanaka-san
    will pay for everything I need.
[12:53] ---
    Speaking of killing people, I think Tanaka
    would want to kill you for saying that.
[12:57] ---
    Anyway, there's still lots of fun to be had.
[13:02] ---
    First, take care of the borders for this.
[13:07] ---
    Even if she's new, this is pro level work!
[13:13] ---
    I lose at having clear skin.
    I lose at drawing stuff...
[13:17] ---
    But I can win at straight lines!
[13:23] ---
    I'm sorry. I failed on my first try.
[13:27] ---
    I'll fix it. Don't worry. Show it to me.
[13:35] ---
    Yajimacchi! You're not coming to help today?
[13:40] ---
    Nope. I don't think I'm helping when I go.
[13:44] ---
    Really?
[13:46] ---
    Sempai was saying it would even help
    to have somebody do the erasing.
[13:50] ---
    It takes a lot of strength.
    Anyway, Hato is just too perfect!
[13:56] ---
    She's got her drawing backgrounds already!
[13:59] ---
    She's cute, kind, good at
    judo, and she can draw.
[14:03] ---
    It's not fair.
[14:05] ---
    She just makes me feel terrible.
[14:09] ---
    She has a dong, though.
[14:11] ---
    Well, that's not fair, either.
[14:14] ---
    You saw it that one time, didn't
    you? How was it? Huge?
[14:18] ---
    I told you I didn't see it!
[14:20] ---
    You're lying! I flipped it up
    really hard! You had to see it!
[14:24] ---
    I looked away! I didn't see anything!
[14:27] ---
    Hey there. What circle are you guys with?
[14:30] ---
    Um...
[14:32] ---
    Genshiken, why?
[14:33] ---
    Then is the girl with the long brown
    hair I see with you in the same circle?
[14:38] ---
    What's her name?
[14:41] ---
    My name?
[14:43] ---
    Who are you?
[14:44] ---
    It's me, Hato.
[14:46] ---
    The long wig gets in the way, so I switch
    it with a short one when I'm drawing.
[14:51] ---
    Shall we take a break?
[14:53] ---
    So anyway, people are talking about you.
[14:58] ---
    A mysterious beautiful girl who only
    appears in the circle wing after school.
[15:02] ---
    I said you were in a different circle and I
    didn't know your name, but he was persistent.
[15:07] ---
    Yabusaki-sempai from the Manga Research Club
    happened to be passing by, and she drove him off.
[15:12] ---
    Hey, what the hell do you think you're doing?
[15:15] ---
    I'm sorry for causing you trouble.
[15:18] ---
    No. It's nothing you need to apologize for.
[15:21] ---
    I'll send a message thanking
    her-- Wow, that was fast.
[15:24] ---
    I guess you could change
    your wig like that, though.
[15:27] ---
    Or maybe go for plainer clothes and makeup.
[15:30] ---
    I could, yes. I just always
    put a lot of effort into it.
[15:34] ---
    If I don't, I don't feel
    like I can be a girl.
[15:37] ---
    Really? You could pass
    for one without makeup.
[15:40] ---
    You could just stop cross-dressing.
[15:46] ---
    I hate to keep repeating it.
[15:50] ---
    But if you didn't dress like that, men
    wouldn't pay any attention to you, right?
[15:56] ---
    Well, that's true...
[15:58] ---
    Listen, why are you so obsessed
    with cross-dressing, anyway?
[16:02] ---
    Ohno-sempai seemed fine with
    it, but I don't get it.
[16:07] ---
    Would you put it in terms
    that even I could understand?
[16:11] ---
    Kuchiki-sempai's not here today.
[16:14] ---
    Well... you're right.
[16:17] ---
    I dress this way to come to Genshiken.
[16:20] ---
    And I've only been doing
    it for about six months.
[16:24] ---
    Well... to put it simply...
[16:28] ---
    In high school, when I came out
    and said I really enjoyed BL,
[16:34] ---
    things were pretty rough for me.
[16:37] ---
    Pretty rough?
[16:39] ---
    My school didn't have a Manga Club.
[16:41] ---
    The Art Club was what we had,
    so that's what I joined.
[16:46] ---
    I never told anybody I liked BL.
[16:50] ---
    But I wanted to talk with friends
    who shared the same interests.
[16:54] ---
    So I talked to the rotten
    girls in the club.
[16:55] ---
    I'm sorry! That's enough.
[16:58] ---
    I'm sorry, really. Maybe
    I shouldn't have said that.
[17:01] ---
    I mean, I shouldn't have
    said that. I'm sorry.
[17:04] ---
    It's fine.
[17:05] ---
    I'm sorry, Ogiue-sempai. I ruined
    the mood. I'm really sorry.
[17:10] ---
    No, no... anyway, I guess that's enough.
[17:14] ---
    Let's get back to work.
[17:17] ---
    I'm going to clean up.
[17:22] ---
    I'm a horrible person.
[17:25] ---
    I got jealous and complained, and tried to
    make her say something she didn't want to say.
[17:30] ---
    Basically, she was bullied, right?
[17:34] ---
    If her life was made miserable because of
    her interests, of course she cross-dresses.
[17:39] ---
    Wait, Hato. Sorry, I'm not done.
[17:44] ---
    We know you're into boy's love.
[17:48] ---
    So we won't hassle you for
    it. We won't do anything.
[17:53] ---
    So you don't need to force
    yourself to dress like that.
[17:56] ---
    Yeah... you're right.
[18:01] ---
    Huh? That's it?
[18:03] ---
    Yajimacchi, why don't you get it?
[18:07] ---
    Get what?
[18:08] ---
    Why doesn't she stop dressing like a girl?
[18:13] ---
    Because she likes it!
[18:15] ---
    Every guy wants to be a girl at least once!
[18:18] ---
    Gender-bending is all the rage these days!
[18:21] ---
    Huh?
[18:21] ---
    Especially since she's such a
    cute girl... she can't stop now!
[18:27] ---
    Trauma won't keep you
    doing something forever.
[18:30] ---
    Really?
[18:33] ---
    Well, um... it wasn't like that at first.
[18:38] ---
    But I think that's part of it now.
[18:42] ---
    It's not something I've always
    wanted to do. Really!
[18:46] ---
    Then why not stop right now!
[18:48] ---
    Do you realize how many problems your
    beauty causes for the people around you?
[18:52] ---
    I'm not beautiful!
[18:54] ---
    Don't deny it! That makes it worse!
[18:55] ---
    No problem. Everything's fine.
[18:57] ---
    Wait! That's... that's not all!
[19:02] ---
    What?
[19:03] ---
    It's not just that it's fun,
    or that I was bullied.
[19:08] ---
    Since I started crossdressing,
[19:10] ---
    I was able to see myself and
    my situation from the outside.
[19:15] ---
    That sounds interesting.
[19:18] ---
    Like... I got the key to
    Madarame-sempai's house, right?
[19:24] ---
    Imagine a boy getting the key to his sempai's
    room, so he can use it to dress like a girl.
[19:29] ---
    When you look at that
    situation, it's basically...
[19:33] ---
    Hato x Mada, right?
[19:38] ---
    Let's get to work. Sempai, which
    one did you want me to erase?
[19:42] ---
    Oh, here.
[19:44] ---
    W-Why?
[19:45] ---
    Shut up. You're not ever gonna
    stop cross-dressing, are you?
[19:53] ---
    See you later, guys!
[19:55] ---
    Bye.
[19:56] ---
    Thanks again.
[20:00] ---
    Hato-chan's amazing. She
    says she's gonna keep at it.
[20:03] ---
    Well, Susie's never leaving Sempai's
    side. Nothing weird will happen.
[20:11] ---
    What?
[20:12] ---
    Yajimacchi, Hato-chan is always
    going to be a guy to you, isn't she?
[20:17] ---
    Maybe, yeah.
[20:20] ---
    She totally looks like a girl.
[20:24] ---
    But for some reason, I just see her as a guy.
[20:28] ---
    Why, I wonder?
[20:29] ---
    Isn't it because...
[20:31] ---
    The contents of her skirt
    are seared into your memory?
[20:35] ---
    You're still talking about that?
[20:37] ---
    Now tell me!
[20:38] ---
    I didn't see!
[20:40] ---
    Don't lie to me!
[20:42] ---
    You're leaving already?
[20:44] ---
    Ohno-sempai?
[20:46] ---
    I had to fit it in with Tanaka-san and
    Kugayama-san's schedules, so it took a long time,
[20:51] ---
    but we're ready for cosplay.
[20:55] ---
    Ogiue-san's place has two rooms,
    so it's perfect for changing.
[21:01] ---
    I was waiting for everybody to be here!
[21:03] ---
    He joined the same year me and Madarame did.
[21:07] ---
    I'm Kugayama. Hi.
[21:10] ---
    Hello there.
[21:11] ---
    Come on, Ogiue-san! It's time
    for after-school cosplay!
[21:15] ---
    I'm working!
[21:19] ---
    Sempai?
[21:21] ---
    Even if she's nicer now, I
    still thought this would happen.
[21:25] ---
    We were right to not start moving the boxes.
SIGN    Preview
[23:10] ---
    So you did see up
    Hato-chan's skirt, Yajimacchi!
[23:14] ---
    I said I didn't!
[23:17] ---
    We've got the video footage!
[23:19] ---
    It shows the skirt flying up, and
    your reaction when you saw it!
[23:22] ---
    What are you talking about?
[23:23] ---
    Now what was it? White? Black?
    Lace? G-string? Bloomers?
[23:27] ---
    Or was it everybody's favorite, striped?
[23:30] ---
    Shut up! It was more normal.
[23:32] ---
    So you did see!
[23:35] ---
    Next time on Genshiken: Second
    Generation
: Daydream Believer.

3 - Daydream Believer

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[00:04] ---
    My name is Madarame Harunobu.
[00:07] ---
    I graduated Shiiiou University
    with a major in economics.
[00:09] ---
    Now I'm a salaryman who works for
    a sewer construction company.
[00:15] ---
    When I was a student, I loved being an otaku.
[00:19] ---
    I'd sworn to stay one my whole life, but...
[00:26] ---
    You know... being an adult is exhausting.
[00:42] ---
    Huh?
[00:43] ---
    It's all clean. And I can see the floor.
[00:46] ---
    Did Hato-kun do this? That was nice of her.
[00:51] ---
    Or was it just too dirty for her to handle.
[00:55] ---
    The games and books are sorted perfectly.
[01:05] ---
    It's safe.
[02:47] ---
    The club room feels kind of different now.
[02:52] ---
    I guess that can't be helped.
    It's mostly girls now.
[02:56] ---
    Back then...
[03:02] ---
    And then...
[03:14] ---
    Um...
[03:17] ---
    Watanabe?
[03:17] ---
    Madarame!
[03:18] ---
    Oh crap! Oh crap! Oh crap! That scared me.
[03:22] ---
    How could I confuse those two?
[03:23] ---
    There's only one person here?
[03:26] ---
    Yeah.
[03:27] ---
    What? I wanted to see the new girls.
[03:30] ---
    Huh?
[03:31] ---
    What? I, Sasahara Keiko,
     am a member of Genshiken too.
[03:36] ---
    I'm former president Sasahara's little sister,
     and the president's future sister-in-law.
[03:41] ---
    Isn't that a great position to be in?
[03:43] ---
    Even if it's kind of weird that the
    last two presidents are dating.
[03:47] ---
    Sasahara was the president two generations
    ago. The last one was Ohno-san.
[03:52] ---
    Come back in the evening.
     Not many people come during the day.
[03:55] ---
    And it's in the evening when the
    really interesting girl comes.
[03:58] ---
    What's she like?
[03:59] ---
    Huh?
[04:03] ---
    Daydream Believer
[04:05] ---
    It doesn't matter.
     It's just Genshiken, right?
[04:08] ---
    I just happened to get up early because
    I had yesterday off from work.
[04:12] ---
    Work?
[04:13] ---
    I'm a cabaret girl in Hachiouji.
[04:16] ---
    Ask for me sometime.
SIGN    Kyouko
[04:21] ---
    What?
[04:22] ---
    Um, I don't go to those places anyway.
[04:25] ---
    Jeez, she really doesn't belong here!
[04:28] ---
    Anyway...
[04:30] ---
    It's boring now that Kousaka
    and Saki-neesan have graduated.
[04:34] ---
    Do they ever come?
[04:36] ---
    I saw them a little at the welcome party,
[04:39] ---
    but they never come to the club room.
[04:42] ---
    I see. If Saki-neesan doesn't come,
     then why do you, Watanabe?
[04:46] ---
    What do you do?
[04:48] ---
    It's Madarame.
[04:55] ---
    What are you talking about?
[04:58] ---
    It doesn't matter to me that
    Kasukabe-san doesn't come anymore.
[05:01] ---
    That's what you say, after that long pause?
[05:04] ---
    No point in hiding it now, is there?
     You liked Saki-neesan.
[05:11] ---
    I don't understand.
     What are you talking about?
[05:16] ---
    Listen, it was obvious!
[05:18] ---
    Completely obvious!
[05:20] ---
    Seriously, I can't believe you
    thought no one could tell.
[05:23] ---
    Onee-chan and Ohno-chan
    were saying the same thing.
[05:26] ---
    Which means her boyfriend knows too!
[05:29] ---
    And my brother and that guy with the topknot!
[05:32] ---
    And I haven't asked, but I'm
    sure Saki-neesan noticed it too.
[05:44] ---
    I... I have no idea what
    you're talking about!
[05:47] ---
    Man you piss me off!
[05:50] ---
    Can otaku not even talk about romance?
[05:52] ---
    Romance? I've never had any
    romance in my entire life!
[05:56] ---
    It's been otaku talk for me my entire life!
     I'm a natural born otaku!
[05:59] ---
    So in other words you have no
    friends? I see! Sorry for asking!
[06:03] ---
    Shut up! Go back to your cabaret
    and let some old man feel you up!
[06:06] ---
    You idiot! A cabaret isn't a brothel!
    Do you not even know the difference?
[06:14] ---
    Would you two just stay
    like that for a second?
[06:18] ---
    I'll go to the store and get an awl,
     a penknife, and a pot lid--
[06:22] ---
    No one's gonna get that. Don't force it.
[06:24] ---
    A foreigner?
[06:26] ---
    One of the new kids. Susanna Hopkins.
[06:29] ---
    Huh... forget it, I'm tired. Later.
[06:32] ---
    Yeah, get outta here.
[06:35] ---
    You haven't given up, have you?
[06:38] ---
    That's why you're still wasting
    your life in this room.
[06:44] ---
    Right.
[06:45] ---
    Try asking somebody out in
    real life for once, otaku.
[06:53] ---
    A-Anyway, I have to get to work...
[06:57] ---
    There's a way to move forward without
    giving up on your last love.
[07:03] ---
    Huh?
[07:04] ---
    Find a new love.
[07:10] ---
    Funz!
[07:11] ---
    No, I don't think I'm going
    to get into that stuff.
[07:14] ---
    Hey there! Oh, Sue-san's here.
[07:16] ---
    Yo.
[07:17] ---
    Hello there, Madarame-sempai.
[07:19] ---
    Hi there. Uh, you're just arriving now?
[07:23] ---
    Isn't your lunch break going to end soon?
[07:24] ---
    We've got the afternoon off, so I was
    thinking of taking the freshmen to Ikebukuro.
[07:30] ---
    Hato-chan especially was excited.
[07:32] ---
    "I'll go change right now," she said.
    She's probably changing at your place.
[07:37] ---
    She's never been to Otome Road, she says.
[07:40] ---
    I see. Anyway, I'm heading back to work.
[07:43] ---
    Bye!
[07:45] ---
    Bye.
[08:02] ---
    So all the freshmen went?
[08:05] ---
    Supposedly.
[08:06] ---
    I guess working as assistants helped.
[08:09] ---
    Huh?
[08:09] ---
    Working together toward a goal
    makes you feel more like a team.
[08:15] ---
    I'm very grateful, myself.
[08:17] ---
    You staying on schedule?
[08:19] ---
    Yeah, thanks to you guys.
[08:20] ---
    Once a bit more of the draft is ready,
    I'll need some more of your help.
[08:25] ---
    Sounds good to me!
[08:32] ---
    Huh?
[08:34] ---
    Did I forget to turn the lights off?
     Or is that Hato-kun...?
[08:40] ---
    She's never been here at this hour.
[08:47] ---
    I'm sorry. I just came to get my stuff.
[08:54] ---
    Um, well... we went to Ikebukuro today.
[08:57] ---
    And I couldn't get a bag ready for
    all the stuff I was planning to buy,
[09:02] ---
    So I left my clothes and makeup here
    and took my changing bag with me,
[09:07] ---
    And I came back to pick up my things,
[09:09] ---
    but I couldn't control myself,
    so I read a doujinshi...
[09:11] ---
    It was one I really wanted and it was short,
    so I thought it wouldn't take long, but...
[09:18] ---
    Was Ikebukuro fun?
[09:25] ---
    Yes. Very.
[09:27] ---
    That's good. You can come
    here whenever you like.
[09:32] ---
    You were the one who cleaned my
    room up, right? I can't complain.
[09:36] ---
    I'm sorry for not asking first.
[09:38] ---
    You're nice enough to let me use it all the time,
     so I thought it was the least I could do.
[09:42] ---
    Don't worry about it.
[09:44] ---
    Wow, you did buy a lot.
[09:47] ---
    I'll get it out of here right now!
[09:48] ---
    Can you carry it all?
[09:49] ---
    I'll be fine!
[09:52] ---
    Okay!
[09:53] ---
    Want to have something to drink first?
[09:58] ---
    I haven't had enough yet,
    so I bought some beer.
[10:06] ---
    Um...
[10:08] ---
    I'm sorry, I want to read these
    as soon as physically possible!
[10:11] ---
    Sorry. Of course you do. Of course...
[10:16] ---
    Good night!
[10:17] ---
    Take care.
[10:27] ---
    What was I doing just now?!
[10:33] ---
    It smells kind of good now...
[10:51] ---
    So that's how you finished your last draft?
[10:55] ---
    With a ton of assistants.
[10:57] ---
    Just like a professional.
    An asshole professional!
[10:59] ---
    I am a professional, I guess...
[11:01] ---
    And I paid them too, so I don't
    see why you're complaining.
[11:07] ---
    So when's it coming out?
[11:09] ---
    At the end of the month.
[11:12] ---
    It doesn't matter!
[11:15] ---
    What about the draft for Comic Festival?
[11:17] ---
    If you miss the deadline 'cause you have to
    finish your pro work, I'm gonna be really mad!
[11:21] ---
    We stopped work on Yabuhebi and helped you
[11:24] ---
    'cause you said you were going to make a
    book to celebrate Fullmetal Sorcerer finishing!
[11:27] ---
    I never asked for your help, though.
[11:29] ---
    What was that?
[11:31] ---
    A-As your partner, I need you to do your job!
[11:34] ---
    Partner? Since when?
[11:41] ---
    Well, I don't even have a draft ready for
    Comic Festival, so I know why you're worried.
[11:46] ---
    But once summer break comes I can
    spend all day on it. It'll be fine.
[11:51] ---
    If you absolutely insist, I could help you.
[11:54] ---
    I can't hear you, sempai!
[11:57] ---
    It's tsundere time!
[11:58] ---
    Get lost, you two!
[12:01] ---
    The freshmen are more of
    a help than I thought.
[12:06] ---
    The freshmen?
[12:07] ---
    Yeah, Hato-kun especially.
[12:10] ---
    It's hot...
[12:12] ---
    Did Genshiken pick up another dude?
[12:15] ---
    Sorry, I got that wrong. Hato-san.
[12:19] ---
    And this weighs a ton...
[12:22] ---
    I wonder if I could just leave the makeup
    in Madarame-sempai's room..
[12:26] ---
    No, I can't take advantage of him any more.
[12:39] ---
    That's right. It's better
    to be slightly hesitant.
[12:42] ---
    Like you just can't get used to it.
[12:45] ---
    Look at this from the outside.
     It's totally Hato x Mada!
[12:50] ---
    But what am I, exactly?
[12:53] ---
    A geppledonger? Your second self?
[12:55] ---
    A spiritual entity?
     A figment of your imagination?
[12:58] ---
    Your Stand? Or your tokatonton?
[13:07] ---
    Sempai gave me permission
    to use the air conditioner.
[13:10] ---
    Otherwise I'd be too sweaty
    to change or put on makeup.
[13:15] ---
    He never cleans up his room! Silly sempai.
[13:20] ---
    "Silly sempai!" I said!
[13:23] ---
    After this I'll say,
     "Sempai couldn't survive without my help."
[13:27] ---
    You need to help out your sempai!
[13:29] ---
    It's good when the younger one is on top!
SIGN    High School Girls Out of Control
[13:34] ---
    Oh sempai, put your doujinshi away!
[13:37] ---
    And you didn't wash the dishes...
[13:40] ---
    Oh my, Madarame-sempai!
[13:42] ---
    But this carelessness and vulnerability
    makes him an ideal bottom!
[13:49] ---
    I guess using his shower
    is taking it a bit too far.
[13:51] ---
    The shower?
[13:53] ---
    What kind of flag is that going to trigger?
[13:55] ---
    If there's no special event where he
    comes home while I'm in the shower,
[13:59] ---
    the player will be pissed!
[14:03] ---
    It's cool.
[14:20] ---
    Good job me! I want to
    pat myself on the back!
[14:23] ---
    I know what happens now!
[14:25] ---
    I fall asleep, surrounded by his scent,
    and then he finds me when he gets home.
[14:29] ---
    And then only two things can happen!
     One: He makes his move while I'm asleep!
[14:33] ---
    Two: I pretend to be asleep and jump him!
[14:36] ---
    And since it's Hato x Mada,
    the choice must be...
[14:40] ---
    Kissy-kissy rub-rub!
[14:45] ---
    Hato-kun?
[14:48] ---
    Hato-kun! Hato-kun!
[14:51] ---
    Huh?
[14:52] ---
    Good morning. Or good evening.
[14:56] ---
    Did you fall asleep?
[15:01] ---
    I'll leave right away! I'm sorry!
[15:02] ---
    You don't have to rush...
[15:04] ---
    Huh? Did I really fall asleep?
[15:07] ---
    I laid down just a second ago... Was I dreaming?
     When did it start? Am I dreaming now?
[15:14] ---
    Hato-kun?
[15:16] ---
    Calm down, Hato-kun.
     I don't think you're awake yet.
[15:20] ---
    Y-Yeah...
[15:33] ---
    This beer is great. So good!
[15:35] ---
    No, um... this is really good too.
[15:39] ---
    Glad to hear it. That's shrimp,
    ham, and cherry tomato pasta.
[15:44] ---
    Sometimes when you live alone you
    want to make something decent.
[15:47] ---
    What is this strange sense of defeat?
[15:51] ---
    He can't be good at this! Character-wise
    it should be the reverse! And I can't cook!
[15:56] ---
    He lets somebody like me into his
    room, and even cooks for me...
[16:00] ---
    What is he thinking?
[16:03] ---
    Wait a second... could it be Mada x Hato?
[16:07] ---
    Well, you know. I need to make friends
    with the only guy left in the club right now.
[16:12] ---
    It's hard to hang out in the club room,
     with all the girls there now.
[16:16] ---
    Oh, but I'm a girl when I'm there.
[16:19] ---
    That's true, yeah.
[16:22] ---
    Maybe I've read too much BL.
[16:24] ---
    Actually, I've never met you
    when you're a guy before.
[16:28] ---
    It's Hato-kun, right?
[16:30] ---
    Sure, I'm Hato.
[16:33] ---
    Just a second.
[16:38] ---
    Hello, Madarame-san.
[16:41] ---
    That scared me! You really do change.
[16:45] ---
    You sounded like Noumi Yamiko.
[16:47] ---
    I liked it when you said my name.
[16:48] ---
    No, my voice isn't that nice.
[16:51] ---
    I think anybody could do it
    if they put the effort in.
[16:53] ---
    I learned from books and the internet.
[16:56] ---
    The internet? I mean, sure... but
    it still takes a lot of time right?
[17:01] ---
    It took me about three months.
[17:03] ---
    I don't have that kind of energy.
[17:06] ---
    He treates me like I'm normal,
    whether I'm a girl or a guy.
[17:12] ---
    If you're that good, you can fit in with
    all the girls at Genshiken perfectly right?
[17:17] ---
    Oh, I don't know.
[17:19] ---
    Yajima-san's pretty persistent
    about telling me to stop.
[17:22] ---
    Is she?
[17:24] ---
    Yeah. She wants me to go as a guy.
    I can understand why, I guess.
[17:29] ---
    It must be a little creepy.
[17:35] ---
    I'd like to make something clear, I guess.
[17:39] ---
    What?
[17:41] ---
    It's not that I'm into other guys...
[17:50] ---
    Aren't you surprised?
[17:53] ---
    I thought that was pretty shocking myself.
[17:55] ---
    Sorry! I'd only ever thought
    of BL or crossdressing
[17:59] ---
    as something you did as a hobby.
[18:03] ---
    Then didn't you think
    something bad might happen
[18:08] ---
    if you let a weirdo like me into
    your room and gave me food?
[18:10] ---
    Something bad? Like you're going to rob me?
[18:15] ---
    No...
[18:16] ---
    I think you've been reading too much BL.
[18:18] ---
    No, I mean... you're right, but...
[18:22] ---
    If I really was into that stuff,
[18:26] ---
    I should have fallen in love with you by now.
[18:29] ---
    
[18:33] ---
    Oh, that's it.
[18:36] ---
    Actually, since you were dressed like a guy,
     I felt really relaxed while talking to you.
[18:41] ---
    He doesn't seem scared at all. He...
[18:48] ---
    Uh?
[18:49] ---
    He really is careless and vulnerable.
[18:51] ---
    What?
[18:52] ---
    No. It's nothing. Thank you.
[18:56] ---
    What? Are we done with that subject?
[18:58] ---
    Yes. Thank you.
[19:00] ---
    You sure? I've barely said a word.
[19:03] ---
    I'm sure. Now let's eat! Have another beer.
[19:08] ---
    Yeah, you're right.
[19:32] ---
    He left his glasses on...
    should I take them off?
[19:36] ---
    Take them off and give him a kiss!
[19:38] ---
    Be quiet. Shut up!
[19:39] ---
    Why? He's totally open!
[19:42] ---
    I don't want to wake him.
[19:44] ---
    And I'm not into that stuff, personally.
[19:46] ---
    After all that fapping to BL you do?
[19:50] ---
    Don't say "fap".
[19:52] ---
    Something fell behind the shelves.
[20:06] ---
    Pictures?
[20:16] ---
    They're all...
[20:18] ---
    They're all...
[20:25] ---
    Madarame-sempai likes Kasukabe-sempai?
[20:32] ---
    Affairs are so hot!
[20:33] ---
    Shut up! You don't know
    what a man's heart is like!
[20:37] ---
    T-That's insulting! I'm you, after all!
SIGN    Cosplay Day
[22:30] ---
    Kyouko, are you really doing that?
SIGN    Kyouko (Real name: Sasahara Keiko)
[22:33] ---
    Yup, sure am!
[22:35] ---
    We've got a bunny girl, a
    nurse, and a high school girl.
[22:37] ---
    And a miniskirt police officer.
     So what's one more?
[22:41] ---
    There's a lot of demand for them.
[22:42] ---
    I need to go all out or I won't survive.
[22:45] ---
    This is really popular at pachinko, and there
    are even celebrities who imitate it!
[22:50] ---
    I think it might be pretty popular!
[22:52] ---
    Not happening.
[22:53] ---
    But manager, this was expensive!
    I bought it myself!
[22:57] ---
    We don't do that stuff here.
    Do it on your own time.
[23:00] ---
    What if we get sued?
[23:03] ---
    Damn it. If Watanabe came,
    I'm sure he'd love it.
SIGN    Genshiken Second Generation
SIGN    Preview
[23:10] ---
    It's almost time for Comic Festival!
[23:12] ---
    Let's buy all the BL books we can find!
[23:14] ---
    I hope there's some last minute stuff too!
[23:16] ---
    I'm so excited I can't sleep!
[23:17] ---
    Not getting enough sleep is bad for
    your skin and can lead to heatstroke!
[23:20] ---
    Yoshitake-san gave us a list
    of stuff to beat the heat.
[23:23] ---
    Hat. Towel. Fan. Suntan lotion. Deodorant.
[23:26] ---
    Napkins to wipe off the sweat.
    Change of clothes. Frozen drinks.
[23:28] ---
    What great ideas!
[23:29] ---
    Lastly, if you put an ice pack in your bra,
    it keeps you cool and gives you big boobs!
[23:33] ---
    
[23:34] ---
    That one's not happening.
[23:35] ---
    Yeah.
[23:36] ---
    Next time on Genshiken: Second Generation:
    Beards and Boobs!
[23:40] ---
    

4 - Beards and Boobs

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[00:11] ---
    Kanako!
[00:13] ---
    Angela!
[00:15] ---
    Did you get lost?
[00:16] ---
    Hey, it's my third time to
    visit Japan. No worries.
[00:24] ---
    How is Sue? She's joined Genshiken, right?
[00:29] ---
    Yeah. She's getting quite used to it.
[00:32] ---
    Okay, then let's go to the club room.
     Is everybody there?
[00:37] ---
    Well...
[02:10] ---
    It's just before summer Comic Festival,
[02:14] ---
    and Genshiken is working on the last
    52 pages of Ogiue's pro project.
[02:18] ---
    They're working very hard.
[02:26] ---
    I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
[02:27] ---
    This is all because I wrote fifty
    pages for the Comic Festival manga.
[02:31] ---
    No, no. It's fun!
[02:33] ---
    If you give up, the game is already over!
[02:36] ---
    This is perfect for getting
    fired up for Comic Festival!
[02:39] ---
    Since we're being paid, we're pros too!
[02:41] ---
    Nice Boat!
[02:43] ---
    Yeah! Nice Boat!
[02:45] ---
    How many times have we heard that?
    They've stayed up so many nights they're going crazy.
[02:50] ---
    And this is next month's issue with part one in it!
    Seeing this makes my tiredness fly away!
[02:54] ---
    I'm too embarrassed to look at it much.
[02:57] ---
    I put the tone on this!
[02:59] ---
    So did I. And I've heard
    that a hundred times now.
[03:02] ---
    Most of it was Hato-chan's
    backgrounds though.
[03:05] ---
    Hato-chan?
[03:08] ---
    What's wrong?
[03:10] ---
    Sempai... this is an emergency.
[03:14] ---
    Are you sick?
[03:17] ---
    I think...
[03:19] ---
    I'm starting to grow a beard.
[03:23] ---
    Beards and Boobs!
[03:29] ---
    And having something growing
    when I'm dressed like this...
[03:32] ---
    ...is just so embarrassing!
[03:36] ---
    By "something" she means a beard, right?
[03:38] ---
    What else could she mean?
[03:40] ---
    Dick-dock.
[03:42] ---
    Hato. Turn this around.
[03:44] ---
    Yajima-san?
[03:45] ---
    Your beard is embarrasing because
    you're dressed like a girl.
[03:49] ---
    Then you'll be fine if you go
    back to dressing like a guy!
[03:52] ---
    I see!
[03:53] ---
    That phrase you kept repeating like
    an idiot is finally coming in handy!
[03:55] ---
    I'm not a girl, so it's not embarrassing!
[03:57] ---
    Like an idiot? Is that what you thought?
[04:00] ---
    Um.... you're right that that's one solution,
[04:04] ---
    but I didn't bring any men's clothing.
[04:07] ---
    Why didn't you?
[04:10] ---
    I knew these two were gonna clash.
[04:13] ---
    It's summer vacation so I was
    able to come straight from home.
[04:16] ---
    I haven't been to Madarame-sempai's
    room in a long time.
[04:20] ---
    Want to borrow some of mine?
    I've got some that are big and kind of boyish.
[04:24] ---
    No, I couldn't.
[04:29] ---
    Do your job.
[04:32] ---
    Right.
[04:35] ---
    Sue-san's loyalty to her sempai is amazing.
[04:39] ---
    She must love sempai's manga.
[04:42] ---
    Chika's panties are mine! And my--
[04:44] ---
    That's enough!
[04:45] ---
    ... panties are Chika's.
[04:48] ---
    Sue-san, I mean, Chief! I've got an idea!
[04:54] ---
    Ohno-sempai begged us to let her leave
    these cosplay outfits here, right?
[04:59] ---
    They're totally in the way.
[05:01] ---
    If there's a male character costume
    in the box, Hato-chan can wear that.
[05:06] ---
    Cosplay?
[05:08] ---
    That might work.
[05:11] ---
    I'm sorry, I just...
[05:14] ---
    I can't accept having a beard
    when I'm dressed like this.
[05:18] ---
    It may be easier to just cosplay,
[05:20] ---
    and show you what I look like
    as a guy like Yajima-san says.
[05:25] ---
    No, wait. It's not that I
    want to see you as a guy.
[05:30] ---
    You guys have all gone nuts.
[05:33] ---
    Then it's settled.
[05:35] ---
    Are these all costumes for
    trap characters, Ohno-sempai?
[05:41] ---
    Of course they are.
     Now let's get back to work.
[05:43] ---
    Susie's gonna get mad.
[05:45] ---
    Yajimacchi.
[05:47] ---
    That outfit is a size LL, right?
[05:51] ---
    
[05:54] ---
    Sempai, can I borrow your makeup remover?
[05:57] ---
    It's nothing great, it comes
    with a face wash, but okay.
[06:01] ---
    That's fine.
[06:02] ---
    Why?
[06:04] ---
    Now now. I'm cosplaying too.
[06:07] ---
    That's not cosplay! That's just a sweatsuit!
[06:10] ---
    No. It's kind of a shock how well it works.
[06:14] ---
    Especially the fact that
    I can wear my own glasses!
[06:19] ---
    This isn't fair! Why my clothes?
[06:23] ---
    I haven't even taken a bath yet!
    Do you know how much a fat girl can sweat?
[06:27] ---
    Well, I'm really thin,
     and I'm still sweating like a pig.
[06:30] ---
    You shut up!
[06:32] ---
    We all stink!
[06:34] ---
    Why is all this happening? Is it my fault?
[06:38] ---
    Keep working.
[06:39] ---
    Right, chief.
[06:40] ---
    I'm back.
[06:43] ---
    I'll get back to work right away.
[06:51] ---
    So where's the beard?
[06:52] ---
    Right here.
[06:54] ---
    I can't even see it!
[06:56] ---
    No, you can. It's almost there.
[06:59] ---
    He's not as polite when he's a girl.
[07:01] ---
    I've got more armpit hair than that.
[07:05] ---
    You're not working.
[07:07] ---
    Um... thanks, Yajima-san,
     for lending me your clothes.
[07:11] ---
    It's fine. Just get to work.
[07:14] ---
    Yeah, I'll hurry.
[07:16] ---
    When I finish, I'll put on my mascara and
    old clothes, and I can wash these.
[07:21] ---
    Huh? Maybe I can't return them washed?
[07:24] ---
    Yeah. Yajimacchi can't
    leave dressed like that.
[07:31] ---
    It doesn't matter. She can put them back on.
[07:35] ---
    Of course it does!
[07:38] ---
    Take them off! Take them off right now!
[07:40] ---
    I'm not lending them to you
    after all! Take them off!
[07:42] ---
    Wait! I'm still in girl's underwear!
[07:44] ---
    Wear this!
[07:48] ---
    Even if you're a trap, if you're a
    guy you're allowed to have a beard!
[07:55] ---
    Hato-kun?
[08:00] ---
    I'm alright. I'm sorry for the trouble.
[08:12] ---
    I'd like the school building
    drawn at a low angle.
[08:14] ---
    Right.
[08:15] ---
    Sue-san. Why don't you cosplay too,
[08:18] ---
    so all the freshmen are doing it?
[08:21] ---
    I thought so. But when I
    looked in the box, Sue-san...
[08:33] ---
    Sue?
[08:43] ---
    Um, why don't you try it too?
[08:54] ---
    Well, it's my fault
    this happened anyway.
[09:02] ---
    Angela, maybe.
[09:03] ---
    Oh, that's right.
    She's already here, isn't she?
[09:06] ---
    Well, I guess it's okay if it's
    just Angela and Ohno-sempai.
[09:17] ---
    Do you think this is a joke?
[09:21] ---
    Are you stupid? Why are
    you dressed like that?
[09:25] ---
    Yabusaki had come to bring us snacks.
    She yelled at us for a whole hour.
[09:29] ---
    But after that she helped us,
    and we made the deadline somehow.
[09:38] ---
    Yagurabashi is currently off-limits!
[09:45] ---
    Comic Festival has begun!
[09:53] ---
    Hato-kun, I know it's a little
    late for me to be saying this,
[09:55] ---
    but you're fine with cosplaying, right?
[09:58] ---
    I have to be.
[10:01] ---
    You said it would cause a lot of problems
    if I dressed my usual way out here.
[10:05] ---
    I'm trying to look as
    much like a guy as I can.
[10:08] ---
    I don't think you made it.
     You look like a girl to me.
[10:12] ---
    You should dress like a guy.
    We saw you do it last time.
[10:15] ---
    That was a mistake made after too many
    sleepless nights! Please forget about it!
[10:20] ---
    Anyway, I decided that when we went around
    the women's circles, I'd go as a girl.
[10:25] ---
    Well, it seems important to her,
    so let's respect her decision.
[10:28] ---
    But just so we're clear,
     please make sure you use the men's restroom.
[10:33] ---
    Right.
[10:34] ---
    You really are a boy. Ooh.
[10:38] ---
    Why you did that now?
[10:40] ---
    Sorry. Just a typical joke.
[10:43] ---
    I'm happy... yet frustrated!
[10:45] ---
    Well done!
[10:47] ---
    You're cosplaying today too,
     aren't you, Angela-san?
[10:49] ---
    Cosplay? Yeah, I have left shopping to Sue.
[10:53] ---
    Well, I should say, I read books selected by her.
     Her choice is surely good.
[10:57] ---
    The books are here.
[11:00] ---
    Ogiue-sempai isn't here yet, is she?
[11:02] ---
    She'll show. She's got our
    registration card and the samples.
[11:07] ---
    We can't sell anything without them.
[11:09] ---
    Let's get it set up.
[11:13] ---
    What are you doing here?
[11:14] ---
    Yah.
[11:18] ---
    She was up all night working
    on the copy book and collapsed?
[11:21] ---
    Wait a second. The pro book
    was due yesterday, right?
[11:25] ---
    She stayed up all night drawing after that?
[11:27] ---
    That idiot... I hope she doesn't get sick.
[11:32] ---
    What's that?
[11:37] ---
    Show me that, damn it!
     I mean, please show it to me.
[11:40] ---
    Nobody's gonna stop you. Nyah.
[11:44] ---
    Start lining up. Everybody please stand!
[11:48] ---
    Please get as close as possible
    to the person in front of you.
[11:53] ---
    Jeez... finally.
[11:56] ---
    It's finally time!
[12:00] ---
    We will now begin the first
    day of Comic Festival.
[12:05] ---
    Be quiet. I told you to sit down.
[12:08] ---
    Nyah-ko, sit down.
[12:13] ---
    And now it's started, nyah.
[12:15] ---
    Seriously?
[12:17] ---
    Applause!
[12:24] ---
    I'll sit down, though. No point in
    fighting over something like this.
[12:29] ---
    I'll take your new volume.
[12:32] ---
    Um... these are our new volumes.
[12:35] ---
    Right after we started? That soon?
[12:38] ---
    Are you the author? Ogino-sensei?
[12:40] ---
    No, I'm not. She collapsed after staying up
    all night and will be here in the evening.
[12:44] ---
    I read Afternoon. Tell her I'm
    looking forward to part two.
[12:49] ---
    Right.
[12:50] ---
    Thank you!
[12:52] ---
    Ogiue's part one wasn't that
    well-received online.
[12:57] ---
    Quite the opposite.
[12:58] ---
    I guess not everybody agreed with that, nyah.
[13:04] ---
    That idiot. She needs to be here!
[13:07] ---
    I'll take the new book.
[13:09] ---
    I'll take part one.
[13:10] ---
    Can I buy this?
[13:11] ---
    May I see this?
[13:12] ---
    Oh no.
[13:13] ---
    It totally looks like we're
    trying to profit off her!
[13:18] ---
    You just realized?
[13:19] ---
    I just wanted to work with her!
[13:22] ---
    Tell that to her! Nyah.
[13:27] ---
    I'm back.
[13:28] ---
    Oh my.
[13:30] ---
    That's not a trap cosplay.
[13:32] ---
    There was a limited edition drama CD where
    this character comes to Comic Festival.
[13:36] ---
    As a rotten girl.
[13:37] ---
    Seriously?
[13:38] ---
    Nobody remembers anymore, I think.
[13:43] ---
    I don't think I stand out too much like this.
[13:48] ---
    But crossdressing and cosplay
    really are different!
[13:51] ---
    When you cosplay, you're
    expecting to be seen.
[13:54] ---
    Even so, it's much better
    than everyone thinking I'm a guy.
[13:58] ---
    Okay, you start with
    Flower/Scales, Hato-chan.
[14:00] ---
    Start there and get us five copies each of
    every new volume from the circles I marked.
[14:04] ---
    Okay!
[14:05] ---
    When you've got them all, or you can't carry
    anymore, go to Ogi-sempai's "Snow Retreat."
[14:11] ---
    Expect a long line for the
    biggest women's manga.
[14:14] ---
    Okay, Yajimacchi and I will
    hit the lines on the outside.
[14:18] ---
    Yeah!
[14:19] ---
    Good luck!
SIGN    East A-22ab Flower/Scales End of line
[14:23] ---
    Um... this is the place right?
[14:27] ---
    I see. So the last person holds the placard.
[14:31] ---
    I'll take that.
[14:35] ---
    I'll take that.
[14:36] ---
    Wow. It keeps getting longer.
[14:40] ---
    And they're all like me, right?
[14:42] ---
    Okay, five books will be 3500 yen.
[14:45] ---
    All right! Nobody found me out!
[14:48] ---
    Okay! I'll buy a lot!
[14:52] ---
    Looks like the first rush is over.
    We sold out of the copy books.
[14:56] ---
    I'm going to go buy some things, nyah!
[14:59] ---
    Wait!
[14:59] ---
    Two is plenty, and there's not room to sit.
[15:03] ---
    Bye!
SIGN    Men's Toilet
SIGN    Men's Toilet End of Line #2
[15:35] ---
    No, I'm #1.
SIGN    Men's Toilet End of Line #2
[15:45] ---
    I hope the next person comes soon.
[15:48] ---
    Thank you.
[15:51] ---
    Huh? Somebody other than Ogiue's
    got a manga this time.
[15:54] ---
    Thank yo--
[15:56] ---
    Can I have five copies?
[16:01] ---
    Sorry, that's us. 3500 yen.
[16:05] ---
    I see. So you two are Ogiue's
    partners right now, right?
[16:09] ---
    I don't know if "partner"
    is the right word for it.
[16:12] ---
    Tell me if somebody's behind you.
[16:13] ---
    Okay.
[16:14] ---
    Ogiue Chika is my waifu!
[16:16] ---
    Ssh.
[16:18] ---
    I see. I'm sorry.
[16:20] ---
    I was her classmate in middle school.
     My name's Nakajima.
[16:24] ---
    Yeah?
[16:26] ---
    I'm not, but she's in a circle
    with her called Genshiken.
[16:30] ---
    Ogiue's the president.
[16:32] ---
    The president of a circle? That's...
[16:36] ---
    ... not like her at all!
[16:38] ---
    Right? Not at all!
[16:41] ---
    Anyway, that makes me feel relieved.
[16:43] ---
    I was worried that she'd...
[16:46] ---
    ...try to kill herself over a guy again.
[16:55] ---
    Last year Ogiue was here
    with her boyfriend right?
[17:00] ---
    When she didn't show up at the last Comic Festival,
     I was afraid something had happened.
[17:05] ---
    Back in middle school,
[17:06] ---
    she used her boyfriend
    Makita-kun in a BL book.
[17:10] ---
    He ended up having to change
    schools, and then she...
[17:13] ---
    No, no, no. Nakajima-san, was it?
[17:17] ---
    It's the perfect job for Ogiue, I think.
[17:22] ---
    I could understand if it was the old Ogiue.
[17:28] ---
    I know that too.
[17:30] ---
    And her boyfriend does too! But they're dating!
     And they're really happy!
[17:36] ---
    Looks like you didn't have to worry.
[17:40] ---
    So it seems.
[17:43] ---
    How many years has it been?
    Six? That's a long time.
[17:50] ---
    I think I'll go now.
[17:51] ---
    Will you be back after Ogiue gets here?
[17:55] ---
    No, I won't.
[17:57] ---
    You sure?
[17:58] ---
    I'm sure you two understand that
    it's better if I don't meet her.
[18:04] ---
    I probably won't stop by at the
    next Comic Festival either.
[18:07] ---
    So don't worry.
[18:17] ---
    She didn't notice?
[18:19] ---
    Looks so.
[18:22] ---
    We're still selling books? That's great.
[18:27] ---
    She didn't even notice!
[18:29] ---
    Wait, why is your face so red?
[18:32] ---
    I'm running a 39°C fever...
[18:36] ---
    Hey, you know what we have to do, right?
[18:38] ---
    'Course!
[18:39] ---
    Don't say anything about that girl.
[18:41] ---
    'Course not!
[18:43] ---
    Okay.
[18:45] ---
    Take her.
[18:46] ---
    Yes ma'am!
[18:51] ---
    Leave the rest to me.
[18:56] ---
    Ogiue was right behind us.
[18:58] ---
    There's no need to talk to her.
[19:00] ---
    But now Makita-kun is...
[19:02] ---
    There's no need to tell her that!
[19:04] ---
    We don't need to make her life any better.
[19:08] ---
    Why are you such a bitch?
[19:11] ---
    It's nothing new, so you
    don't need to say anything.
[19:19] ---
    Isn't it amazing? Ogiue-san's books sold out!
[19:24] ---
    It was fun selling them! Wasn't it, guys?
[19:28] ---
    Yeah.
[19:28] ---
    Yes!
[19:30] ---
    Think we could get a hand here?
[19:34] ---
    Madarame-san and the others
    will be here on day three.
[19:37] ---
    Madarame!
[19:40] ---
    He has really pretty fingers, you know?
[19:45] ---
    Is she talking about Madarame-sempai?
[19:49] ---
    Here's today's earnings,
    and some doujinshi I found.
[19:53] ---
    I'd like you to count it up,
     but I don't think you can right now.
[19:58] ---
    We can have Sue do it, or...
[20:02] ---
    ... have him do it.
[20:09] ---
    Let's go, Sue.
[20:10] ---
    Sue... Sue, thanks. You can go now.
[20:16] ---
    I hope you and your boyfriend explode!
[20:28] ---
    I'm sorry, Sasahara-san.
[20:30] ---
    Hm?
[20:31] ---
    I thought if Sue saw me crying, she'd worry.
[20:36] ---
    Mm.
[20:38] ---
    I made her help me with a private project
    that had nothing to do with Genshiken,
[20:42] ---
    and then I got too sick to come
    on the day we sold our doujinshi!
[20:47] ---
    Mm.
[20:48] ---
    I feel like I'm a failure as a president!
[20:52] ---
    I see.
[20:53] ---
    And then maybe...
[20:55] ---
    They might think I just wanted
    to go to Comic Festival today.
[20:59] ---
    Ehh...
[21:02] ---
    Want to come to my place?
     You worked hard today.
[21:09] ---
    Yabu... Sue loves Yabu!
[21:14] ---
    What?
[21:16] ---
    A fish with a human face!
[21:18] ---
    I hope my cold gets better, and then...
[21:21] ---
    Even if your fever goes down,
     you shouldn't go tomorrow or the day after.
[21:24] ---
    Really?
[21:26] ---
    Yup.
[21:27] ---
    I shouldn't?
[21:28] ---
    You shouldn't.
SIGN    Preview
[23:10] ---
    The summer anime shows have already
    finished episode 4? Time flies.
[23:14] ---
    I'm sure everyone's talking about
    which shows they've dropped online.
[23:17] ---
    I always give a series three episodes!
[23:19] ---
    So you actually drop shows?
     That's nothing to be proud of.
[23:21] ---
    You always get mad when something
    gets popular after you drop it.
[23:23] ---
    That's when I say everybody
    else on the board is a shill!
[23:25] ---
    You're horrible!
[23:26] ---
    Viral marketing! Viral marketing!
[23:28] ---
    Any time something sells that I don't like,
     it's due to viral marketing!
[23:30] ---
    The anime I like should sell a lot,
     and the ones I don't shouldn't sell at all!
[23:33] ---
    I don't care!
[23:34] ---
    Next time on Genshiken: Second Generation
    Go Next!
[23:38] ---
    

5 - Go Next!

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[00:14] ---
    Why?
[00:16] ---
    It's the day before Comic Festival,
    and I'm not excited at all.
[00:19] ---
    It's Comic Festival! I used to get
     so excited, it was kind of stupid.
[00:24] ---
    What happened to me?
[02:07] ---
    You look happy, Kanako.
[02:09] ---
    No wonder!
[02:11] ---
    Today I get to cosplay with everybody!
[02:15] ---
    Everybody was busy with
    their own things yesterday,
[02:18] ---
    but today I'm counting on you!
[02:20] ---
    Okay!
[02:21] ---
    So you're going straight back to America
    after Comic Festival is over, Angela-san?
[02:25] ---
    You must really love it!
[02:26] ---
    She's tough! She does
    tennis and swimming too!
[02:31] ---
    They're really excited today.
[02:34] ---
    Especially Ohno-san.
[02:36] ---
    They've been like that since yesterday.
[02:38] ---
    I won't deny that cosplay is fun.
[02:41] ---
    Anyway, isn't Madarame-sempai late?
[02:44] ---
    We need him for our plan!
[02:48] ---
    Is that him?
[02:51] ---
    Sorry, am I the last here?
[02:53] ---
    Don't worry. There's still
    time before the first train.
[02:57] ---
    That's good.
[02:58] ---
    Good morning, Madarame-sempai.
    It's been a while.
[03:02] ---
    Oh, uh, morning.
[03:06] ---
    Is that you, Hato-kun?
     I didn't know you had a wig like that.
[03:09] ---
    Let's get moving.
[03:11] ---
    Hey, it's been forever, Kugayama.
[03:13] ---
    Since graduation, yeah.
[03:15] ---
    That's right, sempai can only talk
    to me normally when I'm a guy.
[03:20] ---
    You look a little pale, Madarame.
[03:23] ---
    I'm a bit hungover.
[03:25] ---
    Hungover?
[03:29] ---
    Hey, do you remember?
[03:32] ---
    Last summer at the room.
[03:34] ---
    When we were reading an
    anime magazine together,
[03:37] ---
    you flipped the pages
    with these fingers.
[03:44] ---
    Come on, Kanako! Interpret!
[03:47] ---
    N-No.
[03:49] ---
    I don't get it at all.
[03:51] ---
    That really happened!
[03:53] ---
    Well, I skipped some things, though.
[03:55] ---
    Hey, it doesn't make sense.
[03:55] ---
    What is this? What is this?
[03:57] ---
    Dunno.
[03:58] ---
    I think, basically, she wants to say thanks
    for helping her last year in the club room.
[04:03] ---
    I'm not sure I really understand her, though.
[04:07] ---
    Last summer in the club room?
    That's a long time ago.
[04:11] ---
    I don't really remember,
    but you're welcome.
[04:15] ---
    He doesn't remember.
[04:17] ---
    Oh. That's a shame.
[04:24] ---
    I could return the
    favor in a different way.
[04:27] ---
    Stop that.
[04:29] ---
    Go Next!
[04:53] ---
    Angela-san's still clinging to him.
[04:56] ---
    She's so aggressive.
[04:59] ---
    Can we assume there's
    something going on?
[05:01] ---
    I read on the net once that Japanese
     guys are really popular overseas.
[05:07] ---
    I don't think that's true.
[05:09] ---
    I don't know, but what
    we're seeing here--
[05:12] ---
    I'm sure she's bothering Madarame-sempai.
[05:14] ---
    He still likes Kasukabe-sempai.
[05:19] ---
    But I probably shouldn't try to interfere.
[05:22] ---
    He avoids me when I'm a girl, anyway.
[05:28] ---
    Ohno-sempai!
[05:30] ---
    Yes?
[05:32] ---
    Madarame-sempai said he was hungover.
[05:35] ---
    Can I go help him buy doujinshi today?
[05:40] ---
    I was really looking
    forward to today though!
[05:42] ---
    I see.
[05:44] ---
    I'm sorry. Please.
[05:47] ---
    Well, you did it yesterday,
    and the day before.
[05:50] ---
    Thank you.
[05:52] ---
    Madarame-sempai! Kuchiki-sempai!
[05:54] ---
    The male version!
[05:56] ---
    I'll be going with you guys.
[06:01] ---
    I think it works.
[06:02] ---
    W-What does?
[06:04] ---
    Thanks for the help.
[06:06] ---
    Why are you giving a thumbs up?
[06:16] ---
    I thought we could cosplay all
    the main characters, but...
[06:21] ---
    Probably that's guided
    by the law of cycles.
[06:24] ---
    Can I ask you something by now?
[06:27] ---
    What was that in this morning?
     Since when do you like Madarame so much?
[06:31] ---
    I told you then.
[06:33] ---
    He was kind to me when I
    came to Japan last summer.
[06:36] ---
    But you weren't flirting
    with him in winter!
[06:40] ---
    That's not surprising.
[06:42] ---
    He had Saki.
[06:44] ---
    But Saki graduated.
[06:47] ---
    And Madarame was left
    broken-hearted, right?
[06:50] ---
    You know what I think?
     Madarame deserves to be happier.
[06:54] ---
    And isn't it about time
    he finds a new love?
[07:00] ---
    Don't scare me!
[07:03] ---
    I don't get it at all.
[07:05] ---
    It's perfect for you.
[07:06] ---
    But if Ogiue-san was here
    you'd do my character, right?
[07:10] ---
    What?
[07:12] ---
    I agreed to dress like this because
    we were all going to do it.
[07:16] ---
    That Hato... I should've quit too.
[07:19] ---
    I need you here for my character, though!
     We're a couple!
[07:22] ---
    And don't you think Hato-chan's
    fine where she is?
[07:26] ---
    Why?
[07:27] ---
    A guy, dressed like a guy, is going with
    his guy friends to buy doujins for guys.
[07:32] ---
    No problem, right?
[07:34] ---
    I guess.
[07:36] ---
    No, I mean that should be just fine.
[07:40] ---
    I don't understand them.
[07:46] ---
    Hato-kun, you get all your stuff?
[07:48] ---
    You too?
[07:49] ---
    Yeah, I got all the stuff on the list.
[07:52] ---
    But you being here helped a lot.
[07:54] ---
    It meant I had less to buy. Thanks.
[07:57] ---
    It's fine.
[07:58] ---
    How are you feeling?
[08:00] ---
    I'll be fine once the
    alcohol's out of my system.
[08:02] ---
    A junior caring for him sempai!
[08:05] ---
    Did you drink that much?
[08:07] ---
    It's been really hot lately.
[08:08] ---
    I can't concentrate. Get lost.
[08:11] ---
    I'll head upstairs for now.
[08:13] ---
    I'm everywhere and nowhere, you know!
[08:17] ---
    Anyway, what do you think of day three?
     There's more people here, right?
[08:22] ---
    There's people everywhere.
    It's overwhelming.
[08:25] ---
    Yesterday I only went
    to the women's booths.
[08:28] ---
    Oh yeah. Yesterday was what
    you were really here for.
[08:32] ---
    Dorarara?
[08:33] ---
    Yes, that's right.
     I searched everywhere for stuff.
[08:37] ---
    And in cosplay too.
[08:39] ---
    Tanaka-san's really good,
     to be able to make that overnight!
[08:45] ---
    That's a real turnabout!
[08:47] ---
    A female character who dresses like a guy.
    I'm cross-dressing, but at the same time I'm not!
[08:51] ---
    And since it comes with pants
    I can stand up in the bathroom.
SIGN    End of the Line (#2)
[08:57] ---
    Or so I thought.
[09:00] ---
    I'm glad you're having a good time.
[09:04] ---
    When I was a student,
    I came all three days,
[09:08] ---
    bought all the doujinshi,
     and lined up at all the company booths.
[09:12] ---
    Company booths?
[09:14] ---
    You don't know about them?
    Second floor of the west hall.
[09:17] ---
    Lots of companies are there, but it's mostly
    H-game developers and publishing companies.
[09:20] ---
    They all hold events and sell con exclusives.
[09:23] ---
    I didn't know they had
    that here. I'll go later.
[09:26] ---
    Once, I tripped in a line here
    and fractured my hand.
[09:29] ---
    But I still stayed in line and bought
    stuff at those booths. Those were the days.
[09:35] ---
    Fractured your hand?
[09:36] ---
    The indiscretions of my youth.
[09:38] ---
    And now that I'm out of school,
    I can only go for one day.
[09:43] ---
    It kinda puts out my fire.
[09:47] ---
    No, I don't think that's the problem.
[09:50] ---
    For me, it's all in my head.
[09:53] ---
    But it was hot in
    another way, wasn't it?
[09:57] ---
    The temperature?
[09:58] ---
    No... Angela-san.
[10:01] ---
    No, no, no.
     She's just making fun of me.
[10:05] ---
    Is she? You don't think it's
    finally your turn to get lucky?
[10:07] ---
    It's a lie that everybody gets
     lucky once in their life. I never have.
[10:12] ---
    She only comes to Japan
     for Comic Festival, anyway.
[10:16] ---
    She's just messing around.
[10:17] ---
    Forget 3D girls! 2D for the win.
[10:21] ---
    And I got plenty of them today.
[10:23] ---
    Um...
[10:25] ---
    Then have you ever
    fallen in love with a 3D girl?
[10:31] ---
    Huh?
[10:33] ---
    Never.
[10:34] ---
    He's lying.
[10:37] ---
    No. It's not fair to keep asking
    these questions when I saw those photos.
[10:43] ---
    But if she knew the real you,
[10:45] ---
    I think a girl would
     really like being around you.
[10:50] ---
    What's gotten into you?
[10:51] ---
    You're a good cook.
[10:54] ---
    And you treat somebody
    like me like a normal person.
[11:00] ---
    You're sure you aren't into guys, right?
[11:03] ---
    I-I'm not!
[11:05] ---
    The only 3D people I've ever
    fallen in love with were girls.
[11:08] ---
    Is that after you got into BL?
[11:11] ---
    Yes!
[11:11] ---
    Oh, hey. There you are.
[11:14] ---
    Hello there, Kugayama-sempai!
[11:17] ---
    Hey. It's really hot, huh?
[11:21] ---
    Good timing, Kugayama.
[11:23] ---
    Hato-kun said he wanted to
    check out the company booths.
[11:26] ---
    That's right.
[11:28] ---
    Can you keep our place?
[11:29] ---
    Sure. I'll just be reading my doujins.
[11:36] ---
    I think those two are really
    suspicious, Kugayama-san!
[11:41] ---
    But I guess normal people don't care.
[11:47] ---
    No matter what you say,
     she's got a boyfriend already.
[11:52] ---
    Even in an H-game,
     it would never happen.
[11:55] ---
    And what a boyfriend.
[11:58] ---
    I'm gonna feel like a loser
    for the rest of my life.
[12:10] ---
    Well, how do I approach
    him on the way back?
[12:20] ---
    So this whole floor is company booths.
[12:22] ---
    Wow, there's so many!
[12:24] ---
    Madarame-san!
[12:28] ---
    I was just thinking of contacting you.
[12:32] ---
    Kousaka!
[12:34] ---
    W-Why? And why are you--
[12:37] ---
    I've been recruited to help advertise.
[12:39] ---
    Our new H-game is about traps.
[12:45] ---
    I've fit Hato-kun up for the clothes...
[12:48] ---
    What?
[12:49] ---
    Actually, I wanted Ogiue-san to
    cosplay this character, though.
[12:54] ---
    Hato-kun's also fabulous,
[12:56] ---
    but we may want to find someone smaller.
[12:59] ---
    And if she were here, Hato-kun
    would cosplay this one!
[13:05] ---
    Yeah, should be this.
[13:07] ---
    Yeah.
[13:08] ---
    If Ogiue-san would do...
     well, she won't change her mind though.
[13:15] ---
    Hey, what's wrong, Sue?
[13:21] ---
    You want to cosplay this one?
[13:23] ---
    But you're blonde!
[13:25] ---
    Anyway, I don't think Ohno-sempai
    works as a middle schooler.
[13:30] ---
    Yeah, she's too busty.
[13:35] ---
    Madarame-san says Kousaka-san is
     cosplaying as girl at the company booths!
[13:40] ---
    And he sent a picture!
[13:41] ---
    Wow.
[13:43] ---
    What a natural!
[13:44] ---
    I want to go see!
[13:46] ---
    But I can't leave by myself.
    This is a group cosplay!
[13:50] ---
    And Kousaka-san is
     working so he can't come here!
[13:53] ---
    And going anywhere in
     this crowd is impossible!
[13:57] ---
    This is Kasukabe-sempai's boyfriend?
[14:01] ---
    Ohno-san says she wants more pictures.
[14:04] ---
    Sure.
[14:05] ---
    In other words,
     he's Madarame-sempai's rival.
[14:09] ---
    Okay, ready?
[14:11] ---
    Yeah, I don't think he can win.
[14:14] ---
    Win what?
[14:17] ---
    Kuchiki-kun sent a selfie.
[14:20] ---
    Oh, he's in line.
[14:22] ---
    "Gimmie an upskirt?"
[14:24] ---
    I guess they're rivals,
    but they get along.
[14:31] ---
    I can't get in between them!
[14:34] ---
    Are they going to fight
    over Kasukabe-sempai?
[14:38] ---
    I guess not.
[14:40] ---
    They're already dating, so
    Madarame-sempai watches from a distance.
[14:45] ---
    I can see it in my mind's eye.
[14:49] ---
    Even I think his
    crossdressing is perfect.
[14:54] ---
    Wait? Are you not wearing
    makeup, Kousaka-sempai?
[14:59] ---
    That's right.
[15:02] ---
    It's hopeless, Madarame-sempai.
[15:05] ---
    What's that?
[15:11] ---
    I guess in that case,
[15:13] ---
    dating Angela-san is
    the best option for him.
[15:17] ---
    Come on.
[15:18] ---
    No, that doesn't seem quite right.
[15:21] ---
    What? Still shocked by Kousaka?
[15:24] ---
    Your crossdressing is amazing too.
[15:26] ---
    Kohsaka's just a natural. Don't worry about it.
     He's from a different dimension.
[15:31] ---
    Anyway, I'm not gonna win.
[15:54] ---
    I think in general terms,
    I'm as good as he is.
[15:58] ---
    So you...
[16:00] ---
    You shouldn't say you can't win.
[16:02] ---
    What did you say? I couldn't hear you.
[16:09] ---
    I want him to try just a little harder.
[16:14] ---
    It may just be me being selfish.
[16:18] ---
    But isn't everything I want like that?
[16:24] ---
    Stop it, please.
[16:26] ---
    You're bothering him.
[16:29] ---
    It's just about what I want.
[16:32] ---
    Interpret, Kanako.
[16:34] ---
    Okay.
[16:39] ---
    But...
[16:42] ---
    Even if it may be a one-night stand,
[16:44] ---
    it could be a very memorable
    event in your life.
[16:50] ---
    A one-night stand?
[16:52] ---
    I'm so jealous!
[16:53] ---
    I-I don't think so!
[16:56] ---
    I'm sure a feeling that develops
    over time is much stronger!
[17:01] ---
    I believe the feeling that you have
    developed over time is surely stronger.
[17:08] ---
    Oh, you forgot what
    happened in the morning?
[17:10] ---
    I told you, I have been fancying
    Madarame since last year.
[17:14] ---
    Now is just a trigger.
[17:19] ---
    And it's our right to make
    a decision for the future.
[17:24] ---
    It's nothing for an
    outsider to interfere with.
[17:28] ---
    She's really aggressive.
[17:30] ---
    It's so direct that translating
    it is embarrassing.
[17:33] ---
    Hang in there.
[17:36] ---
    It doesn't matter whether I'm an outsider,
     or what rights I have.
[17:40] ---
    Because Madarame-sempai...
[17:43] ---
    ...likes Kasukabe-sempai!
[17:46] ---
    Madarame-sempai...
[17:50] ---
    Sempai...
[17:55] ---
    He's a bottom!
[17:58] ---
    Hey!
[17:59] ---
    He's what we call a bottom in BL!
[18:02] ---
    And he's a damn good one,
     so he should be paired with a guy!
[18:06] ---
    Like Tanaka-sempai x Madarame-sempai!
[18:08] ---
    You picked me?
[18:09] ---
    Or Kugayama-sempai would be great too!
[18:11] ---
    N-No I wouldn't.
[18:13] ---
    Or even Kuchiki-sempai trying
    to be a top and failing!
[18:17] ---
    He's not here, but Sasahara-sempai
    would work too!
[18:21] ---
    But my personal favorite right now...
[18:23] ---
    ... is the love I saw today!
[18:26] ---
    Shut up already!
[18:28] ---
    Kousaka-sempai x Madarame-sempai!
[18:31] ---
    Now who should I send this picture to?
[18:35] ---
    Stop it, please...
[18:41] ---
    So Madarame-sempai
     doesn't have time to date a girl.
[18:46] ---
    What am I saying?
[18:48] ---
    I can't breathe! I can't look at him!
[18:51] ---
    Madarame... total bottom?
[18:53] ---
    Yes! Total bottom.
[18:58] ---
    Yes! Total bottom!
[19:00] ---
    Total bottom! Total bottom!
[19:03] ---
    Madarame the total bottom!
[19:04] ---
    Angela, I forgot you liked that stuff.
[19:07] ---
    But that is that.
[19:11] ---
    My fingers again?
[19:25] ---
    Oops, you got really uptight?
[19:29] ---
    Chai... Chai Kick!
[19:35] ---
    Ouch!
[19:37] ---
    Oh... my.
[19:40] ---
    Hato!
[19:43] ---
    Good job!
[19:44] ---
    See you at the next Comic
    Festival, Madarame!
[19:49] ---
    Yankee go home!
[19:51] ---
    Go to hell!
[19:53] ---
    What was that?
[19:55] ---
    I'm not entirely sure.
[19:58] ---
    Um, I'm sorry for the
    weird things I said.
[20:01] ---
    Nah, you saved me, so it's okay.
[20:04] ---
    But one thing...
[20:09] ---
    Where did you get that thing about
    a feeling that develops over time?
[20:16] ---
    It just came to me.
[20:21] ---
    I see. Fine then.
[20:23] ---
    Hato-chan's one of us, isn't she?
[20:26] ---
    Excuse me.
[20:28] ---
    You should be more careful
    with these things!
[20:32] ---
    Sorry.
[20:33] ---
    And what happened to Hato X Madarame?
[20:40] ---
    I'm a bottom?!
[20:44] ---
    It was a big shock for us to accept him.
     It was a big shock for all of us.
[20:49] ---
    No, I think it's a bigger shock for him.
[20:53] ---
    Is he forgetting how close
    he came to a girl's boobs?
[20:57] ---
    And that's the end of
     this year's Comic Festival!
[22:43] ---
    Okay, calm down.
     It's not time to freak out yet.
[22:47] ---
    "Bottom" is just a concept that
    exists in a rotten girl's head.
[22:49] ---
    It doesn't affect me in reality.
[22:57] ---
    I'm not sure if Sasahara lets his
    girlfriend use him in BL 'cause he's tough,
[23:02] ---
    or if Madarame is just delicate.
[23:03] ---
    While I'm sure tastes will vary,
     I think that's probably what makes him good for BL.
SIGN    Next Time
[23:10] ---
    Comic Festival was so much fun!
[23:12] ---
    I bought too much, my legs are
    sore, and I can't lift my arms.
[23:15] ---
    Really? I'm just fine.
[23:17] ---
    It started to get to
    me on the second day.
[23:19] ---
    Me too.
[23:21] ---
    You're still fine, Yoshitake-san?
[23:22] ---
    Really?
[23:23] ---
    No, it hit me the first day.
[23:25] ---
    I've had torn muscles and everything!
[23:27] ---
    Torn muscles are a
     pretty big deal, aren't they?
[23:29] ---
    It takes two or three weeks
    to heal, if you're lucky.
[23:32] ---
    She's got so much energy.
[23:33] ---
    And she's so excited to cosplay.
[23:34] ---
    Farewell!
[23:35] ---
    She ran!
[23:35] ---
    Next time on Genshiken: Second Generation:
    Shout "Moe!" Beyond the Event Horizon
[23:40] ---
    

6 - Shout "Moe!" Beyond the Event Horizon

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[00:08] ---
    Hello, Kuchiki-sempai.
SIGN    The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture
SIGN    Welcome to Genshiken!
[01:52] ---
    Did you enjoy Comic Festival, everyone?
[01:55] ---
    It was great!
[01:57] ---
    We got to cosplay, buy stuff, and sell stuff!
[01:59] ---
    I guess maybe we got to enjoy everything
    that Comic Festival has to offer.
[02:03] ---
    I'm glad to hear it.
[02:05] ---
    I didn't get to help at all this time.
[02:08] ---
    But this is about the time
[02:11] ---
    when you realize which doujinshi you
    forgot to buy, and get depressed, right?
[02:14] ---
    We didn't get to pick up any
    doujinshi about swimming, did we?
[02:17] ---
    How was it for you, Hato-kun?
[02:19] ---
    It was lots of fun, of course.
[02:22] ---
    I see.
[02:25] ---
    Madarame-sempai is a bottom!
[02:30] ---
    Um, excuse me.
[02:32] ---
    I've got some shopping to do
    today, so I'll be leaving early.
[02:36] ---
    Huh? Okay.
[02:40] ---
    Shout "Moe!" Beyond the Event Horizon
[02:44] ---
    She said that in front of everybody?
[02:47] ---
    That Madarame-san was a total bottom?
[02:49] ---
    Hato-kun said that?
[02:51] ---
    She did.
[02:53] ---
    It felt like she just couldn't watch
    what Angela was doing to Madarame-san.
[02:59] ---
    Angela? What?
[03:00] ---
    Ignore them.
[03:02] ---
    Wow... So people will just say that sort
    of thing now? Is that really a good idea?
[03:07] ---
    I told Sasahara-san about Sasa x Mada
    because I didn't have a choice, but...
[03:10] ---
    I couldn't say that to Madarame-san.
[03:13] ---
    Isn't this kind of like what happened
    when you were in middle school?
[03:18] ---
    Having him find out himself?
[03:21] ---
    Is there any advice you
    could give to Hato-kun?
[03:26] ---
    No. I got the bad ending.
[03:33] ---
    You should show them all the
    Sasa x Mada manga you drew.
[03:39] ---
    W-Why?
[03:41] ---
    What's important right now is to make
    sure Hato doesn't feel alone.
[03:48] ---
    Outside of Genshiken, Hato is always alone.
[03:54] ---
    Madarame was her only male friend.
[03:58] ---
    So right now we need to
    make sure she remembers
[04:04] ---
    that we're just like her.
[04:14] ---
    Lately he's always over there. He
    never comes into the club room.
[04:18] ---
    He's probably got his own
    problems with things.
[04:25] ---
    Anyway, so...
[04:28] ---
    I've been in love with the idea of Sasa x Mada
     for long enough to draw all these,
[04:32] ---
    so you could say Madarame-san being a total
    bottom is the unanimous opinion of Genshiken!
[04:36] ---
    Wow, these are good! They look just
    like the real thing! And so hot!
[04:40] ---
    I seriously respect that she drew
    these about her own boyfriend!
[04:44] ---
    So can I borrow these or copy them?
[04:48] ---
    S-So Hato-kun! Don't be depressed, we all--
[04:55] ---
    It's okay to draw this. It's okay...
[05:00] ---
    ...to draw this!
[05:02] ---
    It's okay to draw this!
[05:04] ---
    Huh?
[05:05] ---
    I've always wanted to
    draw something like this!
[05:08] ---
    Something serious and hardcore,
    and based off of real people.
[05:11] ---
    I wasn't sure about the idea of
    drawing people I knew, but...
[05:15] ---
    Way to go, sempai! It's okay
    to draw this, isn't it?
[05:19] ---
    Hey, wait! Did we flip
    some kind of weird switch?
[05:22] ---
    I'll draw it, then! The fantasy
    I've always wanted to draw!
[05:27] ---
    Madarame-sempai as a total bottom!
[05:29] ---
    Hello there.
[05:32] ---
    Madarame-san? What's wrong?
[05:35] ---
    Nothing, really.
[05:38] ---
    Sue told me to come as
    soon as I was off work.
[05:41] ---
    Sue? Why?
[05:43] ---
    I thought we could get
    everything worked out at once.
[05:45] ---
    But why is Madarame here so early?
[05:47] ---
    What happened to his job?
[05:48] ---
    Um, I'm sorry about what happened
    at Comic Festival. I'm really sorry!
[05:52] ---
    Um, let's just both forget it.
[05:55] ---
    No, I can't.
[05:58] ---
    Um...
[06:01] ---
    I'm sorry. May I apologize too?
[06:04] ---
    About what?
[06:06] ---
    To be honest, all the freshmen
    think you're a bottom.
[06:11] ---
    Yajima-san!
[06:12] ---
    I see...
[06:13] ---
    Yes, since we first saw you in spring.
[06:16] ---
    We did all say that you
    were definitely a bottom.
[06:20] ---
    And Hato even said
    Hato x Mada was a possibility.
[06:27] ---
    That's just how rotten we are.
[06:31] ---
    So you can just ignore what we say.
[06:34] ---
    Just write it off as a bad
    experience and forget it.
[06:45] ---
    Kuchiki-kun?
[06:46] ---
    I've finally made my decision.
[06:50] ---
    Hato-chin... if you, my beautiful
    Hato-chin, wish it...
[06:54] ---
    I will be your top!
[06:59] ---
    Kuchi x Mada!
[07:10] ---
    Show me...
[07:12] ---
    ...your ass!
[07:15] ---
    Your ass!
[07:18] ---
    Your ass! Your ass!
[07:20] ---
    Run, sempai! Quickly!
[07:44] ---
    I don't think we can help you here.
[07:49] ---
    Yes.
[07:51] ---
    Um, when someone goes unconscious from a choke
    hold, it's important to wake them up quickly.
[07:56] ---
    What should we do?
[07:56] ---
    Do it now!
[07:57] ---
    Does this count as a success?
[08:00] ---
    This is clearly a failure.
[08:05] ---
    I told you, you have to decide that yourself.
[08:10] ---
    I'm on your side whichever you pick.
[08:12] ---
    Listen to what people have to
    say, but you don't have to do it.
[08:15] ---
    Is it my fault that you can't
    stick up for yourself, maybe?
[08:23] ---
    Then I've got an idea.
[08:31] ---
    What, it's just Yaji-san?
[08:33] ---
    No, no, no, wait.
[08:35] ---
    Why did you come here, yell at me, then give
    me a nickname right from Yajikita Douchuuki?
[08:40] ---
    I'm only here for Madarame.
[08:42] ---
    What's with him?
[08:44] ---
    I think he's started to
    like it when I choke him.
[08:49] ---
    Please do it to me again!
[08:53] ---
    Oh, he's a pervert.
[08:54] ---
    Of course, I refused, and then...
[08:57] ---
    He said, "If I attack Madarame-sempai
    again, will you choke me?"
[09:02] ---
    What is wrong with him?
[09:05] ---
    Hi there.
[09:08] ---
    There you are. See, told
    you this was the place.
[09:12] ---
    Yeah, sempai.
[09:14] ---
    This is the guy who asked
    about Hato that time.
[09:18] ---
    Oh no. Kuchiki-sempai, make
    yourself useful for once!
[09:23] ---
    Hey!
[09:24] ---
    You really are worthless.
[09:26] ---
    Hey, question for you. I don't
    see you around school often.
[09:30] ---
    Are you maybe not a student here?
[09:32] ---
    No, um, well...
[09:36] ---
    Is this my fault?
[09:39] ---
    At a time when Ogiue-sempai,
    Ohno-sempai, and Sue are all gone,
[09:43] ---
    normals are in here trying to pick
    up girls.This is an emergency!
[09:47] ---
    I need to do something.
[09:49] ---
    Don't be so nervous.
[09:52] ---
    I...
[09:54] ---
    Hey, now. You don't look
    like you belong in here.
[10:01] ---
    Who is that?
[10:04] ---
    Yoshitake?
[10:05] ---
    This is an otaku circle with
    a long and proud history.
[10:08] ---
    It's no place for normal guys.
[10:12] ---
    Huh? Are we the bad guys here?
[10:16] ---
    Yeah, sempai.
[10:19] ---
    Are you Yoshitake-san's brother?
[10:22] ---
    Yeah.
[10:22] ---
    Hi there.
[10:23] ---
    Yoshitake Rihito. A sophomore at Wasuda
    University, and a year older than me.
[10:27] ---
    My brother's come to hang out with us!
[10:31] ---
    Her brother's pretty
    amazing,isn't he, Yajima-san?
[10:35] ---
    Yeah, he is.
[10:37] ---
    Better than a sempai who
    can't even scare people off.
[10:40] ---
    Kabincho!
[10:46] ---
    He ran off.
[10:48] ---
    Don't worry about it, onii-chan.
[10:50] ---
    Yajima-san!
[10:51] ---
    Shut up! It bothers you too, right?
[10:54] ---
    You don't have to turn
    your head away, though.
[10:56] ---
    Leave me alone.
[10:58] ---
    And actually,
[11:00] ---
    I can't even stand to look over there!
[11:02] ---
    Dang it! I always ignore the cute guys.
[11:06] ---
    His timing was just too perfect!
[11:09] ---
    Are you really an otaku? You don't look it.
[11:11] ---
    No, I'm... hmm. I suppose
    my favorite genre is shota?
[11:16] ---
    We don't need any comments
    like that, onii-chan.
[11:19] ---
    I guess if he's Yoshitake's
    brother, he can't be normal.
[11:23] ---
    But you don't look much like
    an otaku either, Hato-san.
[11:27] ---
    Those cute clothes really work on you.
[11:29] ---
    Thank you.
[11:32] ---
    No, I'm happy for the compliment,
    but does he know I'm a guy?
[11:39] ---
    "Don't tell him"?
[11:41] ---
    No, I suppose she means
    she hasn't told him yet.
[11:45] ---
    Either way, it's best not to talk about it.
[11:51] ---
    Oh no, did she realize I was looking at him?
[11:54] ---
    She has to know her brother
    is popular with girls.
[11:56] ---
    I bet she's got a really good
    sense for when girls like him.
[12:00] ---
    Something seems kind of
    wrong about these two.
[12:04] ---
    Yajima-san, thanks for always
    hanging out with my sister.
[12:09] ---
    I-It's okay.
[12:10] ---
    She showed me your drawing
    in the... magazine, I think?
[12:14] ---
    It was very much a student's work, but I
    think you may have the greatest potential here.
[12:19] ---
    No, no way.
[12:21] ---
    Aren't you just being really
    polite about saying it sucked?
[12:24] ---
    Have more faith in yourself!
[12:26] ---
    I-I can't look at him.
[12:28] ---
    Now then, you two, since my brother
    is here, why don't we go drinking?
[12:32] ---
    You can come to my place today.
[12:34] ---
    Sure.
[12:36] ---
    I guess I could go.
[12:38] ---
    Alright, let's go!
[12:43] ---
    Don't worry, I'm here.
[12:44] ---
    Okay.
[12:46] ---
    Hold on a second.
[12:48] ---
    What? You're bothering me.
[12:50] ---
    My name is Mikami. I'm from the
    Circle Leadership Committee.
[12:54] ---
    I'd like to ask you some questions.
[12:56] ---
    Leadership?
[12:58] ---
    We've received some complaints
[13:01] ---
    about a woman who is attending circle meetings,
    but may not be student at this university.
[13:06] ---
    Given her physical description, and that
    you appear to be active with Genshiken,
[13:11] ---
    I thought it might be you.
[13:14] ---
    I apologize if I'm incorrect.
[13:17] ---
    But I need to check, just to make sure.
[13:21] ---
    First, are you a student at this university?
[13:27] ---
    I won't know unless you tell me.
[13:29] ---
    What's going on today?
[13:30] ---
    There's too many guys around here!
[13:31] ---
    Mikami-sempai, I told you I'd look into her!
[13:35] ---
    Just let me handle this.
[13:37] ---
    Harima, you say that, butyou
    haven't done anything.
[13:41] ---
    That's why I'm asking now.
[13:43] ---
    I'll ask her. I'll ask her!
[13:45] ---
    You guys get back to the club room.
[13:48] ---
    Fine. You're pushy, you know that?
SIGN    Circle Leadership Committee
[13:54] ---
    You're with the Leadership Committee?
[13:56] ---
    Yeah, I guess.
[13:58] ---
    Why didn't you say something?
[14:00] ---
    He wasn't trying to pick up girls, after all?
[14:04] ---
    Well, if I told you,
[14:08] ---
    and then I tried to hit on her,
    Mikami-san would get pissed!
[14:12] ---
    No, he totally was.
[14:15] ---
    Oh well. First, give me your name.
[14:57] ---
    Idiot.
[14:59] ---
    Harima-san, was it?
[15:01] ---
    Y-Yes?
[15:02] ---
    If I leave him like this, he's going to die.
[15:05] ---
    May I go now, so I can try to wake him up?
[15:10] ---
    Yes.
[15:12] ---
    Your younger sister?
[15:14] ---
    Yes. That's right.
[15:16] ---
    My real name is Yoshitake Risa. I'm an
    eighteen year old high school senior.
[15:20] ---
    I'm a girl.
[15:22] ---
    And on the school basketball team!
[15:24] ---
    So people always mistake her for a guy.
[15:26] ---
    I told her this was a bad idea.
[15:27] ---
    I wanted to see how long it'd take
    before anyone here figured it out.
[15:31] ---
    Well? Had you going, didn't we?
[15:33] ---
    Not at all.
[15:34] ---
    But it's true that she likes shota.
[15:36] ---
    Shut up.
[15:37] ---
    Damn it.
[15:39] ---
    She's not your year-older brother,
    she's your year-younger sister?
[15:42] ---
    Who could tell?
[15:43] ---
    So we did fool you!
[15:45] ---
    No, I'm two years younger.
[15:47] ---
    Ow.
[15:49] ---
    Her sister is two years younger
    and in high school?
[15:52] ---
    Which means you weren't just born first.
[15:55] ---
    Yeah. I actually took a year off
    between high school and college.
[15:58] ---
    And since I was born in April, I've
    been twenty years old for a while now.
[16:01] ---
    
[16:02] ---
    That's not worth hiding.
    Lots of people do that.
[16:06] ---
    But...
[16:07] ---
    I suppose I let it go on too long,
[16:10] ---
    but you really can't keep
    dragging out the same joke.
[16:13] ---
    Yes. You're absolutely correct, Hato-chin.
[16:16] ---
    I didn't want to feel like there
    was any distance between us.
[16:19] ---
    And most people wouldn't believe
    I looked like twenty, you know?
[16:23] ---
    Honestly, it's embarrassing.
[16:25] ---
    Idiot. Who cares?
[16:27] ---
    Yajimacchi.
[16:29] ---
    So today, you're paying.
[16:33] ---
    The sin of messing with the few
    romantic feelings I have left
[16:36] ---
    should be punished by death, you know.
[16:39] ---
    Even a rotten girl has
    her moments of weakness.
[16:42] ---
    
[16:42] ---
    Right.
[16:46] ---
    I wish you could've seen
    the rest of the club.
[16:49] ---
    It's fine.
[16:50] ---
    If they saw me, I'd probably
    have to join the club.
[16:55] ---
    That's more of a sports thing.
    It wouldn't happen here.
[16:57] ---
    But you're really good at
    basketball, right? Why quit?
[17:02] ---
    Look at how white it is?
[17:04] ---
    Risa-san is a fan of
    Kamiyama Seitarou, right?
[17:07] ---
    N-No.
[17:09] ---
    You look at the TV whenever he's on.
[17:11] ---
    Well, he's what got her into shota.
[17:14] ---
    You picked a rough time to be into 3D shota.
[17:19] ---
    Oh, I mostly collect 2D stuff...
[17:21] ---
    And Kamiyama-kun's in middle school already.
[17:26] ---
    I'm sure he's not nice and smooth anymore!
[17:31] ---
    What were we talking about?
[17:33] ---
    Never mind.
[17:34] ---
    Well, it's not that she
    wants to quit basketball.
[17:37] ---
    If she really didn't like it, she
    would've quit a long time ago.
[17:40] ---
    But between games and training camps,
[17:43] ---
    she's never gotten to go to a Comic
    Festival, or an "only event".
[17:47] ---
    Either way, she needs to make
    her own decision about it.
[17:50] ---
    But I thought coming to the club might help.
[17:56] ---
    So was there a reason why you
    made her pretend to be a guy?
[17:59] ---
    Of course not.
[18:01] ---
    Well? Anything else you want to see?
[18:06] ---
    Actually...
[18:08] ---
    I'd like to see Hato-san as a guy, I think.
[18:12] ---
    W-Why?
[18:15] ---
    I want to know how much
    effort you put into this
[18:19] ---
    just so you can hang out
    with the rotten girls.
[18:23] ---
    That sounds like something
    a sports player might think.
[18:26] ---
    Yeah.
[18:30] ---
    But it's not happening.
[18:33] ---
    
[18:34] ---
    It was months before we got
    to see Hato without makeup.
[18:38] ---
    She can't show it to you
    the first day you meet her.
[18:41] ---
    Anyway, that aside...
[18:43] ---
    Hey, wait!
[18:44] ---
    What do you think, Hato-chan?
[18:45] ---
    I think it could be really inspiring for her,
    since she never puts in any effort herself.
[18:50] ---
    It's the perfect chance to
    get a new point of view.
[18:56] ---
    So as her sister, I'd
    appreciate it if you could.
[18:59] ---
    I guess.
[19:02] ---
    Perhaps some other time.
[19:04] ---
    Non non! Right now.
[19:07] ---
    You've got your change of
    clothes and makeup, right?
[19:10] ---
    But in someone else's house...
[19:12] ---
    The bathroom's right over there.
[19:14] ---
    Get going.
[19:16] ---
    Hey, don't force her.
[19:22] ---
    I'll go take a shower then.
[19:25] ---
    Go on. Take your time and transform.
[19:33] ---
    Now then...
[19:34] ---
    No.
[19:34] ---
    Risa?
[19:36] ---
    I'm sorry, Yajimacchi-san, I have
    to do whatever my sister says!
[19:39] ---
    That's right! If you don't want me
    to share your secrets, do what I say!
[19:44] ---
    Are you serious, Yoshitake?
[19:46] ---
    Totes serious!
[19:49] ---
    So creepy...
[19:50] ---
    Yajimacchi, have you resolved
    your doubts about Hato-chan?
[19:56] ---
    Like what it looks like,
    or... what it looks like?
[19:59] ---
    Or what it looks like?!
[20:01] ---
    You did try to look up her skirt.
[20:05] ---
    Forget that!
[20:08] ---
    Really?
[20:09] ---
    A rotten girl's got a right to her fantasies,
    but she needs something to fantasize about.
[20:13] ---
    What--
[20:13] ---
    And right beyond this door
    is the ultimate ingredient!
[20:22] ---
    Don't underestimate a fat
    chick's muscles, Yoshitake!
[20:26] ---
    Yajimacchi?
[20:45] ---
    Sorry!
[20:55] ---
    They didn't see it?
[20:58] ---
    Just me? And it was real? And...
[21:02] ---
    Silk--
[21:02] ---
    Silk--
[21:03] ---
    S-Silky-smooth.
[21:05] ---
    Silky-smooth!
[21:07] ---
    What was silky-smooth?
[21:11] ---
    Lose your memories!
[21:15] ---
    Hato never did come out of the bathroom,
[21:18] ---
    so we were forced to end for the day.
[21:21] ---
    P.S. Yoshitake's little sister decided to
    take the entrance exam for Shiiou University.
[21:27] ---
    From the diary of Yajima Mirei.
SIGN    Preview
[23:10] ---
    Yoshitake-san, is it true that
    your sister is a hot guy?
[23:13] ---
    It's true. Here, look.
[23:15] ---
    Why didn't you call me?
[23:17] ---
    Think of the cosplay possibilities!
[23:19] ---
    With her dressed as a guy?
[23:20] ---
    Like that character or this
    character... Tanaka-san!
[23:23] ---
    She might be coming to our school next year.
[23:25] ---
    We've got Hato-kun so we can do
    male and female crossdressing!
[23:28] ---
    They can complement each other!
[23:30] ---
    There's all kinds of possibilities!
[23:31] ---
    I can't wait!
[23:33] ---
    Um, won't you be graduating
    next year, Ohno-sempai?
[23:36] ---
    Next time on Genshiken: Second Generation:
     KOIBANA3!
[23:40] ---
    

7 - KOIBANA3

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[00:01] ---
    So let's get back to basics.
[00:03] ---
    It's not that simple.
[00:05] ---
    You really didn't see?
[00:07] ---
    I didn't. And I forgot it!
[00:09] ---
    If you forgot it,
    you'll remember it later!
[00:12] ---
    So what did you remember?
[00:13] ---
    Shut up, you!
[00:16] ---
    Oh, it's been a while, Sasahara-sempai.
[00:19] ---
    Yo.
[00:19] ---
    Hello there.
[00:21] ---
    Oh, hello.
[00:22] ---
    Hello.
[00:23] ---
    So like I said, it's good to keep
    the existence of the reader in mind.
[00:28] ---
    The whole point is to share
     something with the reader, after all.
[00:32] ---
    Yes.
[00:33] ---
    But what you can't forget is that the
     author herself is the most important reader.
[00:38] ---
    If you don't think it's
    interesting, nobody else will.
[00:43] ---
    Yes.
[00:44] ---
    Sure, once a work is out there,
     it's not just yours anymore.
[00:47] ---
    T-This seems important.
[00:51] ---
    But until a work is written,
     nobody can even complain about it.
[00:54] ---
    That's right.
[00:56] ---
    Sempai's manga for Afternoon
[00:58] ---
    got trashed by the online fans.
[01:01] ---
    Okay, I'm heading back to work now.
[01:03] ---
    You're still on the clock?
[01:05] ---
    Oh, uh... I just came back to the
    club room to pick up a few things.
[01:09] ---
    Bye.
[01:10] ---
    Bye!
[01:11] ---
    See you.
[01:18] ---
    Um...
[01:19] ---
    I wanted to talk to him about my manga.
[01:23] ---
    So I had him come here. Don't worry about it.
[01:26] ---
    Anyway, we're here today to talk
    about our plans for the school fair.
[01:30] ---
    We're gonna cosplay again!
[01:32] ---
    The Cross-Dressing Way!
[01:34] ---
    Survival Strategy!
[01:35] ---
    Yes, we're doing it!
     So don't dress like that outside!
[01:39] ---
    What are these outfits?
[01:40] ---
    They're too into it.
[03:13] ---
    A special issue of
     Mebaetame for the school fair?
[03:16] ---
    Yes, the topic can be the school fair.
[03:19] ---
    We'll use B5 paper, bigger than usual,
    with as many pages as we can manage.
[03:24] ---
    And sell it, right?
[03:25] ---
    Yes.
[03:27] ---
    Um... are we allowed to sell it?
[03:30] ---
    I think it'll be okay,
     but Genshiken's never done that.
[03:37] ---
    A club magazine at the school fair?
[03:39] ---
    Hmm... I think a few of
    ours haven't been free.
[03:43] ---
    Last year we did a maid cafe,
    so we didn't draw anything.
[03:47] ---
    But when I was a freshman,
     I think we sold mags for about 100 yen.
[03:52] ---
    The Manga Club? I dunno.
[03:55] ---
    They probably haven't started anything yet.
[03:59] ---
    See ya.
[04:01] ---
    Of course you don't know.
[04:04] ---
    'Cause you got kicked out of that club!
[04:08] ---
    For doing stuff with Ogi-sempai's circle.
[04:11] ---
    Comic Festival sealed your fate.
[04:14] ---
    I knew it was coming.
     And I feel good about it!
[04:17] ---
    You should just join Genshiken!
[04:19] ---
    Not happening. Ever.
[04:21] ---
    You should join a new circle too.
     Maybe Genshiken.
[04:26] ---
    Why are you laughing?
[04:30] ---
    KOIBANA3
[04:33] ---
    Looks like it's okay.
[04:35] ---
    Will this book just be
    manga and illustrations?
[04:38] ---
    No. Text, pictures, whatever.
[04:42] ---
    Anything's okay.
[04:43] ---
    Maybe I'll write a story then!
[04:45] ---
    What?
[04:46] ---
    Ooh!
[04:47] ---
    Are you a writer?
[04:49] ---
    Nope, never tried it.
[04:52] ---
    What?
[04:53] ---
    But when I watch at you guys,
[04:55] ---
    it makes me want to create my own stuff too.
[04:58] ---
    I know! Let's make something
    together, Yajimacchi!
[05:01] ---
    Huh?
[05:02] ---
    I'll write a story, and you can do
    the illustrations! How about it?
[05:07] ---
    She's right. It might be better
    to make her take half the blame
[05:09] ---
    than do something original,
    and embarrass myself alone!
[05:13] ---
    Got any ideas?
[05:15] ---
    Hmm... let me see.
     The topic's the school fair.
[05:19] ---
    A Warring States School Fair!
[05:21] ---
    I was an idiot to ask.
[05:23] ---
    What? Why? A school in the middle of its fair
[05:26] ---
    is transported through time, building
    and all, into the middle of Sekigahara.
[05:29] ---
    It's super moe!
[05:31] ---
    There's no point in having
    it be a school fair, then!
[05:33] ---
    It could just be a normal high school!
[05:35] ---
    The title, to me, suggests a school where
    all the warring states generals attend...
[05:38] ---
    There's lots of those!
[05:41] ---
    The theme could be one of a
    never-ending school fair...
[05:44] ---
    I remember when I used to
    work on projects like that.
[05:47] ---
    I did it a lot in middle school.
[05:50] ---
    They usually don't work out, though.
[05:52] ---
    Good luck, guys!
[05:56] ---
    What about you, Hato-kun?
[05:57] ---
    Right!
[05:58] ---
    If we put out a book,
     will you draw something for it?
[06:00] ---
    Um...
[06:03] ---
    BL isn't allowed, right?
[06:06] ---
    As long as it's appropriate for
    all ages, some BL would be okay.
[06:10] ---
    Some... "some," is it?
[06:14] ---
    Yes. From my perspective,
     the biggest mystery about Hato-kun
[06:17] ---
    isn't her cross-dressing or
    love of BL. It's her art.
[06:21] ---
    Everything she draws for Mebaetame
    is BL in a shoujo manga style.
[06:25] ---
    It's all pro or better, and
    most of it is very extreme!
[06:28] ---
    But when she was my assistant,
[06:32] ---
    all the backgrounds she
    drew were very realistic.
[06:35] ---
    Hato-kun has the ability to switch styles,
[06:38] ---
    and is skilled at both
    design and sketching.
[06:41] ---
    She must have a lot of experience
    drawing with a crow quill pen and ink.
[06:45] ---
    And yet, all I've seen from her are
    cuts and single illustrations.
[06:50] ---
    I've never seen her write a full manga.
[06:53] ---
    Maybe she hasn't written one?
     No, that's impossible.
[06:58] ---
    If she has, maybe she's better than me?
[07:03] ---
    Hato-kun...
[07:04] ---
    Yes?
[07:04] ---
    I'd really like to read a manga by you.
[07:24] ---
    I'm sorry. Can I think about it a little?
[07:31] ---
    Divide the page into panels.
[07:34] ---
    Sketch it out.
[07:53] ---
    Okay, this time...
[08:00] ---
    Why does this always happen?
[08:03] ---
    That's right.
[08:05] ---
    When you're dressed as a girl,
     you can only draw extreme BL scenes,
[08:08] ---
    and when you're not,
     you can only draw special manga
[08:11] ---
    about special characters.
[08:15] ---
    After what I said to Hato-kun...
[08:18] ---
    I can't draw a thing.
[08:25] ---
    What?
[08:27] ---
    "If you're tired, rest your head on my lap?"
[08:30] ---
    I guess it couldn't hurt.
[08:40] ---
    What?
[08:42] ---
    If you say anything embarrassing
    in your sleep, I'll punish you.
[08:44] ---
    Is that from some anime?
[08:48] ---
    Like "Sasahara-san..."?
[08:55] ---
    I'm sorry, I was kidding!
     I'd never say anything so embarrassing!
[09:00] ---
    You know I wouldn't!
[09:02] ---
    Then change places...
[09:05] ---
    Look at this quality research material!
[09:08] ---
    No way! I can't draw armor!
[09:10] ---
    I'm sorry. It looks like writing
    a manga is going to be too hard.
[09:15] ---
    I see. What about
     Yoshitake-san and Yajima-san?
[09:19] ---
    We've broken up due to
     irreconcilable creative differences!
[09:24] ---
    Her ideas are too stupid to draw.
[09:27] ---
    Why? The space samurai
    cavalry are the Eastern Army,
[09:30] ---
    the school transforms into a super
    weapon for the Western Army,
[09:33] ---
    and they fight at Osaka Castle!
[09:34] ---
    You just made that up to be a jerk!
[09:36] ---
    You got stubborn and made the
    story even more ridiculous.
[09:38] ---
    Oh my! Does it look like the Mebaetame
    School Fair Special
isn't happening?
[09:44] ---
    Then why don't we just...
[09:46] ---
    ...all have a cosplay photo shoot!
[09:48] ---
    We will not!
[09:49] ---
    Well, if all else fails,
[09:51] ---
    I'm sure Ogi-sempai will
    write 50 pages by herself.
[09:58] ---
    Huh?
[10:00] ---
    I-I was sure Hato-kun would draw something.
[10:05] ---
    Not happening, is it? Sorry.
[10:08] ---
    Um, to tell you the truth...
[10:12] ---
    Your art changes...
[10:15] ---
    ...depending on how you're dressed?
[10:16] ---
    Yes.
[10:19] ---
    When I'm a girl I can only
    draw really extreme stuff.
[10:22] ---
    Wait, wait, wait. When you were
    sempai's assistant you were a guy.
[10:27] ---
    I was just drawing
     backgrounds so it worked out.
[10:32] ---
    Do you have anything you drew as a guy?
[10:34] ---
    I did bring it, but...
[10:37] ---
    It's really very different.
SIGN    Where should I go?
[10:42] ---
    No way. You're joking.
[10:45] ---
    There's no way somebody
    drawing stuff like this
[10:47] ---
    could change just by putting
    on women's clothing.
[10:50] ---
    You're not wrong, but... it's true.
[10:55] ---
    Before school started I was
    practicing cross-dressing.
[10:57] ---
    I decided to try and draw something,
    and it was like a limiter turned off.
[11:01] ---
    I suddenly was able to draw BL
    pictures like I was possessed.
[11:05] ---
    Um, I've heard of something
    causing a change in style,
[11:08] ---
    or to get better...
     but changing that much...
[11:13] ---
    Cross-dressing might be like some kind
    of self-hypnosis switch for her.
[11:18] ---
    Is that possible?
[11:19] ---
    When you look at Hato-kun, what do you think?
[11:22] ---
    She's such a perfect girl that it feels
    like she's put herself under hypnosis.
[11:27] ---
    The cross-dressing and voice
    change are just a trigger.
[11:30] ---
    What makes her amazing
    is locked away inside.
[11:33] ---
    Maybe that's what transforms her
[11:35] ---
    into the ideal rotten girl
    that she wants to be.
[11:40] ---
    Ideal rotten girl?
[11:44] ---
    And it just so happens that part of that
    ideal is being good at drawing BL.
[11:49] ---
    I don't get it.
[11:51] ---
    So she tricks herself
    into being good?
[11:52] ---
    Maybe.
[11:54] ---
    Come to think of it... even when she
    was asleep, she had a girl's voice.
[11:58] ---
    That isn't normal.
[12:01] ---
    But I just saw for sure that
    she's 100% a guy the other day.
[12:09] ---
    So how does this work?
[12:11] ---
    You can't just draw a clean BL manga?
[12:15] ---
    It's always just the dirty parts?
[12:18] ---
    Yes. That's right.
[12:20] ---
    I forget myself and start
    ignoring the panel divisions.
[12:25] ---
    That's not going to work.
     Let's all just cosplay instead.
[12:29] ---
    That's right!
[12:31] ---
    E-Even if you're okay with
    that, I don't think...
[12:33] ---
    N-n-n-n-nu-nu-PICCON!
[12:37] ---
    What's that supposed to be?
[12:38] ---
    You do the layouts.
[12:40] ---
    You draw the pictures.
[12:41] ---
    Huh?
[12:43] ---
    Does that mean...
[12:45] ---
    ...we work together?
[12:50] ---
    Um, freshmen girls...
     let me ask you some questions.
[12:54] ---
    When you were in high school,
[12:58] ---
    did you ever fall in love?
[13:00] ---
    Huh?
[13:01] ---
    Huh?!
[13:03] ---
    Wow, a twofer.
[13:05] ---
    Um... whether or not I do
    a manga with Hato-kun...
[13:10] ---
    I wanted to try a different
    genre than I usually do,
[13:12] ---
    and do a romance manga set
    at a high school culture fair.
[13:18] ---
    But I didn't do anything like
    that when I was in high school.
[13:22] ---
    I didn't even have any friends.
[13:25] ---
    You guys were high school
    students not that long ago,
[13:28] ---
    so I'd like to hear if you have
    any love stories to tell me.
[13:31] ---
    No, no, Ogi-sempai. I'm sorry, since
    everybody probably sees this coming,
[13:34] ---
    but while I had passions
    in 2D and from history,
[13:39] ---
    do you really think any of us have
    ever been in love? Right, Yajimacchi?
[13:43] ---
    Yeah... I guess so.
[13:49] ---
    Okay, Yajimacchi. DOUBT!
[13:51] ---
    What do you doubt?
[13:52] ---
    Why are you being so indirect?
[13:54] ---
    And you looked away too! It's obvious!
[13:57] ---
    I'll bring out my stash of the
    good snacks, so out with it!
[14:01] ---
    Are we going to have a tea party? HTT?
[14:04] ---
    If we leave it to Yoshitake-san,
    it'll probably work out.
[14:07] ---
    You really suck.
[14:11] ---
    You're an asshole.
    Who cares what you think?
[14:15] ---
    No, no, that's Zora from Ten
    Piece
. I really like him.
[14:21] ---
    Ten Piece is just too popular.
[14:24] ---
    I'm better. Gimme that pen.
[14:32] ---
    I win.
[14:33] ---
    I'm humiliated!
[14:35] ---
    Well, I bet he practiced when he was a kid.
[14:42] ---
    Hey, you suck.
[14:45] ---
    You suck.
[14:46] ---
    Sucky!
[14:48] ---
    Why do people call you "Sucky," Yajima?
[14:51] ---
    I don't know!
[14:57] ---
    I'm glad I ended up in
    your class again, Mirei.
[15:01] ---
    Yeah.
[15:05] ---
    I heard he's in class C.
[15:12] ---
    I went to the convienence store yesterday...
[15:15] ---
    Hey, Yajima.
[15:20] ---
    Bye.
[15:23] ---
    Yeah.
[15:25] ---
    That was our last conversation.
[15:28] ---
    No, no, Yajimacchi. Wait a second.
[15:31] ---
    What?
[15:32] ---
    It's hard to say this, but...
[15:35] ---
    Wasn't that just bullying?
    "My classmates gave me a mean nickname!"
[15:40] ---
    I thought so at the time.
[15:43] ---
    But he took it back in the end.
[15:49] ---
    What do you think of us, sempai?
[15:52] ---
    Our bar for "romance" is set way too low!
[15:56] ---
    And what's worse, is even as far
    as Yajimacchi's lowered the bar,
[16:00] ---
    I still can't clear it!
[16:02] ---
    I spent every day in the history club,
[16:05] ---
    getting into arguments about
    history, otaku, and BL!
[16:09] ---
    So our last hope is Hato-chan!
[16:14] ---
    What's wrong, Hato-chan? You're bright red!
[16:16] ---
    Am I?
[16:18] ---
    Has there been anything in this
    story that'd make somebody blush?
[16:21] ---
    What? What happened?
[16:23] ---
    No. Either way, I mean...
[16:26] ---
    I can't really help you...
    I've never dated anyone.
[16:31] ---
    And I've never even talked
    to anyone about it.
[16:33] ---
    When Yajima said, "He was
    better at drawing than me,"
[16:37] ---
    she turned three times redder than normal!
[16:39] ---
    Drawing?
[16:40] ---
    Good eye, Sue-san!
[16:43] ---
    What does that mean?
[16:45] ---
    It means something happened when
    Hato-chan was in high school.
[16:49] ---
    Does it have to do with drawing?
[16:51] ---
    Ogi-sempai's taken the bait!
[16:53] ---
    And Sue-san's got the snacks!
    She won't give them to anyone!
[16:56] ---
    Nobody cares!
[16:58] ---
    Come on, Hato-chan, I'll give
    you this Godiver chocolate.
[17:01] ---
    What? That looks expensive.
[17:02] ---
    You want it, Yajimacchi?
[17:03] ---
    No, forget it.
[17:04] ---
    Okay then. Here you go, Hato-chan.
[17:07] ---
    Um, well... when I was in high school...
[17:12] ---
    High school?
[17:13] ---
    That's right, when she was in high school...
[17:15] ---
    Yeah, when you were in high school?
[17:17] ---
    Wait, Yoshitake!
[17:19] ---
    What?
[17:20] ---
    Well, um...
[17:23] ---
    You remember what happened when
    she was in high school, right?
[17:26] ---
    We heard something bad happened, right?
[17:28] ---
    When people found
    out she was into BL?
[17:31] ---
    Yeah. When she came out about it
    in the art club, she got bullied.
[17:35] ---
    Yeah, that. So, well...
[17:38] ---
    Let's not dig too deep into that, huh?
[17:41] ---
    Oh, but I wanted to hear more about that too.
[17:45] ---
    Would they really bully you
    just for being a guy into BL?
[17:49] ---
    We found out about it the very first day,
[17:54] ---
    and we didn't care.
[17:56] ---
    You were actually insistent
    that she come as a guy.
[18:02] ---
    The first time I heard Hato's story,
     I thought it was strange.
[18:06] ---
    Now, high school and college
    can be pretty different.
[18:09] ---
    But I still thought to myself,
[18:12] ---
    "I'm sure there's romance involved."
[18:16] ---
    No... I don't think that was it.
[18:20] ---
    Maybe the girls were fighting over
    you, and you didn't know about it.
[18:25] ---
    You're a cute guy too, Hato-chan,
[18:29] ---
    so I wouldn't be surprised
    if you were popular.
[18:31] ---
    No, that wasn't true at all.
[18:34] ---
    I think the girls just
    thought I was pathetic.
[18:37] ---
    And the guys?
[18:39] ---
    My guess is that there were
    guys fighting over you too,
[18:42] ---
    and that's part of why you had trouble.
[18:45] ---
    What about you? You're always stylish,
    you had to have been popular!
[18:50] ---
    You don't get it, Hato-chan.
[18:53] ---
    Huh?
[18:55] ---
    You don't dress stylishly or
    put on makeup to impress guys.
[18:58] ---
    You do it to keep other girls in their place.
[19:02] ---
    When you dress up, do you pay more
    attention to how girls or guys react?
[19:06] ---
    You're right! I pay more
    attention to the girls!
[19:10] ---
    Right? That's how it works.
[19:12] ---
    So why not tell me everything, huh?
[19:15] ---
    It might help Ogi-sempai.
[19:18] ---
    Huh?
[19:19] ---
    Oh, right. I was the one who brought this up.
[19:23] ---
    But I don't know about this.
[19:27] ---
    I thought I was bailing her out!
[19:34] ---
    But I still...
[19:39] ---
    ...don't want to talk about it.
[19:41] ---
    Manabu!
[19:47] ---
    Hey, everybody's here.
     Of course you are, it's a meeting!
[19:51] ---
    So I've decided on my
     cosplay for the school fair.
[19:54] ---
    Tell Miss Tanaka for me.
[19:57] ---
    I'll be a pair with Hato-chan.
[19:59] ---
    No cross-dressing for you.
[20:01] ---
    Why?
[20:02] ---
    The trap phenomenon
[20:04] ---
    is on the cutting edge of
    modern visual culture!
[20:08] ---
    I can't deny that, but...
[20:10] ---
    When you do it, it's just
    "creepy otaku" stuff.
[20:12] ---
    People don't need more
    excuses to insult otaku.
[20:15] ---
    And Hato-kun's not cosplaying this time.
[20:18] ---
    Why?
[20:19] ---
    Hato-kun is hiding her identity,
[20:22] ---
    so she can't stand out while she's on campus.
[20:25] ---
    She can't show up as a guy, either, so
    she'll be cross-dressing in plain clothes.
[20:30] ---
    Yes.
[20:31] ---
    Give it up, please.
[20:33] ---
    I-I can't believe it!
[20:34] ---
    By the way, Kucchi-sempai.
[20:38] ---
    Do you have any tales of
    romance from high school?
[20:41] ---
    I do.
[20:45] ---
    Ventura, Ventura--
[20:46] ---
    Sempai?
[20:49] ---
    W-W-Would you go out with me?
SIGN    After Festival
[20:55] ---
    And so...
[20:56] ---
    some girl I didn't know asked me
    out in my last year of high school.
[21:00] ---
    And we're done! If I hear this I won't
    be able to draw anything ever again!
[21:04] ---
    We're doing standard anime-style manga!
[21:07] ---
    Let's clean up.
[21:08] ---
    W-What's this? I sense a mood of disrespect.
[21:12] ---
    A very disrespectful mood!
[21:14] ---
    That's weird. He wasn't trying, but...
[21:17] ---
    ...Kuchiki-sempai ended up saving me.
[21:20] ---
    So how long did you date her?
[21:24] ---
    The next day she said, "Never mind."
     I spoke to her for less than three minutes.
SIGN    Preview
[23:10] ---
    Genshiken's publishing something
    for the school fair, aren't they?
[23:13] ---
    With Ogiue there, of course they are!
[23:15] ---
    I'm not sure about our postwar
    agricultural policies, either.
[23:20] ---
    Why are you here? You can't
    have my Giga Potato Chips!
[23:22] ---
    If you can't eat, you get hungry!
[23:25] ---
    Anything but rice would
    be less fuel-efficient.
[23:27] ---
    Stop bringing back all these old jokes!
[23:29] ---
    When you get hungry you get mad!
[23:31] ---
    That's right.
[23:33] ---
    Argh!
[23:35] ---
    Next time on Genshiken: Second Generation:
    There's a Route, but There's No Loop!

8 - There's a Route, but There's No Loop!

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[00:01] ---
    It's not fair! It's just not fair!
[00:04] ---
    The two of them are working
    together? It's not fair!
[00:08] ---
    They're so much better
     than us, all I can do is laugh.
[00:13] ---
    But they don't seem to have actually
    decided whether or not they'll do it.
[00:17] ---
    And we don't know what's up
    with sempai's rough draft.
[00:21] ---
    If it happens, we totally lose.
[00:26] ---
    I thought about this when
     Hato talked about her drawing,
[00:29] ---
    but do you have some
     kind of problem with them?
[00:32] ---
    No. Well, not exactly.
[00:37] ---
    To put it simply,
[00:39] ---
    Yajimacchi, you are really amazing.
[00:42] ---
    
[00:43] ---
    When we started our little
    attempt at a "creative process,"
[00:48] ---
    I realized how hard it really is.
[00:51] ---
    I know I should've known already,
    but I realized that I have no talent.
[00:54] ---
    So they scared me!
[00:58] ---
    When I heard we might not do
     our special edition of the magazine,
[01:01] ---
    I honestly felt pretty relieved.
[01:04] ---
    You...
[01:07] ---
    But you don't even hide
    how bad your work sucks!
[01:11] ---
    ...are an asshole.
[01:12] ---
    You talk about the complex
    you have towards Hato-chan,
[01:15] ---
    but every issue you still
     draw a picture. A crappy picture!
[01:19] ---
    Was it so important that
    you had to say it twice?
[01:23] ---
    Even if I drop out, you'll still
    draw something, won't you?
[01:28] ---
    Well, probably.
[01:30] ---
    Then I can't drop out, I guess.
[01:33] ---
    Why not? Do what you want!
[01:36] ---
    You're not a pro like Ogiue-sempai.
[01:39] ---
    Ogi-sempai, huh?
[01:41] ---
    I wonder what she's going to draw.
[01:44] ---
    The romance talk we had
    didn't help with anything.
[01:48] ---
    And I'm a bit worried about her pro work.
[01:52] ---
    Shut up. Worry about yourself, not others.
[01:56] ---
    What?
[01:58] ---
    Decide if you're doing
    something with me or not.
[02:01] ---
    I want to, but...
[02:04] ---
    Then don't come up with ridiculously grand
    backstories until you've figured out a plot!
[02:09] ---
    Make something small!
[02:11] ---
    But you have to dream big!
[02:13] ---
    That's how you end up
    with absolutely nothing!
[02:16] ---
    There's no point unless you finish it!
[02:19] ---
    Yajimacchi is being mean.
[03:57] ---
    If you don't think it's
    interesting, nobody will.
[04:04] ---
    Maybe that's why Sue said
    I need a change of pace.
[04:08] ---
    Pikkon!
[04:09] ---
    You make the draft! You draw the pictures!
[04:15] ---
    Hato-kun's art on top of my layouts...
[04:20] ---
    There's a Route, but There's No Loop.
[04:26] ---
    If Ogiue-sempai writes the draft,
[04:29] ---
    then she'll do the layouts, so
    maybe I could do the finished art.
[04:35] ---
    It's true that I've always wanted
    to draw a manga in that style.
[04:42] ---
    But that style is just a copy of theirs.
[04:48] ---
    And I can't do it unless
    I'm dressed like a girl.
[05:00] ---
    The ideal rotten girl that I want to
    be, that Ohno-sempai was talking about,
[05:05] ---
    definitely isn't her.
[05:07] ---
    It's not me?
[05:09] ---
    It's true that I never see
    her when I'm cross-dressing.
[05:13] ---
    But her personality is too different from
    the original for me to want to be her.
[05:16] ---
    Okay, back to being the
    wonderful underclassman
[05:19] ---
    who hasn't seen his sempai in a long time,
     but still cleans up his apartment!
[05:23] ---
    Start with the dirty books!
[05:26] ---
    You can keep your mouth
    shut, so I'm going to clean.
[05:34] ---
    It's true I haven't seen
    him for a while, though.
[05:39] ---
    And the next thing I see is an H-game.
SIGN    Seven and a Half Laps to Paradise
[05:45] ---
    Wait, isn't this...
[05:47] ---
    The trap game that Kohsaka-sempai
     was advertising at Comic Festival?
[05:56] ---
    
[05:56] ---
    It's the character he was cosplaying!
[05:58] ---
    Does this character have any?
[06:00] ---
    I'm sure it has H-scenes!
     It has to have H-scenes! H-scenes!
[06:04] ---
    Oh boy! Oh boy!
[06:05] ---
    Don't keep yelling that!
[06:07] ---
    Makoto Kohsaka, a naughty
     little boy who dresses like a girl?
SIGN    
[06:12] ---
    The name too? The staff got way too into it!
[06:16] ---
    No, no, it's perfect!
[06:18] ---
    Shut up!
[06:20] ---
    Did Madarame-sempai
     play it already, I wonder?
[06:24] ---
    Did he finish the
     Kohsaka-sempai route? I bet he did!
[06:28] ---
    Then maybe...
[06:30] ---
    Kohsaka-sempai asked Madarame-sempai
    what he thought about it?
[06:34] ---
    No, I bet Kohsaka-sempai pressured him
    into saying what he thought about it!
[06:39] ---
    Which means...
[06:41] ---
    Like this?
[06:44] ---
    Did you enjoy my route?
[06:47] ---
    It was okay, I guess.
[06:50] ---
    I'm glad. It looks like you were satisfied.
[06:53] ---
    No... yes.
[06:57] ---
    If you want,
[06:58] ---
    I can do the same things I did in
    the game while wearing this costume.
[07:06] ---
    And that's your cue!
[07:08] ---
    If he was interested in traps, I
    could tell him all about them.
[07:14] ---
    What are you making me say?
[07:16] ---
    Perfect! Too perfect!
[07:18] ---
    Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
[07:20] ---
    I'll change clothes so you go away.
[07:22] ---
    Don't be so mean.
[07:26] ---
    Those words came out because
    you were thinking them.
[07:29] ---
    I said shut up!
[07:33] ---
    Huh?
[07:35] ---
    Oh, Hato-kun? You here?
[07:44] ---
    S-Sorry!
[07:47] ---
    I wouldn't mind showing you everything...
[07:56] ---
    Say it! Say it! Say it!
[07:58] ---
    I can show you everything!
    In private lessons!
[08:01] ---
    And we'll have the initiative!
    A traditional top/bottom pairing!
[08:05] ---
    
[08:06] ---
    Enough! Stop fantasizing!
[08:09] ---
    There's more!
[08:10] ---
    I know! But I don't need it!
[08:12] ---
    Why?
[08:16] ---
    Sorry! I'm still changing!
[08:21] ---
    Oh, sorry. I'll go take
    a walk around the block.
[08:25] ---
    I'm sorry!
[08:26] ---
    Send me a text when you're done.
[08:31] ---
    Perfect timing!
[08:33] ---
    That's a go sign! A go sign!
[08:35] ---
    Oh no! I need to get rid of her or
    who knows what she'll make me say!
[08:39] ---
    And why is sempai home so early today?
[08:44] ---
    I see... it's really been a long time
[08:46] ---
    since I've actually met sempai.
[08:54] ---
    I was a little too early, huh?
[08:56] ---
    Hato-kun's still there at this time of day.
[08:59] ---
    Let's go home!
[09:00] ---
    Let's take Effort Street!
[09:03] ---
    Lately there hasn't been much
    work, so I'm leaving early a lot.
[09:08] ---
    I wonder if our company's okay.
    It's a depression, after all.
[09:12] ---
    Is my bonus going to go down again?
[09:16] ---
    Maybe I won't get one!
[09:19] ---
    Things have been pretty bad lately.
[09:24] ---
    There it is.
[09:31] ---
    Roger.
[09:38] ---
    What's wrong? You don't have to
    wait, you can go ahead and leave.
[09:42] ---
    Um...
[09:44] ---
    It's been a while since I've seen you, so I
    was wondering if we could chat for a bit.
[09:52] ---
    
SIGN    I didn't apologize for what happened with Kuchiki-sempai.
SIGN    Talk
    Confess Love
    Quit
SIGN    It doesn't matter.
SIGN    
SIGN    Oh, sorry. My makeup's all sloppy, so please don't stare at me!
SIGN    Talk
    Confess Love
    Quit
SIGN    No, I can't tell! Did I make you hurry? Sorry.
[10:06] ---
    No, no, no! Guy! Guy! Guy!
SIGN    Talk
    Confess Love
    Quit
SIGN    Well, no sense in standing here. Want to go in?
SIGN    
SIGN    Okay...
[10:16] ---
    Guy!
[10:20] ---
    So how's your collaboration going?
[10:23] ---
    I'm waiting to hear back from Hato-kun.
[10:26] ---
    Come to think of it, she's late
    today. Maybe she's not coming.
[10:30] ---
    So could we do a gag strip?
[10:33] ---
    That would make the writing more important
    than the drawing. You up for that?
[10:38] ---
    If it's Warring States
    jokes, I bet I could do it.
[10:41] ---
    Seriously?
[10:44] ---
    Looks like they came together.
[10:54] ---
    Um, then...
[10:56] ---
    I can't make her sit on the bed.
[10:59] ---
    She was a guy last time,
    so it didn't matter, but...
[11:02] ---
    No, she's still a guy.
[11:06] ---
    She just smells nice.
[11:08] ---
    What am I doing?
[11:10] ---
    Sit down here. I'll sit over there.
[11:14] ---
    Okay.
[11:17] ---
    
[11:19] ---
    I noticed that when I got here.
[11:22] ---
    Did you?
[11:24] ---
    I was changing here.
[11:27] ---
    You usually leave your doujinshi
    lying around anyway.
[11:31] ---
    So, well...
[11:33] ---
    I think it's normal for
    a guy to do those things.
[11:37] ---
    Don't worry about it.
[11:39] ---
    
[11:41] ---
    This situation's like one you'd see in
    a harem game or a light novel, isn't it?
[11:46] ---
    Or one where the title's
    written with four hiragana.
[11:48] ---
    Or maybe something like Me and My (Male)
    Underclassman Do Something or Other
?
[11:54] ---
    I'm sorry... I kind of did that deliberately.
[11:57] ---
    I thought I had to.
[12:00] ---
    You don't play H-games, Hato-kun?
    You've got a PC, right?
[12:04] ---
    No. I've never tried one.
[12:06] ---
    They're hard to get into,
     and they're not cheap.
[12:10] ---
    True. They're usually around 10,000 yen.
[12:14] ---
    Buying clothes and makeup
    takes most of my money.
[12:18] ---
    Clothes, huh?
[12:19] ---
    I tried to buy nice clothes once.
[12:23] ---
    It was rough.
[12:25] ---
    You did?
[12:26] ---
    H-games may be expensive,
[12:28] ---
    but I seriously don't know how someone pays
    twenty or thirty thousand yen for a shirt.
[12:32] ---
    The nice part of being a salaryman is that
    you don't have to worry about your outfit.
[12:36] ---
    You just have to wear a necktie.
[12:45] ---
    I...
[12:47] ---
    BL stuff is all I can afford.
[12:52] ---
    Then you're interested.
[12:55] ---
    Want to borrow this one?
[12:57] ---
    I didn't want to bring this up,
[13:01] ---
    but isn't that the game Kohsaka-sempai
    was selling at Comic Festival?
[13:04] ---
    And isn't it a trap game?
[13:07] ---
    Oh, I didn't mean this one specifically!
[13:09] ---
    I've got others, like DUCKY or UNDUCKY
    and Le Eden de la Grizzly Bear.
[13:13] ---
    Any kind of H-Game you want!
[13:15] ---
    Right...
[13:16] ---
    Oh, uh, sorry. This is totally sexual
    harrassment, isn't it? Never mind.
[13:23] ---
    If you want, I can let you borrow it, but...
[13:25] ---
    No, I couldn't!
[13:27] ---
    But if you could tell me what you
    thought about it, that would be fine.
[13:30] ---
    I see.
[13:32] ---
    Yeah... it's not the game I'm interested in.
[13:36] ---
    It's what Madarame-sempai thought about it!
[13:39] ---
    What I thought...
[13:41] ---
    Well, I cleared a few of the routes,
    and the biggest surprise was...
[13:45] ---
    I think all of them get
    pregnant in the ending.
[13:48] ---
    I-Is that so?
[13:50] ---
    Seriously. They just get pregnant.
    No explanation at all.
[13:54] ---
    Traps are amazing.
[13:57] ---
    Well, they totally look like girls!
[14:00] ---
    In a way, they're a totally new
    gender. I guess it's pure fantasy.
[14:05] ---
    In BL, guys get pregnant all the time.
[14:08] ---
    But I shouldn't say that now.
    It would just confuse him.
[14:12] ---
    How was it as a game?
[14:14] ---
    A pretty typical H-game, I guess.
[14:17] ---
    Well, I've never played one, but...
[14:21] ---
    Um... H-games are
     sometimes really sad, but...
[14:25] ---
    The usual reason you play one is...
[14:32] ---
    It was a normal H-game that way too.
[14:35] ---
    Very usable.
[14:36] ---
    Really?
[14:38] ---
    The characters are lolis and
     have pigtails, the same as any girl.
[14:42] ---
    Basically they're just
    flat-chested characters.
[14:45] ---
    No...
[14:45] ---
    The way you play it is no different
    than any other H-game.
[14:49] ---
    I guess some of the things you do with them
    because they're traps would be the same as in BL.
[14:52] ---
    The same?
[14:54] ---
    In BL, the character is a guy, but in a
    sex scene, he's basically a girl, right?
[14:59] ---
    Am I wrong?
[15:00] ---
    Some women tend to view
     it in terms of gender theory.
[15:05] ---
    Huh.
[15:06] ---
    Anyway...
[15:08] ---
    Forget BL. What's more important is...
[15:12] ---
    Sempai!
[15:14] ---
    Did you clear Kohsaka-sempai's route?
[15:17] ---
    Ah, there it is.
[15:19] ---
    This character, eh?
[15:22] ---
    Pregnancy ending! And in
    a maternity wedding dress!
[15:27] ---
    W-What?
[15:30] ---
    That's how far the two
    of them go in the game?
[15:32] ---
    They aren't just going to mimic
    what they did in the game!
[15:35] ---
    It's coming! It's coming! The two
    of them are going to get married!
[15:41] ---
    Huh? But does that make it a reverse
    coupling instead of Koh x Mada? Mada x Koh?
[15:45] ---
    I didn't like that character much.
[15:47] ---
    Her lines were all stuff I
    could see Kohsaka saying.
[15:51] ---
    Yeah?
[15:52] ---
    So, I should make this clear.
[15:55] ---
    What?
[15:57] ---
    I could NOT get off to the Kohsaka character!
[16:00] ---
    Seriously.
[16:02] ---
    I see.
[16:04] ---
    Too bad! Well, I'll
    fantasize about it anyway.
[16:07] ---
    This company... I wonder
     about them. They kind of scare me.
[16:13] ---
    They are totally not
     going for mass market appeal.
[16:17] ---
    I wonder if Kasukabe-san
     knows about these kinds of games.
[16:24] ---
    I wonder how she'd feel if she knew her
    boyfriend was the model for an H-game character.
[16:29] ---
    I see! If because of this game,
[16:32] ---
    Kohsaka-sempai and Kasukabe-sempai's
     relationship was strained...
[16:36] ---
    Madarame-sempai's got the
    chance to make a comeback!
[16:39] ---
    Wait, maybe he said that because he's
    thinking about it right now! What should I do?
[16:44] ---
    But would that be the end of the
    Mada x Koh marriage ceremony?
[16:49] ---
    What a waste!
[16:50] ---
    I need to think of a Koh x Mada
    plot that includes Kasukabe-sempai!
[16:56] ---
    No, I guess I can't put her in BL.
[17:02] ---
    What?
[17:04] ---
    Um... never mind.
[17:05] ---
    You seemed to be deep in BL-land.
[17:10] ---
    I wasn't! Not exactly!
[17:12] ---
    Well, it doesn't matter if
    I'm the bottom or anything.
[17:17] ---
    That's right! I have to talk about that!
[17:19] ---
    Um, I'm sorry... I know it's late
    to be getting to the point, but...
[17:22] ---
    Y-Yeah.
[17:24] ---
    I spoke very harshly with
    Kuchiki-sempai! Very harshly!
[17:28] ---
    So I think it's okay for you to
    come back to the club room now.
[17:32] ---
    I'm really sorry!
[17:37] ---
    No, no, no, it's not something
    you need to apologize for.
[17:41] ---
    Kuchiki-kun's just like that.
[17:43] ---
    True, it was pretty shocking, but...
[17:50] ---
    But I'd just been thinking that it
    was hard to be in the club room,
[17:54] ---
    now that it's all girls.
[17:58] ---
    And even if Kuchiki-kun
    doesn't come after me again,
[18:02] ---
    I don't suppose I can stop the girls from
    looking at me and going "total bottom".
[18:07] ---
    No...
[18:09] ---
    W-Wait, what direction is
    this conversation going in?
[18:13] ---
    So lately, well...
[18:17] ---
    Well...
[18:22] ---
    It's not good for somebody who's graduated
    to hang around their old school forever.
[18:26] ---
    I was just thinking about that.
[18:30] ---
    It seemed like staying there
    would just be awkward,
[18:34] ---
    so I thought maybe a change of
    scenery would be a good idea.
[18:37] ---
    What do you mean, exactly?
[18:40] ---
    Well... I can't say what exactly yet.
[18:45] ---
    But maybe finding a new job?
[18:48] ---
    Part of me's thinking I should
    get away from the university.
[18:54] ---
    It's my fault!
[18:56] ---
    Because I said
     Madarame-san is a total bottom!
[18:59] ---
    Because I'm always thinking about BL,
[19:01] ---
    or Koh x Mada and stuff!
[19:07] ---
    Huh? Well, if I decided to move...
[19:11] ---
    It would mean you wouldn't be able to
    change, so I don't know about that.
[19:15] ---
    No...
[19:16] ---
    Don't worry about me.
[19:19] ---
    I can find other places to change.
[19:22] ---
    No, well... I still don't know. Finding
    a new job is probably impossible anyway.
[19:27] ---
    T-That's right!
[19:29] ---
    The school fair is almost here,
    so make sure you come for that!
[19:33] ---
    Is it that time already?
[19:36] ---
    We've actually been having
     meetings in the club room lately.
[19:40] ---
    Not just talking about BL.
[19:43] ---
    What are you doing this year?
[19:45] ---
    Ohno-sempai is doing a cosplay try-on thing,
[19:49] ---
    and probably a special
    issue of Mebaetame too.
[19:52] ---
    We did cosplay last year,
[19:55] ---
    but you've been putting a lot of effort into
    Mebaetame, probably because Ogiue-sempai's president.
[20:00] ---
    Yes.
[20:01] ---
    Are you drawing something? You
     always draw something for Mebaetame.
[20:06] ---
    Ogiue-sempai asked me to draw a normal manga.
[20:12] ---
    But I... I...
[20:14] ---
    I've only ever drawn BL.
[20:18] ---
    It's all I can draw.
[20:23] ---
    Why not do that? Even if
     it's BL... just keep drawing.
[20:30] ---
    Even if it's the school fair,
    you should draw what you like.
[20:34] ---
    If it's really bad, Ogiue-san will stop you.
[20:38] ---
    The club room is probably a lot more
    lively now than when we were there.
[20:43] ---
    Even if he's being used for BL fantasies,
[20:46] ---
    he doesn't make people stop it.
[20:51] ---
    Sempai...
[20:53] ---
    Please come to the school fair.
[20:55] ---
    Yeah, I'll go.
[20:58] ---
    Looks like I can go without
    worrying about too much.
[21:02] ---
    I'll... I'll draw it!
SIGN    Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture
[21:06] ---
    I'd like to try my best
    at drawing a non-BL manga.
[21:11] ---
    I-I see.
[21:19] ---
    Then I'll make sure I'm ready.
[21:23] ---
    Thank you.
[21:24] ---
    Yeah. You too.
[23:10] ---
    I want to ask at the top of my lungs:
SIGN    Preview
[23:12] ---
    Why does Genshiken not
    have a swimsuit episode?
[23:14] ---
    Most anime have at least one per
    season! Some have two or three!
SIGN    
[23:17] ---
    We've got Comic Festival in summer.
[23:19] ---
    That no good! We need to show
    more skin if we're going to sell!
[23:22] ---
    Aren't guys in swimsuits
    more popular these days?
[23:24] ---
    You mean that one anime that's got swimsuits
    every episode? We can't lose to it!
[23:28] ---
    I'm ready to do my part!
[23:30] ---
    Legal lolis, sumo wrestling, and
    traps? Where's the demand for that?
[23:34] ---
    I think it's out there, somewhere.
[23:36] ---
    N-Next time on Genshiken Second Generation:
     White Gate Keeper!
[23:40] ---
    

9 - White Gate Keeper

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[00:05] ---
    This draft is good.
[00:08] ---
    Thank you.
[00:11] ---
    It feels like a side story for
    Lunar Glasses, your pro manga.
[00:15] ---
    Well, I figured right now, I should
    focus on writing what I know.
[00:20] ---
    I see.
[00:22] ---
    Did she get over it?
[00:24] ---
    So Hato-kun is
     finishing the artwork?
[00:28] ---
    About that... we might end up coming here,
[00:32] ---
    or to Hato-kun's room,
    to work on the art.
[00:37] ---
    Is that okay?
[00:38] ---
    Oh, uh...
[00:41] ---
    Yeah.
[00:46] ---
    I think you're supposed to say no.
[00:50] ---
    Am I?
[00:51] ---
    Yes.
[00:52] ---
    Even if he's a trap.
[00:54] ---
    I figured if it was necessary,
    I should keep my mouth shut.
[00:59] ---
    Well, I'm sure that's what
    you think. You always...
[01:03] ---
    That's right... I'm supposed
    to be a strong top.
[01:08] ---
    Ogiue-san, sit here.
[01:13] ---
    Okay...
[01:20] ---
    Is that your phone?
[01:22] ---
    I've got a bad feeling about this.
[01:25] ---
    Okay, tonight we're training!
[01:27] ---
    I'm sorry.
[01:29] ---
    No, I kind of figured this was coming.
[01:33] ---
    What's with your hand?
[01:35] ---
    Well, Sue's tagging along,
    so I guess it's okay.
[03:12] ---
    Well, it's okay, I guess.
[03:14] ---
    I see. It is. It is. I'm glad.
[03:17] ---
    It's so embarrassing to have
    someone read your work.
[03:21] ---
    I've read it a bunch of
    times! Get used to it.
[03:23] ---
    Well, I'm still like that when
    people read my rough drafts.
[03:28] ---
    So what did the story end up as?
[03:31] ---
    Oh, yeah.
[03:33] ---
    After the Fifth
     Interdimensional Space War,
[03:36] ---
    in the year 24,925 of the
    Earth Gregorian Calendar,
[03:38] ---
    the generals of the Warring
    States era are reborn
[03:43] ---
    at the military high school
    of the 382nd planet, Necrose.
[03:45] ---
    Their school culture fair
    gets out of hand...
[03:47] ---
    Couldn't you do without
    most of that introduction?
[03:49] ---
    But there's the interdimensional haunted
    house and the interdimensional music club.
[03:52] ---
    Those ideas seem interesting on their own,
[03:55] ---
    so do you really need the
    Warring States generals?
[03:57] ---
    I gave up.
[03:59] ---
    You can see the details
    when it's all done.
[04:01] ---
    ...all right.
[04:02] ---
    So what about you?
[04:04] ---
    We just finished the rough draft.
[04:06] ---
    Hato-kun said she'd
     work on the art at home.
[04:10] ---
    Hello there.
[04:11] ---
    We were just talking about you.
[04:14] ---
    Were you?
[04:16] ---
    How'd the manga turn out?
[04:20] ---
    Well...
[04:22] ---
    We can't put this in the magazine.
[04:25] ---
    When I tried to draw in
    that style as a girl,
[04:28] ---
    it turned into BL illustrations again.
[04:31] ---
    Hato-chan, do you understand?
[04:33] ---
    My characters are doing it.
[04:36] ---
    If there was a doujinshi of my manga,
    this is what it would look like.
[04:42] ---
    Ogi-sempai?
[04:46] ---
    Um, yes. Putting this aside...
[04:50] ---
    I want a copy of it later.
[04:53] ---
    Looks like you liked it!
[04:56] ---
    I think I need to watch as she draws,
[04:59] ---
    so that her drawings
    don't end up as porn.
[05:04] ---
    I really do need the help.
[05:07] ---
    Okay, Hato-chan! We'll watch too!
[05:10] ---
    As you draw porn... I mean, not porn!
[05:13] ---
    Come on! Come on! Come on!
[05:16] ---
    Yajimacchi, that thing
    could've killed me.
[05:19] ---
    Don't bother them. We're leaving.
[05:21] ---
    We need to talk about our art.
[05:22] ---
    But it sounds like so much fun!
[05:23] ---
    Shut up! We're leaving.
[05:27] ---
    Okay, let's get started.
[05:30] ---
    Yes.
[05:32] ---
    White Gate Keeper.
[05:39] ---
    How did you...
[05:42] ---
    ... settle on your current style?
[05:45] ---
    Oh, I haven't settled on it yet.
[05:49] ---
    I've done a lot of things since I was a
    kid, like copying my favorite manga...
[05:53] ---
    And this is just how it turned out.
[05:55] ---
    Yeah, I thought so.
[05:57] ---
    Your style is something you develop
[06:00] ---
    after a long period of
    trial and error, isn't it?
[06:04] ---
    But the style in these pictures
    is just a copy of someone else.
[06:10] ---
    Almost completely.
[06:12] ---
    I feel so bad that I can draw
    them just by crossdressing,
[06:16] ---
    and that it's always BL illustrations.
[06:20] ---
    I think that's the reason I can't
    draw normal manga in this style.
[06:26] ---
    No, um... you're not tracing,
    right? You were just influenced.
[06:30] ---
    Yes.
[06:31] ---
    Then it's not really copying.
[06:33] ---
    No, more importantly,
    the way you talked...
[06:37] ---
    ...it's someone you know, right?
[06:40] ---
    A sempai at my high
    school was really good.
[06:44] ---
    She was a rotten girl.
[06:46] ---
    High school... sempai... good
    at drawing... rotten girl...
[06:51] ---
    Hato-kun, were you thinking of her back
    when we were talking about romance?
[06:56] ---
    Bingo! She's gone three times as red!
[07:00] ---
    No, it's not really... uhm...
[07:04] ---
    Wait a second!
[07:07] ---
    I'm sorry, Hato-kun. I can't
    give you advice about romance.
[07:12] ---
    Do you think it would be okay
[07:14] ---
    if I tried a different
    approach as a manga author?
[07:20] ---
    I'm pathetic.
[07:22] ---
    As her sempai, I need to find some
    way to solve this problem.
[07:26] ---
    Um...
[07:28] ---
    I can understand not being able to draw
    normal manga for psychological reasons.
[07:33] ---
    It's normal for something small
    to make you incapable of drawing.
[07:37] ---
    Yes.
[07:38] ---
    Hmm... that means what
    doesn't make sense,
[07:43] ---
    is the crossdressing.
[07:44] ---
    It's just not possible for something
    like that to give you so much firepower.
[07:50] ---
    As a manga author, I can say
    for sure that it's impossible.
[07:53] ---
    So I think the natural assumption
[07:56] ---
    is that you always have that ability.
[08:00] ---
    No...
[08:01] ---
    Even back when you were being my
    assistant, I was honestly a little jealous.
[08:06] ---
    "She can draw anything.
     It's possible she's better than me."
[08:11] ---
    No! No! That's impossible!
[08:14] ---
    My style when I'm a guy...
[08:17] ---
    It's like that!
[08:19] ---
    That's kind of interesting
    in and of itself,
[08:23] ---
    but what that means is that you always
    wanted to draw things like this.
[08:27] ---
    When you're a guy, you put a
    limiter on your own abilities,
[08:31] ---
    and the crossdressing
    gets rid of that limiter.
[08:34] ---
    Even if you copied the style,
    this is your own ability.
[08:39] ---
    I guarantee that you
    can draw a real manga.
[08:43] ---
    Now give it a try.
[08:46] ---
    Hey, when you're drawing
    dirty pictures...
[08:49] ---
    Does it make you feel horny?
[08:51] ---
    I don't know.
[08:52] ---
    Do you--
[08:52] ---
    Sorry, but I don't draw dirty pictures!
SIGN    Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture
[09:01] ---
    You did it.
[09:03] ---
    Yes.
[09:06] ---
    I think it works. Let's keep at it.
[09:09] ---
    Y-Yeah!
[09:13] ---
    Wow... I think this is the most
    presidential thing I've ever done!
[09:18] ---
    Hi there! It's the Circle
    Leadership Committee!
[09:22] ---
    We're here with a message.
[09:25] ---
    Oh, Takeya-san, did you cut your hair?
[09:28] ---
    That's right, I registered with
    them under the name Takeya Mikako.
[09:34] ---
    Sempai.
[09:35] ---
    I know.
[09:37] ---
    Um... it's about the costumes you're
    using for the cosplay photo shoot.
[09:41] ---
    We need a list, and
    pictures for all of them.
[09:43] ---
    Here.
[09:45] ---
    Okay.
[09:46] ---
    Nothing too dirty, they said.
[09:48] ---
    I'll let the person in charge know.
[09:49] ---
    So are you coming to the
    festival, Takeya-san?
[09:52] ---
    Yes... I think.
[09:55] ---
    Oh, I'll show you around then!
[09:59] ---
    As president, I need to do something!
[10:01] ---
    Sempai. Sempai.
[10:02] ---
    What? Shut up.
[10:05] ---
    President Mikami asked me to
    tell him everything you did.
[10:09] ---
    What? You're going to rat me out?
[10:11] ---
    I'm not going to rat you out.
[10:13] ---
    I'm going to tell him
     right in front of you.
[10:17] ---
    Do you want to suck up to him that much?
[10:20] ---
    If you don't make trouble,
    there won't be any problems.
[10:24] ---
    Fine.
[10:28] ---
    Okay, take care of the cosplay
    thing. See you soon.
[10:33] ---
    Automatic writing?
[10:35] ---
    Hato-kun... it's just that you want
    to draw those pictures, isn't it?
[10:41] ---
    There weren't any restrictions
    like this last year.
[10:45] ---
    I hear that the Circle Leadership Committee's
     president is the harshest since Kitagawa-san.
[10:52] ---
    Yes? Hello! It's been forever!
[10:56] ---
    Kohsaka said he's finally
    done with a big job,
[11:01] ---
    and he wants to go.
[11:03] ---
    Then...
[11:04] ---
    I'll be going to the school fair too.
[11:06] ---
    I'll get your costume ready, Saki-san!
[11:10] ---
    She hung up!
[11:12] ---
    Was that Kasukabe-san?
[11:14] ---
    Everybody else is coming.
    What about you, Sasahara-san?
[11:17] ---
    You still aren't sure. I see.
[11:20] ---
    Oh, the Mebaetame special?
SIGN    Madarame-sempai,
    
    It looks like we'll
    have the Mebaetame
     special done in time
    for the school fair!
    
    - Hato
[11:44] ---

    The Modern... what?
SIGN    Cosplay Try-On and Photo Studio - Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture
[11:47] ---
    That's pretty amazing.
SIGN    Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture Cosplay
[11:54] ---
    The Society for the Study
    of Modern Visual Culture.
[11:57] ---
    Ogiue-san!
[12:00] ---
    Stop asking. I told
    you I'm not doing it.
[12:04] ---
    The situation's changed!
SIGN    Front Desk Special Magazine (200 yen)
[12:06] ---
    Saki-san's coming!
[12:09] ---
    If we're cosplaying, she might too!
[12:13] ---
    I don't think she's the type who's
    influenced by things like that.
[12:16] ---
    Ohno-sempai looks like she's having fun.
[12:19] ---
    I think it's only a matter of time
    before she gets us in trouble.
[12:22] ---
    I'm handling the makeup today,
     so I got out of having to cosplay.
[12:27] ---
    You said you were going to try and
    blend in, but you're wearing make-up!
[12:31] ---
    I didn't think I could
    get by without makeup.
[12:33] ---
    You don't look plain at all!
[12:35] ---
    I'm not wearing much!
[12:38] ---
    Listen, idiot, "plain"
    means somebody like me--
[12:39] ---
    Welcome! Are you interested in cosplay?
[12:43] ---
    Or maybe people like her.
[12:46] ---
    Hey.
[12:48] ---
    Mirei!
[12:53] ---
    University's amazing.
[12:55] ---
    You made it here on your
    own, just like you said.
[12:59] ---
    Why is she hiding?
[13:01] ---
    She called Yajima-san "Mirei"?
[13:03] ---
    That's the friend from high
    school you mentioned, right?
[13:06] ---
    Yeah. Her name's Mimasaka.
[13:08] ---
    Say hello.
[13:09] ---
    H-Hi there.
[13:12] ---
    On the left is Yoshitake.
[13:14] ---
    Hi there.
[13:14] ---
    And this is, um...
[13:16] ---
    The one I told you about.
[13:20] ---
    "The one I told you about," huh?
[13:21] ---
    Just call her Takeya today.
[13:24] ---
    She's supposed to be a student
    from another university.
[13:28] ---
    And this is Ogiue-sempai, the president.
[13:30] ---
    Hi.
[13:31] ---
    I hope you have a good time.
[13:34] ---
    She's staring at me.
[13:37] ---
    Look! This has Yajimacchi's
    drawings in it!
[13:40] ---
    It's 200 yen.
[13:41] ---
    I'll buy it!
[13:42] ---
    Well, of course she'd look at me
    like that, since she knows who I am.
[13:46] ---
    You're a really good artist, Mirei.
[13:50] ---
    ...for pity's sake.
[13:52] ---
    Mimacchi, you don't need to be polite.
[13:55] ---
    Mima...?
[13:56] ---
    Isn't she better off
    if you tell the truth,
[13:59] ---
    and she learns how harsh
    the world really is?
[14:02] ---
    How harsh the world is?
[14:04] ---
    Mirei learned that a long time ago!
[14:07] ---
    But what's so amazing about
    Mirei is that she doesn't mind.
[14:11] ---
    Right?
[14:12] ---
    Well, it's not true that I don't mind...
[14:15] ---
    The bond between the two of
    them is stronger than I thought.
[14:19] ---
    So it seems.
SIGN    Anime Research
[14:21] ---
    He's not in the Anime
    Research club either, huh?
[14:24] ---
    Want to go back and ask?
[14:27] ---
    Ask what?
[14:28] ---
    Is there anybody named
    Hato in the freshman year?
[14:31] ---
    We decided that he'd be sure
    to join some otaku circle.
[14:36] ---
    Of course he did! ...I think.
[14:39] ---
    You're not sure! You were
    sure but now you're not!
[14:41] ---
    Then I'll go back and ask!
[14:44] ---
    Seriously?
[14:44] ---
    Huh?
[14:45] ---
    Oh? What is it?
[14:47] ---
    Is that Kaminaga-sempai?
     At the top of that staircase.
[14:52] ---
    I can't tell.
[14:53] ---
    I can't see her now.
[14:54] ---
    Wait, Kon--
[15:14] ---
    I just can't tell!
     There's too many people!
[15:18] ---
    You sure it was Kaminaga-sempai?
[15:20] ---
    What? You didn't see
    her? I'm sure it was!
[15:24] ---
    Well, it makes sense
    for her to be here...
[15:28] ---
    Cosplay?
[15:29] ---
    That's Atelier Maru! How cute!
SIGN    Cosplay Try-On and Photo Shoot - Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture.
[15:35] ---
    Question!
[15:36] ---
    Which generals saw great success
    at the battle of Shizugatake,
[15:39] ---
    but were not counted among the
    Seven Spears of Shizugatake?!
[15:43] ---
    Answer! Sakurai Iekazu
    and Ishikawa Kazumitsu!
[15:46] ---
    It's said that this is because they
    were not Hideyoshi's personal retainers.
[15:48] ---
    The Seven Spears began as an
    attempt to make his men famous!
[15:56] ---
    You always focus on the
    details of history.
[16:00] ---
    That was close.
[16:01] ---
    It looks like you haven't been
    slacking off in your studies.
[16:05] ---
    "Question" and "Answer"...
    isn't that from Zen Buddhism?
[16:11] ---
    These two are from the
    history club at my school.
[16:14] ---
    They're my sisters-in-arms, you might say.
[16:16] ---
    Quiet. On the battlefield, we're enemies.
[16:19] ---
    Ugh. You're not using the term right.
[16:21] ---
    How?
[16:23] ---
    Brothers-in-arms are allies
    on the battlefield...
[16:24] ---
    So it's Yoshitake-san's friends now?
[16:27] ---
    It's a lot livelier in here now.
[16:30] ---
    Is everybody here?
[16:32] ---
    You can't...
[16:34] ---
    All set.
[16:37] ---
    I had sempai make these for me.
[16:40] ---
    It had to be this game, didn't it?
[16:43] ---
    You look so good in that!
[16:45] ---
    Ohno-sempai is seriously merciless.
[16:48] ---
    You look so cool, Mirei.
[16:51] ---
    The stomach area is made
    from stockings too.
[16:52] ---
    Wow, it's really lively in here.
[16:55] ---
    Oh, Madarame-sempai!
[16:57] ---
    Hey.
[16:58] ---
    Hey.
[17:02] ---
    This is totally a cosplay
    research club now, isn't it?
[17:06] ---
    It is.
[17:08] ---
    It's like a reunion for
    Yoshitake-san and her friends.
[17:11] ---
    I see.
[17:14] ---
    Is that the Mebaetame
    you were talking about?
[17:15] ---
    Yes.
[17:17] ---
    It's the special school fair edition.
[17:23] ---
    Oh, is the manga at the front yours?
[17:26] ---
    Just the drawings...
    Ogiue-sempai did the story.
[17:30] ---
    This is really amazing. Right, Ogiue-san?
[17:33] ---
    It really is.
[17:34] ---
    Ooh, this is really good.
    Really interesting.
[17:39] ---
    It's thanks to Ogiue-sempai.
[17:42] ---
    He came...
[17:44] ---
    But the atmosphere here probably
    makes it hard for him.
[17:47] ---
    Tanaka-sempai and Kugayama-sempai
    are here, so it's probably okay.
[17:52] ---
    But today, no matter what...
[17:55] ---
    Kasukabe-sempai and
    Kohsaka-sempai are coming.
[17:58] ---
    It would be weird if I
    asked if he knew that.
[18:10] ---
    Hey, Watanabe, Onee-chan.
[18:14] ---
    Are Saki-neesan and
    Kohsaka-san here already?
[18:19] ---
    What? Are those two coming?
[18:21] ---
    Yes. So I've heard.
[18:24] ---
    That's why I came.
[18:26] ---
    Who are you? And where do
    you get off saying that?
[18:30] ---
    Watanabe? Onee-chan?
[18:32] ---
    Heh heh... well?
[18:34] ---
    Well, what?
[18:36] ---
    Well, those two are coming.
    What are you going to do?
[18:38] ---
    Nothing!
[18:40] ---
    From what she said... does she know?
[18:43] ---
    About Madarame-sempai
    and Kasukabe-sempai...
[18:45] ---
    And sempai seems to know it too.
[18:49] ---
    I wasn't the only one who knew?
[18:55] ---
    Huh? Huh, huh, huh?
[18:59] ---
    Are the two of you dating?
[19:02] ---
    No, no, no! No way!
[19:04] ---
    Seriously? You'd make a great couple!
[19:07] ---
    She was totally glaring at me!
[19:09] ---
    Was I?
[19:12] ---
    That's because she's never
    seen somebody like you before.
[19:15] ---
    It's physically impossible.
[19:18] ---
    Huh? What? I don't know what you mean.
[19:21] ---
    Well, I'll tell you later.
[19:24] ---
    Physically... that's right.
    We're the weird ones.
[19:29] ---
    Never mind then. I'll go
    wander around for a bit.
[19:34] ---
    See you later.
[19:37] ---
    That's Sasahara's little sister.
[19:39] ---
    And she's a cabaret girl.
[19:41] ---
    She's not even a student, but she
    claims to be part of Genshiken.
[19:45] ---
    I think she's younger than Ogiue-san?
[19:47] ---
    Yes. One year younger, I think.
[19:50] ---
    Then a year older than me?
[19:53] ---
    Wait a second. Is Madarame and
    Kasukabe something everybody knows about?
[19:57] ---
    Of course. It's from before
    I came to university,
[20:01] ---
    so of course they'd know
    more about it than I would.
[20:06] ---
    But somehow...
[20:13] ---
    It's cosplay everywhere.
[20:15] ---
    You think it's really a cosplay club?
[20:17] ---
    But look, they've got manga drawings up.
[20:19] ---
    Konno-san and Fuji-san?
[20:23] ---
    Crap! Oh, crap!
[20:25] ---
    They look just like
    Kaminaga-sempai's drawings.
[20:31] ---
    It's okay. They won't find out.
[20:35] ---
    There's no way they'll think
    I'm dressed as a girl.
[20:38] ---
    My voice is much cuter now.
[20:40] ---
    Can I look at this?
[20:42] ---
    Yes, go ahead.
[20:47] ---
    Well?
[20:48] ---
    Here it is. But it says they
    were drawn by Takeya Mikako.
[20:53] ---
    That's right. Right
    now, I'm Takeya Mikako.
[20:57] ---
    Hato Kenjiro isn't here.
[20:59] ---
    Oh, Hato-chan!
[21:03] ---
    Why are you back to dressing like that?
[21:12] ---
    Huh?
[21:15] ---
    Kamina--
[23:01] ---
    Damn it! Why do you always
    show up when I'm eating!
[23:04] ---
    I think you just eat too much.
[23:08] ---
    Was that deliberate?
SIGN    Preview
[23:10] ---
    Keiko-san, you keep getting
    Madarame-sempai's name wrong.
[23:13] ---
    But I thought it was Watanabe at first.
[23:16] ---
    She never figured it
    out on the first try.
[23:18] ---
    And I got sick of explaining it.
[23:21] ---
    And he can change his
    name if he gets married.
[23:23] ---
    Married?
[23:23] ---
    A lot of my friends are already married.
[23:26] ---
    They seem like people
    who'd do that fast.
[23:27] ---
    They're fast in a lot of ways, I'm sure.
[23:29] ---
    Are you going to change
    it to... Kasukabe?
[23:33] ---
    Are you going to be
    Sasahara Chika, Oneechan?
[23:36] ---
    Next time on Genshiken: Second Generation:
    Snow Man.
[23:39] ---
    

10 - Snow Man

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[00:03] ---
    It's cosplay everywhere.
[00:05] ---
    They look just like
    Kaminaga-sempai's drawings.
[00:10] ---
    Can I look at this?
[00:12] ---
    Yes, go ahead.
[00:17] ---
    Well?
[00:18] ---
    Here it is. But...
[00:20] ---
    That's right. Right
    now, I'm Takeya Mikako.
[00:23] ---
    Oh, Hato-chan!
[00:26] ---
    Why are you back to dressing like that?
[00:34] ---
    Huh?
[02:10] ---
    You just said... "Hato," didn't you?
[02:14] ---
    
[02:16] ---
    
[02:20] ---
    Don't look over here!
[02:25] ---
    Hato-kun's right over here.
[02:31] ---
    Huh?
[02:32] ---
    What?
[02:35] ---
    Did I do something wrong?
[02:39] ---
    
[02:41] ---
    Well?
[02:44] ---
    Well? Well?
[02:45] ---
    ...No.
[02:47] ---
    Well? Well? Well?
[02:49] ---
    I can't tell!
[02:52] ---
    Yes? Is something wrong?
[02:55] ---
    
[02:57] ---
    Oh, no! That's totally a girl!
[02:59] ---
    No way! There's no way that's Hato!
[03:01] ---
    It's working! I can fool them!
[03:09] ---
    
[03:12] ---
    Hey, Kenjiro.
[03:21] ---
    
[03:23] ---
    It's my fault...
[03:24] ---
    What?
[03:26] ---
    I can't see anything without my glasses.
[03:28] ---
    It's not your fault!
[03:30] ---
    What's going on?
[03:32] ---
    Um... I'm Ogiue, and I'm in charge here...
[03:37] ---
    Why don't we all go somewhere else?
[03:41] ---
    Snow Man.
SIGN    The Proud Pirate King
[04:01] ---
    Hey.
[04:03] ---
    Kaminaga-sempai, it's been forever!
[04:05] ---
    Do you have more pictures?
[04:07] ---
    Yeah, want to see?
[04:08] ---
    Of course! Can I copy them again?
[04:11] ---
    Sure you can.
[04:15] ---
    Win!
[04:18] ---
    This is so great...
[04:20] ---
    Hato. Hato!
[04:25] ---
    Stop it.
[04:29] ---
    You sit there drawing by yourself,
    and you're so serious.
[04:32] ---
    Listen, this is normal.
[04:34] ---
    This is the Art Club, not the Manga Club.
[04:37] ---
    You're the weird ones.
[04:39] ---
    You're in your second year, and you've
    already decided to go to an art school?
[04:42] ---
    No, that's not true.
[04:45] ---
    I guess I'm trying to
    get better as an artist.
[04:48] ---
    Effort's not going make you any better at
    creating manga, so long as you draw like that.
[04:56] ---
    Kon?
[04:57] ---
    Oh, sorry!
[05:04] ---
    Sempai's pictures... I want to see them.
[05:12] ---
    Yeah, you're right. I'll leave the bike.
[05:16] ---
    Tomorrow, I'll walk to the
    station and take the bus.
[05:20] ---
    Thanks, bye.
[05:30] ---
    Oh, Kaminaga.
[05:32] ---
    Thanks.
[05:34] ---
    Kenji, do you know this girl?
[05:38] ---
    When I was about to graduate,
    she was in her first year, I think.
[05:41] ---
    Oh, I see. So you were in school
    together for a little bit, Brother.
[05:45] ---
    Yeah. She was famous for loving gay dudes.
[05:47] ---
    Huh? That's not quite right.
[05:50] ---
    I like couplings. Couplings.
[05:53] ---
    Just the pairings.
[05:55] ---
    I don't get you.
[05:56] ---
    And in that sense, as
    captain of the Judo Club,
[05:59] ---
    you made for a great pairing
    with anybody. Thanks!
[06:03] ---
    Huh? What the heck? I'm not gay at all.
[06:06] ---
    It's just in our little fantasies.
[06:09] ---
    Like having vice captain Kai-san and
    the team ace, Funaki-san, fight over you.
[06:13] ---
    I don't get you at all.
[06:16] ---
    And what's this "we"? Are there more of you?
[06:19] ---
    What are they like?
[06:21] ---
    I haven't seen my brother talk
    this much in a long time.
[06:24] ---
    Hey, are you doing judo this year, Kenjiro?
[06:27] ---
    K-Kenji...?
[06:29] ---
    Oh, your name? Well, you're both Hato.
[06:32] ---
    Kenji did it up through middle school.
    I think he's a black belt.
[06:36] ---
    Wow.
[06:38] ---
    Well, anyone with any talent at all can get a
    first-degree belt by the end of middle school.
[06:43] ---
    That aside, I think he had
    more talent than I did.
[06:48] ---
    He was quick and sharp on his feet.
[06:51] ---
    But now he's just an otaku.
[06:54] ---
    He's never said that before.
[06:56] ---
    "Softness subdues hardness." Like that?
[06:59] ---
    Yeah, I guess so.
[07:00] ---
    Subduing!
[07:03] ---
    Which means I can assume Kenjiro's
    the top and Yuuichiro's the bottom?
[07:08] ---
    I really, really don't get you.
[07:11] ---
    Sempai... you're amazing.
SIGN    Art Club
[07:15] ---
    Hey.
[07:16] ---
    Kaminaga-sempai, it's been forever!
[07:19] ---
    These are awesome too!
[07:21] ---
    You don't know when to stop!
[07:24] ---
    Time to copy! Time to copy.
[07:35] ---
    Everybody's gone. Day's over, I guess.
[07:41] ---
    That's sempai's...
[08:02] ---
    Seriously?
[08:04] ---
    Yeah! And I ate the whole thing.
[08:20] ---
    Wow!
[08:22] ---
    Sempai, you're amazing!
[08:33] ---
    Oh, you're here.
[08:36] ---
    Where were you?
[08:37] ---
    Just the bathroom. What's up, Konno-san?
[08:41] ---
    Um, well...
[08:44] ---
    Have you seen them? I
    think I left them here...
[08:48] ---
    ...Sempai's BL pictures, I... mean.
[08:53] ---
    Oh, these? Sorry. I was looking at them.
[09:01] ---
    No... um...
[09:07] ---
    This is bad! She's suspicious! What do I do?
[09:10] ---
    Do I tell her? Maybe I'll tell her!
[09:14] ---
    Well, I guess I was kind
    of interested in them.
[09:17] ---
    I'm telling her!
[09:19] ---
    Actually, I... really like BL.
[09:23] ---
    It's been one of my favorite
    genres since middle school.
[09:26] ---
    And since it was a doujinshi
    that got me into it,
[09:29] ---
    I'm a big fan of Yotsuya Komuro,
     Kazama Takae, and Masayuki.
[09:34] ---
    And I guess Terada Hasumiko
    and Tomonaga Tomo.
[09:38] ---
    They both write a lot of normal stuff, so
    it's easy for a guy to get into their work too.
[09:44] ---
    You like... BL?
[09:48] ---
    Seriously?
[09:49] ---
    Yeah. So I always wanted to
    see Kaminaga-sempai's pictures.
[09:54] ---
    You saw them?
[09:56] ---
    In the bathroom?
[09:59] ---
    Yeah. Why?
[10:02] ---
    I thought it would be awkward if somebody
    walked in here while I was looking at them.
[10:08] ---
    Wait, the bathroom?
[10:10] ---
    But I wasn't doing anything weird
    while I was in the bathroom!
[10:15] ---
    I'm serious! Really!
[10:22] ---
    Hato.
[10:25] ---
    Do you like... sempai's pictures?
[10:30] ---
    Yeah. I really do, I think.
[10:33] ---
    I wish I could draw like that.
[10:38] ---
    Just the pictures?
[10:39] ---
    Huh?
[10:45] ---
    After that, for a while,
[10:48] ---
    the atmosphere in the
    Art Club got much uglier.
[10:51] ---
    I stopped attending,
[10:54] ---
    and Kaminaga-sempai graduated.
     By the time I got to my third year...
[10:59] ---
    Sure you don't want to take a
    magazine to the bathroom with you?
[11:05] ---
    The rumor that I was gay
     had spread all over the school.
[11:38] ---
    I-I knew it was my fault!
[11:41] ---
    I told the rest of the club that Hato was
[11:44] ---
    looking at BL stuff in the bathroom!
[11:47] ---
    It's not your fault, Kon!
[11:48] ---
    We were the ones who forced you
    to tell us! You were acting weird!
[11:52] ---
    And I think it was Kimura who told the guys.
[11:54] ---
    I really didn't do anything
    weird in the bathroom.
[11:57] ---
    I guess I can see why
    they'd get the wrong idea.
[12:00] ---
    It's my fault that Hato
    turned into the real thing!
[12:05] ---
    No, no. I may be dressed like this,
    but who I am inside hasn't changed.
[12:09] ---
    What do you mean?
[12:10] ---
    I started doing this because I thought it
    would let me hang out with the rotten girls.
[12:14] ---
    Huh? I don't get you!
[12:17] ---
    I'm not surprised.
[12:19] ---
    If you really wanted to see my
    pictures, all you had to do was ask.
[12:24] ---
    Really?
[12:25] ---
    Yeah.
[12:26] ---
    Come to think of it, you had pictures
    that looked like mine hung up.
[12:31] ---
    And, you know...
[12:33] ---
    Why did they mistake me for you?
[12:40] ---
    
[12:43] ---
    I may have made it this far, but I
    think it's too late to join them.
[12:47] ---
    They told us only one person
    can go outside in costume.
[12:51] ---
    Sue's outside now, so we...
[12:54] ---
    Then go out there, Rame-sempai, and tell us!
[12:57] ---
    Please!
[12:59] ---
    It's not Hato-kun who's
    got her back turned to me.
[13:03] ---
    They look alike.
[13:04] ---
    She said that's her sempai from high
    school, right? I wonder what's going on.
[13:08] ---
    They told me to find out what's
     going on, but that's not gonna happen.
[13:12] ---
    I guess I'll go home.
[13:20] ---
    Oh, looks like some people Hato-kun
    knew from high school are here.
[13:25] ---
    Looks like they didn't know about the
    crossdressing, so they're fighting.
[13:32] ---
    Hato-kun's, well, her crossdressing...
[13:36] ---
    She only does it when she's at our
    circle, and normally keeps it a secret.
[13:41] ---
    Normally she comes to school as a guy.
[13:44] ---
    She switches outfits so
    people won't identify her.
[13:48] ---
    And one of them, well...
[13:51] ---
    Oh, it looks just like me?
[13:55] ---
    Yes. So much that, from behind,
    we couldn't tell you apart.
[13:58] ---
    Seriously? How's a girl supposed
    to take something like that?
[14:00] ---
    I've got to see it!
[14:02] ---
    Would you show me, Kenjiro? Right now?
[14:07] ---
    Um...
[14:08] ---
    Kaminaga-sempai, you're being very rude!
[14:11] ---
    Am I?
[14:12] ---
    I never liked that about you!
[14:16] ---
    W-What's this all of a sudden?
    You're making me feel bad.
[14:19] ---
    'Cause there's only one reason
    why Hato would dress like you!
[14:26] ---
    She doesn't realize at all!
[14:30] ---
    I'm right, aren't I Hato?
[14:31] ---
    A-About what?
[14:33] ---
    You don't need to play dumb too!
[14:39] ---
    It looks like Hato always...
    always liked you!
SIGN    
[14:47] ---
    Well, I'm sure romance is involved somehow.
[14:50] ---
    Their hairstyle was the same.
[14:52] ---
    I can't wait to hear what
    Madarame-sempai has to say.
[14:55] ---
    That's a bad idea!
[14:58] ---
    Is that true, Kenjiro?
[15:00] ---
    Um, well...
[15:02] ---
    I don't know... that's not
    quite right, I think...
[15:06] ---
    How can you say that when
    you stole her art style?
[15:09] ---
    So that's what that was, then!
[15:11] ---
    Um, well... it's true that
     I always looked up to you.
[15:17] ---
    You're a great artist and I admired
    how you didn't hide your love of BL.
[15:22] ---
    I always wanted to be like you.
[15:27] ---
    But in the end, Hato's brother got her.
[15:33] ---
    Ah, so that's it.
[15:35] ---
    Konno, Kenjiro, the two of you
    together have finally caught up to me.
[15:40] ---
    
[15:41] ---
    Listen. A macho big brother who used
    to do judo and has a girlfriend...
[15:45] ---
    And a quiet, delicate little brother who
    crossdresses to look like his big brother's girl.
[15:52] ---
    Did she get it? I'm impressed.
[15:55] ---
    What?
[15:56] ---
    In other words, Kenjiro wants to be me,
[16:00] ---
    and be loved by Yuichiro!
SIGN    Yu
SIGN    Ken
SIGN    x
[16:06] ---
    She's nuts.
[16:07] ---
    She's rotten.
[16:09] ---
    
[16:10] ---
    
[16:11] ---
    Well, I guess I can see it.
[16:13] ---
    And they seem to be agreeing?
[16:15] ---
    
[16:16] ---
    Of course, that's not true.
[16:19] ---
    But I'm really impressed
    with the idea, I guess.
[16:23] ---
    It's normal to use your boyfriend
    in your BL fantasies.
[16:26] ---
    It works as is, but why don't you make it
    a little more complex and change genres?
[16:31] ---
    I see. Like the only heir
    is the big brother,
[16:34] ---
    and the little brother is raised as a woman?
[16:37] ---
    Yup! Set it a few years back,
    in an old family with old traditions!
[16:42] ---
    And the little brother is a slut
    with no chastity whatsoever?
[16:46] ---
    I could see Kenjiro like that.
[16:48] ---
    
[16:49] ---
    This is creepy. I mean, I get it, but
    it's creepy! But I do get it.
[16:55] ---
    Hato... you...
[16:57] ---
    You're really a rotten girl, aren't you?
[17:00] ---
    I've always been like this.
[17:03] ---
    I wanted to be able to talk
    like this with both of you too.
[17:08] ---
    Yeah? Sorry.
[17:11] ---
    No...
[17:12] ---
    Well, you can start now right?
[17:15] ---
    You can start over as fellow rotten girls.
[17:19] ---
    Yes. You're right.
[17:20] ---
    In reality, unlike video games, a weight
    difference will dictate a fight's outcome.
[17:25] ---
    Well, that's enough for today, right?
[17:28] ---
    Just let him off the hook today... and
    you'll still have a chance later, right?
[17:36] ---
    I know how a woman feels.
[17:38] ---
    But Kenjiro, you...
[17:41] ---
    Yes?
[17:46] ---
    Yuichiro-san and I...
[17:48] ---
    ...we're getting married next spring.
[17:51] ---
    We've picked a date, and
    you have to be there too.
[17:55] ---
    
[17:56] ---
    Really?
[17:57] ---
    Oh, congratulations.
[17:59] ---
    Oh, thank you.
[18:01] ---
    If you get married, does that mean
    you're going to live at Hato's house?
[18:05] ---
    That's right!
[18:07] ---
    I'll be able to observe the Hato
    brothers in their natural habitat!
[18:11] ---
    Just thinking about it almost
    gives me a heart attack.
[18:15] ---
    She's totally serious...
[18:18] ---
    He told me to be the one to tell
    you, and that's why I came today.
[18:23] ---
    But looking back, I think your brother
    might have known how you felt.
[18:30] ---
    And if the shock of your crush
    getting married turns you gay,
[18:34] ---
    I don't have any right to stop you at all.
[18:37] ---
    It will not!
[18:39] ---
    Okay, guess it's time to go.
[18:40] ---
    Already?
[18:42] ---
    I just have to get back sometime today.
[18:45] ---
    But I want to go to Ikebukuro.
[18:48] ---
    Is that the main reason you're
    here? I mean I understand, but...
[18:51] ---
    What should we do?
[18:52] ---
    Otome Road.
[18:54] ---
    I'll walk you to the station.
[18:56] ---
    Okay.
[18:58] ---
    But Kenjiro...
[18:59] ---
    Yes?
[19:00] ---
    If you like BL, and you dress like that...
[19:04] ---
    ...won't that change
    your sexuality a little?
[19:09] ---
    
[19:10] ---
    They're done, huh? Guess I didn't
    make it in time. Oh well.
[19:15] ---
    I mean, won't you start to feel like a
    little something between two guys isn't so bad?
[19:20] ---
    
[19:21] ---
    Yeah!
[19:22] ---
    That!
[19:23] ---
    I want to know the answer!
[19:25] ---
    If you read all those things
    won't it affect you?
[19:29] ---
    I'm just enjoying it as a genre.
[19:32] ---
    I'm not into guys.
[19:35] ---
    BL is the king of fantasy, right?
[19:38] ---
    Don't be stupid. "I'm not into guys,"
    is a common line in BL, isn't it?
[19:43] ---
    "I'm not into guys. I'm into you!"
[19:47] ---
    So it has to be the right person.
[19:50] ---
    Well? Is there anybody who knows
[19:53] ---
    who you really are, but
    still hangs out with you?
[19:58] ---
    They're not moving.
[20:04] ---
    Did you give up?
[20:10] ---
    Ultimate Attack!
[20:17] ---
    Kiss.
[20:28] ---
    Is something wrong?
[20:29] ---
    No... it's nothing.
[20:33] ---
    That was Madarame-sempai, wasn't it?
[20:37] ---
    Someone who knows about me,
    but treats me normally...
[20:40] ---
    Madarame-sempai is here.
[20:46] ---
    I have lots of them, both
    guys and girls. So, I'm fine.
[20:50] ---
    Kaminaga-sempai... no, Nee-san...
[20:53] ---
    Should I call you that?
[20:56] ---
    I'll talk to your brother. Bye now.
[21:02] ---
    You can't do that stuff!
[21:05] ---
    That's not a good thing for a
    young girl to do! My heart...
[21:09] ---
    What are these goosebumps?
[21:11] ---
    What? What did I see?
[21:27] ---
    You lolicon!
SIGN    Preview
[23:11] ---
    Kaminaga-sempai, you're not going to draw
    any BL of the Hato brothers, are you?
[23:15] ---
    I've been drawing them
    forever. Since high school.
[23:18] ---
    I started with drawing the Judo
    Club, and then added Kenjiro.
[23:21] ---
    *** drawings. They
    and *** Kenjiro's ,
[23:24] ---

    and then his brother purifies
    him by *** ing him.
[23:27] ---
    And then after thoroughly ing his , he
    
! Well? Want to see it when we get back?
[23:31] ---

    No!
[23:32] ---
    Really?
[23:33] ---
    No.
[23:33] ---
    She's wavering!
[23:35] ---
    Next time on Genshiken: Second Generation:
    That Was a Good Last Episode.

11 - That Was a Good Last Episode

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[00:02] ---
    What should I say at a time like this?
[00:07] ---
    "You lolicon!" maybe?
[00:10] ---
    That's about right. I mean, it's not, but...
[01:47] ---
    Hey!
[01:48] ---
    Saki-san!
[01:50] ---
    Wait, Madarame-san? Isn't Kohsaka-san here?
[01:54] ---
    Oh, Kohsaka's in a game tournament.
[01:57] ---
    I saw Susie giving this
    guy a kiss downstairs!
[02:01] ---
    He's such a lolicon!
[02:01] ---
    No, no, no.
[02:03] ---
    Then will you tell me if
    you get a new phone number?
[02:07] ---
    Yeah.
[02:08] ---
    She wanted me to go talk
    to Hato and her friends,
[02:12] ---
    and pranked me when I kept refusing.
[02:15] ---
    Why would Susie care?
[02:17] ---
    I don't know.
[02:19] ---
    I don't know what Sue's thinking,
[02:22] ---
    but Hato-kun left with her old friends.
[02:24] ---
    Oh, what's the--
[02:27] ---
    Kasukabe-sempai! Hi there.
[02:29] ---
    Hey, Oggy. Things going well with Sasahara?
[02:32] ---
    Yean... thanks.
[02:34] ---
    Ogi-sempai, where's Hato-chan?
[02:36] ---
    Everything got settled. If you want
    the details, ask her, I guess.
[02:41] ---
    I guess you're right.
[02:44] ---
    Cosplay's really tiring.
[02:47] ---
    Yeah. People took lots of pictures.
[02:48] ---
    Hey there.
    Hi!
[02:51] ---
    Yajima-san and Yoshitake-san, why don't you
    walk around the school with your friends?
[02:57] ---
    Um...
[02:58] ---
    Go ahead.
[02:59] ---
    Okay, thanks then!
[03:01] ---
    Want to change?
[03:01] ---
    And you can cosplay, Saki-san!
[03:04] ---
    And there it is.
[03:06] ---
    That was a good last episode.
[03:11] ---
    Hato-chan! Did things go okay?
[03:14] ---
    Yeah, it's fine.
[03:15] ---
    I'm glad to hear it! You can
    tell me the details later.
[03:19] ---
    So you're starting up a
    cosplay business, Tanaka?
[03:23] ---
    Well, it's not a sure thing yet.
[03:25] ---
    But if I'm really going to sell this stuff,
    it'd be a lot easier to do it through a company.
[03:29] ---
    That's true. It has its advantages.
[03:32] ---
    Wow! One of us is going to run a company.
[03:35] ---
    It's not that big a deal!
[03:38] ---
    Are you getting married soon?
[03:41] ---
    Oh, Saki-san!
[03:43] ---
    What about you, Kugapii?
[03:44] ---
    Still in sales.
[03:46] ---
    No, Kugapii! I'm asking
    if you have a girlfriend.
[03:49] ---
    O-Of course not!
[03:51] ---
    Kasukabe-sempai's here.
[03:55] ---
    The whole place seems more lively.
[03:59] ---
    Is this what Genshiken
     was like before last year?
[04:03] ---
    What about Madarame-sempai?
[04:09] ---
    He just looked at Kasukabe-sempai!
[04:15] ---
    Wait, why did I stop?
     It's like I froze up...
[04:19] ---
    Hato-chin! I'm so sorry.
[04:21] ---
    Even if I've got sunglasses on,
    I made a big mistake back there.
[04:26] ---
    No, it's fine. I feel better
    now that it's out in the open.
[04:29] ---
    That's the cross-dresser?
[04:31] ---
    Yes. That's right.
[04:32] ---
    I see.
[04:34] ---
    Yo. If you're here, you should've called.
[04:38] ---
    Where's Kohsaka-san?
[04:39] ---
    Why would I call someone
     who asks questions like that?
[04:42] ---
    I've given up already!
     At least let me see him.
[04:45] ---
    Have you?
[04:46] ---
    I just want to give him my business card.
[04:48] ---
    Hey!
[04:49] ---
    You guys come by too.
[04:50] ---
    Stop trying to get customers!
[04:53] ---
    Like Watanabe!
[04:55] ---
    I gave him my card a long
    time ago, and he never came by.
[04:59] ---
    Oh, Madarame wouldn't
    go to a place like that.
[05:03] ---
    Of course not.
[05:04] ---
    He's too much of a loser to do
    that, and he's a lolicon anyway.
[05:08] ---
    Seriously?
[05:09] ---
    I heard that, back at Comic Festival,
[05:11] ---
    Angela went after him hard,
    and he totally shot her down.
[05:15] ---
    Oh? And she's a foreigner?
[05:17] ---
    An otaku girl from America,
     with tits almost as big as Ohno's.
[05:21] ---
    He's such an idiot. Even if she's not
    really his type, he should've taken her up on it.
[05:26] ---
    It could've changed his outlook on life.
[05:30] ---
    No, no.
[05:31] ---
    Well, he's a total lolicon,
    so of course he didn't.
[05:34] ---
    Shut up.
[05:34] ---
    I don't think an otaku's ever going
    to get another chance like that.
[05:38] ---
    It doesn't matter.
[05:39] ---
    She doesn't know how sempai feels!
[05:42] ---
    You're not that much of a lolicon, are you?
[05:45] ---
    Hato-kun, was it? Is it true?
[05:48] ---
    No, well... but...
[05:50] ---
    When I clean up sempai's room,
     I clean up the doujinshi and H-games,
[05:54] ---
    but well, there is some loli stuff, but...
[05:57] ---
    Wait a second. Wait a second, Hato-kun.
[06:00] ---
    Madarame, you're making your
    underclassman clean your room?
[06:05] ---
    No, I'm not making her...
[06:07] ---
    I just doing it because I want to!
[06:09] ---
    I need more blood! Bring
    me more! More of anything!
[06:12] ---
    She's binging.
[06:14] ---
    She's totally binging.
[06:15] ---
    You're using his room to
     change into your girl clothes?
[06:18] ---
    When I'm not there!
     I'm at work during the day!
[06:21] ---
    No, that's...
[06:24] ---
    I don't get what you mean. "Cross-dressing"?
[06:28] ---
    Yes, cross-dressing. She's really a boy.
[06:32] ---
    What?
[06:34] ---
    What are you doing?
[06:36] ---
    No way! No way! I can't
     believe that! It's impossible!
[06:39] ---
    Proof! Show me proof!
[06:41] ---
    No way!
[06:42] ---
    If not your ****,
    then your breasts!
[06:43] ---
    My voice! I'll use my normal voice!
[06:45] ---
    I'm really a guy.
[06:48] ---
    No way! I've got goosebumps!
[06:49] ---
    I wish she'd shut up.
[06:51] ---
    I see! That's why Watanabe was
    saying it was physically impossible.
[06:56] ---
    Yeah.
[06:57] ---
    No, no. It doesn't matter if
     someone's a man or a woman, does it?
[07:01] ---
    Two guys being together is totally okay.
[07:04] ---
    Saki-san, have you gotten into BL?
[07:07] ---
    What are you talking about?
    I've got a lot of gay friends.
[07:10] ---
    Oh, reality.
[07:12] ---
    Are you people homophobic?
[07:14] ---
    Um... well, I'm straight, is all.
[07:18] ---
    I just dress like this as part of
    hanging out with the rotten girls.
[07:22] ---
    Well, it's not like you have
    to change that or anything.
[07:25] ---
    Right...
[07:27] ---
    Wait a second... her, her, and her...
[07:31] ---
    And her too, I guess.
[07:33] ---
    What?
[07:33] ---
    Madarame... is it really your
    turn to be the popular guy?
[07:39] ---
    W-What?
[07:42] ---
    I'll be a little mean to him, I guess.
[07:45] ---
    Come to think of it, when we all went
    to Madarame's room a long time ago,
[07:49] ---
    he was hiding a ton of
    adult S&M DVDs in his desk.
[07:55] ---
    Come to think of it...
[07:57] ---
    Yeah, he was.
[07:58] ---
    Yeah, he was.
[07:59] ---
    S&M?
[08:01] ---
    Oh, I don't know!
[08:03] ---
    Out of all the H-games and
     H-manga I see when I clean his room,
[08:07] ---
    there's barely any S&M!
[08:10] ---
    I saw a little, but I think he got it at Comic
    Festival because it was about his favorite anime!
[08:15] ---
    You don't need to go that far.
[08:17] ---
    I'm sorry. It just didn't seem
    like you, so I wanted to disagree.
[08:22] ---
    Merely the mistakes of my
    youth. I threw them all out!
[08:25] ---
    Then search harder, Hato-kun.
[08:30] ---
    Like inside the desk drawers, or the
    closets, or the folders on his PC.
[08:33] ---
    Sure.
[08:35] ---
    There's nothing on my PC but hentai you
    wouldn't be ashamed to show anywhere!
[08:40] ---
    You couldn't find a thing--
[08:44] ---
    --not a thing.
[08:45] ---
    He froze.
[08:46] ---
    He froze. He's hiding them.
[08:48] ---
    I am not! I just stuttered a bit.
[08:54] ---
    Hey.
[08:55] ---
    She just went "Oh!"
[08:57] ---
    No, I don't know anything...
[08:59] ---
    This is suspicious! It's really suspicious.
[09:02] ---
    No, seriously... What is it?
[09:04] ---
    Was there anything that bad in my room?
[09:13] ---
    Kasukabe-sempai's cosplay pictures.
[09:25] ---
    He's not here. He can't have--
[09:27] ---
    Hey, what did you say?
[09:29] ---
    Watanabe left the minute you said that.
[09:36] ---
    I don't know if I can say.
[09:38] ---
    After all that? And I'm the only one here.
[09:41] ---
    It's Madarame-sempai's private life.
[09:43] ---
    You're the one who spilled the beans.
[09:46] ---
    Hey, I know!
[09:49] ---
    Does it have something to do with the
    fact that Madarame likes Saki-neesan?
[09:54] ---
    Am I right?
[09:55] ---
    Does everybody know already?
[09:59] ---
    I think so.
[10:01] ---
    I've talked to Ohno-chan
    and my sister about it.
[10:04] ---
    I think most of the old members know it.
[10:07] ---
    But I've never asked
     Saki-neesan about it directly.
[10:12] ---
    Have things changed since
    the new students came?
[10:14] ---
    That's right. They're all rotten
    girls who are really into BL.
[10:19] ---
    Then Madarame doesn't
     really come around anymore?
[10:22] ---
    Yeah. Today's actually the first
    time I've seen him in a while.
[10:36] ---
    So I really wasn't the only
    one who knew his secret.
[10:40] ---
    Is he really not gay?
[10:44] ---
    He's got this "I understand my sempai
    better than anyone" look on his face.
[10:48] ---
    Girls like that piss me off.
[10:51] ---
    Well, guys like that.
[10:53] ---
    So what exactly did you say?
[10:55] ---
    Um...
[10:57] ---
    Does she know everything already?
[10:59] ---
    He probably got the pictures from Tanaka-san.
[11:02] ---
    If she knows how Madarame-sempai feels
    already, this is probably no different.
[11:06] ---
    Um...
[11:07] ---
    What?! Cosplay pictures of Saki-neesan?
[11:10] ---
    Huh?
[11:12] ---
    No way! That's hilarious!
[11:17] ---
    That's awful. That's really awful.
[11:23] ---
    Hey, you.
[11:24] ---
    Yes?
[11:25] ---
    Why don't we make Madarame tell her?
[11:29] ---
    Tell her?
[11:31] ---
    Saki-neesan hardly ever comes
    to the university, right?
[11:34] ---
    This is the first time since she
    graduated. So this is our chance!
[11:38] ---
    We can force him into it.
[11:40] ---
    But what about his feelings?
[11:42] ---
    Find Watanabe. I'll find Saki-neesan...
[11:43] ---
    But maybe Madarame-sempai
    wants things to stay this way!
[11:47] ---
    You're the one who
     wrecked any chance of that.
[11:50] ---
    It's exhausting to have a secret
    everybody else has already figured out.
[11:55] ---
    Madarame's an idiot, so he can't
    deal with it. That's why he ran.
[12:00] ---
    Let's set him free.
[12:12] ---
    Sue-chan?
[12:16] ---
    What? Wait!
[12:24] ---
    Is sempai in the club room?
[12:28] ---
    Wait a second. I'll...
[12:35] ---
    Hello?
[12:37] ---
    Um, about the pictures... well...
[12:40] ---
    It was really pure chance
    that I found them. I'm sorry.
[12:44] ---
    And so, if you're in the club room...
[12:48] ---
    Can you wait there?
SIGN    Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture
[12:52] ---
    I'm sure you'll understand
    as soon as you go inside.
[13:00] ---
    I don't know what'll happen.
    That's up to Madarame.
[13:13] ---
    Huh? What's up Saki-chan?
[13:17] ---
    What's going on?
[13:19] ---
    Bwa?
[13:20] ---
    Let's go, Sasahara-kun.
[13:23] ---
    Yeah...
[13:24] ---
    Me too--
[13:25] ---
    You stay here, Madarame-san.
[13:28] ---
    Saki-chan, I'll explain why
    I'm dressed like this later.
[13:31] ---
    For now, I'll say I won the tournament.
[13:34] ---
    Congrats.
[13:36] ---
    Now then...
[13:39] ---
    It's been a while, I guess.
[13:51] ---
    I heard you haven't been
    coming around much lately.
[13:55] ---
    Yeah...
[13:57] ---
    Don't be so stiff.
[14:02] ---
    Actually, I'm not sure what's going on.
[14:06] ---
    Hato-kun told me to stay here.
[14:10] ---
    Well, basically...
[14:13] ---
    They've locked the two of us in here.
[14:18] ---
    Saki-san's gone too.
[14:21] ---
    You're right.
[14:23] ---
    I know! Do you think something Saki x Mada
[14:26] ---
    is beginning on the other side of the world?
[14:28] ---
    Huh?
[14:29] ---
    Saki-chan is alone in the
    club room with Madarame.
[14:32] ---
    Kohsaka-san!
[14:33] ---
    Hey there!
[14:34] ---
    Does that mean...
[14:36] ---
    Is that your cosplay from the trap game?
[14:38] ---
    That's not important right now.
[14:41] ---
    I've only seen it in pictures!
[14:44] ---
    The two of them are alone together?
[14:46] ---
    Why are you here, Sasahara-san?
[14:49] ---
    Sorry. He sent me the outfit.
[14:52] ---
    I wanted to surprise everyone, so I had
    him bring it to the club room in secret.
[14:56] ---
    Well, as long as you came.
[14:58] ---
    And so what's this? Just the two of them?
[15:02] ---
    Keiko-chan and Hato-kun set it up.
[15:06] ---
    What? That sounds like something
    out of Sweet Azure Flowers.
[15:10] ---
    Huh? But are you okay with this, Kohsaka-kun?
[15:13] ---
    I care about Madarame-san too.
[15:17] ---
    So I'm willing to do this for him.
[15:23] ---
    Was I that obvious?
[15:26] ---
    About what?
[15:27] ---
    About what?
[15:29] ---
    You know... the reason they put us in here...
[15:35] ---
    What are you talking about?
[15:36] ---
    This is harsh. You're an
    iron wall, Kasukabe-san.
[15:40] ---
    What are you talking about?
[15:42] ---
    No, no. Seriously, you're merciless.
[15:45] ---
    Look, stop trying to
    dance around the subject
[15:49] ---
    by using insults to get under my skin.
[15:54] ---
    Does she really... not know?
[16:00] ---
    Don't just sit there. Say something.
[16:04] ---
    Jeez, fine. Let's talk about old times then.
[16:09] ---
    It was at the school festival,
    when I was a freshman.
[16:12] ---
    When you put those cat ears on me,
    that was when I first realized
[16:16] ---
    "Oh hey, he likes me."
[16:20] ---
    I was trying so hard not to
    be the one to bring it up.
[16:25] ---
    You really are a loser, Madarame.
[16:27] ---
    Does that...
[16:30] ---
    No way... that long ago?
[16:33] ---
    It's too early! That was years ago!
[16:36] ---
    You didn't realize you liked me?
[16:38] ---
    Realize... realize...
[16:46] ---
    That was the first day I
    realized that I liked her.
[16:52] ---
    And I was certain...
[16:57] ---
    ...then.
[16:59] ---
    I can't say that!
[17:01] ---
    If I say that, that means
    telling her that I like her!
[17:09] ---
    And anyway,
[17:11] ---
    what's the point in telling someone how you
    feel, if you know you'll be shot down?
[17:19] ---
    You got quiet again.
[17:26] ---
    What do I want to do? Alone
    in a room with Kasukabe-san...
[17:31] ---
    What do I want to say?
[17:39] ---
    Back then... you had a
    nose hair sticking out.
[17:45] ---
    Huh? Nose hair?
[17:47] ---
    But the moment I tried to tell you...
[17:51] ---
    You punched me.
[17:53] ---
    B-Back then?
[17:55] ---
    But didn't you say you'd forgotten
    about that? Just before we graduated.
[18:00] ---
    I wasn't brave enough to say it.
[18:02] ---
    What? Not brave enough?
[18:06] ---
    It was easier to pretend like
    I'd forgotten all about it.
[18:12] ---
    Back when you graduated,
    that's the kind of guy I was.
[18:17] ---
    But today, they gave this to me...
[18:22] ---
    And you brought it up.
[18:25] ---
    So... I'll say it! I'll
    say it loud and clear!
[18:30] ---
    Back then, you had a nose hair sticking out!
[18:40] ---
    Is that...
[18:42] ---
    ...really a line you want to
    say with tears in your eyes?
[18:46] ---
    Damn it!
[18:50] ---
    That's horrible.
[18:53] ---
    Screaming, "You had a
    nose hair sticking out."
[19:00] ---
    But... that's all right.
[19:06] ---
    I'm sorry. I've got Kohsaka,
    so I can't be with you.
[19:14] ---
    T-That's not what I m-meant...
[19:24] ---
    No.
[19:27] ---
    I see...
[19:32] ---
    By the way... I was just wondering.
[19:36] ---
    From the way you said it...
    if Kohsaka wasn't around?
[19:42] ---
    Maybe we could've had a future together.
[19:50] ---
    Thank you.
[19:59] ---
    It's over.
[20:06] ---
    I feel so relieved.
[20:10] ---
    What's wrong?
[20:14] ---
    It's just... somehow, getting turned
    down made me feel a lot better.
[20:21] ---
    I'm surprised how much.
[20:28] ---
    Oh, no!
[20:33] ---
    Why are you crying, Kasukabe-san?
[20:36] ---
    
[20:38] ---
    Like I said... it's been
    four years for me too.
[20:44] ---
    I'd swore I wouldn't act like I already knew.
[20:48] ---
    But that just made me feel like
    I was hurting you, so...
[20:55] ---
    I feel so relieved.
[21:00] ---
    That's not true.
[21:05] ---
    And now I know...
[21:10] ---
    ...that Kasukabe-san cries easily.
[21:14] ---
    It really was fun.
[21:20] ---
    It really was...
[21:24] ---
    ...fun.
SIGN    Preview
[23:10] ---
    We don't get a lot of screen time, do we?
[23:12] ---
    So let's get our lines in while we can.
     Kugayama, you drawing much lately?
[23:15] ---
    I'm drawing Zekashima stuff, but I'm not sure
    exactly who because I can't register at the site.
[23:19] ---
    Sue would be great as one of those ships.
    Aren't the servers stable now?
[23:22] ---
    I've been so busy...
[23:23] ---
    Right, you've got a job now.
[23:24] ---
    Madarame's having all the fun.
     He's practically the star of the show!
[23:27] ---
    Or maybe the heroine?
[23:28] ---
    Well, he got dumped.
[23:29] ---
    Tanaka, Sasahara, and Kohsaka all have
    girlfriends! What am I supposed to do?
[23:32] ---
    It's the same with screentime.
[23:34] ---
    Looks like Tanaka-sempai's gets a
    lot of screen time next episode.
[23:36] ---
    Next time on Genshiken: Second Generation
[23:37] ---
    Love and Work and Cheesecake!

12 - Love and Work and Cheesecake!

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[00:05] ---
    How'd it go?
[00:07] ---
    He told me I liked him, and I
    told him it wasn't happening.
[00:10] ---
    Seriously? At last, Watanabe gets rejected!
[00:14] ---
    It really took forever, didn't it?
[00:16] ---
    Don't say that so loud.
[00:18] ---
    So how'd it go? What did he say?
[00:20] ---
    Well...
[00:25] ---
    I don't think anybody else would get it.
[00:28] ---
    Yeah.
[00:29] ---
    Huh? It looks like the
    two of you have a secret.
[00:32] ---
    No, it's nothing that nice.
[00:35] ---
    Is it some kinda secret code?
[00:37] ---
    No, we used normal words.
[00:38] ---
    Then what is it?
[00:39] ---
    Um, excuse me. This is all my fault, so...
[00:43] ---
    No, I think it's probably for the best.
[00:47] ---
    Don't worry about it.
[00:48] ---
    Okay...
[00:51] ---
    Hey, Kasukabe-san...
[00:53] ---
    Hmm?
[00:53] ---
    I still have quite a few pictures
    of that time you cosplayed.
[00:58] ---
    Should I throw them out?
[01:00] ---
    Oh, that? Nah, it's fine.
     Do whatever with them.
[01:05] ---
    Then I'll keep them.
[02:42] ---
    I'll be on my way, then.
[02:46] ---
    What? You're seriously leaving?
[02:48] ---
    That's it.
[02:50] ---
    I knew something was bothering
    me, and I'm sure this is it.
[02:54] ---
    It's not good for somebody who's graduated
    to hang around their old school forever.
[03:00] ---
    With nothing left to connect
    him to Kasukabe-sempai,
[03:03] ---
    I thought maybe Madarame-sempai would
    just leave the university forever.
[03:09] ---
    Are you an idiot, Watanabe? You need to tell
    the rest of Genshiken or there's no point.
[03:14] ---
    Why?
[03:15] ---
    You'll only feel better when you
    realize everybody else already knew.
[03:22] ---
    I don't know what you're talking about!
[03:25] ---
    And I just told her I liked her! Why do
    I have to jump over another hurdle now?
[03:29] ---
    It's not a very high hurdle to clear.
[03:32] ---
    Because...
[03:34] ---
    Who here knew that Watanabe
    likes Saki-neesan?
[03:40] ---
    Look. 100% of them! So now you're
    just telling them how it turned out.
[03:45] ---
    I've lost my faith in others...
[03:47] ---
    You never had any faith in others!
[03:52] ---
    Love and Work and Cheesecake
[03:57] ---
    I knew it.
[03:59] ---
    Yes, you knew it. We all saw it coming.
[04:03] ---
    And nobody else saw this
    ending any other way.
[04:07] ---
    I feel like a clown.
[04:10] ---
    No, I thought it might happen.
[04:14] ---
    If that happened...
[04:17] ---
    Love me too.
[04:23] ---
    Didn't you do the harem route?
[04:26] ---
    Oh, that? From that H-Game...
[04:30] ---
    I'm glad! You finished with
     all the characters, didn't you?
[04:34] ---
    That was a requirement
    for the harem route, yes.
[04:37] ---
    Then maybe you'll really love
    what I prepared for you!
[04:41] ---
    Huh?
[04:42] ---
    Tanaka-san, you ready?
[04:44] ---
    Of course! I've got it for everybody.
[04:46] ---
    I'll call you tonight then.
[04:49] ---
    Okay.
[04:53] ---
    You've been drinking?
[04:55] ---
    The beer at the school festival is great!
[05:00] ---
    Give me a break.
[05:02] ---
    This is clearly Sue's character.
[05:06] ---
    Sue's not here, though.
[05:08] ---
    And you're the closest match to her build.
[05:12] ---
    Is it okay for me to cosplay?
[05:15] ---
    I don't think you'll stand out in this group.
[05:18] ---
    I don't think I work as a trap...
[05:22] ---
    I can't get them flat enough.
[05:24] ---
    Let's just ignore that.
[05:25] ---
    Once the wig's on, is there really
    any need for it to be me?
[05:29] ---
    No, it's a strong-willed boyish
    character, so you're perfect!
[05:32] ---
    Boyish? It's a boy in the first place!
[05:36] ---
    What... what the hell is going on?
[05:39] ---
    What? I don't get one?
[05:42] ---
    There's no cosplay for people like you!
[05:44] ---
    Come on, Madarame-san!
     Your harem route is waiting.
[05:48] ---
    Is this Kohsaka's attempt at being helpful?
[05:52] ---
    Is something wrong?
[05:54] ---
    It's like a dream come true!
[06:00] ---
    No, it's not just Kohsaka.
    Everyone's trying to help.
[06:06] ---
    So this is the result of
    all those complex jokes?
[06:10] ---
    This sucks. This isn't like me at all.
[06:14] ---
    I guess I should go back
    to how I used to be...
[06:20] ---
    So let me ask you something.
    Outside of Kohsaka-kun,
[06:24] ---
    how many of you actually
    understand this game?
[06:27] ---
    We all knew that somebody was going
    to do an all-trap game at some point,
[06:31] ---
    but this is the first time in H-Game
    history someone's actually done it.
[06:36] ---
    And in that sense, it's probably
    right to have two traps present,
[06:41] ---
    but what about the other three being girls?
[06:43] ---
    Well, they're mostly girls in the game, sure.
[06:46] ---
    But when you attempt to translate the
    two-dimensional into the three-dimensional,
[06:50] ---
    don't you think cosplay should strive to be
    true to the original work? That sort of effort--
[06:55] ---
    Ah, he's back to the Madarame I used to hate.
[06:59] ---
    Yeah, this is how he used to be.
[07:04] ---
    Just kidding! Well, actually I'm not.
[07:08] ---
    Saki-san!
[07:09] ---
    Nee-san, you're a bitch.
[07:10] ---
    This is...
[07:11] ---
    Come to think of it,
     a guy who I used to dislike
[07:15] ---
    going up to "mostly indifferent"
    still doesn't stand a chance with me.
[07:18] ---
    Saki-san!
[07:19] ---
    That's so like you, Saki-chan.
[07:21] ---
    My romantic hopes are over...
[07:22] ---
    I truly am a clown.
[07:24] ---
    Kohsaka, get back here!
[07:26] ---
    I don't know if they're being kind or cruel.
[07:30] ---
    Did something happen?
[07:33] ---
    Well, how to put it...
[07:40] ---
    I'll be going, then.
[07:42] ---
    Yajimacchi, see you soon!
[07:44] ---
    She's not going to the after-party?
[07:47] ---
    Yeah. One of her friends from high
    school is staying with her tonight.
[07:50] ---
    Too bad. I wanted to have a
    chance to talk to the new girls.
[07:55] ---
    And so you're going too, Madarame?
[07:58] ---
    Uh... yeah.
[08:00] ---
    I'm not sure what alcohol
    would do to me right now.
[08:04] ---
    I guess that makes sense.
[08:08] ---
    I never asked how you've been, come
    to think of it. How's the job?
[08:13] ---
    Well...
[08:15] ---
    I've been thinking of quitting lately.
[08:21] ---
    You'd better not.
[08:23] ---
    Eh? You think so?
[08:25] ---
    Of course. You don't need
    me to tell you why, right?
[08:31] ---
    But it might be okay to come by
    the university a little more.
[08:34] ---
    Huh? Why?
[08:37] ---
    You struck out today,
[08:39] ---
    but if you keep at it, you might
    really unlock the harem route.
[08:46] ---
    What are you talking about? You can't
    have one of those in real life.
[08:52] ---
    That's fine, I guess.
[08:55] ---
    Let's go, Madarame.
[08:57] ---
    Uh? What? We're going to my place?
[09:00] ---
    Why not?
[09:01] ---
    It's been a while.
[09:03] ---
    I don't mind, I guess.
[09:07] ---
    So that's manly friendship?
[09:09] ---
    Love, maybe!
[09:11] ---
    Kohsaka-san, that's a bit far out.
[09:14] ---
    Let's get going too.
[09:17] ---
    Yeah.
[09:19] ---
    You're not going to Madarame's place?
[09:22] ---
    I'll just let the old classmates go.
[09:40] ---
    Where's Susie, by the way?
    I haven't seen her around.
[09:43] ---
    She just got a call from a friend.
[09:47] ---
    Oh my, what a cute little
    girl you have there.
[09:49] ---
    It is written that she
    died during intercourse.
[09:52] ---
    That's all she says.
[09:54] ---
    Dunno what to do about her.
[09:55] ---
    It is written that she
    died during intercourse.
SIGN    Circle Leadership Committee
[10:04] ---
    Another request for cosplay
    photographs on school grounds?
[10:08] ---
    Yes. We'll obey the rules
    like always, so... please.
[10:13] ---
    Well, we won't outright ban it, of course.
[10:17] ---
    But if you'll excuse my saying so, there's
    rumors that despite the fact that you're a senior,
[10:20] ---
    Ohno-san, you still don't have
    any sort of employment lined up.
[10:24] ---
    You're working on your
    graduating essay, right?
[10:27] ---
    It's almost done. Almost done!
[10:30] ---
    We are being oppressed!
[10:35] ---
    We'll allow it, but you do need
    to concentrate on your studies.
[10:39] ---
    Yes, sir.
SIGN    Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture
[10:41] ---
    But I can't help it!
[10:44] ---
    I kept looking for a job and I couldn't
    find one! I mean, I'm still looking.
[10:49] ---
    But the peak is between April and June!
[10:51] ---
    I'm too worried about what happens
    after I graduate to work on my essay.
[10:55] ---
    What can I do but cosplay?
[10:57] ---
    So that's what life's like for a senior?
[11:00] ---
    I didn't get the last part.
[11:02] ---
    Well, I guess she won't be able
    to find a job until next year.
[11:05] ---
    I want to find one this year,
    while I'm still a new graduate!
[11:09] ---
    Then you don't have time to cosplay, do you?
[11:14] ---
    But I heard from Kuchiki-sempai
[11:17] ---
    that she's just going to let
    Tanaka-sempai pay her way.
[11:20] ---
    Yeah?
[11:21] ---
    She wants to be a housewife?
[11:23] ---
    No, that's just what I want.
[11:27] ---
    And to be honest,
     Tanaka-san's still in school.
[11:32] ---
    So even if I do become a
    housewife, if nothing else,
[11:37] ---
    I want to be able to pay my own way.
[11:40] ---
    I think that's a good thing.
[11:42] ---
    Tanaka, huh?
[11:44] ---
    Then why not sell a cosplay
    CD at comic festival?
[11:48] ---
    Yeah, they sell pretty graphic ones
    there. The girls themselves do it.
[11:52] ---
    No, not a cosplay CD like that...
[11:55] ---
    No, a cosplay CD is perfect!
[11:57] ---
    You take a lot of pictures
    on your own, don't you?
[12:00] ---
    Just burn them onto a CD and
    you could make a fortune.
[12:05] ---
    Listen, Yoshitake-san.
[12:07] ---
    To me, cosplay is a form of self-liberation!
[12:11] ---
    So using it to make money is...
[12:14] ---
    But you still want to be seen, don't you?
[12:17] ---
    I'll admit to that...
[12:20] ---
    Then what's wrong with fulfilling that desire
[12:22] ---
    while you make money?
[12:25] ---
    She's really good at convincing people.
[12:29] ---
    A cosplay CD? I'd prefer you didn't.
[12:33] ---
    Yeah...
[12:34] ---
    Not just as your boyfriend.
[12:37] ---
    I'm sure the university wouldn't like it.
[12:40] ---
    And if the companies you're
    interviewing for found out...
[12:44] ---
    I understand that.
[12:46] ---
    I think you shouldn't give up yet.
[12:49] ---
    Okay, raise your breasts up.
[12:51] ---
    Okay.
[12:56] ---
    Do you think that now's
    not the time for this?
[12:59] ---
    No, if you want to wear it, I'll
    make it. And I'll take pictures too.
[13:05] ---
    But we don't know what the future will bring.
[13:10] ---
    So I think you should get a job if you can.
[13:13] ---
    For your own sake.
[13:28] ---
    Um, actually...
[13:30] ---
    Do you think if I put out
    a cosplay CD, it would sell?
[13:35] ---
    Of course it would!
     Are you finally ready to do it?
[13:40] ---
    No. I haven't decided yet.
[13:43] ---
    But I think for now, the next
    time we do a photo shoot,
[13:46] ---
    I'll take a few pictures
    for it, just in case.
[13:49] ---
    I see. Just to try it
    out! Sounds good to me!
[13:53] ---
    So let's think about how we're
    going to do this. Up to PG-13?
[13:56] ---
    Sempai's acting kind of weird.
[13:58] ---
    Is she?
[14:00] ---
    With your body, we won't need any tricks.
[14:04] ---
    If cosplay is your way of
    liberating yourself from reality,
[14:07] ---
    between the alluring designs of an anime
    costume and your impossibly hot body,
[14:11] ---
    you can release yourself into reality!
[14:16] ---
    Um, Ohno-san?
[14:20] ---
    Aren't your poses today a bit too sexy?
[14:24] ---
    Are they? I thought this
    character would pose like this.
[14:28] ---
    True... but...
[14:31] ---
    People tend to find you sexy no matter what,
[14:35] ---
    so didn't we decide to strive for a G-rated
    atmosphere, regardless of the character?
[14:40] ---
    Th-That's right! I'm sorry!
[14:43] ---
    Thank you for always thinking of me.
[14:46] ---
    No, it's fine.
[14:48] ---
    Tanaka-sempai is so kind!
[14:57] ---
    Go ahead.
[15:01] ---
    Ohno-san! What's happened to
    you? Everybody's watching!
[15:21] ---
    I'm sorry, Tanaka-sempai. Hato, get it.
[15:24] ---
    Right.
[15:25] ---
    Actually, Yoshitake put her up to this.
[15:27] ---
    Don't tell him that!
[15:31] ---
    Ohno-sempai has already
    polished off the bottle.
[15:34] ---
    It was delicious!
[15:38] ---
    Why?
[15:46] ---
    You're seriously making that cosplay CD?
[15:50] ---
    Those things are pretty hot,
    even for the all-ages stuff.
[15:55] ---
    The plan was for her to have a drink,
    just to help her get in the mood.
[15:59] ---
    But she was tougher than I thought.
[16:02] ---
    And the next thing I knew,
    she'd downed the whole bottle.
[16:04] ---
    No, that's not it...
[16:07] ---
    Didn't we talk about how making a CD like
    that would be dangerous in a lot of ways?
[16:12] ---
    But... I can't get a job!
[16:16] ---
    It's November of my senior year!
     It's not happening!
[16:21] ---
    But you said we don't know what
    could happen in the future...
[16:26] ---
    So if I can't get a job,
    what will happen to me?
[16:30] ---
    Are you going to abandon me? Am I
    going to end up making cosplay porn?
[16:34] ---
    So why not just make a cosplay CD?
[16:39] ---
    No! No! No! Listen!
[16:42] ---
    I was talking about me...
    like, what if I can't get a job?
[16:46] ---
    Sempai! Sempai!
[16:48] ---
    Ohno-sempai's been acting
    pretty on edge lately.
[16:54] ---
    I see. Thanks for telling me.
[16:59] ---
    Damn you, Tanaka!
[17:02] ---
    Here you go.
[17:13] ---
    Listen, Ohno-san.
[17:17] ---
    
[17:17] ---
    The reason I got so into cosplay that
    I wanted to make a living on it,
[17:22] ---
    was because of you.
[17:25] ---
    I've come this far by making outfit
    after outfit for you to wear.
[17:30] ---
    Whether I do it on my own, or get
    a job at a professional company,
[17:34] ---
    I was planning on making cosplay
    into my job either way.
[17:39] ---
    There's no guarantee that will happen.
[17:43] ---
    But I'll come up with something!
[17:46] ---
    I'll use the talents you helped me
    develop to get some kind of job.
[17:49] ---
    I know one thing about
    what the future may bring.
[17:53] ---
    I'll help you cosplay forever.
[17:56] ---
    Just... please wait for me.
[18:02] ---
    Okay...
[18:03] ---
    That was...
[18:04] ---
    Can we interpret it that way?
[18:07] ---
    I'm sure we can! He proposed!
[18:11] ---
    Damn you, Tanaka...
[18:13] ---
    Then I...
[18:16] ---
    I'll go back to school for
    another year and wait!
[18:29] ---
    She fell asleep.
[18:31] ---
    I'm sorry. I got her drunk...
[18:34] ---
    No. I'm glad I got to hear
    how she really feels.
[18:38] ---
    But I hope she's not serious
    about that last part.
[18:43] ---
    I guess we had to watch
    them work things out today.
[18:49] ---
    Yeah.
[18:50] ---
    Is Ohno-sempai really okay like that?
    Not that it's any of my business.
[18:56] ---
    Her parents are gonna cry.
[18:57] ---
    I hope she can graduate, and
    get a job near the university.
[19:02] ---
    You mean like Madarame-sempai?
[19:05] ---
    Oh, hey there, everyone.
[19:07] ---
    Madarame-sempai, what's up? Why are you
    here now, and not in your work clothes?
[19:11] ---
    I just went to Akihabara.
[19:14] ---
    Akihabara? It's a weekday.
[19:18] ---
    Well, you know...
[19:24] ---
    I quit my job.
[19:26] ---
    
[19:28] ---
    I guess you could say I've
    decided to be a failure at life.
[19:33] ---
    So I went on a search and destroy mission
    to Akihabara, since it's been awhile.
[19:37] ---
    But I'd forgotten how crowded
    it gets even on weekdays.
[19:44] ---
    Huh?
[19:48] ---
    I'm sorry... is an odd
    thing to say, I suppose.
[19:52] ---
    Anyway, you can use this
    room just like you used to.
[19:57] ---
    Okay...
[19:58] ---
    I'll be heading outside, then.
[20:04] ---
    Um, Sempai.
[20:08] ---
    Have you told Kasukabe-sempai?
[20:13] ---
    I'll get around to it.
[20:22] ---
    Yeah... she'll be surprised.
[20:29] ---
    So this is what it's like
    to be unemployed, huh?
[20:42] ---
    It's not good for somebody who's graduated
    to hang around their old school forever.
[20:56] ---
    Sempai! Madarame-sempai!
[21:02] ---
    Hato-kun?
[21:08] ---
    Hato-kun!
[21:09] ---
    Sempai! You're not going to
    stop coming to the club, are you?
[21:13] ---
    
[21:14] ---
    You'll stay forever, won't you?
[21:17] ---
    What is this? What is this? What is this?
[21:20] ---
    If you keep at it, you might
    really unlock the harem route.
SIGN    Preview
[23:09] ---
    So why did somebody like
    Kasukabe-sempai join Genshiken?
[23:13] ---
    It was complicated. You can watch the
    Blu-Ray box of the first two seasons for the details.
[23:16] ---
    She's advertising the show!
[23:17] ---
    Advertising's important! You need
    to sell, or the show won't continue.
[23:20] ---
    Sometimes they make a Season Two because
    Season One sold, and then it bombs!
[23:23] ---
    That's way too gloomy!
[23:25] ---
    Well, we've got one episode left! Watch it,
    'cause next time, there'll be fanservice!
[23:29] ---
    There's no fanservice from me, so enjoy!
[23:31] ---
    None for me either...
[23:33] ---
    What? What? There is?
[23:35] ---
    Next time on Genshiken: Second Generation:
    Waiting in the Club Room.
[23:39] ---
    
[23:41] ---
    

13 - Waiting in the Club Room

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[00:08] ---
    She's not here! There's
    no Hato-kun here!
[00:12] ---
    Huh?
[00:13] ---
    She hasn't been to the club
    room for a while, either?
[00:17] ---
    There's more to this, isn't there?
[00:20] ---
    Something had to have happened.
[00:22] ---
    No, no, no, that's all. Seriously.
[00:24] ---
    Basically, I quit my job,
[00:26] ---
    and Hato-kun was worried,
    and that's all.
[00:29] ---
    Was your quitting that
    big a deal for her?
[00:32] ---
    But why?
[00:34] ---
    Those are the eyes of a liar!
[00:36] ---
    It's true! I'm as shocked as you are!
[00:40] ---
    Call. Ask Hato.
[00:43] ---
    No. If she isn't coming, it's
    because she doesn't want to come.
[00:47] ---
    And it'd be weird to ask why now,
    and even moreso on the phone...
[00:50] ---
    Ask.
[01:02] ---
    Connecting you to voice mail...
SIGN    Genshiken Second Generation
[01:23] ---
    She...
[01:24] ---
    She realized!
[01:27] ---
    She realized, and that's why she ran.
[01:29] ---
    She ran from you too, huh?
[01:32] ---
    This is a huge honking deal!
[01:35] ---
    You just wanted to say "honking."
[01:37] ---
    I guess the obvious idea is that
    having Rame-sempai at home all day
[01:42] ---
    means she doesn't want
    to change there anymore.
[01:46] ---
    I don't know about that--
[01:47] ---
    But refusing to expect the obvious
[01:50] ---
    is what makes us rotten girls!
[01:52] ---
    I prefer to think that Hato-kun
[01:56] ---
    is torn between not wanting to change while
    sempai's around, and wanting him to see!
[02:00] ---
    I'm sure you would.
[02:02] ---
    So basically, she's coming to university,
     but doesn't want to see us or Madarame-san.
[02:14] ---
    Time for the second ever,
[02:17] ---
    "I can't believe we're
    actually going on a trip!"
[02:23] ---
    Waiting in the Club Room.
[02:34] ---
    Sorry.
[02:36] ---
    I don't know if a graduate
    should really be here.
[02:38] ---
    No, no, we're glad you came.
[02:41] ---
    We were worried about having Kuchiki-sempai
    and Hato-kun alone together.
[02:44] ---
    I prefer Kuchi x Mata!
[02:47] ---
    Ow...
[02:48] ---
    Let's go to the roof.
[02:50] ---
    I haven't felt this
    angry in a long time.
[02:53] ---
    Hato's late. Is she coming?
[02:55] ---
    She can't back out!
[02:57] ---
    She told Sue she'd go, right?
[03:06] ---
    She's here!
[03:07] ---
    Over here!
[03:08] ---
    She looks different than usual today.
[03:19] ---
    Hello, everyone.
[03:22] ---
    I'm sorry.
[03:29] ---
    We've done this before...
[03:31] ---
    Gone on a trip with all of Genshiken.
[03:35] ---
    Not Yamanashi, but to Karuizawa.
[03:38] ---
    Is it something you do every year?
[03:40] ---
    No, it's not.
[03:43] ---
    Sasahara-san's little
    sister was here then,
[03:46] ---
    and it was just something we did.
[03:51] ---
    It's a mystery how Sue knew about
    our trip to Karuizawa, though.
[03:56] ---
    "I can't believe we're
    all going on a trip!"
[03:59] ---
    What doesn't kill us makes us crippled!
[04:01] ---
    That's not what we want.
[04:02] ---
    I'm in despair!
[04:04] ---
    What?
[04:04] ---
    All's well that end's well!
[04:06] ---
    I don't really get it.
[04:08] ---
    But you want us to help
    out Hato-kun on this trip?
[04:11] ---
    But I can't go with a guy...
[04:16] ---
    What is that?
[04:18] ---
    What, Ohgi-sempai?
[04:20] ---
    No, I mean... how do
    we contact Hato-kun?
[04:23] ---
    Her phone! She's not
    picking up her phone!
[04:26] ---
    1 1 5!
[04:27] ---
    
[04:28] ---
    A telegram, you mean!
[04:30] ---
    A telegram?
[04:32] ---
    It's cheap.
[04:34] ---
    25 characters is 440 yen.
[04:36] ---
    Um... "Genshiken Trip."
[04:39] ---
    Come along.
[04:41] ---
    Without punctuation, that's 25 exactly.
[04:43] ---
    I'll send it.
[04:45] ---
    Um... couldn't we just send a text--
[04:46] ---
    Is it a celebratory telegram?
[04:48] ---
    Why?
[04:49] ---
    There's all different kinds!
[04:54] ---
    Why are you taking pictures?
[04:55] ---
    The sky of Tachikawa!
[04:56] ---
    The clocks of Tachikawa!
[04:58] ---
    The sign saying "Tachikawa"
    of Tachikawa!
[05:00] ---
    Us in Tachikawa!
[05:03] ---
    I was surprised too.
     I'd never gotten a telegram.
[05:07] ---
    And it came with a stuffed bear.
[05:10] ---
    I told them a text message
    would work just as well.
[05:13] ---
    Express Train #101 is
    now arriving on track 6.
[05:20] ---
    Backlighting means victory!
SIGN    A Tour of the Takeda Clan's History
[05:47] ---
    Look at this, everyone!
[05:50] ---
    The coolest guy in the civil wars was
    Shingen, and the best general was Shingen,
[05:52] ---
    and the coolest guy in Kai was Shingen!
[05:54] ---
    I count myself as the twenty-fifth
    of Takeda's twenty-four generals,
[05:58] ---
    and I've taken the liberty of
    detailing his glorious deeds.
[06:00] ---
    I don't really care.
[06:02] ---
    No. Not okay. As a Japanese person--
[06:04] ---
    No, as a human being, that's not okay!
[06:07] ---
    What the heck?
[06:08] ---
    You decided where we're going
    without asking us, either.
[06:10] ---
    What are you saying?
[06:12] ---
    You guys weren't settling on anything.
[06:14] ---
    He's bald with a beard!
[06:15] ---
    He is! And he's still a bottom!
[06:17] ---
    Seriously?
[06:18] ---
    It's the low overcoming the high!
[06:20] ---
    Saigou Takamori was also
    supposed to be bald and fat.
[06:23] ---
    What?
[06:23] ---
    I'm sorry, can anybody
    who's not gay leave?
[06:26] ---
    It's said that a hero
    enjoys his lusts, but...
[06:29] ---
    What kind of lusts do
    you think they enjoyed?
[06:33] ---
    In Shingen's case,
[06:35] ---
    he wrote regretful letters to his
    younger darlings, so he's the real thing!
[06:39] ---
    It was normal back then, though.
[06:42] ---
    And he was supposedly
    very weak and ill too.
[06:45] ---
    How great, huh?
[06:47] ---
    By the way, my personal favorite story
[06:50] ---
    is the fight between
    his successor Katsuyori
SIGN    Takeda Shrine
[06:51] ---
    and the retainers who served Shingen.
[06:55] ---
    A love triangle over a great general
[06:57] ---
    that continues even after his death!
[07:00] ---
    It's great!
[07:01] ---
    Thank you, civil wars!
[07:03] ---
    Thank you, Takeda Clan!
SIGN    Isawa Hot Springs Station
[07:06] ---
    Yoshi Warriors.
[07:07] ---
    I'm getting a glimpse into
    the potential of history.
[07:10] ---
    I've heard enough about history for now.
[07:12] ---
    And so for you, Yajimacchi,
    we've got the Isawa Hot Springs.
[07:15] ---
    For me?
[07:16] ---
    It's a new onsen! It appeared in a
    field sometime about 70 years ago.
[07:20] ---
    I can tell you its history if you want.
[07:23] ---
    Please don't!
[07:23] ---
    Let's get to the inn for now.
[07:26] ---
    We've walked so much.
[07:31] ---
    This inn's pretty nice.
[07:33] ---
    I see. I see.
[07:35] ---
    You think they get TV here?
[07:37] ---
    I've prepared for if they don't!
[07:39] ---
    I can record at my house and send
    it over wi-fi and the Internet!
[07:42] ---
    We can enjoy our shows in real
    time at the end of the Earth!
[07:45] ---
    Huh?
[07:45] ---
    There's no Internet here.
[07:47] ---
    No!
[07:50] ---
    Come on in, Hato-kun.
[07:51] ---
    Right.
[07:54] ---
    They've got some snacks.
[07:56] ---
    I'll make tea.
[07:58] ---
    Yeah? Thanks.
[08:01] ---
    What are these called again?
[08:04] ---
    Whenever I see one, I feel
    like I'm on vacation.
[08:07] ---
    That's called a kyousoku.
[08:09] ---
    I see. Kyousoku, kyousoku...
[08:12] ---
    Anyway, I guess one of
    the perks of unemployment
[08:16] ---
    is getting to take a
    vacation on a weekday.
[08:23] ---
    Hey, where are you getting
    a job, Kuchiki-kun?
[08:26] ---
    My dad's getting me a job at a bank.
[08:28] ---
    Oh. Nice.
[08:30] ---
    Seriously! Is there any point
    to all those rules about bowing?
[08:33] ---
    And why do they insist on me
    not saying "nyo" all the time?
[08:35] ---
    How deeply you bow signifies how you
    feel and what you're saying, right?
[08:39] ---
    Ninety degrees is the most polite.
[08:41] ---
    And don't clasp your hands behind your
    back, keep them clasped in front.
[08:44] ---
    You're a slave of society!
[08:45] ---
    Former slave. Now I'm a NEET.
[08:48] ---
    Um, what are you--
[08:49] ---
    Charge into the boy's room next door!
[08:51] ---
    Yay! Hello, folks!
[08:52] ---
    Excuse us.
[08:54] ---
    This is a nice room.
[08:55] ---
    It's just you three guys,
    so it feels pretty big.
[08:58] ---
    You can see the mountains
    from here, can't you?
[09:01] ---
    Girls love checking out people's rooms.
[09:03] ---
    We do, yeah.
[09:05] ---
    I enjoyed seeing your room, Rame-sempai.
[09:09] ---
    Seriously?
[09:10] ---
    You're awful.
[09:11] ---
    My first time visiting a guy's
    room was Madarame-sempai's place.
[09:15] ---
    Really?
[09:16] ---
    I went to an all girls high school.
[09:18] ---
    So I didn't have many
    chances. Or any, actually.
[09:20] ---
    I'm amazed your parents
    let you come here.
[09:23] ---
    Did you tell them there
    were guys going too?
[09:25] ---
    The magic words were "school trip."
[09:27] ---
    My sister's away from home
    all the time on them.
[09:30] ---
    I see.
[09:30] ---
    Her trips are real school trips, right?
[09:33] ---
    But in our case...
[09:35] ---
    No, no, no, don't underestimate
    us humanities types.
[09:38] ---
    You won't be getting any sleep tonight!
[09:40] ---
    Yeah.
[09:41] ---
    We've got a lot to talk about.
[09:43] ---
    Oh, Hato-chin. What will
    you be doing for your bath?
[09:46] ---
    What are you talking about?
    Hato's going to the guy's bath.
[09:49] ---
    Oh, no, Yajimacchi.
[09:51] ---
    I was asking if she'd take
    it before or after dinner.
[09:54] ---
    W-Well...
[09:56] ---
    Before, right?
[09:57] ---
    The baths here are supposed
    to be really nice.
[10:01] ---
    They've got waterfalls, herbal
    baths, and open-air baths.
[10:04] ---
    I can't wait, can you?
[10:06] ---
    No...
[10:07] ---
    I'll use the one in my room.
[10:09] ---
    Why?
[10:10] ---
    "Why?"
[10:11] ---
    Don't force him.
[10:12] ---
    We're at a hot springs! The bath
    in your room isn't a hot springs!
[10:15] ---
    But Hato's got--
[10:18] ---
    Got?
[10:20] ---
    Nothing...
[10:21] ---
    Hato, you decide.
[10:24] ---
    What do we do?
[10:26] ---
    Want to go?
[10:27] ---
    We'll do the mixed bath!
[10:28] ---
    Just like in Karuizawa!
[10:30] ---
    Guys and girls go in at different
    times! Don't be weird!
[10:34] ---
    Let's go! Let's go!
[10:35] ---
    They've got towels and stuff over there.
[10:37] ---
    Yeah. I guess I might
    as well, since we're here.
[10:43] ---
    Hato-kun.
[10:44] ---
    Yes?
[10:46] ---
    I recommend it too.
[10:49] ---
    The hot springs.
[11:01] ---
    Enough!
[11:03] ---
    That's a misdemeanor.
[11:06] ---
    I can't see a thing. This is rough.
[11:09] ---
    It's not rough. Go
    take off your glasses.
[11:11] ---
    Normally it's the guys who do this.
[11:14] ---
    You're worried too, right Ohno-sempai?
[11:16] ---
    Beautiful Hato-chin is
    all alone with the guys.
[11:19] ---
    And totally smooth!
[11:20] ---
    You--
[11:21] ---
    The fantasy train in my
    mind is out of control!
[11:24] ---
    We don't even know if
    they're over there!
[11:27] ---
    They might be using the bath in the room.
[11:28] ---
    No way.
[11:30] ---
    Ohgi-sempai's on it,
    and Sue-san's helping!
[11:33] ---
    Together, those two are invincible.
[11:35] ---
    Invincible?
[11:37] ---
    What are you fighting against?
[11:40] ---
    After that happened, we started to
    understand each other a little better.
[11:43] ---
    Or maybe you could say
    they understood me better.
[11:45] ---
    I was imagining BL
[11:48] ---
    between you and Madarame-san.
[11:50] ---
    I've drawn... dozens of
    pictures already...
[11:55] ---
    I guess I stopped running.
[11:58] ---
    I'm glad I was able to change.
[12:03] ---
    Glad you were able to change?
[12:07] ---
    Yes.
[12:09] ---
    I'm going to take a bath too.
[12:13] ---
    Um...
[12:18] ---
    Why was it a good thing
    that you could change?
[12:22] ---
    Hato-kun,
[12:24] ---
    do you regret being here right now?
[12:27] ---
    I don't, but...
[12:30] ---
    Then isn't that enough?
[12:48] ---
    I'll seduce Hato-chin
    with my Sukikiyo pose!
[12:52] ---
    I can't wait!
[13:02] ---
    Hato-chin!
[13:18] ---
    KO Count: 1.
[13:21] ---
    Sue's not here, huh?
[13:23] ---
    In America, sometimes
    you just take a shower.
[13:26] ---
    Maybe she doesn't like hot springs.
[13:28] ---
    I don't think so...
[13:30] ---
    I'm sorry I'm late.
[13:32] ---
    Did you get to talk to Hato-kun?
[13:36] ---
    Yes, I did. A little.
[13:44] ---
    What's that laugh?
[13:46] ---
    I was just thinking about how happy I feel.
[13:49] ---
    I mean, isn't this wonderful?
[13:51] ---
    Trips! Friends! Open baths!
[13:54] ---
    What? You had me thinking
    you'd gotten engaged.
[13:57] ---
    Wait, Ohno-sempai.
[13:59] ---
    Your breasts were that big before
    you began seeing Tanaka-sempai?
[14:02] ---
    What? Yes, I guess...
[14:05] ---
    Ohhh... and even after seeing Sasa-sempai, your
    breasts are still like that, Ohgi-sempai?
[14:11] ---
    There's no good answer to that question.
[14:15] ---
    Looks like it's just an
    urban legend, Yajimacchi.
[14:19] ---
    What is?
[14:20] ---
    You're not gonna say, "Do
    you want to touch them?"
[14:23] ---
    Not this time.
[14:24] ---
    The freshmen might freak out...
[14:26] ---
    After all we've been through?
     I bet Yoshitake-san would love it.
[14:30] ---
    They say if you rub
    them they get bigger!
[14:30] ---
    She's already rubbing Yajima-san's.
[14:32] ---
    I'm just fat!
[14:34] ---
    Oh come on, it can't hurt!
[14:34] ---
    Shut up!
[14:35] ---
    Bouncy boobs! Damn it!
[14:39] ---
    Hey, Sue! Be quiet!
[14:50] ---
    Thanks.
[14:52] ---
    No problem.
[15:07] ---
    It's nice to have a big bath.
[15:10] ---
    Y-Yeah.
[15:15] ---
    So smooth... that's not a guy's skin.
[15:18] ---
    Whoops.
[15:28] ---
    I never thought I'd go to a hot
    springs and go, "Ooh," and, "Aah."
[15:34] ---
    I've even got a hot springs episode
    folder on my hard drive too.
[15:38] ---
    Hot springs episode?
[15:39] ---
    Yeah. You know, just downloading
    the good pics from the Internet...
[15:43] ---
    Haven't done it lately, though.
[15:45] ---
    But now that I'm not working, I'm
    going to have more time on my hands.
[15:50] ---
    I can spend as much time
    on the Internet as I want.
[15:52] ---
    Um...
[15:53] ---
    
[15:55] ---
    What are you going to do now?
[16:00] ---
    No, I'm sorry.
[16:02] ---
    That's not what I mean...
    What I mean is...
[16:07] ---
    I'll look for a job.
[16:10] ---
    I only took the one I had
    because it was near campus.
[16:14] ---
    I'm going to be more careful next time.
[16:16] ---
    Okay...
[16:18] ---
    It feels like I'm just now graduating.
[16:25] ---
    Sempai.
[16:26] ---
    Y-Yeah?
[16:28] ---
    Thank you for everything.
[16:30] ---
    I've apologized a lot, and
    said a lot of rude things,
[16:35] ---
    but I don't think I've ever thanked you.
[16:38] ---
    Well...
[16:40] ---
    For a second there, I thought you were going to
    stop coming to my place and stop cross-dressing.
[16:45] ---
    But just for a second.
[16:48] ---
    Are you?
[16:50] ---
    Well...
[16:53] ---
    You're really stopping?
[16:55] ---
    I don't know.
[16:57] ---
    But I think I'll have to at some point.
[17:01] ---
    Why?
[17:04] ---
    Because, well...
[17:07] ---
    A lot's going to change.
[17:10] ---
    It has to change...
[17:13] ---
    Me, and everyone around me.
[17:16] ---
    I mean you quit your job--
[17:19] ---
    I can't say there was some
    big motivation behind it.
[17:23] ---
    I just kind of went with the flow,
    and this is how it turned out.
[17:27] ---
    Went with the flow?
[17:29] ---
    I figure cross-dressing's just
    like robots, lolis, trains, or BL.
[17:33] ---
    It's just something you're into.
[17:36] ---
    So don't worry, Hato-kun.
[17:38] ---
    You're an otaku.
[17:40] ---
    That will never change.
[17:44] ---
    And that means whether or not you
    cross-dress isn't really that important.
[17:51] ---
    Do it if you want,
[17:53] ---
    and stop when you want to stop.
[17:56] ---
    And then you can decide
    if you'll start again.
[17:59] ---
    Doesn't thinking that way make things easier?
[18:02] ---
    I can decide?
[18:03] ---
    Yup, yup.
[18:04] ---
    You've still got plenty of time.
[18:15] ---
    Yeah.
[18:25] ---
    And then all of a sudden,
[18:26] ---
    I was enveloped by a white shadow.
[18:28] ---
    And the next thing I knew,
    I woke up in my futon!
[18:31] ---
    I'm not saying it was aliens,
    but it was aliens!
[18:33] ---
    Do you want me to dissect you?
[18:36] ---
    No, sir.
[18:38] ---
    So before our toast,
[18:40] ---
    let's start our first, "Should Hato-chan
    dress as a boy or girl?" meeting!
[18:44] ---
    I say girl!
[18:46] ---
    We're all having dinner in our yukata.
[18:49] ---
    From all that stuff you brought,
[18:51] ---
    you've got the tools you need, don't you?
[18:54] ---
    I want to see Hato-kun looking cute!
[18:59] ---
    No, wait--
[19:00] ---
    Who thinks Hato-chan
    should dress as a girl!
[19:02] ---
    
[19:02] ---
    
[19:03] ---
    I guess I'm in.
[19:09] ---
    All right.
[19:13] ---
    This is...
[19:15] ---
    ...kind of embarrassing,
    when I think about it.
[19:18] ---
    No, I think you do look
    more natural this way.
[19:22] ---
    Yajimacchi's given her approval!
[19:24] ---
    I don't mean that it's okay to cross-dress!
[19:26] ---
    I just mean that I'm more used
    to it! Don't get the wrong idea.
[19:28] ---
    I know that!
[19:30] ---
    You're a real tsundere, after all.
[19:32] ---
    Who calls people tsundere anymore?
[19:34] ---
    
[19:35] ---
    
[19:37] ---
    Am I saying it?
[19:38] ---
    Yeah.
[19:38] ---
    You're the president.
[19:41] ---
    Um... okay, then.
[19:45] ---
    Cheers!
[19:46] ---
    Cheers!
[19:51] ---
    Then we can add King
    Arthur and Lancelot!
[19:54] ---
    Add Caesar, 'cause he's bald too!
[19:57] ---
    That'll make it all old men.
[19:59] ---
    Not that I mind...
[20:00] ---
    We can add young Japanese boys
    like Ushiwakamaru and Ranmaru,
[20:02] ---
    and give it some shota too!
[20:05] ---
    That's way too many characters!
[20:07] ---
    Is it?
[20:08] ---
    I think a school for reincarnated heroes
    is perfect for a collaborative work.
[20:12] ---
    But who's going to figure
    out a plot for it?
[20:15] ---
    It's just a buncha jokes.
[20:16] ---
    No problem. We steal from Femto.
[20:19] ---
    I mean, we pay homage to it!
[20:21] ---
    Or we can have Rame-sempai do it.
[20:23] ---
    That's crazy.
[20:25] ---
    You don't make anything for Comic
    Festival! You just buy stuff, right?
[20:27] ---
    Then you've got time
    at the end of the year.
[20:29] ---
    There's no way. I don't
    know what girls like...
[20:31] ---
    Then at this Comic Festival...
[20:33] ---
    Here.
[20:33] ---
    ...we can hit up all the
    girls booths and ask!
[20:34] ---
    Thanks.
[20:36] ---
    I want to be part of the Yoshitake Tour!
[20:38] ---
    Yes I am!
[20:40] ---
    What about you, Hato-kun?
[20:42] ---
    Oh? I'm just going to...
[20:45] ---
    Going to what?
[20:46] ---
    I'll participate, of course!
[20:48] ---
    All right!
[20:49] ---
    At this rate,
[20:50] ---
    next year's Mebaetame
    will be the biggest ever!
[20:54] ---
    We've split up the story and art before,
[20:56] ---
    but never done a whole collaboration.
[20:58] ---
    Is it really going to work?
[21:01] ---
    Let's do it!
[23:30] ---
    You came!
[23:31] ---
    Welcome back.
[23:32] ---
    We've got good pictures.
[23:34] ---
    So we made prints!
[23:35] ---
    Come take a look!
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