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!
[00:21] ---
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.
[00:54] ---
Oh no. What an awful location.
[00:56] ---
But Ogiue-san...
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It looks like a rabbit hutch!
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Uwah!
[01:04] ---
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!
[01:12] ---
That's all she wants to say.
[01:13] ---
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.
[01:45] ---
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!
[02:17] ---
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?
[02:25] ---
Yes!
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Please.
[02:29] ---
I stayed up all night fixing the draft.
I don't have confidence right now.
[02:34] ---
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.
[05:31] ---
Sue's showing her cold face!
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Wait! No! This was expensive!
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Damn it! Kasukabe-sempai!
[05:45] ---
The other side of the
path. The promised place.
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I'm Yajima.
[05:53] ---
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.
[06:05] ---
Yeah! All those people watching and
she didn't look embarrassed at all.
[06:08] ---
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!
[06:17] ---
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!
[06:32] ---
Seriously? Where?
[06:34] ---
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!
[06:45] ---
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!
[07:00] ---
Um...
[07:01] ---
May I come in for a while?
[07:05] ---
Of course, come in.
[07:07] ---
You can sit here.
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What's your name?
[07:10] ---
Um, Hato.
[07:12] ---
Kuchiki-sempai is scared.
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Do normal pretty girls scare him?
I guess he is an otaku.
[07:17] ---
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.
[07:28] ---
I'm fine.
[07:30] ---
She was just talking about Yuki x Shige...
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I'm alright, I mean.
[07:35] ---
I like it.
[07:37] ---
Great, Hato-chan!
[07:38] ---
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?
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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?
[07:50] ---
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!
[08:05] ---
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.
[08:23] ---
Is that a wig?
[08:24] ---
Um, I...
[08:25] ---
No, I mean I...
[08:28] ---
A guy? Dressed as a girl?
[08:43] ---
I see! That dedication to shaving!
[08:47] ---
The loose-fitting clothes that hide
the figure! That natural makeup!
[08:51] ---
And voice training to sound like a girl!
[08:54] ---
My extensive training
means I can tell for sure!
[08:57] ---
She did everything she could
do before she came here today!
[09:01] ---
So she could talk with us!
[09:04] ---
Welcome to Genshiken, Hato-kun!
[09:06] ---
Can you tell us your full name?
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Hato Kenjiro!
[09:13] ---
I've got the perfect cosplay for you.
[09:17] ---
Um, I don't really do that.
[09:20] ---
No, now's not the time for that.
[09:22] ---
This is gonna be fun!
[09:24] ---
If she loves these things...
[09:25] ---
I must summon Tanaka-san!
[09:29] ---
Why is Kuchiki-sempai smiling harder
than I've ever seen him smile this year?
[09:34] ---
I knew it. This is a circle of weirdos.
[09:39] ---
Ogiue hates otaku!
[09:42] ---
She especially hates otaku women!
[09:46] ---
This circle's a little
crazier than I anticipated.
[09:49] ---
I guess university circles are like that.
[09:51] ---
How did you know?
[09:56] ---
"Rararame-san."
[10:00] ---
Um, well...
[10:02] ---
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?
[12:00] ---
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] ---
[12:24] ---
Hey, you're dressed like a girl.
[12:26] ---
Only one glance...
[12:27] ---
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!
[12:58] ---
Jeez. Recruitment time is over.
[13:01] ---
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.
[13:09] ---
And some people like you have
come from other circles.
[13:20] ---
So as president, we need you to do all
you can to make the three of them stay.
[13:26] ---
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,
[13:42] ---
so it should be a little easier.
[13:44] ---
I'm not saying a word.
[13:46] ---
Then why not sit in a chair?
[13:48] ---
As president, she says...
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But I'm not good with that stuff.
[13:53] ---
I knew that, and that's why I drew
a picture for our recruitment.
[13:58] ---
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...
[14:33] ---
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?
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[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".
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