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] ---