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Apr. 29th, 2011 10:55 amPreviously, on After School Nightmare:
MASHIRO: I'm a boy, except I'm actually female from the waist down, don't ask me how that works. But I'M A BOY I'M A BOY I'M A BOY AND I AM GOING TO BE MANLY DAMMIT.
SOU: I am a jerkface playboy, and I am into you, Mashiro, and therefore I say you are a GIRL. And I will force makeouts on you to PROVE IT. I also have some darkly hinted-at Issues In My Past, but it will take a lot of work to make me sympathetic.
KUREHA: My issues are all actually there right in the first volume! I was raped and abused as a child, so I put on a fake cheerful super-feminine face while being inwardly terrified and furious all the time. But Mashiro being half girl makes me feel safe, so I've decided I'm totally in love with him.
MASHIRO: And protecting Kureha makes me feel manly! It's a great basis for a relationship.
CREEPY SCHOOL NURSE: Okay, kids, time to join the extra once-weekly class that shoves you into surreal dreamscapes, in a shape that reflects your deepest psychological issues, and requires you to destroy each other to find the key to the super-ambiguous and not-at-all-sinister 'graduation!' Once you've succeeded you'll disappear from the school and everyone will forget about you, but in theory you'll have achieved at least some kind of emotional catharsis, so . . . that's exciting?
MASHIRO: Wait, why does everyone else get to be things like disembodied hands and anonymous faceless knights and giant paper giraffes, and I'm just myself-as-a-girl so everybody in the class knows my deepest psychological issues? UNFAIR.
CREEPY SCHOOL NURSE: Sorry, kid, but you're the protagonist, so life's just going to have to be harder for you.
And then we launch into ten volumes of psychological surrealism, intense character development, gender issues being interestingly sort-of-explored and yet sort-of-weirdly-not, Mashiro being frustrating, KUREHA BECOMING AWESOME, and interesting characters rotating in and getting flung out of the series faster than you can remember their names. This is where the coherent bit of this entry ends. ( The rest is spoilers! DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HAVE NOT READ. )
MASHIRO: I'm a boy, except I'm actually female from the waist down, don't ask me how that works. But I'M A BOY I'M A BOY I'M A BOY AND I AM GOING TO BE MANLY DAMMIT.
SOU: I am a jerkface playboy, and I am into you, Mashiro, and therefore I say you are a GIRL. And I will force makeouts on you to PROVE IT. I also have some darkly hinted-at Issues In My Past, but it will take a lot of work to make me sympathetic.
KUREHA: My issues are all actually there right in the first volume! I was raped and abused as a child, so I put on a fake cheerful super-feminine face while being inwardly terrified and furious all the time. But Mashiro being half girl makes me feel safe, so I've decided I'm totally in love with him.
MASHIRO: And protecting Kureha makes me feel manly! It's a great basis for a relationship.
CREEPY SCHOOL NURSE: Okay, kids, time to join the extra once-weekly class that shoves you into surreal dreamscapes, in a shape that reflects your deepest psychological issues, and requires you to destroy each other to find the key to the super-ambiguous and not-at-all-sinister 'graduation!' Once you've succeeded you'll disappear from the school and everyone will forget about you, but in theory you'll have achieved at least some kind of emotional catharsis, so . . . that's exciting?
MASHIRO: Wait, why does everyone else get to be things like disembodied hands and anonymous faceless knights and giant paper giraffes, and I'm just myself-as-a-girl so everybody in the class knows my deepest psychological issues? UNFAIR.
CREEPY SCHOOL NURSE: Sorry, kid, but you're the protagonist, so life's just going to have to be harder for you.
And then we launch into ten volumes of psychological surrealism, intense character development, gender issues being interestingly sort-of-explored and yet sort-of-weirdly-not, Mashiro being frustrating, KUREHA BECOMING AWESOME, and interesting characters rotating in and getting flung out of the series faster than you can remember their names. This is where the coherent bit of this entry ends. ( The rest is spoilers! DO NOT CLICK IF YOU HAVE NOT READ. )
