Kazunari Miyoshi/Yoropiko Jack ♪

Bukuro Station☆MANKAI Hijack

Backstage Stories

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Tsumugi	It’s been a while since we’ve had a full troupe meeting.
Citron	It is quite lively with everyone gathered and present~!
Azuma	Fufu, you’re right.
Banri	With all these guys around, there’s no helping how noisy it is…
Tsuzuru	So, what’s the agenda for today?
Izumi	Right. It’s almost time for each of the troupes to prepare for their third performance…
	I’ve been wondering if there’s any other way for us to advertise MANKAI Company to even more people.
Tenma	True, giving ourselves more publicity goes a long way to getting our name out there. Stuff like advertisements and all that.
Sakyo	We’ve been slowly getting more and more regular fans through our shows up until now, but it’s still necessary that we appeal to even newer audiences.
Taichi	Should we give out even more flyers here and there?
Tasuku	Showing off our acting skills through Street Acts could help out as well.
Masumi	That’s no different from what we’ve already been doing.
Homare	Then perhaps we could take a stroll downtown while wearing our costumes— sounds like a fair idea, no?
Tsumugi	It sounds nice in concept, but I feel people would take us for some kind of parade instead if they saw us like that.
Yuki	Aren’t we just a chindon’ya by then?
Itaru	I’d say making a game or manga that’s modeled after MANKAI Company would work too.
Tsuzuru	Who’s going to make that!?
Citron	If we choreograph a MANKAI Dance, we could use that and show it off everywhere!
Hisoka	A dance… Sounds tiring….
Sakyo	Can’t you fools think about any more serious ideas?!
Kazunari	Advertising… Publicity…
	Hey hey, can you guys leave these all up to me then?
Sakyo	Huh?
Tenma	You got some kind of plan, Kazunari?
Kazunari	You could say that~♪ I can prob tell you the deets tomorrow, so just look forward to it!
Izumi	???
	(What could it be… I suppose I should let Kazunari handle it for now.)
Omi	Juza, do you want some orange juice? Should I pour some for you too, Director?
Juza	Thanks.
Izumi	Thank you, I’ll take a glass.
Sakyo	It’s been clear weather all day, huh.
Sakuya	We’ve got P.E. classes for today, so I wonder if we’ll have it on the school grounds this time.
Yuki	Mine too. It’s not exactly hot, but I hate the idea of sweating at all.
Kazunari	GM people—! Everyone, listen, listen!!
Yuki	It’s too early in the morning to be this loud…
Izumi	Morning, Kazunari-kun. What’s up?
Kazunari	So you know how we were talking about advertising yesterday? Looks like we got the pass to put up a grand-scale poster takeover in Ikebukuro Station!
Izumi	Eh, poster takeover!?
Kazunari	You must be thinking, ‘Kazu, you a God or something!?’ Aren’t I just amazing, right?
Sakyo	Impressive… Now that I think about it, it was also Miyoshi who called over that television crew from before, wasn’t it?
Kazunari	Yesiree! You could say I’ve got strings of connections to pull from!
Taichi	That’s awesome! That must be some influence you have there!
Itaru	Way to go, Kazunari.
Izumi	You’re amazing, Kazunari-kun!
Kazunari	Yahoo! So you’re impressed by this cool side of me, Director-chan!? That’s a win for me!
Tsuzuru	But, wouldn’t something like that cost quite a lot of money…?
Kazunari	Oh, money’s no prob! It’s from someone I know after all, so it’s all free of charge, don’t you worry♪
	Of course, in exchange for that, we gotta make all the posters and put them up ourselves.
Izumi	Then that’s practically free, isn’t it? We can do that much! Right, everyone?
Sakuya	We sure can!
Itaru	When are we doing this? …Ah, 2 weeks from now? Ehhh, but that’s the last day of the time-limited quest…
Izumi	Then that just means your next quest for that day will be putting up posters!
Yuki	Well, this is some pretty vital advertising. Guess I’ll come along.
Omi	Let me know if there’s anything I can help out with. I could bring a stepladder or something with me. We might be needing raincoats, too.
Juza	I can also help out with putting up the posters. Count me in.
Kazunari	Gotcha! Though it’s just Bukuro station, we’ll be going around and putting the posters up one after another— as far as I’m told at least.
	Time to make some absolutely hip poster designs then!
	Oh, and we could also put up the posters from our past performances as well and turn it to a sort of exhibit!
Taichi	Uwoh! I’m so excited~!
	Oh!! Do you think there’s gonna be lots of girls looking at my poster too!? Ohhh I’m so fired up now!!
Banri	Does he mean the Stranger poster? Where he’s dressed as a girl?
Sakyo	Don’t break his dreams while he hasn’t realized it.
Izumi	This is all so exciting. Let’s all do our best! Thanks so much again, Kazunari-kun.
Kazunari	NP☆ It’s all for the sake of Director-chan and everyone of MANKAI Company, after all!
	I’m excited for this as well! I’ll make sure to make posters that will blow everyone away♪

Kazunari	Hmm…
Muku	…? What’s wrong, Kazu-kun?
	…Ah, could those be the designs for the new posters we’ll be putting up in Ikebukuro Station?
Kazunari	You’re such a smart cookie, Mukkun! That’s right☆
	Yeah, I’ve been thinking if these rough drafts will work out for the final designs~
	But see here! I thought, ‘This’ll make it sooooo fresh and lit!’, but somehow it’s still missing something and I can’t place my finger on what it could be…
Muku	Hmm, is that so… Ah, why don’t we ask others for their input?
	We turned up with a lot of unique comments from everyone when we talked about advertisement ideas. Maybe we can get the same if we ask now?
Kazunari	That’s a great idea! Alrighty, let’s go and ask everyone right away!
Kazunari	Hey y’all! Everyone vibing?
Muku	How is everyone?
Misumi	It's Kazu and Muku~♪
Citron	We are vibing good! What is the matter?
Kazunari	I’m just here for a little surveying! I wanna get everyone’s opinion on what kind of design to go with for the Bukuro Station posters.
Izumi	I see. Hmm, let’s see now, what sort of stuff would make it real eye-catching…?
Taichi	I’ve got an idea! It’s gotta be real suave and cool! Like something straight out of a men’s magazine!
Yuki	Hello? No way, it’s gotta have the cuteness factor instead. When people think of MANKAI Company, they think of the flower motifs. Why not use those?
Misumi	Put in lots of triangles! Lots and lots of triangles everywhere~!
Citron	Maybe we could have posters of us having smiles on our faces while eating up Omi’s delicious meals?
Izumi	I don’t think people would get that’s a poster for anything if it’s like that!
Azuma	We’re home. Fufu, seems like something exciting is going on here. What’s everyone talking about?
Banri	Oh, you talking about ideas for poster drafts? Gotta go with a cool style, don’t you think?
Kazunari	Gotcha gotcha. Oh, that idea could also be good! Lemme memo it!
	Maybe an even and simple design would be good, right!? I wanna put the focus on each of the members after all! Alright, it’s all coming together now!
Muku	That’s great to hear! So you can settle on a design now?
Kazunari	You betcha! Muku, everyone, thanks for all the ideas! I gotta get to Creation Mode now so just wait and see the final thing!
Kazunari	Gooood Morniiing! The poster designs are now all complete!
Izumi	Huh, already!? As expected of Kazunari-kun.
Muku	Uwah, let’s see it! Let’s see it!
Kazunari	BEHOLD!!!
Citron	Uo!? Oh, but I practically can’t see any of our ideas in these?
Banri	What was the point of your surveying then?!
Kazunari	Now, now, it’s not like that at all! See, I took everyone’s ideas into my head like a blender, and as I mixed them all together, this is the fruit of all those ideas together!
Tasuku	So you managed to mix in all those… unique ideas into this?
Muku	Oh but, I think this looks really stylish!
Hisoka	…I think it looks good too.
Izumi	Yeah, I think this will definitely make heads turn.
Sakuya	I can’t wait to help set up all of these now!
Kazunari	Yay! Big thanks y’all! Now that these are all done, I’ll get these thru express printing right away!
Izumi	Thanks so much! Can’t wait to see them!
Kazunari	Okaaay, everyone! May I have your attention, please!
	The posters have all been printed out, so it’s about time we make rounds at Ikebukuro and have these set up!
	Also! Director-chan and I will have our station of operations at where we’ll be posting these, so make sure to bring your phones on your way!
Tsumugi	Huh?
Tenma	Hey now, what kind of operations are you talking about?
Kazunari	Ain’t it obvious? The two of us will be on standby and act as the HQ— something like that!
Izumi	H-Hang on, I’ll be putting up the posters too though!?
Kazunari	Ehh~! But we already agreed we’d be paired to be head of operations, didn’t we?
Tenma	You’re coming and pasting these up too!
Itaru	Hey, why’s only Kazunari exempted from this? That’s BS, I should be serving HQ while clearing up my game quest instead.
Kazunari	Come now~ I did my best in making the designs, so I think I deserve a little reward and lay back from here on, right~?
Banri	Think we’re gonna let you off that easy?
Sakyo	… It’s true enough that it was Miyoshi who did the poster designs, not to mention who allowed this poster takeover plan to even happen. You did a great job.
Taichi	Really?!
Tsuzuru	N-No way this is coming from Furuichi-san…!?
Kazunari	F-Froochie-saaan…!! I’m so moved! I knew you would understand—
Sakyo	…However, that’s another story entirely!
	Besides, these are your posters. If there’s anyone who has a good understanding of which placements are best, then you have to be there to check it yourself.
	Now then, less talking, more walking! You’re putting up those posters too, you hear me!?
Kazunari	Whaaaaaaaaaat!!!!
Banri	Ahahaha!! He sure got you good! There’s no way he’d go easy on you! You can’t be the only one out!
Taichi	That’s right, that’d be too unfair!!
Tsumugi	Ahaha. Now now, I think if every one of us will lend a hand, we’ll be done in no time. It’d be fun that way, too.
Itaru	Great to have you here in our Poster Set-Up Quest, good comrade. That is, Guild Master Kazunari.
Kazunari	Maaan! All that flawless planning for nothing…!!
Izumi	Okay! Now then, everyone, let’s all head to Ikebukuro Station and start putting these up!

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