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Umisho Short Story: The other boys on the swim team

I tried to find something from the preliminary settings before Umisho was serialized of the boys on the swim team other than the main characters like Ikamasa but, this is all I could find... The names and details are different, and there's traces of a character I cut out. You can kinda see the halfhearted state in which Umisho started serialization.

Even so, the one that looks like Takeda has a pointy head and at first glance he's a dead ringer for the perverted character slot. In a word, he was convenient for it...

By the way, presently there are girl characters that aren't regularly appearing that I haven't worked out the details for yet. At the beginning I didn't set all the characters in stone. Rather, I hashed them out as I went along and made them regulars, which is makes it easier to bring them to life. That's why I didn't bother to work them all out.
(For that reason there were hardly any boys)
Kise was another character that got created in this manner. So, from here on out, more and more characters will rise from "other club member" into regular status.

Pictures from left to right, top to bottom:
Junior, Tadashi Suzuki, back stroke
Sophomore, Jun Fukube, breast stroke
Junior, Nadore?, freestyle
Junior

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Title: Kenko Zenrakei Suieibu Umisho
Text Box: A lot of things happened during the summer festival...
SFX omitted from flashback
Text Box: But...
Text: There was actually a little more drama...
Text Box: It goes back to just before the "Fukubashiri" (Lucky Marathon)
Text Box: Jun Tobe, genius computer programmer
Takeda: Today,..
Text Box: Seito Takeda, "I'm a respectable guy, really"
Text Box: Isao Tsutsumi, "Snort" (Snore)
Takeda: we won't let them slip from our hands.
SFX: Thump, Thump

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Takeda: We're going to pick up cute girls!!
SFX: Thud
Orizuka: A--hem! Guys with girlfriends with will rise and escape swim team oppression!!
Orizuka: Squash the cockroach
Text: Oh, My girlfriend
Takeda: Okay, targets acquired immediately!!!
SFX: Bang
SFX: Bang
Takeda: Go pick up girls!!
Isao: Um, do you want to go somewhere?
Girl: Uh, where?
Isao: Like your house
Jun: Do you want to try a fortune teller I made? We can check our compatibility.
SFX: Click, click, click (typing)
Jun: Honorable Death!!!
Isao: Well, I've never picked up girls before...
Takeda: How pathetic.
White SFX: Bang
Non, bubble text Takeda: Oh my.
Takeda: Just watch me. I'll slay her!
Iori: What!?

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SFX: Swish, swish
Takeda: Giggle, can I buy you something?
Text: Primary School Student
Girl: Uh---?
Isao: That's not quite picking up a girl....
Girl's mother: Who the heck are you!?
Girl: Hi, mama.
Takeda: C-crap! Run away!!
Isao: Us too!?
SFX: Dash (sound of running away)
Orizuka: It must have been my imagination..?
Kise: What? What? A cute guy?
Text: Found Orizuka!!
Takeda: Phew, that was close...
Isao: How about a little bit older girl next time...
SFX: Huff, huff (panting)
Iori: Like what about that group of girls..
Takeda: Yeah! Ok!! This time for sure!!
Text: Group
Takeda: Yo, yo, cutie!
Isao: Are you busy?

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Nanjo: Hmm?
SFX: Crash
Nanjo: Did you want something?
SFX: Stare
Iori: Uh, um..
Takeda: Oh!! It's a group of girls from Shinomiya
Nanjo: Oh, you suck at picking up girls... Wait.. you guys..
Nanjo: Haven't I met you someone before...
Takeda: Well, we have met before.
Takeda: I'm a dwarf prince..
Nanjo: Huh??
Takeda: and you were an elf princess.
Takeda: We met in a previous life--
Tiny Text: Interracial forbidden love!!
SFX: Clip-clop (horse hooves)
Nanjo: Another life...

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Takeda: And we've finally met in this life.
Takeda: Let's go...
Takeda: to our flower garden!!!!
SFX: Prancing
Nanjo: Go by yourself
Takeda SFX: Grumbling
Nanjo: And we came all the way here for this boring festival
Isao: Maybe cut our loses...
Text: It's not gonna happen for us.
Text: Yeah, we can still go back..
Takeda: I'm not done yet...
SFX: Boing (jump up suddenly)
Takeda: Hey..
SFX: Whip
Takeda: Weren't you from Shinomiya...
Naruko: Are you guys okay?

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Takeda: Well I'm used to it.
Naruko: Are you guys busy?
Isao: Well, I guess not...
Takdea: (Not really interested in "fish lips", "ugly glasses" and "racoon fox")
Naruko: If you guys are free, do you want to light fireworks (in tiny)with us?
SFX: Swish
Boys; Huh??
Takeda: W-who? Us?
Isao: Us...
SFX: Huh? (confused)
Naruko: Well some was hitting on Nanjo and she went off somewhere...
Tiny Text: Naruko: Even though Nanjo said she'd do fireworks with us..
Hara: And we're not busy...
Naruko: You don't have to if you don't want to...
Boys: We'll go!!
SFX: Score!!!!!

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White SFX: Fizzle
Girl: Ahh!
Hara: What the heck is that?
White SFX: Pop, pop, pop
Takeda: Flame Dance!!!
Black Text: Hahaha
Iori: Does anyone want a snow cone?
Naruko: I do!!
Fish lips: Oh, uh huh, uh huh
Jun: Look at this
Hara: Woah, that's cool..
Takeda: (Tsk, it looks like they're doing well...(tiny) boring..)
Takeda: (With this...)
SFX: click
Sub text: Mouse Firecracker
Takeda: Take this!!
SFX: Plop
Naruko: Tehee!
SFX: Fizzle, pop
Takeda: Ack! (tiny) It came back!!
Naruko: It's a little scary!!
Bubble SFX: Squish
White SFX: Pop, pop
Naruko: Oh, sorry. (tiny) That surprised me--
Black SFX: Squeak, squeak
Takeda: Oh, ah um..

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Naruko: Ah, Umisho's so nice...
Naruko: At Shinomiya, it's Nanjo's one woman show, it sucks. (tiny) you know.
Takeda: On the outside it looks nice and all, but behind the scenes, there's a monster of a girl...
Naruko: Oh really?
SFX: Bang
Naruko: Haha, it's the same.
Takeda: Yep, same, same
Naruko: So,,,
SFX: Flip
Naruko: We're both in the same boat
Naruko: So lets do our best!! (tiny) Okay!
SFX: Thump (heart beat)
Text Takeda: That's strange...

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Text Takeda: She is looking...
SFX: Thump, thump, thump
Text Takeda: kinda cute.
White SFX: Thump, thump
Black SFX: More quickly (referring to the heart beats)
Takeda: Oh yeah..
Naruko: Huh?
Text Takeda: You and I...
White SFX: Thump, thump
Text Takeda: in a previous life...
White SFX: Thump, thump
Text Takeda: we met, didnt we?
White SFX: thump, thump, thump..

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Girl's mom: There he is!!
SFX: Slip
Girl's mom: Police officer, those three!
SFX: Bang
Girl's mom: They tried to kidnap my daughter!!!
Takeda: Huh?
Takeda: No, we just tried to hit on her!!
SFX: Drip, drip (sweat)
Naruko: Huh?
Naruko: You're kidding, you tried to hit on that little girl??
SFX: Shock
Takeda: Uh, no, um...
Police Officer: Well, for the time being, let's go down to the station.
SFX: Thunk
Naruko: Let's get out of here...
Text Box: Their summer night dreams were crushed.