Genshiken 58

*Only for use by Mangastream.

tl by molokidan

1)
top text: The 2nd chapter in this limited-time revival serialization!!
side text: An immediate, great stirring!

1: When I woke up suddenly just a little after 3 in the morning
2: what popped up before the eyes of me, Yajima Mirei, were

2)
1(2b): none other than beautiful MALE legs.
slanted: This is HER house!! And yet there's a man here revealing his legs!!
2: ...what's going on here?

Chapter 58 - Over My Dead Legs

3)
1(2b): ....ummm, how should I put this.
2: I'm thinking of creating a club member profile book.
3: What does that entail?
4: Ummm...a book about this big,
5: split into upper and bottom parts.
6: Containing our own separate profiles...and illustrations, if you can draw.
7(2b): Then I thought I'd copy it and pass it out only to Genshiken members...I know it may seem kinda weird to be doing something like this so late into the game, but meh.

4)
1: ...ahh, I get it!
2: You're trying to revive "Mebaetame?"
3: ...mebae...tame?
4: Genshiken's magazine.
5: I don't think an issue was created in a while, though.
6(2b): ...although, I heard the manga club was doing something similar. (head) from her.
7: They copied us.
8: No, I think it's a really good idea!
9(2b): Thank you...now, to continue.
10(2b): I drew my own part as a sample.
11: Ohhh!
12(2b): Flawless, as expected! (You're so serious.)
13(2b): You sure did that fast! And it has an illustration!

5)
1: Concentrating single-mindedly, Great Ogiue!
(sfx on paper): zupah
(text at bottom): Suzanna Hopkins

2(2b): Ah...mm. That doesn't really make sense. (Great Ogiue?)
3: Well, it's very Su-ish, so it looks fine to me...
4: I see.
5: Then for me, I'll have to...
6: Well of course I work in a wide range from original to 2D areas, but as far as master-and-servant moe and young people who pine for older people roots, I'd have to discuss historical fiction, of which Ikegami Shouichirou is a true master. Rather than historical fiction that takes place in the three great ages of Japan, however, I more personally prefer "Mada Unhouki," and I really wish someone would make an anime or manga out of it. I mean, come on, the first time the novel's original character Fujii Samaji meets Nobushige is in a HOT SPRINGS! He even treats the guy's wounds and then they go riding on a horse together. And then Samaji says "I feel like we're going to die together someday!" Nobushige is 16, and Samaji is 19, and if you want to know what happens to them then you'll just have to read the ook! But my main master-servant fangasming comes from Nobuyuki x Sakon. Boy do they go through a lot together! In the end one is 93 and the other is 85 and (*cuts off here)
7: ...yeah.
8: That's fine, just write that.
9(no bubble): Here is the paper we'll be using, so pass it around.

6)
1: ...aren't you excited, Yajima-san?
2: Why should I be?
3: Er, um...aren't you good at drawing?
4: Don't just go deciding something like that.
5: Ah...
6: Sorry...
7(2b): Huh? But when you entered the club, didn't you say "I do drawings?"
8: Uuu... (why did you have to ask me that)
9: I said I draw,
10: But I did not say I CAN draw!
11(2b): So I'll just go and say it straight here. I suck!
12(small): Was that some kind of vague trick?
13: ...well, that doesn't matter of course.

7)
1: In any case, um, the deadline will be in one week,
2: so give them to me as you finish them.
3(small): You have a spot too, Oono-senpai.
4: Oh, really?
5: U-ummm
6: Sorry...
7(2b): ...nah, forget it.
8: I'm glad I was able to say it.
9: It'd be bad if people started getting weird expectations about me.
10: OK...
11: Yajimacchi, Yajimacchi!
12: Hm?

8)
1: Can I come to your house today, Yajimacchi?
2: Let's draw ours together!!
3: Yajimacchi!
4: Mm...
5: You think this much will be enough?
6: That's too much. (It's like you caught a huge fish or something)
7: I'm one of those people who eats a lot yet never gains any weight.
8: Like I care. (Are you trying to piss me off?)
9: Let's split this.
10: Hey!

9)
1: Ah, Hato-chan!
2(small): I was just kidding
3: Anything else you need to get?
4: No...
5(2b): ...but, umm
6: Is it really alright for me to come too...?
7: Sure!
8(2b): We're in the same club at school, so we should all become good friends! Su-san didn't come, though.
9(small): shake shake
10: It's MY room, though.
11: ..hm?

10)
1: ...woah! This is alcohol!! (I thought you were getting juice)
2(2b): Huh? You don't drink?
3(2b): Woah, woah, woah. You know we're UNDERAGE, right?
4: Ehhhhh?
5(2b): You've never drank before? Wow, you're so straight-laced...
6: No, that's normal! ...what about you, Hato?
7: Ah...I haven't either.
8: See?!
9(2b): Although, I doubt you'll get them to sell you any with THAT face.
10(small): Heh-heh!
11(small): Is this revenge?
12: Muuuuu!
13: C'mon, put it back.
14(small): We're making our profiles here, we don't need stuff like that.
15: You're so stubborn...
16: And yet you've been buying 18 and older doujinshi for such a long time! (Haven't you?)
17(small): Don't say that so loudly!
18: Y...you're really twisted, you know that?!

11)
1: Look, here they are! (The doujinshi!)
2(2b): Yes, yes, yes. I have them...
3(2b): I seeee...A Champ comic and a parallel universe version...
4: This is why you get up in the morning, isn't it, Yajimacchi?
5: Well...it has had a great influence on my life, that's true.
6: You draw on this desk?
7: Huh? ...no, that's...that's not all I do on it...
8: I still haven't opened up all these boxes yet...
9(2b): ...BUT, I never thought there'd be a man coming in here, that's for sure...
10: Although he is crossdressing.

12)
1(2b): That never even crossed my mind while I was moving...
2: ...hm?
3: Yoooshiiiiitaaaaaakeeeeeee!!!!
4: Yeeees?
5: How may I help you?

13)
1(2b): You've really got some mouth on you! (How did you buy these?!)
2(4b): Wahaha! Just drink up! I'll explain it later. (Don't underestimate me just because I'm a loli).
3: Ehhh...?!
4: ...so
5: this is how things ended up...

14)
1: Argh, I really let my guard down back there...I think we all got really excited...
2(small): No, it's a total master-servant relationship!)
3(2b): I didn't know there was alcohol out there that tasted so much like juice...tch...everything went right along with Yoshitake's plan...
4(small): You look so happy, Yui!
5(small): gahhhhhh
6: She's sleeping and drooling all over my bed... (The futon's gonna be so dirty...)
7: And we didn't get a single thing done on our profiles, just like I expected.
8: What did we get together for in the first place...?

15)
1: ...mmm...
2: But
3: Oh well. It seems like I made some girl otaku friends.
4: I guess this wouldn't have happened if I hadn't come to college.
5: You could call it luck, or fortune...
6: Mmm...
7(small): rustle...

16)
1: ...no, wait a minute.
2: ...hey, hold on.
3: He's asleep, yet he still sounds like a girl...?
4: This person isn't a girl...
5: I got so caught up in everything that I forgot,
6: but he's really a man!!
7: Yikes...I was just sleeping next to a man, wasn't I...?!
8: And as proof...
9: Since it's so late, his beard must already be growing back.
10(2b) ...oh yeah, I think he said he was plucking his hairs.
11(small): I pluck them all out once every two or three days. It takes about an hour, though.
12(small): Woooah
13(small): We don't need the hand gestures, Hato
14: I think he said it while we were drinking...

17)
1: ....wh....
2(2b): What young, supple skin...!! I can't even see a trace of a single hair pore...!!
3: What's with this huge gap?

18)
1: I...I mean...
2(small): Yes, I always do so at morning and night.
3(small): Wash my face, then apply skin lotion, beauty lotion, and milk lotion-- It has no purpose unless you do it every day.
4(2b): I've never tried skin care before...(and never even bought skin lotion...)
5(small): And of course I don't wear makeup
6(small): I spent about an hour and a half in the bath pulling out all my hairs.
7: And as for hair...
8(small): Once I get myself all bubbly, I use an electric shaver...but depending on the area, it can hurt sometimes...especially on the interior...
9(2b): I've only shaved my armpit hair for summer...(and of course it's all grown out now)
10: D...damn...I figured "since we're all otaku, it doesn't matter..."
11: But now because of him, I feel like something's going to crumble inside of me...!!

19)
1: No, wait.
2: Maybe he's actually a woman...?

20)
1: How else could he be so beautiful...?
2: Even when he's asleep he looks perfect...
3: I mean, even otaku know that the whole "a girl this cute couldn't possibly be a real girl" is only ever actually real in 2D worlds.
4: Regardless of what Kuchiki-senpai says,
5: Miracles do not exist in this world!!

21)
1: Wigs? A male voice? It's all just a ploy! She's creating a character!!
2: A perfect example of one girl's college debut going in an utterly weird direction!!
3: ...right? I need to find out for sure.
4: If he really is a guy, then he shouldn't be embarrassed.
5: And of course, if she's female, then all the better!!
6: ...er
7: If he IS a guy, then I'm going to look so pitiful.

22)
1: I just...
2: I just need to check...!!

23)
1: ...what are you doing, Yajimacchi?
2: Nothing, why...
3(small): Uwahhh, I'm such an idiot! How did I not know this was going to happen?! I promised myself...
4(2b): Pulling up the skirt of your crossdressing male friend. How perverted are you?
5(small): munya <3

24)
1: No, you see...
2: I just wanted to make sure he was a guy...
3: I know.
4: Eh?
5: But if you're going to do something this fun.
6: Then wake me up beforehand!

26)
1(2b): Ah...go
2: A few days later
3: Good morning.
4: ...yo.
5: Aren't you a bit early today?
6(2b): Yes...class was short today, so I went to Maradame-senpai's room early.
7: Oh.

27)
1: sup.
2: Hello.
3(2b): Ah, here are the profiles.
4(2b): ...yes! Yes, indeed they are!
5: Ah...
6: me too...
7(small): You were able to draw fine...
8(small): No...you need to teach me how before next time.

28)
paper:
Hato Kenjirou
Faculty of Economics Year 1
From Niigata

Favorite Works
[Doarara!!]
[Eviangelion the Motion Picture]
[Hetalia]
[Winter Wars]
[Fuyume's Book of Friends]
[Sweets Basket]
[Love and 9 Elements]
[A Dog of Metro]
[Kaburaki-san and Rokuhara-kun] Series
[Femuto]
[When the Cicadas Cry]

1(2b): ...Hato. What the hell.
2(small): Wow...this is really something...
3(small): Th-thank you.
4: Where are you trying to go with this?
side: Everything's fine, no problems.
5: The next day, the new generation of "Mebaetame" was published.
6(small): I'm sorry.
7(small): This guy's a senior, isn't he?
8(small): Same with Oono-senpai.
9(2b): After completely forgetting about Kuchiki, President Ogiue was condemned and the books were immediately confiscated.
10(small): And then re-published as a fixed version
box: Next time, Madarame-san gets in big trouble?! If you read this, you'll become really popular with the opposite sex, kiss kiss kiss <3