Editing Kämpfer:Volume 3 Afterword

Postscript to Volume 3

   Afterword

   : This is Tsukiji. Kampfer has reached its third volume. This time, the story is about a school festival, a beauty pageant, and Natsuru will also appear, since she's a girl. I haven't heard much about high schools holding beauty pageants, but it's a fact that at my alma mater, we "took pictures of all the funny faces the whole class made and posted them for voting." I've forgotten who won, and I wonder if that person was happy.

   So, this time it's a school festival, as mentioned in the story. The school festival is a great opportunity to unite the class; even students who are usually a bit self-absorbed will blend into this unique collective atmosphere. I think it's kind of magical. The days leading up to the preparation were really sore all over, and there was even a teacher who poured cold water on me, saying things like, "When I was a student, I couldn't even fit into the class during the school festival~"

   In this story, there's a school festival project called "Restroom," which actually exists, although it's just a proposal. At my alma mater's school festival, a class that was too lazy to think came up with the idea of "Rest, sleep." The clever part is that they didn't make the guests sleep, but they slept themselves; I really don't know if it made any sense. What struck me most was how angry the teacher was. This never happened in my class.

   I remember our class had a really casual project selling masks from who-knows-where, which was so boring that the following year we called ourselves "magicians" and had our class's giant run around in beach shorts—a truly avant-garde art form that caused a sensation. The general consensus was, "These people have something wrong with them." I recall a classmate, U, who was considered the most beautiful girl in the grade, bluntly saying, "Is that class full of idiots?" The giant in the beach shorts actually had a crush on U, so he was a little disappointed.

   Also, we were scolded by that giant for "only knowing how to fiercely discuss whether U had experience or not—you're all responsible too!"... No way!

   See you next time,

   February 2007,

   Tsukiji Toshihiko.

==Translator's Notes==
This chapter was translated from the Chinese translation of the original Japanese text.
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