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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