I realized i shouldn't invade stefy's thread and have moved my one-shots here.
First, let us inaugurate the new thread with a video I found on youtube entitled "Berryz Koubou go crazy"
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The Loop Workshop With school over, Saki is navigating the convoluted passages of the train station. Her intended destination is the Westbound Marunouchi line. As she passes platform F, a train pulls in. It has a huge advertisement of a genie spiraling out of a magic lamp plastered across its doors and, drawn to it almost hypnotically, Saki boards the train. She realizes a confused half-minute later that she’s boarded the wrong train. Whipping out her trusty pocket-sized subway map, she begins to trace where this line will lead her. She frowns a little as her finger follows the green line on the map and is veered off course by the random rumblings of the carriage.
Risako’s dog, Anapiriwaiwaijuba-san, is in a restless mood. His hyperactivity leads him to bump into Risako’s portable CD player, which skips quite badly. She sees this as a sign that it’s time for his walk, and she decides to take the quite irrepressible Anapiriwaiwaijuba-san on the scenic route today. Passing a loaded seesaw, Risako muses that the playground contraption, for all the frantic gesturing of its riders, only ever seems to move in one way. Tilting left, tilting right, tilting left, tilting right…. WOOF! Anapiriwaiwaijuba-san’s attention is caught by a shop display-in-progress. The armless, legless dummy in the window is oddly unsettling to Risako.
Miyabi is struck by a sudden urge to play
LocoRoco. After a quick search of the house, she finds her PSP in the hands of her little (ikemen!) brother, who has fallen asleep playing some stupid racing game or other. With the skill of a surgeon, Miyabi extracts the PSP from his hands and loads up LocoRoco. Though this is her umpteenth time playing the game, watching an obese LocoRoco split into dozens of little orbs still puts a smile on her face.
A lightbulb appears next to Chinami’s head, or at least so she imagines. She has suddenly thought of a clever joke. Well, maybe more bad than clever, but anyway. If Berryz have their concert at the Saitama Super Arena, where will Grapez have their concert? The answer? The Budoukan ! Bwahahha! Chinami laughs to herself. She must tell that one to Yurina. In good spirits, she breaks into a skip. Skip, skip, tanoshii na ! Alas, she has forgotten that she has just bought new sneakers two sizes too large and looks back to find one of her shoes looking lonely on the pavement.
Yurina is attempting to study English, but having stayed up until late last night watching TV, she can’t quite seem to concentrate. She happens to flip her textbook to a page which has a funny nursery rhyme on it:
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe
She had so many children she didn't know what to do.
She gave them some broth without any bread,
Then whipped them all soundly and put them to bedAfter reading some notes on grammar, Yurina falls asleep. She dreams that a fat old man tells all the members of Berryz to pack their things for a camp. The campsite is a large shoe, and upon arrival Fujimoto-san barks at them viciously, gives them watery soup and threatens them with a whip. It’s rather harrowing in the dream, though it may sound pretty funny here. At the appointed hour, all the Berryz go to wash up and change. When they return to the dormitory, everyone is wearing a baggy T-shirt and trackpants except Miyabi, who is wearing matching red and green checked flannel pajamas. Yurina’s chuckling wakes her up-- she never thought Miyabi would have such scandalously uncool pajamas!
Momoko closes her Maths book as her mind strays to the vaguely annoying memory of having lost the patchwork Christmas quilt for which she won first prize in school. This in turn makes her think of the beloved security blanket of her childhood which she hasn’t seen for years. Her mother is a bit of a neat freak and has kept all Momoko’s old toys and clothes in a suitcase on the highest shelf of her room. Momoko wants her blanket! She piles up the volumes of her encyclopedia to form a makeshift staircase, but just as she is about to climb this construction, she remembers an old wives’ tale which says that stepping on books will make you dumb. In a bit of a fix now, Momoko sits down and stares at the tomes. She decides to use her parasol to hook the bag off the shelf instead. Easier said than done, however.
The book Maasa read in the Kokuhaku PV had nothing to do with schoolwork. Nor was it a Karaoke catalogue. What was it? Nobody really knows but Maasa, and even she doesn’t actually know. She keeps the book in a corner of her closet. Now, she opens it and sits cross-legged, eyes closed. A parasol drifts into her mind’s eye. Opening the book, she flips through its pages of arcane symbols as if they were the yellow pages. Parasol corresponds to Aladdin, she finds. Hmm. Putting the book away, Maasa ambles towards the kitchen and cooks omuraisu, munching on the ingredients as she does so . Over the radio, there are reports of a major accident on the Marunouchi line with twelve dead and many more seriously injured.
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I like this!
The title - "loop" = how the story comes full circle to Saki's mistake of catching the wrong train?
I wonder why you placed a selection of drabbles with each other. Maasa's karaoke book is... not a karaoke catalogue but hieroglyphic? O_O And ^___^ 'Anapiriwaiwaijuba-san'... how on EARTH did you come up with that?
Loop refers to a sort of loop of berryz consciousness which flows from each member to the next..... and which also has a sort of benevolence of its own in saving saki from a train wreck. you see, they're not actually stand-alones..... each one links to the next, and maasa's back to the beginning. i've pmed you with more!
Anapiriwaiwaijuba is simply an amalgamation of some berryz songs/ lines:
Anata nashidewa ikiteyukenai,
piriri to yukou,
wai wai is a line I love from munasawa scarlet and koi no
jubaku. I find that I tend to give pets fancy names. I wrote something where Takahashi's cat was named Eleconius Rimsikel... and that really had no basis!
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