Homare Arisugawa/Poetic Monster

Monster Discussion

Backstage Stories

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Izumi	—Huh? Homare-san?
Homare	Oh my, Director-kun. What a coincidence, hm?
	Coming home from shopping?
	Hand me your bags, I will carry them.
Izumi	Thank you very much.
	Homare-san, did you go out somewhere too?
Homare	Ahh, I went to the library. There was something I wanted to look into, so it’s a relief I found the perfect book.
Izumi	Something you want to look into?
Homare	Umu. It’s this.
Izumi	“Encyclopedia of the World’s Monsters”…
Homare	I’m to wear a monster costume for this time’s Veludo Way Halloween, am I not?
	I thought it’d be easier to act if have knowledge of monsters after all.
Izumi	That reminds me, monster costumes were decided for Homare-san and Kumon-kun, right?
Homare	The world’s various monsters are listed, so it’s very exciting. I plan to take my time reading this later.
Izumi	(Homare-san in a monster-suit costume… I wonder how that will turn out?)
Homare	Ho, a wyvern?
Izumi	(Ah, Homare-san. I wonder if he’s reading the book he borrowed before.)
Itaru	That type of dragon appears in games a lot too.
Homare	Oh I see.
	Even if you say the word “dragon”, it has various forms, right?
	Ohh, this mythical beast here is also rather unique.
Itaru	Hmmm, yokais are listed too, huh…
	Homare-san, won’t you show this book to me too afterwards?
Homare	Why, of course I don’t mind!
	Since this will surely become useful reference for Veludo Way Halloween.
Izumi	(More than using it as reference for Halloween, it feels like only Itaru-san’s chuunibyou spirit is being stimulated…)
	(Well, he looks like he’s having fun so I guess it’s fine.)
Yuki	Hmmm…
Izumi	Yuki-kun? What’s wrong?
Yuki	I’m thinking about the design for the Halloween costumes, you see.
Homare	I request a creative design that suits me.
Kumon	Hehe, I’m really lookin’ forward to what kinda monster I’ll turn into!
Yuki	Originally, I was thinking I want to make monster-suit costumes but—.
	I’m worrying what kind of direction would be good to get these two here to match.
Izumi	Ah—, I see.
Taichi	Monster designs?
	In that case, I think Akapoyo-kun works!
Yuki	Akapoyo-kun?
Taichi	Hold on… I’ll search the image, um.
	See, it’s this!
Homare	Ohh, it truly is a monster!
Kumon	It’s the character on Taichi’s T-shirt, huh!
Yuki	Hmm… That’s true, it’d look great if we used it as a monster-suit.
Izumi	Yeah, its vibe seems to fit with Halloween, and it seems it can be used as reference.
Taichi	Even though Akapoyo-kun is super cute, the characters aren’t increasing at all…
	That’s why I want Yuki-chan to use his sense and make some friends for him!
Yuki	Even if you say “friends”…
Homare	Umu…
	In that case, I will think of something!

Homare	Fortunately, I just acquired knowledge about monsters.
	It might be of use in some way.
Kumon	Is Homare-san going to think about the monsters?
	It seems it’ll be super fun!
Yuki	I don’t really care but… It might happen to be helpful for the designs.
Homare	Umu! Then I shall think right away!
Taichi	As expected, it’s Halloween so black and orange would be good as colours, right!
Izumi	Black and orange are the classic colours of Halloween, huh?
Yuki	And I guess purple is also used a lot.
	I think it’s possible to decide the theme colour first, and then after that, think about the design…
Homare	Umu… In that case, what if we decide starting from the characters’ setting first?
Izumi	The characters’ setting?
Yuki	…We’re discussing the design though.
Homare	I borrowed a book about monsters from the library, so I have various theories or set-ups for monsters as well.
	Which country the monster is from, what kind of magic it uses…
	Itaru-kun also said that such settings and backgrounds make the monsters even more fascinating!
Yuki	Repeating what that chuunibyou guy said, huh…
Homare	So for that reason… Let me see, for an ice age era monster that looks like a mammoth—.
	Its birthplace is Papua New Guinea, it was raised in France…
	Its hobby…That’s right, how about the Hyakunin Isshu?
Taichi	EHH!?
Izumi	U-ummm…
Kumon	SO COOL!! It’s super original!
	In that case! My monster’s name is “Ultimate Holy God Monster”—.
	It’s odd-eyed, and sprouts wings…
	And its finishing move is “Raging Fire Ball” or something! How’s that!?
Homare	Ohh, odd-eyed, huh…! How mysterious!
	Then if that’s the case, its rank status is—.
	Umu, thinking about our characters is also great fun!
	—HAA! Poetic inspiration has sprung forth!
	Original crystal; to new friends, an encore—!
Taichi	Weren’t you guys coming up with friends for Akapoyo-kun!?
	Both are way too far from the way Akapoyo-kun’s world looks~!
Izumi	It certainly seems they’re original and unique characters…
Yuki	...I'm only referencing the colours we said at the beginning.

Anna