Dramatis personae:
Lead - standard nice, naive anime hero (looks like Takuto (Argentsoma, as he looks in the 1st episode)
Buddy - sidekick and muscial accompaniment, male eye-candy (looks like gourry (Slayers))
Girl - girl-next-door type, female eye-candy (looks and acts like sylphiel (Slayers))
Older Guy - mentor/mysterious stranger (looks like Vash (Trigun) with a goatee)
Nameless Students - mob of inconsequential extras
Starts off a lot like Geshiken - Lead and Buddy are browsing recruitment stalls for campus clubs at their new university. Lead wants to join the roleplay group, Buddy is thinking band and both are figuring anime and sf clubs. None of these have clubs are very eyecatching and Lead asks Older Guy where the anime club stall is - while stood right opposite it. The Nameless Students manning the stall come over and 'protect' the freshmen by driving off Older Guy (who was in no way threatening, hostile etc) and warning Lead and Buddy that Older Guy and his 'crowd' are nothing but trouble. Lead checks his map of the stalls and realises that Older Guy headed to a stall for 'I@U'.
A week later, Lead and Buddy have concluded that the existing clubs all lack any spark of fun: the SF club only watches star trek, the anime club watches un-subbed tapes of 70s animes with paper transcripts, the band is strictly classical and the RPG club caters soley to a single mediocre D&D campaign. Lead and Buddy are therefore not happy. Older Guy turns up, makes nice and suggests they might want to attend an I@U meeting, see if it's more their thing - but doesn't say much about what it's about.
Lead and Buddy meet Older Guy and Girl (another prospective I@U
A few meetings later, Lead, Buddy and Girl are sitting talking - they've been booted quite hostilely from their other clubs for getting involved with I@U and they're a bit puzzled with what's up with the club. Plus, they can't find the lounge on any map of the campus and it's not uncommon for several members, always sophomores or senior, to get paged and rush out of the lounge to unknown destinations.
They decide to poke around and find out what's up and Lead happens to overhear Older Guy getting pestered by another member of the club to give something up, but he doesn't know what. Then Older Guy (looking, pretty shaky) is paged and rushes off. Lead follows and finds him collapsed in an open doorway, obviously in a bad way. Looking through the door he sees a vast underground hanger crowded with giant robots...
D for Drakensis
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.
Lead - standard nice, naive anime hero (looks like Takuto (Argentsoma, as he looks in the 1st episode)
Buddy - sidekick and muscial accompaniment, male eye-candy (looks like gourry (Slayers))
Girl - girl-next-door type, female eye-candy (looks and acts like sylphiel (Slayers))
Older Guy - mentor/mysterious stranger (looks like Vash (Trigun) with a goatee)
Nameless Students - mob of inconsequential extras
Starts off a lot like Geshiken - Lead and Buddy are browsing recruitment stalls for campus clubs at their new university. Lead wants to join the roleplay group, Buddy is thinking band and both are figuring anime and sf clubs. None of these have clubs are very eyecatching and Lead asks Older Guy where the anime club stall is - while stood right opposite it. The Nameless Students manning the stall come over and 'protect' the freshmen by driving off Older Guy (who was in no way threatening, hostile etc) and warning Lead and Buddy that Older Guy and his 'crowd' are nothing but trouble. Lead checks his map of the stalls and realises that Older Guy headed to a stall for 'I@U'.
A week later, Lead and Buddy have concluded that the existing clubs all lack any spark of fun: the SF club only watches star trek, the anime club watches un-subbed tapes of 70s animes with paper transcripts, the band is strictly classical and the RPG club caters soley to a single mediocre D&D campaign. Lead and Buddy are therefore not happy. Older Guy turns up, makes nice and suggests they might want to attend an I@U meeting, see if it's more their thing - but doesn't say much about what it's about.
Lead and Buddy meet Older Guy and Girl (another prospective I@U
A few meetings later, Lead, Buddy and Girl are sitting talking - they've been booted quite hostilely from their other clubs for getting involved with I@U and they're a bit puzzled with what's up with the club. Plus, they can't find the lounge on any map of the campus and it's not uncommon for several members, always sophomores or senior, to get paged and rush out of the lounge to unknown destinations.
They decide to poke around and find out what's up and Lead happens to overhear Older Guy getting pestered by another member of the club to give something up, but he doesn't know what. Then Older Guy (looking, pretty shaky) is paged and rushes off. Lead follows and finds him collapsed in an open doorway, obviously in a bad way. Looking through the door he sees a vast underground hanger crowded with giant robots...
D for Drakensis
You're only young once, but immaturity is forever.