Watamote 196: Since I'm Not Popular, The Film-making's Going Nowhere

p1
>Hey, Kuro, about the movie...

>Why the long face?
>Do you really want to avoid the subject so badly?

>A friend of Ah-chan's gave us some data containing a movie the third years shot for our last year's school festival.
>How about we watch it after school?

>That's really pissing me off.
>Okay?

p2
>It's my first time inside this building. So this is what the interior's like.
>I've been here a few times before.
>A lot of Haramaku students come here during test seasons. They've got lots of desks and chairs, after all.

>The seats are far apart here, so we won't have to worry about being noisy.
>We'll have to go to the convenience store or D*utor for drinks, though.
>Want some water, Yuri-chan?
>I'm having juice.
>Café latte.

>Okay, let's watch it.

p3
>What kind of movie is it?
>I haven't watched it yet, so I have no idea.

>It looks like_________________
>I can't hear what they're saying very well.
>The volume's on MAX too.

>We need ten more members.
>There seems to be a weird pause whenever the scene changes.

>The pros normally have someone using a clapperboard,
>but the class didn't have anything like that for their movie, so they couldn't signal when to start and stop acting.
>That's probably why it ended up like that.
>And~ action!
>Ah...

p4
>Please, come out the door and lend us your strength.

>Now is the time~ to bring out your courage~
>Ah, this is some kind of musical?

>We~
>want~
>to sing~
>with you~
>A comedy musical?

>And so, the Haramaku 3-9 Glee Club was born. They would go on to send Chiba into a frenzy, but that's another story...
>And now there's narration all of a sudden...

>Huh? It's over already? That was short...
>I get the feeling it was a forced ending...

p5
>What did you think?
>The scene where they were singing and dancing in the bathroom was kinda funny.
>I think it was funnier because they had their friends and acquaintances in the movie.
>Ah, yeah. It's essential that the people involved find it hilarious first and foremost.

>After watching this, I feel like this movie's gonna work out.
>Eh?

>I mean, I thought I had to do a more proper job with making a movie,
>but now that I look at this, 15 minutes is short and the ending seems appropriate...
>Heck, they even did an abrupt ending cos they weren't gonna make it on time, right?

>At any rate, if it's something like this, we should be able to make it on time even if we start from scratch right now.
>Eh?

>What about the idea you presented?
>That was something I thought of when I assumed it had to be over an hour long.
>I had it in my head that movies were only good if they were long, after all.

p6
>But is a single fifteen minute movie going to be enough? It'll be over in fifteen minutes.
>Why don't we have alternating screenings in the classroom?
>Ah, I see. We can just play the same thing over and over.

>Worst case scenario, we can even put a five minute movie on heavy rotation.
>Huh? But isn't our class presenting its thing in the gymnasium...?
>How's that gonna work?

>Alright. We'll start over from scratch.
>Let's all think about it together this time.
>I liked your idea though, Tomoko.

>What we just watched was a musical parody,
>but what other genres are there?
>Chick flick, romance, love story, romcom, love affair.
>Aren't those all basically the same thing?

>A yakuza film.
>Why is that the first thing that sprung to mind?

p7
>A delinquent film, then.
>Only Yoshida-san could star in that.
>A violent film.
>Only Yoshida-san could star in that.

>Horror, suspense, mystery, war, documentary.
>A documentary could work.

>A documentary about Yoshida-san?
>That would just be a delinquent film!

>I'm not sure what you mean by documentary, but it is something of a trend to film things in a professional-ish kinda way.
>So a parody of that, huh?

>Dashingly walking while spreading her grossness all over the place
>is the figure of a girl.

>>Progrossional - The Kuroki Way

p8
>We begin our coverage in September, when the summer heat is still lingering.
>Kuroki starts her day early.
>Good morning.

>Kuroki is thorough in her grossness wherever she goes.
>Why is she so stoic when it comes to her grossness?
>I've never thought of myself as gross though (lol)

>Then could you take your clothes off?
>Eh? It's that kind of program?

>Just leave filming the documentary to me!
>Eh!? You're not filming it... You're not even in our class, Uchi-san!

>There's a YouTube vid showing the opening of a school festival's movie.
>It's a zombie one.
>A zombie movie for a school festival sounds crazy... Ah, so this is what it's like...

p9
>Ah, I got a LINE.
>Ah-chan, perhaps?
>It's always the most fun before the start, huh?
>Eh?

>Y'know, because it's just a bunch of friends having pointless meetings like this with each other.
>Nothing comes to an end unless you actually start, so you can just spend eternity doing trivial things.

>Kuro.
>Here.
>It's from Ah-chan.
>Eh?

>We applied for the stage because we discussed with everyone that we'd be doing it there instead of in a classroom, didn't we!? How could you forget!!?
>We have it from 1pm to 1:30pm, got it!?
>We've started heading towards the end...