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Setsuna is the star of this drama CD (despite her not being on the cover). There’s actually very few Konoka scenes, most of it focuses on Secchan, Negi, Asuna and Chamo.

Setsuna gets down in the dumps after failing to thread a needle for Konoka (it ends up being done by Motsu instead), and feels that she can’t be of any use to ojou-sama. So Negi, Chamo-kun and Asuna try to cheer her up by telling her that they can definitely find something that she’s good at so that she can ‘GETTO ojousama’.

Plan 1: Cooking
Negi and gang come up with the idea that Setsuna can capture Konoka’s heart through her stomach with the help of Satsuki. Of course, they made a major mistake in sending out Asuna to buy the ingredients to make foil-wrapped chicken; she did come back with the spring onions and carrots, but instead of buying dead, ready-to-cook chicken - she gets a live one called Henrietta from the pet shop ^^; Setsuna can’t bring herself to kill the cute, fluffy bird so Satsuki suggests that they do a vege nabe instead.

Things initially go well until Motsu interferes again; diving into the nabe pot. No-one fancies frog nabe, so Setsuna starts freaking out about what to do, threatening harakiri until Hakase and Rinshen turn up with a Nikuman Robot called Manzo-kun(?), which makes tasty nikuman (steamed buns) whilst chanting Nikuman Oishii. Then Asuna appears, and as usual everything turns to crap when she presses the bousou button on the robot which causes it to go wild and produces an endless stream of nikuman. Asuna attempts to stop it by using an Asuna Attack but it only ends up making the robot produce nikuman even faster. Setsuna then manages to put an end to it, slicing Manzo-kun with her sword. It’s back to the plan of killing Henrietta, when it suddenly lays an egg for some reason.
Result: 失敗 (Failure)

Plan 2: Walking
Apparently walking will help Setsuna be of use to Konoka :/ According to Kaede, diligently studying the art of walking will help one be able to instantly perceive other people’s needs and wishes. So along with the Narutaki twins, Setsuna, Asuna, Negi and Chamo set off on a walk. But they end up taking a rest halfway through and fall asleep in the sun. When they set off again they somehow end up lost and Setsuna ends up volunteering to get them out of the mess by using some sort of stupid intuition/spirit/concentration method to find the correct path. Kaede then promises her the Walking Club’s 免許皆伝 (menkyo kaiden) if she succeeds. But instead, Secchan ends up getting them even more lost and threatens harakiri again.
Result: 失敗 (Failure)

Plan 3: Cheerleading
Negi suggests that Setsuna can be of use to Konoka by showing her support (literally) by learning how to cheer from Misa, Madoka and Sakurako. Of course, Setsuna is hopelessly stiff and only manages to produce some half-hearted cheers L-O-V-E! Oh!!. The Cheerleading Club then draw up a ‘Cheer Up Depressed People’ plan, for which they use Asuna as a guinea pig by attempting to cheer her up after getting just 4 marks on the test the day before. Obaka banzai!!! Suteki yo, obaka!!! Ganbare obaka!!! They only end up depressing her more about being stupid. Their next target is Motsu for some reason, even though he/it isn’t depressed about anything. Their stupid cheers make Motsu want to return to England.

They then chance upon Makie who’s thinking of what to make for dinner - she thinks of rice with nori no tsukudani (seaweed preserve) which she feels is a little jimi (plain). The cheerleaders only pick up the word jimi and think that Makie’s referring to herself - and proceed to give her a stupid cheer about how there’s nothing wrong about being plain;
L-o-v-e, lovely Makie!
Mezasu bakari wa NO janai!
Chibi Chara banzai!!
Jimi nara Makie, OHH!!!
And causes poor Makie, from being extremely cheerful, to slumping into depression about being called jimi. Setsuna seems to be getting the hang of the cheerleading lark, so as a final test Misa tells her to do a routine by herself to cheer on Negi-sensei. Unfortunately she only ended up making Negi cry by calling him a nakimushi (crybaby) and okochama (little kid) ^^;
Result: 失敗 (Failure)

Plan 4: Drawing
Another round of poking fun at Kobayashi Yu’s drawing abilities ^^; Negi and co. suggest Setsuna draw something to give to Konoka. So initially they tell her to draw things she likes… Asuna also makes an attempt at drawing and comes up with a Chupacabra family portrait. Negi and Chamo gag upon seeing the picture, but Secchan says Ah, that’s pretty good isn’t it? I wish I could draw as good as that. And Chamo thinks Uh-oh. So when Setsuna shows them her drawing, Negi thinks it’s a chimpanzee, Chamo a bear and Asuna the Little Gray alien. Turns out it’s actually a portrait of Konoka.

At that point Haruna and Yue turn up to lend a hand. Haruna proceeds to teach Setsuna the basics of drawing - using Asuna as a model. Yue and Haruna then bark out instructions to Asuna to strike up some sort of pose - and then Haru tells her to 脱ぐ (nugu/undress) otherwise they can’t see her physique properly. Asuna protests fiercely over the whole thing, but for some reason Setsuna volunteers to do it instead. And once Secchan puts her mind to do something…..Asuna, Negi and Chamo try to stop Setsuna but everyone just ends up falling over.

Konoka then walks into the room and sees Asuna and Setsuna tangled up in an embrace on the floor, half-naked…. and the two start protesting their innocence when Konoka says Wow, the two of you sure get along together well eh?
Result: 大失敗 (Big Failure)

Epilogue: Setsuna reflects upon all her failures sadly when Konoka comes in having heard the whole story from Asuna. Konoka thanks Secchan for her efforts and says that her having those feelings alone make her happy. All’s well that ends well as the two set off for some shiruko (sweet red bean soup).

Impressions
The walking track sure was boring as hell - hence the really short summary. The rest weren’t too bad, I got a few laughs out of them. It was fun to hear Setsuna as the lead character; she had the opportunity to show off various sides of her you probably won’t see in the anime. In case you’re wondering - there’s zilch yuri content. Instead it’s mostly hilarity and zaniness. It’s a shame only around half the girls appear on the CD, and most of them are only cameos; no Iinchou, Eva or Chachamaru, Chiu-chiu, Kazumi & Sayo etc. But there’s still at least 2 more Drama CDs coming up (CD2: 25 April, CD3: 27 June) so we’ll hopefully hear them next time.

There’s also four Baka Rangers shorts on the CD, most of them making fun of Baka Pink (aka Makie). Poor Makie, nothing good ever happens to her. She has no special moves, doesn’t do baito, and to top it all off, is jimi. And in the anime, she’s nothing but a failure ( 佐々木まき絵、失格です！). They really should make her the star of the 2nd CD.

Posted on February 9th, 2007 under drama cd, negima • RSS 2.0 feed • Leave a response, or trackback