Other Sotsugyou M stuffs :novels (M+)

Oretachi no PURAIBEETO TAIMU

This book is (as Arisugawa-sensei says in the post-text) - more focused on the characters' feelings and less on comedy. (Although in my opinion there's some of this too...)
Instead of being one continuous story, there are five chapters devoted to the first-character perspective of each of the boys. I haven't read Mikimaro's or Yuusuke's yet, so I can't summarise those for the time being. However...

Nakamoto's involves his feelings for his step-mother (he takes a call from Kyouko, who seems to be 'worried' about him, and this seems to all be occuring after the unfortunate manga incident), his cat-feeding (naturally...) his relationship living with a roommate like Arai, and his desire to help out with the laundry (!).

Arai's involves him going down town clubbing, crashing at his house, then gatecrashing Kawazoe-san's mansion, where he seems to be having an argument with a woman... It's sort of interesting having that whole thing from Arai's internal perspective - it sort of confirms the idea that even he isn't quite sure what he's doing when Kawazoe is concerned. ^_^. Kawazoe's also quite teasing in his manner to Arai - but it has a cute ending (it's something like "I'm really glad you stopped by today..." - ((Hug...)) etc...

Takagi's chapter begins with a mad rant about Arai and then into his modelling - it;s interesting that I don't think Arai mentions Takagi once during his monologue, though...or if he does, it's not in the same respect. I always thought that Takagi irked Arai more than Arai irked Takagi, but maybe I'm wrong...The chapter goes on to describe Takagi's bad day, basically - late to work, meeting a make up artist who seems to have an unnatural interest in people's body hair (do NOT even ask!) and then ends with a surprising heart to heart in the school dining hall with Sugita, who reveals quite a bit about how he and Kusanagi ended up the way they are.

Illustrations (scans) from Volume Two
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Mikimaro angsts about Arai. Again :P	Nekozuki Nakamoto checks on his buddies.	"Doitsumo koitsumo" ...why does everyone want to get Takagi's kit off?!?