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(Sotsugyou M)

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Sotsugyou M: Drama CDs

Also known as: 卒業M (in kanji), Graduation M, Male Graduation M (On Japanese Drama CDs).

The Drama CD universe has connections to the manga ones but there are some specific differences. Most importantly are changes in character names from the original manga series - examples including the names of the boys' teacher (Mizutani-sensei instead of Shimizu-sensei) Takagi's band  (Cassandra Next instead of Cassandra) and band members/associates (specifically Hiroyuki instead of Hiroshi and Rika instead of Yuka). They also do not necessarily belong to a specific sequence - although the "M Ni Makasero" CDs are numbered as such, they don't actually lead directly on from one another in most ways.

As far as I can ascertain, the following Drama CDs exist for the Sotsugyou M line. All the disks pictured below are scanned from my own collection.

M Ni Makasero! (Leave it to M!)

Volume One
Kusanagi Mizuho (The Student Council President) has developed an inordinate amount of interest in the five M boys, calling them to the "Kusanagi Palace" in order to bend them to his way of thinking. While Yuusuke and Mikimaro seem quite happy with the idea, Arai and Takagi are more reticent about becoming Kusanagi's "puppets."

Extra tracks: A one track screenplay known as "Karaodrama", with the second rendition missing a vocal track to allow the listener to play seiyuu. The track is entirely scripted in the sleeve of the CD.


Volume Two

Follows a similar plot to the original manga volume five. An old school friend of Yuusuke's - Kana - turns up, and Yuusuke begs Arai to help him deal with her. However, it turns out Kana has grown up really pretty, and Yuusuke no longer wants Arai involved. The trouble is, Kana has already developed something of a crush on Arai, forcing him to go to extreme methods to dissuade her.

Extra tracks: A one track screenplay known as "Karaodrama", with the second rendition missing a vocal track to allow the listener to play seiyuu. The track is entirely scripted in the sleeve of the CD.

Volume Three
Kawazoe Haruka is back in town and reacquainting himself with not only Kusanagi but also Arai. Meanwhile Nakamoto demands the truth from Takagi about his past relationship with his step-mother.

Extra tracks:

Volume Four
Arai and Takagi attend a reception for one of Arai Yoshiki's fashion parties, and Takagi finds himself the target of a trouble-making publicity agent who wants to cause Yoshiki some trouble. Meanwhile, Kawazoe also turns up at the event, leaving Arai more than a little distracted.

Extra tracks:




Mou Ichido Labyrinth (Labyrinth One More Time)
In the OVA, it's mentioned that the "previous" bunkasai featured a band being hired to play. This is that story, because it involves the band Takagi used to play in (in this CD it is called "Cassandra Next" but it is the same band). There is a catch, however - the band will only play if Takagi also plays with a band of his own making. The root cause of it is jealousy over the affections of Cassandra Next's manager (here called Rika), who has apparently long since had a crush on Takagi despite being involved with Cassandra Next's frontman (here called Hiroyuki). When they find out what's going on, Arai and the others decide to help Takagi to complete the challenge by playing "Labyrinth" as "M".

Extra Track: This CD also contains an extra track which flashes back to the M boys' first appraisals of one another, including Takagi's arrival at the school.

Tooki Tabidachi (A Far Away Journey)
(I don't have this CD yet, info to come when I track it down!)


Male Graduation Plus
These appear to link in with radio broadcasting and dramas of that nature. They lead up to the boys' graduation.

Volume One
Main story: The boys go to a festival, where Mikimaro meets a strange man who gives him the ability to grant his wishes. Mikimaro is excited and wishes for Arai to be nicer to him...starting off a series of bizarre events. Mikimaro soon realises that things were better the way they were before...and he wants his old life back!

Midnight Ghost extra story: A rumour is going around that there's the ghost of a girl being seen in the boys' dorm. Arai is sceptical and drags Nakamoto into investigating, whilst Mikimaro and Katou are hiding something and Takagi is acting strangely...

Extra track: Brief "chat" track from the seiyuu.



Volume Two
Main story: A childhood acquaintance of Yuusuke's is working in a failing cafe "The Sunflower" (Yuusuke swears she's just an old friend of his sister's!). Yuusuke volunteers Arai into helping the girl (Noriko...I forget her other name) out with cooking tips and in the end all the boys get involved in bringing the place back to life - particularly Yuusuke who has a very special way of getting patrons into the place! (Some very funny stuff with Yuusuke being called Yuu-chan by Noriko and getting all embarrassed...and then all his friends doing it, even Nakamoto...)

Love Error extra story: Someone is making late night calls to Noriko and hassling her with romantic messages of a slightly sinister time. Meanwhile Mikimaro is sure that one of Noriko's regular patrons at the Sunflower is in love with her. Things turn slightly nasty when the man's obsession becomes desperate, but then he's reckoned without the combined efforts of Arai's protective instincts and Yuusuke's ability to pedal a bike!

Extra track: Brief "chat" from the Seiyuu.



Final Volume


There is also THIS CD:

Sotsugyou M+ Volume III: M+ Mayonaka No CD SUPESHARU
(M+ Midnight Special CD)

Though it's labelled volume 3, it is a "special edition" disc which involves several individual tracks for each of the seiyuu/characters relating to their Midnight Radio (as the sleeve indicates). It's a basically mish-mashed melee of Sotsugyou radio stuff. Even though I've listened to it, I think I need to dig it out again because it's a touch weird :P
Each Seiyuu has two tracks, plus opening, closing and bonus tracks.                          



Message From M (Midorikawa Hikaru)
This disk was sold as a mini-disc release and features Midorikawa Hikaru as Arai Tougo. (Remember, I did say that to some degree Arai seemed to be the central character...) I don't have this disk yet, so can't say any more about it...though I wonder if it's along the same lines as the tracks on the character special CDs.

It should also be noted that drama tracks for the Sotsugyou boys also appeared on their Minidisc releases (one for each character and one group performance).

There are also disks connecting with "GIZOKU", which was apparently a spinoff series based in the same general world as M (and spawning another seiyuu unit G.I.Zoku). I have nothing from this yet, so can't comment much more on that - but there were definitely drama CDs and stuff associated with it!


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