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ouranbutworse · 7 months

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Anime-Manga Comparisons, episode 13.

Oh boy, the Wonderland episode! Honestly, it’d be easier to write about the similarities between these two episodes rather than the differences, since these two episodes are so incredibly different. But both are actually pretty great in their own special ways, I just find it interesting and confusing why the anime decided to completely change the story.

For starters, in the manga it’s made clear from the beginning that the whole thing is just the hosts playing around. It starts off with the hosts breaking the fourth wall to explain that the theme was requested to them, and that the author wagered it’d be a safe choice since there are so many characters. Tamaki and the twins are excited to see Haruhi in a frilly dress, and she bemoans how the outfit is cumbersome, so the twins take over the role of Alice instead, because Haru just isn’t curious enough to ever follow a rabbit down a hole.

On the other hand, the anime starts with middle school Haru and light brown haired Ranka going to the academy to enrol her, with plenty of establishing shots of the school, inside and out. The painting behind her shows a similar little girl chasing a pink bunny, and before the zoom in we even see Kotoko under the tree on the left. I never noticed that before. It even looks like her appearance from the later Lobelia episode in her pink outfit. Ranka worries about her enjoying herself at Ouran, which is the overarching theme of this episode.

The manga and anime continue to be extremely different, as anime Haru chases Usa-chan as a living (living?) plush until he escapes via high powered motor, but the manga has the twins chasing White Rabbit Mistukuni (Mitsu-buni?) until he goes through a too small door and Nekozawa steps in as a mysterious merchant (who they point out was not a character) to give them a shrinking potion and offer them a Bereznoff puppet, Alice A (Hikaru) and Alice B (Kaoru) offer up Alice C (Tamaki) to drink it instead and then throw him to the wolves (The Roberia flowers) and abandon him.

Going back to the anime (Yeah, this is going to get very confusing, I foresee.) We see more callbacks to the earlier episodes, as Haruhi slips on a banana peel and falls into the hole left by the high powered motor and falls… into the same room to get her butt stuck in the vase. She then has to slither like a snail towards monkey Shiro (presumably the cause of all the bananas) to get help, and instead he eats a banana that causes him to shrink and runs off through a tiny door. Haruhi eats an entire bunch of five bananas, peels and all, and shrinks down, freeing herself from the vase, but not from the host club.

She then walks down a long, dark hallway, where we see the kanji for female in lightbulbs appear again, and then a final banana peel whisks her off to a long fall into a pool. I have Vietnam style flashbacks to the beach episode, and I think the overhead shot of her is meant to be a reference to her in the fountain looking for her wallet. The lack of music and focus on the water effects and the voices is actually pretty soothing. Haruhi and Kyoya both have very nice voices. Also Kyoya has very pretty lips.

I wonder if his warning about how Haruhi will be eaten in the pool isn’t strictly about the crocodiles, but rather about how so much grief can swallow you up. Maybe. Should I be analysing the silly homosexual supporting cast so much?

The roses would have been a nicer fit for the Lobelia girls (I’m using Lobelia as their anime names and Roberia as their manga names, aren’t I smart?) but I can’t deny it’s hilarious that they’re controlling robotic crocodiles rather than just being animals like the rest of the cast. Also hello to Kyoya in what is no doubt his silliest role of all time, and I’m including the live action drama in that.

It’s almost tragic that he looks like that, but honestly it’s still great, and it fits him. The manga just omits the caterpillar character altogether, which is weirder. In the original book the caterpillar is rude and and presented as mysterious and ambiguous, and in the movie he’s even more unhelpful and mean. In the anime Kyoya is presented as mysterious still, but Haruhi is aware of what he does, even if she can’t recall why. There’s ambiguity, but no sense of animosity between them. Also, Nekozawa becomes a baby and Kirimi becomes… ambiguously older. And bigger, in… certain areas. Kyoya forgoes the safety of a baby to flirt with a girl. Disaster bisexual at work. We'll return to him (or her) later.

Back to the manga and Tamaki-Alice. (Talice? Amaki?) he meets the Roberia roses, who are stunning and beautiful and I think I’d rather just stay here with them, but we must press on, unfortunately. Tamaki tells them he’s a man, and they call him a pervert for dressing up like that, which is rude! He looks great! And then they warn him about the black queen. Also they reveal Ranka is the red queen ahead of time, so there’s no big shock there. Even though the roses just attacked him, Tamaki is willing to save them from the black queen, until they show it’s Kyoya and Tamaki tries to chicken out because his gut tells him not to revolt. Finally everyone has had enough and they finally swap in Haruhi to play Alice’s role, and she looks so cute in that dress! So cute that the roses (Rose-beria? There’s so many puns to make here!) tell her to stay with them instead, but Haruhi goes off anyway. She’s not that interested in actually fighting the queen, but she’s true of heart and feels obliged to keep her promise, so she goes anyway. She meets up with some of the host club guests and Dr. Yabu from the physical exam episode to get information on how cruel the queen is, and finally to the well informed duchess, Renge! This is a similarity between the two, because she plays the exact same role in both and even dresses the same! The difference is that she’s going to court in the anime to be executed later, but Kyoya straight up sentences her to death in the manga with no court. Harsh, but fair. Hikaru also reappears here as her butler, and finally we see the biggest host of all: Mori! And he’s a very tiny baby named Moriko. Two guards come to take the duchess away, and her final cry for help to Haruhi is to gather a rescue team of gorgeous men to save her.

Ayanokoji appears here in the anime as a cook for Renge, but I’m not sure she ever reappears in the manga past her first appearance, I’d have to conduct a thorough investigation to be certain. She chucks a bunch of dishware at Renge, who is holding baby Nekozawa. Between her and Kyoya not giving a shit about babies, they should probably get together. Then again the baby turns into the curse doll, so maybe it’s fine he was in danger after all. I find it cute that Haruhi is still gentle with the doll and puts it down on a sofa before she leaves. She walks down another very long hallway while the twins bother her, but she’s quick to suss them out. They sound exactly alike in Japanese, but I don’t know if they do in the English dub. We also see Kanako dressed as a bird, floating in a teacup while staring wistfully into the sky and hoping Toru will come back soon. This seemingly adds nothing, but I like it anyway.

Back in the manga, Haruhi-Alice (Harice?) takes baby Moriko with her (who she says is ‘kinda cute’) on her quest to rescue the duchess, and then she meets the Cheshire Twins. They’re wearing almost the same outfits in each, except the anime gives them sleeves on their shirts, a bandana, and oversized cat paws. They tell Haruhi that they used to be a single person, until the queen split them in two after a prank. They also call the queen a grownup, which either means she’s actually an adult, or it’s a riff on Kyoya for being too mature for his age. Either works, really. Haruhi admits she’s starting to sympathise more with the queen. The twins try to get a reward for inviting themselves along on the adventure, but Mad Hatter Tamaki scolds them. Since Mistukuni is already playing the white rabbit, the march hare role instead goes to Shiro, but he’s called the May Rabbit instead… and he’s white. The twins call the hatter bogus and explain that he’s a fugitive who was jailed for performing some odd stage magic during a croquet game sponsored by the queen, but he broke out of jail. Tamaki offers to protect Haruhi and defeat the queen if she promises to marry him, which Kaoru points out is worse than them asking for money. Then the twins want to marry her.

Shiro then calls Moriko an ugly baby and causes him to cry. Shiro announces he’s going home while the others try to stop the crying, and Haruhi gives him a cookie from her pocket that causes him to grow into a man. A very naked man. The twins quickly clothe him, and he gives Haruhi a hug, and they all settle on whoever defeats the queen will secure Haru-Alice. She points out that there’s no more parallel and that it’s the old pattern remerging.

The anime scene is a little closer to the original, as Mad Hatter Tamaki and March Hare Honey announce there’s no room at the very long dining room table, or at any of the others. Haruhi, being who she is, simply accepts that and goes to leave until they demand she come back. They talk about her appearance, and Haruhi says it doesn’t matter whether she’s a girl or not, and then makes a callback to the last episode about his cavity, where Dormouse Mori wakes up to remind him to brush his teeth and then goes right back to sleep.

Mad Hatter Tamaki asks her a riddle about tuna, which isn’t really a riddle, and then yells at her when she gets it wrong, and the mannequin from the first beach episode returns, wearing the swimsuit Honey preferred, to offer wine. Hruhi points out it’s illegal for them to drink because they’re minors, and Tamaki and Honey say even though she’s not a very good Alice, she is pretty cute. The clocks strike three, and the hatter asks another riddle, how are he and her father similar?

He then asks her what else she’d do at Ouran, besides studying, and she’s confused by what else there is. And then we find out that the duchess is going to be executed.

Haruhi stands in as her lawyer, and a lot more presence is put onto the queen here. I wonder if this argument of a parent leaving their child for work was part of her own feelings, but she didn’t realise it. The king accuses her of breaking the vase, and Tamaki steps in to defend her, while also roasting the shit out of her for being boring. She then calls him by his name and the lights go up to reveal all the guests watching, and the other hosts appear and Ranka unmasks himself. He’s really happy to see her make ‘fine friends’. Until later on when he stands on Tamaki I guess, haha.

Of course, then we get the reveal that the queen is Kotoko, and for some reason it always makes me tear up. The clock chiming distantly as the dream fades out is sad.

And then we see the hosts dressed as their manga counterparts, which just makes me wish the black queen would step on me. I’d say enough about that, but now that the anime episode is over, it’s back to the manga, where black queen Kyoya is calling the team rats.

The team are immediately brought to the queen, to the dismay of Hikaru, who thought there’d be more action, and Kaoru bets it’s because they’re running out of pages. White rabbit Honey reappears with his double personality and dark mode, calling them vermin and telling them that if the queen had let him, he’d have finished them in an instant. The queen also justifies her executions and explains that everyone who’s caused trouble was also costing a lot of money, including the red queen. Haruhi feels the need to apologise for Ranka’s actions. Haruhi tells the queen that executions still aren’t right, and asks if she ever went to kindergarten (what kind of kindergarten teaches kids not to execute?) and the queen says no, she didn’t. The mad hatter then summons a giant griffon and it fights the black queen, and while that happens Haruhi finds a tiny Bereznoff eating a cookie in her pocket, and sends him to fight too. He grows large from the cookie, and presumably kills the queen? It’s not very clear. The last line explains that the queen and castle disappeared, and white rabbit Honey seems confused on where he goes, too. Nekozawa returns to become the White King, the Cheshire Twins, Mad Hatter, and White Rabbit argue over who’s going to marry Alice, only to turn around and find Alice is now Mori, and Haruhi wakes up from her dream to her mother Kyoya taking her home for dinner. The others are trapped in the dreamworld and Duchess Renge is still behind bars. Maybe the White King will save her, eh? Haha.

Episode 13… is a happy ending!

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peacesmith · 1 year

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power

noun

ii. the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events.

SUMMARY — a mission to infiltrate a high school because of said rumors of a goblin like creature going around, guess you weren't supposed to get bit.

GENRE — uhm, action? a lil graphic, kay is in a lot of pain sorry, but some humor.

CHARACTERS — Kay Yamashita, Kendrick Scott, and Tyler Gene

CONTENT WARNING — kay eats a goblin (only as a monster though) some light cursing, kendrick cross-dressing, blood mention, kay being emo

NOTES — long ass chapter!! here's some canon content! just a small short story that gives kay some background, this was before buni joined team, not proof read

8:15 PM, May 20th.

This was not going how it was supposed to.

Kay was laying on the ground due to the goblin they were chasing. But instead of catching it they were bleeding out, severely.

Communicator was broken, possibly a couple of bones. They wondered how the hell does John Wick fall from buildings so high and yet still survive. Yet they had a severe concussion, and probably was gonna die in five minutes.

If the nosebleed wasn't bad enough.

They stare up into the night sky, still in their janitor uniform. A huge gash from the side in their stomach, that's where they were bit.

How did they get recruited anyways?

They had no powers, just stealthy. Useless is what they were, utterly useless. They'll be replaced by Tyler. Kendrick wouldn't care, and Saccharine would be running wild, releasing her cursed magic upon the world.

They close their eyes, thinking back to the start of this mission.

6:30 PM, May 20th.

Mayflower High school, one of the most prestigious High schools there is. And apparently, there's been reports of a demon going around the school terrorizing students. Causing them nightmares and trauma.

When Tyler got the call for it, he was reluctant to accept the job. But, it paid good money, and he wanted more alcohol. And food. He also needed to pay rent. So, he took it and told Kendrick and Kay. Giving them the details on the job and whatnot.

Kendrick was excited when he found out what it was about. Kay on the other hand wasn't. They wanted something simple, like bodyguard or walking a dog. Scared of screwing up the mission for not being able to fight. Yet they never expressed those concerns. Mostly because of Kendrick's teasing.

So they made a plan. They'll go at the school dance.

Kendrick would disguise himself as a highschooler, his job was to speak to students, make them feel welcome as he gets intel about the monster. Tyler would be a teacher as his job was to keep lookout for the monster, monitor everything. And Kay would be a janitor, blending in with the shadows as always while also keeping lookout.

Simple as that.

So they arrived at the school dressed in their respective outfits. Well, maybe not Kendrick.

See when he said highschooler, they assumed male. Instead, he was dressed as a female highschooler. Wearing a sparkly purple dress, with heels and make up that complimented his features. To top it off, he wore a afro. Surprisingly, he didn't stand out. And admittedly, he looks good as a female.

"What the hell Ken." Tyler says deadpanned, he had on reading glasses. Trying to get the professor look down. His hair was tied back as he abandoned his usual hat. Matching sweater vest and tie.

Kendrick purses his lips and crosses his arms, already giving him attitude. "You never said the specifics."

Kay on the other hand stays silent with the broom, their classic hunched over form as they listen to the two bicker back and forth. The place was starting to get crowded with the amount of people so Kay decided to head off into the nearby closet.

It didn't take long for the two to stop arguing as they both take their respective spots. Tyler by the drinks and Kendrick talking to students.

Kay had their head peeked out of the closet, looking around with a tired gaze. It was quite boring actually, with nothing to do. They sigh as they go back into the closet. Grabbing a mop and mindlessly sticking it in the bucket. Splashing water around a bit.

The sound of the water continued on for a moment before it was suddenly cut off by a noise. Looking around, their eyes got adjusted to the dark.

Power number #1: Night Vision. Kay had the ability to see in the dark like a gray wolf.

Kay stops what they were doing and stands still, trying to listen for the noise again. It's silent for a moment.

Silence.

Maybe it was just their imagination.

They huff and continue their splashing until a small figure jumped out and onto their back.

Letting out a loud yelp, they struggle to get the thing off their back as they move around in the tiny closet. A burning sensation was felt as they could feel scratching onto their back. They struggle some more as they reach for their communicator.

Huh?

"Chikushô!" They exclaim. The communicator was missing! Now they couldn't contact Tyler or Kendrick. Growling, they angrily grabs the monster and slam it across the shelves, pinning it to the wall to get a good look.

...

It was a goblin, a literal goblin. This just made them angrier.

"You piece of shit! What the hell do you think you're doing." Kay grips the goblin's shoulders, but it didn't say anything back. All it did was aggressively bite back at them.

This was going to be a long night.

Kendrick was bored, extremely bored. He was starting to think they got ripped off. He sighs as sips his drink, not listening to the guy next to him. All he was doing was just talking his ear off about... hockey? Who fucking likes hockey. Of all things.

He sighs as he squishes the cup, aggressively shoving the cup in the random guy's hand as he walks away. He makes his way towards the table Tyler was at, putting his hand on his hip.

Tyler was too busy leaning on the table playing his stupid Gameboy (seriously, why does he still have that?). Kendrick nudges Tyler, only getting a grunt in response.

"Hey, we've been here for about an hour, why hasn't there been no sign of the demon yet." He looks over Tyler's shoulder to see what he was playing. Pacman.

The pink haired male shrugs before speaking. "I dunno... maybe it just didn't wanna fight anymore."

Kendrick glares as he groans in frustration. He hasn't heard from Kay at all, no whining, no backing out, nothing. He wonders what happened.

"What about Kay? Got anything from them?" He asks.

Another silent response from Tyler, only getting a shake of his head. But once he thinks about it, it makes him pause his game.

"Actually, that's weird. I haven't heard anything from them, maybe we should go investigate." He puts the Gameboy away and points to one side of the room.

"You check that side, I check the other, got it?" Kendrick nods and walks off, so does Tyler. Little did they know, the closet that was in the middle of the room was where a struggle was happening.

7:55 PM, Janitor's closet.

There was a spilled bucket and a few droplets of blood, some clothing pieces were ripped apart. But the two figures were nowhere to be found.

That's because Kay was too busy running away from the goblin. Out by the back of the school, Kay could be seen climbing up the side of the school. Which oh so conveniently had a latter.

They groan as the land on the top of the roof, blood spilling from their gash. They ignore it as they hear the sound of the goblin coming up.

Crawling away as they huff, letting out some gasps for air before getting cut off by a sudden pain in their leg. They turn to see the goblin digging its claws into their leg.

They don't scream, but their eyes proceed to water. Keeping quiet as they hold their breath.

Another pain jolts through them, this time, a scream was let loose.

The goblin's teeth was in the side of their stomach, they could feel some sort of liquid going through them as they struggle to be released from the goblin's grasp.

Finally finding the strength, they rip the goblin from their side and tosses it over the building, unknowingly being thrown with it.

8:15 PM, the night sky.

Kay close their eyes for some time, a ringing in their ears. Maybe it just wasn't meant to be. At least they could die by themself, not surrounded, or crowded. Just with the stars.

Their body goes limp for a moment as the wounds begin to close up. Heart stops.

It's quiet, very quiet. Quiet until-

"Hey emo." They feel a kick on their chest.

It was Kendrick.

Kay sits up and looks at Kendrick with a glare before pausing. Looking over their body, the wounds were healed. Yet there was still scars. Dried blood over their body as they look back at Kendrick.

"Why were napping in the street? You got narcolepsy or something?" He kicks them again as they cough before standing up. He feels them grab his shoulders tightly as he looks at them.

"I think I just fucking died!" They yell, Kendrick was taken back. He looks at them confused before letting out a quiet chuckle. He pats their shoulder.

"Riight, anyways, come on, Tyler has been looking for you since you didn't respond. Where's your communicator?" Kendrick says while holding his hand out.

Kay smiles sheepishly and shrugs. "I may or may not have broken it."

He looks at them dumbfounded before sighing, rubbing his temple before shaking his head.

"Alright, whatever whatever. We got a monster to catch okay?" Kendrick grabs Kay's arm, and as soon as he was about to lead them inside, the goblin comes out of hiding to attack them.

Kendrick was about to form a shield to protect him when all of a sudden, a shadow like figure grabs the goblin and slams it into the ground.

Tall and quite literally dark, mysterious. Kendrick goes to see where Kay was only for them to not be found. He looks back at the creature. That familiar hunched form, it was Kay.

It was pitch black and goo-like, it had a somewhat shape like Kay. Although it looked as if it wasn't fully formed. It was dripping with goo, but he didn't want to touch it.

The creature, or Kay, opens it's mouth revealing it's enormous arrays of teeth before eating the goblin. Absolutely chowing down on it.

Kendrick covered his ears, not wanting to hear the brutal detail of the monster eating the goblin.

The creature finishes and slowly, the goo starts to disperse. Kay's body was being revealed once again. But the janitor suit was gone, all was left was their T-shirt and boxers. They were sweating as their eyes was closed. Perhaps they were sleep, he could tell by the quiet shudders they let of.

Their body is gently laid on the floor as Kendrick stands their in udder shock.

Tyler opens the door to the back and looks at Kay's body surrounded by leftover goblin blood. He looks at Kendrick before looking back at Kay.

"What the..." Was all he could muster up to say.

Kendrick shrugs before grabbing Kay's body. "We need to leave now." He looks at the body once more.

How could the most fearful member be so dangerous. The one who never took control.

Power, was what Kay wanted.

And power, was what they got.

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