Tenma: A3! Drama CD.
Sakuya: Leaders Meeting.
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/running footsteps/
/door opening and closing/
Tenma: Sorry, got held up!
Banri: Tenma, you’re friggin’ late.
Tenma: Filming went over.
Sakuya: Everyone’s here now, right?
Tsumugi: With that, I call the 13th Leader Meeting to order.
Tsumugi: I, Tsumugi Tsukioka, will be the moderator.
Tsumugi: As for secretary— Sakuya, I’m counting on you.
Sakuya: Please leave it to me!
Banri: /game sounds/ Boom! Got that super rare~
Tsumugi: Banri! No games during the meeting.
Banri: Woooord. But uh, what’re we doing this meeting? The director isn’t here, yeah?
Tsumugi: That’s true… She said she’d leave it up to us, but…
Tenma: Hey.
Tsumugi: Tenma, go ahead.
Tenma: How about “Regarding MANKAI Company’s Operations Strategy?”
Banri: Could we even decide something like that with just us 4?
Sakuya: Why not collect some of our opinions and make suggestions to the director?
Tsumugi: Yeah, that sounds good, I think. I’d like to confirm the status of each troupe, too.
Tenma: So we’re set, then.
Banri: Roger that.
Tsumugi: Alright, let’s jump right in from Spring Troupe, please.
Sakuya: Okay!
Sakuya: Spring Troupe is currently practicing toward a local tour. We’re thinking of several unique strategies to make something even better than our last in-house production.
Banri: It’s been awhile since your last show— isn’t it tough trying to get a feel for the stage again?
Sakuya: That is the case, yes. We do get a lot of practice from street acting, though.
Tsumugi: Improv theater is a bit different though, isn’t it?
Sakuya: Yes… And Itaru seems very busy lately.
Tsumugi: He’s the only one working full-time after all, maybe he has lot on his plate?
Banri: Ohhhh, haha. It’s ‘cuz there was that massive update.
Tenma: Huh? Update?
Banri: The expansion for this game he’s into. With leveling and logging in day and night— ‘course he’s got no time.
Tenma: You mean he’s “busy” with a game?!
Banri: Exactly.
Sakuya: There’s Masumi, too. He’s hardly in the mood for practice whenever the director is working with other troupes.
Tenma: Yeeaah…
Tsumugi: I can see that. The director is his life, after all.
Sakuya: Spring Troupe improves exponentially when we’re in a pinch, but we may have trouble with regular, routine improvement.
Sakuya: If I could just apply my leadership more…
Banri: Well, every troupe’s got their issues.
Tenma: Summer Troupe has problems too.
Tenma: Since Yuki spends all his time on costuming for other troupes, there’re times when he can’t even do normal practice.
Banri: Our costume designer is always aimin’ high after all. Recently Taichi from Autumn’s been getting roped in too.
Tenma: Plus, Kazunari is in charge of the website and is busy with the updates.
Tsumugi: A number of Summer Troupe members work behind-the-scenes or have their own side jobs, so it’s natural for those kinds of problems to pop up, I guess.
Sakuya: Does Autumn Troupe have these kinds of issues?
Banri: Well, I think everyone’s pretty gung-ho about practice.
Banri: But— we fight a lot.
Tsumugi: I’d expect nothing less of MANKAI Company’s most trigger happy troupe.
Banri: Hyodo’s friggin’ annoying.
Banri: I swear— practice goes nowhere.
Tenma: Your relationship’s the same as when you guys first auditioned, huh.
Tenma: If we’re talking about getting derailed though, Misumi’s just as bad.
Tenma: At the least, we have to make sure we don’t leave anything triangular lying around.
Tsumugi: Misumi’s love for triangles is pretty extreme.
Banri: He’s more a devout believer than a fan.
Tenma: “Trianglicism,” huh?
Sakuya: How fitting…
Tenma: Also, everyone’s so pushy that we lack unity and calm.
Tsumugi: Summer is the overall youngest and an energetic troupe, right?
Tenma: “Energetic”? More like “noisy.”
Tenma: Those guys totally don’t get I’m the “leader.”
Tenma: They don’t respect me at all.
Tenma: Seriously, who do they think I am?!
Tenma: I’m the talented 15-plus-year veteran actor Tenma Sumeragi!
Banri: So the pushiest of them all is actually the leader himself, amirite?
Tenma: What?! /chair shuffling/ How am I—
Sakuya: Easy, easy.
Sakuya: How about Winter Troupe?
Tsumugi: Hmm… Well, in short, we have a lot of people who go at their own pace.
Banri: Oh yeah. Like a poet, and a hostess*, and someone who sleeps three-thirds of his life.
Tenma: Wouldn’t he be asleep his whole life then?
Tsumugi: Maybe it’s because our members are all on the older side, but our difficulties are in being impulsive, or rather, unable to concentrate on improving.
Tenma: Everyone’s got something, huh.
Tsumugi: Yeah…
Banri: Can we really talk about “strategy” in this situation?
Tenma: We’ve got more fundamental problems.
Tsumugi: Mmm…
Sakuya: Oh! Speaking of which, I read this in a book the other day. Apparently, a leader’s love for the members is essential to improving a group’s performance.
Banri: “Love” for the members?
Tsumugi: So complaining like this is no good, then?
Tenma: I mean, it’s not like there’s no love at all in those.
Banri: ’the heck do you mean by “love” anyway? Talk about embarrassing.
Tsumugi: Maybe it’s like, how much you observe and think about the members.
Tenma: Or like, how well you know them? Like that?
Sakuya: Excuse me! In that case, I’m actually pretty confident.
Sakuya: So I noticed this just recently, but when Masumi is sleepy, he always rubs his right eye— never, ever the left one!
Banri: Damn that’s specific!
Tsumugi: Oh, I see. Good eye.
Sakuya: When you live together, you start to notice all kinds of things, right?
Banri: I got one. On nights after he’s had gym class, Hyodo will absolutely grind his teeth. Friggin’ obnoxious.
Sakuya: Really?!
Tenma: Isn’t he just tired?
Sakuya: Tsumugi, have you noticed anything about your troupe members?
Tsumugi: Hmm… When Tasuku oversleeps, he’ll definitely have a cowlick on the left side of the back of his head— like that?
Banri: Of course. Childhood friends of 10-years deep have tons of info.
Tenma: Kinda stalker-y, though.
Tsumugi: Also, the wheezing sounds Hisoka makes during REM sleep is a little different from the wheezing sounds he makes during non-REM sleep.
Sakuya: So it has nothing to do with how long he’s known someone.
Banri: Tsumugi is the real deal.
Tenma: He’s definitely built to be a stalker.
Sakuya: B-But, you can definitely feel his love for the members!
Tenma: If we’re just talking about “observing,” I’m observing too!
Tenma: Yuki’s always like, “So obnoxious. Crappy actor.”
Sakuya: Wow! That sounded just like him!
Tsumugi: That was surprisingly good!
Banri: That’s just an impression!
Sakuya: Well, you can’t do an impression of someone without observing them closely.
Banri: Then I can do Hyodo impressions all day long. So sick and tired of him.
Banri: “Get lost. Jerk.”
Tenma: …How’s that different from your usual self?
Tsumugi: It really isn’t…
Banri: Hey, it’s totally different! Don’t lump me in with that guy!
Sakuya: Okay, my turn!
Sakuya: “A blowfish will strike ducks who smile, laugh, and grow fat.”
Banri: Hahaha! Spot on!
Tsumugi: Just like Citron.
Tenma: “Good fortune will come to the homes of those who smile, laugh and grow fat,” right?
Tenma: The nonsensical bit was very Citron.
Banri: How ‘bout Winter Troupe?
Tsumugi: I’m not too confident, but—
Tsumugi: “I shall present my poetic secret weapon.”
Tsumugi: “Distant montage / Continual décantage…”
All: Hahaha!
Banri: Hilariousss.
Sakuya: That is just like Homare.
Banri: “Not too confident”? You were totally into it!
Tenma: Oh, me, me, me!
Tenma: “Princes are so amazing~ Wish I could be one~”
Sakuya: Haha! It’s Muku!
Tsumugi: “Each and every spice is critical in curry. In other words, curry is like its own little world.”
Banri: Here comes the director out of left field!
Sakuya: That’s too real!
Tenma: You’re good!
/door opening and closing/
Sakuya: Ah, Director!
Banri: Oh…Director…
Tenma: N-No! We weren’t playing around!
Tsumugi: We weren’t fooling around either!
Banri: We weren’t practicing for an impression contest either!
Sakuya: We were seriously having a meeting!
Tenma: Honest!
Banri: Yeah! Like, uh, how we express our love for our members? Kinda?
Sakuya: Y-Yeah, yeah! Exactly!
Tenma: Like, how much we think about our members!
Banri: Well, that last bit was totally an impression contest, though…
Sakuya: Hm? Uh… the…meeting?
Banri: I mean…we were having a meeting…
Tenma: About…MANKAI Company’s…future operations strategy…
Tsumugi: Ehe…we got really off track, huh?
