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[restructuralcommittee]

Reminder that you can get your No. 6 content here!

To those coming from twitter - we are a long established No. 6 blog who hosts lots of fun events and tries to keep on top of official art posts and provide new content for you. Check out our discord as well if you’re interested. All fans welcome!

[aowyn]

[Podfic] September 7th

September 7th by @secretagentfan​ | read by @aowyn​

Length: 10:35, download: mp3

Shion’s worth more than whatever he can think of fitting inside a shitty box. At least, that’s what Nezumi thinks until shitty-box-giving-time comes around, and he finds himself empty handed.

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Category: M/M Fandom: No. 6 - All Media Types, No. 6 - Asano Atsuko, No. 6 (Anime & Manga) Relationship: Nezumi/Shion (No. 6) Characters: Nezumi (No. 6), Shion (No. 6) Additional Tags: Tooth-rotting Fluff, Post-canon Language: English

Happy birthday!!!! @secretagentfan​

[no6secretsanta]

Reminder that you can also follow this event on Twitter!

The No. 6 Secret Santa is affiliated with the Restructural Committee, so on Twitter the event is run through the official RC blog account: https://twitter.com/No6_RC

If you would rather get updates on the event through twitter, just follow @No6_RC ! Gifts will only be posted by us on tumblr, however.

(Reminder: Sign-ups are open until the 25th of November, and can be found >HERE<.)

[throughoutthestars]

Happy Valentine’s day! This is drawn for @restructuralcommittee‘s rczinegiveaway, and you can tell I was feeling some blue colors here. (Blue is a great color... even if it’s not a traditional valentine’s day theme thing lmao)

[ruetherae]

Finally back to drawing a bit! Some Nezushi right before Valentine’s ❤️

@restructuralcommittee

[restructuralcommittee]

Today, July 7th, marks the 10th year from the day that the first episode of the No. 6  anime aired on July 7, 2011. The anime is an adaption of the 9 volume novel series by Atsuko Asano and finished airing on September 16, 2011. The show was completed before the novels themselves were officially completed, so there is a slight change in how the story was developed, especially near the ending.  

No. 6 was licensed by Sentai Filmworks and available for streaming on Crunchyroll. Unfortunately, though, as of December 13, 2018, the license has expired and the production of the Blue-ray Disc and DVD has since stopped and is now unavailable on Crunchyroll as well as other legal streaming sites. However, an English fan translation of the novels is available at 9th-ave’s blogspot page, and the manga is still available for purchase from many online retailers.

The good news is that the fandom of No. 6 is still going strong. This blog, the Restructural Committee, was founded in 2014 (about 3 years after the anime first aired) and continues to run events such as the yearly Secret Santa ( @no6secretsanta ), the No. 6 Zine ( @no6zine ), and 2020′s Reunion Will Con online convention. Outside of tumblr and the No. 6 discord server the fandom is largely decentralised (although we do have a twitter @No6_RC). But that hasn’t stopped other fans such as the mods of the @no6-reunionzine from also creating their own No. 6-themed projects. And of course, many artists, writers, cosplayers, and fan creators have made beautiful works of art and craft to celebrate the story of No. 6 year after year.

So from all of us here at the RC blog - happy No. 6 anime anniversary, and we look forward to more years of No. 6!

[restructuralcommittee]

Happy Radio Dystopia Day!

Behold the results of the Restructural Committee’s survey for No. 6′s 10th anniversary, as well as the collage put together by the No. 6 Discord. These were both submitted to the Radio Dystopia event. The images were put together by @nezumivc103221, translated to Japanese by @origami10, and double-checked by @aowyn.

Additionally, we sent the event some questions, memories, and thoughts from our followers (also translated to Japanese). Thank you so much to everyone who submitted something. We loved reading all your heartfelt words.

The questions that we sent to the Japanese VAs were:

1. What about Nezumi, Shion, or the story of No. 6 has stayed with you after all these years? 2. Did working on No. 6 affect any aspect of your way of thinking or how you see the world? 3. Did you find it difficult to get into the character to perform Nezumi and Shion's voices? Or did you identify with them in some way? 

The first two questions were asked by multiple people and rephrased by us to encompass what everybody was asking. Aside from this, a lot of people wanted to know when the VAs thought reunion would come, or if there would be a season 2!

Followers’ memories and thoughts on an ideal city are below the cut.

MEMORIES

Although we loved reading all the wonderful memories you sent in, these are the ones that the committee voted to send for the event:

1. No.6 means a lot to me, since it was the first show I ever saw as a kid that actually had queer representation, with Dogloan as nonbinary, and Rat and Shion as mlm. Not to mention Safu being an amazing and unique character, being autism coded and not being infantilized. There were so many characters that I connected to in so many different ways, and it had an absolutely amazing story to boot.Ever since I watched it all those years ago, once a year or so, I binge watch the entire show from start to finish multiple times over, and every single time, it still takes my breath away, and I notice new things that make the show feel even more special to me. My one regret is not being able to find DVD copies for the country I live in, New Zealand, and not being able to find official English translations of the novels, lol.

2. No.6 is very dear to me. Before reading the novels I wasn't a big fan of books, but when I watched the anime, all I could think was "I want more of that," and so I read the manga and later the novels. There is no better way to describe how I felt reading those except that they made my heart warm, seeing Nezumi and Shion's interactions made me happy (especially the silly ones). After reading everything I could about No.6, I started to look for similar books, so you could say that No.6 got me into reading, and is the reason that I met many other great stories.

3. When I first encountered No.6 (the anime and novels), my country was starting to go through a very difficult period. And while I could see the similarities between the political and social issues addressed in No.6 and what was happening in my country, I could also see how my feelings sometimes coincided with Nezumi's, and sometimes with Shion's. I couldn't have known No.6 at a better time. It was an important way for me to cope.

4. The bees in No.6 are actually what got me interested in entomology, which I am goingto be studying in college.

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IDEAL CITY

And lastly, Onsen Radio (the host of the Dystopia Radio event) posed this question: “If you were told you could build an ideal city, what kind of city would you build? Please tell us five points that make an ideal city!” We found one response that seemed to encompass many of our respondents’ ideas in one. The version that we sent in was edited in order to make it easier to translate.

I would build a solarpunk city.   1. Every citizen will have all their primary necessities covered. This includes: water, housing and food access, clothes, cultural enrichement (theatres, cinemas, libraries, music, also included in education), education up until they want in whatever thing they want, health insurance for everything completely free including mental heath, etc. 2. The technology will be made to last as long as possible and will run on renewable sources, as the sun or the wind. No copyright; only a need to recognize the intelectual creator. Info about anything will be free to everybody, so no paywalls or academic access or monopolies interested on only making a profit. 3. Crimes will be obligued to do immediate reaparation to the affected when necessary and a whole program dedicated to help criminal reintegrate back in society, with good and human facilities even in cases where it's impossible for them to not reenact their crimes. No immunity of trial to anyone regardless of their social position. Also people are assumed innocent until proved guilty. 4. A council elected by sortie every two years of a poll of volunteers above 20 that have passed tests of aptitude (so people only interesed on themselves without caring for the people or without a minimum of knowloedge about how the city works cannot get a post) and govern. Any heavy change in laws will need to be voted by the general population possible thanks to technology. No leader will exist, only moderators and spokespersons.   5. Jobs will be leave to the discretion of the citizentry; they won't be mandatory. But with human workdays of 4 to 6 hours and three to two free days each week plus holidays of at least two weeks every two months, plus one big holiday every six months of a whole month I think people will gladly work and help themselves and others.   All of this will make a society where people will be free to be and love and do what they want, and who they want and be a little closer to that elusive happiness of humanity. I want to believe it, at least.

[restructuralcommittee]

Shion’s bday announcement!

Happy birthday to Shion! Normally on Shion’s birthday we might do a little something to celebrate, but since the Radio Dystopia (official No. 6 10th anniversary) event is happening this year on the 18th, we’ll hold off until then. We have MORE than one exciting announcement to drop then. We will be revealing the results of the No. 6 fandom survey, but there will also be another announcement.

Which of these could it be... a giveaway? a creative event? a contest? an event week? WE JUST DON’T KNOW (yet). Stay tuned!