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Night Before the Carnival Vol.1: Hesei Ban 1










The first group of Kajishima's Night Before the Carnival Doujins is the Heisei series.


It covers Kajishima's post Tenchi series (except for photon).


Aggaruter, Dual!, Masquerade, and if I recall correctly, there is even some early concept art for War on Geminar.






But, Before we go into any of that the first issue hits us with something way out of left field!








"I Don't have any idea what animu this is." You are probably saying to yourself.


Well guess what... IT'S NOT AN ANIME AND AS FAR AS I KNOW IT WAS NEVER RELEASED




This is the concept art for a work preemptively titled Waremono Choi




This can be translated out two ways:




Attention Fragile: A complementary shipping phrase to Tenchi Muyo which means "This side up!"




It can be also translated as




"Watch out boy!"




The text here says:









This is about my project that is tentatively titled wakamono choui.

It is an adults only 18+ pc game that I plan to do after Tenchi.

It is a monstrously big game plot wise, it has about 3-4 books worth of plot and is about 940 kilobytes in file size, It's taken me eight months just to write it all up.

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There is some more text after that but I haven't had the time to properly translate it

google says







In accordance with the advice that the scenario writer who played in that much amount "Masquerade" is surely planned according to the advice that it is better to make a simpler small work even in the sense of experiencing game-making know-how before making this Although it became a smaller work than "wakamono choui", from the common sense of the PC games due to the big stupid bastard (Kajishima) who is unknown to increase or decrease, it has made a big case as well, when can it be done I have no idea.




What i think this means is that his scenario programmer, the guy who takes his story and programs the events into the game, Told him that this was way too much and because of this he made his other work, Masquerade, which is a part of the game's story that was cut out to simplify it... or maybe meant to be a separate game altogether. but I can't say for sure at the moment.








These 5 women are mischievous spirit gods. Will they help the hero, or hump the hero?
Maybe they're only here to tease the hero.

Top Left Girl:


This is sekiren and she is the scariest when she is angry。The cause of good fortune。three women (That probably means These three women below)

Top Right Girl:


Kokuren, her eldest daughter, is a pleasure seeking care free Onee-san*。 What I mean to say is of all her family members, she is the one who is most open to engaging with the main character sexualy. ---------------------

Middle Girl:


Word bubble: I am...Biyakko, The story begins when we meet。


Bottom Left Girl:
This is Seiren she is the youngest, mentally speaking.

Bottom Right Girl:
This is Ryoukuren she has a twin sister who sometimes shows up in her place in certain scenarios.




Characters Part 1




Characters Part 2

From what I've heard these girls show up in a Chousen Ame Picture and are more or less genjika's of various japanese astrological signs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Symbols_(China)

They are the Shishen or four gods

the 四神 (Shishin) were expressed by four colors of Tame-sukashi technique. Four Gods are the special creature which protect four direction. Seiryu (blue dragon) is the East, Suzaku (red bird ) is the South, Biyakko (white tiger) is the West, and Genbu (black turtle) is the North.

The Doujin then goes to Masquerade:










While Designing that game I decided to go ahead and animate the other piece

The animation was completed before the game, which was having trouble in development and due to various circumstances the anime came out first.

Unlike with my other anime, Agga-ruter, this was a problem because it was impossible to release the anime without having it include spoilers for the game.

the next part says something either like "either one could work as a sequal to each other but the setting would have to be changed slightly and i would have to add about three more characters and i dont think my programer would forgive me if i did that."

or " It would be impossible to release a sequal to either the game or the show unless i changed the setting and changed/removed about three or so characters so please forgive me." Or " Neither one could be really considered a sequel to the other there are more then three characters in the game who don't appear in the show and it's in a slightly different setting"


to be honest i'm not willing to put in the translation effort to see what is correct the original text is



「御先祖贊江」

game進行中にanime化の企画がもう一つの作品と共に決まつた。オリジナルであるgameがなかなか進ま ないうちにanimeは完成してしまい、諸々の事情でanimeの方が先に出ることになった。 もうーつの作品 「agga・rutta」とは違い、animeかgame、どちらかがもうー方の続編という作り方が 出来なかったため、いくつかのネタバレが起こるのが 問題ではあるのだが、設定を若干変えてある事とanimeには出てこないキャラが三名増えているのでそこら 辺の所でご容赦願いたい。




The main idea however is that Attention fragile is the parent story of Masquerade, and in a lot of ways Attention Fragile was going to be the Hentai cousin series of Tenchi Muyo. Attention Fragile's apparent non release may be why Masquerade has never had a sequel or even a prequel.

if you look closely at the character sheets in the previous pages you will see a few of the characters from Masquerade in them.




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IMAGE ILLUSTRATION (Says the heading)






and now for Musings into the human mind from kajishima:




"At this point i can't really say much about the story, but these are the pictures of the main characters. Usually if i start with the pictures of the characters the story writes itself, but if I start with an idea for a story I have a harder time. I wonder why that is."

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"These are some of the original characters from the game that do not show up in the anime.

I'm thinking of making design changes to them."






Middle about purple hair girl: She is not the hero, but rather the hero is her brother.




about black hair noike, female tenchi with glasses and boring blond:




For these three people there is a possibility that they will not appear in the game at all

due how much their presence enlarges the amount of scenarios.


STORY BOARD






More musings by kajishima:

google says:

Draw after a rough story gathers up in your head. Make the ambiguous image a backlit one at this stage. However, when this stage is reached, I can not change the story anymore, so those who showed me want to give up like this (lol)




and i will leave it as that because its not important.




/

This page just says RYO-Chan...






here let me translate: Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng.

Ahhhhhhhhhh ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

hnnnnnnnnnnnnnng.

.... did that sufficiently enhance your understanding of that page?

Has anyone noticed before that most of the girls from this show match the girls from aggaruter? you have the ancient long grey haired lady

green hair girl looks like domanatrix girl from the cut episode

a blond like the stressed blond in aggaruter

a brunette.

most of the girls seem to have a match...




Speaking of aggaruter...




Then the Doujinshi goes to AGGARUTER:






「Masquerade」と違いANIME用に企画された作品である。この作品壬少年と年上の女性とのお話だ。「またか」そう思わるたろうが、それがどうした!俺はこのバターンが好きなんだ・誰にも文句は言わせない・・あつ何だその果れたような目はあっ...ちよつと待って!行かないでくれ!!年下もいるって。ぇ〜つと「DUAL」(仮)は...ー人・「GEMINAR」(仮)」は...0、「MASQUERADE」は一人いるし・・「われもの注意もー人。。。。それ以外のも。。。 見た目が年下でその実、数百歳つていうのなら何人かいるんだが。
AHAHAHAHAHAAH
Ok so google says: Unlike "Masquerade" it is a work planned for ANIME. This work is a story between a boy and a older woman. "Wondering" That seems so, but what did you do! I like this pattern I will not let anyone complain · · · What are the eyes like that? ... Wait for a moment! Do not go!ぇ ~ と つ と "DUAL" (provisional) ... · 人 · "GEMINAR" (temporary) · · · 0, "MASQUERADE" has one person · · · " Other than ... If it looks younger then it is true, if there are several hundreds of years old there are some people. ok... so i'm pretty sure that that says: "Unlike Masquerade this work is and was always planned as an anime. this work is a story between a boy and an older woman. You may be wondering what else is new... but i like this pattern! I Don't Want to hear anyone complain about it.... What why are you looking at me like that... Wait a moment.... DON'T GO! uhmmm in my other works i have been planning, Dual (provisional title) and War on geminar (provisional title) and even masquerade they all have one person who looks young but is actually several hundreds years old so you never know.



the bottom corner: a doodle of Sasami

AS far as i can tell literally nothing of importance is on this page just kajishima rambling casualy as usual.






I'm not bothering with this page this is a hey look at my new product teaser doujin not a hey

here's the secret details doujin.






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Episode 1

What's interesting here though is that Janis when she was taken into the circus had some sort of code number written on her head. odd.

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Episodes 2 3 and 4






Part of the unproduced episode 5






I think this is chibi the cat in the corner... but it says bobo-chan

uhm this is from the end of the 5th episode which never happened. I think./




That now leads to another odd part




This is another unreleased and presumably 80's anime concept he may have come up with




"Although it is sudden, because there are not enough pages, I decided to pull out the picture I drew ten years ago. The pictures which Ive included are mainly composed of two separate sets of drawings which i drew about 10 years ago but they were based on a rather long work that i wrote in high school which became the basis of tenchi and the related works. as you can see i have recycled names such as lashara and koro-chan.







The girl with red hair is a prototype for Misaki the first emperor's sister.




(ok so i'm getting lazy i know but while it definitely says this it say a few other names and says something about the harem genre here I'm not really willing to waste the time translating it.]



bottom right: Koro-chan






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I conveniently translated this months ago and forgot all about it and it was saved in my workspace...




yay




how i got such a clear translation i do not know





It was scheduled to be a collection of storyboards for this work this time, but I suddenly became busy and I could not draw. Although the work itself was thought to be "Masquerade" and "Agarutter", there are no plans to do it for now.


My Other, future plans


Currently, 2 works are decided besides those posted in this book. Both involve robotics, but there is a funny story about this. But I can not talk right now for a moment's sake. ( but It is not that big of a story) - The first one has already been in production and if it is on schedule it will be televised ( on satellite) of all 13 episodes next spring. Although the production of other work is fixed, the form of presentation has not been decided yet. Silhouette is a draft of two mecha dramas.


As it is still more than half a year later untill it aire (it is hasn't even been announced the autumn 's new programs) it can not be shown. Sorry for just the ssilhouette .... The third character from the middle in the middle and the bottom from the left is the hero of each work. Other than that, all ~ parts, are secret ... Well imagine and enjoy.


Besides this, although there are some works (also the things talked to the president and the producer) though it is, it is in a state where it is stopping at all work specifically determined, so other things It is in a state that you do not understand what to do if it becomes. · · · Well, I think that it is a really prominent problem, but I do not have physical strength (?) Of the head, to deal with things that not go forward with production .







the part above shows characters from geminar and dual, meaning these shows were conceptualized

very early on Geminar must have faced massive delays.






A dissection of the picture from Chousen Ame

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This book(hesei ban 1) is the second personal magazine of me (Kajima). The first book was a book called "The night before the festival" which became the source of this title. Although you may find some of them, it is also a subtitle of the topic's special, and the seventh tenchi OVA episode. I posted only the front cover on the right, but this doujinshi was issued in the winter comic held at the Tokyo Distribution Center in 1987, 2 O (Department of Evil Editorial Department) 2 O (Department of Elementary School) was issued. Of course, the subtitle of Tenchi Muyo was taken from here. As we can see from the picture of the cover, as for the contents of this same person, as is clear from the original picture of "Gal Force Space Chapter 2", it became the origin of "Tenchi Muyo" and "Photon" Manga (or rather an image board?) And so on. Anything looked at 12 years ago so now it's embarrassing (picture) is a substitute, but it has been confirmed that the picture is progressing well ... well, maybe it can be said that it can be a material that can be a safe tower . This time, editing was done with Photoshop 5.0. Just comfortably! If we had this specification before (price of the equipment and my annual income as well) I would like to have created a collection of materials that was the top and the bottom of the world ... It is really disappointing. But, well, it was a good age. Since "Masquerade" and "Aggaruter" are also before release this time, the story board etc. are posted only in part. Indeed, things near this double have not been posted yet. I would like to make a book that lists all the materials at the earliest next summer, even in late winter ... · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · · Sorry, I do not know what will happen. As for the future schedule, I think that I would like to hear the most, perhaps because of the relationship between the heaven and earth, so if I say it in the range that I know now, the novel of "true · Tenchi Muyo" is said that this year Although it is a thing, I can not absolutely say, in the current situation. Just because I want to manage my mind next year. Then for the third phase of OVA it is absolutely undetermined. In some cases, even though novels alone are considered, the actual problem, the work called "Tenchi Muyo" is mentally very heavy work for me. It is not something that can be done with other jobs. And of course, there are also physical problems. Unfortunately, it is impossible for me to do animation production that requires a lot of human resources (also production cost). Just saying that there is more possibility than animation if it is a medium such as a novel, this is not immediate soon. Anyway, absolutely in some form (please do not be a coterie) Please be sure to announce so please be patient.














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