Name: Jyushimatsu
Instrument: DRUMS! Hype squaaaaaaaad!
Why are you in this band: It’s fun!!! I love seeing all the cool places and meeting awesome people! And I can make people dance, and that makes me happy!
Three bands that you put onto every mixtape: Reel Big Fish, Weird Al Yankovic, and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Guilty pleasure: Dunkaroos!
Shady Pines – Meet the Band! 6 of 6
Name: Todomatsu
Instrument: Keyboards, vocals, auxiliary percussion, additional strings, occasional electronic effects; a little of everything, really
Why are you in this band: It’s the best way to keep my brothers together and out of trouble, plus it’s an amazing way to express myself. And, you know, the popularity doesn’t hurt.
Three bands that you put onto every mixtape: Oasis, Björk, and Garbage
Guilty pleasure: Sometimes, when I can get to someplace that lets me use their dialup modem? I like to look for mentions of our band on AltaVista; there was a really nice fan page on GeoCities! I think they’d be thrilled if we signed their guestbook….
“… and so, as your managers, your father and I decided it would be a good idea for you to maybe branch out a little more, outside of the festival circuit.” Matsuyo stood straight, addressing her sons who were all piled together in a lazy stack on one of the two beds in their hotel room.
Matsuzo paced behind her. “It’d be a good change of pace. Indoors. Air conditioned. Just one song to memorize, instead of a full set. Air conditioned. Nice costumes, from what I gather. And I hear it’s air conditioned.”
“Costumes?” Ichimatsu and Choromatsu look each other in the eye, and make a little face. Choromatsu speaks up first. “Why would we need costumes for a gig? We usually just wear our own clothes.”
“And I’m usually set so I don’t need air conditioning,” laughs Osomatsu.
“We know.” Choromatsu says levelly. “I can count the number of shows you’ve kept your shirt on on one thumb.”
“The fans like it.”
“They’re just excitable!”
“BOYS.” Matsuyo interrupts, and her sons fall silent. “Thank you. The reason, Choromatsu, is because this isn’t a regular gig. This is a… a little different.”
“You’re selling cookies.” Matsuzo sighs.
“WHAT?”, the boys chorus, in various tones ranging from delight to horror.
“I know what you’re picturing,” Matsuzo continues, “and it’s not like you’ll be curbside, like those girl scouts.”
“It’s a commercial.” Matsuyo says firmly. “And you’ll be selling a new sort of… of breakfast cookie. Dark chocolate infused with coffee. They’re calling it ‘Ohayo Pori Choco’, and you’re supposed to be selling it like some sort of, er, indulgence.”
“Do we get free cookies?” Jyushimatsu pushes his bangs out of his eyes, serious.
“This is ridiculous. No one’s going to take us seriously as artists if we sell cookies,” complains Karamatsu. In a rare display, Ichimatsu and Totty nod in agreement.
“And according to Dekapan-sensei? You’ll be paid well.” Matsuyo holds out her piece of note paper with the circled figures triumphantly.
“Boy oh boy! I sure can’t wait to sell cookies!” Todomatsu stands up and punches the air enthusiastically, and the others cheer in agreement.
Matsuzo claps. “That’s the spirit, boys! And did I mention? There’s going to be air–”
“Air conditioning.” The sextuplets cut off their father in unison. “We know.”
((psst. Look-y here! 90s rockerboys bracing for the public eeeeeye.))
A young woman walks in wearing a pastel sweets Lolita themed dress. She walks up to the counter and speaks “May I have a serving of my darling Suiriku boys and surprise me with whatever you two I like all sweets”
Karamatsu is awfully impressed! “I’ve truly been blessed– so many of my fans have styles all their own!”
“So cute!” Choromatsu sounds a little uneasy, though. “This isn’t a complaint, by the way, because you look adorable, but…” Choromatsu frowns. “Isn’t it a bit warm for lolita fashion? Aren’t there, um. Layers? Or something?”
“Oh, Choromatsu. Nothing must stand in the way of one’s vision! Why, the weather is inconsequential when a statement is to be made!”
“Please, don’t listen to him. He nearly got frostbite wearing jorts in January.”
“…Your point?”
“You could have died!”
“Better to be doomed by fashion than anything else, my dear brother!”
In the end, you receive a brownie sundae topped with Choromatsu’s creme de menthe ice cream, a My Blue Heaven bubble tea, two gentle handshakes, and a blue and green keychain.
“Stay cool!✨”
“We mean it! Please don’t overheat!”
Choro my favorite green boy. I’d like a strawberry boba tea and a bowl of vanilla ice cream with fudge on it?
Choromatsu’s all smiles and giggles when he hears that he’s someone’s favorite. “Coming right up!” Choromatsu quickly proves that, at least when the others are occupied, he can actually be trusted with hot fudge. He tops off the ice cream with whipped cream with an emerald green streak, and draws a little froggy face on the bubble tea cup. Your hand is shaken with just enough firmness to be friendly, and, lucky you, your keychain is green on green! “Make sure to stay cool today, ok? Thank you for stopping by!”
Can I get a two scoop? And can Ichi pick the flavors for me? <:3
“Seriously? You trust me with this?” He seems flattered, but just a bit afraid. “Hm. Uh…” He grabs a cone, adding in a scoop of his special flavor, and… A scoop of… “No, that’d taste shitty with mine… No, gross, gross, even grosser, hm…” He finally settles on a lavender-vanilla flavor, topping it off with a dark chocolate cat silhouette. “Hey, the colors kind of match. I didn’t spoil it, nice.” He shakes your hand as softly as he possibly can, then hands you a mauve keychain with a purple Matsu stamped onto it. “Take care.”
Once they’re checked into the motel, and the boys are sent off into their respective rooms to scrub down and get some good sleep on a real mattress, Matsuyo and Matsuzo settle down into their own room. While her husband goes to take a shower, Matsuyo finally is able to call the person who paged her.
“Dekapan-sensei, I’m sorry for the delay in getting back to you!”, she chirps into the reciever. “Thank you so much for handling the calls for us this week. I’m guessing that one was a little more important than usual, since—“
She’s cut off briefly, and listens as the doctor reports back to her. “Mmhm? Yes. Oh? …. interesting.”
She picks up a pen, and starts writing down some information. “Might be difficult; it’s a couple hundred miles out of the way, and there’s only a few days we have to— wait. How much?”
Matsuyo writes a figure on her notepad, and circles it a couple of times. “And that’s— huh. Well, I won’t tell them how to spend— no, no. That’s all right. I’ll call them now. Thank you again, Dekapan-sensei.” She hangs up the phone as her husband comes back into the room, wrapped in a fluffy robe.
“Honey, what’s the story?”
Matsuyo picks up the pad and taps the number she circled. “Potential to get this.”
“… how? With our boys?” Matsuzo scratched his head, looking puzzled. His wife nodded.
“Lord, forgive me for selling them out.” She picked up the phone again and began dialing out.
Matsuzo looked at the numbers and shook his head. “I think they’ll forgive it this time…”
((ooooooh, I wonder where this is headed!))
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Soundtrack for season 2 will be released 8/15, look forward to that
So two VERY good imitators of Osomatsu and Karamatsu sang the first opening of season 2 and I haven’t seen anyone else share this??? Do yourself a favor and listen to it PLEASE
((by the way, the event is still going while I get planning for the big summer concerts, and a cluster of in-universe announcements! Keep sending in asks and getting your nice chilly snacks~))
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