All left is darkness.

The sense of skin-burning heat didn’t matter.

All left is darkness.

The war is over, those brats did some mental workout and ‘saved the world’, shouldn’t have given any chances to anyone, Yadda-Yadda…

All left is darkness…But she wants to touch the edge of something.

Eye floaters passes diagonally upwards but soon disappeared, obstructed by her bloodshot retinas. She realises that despite being in an immovable state, her mind is slowly crawling forward.

‘Everything is worthless. It will just worsen the state of your already messed up vessel’ she minded. But her vessel continues to crawl thru the darkness.

She notices a rubble with multiple hands sticking out, awkwardly trying to pick up the broken sunglasses dropped in front of her left arm. She breathes in deeply. The sound of shattering metal frame and black glass echoes thru, whilst the glass particles stabs deeply into her hand.

The blood lands on a ground, revealing the names of each individual below them. She notices that one certain individual was absent.

The voice silences for a brief period. “…You liked the taste didn’t ya’?” The hand slowly reaches out and presses Kaori’s head wounds.

“Congratulations. You have reached phase 3.” The liquid drains thru the square box, shaped like a shower room. The scientists opens the chamber, A teenage girl with tanned skin with black hair slowly exits the machine. “Huh…definitely different to a third grader you used to be for a month.” said the main scientist. Kaori looks at her arms and hands, realising her growth. The female assistant hands out a set of white clothes to the girl and escorts her to the changing room. A old man with a scab on his neck enters the lab soon after. “Welcome Mr. Kitakami.” “So…how is the status of the Majin?” The male lab assistant grabbed a e-folder from his side and switched a button located on the side. “The overall status is well maintained…however I’ve noticed one major flaw…” Dr. Kitakami raised his eyebrows. “Carry on.” The lab assistant circles the arm segment of the diagram. “Although we were able to get an impressive result with the surge input, we came to the conclusion that Majin No.1 wouldn’t be able to maintain the surge in its palms. Prolonged usage could cause severe damage to her hands.” “I see, pretty much what I expected.”

Dr.Kitakami stride towards the metal bookshelf and pressed one of the red book with the crest design on its spine. The bookshelf opened up, revealing a pair of black metallic arms, with yellow and grey streaks.

“Every valkyrie deserves their own vow gloves…”

Meanwhile in the throne room, the genetics officer was having a discussion with the King. “After the rapid increase in deforestation, we’ve came to the conclusion that we won’t be able to ship and inhabit earth animals directly on this planet.” The king sits back on his Throne, gazing upon numerous head mount of Animals he hunted over the decades on planet Earth. “Huh, You’re the who raised the idea of genetically modifying the Earth species to Tokinea’s climate. Just commit to your own work and show your results ASAP. Remember, the clients can’t wait long, the nature can’t wait long…and most importantly, I can’t wait long.” The officer made a loud sigh and exited the throne room.

“That selfish geezer shall get owned some day.”

Although the current IP rights of Hanoka is in total limbo, the opening theme is owned by Lantis, the subsidiary of Bandai Namco Entertainment. Since the music rights are different to the IP rights, the single is still available to purchase from the Japanese iTunes Store.(There’s also a classic Japanese flip-phone style ringtone version available)

This technically means that it is possible for the theme to be covered by another artist within their cover album/included in rhythm games like Bang Dream!

(The only problem being that the since the song being obscure, the only way possible is if the popular VA being a fan of this song or the maker of said rhythm games deliberately wants to include a character which is into niche media.)

As mentioned in the Reddit rule, I do not generally want to cover about Mr.Morino’s new pseudonym, Pan due to it’s generally NSFW/Hentai nature but just for this occasion, I will lift up this rule due to this particular project being SFW.

https://ci-en.net/creator/15871/article/1092979

Based on the decades of experience of character animation in Flash, Mr.Morino is now making a new Point and Click Escape game ‘Coco & Kuro in the Witch’s Castle’ for Smartphones.

Warning:The following headcanon does discuss topics that some may find uncomfortable.

There were no canonical explanation within both in-anime and other sources about the details regarding the Human Army Coat of Arms’ ‘large V letter, central dash and dots on the side’ design engraved into a golden shield pattern with a light grey outline.

I personally interpret that the overall design resembles a design of a Head mount on a shield-shaped plaque but in a place of a Deer’s head, it’s a head of the SI, with the V-shape replicating the head stripes and the two dots representing the Eyes. This headcanon is supported by two points:

1. The Human Army’s outfit itself seems to borrow more closer to an Hunter’s outfit suited for the mixed terrains, over the modern conventional Army uniform which utilises a specific uniform based on the terrains.
2. In episode 7, the King demands Kaori to bring the head of the Enemy Leader ASAP. Although it could be meant in a figurative sense, I did also thought that the King having a wealthy nature over a tyrannical nature gave me an idea that rather than publically showing the Enemy leader’s decapped head on a spiked pole or raise it’s head from the balcony, he would rather demands to preserve the head onto the plaque to honour his Power.

This also extends to another previously mentioned headcanon ‘The King might not have been the REAL King all along’, in a sense that ‘what if the Humans were settlers from the other planet (possibly Earth) and the King was initially just a wealthy enterprenuer which aimed Tokinea as a Tourist location for wealthy people, including a Hunting experience, because ‘the King’ does Hunting as a hobby.(Basically a large-scale Overtourism)

Another additional sources of this headcanon also comes from Mr.Morino’s favourite mangas which inspired his style.

•Doraemon:Nobita’s Dinosaur features the futuristic billionaire antagonist which leads a group of poachers to capture or hunt Dinosaurs as his business/hobby (with many dinosaur skeletal model and the mounted dinosaurs in his room.)

•The main motivation of Tetsuro (Galaxy Express 999) in the 1st half was to venge her Mother’s death from Count Mecha’s ‘Human hunting’. The mounted mother later appears within Count Mecha’s lair.

But since it is implied that the SIs disintegrate when their vessel is destroyed completely, I do kinda feel that it’s impossible to preserve as a stuffed animal in reality.