Episode 2.5: The Critical Derailment of a Television Series When A Character Googles

[grandest_delusion]

[The screen shows Nobuo who is working from a computer in the hotel. And he looks... oddly solemn as he shuts down the computer screen, the image of Google clearly behind him.

Drawings his knees up to his chest, he laid back in the hotel room, staring up into the roof. And with a single breath, he uttered three words.]

Onore... Hatte Saburo...

[Someone just looked up his name on Google. Talk to him in-person or on the network maybe?]

Comments

[oceanicbutterfly]

You put in your name, didn't you?

[grandest_delusion]

Yeah... I don't know why I did but... I just decided to try it and...

... It's pretty bad.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Yes, don't do that. It's generally a bad idea.

[grandest_delusion]

If I had known, well... ugh...

[Rolling over on his stomach he put his pillow over his head, his voice muffled by clear enough.]

I discovered I'm fictional, a character in a show called Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Mine is Yes! Pretty Cure 5, and I also found disturbing pornography of myself.

[hisownpath]

Eh? What's wrong, old man?

[grandest_delusion]

Lots of things, but it's a weird dilemma I'm in.

I discovered I'm just a character in a TV show. Quite literally. My whole existence is due to Hatte Saburo, the god of Toei.

[hisownpath]

--Seriously!? That's... I don't know where to begin with that one.

But what to do plan to do now?

[grandest_delusion]

Well... I dunno actually. I mean, apparently we fight to keep the show from being cancelled but we still "end" on episode 12 with a recap episode on 13.

[hisownpath]

If I were you, I'd just keep fighting! Don't let someone else decide what happens to you, follow your own path.

[boostup4beetbuster]

Well, shit.

...

[Jin tries to think of something comforting to say.]

At least you're not being run by Joss Whedon--get a great season and canceled anyway.

[And fails.]

[grandest_delusion]

... that is even less helpful Jin!

[boostup4beetbuster]

Well, this is why I don't google myself!

[grandest_delusion]

I didn't think I should but I was looking for sentai information when it popped up.

[boostup4beetbuster]

Great, well...

...What happens IF you're canceled anyway? I mean, think about it--if I'm a show and Marvelous and Gai are a show, they had to have been canceled already, but they're here. And the Riders? They're still here.

'Course, they haven't run out of things to do yet.

[pintsizedpyro]

Geez, what's with the doom and gloom there, buster? You're gonna end up makin' me depressed or nauseous at this rate, c'mon, spill!

[grandest_delusion]

... I guess since i'm telling everyone... I'm fictional, just a character in a television show, Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger, a show that shows on TV at 11pm every week.

[pintsizedpyro]

...what.

[grandest_delusion]

It's probably over your head but that's my world. It's a show, a television series that can be cancelled. And now because I became self-aware, I'm most likely painted a huge target on my friends.

[pintsizedpyro]

How's that even work? And how the hell'd you find out?

[slowdown]

Did you find out something from a search that you didn't want to know?

[grandest_delusion]

Yeah you could say that. Turns out that my world is a Television Show, for real. It's called Unofficial Sentai Akibaranger.

[slowdown]

A television show ?...

How can that even be if you didn't have scripts or even know you were being filmed.

[grandest_delusion]

That's the thing about this: Hatte Saburo set it all up that we don't notice any of that. To us, we're living our lives. To the outside, we've even got a opening theme.

[slowdown]

So it's like hidden camera realty t.v almost?

Is the opening cool at least? I mean the opening is what draws people in to watching so it has to be good!