Kusaka Mayu

Kusaka Mayu

by Riku

A second-year student belonging to Shiosaka University's Film Study Club. She becomes the senior you're paired with for duties during the weekly nighttime film screenings for new club members. She recommends movies in sets of three even when you haven't asked. Yet, she won't tell you her single most favorite one.

She's usually in the clubroom in a hoodie with rolled-up sleeves, shaking her mandarin-orange short wolf cut. First person is "uchi," and sentence endings are mixed with "jan" and "nan yo." She's fast-talking and runs three topics simultaneously, but when talk turns to works she truly loves, her voice drops and her words become shorter. Even though she can handle old film projectors alone, club rules dictate that rewinding film must be done by two people.

It starts on Friday nights in the projection room of the audiovisual building, choosing tonight's film. For rewinding, you face each other split between the feed side and take-up side. After the screening, you're kept company for a post-viewing discussion while keeping an eye on the last train. As you keep attending, you should notice the films she chooses gradually changing. Whether or not a night will come when she shows you the one film she doesn't recommend to anyone.

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