Chapter 112: Sports Meet, Commence
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
“Alright. I guess Akagi is okay too.”
Meng Fan knew his body shape had been a consideration. Although he had lost a sufficient amount of weight, he was still far from being lean and muscular.
w.a.n.g Ya Nan finally found what she was looking for. Taking out a white wig, a white stick-on mustache and a pair of gla.s.ses. She handed them to Meng Fan. “You’re Coach Anzai.”
Meng Fan felt queasy. “I’m skinner, SKINNIER okay? Can’t you give me a role that’s not fat? It’s been three years!”
w.a.n.g Ya Nan pointed to Zhang Zhou Wei, who had been squatting in the corner, questioning his life. “Then go trade with him.”
Meng Fan curiously walked over, kicking Zhang Zhou Wei lightly. “What are you? Why does it feel like someone did that to you!”
Zhang Zhou Wei looked at Meng Fan, and there was a blank expression on his face. Moving is a b.u.mmer, he revealed his props. Meng Fan was stunned. “The basket?”
Zhang Zhou Wei wanted to struggle, but seeing w.a.n.g Ya Nan, who had been distributing the props, he gave up and admitted defeat. Why did his girlfriend have to play a role like this?!
“Are you going to switch?”
w.a.n.g Ya Nan finished giving out the props and looked to Meng Fan.
Meng Fan shook his head frantically. “Coach Anzai is okay, at least he’s alive. At least…” Meng Fan pointed to all the guys who were a.s.signed a basketball uniform and a red wig. “These plebs have to call me dad.”
To be honest, Meng Fan thought he was most suitable to cosplay Kuroko.
“Dad!”
The guy cosplaying Sakuragi ran over undoubtedly. He reached to touch Meng Fan’s chin, which Meng Fan did not shy from. He gave him the satisfaction of brus.h.i.+ng his chin twice.
w.a.n.g Ya Nan clapped her hands together, notifying everyone to look over. “Our theme this year is basketball. Aside from the players from “Slam Dunk” and “Kuroko no Basuke”, all the other people will act as cheerleaders.”
All the boys had been a.s.signed roles as basketball players, like Xing Ta Ge who was cosplaying Rukawa Kaede. The girls cosplayed the managers and other female characters, such as Haruko, Ayako, Rukawa’s cheer squad, Satsuki Momoi, Riko Aida, etc.
The rest were free to choose. Either way, it did not matter if the characters were holding pom-poms, which were actually cheerleaders or not, as long as the setting made sense and the scene looked harmonious.
As for Zhang Zhou Wei… He actually had another role to choose from, an important one as well. Tetsuya #2 from “Kuroko no Basuke”.
But in the end, he chose to be a basket!
Although the basket would be smashed by the actors during the opening ceremony, at least he won’t have to bark!
Besides, the basket was the most part of the opening performance. Of course, someone had to cosplay it. Yes. This was how Zhang Zhou Wei consoled himself.
w.a.n.g Ya Nan spoke of the procedure for the opening ceremony, then began their rehearsal. The contents were simple, except for Zhang Zhou Wei’s role of the basket, who had to accept the baptism from the basketball cosplayers.
“Ya Nan, I thought about it, I think the role of Tetsuya #2 fits me more!”
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October 15th, the opening ceremony kicked off in the golden hours of autumn.
At 8 o’clock, the representatives from each department began entering to the background music of “March of the Athletes”.
Athlete representatives?
Of course not. How can there only be athlete representatives? It was impressive enough for one-third of the strange people in colorful costumes to be athletes. In other campuses, there might be a larger population of athletes, but for an event hosted at the south campus, the proportions of athletes would be much lower.
For example, all five years of Meng Fan’s department, the freshmen, soph.o.m.ore, junior and senior, and graduate students marched out. All members dispatched!
After discussing it, the animation department settled on sports cosplay as their theme. The freshmen’s theme was tennis, the soph.o.m.ores football, the juniors basketball, and seniors baseball.
The graduate students were certified bada.s.s. They all cosplayed as hip hop girls from “Keijo!”
The Keijo girls was an overhead sport. It tells of the story of a compet.i.tive girl who had all kinds of abilities. ‘Keijo’ was a sport in which the girl used her b.u.m and her b.o.o.bs to compete, various abilities including diamond b.u.t.tocks and gravity hips… You must be thinking if all the characters are women, then what will all the boy graduate students do?
It’s so simple! Which one of them wasn’t a genderbent uncle!
The animation department’s freshmen and soph.o.m.ores continued to flow out, with Meng Fan’s year following close behind. The first to appear were the cheerleaders, from basketball animes and visiting characters from other animes. In short, they were all holding cheerleading pom-poms, shaking them as they headed for the main podium, lively and youthful.
Following them was the most important act—Zhang Zhou Wei came out with a basket on his back, detonating the rhythm of the audience immediately. Cosplaying a basket could only be something you see but do not want to do.
Staggering to the front of the podium, he was closely followed by the handsome appearance of the “basketball players”. Each one held a basketball in their hands, and regardless if they knew how to dribble or pa.s.s, their postures were very handsome. As they neared the stage…They began to shoot. An array of b.a.l.l.s came flying at Zhang Zhou Wei, who took off running with the basket on his back.
It was a chaotic scene, but the atmosphere was happily heating up.
Lastly, Meng Fan entered, wearing his suit and wig, slowly heading over. He was a far distance away from the podium. Once Zhang Zhou Wei had stopped and ran a few steps, Meng Fan threw the basketball he had in his hand across at him. At this time, the distance between them was about that of a basketball court.
Whoosh.
He scored!
The audience went silent in an instant. It was as if the BGM had been crushed right before the stadium erupted in cheers. Even a few of the school leaders on the podium had stood up in applause.
What kind of G.o.dlike luck is this!
Hearing the roaring cheers, Zhang Zhou Wei let out a deep breath. Although they had practiced this several times yesterday, he was still frantic when he stopped to wait for the ball!
During their rehearsal, Meng Fan did not score each shot, trying to keep his. .h.i.t rate at once every three or two times; otherwise, it would be too excessive.
Of course, for Zhang Zhou Wei to cooperate, they allowed him to wear a hard hat so he didn’t get smacked in the back of his head.
After the shot, Meng Fan stood amid the cheering, comfortably striding leisurely like coach Anzai towards the podium. At this time, two people in the cheerleader squad pulled open a banner with a few words on it—
Your elder will always be your elder!
The text on the banner faced the field; they weren’t arrogant enough to show it to the school leaders.
The school superiors had guessed it wasn’t anything proper, but they still followed along.
With the G.o.dlike entrance of the third year animation department, the senior year’s entry seemed a lot more normal. Only, the audience blew up again when the graduate students entered in their uncle like lady outfits.
“Hahaha, this year’s animation department is too savage!”
“The best this year!”
“They’re even better than last year’s calligraphy department!”
“If senior Ah Nin dressed up as a girl, it would kill everyone here!”
“This iron hero is the most savage!”
“I’ve seen him live-stream his basket shooting, he’s super accurate!”
“If I didn’t know he also streamed drawing, I would have guessed he was a specially enrolled athletics student!”
At the end of the entrance ceremony, the school’s leaders began their speech. There were people who listened carefully, but most of them forming small discussions on the side. Both, however, grasped the timing for each applause.
Once the speech ended, they announced the end of the opening ceremony. Next came the charity sale. Extending across the entire track field, the entire venue became a market.
Part of this event was so the students could sell the costumes from today’s opening ceremony, where customers could line up in an array and grab whatever they fancy.
The other part was so people could sell their own work, as well as other items.
Aside from the faculty and students who partic.i.p.ated in the sales, there were members from the community as well.
Compared with the sports meet itself, the charity sale was an even more important aspect of the meet. After each charity sale, the school would donate the revenue to a charity each year.
The festivities continued until noon when the charity sales’ stalls were withdrawn from the track field. However, the stalls outside the track continued to stay in business and would stay until the end of the sports meet.
At one in the afternoon, the sports meet officially started.
Meng Fan only had one event to partic.i.p.ate in this afternoon, and that was the men’s shot put. There were less than 20 people in total who had signed up, so there was no need for group preliminaries.