Quick notes on Kurono.
Kurono's taken from chapter 221, more especifically, the moment in which he chooses to be freed from GANTZ and go home. Except instead of going home, he was sent to camp. *cackle* As a result of this, Kurono arrived in camp with literally nothing but the GANTZ suit. Spare change, his clothes, his porn is back in Japan. Even his underwear, since you can't wear anything under the GANTZ suit or we'd miss out on tasty humanflesh. (I should make icons of the random Kurono-ass shots. Because he really has a nice ass.)
Kurono spent his first hours in camp killing zombies, and then saw other campers. And he saw no one else was wearing a suit, so he put on the camp-issued sport clothes over the suit. Yes, he knows he looks like an idiot. Yes, he really wants to get new clothes. No, he doesn't actually have any money or access to the allowance I assume he gets from his parents.
So until he gets new clothes somehow, assume when you see Kei? That he's wearing the suit and camp clothes. He carries the camp issued laptop and, of course, the shotgun, with him at all times. He's been sleeping... on top of the showers closest to Cabin 10. If you can call that sleep. It's more like of a CONSTANT VIGILANCE, sleep-with-one-eye-open kind of slumber.
He's aware of the set-up for the camp. But he thinks it's a game and Nishi sort of implied that he wasn't incorrect. (They referred to both GANTZ and the Director as "psychobitches.") So Kurono's in game-mode, which means he's take-charge, not as awkward and less boobie-fixated, mostly. But this game has lots of idle time (loooots XD), so it won't be hard at all to catch him in idle mode. Chizuru already had a conversation with him like that!
And I was just reminded in IRC. Kei catches the kind of lame comedian jokes that only 30-year olds and older get. This is because Kei watches A FUCKLOAD OF TV. He lives by himself and doesn't have any friends, and he's continually shown watching something or other on TV (...he canonically watches Hard Gay). He has a Gundam in his apartment, too. But here's the trick. One of Gantz's wtf characteristics is that sometimes the cameo characters will resemble pop culture icons, but they're supposed to be their own person. One GANTZer looked like Lara Croft, another like the Ringu girl. So, as Kei assumes camp is another game, he recognizes some of the campers on sight... He just thinks they're their own person, as well. XD And that's what he'll assume until told otherwise.
I'm going to say right out that he doesn't watch shoujo anime. And anime doesn't seem to be his thing, anyway. The BIG pop culture icons such as Lupin, Sailor Moon, Doraemon, Gundam SEED... He SHOULD recognize, though of course I won't do it without permission. But he's not an obsessive fan of anything; think more a casual watcher of the LOTR movies to get what he's like.
edity time!: Most of this I said as a comment to Norma, and hopefully it will clarify stuff. XD Kurono's definitely not into anime or manga or games. He is just a teenager living in a country that has this stuff everywhere.
-> Kurono reads Jump in the train and leaves it on a seat when he's done. Very casual reader, probably doesn't remember names or plots, etc. He doesn't especifically pick up adult manga for gun cleanin', he's more the type to think guys who tickle his elmo to cartoons are losers and prefers his porn to be of unrealistically airbrushed actual people. So while he doesn't object to anime boobies, he's more likely to remember the latest model posing in her underwear than the name of a character in a fanservice series.
(KEY THING HERE: NO, HE DOESN'T MASTURBATE TO ANIME. THAT'S WHAT REAL PORN IS FOR.)
-> Given the choice to watch an anime episode or bad stand-up comedy, Kurono will pick the bad stand-up comedy every time.
-> He's not a gamer. If he's bored, he'll rent a PS2 and a game he's heard a lot about and play it for a couple days. He doesn't finish many of them.
-> Kurono's first reaction will always be to think your character is a person who looks like the character (and that's only if your character is a pop culture icon to this day) and don't make an issue of it. As I said, he interacts with a Lara Croft-lookalike and he doesn't say a peep. If disabused of this notion, he'll think your character is a person cosplaying a character. And he'll think your character is a loser and an anime otaku. Heh. Unless your character is female, in which case it'll probably remind him of his girlfriend, an otaku and aspiring mangaka. Double standard ftw! He'll bring it up in conversation if I think it can lead to crack and humor, but for me this kind of joke gets very old quickly, so I won't be doing much with it. Still, I thought a notice of sorts would be nice to have. (And there's this little thing where Kurono is one of my favorite characters ever and I love figuring him out and talking about him, so yes.)
Kurono spent his first hours in camp killing zombies, and then saw other campers. And he saw no one else was wearing a suit, so he put on the camp-issued sport clothes over the suit. Yes, he knows he looks like an idiot. Yes, he really wants to get new clothes. No, he doesn't actually have any money or access to the allowance I assume he gets from his parents.
So until he gets new clothes somehow, assume when you see Kei? That he's wearing the suit and camp clothes. He carries the camp issued laptop and, of course, the shotgun, with him at all times. He's been sleeping... on top of the showers closest to Cabin 10. If you can call that sleep. It's more like of a CONSTANT VIGILANCE, sleep-with-one-eye-open kind of slumber.
He's aware of the set-up for the camp. But he thinks it's a game and Nishi sort of implied that he wasn't incorrect. (They referred to both GANTZ and the Director as "psychobitches.") So Kurono's in game-mode, which means he's take-charge, not as awkward and less boobie-fixated, mostly. But this game has lots of idle time (loooots XD), so it won't be hard at all to catch him in idle mode. Chizuru already had a conversation with him like that!
And I was just reminded in IRC. Kei catches the kind of lame comedian jokes that only 30-year olds and older get. This is because Kei watches A FUCKLOAD OF TV. He lives by himself and doesn't have any friends, and he's continually shown watching something or other on TV (...he canonically watches Hard Gay). He has a Gundam in his apartment, too. But here's the trick. One of Gantz's wtf characteristics is that sometimes the cameo characters will resemble pop culture icons, but they're supposed to be their own person. One GANTZer looked like Lara Croft, another like the Ringu girl. So, as Kei assumes camp is another game, he recognizes some of the campers on sight... He just thinks they're their own person, as well. XD And that's what he'll assume until told otherwise.
I'm going to say right out that he doesn't watch shoujo anime. And anime doesn't seem to be his thing, anyway. The BIG pop culture icons such as Lupin, Sailor Moon, Doraemon, Gundam SEED... He SHOULD recognize, though of course I won't do it without permission. But he's not an obsessive fan of anything; think more a casual watcher of the LOTR movies to get what he's like.
edity time!: Most of this I said as a comment to Norma, and hopefully it will clarify stuff. XD Kurono's definitely not into anime or manga or games. He is just a teenager living in a country that has this stuff everywhere.
-> Kurono reads Jump in the train and leaves it on a seat when he's done. Very casual reader, probably doesn't remember names or plots, etc. He doesn't especifically pick up adult manga for gun cleanin', he's more the type to think guys who tickle his elmo to cartoons are losers and prefers his porn to be of unrealistically airbrushed actual people. So while he doesn't object to anime boobies, he's more likely to remember the latest model posing in her underwear than the name of a character in a fanservice series.
(KEY THING HERE: NO, HE DOESN'T MASTURBATE TO ANIME. THAT'S WHAT REAL PORN IS FOR.)
-> Given the choice to watch an anime episode or bad stand-up comedy, Kurono will pick the bad stand-up comedy every time.
-> He's not a gamer. If he's bored, he'll rent a PS2 and a game he's heard a lot about and play it for a couple days. He doesn't finish many of them.
-> Kurono's first reaction will always be to think your character is a person who looks like the character (and that's only if your character is a pop culture icon to this day) and don't make an issue of it. As I said, he interacts with a Lara Croft-lookalike and he doesn't say a peep. If disabused of this notion, he'll think your character is a person cosplaying a character. And he'll think your character is a loser and an anime otaku. Heh. Unless your character is female, in which case it'll probably remind him of his girlfriend, an otaku and aspiring mangaka. Double standard ftw! He'll bring it up in conversation if I think it can lead to crack and humor, but for me this kind of joke gets very old quickly, so I won't be doing much with it. Still, I thought a notice of sorts would be nice to have. (And there's this little thing where Kurono is one of my favorite characters ever and I love figuring him out and talking about him, so yes.)