As the author prepared herself,ready to type the first
word of this text,it's conscience materialized
in the form of a flame-heared bishounen.
Conscience walked up to the computer and leaned
casually there,letting Neplusa's evil and angry look
mingle with his breathtakingly beautiful one.

Conscience: "You're not really serious about this, are you?You're not really 
going to render yourself completely ridiculous,entache your reputation,
constern the elite of humanity?

-Yes I am.And please,go upstairs and watch Kekko Kamen
or Honey or Siren or any other freak you like right now.You're pumping my
 oxygen.

Conscience: That's funny;usually you look like you're so fond
of me
 you play tough girl just to antagonize me
and get me to come and play God-all-knowing.
Did I do anything wrong?"

He smiled, that kind of smile between the seductor look and the sad puppy 
face;so sweet it would make anyone rush for the toothbrush.

"-I just don't want other left-unnamed people to
think I'm Copying their style when my conscience pops up like that.

Conscience: You mean you aren't?

-Shut up.

Conscience: Touch�.

-Go away.

Conscience: Oh no,I'm not walking out on this one.Not
now that I'm actually -winning- an argument with you."

The author just smiled mischievously and grabbed something behind her
 computer.
A thing she unraveled.A hideous thing.A disgusting thing.A thing that
reeked of evil.
"A HANSON POSTER!!!"
She flashed her Evil Grin (TM) as her Conscience fled back to the
deepest pit of her soul where it belonged.The dark-eyed girl she was 
returned her attention to the computer screen.Don't try this at home,boys 
and girls.

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"This is the story of how Neplusa Ay'Manga once faced the Council of  
 Twenty-One Witches,
in hope of realizing her greatest aspiration: getting
passing grade for at least -one- of her classes.

She made an oral on anime.
And should have known better,you know. 

As Hotohori no Miko,um,Neplusa,walked to the Chief Witch's desk,she addressed
one last prayer to her patron saints,Saint-Antonius-of-Padoue and
 Saint-Judes.Saint-Judes being patron of desperate cases,she realized
just how desperate she really was;but then she was at the desk,and whispering
the subject of her every nightmare for the last 20 days."

"Hello,miss and class,today,I'll be telling you about anime."

"Neplusa realized how ridiculous that had sounded.That was a completely
classical start for an oral.Why,even that Greek lesbian in the corner
always ranting about Fiona Apple could say that.Then she remembered
the mistake they all made that made her run for her strangling gear."

"Okay LISTEN UP,PEOPLE",she shouted as she pounded on the adjoining TV set,
conveniently placed right next to her,"Anime stands for JAPANESE ANIMATION.
NOT CHINESE,NOT KOREAN,NOT VIET-NAMIAN,JAPANESE.If I hear
'Chinese cartoons' just one more time,there's gonna be stains on someone's
clothes and it's gonna be blood.Do I make myself clear?"

"She couldn't have been clearer.
At least the class went silent immediately.The only sound still audible
was that made by a pencil,miss Asuka (*anime personality similarity alert*)
 being busy scribbling something down
furiously.Neplusa wondered just how low that had just brought her oral mark,
then stopped worrying about it altogether.Making these people crazy was
just too much fun." 
 
"Okay,I know all of you either don't care, got no idea or the wrong idea
about Japanese animation.And so I've made photocopies of
 this 20 page resum� of
what I'm about to say,to make sure you understand everything."

"Another blow.She meant she actually cared about it?She didn't just pick up
the easiest subject just to get it over with,and then have fun?  
A weird girl,this D-chick."

"I've got images,posters,explanation books and videos.
I'll be showing them,and if there's but a scratch on my Neon Genesis
Evangelion movie poster,YOU ALL DIE.Here in the resum� I've got definitions
for all the terms I'll be using;if you don't know what an OAV is,
THEN SMELL THE ROSES,HONEYS.Any questions before I start?"

"The assembly was dumbfounded.Here she was,that not-so-tall 15-yearer,
talking to -them- that way,the Council of the Twenty-One Witches,supreme 
and uncontested
rulers of St-XXXXXXXXX Private Girls High School?

This 'anime' thing had to be some powerful drug.

As the images were passed around,a few mangas leafed through,
it became obvious that this was a force
not to be ignored.Anything capable of bringing a teenager out of classroom
torpor had to be looked into,the teacher pondered.

"-And then Neplusa spoke,and a land of opportunity seemed to live out of
her every words.      
She told of spaceships and cats,of aliens and mutants,weird animals and 
pretty girls.They learned that the purple-haired person was called 
a _bishounen_,that anime in a video-rental store was always adult-rated,
and the reasons behind that.They learned of great epics and small tales,
of dub,and sub,and their supporters.They discovered hentai,Hayao Miyazaki,
Street Fighter,Greenwood,Ranma 1/2 and right down to Goldrake,envisioned
swords and cyborgs,guns and amulets,aknowledged geniuses and ditzes,
completely entranced in what they were hearing."
"Finally,silence descended upon the room.
A single hand went up,looking at her expectantly.The lips right under
it started to move.They said something."

"When did you get interested in Chinese cartoons?"


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"Conscience: Well,you did what you wanted.As always.

-Hmmm.

Conscience: Any remorse?How do you feel about people mailing back for this,
and telling you off for the untalented writer and anecdotic bumbler you are?

-Don't pull the bad luck onto me,will ya?It doesn't need your help
to find me.Besides,how am I to get better if I don't get any comments?
By the way,I don't have anything against lesbians.I'm not sure yet wether
I'm not one myself.Only K-girl is very annoying.Don't throw flames at me
about it.

Conscience : All art is immoral.Oscar Wilde.

*Neplusa (Doing the Whatever-shrug) grabs the nearest bottle of Pepsi
from the hefty collection around her,and proceeds to beat her own record of
Pepsi-bottle emptying.*

Conscience: Y'know,that'll give you acne."

-I'll strangle you.

Conscience: Got the cheeriest thoughts for a young lady..."

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Neplusa "My conscience is a Go Nagai junkie" Ay'Manga
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