Tsukasa Celebrates Valentine’s Day

Today, I finally dug myself out of a pile of reports and tests only to find out that the commercial conspiracy that is Valentine’s Day has crept up upon me. Excuse me for being a cynic here but being ronery does do that sometimes . orz

Tsukasa, however, is plenty happy as she gives out her homemade chocolates to the gang!

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Valentine’s Day in Japan is different in that girls are the ones who give out the chocolates. Chocolates given to (girl)friends are called 友チョコ(tomo-choco or friend chocolate), to guys or male collegues 義理チョコ (giri-choco or obligatory chocolate) and to a certain someone, 本命チョコ(honmei-choco). Guys who recieve such gifts are expected to return the favour on White Day, which falls on March 14.

Though, I heard from my sensei that this practice seems to be on the wane. Seems girls in Japan would rather recieve than give chocolate (who wouldn’t?). Then again, surveys are only so accurate. ^^

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Taking advantage of lunch break, Tsukasa proceeds to start giving out the chocolate she made, which she even packaged into nice little boxes.

The first to receive Tsukasa’s gift was Miyuki. Certainly not unexpected but definitely a pleasant surprise.

“For me? Why thank you!”

Next up is Konata. She is in the same class after all. Catching her mid-cornet, Tsukasa approaches.

Hmm… Why is Kagami standing outside the class room?

Konata recieves the chocolates happily. Unfortunately Konata has none for Tsukasa. A new game came out recently and time flies when you are having fun.

Konata blew her budget on the game anyway. At least there’s the cheap chocolate to look forward to after Valentine’s Day (Lucky Star Episode 13 ^^).

Why is Kagami staring so hard at Konata?

As the last bell chimes and school ends, Tsukasa makes a call to check with Nanoha and Fate about meeting up.

It appears though, that Nanoha and Fate have unexpectedly run off on a Valentine’s Day vacation somewhere. At least that’s what was said on the answering machine. Guess the chocolates would have to go to someone else.

Haruhi pops in looking for Konata, who unfortunately had just left the class room.

Tsukasa offers Haruhi some of her chocolates but gets rejected.

Appearently Haruhi is only interested in chocolates from aliens, time travellers or espers. Or any combination of the three. Tsukasa, unfortunately, is neither.

“I’m not interested in ordinary chocolate”

Haruhi leaves the classroom only to have Konata step back in again. Talk about luck. Since Tsukasa is almost done giving out the chocolates, Konata invites her to go home together.

Looks like Kagami followed in after Konata. Why is her face so red?

What are you up to Kagami?

“It’s not like I made it specially for you or anything…… I just couldn’t find a smaller box…”

Seems Kagami has been working hard too.

Anyway, Happy Valentines Day!

If you got someone to go out with, good for you!

If not, you can always come to our irc channel and hangout with the ronery people ^^”    orz