Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo belongs to Yoshio Sawai, Weekly and Viz's Shonen Jump and Toei Animation. Don't know the US company involved with the anime, but I'm using their dub names. Any non-dub names used are of characters not yet introduced. I have no ownership of this, but I sure want merchandise. Sell it to me please! And more manga, please! Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo rocks! All anime mentioned don't belong to me, either. Feed my c2 list and forum!

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After 11 straight days of shooting the first batch of tests and scenes for my stop-motion anime, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and friends stalled yet again… um, were nice enough to help me clear my shooting space. Everything fit nicely inside Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo's afro. I must say I was grateful for the help, but I'm starting to think they're stalling on purpose.

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Pickles and the junior boss of Don Patch's gang met at a pachinko parlor and fell in love.

Do you really care? Um yeah.

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Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo looked meaningfully at Don Patch.

Can we please just rescue your friend? At this rate, he'll end up dead or widowed before we get to rescue him.

"I think the author's right! I'm going to just rescue Jelly, married or not!" Softon decided. And he did so.

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo looked thoughtful before he grabbed Don Patch's hands. Hatenko looked thrilled, being so obsessed with Don Patch but not in That Way. Oh yes, last week's episode was enough to give me confidence to use him more here. Out of the corner of his eye, he noticed Captain Battleship's (still in pigtails- cuteness!) smoldering gaze. He felt the same way, but he was afraid. Gyorai had really broken his heart, some 7 years back, and he was afraid to take that leap again. Would Captain Battleship break his heart again? Hatenko wasn't sure, but he'd probably complicated things last night with their Vegas wedding. Yes, the –ko suffix commonly found in Japanese girl names was enough to convince the Elvis officiant to perform the ceremony. But was Hatenko ready to risk giving his heart away again? Dude, that's something you decide before the wedding.

"You're picking on me," Hatenko hissed.

I really don't want to get in a fight with the characters, so let's just keep the story going.

"No. We're going to settle this right now."

No, we're going to a new scene. Deal.

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Softon walked through the dark room, looking for Gyorai. In most slash fics, it would be her evil betrayal that led to Jelly's kidnapping.

But not here.

She'd moved on in between one of the chapters since I wrote her last. She went on a bunch of blind dates and double dates, and one panned out. Denga and Tony Tony Chopper (now that's the ultimate Kawaii couple, ne?) introduced her to Meowth from Pokemon. So now she was living with the feline Pokemon and Supportive of Softon's rescue effort.

She just wasn't going to do much, but she's not some disapproving, spurned type that reveals the author's misogyny.

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"Before you meet my mom, I need to tell you exactly what to say," Tsar Baldy Bald IV told his bride as they took the stairs up.

Jelly nodded.

"She thinks my Empire is a waste of time, so I've been pretending I'm a salaryman. So I can't very well introduce you as one of my generals. You have to say you were an Office Lady at my company."

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So what are the others up to?

"Let's open up a restaurant in Santa Fe," Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo decided, Don Patch's hands in his own.

This isn't Rent.

Hatenko's eyes widened with shock, "It's not? Then why am I dressed like this?"

Don't ask me. I'm not your character designer.

To make a long story a tad bit shorter, Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo and the others put on a touring production of Rent.

"Why am I playing Mimi?" Gasser yelled. Chill, at least Beauty's playing your love interest. Poor girl's given up questioning the madness, but she's disturbed.

Unfortunately, the Tokyo stage was full of musical productions with anime casts that season. The Shaman King cast did the Producers, Yu-Gi-Oh Phantom of the Opera, Fullmetal Alchemist a musical version of Invader Zim, Hamtaro Sweeney Todd, and those Digimon kids work-shopped a musical version of Brokeback Mountain. And I may publish cast lists later if you're curious.

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But this chapter ends here, as Jelly is about to meet his mother-in-law. He felt queasy, and yet it couldn't just be nervousness. It was such a nice morning, even if he'd been raped by his husband the night before- so why'd he feel like throwing up?

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"Why ist I in this story?" Faust VIII asked. "Mpreg isn't mein thing und this ist the wrong fandom for me."

Um, because you already have the same VA as Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo in Japan. So deal!

As for me, I'm going to make my dinner and watch South Park now.

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Next chapter over the weekend! Yatta!