Hanako vs Shizune

[Out-All Knight]

And I was rooting for her since I've finished her route, muttering "Show that Deaf Opponent your mad skills!"

Then LOL when Shizune switches to speed chess, Poor Hanako looking very dazed.

[Mirrormn]

And I was rooting for her since I've finished her route, muttering "Show that Deaf Opponent your mad skills!"

Remember, she's not really all that great at chess at the beginning of her own route, and only gets serious about it once Hisao starts playing her (the scene where she checks out a book about advanced chess strategies from the library). Thus, in Shizune's route, where Hanako never forms that bond with Hisao, and thus never takes chess all that seriously, Hanako doesn't really have any "mad skills".

[Guest Poster]

I do think she was always serious about it...Hanako's secretly pretty competitive, even though she's usually far too shy to show it. It's just she didn't really have a reason to develop her potential due to the fact that she's lacking people in her life to play against. The only person she plays it with is Lilly initially, who doesn't offer much challenge. Most people don't have the drive to develop their skills when they're already consistently winning and I guess the same is true with Hanako. When Hisao beats her during her Act 1 ending, she obtains a reason to brush up on her skills and starts reading books about it in order to get better. She was never bad at it though. While she loses the initial games against both Hisao and Shizune, both acknowledge it took them significant effort to beat her. Due to her solitary life, Hanako's "mad skills" are just an extremely dull knife that desperately needs to be sharpened.

[Megumeru]

Are we doing this AGAIN...?

Oh God no...I spend too much time already going through Lilly and Shizune's arc over and over again in the other board defending her (Shizune) with all my might, arguments, conclusions, analysis, etc...
Someone just link what we had discussed before to the other post about Shizune and Hanako's chess game. I was almost certain we'll be debating again like 'Team Shizune vs Team Lilly'.

...then again, it did gave me some incentive to reread Hanako's route and dig the crap out of every single obtainable information there are.

ALTHOUGH, if this actually connects to the other 'Team Shizune vs Team Lilly' board...
does this mean 'Team Shizune' is the victor? lol

[lolawesome]

I knew it was all over during the chess game when Shizune put on HER RAPE FACE

[lolawesome]

[themocaw]

You know, in light of Hanako loving chess mostly as a means of getting to know other people, her decision to take it more seriously in her route is kinda charming.

[Oddball]

ALTHOUGH, if this actually connects to the other 'Team Shizune vs Team Lilly' board...
does this mean 'Team Shizune' is the victor? lol

She has Jigoro as a father and Hideaki as a brother. She can never truly be called a winner.

[metalangel]

I knew it was all over during the chess game when Shizune put on HER RAPE FACE

Especially since nobody's made a move yet and Hanako already looks terrified.

[SirLadette]

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Dat smirk...

[lolawesome]

I knew it was all over during the chess game when Shizune put on HER RAPE FACE

Especially since nobody's made a move yet and Hanako already looks terrified.

It was 2 and a half seconds after Misha translated that Shizune wants to make it interesting by stripping off a piece of clothing for each chess piece lost

[Mirrormn]

It was 2 and a half seconds after Misha translated that Shizune wants to make it interesting by stripping off a piece of clothing for each chess piece lost

Oddly relevant...

[metalangel]

Oddly relevant...

Well, there's the 'voiced' version of KS someone wanted...

[Megumeru]

Oddly relevant...

Well, there's the 'voiced' version of KS someone wanted...

Voiced? What voice? All I'm hearing are vibrations into my deaf ears...
*LALALALA NO VOICE IS GOOD VOICE LALALALA*

[Logan812]

Oddly relevant...

Well, there's the 'voiced' version of KS someone wanted...

It's kind of weird going back and playing KS now because every once in a while, I hear Chilled's voice reading the text in my head.