32 attack of the friday monsters! a tokyo tale - learning the conversation topic changing system

Dear Readers,

I walked around town, telling people Billboard was missing. This was the conversation topic I was sticking to now.

I told Ramen's dad and he said Billboard was able to down the large rice plate in five minutes flat and he had a bright future ahead of him!

I told the police officer who said to come straight to him if I learned anything else about it.

I told Megami-chan and she said everything was okay because he was just a mysterious kid.

I told Frank and he said it was impossible for a kid to leave the planet without some kind of rocket. He then changed the conversation topic back to him not wanting to be called a Frankfurter!

I was then able to change the topic back to me being handsome when I chatted to Emily.

So this is how I change the conversation topic... I better learn what triggers the change in topics...

I then talked to A Plus who challenged me! I became his servant again! I have to learn what triggers what event if I want to see more fun dialogue bits and collect other stuff...

I told Ramen's dad about me being handsome and popular and he said if I brought any of my dates to his diner he'd give me a free cup of tea! That's awesome :) I thought he was going to say something funny or put me in my place for being swell-headed, but no! He catered for the scenario instead!

I told Akebi's dad and he said that was good but I better be nice to girls still as being popular was no excuse to make them cry. Good advice...

I told Frank and he took the word "pop" from "popular" and talked about "pop goes the weasel" which ended up with him feeling more mystified by this planet.

He changed the topic, so I changed the topic back through Emily.

I told mom about me being popular and she said that was nice but she liked a nice smile and an energetic attitude better.

31 attack of the friday monsters! a tokyo tale - handsome conversation topic among others

Dear Readers,

Now that I had everybody's spells, I could change the topic of conversation whenever I wanted or whenever I beat someone at Monster Cards.

But first, I wanted to talk to everyone with A Plus' topic, the one about using the same spell. I said it to Ramen's dad, but he thought I said "smell" and made a funny rhyme.

I continued wandering, picking up glims as I went along. I met Frank and told him about using the same spell. He didn't really get it, as it wasn't even real. Haha.

The topic seemed to change to Frank being an alien and not a frankfurter. When I chatted with Emily, this was the topic. She then changed the topic to me being a handsome kid who's popular with girls! She said she bet I was popular with them anyway, as I reminded her of a boy she had a crush on when she was growing up! Aw! She then got worried about giving me the wrong idea haha.

I talked to the policeman again with this topic and he said he was like that when he was young and reckless, but told me to keep that quiet as he didn't want to set a bad example now.

I talked to Megami-chan with this topic and she said Akebi told her a handsome transfer student showed up at school! Wow! She said Akebi was Goyouin-san's daughter.

I talked to Dad with this topic and he said of course I was handsome as I was his son! Then he changed the topic of conversation to Billboard's whereabouts :( How do I change it back to me being handsome and popular??

30 attack of the friday monsters! a tokyo tale - learning everybody's spells

Dear Readers,

The other kids were in the neighbourhood.

I was still Nanafushi's boss. He thought the hero was the coolest hero ever.

A Plus suggested changing my spell to match my opponent's. He was my boss at the moment so I changed some of my words to Suddenly, Muchoon, Bo Bo Bo-Byuun, Fall Down, Doron-Doron. This was his spell and I had to press HOME and write it down as it was weirdly hard to remember every word he said. When I matched my spell with his I unlocked a new topic of conversation!

This topic happened to be the one about changing the spell to match your opponent's spell. I'm guessing the one about the hero was S-chan's.

I decided to record everyone's spells. Nanafushi's spell was Jiwa-Jiwa, Guru-Guru, Suddenly, Fall Down, Muchoon.

Akebi's spell was Guru-Guru, Fuwa-Fuwa, Koron-Koron, Fall Down, Bo Bo Bo-Byuun.

Ramen thought it was a good idea to use the same spell. S-chan thought so too and said she might go easy on me if I did that.

S-chan's spell was Muchoon, Muchoon, Bo Bo Bo-Byuun, Fall Down, Suddenly.

Dad thought it was a good idea to have a common spell between all of us in solidarity. Mom didn't understand the kind of magic we kids were using nowadays.

The police officer told me about his chat with his daughter Emily about her being in love and he wanted to learn to take care of stuff at home by himself a bit more since she wanted to get married. I told him about the spell and he just advised us to be careful and wash our hands when we got home.

I told Megami-chan about using the same spell and she said we were all so close. I got a Space Monster glim at this point further west by the footprints.

I found Billboard by the bridge with the writing, except now he had painted it all cool crazy patterns. He liked the idea of having the same spell too. I wanted to get his spell, but I had to lose to him in Monster Cards first as I was his boss, so I tried to play a losing game against him. This is a weird way to play but it's making me play the Monster Cards game more often. Billboard even noticed I was trying to lose when I tried swapping my winning cards.

Billboard's spell was Bo Bo Bo-Byuun, Come Forth, Start Dancing, Fall Down, Muchoon.

Akebi's dad said it was a good idea to have the same spell, as something good could happen.

I obtained another Progenodon card from the glims I was collecting.

Finally, I deliberately lost to Ramen to hear his spell, which was Guru-Guru, Jiwa-Jiwa, Start Dancing, Fall Down, Come Forth. That was every spell!

29 attack of the friday monsters! a tokyo tale - s-chan helping with laundry

Dear Readers,

I began my Saturday at the door of our shop. I looked inside and saw Mom and Dad were busy, but S-chan was also here! And she was helping!

S-chan wanted to play Monster Cards right away. I decided not to just to become her servant. I didn't mind. I can always become her boss later.

I chatted with Dad, who seemed to have a new zest for life. He was rewashing the laundry that got splattered with mud yesterday and he seemed happy to do it. He even said he'd commit to the diner owner's situation and improve on his own work.

I asked Dad what he thought about the hero and he said it was him before saying he was joking. I asked Mom the same and she said Dad told her not to tell me who it was.

It took me ages but I beat S-chan at Monster cards and got a Space Saucer glim. I asked her what sh thought of the monster but she said she asked me to look into it.

Now to go outside!

28 attack of the friday monsters! a tokyo tale - friday story ends, weekend begins!

Dear Readers,

Frankasaurus lay wriggling on the ground, fallen but not yet defeated. Just then, Cleaner Man got back up! He took one look at the mud the monster got on the washing and cried out in anger! He marched over to the monster who was getting back up and unleashed his special punch on it, causing it to shrink and vanish, probably into glims!

Then the UFO started coming after him. Cleaner Man shot his Steam Beam at it, sending it back out into space! Poor Frank wasn't happy, but we kind of knew he was a nice guy underneath it all.

Cleaner Man then vanished.

All us kids chatted after the experience. Akebi wanted to be best friends so we could split homework and she joked about giving me a huge load of hers to do! A Plus found his confidence, though he still found the whole thing a bit scary. S-chan asked if she could come over to my place and play sometime and I said yes! Billboard was just amazed over the monsters. Nanafushi was determined to become friends with every kid in the city now. Ramen thanked me for asking Nanafushi to the hill and was now hungry.

Emily came up! She said she had never seen Monster Hill from here before. Wow... she must've been crazy busy with work all this time. She got an idea to start selling snacks here on Fridays! A very good idea!

Megami-chan got a new idea for a huge hero show and it was gonna be great :)

Mom said she'd fallen in love with Dad all over again and said he was so cool! I didn't cop that he was Cleaner Man :)

Emily was sad her clothes had mud on them and then I remembered her laundry. She then looked at the sunset over the horizon and observed how blood-coloured it was. It was during this scene where the narrator wrapped up the episode and did a kind of "see you next time!" farewell that nostalgic TV shows do at the end of an episode.

Then the credits rolled! The theme song with lyrics played during it and it was all really nice and pleasant. There were some scenes with characters talking and with one of us holding a Frankasaurus doll.

Then there was a post credits scene in the diner with Frank sitting at his table opposite S-chan. He apologised to her, calling her Lady Silvia, over her ordeal of being captured by Frankasaurus.

She was cool with it all and said that she grew to like the people of this planet and decided she'd like to stay on this remote rock for a while! These interactions are very cute :)

The narrator then said I was now able to go exploring at my own leisure, maybe find more stuff, complete unfinished episodes. You know, the usual fun things you get to do on a Saturday!

I kicked my Saturday off with collecting a Mystery Glim. The weekend starts here!

27 attack of the friday monsters! a tokyo tale - kids combined versus frankasaurus!

Dear Readers,

I talked to Frank again and he observed his monster's ability to learn its opponents moves. I asked if he learned our Earth moves and cast the spell on him! He made a dramatic fall and got back up. He said it was all due to the replicator chip. This kicked off and completed episode 24: "A Crack in the Armor"

I returned to Monster Hill and this time, Akebi's dad came up as well, telling Megami-chan they were heading to the hospital... it turns out that the plane that went down hit some people and they had to get checked out. Akebi apologised for not believing her dad and we all hung our heads when he left. Seemed like another moment of people understanding each other and sorting a problem they had earlier.

I collected more glims and suddenly, Cleaner Man stopped fighting to lay on the ground. It turned out that in his ultimate form he could only hold for a moment, the time it takes for noodles to cook, since Earth's oxygen was lower than the levels on his planet. We started cheering for him and weirdly, Frankasaurus cheered too, as if it was copying our cheering.

I then got an idea: We should all cast a spell on the Frankasaurus! I explained about the replicator chip and they all copped it! Akebi said I hit the jackpot with the idea! We just had to find someone who was everyone's servant. There wasn't anybody who was everybody's servant, as much as A Plus wanted to be.

Suddenly Nanafushi showed up and volunteered to be the target of the spell! I picked him and he said he hadn't played against anyone else besides me yet, so he was everyone else's servant too, by default!

A Plus asked him if he was okay with it and he said he was, as he was going to start playing Monster Cards with us when this was all over. Yay!

We kids all got together and cast the spell on him, making him take a tumble, which made the Frankasaurus take a very dramatic tumble into the mud, dirtying all the clothes we had hanging out in the process!

26 attack of the friday monsters! a tokyo tale - cleaner man versus frankasaurus!

Dear Readers,

Frank got into an argument with Dad... er I mean Cleaner Man. Frank called him a lout and Cleaner Man said he wasn't, he was just unique!

This resonated with Nanafushi, who was watching from the TV station. He was like "yeah! I'm just unique!" and he must've felt good. This captures the feeling of watching TV shows made for kids and helping them learn about life's challenges and their own self-esteem :)

Cleaner Man and Frankasaurus engaged in some pretty heavy battling, with punches, throws and even the odd tail whip to the face. Yowch!

I collected enough Conjectural Chimera glims to obtain a Jumbogon card. This combined a couple of monsters and had a horned, dinosaur like face.

I caught up with Nanafushi. I told him to come to Monster Hill to watch with everyone else. He said he only would if I won at Monster Cards with him.

It took several random tries but I finally beat him! I just kept picking my strongest cards and let luck determine everything else. I cast the falling down spell on him and he finally agreed to go to Monster Hill with everyone. He seemed happy about it though I daresay!

I picked up some new glims and headed towards Monster Hill myself, where I found the other kids cheering the hero on. Nanafushi wasn't here but lots of glims were! I collected them all and completed my Mightiest Monster ones to obtain a Demongiras card. This monster was very dragon like and was all about destroying other living things.