A new character! And thus, obviously, a future member of the cricket club…because for what other reason would you introduce a new character at this particular point of the plot?

And he does make quite an entry, one has to admit. Mysterious and borderline cool, up until the very final panel, where he slips a little bit. Just a tiny little bit. >_> I mean, cursed/demonically possessed puppet have something of a tradition in horror, but…yeah,no. Not quite.

Quite obviously, this character is based on Nekozawa from Ouran High School Host Club. In fact, since the cloak covers up so much (and is obligatory), the only visual point of divergence I had available was the hand puppet. As obviously, he’d be the president of the Yuri Shinkai Gakuen Occultism/Black Magic Club, and the closest the school has to offer with regards to goth kids (discounting Mopey).

All in all, a new character that doesn’t come with a lot of open questions, his current role as goth kid and future role as cricket player quite obvious from (shortly after) the start. Pretty low level of mysteriousness, actually, for a hooded character. I guess the greatest surprise in all of this is that a hooded character showed up, and turned out not to be Palpatine. Who could well have returned, after all. Somehow.

More on Thursday.