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Name: Choromatsu Matsuno Age: 23 Canon: Osomatsu-san Canon Point:canon lol Post episode 25. No, I am not joking. Physical Description:Just remember, he's the one with the small pupils, triangle mouth and no stray hairs. Also, Green. Canon Abilities: Choromatsu doesn't have abilities so much as, being the product of a comedy gag series, being capable of taking a ludicrous amount of punishment -- INCLUDING DYING -- and being back to normal in the next scene or so. Best not to think about it too hard. (Obviously, since this would go against the death mechanics in the game, this is a non-issue.) Possessions: A bag full of merchandise of the idol singer Nyaa-chan. Look, if she can come out of retirement as an idol, he can come out of retirement as an idol chaser.
Personality: Choromatsu would LIKE people to think he is the only normal one of the Matsuno sextuplets. Certainly, he can easily fool you into thinking he's the straight man of the group, with his clear embarrassment at his brothers' actions and the existence of any sort of common sense to begin with. The thing is, though, he's not as much better than them as he likes to think he is. Much like his brothers, he is prone to violence, self-centered acts, and loafing around if he's in the mood for it. In fact, you can't even call him the straight man all the time, considering how frequently his brother Todomatsu (and, on very rare occasions, Osomatsu) take up the mantle instead.
Choromatsu is, despite what he believes, not the conscience of the group -- but he is definitely the most conscientious. Of the six, Choromatsu ties with Todomatsu in actually caring what the outside world makes of their NEET lifestyles and their more outrageous actions. Whereas Todomatsu's response to this is to create a separate social persona outside of the family, however, Choromatsu instead turns towards what he sees as being a respectable adult -- getting a job and becoming independent. Which would be fine, except that his own crippling insecurities result in this being a lot of talk and not a lot of action. Of the six brothers, Choromatsu's self-consciousness, when physically represented, is the most out of control -- a horrific, super bright mutant of an orb capable of floating high in the air, dominating the sky. As opposed to his brothers, who are capable of keeping their self-consciousness relatively under control, Choromatsu tends to puff himself up far beyond what he is actually capable of handling. Much like he was described as a child, he is a man who has a very high opinion of himself, yet cowardly to the point where he comes off as a blowhard.
Except, well, he actually doesn't think that highly of himself. As revealed in episode 23, in which he nearly marries a girl living in the stomach of the character Dayon -- don't ask -- Choromatsu is a mess of self-loathing. He's actually very aware of his own tendency to sell himself big, but his anxieties prevent him from taking action, which in turn feed into his unhappiness, which then contribute to him trying to puff himself up again to feel better about himself, all in a terrible cycle. As far as he's concerned, he is a worthless NEET, a "scumbag," and he has hit a point where he is not sure how to escape from his situation. As a result, for all his talk of looking for a job, he is too paralyzed with doubt and insecurity to actually DO it.
This is not to say that, push come to shove, he is incapable of maturity. Of the six brothers, he is the second one to find a REAL job (only Todomatsu beat him, and Totty had to quit his job for, uh, reasons), and the first one to move out of the house. And if he were in a different series, this may have been a turning point in his life -- but, of course, Osomatsu-san revels in trolling and denying catharsis to its viewers, and one Invitational with promises of instant escape from NEET-dom was enough to get him to tender a resignation and return to the NEET life. (And they didn't even win!) So it goes in Akatsuka ward.
Choromatsu, unusually for his character type, is a huge idol fanboy. He is particularly charmed by the singer Nyaa-chan, and collects all the merchandise he can of her. However, his skill with women in real life is, frankly, pathetic. His profile describes him as "going senile whenever he's around women," and that's a pretty good description; he is easily willed into doing things for ladies in exchange for extremely minor displays of affection, and whenever he has to choose between his image as a responsible and respectable human being and being kind of a horndog, he freezes up and whimpers. Asked what his fantasy is, and he might describe it as a happy and healthy domestic life -- and he'd probably be serious. The purest of virgins, lusting for the image of virginity: that's Choromatsu.
Or Cherrymatsu, or Fappymatsu, or Chorofappynski, or Risingfappynski, or any other given combination of insulting nicknames given to him by Osomatsu. What a swell brother.
History: Attempting to find continuity within Osomatsu-san, or even its original comic Osomatsu-kun, is basically an episode in futility. The cartoonist, Fujio Akatsuka, tended to use his characters as a sort of rotating actor list, which means that characters could have very different relationships, and occasionally even personalities, from story to story. San adds to that further in which even the sextuplets themselves aren't always related in the sketches, or have drastically different roles. So generally speaking, a backstory is a non-issue. All we need to know from Choromatsu's childhood, therefore, is this: he is one of six sextuplets. He was commonly referred to as the "clever" one and had a tendency to put himself on a pedestal while simultaneously being somewhat cowardly, and he was the closest of the sextuplets to the titular (and officially oldest) brother, Osomatsu.
Osomatsu-san, while suffering from the same lack of continuity, does have within its weirdly chaotic structure a basic story arc for Choromatsu, however. As an adult, he first tries to push his brothers towards being more serious about finding work; failing that, he begins to look for himself. About episode 13, however, we find out that his attempts to find work may be an act when Osomatsu comes home and catches Choromatsu, uh, rosie-palmed. Choromatsu bristles under the nicknames, but insists that he's still the only one looking for work. By episode 19, he tries to declare himself a changed man. He'll give up idol fandom! He'll get a job! And a wife, and a stable living situation, and and and -- except once again, he's all talk and no action. The symbolic representations of self-consciousness in the episode, however, begin to reveal something about Choromatsu: mainly, that he may be talking himself up to try to look better and put on airs, and maybe even to try to convince HIMSELF he's going to do allt his stuff. But all he's really doing is exacerbating his own anxieties about how the world perceives him, to the point where he, er, snaps for a bit and pretends to be a salaryman with a bunch of cardboard office supplies. Yikes.
Episode 21 shows him trying to put his efforts into a different direction: giving up and becoming more like his brothers. He declares himself a failure and no longer interested in getting a job or doing anything other than chasing idols for the rest of his life -- although he cannot quite get himself to admit that he's not interested in becoming independent. However, this too seems to be a way of talking himself up, ironically, trying to convince himself he's as happy with the current situation as the others. But he isn't, and in episode 23 he nearly marries a member of the Dayon tribe, but reveals that he's doing it to escape the pressures of trying to be a good person. He never REALLY gave up the desire to find a job and be independent, but the anxieties of trying to actually do so had proven to be so much that he'd already been trying to retreat from it as early as episode 13 because he couldn't keep up the effort. The Dayon girl, realizing what he's doing, instead encourages him to go back to "the real world" and pursuit his potential instead.
And in episode 24, it seems as though he finally does so. When his favorite idol, Nyaa-chan, decides to retire into marriage, it seems to provide the impetus he needs to finally move forward. He makes use of his connections to get a job with his father's friend's business and prepares to move out of the house. But Osomatsu reacts poorly to this, and it is under less than happy circumstances that Choromatsu finally moves out. He settles into the independent life, unaware that his attempts to finally move combined with Osomatsu's unwillingness to do so has disintegrated the group, with each brother gradually moving out and leaving Osomatsu alone at home. Nobody seems really happy with this. Still, Choromatsu prepares to send a letter home to Osomatsu...
...
...which ignites. As does the backup letter. Then episode 25 happens, he immediately resigns in order to take the easy way out of NEETdom, participates in an invitational, and dies in the cold vacuum of space. THAT'S OSOMATSU-SAN.
Choromatsu Matsuno | Osomatsu-san
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Name: Choromatsu Matsuno
Age: 23
Canon: Osomatsu-san
Canon Point:
canon lolPost episode 25. No, I am not joking.Physical Description: Just remember, he's the one with the small pupils, triangle mouth and no stray hairs. Also, Green.
Canon Abilities: Choromatsu doesn't have abilities so much as, being the product of a comedy gag series, being capable of taking a ludicrous amount of punishment -- INCLUDING DYING -- and being back to normal in the next scene or so. Best not to think about it too hard. (Obviously, since this would go against the death mechanics in the game, this is a non-issue.)
Possessions: A bag full of merchandise of the idol singer Nyaa-chan.
Look, if she can come out of retirement as an idol, he can come out of retirement as an idol chaser.Personality: Choromatsu would LIKE people to think he is the only normal one of the Matsuno sextuplets. Certainly, he can easily fool you into thinking he's the straight man of the group, with his clear embarrassment at his brothers' actions and the existence of any sort of common sense to begin with. The thing is, though, he's not as much better than them as he likes to think he is. Much like his brothers, he is prone to violence, self-centered acts, and loafing around if he's in the mood for it. In fact, you can't even call him the straight man all the time, considering how frequently his brother Todomatsu (and, on very rare occasions, Osomatsu) take up the mantle instead.
Choromatsu is, despite what he believes, not the conscience of the group -- but he is definitely the most conscientious. Of the six, Choromatsu ties with Todomatsu in actually caring what the outside world makes of their NEET lifestyles and their more outrageous actions. Whereas Todomatsu's response to this is to create a separate social persona outside of the family, however, Choromatsu instead turns towards what he sees as being a respectable adult -- getting a job and becoming independent. Which would be fine, except that his own crippling insecurities result in this being a lot of talk and not a lot of action. Of the six brothers, Choromatsu's self-consciousness, when physically represented, is the most out of control -- a horrific, super bright mutant of an orb capable of floating high in the air, dominating the sky. As opposed to his brothers, who are capable of keeping their self-consciousness relatively under control, Choromatsu tends to puff himself up far beyond what he is actually capable of handling. Much like he was described as a child, he is a man who has a very high opinion of himself, yet cowardly to the point where he comes off as a blowhard.
Except, well, he actually doesn't think that highly of himself. As revealed in episode 23, in which he nearly marries a girl living in the stomach of the character Dayon -- don't ask -- Choromatsu is a mess of self-loathing. He's actually very aware of his own tendency to sell himself big, but his anxieties prevent him from taking action, which in turn feed into his unhappiness, which then contribute to him trying to puff himself up again to feel better about himself, all in a terrible cycle. As far as he's concerned, he is a worthless NEET, a "scumbag," and he has hit a point where he is not sure how to escape from his situation. As a result, for all his talk of looking for a job, he is too paralyzed with doubt and insecurity to actually DO it.
This is not to say that, push come to shove, he is incapable of maturity. Of the six brothers, he is the second one to find a REAL job (only Todomatsu beat him, and Totty had to quit his job for, uh, reasons), and the first one to move out of the house. And if he were in a different series, this may have been a turning point in his life -- but, of course, Osomatsu-san revels in trolling and denying catharsis to its viewers, and one Invitational with promises of instant escape from NEET-dom was enough to get him to tender a resignation and return to the NEET life. (And they didn't even win!) So it goes in Akatsuka ward.
Choromatsu, unusually for his character type, is a huge idol fanboy. He is particularly charmed by the singer Nyaa-chan, and collects all the merchandise he can of her. However, his skill with women in real life is, frankly, pathetic. His profile describes him as "going senile whenever he's around women," and that's a pretty good description; he is easily willed into doing things for ladies in exchange for extremely minor displays of affection, and whenever he has to choose between his image as a responsible and respectable human being and being kind of a horndog, he freezes up and whimpers. Asked what his fantasy is, and he might describe it as a happy and healthy domestic life -- and he'd probably be serious. The purest of virgins, lusting for the image of virginity: that's Choromatsu.
Or Cherrymatsu, or Fappymatsu, or Chorofappynski, or Risingfappynski, or any other given combination of insulting nicknames given to him by Osomatsu. What a swell brother.History: Attempting to find continuity within Osomatsu-san, or even its original comic Osomatsu-kun, is basically an episode in futility. The cartoonist, Fujio Akatsuka, tended to use his characters as a sort of rotating actor list, which means that characters could have very different relationships, and occasionally even personalities, from story to story. San adds to that further in which even the sextuplets themselves aren't always related in the sketches, or have drastically different roles. So generally speaking, a backstory is a non-issue. All we need to know from Choromatsu's childhood, therefore, is this: he is one of six sextuplets. He was commonly referred to as the "clever" one and had a tendency to put himself on a pedestal while simultaneously being somewhat cowardly, and he was the closest of the sextuplets to the titular (and officially oldest) brother, Osomatsu.
Osomatsu-san, while suffering from the same lack of continuity, does have within its weirdly chaotic structure a basic story arc for Choromatsu, however. As an adult, he first tries to push his brothers towards being more serious about finding work; failing that, he begins to look for himself. About episode 13, however, we find out that his attempts to find work may be an act when Osomatsu comes home and catches Choromatsu, uh, rosie-palmed. Choromatsu bristles under the nicknames, but insists that he's still the only one looking for work. By episode 19, he tries to declare himself a changed man. He'll give up idol fandom! He'll get a job! And a wife, and a stable living situation, and and and -- except once again, he's all talk and no action. The symbolic representations of self-consciousness in the episode, however, begin to reveal something about Choromatsu: mainly, that he may be talking himself up to try to look better and put on airs, and maybe even to try to convince HIMSELF he's going to do allt his stuff. But all he's really doing is exacerbating his own anxieties about how the world perceives him, to the point where he, er, snaps for a bit and pretends to be a salaryman with a bunch of cardboard office supplies. Yikes.
Episode 21 shows him trying to put his efforts into a different direction: giving up and becoming more like his brothers. He declares himself a failure and no longer interested in getting a job or doing anything other than chasing idols for the rest of his life -- although he cannot quite get himself to admit that he's not interested in becoming independent. However, this too seems to be a way of talking himself up, ironically, trying to convince himself he's as happy with the current situation as the others. But he isn't, and in episode 23 he nearly marries a member of the Dayon tribe, but reveals that he's doing it to escape the pressures of trying to be a good person. He never REALLY gave up the desire to find a job and be independent, but the anxieties of trying to actually do so had proven to be so much that he'd already been trying to retreat from it as early as episode 13 because he couldn't keep up the effort. The Dayon girl, realizing what he's doing, instead encourages him to go back to "the real world" and pursuit his potential instead.
And in episode 24, it seems as though he finally does so. When his favorite idol, Nyaa-chan, decides to retire into marriage, it seems to provide the impetus he needs to finally move forward. He makes use of his connections to get a job with his father's friend's business and prepares to move out of the house. But Osomatsu reacts poorly to this, and it is under less than happy circumstances that Choromatsu finally moves out. He settles into the independent life, unaware that his attempts to finally move combined with Osomatsu's unwillingness to do so has disintegrated the group, with each brother gradually moving out and leaving Osomatsu alone at home. Nobody seems really happy with this. Still, Choromatsu prepares to send a letter home to Osomatsu...
...
...which ignites. As does the backup letter. Then episode 25 happens, he immediately resigns in order to take the easy way out of NEETdom, participates in an invitational, and dies in the cold vacuum of space. THAT'S OSOMATSU-SAN.
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