The Comments Help the Kokushibo Brothers Get a Second Run

A recommendation: the completed novel "Upper Moon One from Hell Changes Jobs to Become a Shikigami". For a similar upcoming novel, "Both a Sun Pillar and a Mountain God".

- Blurb -

Starting one day, audiences from different timelines are forced to tune in at regular intervals to the lives of two brothers in the Sengoku era.

At first: We’ve got the strongest character in the series and the number one guy! We’ve got this in the bag! / Free anime? The picture quality’s great. / I’m into the streamer’s looks, I’m so into them!

Later: Why is this following the original story?! We’re doomed! / Who taught them to talk like that? / A time machine! Find a time machine, quick!

On their first go-around, ordinary viewers who are manga fans can’t spoil things with comments, so they can only watch the key scenes and scream internally.

Viewers from other worlds who don’t know the story complain like crazy, their comments filling the screen and blocking everything.

But all the viewers have one thing in common: they’re powerless to stop the original story’s bad ending.

So, without pausing to mourn the viewers’ blood pressure, here comes the second go-around

[Work sucks, but rather than watch these two head toward their predetermined ending again, I’d rather fill my life with exorcism missions.]

[Being forced to watch such a thorny family mediation case every day, staring at the livestream page until I’m depressed. I want to shut down this counseling center.]

[After watching hundreds of years of boring plot, here we go again. Aaaah, if they repeat the same mistakes, even an Nth run is useless. So even after my Yorozuya goes bankrupt, these two jerks will still be like this? Pay the victims compensation for emotional distress!]

[Why aren’t they my coworkers? They’re so gullible. Also, Madam Akino’s hands are beautiful... It’s tragic that she got sick and died.]

[JoJo ambulance warning from the person above!]

[My blood pressure’s going through the roof. Don’t ordinary viewers count as people? If I want to watch the original, I’ll reread it myself! / sobbing]

But at a new turning point in the second go-around, the comments, which had always been free to say whatever they wanted, finally reach the Tsugikuni brothers. The viewers are no longer the only ones breaking down and ranting, and a “passageway” to other worlds appears.

Then the viewers go completely wild

“Our chance! A chance to get away from these brothers is right in front of us!”

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When the second go-around begins, unwelcome visitors from other worlds barge into the lives of little Iwakatsu and little Yoriichi.

Iwakatsu from a certain if-line world (godly helicopter-parent edition): I’ll give you divine power to train with. That homebody brother of yours will come and demonstrate Sun Breathing for you. You’ll master Moon Breathing on your own within a year, kill the Demon King in ten years, approach the realm of the gods in a hundred, and go to the afterlife within three hundred years to teach those freeloading gods in heaven a lesson. You’ll become a pillar of strength in the afterlife. No objections, right?

Little Iwakatsu: ?

Maybe inheriting the Tsugikuni family was a rather conservative goal after all.

Yoriichi after N runs through various if-lines (failed man edition): Go to your brother’s room and run away with him. Now.

Little Yoriichi: ...

Could you take the sword away from my neck first?

“Don’t wonder why they’re here. I’ve run out of patience.”, Administrator “Coffee Jelly”

Saiki pushes his space-time psychic powers to the limit, determined to make this the brothers’ final broadcast.

“I’ve had enough. If nobody intervenes, there’ll be an Nth run!”

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Reader’s Guide:

* The story starts in the second go-around, following an if-line that breaks away from the original plot. The Tsugikuni brothers get another high-traffic sibling-bonding card. OOC warning. Please give it a try if you can handle that, and thank you so much!

* A chaotic mix of everyday life, demon-slaying, and monster-fighting. The main story features multiple if-lines for the Tsugikuni brothers, with characters from various worlds visiting them to cause trouble and make jokes. Characters from if-line timelines arrive, and the two brothers from this world travel to viewers’ other worlds for adventures.

* Saiki: I made all of this happen myself (the true god of this story).

* If you haven’t seen some of the other anime and manga titles in this crossover, just think of those characters as ordinary viewers. The previous volume mainly focuses on the Tsugikuni brothers. You don’t need to have read the other story about the demon king to follow along. The previous volume will also introduce several pairs of brothers from other worlds, and each world has its own setting, so you won’t miss anything. Viewers from the corresponding worlds will be introduced as their stories unfold.

* Anything that doesn’t make sense is my own headcanon (‵▽′)/. I only recognize the original manga storyline, so there are lots of headcanons. Strong Muzan fans are advised not to read. There is some very real character-bashing, sorry.

(Blurb dated 2024.02)

Theme: Many minds are better than one when it comes to solving problems