I
will not be astonished when I manifest magical
powers. Of course I have magical powers...it's in
the show's name.
I will watch plenty of anime and play lots of video
games during my stay on Earth so that nothing I meet
in the magical world fazes me.
I will not waste my magical powers on trivialities
like passing tests. If I play my cards right,
I'll never have to go back to Japan again.
I will not waste my magical powers on getting boys,
either. If the series is worth its salt, I'm already
rolling in bishounen...and who wants a blob-faced
future salaryman when she can have Hotohori or Allen
Schezar?
I will, however, conquer the world. It's been a long
school year, and I really need a vacation.
I will not wear a fuku. If I have to wear a fuku
because it contains my magical powers, I will take
it to a good tailor and have it altered. Most
sailor skirts convert into culottes nicely.
Odango are Right Out.
I will perform exercises to sharpen that rare and
delicate faculty known as a "memory," so
that I don't have to waste valuable time repeating
everything that is said to me phrase-by-phrase.
I will not say my beloved's name obsessively when he
is not in the room. I will use my beeper.
...and if I am on Kodomo no Omocha, I will remember
to set my beeper's vibrator on "low."
If I am faced with the choice of being destroyed by
something evil, or of letting loose something even
more evil in the hopes that it will destroy the
lesser evil and then not eat me, I will think
carefully. The greater evil is likely to
become my romantic interest.
If I cannot cook, I will not keep trying in the vain
attempt to convince everyone of my femininity.
I will, however, bring huge amounts of preprocessed
snacks.
I will not waste my malletspace account on mallets.
An AK-47 is about the same size and much more handy.
I will be a dyke. It's not that the thought of
licking sweat droplets one by one from between
Haruka's breasts makes my knees weak...it's that
being a dyke will save me from the magical girl's
ultimate fate of falling in love with the most
colorless yoik on the show.
If I don't have that option, I will be a sidekick
instead. Sidekicks always get secondary characters
as boyfriends, and they have a much better chance of
having a personality.
I will not fall in love with the first boy I meet in
the magical world. There's bound to be another
six or seven along in a minute.
I will resist the urge to dropkick the obscenely
cute and fuzzy whatsit which follows my party
around. There's no telling what powers it has.
I will reaffirm my dedication to my quest and my
friendship with my teammates less than once every
three shows. The viewers get it, already!
If I get to choose a costume, I will choose one with
a real disguise which leads to plausible confusion
as to who I really am.
Dissenting Opinion: I won't bother to conceal my
identity because the greatest amateur detective at
school hasn't got a hope of noticing who I am. I
have script immunity.
I will bargain for a fighting costume that covers my
head, legs and arms, preferably with some sort of
tough armor-like material. If my higher-ups won't
spring for that, I will go out and buy an
inexpensive bicycle helmet and strap pan lids to my
kneecaps.
I will carry a small, powerful, concealed firearm
and a bottle of mace at all times, just in case my
large, decorated, twangly-dangly attack doesn't work
for some mysterious reason. I will encourage any
other members of my party to do the same.
I will wear my hair in a short, manageable style,
not involving pigtails down to my feet, loops the
size of bowling balls, a long, untied cascade of
locks down my back, or anything else that I can get
caught by/tangled in/suspended by a pole from.
I will not allow the center of my powers, and thus
the fate of whatever I am protecting, to depend on a
gem, stone, or any object smaller than a grapefruit,
which could be easily stolen, lost, or accidentally
flushed down the toilet. My powers will revolve
around a 40-foot stone monolith on an unsightly,
dangerous planet, far, far away, cemented to the
ground, guarded by giant, savage housecats, and
possessing a ghastly smell. Sink your teeth into
that, villains!
I will use the patented "anime eye-twitch
syndrome" to look cute and sucker everyone
around to feel sorry for me. At the very least, it
should be useful for getting out of speeding
tickets.
I will decide beforehand whether I want to stand
with my feet apart for balance or with my knees
together for modesty, and will not attempt to do
both at once.
My transformation scene may look great as I twirl
around gymnastically, but I will check to see if I
have room to do this first.