Chinchikurin

Notice: This article has become part of the Chinchikurin wiki's effort to document all things related to Chinchikurin!
== About ==
Chinchikurin (ちんちくりん) is a high-school parody featuring characters from Ryuji Masuda's works. It is a shoujo manga,https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1290098696823042048?s=20 illustrated and written by Wakako Masuda. It is currently being published for patrons of Wakako Masuda’s pixiv fanbox starting at ¥500 JPY (about $3.50 USD) a month, and has been published weekly since April 1st, 2022. Three new pages are published weekly, and included in each post is a plain-text version of the script in Japanese that can be copy-pasted into a machine translator for a translation.
It follows the characters from Popee the Performer, Funny Pets, Ga-Ra-Ku-Ta: Mr. Stain on Junk Alley, and Oh! Jesus as students.
In a rural village in the countryside, where the population is declining, there has been a rule put into place that prevents students from graduating high school to keep young people in the village.https://note.com/ryujimasuda/n/n56df14fbf6b0https://note.com/ryujimasuda/n/nfd4acf9bf93d
Unfortunately, they don't know why they can't graduate.
In 2020, Ryuji Masuda illegally leaked three of the manga's episodes without the permission of Wakako Masuda.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1423157521355710466 These were the first known glimpses at the manga and what this article is based upon. Ryuji Masuda is mostly uninvolved in Chinchikurin following his and Wakako Masuda’s divorce, and the “episodes” that were initially leaked by him are considered non-canon
It was originally unknown when the manga would release due to financial problems,https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1287316713252327425 however publishing the comic exclusively for paying members of Wakako Masuda's Pixiv Fanbox account may be making up for this. Members can choose between a ¥500 JPY (about $3.50 USD) tier or a ¥1,000 JPY ($7.09 USD) tier. Both tiers unlock access to all posts.
New information on the production process can now be found on the Chinchikurin wiki.
== Cast ==
The reason characters names have changed, and the reason it's always referred to as a "parody" is because of rights/licensing issues. This is at least one reason why characters have new been given new names.
=== Main cast: ===
==== Boron Makuroshi ====
(丸越梵論 Makuroshi Boron)https://www.instagram.com/p/B67Bd03njvH/https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1287328963262480385?s=20 AKA Boron Marcos, the devil from Oh! Jesus. 
He's 25 years old, and a high school third year. He's human, and no longer a strange-looking demon, but instead a handsome tanned man with shoulder-length red hair and purple eyes. He's a cynical person who looks at the world from an oblique angle. He's a kind and conscientious person who makes fun of everyone in the village, yet ends up taking care of them. He has high expectations and is hard on others, and is a genuine heart-breaker. 
==== Seito Kure ====
(暮 星人 Kure Seito)https://www.instagram.com/p/B67BecZnCSW/https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1287324063375880192?s=20
Note: Wakako is using the nanori reading of 人 and the kan-on reading of 星. Putting it through a translator may give different results.
 AKA Crescent, from Funny Pets.
He's 17 years old, and a high school third year. He's been humanized, and is no longer a crescent-headed alien, instead a cute, shoulder-length blue-haired, pink-eyed teenager. He's a poor, sweet boy who will do anything to be loved. He's the only classmate of Hanabishi's that's the same age, and the two were raised like brothers, fighting and pranking each other. Constantly requires validation. 
==== Keita Ookami ====
(大上 慶大 Ookami Keita)https://www.instagram.com/p/B67Aeq1nOXx/https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1287320942029373441?s=20 AKA Kedamono, from Popee the Performer.
He's 24, and a high school third year. He's also been humanized, and no longer wears his signature mask. Rather, his bangs cover his eyes, so his whole face isn't visible. He has purple hair and wolf ears. Despite being much older than Hanabishi, Hanabishi still torments him. He's a goody-two-shoes who can be bribed by food and forced into trouble. The elderly people in the village like him because he's strong and always in a good mood(?). His hobby is supporting the UFO sisters, two manzai actors who sing and dance. He's a hardworking person just like his mother, and he really likes meat. 
==== Tōru Garakuta ====
(雅楽多 徹 Garakuta Tōru)https://www.instagram.com/p/B67BJnanKoH/https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1287322554777051136?s=20 AKA Mr. Stain, from Ga-Ra-Ku-Ta: Mr. Stain on Junk Alley.
He's 30 years old, and has been stuck as a high school third-year for the past 12 years.https://note.com/ryujimasuda/n/n0ece1f1aebe3 He is shy, delicate, and sensitive. He's hard to get to know, but pure and single-minded. He's good with his hands and makes most things himself, so he has no trouble living in such a remote village. His hobby is reading, and he's talented with a harmonica. Despite how loud and violent Hanabishi is, Toru treats him with kindness, because he recognizes how lonely Hanabishi is.
==== Haruma Neko ====
(根子 春馬 Neko Haruma)https://www.instagram.com/p/B67A0Non9zG/ AKA Palvan, from Ga-Ra-Ku-Ta: Mr. Stain on Junk Alley. 
He's 28, and a high school third year. He's been stuck as a high school third-year for 8 years. Similar to the other characters, he's been humanized, and is now a tall, handsome, red-haired, blue-eyed human. He's a single father living a self-sufficient lifestyle. He's a survivalist who lives quietly and without hesitation, and would like to be free to leave society. He wears a cat-eared hat.
==== Hanabishi Kuruwaya ====
(曲輪屋 花菱 Kuruwaya Hanabishi)https://www.instagram.com/p/B67AdffHNxi/https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1287319515315834881?s=20 AKA Popee, from Popee the Performer. 
He's 17, and a third year in high school. Hanabishi moved to the village when he was 2 years old because of his father. He has a sister who is four years younger than him and has a different mother, though both his and her mothers have disappeared. Seito's grandmother raised him and Seito together.
Although his face is beautiful, his personality remains the same. He's always saying "I'm the cutest boy in the world!" His outrageous fashion sense competes with that of the cows and horses in the village. Somehow, it seems that he's obedient when it comes to farm work. He's cute as a bunny, but is a lonely man with a short temper. He's a naughty, dangerous boy.
=== Supporting cast: ===
==== Nichiteru Kuruwaya ====
Papi from Popee the Performer. He is the principal of the school and father to Hanabishi and Mariha. He's a regular at the "Sparkling Muscle" men's training center.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289382243761152000
==== Mariha Kuruwaya ====
Marifa from Popee the Performer. She's 13. She lost her mind when she fell into a waterfall basin and hit her head in the 5th grade. The villagers say the "dragon god" stole her soul; she actually is not insane, and only pretends to be. Popee still thinks she's just his cute little sister, but others are aware of her true nature (Kedamono, in particular). She's very smart and manipulative. She lives with her brother, Hanabishi. They have different mothers, but both of their mothers have disappeared.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289396600465321984
==== Nora Kisumi ====
Nora from Oh! Jesus. She is the same age as Boron. She speaks in a kumamoto dialect. She sometimes makes lunches for Boron, her childhood friend, who she lives next-door to.
==== Dagomi-chan ====
Nora's older sister. Has a huge body in comparison to her sister. She doesn't speak much. When she sees a young man, she sometimes attacks and puts their head in her mouth, but Nora tries to keep her from doing so. The young men in the village are afraid of her. 
== Masuda Village ==
The setting the story takes place in is a remote village in the country called "Masuda Village" (named after it's creators).https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289127673327841280 The village is old-fashioned and self-sufficient. Electricity is available, however, and distributed throughout the village by a generator located in the General Union Office at the foot of the mountain.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289124286146338817
The village has a lights-out curfew on electricity at 10pm, and telephones, televisions, etc are also shared with the village's Union Office.
The village has a small, declining population of about 100 people, with few young people, which is why they retain their high schoolers. There are very few women in the village, and many of their women have disappeared over the years.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289166026530107392
Part of the village's culture is that a big source of their entertainment comes from people in the village getting into fights. Anytime there's a fight, someone rings the bell to bring all of the villagers together, and the participants are each given swords. The spectators bring drinks and snacks, and make bets on who will survive. Villagers tend to behave in a mild manner to avoid becoming such a spectacle...after all, they pay the ultimate price if they lose.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289128485756104705
Those guilty of crime in the village are tied up and exposed to the public in the village. People will crowd in one by one, and be told about the good things the guilty person has done before(?), and at the end, the elder will tell the story of the guilty person's upbringing(?). Then, the villagers will all sing "furusato" and the guilty person will be released. Most villagers are, again, too afraid of what they'll really do if they do something bad, and thus there's very little if any crime.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289129504292495360?s=20
The village has a village school, a community center, a union office, and a men's training center. There is a youth associationhttps://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289127673327841280?s=20 and a women's association.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289376212830138369
The school is located at the foot of the mountains and looks like an old house. It's an integrated elementary, middle, and high school. The village's school used to be in another village, but that village was merged with an urban area and the school was closed, so they opened one in their own village. There are just 3 elementary school students, 2 middle school students, and 6 high school students in the entire village.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289126599065968640
The community center is on the school grounds. The youth association meets there after school for a daily meeting at 3pm. Sometimes the grandmothers in the village bring them food.
The men's training center is called "Sparkling Muscle", and they offer the men of the village daily training. The "Wild plan" is most popular, although it is very specific and demanding survival training with very little equipment. High schoolers aren't allowed.
It's the people of the village's way to use their free-time outside of the busy farming season to improve their skills. It's not uncommon for an old, weak-looking man to suddenly turn around and display great ability.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289382237851402240
The Masuda Village Women's Association "Kirai-go" teaches self-defense techniques. O'Yone, estimated 87 years old, who has the ability to roll bears under wind pressure(?), is the teacher who provides the women direct guidance. She's rumored to know the "old martial arts", but the truth is unknown. O'Yone's signature soy milk adzuki bean pudding, nicknamed "The Wind God" is served after practice, and the members look forward to it every week.
Surrounded by adults like these, the children of the village are trained from a young age, because it's a long time from them being on an equal playing field, and they don't have the power to rebel.
In the forest near Masuda Village, there is a monster called a "rokuri". Pre-school children are collected at the union office because they have a habit of kidnapping them and eating them while their parents are busy working.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289161788005560322
== The Azir festival ==
The village has festivals five times a year, including the important "azir" festival.
The azir festival is very mysterious. The kagura dance, which is said to imitate the creation of mankind, lasts for two whole days, the chanting is very difficult to understand, and the dance and costumes are full of mysteries.https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289124579047161857
Several cultural anthropologists have visited the village to investigate the mysteries of the festival, but all of them have either gone insane or been found living as hermits in the mountains.
The word "azir" comes from a Frenchman of German descent who was was washed ashore in a village in the late Edo period, and shouted out in a fit of excitement when he saw the village festival. Afterwards, he stayed in the Masuda Village and wrote the "Yurutama Diary".https://twitter.com/wacosan0/status/1289161911049654274?s=20
His records are completely disregarded as research material because of his unprofessional excitement and strange handwriting.
== References ==
Category:Media
Category:Related Media