Dark Science Research Encouragement Association

The Dark Science Research Encouragement Association, often commonly known as the DS Lab, is a mysterious organisation that firstly exists in the 2017 light novel series Otherside Picnic.
Introduced firstly in Volume 2 of the light novel, the DS Lab is an erstwhile General Incorporated Foundation, before focusing on their primary goal, which is saving and treating victims who are trapped from the mysterious world known as the Otherside (officially known by the DS Lab as the UBL (Ultra Blue Landscape)). It is currently led by Yoichiro Migiwa as its director.
==Background==
===Foundation===
The DS Lab began as a study group within a particular big electronics manufacturing in the early 1990s. Their major purpose is to investigate the mysterious fields of science known as Dark Science (which nowadays is called marginal science, trans-science, or non-traditional science).
After discovering the UBL, their mission became increasingly focused on exploring the undiscovered realm known as the UBL, or Ultra Blue Landscape. However, victims begin to materialise one after another not long after DS Lab begins its study and trips. Later on, the group shifted its focus of protecting the victims of the Otherside and finding ways to treat them.
===Current Time===
Even after losing their initial purpose, DS Lab continues to operate, relying on financial assistance from victims' family, VIPs from firms involved in the DS Lab's inception, and even members themselves to preserve the status quo. The group is still doing study on the UBL and collecting UBL artefacts, such as those purchased from Sorawo Kamikoshi and Toriko Nishina.
==Members==
* Yoichiro Migiwa (current director)
* Kozakura (temporary)
* Satsuki Uruma
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