Drama CDs - gizoku

For more background to GIZOKU, visit this page:

GIZOKU: 戯賊生誕 Gizoku Seitan (Gizoku's Birth)
~Seiryuu Secret Association Spring Version~
Main Story: Set at the start of M's third year, the new intake of first year students have arrived at the school and five of them have been coopted by Kusanagi (ack, Kusanagi again!?!) to work on his behalf. He sets them a 'test' to see if they can achieve what he wants using the odd 'abilities' each seems to have. Consequently the five newcomers are sent after one each of the M boys, to retrieve something precious from them for Kusanagi's "collection". Nakamoto has his glasses and hairtie stolen, then Mikimaro's locket with the photo of his birth mother in disappears. Yuusuke is next, with his good luck charm and Takagi has a bracelet stolen right in front of him. Then there is just Arai left - but something in the operation goes amiss as the would-be thief (Kikunosuke I think it was) decides that he can't bring himself to steal from Arai after all. And although the first years successfully heist the other items - in the end, they decide (much to Kusanagi's dismay) that they better return them. (Leaving the M boys...very...very...confused...and Mikimaro sure that Arai had something embarrassing pinched that he just didn't want to confess to owning!)

Extra Track: 透吾&翔~母の思い出~
Tougo & Shou ~ Haha no Omoide~ (Memories of Mother)
Arai's torn a button off his jacket and his attempts at sewing are hopeless so Nakamoto fixes it for him. He explains that after his mother's death, he had to learn to do things like that, and the discussion sparks memories of his mother before she died. As a result, he has a bad dream about his mother's death - It's sort of emotional...Nakamoto even cries. It seems that his mother was the one who intervened between him and his father's expectations, and his constant friend & companion through his childhood. Once she died, he was truly all alone... (But of course, he's not alone any more!)

GIZOKU: 卒業Ｍ & GIZOKU Summer
~精霊伝説 Seirei Densetsu (Legend of the Spirit)~
Main Story: Thanks to Kusanagi's plans for redevelopment, a spirit has apparently been disturbed at the Seiryuu Academy, causing Subaru to have disturbing dreams. The oddness grows gradually weirder as Mikimaro and Gorou get caught up in another time and space and Kikunosuke is forced to impersonate the third year student to prevent his friends getting suspicious. Of course, Kikunosuke doesn't know what Mikimaro is properly like, so the third years are very suspicious - meanwhile GIZOKU undertake the difficult task of putting spiritual matters to rights. A nice touch is Kasumi's involvement (Morikawa Toshiyuki in this incarnation) who, despite having originally opposed Kusanagi's plans, takes the blame for the mess with the GIZOKU boys in order to protect the President from criticism.

Extra Track: 透吾&翔~俺達の1/2~ 前編
Tougo & Shou ~Oretachi no 1/2 (First Part)~
Someone get Kusanagi a therapist, and fast. The long and the short of it is that he's once more messing with his precious 3A組 students - in this case, the ryuunen pair, Nakamoto and Arai. This time he's managed - and let's not go into the details of how - to switch them around so that Arai is in Nakamoto's body and Nakamoto is in Arai's body...which is a bit disturbing for the both of them when they wake up and find out!
(Random and spooky observation: When Midorikawa-san is speaking in Nakamoto's more formal speech he sounds so much like Shi Seiran from Saiunkoku it's untrue...)

GIZOKU: 卒業Ｍ & GIZOKU Autumn
~夏期休暇　Kakikyuuka (Summer Holidays)~
Main Story: It's summer break and Katou's off to Kanazawa, Takagi has some "mysterious" things to do and Shimura's off home. Arai and Nakamoto are staying behind, however, and have wound up staying in the same location as the GIZOKU boys. It's their first "proper" meeting, and they seem to hit it off pretty well, after a fun bonding session in which Arai has Kikunosuke doing impressions of pretty much everyone including Nakamoto (much to Nakamoto's embarrassment!). However, they are being watched, and things become more sinister when a letter arrives for Kikunosuke. The letter seems like an innocent enough love letter date invitation, but as soon as Subaru sees it, he knows that there's something badly amiss. He and Arai head off to find Kikunosuke, but Subaru is forced back and Arai winds up rescuing Kikunosuke on his own. However, the two of them are trapped...and it's up to the rest of GIZOKU and Nakamoto to come to the rescue!

Extra Track: 透吾&翔~俺達の1/2~ 後編
Tougo & Shou ~Oretachi no 1/2 (Second Part)~
Continued from the previous CD. Still stuck in each other's bodies, Arai is fed up of being stuck inside and he wants to head downtown. Nakamoto decides it's better to come with him, just in case someone suspects something is amiss. Arai discovers the shortcomings of having Nakamoto's weaker body, whilst Nakamoto rather likes the freedom Arai's gives him. However, they can't stay that way forever...

GIZOKU: 卒業Ｍ World Winter /Seiryuu Secret Association
~ 錯綜迷路 Sakusou Meiro (Complicated Maze)~
Main Story: (Summary coming soon)

Extra Track: 透吾&翔~触れ合うことの意味~
Tougo & Shou ~Fureau Koto no Imi (The Meaning of Mutual Contact)~
This is mostly told from Nakamoto's perspective, and although it's the Winter CD, it's September in his dialogue. It's been a hot summer and while he hides out in his room trying to avoid the sun, Arai is living life to the full, as usual. But then Arai catches a summer cold, and Nakamoto has to nurse him. Under the influence of fever, Arai's usual cocky demeanour is shattered and he reveals a much more lonely, insecure side to himself that Nakamoto hasn't encountered before.
Zaizen Haruki (The school's doctor) has a spoken role in this chapter, and sounds suitably creepy to suit his character :D
The less said about the title the better :S