The Broadcasting Club of Kamome Gakuen is the main antagonistic force of the Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun series. They are the group that is responsible for most of the events that led to the disruption of some of the Seven Mysteries' members, as well as causing trouble to Hanako and Yashiro Nene many times.
Overview[]
The Broadcasting Club is a rather suspicious club if it really does exist, as its main members consist of a trio of supernaturals, and a man who is implied to be immortal and can't die no matter how many times he is killed, and whose blood is cursed to be harmful to supernaturals. Lastly, they are based in a boundary that is filled with eyes and mouths.
However, Sakura, despite being a ghost, has the unique ability to be able to interact with the school as a third-year student. Natsuhiko on the other hand, poses as a second-year student and uses his position to start whatever schemes the Broadcasting Club has in store.
Introduction[]
The Broadcasting Club of Kamome Gakuen officially has only two members. The room it resides in is haunted by Yugi Tsukasa. It also refers to a group of people causing Hanako, Yashiro Nene, Minamoto Kou and the others repeated trouble. In fact, they have caused grave enough trouble that Hanako had initially thought that one of the Seven Mysteries was a traitor and is behind Yako and the Mokke's sudden change.
The room where they hold the broadcasting club is directly connected to the school's PR system, and is able to be broadcast anywhere inside and outside the school. This is efficient to spread rumors to as many students as possible. In this case, Sakura's voice was heard when introducing the Yousei-san rumor, one of the first changed rumors in the manga and anime.
The broadcasting room is located at a secluded place supposedly in the basement of the school, where a door saying Keep Out is seen under dim light. The fact that the place has a shallow layer of water on its floor, as well as several mysterious and eerie eyes and mouths that are on its walls suggests that it is actually one of the Boundaries between the Near Shore and Far Shore.
Goals[]
- They are responsible for changing the rumors due to Tsukasa's motivation and Sakura's ideas. They mainly communicate through a retro audio machine with a tuning button, especially when they are far-distance.
- They are also responsible for influencing events in order for Yashiro Nene to destroy the Yorishiroes of the School Mysteries affected. So far, their actions have led to the destruction of both No.2, No.5, No.4 and No.6's Yorishiros.
- However, their attempt to have Mitsuba Sousuke produce a Yorishiro for No.3 seemingly failed, while their attempt to remove No.1's Yorishiro resulted in the both Kako and Mirai resetting the Original Timeline into the New Present, thus seemingly putting their goal into possible failure.
Members[]
Leader
Major Members
Additional Members
Interactions[]
- They held a welcome party for Mitsuba Sousuke when he officially became a member and No.3.
- The Broadcasting Club is probably a boundary as it is seen to have water on the ground in Chapter 92. Not to mention the presence of weird-looking eyes and mouths around the walls of the room.
- The Broadcasting Club's ultimate goal is to gather and destroy all the Yorishiros so that everything will end, as per Yugi Tsukasa's words in Chapter 110.
- This by extension, may be The Entity's goal, as well as suspiciously, what Hanako intends to do in order to atone for his sins as per Kami-Sama's instructions, thus putting the possibility that The Entity and Kami-Sama are the same being.
Trivia[]
- With the exception of Mitsuba Sousuke, the Broadcasting Club can be seen as dark, opposing and polarizing counterparts to the Hanako-kun Trio:
- Yugi Tsukasa is in more ways than one, the anti-thesis to Hanako, and this is further strengthened by the both of them being twin brothers. While Hanako grants wishes for the Living in the Near Shore, Yugi Tsukasa grants wishes for the Dead in the Far Shore, and while both are aiming for the same goal of destroying the Yorishiro, Hanako does it by fulfilling his role and following the rules set upon him, while Tsukasa does everything he could to make it happen, even if it includes coercion or force.
- Nanamine Sakura is simply put, an older, more mature and more reserved version of Yashiro Nene. Both characters wear brooches on their school uniforms, and that while the both of them are assistants to their respective Yugi Twin superiors, Nene seems to follow Hanako's instructions unwillingly or in an inexperienced kind of way while Sakura follows Tsukasa's instructions in a quick and professional manner without any kind of reservations on his actions.
- Hyuuga Natsuhiko is a far more brash and seemingly undiscliplined counterpart to Minamoto Kou, who at one point, have feelings for either of the Yugi Twins' assistants (Formerly in Kou's case, currently in Natsuhiko's), and that the both of them have powers that can effectively deal with supernaturals (Exorcist powers for Kou, the mysterious cursed blood for Natsuhiko)
- Mitsuba Sousuke remains as the outlier as while he is an official member of the Broadcasting Club, he has more often than not, tagged along with the Hanako-Kun trio, especially with Kou.