A soft breeze ruffles through your hair as the sun slowly sets towards the sea. As the last Friday of Summer Vacation draws closer to ending, you're enjoying it by spending a day in the park near the beach. You try pushing the unbearable thought of school the following Monday out of your head.

Unfortunately, your peaceful day is about to be turned completely upside-down.

Without any warning, the ground suddenly drops out from beneath you. You are thrown into total darkness as you fall and fall...forever it seems. Just when you think you can't take any more falling, you pass out.

When you come to, you feel alright. Nothing seems to be broken from what you can feel. Slowly you open your eyes...and get a huge shock. Everything around you, trees, grass, water, even you, seems to have been drawn, anime style.

But not only does everything look like an anime, it also acts like one, too. Hammerspace is really there; sweatdrops really do get insanely huge; you find that although you think and hear it as English, everything you say comes out in Japanese.

You are no longer in your normal California home.

You have entered "The AniVerse."

It doesn't take long for you to find out that you aren't the only one who came through to this world. You find others, people you knew from your old world. You find out that you all live on the same street, and that your houses and family are totally different. After a while you figure you might be able to get used to this, even though school is still a reality.

However, you weren't, as some may think, all brought here by coincidence. The other aspect of most anime, the looming bad guy, is also here in this world. He brought you to this world, for some unknown reason, and he also wants to take over this strange world.

What will you do?
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Name: Yoiko Kakumei
Age: 17
Gender: Female
Personality: 3 words: energetic, happy, cute; she's the girl that alwas seems to be smiling, except when someone's making her upset or annoyed (at which point she reaches into hammerspace...); behind the mask, she's not as naïve as she looks.
Relationships: nobody yet
Appearance: slightly tall, with long, blond hair that reaches her shoulderblades, bright blue eyes, and slightly pale skin; dresses in cute clothes, usually short skirts or shorts and baby doll t-shirts, small socks and sneakers. After the change, her hair is now a bright red color and is kept in two pigtails at the base of her head (with bangs).
Favorite thing about the AniVerse: Hammerspace!
Least favorite thing: When she does a facevault/faceplant (she likes seeing other people do it, just doesn't like doing it, even though it doesn't really hurt)
Other: The song she's singing in the post below (as well as the rest of the lyrics) can be found here (click "download mix" on the right side).

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Yoiko
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"Somewhere
beyond the rain and autumn plains, the snow
that litters the countryside,
I find a piece of you.
And somewhere
beyond the frozen fields, I clearly see
the end of our misery,
a part of the place we knew.

And slowly down through the fire, burning
into this darkness I fall.
Your presence right here beside me,
yearning through it all."

I love singing, and with my iPod mini (in the cool silver color) I could sing wherever I wanted...well, mostly. But walking through the park, I ignored any stares I was getting; it was public area, so I had the right to sing out loud. I mean, I don't think I'm a bad singer (most people don't think I'm a bad singer), just some people get annoyed by people singing out loud. But at the moment I was lost in the song, so I wasn't even thinking about all of this, but rather just the song itself.

"Dokoka
ame to aki matsu no mukou
inaka no yuki ni
anata mitsukeru.
Dokoka
kotta hara no mukou, atashi
mijimesa musabi
shiteta dokoro ni."

Of course, being of Japanese descent (even though my parents were both born and raised here in California, as was I), I always have something special for anything Japanese-related. And while I was only taking it as more of a second language, I could still understand the lyrics. Amusingly enough, they simply repeated the first part of the song, but it was definitely a different feel to the song.

I continued walking through the park, singing the rest of the song. Then, since I really liked the song I went back to the beginning instead of the next track. Once again I began to sing along.

But this time I was rather rudely interrupted by a huge hole that seemed to have appeared instantly under my feet. I was suddenly falling, blackness all around me. I would have screamed, but I was distracted by the ironic lyrics that were still playing from my iPod: "And slowly down through the fire, burning / into this darkness I fall..."

Then quite suddenly, it all stopped. The music cut out and the feeling of falling disappeared as I blacked out completely.

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"Awuu~" I moaned, waking up to a slight headache. I realized I must have fallen and hit my head on something, so a headache wasn't exactly unexpected. I massaged my temples as I slowly sat up. I opened my eyes...

...and immediately shut them. 'I must have a worse headache than I realized,' I thought. 'I could have sworn that tree over there had been drawn.' I rubbed my head a little more, made sure it didn't hurt at all, then opened my eyes again.

This time I didn't have any music to distract me from screaming. Not only did the tree look like it had been drawn, so did the sky and grass and lake and even the buildings in the distance. After a few seconds of letting a scream out and stopping, I dared to look at myself. Sure enough, I was looking at myself, but it was like I had been drawn. My pleated white skirt and plain white baby-doll were also drawn, and I looked over at my drawn feet to see a pair of drawn white flip-flops on them.

I saw a flash of red and looked up, unable to really believe it. If that was what I thought it was...my once-blond hair was now a bright red. A hint of a memory tugged at me, and suddenly I realized. The Law of Follicular Chroma Variability, stating that any color is a natural hair color, is one of the laws of...

"Anime!" I said suddenly. Somehow now I was in this strange, anime-looking world. To confirm, I pulled my compact out of my bag and looked in the mirror to see...a pair of enormous blue eyes staring back at me. Anime-style eyes.

"Ohh, this is just too weird..." I muttered...except I was shocked to realize that wasn't what I had heard at all. The sounds that had come from my mouth, while I understood them perfectly as English, were actually coming out as Japanese. Sighing, I put my compact away and took out my cell phone. I was going on a whim, but I hoped to be able to call someone.

With a jolt I realized most of my contacts were missing, except "home" "mom cell" "dad cell" and a few others (though they were all in Japanese...still surprisingly readable despite that). There was one other added, which I nearly choked at: "Little sister." I was an only child, so why would I have a contact for a little sister I don't have?

Deciding to think on it later, I paged down to one of the few names that came from the real world: Rain. Hoping that meant he was actually contact-able from where I was, I pushed the speed dial combo and waited. A "Moshi-moshi?" which translated itself to a "Hello?" came through my phone. But the voice (despite speaking Japanese) was definitely Rain's.

"Rain!" I exclaimed. "I'm so glad to hear your voice! Does that mean you're...well, in this weird drawn world too?"