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* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts will start to feel too overwhelmed from whole thing to continue, and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], any shred of willing suspension of disbelief at this point is obviously long gone, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only kept lucking out for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still having to do everything they can to simply save themselves from arrest, which not only detracts from their real goal (i.e. to ship some illegal weapons out somewhere via Jiro\'s company, the reason Satoshi wanted certain information from Miyuki in the first place (as if it even pertains to her), for which he\'d also have to keep her and all her friends divided before hoping to blackmail it from her), but would only get harder and harder the more people they end up having to keep divided and drive to either suicide or hikikomori. (Makes you wonder why they don\'t just kill them outright, considering the sheer workload involved, the already high risk of life in prison, and the fact that dead people cannot contact authorities while anyone still alive could that either stops caring about everything at stake or has yet to even be accounted for.)

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts will start to feel too overwhelmed from whole thing to continue, and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only kept lucking out for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still having to do everything they can to simply save themselves from arrest, which not only detracts from their real goal (i.e. to ship some illegal weapons out somewhere via Jiro\'s company, the reason Satoshi wanted certain information from Miyuki in the first place (as if it even pertains to her), for which he\'d also have to keep her and all her friends divided before hoping to blackmail it from her), but would only get harder and harder the more people they end up having to keep divided and drive to either suicide or hikikomori. (Makes you wonder why they don\'t just kill them outright, considering the sheer workload involved, the already high risk of life in prison, and the fact that dead people cannot contact authorities while anyone still alive could that either stops caring about everything at stake or has yet to even be accounted for.)

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only kept lucking out for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still having to do everything they can to simply save themselves from arrest, which not only detracts from their real goal (i.e. to ship some illegal weapons out somewhere via Jiro\'s company, the reason Satoshi wanted certain information from Miyuki in the first place (as if it even pertains to her), for which he\'d also have to keep her and all her friends divided before hoping to blackmail it from her), but would only get harder and harder the more people they end up having to keep divided and drive to either suicide or hikikomori. (Makes you wonder why they don\'t just kill them outright, considering the sheer workload involved, the already high risk of life in prison, and the fact that dead people cannot contact authorities while anyone still alive could that either stops caring about everything at stake or has yet to even be accounted for.)

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence, or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only kept lucking out for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still having to do everything they can to simply save themselves from arrest, which not only detracts from their real goal (i.e. to ship some illegal weapons out somewhere via Jiro\'s company, the reason Satoshi wanted certain information from Miyuki in the first place (as if it even pertains to her), for which he\'d also have to keep her and all her friends divided before hoping to blackmail it from her), but would only get harder and harder the more people they end up having to keep divided and drive to either suicide or hikikomori. (Makes you wonder why they don\'t just kill them outright, considering the sheer workload involved, the already high risk of life in prison, and the fact that dead people cannot contact authorities while anyone still alive could that either stops caring about everything at stake or has yet to even be accounted for.)

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence, or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only kept lucking out for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still having to do everything they can to simply save themselves from arrest, which not only detracts from their real goal (i.e. to ship some illegal weapons out somewhere via Jiro\'s company, the reason Satoshi wanted certain information from Miyuki in the first place (as if it even pertains to her), which would also have to keep her and all her friends divided before hoping to blackmail it from her), but would only get harder and harder the more people they end up having to keep divided and drive to either suicide or hikikomori. (Makes you wonder why they don\'t just kill them outright, considering the sheer workload involved, the already high risk of life in prison, and the fact that dead people cannot contact authorities while anyone still alive could that either stops caring about everything at stake or has yet to even be accounted for.)

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence, or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only kept lucking out for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still having to do everything they can to simply save themselves from arrest, which not only detracts from their real goal (i.e. to ship some illegal weapons out somewhere via Jiro\'s company, the reason Satoshi wanted certain information from Miyuki in the first place (as if it even pertains to her), which would also have to keep her and all her friends divided before hoping to blackmail it from her), but would only get harder and harder the more people they end up having to keep divided and drive to either suicide or hikikomori. (Makes you wonder why they don\'t just kill them outright, considering the sheer workload involved, the already high risk of life in prison, and the fact that dead people cannot contact authorities while anyone still alive could that either stops caring about everything at stake or goes unaccounted for in the first place.)

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence, or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only kept lucking out for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still having to do everything they can to simply save themselves from arrest, which not only detracts from their real goal (i.e. to ship some illegal weapons out somewhere via Jiro\'s company, the reason Satoshi wanted certain information from Miyuki in the first place (as if it even pertains to her), which would also have to keep her and all her friends divided before hoping to blackmail it from her), but would only get harder and harder the more people they end up having to keep divided and drive to either suicide or hikikomori. (Makes you wonder why they don\'t just kill them outright, considering the sheer workload involved, the already high risk of life in prison, and the fact that dead people cannot contact authorities while any survivor could that either stops caring about everything at stake or goes unaccounted for in the first place.)

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence, or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only kept lucking out for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still having to do everything they can to simply save themselves from arrest, which not only detracts from their real goal (i.e. to ship some illegal weapons out somewhere via Jiro\'s company, the reason Satoshi wanted certain information from Miyuki in the first place (as if it even pertains to her), which would also have to keep her and all her friends divided before hoping to blackmail it from her), but would only get harder and harder the more people they end up having to keep divided.

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence, or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only kept lucking out for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still having to do everything they can to simply save themselves from arrest, which only detracts from their real goal (i.e. to ship some illegal weapons out somewhere via Jiro\'s company, the reason Satoshi wanted certain information from Miyuki in the first place (as if it even pertains to her), and would also have to keep her and all her friends divided before hoping to get it from her), which would only get harder and harder the longer it all drags on.

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence, or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only kept lucking out for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

(To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still having to do everything they can to simply save themselves from arrest, which only detracts from their real goal (i.e. to ship some illegal weapons out somewhere via Jiro\'s company, the reason Satoshi wanted certain information from Miyuki in the first place (as if it even pertains to her), and would also have to keep her and all her friends divided before hoping to get it from her), which would only get harder and harder the longer it all drags on.)

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence, or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only kept lucking out for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

(To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still doing everything they can to save themselves from arrest, which would only get harder and harder the longer it drags on.)

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence, or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only got lucky for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

(To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer, and that says nothing about each individual involved still doing everything they can to save themselves from arrest, which would only get harder and harder the longer it drags on.)

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence, or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.

Basically, the author wants you to assume that the antagonists get by (at least for as long as they do, before several of their victims finally kill them) due to sheer genius, but we can tell at this point that they only got lucky for a whole month straight before biting the dust.

(To be fair, though, they \'\'are\'\' yakuza, and it\'s possible that they have others carrying some things offpage; one of the onpage antagonists is even called in only partway through the fic. But even then, there are only so many members of the yakuza, compared to the rest of the Japanese population that they\'d eventually have to manage had they survived for even longer.)

* The antagonists plans in \'\'Cries Unheard\'\' (a \'\'Anime/LuckyStar\'\' fanfic) could have been pulled off successfully, and they\'d still be alive, if they had been a lot smarter about it instead of relying on everything preceding their only-inevitable demises to fall favorably for them. How does Satoshi know that Minami and her friends won\'t suspect him, charming as he may have been the previous day, of killing her dog Cherry? How does Riku know Kagami won\'t drop her infatuation for him and slap him for touching her hair, or suspect him of stalking her when she takes Tsukasa out shopping? Kagami and Tsukasa\'s \'\'real\'\' character dictates that there should not have been any tension between them that \'\'did\'\' result from Kagami \"ignoring\" her (read: Tsukasa just standing on the sidelines and feeling sorry for herself or thinking that Kagami doesn\'t love her anymore just because she\'s got a boyfriend now), which in turn would negate Kenji\'s efforts to keep those two on any questionable terms. What drives Satoshi to obtain security information from Miyuki about her father\'s company (which she even mentions only overhearing from said father, Jiro, himself)? How does Kenji know that Minoru (or \'\'anyone\'\', for that matter) isn\'t gonna report what he and Brick did to him to the police? How does he manage to stab Konata in the back in the middle of a crowded summer festival, without her either dying or screaming, and without anyone freaking out at such an act of violence, or even batting an eye at some guy carrying a girl\'s limp body around? How do he and Riku know that Misao and her family isn\'t gonna wonder what\'s going on with them and Konata while both parties are out camping next to eachother, or that Misao, who has no one yet to lose, isn\'t gonna scream for her family\'s help while being raped, or that said family isn\'t gonna either step in or identify them for the police? How do those boys know Nanako wouldn\'t survive a car wreck courtesy of some severed brake cables (and they\'d just have one more victim to \"work on\" if she did survive)? How do they know that none of their secondary victims have friends that their primary ones have never even met, who could step in at a moment\'s notice once they caught wind of everything before being found out about? How do they know that Kagami will either dismiss Misao\'s complaints of being raped or let them go when they continue to gaslight her? How do they know Kagami will eventually give them sex, when the world is full of people who will do no such thing under \'\'any\'\' circumstances except marriage? How do they know that Soujiro and Yui will not suspect anything from Konata\'s aloofness of late or Yutaka\'s absence for several weeks straight? How do they know none of their own cohorts are gonna get tired of the whole thing and either kill himself to avoid prison or just surrender himself and rat on his fellow Yakuza? [[StupidEvil Really, Satoshi could have just taken some nude footage that he takes of Miyuki, threatened Jiro with it for the information he needs, and left everyone else alone. One thing goes wrong, which evidently does happen eventually, and the whole operation is fucked.]] [[IdiotPlot Combined with the stupidity of some of the protagonists regarding things like Minami\'s dog and Tsukasa and Kagami\'s relationship]], this is one example of this trope that utterly shatters all willing suspension of disbelief, and there\'s even a certain WhatIf fic that shows what would have really happened only the second morning in, rendering everything that originally followed a moot point.\'\'