It has been over a week since the anime girls arrived, and in that time, I have watched my world descend into madness.
When they first arrived, I remember thinking they were cute. Little did I know how wrong I was. Now, the sight of their perpetual smiles fills me with an instinctual revulsion. I don't know how those monsters can smile even amidst the horror they have wrought, but to me, their smiles are hollow: rictus grins mocking our suffering.
At first it was just one anime girl, smiling that once-innocent smile as she bounded playfully into town, greeting all she passed. And then it was two, skipping arm-in-arm with each other. Then four, arguing playfully about starting an afterschool club. Four became eight, and eight became sixteen, all before they had traveled a couple blocks. The girls multiplied, cheerfully splitting and dividing into more and more of themselves, until there was more of them than there was of us.
Now, there is more of them than there is anything else. Outside my window, an ocean of anime girls writhes and swells like a nightmarish ocean of golden hair and adorable outfits. My ears are assaulted by a never-ending cacophony, a dirge of voices calling ceaselessly for their senpai.
We have supplies and provisions for a few more days at the most, and our numbers dwindle by the day. Thompson tried to brave the mass yesterday, in an effort to retrieve more supplies. I saw him get dragged under with my own eyes, screaming as he was buried beneath a mountain of glomps. The day before, we lost three when young Matthew, in the throes of puberty, attempted to open a window to let one of the monsters in. Even now I can still hear his screams, and I fear they will haunt me for the rest of my days.
I am not sure if any of us remain sane anymore. We are losing hope; we are losing ourselves. I see their sickeningly adorable anime faces every time I close my eyes, taunting me, laughing at me, singing their cheerful songs. It's as if they have no concept of the horror they've wrought, no understanding of how their constantly growing numbers are destroying us.