E24 - The End of the Beginning

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[00:12] Rie
    Thank you.
[00:15] Wom
    Next person auditioning?
[00:24] Har
    My name is Mutsuishi Haruna.
    I'm with AiRBLUE.
[00:30] Har
    Thank you for having me!
[00:41] Rio
    Haruna-chan!
[00:42] Rio
    Welcome back.
[00:44] Har
    Thank you.
[00:46] Mai
    Welcome back, Haruna.
[00:47] Shi
    Well, how did it go?
[00:50] Har
    I'm not sure.
[00:52] Har
    I personally felt like it
    went okay, but who knows?
[00:55] Rio
    Oh, that reminds me!
[00:56] Rio
    Speaking of auditions,
[00:58] Rio
    the results from that audition
    you did a while ago came back.
[01:05] Rio
    It looks like they didn't take
    anyone from our agency.
[01:09] Hon
    That's too bad.
[01:11] Chi
    Welcome to our ball, my dear prince!
[01:15] Chi
    Thank you for waiting.
[01:17] Chi
    Here's your Moon Omelet Rice of Fate
    and Glass Slipper Parfait.
[01:20] Chi
    And your seaweed tea.
[01:24] Chi
    What are you guys doing here?
[01:27] Air
    Yuuki-chan insisted on coming.
[01:30] Yuz
    We wanted to come back, too.
[01:32] Chi
    Come on, you guys.
[01:34] Chi
    For me, this is exhausting work, you know?
[01:39] Air
    I'm so sorry.
[01:41] Chi
    I was just joking.
[01:42] Chi
    I'm not mad or anything.
[01:45] Yuz
    No rest for the poor, huh?
[01:46] Chi
    Hey, now.
[01:48] Yuu
    We actually have a lot of free time, though.
[01:51] Yuu
    I was thinking we'd be really busy
    with the anime adaptation of Himmel...
[01:54] Yuu
    But then it turns out the
    recording starts in a year!
[01:58] Air
    I guess making an anime
    takes a very long time.
[02:03] Yuz
    Anime is so cool!
[02:06] Chi
    A year, huh?
[02:08] Chi
    That does sound kinda far off.
[02:12] Rie
    At first, it was going okay,
[02:14] Rie
    but after I messed up once,
    I completely fell apart.
[02:18] Sat
    You'll just have to shake it off.
[02:20] Sat
    We newbies just need to
    hit up a lot of auditions.
[02:24] Rie
    I know that, but...
[02:26] Sat
    In this business, even the most
    sought-after voice actresses get rejected.
[02:30] Sat
    You need to get used to it,
    or you won't survive.
[02:33] Rie
    Have you gotten used to it already?
[02:38] Kid
    You know what?
[02:39] Kid
    We'd love to see you in a play again!
[02:43] Kid2
    When are you doing the next one?
[02:45] Rin
    Yeah, we'd like to do one again, too.
[02:51] Mei
    The stage readings are fun, huh?
[02:55] Sat
    Yeah.
[02:58] Sat
    They're not bad.
[03:03] Rie
    Yeah.
[03:05] Rie
    I'd like to do one again.
[03:13] Rik
    Yeah, we're definitely losing listeners.
[03:16] Aya
    I wonder why.
[03:20] Mah
    It started going down around the time we
    started the Boken Survivors project.
[03:26] Aya
    Shouldn't we be getting more listeners,
    now that we're in an anime?
[03:31] Mah
    The way we do Survivors is basically
    how we do our radio show.
[03:37] Rik
    So you're saying all those listeners
    just moved over to Survivors?
[03:42] Aya
    I see.
[03:44] Mih
    Oh, my.
[03:47] Rik
    I don't like seeing our
    listeners decline like this.
[03:50] Rik
    Isn't there anything we can do?
[03:53] Mih
    Yeah...
[03:55] Rik
    Well, wouldn't it be okay to just
    call it quits at some point, then?
[04:00] Rik
    If all our listeners are
    moving over to Survivors,
[04:03] Rik
    doesn't that mean our radio
    show has served its purpose?
[04:06] Mih
    Its purpose...
[04:08] Rik
    But I can't imagine us not
    doing our show anymore.
[04:13] Mah
    Nobody said this would be easy.
[04:25] Chi
    Oh...
[04:28] Rik
    I wasn't expecting you here at this hour.
[04:31] Chi
    Work ran late, and then I was thinking
    I'd relax a bit before going to bed.
[04:36] Rik
    Welcome back.
[04:38] Rik
    Want to sit?
[04:38] Chi
    Sure.
[04:40] Rik
    What? The recording won't
    start for another year?
[04:44] Chi
    Yeah.
[04:44] Rik
    I see. I guess it takes
    longer than we thought.
[04:49] Rik
    Do you feel demotivated now?
[04:51] Chi
    I can't honestly say I don't...
[04:55] Chi
    But Yuuki-chan and the others are
    almost annoyingly full of energy,
[04:59] Chi
    so that one year might just go by in a flash.
[05:03] Chi
    I'm also older than everyone else.
[05:06] Rik
    You're saying that to me?
[05:08] Chi
    Oh, sorry.
[05:11] Chi
    But things start to get murky when
    all you're doing is your side job.
[05:17] Chi
    Your sense of distance to your dreams, I mean.
[05:19] Rik
    Yeah, even if it's a dream
    that finally came true,
[05:23] Rik
    maybe you have to let it go in
    order to keep going forward.
[05:30] Chi
    So I wondered a bit...
[05:34] Chi
    If it's always, always...
[05:37] Chi
    going to be...
[05:39] Chi
    like this.
[05:43] Rik
    I know what you mean.
[05:45] Rik
    It's like...
[05:56] Rik
    Goodnight.
[06:00] Mai
    Huh?
[06:01] Mai
    What's up?
[06:03] Sat
    Oh.
[06:07] Sat
    I've been taking walks here twice a week.
[06:11] Mai
    I'm out for a walk, too.
[06:15] Mai
    I see. So Rie-san's also a little down.
[06:18] Sat
    Yeah, well, it's almost like we
    go to auditions to get shot down.
[06:23] Mai
    True.
[06:26] Mai
    I also really wanted to work on the project
    Haruna and the others auditioned for today.
[06:32] Sat
    I guess Rie and Mutsuishi-san were
    both invited by name to the audition.
[06:36] Mai
    Either way, I want to support
    Haruna and the others,
[06:40] Mai
    but it also really sucks that I wasn't invited.
[06:44] Mai
    It's hard to put it into words.
[06:46] Sat
    I know.
[06:47] Sat
    I think every voice actress
    should be fending for herself,
[06:51] Sat
    but I do know what you're talking about.
[06:54] Sat
    Well, I'm going to keep walking a little longer.
[06:58] Mai
    And I'm pretty tired, so I'll be heading back.
[07:05] Mai
    We might be going different ways,
[07:07] Mai
    but we're still going back to the same home.
[07:08] Mai
    That's kinda nice.
[07:13] Sat
    That's true.
[07:16] Mas
    I asked you all here today for one reason.
[07:19] Mas
    In the near future, there's going to be a
    large-scale audition for a certain project.
[07:24] Mas
    That project is Alma of the Azure Valley.
[07:30] Har
    That's...
[07:37] Aya
    But wasn't Alma...
[07:39] Mah
    Yeah, Alma was...
[07:44] Sat
    Alma of the Azure Valley is the
    title I once played Alma for.
[07:50] Sat
    A lot of time has passed since then,
[07:53] Sat
    and a lot of new characters
    have been introduced.
[07:56] Har
    This seems unreal...
[07:59] Mas
    We've arranged it so that all of
    AiRBLUE can participate.
[08:03] Mas
    Please make your individual
    decisions after talking to Rio.
SIGN    Movie Adaptation of Alma of the Azure Valley
    Project Plan
[08:10] Kir
    They seemed a little hesitant.
[08:13] Rio
    Yes.
[08:14] Rio
    The audition results
    haven't been good lately.
[08:17] Rio
    I'm wondering if they're
    starting to lose confidence.
[08:19] Mas
    Everyone has to go through that.
[08:21] Kir
    That's right.
[08:22] Rio
    B-But isn't this precisely when the
    teams should support each other?
[08:26] Mas
    To be a voice actress is to be alone.
[08:28] Mas
    Everyone has to walk their own path,
[08:31] Mas
    even if they happen to be on the same team.
[08:33] Rio
    That's true, but...
[08:38] Kir
    But, Masaki, you're still thinking
    about that dream of yours, aren't you?
[08:44] Mas
    You got me.
[08:46] Mas
    When people are taking their first
    step out onto that dark path,
[08:49] Mas
    I wonder how many more
    possibilities would unfold
[08:52] Mas
    if only there was a small,
    friendly voice calling to you...
[08:57] Hon
    I see. This was your dream, huh?
SIGN    Main Characters
SIGN    Lilia
    Daughter of Alma and Rick.
     She seems innocent and calm,
     but she's brimming with curiosity and will
    jump head-first into dangerous situations.
     Her friend Rush always comes to her
    rescue when she's in a tight spot.
     It was decided that she is to receive her
    mother's jewel and the powers of a fairy.
     But on the night before the ceremony,
    the jewel emits a strange light, and Lilia
    and Rush are thrown into a different world.
[09:01] Har
    Yeah.
[09:02] Hon
    Dreams, huh?
[09:04] Har
    What is it?
[09:05] Hon
    Well, I've been thinking lately.
[09:08] Hon
    Back when I got that part in Bloom Ball,
    and while I was recording,
[09:12] Hon
    it felt real, that I had actually
    become a voice actress.
[09:16] Hon
    That my dream had come true.
[09:20] Hon
    But without a job,
    we're just regular students.
[09:25] Hon
    Makes you wonder which parts of
    you really are the voice actress.
[09:30] Har
    Yeah.
[09:31] Har
    I can't really put it eloquently...
[09:34] Har
    Right now, I'm still desperate.
[09:37] Har
    But every day is fun.
[09:41] Har
    I guess I'd like to keep going until
    I find the answer to that question.
[09:46] Mai
    Yeah, we were desperate.
[09:51] Hon
    Yeah, but each day is fun.
[09:54] Shio
    Yeah.
[10:00] Shio
    That reminds me. It's today.
[10:03] Mai
    What is?
[10:06] Shio
    The one-year anniversary
    of us all coming here.
SIGN    1st anniversary!
[10:11] Aya
    Hey.
[10:12] Aya
    What do you think voice acting is?
[10:14] Rik
    That's a hard question out of the blue.
[10:16] Aya
    It's been on my mind since we had that talk
    about what we should do with the radio show.
[10:24] Mah
    I guess it's work where you
    earn money with your voice.
[10:27] Mih
    So I guess we're all voice actresses.
[10:30] Mah
    For now.
[10:32] Mih
    For now?
[10:34] Mah
    For now.
[10:35] Mah
    I mean, we don't know what's ahead.
[10:37] Mah
    It's not just about making money,
SIGN    Ride the
    Headwind
[10:39] Mah
    but about our voices
    actually reaching someone.
[10:42] Rik
    So like, are we doing
    what we want to be doing?
[10:45] Mah
    And you have to be popular.
SIGN    ji Mahoro @ live radio broadcast!!
SIGN    Miyaji Mahoro
SIGN    posts
SIGN    followers
SIGN    follows
SIGN    Edit Profile
SIGN    Pin favorites to your profile
[10:48] Aya
    By "popular," do you mean online followers?
[10:51] Mah
    Of course, that's important.
[10:53] Mih
    And the radio?
[10:59] Mah
    Of course, that's important, too.
[11:01] Mih
    So why are we quitting?
[11:03] Mah
    I just said that it's served
    the purpose it had until now.
[11:06] Aya
    There's no money in it, either.
[11:08] Rik
    Are we gonna keep it going, then?
[11:10] Mah
    Of course we will!
[11:12] Mah
    It's the very first thing we did together.
[11:16] Mah
    Besides, I'm a professional voice actress.
[11:20] Aya
    So what's a professional
    voice actress to you?
[11:23] Mah
    Someone who earns money with their voice.
[11:28] Rik
    You circled right back around.
[11:30] Mih
    I guess we'll continue the radio show, then.
[11:32] Rik
    Yay! Should we do something
    to commemorate this?
[11:34] Mah
    Commemorate?
[11:36] All
    We're back!
[11:37] Shi
    We're home.
[11:38] Mih
    Welcome back.
[11:40] Mih
    What's up?
[11:43] Hon
    Today... is the anniversary
    of the first day we all met!
[11:48] Mah
    Huh?
[11:49] Both
    Anniversary?
[11:50] Mai
    So we wanted to do something.
[11:52] Har
    With everyone in the dorm!
[11:54] Shi
    Right.
[11:55] Hon
    Everyone, myself included,
[11:57] Hon
    seems to be a bit lost lately,
[12:00] Hon
    so I kinda wanna do something
    to, like, psych ourselves up!
[12:04] Mih
    That's pretty good timing, huh?
[12:11] Rik
    Good morning, good day, good evening!
[12:14] Aya
    The radio show that delivers
    happiness right to your ears...
[12:18] Mah
    From four aspiring voice actresses...
SIGN    Recording
    Keep Out!
[12:21] Mih
    Brought to you with all our love!
[12:27] Rik
    Today is a very important day for us,
[12:31] Rik
    so we wanted to bring you to
    this very special broadcast.
[12:34] Mih
    Today, it's been exactly one year since all of
    us came together to work here at AiRBLUE.
[12:41] Rik
    Which is why we asked all of our friends
    here at the dorm to join the show today!
[12:48] All
    Hello!
[12:50] Rik
    So let's do introductions!
[12:52] Rik
    And make it snappy.
[12:53] Har
    I'm Mutsuishi Haruna.
[12:55] Mai
    I'm Takatori Maika.
[12:56] Shi
    Kano Shiho. Nice to meetcha.
[12:58] Hon
    My name is Tsukii Honoka!
[13:01] Yuu
    Tendo Yuuki!
[13:02] Chi
    Akagawa Chisa here.
[13:03] Air
    I'm, uh, Eniwa Airi.
[13:05] Yuz
    I'm Kujo Yuzuha!
[13:08] Rie
    My name is Eris, the demon Eris—
[13:10] Sat
    You're Maruyama Rie.
[13:12] Sat
    And I'm Utsugi Satori.
[13:13] Myou
    I'm Myoujin Rinne!
[13:15] Mei
    I'm Toomi Mei.
[13:17] Rik
    That's all of our wonderful friends here!
[13:21] Rik
    Our show actually has a theme today.
[13:23] Aya
    It's been one year since we started
    working as voice actresses.
SIGN    Ride the
    Headwind
SIGN    Radio
SIGN    (no category)
SIGN    This is just the beginning!
SIGN    I didn't know there were that many of you.
    Good luck.
SIGN    I want to hear more voices!
SIGN    More intros!
[13:28] Aya
    We're still experiencing a lot of bumps,
[13:31] Aya
    and turns, and feelings of doubt.
[13:33] Rik
    But by cheering each other on,
[13:36] Rik
    we've somehow managed
    to survive until this day.
[13:39] Rik
    So at this turning point...
[13:41] Mih
    Please listen to our voices and
    stories as fledgling voice actresses.
[13:50] Chi
    Uh, I'm Akagawa Chisa!
[13:53] Chi
    We're voice actresses,
[13:54] Chi
    but Yuuki, Airi, Yuzuha and I are mainly
    focused on our idol unit, Chun×4.
[13:59] Chi
    Actually, that's more or less all we do...
[14:02] Air
    Singing and dancing is very hard,
[14:04] Air
    so at times, I got so scared
    that it made me cry...
[14:07] Yuz
    It's been so much fun!
[14:09] Yuz
    And it's only going to be getting more fun!
[14:12] Yuu
    If you really do your best,
[14:15] Yuu
    you can convey your
    emotions with your voice.
[14:17] Yuu
    That's something that really
    clicked this last year.
[14:20] Yuu
    Oh, and they're making Chun×4 into an anime!
[14:22] Yuu
    Hope you'll all tune in!
[14:24] Rik
    Thanks!
[14:25] Rik
    Next up is Rie's group.
[14:28] Rie
    For me, as a creature of the darkness,
[14:31] Rie
    the concerns and worries of
    humans are meaningless.
[14:33] Rie
    They are sickeningly absurd.
[14:36] Rin
    Oh, no! Rienne, are you sick?!
[14:39] Rie
    That's not what I...
[14:41] Sat
    Stop talking nonsense.
[14:43] Mei
    Rie...
[14:46] Rie
    The truth is, it wasn't going
    so great for us when we started.
[14:50] Rie
    We called ourselves industrial
    waste and stuff...
[14:54] Rie
    But so much has changed since
    the four of us came together.
[14:58] Rie
    Recently, we finally got to be in an anime,
[15:01] Rie
    began working as an idol unit, and so on.
[15:05] Rie
    We did feel a bit down because we haven't
    been called back after several auditions,
[15:13] Rie
    but...
[15:14] Rie
    Where we are right now
[15:15] Rie
    is a place we could only reach
    because the four of us are together!
[15:19] Rie
    If everyone has their own path to walk there,
[15:21] Rie
    I am certain that nothing will stand
    in the way of our fierce rule!
[15:26] Sat
    So, that kind of sums us up.
[15:29] Mei
    Yeah.
[15:30] Rin
    That was so cool!
[15:32] Mah
    Next up is...
[15:33] Mah
    Haruna's group.
[15:34] Har
    Oh! Well...
[15:39] Mai
    Um, I'm Takatori Maika.
[15:41] Mai
    I was able to be in an
    anime called Bloom Ball,
[15:44] Mai
    but I'm fully aware that I'm
    still not good enough yet.
[15:48] Hon
    I feel very much like Maika.
[15:51] Hon
    But I'm going to accept my weaknesses,
[15:54] Hon
    then train and train and
    become a stronger person!
[15:58] Shio
    All right, musclehead.
[16:00] Shio
    You ready now, Haruna?
[16:02] Har
    Yes. Thank you.
[16:05] Har
    I guess I've been thinking and
    feeling what everyone else has.
[16:10] Har
    All the time, I feel uncertain, scared,
    and have no confidence in myself.
[16:16] Har
    I know that from far away,
[16:18] Har
    we probably all look like almost
    identical fledgling voice actresses.
[16:25] Har
    But being as close as I am,
[16:27] Har
    I can see how everyone here
    glows in their own color.
[16:32] Har
    Having basked in all of their colors,
[16:36] Har
    my glow probably has all sorts of colors.
[16:39] Har
    So now I feel like, if I'm chosen in an audition,
[16:42] Har
    it wasn't just my own glow
    that made them choose me.
[16:46] Har
    So I'd like to take this
    opportunity to thank you all.
[16:51] Har
    Thank you for everything!
[16:56] Mai
    Haruna, you had that all prepared.
[17:00] Mah
    That was pretty amazing
    if you just ad-libbed it.
[17:04] Har
    I... did think about it a little...
[17:09] Rik
    But I feel like I just heard a great story.
[17:13] Aya
    The power of words truly is amazing.
[17:18] Mih
    And we will continue to
    take those important words,
[17:23] Mih
    and carry them straight
    to you with our voices.
[17:44] Rie
    I'd like my voice to reach someone.
[17:47] Rie
    That dream alone is what
    brought us all this way.
[17:52] Air
    But most of what I wanted didn't work out,
[17:55] Air
    and only a tiny fraction went well...
[17:59] Aya
    There were times when I felt
    so lost, and had to cry...
[18:03] Hon
    Sometimes, there were days
    when this dream felt heavy.
[18:08] Chi
    I don't have time to stand still,
[18:11] Chi
    and yet, I find myself wishing
    there was someone by my side.
[18:15] Rin
    Even something like eating a
    meal together sounds nice then.
[18:20] Mah
    Sometimes, just hearing a "good morning"
    or a "goodnight" can save you.
[18:25] Yuu
    I realized that these moments only exist here.
[18:30] Mei
    In reality, each of our starting points and
    the scenery we're seeing are different.
[18:35] Mai
    And I understand that all of us will
    eventually go our separate ways.
[18:41] Shi
    The moment I understood that, I got scared.
[18:46] Mih
    When I look up at the infinite sky,
[18:49] Mih
    it's so full of hope and possibility and doubt.
[18:54] Rik
    But nothing can stop us from
    wanting to reach the sky.
[18:59] Yuz
    One day, you'll see us flying high.
[19:02] Sat
    Until that day, we're proud to be here,
[19:05] Sat
    looking in the same direction.
[19:08] Har
    Which is why we'll all make
    our mark with our voices.
[19:12] Har
    At this time, in this moment...
[19:17] All
    We are voice actresses!
[19:22] Song
    Hey, look, the scenery is changing
[19:25] Song
    I'm leaving the person I was yesterday behind
[19:29] Song
    Who is this, reflected in the window?
[19:36] Song
    Someone who looks like me was smiling
[19:40] Song
    I reach out for them, but they slip away
[19:42] Song
    It's me, but I'm far away
[19:46] Song
    And the colors are faded
[19:50] Song
    But I'm certain that I am here
[19:56] Song
    In order to advance
[19:59] Song
    The time that has stopped
[20:00] Song
    And the monochrome season
[20:03] Song
    Keep chasing it, keep chasing it
[20:07] Song
    Toward the future up ahead
[20:10] Song
    What color should you and I make it?
[20:17] Song
    So just one step forward, one step forward
[20:21] Song
    Layering on my color
[20:25] Song
    And paint from the heart
[20:28] Song
    Onto this sparkling white canvas
[20:47] Song
    Everything won't just go
    perfectly right from the start
[20:50] Song
    But I want to get closer
    to reality than yesterday
[20:54] Song
    And slowly, I become me
[21:01] Song
    When the tears come and you want to erase it
[21:04] Song
    The courage to keep your back straight
[21:08] Song
    Will someday
[21:09] Song
    Become someone's strength
[21:14] Song
    Make as many mistakes as you want
[21:21] Song
    Because the new colors you layer on each time
[21:25] Song
    Will give you strength
[21:28] Song
    So again and again
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    Think about all of our
[21:35] Song
    Individual futures and layer them on forever
[21:42] Song
    I still don't have an answer
[21:46] Song
    To the question you asked
[21:50] Song
    But I want to paint it vividly
[21:53] Song
    Onto the canvas in front of me
SIGN    Final Episode
SIGN    The End of the Beginning
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    Red, blue, green, yellow, orange, rainbow
[22:09] Song
    Everyone's colors
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    With this brush that I was given
[22:14] Song
    I carry those colors
[22:18] Song
    So many smiles, overflowing smiles
[22:21] Song
    That's what I want to paint, now and forever
[22:25] Song
    I'm starting to see it bit by bit
[22:28] Song
    Our future
[22:31] Song
    So let it always ring, let it always ring
[22:35] Song
    Let it ring in our voices
[22:39] Song
    And let's finish this painting someday
[22:46] Song
    We've yet to find a color we didn't need
[22:53] Song
    It's gonna be fine, just believe
[22:56] Song
    In this painting
[23:00] Song
    Keep chasing it, keep chasing it
[23:00] Rio
    All right, everyone.
[23:01] Rio
    The audition is starting now.
[23:03] Song
    Toward the future up ahead
[23:03] All
    Yes ma'am!
[23:04] Rio
    Who wants to go first?
[23:06] Har
    Me!
[23:07] Song
    What color should you and I make it?
[23:08] Har
    I, Mutsuishi Haruna, will go first!
[23:14] Song
    So just one step forward, one step forward
[23:15] Har
    Huh? Masaki-san?
[23:18] Song
    Layering on my color
[23:18] Mas
    For today's audition,
[23:20] Mas
    you'll be reading along with my Alma.
[23:21] Song
    You can see it, right?
[23:24] Song
    The new future on this canvas
[23:25] Har
    Okay! Thank you!
[23:30] Mas
    The time to set out has come.
[23:32] Mas
    May the fairies watch over you.
[23:35] Har
    I'm going now, Mother.
[23:38] Mas
    There's nothing to fear.
[23:40] Mas
    Spread those wings on your back
    and take to that blue sky.
[23:44] Mas
    You're free to go as far
    and high as you please.
[23:48] Har
    I will!
[23:54] Har
    Everyone has a sky they can fly in!