Season 1

E1 - Idea 1
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[00:03] Nar
    In the beginning, God created
    the heavens and the earth.
[00:07] Nar
    He followed them
[00:11] Nar
    with light, waters, and the land.
[00:15] Nar
    Then he created the many animals
    that would inhabit it.
[00:20] Nar
    Or... that was the plan.
[00:23] Nar
    It got too tedious, so he outsourced it.
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[02:00] Ued
    This is Heaven's design team,
[02:03] Ued
    the department where animals are created.
[02:06] Ued
    Shimoda-kun, as the newly-hired angel,
[02:09] Ued
    you'll be responsible for communication
    between the team and God.
[02:12] Shi
    Yes, I will do my best!
[02:14] Miz
    Ueda-san, is that the new guy?
[02:17] Ued
    Yes, be nice to him.
[02:19] Shi
    My name is Sh-Shimoda. It's nice to meet you!
[02:22] Miz
    Yeah, yeah, welcome.
[02:24] Shi
    So God doesn't create
    every single animal himself?
[02:28] Ued
    There are just too many, so he outsourced
     their design and creation to us.
[02:33] Ued
    We're an OEM, manufacturing
    with the customer's branding.
[02:38] Ued
    And God is our client.
[02:40] Shi
    That's very illuminating!
[02:42] Ued
    It's time for the meeting.
    I hope you're ready.
[02:46] Shi
    Yes!
[02:47] Tsu
    Starting today, a new angel,
    Shimoda-kun, will be joining us.
[02:52] Shi
    I'm so excited to be here!
[02:53] Tsu
    Great.
[02:55] Tsu
    I'll jump right into the first agenda item.
[02:57] Tsu
    The order from the client
    we'll discuss today is:
[03:00] Tsu
    "An animal that can eat leaves
    that are really high up."
[03:04] Tsu
    There are three suggestions so far.
[03:07] Tsu
    We'll start with mine.
[03:10] Shi
    Wow, a pegasus!
[03:12] Shi
    Indeed, a flying animal
     can reach leaves anywhere.
[03:17] Miz
    Chief Saturn, a horse again?
[03:20] Tsu
    Is there a problem?
[03:21] Tsu
    The horse design can be
    infinitely refactored.
[03:24] Ued
    Chief Saturn's best-known
    work is the horse.
[03:27] Shi
    That's a masterpiece!
[03:29] Ued
    Yes, but because the horse
     is such a masterpiece,
[03:33] Ued
    he now bases all of his designs on it.
[03:35] Tsu
    Let's see the next
    suggestion, Mercury-kun.
[03:38] Miz
    Right.
[03:39] Miz
    This is the Ping Pong Tree.
[03:41] Kim
    I-Is this an animal?
[03:43] Kim
    Rather than eating leaves that are high up,
[03:46] Kim
    it looks more like a
    plant that gets eaten.
[03:50] Miz
    I am not afraid of being innovative,
    and I endeavor to design
[03:53] Miz
    something that is not constrained
    by established norms.
[03:55] Kim
    Yeah, I think you went too far.
[03:58] Miz
    It can grow and shrink in length at will.
[04:01] Miz
    And it captures prey with these balls.
[04:05] Kan
    Ew, gross!
[04:07] Kan
    Why would you design
    something like that?
[04:09] Kan
    It's not beautiful.
[04:11] Mei
    Really? I like it.
[04:13] Uma
    Yeah, Pluto-chan has come up
    with carnivorous plants before.
[04:17] Uma
    I can see why you like it.
[04:19] Shi
    Carnivorous plants...
[04:20] Ued
    She's a designer, as well. Her
     best-known work is the poisonous frog.
[04:25] Tsu
    Now, on to the last suggestion.
[04:27] Tsu
    Neptune-kun came up with
    this long-necked deer.
[04:31] Uma
    Well, if it's an animal that can
     eat leaves from the top of trees,
[04:36] Uma
    I figured a long neck would help,
     so I tried that.
[04:40] All
    That's so simple.
[04:42] Tsu
    Such a simple idea, Neptune-kun.
[04:44] Uma
    It is, huh?
[04:46] Tsu
    Anyway, let's toss it to the
    engineer to see if it could work
[04:49] Tsu
    when we let it loose on Earth.
[04:51] Shi
    Engineer?
[04:53] Ued
    Designs must pass a number of tests
    so we're sure they'll survive on Earth,
SIGN    Prototype Lab
[04:58] Ued
    Hence this prototype lab.
[05:01] Ued
    You submit the design proposals
    to the engineer here.
[05:04] Tsu
    The engineer makes prototypes based on
    our designs to see if they are viable.
[05:10] Shi
    So there's even a mechanical department!
[05:13] Shi
    Oh, the door opened.
[05:15] Tsu
    That was rather quick.
[05:19] Hig
    Saturn-san...
[05:20] Hig
    I recall telling you that
     we cannot make a pegasus.
[05:24] Tsu
    Mars-san, I was hoping
    that you could do it anyway.
[05:26] Tsu
    I mean, it's cool. It's a horse.
[05:28] Hig
    An animal this big cannot fly!
[05:31] Hig
    I've told you time and time again!
[05:33] Hig
    Please accept it already!
[05:35] Ued
    That's Mars-san, our engineer.
[05:37] Hig
    There's not enough muscle mass
    to use those wings to fly.
[05:40] Kane
    That's right. Making an animal
    fly is a real challenge.
[05:44] Kane
    Making it lighter wasn't easy,
    so I had to make the bones
[05:47] Kane
    and the feather stems hollow, dial up
    its excretion frequency, and so on.
SIGN    Hollow Inside
[05:51] Kane
    The pursuit of beauty isn't trivial.
[05:54] Shi
    So, basically, making a
    pegasus reality means...
[05:57] Shi
    a mega-buff muscle horse that
    rapid-fires dung all over?
SIGN    Rat-tat-tat
SIGN    Rat-tat-tat
SIGN    Rat-tat-tat
[06:04] Hig
    That's why it's impossible.
SIGN    Rejected
[06:05] Tsu
    Oh, no.
[06:08] Hig
    And Mercury-san, your
    Ping Pong Tree also won't work.
[06:12] Hig
    It couldn't handle gravity.
SIGN    Rejected
[06:15] Hig
    Which leaves us with this long-necked deer.
     It won't work like this, though.
[06:19] Uma
    Really? It should be able to eat...
[06:22] Hig
    I figured you'd say that, so I made
    it according to your original design.
[06:35] Hig
    Cerebral anemia.
[06:37] Hig
    If the neck is 10 meters long,
    you need a 1.5 ton heart
[06:41] Hig
    to transport the blood to the head.
[06:43] Hig
    That's why it immediately
    collapses from lightheadedness.
[06:46] Shi
    The poor thing!
[06:47] Uma
    Then how about making the
    legs longer instead?
[06:50] Miz
    How will it drink water?
[06:53] Miz
    That won't work.
[06:54] Kan
    Then how about something in between?
[06:56] Shi
    Right.
[06:57] Shi
    Then both leaves and
    water will be reachable!
[06:59] Miz
    It also relieves pressure on the heart
    and solves the lightheadedness.
[07:04] Hig
    All right, I'll take it back
    and make another prototype.
[07:06] Hig
    But despite being this big,
    this pup only eats leaves, right?
[07:09] Hig
    I wonder if it can sustain itself.
[07:11] Kim
    Then why not make it like the
    cows I made a while back?
SIGN    Bacteria
[07:15] Kim
    They keep bacteria in their gut
    that turns leaves into protein.
[07:19] Kim
    With those, even a large
    animal can be an herbivore.
[07:22] Hig
    Okay, I'll try that.
[07:25] Kim
    I'll come, too. I want to taste it.
[07:27] Miz
    As soon as he makes an animal,
    he does a taste test.
[07:30] Shi
    A real diversity of ideas here, huh?
SIGN    And then...
[07:35] Hig
    It's done.
[07:38] Uma
    It's so big that it bonks its head.
[07:40] Uma
    Should we add horns?
[07:42] Mei
    That's not a deer anymore.
[07:44] Tsu
    How about adding some horse elements
    to its face, something horsey?
[07:47] Kim
    It already tastes good
    without horseradish.
[07:49] Mei
    Stop horsing around.
[07:51] Kan
    It's a bit sad without decoration.
[07:53] Kan
    I'll come up with something!
[07:56] Ued
    Oh, Shimoda-kun, did you just...
[07:59] Shi
    I got a message from God.
[08:01] Shi
    God has spoken!
SIGN    Giraffe
SIGN    Accepted
[08:07] God
    Accepted!
[08:09] Shi
    Wow, it's the birth of a new life form!
[08:13] Tsu
    Shimoda-kun, congratulations for
    finishing your first assignment!
[08:18] Hig
    I told you it's not getting enough protein.
[08:22] Ued
    God has spoken again!
SIGN    Ping Pong
     Tree Sponge
SIGN    Accepted
[08:24] God
    Accepted!
[08:26] Miz
    Seriously?
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[08:28] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[08:32] Shi
    They're up to five meters tall.
[08:34] Shi
    In the wild, they even sleep standing up.
[08:37] Hig
    They give birth standing up, as well.
[08:39] Hig
    The distance of their butt from
    the ground is about two meters.
[08:42] Shi
    Wait, what about the babies then?
[08:43] Hig
    The moment they are born, they fall
    two meters and smack the ground!
[08:47] Shi
    That's terrible!
[08:48] Hig
    They have soft, tender bodies
    so that they don't get hurt.
[08:52] Hig
    This is how they drink water.
[08:55] Shi
    Wouldn't the blood rush to their heads?
[08:57] Hig
    There's an organ near the brain that
    stores excess blood, so they're fine.
[09:01] Shi
    They're really well tuned!
[09:11] Miz
    Among the tens of thousands
    of designs we create,
[09:14] Miz
    one will stand out and change everything.
[09:18] Miz
    This is Saturn-san's
    masterpiece, the horse.
[09:21] Miz
    I wanted to add some
    revolutionary ideas to it.
[09:25] Miz
    Front legs? Unnecessary.
[09:27] Miz
    Hind legs? Unnecessary.
[09:30] Miz
    There's no need to have a separate
    hole for intercourse and excretion.
[09:35] Miz
    Thus, let me introduce this
    revolutionary animal to you.
[09:43] Miz
    It's the snake.
[09:45] Kan
    I hate this!
[09:47] Kan
    Why did our client allow this one to pass?!
[09:50] Miz
    Obviously, because the snake's
    design is excellent.
[09:53] Kan
    I'm so pissed!
[09:54] Shi
    I-Is something wrong?
[09:55] Miz
    That was an unexpected turn of events.
[09:58] Kim
    Sometimes we are curious about how
    the animals we designed are doing,
[10:02] Kim
    so we take a peek at Earth.
[10:04] Miz
    Indeed. The bird class that Venus
    did is designed really well.
SIGN    Weaver
     Bird
SIGN    Cry
[10:08] Miz
    Especially their eggs.
SIGN    Weaver
     Bird
SIGN    Cry
SIGN    I love
     these
     eggs ♥
SIGN    Egg-Eating Snake
[10:10] Kan
    What kind of snake only eats
    a certain bird's eggs?
[10:13] Kan
    A freaking gourmet?!
[10:14] Kim
    It's fine! It means they're just that delicious.
[10:16] Kan
    It's not fine!
[10:18] Miz
    Incidentally, with its simple body shape,
[10:20] Miz
    the snake can move, climb, and capture prey.
[10:24] Kan
    The more I hear, the more that
    thing sounds like it's cheating!
[10:27] Kan
    I really want to see that snake suffer!
[10:29] ---
    But how to do it...
[10:32] Kim
    How about an egg that's hard to eat?
[10:34] Shi
    Good idea. Mercury-san,
    you should help, too.
[10:37] Miz
    How about adding spikes to the egg, then?
[10:40] Shi
    That would definitely hurt the
    mother when she's laying them!
[10:43] Miz
    Then how about having the egg
    stick to the parent's belly?
SIGN    Stick
[10:45] Miz
    The egg could walk.
[10:47] Miz
    Or the parent could wrap it
    in a cloth and carry it.
[10:50] Kan
    Something serious, please?
[10:52] Miz
    Then why not just make the shell so
    tough the snake can't digest it?
[10:56] Shi
    That's good! Right?
[10:59] Kim
    Let's have Mars-san make it.
[11:02] Hig
    Here you go.
[11:03] Kan
    Soon the chick will be born.
[11:13] Shi
    Oh no, it exhausted itself!
[11:16] Kim
    How about making it hatch faster
    when it senses a snake approaching?
[11:19] Hgi
    Here you go.
[11:24] Shi
    It hatched!
[11:26] Shi
    Of course.
[11:28] Kan
    It's fine, it's just for the demo.
[11:31] Kan
    Ask Mars-san to take it out.
[11:33] Shi
    Okay.
[11:36] Kim
    That's too bad. It was able to
    sense the snake's vibrations...
[11:40] Kim
    How about making it jump
    out of the nest to escape?
[11:42] Miz
    That's jumping from
    the frying pan into the fire.
[11:46] Kim
    Yeah, they wouldn't be able to fly yet.
[11:48] Shi
    The poor thing!
[11:50] Kim
    I guess that won't work unless they can
    fully move right after being born.
[11:53] Kim
    Something like tadpoles.
[11:55] Shi
    Oh, "new and fun frogs" are always welcome.
[11:59] Kim
    All right, then I'll try submitting that idea.
[12:02] Miz
    Well, basically, the snake has no weaknesses.
[12:06] Miz
    By the way, the snake can smell by tasting
    particles in the air with its tongue.
[12:12] Kan
    Th-That smug face again!
[12:14] Kan
    The snake and you both
    piss me off so much!
[12:16] Kan
    Just you wait! The birds won't
    be the helpless victims forever!
SIGN    Days Later
[12:20] Shi
    Jupiter-san!
[12:22] Shi
    Your idea from the other day for the frog
    that can evade snakes got accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Red-Eyed
     Tree Frog
[12:28] Kim
    Really?
[12:29] Kim
    Oh, so it passed.
[12:31] Kan
    What kind of tweaks did
    you do? Please tell me!
[12:34] Kim
    Well, as long as the snake
    is just looking at them,
[12:37] Kim
    the hatching won't begin.
[12:39] Kim
    But as soon as the snake strikes,
[12:42] Kim
    the tadpoles sense the vibrations
    and escape into the water.
[12:45] Kan
    That's so clever!
[12:47] Kan
    I'm jealous. My birdies
    still can't do anything.
[12:52] Shi
    Venus-san...
[12:54] Kim
    Let's try thinking about it
     from the beginning.
[12:57] Kim
    So, the snake is approaching.
[13:00] Kim
    What happens next?
[13:02] Kan
    It's hard. Even if they go higher,
    the snake will just climb after them.
[13:06] Kan
    Freaking snakes... Freaking Mercury!
[13:10] Kim
    Couldn't the parent run away with the nest?
[13:13] Kan
    That's as ridiculous as the cloth
    carrier idea that Mercury had.
[13:16] Kan
    Oh, but wait.
[13:18] Kan
    Wouldn't a nest like this
    make it harder to eat the eggs?
[13:18] ---
    Cross-Section
[13:20] Kan
    If the nest is open on the bottom,
    the birdies can fly in,
[13:24] Kan
    but the snakes would fall down, right?
[13:26] Kim
    I see! So let's come up with a
    bird that makes hanging nests!
[13:30] Kan
    It can't be a new species! I want to
    get revenge on that gourmet snake!
[13:34] Kim
    So you'll do an update.
[13:36] Kan
    Yes.
[13:37] Shi
    An update?
[13:39] Kim
    Oh, Shimoda-kun, you don't know yet.
[13:41] Kan
    It means adding new features
    to existing creatures.
[13:45] Kan
    How about this design?
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Weaver Bird
[13:48] God
    Update!
[13:51] Kan
    I'm so happy!
[13:52] Kim
    Now they won't be easy prey for the snakes.
SIGN    More Days Later...
[13:57] Shi
    Good morning—
[14:01] Shi
    Wh-What happened to Venus-san?
[14:04] Mei
    No clue. She's been like that since
    she looked down at Earth.
[14:08] Kim
    Apparently, the situation with
    the updated bird is escalating.
[14:12] Tsu
    The birds enhance their nests.
    The snakes redouble their attack intensity.
[14:16] Tsu
    Rinse, repeat.
[14:17] Miz
    Want to look?
SIGN    Type of Weaver Bird
    (Sociable Weaver)
[14:22] Shi
    It looks like a dungeon.
[14:25] Kan
    It's not beautiful!
[14:26] Kan
    And even though they're trying so hard,
     the snakes still keep coming.
[14:31] Kan
    The birdies really do take
    after me! They're so brave.
[14:34] Miz
    You mean insane?
[14:38] Kan
    That's why I thought of a new bird.
[14:41] Kan
    Is it possible for me to present
    something to the client?
[14:44] Shi
    Uh, sure.
[14:45] Shi
    The bird class is also always welcome.
[14:51] Shi
    God has spoken!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Secretary
     Bird
[14:53] God
    Accepted!
[14:55] Kan
    Yay!
[14:55] Miz
    How?!
[14:57] Miz
    This design has gone off the rails in regard
     to both personal resentment and taste!
[15:00] Miz
    Why did the client give this one a pass?
[15:04] Kan
    Probably because my bird
    design is excellent.
[15:10] Miz
    No, my adorable snake!
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[15:14] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[15:17] Mei
    Its red eyes make it so cute!
     Is it poisonous?
[15:20] Kim
    Nope.
[15:21] Kim
    The purpose of these red eyes is to flash
    them at the enemies to startle them.
[15:26] Mei
    And while the enemy is hesitating,
    they make their escape.
[15:29] Kim
    They are seriously amazing at running away.
[15:31] Mei
    I mean, they have the ability to escape
    even when they're in the egg!
[15:35] Mei
    Besides snakes, they can also
    sense floods or droughts,
[15:38] Mei
    and turn into tadpoles early
    when they feel imminent danger.
[15:41] Mei
    The red-eyed tree frog is a natural-born−
     No, a pre-birth master of danger mitigation!
[15:47] Mei
    Jupiter-san, do you like frogs?
[15:49] Kim
    I do! I mean, they're tasty!
[15:56] Kim
    I kinda want to eat something tasty.
[15:59] Shi
    Should we have a coffee break?
[16:00] Kim
    I don't mean right now.
[16:03] Shi
    Oh, then I'll make cream puffs
     for the next time.
[16:05] Uma
    Shimoda-kun, you can make pastries?
[16:08] Kim
    No, what I meant is that
    I want to eat a tasty creature.
[16:13] Kim
    All right! Let's make a tasty animal!
[16:16] Shi
    H-He's talking like he's about to cook...
[16:19] Uma
    There goes Jupiter-kun's bad habit.
[16:22] Kim
    Hey, Shimoda-kun and Neptune-san,
    what are you designing?
[16:26] Kim
    Can I do a taste test?
[16:28] Uma
    N-Nothing's really done yet!
[16:30] Kim
    Oh, don't be like that.
    Let me see! I can help!
[16:35] Shi
    Does this always happen?
[16:37] Kim
    You know, you always treat me
    like I'm some weird freak,
[16:41] Kim
    but the Earth is built on the
    principle of the food chain.
[16:44] Kim
    Taste is very important!
[16:47] Kim
    Its face is so slim!
[16:49] Kim
    What kind of creature is this?
[16:52] Shi
    Neptune-san is currently
    working on an order from God.
[16:56] Shi
    It has to be an animal
    that eats tiny amounts.
[16:58] Uma
    But nothing's settled yet. It's a rough draft!
[17:01] Hig
    Neptune-san, I finished
    that prototype you wanted.
[17:04] Hig
    Want to go to Galapagos Island?
[17:06] Shi
    Galapagos Island?
[17:07] Hig
    It's an island for testing if prototypes
     will survive the conditions present on Earth.
[17:11] Hig
    It's actually on Earth.
[17:12] Shi
    I've never been to Earth!
[17:14] Shi
    I would love to go!
[17:15] Kim
    All right, let's all go have a barbecue!
SIGN    Testing Island
     Galapagos
[17:30] Shi
    It's... plain.
[17:32] Hig
    This is its default state.
[17:34] Hig
    We run tests by applying themes with
    various conditions to the island.
[17:48] Shi
    Wow, even the temperature
    and humidity changed.
[17:52] Hig
    And this is what Neptune-san
     asked me to make.
[17:55] Hig
    It's an animal that eats ants one by one.
[17:57] Hig
    As requested, I made the tongue long
    so it can eat ants from ant hills.
[18:02] Hig
    If you have any other requests,
    now's the time to ask.
[18:11] Shi
    What is this pose?!
[18:13] Uma
    A threat! It's agonistic behavior!
[18:15] Kim
    I like it!
[18:17] Kim
    It eats ants, and it's not that fast.
[18:20] Kim
    I think this one's yummy!
[18:22] Shi
    You can tell just from that?
[18:24] Kim
    In my experience, most animals that
    eat plants or insects are tasty.
[18:30] Kim
    The less muscle mass they have,
    the tastier they are.
[18:33] Kim
    Yes, I bet this one's delicious!
[18:36] Shi
    I... I see.
[18:39] Kim
    That buff lion tasted super horrid.
[18:42] Hig
    Most carnivores don't taste good.
[18:44] Kim
    They're more tender if
    they have less muscle.
[18:47] Hig
    The slow animals tend to melt in your mouth.
[18:50] Hig
    It's because they have more
    unsaturated fatty acids.
SIGN    Unsaturated Fatty Acids
[18:53] Shi
    Speaking of, you know how a chicken's
    breast and thigh meat taste different?
SIGN    Breast
SIGN    Thigh
[18:56] Shi
    That's because they're
    different types of muscle.
SIGN    Tires Quickly
SIGN    Doesn't Tire Easily
[19:00] Hig
    The chest muscles have
     explosive power and tire quickly,
[19:03] Hig
    while the thigh has endurance muscles
    that don't tire so easily.
[19:06] Hig
    That means the breast meat
     ends up being drier.
[19:09] Kim
    In other words, a marathon runner tastes
    better than a 100-meter sprinter.
[19:14] Shi
    That analogy scares me!
[19:19] Kim
    Oh, that's the animal I came up with,
    the "lively sausage" (a working title).
[19:25] Shi
    It's literally a sausage, isn't it?
[19:27] Hig
    I did make it according to your request,
[19:31] Hig
    but it's got no eyes and no legs,
     and doesn't run away.
[19:33] Hig
    If it's tasty, it's guaranteed to go extinct.
[19:36] Hig
    Why not give it at least some mobility?
[19:38] Kim
    Sounds good!
[19:39] Uma
    Hang on!
[19:40] Uma
    The reason we from the design
    team do taste tests is to add
[19:45] Uma
    other abilities to make it easier
    for the tasty animals to survive!
SIGN    Crap!
     I'm super delicious!
SIGN    I'll hide in
     these thorns!
[19:49] Uma
    And yet here you are, making animals
    that are just easy to eat.
[19:53] Kim
    Don't worry, Neptune-san.
[19:55] Kim
    This sausage (working title) contains an
    alkaloid that many animals dislike.
[20:02] Kim
    Yes, it's capsaicin!
[20:05] Uma
    That's...
[20:06] Shi
    That's what makes chili peppers spicy.
[20:08] Shi
    So it's just a spicy sausage!
[20:10] Hig
    So good!
[20:12] Shi
    When did you...
[20:13] Hig
    These spicy sausages are the best!
[20:15] Uma
    Jupiter-kun, capsaicin won't work on birds,
[20:19] Hig
    so you should probably
    add some other poison.
[20:22] Kim
    Oh, I guess.
[20:24] Hig
    Well, let's think about it while we eat.
[20:26] Kim
    Agreed!
[20:29] Shi
    The flavor is just being
    recreated from data.
[20:32] Shi
    We should keep the food chain in mind, too.
[20:35] Uma
    Well, then Jupiter-kun must
    undeniably be at the top of it.
[20:39] Kim
    It's really good!
[20:41] Uma
    This is no good! It needs
    to have more defense...
[20:45] Hig
    Oh boy, you made major
    changes to the design.
[20:49] Hig
    I'll have to remake it, then.
[20:51] Uma
    I'm sorry.
[20:52] Hig
    But there's an animal that you
    could take notes from. Wanna see?
[20:57] Kim
    I do! I want to sample it!
[20:59] Hig
    Hold on.
[21:02] Kim
    I wonder what it'll taste like.
[21:04] Shi
    O-On Earth, I guess it's survival of the fittest...
[21:08] Hig
    Hey, the glyptodont is here.
[21:22] Shi
    Jupiter-san!
[21:24] Shi
    God has spoken!
SIGN    Anteater
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Armadillo
[21:26] God
    Accepted!
[21:28] Uma
    Wha? Right now?
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[21:32] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[21:36] Kan
    It's so cute.
[21:37] Uma
    But it's got long claws,
    and it's not just cute.
[21:40] Uma
    The anteater will go into its
    threat pose, so take a look.
[21:45] Both
    So cute!
[21:47] Kan
    So it is just cute.
[21:49] Kan
    The armadillo! It's a relative
    of the anteater, right?
[21:52] Uma
    The ones with the armor are the armadillos,
[21:54] Uma
    and the ones without are the anteaters.
[21:56] Kan
    It's in such a nice ball shape.
[21:58] Uma
    It's really strong this way!
    It can even reflect bullets.
[22:01] Kan
    Amazing! And cute!
[22:12] Kim
    Oh, man... I saw Heaven.
SIGN    Next on the Agenda

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[00:02] Nar
    In the beginning, God created
    the heavens and the earth.
[00:07] Nar
    He followed them
[00:11] Nar
    with light, waters, and the land.
[00:15] Nar
    Then he created the many animals
    that would inhabit it.
[00:21] Nar
    Or... that was the plan.
[00:23] Nar
    It got too tedious, so he outsourced it.
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[02:06] Kim
    What is that?
[02:07] Shi
    A-An insect!
[02:08] Kana
    Why is that thing here?! Someone take that
    thing to the insect department, now!
[02:13] Shi
    It's coming this way!
[02:15] Kan
    No!
[02:18] Ued
    Oh, you escaped from the insect department,
    you naughty thing.
[02:22] Kim
    Catching something that fast with her bare
    hands shows that Ueda-san really is an angel.
[02:27] Shi
    I can't do that.
[02:29] Ued
    Shimoda-kun, you haven't been to
    the insect department yet, right?
[02:31] Ued
    It's the door over there.
    I'll introduce you.
[02:34] Shi
    O-Oh, all right.
[02:36] Shi
    I guess the insect department
    will be full of insects.
SIGN    Insect Department
[02:42] Ued
    Hello, everyone.
[02:45] Ina
    Hey, Ueda-san.
[02:46] Inb
    Hey, Ueda-san.
[02:47] Inc
    Oh, Ueda-san!
[02:48] Ind
    It's Ueda-san!
[02:49] Ine
    It's Ueda-san!
[02:50] Ued
    This little dear was outside.
[02:52] Ina
    We're terribly sorry that you had
    to bother yourself with this.
[02:57] Inb
    We're in the middle of
    miniaturizing this guy.
[03:00] Shi
    You're miniaturizing an insect?
[03:02] Inc
    Yes, we're going to scale this 70-centimeter
     dragonfly down to one tenth of its size.
[03:06] Shi
    I just realized they have
    huge bags under their eyes!
[03:09] All
    We will make it seven centimeters.
[03:11] Ued
    As always, your technical abilities
     are perversely good.
[03:16] All
    Thank you!
[03:17] Shi
    Is "perverse" praise, though?
[03:20] Ued
    Now you know where
     the insect department is.
[03:22] Shi
    Yes. I'm not sure if they were
    unique or the exact opposite.
[03:26] Ued
    Our company also has a rock department,
    a plant department, and—
[03:32] Kan
    I-I touched it! It's over...
[03:35] Shi
    Venus-san?!
[03:36] Kan
    Ah, if I have to go, I wish I could have
    died in bigger, stronger arms...
[03:42] Ued
    Oh, what a cute yellow frog.
SIGN    Poison Dart Frog
[03:46] Kan
    Don't touch it! It may be small,
    but its poison is lethal!
[03:49] Shi
    Huh? But didn't you
     just say you touched it?
[03:51] Kan
    My vision's going faint.
    Please, hold my hand.
[03:56] Shi
    Venus-san!
[03:59] Ued
    But the poison...
[04:00] Mei
    It's fine. This poisonous frog accumulates
    poison by eating ants and mites.
[04:06] Mei
    This one was just made, so it hasn't
    eaten anything. It's just a frog.
[04:10] Shi
    Phew!
[04:11] Kan
    I was terrified.
[04:13] Kan
    But now that I look at it,
    it has a lovely pattern.
[04:17] Mei
    Look!
[04:18] Mei
    See, when the eggs hatch...
[04:22] Shi
    Oh, it puts its children on its back.
[04:25] Kan
    Cute!
[04:26] Ued
    Oh, I wonder where it's going.
[04:30] Mei
    To a small pool of water with no predators.
[04:33] Shi
    If it's a small pool of water,
    won't these babies lack food?
[04:37] Mei
    They won't.
[04:39] Mei
    The eggs that the mother laid are there.
[04:42] Both
    Cannibalism?!
[04:44] Shi
    W-Wasn't there any other way?
[04:46] Mei
    Why? Isn't it so cute?
[04:49] Shi
    C-Cute?
[04:51] Ued
    God has approved that one,
    so it's already on earth.
[04:55] Ued
    Pluto-chan's specialty is
    frogs and other cute things.
[04:58] Shi
    Cute?
[05:00] Ued
    That reminds me... A new order
    from God came in, right?
[05:04] Shi
    Ah, right.
[05:05] Shi
    I believe it was for an animal
    that's "cute, but not cute."
[05:09] Kan
    As always, so vague!
[05:11] Kan
    I bet this'll be one we have
     to redo again and again!
[05:13] Shi
    I-It'll be fine. God trusts you guys.
[05:18] Shi
    The word is that "the design is up to you."
[05:21] Kan
    There has never, ever been a case where the 
    client said it was up to us and meant it!
[05:26] Kan
    Those abstract requests
    are the absolute worst!
[05:29] Kan
    I swear, the answer is always
    "that's not quite it."
[05:31] Kan
    Don't just drop it on our lap without
    even giving it a single thought!
[05:33] Shi
    I'm s-sorry!
[05:35] Mei
    I'll do it.
[05:36] Ued
    Oh, Pluto-chan's going to make
    something that's not cute? That's exciting.
SIGN    A Few Days Later...
[05:43] Shi
    Hello.
[05:44] Shi
    Pluto-san, how's your progress?
[05:46] Mei
    Good. I came up with something really cute!
[05:49] Shi
    Oh really? What's it like?
[05:51] Mei
    Well, it's a thin, long, water-loving
    parasite that can take over animals' brains.
[05:59] Mei
    Then the infected animal walks to the pool
    where the parasite lives, and drowns there.
[06:05] Mei
    That'll be food for the parasite's children.
[06:07] Shi
    Th-That's not cute.
[06:09] Kan
    Excuse me, Pluto-chan?
    The idea is revolutionary,
[06:13] Kan
    but don't you think that the balance between
    cute and not-cute is a bit skewed?
[06:17] Mei
    I guess I can't just stuff
    it full of cute elements.
[06:21] Kan
    I mean you have to consider
    the size problem, too.
[06:23] Kan
    If it's supposed to infect animal brains,
     it has to be really tiny.
[06:27] Shi
    Oh, if you need to miniaturize it,
    how about taking it to the insect department?
[06:31] Shi
    They might be able to give you some help.
[06:33] Mei
    I'll go!
SIGN    Insect Department
[06:38] Shi
    God has spoken!
[06:40] Mei
    This is it, thanks!
[06:42] Ina
    Oh, sure!
[06:43] Inb
    Is that an insect?
SIGN    Horsehair Worm
[06:45] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
[06:48] Mei
    So cute!
SIGN    Days Later
[06:52] Shi
    Hello. Uh—
[06:55] Shi
    What's happening in here?
[06:58] Ued
    Pluto-chan has really hit her stride.
[07:03] Kan
    I wanted to discuss something with her, too,
    but she's been like this the entire time.
[07:07] Kim
    Her focus is impressive.
[07:09] Ued
    Please make sure not to interrupt her.
[07:12] Miz
    Yeah, when she gets like this,
    Pluto always creates great stuff.
[07:16] Mei
    One p•n•s... No, that's not it.
    It'll be cooler to have two p•n•ses.
[07:22] Uie
    Oh, nice idea.
[07:25] Mei
    Its food will be poison. It'll eat poison.
[07:28] Mei
    Offspring cannibalizing
    each other is old hat.
[07:31] Mei
    Poop! They'll grow up
    eating poop! That's it!
SIGN    And then...
[07:37] Mei
    It's done!
[07:39] Mei
    Thank you for your help, Neptune-san.
[07:42] Una
    I'm glad I was able to help.
[07:44] Shi
    Y-You finished it?
[07:46] Mei
    Will you come to my presentation?
[07:49] Mei
    The client's order was
    "cute, but not cute."
[07:52] Mei
    That's why I stuffed it full
    of what I find "cute."
[07:55] Mei
    First, it eats poisonous plants.
    It doesn't eat anything else.
[08:00] Mei
    I borrowed Neptune-san's idea and added the
    same pouch function that kangaroos have.
[08:05] Mei
    But I reversed it, so the baby
    can eat their mother's poop.
[08:10] Mei
    And I made the male's p•n•s
    cool by doubling it up.
[08:15] Ued
    Oh my, that's so cute.
[08:18] Shi
    My understanding of "cute" is eroding.
[08:22] Mei
    Its pupils are vertical slits.
[08:24] Mei
    It has sharp nails on its fingers.
[08:26] Mei
    And a deathly voice for intimidation.
[08:29] Mei
    Since all of these elements are very cute,
    I made its exterior not cute at all!
[08:36] Shi
    God has spoken!
[08:37] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Koala
[08:39] Mei
    See, isn't its appearance just so meh?
[08:42] Una
    Huh?
[08:43] Kan
    We don't quite agree,
    but I guess it fit the order.
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[08:47] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[08:52] Kan
    With its poison and little nutritional value,
[08:55] Kan
    eucalyptus is a plant that's trying
    to have no appeal as food.
[08:58] Mei
    Koalas are hardcore and eat only that.
[09:01] Mei
    If they eat something nobody else eats,
     they have no competition.
[09:05] Kan
    In order to digest that, they have a
    lot of microbes in their gut, right?
[09:09] Mei
    Yes, the reason the children
    eat their mother's poop
[09:12] Mei
    is to inherit the gut microbes
    that can digest the eucalyptus.
[09:16] Mei
    Oh, right, do you want to hear
    what a koala sounds like?
[09:21] Kan
    That's more intense than I expected.
    How did it end up like this?
[09:25] Mei
    Since their food has so few nutrients,
     they don't want to move.
[09:28] Mei
    So they've come to fight
     using only their voices.
[09:31] Mei
    They're already exhausted just
    from digesting eucalyptus.
[09:36] Kan
    This one's really pushing it.
[09:47] Tsu
    It's so elegant!
[09:49] Tsu
    A single long and beautiful horn,
    added to peerless functional beauty.
[09:55] Tsu
    This must be what the client wants for their
    "animal that has a cool weapon" order!
SIGN    Rejected
[10:04] Tsu
    Why?
[10:06] Hig
    Osteoporosis.
[10:07] Shi
    So it didn't collapse due to cerebral
    anemia like the long-necked deer.
[10:11] Hig
    It's a calcium deficiency.
[10:13] Tsu
    But I just added this
    super-cool horn to the horse!
[10:17] Shi
    Chief Saturn never gives up.
[10:19] Tsu
    I figured if Jupiter-kun's deer is okay,
    the horse would be fine, too.
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Elk
[10:25] Miz
    Why does only the horse
    get osteoporosis, though?
[10:28] Hig
    The elk has it, too.
[10:30] Shi
    Really?
[10:32] Kim
    Yes, but apparently deer are fine because
    they're equipped with multiple stomachs.
[10:37] Kim
    Saturn-san's horse only
    has one stomach, so...
[10:40] Miz
    In other words, the difference
     is in nutrient absorption.
[10:43] Shi
    I see.
[10:44] Hig
    If you don't have a calcium reserve,
    you can't make something this extravagant.
[10:49] Shi
    It's extravagant?
[10:50] Hig
    Of course.
SIGN    Horse
SIGN    Deer
[10:51] Hig
    Animal bones are like houses
    made of calcium bricks.
[10:55] Hig
    Horns are made by borrowing
    bricks from the house.
[10:59] Shi
    Ah, that's why the house
    itself is dilapidated.
[11:03] Hig
    But deer can eat a ton of
    food and repair the house.
[11:07] Hig
    A horse has a weak stomach, so it doesn't
    have the energy to repair the house.
[11:13] Miz
    That example was kind of horrible.
[11:16] Kim
    There, there...
[11:17] Shi
    I see, animals with strong
    stomachs are robust.
[11:20] Mei
    Their poop also looks markedly different.
[11:23] Kim
    Since the deer properly absorb nutrients,
[11:25] Kim
    their food's original shape
    cannot be discerned in their poop.
SIGN    Horse
SIGN    Deer
[11:28] Kim
    But with horse poop, that's often possible.
[11:30] Mei
    Want to see?
[11:31] Shi
    I'm f-fine.
[11:33] Hig
    Chief, if you really insist on this horn...
[11:38] Hig
    how about sticking it on a cow?
[11:40] Tsu
    No. It's not beautiful! It's only
     beautiful because it's on a horse.
[11:45] Tsu
    Can't you do something, Mars-san?
[11:48] Shi
    When did he produce this many drafts?!
[11:50] Hig
    These are just different color variations!
[11:53] Miz
    But you know, I'd like to see
    this horned horse run on earth.
[11:58] Tsu
    Mercury-kun!
[12:00] Miz
    How about making the horn hollow, to reduce
    the amount of calcium that's needed?
[12:05] Miz
    Like when Venus was designing the birds.
[12:07] Tsu
    That's it! Let's prototype that right now!
[12:12] Tsu
    Beautiful!
SIGN    Unicorn
SIGN    Rejected
[12:22] Hig
    It's malnutrition.
[12:24] Hig
    Looks like it didn't have sufficient
    energy to make this huge horn.
[12:29] Tsu
    It's always lacking something.
[12:31] Shi
    It's not very efficient, huh?
[12:33] Hig
    Should we make it a cow-like horse
    with multiple stomachs?
[12:37] Tsu
    No!
[12:40] Tsu
    I know. Let's make it stupid.
[12:43] Tsu
    The brain uses vast amounts of energy.
[12:46] Tsu
    So let's make it stupid and divert
    the excess energy to the horn.
[12:49] Hig
    But...
[12:50] Miz
    He's really a pursuer of beautiful design.
[12:52] Miz
    Sometimes you need to make
    drastic decisions like that!
SIGN    Unicorn
[13:04] Tsu
    It really is beautiful!
[13:05] Shi
    It's not collapsing this time!
[13:09] Tsu
    It's so elegant when it walks!
[13:12] Miz
    It's pretty.
[13:16] Shi
    Walk back! Backwards!
[13:18] Kim
    Oh, no, it's pushing more.
[13:19] Hig
    It's too dumb to know how
    to pull out its horn!
[13:23] Miz
    Watch out!
[13:30] Shi
    This is no good.
[13:33] Miz
    Wh-What if we put nerves into the horn?
[13:36] Miz
    If it can feel it, it'll surely
    treat the horn better!
[13:39] Tsu
    Like teeth?
[13:40] Miz
    Let's add some resilience, too,
    so it doesn't break so easily!
[13:43] Hig
    And keep it dumb?
SIGN    Testing Island
     Galapagos
[13:57] Tsu
    B-Beautiful!
[13:58] Miz
    I agree!
[13:59] Shi
    You made so many prototypes.
[14:04] Whi
    Watch where you're walking, you old fart.
[14:06] Bla
    Huh? You wanna go, punk?!
[14:08] Whi
    Bring it on!
[14:11] Shi
    They're not going to fight, are they?
[14:13] Hig
    It's fine, oversized weapons like horns
    are basically just for intimidation.
[14:19] Shi
    Um, they're totally fighting.
[14:30] Hig
    Those horns are too frail
     to be waved around like that.
[14:33] Kim
    Another one's got its horn stuck in a tree.
SIGN    Rejected
SIGN    Rejected
SIGN    Rejected
[14:41] God
    Rejected!
[14:43] Shi
    Th-They're all down?
[14:45] Tsu
    I can't believe it.
[14:47] Miz
    D-Don't worry, Saturn-san!
    They'll be accepted one day for sure!
[14:53] Una
    What is this horn? It's so cool.
[14:56] Tsu
    Oh, that? It's from a
    horse that got rejected.
[14:59] Una
    May I try attaching it to an
    animal I'm making right now?
[15:02] Tsu
    Sure.
[15:06] Shi
    God has spoken!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Narwhal
[15:08] God
    Accepted!
[15:10] ---
    Why?!
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[15:12] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[15:16] Miz
    These antlers can weigh up to 18 kilograms.
[15:20] Una
    And they regrow every year. That must
    consume a ton of energy and calcium.
[15:25] Miz
    It actually leads to osteoporosis.
[15:27] Una
    Then why do that?
[15:28] Miz
    It's like showing off an unnecessarily
    big car that's expensive to maintain.
[15:32] Miz
    They're telling the females
    and their rivals that
[15:34] Miz
    they're so amazing that they can maintain
    these unnecessarily big horns.
[15:38] Unan
    So they can avoid unnecessary fights,
    meaning their hard work pays off.
[15:42] Miz
    What about this horn, though?
[15:45] Unz
    It looks like a horn,
    but it's a really long tooth.
[15:48] Unz
    It's got nerve endings and can
    even sense the temperature.
[15:51] Miz
    So it's not just a meaningless decoration.
[15:57] Shi
    Hello—
[16:00] Shi
    What's happening? Why are
    you all dressed like this?
[16:03] Ued
    Oh just in time, Shimoda-kun.
[16:05] Kan
    We're all going to Galapagos.
    Hurry up and change!
[16:09] Miz
    Neptune-san came up with
    some new marine animals.
[16:13] Hig
    Let's fire it up!
SIGN    Pacific
    White-Sided
     Dolphin
SIGN    Burmeister's
     Porpoise
SIGN    Beaked
    Whale
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Common
    Bottlenose
    Dolphin
SIGN    Pilot Whale
SIGN    Accepted
[16:19] God
    Accepted!
[16:21] Shi
    Wow, it's an acceptance jackpot!
[16:24] Kan
    The client really likes these animals,
    so all sorts of these designs passed.
[16:29] Kan
    So we were all working on these together.
[16:32] Shi
    But why is there a mix
    of dolphins and whales?
[16:34] Kan
    They're just different in size.
    Otherwise, dolphins and whales are the same.
SIGN    Striped
    Dolphin
[16:38] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Spectacled
    Porpoise
[16:40] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Kelpie
[16:41] God
    Rejected!
SIGN    Rejected
[16:43] Tsu
    Oh, no! I worked so hard on that kelpie!
[16:46] Hig
    What made you think that would work?
[16:48] Tus
    I thought that it could maybe
    slip by with the others.
[16:50] Una
    The base for the dolphin
    wasn't the horse, either.
[16:53] Shi
    Oh, then what was it?
[16:55] Una
    You want to know?
[16:56] Una
    Okay, quiz time!
SIGN    Migratory Bird
SIGN    Seal
[16:57] Una
    Which baby here is the base?
SIGN    Hippopotamus
[16:59] Una
    A: Seal.
[17:00] Una
    B: Migratory bird.
[17:02] Una
    C: Hippopotamus.
[17:03] Shi
    Maybe the seal?
[17:05] Una
    Too bad! The answer was C, the hippopotamus!
[17:10] Shi
    Really?
[17:11] Shi
    It looks quite different, though.
[17:13] Miz
    I see. The eyes would be injured if they
    are in the front when swimming fast,
[17:17] Miz
    so you moved them to the side?
[17:18] Una
    Right, and because it's cuter this way.
[17:22] Una
    And the nose went this way.
[17:25] Miz
    So the sea water doesn't flow in?
    That's groundbreaking.
[17:28] Una
    Yes, and because it's cuter this way.
[17:31] Una
    And I took off the ears, too.
[17:32] Shi
    Hippos can sleep on land, but dolphins
     are always under water, right?
[17:37] Shi
    Won't they sink?
[17:38] Una
    That's why the brain was tweaked.
[17:41] Kan
    We made the left and right
    hemispheres of its brain independent,
[17:43] Kan
    so they can take turns sleeping.
[17:45] Kan
    So that's why they can
    sleep without drowning.
SIGN    Monkeys
    and
    such
[17:45] Txt
    Left Hemisphere
[17:45] Txt
    Right Hemisphere
SIGN    Corpus Callosum
SIGN    Optical Nerve
[17:45] Txt
    Left Hemisphere
[17:45] Txt
    Right Hemisphere
SIGN    Dolphins
     are like this
[17:47] Shi
    Ah, so one half of the
    brain is always awake!
[17:51] Kim
    By the way, what do they eat?
[17:54] Una
    Uh, well, squid and such.
[17:57] Mei
    So it eats these cute babies I created.
[18:01] Shi
    Pluto-san, aren't you
    holding it upside down?
[18:04] Mei
    This is the top.
[18:05] Mei
    After the tentacles, there's the head,
     then the body.
SIGN    Head
SIGN    Head
SIGN    Body
SIGN    Body
[18:09] Mei
    Incidentally, it poops from
    the side of its head.
[18:12] Una
    Pluto-chan's imagination is really powerful.
[18:16] Mei
    But since Neptune-san's dolphins are smart,
     my babies get eaten a lot.
[18:20] Mei
    I've decided! I'll make them talk, too!
     I'll make them smart!
[18:24] Kan
    You want to equip them
    with vocal organs now?
[18:27] Mei
    What about changing body color,
    something like flag signaling?
[18:32] Kab
    Would that be understood, though?
[18:33] Mei
    Quiz! What is the meaning of this pattern?
[18:36] Kan
    I think the testicles are there, so maybe...
[18:39] Kan
    "I'm incredibly virile!"
[18:42] Mei
    It worked! Ven-chan, you're amazing!
[18:45] Mei
    And they show off something larger
    than their actual testicles.
[18:48] Kan
    I guess even squid are vain.
[18:50] Una
    That's amazing. Pluto-chan can't be beat.
[18:54] Mei
    They won't lose to dolphins!
[18:56] Mei
    Squids have three hearts,
    giving them more mobility!
[18:59] Mei
    This way, they can escape into deep water,
     where no light penetrates!
[19:02] Una
    Huh, but... then, um... who cares
     that it's deep water?
[19:06] Una
    The dolphins will use echolocation to find
    squid without needing light!
[19:10] Shi
    Is this a fight?
[19:11] Hig
    Oh, looks like this will be fun.
[19:15] Mei
    Animal battle!
[19:17] Una
    Survival of the fittest!
[19:18] Shi
    The dolphin is going straight for the squid!
[19:21] Shi
    But what is echolocation, anyway?
[19:23] Kim
    Simply put, it's sensing distance and
    direction using reflected sound waves.
[19:28] Mei
    Smoke screen!
[19:31] Una
    Are you sure squid ink will
    do anything in the darkness?
[19:34] Mei
    Then I'll evolve the smoke screen!
    A smoke screen of light!
[19:39] Shi
    It's like there are no rules anymore.
[19:41] Mei
    And the squid itself will shine, too!
[19:43] Una
    You're losing your touch, Pluto-chan!
[19:44] Una
    In the ocean, the shinier you are,
     the more visible you are!
[19:46] Mei
    You're the one losing your touch!
[19:48] Mei
    Rise up near the surface!
    With the sun as the backdrop!
[19:51] Una
    Wh-What the—?!
[19:53] Una
    The squid disappeared in the sunlight!?
[19:56] Una
    But we still have the
    echolocation on our side!
[19:59] Una
    Advance!
[20:02] Mei
    Hidden Technique: Surface Escape Mega Jump!
SIGN    Flying Squid
[20:06] Shi
    It flew!
[20:07] Shi
    Oh, so those fin-like things were wings.
[20:10] Ued
    It's jumping by ejecting sea water!
[20:12] Kim
    Good job!
[20:13] Kna
    Both of you, keep going!
[20:14] Una
    That's nothing! The dolphin will jump, too!
[20:18] Mei
    Then I'll use my last resort!
[20:20] Mei
    Giant squid upgrade!
[20:24] Una
    I'll match you on that!
[20:29] Shi
    God has spoken!
[20:30] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Giant
     Squid
[20:34] Kan
    No way, the big squid passed!
[20:36] Miz
    Aha, the client's watching the battle, too.
[20:40] Una
    Pluto-chan, you made me go all-out.
     It was a good battle.
[20:47] Una
    But it's time to end this.
[20:53] Una
    Echolocation update! Ultrasonic beam!
[20:58] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Sperm
     Whale
[21:06] Mei
    No way! I can't believe your beam got accepted!
[21:09] Mei
    Next time, I won't lose!
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[21:14] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[21:18] Shi
    Total length: 18 meters!
[21:20] Tsu
    That's about as long as a train car.
[21:22] Shi
    Can such a large animal really
    emit a beam from its head?
[21:26] Tsu
    It can.
[21:27] Tsu
    What's more, it can direct sound so
    intense that it makes its prey faint.
[21:34] Shi
    I can't quite imagine how.
[21:36] Tsu
    A sperm whale can output
    a maximum of 250 decibels.
[21:41] Tsu
    For reference, a jet engine is about
    120 decibels if you're standing next to it.
[21:46] Shi
    Wow. The sperm whale must be
    fighting really formidable foes!
[21:51] Shi
    That's why it evolved to get
    so big to deal with them!
[21:53] Tsu
    Sperm whales often have scars on
    their heads that are assumed to be
[21:58] Tsu
    from battles with giant squid.
[21:59] Shi
    So the ruthless battle between
    these two is never going to end!
[22:04] Ued
    God has spoken!
[22:06] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Sea Horse
[22:09] Tsu
    Yay! When I made that kelpie from
    earlier smaller, it passed!
[22:13] Ued
    Congratulations.
SIGN    Next on the Agenda

E3 - Idea 3
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[00:03] Nar
    In the beginning, God created
    the heavens and the earth.
[00:07] Nar
    He followed them
[00:11] Nar
    with light, waters, and the land.
[00:15] Nar
    Then he created the many animals
    that would inhabit it.
[00:21] Nar
    Or... that was the plan.
[00:23] Nar
    It got too tedious, so he outsourced it.
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[02:01] Guy
    You, who have been banished
     to the void in shame,
[02:05] Guy
    I now remove your shackles.
[02:09] Guy
    Come forth, spirit of ash!
[02:21] Shi
    What is this? It's so cool!
[02:23] Kan
    This is a dragon!
[02:25] Kim
    Amazing, huh?
[02:27] Kan
    This is the first work
    of a certain designer.
[02:30] Miz
    Who did that?! Who summoned that?!
[02:32] Kim
    Oh, he already realized.
[02:33] Miz
    Of course I did!
[02:35] Miz
    Why did you take out an old, failed design?!
[02:37] Miz
    And seriously, what was
    that misleading chant?!
[02:40] Miz
    Basically, you were just saying,
    "Let's bring out an embarrassing failure!"
[02:44] Kim
    Well, ash is a form of waste.
[02:46] Shi
    I-I'm sorry. I was told to read
    this script to set the mood.
[02:51] Kan
    I mean, it did feel like a
    proper summoning, right?
[02:53] Miz
    Yeah, some mood that was.
    And what's with this star thing?
[02:57] Miz
    Is it supposed to be a summoning circle?
[02:58] Kim
    Oh, this? I was just doodling
    and thought of a new animal.
[03:03] Shi
    This was a blueprint?
    I'm sorry for stepping all over it!
[03:06] Kim
    It's fine. Nothing's decided yet.
[03:09] Miz
    So, why did you bring out the dragon, anyway?
[03:11] Shi
    Ah, well, God put in an order for something
    that "has no wings, but still flies."
[03:17] Shi
    Then Venus-san and Jupiter-san said
    there was a perfect fit in the rejected files.
[03:21] Miz
    That's no good! Put it away already!
[03:24] Kim
    But it's so cool.
[03:26] Kna
    Yeah!
[03:27] Miz
    That's a stain on my record!
[03:29] Shi
    A stain?
[03:31] Miz
    Everybody has one, right?
[03:33] Miz
    When they're young, they think
    that weird stuff looks good!
[03:37] Miz
    My younger self thought the
    dragon design looked super-cool
[03:40] Miz
    and began obsessing over it,
    only to have it be rejected.
[03:42] Miz
    Put it away already. My inner
    younger self is screaming in pain.
[03:47] Miz
    Don't you feel bad?
[03:48] Shi
    I-It's that bad?
[03:50] Kan
    But even though it didn't pass last time,
    maybe we can make it happen this time.
[03:55] Kim
    Yeah, think of it as a test of our skills.
[03:57] Miz
    You're enjoying doing this to me.
[04:00] Miz
    You guys have your own shameful stains!
[04:03] Kim
    How can we make this happen?
[04:05] Kan
    Making it fly without wings sounds hard.
[04:07] Shi
    Anyway, I'll put this dragon away for now.
[04:14] Kan
    How about making it float like a balloon?
[04:17] Kim
    Then we'd have to fill it with
    something lighter than air.
[04:20] Kim
    How about helium? That's light.
SIGN    Helium
SIGN    Air
[04:23] Shi
    Oh, that's the gas that changes
    your voice at parties.
[04:27] Miz
    You say that so casually,
    but you'd need something like
[04:29] Miz
    nuclear fusion happening in the
    body to produce helium.
[04:32] Kan
    If it's about being light,
    wouldn't hydrogen work?
[04:34] Kim
    That's good. Hydrogen makes balloons float, too.
[04:38] Kim
    Also, microbes in the intestine
    can produce hydrogen
[04:41] Kim
    by fermenting food.
[04:43] Miz
    So you want to make the
    dragon float with farts?
[04:47] Kan
    But in order to produces enough
    gas to make its entire body float,
[04:51] Kan
    the animal would have to eat a ton of food.
[04:53] Kan
    Wouldn't it be hard to make it float with
    all the food it eats weighing it down?
[04:57] Kim
    Oh, right.
[04:59] Kim
    It sounds hard to eat that much, too.
[05:01] Kim
    And if it's a balloon, its movement
    would be dictated by the wind.
[05:05] Kan
    Let's switch our approach!
    Maybe the whole thing doesn't have to fly!
[05:10] Kan
    We want to make the dragon fly.
[05:12] Kan
    So we'll just make a body part
    that looks like a dragon fly.
[05:16] Kim
    That's revolutionary!
[05:17] Kim
    Only someone with countless designs under their
     belt could come up with something like that!
[05:21] Kan
    Oh, it's not all that.
[05:23] Kim
    But wouldn't it be a shame if the
    dragon couldn't float by itself?
[05:26] Kan
    Then how about making it so that it discards
    that piece and runs away when an enemy comes?
[05:30] Kim
    Ven-chan, you're really on fire!
[05:34] Kan
    All right, it's done!
[05:37] Kim
    Wow, that's more original than I imagined.
[05:40] Kim
    What's the dragon part? Is it the tail?
[05:43] Kan
    I moved the part that collects the farts out
    and made it into a flotation device.
[05:48] Kan
    If it's not big enough, I figured
    the dragon part wouldn't fly,
[05:51] Kan
    so I made the main body bigger, too!
[05:53] Miz
    So the dragon part is
    basically an abdominal hernia?
[05:57] Kan
    When an enemy comes, it'll cut off
    the dragon part like a lizard.
[06:02] Kim
    I see! So it'll escape while using
    the dragon is the diversion.
[06:05] Shi
    Is it really okay to make this thing?
[06:09] Kan
    Do you feel like we're missing
    something about the dragon?
[06:13] Kim
    Let's ask the original designer.
[06:15] Kim
    Wait, Mercury's gone. Did he go home?
[06:18] Kim
    Maybe this was too far from his beautiful ideal.
[06:21] Kan
    He has been influenced quite
    heavily by Saturn-san.
[06:24] Shi
    Oh, really?
[06:26] Kan
    Really. That's why the dragon
    has a bit of a horse face.
[06:30] Shi
    Oh, I see.
[06:33] Shi
    Um, about the dragon's mouth...
[06:36] Shi
    Anatomically speaking,
    is that the animal's...
[06:41] Kan
    It's the anus!
[06:43] Shi
    I figured. Of course Mercury-san got mad.
[06:47] Kan
    But this is just what happened when
    I really tried to make it work.
[06:50] Kim
    It's a dream and a sign
    of your growth,
[06:54] Kim
    to have a design from your younger days
    reevaluated and accepted.
[06:57] Shi
    How serious are these people?
[07:01] Shi
    It's so majestic... but it's full of farts.
[07:06] Shi
    Anyway, is it okay to cut off
    a part of the body like that?
[07:09] Kan
    That's fine! I added a "detach here" feature,
     like lizards have with their tails.
[07:16] Kim
    It's like breaking off
    part of a lotus root.
[07:19] Shi
    Dropping off the intestines is new.
[07:22] Shi
    What's the reasoning behind
    making the body a chicken?
[07:25] Kim
    Oh, we wanted to make fire come
    out of the dragon's mouth.
[07:28] Shi
    Fire?
[07:29] Kim
    We arrived at the solution of having it spew
     flammable urine that just has to be ignited.
[07:33] Kan
    That's why I based it on a bird which has
    a combined anus and urethra.
[07:37] Kan
    Isn't it so cool when something
    comes out of the mouth?
[07:40] Shi
    No! I mean, "poop" comes out of there, too!
[07:42] Shi
    And flammable urine doesn't
    sound so easy, either.
[07:47] Shi
    That ball was in Mercury-san's
    original design, too.
[07:52] Kan
    It's a kidney stone!
[07:53] Shi
    Poor Mercury-san.
[08:02] Shi
    What was that?
[08:05] Miz
    Just forget about the dragon.
[08:08] Miz
    Why did it suddenly explode, though?
[08:12] Miz
    That was terrifying.
[08:13] Kim
    Looks like it got hit by
    static electricity and exploded.
[08:17] Kan
    It was filled of hydrogen.
     That burns well.
[08:20] Kim
    Anyway, what was the thing
    that just flew by?
[08:23] Shi
    That seemed like a weird animal.
[08:26] Miz
    I thought of an animal
    that flies without wings.
[08:29] Miz
    I came up with this...
[08:30] Miz
    A flying snake!
[08:32] All
    A snake?!
[08:33] Kan
    Snakes don't have anything
    that makes them fly, right?
[08:36] Kim
    How does it fly?
[08:38] Miz
    Let's see it first hand.
[08:43] Kan
    It's swimming through the air?!
[08:46] Shi
    But it looks like a normal snake.
[08:48] Kim
    No, it's no ordinary snake.
[08:50] Shi
    It's kind of flat?
[08:53] Miz
    That's right. When it's gliding, it spreads
    out its ribs to generate more lift.
[08:57] Miz
    It can go up to 100 meters horizontally.
    It can even change direction midflight!
[09:02] Shi
    God has spoken!
SIGN    Flying Snake
[09:04] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
[09:07] Miz
    This is what real growth looks like. Hmph.
[09:11] Kim
    Aw.
SIGN    Rejected
SIGN    A Few Days Later—
[09:15] Shi
    God has spoken!
SIGN    Starfish
[09:16] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
[09:19] Kan
    Oh, your star doodle made it?
[09:22] Kim
    Yup! The hole that could be its mouth
    or its anus can expel its organs!
[09:27] Kan
    We learn from our mistakes.
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[09:31] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[09:35] Kan
    So it can regenerate its arms
    and legs when they're cut off.
[09:39] Kan
    Which are the arms and which are the legs?
[09:40] Kim
    There's no distinction.
[09:41] Kan
    No distinction between the
    head and butt, either?
[09:44] Kim
    This little one's got the mouth on
    the bottom and the anus on top.
[09:47] Kim
    But it depends on the species.
[09:48] Kim
    Some poop from their mouths.
    Do you want to hear more?
[09:51] Kan
    I'm good for now.
    What's with its organs coming out?
[09:54] Kim
    The stomach turns inside out, then jumps out!
[09:57] Kim
    Like this.
[09:59] Kan
    How can that be good?!
[10:00] Kim
    They grab their prey with their
    stomach and then digest it.
[10:03] Kim
    That way, they can eat prey that's
    bigger than their mouth.
[10:06] Kim
    Isn't that awesome? I want
    to be like that, too.
[10:09] Kan
    I guess everybody's different.
[10:17] Hig
    Saturn-san...
[10:20] Hig
    It's about the seahorse,
    where the design passed by itself.
[10:24] Tsu
    Ah, what about it?
[10:26] Tsu
    I believe I submitted both
    male and female designs.
[10:29] Shi
    Oh, the little kelpie that was
    submitted with the dolphins.
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Seahorse
[10:33] Hig
    There's a bit of an issue here.
SIGN    Father
SIGN    Mother
[10:37] Hig
    The male and female labels are mixed up.
SIGN    Female
SIGN    Male
SIGN    Accepted
[10:43] Tsu
    This handwriting...
[10:46] Ken
    My name is Saturn Kenta!
    Thank you for taking care of my grandpa!
[10:52] Shi
    Hello, Kenta-kun! Would you like a cream puff?
[10:55] Ken
    Thank you!
[10:58] Tsu
    Anyway, these scribbles...
[11:00] Tsu
    They make you sense a frightening future.
[11:02] Tsu
    Just what I expect from my grandson.
[11:05] Hig
    What are you saying?!
[11:07] Tsu
    Of course, we'll keep it as-is.
SIGN    Idiot
SIGN    Grandpa
[11:09] Tsu
    I can't allow myself to nip
    a child's talent in the bud!
[11:13] Kim
    He's emboldened because the
    design was already accepted.
[11:16] Hig
    But having the male be the mother
     and the female be the father
[11:19] Hig
    is a fundamental contradiction.
[11:21] Hig
    How are you going to resolve this?
[11:23] Kim
    Maybe change sexes like clownfish?
[11:26] Hig
    You're the reinforcements?
[11:27] Kim
    At first, they're all male, but then the
    biggest individual in the school becomes female,
SIGN    Female
SIGN    Male
[11:32] Kim
    and then the next biggest one becomes her mate.
SIGN    Immature Individuals
[11:35] Kan
    But isn't that too weak for saying
    that the "male is the mother"?
[11:39] Kan
    It's just "the mother was male at first."
[11:41] Tsu
    Indeed.
[11:43] Mei
    Then how about this?
[11:45] Kim
    Mercury, can you take over for
    Shimoda-kun and keep Kenta-kun company?
[11:50] Kan
    There's a lot we can't
    settle without an angel.
[11:53] Shi
    Oh, right.
[11:54] Tsu
    Thank you, Mercury-kun.
[11:56] Miz
    A-All right.
[12:03] Miz
    My name is Mercury. Nice to meet you.
[12:09] Miz
    Do you want some coffee?
SIGN    Father
SIGN    Female
SIGN    Mother
SIGN    Male
SIGN    Accepted
[12:12] Mei
    It's male even though it's female,
    and it's female even though it's male.
[12:16] Mei
    Isn't it a bit like the footballfish
    that was accepted a while ago?
[12:19] Shi
    Oh, what's that like?
[12:22] Mei
    The females are way bigger than the males.
SIGN    Female
SIGN    Male
[12:25] Mei
    The males approach their beloved female,
     bite her, stick to her,
[12:31] Mei
    melt their bodies, share blood
     vessels with the female,
[12:35] Mei
    melt their brains, and soon
     lose consciousness.
[12:40] Mei
    Then they are reduced to nothing but testicles,
     and become organs inside the female!
[12:44] Mei
    Isn't that so romantic?!
[12:46] Shi
    That's scary. Downright terrifying!
[12:49] Kan
    I'm sorry, but you'll have
    to get used to it soon.
[12:51] Tsu
    I-I don't think fusing is quite right.
[12:54] Kim
    We have to flip male and female somehow.
[12:58] Tsu
    Then maybe we'll have the males give birth.
[13:01] Hig
    I-I feel like I heard some nonsense just now.
SIGN    Female
SIGN    Male
[13:05] Tsu
    We'll add a pouch for offspring to the males,
     and give the female a tube for injecting eggs.
[13:10] Tsu
    The female inserts the eggs into
    the male's body, and the male...
SIGN    Suffering
[13:14] Tsu
    Gives birth!
SIGN    Birth
[13:16] Tsu
    I did it! The male is the mother!
[13:19] Tsu
    Mars-san, let's try that right away!
[13:22] Hig
    Yeah, all right...
[13:25] Kan
    What happened?
[13:27] Miz
    Well, he said he wanted some coffee.
[13:30] Ken
    It's so bitter!
[13:33] Kan
    Even so, why'd you give it to him black?
[13:36] Shi
    Kenta-kun, what animals do you like?
[13:40] Ken
    I love horses!
[13:41] Kan
    He is Saturn-san's grandson.
[13:44] Ken
    Grandpa made me five of these.
[13:48] Ken
    They transform, combine, and become a giant!
[13:51] Ken
    I love this kind of animal!
[13:57] Mniz
    All right! Let's make the biggest combining
    life form in the world for Kenta-kun!
[14:01] Kan
    Did you hit your head?
[14:04] Miz
    It just needs to be fine alone,
     but also combined.
[14:04] Txt
    m 19 68 l 28 99 68 106 88 101 93 92 67 64 55 59 32 59
SIGN    I'll be
     the head
[14:05] Txt
    m 19 136 l 21 147 29 159 38 167 65 169 76 166 83 159 87 148 68 130 51 124 30 125
SIGN    I'll be the
    right arm
[14:05] Txt
    m 94 210 l 99 228 110 239 124 243 144 238 153 232 145 200 131 198 111 199
SIGN    I'll be the
     right leg
[14:06] Txt
    m 493 126 l 493 143 506 164 527 170 540 169 550 165 554 147 548 125 532 120 510 118
SIGN    I'll be the
     left leg
[14:06] Txt
    m 557 23 l 560 38 568 50 579 55 602 55 610 48 615 38 602 15 584 13 568 15
SIGN    I'll be the
     right arm
[14:17] Miz
    Eureka!
[14:18] Miz
    Many individuals will gather and arrange
    themselves into a formation that's like a single being.
[14:23] Miz
    It'll be a gigantic life form that'll surpass
    even the world's biggest animal, the blue whale!
[14:28] Miz
    And it is a jellyfish!
[14:30] Shi
    God has spoken!
SIGN    Siphonophorae
[14:31] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
[14:35] Shi
    Kenta-kun's not crying!
    We might be on the right track here.
[14:40] Miz
    Okay, everyone, will you help me out?
[14:43] Kan
    What a silly question.
[14:45] Miz
    I'll start with my creation, the snake!
[14:48] Kan
    I'll contribute the bird!
    With wings, anything will be graceful!
[14:52] Una
    I'll add the anteater. With this one,
    I think it'll add cool claws.
[14:56] Kim
    Then I'll pitch in the sea cucumber.
[15:00] Mei
    Then I'll go for the squid!
[15:05] All
    Combine!
[15:13] Miz
    It's an evil god!
[15:15] Shi
    Something unspeakable came out!
[15:19] Ued
    Delete.
[15:25] Ued
    I came here because I had a bad feeling.
[15:29] Ued
    You can't make dangerous things like that.
[15:33] Ued
    What if it got accepted?
[15:34] Miz
    Let's seal away that recipe.
[15:36] Kan
    K-Kenta-kun, are you okay?
[15:39] Ken
    It was awesome!
[15:40] ---
    A-Ah, that's a relief.
[15:42] Tsu
    What was awesome?
[15:44] Shi
    Have you finished the seahorse?
[15:47] Tsu
    Yes, look. The father's going
    to do his best to give birth!
[15:51] Ued
    God has spoken!
SIGN    Accepted
[15:52] God
    Accepted!
[15:54] Shi
    Huh? The seahorse was already accepted.
[15:58] Hig
    So something else?
[16:00] Miz
    The jellyfish was accepted,
    and the evil god was sealed away.
[16:03] Mei
    I don't have anything in progress.
[16:05] Kna
    Me neither.
[16:07] Kim
    Same.
[16:08] Una
    Same for me. Then who?
[16:11] Ken
    I did it!
[16:13] Ken
    I doodled a lot while
    playing in that room!
SIGN    Prototype Lab
SIGN    Prototype Lab
[16:19] Shi
    Wh-What kind of animal was accepted?
[16:31] Una
    Close it! Close it!
[16:34] Miz
    Wh-What was that? Did we hallucinate?
[16:37] Kim
    That was super real!
[16:41] God
    Make that one work, please.
[16:44] Shi
    He just gave up. He's leaving
    it all in your hands.
[16:48] Kan
    What? I thought he accepted it?
    What does he mean, make it work?!
[16:52] Mei
    I say he accepted it because of the vibe.
[16:54] Ken
    I'm sowwy!
[16:56] Kan
    It's not you! We're just mad at our client.
[16:59] Ued
    Oh, there, there.
[17:02] Kim
    We can't just leave it in there.
[17:05] Meid
    Deleting won't work since it's
    already accepted, right?
[17:08] Miz
    A child's doodle is a frightening thing.
[17:10] Tsu
    I'm only frightened of my grandson's talent.
[17:12] Miz
    Why not just seal the entire room with it?
[17:16] Hig
    My tools are still in there.
[17:19] Hig
    Mercury-san, are you one of those people
[17:21] Hig
    who doesn't understand that those
    are my precious treasures?
[17:25] Mzi
    I-I'm sorry.
[17:27] Meid
    If we can't seal it,
    should we kill it with poison? Can we?
[17:30] Una
    We can't just kill it! We don't even
    know what kind of animal it is.
[17:33] Kim
    Hm, how about calming it with a tranquilizer?
[17:36] Una
    That's good! Moles and their kin can do that.
[17:41] Una
    Their saliva contains tranquilizing agents that
[17:43] Una
    put the earthworms they eat
    into suspended animation.
[17:45] Una
    That's so they can stockpile
    them underground.
[17:48] Shi
    That's a good idea.
[17:49] Hig
    Hold on!
[17:51] Hig
    To put a creature that size to sleep,
    we'd need to make a 300 meter mole!
[17:56] Kna
    That would definitely only make things worse.
[17:59] Shi
    Isn't there something we can do?
[18:01] Kim
    If only we had the design.
[18:03] Tsu
    Kenta, do you remember what you drew?
[18:09] Miz
    Then our only choice is to come up with
    an animal that can get us the design!
[18:13] Miz
    Something strong, dexterous, and robust!
[18:16] Kim
    Let's speed it up by tweaking
    something that's already done.
[18:19] Kan
    It should have a strong body, right?
[18:21] Una
    Then how about a gorilla?
[18:24] Miz
    Let's start by making it gigantic.
[18:34] Shi
    Of course. This always happens.
[18:37] Hig
    It's heatstroke.
[18:38] Shi
    Why? It's not hot in here.
[18:41] Hig
    When you double body size,
    body volume doesn't just double.
SIGN    Heat Pack
[18:45] Hig
    Imagine a box with a heat pack in it.
SIGN    Heat Pack
SIGN    Heat Pack
SIGN    Heat Pack
SIGN    Heat Pack
[18:48] Hig
    If you double each side,
    how many heat packs will you get?
[18:50] Shi
    E-Eight... Oh, that's why it's too toasty.
[18:54] Una
    Cells produce heat, too.
SIGN    Warm
SIGN    Asian Black Bear
SIGN    Brown Bear
SIGN    Polar Bear
[18:56] Una
    The bigger the animal is,
    the more heat it produces,
[18:59] Una
    making it better at enduring the cold.
SIGN    Cold
[19:01] Kim
    That's why animals like bears
    are bigger in colder regions.
[19:05] Shi
    Oh, I see!
[19:05] Miz
    This isn't the time for chit-chat!
[19:08] Miz
    We have to enhance this gorilla fast!
[19:10] Hig
    Shouldn't increasing the surface area
    exposed to air cool it better?
[19:14] Hig
    Like adding big heat sinks.
[19:16] Miz
    That's it! Let's add a comb!
[19:19] Hig
    I think that's not sufficient.
[19:21] Tsu
    How about shaving it, so it's bald?
[19:25] Shi
    So when it's not a horse,
    he doesn't care what it looks like.
[19:28] Kan
    I don't really want to make it all smooth.
[19:31] Kan
    Let's allow him to keep the undies, at least.
[19:33] Miz
    I think nothing at all would
     be better than that.
[19:35] Kan
    But completely naked from the get go?
[19:38] Mei
    The gorilla was completely
    naked in the beginning.
[19:40] Una
    Let's add a pattern, then.
[19:42] Kim
    And some spikes to make it stronger.
[19:44] Miz
    Okay, it's done!
[19:46] Shi
    Oh, it's able to stand.
[19:50] Miz
    Behold, the revised gorilla!
[19:53] Shi
    The world's finished.
[19:56] Miz
    It collapsed!
[19:57] Shi
    Can't go without this.
[19:59] Hig
    Its legs broke.
[20:00] Hig
    Doubling its height made its
    weight go up eight-fold.
[20:03] Hig
    It's just not sturdy enough.
[20:04] Kim
    Then let's try making the legs thicker,
     and making it a quadruped.
[20:08] Miz
    It's standing for now, but it seems
    that the heat issue's not solved.
[20:13] Kim
    Should we add more heat sinks?
[20:14] Una
    It doesn't look like it has
    any of the dexterity needed
[20:17] Una
    to get the design from the lab, either.
[20:18] Kan
    The undies are weird, too.
[20:20] Tsu
    If the body's too heavy and we
    can't stretch the arms or legs,
[20:23] Tsu
    why not make the nose longer?
SIGN    Elephant
[20:28] Miz
    Yes, it's done!
[20:30] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
[20:33] Ued
    It brought us Kenta-kun's design in a flash.
[20:36] Una
    It's smart, it's got a dexterous nose,
     and it's cute!
[20:39] Kan
    Making the ears the heat sink was perfect.
[20:42] Mei
    I like the change from spikes to tusks, too.
[20:45] Miz
    This design is bad news!
[20:49] Miz
    I have no idea what kind
    of creature this is!
[20:51] Miz
    It only has the size written on it!
[20:54] Shi
    This isn't 30 meters, it's three centimeters!
[20:58] Ken
    No, it's thirty—
[20:59] Tsu
    Oh, it was three centimeters.
[21:02] Shi
    You heard him, God!
[21:04] God
    Okay!
[21:12] Mzi
    It's over.
[21:13] Ued
    We've got a cutie now.
SIGN    Hallucigenia
[21:16] God
    Accepted again!
SIGN    Accepted
[21:19] Ken
    This has been upside-down the whole time.
[21:22] Ken
    The wavy things are the legs,
    and the thorns are on the back.
[21:27] Shi
    Then what's this black stuff here?
[21:29] Ken
    Poop!
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[21:32] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[21:36] Una
    Hallucigenia! Its name means
    "creator of hallucinations."
[21:40] Ued
    So it's a small marine creature.
[21:43] Ued
    I would have liked to see a big version
    of this stomping around on land.
[21:46] Una
    Then it would have probably
    had legs like an elephant.
[21:49] Una
    The elephant's the ideal manifestation
    of a large land animal.
[21:54] Ued
    The ears are heat sinks, right?
[21:56] Una
    Instead of panting when it's hot,
     they flap their ears.
[22:00] Ued
    Is there a reason for the wrinkles, too?
[22:02] Una
    Yes, the wrinkles increase the
    surface area of their bodies,
[22:06] Una
    which helps shed heat.
[22:08] Una
    Additionally, they also
    serve to collect rain.
[22:10] Ued
    Oh, so having wrinkles helps
    moisturize their skin!
SIGN    Next on the Agenda

E4 - Idea 4
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[00:01] Shi
    Good morning!
[00:02] Shi
    I hope work's going well for everyone—
[00:05] Shi
    It's not.
[00:07] Tsu
    Oh, hello, Shimoda-kun.
[00:09] Kan
    What's the matter?
[00:10] Kan
    It's always like this, no?
[00:12] Shi
    Is it, though?
[00:14] Kan
    Everybody's stuck right now.
[00:16] Kan
    Unlike me, they got hit with
    some annoying requests.
[00:19] Kan
    Unlucky for them.
[00:22] Shi
    Oh, there's an order from God for
    you personally, Venus-san.
[00:27] God
    Order: Make horses fly somehow.
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[02:03] Shi
    "When you say horse, you think of Saturn-san,"
[02:06] Shi
    "but this time I specifically wanted
    Venus-san to have a go."
[02:08] Shi
    "That dragon from the other day was fun."
[02:10] Shi
    That's what God thinks.
[02:12] Tsu
    What, you're making a pegasus? I'm jealous.
[02:16] Shi
    I'm sure it'll get done if everybody
    rallies behind you, Venus-san!
[02:21] Kan
    It won't be that easy.
[02:23] Kan
    Saturn-san would be crucial,
    but he's busy right now.
[02:27] Tsu
    I have to work with Mars-san
    to repair the prototype lab.
[02:30] Tsu
    I need to do it because my
    grandson caused the damage.
[02:34] Tsu
    But I'm really looking forward
    to Ven-chan's pegasus, too!
[02:37] Kan
    I really don't like this.
SIGN    "Huddles in Corner" Type
[02:40] Shi
    Everybody's agonizing...
SIGN    "Hugs Knees in Chair" Type
SIGN    "Hides What He's Drawing" Type
[02:46] Shi
    Pluto-san seems to be relaxed.
[02:48] Kan
    It may seem so, but she's the
     most stressed-out person here.
[02:52] Mei
    I haven't heard back from
    the client in three days.
[02:55] Mei
    They said "ASAP," so I worked very hard.
[02:58] Mei
    But I guess...
[02:59] Mei
    There was plenty of time.
[03:02] Shi
    I can put some pressure on God!
[03:04] Mei
    It's fine.
[03:06] Mei
    If you act like you're really enthusiastic,
[03:09] Mei
    it'll come back and punish
    you in the future.
[03:11] Una
    You know what I got?
[03:13] Una
    "An animal that runs even
    though it has no legs."
[03:17] Una
    To make it worse, I'm supposed
    to make three proposals.
[03:21] Una
    Lately, we only get orders
    that are like riddles.
[03:25] Kim
    I want something sweet.
[03:27] Miz
    I want a homemade caramel custard,
    where the caramel is slightly bitter.
[03:30] Kim
    Why did you bring up such a
    specific treat just now?
[03:30] Shi
    I had the impression that designers
    are always doing fancy work,
[03:34] Shi
    but I guess I was totally off!
[03:38] Shi
    Venus-san, I got some additional input.
[03:40] Shi
    He said: "You can do what you like!"
[03:43] Shi
    God must really trust your designs!
[03:46] Kan
    No!
[03:47] Kan
    That just means he'll leave it all to me
    and only give it some thought when it's done!
[03:50] Kan
    This is how you end up in Hell!
[03:52] Kan
    We already know what the problems are,
    so maybe I just need to go in headfirst.
[03:57] Shi
    S-So many muscles!
[03:59] Shi
    And so much horse poop!
SIGN    Pegasus
         (Revised)
[04:01] Kan
    I reduced the protein myostatin,
    which inhibits muscle growth.
SIGN    M
    y
    o
    s
    t
    a
    t
    i
    n
[04:06] Kan
    Isn't he so fit?
[04:09] Shi
    I'll just send this to God, then. And... send!
[04:13] Kan
    I can rest until we hear back, then.
[04:16] Shi
    Oh, I already got a reply.
[04:18] Kan
    Already?!
[04:21] Shi
    I'll just say what he said directly.
[04:23] Kan
    What? I'm scared...
[04:25] Shi
    "That's not quite it," he says.
[04:28] Kan
    What?
[04:29] Shi
    "I wanted something more surprising,
     not the same thing."
[04:32] Shi
    "Let your originality run wild,
    Venus-san!" End quote.
[04:36] Kan
    See, there it is!
    The "I'll reconsider after seeing it" spiel!
[04:39] Kan
    Say what you want from the beginning!
[04:43] Shi
    I don't think shouting here will reach him.
[04:45] Kan
    That's why I'm doing it!
[04:53] Kan
    How about this, then?!
SIGN    Pegasus
    Final
    Revision
[04:54] Shi
    Those are some cool lines.
[04:56] Shi
    Exceptional!
[04:57] Kan
    I gave it less muscle mass
    to reduce its overall weight.
[05:02] Kan
    It can't take off from the ground,
[05:04] Kan
    but if it jumps off a cliff and
    rides the air currents, it can fly.
[05:08] Shi
    That's so original!
[05:10] Shi
    I sent it. I'm sure he'll like this one!
[05:14] Kan
    I hope so.
[05:18] Shi
    Can I say it?
[05:19] Kan
    You already got a reply?
[05:22] Kan
    I already have a bad feeling, but go ahead.
[05:26] Shi
    He says: "You don't have to stick
    to the horse part. Small is okay, too."
[05:31] Kan
    Why didn't he tell me that beforehand?!
[05:34] Kan
    I'll go and start from scratch...
[05:37] Shi
    G-Good luck.
[05:40] Shi
    God, this is too much.
[05:42] Shi
    Please be more understanding
    of the work the designers do.
[05:46] God
    Got it!
[05:48] Shi
    Thank you!
SIGN    2 Hours Later
SIGN    Strawberry Shortcake
[05:52] Kan
    I-I-I-It's done. Would you send
    it to the client, please?
[05:57] Shi
    Yes! Great work!
SIGN    Pegasus
    Ultimate Final
    Revision
[06:00] Kan
    This is the ultimate final proposal
    for the revised pegasus!
[06:03] Kan
    What do you say about this?!
[06:05] Shi
    It's so pretty!
[06:06] Kan
    I worked off the image of a flower fairy.
[06:09] Kan
    Since I made the arms into petal-like wings,
[06:12] Kan
    it can disguise itself as a flower.
[06:14] Shi
    Wow.
[06:15] Kan
    For food, it drinks nectar.
    What do you think?
[06:18] Shi
    I like it! I'll send it now.
[06:27] Shi
    May I say it?
[06:29] Kan
    Please.
[06:31] Shi
    "The previous hellish iteration was better."
[06:34] Shi
    "Use a radial design, and don't make
    it colorful," he said.
[06:39] Kan
    The previous iteration?
[06:41] Kan
    What's with the technical
    jargon all of the sudden?
[06:44] Shi
    I'm sorry! It's because I had
    to open my big mouth to God.
[06:48] Shi
    I asked him to be more understanding
    of the work you designers do.
[06:51] Shi
    I thought he did that, but he's
    still just as unreasonable.
[06:56] Kan
    It's fine. You said it because
    you wanted to help us, right?
[07:00] Kan
    The client's at fault here.
[07:06] Una
    I can't think of anything.
[07:08] Una
    Ven-chan, can I see yours
    to take my mind off things?
[07:11] Kan
    Sure.
[07:12] Kan
    We've all got it rough, huh?
[07:16] Kan
    So, go back to the previous
    iteration with the bony design,
[07:18] Kan
    make the face shorter, too,
    and reduce the equine quality.
[07:22] Kan
    You know, while I'm at it,
    I'll get rid of the leg muscles.
[07:26] Kan
    It's done!
SIGN    Pegasus Ultimate
    Final Revision
    Forever
[07:29] Kan
    This is the ultimate final proposal 
    for the revised pegasus, Forever!
[07:35] Kan
    Forever-chan hangs from high places,
[07:38] Kan
    then uses the momentum
     of its fall to take flight.
[07:40] Kan
    This way it can be light.
[07:43] Shi
    That's so interesting!
[07:44] Una
    So it spends its time hanging.
[07:47] Una
    Do you want to add the echolocation that
    dolphins have, so it won't bump into things?
SIGN    Dolphin Echolocation
[07:52] Kan
    That's good! And for food...
[07:55] Mei
    From the way it looks, it should suck blood.
[07:58] Kan
    Nectar.
[08:00] Mei
    It would be cuter if it sucked blood.
[08:02] Kan
    N-Next time.
[08:04] Shi
    I'll send this off right away.
[08:08] Shi
    God has spoken!
[08:10] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Greater
    Horseshoe
    Bat
[08:14] Shi
    This is great! What a relief!
[08:17] God
    This is accepted, too!
[08:20] Kim
    What just made it?!
[08:22] Una
    A running urchin...
SIGN    Lovenia
    elongata
SIGN    Accepted
[08:25] Kim
    That's so freaking cool!
[08:26] Miz
    So fast! So awesome!
[08:27] Una
    The thing I sent when I stopped caring passed...
[08:31] Kan
    Oh no, I forgot to delete that!
[08:33] Kan
    There are two sets of teats!
[08:35] Kan
    Nothing will come out of the
    ones that are on top to us.
[08:38] Shi
    The design already got accepted, though.
[08:42] Kan
    I'm done. Leave it.
[08:44] Kan
    The other ones are... something the baby can
    latch onto so it won't fall down.
SIGN    False Nipples
[08:49] Shi
    "Something"?
SIGN    Latch
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[08:53] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[08:57] Tsu
    What is better at flying? These or birds?
[09:00] Hig
    I think the bats.
[09:02] Hig
    Unlike birds, which use
    their entire arm to fly,
SIGN    Bat Wing
SIGN    Thumb
SIGN    Index Finger
SIGN    Middle Finger
SIGN    Ring Finger
SIGN    Little Finger
SIGN    Bird Wing
[09:04] Hig
    bats spread their fingers to make a wing.
[09:07] Hig
    Fingers allow for more fine-tuned control.
[09:12] Tsu
    That just goes to show that the
    horse is the most supreme animal.
[09:15] Hig
    The horse has nothing to do with this!
[09:17] Hig
    ...is what I'd like to say, but in
    reality, in terms of animal orders,
[09:21] Hig
    bats are close relatives of horses.
[09:24] Tsu
    There are bats that are
    basically horses. See?
[09:27] Hig
    That one's just got an elongated
    face to have a louder voice.
[09:30] Hig
    Looking like a horse is just a coincidence.
[09:45] Miz
    What's up with Venus?
    She's dressed to the nines.
[09:49] Shi
    She seems very enthusiastic.
[09:51] Kan
    This time my order is for
    "a bird that's like a gem"!
[09:54] Kan
    You can't lift your mood
     if everything looks drab.
[09:57] Kan
    Look at these opals. Aren't they gorgeous?!
[10:00] Kan
    What do you think about a bird that
    shimmers with rainbow colors like this?
[10:03] Miz
    If you keep being so confident—
[10:08] Shi
    Ah, yes? All right, understood.
[10:11] Shi
    You got a follow-up order. God would
    like to see "a bird that makes gems."
[10:17] Kan
    I did make birds feel attracted to
    shiny things, but making gems?
[10:23] Kan
    You can have one of these if you help me.
[10:26] Miz
    Keep them. I don't understand gems.
[10:28] Kan
    That's right. This place is lacking 
    in romance and romanticism.
[10:33] Miz
    What's that "opal" rock made of?
[10:37] Hig
    Opal is silicon dioxide. It's a mineral
    formed from silica dissolved in water.
[10:41] Miz
    Silica... Ah, like in those
    desiccants they put in cracker bags!
[10:46] Kan
    Don't say that! That's so unromantic!
[10:49] Hig
    Anyway, I made that rainbow-colored
    bird you asked me to make.
[10:54] Miz
    A bird that flashy will be easy prey.
[10:56] Kan
    It'll be just fine!
[10:59] Kan
    It's so small it can land here,
    weigh about this much,
[11:03] Kan
    and it's very fast.
[11:05] Kan
    So? You think it'll be attractive food?
[11:09] Miz
    I see.
[11:10] Miz
    Compared to the effort it takes to catch it,
     it's got too little nutritional value.
[11:13] Kan
    Exactly! So nothing to worry about!
[11:16] Kan
    Mars-san, let me see, please!
[11:17] Hig
    About that... I made it, but it
    doesn't have enough energy.
[11:22] Hig
    It's so small, it can't maintain
    its body temperature.
[11:24] Kan
    But I managed to make it sparkle!
[11:27] Miz
    Do you give up?
[11:29] Kan
    O-Of course not! I'll make it work somehow!
[11:33] Kan
    If it gets too cold, it should just eat.
[11:35] Kan
    Something it can consume
     in large quantities,
[11:37] Kan
    is easy to digest,
    and is also high in calories.
[11:46] Kan
    Ah, nectar! That's romantic,
    and it's very nutritional.
[11:50] Kan
    But since I reduced its leg muscles,
[11:53] Kan
    it doesn't have the strength
    to walk along branches,
[11:56] Kan
    nor the power
    to tear apart the petals.
[11:59] Kan
    It's ephemeral and cute,
    but that's not enough!
[12:03] Kan
    Should I make it hover like a bee,
     and have it drink directly?
[12:06] Kan
    But then these traditional
    bird wings won't do.
[12:09] Kan
    I have no choice. I'll go
    ask the insect department.
[12:13] Kan
    Ow!
[12:14] Shi
    Venus-san!
[12:16] Miz
    That's what happens when you
    try to rush in shoes like those.
[12:19] Miz
    Putting on too many accessories
    is also dangerous.
[12:21] Kan
    That may be true,
    but don't deny me my looks.
[12:25] Kan
    I'm not me if I don't look like this!
[12:28] Kan
    That's the same for the
    animals we're creating!
SIGN    Insect Department
[12:33] Guya
    How does a bee fly, you ask?
SIGN    Bird
SIGN    Up
    and
    Down
SIGN    Bee
[12:38] Guyb
    The bee moves its wings back and forth,
    creating a vortex in the air that lets it fly.
SIGN    Back and Forth
[12:43] Guyc
    This design is more suited for hovering in midair,
    rather than always moving forward.
[12:47] Kan
    I see. Since it's a small, light bird,
     it might be able to copy that.
[12:51] Guyd
    If you include this ability,
    it won't just be able to hover!
[12:54] Guyd
    It'll also be able to fly...
[12:56] Guyd
    Backwards!
[12:59] Kan
    Yay, it flies!
[13:02] Shi
    It's able to drink the nectar, too!
[13:04] Hig
    Yeah, but since it needs to eat to live,
    I don't think it'll survive the night.
[13:09] Hig
    If it falls asleep, it'll die.
[13:10] Shi
    If it sleeps, it'll die?!
[13:11] Kan
    Oh, right! What should we do?
[13:14] Miz
    Why not make it hibernate?
[13:16] Kan
    Just for the night,
[13:17] Kan
    make it lower its heart rate and
    body temperature, like during hibernation.
[13:21] Hig
    That might let us slow its metabolism
    while sleeping to less than 10%.
[13:25] Hig
    That'll work!
[13:26] Shi
    God has spoken!
[13:28] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Hummingbird
[13:31] Kan
    Yay! The gem-like birdie is complete!
[13:36] Kan
    Thank you, Mercury!
[13:38] Kan
    But what exactly motivated you to help?
[13:40] Miz
    I take pride in my own style.
[13:44] Miz
    You're the same, right?
[13:45] Miz
    It's only natural that
    I feel compelled to help.
[13:49] Miz
    By the way, since you were struggling
    so much with that one,
[13:53] Miz
    I finished the other one.
[13:56] Hig
    Let me see... the bird that makes gems?
[13:59] Miz
    Will this work?
[14:00] Hig
    Yeah, that's simple.
[14:04] Miz
    Let me present it to you.
[14:06] Miz
    Doubling down on Venus's base setting
    that birds like shiny things,
[14:11] Miz
    this bird eats raw diamonds.
[14:15] Kan
    Birds don't have teeth,
[14:17] Kan
    so they swallow pebbles to store in their gizzards,
     which are located in the back of the stomach.
SIGN    Gizzard
[14:20] Kan
    They use them to crush the food they eat.
[14:22] Shi
    S-So it's a diamond gizzard?
[14:26] Kan
    But won't it not be able to fly
    if it eats rocks that big?
[14:29] Miz
    Exactly. That's why I made it flightless.
[14:32] Miz
    I made its legs stronger, so it can protect
    itself from enemies by kicking and dashing.
[14:36] Miz
    The raw diamonds it swallowed
    will tumble
[14:39] Miz
    in the back of its stomach
    for years, eventually becoming
[14:42] Miz
    fully-polished gems.
[14:44] Miz
    These gems are made—
[14:46] Miz
    by this bird!
[14:49] Kan
    What is this?! It's looks
    scrawny and has no grace!
[14:52] Kan
    Why does this bird not have feathers?!
     That's not beautiful!
[14:54] Miz
    It doesn't need them, since it doesn't fly.
[14:56] Kan
    That's so unromantic!
[14:57] Kan
    Birdies need to be more like this.
[14:59] Kan
    Big eyes and eye lashes!
[15:02] Kan
    And luxurious feathers on the body!
[15:03] Miz
    Stop it!
[15:04] Miz
    You're ruining the beauty of its utility!
[15:06] Kan
    Let go!
[15:10] Shi
    God has spoken!
[15:11] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Ostrich
[15:16] Kan
    It's not beautiful.
[15:18] Miz
    It's inefficient.
[15:19] Both
    That's not the design I wanted.
[15:22] Kan
    The client was happy, though.
[15:25] Kan
    We did well.
[15:27] Miz
    You're right. The result was good.
[15:31] Kan
    So, which gem do you want as a reward?
[15:33] Kan
    If there's someone you want to
    give it to, I'll help you pick.
[15:38] Miz
    The diamond will do.
[15:42] Miz
    I'll give it to Mars-san.
[15:45] Hig
    Wh-What? For me?
[15:48] Hig
    Are you sure?
[15:49] Miz
    Of course.
[15:51] Miz
    You were looking for a lens material
    with a high refractive index.
[15:54] Hig
    Thank you! This is a perfect lens
     to focus my laser beams.
[15:58] Kan
    This place is severely lacking in romance.
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[16:03] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[16:08] Guya
    Since these feathers shimmer because of
    the way light bounces off of them,
SIGN    Structural
    Color
[16:12] Guya
    this is called structural color.
[16:14] Guyb
    Both soap bubbles...
[16:15] Guyb
    ...and the oil on ramen
     have structural colors!
[16:19] Guyb
    This has been a message from the insect department!
    We're experts on structural color.
[16:23] Guyb
    This is also structural color.
[16:25] Guyb
    When you tilt it, it shimmers
    with rainbow colors, right?
[16:27] Guya
    It's basically emitting color by
    stacking blocks that reflect light.
[16:32] Guyb
    Please look at this creature,
    which has mastered this technique!
[16:45] Ued
    Good morning, everyone—
[16:48] Ued
    Huh?
[16:49] Ued
    Oh, my!
[16:54] Ued
    Are you all part of an
    avant-garde art exhibition?
[16:58] Shi
    We're supposed to be playing hide-and-seek.
[17:01] Ued
    In clothes that stand out so much?
[17:03] Shi
    Saturn-san, it's not possible...
[17:05] Shi
    Your striped horse thing, I mean.
[17:07] Tsu
    No, wait.
[17:10] Tsu
    Even if an angel like Ueda-san can see us,
[17:13] Tsu
    maybe animals won't be
    able to spot us so well.
[17:16] Miz
    It might be good camouflage against
    predators that crouch in the undergrowth
[17:19] Miz
    and attack their prey from there.
[17:22] Miz
    Shimoda-kun, crouch down there!
[17:25] Shi
    A-All right!
[17:26] Tsu
    Venus-kun, put these on.
[17:29] Tsu
    Those are glasses that
    let you see like a lion.
[17:33] Shi
    How is it? Am I hidden?
[17:35] Kan
    You're highly visible.
[17:37] Kim
    Maybe we need to move around?
[17:39] Kna
    Somehow, you're even more visible.
[17:41] Kna
    It's like, do these guys
    not value their lives?
[17:45] Ued
    What are you all doing?
[17:47] Mei
    The client put in an order that said
     "make more stripey animals."
[17:52] (Flashback) Tsu
    All right! Let's make a horse,
     a stripey horse!
[17:55] Mei
    That's why we're all thinking about it.
[17:57] Mei
    But we couldn't figure out any reasons
    to put stripes on a weak animal.
[18:01] Una
    Here.
[18:03] Una
    How about an animal that's
     cooled by the stripes?
[18:08] Una
    When hit by the sun, the white parts and the
    black parts will have different temperatures.
SIGN    Warm air rises
[18:12] Una
    That will cause air to flow,
    which could help with cooling?
SIGN    Temperature difference
     causes air flow
[18:17] Kan
    Is that outfit making you cooler right now?
[18:19] Una
    Not at all.
[18:21] Shi
    Could it be that Neptune-san hasn't slept?
[18:23] Mei
    He got an order from the client for
     "like a carnivore, but it's an herbivore."
[18:27] Mei
    He hasn't slept for two days now.
[18:29] Miz
    You don't have to force yourself
    to join this stripey business.
[18:31] Una
    It's fine. It's a good distraction.
[18:34] Una
    Maybe I should just make the animal
    I'm working on stripey, too.
[18:39] Una
    That's it!
[18:42] Una
    If I use the power of gut bacteria,
[18:44] Una
    I can easily make a "carnivore" that
    can get nutrients from plants.
[18:48] Una
    But since it won't have a lot
    of energy, it can't move very fast.
[18:52] Una
    That's why I thought it should live in high
    altitudes where there are few enemies,
[18:55] Una
    but it snows there.
[18:58] Una
    It can't accumulate enough
    energy for hibernation...
[19:00] Una
    Not to mention having enough reserves to
    grow in a winter coat fit for snow.
[19:04] Una
    The way to resolve that is stripes,
    or black-and-white!
SIGN    White for camouflage in the snow
[19:08] Una
    White for blending into the snow!
    Black for blending in during the summer!
SIGN    Black
    for blending in during the summer
SIGN    Panda
[19:11] Una
    In other words, a multi-season fur coat!
[19:14] Shi
    God has spoken!
[19:16] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Giant Panda
[19:18] Ued
    I'm happy for you. It's cute
    how the eyes stand out.
[19:23] Kim
    Doesn't this also fulfill the
    "striped weak animal" order?
[19:27] Kim
    We're done.
[19:29] Miz
    Chief, should we give up
    on the stripey horse?
[19:31] Tus
    Hm...
[19:33] Una
    Here. I'm glad forgoing sleep paid off.
[19:36] Shi
    Thank you.
[19:39] Shi
    Send!
[19:40] Kim
    Neptune-san, you're amazing.
[19:43] Una
    Oh, it wasn't so—
[19:45] Kan
    What is it?
[19:46] Una
    No, it just looks like this boy's...
[19:52] Kan
    What's going on?
[19:57] Shi
    Oh, no! Another design was stuck to it!
[20:01] Shi
    It was for the starfish!
[20:03] Kan
    Starfish?
[20:04] Kan
    What are the characteristics of a starfish?!
[20:06] Kim
    It doesn't have a brain.
[20:07] Kim
    Instead, it has receptors
    on its feet for smelling,
[20:10] Kim
    and when it has detected prey,
    it moves toward that smell.
[20:14] Kim
    Incidentally, starfish are carnivores, too.
[20:15] Kan
    No! It's coming this way!
[20:18] Kim
    Ven-chan, you're scared so easily.
[20:21] Kan
    You're just touching it?!
[20:22] Kim
    It's fine.
[20:27] Kan
    It's multiplying?!
[20:29] Kim
    The base is a starfish, after all.
[20:31] Shi
    When you try to catch them, their hair
    comes out, and they multiply even more!
[20:34] Shi
    And they're scary!
[20:37] Ued
    This isn't good. We have to do something.
[20:41] Una
    It's because I didn't check properly.
[20:43] Shi
    No, it's because I didn't check!
[20:45] Miz
    What are we going to do with these?!
[20:47] Kan
    It's all over!
[20:50] All
    We're doomed!
[20:53] Tsu
    You can relax!
[20:56] Tsu
    These are tsetse flies,
    which transmit sleeping sickness.
SIGN    Tsetse Fly
[20:59] Tsu
    They sting areas that are uniform in color.
[21:02] Tsu
    They should attack the pandas, since they
    have wider bands than your clothes.
[21:06] Tsu
    Just stay put.
[21:09] Shi
    Stay put?
[21:12] Miz
    This is like a painting of Hell.
SIGN    They fell asleep
[21:24] Kan
    For a moment, I had lost hope.
[21:27] Shi
    What a great idea to use tsetse flies.
[21:31] Tsu
    Since we proved that it's less
    likely to be stung by flies,
[21:34] Tsu
    can we give this horse a pass?
[21:36] Shi
    That was great, but the horse again?
[21:39] Shi
    God has spoken!
[21:41] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Zebra
[21:43] Bothl
    Hooray!
[21:45] Una
    I thought it wouldn't work
    on those mystery animals,
[21:48] Una
    but they fell asleep quite easily.
[21:50] Ued
    Oh, that's because I cursed them.
[21:53] Ued
    C-Cursed? Are angels allowed to do that?
[21:57] Ued
    Should I not have?
[22:01] God
    Operational message!
[22:03] Ued
    Ueda is going to Hell!
SIGN    Expelled
SIGN    Next on the Agenda

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[00:02] Tsu
    These are tsetse flies,
    which transmit sleeping sickness.
SIGN    Tsetse Fly
[00:06] Una
    I thought it wouldn't work
    on those mystery animals,
SIGN    They fell asleep
[00:09] Una
    but they fell asleep quite easily.
[00:11] Ued
    Oh, that's because I cursed them.
[00:13] Una
    C-Cursed? Are angels allowed to do that?
[00:17] Ued
    Should I not have?
[00:19] God
    Operational message!
[00:21] God
    Ueda is going to Hell!
SIGN    Expelled
[00:29] Shi
    Wh-Wh-What should we do?!
[00:32] Shi
    It's my fault this happened to Ueda-san!
[00:34] Una
    No, it's my fault.
[00:36] Kan
    Angels are demoted to Hell
    when they use a curse?!
[00:40] Kim
    It's like the epitome
    of divine punishment.
SIGN    Department: Heaven's Angel Department
SIGN    Name                 Ueda
SIGN    You are commanded to go to Hell.
SIGN    Expelled
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[02:30] Tsu
    Ueda-san, should we submit our invoice
     for last week's request now?
[02:36] Miz
    Do you think Ueda-san really got demoted?
[02:39] Tsu
    The pandas were our fault, not Ueda-san's.
[02:43] Tsu
    I'll reach out to upper management.
[02:45] Kan
    We relied on Ueda-san much
    more than we realized, huh?
[02:49] Kim
    It's like that tingling sensation is absent.
[02:51] Una
    Something's missing for sure.
[02:57] Una
    O-Oh, we're not saying any
    of this to put you down!
[03:00] Shi
    I know, I really do!
[03:03] Shi
    Here you go. I made some cream puffs.
[03:06] Shi
    I'll go make some tea to go with them!
[03:11] Shi
    What should I do?
[03:13] Shi
    Ueda-san's angel communicator
    says she doesn't have a signal.
[03:18] Shi
    If Ueda-san doesn't come back...
[03:20] Shi
    No, even by myself, I need
    to do the best I can!
[03:35] Shi
    Are you all right?!
[03:37] Kan
    A skull?! The grim reaper!?
[03:44] Shi
    An insect?!
[03:46] Shi
    I can't do this after all!
[03:48] Shi
    Ueda-san!
[03:51] Ued
    Did you call for me?
[03:53] Ued
    Did another prototype escape
    from the insect department?
[03:58] Ued
    You're quite a big moth.
SIGN    Prototype
[04:00] Ued
    The skull pattern on your back is lovely.
[04:03] Shi
    Ueda-san?!
[04:06] Ued
    That "expulsion" was not a demotion,
    it was a business trip.
[04:10] Ued
    God did ask me why I used a curse,
[04:13] Ued
    but when I explained that it was necessary
    to prevent work-related deaths.
[04:15] Ued
    He didn't reprimand me.
SIGN    Hell
    Sweet
     Buns
[04:18] Shi
    I'm so glad!
[04:20] Ued
    I hadn't told you about that yet.
    Sorry for making you worry.
[04:24] Miz
    Who knew that lightning bolt was simply
    a way to move around when time is short?
[04:28] Una
    That was bad for my heart.
[04:30] Ued
    You know there's that new
    venture called "Hell"
[04:32] Ued
    that one of the companies associated
    with Heaven is starting, right?
[04:35] Ued
    The project lead there took
    a liking to the pandas,
[04:38] Ued
    and wanted to see some material,
    so I was instantly summoned.
SIGN    Hell
[04:41] Mei
    So you really did go to Hell.
[04:47] Yok
    That infinitely-multiplying
    panda was truly marvelous.
[04:51] Ued
    Oh?
[04:52] Yok
    I would like to create a
    creature based on that idea,
[04:55] Yok
    something that can move even
    without a brain, the "zombie."
[04:58] Yok
    I am sure that it will bring
    calamity and fear to the world!
[05:03] Kan
    Um, may I ask who you are?
[05:05] Yok
    I am the child of darkness
    born from the soil.
[05:08] Yok
    Oh, pardon me.
[05:11] Yok
    My name is Yokota. I recently
    transferred from Heaven to Hell.
[05:15] Yok
    I used to work for Ueda-san.
[05:17] Yok
    I am currently working on a
    "theme park of darkness and flame."
[05:21] Yok
    This is what it will look like.
[05:23] Shi
    It's the exact opposite of Heaven.
[05:26] Yok
    It'll be a fun place where you can
    have a taste of anguish and rage,
[05:29] Yok
    agony and sloth, thrills and adventure!
[05:32] Shi
    I-I see.
[05:35] Shi
    He has a scary appearance,
    but he seems dedicated to his work.
[05:38] Kan
    So those flames are always
    burning underground?
[05:40] Kan
    Won't they run out of oxygen?
[05:42] Kim
    If there's no sunlight, plants can't grow,
    so there'll be no food, either.
[05:47] Mei
    What do these happy gorilla-like
     beings eat? Each other?
[05:52] Yok
    As expected, you professionals
    ask the tough questions!
SIGN    Ventilation
SIGN    Mountain
    (Cross-Section View)
SIGN    Ventilation
[05:55] Yok
    But it won't be underground.
SIGN    Main Office
SIGN    Theme
         Park
                 Interior
SIGN    Entrance
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SIGN    Fully-Equipped
     Employee
     Cantina
[05:57] Yok
    Since this is what it'll
    look like, we're fine.
[06:00] Yoko
    Since we can grow foodstuffs on the outside,
[06:03] Yoko
    we will have enough food for our cast.
[06:05] Kan
    It looks like it's different than
    the Earth we do our work for.
[06:09] Yok
    The reason I came by today was
    not just because I wanted to
[06:13] Yok
    buy the zombie idea off of you,
    but because I have another request.
[06:17] Yok
    I would like you to design a mascot for
    the entrance of our company's theme park.
[06:22] Yok
    This is a drawing of what I had in mind!
[06:25] Shi
    A new request?
[06:27] Yok
    Yes.
[06:28] Yok
    Something so flashy that the screams
    of the souls just gush forth,
[06:31] Yok
    and so big that it could
    devour us all in one bite!
[06:34] Tsu
    If it's that big, the design
    will be limited by gravity.
[06:39] Yok
    No, please feel free to let your desires
    run free, and prioritize form over function.
[06:45] Yok
    In Hell, we can freely adjust
    gravity and oxygen levels,
[06:49] Yok
    so we'll adjust those to the animal.
[06:52] Miz
    But this is...
[06:56] Yok
    Oh, I'm sorry!
[06:58] Yok
    I shouldn't have dared show my
    drawing to professional designers!
[07:02] Kim
    That's not it.
[07:05] Una
    The appearance...
[07:07] Kan
    The purpose...
[07:08] Mei
    The size...
[07:09] Miz
    To have so much actual data...
[07:11] Kim
    ...in a request is so nice!
[07:13] Tsu
    Let's give it our best shot!
[07:15] All
    Yeah!
[07:16] Yok
    Huh? Yes! Thank you so much!
[07:19] Tsu
    Then please observe the internal competition
    between the very best designers on our team.
[07:25] Ued
    The request is for "Hell's mascot."
[07:29] Tsu
    Then we, Team A, will go first.
[07:32] Una
    Just to confirm, this is an
    animal with three heads, right?
[07:36] Yok
    Yes! If possible, it should be so terrifying
    and awesome that it chills your blood!
[07:42] Kan
    We'll use the wolf that Saturn
    came up with before as a base.
[07:45] Kan
    Let's send it over to Mars-san right away!
[07:49] Hig
    Here, it's done.
[07:53] Yok
    It's so cool! It's just
    overflowing with dignity!
[08:00] Shi
    The falling-over trope again.
[08:01] Shi
    It's bad for my heart, no matter
    how many times I see it.
[08:05] Hig
    Since each head wants to go
    in a different direction,
[08:08] Hig
    the legs get mixed up.
SIGN    Brain
SIGN    Fakes
[08:09] Una
    Then how about moving the brain
    here and making the heads fake?
[08:15] Hig
    I can't really recommend removing
    the brain from the head.
[08:19] Hig
    The optic and vestibulocochlear nerves
    would be more likely to get damaged.
[08:23] Yok
    Excuse me.
[08:23] Hig
    Yes?
[08:24] Yok
    As the client, I don't like that, either.
[08:27] Yok
    I want to jump into a whirlpool of desire,
     and pet each good boy's head.
[08:31] Yok
    That won't work if it's actually
     just one good boy.
[08:34] Yok
    The dream is to have multiple good boys!
[08:36] Yok
    I want to pet each good boy's head in turn,
     each with his own personality!
[08:39] Hig
    Then let's prioritize the middle
    good boy's will for movement.
[08:44] Hig
    It's fixed!
[08:48] Shi
    They're walking straight now!
[08:50] Yok
    So cool.
[08:52] Una
    Let's try feeding them.
[08:57] Una
    That's a good appetite!
[09:04] Una
    I put enough for one meal in there.
[09:07] Una
    They want to eat three meals' worth.
[09:12] Tsu
    Wolves do not have a good
    sense of fullness,
[09:15] Tsu
    so they'll keep eating to their limit.
[09:16] Tsu
    The upside is that they
    are very good at fasting.
[09:18] Kan
    They'll get fat for sure, though.
[09:21] Una
    They might become round good boys,
    just like the panda.
[09:24] Yok
    Th-That would be cute, but still...
[09:28] Kan
    Since they're a mascot,
    they don't need to hunt, right?
[09:31] Kan
    Maybe they should have a
    hobby besides eating.
[09:33] Shi
    Hobby?
[09:34] Kan
    Playing instruments... is out,
    but maybe they could listen to music.
[09:38] Yok
    Sounds good!
SIGN    Hardcore      Slash Metal      Hip Hop
[09:40] Kan
    If we let them listen to a wide selection
    of genres, they might develop a preference.
[09:49] Una
    What's happening?
SIGN    Break Up
[09:51] Shi
    They're breaking up!
[09:52] Shi
    Apparently they're splitting up because
    of their different tastes in music.
[09:55] Kan
    Come on, get along!
[09:58] Kim
    Looks like you're struggling, Team A.
[10:02] Kim
    This is what we came up with!
[10:07] Shi
    It's flying!
[10:08] Yok
    Awesome! Its appearance is just
    brimming with murderous intent!
[10:12] Kim
    If the gravity is low,
     this design allows it it to fly.
[10:15] Kim
    We based the head on the crocodile.
[10:17] Yok
    The crocodile? Don't they
    cannibalize each other?
[10:20] Miz
    Do not underestimate crocodiles!
[10:22] Miz
    They are highly social animals that
    can communicate with their growls.
[10:26] Miz
    They sometimes even hunt
    in groups by setting traps.
[10:29] Yok
    Wow...
[10:30] Kim
    And while that wolf-type there
    could accidentally become cute,
[10:34] Kim
    this crocodile type has
    a perpetually open mouth.
[10:37] Kim
    The sharp teeth are intimidating,
    emphasizing how scary it is!
[10:41] Shi
    Why are the mouths always open?
[10:43] Mei
    Because it's hot.
[10:44] Mei
    Just like real crocodiles, the open mouth allows
     water to evaporate, which gets rid of heat.
[10:48] Shi
    I thought it was for intimidation.
[10:50] Miz
    Additionally, crocodiles are cold-blooded,
SIGN    Cold-Blooded
[10:53] Miz
    which means that if you cool them down,
    they shut down and sleep without needing food.
[10:57] Miz
    In other words, if the park is closed,
    it's possible to deactivate them!
[11:00] Kim
    The wolf-type over there is warm-blooded,
SIGN    Warm-Blooded
[11:03] Kim
    so they'll have to keep eating,
    even if the park is closed.
[11:06] Kim
    Ours is cool and economical!
[11:09] Kim
    This is Team B's proposal!
[11:11] Kan
    Our design's heads accepted each
    other and got back together!
[11:15] Shi
    This is a battle of unprecedented intensity!
[11:18] Tsu
    Yokota-san, what do you think?
[11:20] Tsu
    If Hell is operational year-round,
    I recommend Team A's warm-blooded wolf-type.
[11:25] Tsu
    If you will be closed frequently, I recommend
     Team B's cold-blooded crocodile-type.
[11:31] Yok
    We haven't decided yet if and
    when the park will be closed.
[11:33] Yok
    This is just like the sun and moon.
[11:36] Yok
    It's just as difficult as having to pick
    either roaring flames or eternal ice.
[11:40] Yok
    It's so hard to pick.
[11:44] Yok
    Both were accepted!
[11:45] Yok
    The fee will be doubled!
SIGN    Cerberus
SIGN    Three-Headed
    Dragon
SIGN    Accepted in Hell
SIGN    Accepted in Hell
[11:50] Kan
    Yay!
[11:52] Ued
    That's so nice.
[11:53] Yok
    Oh, that reminds me.
[11:55] Yok
    Could I also purchase the skull pattern
    that was on the moth Ueda-san caught earlier?
[11:59] Yok
    I was looking for a design to put
    on the T-shirts in the gift store.
[12:02] ---
    Would a payment for the illustration
    plus a royalty contract be acceptable?
[12:05] Shi
    I'll go talk to the insect
    department right away!
[12:07] Una
    Wh-What a good client!
[12:14] Yok
    There will come a time when I shall
    return again from the deepest darkness!
[12:18] Yok
    I look forward to working with you!
[12:23] Kan
    I thought of Hell as a really scary place, but it
    seems like a laid-back place to work.
[12:28] Kan
    It looks like they can freely
    pick their own work attire.
[12:30] Ued
    Oh, it's not that free.
[12:33] Ued
    New Hell employees have to design an
     "awesome dark side outfit" for their work attire.
[12:40] Ued
    However, but due to budget constraints,
[12:42] Ued
    even if it feels embarrassing later,
    they are never allowed to change it.
[12:45] Miz
    That would be Hell.
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[12:49] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[12:53] Ued
    The bigger ones are about six meters.
[12:56] Shi
    That's 3.5 of me.
[12:58] Yok
    These jaws are clearly suited to
    the guardian of the underworld.
[13:01] Ued
    They use that mouth to chomp babies.
[13:04] Shi
    It ate it?!
[13:05] Ued
    No, the mother is just transporting
    the babies in her mouth.
[13:10] Shi
    So crocodiles raise their children?
[13:12] Ued
    They do so with the utmost care.
[13:14] Ued
    The mother crocodile even sleeps with
    one eye open to watch her children.
[13:19] Yok
    They're kinder than they look, huh?
[13:23] Ued
    Just like you, Yokota-kun.
[13:33] Tsu
    Should we have lunch now?
[13:35] Kan
    Yes, this is a good time to stop.
[13:38] Una
    I brought a lunch today!
[13:40] Kim
    Me, too.
[13:41] Shi
    I'll make some tea.
[13:43] Una
    Thank you, Shimoda-kun.
[13:47] Shi
    Two?
[13:49] Tsu
    Your lunch is so fancy, Venus-kun.
[13:53] Kan
    Yours is such a classic.
[13:57] Kan
    Compared to that...
[13:59] Miz
    It's simple, beautiful and efficient.
[14:02] Miz
    What's your issue?
[14:03] Miz
    That's not appetizing.
[14:05] Miz
    The same goes for yours.
[14:08] Kim
    I'm looking forward, so forward, to lunch!
[14:11] All
    That's huge!
[14:12] Kan
    Come on! That huge thing won't fit here.
[14:15] Shi
    The table over there is free.
[14:21] Kim
    Ta-dah! Today's lunch is plated on this boat!
[14:25] Shi
    Lunch?
[14:27] Kim
    I packed it with the freshest
    fruits of the sea.
[14:30] Kim
    This glorious shrimp is a test piece.
[14:32] Una
    It's all so fancy.
[14:35] Kim
    This is just an aspect of our work, right?
[14:37] Shi
    Uh, sure.
[14:39] Kim
    I collaborated with the insect
    department to make the crab before,
[14:42] Kim
    and it turned out really tasty.
[14:44] Shi
    The insect department? The crab?
[14:46] Una
    That was before you came here.
[14:49] Kim
    The crab is like a relative of the insects.
[14:52] Kim
    I wanted that tastiness not just
    in crabs, but also in shrimp.
[14:56] Kim
    The shrimp is like an elongated crab,
    so I guarantee that it's tasty.
[14:59] Shi
    Shrimp and crabs are also related?
[15:01] Kim
    Yes, crabs have their abdomen
    on their underside, right?
[15:05] Kim
    The one you can easily open up?
[15:07] Kim
    That's just a shrimp tail tucked under.
SIGN    Gastric Mills
[15:10] Shi
    Oh, wow.
[15:11] Kim
    Shrimp have teeth in their stomach,
    so they chew inside their tummies!
[15:17] Shi
    I didn't really want to know that,
     but God has spoken!
[15:21] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Spiny
    Lobster
[15:24] Kim
    Yay! A big shrimp is born!
[15:28] Kim
    It can speak, too.
[15:33] Una
    Oh, sorry.
[15:35] Una
    Should we have lunch, too?
[15:37] Una
    This one is yours.
[15:39] Shi
    Oh, you're eating together?
[15:42] Una
    Isn't it cute?
[15:44] Una
    I got an order for an
    "animal that can't swim well,"
[15:47] Una
    so I'm making a fluffy creature.
[15:49] Shi
    Fluffy because it can't swim well?
[15:51] Una
    You know how good swimmers
    are all curvy and slippery?
[15:54] Shi
    Oh, you're going in the exact opposite
    direction from the dolphin.
[15:58] Una
    That's right. And animals that
    often go into water usually
[16:04] Una
    have their nose higher up.
[16:07] Una
    This boy's got a small nose
    in the middle of his face.
[16:11] Una
    I left in a lot of land animal features.
[16:14] Kim
    And what does he eat?
[16:16] Una
    For now, he's an omnivore.
[16:18] Una
    Stuff like frogs, bugs and grains.
[16:21] Shi
    Like frogs...
[16:23] Una
    Since he can't swim well,
    he can't catch fish.
[16:28] Kim
    Want to try an urchin?
[16:37] Kim
    You can appreciate the flavor of urchin!
     How about a scallop?
[16:41] Kim
    Abalone?
[16:43] Kim
    Squid?
[16:45] Kim
    What a good boy!
[16:47] Una
    Hey, stop that, Jupiter-kun!
[16:50] Una
    He's bad at swimming!
[16:52] Una
    Look at his cute little pads!
[16:55] Una
    Tasty seafood comes from
    the cold ocean, right?
[16:58] Una
    He'll bleed body heat through his pads.
[17:00] Una
    He'll be chilled to the bone!
[17:02] Una
    So that's why this is your food.
[17:04] Una
    Jeez! What will you do if he
    starts preferring seafood?
[17:11] Una
    I'll pretend I didn't see that.
[17:13] Kim
    Do you want some lobster?
[17:17] Shi
    S-So cute! He's literally beaming!
[17:21] Una
    Oh, man, what should I do?
[17:23] Una
    He can't swim well, but he's fallen
    in love with expensive seafood.
[17:27] Kim
    If cold is the issue,
    he just needs to eat more.
[17:30] Shi
    A gourmet that's also a glutton?
[17:32] Kim
    If he just eats a lot, he'll be fine
    because his body temperature will go up.
[17:36] Kim
    There are no sharks in cold oceans,
    and mussels suck at running away,
[17:39] Kim
    meaning it'll work out even
    if he can't swim well.
[17:42] Kim
    The secret to survival is eating!
[17:44] Una
    That's no longer the
    animal I came up with.
[17:47] Una
    It's completely under
    Jupiter-kun's influence.
[17:50] Shi
    He looks happy, though.
[17:53] Una
    Oh, fine. Want to try going in the ocean?
[17:59] Shi
    This looks more like an
    aquarium than the ocean.
[18:01] Una
    It's a simulation space for testing.
[18:04] Ott
    This water is vewy cold.
    My widdle handsies are vewy cold, so...
SIGN    Spread
[18:13] Una
    I-It's so adorable!
[18:15] Shi
    It's floating on the water!
[18:17] Una
    What? That's so smart! Cute!
[18:22] Kim
    I see. If he raises them up, he can breathe easily
     and his hands don't get cold.
[18:26] Kim
    What if we trap air in his coat to
    make his whole body like a life vest?
[18:31] Kim
    See? It floats, and since the cold water
    isn't directly touching him, it's not cold.
[18:34] Una
    That's good!
[18:36] Ott
    Handsies cold...
[18:38] Ott
    Oh, eyesies warm!
[18:41] Shi
    Cute!
[18:42] Una
    Adorable!
[18:47] Una
    Your face can stay like that!
[18:49] Una
    I'll put the fanciest fur coat on you!
[18:53] Kim
    He wears a fancy fur coat and
    gorges himself on fancy food.
[18:56] Kim
    I like that.
[18:57] Shi
    So he does have to eat a lot?
[19:00] Kim
    With the amount of subcutaneous fat he has,
[19:03] Kim
    he has to eat about 25% of
    his body weight to survive.
[19:07] Kim
    For your size, that would be
    about 15 kilograms of food per day.
SIGN    Rice
[19:11] Shi
    This much food... every day?!
[19:15] Kim
    So I think he won't have time
    to get back to land to sleep.
[19:18] Una
    The fur coat is good,
[19:19] Una
    but if he sleeps while floating on
    the water, he'll be washed away.
[19:23] Shi
    Neptune-san, look at that!
[19:25] Shi
    He wrapped kelp around his body!
[19:28] Una
    Th-That's so smart!
[19:31] Kim
    What about in regions where there's no kelp?
[19:33] Kim
    You should beef up his claws
    so he can hold on to rocks.
[19:39] Una
    Sorry, what did you say?
[19:40] Kim
    I was saying the claws—
[19:42] Shi
    Neptune-san!
[19:43] Shi
    If there's is no kelp, they hold
    hands while they sleep!
[19:47] Una
    Get out!
[19:49] Kim
    Listen, he can't hold a lot of
    food with those small hands.
[19:52] Kim
    You should enlarge them.
[19:53] Una
    It's not cute, so I veto that.
[19:55] Una
    I'll give you a pocket,
    so you can carry a lot with you.
[19:59] Kim
    P-Pockets? But we need to
     address other issues, too.
[20:02] Kim
    Since he was originally a land animal,
[20:04] Kim
    eating too much seafood means
    he's getting way too much sodium.
[20:07] Shi
    Isn't that your fault?
[20:09] Una
    I understand.
[20:11] Una
    Let's make your kidneys strong, too.
[20:14] Una
    Then you'll be able to
    handle all that sodium.
[20:18] Kim
    This is hopeless.
[20:20] Shi
    He's stuffing lots of
    mussels into his pockets.
[20:23] Una
    He's so smart!
SIGN    A Few Days Later...
[20:31] Shi
    Is the "animal that can't swim well"
     in the oceans on Earth now?
[20:34] Una
    Yes, we're testing it on Galapagos.
[20:37] Una
    Want to come see?
[20:38] Shi
    Of course!
[20:39] Kim
    I'll come, too.
[20:45] Shi
    Oh, good. They seem well.
[20:49] Una
    Oh, no, this is bad!
[20:51] Una
    They all have periodontitis!
[20:55] Kim
    Always eating hard things
    took a toll on them.
[20:58] Kim
    I knew they needed another set of teeth.
[21:02] Kim
    You should add teeth in their
    stomachs like shrimp have—
[21:05] Una
    No!
[21:06] Una
    But what should I do?
    If you can't eat, you'll die.
[21:11] Shi
    No...
[21:18] Una
    I see, you're using the rock
    instead of your teeth!
[21:21] Shi
    So smart!
[21:23] Una
    So cute!
[21:27] Shi
    God has spoken!
[21:29] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Sea Otter
[21:33] Una
    I'm so happy!
[21:36] Kim
    You're coddling him too much.
[21:37] Una
    Isn't this great?
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[21:39] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[21:43] Una
    Aren't they so cute?
[21:46] Shi
    They are. What's the significance
    of this movement?
[21:50] Una
    That's how they clean their fur.
[21:52] Una
    In order to protect themselves
    from the cold sea,
[21:54] Una
    it's important that their fur is fluffy.
[21:57] Shi
    I see. So they're making their
    already-fluffy bodies even more fluffy.
[22:01] Una
    The mothers do that fluffing
    for their babies.
[22:05] Una
    Shimoda-kun, are you ready?
[22:07] Shi
    Yes. As one now, Neptune-san.
[22:10] All
    So cute!
SIGN    Next on the Agenda

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[00:02] Shi
    Hello, everyone!
[00:04] Kan
    You're in a good mood, Shimoda-kun.
[00:07] Shi
    Yes, that's because I have
    good news for all of you!
[00:11] Shi
    Here you go!
SIGN    GaLapAGos  Throe-doys  waYcaTIno  notiec
[00:15] Hig
    Huh? What?
[00:17] Miz
    "Throe-doys"?
[00:19] Mei
    Shimoda-kun, your handwriting sucks.
[00:20] Shi
    I'm sorry. I haven't been
    alive very long yet.
[00:24] Shi
    I wrote, "Galapagos three-day vacation notice."
[00:29] Shi
    Can you believe it? As a present
    for all your hard work,
[00:32] Shi
    God has granted you a company
    trip that starts tomorrow!
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[02:08] Shi
    Until just now, Saturn-san was negotiating
    with God about the company trip.
[02:14] Una
    And where is Chief Saturn?
[02:15] Shi
    He said he'll meet you there tomorrow.
[02:18] Emi
    I'm still working on an order.
[02:21] Kan
    We all are.
[02:22] Shi
    Apparently anything in progress can
    be delivered after the vacation.
[02:26] Mei
    "After the vacation" means we have
    to work during the vacation.
[02:30] Kan
    So it's just work anyway!
[02:33] Shi
    That's true.
[02:35] Kan
    Well, maybe I'll just go
    to Galapagos now, then.
[02:38] Una
    Let's get there early.
[02:40] All
    Agreed!
[02:41] Shi
    B-But nothing's prepared yet.
[02:44] Shi
    There are no b-b-b-buildings!
[02:46] Kan
    We can just take care of that ourselves.
[02:48] Hig
    Want to build some hot springs and a gazebo?
[02:50] Una
    We'll surprise the chief.
[02:50] ---
    U-Um...
[02:52] Shi
    What should I do?
[02:52] Miz
    If anything, we should
    build an outdoor bath.
[02:54] Kim
    Let's go!
[02:56] Shi
    Please wait!
[03:04] Hig
    And just like that,
    the hot springs are done!
[03:08] Shi
    This looks so professional.
[03:11] Hig
    A rock bath and a regular
    one on the seaside.
SIGN    Entrance
SIGN    Front of the House
SIGN    Mountain Room
SIGN    Ocean room
SIGN    Banquet Table
SIGN    Dirt Floor
SIGN    Isolated Room
[03:14] Hig
    There are two rooms facing the baths.
[03:16] Hig
    I've made an isolated room, too.
[03:18] Kan
    An isolated room?
[03:19] Mei
    I asked her to make an isolated workshop
    for those of us who have work to do.
[03:24] Miz
    I have work, too.
[03:26] Una
    Me, too.
[03:27] Kan
    So that's the arrangement.
[03:32] Kan
    Is that what you're working on right now?
[03:35] Mei
    The base design passed, but the client
    wants to see a bunch of variations.
[03:40] Mei
    I've been thinking about
    a type where the babies
[03:43] Mei
    cannibalize each other in the womb,
     and one where they don't,
[03:47] Mei
    but I just don't have a good design.
[03:49] Mei
    I might be having a slump.
[03:50] Kan
    Really? It looks like you're on a roll.
[03:52] Mei
    What about you, Ven-chan?
[03:54] Kan
    The order was for "an animal
     where the male breastfeeds."
[03:57] Kan
    But I'm stuck.
[03:58] Kan
    The samples are not reproducing well.
[04:01] Kim
    Ready for some fun?
[04:02] Kim
    Huh? Am I the only one who traveled light?
[04:06] Kim
    I brought some animals that can
    bathe with us! Let them soothe you.
[04:10] Kim
    Neptune-san and Mercury are already there.
[04:25] Kim
    So, feel calmer?
[04:26] Miz
    How could I?!
[04:29] Una
    Neptune-kun, this one got rejected, right?
[04:32] Miz
    The scary creature that spits super-strong
    stomach acid that can even dissolve metal...
[04:37] Miz
    Why did you bring it?
[04:39] Kim
    Since its stomach acid is so strong,
    its body starts dissolving if it develops
[04:42] Kim
    a stomach ulcer from stress.
    So I thought I'd bring it here to relax.
[04:46] Kim
    Let's enjoy the view together.
[04:50] Miz
    This thing in my peripheral
     vision is preventing that.
[04:58] Kan
    This is the best!
[05:00] Kan
    I think the sake would be even
    better if it was snowing, though.
[05:03] Hig
    Should I make it snow?
[05:04] Kan
    You can? Please do!
[05:07] Hig
    Pressure pattern change!
[05:09] Hig
    Set seasonal wind to strong!
[05:14] Hig
    This should generate cumulonimbus clouds,
     so it'll snow eventually.
[05:19] Mei
    Hammer... Saw...
[05:23] Hig
    Oh, I'm sorry. I'll put those away later.
[05:29] Mei
    What do you think of this sawshark?!
[05:32] Kan
    You workaholic.
[05:34] Hig
    Come get in the water.
[05:36] Kan
    Oh, it started to snow!
[05:42] Mzi
    It's cold.
[05:45] Kim
    How about we get out and eat?
[05:48] Kim
    We'll warm up once we eat.
[05:52] Kim
    The hot pot's done!
[05:55] Kan
    Oh, that smells good.
[05:57] Mei
    What kind of hot pot is this?
[05:59] Miz
    Don't tell me it's the...
[06:06] Hig
    This is super delicious!
[06:08] Hig
    Jupiter-san, you know your stuff!
[06:10] Kim
    The secret to this deliciousness is the amino
    acid composition inspired by shrimp and crab!
[06:14] Kim
    Fine-tuning the umami and
    the sweetness took forever.
[06:19] Kim
    Well, since it was too tasty,
    I made it a really tough creature,
[06:23] Kim
    but that just netted me a rejection.
[06:25] Kim
    Figures.
[06:27] Kan
    Aw, what a shame!
[06:29] Mei
    How about putting that amino acid
    into an animal that's hard to eat?
[06:32] Hig
    The crab we made before was tasty.
[06:35] Shi
    Good evening! I brought some alcohol.
SIGN    Paraiso Beer
[06:39] Hig
    Oh, good job, Shimoda-kun! So considerate!
[06:41] Shi
    And this was by the door.
SIGN    Nobody must leave the room
[06:47] Una
    What?
[06:49] Kan
    No way, is that a threat?
[06:51] Kim
    Who cares? Let's drink up!
[06:53] Hig
    Yeah, cheers!
SIGN    Nobody must leave the room
[06:56] Una
    At this rate, we're all going to
    drink until morning without leaving.
[07:00] Shi
    I hope so.
SIGN    Two Hours Later
[07:06] Shi
    Huh?
[07:07] Shi
    Where is Jupiter-san?
[07:08] Miz
    No clue.
[07:10] Miz
    Probably sleeping next door.
[07:13] Kan
    He went outside, saying he was going
     to eat raw fish while dancing in the sea.
[07:17] Shi
    What? But there was that letter!
[07:20] Mei
    Wait, he's in the ocean?
[07:22] Mei
    Oh, no... I tossed a bunch of my
    work-in-progress sharks in there.
[07:29] Kan
    You didn't leave them in the workshop?
[07:31] Mei
    I wanted to see their abilities in the wild.
[07:33] Shi
    Jupiter-san's going to die again!
[07:36] Kan
    Again?
[07:37] Shi
    Let's go find him, quick!
[07:39] Miz
    Boo! I don't wanna. It's cold.
[07:42] Una
    Come on, think of it as
    preventing a hangover.
[07:44] Mei
    The snow's sticking.
[07:46] Miz
    So cold...
[07:47] Miz
    This happens all the time.
    We should just leave him.
[07:50] Kan
    There, there, he's our colleague.
[07:52] Hig
    We can get down here.
[07:54] Shi
    We need to find him quickly.
[07:56] Una
    Hello, Jupiter-kun! Hello?
[07:59] Kan
    There are sharks!
[08:00] Shi
    Jupiter-san, please come out!
[08:01] Hig
    Give up and come out!
[08:05] Miz
    I hate it here!
    This snake and I both hate cold places.
[08:09] Miz
    I'm going back to sleep!
[08:11] Shi
    Come on...
[08:13] Kan
    I wonder if Jupiter has already been eaten.
[08:16] Kan
    Are sharks good at finding prey?
[08:18] Mei
    I equipped them with ears that can
    hear their prey from two kilometers away,
[08:21] Mei
    and the ability to amplify light so they
    can see even when it's very dim,
SIGN    Jupiter
[08:26] Mei
    plus I also made a giant, 18-meter version!
[08:29] Kan
    Oh, he's not getting away from that.
[08:33] Mei
    Right, so let's find him with a shark.
[08:37] Kan
    All life forms emit a tiny
    amount of electricity.
[08:40] Kan
    I added an organ near the nose
    that detects electricity.
[08:43] Kan
    This way, even creatures burrowing
     in the sand can be detected.
[08:46] Kan
    Oh, that's why the nose is pointy.
[08:48] Mei
    On top of that!
[08:50] Mei
    I'll separate the left and right nostrils,
[08:53] Mei
    so they can figure out where
    a smell is coming from!
[08:57] Mei
    Go, Jupiter search party!
[09:05] Shi
    God has spoken!
[09:06] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Hammerhead
     Shark
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Sawshark
[09:08] God
    Accepted!
[09:11] Mei
    The hammer and the saw are swimming!
[09:14] Mei
    While I'm at it, I'll make
    one with a circular saw, too!
[09:16] Shi
    Is she maybe... drunk?
[09:20] Una
    Ah, yes... With Pluto-chan, you can't
     tell just by looking at her.
[09:25] Mei
    Found him!
[09:26] Shi
    The others joined them, too!
[09:28] Kan
    He went to dance and eat, but it
    looks more like he's the food.
[09:32] Una
    It's too dangerous to get close.
[09:34] Hig
    Leave it to me!
[09:37] Hig
    Good thing this pressure pattern
    can generate cumulonimbus clouds.
[09:41] Hig
    By using the upward draft of the
    cumulonimbus clouds, I'll create a tornado!
[09:48] Shi
    I see! You're sucking Jupiter-san into the air!
[09:59] Kan
    The sharks came, too!
[10:01] Hig
    Oh, yeah...
[10:10] Kim
    Boy, did I die last night!
[10:13] Kan
    That was exhausting. I'm still tired.
[10:16] Una
    Huh? Where's Mercury-kun?
[10:19] Kan
    Shimoda-kun went to the isolated
    room to see if he's sleeping there.
[10:26] Kim
    What happened?!
[10:32] Kim
    Wow, Mercury's dead.
[10:34] Kan
    Jeez!
[10:36] Kan
    Now we've got another mess to deal with!
[10:45] Shi
    M-Mercury-san's...
[10:47] Kan
    What, was this a murder?
[10:51] Shi
    U-Uh, is this...
[10:55] Kim
    Leave this to the
    Ate-My-Money-Away Detective!
[11:00] Kim
    The perpetrator is definitely still here!
[11:06] Kim
    Nobody move! Preserving the crime scene
    is fundamental to investigation!
[11:11] Kan
    The perpetrator is here?
[11:12] Una
    Ate-My-Money-Away Detective?
[11:14] Kim
    This ashtray on the back of the head
    is most likely the murder weapon.
[11:18] Kim
    And these footprints were probably
    left by the perpetrator.
[11:23] Shi
    What is it?
[11:24] Kim
    Look at this, Shimoda-kun.
[11:26] Kim
    These footprints are curious.
[11:27] Shi
    Indeed, it almost looks like the
    perpetrator disappeared into the mirror.
[11:38] Kim
    This is... the flavor of fat and protein!
     A milky taste!
[11:44] Kim
    This isn't blood. It's actually pretty tasty.
[11:48] Kan
    Oh, maybe this baby is the perpetrator!
[11:53] Kan
    The order I got was for "an animal
    where the male breastfeeds."
[11:57] Kan
    The males also produce milk in the back
    of their throats to feed the young.
[12:02] Shi
    So this red stuff isn't blood, but milk?
[12:06] Mei
    Why did you make the milk this color?
[12:08] Kan
    The milk is red because they eat red algae.
[12:11] Kan
    I made it a bird whose feathers and body
    will take on the color of the food it eats.
[12:15] Kan
    Isn't this coral pink wonderful?
[12:20] Kim
    Part of the mystery is solved!
[12:24] Kim
    It seems the one who left
     these footprints hit Mercury,
[12:29] Kim
    and disappeared into the mirror.
[12:32] Kim
    That's how things may appear at first,
    but the red milk gave me a clue.
[12:36] Shi
    What do you mean?
[12:38] Kim
    This blood-like substance
    on the bottom of the mirror
[12:41] Kim
    doesn't mean that the perpetrator
    went inside the mirror.
[12:44] Kim
    It means that they stepped into the
    milk here and walked backward.
[12:49] Kim
    And the answer to who that was is
    right here, in Mercury's hand!
[12:55] Kim
    Shimoda-kun, my hands are full,
     so please inspect that.
[12:59] Shi
    Y-Yes!
[13:01] Shi
    It's a sock! He was holding a sock!
[13:04] Kan
    I've seen that sock before.
[13:06] Kim
    Yes, this sock belongs to the
    victim himself... to Mercury.
[13:12] Kim
    He's always been susceptible to cold,
     so he abandoned me last night
[13:16] Kim
    and came here to go to bed by himself.
[13:20] Kim
    And then, after he stepped into the
    bird milk in front of the mirror,
[13:26] Kim
    Mercury stepped back and took
    off his milk-red sock.
[13:31] Kim
    That means these footprints
    belong to Mercury!
[13:34] Kan
    N-No way!
[13:37] Kan
    There's one more bird!
[13:39] Kan
    They haven't reproduced
    before, so why now?
[13:43] ---
    Oh, that?
[13:45] Kan
    Could it be?
[13:47] Kan
    Aha! It's a numbers thing!
[13:49] Kan
    When the mirror gave the impression
    that there are many friends,
[13:52] Kan
    they relaxed and began producing offspring!
[13:55] Kan
    Then I should make it so they can withstand
    environments that other animals avoid.
[13:59] Kan
    Yes, I'll make their legs and body
    suited for even salty lakes!
[14:04] Kan
    If there are no rivals,
    their flocks can grow huge!
[14:09] Shi
    God has spoken!
[14:11] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Flamingo
[14:16] Kan
    Yes, my work is done! I'm free!
[14:21] Kim
    But there's still one mystery left.
[14:23] Kim
    How did you get that ashtray
    on your head, Mercury?
[14:28] Miz
    I don't know. Don't remember.
[14:30] Shi
    What? Are you all right?!
[14:33] Miz
    My head hurts.
[14:36] Miz
    I dreamed about pink birds flocking around
    me and vomiting blood on my head.
[14:41] Shi
    That was probably real.
[14:44] Kim
    It's most likely that this ashtray murder
    is motivated by a grudge!
[14:47] Shi
    Mercury-san is alive, though.
[14:50] Una
    Oh, he collapsed.
[14:52] Kim
    Let's ask everyone for their alibis.
[14:55] Kim
    Shimoda-kun, you'll be my assistant.
[15:00] Txt
    m 462 50 l 464 294 606 295 604 49
SIGN    Venus
    
    Animal Designer
    
    Her masterpiece
     is the bird.
[15:00] Kan
    Last night? There was this commotion,
    and we had to go to ocean.
[15:03] Kan
    Thanks to that, I didn't get enough sleep.
[15:05] Kim
    Out of all of us, I think you
    hate Mercury the most, Ven-chan.
[15:09] Kan
    I think we all feel the same.
[15:11] Kan
    The snake is the natural
    enemy of most animals.
[15:14] Shi
    That's true.
[15:16] Kan
    Besides, I was holding Pluto-chan's
    hand the whole time I was asleep.
[15:19] Kan
    I got so scared when
    I remembered that scary note.
[15:22] Txt
    m 455 25 l 458 270 599 272 599 26
SIGN    Pluto
    
    Animal Designer
    
     Her masterpiece
     is the frog.
[15:22] Mei
    It's true. Ven-chan is a scaredy-cat.
[15:26] Txt
    m 476 29 l 479 272 618 270 618 30
SIGN    Mercury
    (Victim)
    
    Animal Designer
    
     His masterpiece
     is the snake.
[15:26] Miz
    I wanted to work, but I fell
     asleep right away.
[15:31] Miz
    I drank too much and
    can't remember anything.
[15:33] Shi
    Let's leave him alone so he can rest.
[15:36] Txt
    m 453 47 l 454 260 577 260 579 48
SIGN    Mars
    
    Engineer
    
    Makes prototypes
     and supervises
     animals.
[15:36] Hig
    Oh, yeah, I remember that there
    was someone behind the other house
[15:40] Hig
    when I woke up in the middle of the night.
[15:43] Hig
    I only saw the hem of a robe, though.
[15:48] Kim
    Why were you outside at that hour?
[15:51] Hig
    I wanted to make sure the weather was back
    to normal, since I was drunk when I changed it.
[15:57] Kim
    How suspicious.
[15:59] Kim
    As the engineer, don't you hate us designers
    for all the abuse we heap on you?
[16:05] Hig
    If so, I would have killed you all
    in one swoop with my shark tornado.
[16:08] Kim
    That's true!
[16:09] Kim
    We designers were the only
    ones wearing these robes.
[16:13] Kim
    Then that makes you suspicious,
[16:18] Kim
    Neptune-san!
[16:19] Txt
    m 454 36 l 455 279 595 280 595 37
SIGN    Neptune
    
    Animal Designer
    
     His masterpiece
     is the sea otter.
[16:22] Kim
    In cases like these, the least
    likely person is the perpetrator!
[16:25] Una
    That's such a sloppy conclusion.
[16:28] Kim
    Neptune-san, you were struggling because
[16:30] Kim
    the squirrel you're designing was
    being preyed upon by Mercury's snake.
[16:33] Una
    I was struggling, but I don't hate him.
[16:37] Una
    Actually, with Mercury-kun's help, I went
    from "squirrel that the snakes eat"
[16:41] Una
    to "squirrel that eats snakes."
[16:44] Shi
    What? The squirrel eats snakes?!
[16:46] Una
    Since they always get hunted by snakes,
    I added resistance to snake venom.
[16:51] Una
    This boy can stand up to Mercury's snakes.
[16:54] Shi
    Speaking of, where is the snake
    that he was carrying around?
[16:57] Kim
    Maybe it slithered off
    while he was sleeping.
[17:01] Kan
    What is this nonsense?! That's dangerous!
[17:04] Kan
    Hey, Mercury! Where's your snake?!
[17:08] Miz
    So loud...
[17:10] Kan
    Make it so we can find it!
[17:12] Kan
    Hurry up!
[17:13] Miz
    I guess I'll have it make a sound.
[17:16] Miz
    Hang on, I'll add that right now.
[17:21] Kim
    Did you hear that!?
[17:30] Shi
    God has spoken!
[17:31] God
    Both of them are accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Rattlesnake
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    California
    Ground
     Squirrel
[17:36] Una
    Yay! Success!
[17:41] Shi
    They're relentlessly biting each other!
[17:43] Una
    You can feel their ancient grudge.
[17:46] Shi
    Huh, could that be the
    robe that Mars-san saw?
[17:50] Mzi
    Snakes don't like the cold.
    He probably dragged a spare robe
[17:55] Mzi
    from the workshop room all the way over here.
[17:57] Kim
    So Mars-san didn't see
    a designer, but a snake.
[18:01] Kim
    That means we don't have any clues.
[18:03] Hig
    Then we need to think back to the beginning.
SIGN    Nobody must leave the room
[18:07] Kim
    Who put together that
    threatening note, anyway?
[18:11] Hig
    It would be faster to write it by hand,
[18:13] Hig
    yet it was put together from clippings.
[18:16] Hig
    That suggests the perpetrator was afraid of
    being identified by their handwriting.
[18:20] Kan
    Due to the theory that the
    perpetrator was wearing a robe,
[18:23] Kan
    they were not previously
     considered a suspect.
[18:25] Hig
    Then they were also not considered because
    they were the detective's assistant.
[18:30] Hig
    Which means...
[18:31] Kan
    Shimoda-kun is gone?!
[18:32] Una
    He was here just a moment ago!
[18:37] Kan
    There he is!
[18:43] Kim
    Shimoda-kun, don't do anything rash!
[18:45] Shi
    P-Please don't come closer!
[18:47] Kim
    Doing that won't make Mercury
    any happier in Heaven!
[18:51] Miz
    I mean, I am from there, but—
[18:57] Hig
    Watch out!
[19:00] Shi
    Oh...
[19:02] Shi
    It's fine now. You can come over.
[19:06] Shi
    The Dragon Palace of Relaxation is ready!
[19:22] Kan
    What is that?!
[19:30] Kim
    So it's finally done! That's a relief.
[19:34] Miz
    What?
[19:35] Ued
    We made it as surprise.
[19:37] Tsu
    I'm glad we somehow delivered on time.
[19:40] Shi
    I was so worried you'd
    find out early, since you all
[19:44] Shi
    came to Galapagos before it was finished.
[19:46] Kan
    Oh, right, we did come a
    day early, didn't we?
[19:50] Mei
    I remember how flustered Shimoda-kun
    was when we said we'd go early.
[19:54] Kim
    I actually saw the palace
    underwater last night.
[20:04] Kim
    That's why I diverted everyone's attention
    away from the ocean with the detective bit.
[20:08] Una
    So the "Ate-My-Money-Away
    Detective" was just buying time.
[20:12] Kim
    Yup.
[20:13] Una
    But then what was that threatening note?
[20:15] Shi
    That was supposed to just be a note.
SIGN    Nobody must leave the room
[20:18] Shi
    I thought it would be easier
    to read than my handwriting.
[20:21] Shi
    I'm sorry.
[20:23] Miz
    Hold on...
[20:25] Miz
    Didn't someone hit my head with an ashtray?
[20:29] Mei
    Jupiter-san, the detective, is suspicious!
[20:32] Shi
    Oh, that was me.
[20:34] Miz
    You did that?
[20:35] Shi
    This morning, when I went to awaken Mercury-san,
    the squirrel was trying to bite his head.
[20:42] Shi
    I wanted to guard his head with
    something hard, hence the ashtray.
[20:46] Una
    I wonder if you smelled
    like a venomous snake.
[20:49] Miz
    I did have it wrapped around
    my neck the whole time.
[20:52] Miz
    So that means nobody hit my head?
[20:55] Kim
    Your headache was just a hangover.
[20:58] Kan
    Anyway, this whole thing was for nothing!
[21:01] Shi
    I'm sorry.
[21:02] Ued
    Come on, everyone!
    Welcome to the Dragon Palace!
[21:06] Tsu
    It's been a while since we had
    a vacation! Time to recharge!
[21:09] Kim
    Let's go, let's go!
[21:11] Kan
    It's the morning of the first day,
     and I'm already exhausted.
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[21:19] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[21:23] Kan
    How can it fight snakes when it's this cute?
[21:26] Miz
    It's using the snake's properties.
[21:28] Miz
    First, venomous snakes usually do
    not eat other venomous snakes.
[21:31] Miz
    That's why this squirrel chews
    the discarded snake skin
[21:34] Miz
    to camouflage itself with
    the scent of the snake.
[21:37] Kan
    That's why you almost got bitten.
[21:40] Kan
    Good job, squirrel-chan!
[21:42] Miz
    Additionally, it has another special move
    that exploits the snake's thermal sensor.
[21:47] Miz
    When facing off against the rattlesnake,
[21:50] Miz
    this squirrel quickly raises
    the temperature of its tail.
[21:53] Kan
    That's so clever!
[21:54] Kan
    Since the snake finds its
    prey by detecting heat,
[21:57] Kan
    the squirrel will look like a much bigger
    and stronger animal than it actually is.
[22:01] Miz
    "If you know your enemies
    and know yourself,"
[22:03] Miz
    "you will not be imperiled
    in a hundred battles."
[22:06] Miz
    Venus, why are you staring at me?
[22:08] Kan
    I figure I need to get to know you
    better if I want to defeat snakes.
SIGN    Next on the Agenda

E7 - Idea 7
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[00:01] Una
    One evening, as I was washing
    my hair in the bath...
[00:14] Una
    I felt like I was being watched,
    but of course nobody was there.
[00:22] Una
    What was that, I wonder.
[00:24] Shi
    That's so scary, huh?!
[00:25] God
    I feel ya.
[00:27] Shi
    God?
[00:29] God
    This is my next divine request.
[00:32] God
    That's really scary,
    so do something about it.
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[02:07] Shi
    The official request is for
    an animal that's watching
[02:12] Shi
    even though it looks like nothing's there.
[02:14] Una
    That's so ridiculous.
[02:16] Miz
    Well, it's par for the course.
[02:18] Mei
    Maybe it was an ex who was staring at you?
[02:22] Una
    Please don't say things that really are scary.
[02:26] Shi
    How about an animal that blends in with
    its surroundings like a chameleon?
[02:30] Miz
    Hey, your mental image is wrong.
[02:33] Miz
    The chameleon is bad at camouflage.
[02:36] Miz
    This panther chameleon was already accepted.
[02:39] Miz
    The chameleon doesn't change its color
    after looking at its surroundings.
[02:43] Miz
    It's based on the lighting or its mood.
[02:46] Shi
    Its mood?!
[02:47] Miz
    For instance, when a male meets
    a female he fancies...
SIGN    2 Minutes Later
SIGN    3 Minutes Later
[02:56] Shi
    That's so slow.
[02:58] Una
    That reminds me of the squids
    you made, Pluto-chan.
[03:01] Una
    They also change color,
    but they do it super fast.
[03:04] Una
    How does that work?
[03:06] Mei
    Squids have chromatophores on
    the surface of their bodies,
[03:09] Mei
    and can change color with their muscles.
SIGN    Chromatophores
[03:11] Mei
    Flexing or relaxing them can make
     the change happen in an instant.
[03:15] Shi
    That sounds like it could qualify as
[03:17] Shi
    "that's watching even though it
    looks like nothing's there."
[03:20] Miz
    Let's try it in a simulation.
[03:27] Shi
    Did we have to go this far?
[03:31] Una
    Well, reproducibility and field
    testing are important.
[03:35] Mzi
    All right, Pluto-chan, bring out your squid.
[03:38] Mei
    Coming right up!
[03:39] Una
    Scrub, scrub... Scrub, scrub...
[03:46] Una
    There's a squid there.
[03:48] Una
    It's too obvious that there's a
    squid there. Mostly the eyes.
[03:51] Una
    And that jiggly three-dimensionality
    looks so tasty.
[03:54] Miz
    No good, huh?
[03:55] Una
    Besides, why is the squid even in the bath?
[03:58] Una
    What's the situation? What does the
    squid want to do behind my back?
[04:02] Miz
    This strange situation has
     made him oddly rational.
[04:06] Miz
    I guess the squid has its limits.
[04:08] Mei
    Then how about making a creature
     that becomes transparent in water?
[04:12] Miz
    We'd need engineering help for that.
[04:14] Mei
    I mean, lifeforms are made of water.
[04:17] Mei
    Maybe we can just make a fish
    with transparent blood?
[04:20] Hig
    That'll be difficult.
SIGN    Prototype Lab
[04:22] Hig
    The oxygen transporter, hemoglobin,
    is the reason blood is red.
[04:26] Hig
    If you take that out,
    blood can't transport oxygen.
[04:29] Mei
    Then how about forcing the blood
    plasma to transport it?
SIGN    Blood Plasma
[04:32] Mei
    Plasma is essentially transparent.
[04:34] Hig
    You could, but the efficiency would be terrible.
[04:37] Una
    Then make the heart bigger
    and the veins thicker.
[04:41] Mei
    Let's also add cutaneous respiration!
[04:43] Mei
    Then it can take in oxygen directly
    from the surrounding water.
[04:46] Miz
    Okay!
[04:48] Shi
    God has spoken!
[04:49] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Crocodile
     Icefish
SIGN    Accepted
[04:52] Mei
    Let's put it in the tub right away!
[04:55] Hig
    The tub?
[05:03] Una
    I know it's weird to say something
    after it was accepted,
[05:06] Una
    but it would be terrifying if you
    locked eyes with that in the tub.
[05:10] Shi
    Oh, we got a follow-up request.
[05:12] Shi
    Um, could you make it so you
    can't lock eyes with it?
[05:17] Shi
    Can the eyes be made transparent?
[05:19] Miz
    That's impossible.
[05:20] Meid
    Suppose you were an invisible angel.
    Then your eyes would be transparent, too.
[05:25] Meid
    Your retinas could not absorb the light
    hitting the eye. It would just pass through.
[05:31] Shi
    Does that mean my invisible self
    wouldn't be able to see anything?
[05:35] Mei
    Correct.
[05:37] Mei
    While nobody could see you, you would
    also not be able to see anyone.
[05:42] Mei
    You would be able to
    experience true loneliness.
[05:44] Mei
    How wonderful!
[05:46] Shi
    I-I see. And I always thought being
    invisible would be fun...
[05:51] Una
    Even if you wanted to prank someone,
    if you can't see anything...
[05:55] Miz
    If we can't make the eyes disappear,
[05:57] Miz
    how about adding eyes to creatures
    that the naked eye cannot see?
[06:01] Miz
    Like a single-celled organism in the water?
[06:03] Una
    That means at first,
    it'll look like normal water.
[06:06] Una
    But if you zoom in...
[06:12] Both
    That's super terrifying!
[06:14] Miz
    I-Is it no good?
[06:17] Shi
    God has spoken!
[06:18] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Single-Celled Organism
    With an Eye
     (Dinoflagellate)
[06:22] Hgi
    A single-celled organism
     only has, well, one cell.
[06:26] Hgi
    And you want to add an eye
    to it? Are you serious?
[06:29] Miz
    Simple and multipurpose is
    my forte. We can do it.
[06:33] Miz
    Let's do our best together, Mars-san.
[06:35] Hig
    Yeah, yeah. I'll be counting on you.
[06:38] Una
    The request was to make
    a scary story not so scary.
[06:42] Una
    Why did that result in a
    scary creature being born?
[06:46] Una
    I would have preferred having a cute,
[06:48] Una
    small, transparent fish there when
    I feel someone looking at me
[06:51] Una
    from a place that looks empty.
[06:54] God
    I feel you!
[06:57] Shi
    "Watching, even though nobody's there"...
    Isn't that God?
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[07:04] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[07:08] Shi
    I didn't know that chameleons
    change color based on their mood.
[07:13] Shi
    I always thought that was for camouflage.
[07:15] Miz
    Chameleons turn black when
    they're stressed out or depressed.
[07:18] Shi
    They're so sensitive.
[07:20] Shi
    It's so interesting that there are creatures
    that change color based on their mood.
[07:23] Miz
    I think you'd change color, too.
[07:26] Miz
    Their color also changes based on the sun.
[07:28] Miz
    When it's hot, it goes into
    infrared reflection mode,
[07:31] Miz
    so its body temperature
    doesn't get too high.
[07:33] Shi
    So when it's in a light spot,
[07:35] Shi
    it gets lighter to reflect the sun,
    and when it's in a dark spot, it gets dark—
[07:40] Shi
    Wait? Isn't this camouflage?
[07:43] Miz
    Yeah, often that's the result.
[07:47] Shi
    I see!
[07:50] Miz
    See? You changed color.
[07:59] All
    Wow!
[08:01] All
    So pretty!
[08:04] All
    Nice!
[08:06] Tsu
    I'm worried.
[08:09] Tsu
    Ever since that big fireworks show,
[08:11] Tsu
    my grandson Kenta has only been sighing.
[08:16] Ken
    I want to meet them again.
[08:18] Tsu
    He was drawing something like a portrait.
[08:22] Tsu
    I thought it might be my
    grandson's first love.
[08:26] Tsu
    So I decided to create the
    object of his first love.
[08:35] Shi
    C-Create?
[08:38] Shi
    This situation has gone mad all of a sudden!
[08:41] Shi
    What do you mean by "create"?
[08:44] Miz
    Wouldn't it be faster to
    find the other child?
[08:47] Miz
    Pluto-chan was there, too.
    Why don't you ask her to help?
[08:52] Tsu
    Well, I did go and ask her, but...
[08:57] (Flashback) Mei
    I didn't really see anyone like that.
    It was very crowded, anyway.
[09:00] (Flashback) Tsu
    I see. Sorry for bothering
    you when you're busy.
[09:04] (Flashback) Tsu
    What are you working on, anyway?
[09:06] (Flashback) Mei
    A "creature with eyes that stand out."
[09:09] (Flashback) Mei
    I went to the fireworks
    because I wanted to see how
[09:12] (Flashback) Mei
    the prototype for this nocturnal
    animal would react.
[09:14] (Flashback) Tsu
    Oh, for the internal competition!
[09:16] (Flashback) Tsu
    I might submit something, too.
[09:19] (Flashback) Tsu
    The person my grandson wanted to
    meet was "cute, with big eyes."
[09:22] (Flashback) Mei
    Sounds nice!
[09:24] Tsu
    So since I have no leads, I decided
    to just create something.
[09:29] Shi
    Huh... By the way, why is Pluto-san
    staying in a tent on Galapagos?
[09:34] Kan
    In order to push herself.
[09:36] Kan
    Even though she's in the middle of nature,
[09:38] Kan
    she's not even stepping outside of the tent.
[09:40] Kan
    It's like she locked
    herself in a can to work.
[09:42] Shi
    She's very stoic, huh?
SIGN    Prototype Lab
[09:44] Tsu
    The base is done already.
[09:46] Tsu
    Kenta will be so happy!
[09:48] Shi
    I don't think seeing something that has a
    vague resemblance is what Kenta wanted.
[09:54] Miz
    He wanted to have another encounter,
    so of course he'll be happy.
[09:57] Shi
    I'm surrounded by madmen!
[09:59] Tsu
    Here we are!
[10:07] Tsu
    I think this is what the
    base should look like.
[10:09] Tsu
    What do you think?
[10:10] Miz
    It looks just like your grandson's drawing.
[10:12] Shi
    I really don't think so!
[10:15] Hig
    Listen, about this kid...
[10:16] Shi
    Finally, a voice of reason!
[10:18] Hig
    If the eyes are this big, I can't
    make muscles to move the eyeballs.
[10:23] Hig
    There's not enough room in its skull.
[10:25] Shi
    Wait, that's your objection?!
[10:27] Hig
    Eyeballs need quite a lot
    of space in the back.
[10:30] Hig
    If the eyes are this big,
    they'll fill the entire skull cavity.
[10:36] Shi
    Hm, but Mercury-san, didn't the ostrich
    that you designed also have big eyes?
[10:40] Miz
    The ostrich also doesn't have room
    for muscles to move the eyes.
[10:44] Miz
    That's why I made it so it moves
    its entire head to look at things.
[10:48] Tsu
    Next, we have this tongue here.
[10:51] Tsu
    Mercury-kun, you made an
    animal like this, right?
[10:54] Miz
    The gecko.
[10:55] Miz
    Since it doesn't have eyelids, it licks its
    eyes with its tongue to lubricate them.
[10:59] Shi
    It's sort of cute.
[11:01] Tsu
    I see. You mean like this?
[11:05] Shi
    Th-That's not cute!
[11:07] Miz
    Chief,
[11:09] Miz
    might this line in the eye
    be a winking expression?
[11:12] Miz
    That suggests there are eyelids.
[11:14] Tsu
    Oh, right. Then let's make the
    long tongue be for feeding.
[11:19] Miz
    One more thing.
[11:21] Miz
    This detail here by the mouth.
[11:23] Miz
    Could there be two tongues?
[11:26] Miz
    That would mean there's one for
    grooming and one for feeding.
[11:31] Tsu
    I see! Let's go with that idea, too.
[11:36] Shi
    Oh, no! Kenta-kun's first love...
[11:39] Shi
    Aren't we drifting further and
    further from the answer here?
[11:41] Shi
    But maybe I should just be happy
    the base wasn't a horse.
[11:44] Tsu
    Mars-kun, what do you think?
[11:46] Hig
    Well, what kind of food are we looking at?
[11:49] Tsu
    Since there are two eyes facing forward,
[11:51] Tsu
    this is not an herbivore, but a carnivore.
[11:54] Shi
    You can tell from just the
    position of the eyes?
[11:57] Hig
    Having eyes on the sides gives
    you a wider field of vision,
[11:59] Hig
    which means you can spot
    your enemies better.
[12:01] Hig
    That's for animals who want to
    flee from other animals, or herbivores.
[12:04] Shi
    Aha...
[12:06] Hig
    On the flip side, having eyes facing forward
[12:07] Hig
    grants a wider area where
    the fields of vision overlap.
[12:09] Hig
    That gives you better depth perception and
    lets you know the distance to your prey.
[12:13] Shi
    Ah, so animals that want to catch other animals!
[12:16] Tsu
    This animal runs and chases its prey.
[12:22] Shi
    Every aspect just makes it scarier.
[12:25] Hig
    But if the jaw is this small,
[12:27] Hig
    it won't have enough power to
    tear apart big pieces of meat.
[12:30] Miz
    Should we make it swallow the
    prey whole, like a snake?
[12:32] Miz
    You can make the jaw split sideways and
    remove the sternum to open up the rib cage.
SIGN    Sternum
[12:36] Miz
    Then swallowing prey whole will be easy.
SIGN    Snakes don't have one
[12:44] Hig
    You need the sternum to attach
    the muscles that move the arms.
[12:48] Hig
    The snake's fine because
    it doesn't have arms.
[12:50] Miz
    I guess swallowing whole is out, then.
[12:52] Hig
    I don't think explosiveness
    or stamina are a thing here.
[12:55] Hig
    At best, we're looking at
    catching slow insects.
[12:58] Miz
    Insects...
[13:01] Miz
    Then this must be a snail!
[13:06] Tsu
    That's it!
[13:07] Shi
    Are you sure?!
[13:10] Tsu
    All right, that's the spitting
     image of the drawing!
[13:13] Tsu
    What do you think?
    Will it be love on first sight?
[13:15] Miz
    It would be for me!
[13:17] Shi
    They've created a monstrosity!
[13:19] Tsu
    Shimoda-kun, don't be shy.
    Let us know what you think.
[13:21] Shi
    Well, um, just one thing...
[13:25] Shi
    Maybe it's lacking a little bit of cuteness.
[13:29] Tsu
    Cuteness... That's an area
    we're not very good at.
[13:32] Hig
    Oh, I remember Neptune-san adding hair and
    saying cute animals need to be fluffy.
[13:38] Tsu
    That's it! Let's focus on
    cuteness and fluff it up!
[13:43] Tsu
    It's done!
SIGN    My Grandson's
     First Love
[13:45] Miz
    It's spot-on, Saturn-san!
[13:47] Shi
    I feel so sorry for your memories
    of your first love, Kenta-kun!
[13:51] Mei
    I'm back.
[13:55] Mei
    Exactly the same!?
[13:56] Tsu
    Why?!
[13:59] Tsu
    We were trying to recreate
    my grandson's drawing.
[14:03] Mei
    Oh, that's me.
[14:05] Shi
    This little one?
[14:07] Mei
    No, no, I'm here.
[14:09] Shi
    Oh, so it's not a drawing of the fireworks?
[14:12] Mei
    And next to me is this guy.
[14:14] Mei
    We ran into Kenta-kun as I was
    handing it a snail snack,
[14:17] Mei
    so the drawing must be of that.
[14:19] Mei
    The prototype was much bigger, too.
[14:22] Mei
    Because the eyes are too big to move,
    the entire neck can swivel all the way around.
[14:26] Mei
    It has two tongues, too.
[14:28] Tsu
    Same for ours.
[14:30] Miz
    They're perfectly identical!
[14:31] Shi
    W-Wait, so the "first love" was spot-on?
[14:36] Shi
    And God has spoken!
[14:38] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Philippine
    Tarsier
SIGN    Accepted
[14:41] Mei
    Yay! Locking myself in paid off!
[14:44] Tsu
    We unknowingly traced your steps.
[14:47] Miz
    Kenta-kun's observational
    powers are amazing.
[14:50] Shi
    After that, the one that Saturn-san made...
[14:54] Ken
    I finally found you again!
[14:56] Ken
    I missed you!
[14:57] Miz
    You did it, Chief!
[14:58] Tsu
    Yeah!
[14:58] Ken
    I wanted to see you!
[15:00] Shi
    I-I'm... happy for you.
[15:01] Ken
    So cute!
[15:10] Hig
    I don't think the ear canal
    should be any bigger.
[15:14] Shi
    Mars-san, how's progress?
[15:17] Hig
    We're working on "an animal
    with good hearing."
[15:20] Tsu
    Oh, no! I can see the
    eyeball through the ear!
[15:24] Tsu
    It might accidentally come out that way!
[15:27] Shi
    I've seen you before.
[15:29] Hig
    That's why you can't make it so big.
[15:31] Shi
    Wasn't this Kenta-kun's little friend?
[15:34] Tsu
    I'm redesigning it into
    "an animal with good hearing."
[15:38] Tsu
    Look, aren't these ears great?
[15:41] Tsu
    The ridges are there for a reason, too.
[15:44] Tsu
    The sound hits these ridges, which allows the
    animal to know where the sound is coming from.
SIGN    Sound
[15:49] Tsu
    If we can't make the ear canal too big,
[15:52] Tsu
    I'll have to improve this area instead.
[15:54] Shi
    You mean make them bigger,
    like with elephants?
[15:58] Tsu
    Elephants don't have good hearing.
[16:00] Shi
    Really? But their ears are so big!
[16:02] Hig
    You know how you cup your ears like
    this when you try to hear something?
[16:07] Hig
    A parabolic shape is better
    for gathering sound.
SIGN    Sound
SIGN    Sound
SIGN    Sound
[16:10] Tsu
    The elephant's ears are
    flat and have no ridges.
[16:13] Hig
    Because the elephant's ears are heat sinks.
[16:16] Shi
    That's right! They get heat
    stroke without those ears.
[16:19] Shi
    So they can't hear well, huh?
[16:22] Tsu
    But their feet can.
[16:24] Shi
    Their feet?
[16:28] Tsu
    Elephants detect the vibrations
    of the ground with their feet,
[16:31] Tsu
    and send them through their
    bones to their ears.
[16:34] Tsu
    It's bone conductivity of a sort.
[16:36] Tsu
    When they want to hear better,
    they press their feet into the ground,
[16:42] Tsu
    similar to how we might press
    our ear against a wall.
[16:44] Shi
    That's a little bit cute!
[16:46] Tsu
    Anyway, this ear is cup-shaped,
    and with the round ridges, it's ideal!
[16:52] Shi
    So that's why a lot of animals
    have this ear shape.
[16:55] Tsu
    I was the one who designed
    the base model of this ear,
[16:59] Tsu
    but this time, I am looking to
    make something even better!
[17:02] Shi
    When there are no horses involved,
    Saturn-san's quite impressive.
[17:06] Hig
    These ears might be even better at gathering
    sound if they can move freely
[17:10] Hig
    to match the angle that the
    sound is coming from.
[17:12] Tsu
    I see. How about this?
[17:18] Shi
    That's a little scary.
[17:20] Hig
    Should the ear canals stay
    on the sides of the head?
[17:22] Hig
    If they're on the sides, they can
    pick up sound from all directions,
[17:25] Hig
    but it'll make it hard to hear small sounds.
[17:27] Tsu
    Right.
[17:28] Tsu
    Then let's bring them to the front.
[17:32] ---
    There!
[17:34] Tsu
    This will up the sensitivity!
[17:36] Hig
    If you specialize in one direction,
    the sensitivity will go up,
[17:40] Hig
    but it also means that they have to move
    their head toward sound sources all the time.
[17:43] Tsu
    That's fine. This model can turn its neck.
[17:47] Tsu
    Since the neck itself grew, too,
    it can also bend up and down.
[17:51] Tsu
    Lucky!
[17:53] Tsu
    Let's test if this is good enough to catch
    prey just with sound, without relying on vision.
[17:57] Tsu
    Shimoda-kun, please be the prey.
[17:59] ---
    Huh?
[18:00] ---
    Uh...
[18:02] ---
    What?!
[18:05] Shi
    I couldn't refuse...
[18:10] Shi
    It's coming for me!
[18:13] Tsu
    How did you know it's coming?
[18:15] Shi
    I mean, the footsteps...
[18:17] Tsu
    Oh, that. Okay, let's add
    wings and make it fly.
[18:23] Shi
    We're not done yet?
[18:25] Tus
    Let's adjust the ears too.
[18:27] Shi
    Huh, why?
[18:28] Hig
    That's revolutionary!
[18:30] Hig
    You see, ears can tell where a sound is
    coming from based on which ear heard it first.
[18:35] Hig
    By shifting them up and down,
[18:36] Hig
    they can detect a sound's height
     as well as its direction!
[18:38] Hig
    That's Saturn-san's genius!
[18:40] Tsu
    All right! Now detection is possible
    no matter where Shimoda-kun runs.
[18:44] Shi
    This is even more terrifying.
[18:50] Shi
    I can't sense it anywhere...
    but there's really nowhere to hide.
[18:59] Tsu
    Aw, how did you know it was flying at you?
[19:02] Shi
    I heard its wings flapping.
[19:05] Tsu
    This is Mars-san's territory.
[19:07] Tsu
    Any good ideas?
[19:09] Hig
    Making the flight feathers jagged might
    disperse the sound, and thus lower the volume.
SIGN    Smooth
SIGN    Jagged
[19:15] Tsu
    I see!
[19:16] Tsu
    Let's do another test!
[19:17] Shi
    A-Again?!
[19:22] Shi
    I'm sorry... I haven't been attacked yet,
    but it's there, right?
[19:28] Tsu
    What? How could you tell?
[19:30] Shi
    I mean, when it's twisting its head around,
[19:32] Shi
    the ears flap around and
    are really noticeable.
[19:35] Tsu
    You're right.
[19:37] Tsu
    The ears are holding it back.
[19:39] Shi
    Weren't they the whole point?!
[19:43] Tsu
    All right, let's squash
    the ears into the face.
[19:47] Tsu
    Then its silhouette won't change
    even when it's turning its head.
[19:51] Hig
    I think that's good.
[19:52] Shi
    It is?
[19:53] Tsu
    Then I'll gather all the
    ideas and present you with...
[19:55] Tsu
    An animal with good hearing!
[19:58] Shi
    God has spoken!
SIGN    Owl
[19:59] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
[20:03] Shi
    I'm glad it's not the scary one from before.
[20:07] Shi
    Saturn-san, where did the
    all-important parabola ears go?
[20:11] Tsu
    This round depression on the face.
[20:14] Hig
    The entire face is a parabola,
[20:16] Hig
    so it can focus the sound in the ear
    by moving the surrounding feathers.
[20:20] Tsu
    By the way, its skull looks like this.
SIGN    Left Ear
SIGN    Right Ear
[20:24] Tsu
    The ear canals are facing the front
    and are vertically misaligned.
[20:27] Shi
    So you kept that long neck as-is.
[20:31] Tsu
    As you can see, the silhouette is the
    same no matter which way it faces.
[20:34] Shi
    I'm glad. Since its previous look
    is gone, I don't find it as scary.
[20:40] Tsu
    What are you talking about?
[20:41] Tsu
    The chicks look basically the same as that.
SIGN    Barn Owl Chicks
[20:47] Hig
    You can also still see the
    eyeball through its ear canal.
[20:50] Hig
    Wanna look?
[20:51] Shi
    I'll pass!
[20:54] Tsu
    The flight feathers have a stealth mode.
[20:56] Shi
    Amazing! Every feature made it in.
[21:00] Shi
    You're really good, Saturn-san!
SIGN    Brown
SIGN    Black
SIGN    White
[21:02] Tsu
    Incidentally, they have the same
     color scheme as the horse.
[21:05] Shi
    Y-You worked the horse in?
[21:06] Hig
    Saturn-san, you never miss a beat.
[21:09] Kan
    Yay, another highly-evolved birdie!
[21:13] Shi
    Oh, Saturn-san designed that.
[21:16] Kan
    Let's make you even cuter.
[21:17] Shi
    Oh, but it has that silhouette for a reason—
[21:22] Shi
    God has spoken!
[21:23] God
    That's accepted, too!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Horned Owl
[21:26] Shi
    Why?!
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[21:28] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[21:33] Tsu
    There are these ear-like things on its head,
     but they're not ears, right?
[21:37] Kan
    Yes, just like other owls, the ears
    are in this area of the face.
[21:42] Tsu
    So what are these pointy things here?
[21:44] Kan
    Decorative feathers.
[21:46] Tsu
    What are they for?
[21:46] Kan
    Nothing! They're just cute!
[21:49] Kan
    Wait, I'll think of something...
[21:53] Kan
    How about this? They look like leaves,
    so they help with camouflage!
[21:56] Tsu
    I feel like not having them
    would work even better.
[21:58] Tsu
    When it moves its head, they'll stand out.
[22:01] Kan
    Now that you mention it...
[22:03] Kan
    Wait, then why was it accepted?
[22:06] Kan
    It would be better to not
    have these pointy feathers.
[22:09] Tsu
    God's ways are mysterious.
[22:12] Kan
    You're so right! I knew it!
SIGN    Next on the Agenda

E8 - Idea 8
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[00:04] Nar
    In the beginning, God created
    the heavens and the earth.
[00:10] Nar
    He followed them
[00:15] Nar
    with light, waters, and the land.
[00:20] Nar
    Then he created the many animals
    that would inhabit it.
[00:26] Nar
    Or... that was the plan.
[00:28] Nar
    It got too tedious, so he outsourced it.
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[02:30] Miz
    How did you like my snake fist?
[02:33] Kmi
    When did you even learn that?
[02:35] Kmi
    But I've got something up my sleeve, too!
[02:38] Miz
    What?!
[02:39] Kim
    Hidden Technique: Bone Hug!
[02:43] Miz
    That's dangerous! What's with those bones?!
[02:47] Kim
    They're ribs!
[02:49] Shi
    What are they doing?
[02:51] Mei
    No idea.
[02:53] Hig
    Yeah, that's a nope.
[02:56] Hig
    It's impossible to make bones
    grow that fast on Earth.
[03:00] Kim
    Aw, man, and I just got the
    order for "bones as weapons."
[03:03] Kim
    I guess this won't do. Oh, well,
    this hurts like heck, anyway.
[03:07] Shi
    Why is Jupiter-san modifying himself?
[03:09] Miz
    He was saying that it's easier to
    make something if he's felt it,
[03:13] Miz
    but I think he just wants to play around.
[03:15] Kim
    If rapid growth is impossible,
    how about having folded ones unfurl?
[03:19] Hig
    Could work.
[03:21] Mei
    But you'd get hurt every
    time the bones come out.
[03:23] Mei
    If you're wounded often, I think
     you'd wind up dead, even if you didn't fight.
[03:28] Hig
    I suppose it could work as an
    "emergency sacrificial defense"
[03:31] Hig
    for amphibian species that
    can regenerate skin quickly.
[03:34] Kim
    I see! I'll jot that down.
[03:38] Shi
    Are you all right?
[03:40] Kim
    Yes, probably.
[03:42] Hig
    I know you want them to
    shoot out like before...
[03:45] Kim
    This is what would be ideal.
[03:48] Hig
    But if you actually did that,
    the exit wounds would be too big,
SIGN    Just a little bit
[03:53] Hig
    so you can only extend them a little bit.
SIGN    Just a little bit
[03:55] Kim
    These aren't what I envisioned.
[03:57] Shi
    They're not very impressive,
    and they seem painful.
[04:00] Miz
    Having a weapon snikt out from
    your body is indeed awesome.
[04:03] Hig
    Yup, yup.
[04:05] Kim
    If storing them won't work,
     I at least want them to be flashy!
[04:08] Kim
    Got it! Let's put the
    bones outside the body!
[04:11] Kim
    I've put the spine and the
    ribs outside! How about that?
[04:17] Hig
    Wait, wait! How are you moving those arms?!
[04:22] Shi
    What's the issue?
[04:23] Hig
    He's not a snake! The shoulder
    blades behind his ribs are missing.
[04:28] Hig
    And his arms are supposed
    to be attached to those!
[04:31] Kim
    I've flipped the position of the bones.
[04:34] Kim
    I went all-out and put the shoulder
    blades inside. Can you see?
SIGN    Shoulder Blade
SIGN    Rib
[04:38] Miz
    You can move your arms...
    so is this arrangement okay?
[04:41] Mei
    What does Mars-san think?
[04:43] Shi
    She doesn't seem satisfied,
    but she's not saying no.
[04:47] Shi
    Maybe this is viable?
[04:49] Kim
    So that means this direction is okay!
[04:52] Miz
    You should check the durability, too.
[04:54] Mie
    I brought a lion.
[04:58] Mie
    All right, go get those bones!
[05:01] Kim
    Why did you start with an end boss?!
[05:07] Miz
    He's eating them like
    they're bone crackers.
[05:09] Kim
    Man, he snapped a bunch
    off right at the base.
[05:15] Mei
    The part where they join up is the weakest.
[05:18] Shi
    I-Is he okay?
[05:21] Kim
    You can't use them as
    weapons if they've been eaten.
[05:23] Kim
    Mars-san, is there a way to
    make the joints stronger?
[05:27] Hig
    Let's see.
[05:28] Hig
    If you're fine with the bones not moving,
SIGN    Bone
SIGN    Joint
SIGN    Bone
[05:31] Hig
    you could offset and double them up.
SIGN    Double Them Up
SIGN    Offset Them
[05:35] Shi
    Oh, that's brittle.
[05:38] Shi
    So tough!
[05:39] Shi
    I see!
[05:41] Hig
    But there's a different downside.
[05:43] Kim
    Let's implement that right away!
SIGN    Doubled-Up Bones
[05:46] Kim
    Bring it on!
[05:51] Miz
    His teeth are no match for
    the reinforced bones!
[05:55] Mei
    But won't that...
[05:58] Shi
    Is that our usual trope again?!
[06:02] Hig
    I knew it.
[06:05] Hig
    Difficulty breathing.
[06:06] Shi
    Difficulty breathing?
[06:07] Shi
    It's not osteoporosis this time?
[06:09] Hig
    It's hard to breathe without ribs.
SIGN    Inhale
[06:13] Hig
    When you breathe, your chest
    moves up and down, right?
SIGN    Exhale
SIGN    Inhale
SIGN    Exhale
[06:16] Hig
    That's proof that your ribs are moving.
SIGN    Inhale
SIGN    Exhale
[06:18] Hig
    The lungs move as they are pulled
    by the ribs and the diaphragm.
SIGN    Inhale
SIGN    Exhale
SIGN    Diaphragm
SIGN    Diaphragm
SIGN    Inhale
SIGN    Diaphragm
SIGN    Exhale
[06:22] Shi
    I see. They're like bellows.
[06:25] Kim
    Someone... help...
[06:27] Miz
    Pluto-chan, didn't you make an animal
    that can breathe without ribs?
[06:32] Mei
    You mean the frog!
[06:34] Shi
    Frogs don't have ribs?!
[06:36] Mei
    When I made the leg bones tougher
    to withstand big jumps,
[06:40] Shi
    the ribs got in the way, so I removed them!
[06:42] Shi
    Then how do they breathe?
[06:44] Mei
    With determination!
SIGN    Bam
[06:46] Shi
    Determination?
[06:47] Mei
    It's just using determination
    and its throat to breathe.
[06:49] Shi
    So that state means it's
    super-full of determination.
[06:53] Miz
    You hear that, Jupiter?
    Just use your determination.
[06:57] Hig
    He's been breathing hard this whole time,
    but he's still oxygen deprived.
[07:00] Mei
    If you breathe without ribs and just
    your throat, you get less oxygen,
[07:05] Mei
    so frogs use cutaneous
    respiration in addition.
[07:08] Miz
    Want to turn into an amphibian
    and make your skin slimy?
[07:12] Kmi
    That's not what I envisioned.
[07:14] Mei
    What about not using the 
    ribs to move the lungs?
[07:17] Kim
    That's it!
SIGN    Exhale
[07:19] Kim
    How about using the shoulder blades
    I moved inside to move the lungs?
SIGN    Inhale
SIGN    Exhale
SIGN    Inhale
SIGN    Exhale
SIGN    Exhale
[07:23] Hig
    That should be possible.
SIGN    Inhale
SIGN    Inhale
SIGN    Exhale
[07:24] Hig
    I think it'll make your arms move
    around every time you breathe, though.
SIGN    Inhale
SIGN    Exhale
SIGN    Inhale
SIGN    Exhale
[07:29] Kim
    Applying that allowed me to breathe.
[07:32] Shi
    Then why are you crawling like that?
[07:34] Kim
    Well, it's really hard to move.
[07:37] Hig
    Of course, fast animals
[07:39] Hig
    bend their spines to attain a longer stride.
[07:43] Shi
    Having an immobile back is
    a bigger issue than I thought.
[07:46] Miz
    But the organs are protected,
    so it's fine, isn't it?
[07:49] Kim
    All right, I'll make the ribs even longer!
[07:53] Shi
    Oh, no, Jupiter-san! Is this...
[07:57] Hig
    Yup, osteoporosis.
[07:59] Shi
    I thought so.
[08:01] Miz
    You need to reduce your calcium usage.
[08:03] Kim
    I don't want to! The ribs are so cool now!
[08:08] Kim
    I'd rather save somewhere else.
[08:10] Kim
    Oh, yeah, the teeth!
    They're veritable chunks of calcium!
[08:14] Kim
    Let's lose the teeth and redistribute
    that calcium to the ribs.
[08:17] Hig
    How will you eat?
[08:19] Miz
    How about Venus's bird system?
    Grind it up in your stomach.
[08:23] Mei
    Sounds good. Bird beaks are hardened skin,
     so you barely need any calcium.
[08:28] Kim
    Okay, let's go with that.
[08:30] Mei
    I have a foundation now,
     so I just need to sketch this.
[08:33] Mei
    Aw, my hand moves when I breathe.
    I can't draw like this.
[08:37] Miz
    Just go back to normal!
[08:38] Kim
    Oh, right.
[08:41] Kim
    A beak instead of teeth!
[08:43] Kim
    Reroute the extra calcium to the bones!
[08:45] Kim
    Move the spine and ribs outside the body!
[08:49] Kim
    Reinforce the bones by doubling them up!
[08:51] Kim
    It'll be hard to move and get food,
[08:53] Kim
    but we'll compensate for that
    with an energy-saving body!
[08:55] Kim
    Swap the position of the ribs
    and the shoulder blades,
[08:58] Kim
    and have the shoulder blades aid breathing!
SIGN    Turtle
[09:00] Kim
    It's done! An animal with amazing ribs!
[09:03] Shi
    God has spoken!
[09:05] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
[09:08] Miz
    So its shell is made from ribs?
[09:11] Hig
    But isn't the head exposed?
[09:13] Mei
    The shell's pointless if the head gets eaten.
[09:15] Kim
    I'll think about that now. Any good ideas?
[09:18] Mei
    Turn the neck and stow the head away!
[09:20] Kim
    I like that!
[09:22] Shi
    God has spoken!
SIGN    Chelidae
[09:23] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
[09:25] Miz
    What about one where it folds
    up and retracts the head?
[09:27] Kim
    I like that, too.
[09:28] Shi
    God has spoken!
SIGN    Chinese
     Pond Turtle
[09:30] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
[09:32] Kim
    It's not quite hidden, though.
    The soft parts are still visible.
[09:36] Hig
    You want it to fully hide?
[09:38] Kim
    If possible.
[09:39] Hig
    Then how about adding hinges to the
    belly that make it completely shut?
SIGN    Hinge
SIGN    Hinge
[09:44] Shi
    G-God has spoken!
[09:46] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Asian Box Turtle
SIGN    Accepted
[09:48] Kim
    Yay, an acceptance frenzy!
SIGN    A Few Days Later...
[09:53] Shi
    Jupiter-san, what's that?
[09:55] Kim
    The client said that,
    while the turtle's fine,
[09:57] Kim
    after some thought, it became clear
[09:59] Kim
    that the bones aren't much like weapons.
[10:02] Kim
    So then this plain guy I was
     sketching got accepted.
SIGN    Iberian
     Ribbed Newt
SIGN    Accepted
[10:05] Shi
    Th-That's good for you.
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[10:09] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[10:13] Kim
    This is the newt that fights by
    poking its ribs out of the body!
[10:16] Kim
    See, the ribs open up like this,
     and go through the skin.
[10:21] Hig
    The bones having a pointy tip is good design.
[10:24] Hig
    It makes it easier for them to pierce the skin.
[10:26] Hig
    But does this actually
    have any defensive merit?
[10:30] Kim
    What you didn't know is that
    they are also poisonous!
[10:34] Kim
    After they create a wound
    with their bone spikes,
[10:36] Kim
    applying that poison works really well!
[10:39] Kim
    An' it hoits when y'try to eat 'em...
[10:42] Kim
    Ow, ow, ow...
[10:43] Hig
    Jupiter-san, you totally tried
    to eat that newt, didn't you?
[10:55] Shi
    Huh? Huh?
[10:59] Una
    What's wrong, Shimoda-kun?
[11:01] Una
    It's dangerous to stand
    in the door like that.
[11:04] Shi
    I'm sorry! I just came here to see
    how the project is progressing,
[11:07] Shi
    but nobody is here.
[11:09] Shi
    How is that "courting that
    causes a throb" request going?
[11:12] Tsu
    I think everybody is busy
    behind those doors.
[11:15] Ued
    I'm excited.
[11:16] Una
    Tugging on the heart strings is
    my forte, so I'm basically done.
[11:20] Shi
    Is that yours?
[11:23] Shi
    Just its looks alone are adorable!
[11:27] Tsu
    But the others aren't coming out.
     Maybe they're stuck?
[11:31] Una
    Shimoda-kun, if you're
    going to make the rounds,
[11:33] Una
    I can come with you, if you want.
[11:34] Shi
    Thank you, Neptune-san. That'll be helpful!
[11:39] Shi
    Let's start with this door.
[11:44] Shi
    Excuse me—
[11:46] Kan
    Lu la la...
[11:48] Kan
    Extending feathers...
[11:50] Kan
    Elongating flesh...
[11:52] Kan
    It's all for love!
[11:54] Kan
    Shining feathers...
[11:57] Kan
    Captivating voices...
[11:59] Kan
    This, too, is love!
[12:01] Kan
    Lu la la...
[12:03] Kan
    I am pretty!
[12:05] Kan
    My beauty...
[12:06] Kan
    It's a skill.
[12:09] Kan
    It's hard to stay pretty.
[12:11] Kan
    Yes, so hard to stay pretty!
[12:15] Shi
    She's enjoying singing that weird song.
[12:18] Kan
    A...ny...way!
[12:21] Kan
    Anyway, it's not free!
[12:22] Kan
    Not free!
[12:24] Shi
    She transformed!
[12:25] Kan
    Since I can afford to maintain
    such beauty, my ability is superior!
[12:34] Kan
    Lu la la...
[12:36] Kan
    I am pretty!
[12:41] Kan
    I am...
[12:42] Una
    Huh? Pretty?
[12:45] Kan
    Lu la la...
[12:46] Kan
    I am pretty!
[12:51] Una
    You are pretty...
[12:55] Shi
    M-May I have a word?
[12:57] Kan
    What is it? Can't you see I'm
    working so hard on courtship here?
[13:01] Shi
    Uh, well, I just wanted to confirm that
    this is indeed your work in progress
[13:04] Shi
    for the "courting that
    causes a throb" request.
[13:06] Kan
    Didn't that cause a heart to throb?!
[13:08] Kan
    When birdies' feathers are beautiful,
    they're saying they're healthy.
[13:11] Kan
    When they sing well,
    they're saying they're smart.
[13:13] Kan
    Their sweet chirp-chirp lyrics
     all basically mean this.
[13:16] Shi
    I... I see. The only lyric I didn't quite
    get was the "elongating flesh" one?
[13:21] Kan
    That's about the birdies that grow
    flesh to transform for love.
SIGN    Temminck's
    Tragopan
[13:26] Kan
    You know how roosters have flesh that
    hangs from their chin, called a wattle?
[13:31] Kan
    That part can get elongated.
SIGN    Love Mode
SIGN    Wattle
[13:33] Shi
    I see.
[13:34] Kan
    How was that? That made your
    heart skip a beat, right?
[13:37] Una
    Uh, well, it was really wonderful, but...
[13:40] Ven
    But?
[13:41] Una
    When it's just you, Ven-chan,
    there's no frame of reference
[13:44] Una
    for me to tell whether you're
    better or worse than any other?
[13:49] Kna
    Of course! How could I be so blind?
[13:54] Kna
    Shimoda-kun, dance with me!
[13:56] Kna
    Copy my moves!
[14:01] Kna
    Here we go.
[14:02] Kna
    Lu la la...
[14:03] Shi
    Lu la la...
[14:06] Kan
    And now? I'm better, right?!
[14:09] Una
    Y-Yes.
[14:11] Una
    Intense courting is more
    embarrassing than adorable.
[14:16] Kan
    That's it!
[14:17] Kan
    I'll make my bad student come with
    me to show off how good I am.
[14:21] Kan
    That's a foolproof courting method.
[14:23] Shi
    So as your bad student, I'm just
    there to make you look better?
[14:27] Kan
    For now!
[14:29] Kan
    But the days you spend dancing with me
     will surely pay off at some point.
[14:33] Kan
    Shimoda-kun, I want you
    to surpass me one day.
[14:39] Kan
    And then, if I take on a student...
[14:43] Kan
    You are the one to shine next!
[14:46] Una
    I see! This is the love
    between teacher and student.
[14:49] Una
    That's a nice story.
[14:51] Una
    That really did get to my heart.
[14:53] Kan
    It's done! A bird that forms a
    dance team with its bad student!
[14:58] Shi
    God has spoken!
[14:59] God
    Accepted! Bravo!
SIGN    Long-Tailed
     Manakin
SIGN    Accepted
[15:03] Shi
    We also got Neptune-san's heart to throb!
[15:05] Kan
    I did it! I'm the first one done!
[15:08] Una
    Were we able to help?
[15:11] Shi
    Let's go and talk to who's next.
[15:20] Una
    Huh?
[15:21] Shi
    It sounds like someone's having a fight.
[15:24] Shi
    Is that Pluto-san, Mercury-san,
    and Jupiter-san?
[15:28] Una
    Wait, are the two of them
    fighting over Pluto-chan?!
[15:31] Shi
    Oh, no!
[15:33] Shi
    Actually, no! It's not a fight,
     more of a... duel?
[15:36] Kim
    Yo! Should we start this,
    and exit the friend zone?
[15:38] Miz
    Yo! Should we settle this,
    the principles of our hormones?
[15:41] Kim
    Survival of the fittest is what I represent!
[15:43] Miz
    Sadly for you, it's my vocation to present.
[15:45] Shi
    It's a rap battle!
[15:47] Shi
    They're trying to judge who's the
    best with a flurry of rhymes!
[15:50] Una
    You seem oddly familiar
    with this sort of thing, Shimoda-kun.
[15:53] Kim
    Strength is appetite, gluttony emotion,
[15:55] Kim
    always with a smile, ready to dig in!
[15:57] Miz
    My strength is innovation,
[15:58] Miz
    step to me, I'll make you feast on poison.
[16:01] Miz
    I'm the only one, that's my style.
[16:03] Kim
    You're the lonely one,
    just a jeering smile.
[16:05] Miz
    This has no end.
[16:06] Kim
    But we must defend!
[16:07] Both
    Who will win? That girl
    decides who gets in!
[16:09] Miz
    Interlude...
[16:11] Kim
    You there, do some beatboxing!
[16:14] Una
    What's "beatboxing"?
[16:21] Miz
    I am noble, you are trouble!
[16:22] Kim
    You are cynical, but I am lyrical!
[16:25] Miz
    Always hungry, what's your issue?
[16:27] Kim
    Always forcin' it, you're stuck in glue.
[16:29] Both
    I'll be the one accepted, you're at a dead end!
[16:32] Miz
    Neptune-san, be the judge please.
[16:35] Una
    I can't! I don't know what's
    good or bad in rapping.
[16:38] Una
    Besides, isn't that what
    Pluto-chan is here for?
[16:41] Mei
    I'm sorry, the waterfall was too
    loud for me to hear anything.
[16:47] Shi
    Does that mean MC Mercury and
    MC Jupiter's efforts were in vain?!
[16:52] Miz
    No, not in vain. There's something
    we can learn from this!
[16:56] Kim
    We were trying to see if Pluto-chan's
    heart would react if we sang her
[16:59] Kim
    a love song in the same
    environment as frogs do.
[17:02] Shi
    Frogs? Oh, that's why we're by the water.
[17:06] Kim
    No matter how hard you try,
    if she can't hear, she can't hear!
[17:09] Miz
    Neptune-san's "I don't get it"
     was also helpful.
[17:13] Kim
    No matter how sick our rhymes are,
[17:15] Kim
    if the listener doesn't understand,
     what's the point?
[17:17] Una
    I'm s-sorry...
[17:19] Shi
    So why is it rap for frogs?
[17:22] Mei
    Frog songs are closer to a rap battle
    than a singing contest.
SIGN    Not Popular
SIGN    Popular
[17:26] Mei
    The frogs' ribbit battle is about who
    can make these low sounds faster.
[17:32] Mei
    I wanted to see what it feels like
    to be struck by love as a female frog,
[17:35] Mei
    so I asked these two for help.
[17:37] Shi
    That means a rice paddy in the summer
    as the stage for a freestyle rap battle!
[17:41] Miz
    If we can't settle this by singing,
    we'll have to resort to physical combat.
[17:46] Kim
    The stronger one will be chosen!
[17:49] Both
    Bring it on!
[17:52] Una
    They don't have to really fight.
[17:55] Miz
    You need to show off your power
    to make her heart respond!
[18:00] Kim
    I'll show you, Mercury!
[18:12] Shi
    Watch out!
[18:26] Una
    Jeez, that'll happen when you get so rowdy.
[18:28] Una
    Is anybody hurt?
[18:30] Kim
    Neptune-san?
[18:32] Miz
    Did he protect us?
[18:34] Kim
    He's so kind...
[18:36] Miz
    And strong!
[18:37] Both
    Heart-throbbing infatuation...
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    n
    f
    a
    t
    u
    a
    t
    i
    o
    n
    .
    .
    .
[18:41] Miz
    I lost.
[18:42] Kim
    True strength is something you
    can show without fighting.
[18:47] Kim
    We've still got a long way to go.
[18:49] Mei
    I've got it!
[18:51] Mei
    A gentle battle where you can
    see strength without fighting.
[18:54] Mei
    By comparing your muscles!
[18:57] Mei
    It's not a verbal or physical fight,
[18:59] Mei
    it's a battle where you just
    show off your leg muscles.
[19:02] Mei
    A frog that touches your heart with his
    peaceful but macho way of courting!
[19:05] Mei
    What do you think?
[19:07] Shi
    God has spoken!
[19:09] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Staurois
[19:12] Mei
    Thank you, Neptune-san!
[19:14] Mei
    See you, Shimoda-kun!
[19:17] Miz
    It's fun to do the simulation yourself.
[19:20] Kim
    I like how easy it is to understand.
[19:26] Shi
    It looks like your approach was accepted.
     Well, for the frog, I mean.
[19:30] Una
    Yes, I am glad I was able to help.
[19:34] Una
    Right, about your courting methods...
[19:40] Una
    As a show of love, I do want you
    to battle to show off your vigor,
[19:44] Una
    but you saw that it's dangerous
    to fight for real, right?
[19:48] Una
    What should we do?
[19:49] Una
    Since you guys dive in the ocean,
    how about a lung capacity battle?
[19:54] Una
    But I did like Ven-chan's transformation.
[19:58] Una
    Lung capacity and transformation...
[20:01] Una
    Maybe I'll try making them
    inflate when they breathe in?
[20:04] Shi
    Sounds good! Would they be like balloons?
[20:07] Una
    Hm, they have ribs around their lungs,
    so they can't inflate their entire body.
[20:15] Una
    What is that?!
[20:17] Shi
    Something got inflated there.
[20:19] Una
    What? Where? What is that?
[20:22] Shi
    Could that be its nose?
[20:29] Shi
    He also inflated it!
[20:34] Shi
    What did he inflate now?!
[20:37] Una
    Uh, that should be...
[20:40] Shi
    The one who shot out that
    red nose lantern won!
[20:45] Una
    The red lantern is the wall of the membrane
[20:47] Una
    that separates the left and right
     sides of the nose.
[20:50] Shi
    Th-That's what that is?
[20:53] Una
    I did write that their body inflates,
    but I never imagined it would be that part.
[20:57] Shi
    That definitely made something throb...
[20:59] Shi
    Yeah, just hearing that made
     me feel a throb... in my nose.
[21:03] Shi
    God has spoken!
[21:05] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Hooded Seal
[21:09] Una
    Wait, that kind of throb is fine?
[21:12] God
    It's okay!
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[21:14] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[21:18] Shi
    They're so cute! From here they
    look like a normal seal family.
[21:22] Kim
    They are the fastest mammal to wean their young.
[21:25] Kim
    Seals breastfeed for a whopping four days!
[21:27] Shi
    So short!
[21:28] Kim
    The males look normal at first glance, too,
[21:30] Kim
    but when they want to appear stronger,
     they do this!
[21:33] Shi
    It's black!
[21:34] Shi
    What part of the nose is inflating
    to become this black balloon?
[21:39] Kim
    That's the skin above the nose.
[21:41] Kim
    They battle with its size and
    the sound of inflating it.
[21:43] Kim
    If the opponent doesn't back
    down with this... they do this!
[21:47] Shi
    It's red! Doesn't that hurt?
[21:50] Kim
    It doesn't hurt! "This redness
    is my determination."
[21:54] Kim
    "Do you have what it takes to do this?"
[21:57] Kim
    "If you can't, I'll let
    you off easy. Get out of here."
[22:00] Kim
    All that is what it means!
[22:02] Shi
    Where does that red balloon come from?
[22:05] Shi
    Oh, it's from the nostril, right?
[22:07] Kim
    Yeah, because that's a nasal membrane.
[22:10] Shi
    By the way, where is your voice coming from?
SIGN    Next on the Agenda

E9 - Idea 9
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SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[01:31] God
    This order is for...
[01:33] God
    "An animal that tickles
    one's maternal instincts."
[01:37] God
    Cheers!
[01:40] Shi
    A-All right, understood!
[01:43] Shi
    So that's the word.
[01:44] Kan
    Maternal instincts? So, basically an animal
    that makes you want to protect it?
[01:50] Kan
    It sounds fun, but I have
    my hands full right now.
[01:54] Una
    Aw, man. You could go all-out
    making a cute animal!
[01:58] Una
    But I'm also tied up in other work.
[02:02] Shi
    Ah, I see.
[02:05] Shi
    Then I'll go ask someone else.
[02:09] Kim
    I'm in the pursuit of the ultimate
    umami only crustaceans can possess,
[02:14] Kim
    but I'm still not satisfied.
[02:16] Shi
    I understand. Good luck.
[02:20] Shi
    Everybody's so busy.
[02:22] Shi
    Why does it always get busy when
     everybody's already working?
[02:25] Shi
    Is there no one who's free?
[02:27] Mei
    Yes! I'm free. I'll do it!
[02:31] Shi
    Oh... okay.
[02:33] Shi
    I have a bad feeling about this.
[02:35] Shi
    Of course the one who seems least-suited
    to this job is in charge of it now.
[02:40] Shi
    I wonder if this'll be okay.
[02:43] Kim
    But that doesn't sound like
    your area of expertise.
[02:47] Kim
    Want some help?
[02:48] Mei
    Hm, I think I'd like some advice.
[02:52] Kim
    All right! Make something super cute, okay?
[02:55] Mei
    Thank you! I'll do my best.
[02:58] Shi
    At first glance,
    all might seem harmonious,
[03:01] Shi
    but with these two together,
    I get an even worse feeling.
[03:05] Kan
    That's a team that shouldn't
    be allowed to talk about love.
[03:08] Una
    I'm afraid they'll design something
    where the children and parents eat each other.
[03:14] Mei
    "Tickles the maternal instincts," huh?
[03:18] Mei
    What kind of emotion does that evoke?
[03:22] Kim
    Must be love.
[03:24] Mei
    Love, huh?
[03:26] Mei
    Is what you're making right
    now a parent and its child?
[03:29] Kim
    No, that's not it.
[03:32] Kim
    This is a male imprisoning the female
    with his long legs so she can't get away.
[03:37] Kim
    I mean, the ocean is vast, right?
[03:40] Kim
    The chance of meeting a good
    female at the right time is low.
[03:42] Kim
    That's why he imprisons her in his legs
    so other males can't take her away,
[03:47] Kim
    and waits until it's time for mating.
[03:50] Crab
    You're a caged bird.
[03:54] Crab
    But did I really capture you?
[03:57] Crab
    Perhaps you have captured me.
[04:00] Shi
    Uh...
[04:01] Mei
    So love is imprisonment.
[04:04] Una
    Imprison...
[04:06] Kan
    ...ment?
[04:07] Una
    W-Wait, what's this imprisonment
    you're talking about?
[04:11] Kan
    Pluto-chan, we'd like to help too,
    while we're taking a breather.
[04:16] Kan
    Imprisonment is good, but have you
    considered lovingly carrying the child?
[04:21] Una
    Yeah! That's right.
[04:23] Kan
    See, carrying is love!
[04:26] Mei
    But those twins... One of them
    will be left to die, right?
[04:32] Shi
    Wh-Why would you even think that?!
[04:35] Mei
    I mean, Neptune-san made the panda that way.
[04:38] Mei
    They give birth to two and
    keep the bigger one, right?
[04:42] Mei
    Two cubs are born, but one's just a backup.
[04:44] Una
    W-Well, I only set it up that
    way so they can survive!
[04:49] Mei
    Pandas' bodies having a
    hard time taking in nutrients.
[04:52] Shi
    It's just for rare emergencies, right?
[04:55] Mei
    Down on Earth, the chances of that
    emergency happening are quite high.
[04:59] Una
    Listen, Pluto-chan...
[05:01] Una
    Bears actually have the ability
    to control when they give birth.
[05:06] Una
    After mating with a male, the female
    can put the pregnancy on hold.
SIGN    A Bear's Life Theater
[05:11] Bear1
    I love you!
[05:12] Bear2
    I love you!
[05:13] Bear1
    Mwah!
[05:14] Bear1
    All right, take care of the kids!
[05:16] Bear2
    See ya.
[05:18] Una
    If she didn't put it on hold
    and gave birth right away,
[05:21] Una
    it would get colder and colder...
[05:22] Bear2
    There's no food, and it's
    only getting colder.
[05:25] Bear2
    We can't do this!
[05:27] Una
    But if she puts the pregnancy
    and birth on hold...
[05:30] Bear2
    Heck yeah, it's spring!
    Your mom's gonna do this!
[05:34] Una
    So if conditions aren't difficult for the panda,
[05:38] Una
    she will properly raise both cubs.
[05:42] Kim
    But those two cubs are from
    different fathers, right?
[05:45] Shi
    She's seeing two guys?
[05:47] Kim
    With that ability, she can see
     different males at different times,
[05:52] Kim
    but give birth all in one go.
[05:55] Una
    It may not be the product of devoted
    love between one male and one female,
[05:59] Una
    but this is a strategy devised to
    survive the harsh reality of nature.
[06:03] Una
    The hope is that by raising different
    types of cubs, at least one will make it.
[06:08] Mei
    That was really helpful.
[06:10] Shi
    I have a bad feeling about this!
[06:11] Una
    Wait! What part of that
    did you find helpful?
[06:15] Una
    Forget the second half! Hugging!
[06:17] Una
    Hugging is what love between
    parents and children is!
[06:20] Kan
    R-Right! Love between parents and children!
[06:23] Kan
    That's right! And the father!
    The father's love is important, too!
[06:28] Mei
    The father?
[06:29] Kan
    Yes! The father!
[06:31] Kan
    It's called maternal instinct,
[06:33] Kan
    but the love of a parent isn't
    limited to the mother, right?
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    Sparrow
[06:37] Kan
    There are a lot of animals
    where the father rears the child.
[06:40] Kan
    For instance, take a look at this sparrow.
[06:43] Shi
    That's so cute! They take
    turns feeding the chick.
[06:47] Kan
    The father takes part in
    rearing the child, too.
[06:50] Kan
    Isn't that wonderful? They're cooperating.
[06:52] Kan
    These babies also share
    food with their flock.
[06:56] Kan
    Watch this.
[06:58] Bird
    Wow, so much food.
[07:00] Bird
    I have to tell everyone
    about this. Everybody!
[07:03] Birds
    Yay, food! Food!
[07:06] Shi
    Oh, you're right.
[07:07] Shi
    They're all eating together.
[07:10] ---
    See?
[07:11] Kim
    Hm...
[07:13] Kim
    Are they really cooperating?
[07:17] Kim
    If they were truly cooperating,
[07:19] Kim
    they should be calling their friends even
    if there was just enough food for one bird.
[07:23] Bird
    Yay, food! But just a little.
[07:31] Shi
    It's not calling its friends, huh?
[07:33] Kim
    It's actually hogging the food.
[07:35] Kim
    Isn't it bad to keep secrets amongst friends?
[07:38] Kim
    But it's not like we're making
    these animals to be morally pure.
[07:44] Bir
    The jig's up! Oh, well. All that
    matters is my survival!
[07:48] Kan
    O-Oh, fine.
[07:49] Kan
    The reason they're calling their friends
    is not just for sharing the food.
[07:54] Kan
    The chance of being attacked
    by a predator is lower
[07:57] Kan
    when they're eating together
    than when they eat alone!
[08:02] Kim
    The "Ate My Money Away" Detective
    sees through all smoke and mirrors!
[08:05] Kan
    You're still doing that bit?
[08:08] Mei
    That was really helpful.
[08:09] Kan
    Wait! What part of that
    did you find helpful?
[08:13] Kan
    Forget the second half!
[08:14] Kan
    Remember parental love in the form of
    the father also raising the child!
[08:17] Kan
    Please use that as inspiration!
SIGN    A Few Hours Later
[08:23] Mei
    All right, here's my presentation.
[08:26] Shi
    I wonder what she made.
    I'm a little excited, and a little scared...
[08:31] Kan
    Huh, where are Jupiter and Neptune-san?
[08:34] Mei
    Jupiter-san was shouting, "It's not the
    big crab's fault that it tastes bad!"
[08:39] Mei
    "It's the cooking method's fault!"
[08:42] Mei
    Then he went off to Galapagos to put the whole
    crab into a pot without cutting it up.
[08:47] Kan
    That guy...
[08:48] Shi
    So he's making pots instead of animals.
[08:52] Mei
    Neptune-san also went to
    Galapagos to test his bear.
[08:57] Mei
    But since you're here,
    I'll do my presentation anyway.
[09:00] Shi
    Yes.
[09:02] Mei
    First, the visual:
[09:03] Mei
    Round and fluffy.
[09:06] Mei
    Not good?
[09:07] Shi
    N-No, it was just unexpected!
[09:10] Kan
    Don't mind us. Please, continue.
[09:13] Mei
    The father will lovingly carry this.
[09:17] Shi
    Th-This is unexpected.
    Carrying something fluffy!
[09:21] Kan
    Could this lead to the golden
    standard of cuteness?
[09:25] Kan
    So that fluffy thing is the child?
[09:27] Mei
    No.
[09:29] Mei
    This white bag is a parasite's egg!
[09:35] Mei
    The main body has the ability to burrow into
    the host's body, like the root of a plant.
[09:40] Mei
    Then it invades the host's nervous system,
[09:42] Mei
    and makes it think that the
    fluffy thing is its own child.
[09:45] Mei
    The host will hug this bag to its chest,
    and protect "its child" for the parasite.
[09:52] Mei
    Oh, and if a male is infested, a hormonal
     imbalance will feminize the host.
SIGN    I am your mother!
[09:58] Ued
    That's so wonderful.
[10:00] Mei
    This is "the animal that tickles
    the maternal instincts"!
[10:04] Shi
    God has spoken!
[10:05] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Rhizocephala
SIGN    Main Body
SIGN    Egg
SIGN    Package Deal!
SIGN    Accepted
[10:07] Mei
    Yay!
[10:08] Kan
    It already passed?
[10:11] Kan
    You haven't even said what it parasitizes.
[10:14] Mei
    Oh, that's true.
[10:15] Mei
    Since you helped me, I'll have
    it infest something you made.
[10:19] Kan
    Wait!
[10:21] Kan
    It wouldn't be right for me
    to have the honor alone!
[10:23] Kan
    I-I know!
[10:28] Una
    So you called us all together...
[10:31] Kim
    ...because more candidates means a lower
    chance that your creation will be picked.
[10:35] Kim
    Just like when the sparrows
    eat food together.
[10:38] Kan
    I just couldn't stay calm!
[10:41] Mei
    This is hard.
[10:42] Mei
    I want it to be lovingly held,
[10:46] Mei
    so I'll go for the crab, since it
     has so many arms to hug with!
[10:49] Una
    Thank you!
[10:50] Kan
    I'm safe!
[10:52] Ued
    Congratulations, Jupiter-kun.
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[10:55] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[10:59] Kim
    So the crab thinks this
    fluffy thing on its abdomen
[11:02] Kim
    is its own egg sac, and it's
    guarding it vigilantly.
[11:06] Mei
    But those are really the eggs of the
    Rhizocephala parasite.
[11:09] Kim
    I wonder how the crab feels about that.
[11:12] Mei
    Not sure, but infested crabs have long lives.
[11:16] Mei
    That's because they don't use energy for
    reproduction and take care of themselves instead.
[11:20] Kim
    So it's not all that bad, then.
[11:22] Kim
    What are Rhizocephala anyway? Insects?
[11:26] Mei
    No, they're crustaceans.
[11:28] Kim
    Crustaceans? So, relatives of the crab?
[11:31] Kim
    Is a crab hitching a ride on a crab, then?
[11:34] Kim
    That means the eggs might be tasty.
SIGN    Tasting. . .
[11:41] Kim
    Tastes a bit like urchin. I might like this.
[11:45] Mei
    I like Rhizocephala, too.
    We're the same, Jupiter-san.
SIGN    WHICH ONE WILL BE ACCEPTED?
SIGN    The
[11:56] Shi
    Which One Will Be Accepted? The Show!
[12:04] Shi
    Welcome, everyone!
[12:05] Shi
    It's time for Which One 
    Will Be Accepted? The Show!
[12:08] Shi
    Today's request is for "a bird
    that lives on an island of ice"!
[12:12] Shi
    Here, our Heaven's Design Team is
    about to have a presentation battle!
[12:17] Shi
    Our commentators will be Venus-san, with
    her motto, "To design is to create beauty..."
SIGN    Venus
SIGN    Commentators
[12:22] Shi
    And Saturn-san, who says,
    "Horses are the best!"
SIGN    Saturn
[12:24] Shi
    Can I have a word from
    you two about today's battle?
[12:27] Kan
    The best way to counteract
    the cold is to put on fat.
[12:31] Kan
    I believe the contestants will
    make fat, flightless birds.
[12:35] Tsu
    If it's an island of ice,
    there won't be many enemies,
[12:37] Tsu
    so being flightless should be fine.
[12:39] Shi
    I see! That's an excellent prediction!
[12:41] Shi
    All right then, contestants,
[12:43] Shi
    please do your best
    in the presentation battle!
[12:46] Una
    Um, I'm looking forward to
    making a cute roundie.
SIGN    Neptune
SIGN    Jupiter
[12:50] Kim
    I will do everything I can to keep
    it from being round and cute.
[12:55] Shi
    And the battle is on!
SIGN    JUPITER
SIGN    NEPTUNE
[12:59] Txt
    Question
SIGN    What's the ideal amphibious body
     for living on an island of ice!?
[13:00] Shi
    Question 1!
[13:01] Shi
    What's the ideal amphibious body
    for living on an island of ice?
[13:04] Tsu
    I'm surprised Shimoda-kun's so enthusiastic.
[13:07] Kan
    Speaking of, apparently he knows
    quite a bit about rap, too.
[13:11] Una
    This is mine.
[13:14] Kim
    Then this is mine.
[13:16] Shi
    Oh, they both look the
    same... Wait a minute.
[13:23] Shi
    Those legs are so long!
[13:25] Shi
    Their coloring is the same,
    but now we have both leg extremes!
[13:30] Shi
    What do you say, Venus-san?
[13:32] Kan
    As expected, both of them are good.
[13:33] Shi
    Did you hear this? High praise!
[13:36] Kan
    For the fish, this coloring
    is the hardest to spot.
[13:40] Fish
    Since it's dark in the deep,
    black is hard to see.
[13:43] Fish
    Since the surface is blinding,
    white's also hard to see.
[13:45] Tsu
    This reminds me of Pluto-kun's squid.
[13:49] Shi
    Indeed, this is like the
    smokescreen of light!
[13:51] Shi
    Then let's switch over to
    Mars-san and get her judgment.
[13:54] Shi
    Mars-san, are you ready?
[13:57] Hig
    Yes, I'm here.
[13:58] Hig
    Hello, I'm currently on Galapagos.
[14:01] Hig
    I've covered the island with ice,
    so we'll be testing the birds here.
[14:05] Hig
    Should I send you a visual?
[14:07] Shi
    All right, it looks like the battle
    will take place there!
[14:10] Shi
    Who will the goddess of
    victory favor this time?!
[14:14] Hig
    Uh, what's going on, here?
[14:17] Kan
    The presentation right before this
    one left a bit of bad taste in my mouth.
[14:21] Kan
    That's why Shimoda-kun suggested
    a light-hearted competition.
[14:24] Tsu
    From time to time, something like this is fine.
[14:28] Hig
    Uh... thank you for the explanation.
[14:31] Hig
    Well, whatever. I'll have the
    two birds go to the ocean now.
[14:34] Hig
    It'll be a race to see who
    can catch a fish faster!
[14:38] Shi
    Ready, set, go!
[14:43] Una
    You got this!
[14:44] Kim
    Nice!
[14:55] Kim
    All right, that's elegant!
[14:57] Shi
    Now, a question for the contestants.
[14:59] Shi
    How does your bird swim?
SIGN    Light! Weak!
[15:02] Una
    Its flaps its arms to propel itself forward.
SIGN    Heavy! Robust!
[15:04] Una
    Since it doesn't fly, I was able to
    make its bones thick and sturdy.
[15:08] Kan
    Did you forget how much trouble I went
    through to make the birdies light?!
[15:12] Kim
    Mine also kicks its legs!
[15:14] Shi
    Wow, that looks fast!
[15:17] Shi
    And they're already back!
[15:19] Shi
    Were they able to catch a fish?
[15:21] Shi
    Who reigned supreme?!
[15:23] Shi
    The difference is clear as day!
[15:28] Shi
    Team Neptune was able to secure a fish.
[15:31] Hig
    Looks like the one with the shorter
    legs is a better swimmer.
[15:35] Shi
    I thought the leg kick would
    make for a faster swimmer.
[15:38] Hig
    Actually, no. Kicking your legs
    increases your water resistance,
[15:43] Hig
    so that's more of a hindrance.
[15:46] Shi
    Down! Our usual trope is
    back with a vengeance!
[15:49] Shi
    Mars-san, what's the cause here?
[15:52] Hig
    Hypothermia.
[15:55] Shi
    The cold! Downed by the cold!
[15:58] Shi
    That's fatal in the coldest of seas!
[16:02] Hig
    Looks like the one with the long
    legs got cold in the ocean.
[16:06] Tsu
    With legs that long, it has
    a lot of exposed surface area.
[16:11] Hig
    The rounder an animal's body is,
    the smaller the area exposed to the elements.
[16:17] Hig
    You know how wolves do that, too?
[16:19] Shi
    Now that you mention it...
[16:20] Kim
    Hold up!
[16:22] Kim
    If that's true, the short-legged one shouldn't
     be able to stand on the ice for so long!
[16:27] Kim
    I had a reason for making the legs long.
SIGN    Chilled 
    by the ice
[16:30] Kim
    With the long legs, we can entwine
    cold veins with warm arteries,
SIGN    Entwined
     blood vessels
SIGN    Doesn't get cold
[16:34] Kim
    thereby equalizing the temperature.
SIGN    Chilled 
    by the ice
SIGN    Body gets cold
[16:37] Kim
    With short legs,
[16:38] Kim
    there's no room for
     the temperatures to equalize.
[16:41] Kim
    The cold blood goes straight into the body.
[16:44] Shi
    Oh, that sounds unpleasantly chilly!
[16:47] Shi
    So there was a reason for those long legs.
[16:50] Shi
    But this one doesn't look like it'll collapse.
[16:53] Shi
    Is its core not cold?
[16:56] Kim
    Why not?!
[16:56] Una
    Actually, that one has long legs, too.
[17:02] Una
    They're squatting inside their bodies.
[17:03] Una
    It's like doing a Slav squat,
    then pulling your jacket over your knees.
[17:07] Tsu
    To see Neptune-kun squat like that...
[17:10] Kan
    That's a rare sight.
[17:11] Shi
    Imagine that! Neptune-san also made
    the legs long to thwart the cold!
[17:17] Shi
    Neptune-san pulls ahead
    with the first point!
[17:21] Tsu
    Ah, that's what that is for.
[17:23] Kim
    I won't lose the next round!
[17:25] Shi
    Then let's get to the next question!
[17:27] Txt
    Question
SIGN    How do you ensure that the fish 
    don't get away?
[17:28] Shi
    How do you ensure that the fish don't get away?
[17:33] Una
    I made its beak big and jagged.
[17:37] Una
    That's so it can have a good grip
    on the fish while it swims.
[17:40] Shi
    I see!
[17:41] Shi
    On the other hand, Jupiter-san's
    bird doesn't look visibly changed.
[17:48] Kim
    Did that surprise you?
[17:49] Kan
    Hey! Can you not break the bounds
    of the bird category?
[17:53] Tsu
    Mars-kun, what's your verdict here?
[17:55] Hig
    Both of them have issues.
[17:58] Hig
    A bigger beak means that
    more heat escapes through it,
[18:01] Hig
    so it might get cold.
[18:04] Hig
    The problem with Jupiter-san's idea is that
    opening the mouth so wide lets heat escape, too.
[18:08] Hig
    Barbs on the tongue are a good idea, though,
[18:11] Hig
    They make it harder
    for fish to get away.
[18:13] Shi
    Jupiter-san's idea is accepted!
[18:15] Kim
    Yay!
[18:17] Kim
    All right, then let's make the tongue barbed.
[18:20] Shi
    Onto the next question, then!
[18:22] Txt
    Question
SIGN    Can it survive by drinking sea water?
[18:23] Shi
    Can it survive by drinking sea water?!
[18:27] Tsu
    Ven-chan, aren't there already a few
    coastal animals that have this ability?
[18:33] Kan
    There are quite a few animals
[18:35] Kan
    that filter out salt from the water
    and eject it through some body fluid.
[18:39] Una
    Then he'll dispose of it through tears.
[18:41] Kim
    No, through snot!
SIGN    Sea Gull Style
SIGN    Sea Turtle Style
[18:44] Shi
    I always felt bad for sea turtles because
    they're crying while laying their eggs.
[18:49] Kan
    They're just disposing of
    salt through their eyes.
[18:53] Shi
    I never knew.
[18:56] Shi
    Then over to you, Mars-san!
[18:58] Hig
    Right, tears versus snot. Let's take a look.
[19:06] Hig
    Oh, this one goes to snot.
[19:09] Hig
    Snot can be shaken off,
[19:11] Hig
    but the tears leave the
    face encrusted with salt.
[19:15] Shi
    That means Jupiter-san gets yet
    another point and is in the lead!
[19:22] Kan
    The sea turtle is almost always in
    the water, so the tears don't dry.
[19:27] Tsu
    Right.
[19:28] Txt
    Question
SIGN    The chick design!
[19:28] Shi
    Now, the next question is about the chick design!
[19:31] Una
    The chick needs to be cute!
[19:33] Kim
    The chick needs to be safe.
[19:35] Hig
    The thorns will keep both
    friend and foe away!
[19:40] Hig
    Since that prevents huddling
    to stay warm, that's rejected!
[19:42] Shi
    Neptune-san's fluffy one wins!
[19:45] Txt
    Question
SIGN    What's its secret for staying underwater
    for a long time?
[19:45] Shi
    Next question: What's its secret for
    staying underwater for a long time?
[19:49] Shi
    What will they do?!
[19:50] Una
    Breathe in a lot of air?
[19:52] Una
    No, that'll make it float...
[19:54] Kim
    Let's make it a poikilotherm,
    then lower the temperature of organs
[19:58] Kim
    not used underwater, to the point
     where it's half-dead.
[20:00] Hig
    That's good!
[20:02] Hig
    That'll lower its oxygen consumption.
[20:04] Tsu
    Being half-dead while
    swimming sure is novel.
[20:08] Kan
    That may be too novel to still be a bird.
[20:11] Shi
    The point goes to Jupiter-san!
[20:13] Txt
    Question
SIGN    How will the children recognize
     their parents
[20:13] Shi
    Next up: How will the children
    recognize their parents?
[20:16] Una
    The parent will talk to it before it hatches,
    letting the child learn its voice.
SIGN    I'm your dad
SIGN    Dad
[20:20] Kim
    Each face will have a different pattern.
[20:22] Hig
    You can't see a pattern in a snow storm.
[20:24] Hig
    Rejected.
[20:25] Shi
    That's a point for Neptune-san!
[20:27] Shi
    Neither of them are yielding,
    and we go into the final round with a tie!
[20:31] Shi
    The battle for the bird that lives on
    an icy island has become really heated!
[20:35] Shi
    Let's hear how our two
    contestants are feeling!
[20:39] Shi
    How is it going, Neptune-san?
[20:40] Una
    Um, this is harder than I thought.
     I'll do my best.
[20:44] Shi
    Jupiter-san, how about you?
[20:47] Kim
    A lot more passed than I expected.
[20:50] Kim
    I just did the opposite
    of Neptune-san's ideas.
[20:53] Shi
    Oh! That's brutally honest!
[20:58] Shi
    Now, let us move on to the final question!
SIGN    What if there's no food while raising the child
[20:58] Txt
    Question
[21:00] Shi
    What if there's no food while raising the child?
[21:03] Kan
    That's a key factor for surviving
    in extreme cold.
[21:07] Shi
    What are your answers?!
[21:09] Una
    The parents will fast!
[21:10] Shi
    Poor things!
[21:12] Kim
    The chicks will fast!
[21:13] Shi
    Poor things!
[21:16] Shi
    Mars-san, what is your judgment here?
[21:19] Hig
    That's really hard to say.
[21:21] Hig
    Since they're flightless,
    they can pack on body fat,
[21:25] Hig
    so their bodies are suited to fasting.
[21:27] Hig
    But which to pick?
[21:28] Shi
    Who...
[21:29] Shi
    Who will be the winner?!
[21:36] God
    Both are accepted!
SIGN    King Penguin
SIGN    Emperor Penguin
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Accepted
[21:41] Shi
    God has spoken!
[21:42] Hig
    Literally the Word of God!
[21:45] Shi
    Congratulations, Neptune-san, Jupiter-san!
[21:52] Shi
    Since both were accepted by God,
[21:54] Shi
    you're apparently free to add a
    quality of your own choosing.
[21:57] Una
    Then I'll make an alternate
    design for the chick.
[22:00] God
    That chick is accepted, too!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Emperor Penguin
     Chick
[22:04] Kim
    I'll, hmm... get rid of the round
    pupils and make them square.
SIGN    Accepted
[22:11] Shi
    That's kind of scary!
[22:12] Kim
    I'm so happy.
SIGN    Next on the Agenda

E10 - Idea 10
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[00:00] 213
    Wait! I said wait!
[00:02] 213
    It's dangerous outside!
[00:03] Guy
    I am still leaving this place!
[00:06] 213
    Why are you unhappy?
    It's perfectly safe here!
[00:09] Guy
    What is perfect here?
[00:11] Guy
    Here, we're controlled by the queen!
[00:14] Guy
    Or are you going to fight the queen with me?
[00:18] 213
    It's futile. Have you forgotten about #72?
[00:22] Guy
    See? That's brainwashing!
[00:24] Guy
    Listen, you be careful, too.
    Especially of the queen's—
[00:29] Guy
    Someone's coming.
[00:30] Guy
    This is my chance. I'm leaving.
[00:32] 213
    W-Wait!
[00:34] 213
    Don't go!
[00:37] Shi
    I walked into something really intense.
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[02:16] 213
    You have an unusual aura.
    Are you a traveler?
[02:19] Shi
    Uh, I guess so.
[02:21] 213
    I am sorry that you had to witness that.
[02:24] 213
    Welcome to our queendom.
[02:25] Shi
    Um, I feel like I shouldn't be here.
[02:28] Shi
    I interrupted you, didn't I?
[02:30] 213
    No, I welcome you warmly.
[02:32] 213
    This is a perfect society, a paradise
    ruled by our perfect queen.
[02:38] 213
    But sometimes there are people
    who defect, like him.
[02:42] 213
    Common folk with few opportunities
    for an audience with the queen
[02:46] 213
    lose their sense of reverence.
[02:48] 213
    It's sad.
[02:50] Shi
    Your queen must be amazing.
[02:53] 213
    Once you meet our queen, you will understand
    how wonderful and magnificent she is.
[02:57] 213
    If you would like, I can show you the way.
[03:03] 233
    Oh, #213!
[03:05] 248
    Who's that with you?
[03:07] 233
    Is that a traveler?!
[03:08] 316
    He doesn't smell like the swarm, and he's
    wearing black, so he must be a traveler!
[03:12] 316
    How cool!
[03:14] Shi
    H-Hello.
[03:15] 213
    Calm down, you lot. You can see that
    you're bothering him.
[03:18] 213
    Get back to work.
[03:20] 248
    All right.
[03:21] 233
    Oh, #213. There's a message
    saying that new food was discovered.
[03:27] 233
    So tunnel #46, which was being expanded,
     is now a food store.
[03:30] 213
    I see. That's good news.
[03:33] 213
    I was just thinking that we
    should treat our guest properly.
[03:36] 213
    I'll go there now. Thank you.
[03:39] 233
    Goodbye, traveler!
[03:51] Shi
    It's so big.
[03:53] Shi
    I could easily get lost here.
[03:55] 213
    Esteemed guest, what number
    did you have in your land?
[03:59] Shi
    You mean my name?
[04:01] Shi
    I don't have a number.
    My name is Shimoda.
[04:03] 213
    "Shimoda"? I see, your land uses
    different names than ours.
[04:08] Shi
    Anyway, everybody here looks quite similar.
[04:12] Shi
    It's hard to tell the girls and the boys apart.
[04:15] 213
    There is no such a distinction.
[04:16] 213
    Unlike the queen and her few husbands,
[04:18] 213
    we workers not sexually developed
    and are all equal.
[04:21] Shi
    That's interesting. So if all
    the workers are young people,
[04:25] Shi
    what do the elderly do?
[04:27] 213
    "Elderly"? What... is that?
[04:31] Shi
    Uh, um, like when you live long and get old?
[04:35] 213
    Oh, I've heard of that! But we don't age.
[04:41] 213
    In this perfect society,
    there's no such thing as growing old.
[04:44] 213
    We don't get cancer, either.
[04:45] Shi
    No cancer? That's amazing!
[04:47] 213
    While only our queen can have children,
[04:50] 213
    we are all more similar than mere siblings,
     and thus look nearly identical.
[04:54] 213
    Instead of clinging to individual happiness,
[04:56] 213
    we prioritize the happiness
    of the entire land.
[04:59] 213
    That's how we do things.
[05:01] Shi
    This really could be a perfect society.
[05:04] 213
    This is the food store.
[05:06] Shi
    Here? There's nothing here.
[05:12] Shi
    Wait, am I the food?!
[05:24] 213
    Is something wrong, Shimoda-dono?
[05:26] 213
    Please, have some potato.
[05:28] Shi
    P-P-Potato?
[05:30] 213
    Yes, everything that's a
    different color is potato.
[05:33] 213
    Since this is a giant underground queendom,
[05:36] 213
    we dig our tunnels into potatoes
    and use them as food.
[05:39] Shi
    So it's an edible tunnel.
[05:42] 213
    As yesterday's potato was a clustering type,
SIGN    View of the Entire Queendom
[05:45] 213
    I thought that digging around the
    vicinity would lead to more of them.
[05:49] 213
    Fill the holes with dirt after you eat.
[05:51] 213
    That way it will regenerate,
    and we'll have more to eat.
[05:55] Bob
    All right!
[05:57] Shi
    You're so knowledgeable.
[06:00] 213
    No, I just pass on what
    I learned from #72.
[06:03] Shi
    #72?
[06:05] 213
    Yes, this is #72's notebook.
[06:09] 213
    Prior to me, #72 was
    the one responsible
[06:12] 213
    for developing the remote regions.
[06:15] 213
    I learned how to distinguish different
    types of potato, how to cultivate them,
[06:18] 213
    and many other things
    by reading this notebook.
[06:21] 213
    But at the end...
[06:23] 213
    There was a sentence that read:
    "I am thinking of defying the queen."
[06:27] Shi
    Eek! Where's that person now?
[06:30] 213
    The bloodstains tell the tale.
[06:32] 213
    Those who rebel against
    the queen are killed.
[06:35] 213
    Foolish #72... Why did
    you ever think to do that?
[06:40] Que
    Let it be.
[06:41] Que
    There's no point in wondering
    about things like that.
[06:45] 213
    My queen!
[06:47] 213
    I am honored that you
    would come out this far!
[06:51] Que
    It's only natural for a queen
    to survey all of her queendom.
[06:55] Que
    Although, it would be a little troublesome
    if the queendom spread too far.
[07:00] Que
    Developer #213, it's been awhile.
[07:04] Que
    If you are too devoted to your work,
     I cannot give you this.
[07:14] 213
    What an honor, to receive this
    directly from Her Highness's hand!
[07:18] Que
    Do visit sometimes, and don't go
    overboard with development.
[07:23] 213
    You are too kind to me.
[07:25] Que
    Are you a traveler?
[07:27] Shi
    Y-Yes!
[07:28] Que
    We rarely get guests.
[07:30] Que
    Do take in everything our land has to offer.
[07:37] Que
    Your queen is so elegant!
[07:39] 213
    Isn't she? Our queen was not born a queen.
[07:44] 213
    The strongest, most diligent
    worker becomes the queen.
[07:48] Shi
    Oh, so it's not hereditary succession,
    but a merit-based society.
[07:53] 213
    Yes, and she's always looking
    out for our health.
[07:57] 213
    This is a health supplement.
[07:59] 213
    I am so grateful.
[08:00] Shi
    Wow.
[08:02] 213
    If you would like, you can have this.
[08:03] 213
    I can get another one later.
[08:05] Shi
    Oh, thank you.
[08:09] 213
    I will show you the nursery next.
[08:12] Shi
    Sure!
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[08:18] Shi
    Wh-Why are they laying under the babies?
[08:21] 213
    Their duty is being the bed.
[08:23] Shi
    Being the bed?!
[08:24] Shi
    There are about three people
    stacked up for each bed.
[08:27] Shi
    Isn't that a lot of weight for
    the ones on the bottom?
[08:29] Shi
    Can they breathe?
[08:30] 213
    Probably not.
[08:33] 213
    But as we are perfect, we are
    fairly fine even without oxygen.
[08:37] Shi
    Fairly...
[08:38] Shi
    Is that perfection, though?
[08:41] Shi
    Please hang in there!
[08:43] 213
    Our queendom is underground, after all,
[08:45] 213
    so there's not a lot of oxygen—
[08:47] Shi
    Wh-What's that?!
[08:49] 213
    We're under attack.
[08:50] Shi
    What? Oh, no!
[08:53] 213
    Those are my siblings who are
    assigned to guard duty.
[08:56] 213
    We can just leave it to them,
     and we'll be fine.
[08:58] Shi
    The guards must be strong, then.
[09:00] 213
    No.
[09:01] 213
    They're just going to block the entrance,
    so they'll be eaten by the enemy first.
[09:06] Shi
    There's such a terrifying role?!
[09:09] 213
    As perfect beings, we don't feel much pain,
[09:13] 213
    so if I were assigned to the guard class,
     I would go to be eaten.
[09:17] Shi
    That's terrible!
[09:18] Shi
    Are the classes that absolute?!
[09:20] Shi
    Even though you said becoming
    queen is based on merit?
[09:23] Shi
    Which means, in this land, someone
     like you could become queen as well!
[09:28] 213
    I-I've never... That's... No...
[09:32] Guy
    See? That's brainwashing!
    Listen, you be careful, too.
[09:34] Guy
    Especially of the queen's—
[09:35] 213
    That must be it.
[09:36] 213
    Why did I never think of that?
[09:39] 213
    All I cared about was being loyal.
[09:42] 213
    Is this brainwashing?
[09:44] Que
    So you noticed.
[09:47] Que
    I gave you a supplement.
[09:50] Que
    Did you not take it?
[09:53] 213
    I get it!
[09:54] 213
    You were making us take that
    supplement at every opportunity.
[09:57] 213
    That's what you used to brainwash us.
[09:59] 213
    Since he worked in the far reaches,
     he rarely saw you.
[10:02] 213
    Thus the effect on him wore off,
     and he left the queendom.
[10:05] Que
    Clever child. I've been
    waiting for this moment.
[10:14] 213
    I will defeat you and become queen!
[10:19] 213
    I won't be controlled by you anymore!
[10:38] 213
    #72?
[10:40] 213
    Why do you have that number?!
[10:43] 213
    No... it can't be!
[10:47] 213
    #72!
[10:50] Que
    I'll leave the rest to you, #213.
[10:55] 213
    #72!
[11:01] Shi
    I feel like I saw something
    I shouldn't have.
[11:04] Mei
    Welcome back, Shimoda-kun.
[11:06] Mei
    How did you like the "animals that
    create the perfect society"?
[11:10] Shi
    Well, it was perfect in many ways.
[11:13] Mei
    Yay!
[11:15] Hig
    What did you think of the new system?
[11:17] Hig
    I designed it so you can
    experience the animals' society
[11:20] Hig
    from the viewpoint of someone in it.
[11:22] Shi
    The immersion was so deep that I'm
    exhausted, but it felt hyper realistic.
[11:27] Hig
    That's great.
[11:29] Hig
    You can see the inside of nests
     that you normally couldn't,
[11:31] Hig
    or understand the animals' social structure.
[11:35] Shi
    Um, since I was seeing things
    from the animals' perspective,
[11:38] Shi
    everybody looked roughly like me,
[11:41] Shi
    but in reality they look different, right?
[11:43] Mei
    Their true size and appearance is this!
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          Her Husbands
    Occasional Defector
          Guards (Cannon Fodder)
           Bed Duty      Workers
[11:48] Mei
    Aren't they so smooth and cute?
[11:50] Shi
    Yes... So what's their enemy?
[11:54] Mei
    Snakes! But it's fine, because they
    seal the entrance to the nest
[11:57] Mei
    while their friends are being eaten!
[12:00] Shi
    God has spoken!
[12:02] God
    Accepted!
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[12:06] Mei
    Yay, it's done!
[12:08] Hig
    Let's go have a drink.
[12:09] Mei
    Yeah, time to drink!
[12:12] Shi
    Um, Pluto-san...
[12:14] Shi
    About this... What's in the queen's
    brainwashing supplement?
[12:19] Mei
    The queen's poop!
[12:21] Shi
    I'm so glad I didn't take it!
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[12:24] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[12:29] Ued
    Why are they naked?
[12:31] Tsu
    Since they live in the warm soil,
     they don't need fur.
[12:35] Tsu
    Without fur, they are less
    susceptible to parasites.
[12:37] Tsu
    Their ears do have hair,
    so that dirt doesn't get in.
[12:42] Ued
    Huh? Ears? Where are they?
[12:44] Tsu
    Right here.
[12:45] Tsu
    They don't have earlobes, as they
    could get caught in the tunnels.
[12:49] Ued
    Oh, so earlobes stick out too far?
[12:52] Ued
    That means the queen's tummy would get
    stuck in the tunnels when she's pregnant, too.
[12:56] Tsu
    Correct! That's why the queen actually
    gets longer when she's pregnant.
[13:01] Tsu
    Being longer is not such a
    detriment in a tight space.
[13:04] Tsu
    She goes to that length
    to continue her patrols.
[13:07] Ued
    I thought she would at least
     rest when she's pregnant.
[13:09] Tsu
    Being queen doesn't sound too easy.
[13:13] Ued
    The more I hear of her hardships, the more
    I want to go have a drink with her once.
[13:25] Shi
    Maybe I went overboard and made too much.
[13:28] Shi
    I hope they'll like my gift
    of angel bean paste buns.
[13:35] Shi
    Right! I have God's new order here, too!
[13:40] Shi
    Hel...oh?!
[13:42] Tsu
    The time has come!
[13:44] Tsu
    O beast, darker than night,
     heed my call!
[13:48] Tsu
    Darkness, accept my life as payment.
[13:52] Tsu
    Now, with my blood,
    this contract shall be sealed!
[13:56] Shi
    You have to stop!
[13:56] Tsu
    Hey, watch out!
[13:58] Tsu
    What's wrong? Is there an
    issue with this delivery?!
[14:01] Shi
    Delivery? You were in the
    middle of a delivery?
[14:05] Tsu
    Yes. See what you interrupting did?
[14:09] Tsu
    He got stuck mid-transfer!
[14:12] Shi
    It's like a fax transmission error,
     but it's a huge demon.
[14:16] Shi
    I am so sorry! It looked really bad,
    so I thought you were in danger.
[14:21] Tsu
    Oh, it scared you, and you're
    an angel! Well done, me.
[14:25] Shi
    This was your work, Chief Saturn?
[14:29] Tsu
    Yes, I got an order from
    Hell for a familiar.
[14:32] Shi
    Oh, from Yokota-san.
[14:34] Tsu
    The order was for an "animal that can
    communicate without using sound."
[14:39] Tsu
    So I made a creature that is able to
    receive and send pheromones through the air.
[14:43] Tsu
    The male goat can secrete volatile
    pheromones from its fur.
[14:47] Shi
    Huh, pheromone communication, is it?
[14:50] Tsu
    Those horns are antennae
    for receiving pheromones.
[14:53] Shi
    Th-They move.
[14:55] Ins
    Yes! They are antennae, after all.
[14:57] Shi
    You're from the insect department.
[14:58] Tsu
    The insect department has a lot of
    pheromone expertise, so I asked them for help.
[15:03] Ins
    The magic circle is the address,
    and the blood is the password!
[15:07] Ins
    Unlike us, raw tissue can't be
    transported with lightning.
[15:11] Shi
    Ah, right.
[15:12] Kan
    Hm, it doesn't look like
    we can dislodge it easily.
[15:17] Miz
    What are we going to do?
[15:19] Mei
    What's this?
[15:20] Shi
    Oh, I brought those
     bean paste buns as a gift.
[15:22] Tsu
    Thank you! I love bean paste buns.
     Let's take a break.
[15:26] Ins
    Am I invited as well?
[15:28] Tsu
    Of course.
[15:29] All
    Thank you!
[15:33] Una
    It's filled with white bean paste!
[15:36] Kim
    So angels fill their buns
    with white bean paste.
[15:39] Tsu
    I always thought that
    bean paste buns went best with milk,
[15:41] Tsu
    but these would go well
    with green tea, too.
[15:43] Shi
    I also brought this new order.
[15:47] Kna
    Aw, we're on break.
[15:49] Kna
    Let me see what the client ordered now.
[15:53] God
    An animal that rejuvenates!
[15:57] Kan
    Another one that sounds annoying.
[16:00] Shi
    Um, I guess freeing animals from
    the curse of aging is difficult?
[16:05] Una
    Aging is not a curse.
[16:07] Miz
    If anything, it's a blessing.
[16:10] Shi
    Yesterday, I saw an animal that
    doesn't age for the first time.
[16:14] Shi
    I always thought that animals had to age.
[16:18] Tsu
    There are no curses in life.
[16:21] Tsu
    Rather, every living thing is only made up
    of blessings that allow it to survive.
[16:25] Tsu
    Well, I suppose a little bit of our
    personal tastes are in there, too.
[16:30] All
    A little?
[16:31] Tsu
    Aging is one method to ensure
    the survival of the species.
[16:35] Tsu
    It's only used by many animals
    because it's so effective.
[16:39] Kim
    Besides, there are a lot
    of animals that don't age.
[16:42] Shi
    Oh, really?
[16:44] Kim
    For instance, the urchin.
[16:46] Kim
    This guy's lived for 200 years,
    but he's still healthy.
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[16:48] Kim
    And the lobster!
    This guy doesn't age, either.
[16:51] Kim
    And he has no set lifespan.
    He just gets bigger as the years go by.
[16:55] Shi
    Won't they multiply wildly, then?
[16:58] Kim
    Don't worry! I made them tasty!
[17:00] Kim
    They get eaten all the time!
[17:01] Shi
    I still don't quite get what's
    so good about aging, then.
[17:06] Tsu
    Ah, well, let's get Mars-san,
    and then we'll explain it.
[17:10] Hig
    Here you go. This is a time
    accelerator for creatures.
[17:15] Tsu
    Then let's use this garden
    box to see it for ourselves.
[17:18] Tsu
    The animals that get the light from the time
    accelerator are the ones that will age.
[17:22] Tsu
    By the way, these are dots
     we use in simulations.
[17:26] Tsu
    They're called simudots.
SIGN    Simudots
[17:28] Shi
    Dots.
[17:29] Una
    So cute!
[17:31] Tsu
    Then let's observe the aging ones first.
[17:37] Shi
    They're having kids and
    increasing in numbers.
[17:40] Tsu
    See, there are also dots that age,
     get frail, and collapse.
[17:45] Shi
    Huh? A new blue square is
    chasing down the frail dot.
[17:51] Tsu
    Oh, that's their natural enemy, the square!
[17:54] Tsu
    It eats the weak dots first.
[17:56] Shi
    They're so cute, but it's a tough world.
[17:59] Tsu
    Let's observe the ones that don't age next.
[18:03] Tsu
    The ones that don't age keep
    increasing in number.
[18:06] Tsu
    It looks like their natural enemy
    can't really touch the big dots.
[18:11] Shi
    Oh, but the small ones are being
    eaten by the natural enemy.
[18:14] Shi
    Ah, over here, too!
[18:16] Mei
    The natural enemy will attack
    the weak ones first.
[18:18] Mei
    If they don't age, only the children will die,
     and generational change can't happen.
[18:22] Shi
    But...
[18:23] Mei
    What do you think will happen if
    there's no generational change?
SIGN    Collapse
[18:28] Shi
    They all died!
[18:30] Tsu
    That was a disease. Without generational
    change, there's less diversity.
SIGN    Diversity
[18:35] Tsu
    That leads to insufficient resilience
    against disease, and the population collapses.
[18:39] Shi
    Diversity?
[18:40] Tsu
    Imagine there is a lock that
    protects the body from a disease.
SIGN    1st Generation
SIGN    2nd Generation
[18:44] Tsu
    As there are more children,
    there are more varieties of keyhole.
SIGN    3rd Generation
[18:47] Tsu
    That is diversity.
[18:49] Tsu
    What do you think happens when a virus
    manages to open someone's lock?
[18:55] Shi
    All the same locks will also be affected.
SIGN    1st Generation
SIGN    2nd Generation
SIGN    3rd Generation
[18:58] Shi
    Oh, that's why all the
    simudots died off at once!
[19:01] Tsu
    Correct. With few natural
    enemies and no set life span,
[19:05] Tsu
    there's insufficient diversity,
    and you're headed for extinction.
[19:08] Mei
    With the rats you saw,
    only the queen gives birth,
[19:12] Mei
    so there is no risk of
    overpopulation or starvation.
[19:14] Mei
    They're also really resistant to disease
[19:15] Mei
    so they don't go extinct
    even though they don't age.
[19:19] Shi
    I thought not aging would
    be a good thing.
[19:23] Shi
    But it's like inviting extinction in.
[19:25] Shi
    Ah, that new order, the one for
    the "rejuvenating animal"...
[19:29] Shi
    Isn't rejuvenation also a path
    headed straight for extinction?!
[19:32] Hig
    Well, I think we'll see when we try it out.
[19:36] Tsu
    This is a good opportunity.
    Let's just use that, too.
[19:38] Tsu
    You can produce rejuvenation with that
    device if you flip it over, right?
[19:42] Hig
    I don't really recommend resetting
    something that's already developed.
[19:47] Tsu
    Okay, let's try it with the mini horse.
[19:50] Tsu
    First, we reset the cell divisions.
[19:56] Shi
    The horse turned into
    something like bread dough.
[19:58] Tsu
    Here it gets interesting!
[20:00] Tsu
    Come on, turn into a horse again!
[20:03] Tsu
    That's it!
[20:04] Tsu
    You got it!
[20:05] Tsu
    You can do—
[20:07] Kan
    That's a jellyfish.
[20:08] Miz
    Yep, a jellyfish.
[20:11] Hig
    See, I told you.
[20:12] Hig
    If you reset a high-level life form,
[20:14] Hig
    there's no guarantee that it can
    get back to where it started.
[20:17] Hig
    The cells have become too specialized.
[20:19] Hig
    Maybe it helps if you imagine a veteran
    doctor going back to being a baby.
[20:22] Hig
    There's no guarantee that that
    baby will become a doctor again.
[20:25] Shi
    I see.
[20:27] Tsu
    Fine, then it can just
    start out as a jellyfish.
[20:31] Kan
    Good point. Their construction is simple,
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SIGN    Baby Jellyfish
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    and Become Children
SIGN    Death
[20:34] Kan
    and they already have metamorphosis ability.
[20:36] Miz
    If we loop this part, couldn't it
    eternally rejuvenate as it ages?
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[20:41] Tsu
    The jellyfish has many natural enemies,
    so it can't multiply too much, either.
[20:45] Shi
    God has spoken!
[20:47] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Immortal
     Jellyfish
[20:50] Both
    Yes!
[20:51] Both
    We got it done right away!
[20:52] Shi
    All right, I'll go do the
    delivery for this now.
[20:56] Kim
    Could we use this to reverse the demon lord
    back to a time when he wasn't stuck yet?
[21:01] Tsu
    I totally forgot about that.
    Yeah, let's try that!
[21:06] Tsu
    Heave-ho! Hm, he's not budging.
[21:13] Kim
    Maybe he's stuck. Let's maximize the output.
[21:17] Hig
    Hey, don't touch that!
[21:30] Shi
    Wh-What just happened?
[21:35] Shi
    Are you all right?!
[21:36] Shi
    Please be okay!
[21:40] Shi
    Who?!
[21:41] Tsu
    Huh? What are you talking
    about, Shimoda-kun?
[21:43] Tsu
    It's me. Well, that was a shock.
[21:47] Shi
    That mannerism... Are you Saturn-san?
[21:50] Shi
    You became young?
[21:52] Tsu
    Huh?
[21:53] Tsu
    What?
[21:54] Shi
    Does that mean the others did, too?
[21:58] Shi
    They're not here. Why?
[22:02] Tsu
    Oh, no, Shimoda-kun! The door that
    leads to Galapagos is open.
[22:07] Tsu
    The blast might have blown
    everyone to Galapagos.
[22:11] Shi
    What?!
SIGN    Next on the Agenda

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[00:01] Shi
    That mannerism... Are you Saturn-san?
[00:04] Shi
    You became young?
[00:05] ---
    Huh? What?
[00:07] Tsu
    The blast might have blown
    everyone to Galapagos.
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[01:45] Shi
    Everyone, are you okay?!
[01:53] Shi
    Mars-san and the person from the
    insect department are kids!
[01:56] Tsu
    So small!
[01:58] Hig
    It looks like we got younger when
    the time accelerator exploded.
[02:02] Shi
    Did the same thing happen
    to the others, too?
[02:04] Tsu
    What are the current settings for Galapagos?
[02:08] Hig
    Well, Pluto-chan was testing her piranhas
     after they got accepted, so it's a jungle.
[02:15] Shi
    They're all stuck in this
    jungle as children!
[02:17] Shi
    Th-This is bad! We have to find them quick!
[02:21] Hig
    Wait, Shimoda-kun.
[02:22] Hig
    Galapagos is full of dangers right now!
[02:27] Hig
    Instead of just running into it blindly,
     we need to have a plan.
[02:30] Tsu
    A plan, huh?
[02:32] Tsu
    That reminds me. I think Jupiter-kun pocketed
    some of those bean paste buns you made.
[02:38] Tsu
    If everything caught in the blast has regressed,
     those bean paste buns might have, too.
[02:44] Shi
    Even if they did,
    how will dough help us?
[02:48] Tsu
    No, no. Even further back.
[02:50] Tsu
    That white bean paste is made
    from lima beans, right?
[02:54] Tsu
    When lima beans are attacked
    by their natural enemy,
[02:56] Tsu
    they emit this "Help me!" odor, right?
[02:59] Tsu
    Didn't the insect department make an
    insect that can detect that smell?
[03:03] Ins
    Yes, very impressive!
[03:05] Ins
    We created a carnivorous
    insect that loves to eat
[03:08] Ins
    the herbivorous insect that
    eats the lima bean leaves.
[03:11] Ins
    When this insect notices
    the lima bean's SOS signal,
[03:13] Ins
    it rushes to the plant and eats the
    insect nibbling on the lima bean.
SIGN    Lima Bean
[03:16] Her
    That looks yummy.
[03:18] Lim
    Someone help!
SIGN    Herbivore
[03:20] Lim
    I'm bean' eaten!
[03:23] Car
    That voice belongs to...
SIGN    Carnivore
[03:24] Car
    Yay, food!
[03:27] Her
    I meant to feast, but now I'm the feast!
[03:30] Lim
    All according to plan!
[03:31] Shi
    That sounds like a convoluted revenge drama.
[03:34] Ins
    It's a mite, by the way.
SIGN    Phytoseiulus
     persimilis
[03:37] Ins
    We'll make a detector that
    uses this mite sensor.
[03:40] ---
    Yeah!
[03:41] Shi
    But the SOS signal won't be emitted
    unless the bean is being eaten, right?
[03:46] Shi
    I'm not sure Jupiter-san
    would eat the plant's beans
[03:48] Shi
    just because the bean paste bun
    suddenly turned into one.
[03:51] Tsu
    I think he would.
[03:52] Hig
    In a flash.
[03:53] Kim
    Can this be eaten? When you're pondering that
     is the best time to eat!
[03:57] Shi
    He would eat them.
[03:59] Ins
    The Bean Being Eaten Sensor is done!
[04:01] Shi
    That was fast!
[04:04] Ins
    It's saying he's over there!
[04:05] Shi
    He's eating already?
[04:06] Tsu
    Mars-kun, please go back and fix
    the time accelerator device.
[04:10] Hig
    Roger that!
[04:19] Kim
    You guys!
[04:20] Tsu
    Jupiter-kun!
[04:22] Shi
    He really was eating them.
[04:23] Kim
    Chief, you're so young!
[04:25] Tsu
    Look who's talking.
[04:27] Tsu
    We came to rescue you.
    Where are the others?
[04:30] Kim
    I got stuck in this tree,
    but the others were blown that way.
[04:34] Kim
    I heard some water, so they
    might be in the pond.
[04:37] Shi
    Pond?
[04:38] Tsu
    Probably the one for testing the piranhas.
[04:41] Shi
    Let's hurry!
[04:47] Una
    Pluto-chan, this pond...
[04:49] Mei
    I filled it with piranhas!
[04:51] Kan
    Please, no! We'll get attacked!
[04:54] Miz
    Hey! If you move—
[05:00] Ins
    I hear children's voices!
[05:01] Kim
    Over there!
[05:05] Una
    P-P-Pluto-chan, are you okay?
[05:08] Mei
    It's fine.
[05:09] Mei
    These piranhas are vegetarians!
SIGN    Metynnis
     argenteus
[05:12] Una
    Vegetarian piranhas?!
[05:15] Mei
    Yes. Since they look like the
    vicious carnivorous piranhas,
[05:19] Mei
    they are less likely to be
    attacked by other fish.
[05:21] Mei
    Huh? This fin has been bitten
    by a carnivorous piranha.
[05:26] Kan
    So there are carnivorous ones in here!
[05:29] Mei
    It's fine. The carnivorous piranhas
    often don't kill their prey.
[05:33] Kan
    Instead, they just eat a part of the fin.
[05:35] Kan
    That's because the fins regenerate.
[05:37] Kan
    Piranhas are creatures that
    treat resources with respect.
[05:41] Una
    I see...
[05:42] Mei
    So if you're not too frilly,
    you won't get nibbled on so much.
[05:46] Kan
    Frilly?
[05:48] Una
    We need to get out of here quick.
[05:50] Kan
    Let's get on this leaf for now.
SIGN    Victoria
     amazonica
[05:53] Una
    Good thing we're kids.
[05:55] Una
    Our adult bodies would've weighed too much.
[05:58] Mei
    Piranhas don't go
    out of their way to attack,
[06:01] Mei
    but avoid splashing around just to be safe.
[06:04] Una
    Ven-chan, what's that you have there?
[06:06] Kan
    Oh, this is—
[06:09] Kan
    Jeez! She just said
    to not splash around!
[06:12] Miz
    I'm sorry.
[06:13] Kan
    Be careful, sheesh.
[06:15] Miz
    I'm really sorry, you guys.
[06:17] Miz
    I forgot that I added the piranhas'
    natural enemy to help the test go better.
[06:22] Miz
    Namely, crocodiles.
[06:25] Kan
    Why would you do that?!
[06:34] Una
    Quick, over here!
[06:39] Mei
    This might be the end.
[06:44] Kan
    J-Just eat this!
[06:54] Mei
    Nice pitch!
[06:56] Miz
    L-Look! It's working?!
[06:58] Una
    What was that?
[07:00] Kan
    This is cassava root, the source of tapioca!
[07:03] Kan
    The tapioca in the bubble tea
     I had when we were eating
[07:05] Kan
    Shimoda-kun's bean paste buns
     has regressed, too.
[07:08] Kan
    Before it's processed, cassava root
     contains a cyanogenic compound.
[07:11] Kan
    It's a neurotoxin like potassium cyanide!
[07:14] Kan
    Eat tapioca!
SIGN    Float...
[07:20] Mei
    Nice aim! You sank a lot of them!
[07:23] Kan
    But I'm all out of cassava roots now!
[07:26] Kan
    There are still so many of them!
[07:28] Kan
    Mercury, those are your crocodiles.
     Do something!
[07:32] Miz
    I'm already on it!
[07:35] Miz
    Crocodiles are highly sociable
    creatures that communicate vocally.
[07:39] Miz
    So that's why I'm going to cry now!
[07:47] Mei
    What's that?
[07:48] Kan
    Oh, it's a sound to shoo them away.
[07:50] Mzi
    There's no such sound.
[07:53] Mzi
    This is the sound a baby crocodile
    makes to call for its mother.
[08:01] Una
    One of them is coming here.
[08:03] Miz
    The one who responded is a female.
[08:05] Kan
    What will bringing her here do?!
[08:07] Miz
    The female will come close. And then...
SIGN    Female
SIGN    Male
[08:10] Mal
    Hey, what do you want with my wife?
SIGN    Male
[08:13] Mal2
    What are you talking about, you idiot?
[08:16] Mal
    You won't lay even one finger on my wife!
[08:19] Mal
    You're all going to die!
[08:21] Mal2
    Ow! What's your problem!?
[08:23] Una
    The husband crocodile is
    chasing the other ones away!
[08:26] Mei
    It's a huge brawl!
[08:28] Mal
    Where are you going?! Stop!
[08:30] Miz
    All right, they swam away!
[08:32] Kan
    W-Wait, there's one left here!
    That female from before.
[08:36] Kan
    She's looking at us with this
[08:39] Kan
    "you'll make good food for my
    children" kind of expression!
[08:41] Una
    It's okay. If it's just one, we can manage!
[08:45] Una
    If possible, I didn't want to create this,
     but I have no choice.
[08:53] Una
    Goodbye, my cute otter.
[08:58] Una
    This is the order I'm currently working on!
[09:03] Una
    An "otter that's not cute at all"!
[09:08] Shi
    God has spoken!
[09:10] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Giant Otter
[09:15] Kan
    Oh, Shimoda-kun! Over here!
[09:18] Kan
    We're here! Over here!
[09:20] Shi
    You guys!
[09:24] Tsu
    Oh, boy! I'm glad nobody got hurt.
[09:31] Una
    You used to be so cute.
[09:33] Shi
    He's so big and scary now.
[09:35] Kan
    The insect department came
    to help, too? Thanks.
[09:38] Mei
    We solved everything by ourselves, though.
[09:40] Isn
    We rushed over when we heard the screams,
     but you guys were amazing.
[09:44] Isn
    Thanks to that, I had a good idea.
[09:47] Isn
    What do you think of an insect
    that screams for help?
SIGN    Honey
[09:50] Isn
    Usually it secretes honey
    and is friends with ants.
[09:54] Larv
    You can eat my honey.
[09:56] Ant
    Yay!
[09:57] Wasp
    A larva. I'm ready to eat!
[09:59] Ins
    When it's about to be attacked—
[10:01] Lar
    Ahhh!
[10:02] Ant
    Our honey buddy is in danger!
[10:04] Ant
    To the rescue!
[10:06] Kan
    Wait, this was inspired by us?
[10:09] Shi
    God has spoken!
[10:11] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Gossamer-Winged
     Butterfly Larva
[10:13] Ins
    Yay!
[10:15] Ins
    I'll go back to the insect department
     and make it right away!
[10:17] Shi
    Good luck!
[10:19] Hig
    The time acceleration device is fixed
    as well, so all is back to normal.
[10:22] Shi
    I'm just glad nobody got hurt.
[10:25] Tsu
    Being young isn't bad every now and then,
    but my current body suits me the best.
[10:30] Kim
    Whatever happened to that stuck goat?
[10:33] Miz
    The magic circle is gone, too.
[10:35] Kan
    Looks like it made it to Hell in one piece.
[10:37] Shi
    I'm glad to hear that.
SIGN    Cassava
     Root
[10:43] Yok
    Oh, the sample from the design team!
[10:46] Yok
    Huh?
[10:48] Yok
    Why is its torso so long?
[10:55] Yok
    Maybe it's a transmission error? Or...
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[10:58] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[11:03] Miz
    I always pictured them as attacking in
    a swarm, but you say they're cowards?
[11:07] Mei
    Yes, they form swarms
    because they're scared.
[11:10] Mei
    If something big falls in the water,
    they run away most of the time.
[11:13] Miz
    Doesn't "most of the time" mean
     they also attack sometimes?
[11:16] Mei
    If the prey is hurt, they get excited
    by the scent of blood and might attack.
[11:20] Miz
    So they do attack!
[11:22] Mei
    They're only really known for their bite,
    but there's something I want you to know.
[11:27] Mei
    Piranhas can speak!
[11:30] Miz
    Speak? How?
[11:31] Mei
    They use their swim bladder to make sounds.
[11:33] Mei
    It sounds kind of like, "Boof"!
[11:35] Mei
    I think it'll do it when
    you grab it. Want to try?
[11:38] Miz
    Before I do that, I want to
    know why it makes that sound.
[11:42] Mei
    To warn you that it's about to bite.
[11:44] Miz
    I knew it was all about biting!
[11:54] Kan
    We don't get many opportunities
    to put on dazzling makeup like this.
[11:58] Mei
    It's kind of fun.
[12:00] Kan
    All right, ready to go!
[12:09] Mei
    What's wrong?
[12:10] Hig
    Neptune-san is saying he won't be
    attending today's party in Hell.
[12:14] Kan
    What? You're not coming?
[12:15] Tsu
    I already told them we're all coming, though.
[12:19] Tsu
    What's the matter?
[12:20] Una
    Well, I'm in a slump.
[12:24] Una
    I'm not making any progress with this
    order for a "fluffy but spiky animal."
[12:29] Una
    The more I hurry, the more
    wrong turns I take.
[12:32] Una
    By now, I don't even feel
    like holding my pen.
[12:35] Una
    But I have to do something...
[12:37] Una
    That's why I can't join you.
[12:39] Hig
    Another mystery order?
[12:41] Hig
    I feel for you.
[12:42] Kim
    Why don't you say you're not feeling
    well and get a deadline extension?
[12:45] Kim
    Then you can go to the party.
[12:47] Kim
    I heard Hell is outside of
    Heaven's reception range.
[12:51] Miz
    You do have to unwind sometimes.
[12:53] Kan
    Shimoda-kun, please report that
    Neptune-san's submission will be delayed
[12:56] Kan
    because he's not feeling well.
     Lay it on thick!
[12:58] Shi
    I-Is that okay?
[13:00] Mei
    A slump is a form of not
    feeling well, right?
[13:03] Tsu
    It's fine, isn't it?
[13:05] Hig
    Then it's settled.
[13:06] Hig
    Let's go!
[13:21] Yok
    Welcome to Hell.
[13:23] Yok
    Let me greet you among
    with the wails of joy.
[13:26] Yok
    Now, let us begin the banquet to celebrate
    the founding of Hell's sales team!
[13:32] Yok
    You will get a real taste of Hell!
SIGN    A Word From the Chef
     Hee hee hee!
     Turn this into
      your own flesh
       and blood...
[13:36] Yok
    Turn this into your own flesh and blood!
[13:39] Yok
    That's what our company's chef says.
[13:42] Yok
    Please enjoy everything until you
    have far surpassed being full.
[13:46] Kan
    Not to sound cliché, but...
[13:48] Miz
    We're being wined and dined here.
[13:50] All
    Cheers!
[13:52] Tsu
    You shouldn't have done
    all this for just us.
[13:55] Yok
    It's nothing. Besides, we'll keep
     relying on your services.
[13:57] Mei
    Huh, so this is Hell's main door.
[14:01] Hig
    It's flashier than ours.
[14:03] Tsu
    We all brought you gifts for the occasion.
[14:05] Yok
    Oh, that's so considerate. Thank you!
[14:09] Kim
    We thought that you would
    like something like this.
[14:13] Yok
    What is that?! It's like a symbol
    of destruction!
[14:16] Yok
    That's so freaking cool!
[14:19] Kim
    I'm glad that it was up your alley.
[14:22] Miz
    This is from me.
[14:25] Yok
    A snake skeleton!
SIGN    Snake Skeleton
    (For Decorative Use)
[14:27] Yok
    So cool!
[14:28] Yok
    Wow, everything below the
    head is vertebrae, right?!
[14:31] Miz
    Actually, while they don't stand out so much,
    there's a neck and a tail, too.
SIGN    Neck
SIGN    Tail
[14:35] Yok
    Snakes have quite a short neck.
[14:38] Kan
    I brought a giant chicken skull.
SIGN    Chicken Skull
    (For Costume Use)
[14:41] Yok
    That's so cool!
[14:43] Kan
    You can wear it.
[14:46] Yok
    Wh-What do you think?
[14:48] Yok
    Do I look like the Prince of Madness?
[14:50] Kan
    It looks great on you. Wonderful!
[14:52] Shi
    That ring by the eyes... Is that bone?
[14:56] Miz
    Chickens have bones that maintain
     the shape of their eyes.
[15:01] Una
    This is from me.
[15:02] Yok
    Another oblong box.
[15:04] Yok
    Oh, I know what this is.
[15:07] Yok
    This is an anteater!
[15:08] Una
    Correct!
[15:10] Yok
    All the way to the tip
    of their mouth is bone!
SIGN    Anteater Skull
     (For Decorative Use)
[15:13] Tsu
    I brought this—
[15:15] All
    A horse, right?
[15:16] Tsu
    Yes, why?
[15:17] Tsu
    Incidentally, do you think this
    is a male or female horse?
[15:20] Shi
    Isn't that question too hard?
[15:22] Tsu
    It's actually quite easy.
[15:24] Tsu
    The ones that have sharp
    teeth here are male.
[15:26] Tsu
    They have canines for when they
    fight to secure their female.
[15:30] Tsu
    Horses are quite strong, you know?
[15:33] Hig
    This one's from me.
[15:35] Yok
    That's big!
[15:38] Yok
    This... This was...
[15:40] Yok
    A cyclops!
[15:43] Yok
    So cool!
[15:45] Hig
    No, this was an elephant.
[15:48] Hig
    The hole in the middle wasn't for
    an eyeball. It was for the nose.
[15:52] Hig
    The eyes are over here.
[15:54] Mei
    I'm last.
[15:57] Mei
    Guess what this is!
[16:01] Yok
    No matter what side I look
    at it from, I have no idea.
[16:03] Shi
    It's almost like folded cloth.
[16:05] Mei
    The right answer was the
    skull of a hammerhead shark!
[16:09] Shi
    So it has bones all the way
    to the edges of its head.
[16:13] Yok
    It's fun to think about animals
     by looking at their bones!
[16:16] Yok
    Could I ask you to start from
    the bones for your next job?
[16:19] Kan
    Our next job?
[16:21] Yok
    Yes! After you submitted that large demon,
[16:25] Yok
    I wanted to ask you to make
    a small messenger familiar.
[16:29] Yok
    Something like this.
[16:31] Tsu
    If you like, we could
    start brainstorming now.
[16:34] Yok
    Are you sure? It is your day off.
[16:36] Kan
    It's fun to think with a buzz sometimes.
[16:40] Mei
    The less work feels like work,
     the more fun it is.
[16:42] Hig
    Same.
[16:44] Tsu
    All right, could you tell us about
    this familiar's tasks and purpose?
[16:48] Yok
    The workplace will be underground!
SIGN    Hell Interior
[16:50] Yok
    Since they will be messengers,
[16:52] Yok
    they should have amazing hearing
    and be quick on their feet.
SIGN    Familiar Waiting Room
[16:54] Yok
    I'd like them to be able to communicate
     in a unique way, without sound.
SIGN    Employee Passageway
[16:58] Yok
    There will be many operational messages
    that we don't want our guests to hear.
[17:02] Yok
    Yes, fast like lightning! When they stop,
    they should be like the night fog!
[17:07] Yok
    Something like that would be ideal.
[17:08] Shi
    As always, a unique way
    of expressing himself.
[17:11] Yok
    And also, if they were to rest in front
    of our guests, we might get complaints,
[17:17] Yok
    so it would be good if it's not easy to tell
    if they're awake or sleeping at first glance.
[17:21] Kan
    Even in Hell, they try to
     avoid customer complaints.
[17:24] Tsu
    If that's the case, we also have to
    think about its toilet breaks, too.
[17:27] Yok
    Oh, I didn't think about that.
[17:30] Mei
    That's solved if they just eat the
    poop straight from their own butt.
[17:35] Hig
    Are you taking things too far already?
[17:37] Mei
    It's not a joke. I mean koalas eat poop, too.
SIGN    For Eating
SIGN    Not for Eating
[17:42] Mei
    Koalas have two kinds of poop.
SIGN    For Eating
[17:44] Mei
    Indigestible waste is not for eating,
[17:47] Mei
    while the medicine-like stuff that
    the caecum creates is for eating.
[17:50] Mei
    The koala poop that's for eating is healthy.
[17:53] Mei
    That's why their baby food
    after weaning is poop.
[17:56] Yok
    The idea that they can create
    their own medicine is great!
[17:59] Yok
    I would like to use that.
    We need our staff to be healthy.
[18:03] Tsu
    All right, if we put that all together...
    Something like this?
[18:10] Yok
    A casual scariness fit for a familiar! Nice!
[18:14] Tsu
    In order to specialize in speed, I gave
    them a single bone below the knee.
[18:18] Tsu
    With two bones, the leg can twist,
[18:21] Tsu
    but fusing those into one
    makes it more powerful.
[18:24] Tsu
    With these legs, they can go up
     to eighty kilometers per hour.
[18:27] Yok
    So much thought goes into unseen places!
[18:29] Tsu
    Since your order was so detailed
    and easy to understand,
[18:32] Tsu
    it's already done.
[18:35] Tsu
    Do you want to work on
    the exterior look now?
[18:37] Yok
    We don't have to push it now.
    You can finish it when you get a chance.
[18:40] Yok
    What's wrong, Neptune-san?
[18:42] Una
    No, it's just that I realized how
    much fun creating things can be.
[18:47] Kan
    He's in a slump right now.
[18:50] Hig
    He's worn out.
[18:52] Yok
    Then how about creating something freely?
[18:58] Yok
    If you unshackle your instincts
    and draw for your own enjoyment,
[19:01] Yok
    you might be able to reset yourself.
[19:04] Yok
    How about this?
[19:05] Yok
    Would you mind coming up with the
    exterior look for these bones here?
[19:09] Yok
    I want to see what you create when
    you're uninhibited and playful.
[19:15] Una
    Freely? Enjoy myself?
[19:21] Shi
    Neptune-san picked up his pen!
[19:24] Shi
    Yokota-senpai is amazing.
[19:26] Shi
    I couldn't get him to do that.
[19:29] Shi
    One day, I'll also...
[19:32] Una
    Done!
[19:34] Una
    What do you think?
[19:43] Kan
    Hey, why did something
    scary turn into this?!
[19:47] Una
    That was so much fun.
[19:49] Miz
    So he put those long bones
    into this round tail?
[19:54] Shi
    This super-cute thing... eats poop?
[19:58] Hig
    And sleeps with its eyes open?
[20:00] Shi
    What are these ears?
[20:01] Una
    They're heat sinks. Since I increased
    its muscle mass for running fast,
[20:06] Shi
    I thought it might overheat and collapse.
[20:08] Shi
    They also double as sound collecting
    antennae for picking up orders from far away.
[20:12] Miz
    How did you solve the request for the
    unique non-verbal communication method?
[20:16] Una
    I made them good at sensing vibrations.
[20:20] Miz
    That way they can use foot
    stomps to communicate.
SIGN    Stomp
[20:24] Tsu
    Hm, isn't this more like that
    mystery order that got you down?
[20:28] Shi
    You mean the "fluffy but spiky animal."
[20:31] Tsu
    Wouldn't this be a perfect fit?
[20:35] Shi
    I see! This came out because you've
    been thinking about it the whole time.
[20:39] Yok
    From Hell's point of view,
    this design would be acceptable, too...
[20:43] Kan
    It is?
[20:45] Yok
    But if there's already a prior taker,
     then we have no choice.
[20:48] Yok
    Please deliver it to God.
[20:50] Shi
    All right!
[20:52] Shi
    Oh, Hell's outside of God's reception range.
[20:57] Shi
    What should we do? I want
    to deliver this right away.
[21:00] Yok
    Don't worry. I've invited God here, too.
[21:04] Yok
    His arrival is imminent.
[21:07] Kim
    The client's coming here in person?!
[21:09] Kan
    Wait! Neptune-san faked
    being sick to come here!
[21:13] Mei
    Our lie will be discovered!
[21:17] Shi
    Th-This light! Is this...
[21:22] All
    God?!
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[21:25] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[21:30] Tsu
    They look so cute, but they eat poop.
[21:33] Una
    They eat special vitamin-rich
    poop like a supplement,
[21:37] Una
    or at least that was the original plan.
[21:39] Tsu
    Oh?
[21:40] Una
    When I observed wild rabbits,
[21:43] Una
    they also just ate regular poop when
    there was no food to be found.
[21:45] Tsu
    So tough! In a way, if you
    eat what you excrete,
[21:48] Tsu
    you're like a perpetual motion device.
[21:51] Una
    In winter, when there was no grass,
    they also ate animal carcasses.
[21:54] Tsu
    Truly tough!
[21:56] Una
    Speaking of tough, when the female
    picks a male, she first punches him.
[22:01] Una
    She makes sure the male is
    strong by punching him.
[22:04] Tsu
    Throw hands, then throw kisses!
[22:07] Tsu
    How strong!
[22:08] Tsu
    Some day soon, these bunnies may be seen
[22:11] Tsu
    not as symbols of cuteness, but of strength.
SIGN    Next on the Agenda

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[00:00] Yok
    Don't worry. I've invited God here, too.
[00:04] Yok
    His arrival is imminent.
[00:10] Shi
    Th-This light!
[00:13] Shi
    Is this...
[00:14] All
    God?!
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[01:54] Shi
    Th-The door opened!
[01:56] Shi
    Is God really coming to Hell?!
[01:59] Kan
    Crap, crap! It'll come out that
    Neptune-san faked being sick!
[02:02] Kan
    Hide!
[02:04] Shi
    This is the bell that
    rings when God arrives!
[02:18] Ued
    Oh, good evening, everyone.
[02:21] Ued
    And congratulations on the
    founding of Hell's sales team!
[02:25] Tsu
    Ueda-san?
[02:26] Shi
    That's an amazing bird.
[02:28] Yok
    That's Garuda, the bird God rides on.
[02:31] Yok
    It's magnificently gorgeous,
    with unwavering bravery.
[02:33] Yok
    It's the strongest and most ideal of birds.
[02:35] Yok
    So cool!
[02:37] Kim
    The flowers are on fire!
[02:39] Kan
    Hot! Watch out! You have
    to be careful, birdie!
[02:42] Tsu
    Where is God, though?
[02:44] Ued
    Just when we were about to arrive,
[02:46] Ued
    some urgent business came up in Heaven.
[02:48] Ued
    So the bird got the flowers
    and a celebratory message.
[02:52] Una
    Oh, no. The bird's on fire, too!
[02:55] Mei
    Extinguish, extinguish!
[02:56] Miz
    It's to be expected if it creates that much
    fire and there are flowers flying around.
[02:58] Ued
    There, there.
[03:00] Shi
    Was this maybe one of
    your designs, Venus-san?
[03:04] Kan
    It didn't pass, but yes.
[03:06] Kan
    It wasn't suited to Earth,
    but the client liked it,
[03:09] Kan
    so now it's their ride.
[03:12] Shi
    That's one flashy ride.
[03:14] Yok
    Incidentally, what was the issue with it?
[03:16] Kan
    I thought it would be beautiful if
    it protected itself with flames,
[03:20] Kan
    so I made it emit a mist of fat from its
    mouth and ignite that with its teeth.
[03:25] Miz
    Watch it!
[03:26] Kan
    Then I realized that teeth are
    quite a bit heavier than beaks.
[03:30] Kan
    It couldn't fly right.
[03:32] Kan
    It became a bird that would plummet into
    a mountain it had just set on fire.
[03:36] Yok
    That would make it hard to survive.
[03:39] Yok
    Such a shame. It's such a good design!
[03:41] Kan
    Right?! That's why I couldn't give up.
[03:44] Kan
    I carry around a prototype, but you know...
[03:48] Shi
    You brought your work with you?
[03:50] Shi
    No, you can't burn that!
[03:52] Ued
    It's fine. He's just trying
    to deliver a message.
[03:59] Miz
    That noise... Is that a tape-based
    answering machine?
[04:02] Kim
    The client's rocking some
    old equipment, huh?
[04:05] Gar
    Playing back message.
[04:07] Ued
    See?
[04:08] Shi
    The bird has a recording function...
[04:11] Gar
    Everyone.
[04:14] Shi
    It's really God's voice.
[04:16] Miz
    Even though I know God's not here,
     I'm still nervous.
[04:19] Gar
    It's always a pleasure dealing with you.
[04:22] Gar
    My congratulations on the
    founding of Hell's sales team.
[04:25] Gar
    For this occasion,
[04:27] Gar
    I would like to present you with an animal that
    will be useful in your attractions.
[04:32] Gar
    Order!
[04:36] Gar
    An animal that can be used
    in Hell's attractions.
[04:39] All
    What?
[04:40] Kim
    I thought the bird was bringing a present.
[04:43] Mei
    But we're supposed to make it? Starting now?
[04:46] Gar
    A versatile animal that can be sent
    to both Earth and Hell would be swell.
[04:51] Tsu
    That's unreasonable!
[04:53] Gar
    By the way, I thought Neptune was sick,
    but I see him at the party.
[04:58] Una
    I-I'm sorry! I was faking it!
[05:01] Kan
    B-But that's only because
    we told him to say that!
[05:04] Mei
    He also did finish the order for
    the "fluffy but spiky animal"!
[05:08] Gar
    I'm glad you're not sick.
[05:10] Gar
    I'm looking forward to your next project.
[05:13] Gar
    That animal in your arms is accepted.
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Rabbit
[05:17] Gar
    All right, everyone, I'm counting on you!
[05:20] Ued
    This was a recording, so you
    can't have a conversation.
[05:24] Gar
    No more messages.
[05:27] Una
    God's not mad... and looking
    forward to my next project.
[05:31] Shi
    That's great. God is so kind.
[05:35] Mei
    Not kind at all.
[05:36] Miz
    We just got hit with an
    unreasonable request.
[05:39] Kim
    Aw, man, I was just enjoying
    the feast. Now we gotta work?
[05:43] Una
    That reminds me, we have to come up
    with an alternative idea for the familiar.
[05:47] Yok
    That can wait until next time.
[05:49] Tsu
    What kind of attractions do
    you plan to have in Hell?
[05:52] Yok
    Oh, well...
[05:54] Yok
    We're planning on doing something not
    found in Heaven! Namely, "surprise."
[05:58] Yok
    It would be great if it's
    "an animal that surprises even angels."
[06:01] Tsu
    Even angels...
[06:05] Hig
    Easier said than done! A versatile
    animal that can be send to Earth and Hell?
[06:10] Hig
    On top of that, it needs to surprise angels.
[06:13] Hig
    Sounds difficult.
[06:14] Mei
    If it was just Shimoda-kun, it'd be easy.
[06:18] Mei
    Shimoda-kun!
[06:20] Mei
    Hold this.
[06:24] Mei
    See? Easy.
[06:25] Shi
    Anybody would be surprised if they were
    suddenly handed a huge tadpole like this!
[06:30] Shi
    This is really huge, though!
    How big is the frog going to be?
[06:34] Mei
    This big.
[06:35] Shi
    That's tiny!
[06:36] Mei
    I made it to fulfill the order
    "gets smaller as an adult."
[06:40] Mei
    The tadpoles are this big so they can
    survive in estuaries with high salinity.
[06:45] Shi
    Huh? What?
[06:47] Hig
    Think of a cube.
[06:49] Hig
    If you double the length of one side,
[06:51] Hig
    you need eight times as many cubes,
[06:53] Hig
    but the surface area is
     only four times greater.
SIGN    8 times the volume,
     but 4 times the surface area
[06:55] Shi
    I see! That's why being bigger makes you
    less susceptible to external influences.
[07:00] Hig
    And when they become frogs
    and leave the saline water,
SIGN    Salinity
[07:02] Hig
    they don't have to be as big.
[07:06] Hig
    Being big also means you have to eat more,
SIGN    Paradoxical Frog
[07:10] Hig
    so that would make finding
    enough food tougher.
[07:12] Shi
    Wow, that's amazing.
[07:15] Mei
    Ueda-san, were you surprised?
[07:18] Ued
    Yes, I was really surprised.
[07:20] Ued
    The difference is so stark!
[07:23] Mei
    No good. She wasn't surprised at all.
[07:25] Hig
    Most things probably don't surprise her.
[07:28] Tsu
    How about this?
[07:30] Ued
    Oh?
[07:37] Mei
    Oh, Shimoda-kun ran away.
[07:40] Ued
    That was a shock.
[07:41] Tsu
    Hm, that didn't surprise Ueda-san, either.
[07:45] Tsu
    Shimoda-kun is... hiding under a table.
[07:49] Tsu
    That's a good reaction.
[07:54] Tsu
    Experience it.
[07:56] Tsu
    The design team's first masterpiece,
     the tyrannosaurus.
[08:01] Tsu
    The teeth are serrated like steak knives,
[08:03] Tsu
    and as big as large bananas,
[08:05] Tsu
    able to slice through flesh with ease.
[08:07] Tsu
    Its jaw is about nine times as
    powerful as an alligator's,
[08:10] Tsu
    putting it in the top class of dinosaurs.
[08:17] Tsu
    Tables are child's play.
[08:22] Tsu
    It doesn't matter where
    you run, Shimoda-kun.
[08:26] Tsu
    The tyrannosaurus's greatest strength
    is neither its speed nor its claws...
[08:35] Tsu
    But its sense of smell.
[08:45] Shi
    This sound... Could it be?
[08:50] Ued
    God?
[08:51] God
    Everyone.
[08:53] ---
    It's the client!
[08:56] God
    Everyone.
[09:00] God
    It's always a pleasure dealing with you.
[09:05] God
    My congratulations on the
    founding of Hell's sales team.
[09:09] Kim
    Haven't we heard this before?
[09:10] God
    For this occasion, I would like to present you
    with an animal that will be useful in...
[09:15] Kan
    Yay, what a success!
[09:18] Shi
    Venus-san?
[09:20] Ued
    So then, that voice just now...
[09:22] God
    A versatile animal that can be sent
    to both Earth and Hell would be swell.
[09:26] Kan
    This birdie's trick. It's very
    good at imitating voices.
[09:31] Kan
    Even Ueda-san was surprised.
[09:34] Ued
    Yes, I was really surprised.
[09:37] Ued
    I honestly thought God was with us.
[09:41] Kan
    If you want to surprise people at an attraction,
    you need sound effects, right?
[09:45] Kan
    I made its throat muscles soft, so it
    can be super good at imitating voices.
[09:50] Bir
    Playing back message.
[09:53] Shi
    Wow, even the machine noises are perfect!
[09:55] Shi
    But how did it learn God's voice?
[09:58] Kan
    Remember when I took it out a bit in Hell?
[10:02] Kan
    It looks like it heard and
    memorized the voice then.
[10:04] Bir
    I-I'm sorry! I was faking it!
[10:07] Shi
    O-Oh, that was Neptune-san.
[10:10] Una
    That was not good for my heart...
[10:12] Kan
    This baby can replay any sound!
[10:15] Kan
    Since I took away the
    heavy teeth, it can fly,
[10:17] Kan
    so the "can go to both Earth and Hell"
     part is covered, too!
[10:24] Shi
    God has spoken!
[10:27] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Superb
     Lyrebird
[10:30] Kan
    Yes!
[10:32] Mei
    That's great!
[10:33] Kim
    Well done!
[10:34] Miz
    I'm glad that's over.
[10:36] Tsu
    Now we can send it to Yokota-san, too.
[10:38] God
    Huh, that's an interesting bird.
[10:42] Hig
    The real one is here!
[10:44] Bir
    Huh, that's an interesting bird.
[10:48] Bir
    Who are you?
[10:49] Bir
    Who am I?
[10:51] Bir
    I am you.
[10:52] Yok
    Yay! Now I can play the "dark self
    that's buried deep within me" game!
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[10:57] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
SIGN    ° There are various interpretations
[11:02] Yok
    Wow! So this is the undisputed
    champion of Earth!
[11:05] Yok
    By the way, twelve meters seems quite large.
[11:08] Yok
    I thought gravity made it impossible
    to stand if you're too big?
[11:11] Tsu
    That's true, but the tyrannosaurus
    is not as heavy as it looks.
[11:16] Yok
    Oh, is it like a papier-mâché thing?
[11:19] Tsu
    Actually, quite close to that.
[11:21] Tsu
    Please consider the bird's
    respiratory organs.
SIGN    Lung
[11:24] Yok
    There are a lot of bags
    attached to that lung!
SIGN    Air Sacs
[11:26] Tsu
    These are called air sacs,
    and are part of the
[11:29] Tsu
    respiratory system used for
    sending air into the lung.
[11:31] Tsu
    This system is more efficient than
    just breathing with the lung.
[11:35] Tsu
    And something similar
    to the birds' air sacs—
[11:37] Yok
    —was inside the tyrannosaurus, too?
     That's why it was light!
[11:41] Yok
    It would be inappropriate to compare
    life's wisdom to papier-mâché.
[11:45] Yok
    How beautiful! A dragon of destruction
    that harbors the void in its body!
[11:51] Tsu
    Suddenly, I have no idea
    what you're talking about.
[12:12] Shi
    Hello, everyone—
[12:16] Kin
    Oh, no, Shimoda-kun!
[12:18] Kin
    Are you all right?!
[12:19] Shi
    Ow...
[12:21] Tsu
    Are you okay? Are you hurt?
[12:23] Shi
    I'm okay. I just stepped on something...
[12:26] Shi
    Oh, what's this?
[12:28] Kan
    I'm sorry. It's a mess because we're
    sorting through old designs right now.
[12:36] Shi
    This creature must be a
    mascot for something!
[12:39] Shi
    What is this? It's so cute!
[12:41] Shi
    But I've never seen a creature like this before.
[12:44] Shi
    What kind of animal is it?
[12:46] Mei
    Oh, that?
[12:47] Kan
    It's a rejected rough
    draft from a while ago.
[12:49] Kan
    That brings back memories.
[12:52] Tsu
    I remember now, that design
    used to look like this.
[12:55] Shi
    So this design was turned
    into something else?
[13:00] Kan
    What could it be?
[13:02] Tsu
    Try guessing!
[13:04] Shi
    Uh, can I have a hint?
[13:06] Una
    Let's see... It's still cute now.
[13:08] Mei
    Somewhat cute.
[13:10] Kim
    Unfortunately, it can't be eaten.
[13:12] Tsu
    It's not a horse.
[13:13] Miz
    Nor a snake.
[13:14] Shi
    Those were not hints.
[13:17] Shi
    I'm bad at quizzes.
[13:19] Shi
    Would it be possible to get
    some more helpful hints?
[13:22] Kan
    Hm, let's see.
[13:23] Miz
    Even though we have
     very different tastes,
[13:25] Miz
    in this rare instance, we all like it.
[13:28] Kan
    True, it might be a character
    we've all come to love.
[13:31] Shi
    Then I wonder if it's a
    masterpiece that even I know about.
[13:34] Kim
    If you didn't know about it,
    it wouldn't be a quiz, right?
[13:37] Shi
    How big is it, roughly?
[13:39] Mei
    About 170 centimeters?
[13:42] Shi
    That's bigger than I expected!
[13:44] Shi
    Appearances often undergo
    changes from the rough draft...
[13:47] Shi
    Lovable, rather large... Like a lion?
[13:51] Kan
    Sorry.
[13:52] Una
    That's not it.
[13:53] Tsu
    This is the original design for the lion.
[13:57] Shi
    That's huge!
[13:58] Shi
    Wait, wheels?!
[13:59] Mei
    The order was for a "male where
    only its appearance is impressive."
[14:03] Shi
    "Only"?
[14:04] Kim
    If the manliest male in the group gets
    all the females and gets to reproduce,
[14:08] Kim
    "Then why not just put all his skill points
    into looks and forget about the rest?"
SIGN    Kindness
SIGN    Looks
SIGN    Strength
SIGN    Intelligence
SIGN    Wealth
[14:12] Kim
    the client said.
[14:14] Miz
    The females can do the hunting.
[14:16] Tsu
    So while it was nice that we made him big,
[14:19] Tsu
    his movements got sluggish, so we
    turned his hind legs into wheels.
[14:24] Shi
    I guess he doesn't care about
    looks if it's not a horse.
[14:28] Shi
    Are these wheels are functional
    and not just for decoration?
[14:32] Kan
    Of course.
[14:34] Kan
    They were able to run across the savanna,
    up rocky hills, and over all sorts of terrain.
[14:37] Shi
    That sounds useful!
[14:39] Miz
    But there was an unexpected downside.
[14:42] Miz
    The wheels left tracks, and they were loud.
[14:46] Miz
    They gave away the lion's position
    and made prey run away.
[14:49] Shi
    I see.
[14:50] Shi
    But that might be useful for driving
    prey where you want them to go.
[14:54] Miz
    That's what we thought too, but...
[14:56] Hig
    What are you talking about?
[14:57] Una
    The pitiable lion.
[15:00] Hig
    Ah! You mean the one we set loose on Galapagos,
[15:04] Hig
    and was happily driving his prey around
     until he got stuck in a swamp.
[15:07] Kim
    He couldn't get out, and even
    though he was just a demo unit,
[15:11] Kim
    we still felt really bad for him.
[15:13] Hig
    Is that when we scrapped the idea?
[15:15] Tsu
    Now that I think about it,
    we might have acted a bit too hastily.
[15:19] Shi
    A bit?
[15:20] Kan
    In the end, if appearance is all that matters,
[15:23] Kan
    we figured that his body doesn't
    have to be all that big.
[15:26] Shi
    What do you mean?
[15:27] Una
    We added a fluffy mane!
[15:30] Una
    Since it's just a fluffy mane,
[15:32] Una
    it's light, but still makes his
    body look cooler and bigger, right?
SIGN    Lion
    Final Form
[15:37] Kan
    We made it so that the more male
    hormone testosterone it has,
[15:40] Kan
    the more gorgeous the mane.
[15:42] Kan
    So that also works as the
    proof of an "impressive male."
[15:45] Miz
    On top of it, the mane also seemed
    to protect his neck.
[15:47] Shi
    I see. So that's how you settled
    on the design for the lion.
[15:52] Shi
    Then that means this one...
[15:53] Shi
    Since the antlers look similar,
     is it the deer?
[15:57] Tsu
    This is the original design for the deer.
[16:00] Shi
    It has a tree growing out of its head?!
[16:02] Shi
    That's like something from a fairy tale!
[16:04] Mei
    We thought that giving it antlers that looked
    like a tree could be used for camouflage.
[16:08] Kan
    That might have been a bit naïve.
[16:10] Shi
    What was the problem?
[16:12] Kan
    When the antlers grew over
    the course of many years,
[16:15] Kan
    they got unnecessarily big.
[16:17] Shi
    That's so pretty!
[16:19] Kan
    And then, when the female would pick
    a male with an impressive tree...
[16:30] Kan
    A male whose antlers became thin
    was no longer desired at all.
[16:34] Kim
    Since the antlers were just as thin as
    real branches, they could break off easily.
[16:37] Shi
    That poor guy!
[16:38] Kan
    If the antlers take years to become impressive,
[16:41] Kan
    it also takes years for them to grow back.
[16:44] Kim
    And during that entire time,
    no female would want him.
[16:46] Shi
    That poor guy!
[16:48] Kim
    That's why we made it so the
    antlers grow in new every year.
[16:51] Kim
    This way he can re-enter the
    reproduction play-offs again!
[16:54] Shi
    Reproduction play-offs?
[16:56] Kan
    We went from branch-like
    antlers to simple, thick antlers!
[17:00] Shi
    Having them regrow every
    year sounds draining,
[17:03] Shi
    but I guess there's an important reason for it.
[17:05] Shi
    It's like a safety mechanism.
[17:08] Shi
    Hm, so it's not the deer, either.
    Could I get another hint?
[17:12] Tsu
    It walks on two legs!
[17:14] Shi
    Oh, that's a huge hint!
[17:16] Shi
    Right, it's got wings! Could it be a bird?!
[17:20] Shi
    Does that mean such a cute
    face is rat-a-tatting poop!?
[17:25] Kan
    Cut that out!
[17:26] Kan
    My birdies were like this
    from the beginning!
[17:29] Kan
    The fully-formed idea descended into me!
[17:32] Shi
    I-I'm sorry.
[17:33] Kan
    But I'm impressed you remembered
    pooping often to stay light.
[17:37] Kan
    Well done.
[17:38] Shi
    It left an impression on me.
[17:41] Kan
    To begin with, heavy antlers on
    a chubby body with tiny wings...
[17:45] Kan
    That's not going to fly.
[17:47] Kan
    A bird's legs are light and thin.
[17:49] Kan
    The arm muscle was moved down to
    the pectorals, to help move the wings!
[17:52] Kan
    And so its arms were lost,
    but instead, it has a long neck.
[17:57] Kan
    It can move its head skillfully, right?
[17:59] Shi
    Oh, so the long neck is
    like an arm replacement.
[18:02] Shi
    Kind of like an elephant's trunk.
[18:03] Kim
    And the real ones are tasty!
[18:06] Shi
    But Jupiter-san, you said this
    animal doesn't get eaten, right?
[18:10] Shi
    Does that mean it's not a herbivore?
[18:13] Shi
    I heard carnivores taste bad...
[18:16] Kim
    Hm, not sure.
[18:17] Mei
    I guess if you had to say, 
    it could be a herbivore.
[18:19] Una
    I do vouch for its cuteness, though.
[18:21] Shi
    Neptune-san says it's cute,
    so something fluffy?
[18:25] Miz
    I can't say that it's fluffy.
[18:27] Tsu
    But Shimoda-kun's really
    been doing his homework.
[18:31] Una
    Good job.
[18:32] Kan
    You're actually listening to what we say.
[18:34] Shi
    Well, it's always so interesting
    how you solve problems.
[18:38] Shi
    But I still don't know what
    this rough draft was for.
[18:42] Mei
    It shoots beams from its eyes!
[18:44] Shi
    Is there an animal like that?!
[18:46] Shi
    Oh, is it the whale?!
[18:49] Una
    They do shoot beams.
[18:51] Una
    But sorry. Wrong.
[18:53] Una
    This pup uses the beams to scan designs.
[18:56] Shi
    Scan?!
[18:57] Kim
    And it prints out documents from its mouth!
[18:59] Shi
    Prints out?!
[19:01] Tsu
    And the antlers are a Wi-Fi antenna!
[19:03] Shi
    That's a multi-function device, right?!
[19:06] Kan
    Not quite, but it can do a lot of things.
[19:09] Miz
    It's right there.
[19:12] Tsu
    It's you.
[19:15] Tsu
    Shimoda-kun, it's you.
[19:19] Shi
    Wait, I was created here,
    by this design team?
[19:24] Mei
    Sorry.
[19:25] Kan
    That's wrong!
[19:28] Hig
    You're a regular creature, made by God.
[19:31] Miz
    Before you came, we talked about
    making an assistant for Ueda-san.
[19:35] Tsu
    That's why we first came up with
    a helper mascot character.
[19:39] Shi
    So that's why it looks like this.
[19:41] Una
    But it was big and got in the way.
[19:43] (Flashback) Kan
    Eek!
[19:44] Shi
    Why did you make it so big?
[19:47] Kim
    Well, if it wasn't our size,
     it wasn't very practical.
[19:50] Mei
    If it's too small, it can't even
    make copies or open doors.
[19:56] Tsu
    Well, it wasn't such a good design.
[19:58] Kan
    The worst was its voice.
[20:05] (Flashback) Cha
    How's your progress?
[20:08] (Flashback) Cha
    How's your progress?
[20:09] (Flashback) Cha
    If I could somehow get it by tomorrow...
[20:12] (Flashback) Cha
    The client's been pressuring me, too.
SIGN    How's your progress?
[20:15] (Flashback) Cha
    How's your progress?
[20:16] Miz
    I really wonder who set it to that.
[20:20] Hig
    Anyway, in the end, you came to our company.
[20:24] Tsu
    You're the final version of
    that rough draft, Shimoda-kun.
[20:28] Miz
    We all like you.
[20:30] Kim
    Your handmade desserts are always tasty.
[20:34] Shi
    I'm so happy that the design team
    I love so much was involved in my birth!
[20:41] Shi
    I will cherish this fact!
[20:44] Kan
    When did he become so lovable, huh?
[20:48] Mei
    Yeah, huh?
[20:49] Shi
    I'd like to make merchandise of this guy!
[20:52] Tsu
    Do as you like.
[20:54] Kim
    It was worth making that, huh?
[20:56] Kan
    That enthusiasm and passion
    is what supports us.
[21:02] Shi
    A new order!
[21:04] God
    A bird that doesn't lay eggs!
[21:07] All
    What?
[21:09] God
    Make it work, please.
[21:12] Miz
    Well, we're used to the client being
    unreasonable and making us do everything.
[21:16] Shi
    I'm sorry about that.
[21:18] Tsu
    Birdies fall under your umbrella,
     right, Ven-chan?
[21:21] Kan
    This is a hard one!
[21:22] Una
    I can help with its cuteness.
[21:24] Mei
    I wonder what cute thing
    it should give birth to...
[21:26] Kim
    I hope it'll be something I can eat.
[21:29] Kim
    I'm excited!
[21:30] Hig
    All right, I'm ready for anything!
[21:32] Tsu
    Then let's begin our meeting.
[21:36] Shi
    I look forward to seeing what kind
    of animal this leads to!
[22:02] God
    Shimoda! Time to work!
[22:05] Shi
    Y-Yes! Coming right away!

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[00:05] Nar
    In the beginning, God created
    the heavens and the earth.
[00:11] Nar
    He followed it
[00:15] Nar
    with light, the water, the land.
[00:20] Nar
    Then he created
[00:23] Nar
    the many animals that dwelt upon it.
[00:26] Nar
    Or... that was the plan.
[00:28] Nar
    It got too tedious, so he outsourced it.
SIGN    Heaven's Design Team
[02:03] Shi
    Hello!
[02:05] Kan
    Oh, Shimoda-kun, come in!
[02:08] Mei
    Look, look, Ven-chan! A drill shape!
[02:10] Kan
    Wow, Pluto-chan, you're a genius!
[02:13] Mei
    Would a bag with strings go, too?
[02:15] Kan
    That sounds fun, and it totally would!
[02:18] Shi
    Snacks? No, clay...
[02:23] Shi
    What are you making?
[02:24] Mei
    These? Shark eggs!
[02:28] Shi
    Yep, that's definitely just a rice bowl.
[02:31] Shi
    Wouldn't it hurt the mother
    to lay eggs shaped like these?
[02:34] Kan
    Unlike birds, fish eggs
    are soft, so it's fine.
[02:38] Kan
    You can touch them if you like.
[02:39] Shi
    All right, then...
[02:42] Shi
    Right, sharks are fish.
[02:44] Shi
    So these are fish eggs.
SIGN    F
    i
    s
    h
     
    E
    g
    g
    s
[02:46] Shi
    Wait, fish eggs?
[02:47] Mei
    That drill is so they can
    wedge it into a rock crevice,
[02:51] Mei
    so it doesn't get washed away.
[02:54] Kan
    This one uses the strings to
    entangle itself to do the same thing.
[02:59] Shi
    So there are proper reasons for
    all of these unusual shapes.
[03:03] Shi
    What's the idea behind this rice bowl type?
[03:06] Mei
    Well, that's...
[03:08] Kan
    We looked up, and it was already like that.
[03:10] Shi
    Did they make it without thinking at all?
[03:13] Kan
    I know!
[03:15] Kan
    Maybe we'll get a pass if we make
    this cup not the egg itself,
[03:18] Kan
    but a house for the eggs,
[03:20] Kan
    with a bunch of small eggs
     kneaded into the sand.
[03:24] Kan
    That should be safer than
    leaving the eggs exposed.
[03:27] Shi
    A house for the eggs...
[03:30] Shi
    God has spoken!
[03:32] God
    Accepted!
[03:33] Kan
    What? The bowl?
[03:35] Shi
    No. These eggs over here!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Bullhead
     Shark
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Australian
    Ghostshark
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Blotchy
     Swellshark
[03:41] Kan
    Too bad. I thought the bowl
    idea was pretty good.
[03:45] Mei
    But a lot of the others passed!
[03:47] Mei
    Thanks for your help, Ven-chan!
[03:49] ---
    I'll go and test these.
[03:50] Kan
    Don't mention it. I had fun doing it.
[03:53] Kan
    I wish we'd get orders
    like this for the birdies.
[03:56] Shi
    Weren't you assigned an order
     like that the other day?
[04:03] (Flashback) God
    A bird that doesn't lay eggs!
[04:06] (Flashback) God
    Make it work, please.
[04:08] (Flashback) Tsu
    Birdies fall under your
    umbrella, right, Ven-chan?
[04:10] (Flashback) Kan
    This is a hard one!
[04:13] Shi
    There is no immediate deadline,
    but apparently he wanted
[04:15] Shi
    to see a bird whose chick is suddenly
    born live, without hatching from an egg?
[04:39] Kan
    And I had almost forgotten about it!
[04:41] Shi
    Is there a problem?!
[04:43] Kan
    How will they reproduce
    without laying eggs?!
[04:46] Kan
    That's too ridiculous!
[04:48] Shi
    She's really in shock.
[04:50] Kan
    What do you think happens to a bird
     with a lot of babies in its tummy?
[04:54] Shi
    It'll be too heavy to fly.
[04:56] Kan
    That's right!
[04:57] Kan
    That's why I made it so they lay
    the egg as soon as it's done!
[05:00] Shi
    O-Oh, I see...
[05:02] Kan
    After being laid, the egg is "asleep."
[05:05] Kan
    Even if the eggs are laid over
    the course of multiple days,
[05:07] Kan
    they can be incubated together
    because they're made
[05:10] Kan
    so that they only activate
    when they're warmed!
SIGN    It's warm
SIGN    All right,
    let's grow!
[05:14] Shi
    That's such a good design!
[05:16] Shi
    Now that I think about it,
    the egg system is amazing.
[05:20] Kan
    There are other problems, too.
     Put out your hands.
[05:23] Shi
    Sure.
[05:25] Kan
    What do you feel?
[05:27] Shi
    Uh, it's quite toasty?
[05:30] Kan
    Birdies have a lot of muscles that
    help them take flight immediately,
[05:33] Kan
    so their base metabolism is high.
[05:35] Kan
    They're like motorcycles that are
    constantly running their engines.
[05:38] Kan
    That's why their bodies are always toasty.
[05:40] Shi
    I see!
[05:41] Kan
    Birds' body temperatures are
    about 42 degrees Celsius.
[05:44] Kan
    That means they're really
    toeing the line where
[05:47] Kan
    proteins start to break down due to high heat.
[05:50] Kan
    What do you think happens when you
    keep a baby inside that kind of body?
SIGN    It's too hot!
[05:54] Chick
    It's too hot!
SIGN    We must endure!
[05:56] Chi2
    We must endure!
[05:58] Shi
    They'd be cooked.
[05:59] Kan
    That's why they're put outside in eggs!
[06:02] Shi
    Oh, that reminds me! Birds have
    hollow bones to be lighter, right?
[06:07] Shi
    Where does the material for
    the egg shells come from?
[06:12] Kan
    That's a great question!
[06:13] Kan
    We use those hollow bones.
[06:16] Kan
    The calcium for the eggs is stored
    in the cavities of the bones.
[06:20] Shi
    Aha!
[06:21] Kan
    The chick, on the other hand,
    slowly absorbs the calcium from the egg shell,
[06:25] Kan
    which makes the shell thin and easy
    to open when it's time to hatch.
[06:29] Shi
    Wow! Eggs really are
    amazingly well designed!
[06:32] Kan
    You see?
[06:34] Kan
    And yet... a bird that gives birth to
     live chicks instead of laying eggs?!
[06:37] Kan
    That's like rejecting everything bird-like!
[06:39] Shi
    Then how about going in a different
    direction and making a flightless bird?
[06:43] Shi
    Like the ostrich or the penguin?
[06:45] Kan
    I didn't make either of those.
[06:48] Shi
    Now that you mention it...
[06:50] Kan
    When they can't fly, they're easier prey.
[06:52] Kan
    That means I can't give them
    flashy colors, which is boring.
[06:55] Kan
    Oh, well. I'll give it a try.
[06:59] Kan
    So, no eggs, no wings, and no high
    body temperature, either.
[07:05] Kan
    All right, that's it!
SIGN    Bird
[07:09] Kan
    What do you think?
[07:11] Shi
    She's stopped caring!
[07:13] Shi
    This... isn't a bird... is it?
[07:17] Kan
    Why?
[07:19] Kan
    What even is a bird?
[07:21] Kan
    If you look at it while thinking it's a bird,
    doesn't that make it a bird?
[07:24] Kan
    See, it's a bird!
[07:26] Shi
    P-Please pull yourself together, Venus-san!
[07:30] Shi
    All right, let's start from here
    and add more bird-like features.
[07:34] Kan
    Well, first, the beak?
[07:38] Kan
    What else?
[07:39] Shi
    U-Um, maybe the front and
    hind legs aren't very bird-like?
[07:45] Kan
    There.
[07:47] Shi
    But it is becoming more bird-like.
[07:49] Shi
    I think. Yes!
[07:51] Shi
    If the ears were gone,
    I think it'd be very bird-like!
[07:54] Kan
    Really?
[07:55] Shi
    Um, um, then... if the fur
    was more like feathers?
[08:01] Kan
    That's good enough. Let's say
    these are limp feathers.
[08:05] Shi
    Huh?!
[08:06] Kan
    Feathers have a hard shaft so they
    can generate thrust while flying.
[08:10] Kan
    If it's flightless,
    the feathers can just be like fur.
[08:12] Kan
    I'll have Mars-san test this.
[08:16] Shi
    I wonder if this is going to work.
SIGN    Prototype Lab
[08:21] Hig
    It's done.
[08:24] Hig
    This first prototype is oviparous, but flightless,
     and with a lower body temperature.
[08:29] Hig
    If it seems okay, I'll make it viviparous.
SIGN    Viviparous
[08:33] Hig
    But, how should I put it...
[08:34] Kan
    It's more or less a mammal, isn't it?
SIGN    Mammals
SIGN    Birds
[08:38] Hig
    If you divide birds and mammals like this,
[08:42] Hig
    then this one would be about here.
[08:44] Shi
    It's barely making it!
[08:47] Hig
    By the way, right now the
    egg is in there like this.
[08:50] Shi
    That looks so exhausting!
[08:51] Hig
    If it can hold this egg, I think giving
    birth to a big baby should be possible.
[08:55] Hig
    It seems okay, so should
     I remove the egg-laying?
[08:58] Kan
    W-Wait! If we cross that line,
    won't it stop being a bird?!
[09:02] Kan
    It'll be a mammal! What am I making here?!
[09:05] Shi
    V-Venus-san, calm down!
[09:07] Kan
    My heart can't decide!
[09:09] Kan
    If we make this many changes,
    will the result still be a bird?!
[09:12] Hig
    Oh, boy...
[09:13] Shi
    Your worries are valid.
[09:15] Shi
    While that's a small step for a bird,
[09:18] Shi
    I'm sure it'll be a giant leap for birdkind!
[09:21] Kan
    I know! I need the courage to accept change!
[09:25] Kan
    I'm a designer first!
[09:26] Kan
    The client is God!
[09:29] Kan
    All right, I've made up my mind!
[09:30] Kan
    Let's just cross this line!
[09:35] Shi
    God has spoken!
[09:37] Both
    Huh?
[09:38] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Kiwi
SIGN    Accepted
[09:41] Shi
    "That bird's funny, so it's fine," apparently.
[09:45] Kan
    What?!
[09:47] Kan
    I was finally ready to take that last step...
[09:50] Hig
    Wasn't the order for "a bird
    that doesn't lay eggs"?
[09:53] Hig
    This one still lays eggs. Is that okay?
[09:56] Shi
    It seems that its skeletal structure
    holding the egg was really funny.
[10:00] Shi
    So the order was changed to
    "a bird that seems like it only needs
[10:04] Shi
    a tiny update to not lay eggs," and accepted.
[10:11] Kan
    I'm exhausted! That's so unreasonable!
    I might not be cut out for this job!
[10:16] Mei
    I'm back.
[10:18] Mei
    Hey, Ven-chan! Listen to this!
[10:21] Mei
    When I made the egg bowl from earlier
    for a snail instead of a shark,
[10:25] Mei
    it was accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Bladder Moon Snail
    (Egg)
[10:28] Mei
    Ven-chan, you're a genius! Thank you!
[10:32] Hig
    You never know what will
    tickle the client's fancy.
[10:42] Kan
    That's true!
[10:44] Kan
    I can even make a bird like this cute!
[10:47] Kan
    This is my calling, after all.
[10:50] Kan
    It's not easy being me!
SIGN    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures That Really Exist
[10:53] Ken
    The Illustrated Guide to Creatures
    That Really Exist!
[10:57] Kim
    This is sudden, but I have a question!
[11:00] Miz
    That is sudden.
[11:01] Kim
    Why is the kiwi called a kiwi?
SIGN    Because it looks like the kiwi fruit
SIGN    Because its cry sounds like "kiwi."
[11:04] Kim
    One: Because it looks like the kiwi fruit.
[11:07] Kim
    Two: Because its cry sounds like "kiwi."
SIGN    Because it looks like the kiwi fruit
SIGN    Because its cry sounds like "kiwi."
[11:09] Una
    Which one could it be?
[11:13] Miz
    I know the answer already.
[11:15] Miz
    I heard the kiwi cry once
    when I was around Venus.
[11:19] Miz
    It sounds like "krrrlll," not "kiwi"!
SIGN    Because it looks like the kiwi fruit
SIGN    Because its cry sounds like "kiwi."
[11:22] Miz
    It's #1! I'll even wager my lunch on it!
[11:25] Kim
    Oh, too bad! You fell for it.
[11:28] Kim
    The right answer was #2.
[11:30] Una
    It's the cry? So the kiwi cries "kiwi"?
[11:33] Kim
    Yes, but only the male cries "kiwi."
[11:37] Kim
    Ven-chan had a female,
    and they have a different cry!
[11:41] Miz
    You set me up!
[11:43] Miz
    But a loss is a loss. Take my lunch.
[11:47] Kim
    Yay!
[11:49] Miz
    But my lunch today is
    vitamin pills and water.
[11:54] Kim
    You set me up!
[11:56] Una
    You get along so well.
[12:05] Shi
    First, I'll tell you each your orders.
[12:08] Shi
    Mercury-san: "Doesn't sink."
[12:12] Shi
    Pluto-san: "Can swallow needles."
[12:16] Shi
    Neptune-san: "Unaffected by ground
     that's painful to stand on."
[12:21] Shi
    Jupiter-san: "Resists heat and cold."
[12:26] Shi
    Venus-san: "Can survive with little water."
[12:30] Shi
    Each of you will make one
    of these five animals.
[12:36] Shi
    And then, apparently, in the end, you have to
[12:38] Shi
    "make an animal that combines
    all five of those traits."
[12:43] All
    Wha?!
[12:44] All
    Absurd!
[12:44] All
    What does that even mean?!
[12:45] All
    Not again...
[12:47] Ued
    Oh, my, that is tough.
[12:49] Shi
    That's exactly the reaction I expected.
[12:51] Shi
    Once again, God's idea
    is making everyone suffer.
[12:55] Tsu
    Well, everybody seems to
    be motivated, so it'll work out.
[12:59] Ued
    You're right.
[13:00] Shi
    But...
[13:01] Tsu
    If we just make them individually
    and put it together later,
[13:05] Tsu
    we'll manage somehow.
[13:06] Shi
    I hope so.
[13:08] Miz
    I'm done. Give me a sheet of paper, please.
[13:10] Shi
    You're already done? That's quick!
[13:14] Tsu
    Mercury-kun, your order was for
    a creature that doesn't sink.
[13:18] Tsu
    What did you make?
[13:19] Miz
    This.
[13:23] Shi
    It's straight-up just wire!
[13:25] Ued
    That's a simple creature.
[13:27] Miz
    It wasn't specified what it doesn't
    sink in, so I assumed water.
[13:32] Miz
    This guy will stand on water.
[13:34] Shi
    It won't sink with that shape?
[13:37] Shi
    For floating on water, I imagine
    something more boat-like.
[13:40] Miz
    That would be too easy. If we're making it,
    a more complicated concept is better.
[13:44] Shi
    I took inspiration from the pond skater.
[13:47] Shi
    Pond skater?
[13:48] Tsu
    I see.
[13:49] Tsu
    You know how the pond skater has long legs?
[13:51] Tsu
    Because they're so long, their weight gets
    distributed further, and they don't sink easily.
[13:56] Shi
    I see.
[13:57] Ued
    Oh, but the feet are different
    from the pond skater's.
[14:03] Miz
    This is a further enhancement
    to the pond skater.
SIGN    Water
SIGN    Feet
[14:06] Miz
    The pond skater has fine hairs on its
    feet and floats by repelling the water.
[14:11] Miz
    However, this technique can only
    be used by small creatures.
[14:14] Tsu
    That's right.
[14:16] Tsu
    You know how peaches have
    this fuzz that repels water?
[14:20] Tsu
    The pond skater legs use the same principle.
[14:23] Moz
    Pond skaters are extremely light.
[14:26] Moz
    So that's enough for them to float,
[14:27] Moz
    but if you want bigger creatures to float,
[14:29] Moz
    this foot shape with a larger
    surface are should be ideal.
[14:35] Moz
    All right, it floats! Done.
[14:37] Shi
    It's really floating!
[14:39] Tsu
    It's the same principle as skis.
[14:42] Tsu
    The bigger and flatter the feet,
    the less likely you are to sink.
[14:46] Una
    Wait, we're making the ground water?
[14:48] Una
    Oh, no, that's different
    from what I was doing...
[14:51] Shi
    Neptune-san, your order was "unaffected by
     ground that's painful to stand on."
[14:55] Una
    Yes. I pictured the needle
    mountain they have in Hell.
[15:00] Miz
    What did you come up with?
[15:02] Una
    Well, for the needle mountain,
    an animal should have really thick soles,
[15:06] Una
    so my base was the elephant.
[15:08] Una
    Then I worked on adding protectors,
[15:11] ---
    so it can sit and rest
    on painfully rough ground, too.
[15:15] Tsu
    That's quite a straightforward design.
[15:18] Una
    I went straightforward with the protectors,
    too, and made them from keratin.
[15:21] Shi
    Keratin?
SIGN    Keratin
[15:22] Una
    Just think of it as really thick, hard skin.
[15:26] Shi
    Don't you need to protect the entire body?
[15:28] Miz
    That'll make it hard to move,
    and it'll be heavy.
[15:30] Miz
    Worse, it goes against my design!
[15:33] Miz
    We have to merge it in the end!
[15:35] Miz
    Let's give it longer legs
    and make it thinner!
[15:39] Miz
    More! Keep pushing it to the limit!
[15:41] Una
    The legs will snap!
[15:43] Miz
    Drop more weight! Drop more weight!
[15:46] Miz
    Drop more weight! Drop more weight!
[15:53] Una
    It ended up like this.
[15:56] Ued
    Oh, my!
[15:58] Una
    Hm, it's really starting to
    look like it belongs in Hell.
[16:01] Mei
    Would that mean the needles from
     the mountain are its main food source?
[16:05] Shi
    Pluto-san, your order was
     "can swallow needles," right?
[16:08] Mei
    Yes.
[16:10] Mei
    If the needs can get past the throat,
    I think the stomach can handle the rest.
[16:15] Mei
    While hard things like
    teeth and nails are fine,
[16:18] Mei
    it'll be painful if it gets
    stuck in something soft.
[16:20] Mei
    I wonder how it could be swallowed smoothly.
[16:23] Mei
    Jupiter-san, can you eat this?
[16:27] Kim
    Sure thing!
SIGN    Don't try this at home
[16:35] Shi
    He's like a circus performer!
[16:38] Shi
    Jupiter-san, are you okay?!
[16:44] Mei
    "If you keep the needles vertical,
    they won't get stuck in the throat," he said.
[16:47] Mei
    Of course, that's it!
[16:51] Mei
    Here we go!
[16:53] Mei
    I put a lot of claws in the mouth
    that will orient the needles vertically,
[16:57] Mei
    and send them to the stomach.
[17:02] Ued
    Oh, how cute!
[17:08] Mei
    And done!
[17:10] Shi
    We have to merge that with the others?
[17:12] Tsu
    We're making steady progress.
[17:14] Ued
    Because everybody here is so skilled.
[17:17] Shi
    Then we still need...
[17:19] Kim
    I'm done, too.
[17:22] Shi
    You had "resists heat and cold."
[17:25] Kim
    Yes, this is what I did!
[17:31] Shi
    It's big.
[17:33] Kim
    Bigger things are more resistant to cold.
[17:36] Tsu
    Hot water stays hot longer in a
    bathtub than in a cup, right?
[17:39] Tsu
    Similarly, the bigger you are, the less
    the outside temperature affects you.
[17:44] Kan
    Hold it right there!
[17:45] Kan
    You just put feet on Neptune-san's seal!
[17:48] Kan
    You didn't do any work!
[17:49] Kim
    But to ward off cold, protecting
    the body with fat is the best!
[17:53] Kim
    Hooray for fat!
[17:56] Shi
    But how will this handle heat?
[18:00] Shi
    It looks like it's panting
    because it's too hot.
[18:03] Kim
    I thought it could sweat to
    keep from getting too hot.
[18:07] Kan
    My order is "can survive with little water."
[18:10] Kan
    If there's no water to sweat out,
     it'll dry out and die!
[18:14] Kim
    Oh, yeah. That's tough, Ven-chan.
[18:16] Kim
    Good luck!
[18:17] Kan
    Wait! You're just shoving this on me?!
[18:19] Kan
    Is this one of those things where
     you suffer more the later you start?
[18:26] Kan
    I guess I have no choice.
SIGN    Prototype Lab
[18:32] Kan
    Mars-san, help, please!
[18:34] Shi
    She made it her problem!
[18:36] Hig
    What? Make this resistant
     to water scarcity, too?
[18:39] Hig
    That's not trivial.
[18:41] Kan
    That's why I need you!
[18:43] Hig
    I think the fat and fluff are good
    for protecting against both heat and cold.
[18:48] Shi
    Fluff to protect against the heat?
[18:50] Hig
    Both fat and fluff are insulators.
[18:54] Hig
    That'll protect the body from the heat.
[18:56] Shi
    It's cooler to have a coat of fur?
SIGN    Fur
SIGN    Fat
SIGN    Body
[18:58] Hig
    Yes, only the surface heats up,
    so the heat doesn't get to the body.
SIGN    {\pos(280,145)\frx46\fad(1896,1)\t(5529,6238,\3c&H5F5D4E&\c&H403934&)
    }Smooth Ice Cream
SIGN    Ultimate Vanilla
SIGN    Domestic Cream
SIGN    Ultimate Vanilla
[19:03] Hig
    If you put a cold carton of
    ice cream out in a hot room,
[19:07] Hig
    wrapping it in a sweater
    makes it melt more slowly.
[19:10] Shi
    Oh, I see!
[19:12] Hig
    So while that keeps the
    body temperature from rising,
[19:16] Hig
    it also keeps it from lowering.
[19:18] Hig
    To prevent overheating,
    you definitely need water...
[19:22] Kan
    Oh, how about breaking down the
    fat in the body into water?
[19:28] Hig
    That could be possible, but...
[19:30] Kan
    But?
[19:31] Hig
    In order to break down fat,
    you need a lot of water.
[19:35] Kan
    That defeats the purpose.
[19:37] Kan
    Then the only other way is to
    store a lot of water in the body
[19:41] Kan
    when it can drink, and only use it sparingly.
[19:43] Kan
    Where could that water be stored, though?
[19:46] Hig
    Let's see...
[19:48] Hig
    Red blood cells can store water in the blood.
[19:51] Hig
    If you store too much, they'll burst, though.
[19:55] Kan
    Can't we make them more robust,
     so they don't burst?
[19:57] Hig
    We can, but the veins are sized
[20:00] Hig
    so that red blood cells barely pass through.
[20:03] Hig
    Huge red blood cells would block them.
[20:06] Kan
    Oh, right...
[20:08] Miz
    What, what? You strugglin'?
[20:10] Kan
    You came to mock me because you're done?
[20:13] Kan
    But I've already come up with a solution!
[20:16] Miz
    Oh, what's that?
[20:17] Kan
    I made the red blood cells longer!
[20:20] Kan
    By making them elliptical, they can pass
    through narrow veins even when they get big!
[20:27] Hig
    That could work!
[20:29] Shi
    We got an okay here!
[20:31] Miz
    But it's too heavy to float!
[20:33] Miz
    I want it to be light!
    At least reduce the fat by half!
[20:36] Kan
    What's with you all of the sudden?!
[20:37] Una
    Not again...
[20:39] Miz
    In order to protect the body from the sun,
[20:41] Miz
    we leave just the fat on the back!
     We don't need the rest!
SIGN    And then...
[20:51] Miz
    When I combined everyone's sketches,
     this came out.
[20:54] Kan
    Everyone's? You meddled with most of them.
[21:00] Kan
    I wonder if this will pass.
[21:02] Mei
    Do we start over?
[21:04] Kim
    I think the general direction was right.
[21:07] Ued
    Where does this baby live, anyway?
[21:10] Shi
    Extreme heat and intense cold,
    its feet don't sink, and it swallows needles, right?
[21:16] All
    Ah!
[21:17] Kan
    The desert!
[21:19] Una
    You sink in sand, and it's painful
    to stand on when it gets hot.
[21:23] Mei
    There is little water,
    and cacti have thorns!
[21:26] Kim
    It's 50 degrees Celsius during the day,
    and below freezing at night!
[21:29] Miz
    Leave the rest to me!
[21:31] Miz
    It doesn't sink, can swallow needles,
    is unaffected by pain,
[21:35] Miz
    resists heat and cold,
    and can survive with little water...
[21:39] Miz
    This animal is the answer to all that!
[21:45] Shi
    God has spoken!
[21:48] God
    Accepted!
SIGN    Accepted
SIGN    Camel
[21:52] Una
    Since the skin on its knees is thick,
    it can kneel on hot desert sand.
[21:56] Kim
    Just on its back, there's a
    big hump of fat and hair.
[22:00] Mei
    It can eat cacti.
[22:02] Shi
    So it has those claws inside its mouth...
[22:04] Tsu
    That was amazing teamwork.
[22:08] Ued
    I'm sure God will send down more
    of these relay orders now.