E1 - The Greatest World!

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[00:08] Mom
    Are you okay, Midori?
[00:11] Midori
    I'm carsick.
[00:13] Mom
    Do you need a bag?
[00:15] Midori
    No.
[00:17] Mom
    Okay, almost there.
[00:24] Midori
    By the time I was in sixth grade,
    my dream was to become an adventurer.
[00:29] Midori
    We're gonna live here?
SIGN    Shibahama South Building
[00:36] Midori
    Holy cow!
[00:38] Midori
    It's on top of a river!
[00:41] Midori
    I'm gonna go explore!
[00:42] Mom
    You are? Be careful!
[00:56] Midori
    It's gonna take a long time
    to see everything here!
SIGN    Adventure Log
SIGN    Hidden Door!
SIGN    Underground
     World
SIGN    Break Room
SIGN    Kitchen
SIGN    Mysterious
     Giant Fish
SIGN    Undersea Tunnel
SIGN    Station
SIGN    Fruit Store
SIGN    Fish
SIGN    Vegetable Store
[01:41] Mom
    Midori?
[01:44] Mom
    I'm going to the airport to pick Dad up.
[01:47] Mom
    Watch some anime and wait for me, okay?
[01:49] Midori
    Okay. Be safe.
[01:59] Midori
    It's raining like it's the
    end of the world.
SIGN    Singing
    Cactus
SIGN    Recommended for You
SIGN    New Releases
SIGN    Lovely Pet
SIGN    Conaso
    of the Lost Island
SIGN    In July of 2008 AD, humanity faced the threat of extinction.
    The use of supermagnetic weapons, with power that
     dwarfs even nuclear bombs, result in half the world being
     devastated in just moments.
     Twenty years later, Conaso, the last inhabitant of a solitary island,
     rescues a young girl who washes up on its shore.
SIGN    Watch from Beginning
SIGN    Episodes
SIGN    Getting ready...
[02:51] Midori
    It wasn't something I could do myself.
[02:54] Midori
    But the big, epic world of adventure
    I wanted to experience...
[02:58] Midori
    was right in front of me.
[03:03] Midori
    That was the first time I realized...
[03:04] Midori
    that someone made the anime I watched.
SIGN    Episode 1        The Greatest World!
SIGN    Keep
SIGN    Your
SIGN    Hands
SIGN    Off
SIGN    Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
SIGN    Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
[04:58] Kanamori
    Here's what you asked for, Asakusa.
[05:01] Kanamori
    Red bean soup and green soybean mochi.
[05:03] Midori
    Excellent work, Kanamori.
[05:05] Kanamori
    If you're that curious, you could
    always head down there yourself.
[05:09] Midori
    I don't do well in crowds.
[05:13] Midori
    Huh? Kanamori? Where's my change?
[05:18] Kanamori
    I'm taking it as a service fee.
[05:22] Kanamori
    Why, Asakusa, did you expect to
    get my labor without compensation?
SIGN    Volleyball
SIGN    Tennis
SIGN    Water Polo
[05:31] Glasses
    It's the age of robots! The time has come for—
[05:33] Midori
    I guess I didn't think it through.
[05:38] Midori
    Anyway, Kanamori, my friend...
[05:39] Kanamori
    What's up?
[05:40] Midori
    I'll buy you some milk,
[05:42] Midori
    so would you come see the screening by the anime—
[05:44] Kanamori
    Absolutely not. Sounds lame.
[05:45] Midori
    I'm begging you!
[05:46] Midori
    I'll up it to two bottles of the milk
    they sell at the Ongyoku Bathhouse!
[05:49] Kanamori
    Is this like how some people only go to
     the bathroom as part of a group, Asakusa?
[05:53] Midori
    I'd feel weird going alone.
[05:56] Kanamori
    Why the anime club, exactly?
[05:58] Midori
    Well, because I love anime, of course.
[06:00] Kanamori
    Why not make something at home, on your own?
[06:03] Midori
    It's hard to make anything more
    than a short on your own.
[06:07] Midori
    And I need the right kind of environment,
     and an opportunity to get anything done.
[06:13] Kanamori
    And that means you spend your days
    just staring out at the campus?
[06:17] Kanamori
    What exactly are you looking at, Your Excellency?
[06:21] Midori
    Isn't it obvious, Kanamori?!
[06:24] Midori
    Look at this campus, built on the water!
SIGN    Shibahama High School
[06:26] Midori
    The continued renovations, over time,
[06:28] Midori
    have created a layout both
     complicated and inexplicable!
[06:30] Midori
    A total lack of consistency
    between upper and lower levels!
[06:32] Midori
    The bridges that go into town!
SIGN    Shibahama High School
[06:34] Midori
    That clock, which isn't visible
    from most of the campus!
[06:37] Midori
    Which means we usually end up looking at...
[06:39] Midori
    The clock over on the coast!
[06:42] Midori
    It's a public building shaped like a dungeon!
[06:44] Midori
    I want to make an anime with
    this school as the setting!
[06:47] Midori
    It's gonna look like this! What do you think?!
[06:52] Kanamori
    You get fired up at the drop
    of a hat, don't you, Asakusa?
[06:56] Kanamori
    I'm not sure what you want me to say...
[07:01] Kanamori
    We just enrolled here, and you've
     got all this... stuff.
[07:05] Kanamori
    Don't you have anything better
    to do with your energy?
[07:09] Midori
    Come on, let's go to the anime
    club's screening, Kanamori!
[07:13] Kanamori
    Make it four bottles of milk.
[07:15] Midori
    You're taking advantage of me.
SIGN    A/V Room A
SIGN    Anime Research Group
    Special Screening
[07:19] Midori
    Go on, go on. Head in there.
[07:23] Kanamori
    Please stop using me as a shield.
[07:26] Midori
    Doesn't seem to be very busy...
[07:28] Midori
    Let's sit in the back, Kanamori.
[07:39] Midori
    Let's sit somewhere else!
[07:40] Club
    Start it up, please.
SIGN    Conaso
    of the Lost Island
[07:55] Kanamori
    What about this is entertaining to you?
[07:57] Midori
    You have this simple-looking, round machine,
[08:00] Midori
    that can fly thanks to a
    unexplained anti-gravity device,
[08:03] Midori
    which is depicted with an
    attention to fine details...
[08:05] Midori
    Like how they pick it up with their hands!
[08:07] Midori
    It's like when you push a car,
    hoping the engine will turn over!
[08:10] Midori
    They're taking the obvious
    visual cues of the animation
[08:11] Midori
    and using it to create an air of reality!
[08:16] Midori
    The spacing of the frame...
[08:18] Midori
    Establishing the location...
[08:19] Midori
    The relaxed pace that's set by the running!
[08:21] Midori
    The way it sets up the character's physicality!
[08:25] Midori
    And this sense of scale!
[08:26] Midori
    Look at the size contrast created
    in this crossover shot!
[08:31] Midori
    And by having debris flying around,
[08:32] Midori
    it creates a real sense of propulsion!
[08:35] Midori
    And the movement of the air...
[08:38] Midori
    With the character running against it,
     showing the resistance,
[08:40] Midori
    and how it pushes them around...
[08:41] Midori
    Right here!
[08:42] Midori
    You take something that's totally implausible,
     but pass it off like it is!
[08:44] Midori
    You take reality and then exaggerate
    it in a way that makes sense!
[08:48] Midori
    A character moves around on top of
    a background, and it creates an entire world!
[08:51] Midori
    Seeing a character wandering around a mysterious
    world fills you with a sense of adventure—
[08:53] Kanamori
    I understand, and you can stop now.
[08:56] Kanamori
    Getting more of an explanation than
    you asked for is excruciating.
[08:59] Midori
    Sorry about that.
[09:00] Kanamori
    I'll admit, anime is more
    complicated than I ever thought.
[09:09] Tsubame
    Excuse me, you in the hat?
[09:10] Tsubame
    Nice to meet you. I'm a first-year, too!
    Tsubame Mizusaki! I like anime, too!
[09:14] Midori
    Wow, close! Uh, yes! Okay!
[09:15] Tsubame
    Sorry to spring this on you,
    but I need to borrow your hat!
[09:18] Goons
    There she is.
[09:18] Midori
    Whoa, are those MiBs?
[09:20] Tsubame
    Thanks, see you later!
[09:22] Midori
    Wait, my hat? Where'd it—
[09:25] Movie?
    Conaso!
[09:27] Movie?
    Lana!
[09:30] Midori
    A young girl, fleeing from villains...
[09:32] Kanamori
    She's actually a famous fashion model...
[09:35] Kanamori
    On top of being the daughter
    of some huge megacorp's boss.
[09:37] Midori
    I thought there were anti-monopoly
    laws to get rid of those.
[09:40] Kanamori
    This smells like cash...
[09:42] Midori
    And adventure.
SIGN    Strawberry Milk
SIGN    Strawberry Milk
[09:59] Midori
    There she is!
[10:01] Kanamori
    Well, now...
[10:07] Midori
    What are they talking about?
[10:09] Midori
    I can't hear.
[10:16] Tsubame
    If this is just a lecture, you didn't
     need to follow me to school.
[10:19] Tsubame
    I was looking forward to the
    anime club's screening.
[10:22] Tsubame
    I don't understand why I'm supposed to put
     on an act just because my parents both do it!
[10:27] Tsubame
    I want a normal life! Going home with
    my friends, doing after school activities!
[10:30] Goon
    Our orders are to keep you
    from joining the anime club.
[10:35] Tsubame
    So if it was live action or any other
    kind of film club, it'd be fine?!
[10:37] Goon
    Correct.
[10:41] Kanamori
    Asakusa...
[10:44] Kanamori
    Go and make friends with Mizusaki, all right?
[10:50] Tsubame
    Being an animator is a real job!
[10:53] Tsubame
    You breathe life into all kinds of roles!
[10:54] Tsubame
    And not just people, but wind,
    the environment, machines...
[10:57] Tsubame
    Sometimes they create performances
    bigger than anything live action could!
[11:00] Midori
    Hey...
[11:03] Tsubame
    You're the girl who had the hat...
[11:05] Midori
    S-Sup! Sorry about the delay!
[11:06] Midori
    I was late catching my bike! Can you believe it?
[11:08] Midori
    Hey, it's almost 2!
[11:09] Midori
    Why don't we chill on the roof and chow
    down our lunches, Tsubamecchy Mizusaki?
[11:14] Midori
    Come on, there's a weirdo lurking around.
[11:17] Tsubame
    Uh...
[11:18] Goon
    Excuse me. Who are you, exactly?
[11:22] Midori
    Run for it!
[11:22] Tsubame
    Wait! Hey, hang on!
[11:24] Goon
    Get back here!
[11:25] Midori
    This way!
[11:30] Midori
    Go up!
[11:36] Goon
    There you are!
[12:07] Tsubame
    That guy works for my parents!
[12:10] Tsubame
    Thankfully, he's tough enough that
     that probably didn't hurt him.
[12:13] Tsubame
    Man, you grabbed me when I was taking a sip,
[12:15] Tsubame
    and now I'm covered in strawberry milk!
[12:17] Midori
    I am so sorry.
[12:18] Tsubame
    It's kind of crazy you thought he
    was some kind of bad guy, though.
[12:22] Kanamori
    Sending someone to spy on you at school...
[12:25] Kanamori
    Your parents keep you on
    a short leash, don't they?
[12:27] Midori
    Whoa, Kanamori!
[12:29] Tsubame
    They won't shut up about
    wanting me to be an actress.
[12:32] Tsubame
    I'm not allowed to join the anime club,
[12:34] Tsubame
    so I told him to get me a
    strawberry milk and slipped away.
[12:38] Tsubame
    Not that it matters now.
[12:40] Tsubame
    Wow, I smell like strawberry milk.
[12:42] Crowd
    That's Mizusaki Tsubame!
[12:53] Kanamori
    No sense in chatting with an audience.
     Let's get you cleaned up.
[12:58] Midori
    Kanamori, I'm not sure we should
    be butting in this much.
[13:02] Kanamori
    What're you saying? First you save
    the princess, then comes the treasure.
[13:07] Midori
    This isn't about rescuing a princess
    from a villain! It's a family disagreement!
[13:10] Kanamori
    I know you heard her talk about anime, Asakusa.
[13:15] Kanamori
    Let's just escort her to the laundromat for now.
[13:17] Midori
    You're scheming something up,
    aren't you, Kanamori?
[13:22] Tsubame
    Is this where you sleep?
[13:24] Midori
    Mizusaki, that's where actual people sleep!
[13:26] Tsubame
    Wait, someone lives here?!
[13:30] Midori
    Here we are.
[13:32] Tsubame
    This is the laundromat?
[13:33] Kanamori
    Admittedly, it doesn't exactly give
     off the impression of cleanliness.
SIGN    Coin Laundry
SIGN    Rear Entrance
    Ongyoku Bathhouse
[13:36] Tsubame
    Wow! Why is it in such an out-of-the-way place?
[13:40] Midori
    There's a walkway on the second floor
    that leads to the Ongyoku Bathhouse!
[13:43] Kanamori
    Why's the air conditioner on the door?
[13:45] Midori
    Lots of places have cramped entrances.
[13:50] Tsubame
    It's bigger on the inside than I expected.
[13:52] Midori
    This place is a bit like my secret hideout.
SIGN    Detergent
SIGN    Detergent
SIGN    Change Machine
[13:58] Midori
    Take this as an apology.
[14:00] Tsubame
    Aw, you didn't have to...
[14:08] Kanamori
    I've got some cash.
[14:09] Tsubame
    Wow, thanks!
[14:11] Kanamori
    Oh, no, just think of it as an investment.
[14:13] Midori
    There's a waiting room on the second floor!
SIGN    Coin Laundry
[14:42] Tsubame
    I love weird buildings like this.
    Can never draw them right, though...
[14:49] Midori
    You draw, Mizusaki?
[14:52] Tsubame
    Well, I want to be an animator.
[14:54] Kanamori
    What kind of things do you draw?
[14:59] Tsubame
    Take a look.
[15:09] Kanamori
    What do you say, Asakusa?
[15:11] Midori
    You can tell she's serious
    about being an animator.
[15:14] Midori
    Lots of figure drawing,
     the kind I have trouble with.
[15:16] Tsubame
    You draw too, Asakusa?!
[15:18] Midori
    Uh, well, I...
[15:21] Kanamori
    Here you go.
[15:22] Tsubame
    Thanks!
[15:24] Tsubame
    I'm gonna take a look.
[15:26] Midori
    Damn it, Kanamori, who said you could—
[15:30] Midori
    Let me go!
[15:31] Tsubame
    These are... image boards
    and concept designs right?
[15:36] Midori
    E-E-Exactly.
[15:39] Kanamori
    What's an image board?
[15:41] Tsubame
    It's the art done early in
    anime production to establish
[15:43] Tsubame
    the look and feel of the world.
[15:48] Midori
    Are you trying to kill me?!
[15:49] Midori
    I've wanted to make anime
    ever since elementary school,
[15:52] Midori
    and this is the kind of
    stuff I would always draw.
[15:54] Midori
    But you're the first person to ever
     recognize that it was concept art.
[15:58] Tsubame
    I've never met anyone who
    did concept design before.
[16:01] Tsubame
    Most people just do character art. Including me.
[16:05] Tsubame
    This is amazing... It's full of ideas.
[16:14] Midori
    You want to try an overlay?
[16:25] Tsubame
    It's like my art has a background!
[16:26] Midori
    That worked better than I thought!
[16:28] Midori
    Let's try with others.
[16:29] ---
    Yeah!
[16:32] Midori
    How about this?
[16:33] Tsubame
    Nice!
[16:34] Midori
    And this?
[16:35] Tsubame
    It looks good! This is fun!
[16:38] Midori
    This is starting to get interesting!
[16:40] Kanamori
    Mizusaki, how would you like to make
    anime with Midori Asakusa here?
[16:46] Tsubame
    But I'm not allowed to join the anime club.
[16:48] Midori
    That's right! Where'd that come from?!
[16:50] Midori
    It's not like I have any experience,
    or know-how, or the guts to—
[16:54] Kanamori
    Why should a pair of bright young people
[16:56] Kanamori
    let nonsense like that stop them?
[16:58] Kanamori
    Do you want to make anime or not?!
[17:02] Kanamori
    If you can't join the anime club,
[17:03] Kanamori
    then you can just start a new club of your own!
[17:06] Kanamori
    We've got youth on our side.
[17:09] Kanamori
    That means we don't stand to lose
    anything here. There's no risk involved.
[17:12] Kanamori
    And I may not know anything about anime,
     but I can back you up in other ways.
[17:16] Tsubame
    Why would you do that?
[17:18] Kanamori
    Because a famous fashion model making
    anime sounds like a great way to rake in cash.
[17:23] Both
    You want money?!
[17:27] Midori
    This ship is cool.
[17:29] Tsubame
    You think? I just drew it because I
    felt like I needed to try and do something
[17:33] Tsubame
    other than characters.
[17:40] Tsubame
    Asakusa, try drawing some
    lines on the frame there!
[17:43] Midori
    A couple of safety stripes, right?
[17:49] Tsubame
    Go ahead and pull mine out!
[17:56] Midori
    What do you suppose it does, though?
[17:59] Tsubame
    I hadn't thought about it,
    but I guess it's for construction.
[18:02] Midori
    In that case, some arms
    and winches would be good!
[18:04] Kanamori
    Winches?
[18:05] Midori
    Like the kind for spooling cables!
[18:06] Tsubame
    Good idea! Put some on!
[18:08] Midori
    Does it look good here?
[18:10] Tsubame
    Wow!
[18:12] Tsubame
    Y'know, I've never done any concept art before.
[18:15] Midori
    I like setting up concepts.
[18:17] Midori
    Did you ever draw a layout for a
    secret base when you were a kid?
[18:20] Midori
    That was always a ton of fun!
[18:23] Tsubame
    I remember adding traps
     and setting mines...
[18:27] Tsubame
    Not sure who they were supposed to be for.
[18:30] Midori
    The greatest world I can imagine!
[18:33] Midori
    I draw to bring that world to life,
[18:35] Midori
    so concepts are what it's all about!
[18:41] Tsubame
    You're really something, Asakusa!
[18:43] Tsubame
    In that case, let's keep going!
    Maybe it should have a light around here?
[18:47] Midori
    That'd make the engine look kind of cramped.
[18:49] Tsubame
    I'd like it better if it moved around
    in a more distinct way, though.
[18:56] Tsubame
    How about something like this?
    Wings like you'd see on a bug.
[18:58] Midori
    Oh, wow! That's awesome!
[19:01] Midori
    It can't really land like that, though.
[19:03] Midori
    Let's add some landing gear with
    tires for a counterweight,
[19:05] Midori
    and turn the ducted fans into
    contra-rotating propellers.
[19:08] Tsubame
    We can attach a tail to make
    it look like a dragonfly!
SIGN    All-Purpose Manned Flying Pod
    Kairi
[19:11] Midori
    It's done!
[19:12] Tsubame
    Fantastic!
[19:13] Midori
    And the wings' surfaces
    are made of solar panels!
[19:16] Midori
    Plus, the structure for
[19:17] Midori
    the wing joints is modeled after
    real exoskeletons and muscle fibers!
[19:20] Tsubame
    It's tiny!
[19:21] Midori
    It has to be, to be light enough.
[19:29] Midori
    All right, let's do a motion
    check for the wings.
[19:38] Midori
    All good!
[19:45] Goons
    Hold it!
[19:47] Tsubame
    Oh, no! Let's get out of here!
[19:50] Midori
    The switch for the launch
    catapult is on the outside.
[19:52] Tsubame
    I'll go!
[19:55] Kanamori
    There was a door here?
[19:59] Tsubame
    Is this it?
[20:05] Midori
    Huh?
[20:05] Tsubame
    It says number three is empty!
[20:07] Midori
    That means there's no steam pressure!
    The catapult's not gonna work!
[20:10] Tsubame
    I'll push! Kanamori, help me!
[20:12] Kanamori
    Whatever...
[20:20] Tsubame
    Move!
[20:35] Midori
    All right! Get in, you two!
[20:52] Midori
    Come on!
[21:09] Tsubame
    It worked! We're actually flying!
SIGN    Mizu
[21:28] Tsubame
    Is there no way out of here?!
[21:29] Midori
    There are massive skyscrapers
    in every direction!
[21:31] Kanamori
    This is bad.
[21:33] Midori
    Over there!
[21:34] Tsubame
    It's too narrow!
[21:35] Midori
    We'll fly sideways!
[21:35] Tusbame
    It's not gonna work!
[21:38] Midori
    Huh?
[21:39] Tsubame
    What? What is it?
[21:40] Midori
    One of the wings isn't responding!
[21:42] Midori
    It took a hit!
[21:44] Midori
    We're gonna crash!
[21:46] Tsubame
    The three of us can figure this out!
[21:48] Tsubame
    Kanamori, let's try and shift the weight!
[21:49] Kanamori
    Oh, for the love of...
[21:58] Tsubame
    Yeah!
[22:10] Tsubame
    Ow, ow, ow...
[22:18] Midori
    This... It's the greatest world.
[22:36] Midori
    Is it just me, or did we go somewhere awesome?
[22:39] Tsubame
    It felt like we saw something amazing.
[22:42] Tsubame
    Oh, shoot, I need to go!
[22:44] Tsubame
    The new anime by the animation dream team of
[22:46] Tsubame
    Inoue-san, Ohira-san, and Iso-san is gonna air!
[22:48] Midori
    Can't you record it?
[22:49] Tsubame
    I've gotta see it live!
[22:52] Tsubame
    Which way is the station?!
[22:53] Midori
    I'll show you the shortest route!
[22:55] Kanamori
    I am not running.
[22:57] Midori
    But you always get better times than me.
[22:59] Midori
    Mizusaki, how fast can you do 100 meters?
[23:01] Tsubame
    When I was little, I used to say
    I could do it in one second.
[23:03] Midori
    Then we can get to the station in eight seconds!
[23:05] Kanamori
    Whoever's last to the station
    has to treat me to something.
[23:09] Kanamori
    See ya!
[23:10] Tsubame
    Hey, wait!
[23:11] Midori
    That's cheating!
[23:12] Kanamori
    You two are the ones who
    decided to just stand around!
[23:14] Midori
    Why wouldn't we?!
[23:15] Tsubame
    Kanamori, you're too fast!
[23:19] Laundry
    Your washing is done. Please unload the machine.
[23:24] Laundry
    Your washing is done. Please unload the machine.
SIGN    Illustration by Aoki Toshinao