E9 - Aim for Comet A!

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[00:12] Sakaki
    You know what it is, right?
[00:15] Sakaki
    The sound club is selling their
    audio through this website.
SIGN    Student Council
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[00:19] Sakaki
    They seem to be raking it in, too.
[00:25] Sakaki
    And apparently, someone is taking
    a cut of these profits
[00:29] Sakaki
    as "rent" for providing the Sound Club
     with a base of operations.
SIGN    Film
[00:41] K
    Our screening at the culture
    festival was a success,
SIGN    Anime Proposal Boiled Tofu Club
SIGN    Anime Proposal by the Sepak Takraw Club
[00:45] K
    which has resulted in
    requests from several clubs
[00:47] K
    who want a promotional movie like
    what we did for the robot club.
[00:52] K
    The boiled tofu group, the hula dance club,
[00:54] K
    the sepak takraw club,
     the choju-giga art restoration club...
[00:57] K
    The carbohydrates revolution has sent
[00:59] K
    us a proposal titled
    "It's Electro-Magnetic Amoeba World!"
[01:03] M
    That sounds great!
[01:04] A
    Let's do it! Let's accept them all—
[01:06] K
    But I turned them all down!
[01:08] A
    Have you lost your mind, Kanamori?!
SIGN    Eizouken-Produced Robot Anime DVD Sales & Earnings Robot Research Club (Client) Earnings: 51,000 yen Eizouken (15%) Earnings 9,000 Yen Contract for DVD Production, Sales, other associated fees Eizouken- 10,120 yen 9,000+10,120 (19,120 yen)
[01:12] K
    The DVD of the robot anime sold
    120 copies at a price of 500 yen apiece,
[01:17] K
    of which the eizouken only
    came away with 15%—9,000 yen.
[01:21] K
    This is because the rights to the film
    belong to the commissioning client,
[01:24] K
    the robot club.
[01:26] K
    Even with additional fees for our efforts,
[01:28] K
    we walked away with just under 20,000 yen.
[01:31] K
    But the fact of the matter is,
    at an hourly salary of 1,000 yen,
[01:34] K
    we put in enough labor to earn 1.8 million yen!
[01:38] A
    1.8 m-million yen?!
[01:40] K
    We're students, so it's ultimately fine,
[01:42] K
    but I consider it to be a
    major loss for our club.
[01:46] A
    That's rough.
[01:47] K
    Business done under a school's jurisdiction
    has certain pricing expectations
[01:49] K
    and budgetary constraints
[01:51] K
    which limit the individual unit price.
[01:53] K
    Add the limitations of doing a
    movie for an extracurricular group,
[01:56] K
    and that limits our potential even further.
SIGN    Anime Proposal
SIGN    Carbohydrates Revolution Group
[01:58] K
    Unless we're working for a
    particularly popular group,
[02:00] K
    that means the earnings are going to be thin.
[02:02] K
    So for the reasons I just explained,
    I turned down all the offers we received.
[02:06] A
    M-Makes sense...
[02:07] K
    To make up for our loss with this incident,
[02:10] K
    if we sold our DVDs at 1,000 yen a piece,
[02:13] K
    we would still need to sell 1,780 copies.
[02:18] A
    Well, that ain't happening!
[02:19] M
    Nope.
[02:20] K
    And yet, look at what I found.
[02:26] M
    "Self-Publishing Exhibition
    and Sales Event..."
SIGN    Self-Publishing Exhibition and Sales Event
[02:29] M
    Comet A?
SIGN    An event for the display and sales of manga and other self-published works
SIGN     Shibahama Land Sites A & B
SIGN    Click here for more information
SIGN    Shibahama Land Site
SIGN    Shibahama Station
SIGN    Latest News
SIGN    What is Comet A?
SIGN    The History of Comet A
SIGN    Sales Catalog
SIGN    Web Application
SIGN    10 minutes away from Shibahama station
     on foot, 8 minutes by bus.
SIGN    For those traveling by automobile,
     please use the parking lot to the left
     of the entrance to the venue.
     Parking Lot Hours:
    24 hours a day/No holidays
    
    Pricing Information
     First hour: 400 yen
     For every additional
     two hours: 200 yen
     Capacity: 237 vehicles
    
SIGN    For Attendees
    
     Guide for First-Time Attendees
     An Example of a Typical Show
     Floor MAP
     Information About Participating Circles
     A Note on Etiquette
SIGN    About Us
    
     An Introduction
     Business Information
     Press Information
     Information Page
     Staff Application
     FAQ
[02:32] A
    You wanna sell stuff outside of school?
[02:36] K
    The eizouken needs money to survive!
[02:40] K
    It's time for a new project!
[02:42] K
    Let's sell the hell out of some DVDs, you dorks!
SIGN    Episode 9 Aim for Comet A!
SIGN    Keep
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[04:15] M
    That building looks like a piece of shortcake!
[04:16] A
    This leads to the mountain shrine,
    so I'd guess it was Main Street originally,
[04:20] A
    but the highway was headed in
    that direction, and cut it off!
[04:24] M
    This looks like a bridge,
    but there's no river.
[04:26] A
    Correct! There used to be a river.
[04:28] A
    That's part of why the roads meander so much.
[04:31] A
    Gives it a particular feel!
[04:39] A
    Behold! Those poles will
    split open, firing a missile!
[04:47] M
    Look at those! Like the top of tanks!
[04:51] A
    A colossus that no one can see!
[04:55] A
    Gigantic creatures!
[04:57] A
    Mobilize the gantry cranes!
[05:02] M
    I always used to imagine this
    stuff on the way home from school.
[05:07] A
    Scorching...
[05:14] M
    We're gonna get sunburnt.
[05:16] A
    The dimensional phase-shift vessel!
[05:25] A
    The water level's risen...
[05:27] A
    Must be from all the rain yesterday.
[05:29] A
    It acts like a natural refrigerator...
[05:30] K
    Stop dawdling, Asakusa. It's obnoxious.
[05:34] M
    Gotta say, I wasn't expecting you to suggest
    we go out of our way for lunch, Kanamori.
[05:38] M
    You'd normally say it's a waste of time.
[05:40] A
    You're up to something, aren't you?
[05:42] M
    Hey, what's that?
[05:44] A
    It's an offering. For kappas.
[05:46] M
    Kappas?
[05:47] K
    There are apparently legends about
    kappas having inhabited Shibahama.
SIGN    Careful!!
SIGN    Do not swim in or play
SIGN    around the waterways
SIGN    Scary!
[05:51] A
    Likely because of how
    pristine the water is here.
SIGN    Shibahama Underground Shopping Mall
SIGN    For Your Life In Town
SIGN    Grilled Thai Cuisine Taitai Pavilion General Store Multi-Tools
    
    Grilled Squid Shiba-chan
    
     Vietnamese Spring Rolls
    
    Beer and Snacks Garden Shibahama
    
    Curry Gandala Dandan Noodles
    
     Shibajiro Udon-Soba
    Coin Locker
[06:06] K
    It's too damn hot, so let's head down there.
[06:08] A
    The underground! Very shrewd, Kanamori.
[06:11] M
    I didn't know this was here!
[06:12] A
    Shibahama gets snowed in during winter,
    so its underground is pretty developed.
[06:19] K
    It's just a run-down shopping district now.
[06:28] A
    Th-This...
[06:31] A
    Isn't it the legendary spiral
    staircase shopping district,
[06:34] A
    which is said to reach deep
    into the belly of the earth?!
SIGN    Fruit Dandan Noodles
SIGN    Fruit Dandan Noodles
[06:37] K
    Let's eat here.
SIGN    This week's Special: Fruit Ramen!
SIGN    Star Fruit Dandan Noodles: 800 Yen
SIGN    Banana Dandan Noodles: POPULAR
SIGN    Pineapple Dandan Noodles
[06:40] M
    What the...
SIGN    Passion fruit Dandan Noodles
SIGN    Weekdays Only
SIGN    One Free Substitution
[06:42] Kashima
    Hey!
[06:46] Kashima
    You came by!
[06:48] K
    Hello.
SIGN    Tsubame Mizusaki
[06:50] M
    Huh...
[06:50] Kashima
    That's right! I watched your robot
    anime at the culture festival!
[06:54] A
    I remember you!
[06:56] K
    And afterward, he sent a
    passionate note of praise.
[07:00] A
    So that's it.
[07:02] Kashima
    Y'know, I watch a fair bit of anime,
    and yours was great! I was moved!
[07:05] Kashima
    The combination of realistic
    robot design principles
[07:08] Kashima
    with fantastical super robot action!
[07:11] Kashima
    That's the kind of robot anime people
    like me have been waiting for!
[07:14] Kashima
    It had the verisimilitude
    that makes you think
[07:16] Kashima
    the creators knew their stuff!
[07:17] Kashima
    And the monster seemed
    like it'd be right at home
[07:18] M
    He's actually praising the short.
[07:19] Kashima
    in the Shibahama underground...
[07:20] Kashima
    It's incredible you girls managed to
    pull that off while in high school!
[07:20] A
    I still feel like we've got too much to
    work on to accept it openly, though...
[07:23] Kashima
    You're prodigies!
[07:26] A
    This is better than I thought.
[07:29] M
    Yeah, seriously! I didn't think fruit
    would go well with ramen.
[07:33] K
    Star fruit has a pretty mild flavor,
    so there's pear juice in this.
[07:37] K
    You could even call it pear ramen instead.
[07:40] K
    It goes to show that a dish can be good
[07:42] K
    even if the fruit used is barely noticeable,
     or bad if you notice it too much.
[07:45] K
    Although part of it being good means
[07:46] K
    demonstrating what's unique
    about the fruit used.
[07:50] M
    You never usually go that deep
    with your thoughts about food.
[07:53] A
    I think I get it.
[07:54] A
    Sometimes you need to smother the taste
    of the fruit for it to be good.
[07:58] Kashima
    Welcome!
[07:59] M
    It's probably a little late to point this out,
    but this place is built on an angle, huh?
[08:04] K
    Right. Supposedly part of the reason
    the noodles are served without broth
[08:07] K
    is to keep it from spilling out.
[08:09] Kashima
    One pineapple dandan noodles,
    and one dragon fruit dandan noodles!
[08:15] Kashima
    Just between you and me, I've got
    an incredible idea up my sleeve.
[08:19] Kashima
    For an anime!
[08:20] Kashima
    I just have no idea how I'd ever get it made.
[08:23] Kashima
    You wanna hear?
[08:24] A
    Uh, sure, sure!
[08:25] Kashima
    The protagonist is an
    ordinary guy who works at a
[08:28] Kashima
    dandan noodle place like this!
[08:30] Kashima
    But he has a secret identity...
[08:32] Kashima
    He's actually an agent with the secret
    police force that protects world peace!
[08:37] Kashima
    He uses his red pepper bombs
    to fight off an alien invasion!
[08:40] Kashima
    Coming!
[08:41] K
    Sounds good to me. Let's use
    that for our new project.
[08:45] Other diners
    The Yoshidas' place is gonna
    be closing this summer, too.
[08:48] Other diners
    It's getting more and more lonely around here.
[08:53] M
    Looks like our film club has a fan!
[08:56] A
    There are a lot of deserted storefronts.
[08:58] K
    Not a lot of customers outside of ski season.
SIGN    Don't play in the river by yourself!
[09:01] M
    So what are we doing for our next project?
[09:03] M
    Are we gonna base it on one
    of Asakusa's concepts again?
[09:06] A
    Last time, we knew from the outset
[09:08] A
    it was going to be a robot
    versus a giant monster...
[09:10] K
    The first short had a setting from your
    back catalog of ideas, right, Asakusa?
[09:16] A
    That was just because we needed
    something fast, so we chose something simple.
[09:20] A
    And the second time around,
    we used the school.
[09:22] M
    What've you been doing there, Kanamori?
[09:24] K
    Making posts.
[09:25] A
    Having fun playing around on
     social media. Must be nice!
[09:28] K
    There is nothing fun about social media!
[09:31] M
    Wait, you're already doing publicity?
[09:32] K
    Right. It's better to attract eyes beforehand
[09:34] K
    than trying to get attention
    around the time of release.
[09:37] K
    Say butter.
[09:39] M
    Wait, what?
[09:40] K
    Is it all right if I post this?
[09:43] M
    Well, sure, if it gets us attention.
[09:44] K
    I've been conscientious about
    likeness rights so far,
[09:48] K
    but I'd like to set it up so that
[09:50] K
    only our followers can view the
    posts with your face in them.
[09:53] M
    That's fine. My parents
    handle my management anyway.
[09:55] M
    I really wish people would pay
    attention to our projects and not me, though.
[09:59] K
    I wouldn't worry about that.
[10:01] K
    The whole intent is to get people
    to pay attention to the eizouken's output.
[10:04] K
    We get them to develop an emotional attachment,
SIGN    (Film) Merchandise in the Works
[10:05] K
    and stimulate their urge to spend money.
[10:08] M
    We're selling merch?
[10:09] K
    There's demand for merchandise.
SIGN    What kind of Eizouken merchandise
     would you want?
    
     T-shirts
     Towels
     Pins
     Art books
    
[10:11] K
    That can be pricey to put together,
[10:13] K
    but if we measure demand correctly,
    we can avoid risk.
[10:15] K
    We can bust our humps working on a new DVD,
     and it might not sell at 1,000 yen...
[10:18] K
    But all we need is to
    stamp the club's logo on a
[10:20] K
    t-shirt and we can sell that for 2,000 yen.
[10:22] K
    Even if Tsubame Mizusaki is
    what got them in the doors,
SIGN    @ACertainProgramDsAccount
     and 76 others liked your post.
[10:24] K
    the number of people who are genuinely
    interested in our work is increasing.
[10:28] K
    Part of our goal here is to ensure
SIGN    Film
[10:29] K
    everyone who watched our last
    project picks this one up, as well.
[10:32] K
    The clips we post might go viral,
[10:35] K
    giving people an idea of the
    material we're working on...
[10:37] K
    Having a large digital footprint can
    help us in a variety of ways.
[10:40] A
    You're a social media master.
[10:45] A
    Wow! That's the Mizusaki bump!
[10:47] M
    I never realized how important
    advertising could be.
[10:49] K
    Long ago, I bore witness to
    the death of a liquor store!
SIGN    Fukuya Liquor Store
SIGN    Fukuya
    Brewery
[11:04] A
    Is this the liquor store you mentioned?
[11:05] A
    Seems busy enough.
[11:06] K
    My relatives ran it.
[11:08] K
    It was a drinking spot with a good reputation,
[11:11] K
    particularly among fans of Japanese sake.
[11:13] K
    But the owner had a high standard for quality,
[11:16] K
    which did him no favors with the locals
[11:18] K
    who just wanted to get hammered at a low price.
[11:21] M
    That's a shame.
[11:23] K
    The construction of the monorail
[11:24] K
    meant that the street trolleys
    were done away with,
[11:27] K
    and since people drove more,
    they couldn't drink as much,
SIGN    Fukuya Liquor Store
[11:29] K
    leading to even fewer customers...
[11:30] K
    Which meant less of an emphasis on brewing,
SIGN    Fukuya Liquor Store
[11:33] K
    and by the time my uncle was running it,
     they called it a general store.
[11:37] A
    It's a bit more run down, now.
[11:41] A
    An exemplary general store!
[11:43] M
    It's so cute!
[11:44] A
    Look!
[11:47] A
    Minimori!
[11:56] A
    What a hard worker.
[11:57] K
    I heard pensions weren't
    enough to get by anymore,
[12:00] K
    so I was trying to earn money
    apart from just my allowance.
[12:04] Auntie
    This place looks a lot cleaner! Thank you.
[12:08] Auntie
    Here's a little tip.
[12:10] K
    Thank you very much.
[12:11] Auntie
    You should really wait until
    you're home to open it...
[12:13] K
    There's extra.
[12:15] Auntie
    I wanted to add something special
    since you come by every day.
[12:19] K
    I'm gonna clean some more.
[12:25] K
    Old...
SIGN    Closed
[12:31] K
    Hello.
[12:33] Auntie
    Oh my goodness! You're covered in snow!
[12:35] Auntie
    Did you walk here? That couldn't have been easy!
[12:38] K
    You're not going to open the store?
[12:39] Auntie
    No one's gonna be out in this snowstorm.
[12:43] Auntie
    Even the convenience stores are closed.
[12:46] K
    But people need to buy stuff all the time.
[12:49] K
    If we open up right now, we'll be
     the only place making money.
[12:52] K
    I saw footsteps in front
    of the store, too.
[12:55] Auntie
    Okay, we'll need that snow shoveled, then!
[12:57] K
    Okay.
[12:59] Uncle
    You ever notice the kinds of things she does?
[13:02] Uncle
    She started shoveling in front of
    the vending machine, for instance...
[13:05] Uncle
    That means we can start making money
    as soon as that bit of snow is cleared.
[13:08] Uncle
    Hot drinks sell at times like this.
[13:11] Auntie
    She really is thoughtful.
[13:12] Uncle
    She's always got her little eyes open.
[13:14] Uncle
    Did you know she has trouble with math?
[13:16] Auntie
    When she's got such a mind for business?
[13:19] Uncle
    Funny, isn't it?
[13:20] Uncle
    Thing is, you can be a math wiz, but if
     you don't have a head for business—
[13:23] Uncle
    the way I don't—it won't matter.
[13:28] K
    It's all clear.
[13:29] Uncle
    Attagirl!
[13:30] Uncle
    No tip this time.
[13:33] Uncle
    Instead, you can have these. Sell what
     you've got, and make some money.
[13:39] Customer
    Man, it's cold.
[13:40] Uncle
    Welcome.
[13:41] Customer
    Do you have any gloves?
[13:42] Customer
    I was thinking about shoveling,
    but all I had were thin rubber ones...
[13:47] Customer
    Oh, not like those.
[13:49] Customer
    I was looking for something nice and thick
     that the snow couldn't soak through.
[13:52] K
    If you put your rubber gloves on top of these...
[13:54] Customer
    Hey, yeah!
[13:56] K
    Thank you very much.
[13:58] Uncle
    Already making a sale!
[14:00] Uncle
    And you sold a single pair of
    working gloves for 100 yen,
[14:02] Uncle
    when they're usually a dozen for 300!
[14:04] K
    Individual sales stack up.
[14:11] Truckers
    Hey, you're open!
[14:13] Granpda
    Welcome.
[14:13] Truckers
    Hey mister, is the vacant
    lot across from you open?
[14:16] Truckers
    We were hoping to park there for a bit.
[14:18] Uncle
    Not a problem.
[14:19] Trucker
    Is it all right if we eat in here?
[14:21] Uncle
    Make yourself at home.
[14:22] K
    We have instant noodles.
SIGN    Soy Ramen
[14:23] Trucker
    That's perfect! You got hot water?
[14:25] K
    We do.
[14:26] Trucker
    Hey, he says it's okay!
SIGN    20 yen
[14:29] Truckers
    Man, this is just what I needed!
[14:32] Truckers
    Can feel myself warming up!
[14:33] Truckers
    This is good stuff.
[14:35] Trucker
    We set out to help folks stuck in
    the snow, but everywhere was closed!
SIGN    
[14:41] Trucker
    Even the convenience store, and we
    were starving! I thought we might be done for!
[14:46] Trucker
    I never knew a place like this
    was just across the way...
[14:48] Trucker
    I'm coming here every week from now on.
[14:50] Uncle
    I appreciate the thought, but we're
     actually closing this month.
[14:55] Trucker
    What, really?
[14:56] Uncle
    We've been in the red for a while...
[14:58] Trucker
    Well, it's not the best location.
[15:00] Trucker
    You're kinda out of the way and hard to notice,
[15:03] Trucker
    plus there's a convenience
    store right over there.
[15:05] Uncle
    It was better when the trains
    were still running, but...
[15:08] Trucker
    They never finished that damn monorail, either.
[15:10] Trucker
    How about you only open up on snowy days?
[15:13] Uncle
    I don't think we could manage that.
[15:15] Trucker
    Man, if I had known sooner,
    I would've told all my pals!
[15:18] Trucker
    You let our nasty old cars park outside,
     and you let people stay and eat...
[15:21] Trucker
    This is a great place.
[15:22] Trucker
    But I guess since everyone going into
    the mountains uses the other road...
[15:28] Uncle
    Thanks, come again.
[15:30] Uncle
    ...well, I guess not.
[15:33] K
    You're closing even though
    you could get customers?
[15:36] Uncle
    You need money to even keep a store open.
[15:40] Uncle
    Heating, repairs, taxes, insurance...
[15:45] Uncle
    The money to buy stock and have it brought in,
[15:48] Uncle
    which goes to waste if anything doesn't sell...
[15:50] Uncle
    And since we're out of the way,
    customers just don't come by.
[15:54] Uncle
    We've been spending all kinds of money,
    and only surviving off of what was left.
[15:58] Uncle
    You can't keep a business open with
    only the odd customer here and there.
[16:03] Uncle
    No one's gonna come to a store...
[16:05] K
    ...that nobody knows about.
[16:08] K
    There's no point in focusing entirely
    on the quality of your product.
[16:11] K
    You need the right methods
    and products at the right time,
[16:13] K
    and you need advertising!
[16:15] K
    If you think a good product is all
    it takes to attract customers,
[16:17] K
    you're dreaming!
[16:18] K
    You can't do business without promotion,
[16:21] K
    but without a product,
    you can't even get started!
[16:23] K
    High standards aren't enough!
[16:24] K
    You also need to think about how
    to loosen people's purse strings!
[16:27] K
    And I'll make sure people
    hear about what we make.
[16:29] A
    About that...
[16:32] A
    Last time, we used the Shibahama High campus,
[16:34] A
    but this time, I'm thinking of basing
    the story in the town itself!
[16:40] A
    The bizarre terrain and constructions!
[16:42] A
    A town that's like a watery labyrinth!
[16:44] A
    Shibahama is a town where you can
    see the remains of trial and error
[16:47] A
    throughout history, which makes it fascinating!
[16:49] A
    It's a treasure chest of concepts!
    A 4D pocket dimension full of ideas!
[16:53] A
    The town comes under attack one day!
SIGN    Zoom Screech Pow
[16:55] A
    Their enemies are UFOs!
SIGN    Skeleton
SIGN    Zap
[16:57] A
    Rising to the challenge is the
    anti-invasion weaponry installed
SIGN    Whoosh
    
    Rumble
SIGN    Fiber Laser! Powerful! Hypothetical scope
SIGN    An armature was added to prevent
     the cord from wrapping around it
     and causing it to fall over,
     but it still does sometimes
    
     A wireless version would be ideal
    
     (Uses a cheaper battery and is smaller)
SIGN    Sci-Fi Ray
SIGN    Has a stabilizer like a camera that automatically
     corrects for the turret's shaking
    
     Prevents motion sickness, which I appreciate
[17:00] A
    throughout Shibahama!
SIGN    Directed Energy Weapon
SIGN    Its suspension absorbs shock
SIGN    Generator
SIGN    Uses two mirrors
    to generate
    a powerful laser
SIGN    Light Generation
SIGN    High Intensity Mirror
SIGN    Low Intensity Mirror
SIGN    Laser
[17:05] A
    The spiral shopping district
    rises from the underground!
[17:09] A
    It launches a fleet of steam tanks!
SIGN    m 30 21 l 34 63 107 62 100 26 101 19
SIGN    Can emit propulsion
     from any direction
    in order to maintain
     balance
SIGN    This is where it's emitted
SIGN    m 90 157 l 90 213 183 215 200 186 186 162
SIGN    Looks like an exterior air conditioner
     but is actually hollow.
     Houses a ducted fan.
    Helps with propulsion.
    
    
    
    
     Inside will not actually
    be visible.
SIGN    Is able to fly by emitting
     super high-pressure steam
SIGN    m 278 146 l 282 208 350 210 352 174 344 154
SIGN    Is able to absorb
     moisture from the air and
    convert it into steam.
     Effective in clouds.
SIGN    Dips
SIGN    Pressure Gauge
SIGN    Some kind
     of piston
SIGN    Sit here
SIGN    m 464 177 l 466 218 528 222 521 178
SIGN    Landing gear deployed
     when taking off/landing.
SIGN    Ducted fan portion (Directs air inward)
SIGN    Steam-propelled projected energy
     attack ship that camouflaged and
    stationed throughout the city.
SIGN    Steam Tank
SIGN    Enemy Fortress
SIGN    Directed energy weapon
     (Fixed)
SIGN    Wind-Powered
[17:14] A
    The town of Shibahama was
    outfitted with weaponry!
SIGN    Directed Energy Weapons
SIGN    Steam Tanks
SIGN    Energy Weapon
[17:19] M
    That's kinda cool!
[17:20] M
    If we used the town for the setting,
[17:22] M
    do you think people who live
    here will be more invested?
[17:23] K
    Can you wrap this up in 30 minutes?
[17:26] A
    I'm still figuring out the details.
[17:27] A
    But regardless, we've got the premise
    and setting for our next project figured out!
[17:31] A
    The eizouken's next project...
[17:33] A
    is the Shibahama-UFO Battle!
SIGN    123 Days Until Deadline !
SIGN    Fruit Dandan Noodles
SIGN    Fruit Noodles
SIGN    Closed
    Today
[18:11] D
    By the way, I heard that the student
    council started taking the rent I'm paying.
[18:17] A
    Wait, are we gonna be okay?!
[18:18] M
    What about the budget for the new project?!
[18:20] K
    I just finalized a deal where the
    Shibahama Chamber of Commerce
[18:24] K
    has agreed to fully finance the short.
[18:27] M
    That's awesome!
[18:28] A
    How'd you do it?! Was it thuggery?!
[18:30] K
    Mr. Kashima from the
    dandan noodle shop lent his support.
[18:34] K
    He's the president of the
    Young Person's Association,
[18:37] K
    and has been working on local
    revitalization projects for a while now.
[18:41] K
    I pitched the idea of a local
    promotional anime, and they ate it up.
SIGN    Revitalizing the town through animation!!
SIGN    • Tsubame Mizusaki will be involved
     • Entertain kids
     • Make it an event for the
     shopping district
     • Voice acting auditions
    
SIGN    Fun!
[18:44] A
    I didn't know Kashimacchy
    was into stuff like that!
[18:46] M
    That's a crazy coincidence...
[18:48] M
    Wait, Kanamori, did you take us to
    his shop knowing this would happen?!
[18:51] K
    All I did was help the two of you brainstorm.
[18:57] K
    How is the story progressing?
[19:00] A
    I'm getting there.
[19:03] K
    Where's Mizusaki?
[19:04] A
    Over there.
[19:08] A
    She said she was working on a
    new model of Adamski saucer.
[19:21] K
    Let me see the storyboard.
[19:23] A
    Here's what I've got.
[19:26] K
    This is all the direction
    you've given so far?
[19:29] K
    You're overdoing it again, damn it!
[19:31] K
    Quit making extra animation work!
[19:34] M
    It's already done! It'll be fine!
[19:36] K
    Get down here, now!
[19:37] M
    Might need a few adjustments,
    or there could be—
[19:38] K
    Your little R&D project is canceled!
[19:40] K
    It's just gonna get shot down
    by this thing, anyway!
[19:57] K
    Where's the beam? What about the laser?
[19:59] A
    Energy weapons weren't originally supposed to be
[20:01] A
    in the visible spectrum, anyway.
[20:02] A
    There's no type of light that just
    zips through the atmosphere like that!
[20:05] A
    And besides, there are different
    types of directed energy weapons.
[20:09] A
    It's not all about lasers, y'know!
[20:11] A
    And even with lasers, they fire
    light at speeds the eye can't track,
[20:14] A
    for only a fraction of a second,
[20:16] A
    so it's not gonna look like
    the spotlight at a concert!
[20:18] A
    Even if it was plasma, there'd be—
[20:19] K
    You might know what you're saying,
[20:22] K
    but normal people are
     going to be watching this.
[20:24] A
    D-Does it not work?
[20:26] A
    Wh-What the—?!
[20:28] K
    What's this sound?
[20:31] D
    I don't really get all the specifics,
[20:33] D
    but I was imagining this for after the gun fires.
[20:37] A
    You can hear fans and chains come in contact.
[20:39] A
    And the rumble is the excitation
    of an electric generator.
[20:41] A
    This really fits the way
    the concept is conceived.
[20:44] K
    Save the protracted analysis for
    the next time we're getting ramen.
[20:47] K
    Isn't it rattling a bit too much?
[20:49] A
    Maybe a bit...
[20:50] D
    What are you talking about?!
[20:52] D
    This is how it's supposed to sound!
[20:54] A
    That's not it, the sound is fine...
[20:56] A
    But I was thinking something more like...
[21:15] A
    Like that!
[21:16] K
    And what does that mean?
[21:18] A
    For the, "Pow!" part, it doesn't
    need any additional sound!
[21:23] A
    And then no sound after that!
[21:24] K
    Oh, so that's how you want it performed.
[21:27] A
    Performed?
[21:29] K
    What do you think of her take, Doumeki?
[21:32] D
    I'm not opposed to it.
[21:34] A
    That's it... It's a performance.
[21:38] A
    The reason the plane's interior
    was pitch black...
[21:42] A
    It was to demonstrate how
    vast and bright the sky was.
[21:46] A
    Everything I've been doing
    so far has been a performance.
[21:48] A
    It's been that all along...
[21:50] A
    To depict a vast, unknown world that you
[21:52] A
    could never grasp from the
    glimpse of a single image...
[21:55] A
    I've been choosing what
    to draw, and how, all along!
[21:57] A
    But I never realized that what
    I was doing was a performance!
[22:02] A
    Oh, what bitter fruit my ignorance has borne!
[22:04] A
    Construction and consistency!
[22:07] A
    The glory that these factors give rise to!
[22:09] A
    Performance will be how I demonstrate
    the greatness of the world I've imagined!
[22:13] A
    And with that being the case,
    I must consider the issue further!
[22:18] A
    I ain't drawing no lasers!
[22:21] A
    Down, girl. Let me explain.
[22:24] A
    Drawing a cannon that doesn't
    emit a beam is important to me.
[22:29] A
    Using this cut, you can make it obvious
    that the gun is what shot down
[22:32] A
    the UFO from their relative positions.
[22:35] A
    But that's not enough to resolve the issue.
[22:38] A
    You think there'll be dissonance
    if there's no beam or bullets involved?
[22:40] A
    Wrong!
[22:42] A
    Listen up, people...
[22:43] A
    "This is a directed energy weapon
    that doesn't project a ray!"
[22:46] A
    We have to make sure the
    scene conveys that clearly!
[22:50] A
    In other words, we add a cut that
    makes it obvious something was fired,
[22:53] A
    even if there was no beam!
[22:54] A
    We beef that sucker up with visual cues
    for a massive energy expenditure,
[22:57] A
    whether it was visible or not!
[23:00] A
    And we need sound, Doumeki!
[23:04] K
    I get how you want the scene performed,
    but what are the UFOs here for?
[23:08] M
    Hey, yeah. Who's in them?
[23:11] A
    That... I am not sure about, yet.
[23:13] M
    Actually, why was the town
    so heavily armed, anyway?
[23:17] A
    I'm gonna think that up later, too!
[23:20] A
    For now, our goal is to prepare for Comet A...
[23:24] A
    By creating the greatest world!
SIGN    Illustration by: Mari Motohashi