# E9 - Aim for Comet A!
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/G6P541196/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
***SIGN*** Student Council
***SIGN*** Student Council
***SIGN*** Student Council
***SIGN*** Student Council
**[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
***SIGN*** Your
***SIGN*** Hands
***SIGN*** Off
***SIGN*** Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
***SIGN*** Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
**[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
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***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