# E8 - Connecting Feelings
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GG1U2DZ05/connected-feelings)
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My mother went to Jingu Music School
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and her lifelong dream was to create
another school in that same location.
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So that's why she established Yuigaoka...
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But my father was assigned to work
overseas and was against this idea
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and left us.
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Even then, my mother worked hard
until the school was finished...
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Part of the reason was overwork,
but she passed away two years ago.
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So when you said you're alone...
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Yes.
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And that you didn't have any money?
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It's embarrassing to admit, but yes.
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My father offered to let me live with him
overseas, but I turned him down.
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I want to make the school that my mother
left me the best in this whole city.
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If I don't gather even more students,
I cannot accomplish this goal.
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Sorry for barging in on you.
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It's all right.
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Looking back at how I'd
been acting... I can't blame you.
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Hazuki-*san*...
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Um...
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Regarding everything
I've told you today...
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Could you please keep it between us?
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But...
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I don't want to make the students anxious
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or feel like they regret
coming to Yuigaoka.
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Please.
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Mother.
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What were you trying to tell me back then?
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*You can't stop real dreams*
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*Our hearts are about to start running*
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"Love Live! Superstar!!"
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*Before we knew it,*
*we found something that we loved*
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*Let these feelings reach you*
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*We've made up our minds, we're serious!*
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*I wonder what we can do*
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*The sky's so bright*
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*Let's look up at it*
*and sing our hearts out*
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*Doesn't having something you want to do*
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*Make every day fun?*
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*Do you feel that way, too?*
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*Ah, we've been waiting for this moment*
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*This encounter is where we start*
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*Our dreams are drawn together,*
*and it all begins*
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*We realized our true desires and now,*
*we can't be stopped*
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*Our hearts are about to start running*
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*As fast as they can run*
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So the reason she wanted to
conduct the school festival
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with just the music program...
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Is probably because there weren't
that many new applicants for the school.
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And the efficient music program
would be able to attract people.
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So it's her last resort.
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Ow!
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This is why people care less
about the general curriculum!
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--Shut up!
--I can understand where
she's coming from,
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but no one else knows her situation.
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Yeah.
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But... At this rate, Hazuki-*san*...
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Everyone will continue to have
the wrong idea about her.
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Hazuki-*san*.
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"Signatures opposing the school festival"
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Here are signatures we collected
protesting the school festival.
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Just because you're the founder's daughter
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doesn't mean the school belongs to you.
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Please think about this!
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Please take this up with
the student council.
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Now, if you'll excuse me.
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What's with that attitude?
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She's unbelievable!
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I'll try to go talk things out.
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This is the only time it'll
concentrate on the music program!
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It's not like we're saying
that you can't be involved at all!
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They're more confrontational
than I thought they'd be.
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Clearly, it's the general curriculum kids
who are being selfish here!
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Don't let them overwhelm you like that!
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Well...
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We don't want to participate.
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Participating is like the music program
saying, "Oh, we'll let you help out."
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I wouldn't go that far...
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I think it's a good idea
to have the festival
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showcase music since
it represents our school...
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Then why didn't they ask us
to participate to begin with?
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Like she said in her campaign promise!
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Why are you taking the student council
president's side anyway?
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Yeah! She's going to say no if you say
you want to perform at the festival!
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You dummy. Quit repeating the same things.
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Okay, then you say something, Sumire-*chan*!
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Don't you want to continue being
a school idol, Shibuya-*san*?
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We've been rooting for you!
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Actually, they're right.
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Hazuki-*san* is against school idols.
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I'm going to take the side
of the general curriculum!
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Let us fight together!
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Yeah!
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Stop making things more complicated!
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Someday, I can fly
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Someday, I can...
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They just keep going.
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Looks like they don't care
about the rest of us.
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At this rate, Hazuki-*san* will be...
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I hate her.
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We go to Yuigaoka, too!
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What should we do?
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Things are getting even more complicated.
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Well, yeah. Everyone's always felt
this divide between the two programs.
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Yes, and it doesn't look like
either side will back down.
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Yeah...
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This is all my fault.
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Hazuki-*san*!
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One of the music program students told me
that you went to talk to them.
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Yeah. We thought we might be able to help.
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Don't worry! We haven't mentioned
anything about your private life.
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I'm truly sorry. My words
have now troubled everyone.
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You mean you regret what you said?
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Yes. The director summoned me
to her office earlier.
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You need to clear things up
tomorrow at the assembly.
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If you fail to come to a solution,
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this year's school festival
will be canceled.
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But...
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The director went to school
with my mother,
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but she seems rather conflicted about me.
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We still have some time!
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Let's just talk with both programs
and do something together!
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There's something else on your mind?
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Yeah. I think we can make this work
if you talk to everyone at the assembly.
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Of course, I would love to do that.
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It's just, school idols are...
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Just anything other than
school idols, please!
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I'd rather you didn't do
idol activities at this school.
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Will you tell us why?
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This school once had students
who performed as idols
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to save it from closing.
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One of them was my mother.
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So that's why this room had
the school idol club plate on the door.
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This is long before they were
officially referred to as "school idols."
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Their performances
became rather popular
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and they gathered a lot of attention.
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But they weren't able to reach their goal
and the school closed.
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That's why I thought
I would become a school idol
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at this school that my mother founded.
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I thought I would get attention for
the school just like my mother did.
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But you were so against us doing it!
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But...
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Then let's do this together!
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If we all work together, we--
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There's just nothing left!
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No matter how hard I looked...
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...I couldn't find any record
of her school idol activities.
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Even though there were records
of every other school activity...
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There is no record of her ever doing
idol activities at the school.
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And that made me wonder...
Did my mother regret being an idol?
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Did she feel like she couldn't
save the school as a school idol?
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But...
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But that's not set in stone!
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Then why does nothing exist?
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She didn't leave a single photo of
these supposed precious memories.
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How is that possible?!
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What do you think?
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I can understand how she feels,
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but I think it's going too far
to prohibit school idols!
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I mean, in the end,
this doesn't concern us.
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What about you, Kanon-*chan*?
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I really can't imagine her mother
regretting her school idol activities.
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I saw a picture of Hazuki-*san*'s mom
smiling at their house
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and it was dazzling.
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I want to find out for sure.
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Records from the Jingu Music School?
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Yes. I'd like to see anything
you might have on file.
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Please.
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The school assembly will be starting soon.
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I promise we'll return them by then.
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Make sure you don't make a mess.
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This isn't it.
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This isn't either.
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There are records of
all the other club activities
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except for any school idol activities.
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There's nothing over here, either.
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I've looked through everything many times.
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Hazuki-*san*.
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That's the only thing missing.
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I can only imagine that
she willingly got rid of them.
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She never said anything?
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No... She may have mentioned
something when I was little...
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Though she would always say,
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"I hope our feelings connect
in the same place."
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The same place?
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That's why she made
the school here, right?
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The school assembly is
about to start. I must go.
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What are you going to do?
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I'll probably have to
talk to everyone honestly
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about the current state of this school.
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Though I'm uncertain
how that will turn out.
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Feelings connecting in the same place...
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Wait!
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Hazuki-*san*. You gave us the key
to this room, right?
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Oh. The director said
she couldn't find them,
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so when I looked around my house,
I found them in my desk...
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Shibuya-*san*! No running in the hallway!
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"School Idol Club"
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Kanon-*chan*!
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What did we see when
we first came to this room?
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I can't really remember.
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It's in here?
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I'm not sure. But I think
we'll find something!
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I didn't see anything over here.
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It's just storage.
**[11:04] ---**
Something... There has to
be something here!
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Wait... I think this is it!
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*Love Live! Superstar!!*
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We will now begin our school assembly.
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First, the student council
president would like to
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say a few words regarding
the school festival.
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I am the student council
president, Ren Hazuki.
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Before I speak about the school festival,
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please allow me to apologize to you
for my remarks the other day
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and the confusion they have caused.
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I'm truly sorry.
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I'm sure that many of you
felt unpleasant or angry.
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It's just that I want people on the
outside to see how wonderful this sch--
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What's going to happen
to the general curriculum?
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Are we going to be able to
participate in the school festival?
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Um...
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We want to sing even if
we're not in the music program!
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Do we even get that chance?!
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Just having us as helpers
to the music program is cruel!
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Please take back what you said!
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Are you going to prohibit
school idol activities, too?
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They've done more for
this school than anyone else!
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That's the only thing I...
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Wait!
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Kanon-*chan*?
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Hazuki-*san*, there's something
I'd like to say.
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Shibuya-*san*.
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Very well.
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Please go up to the stage.
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They're all looking at me...
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"Jingu Music School"
"Idol Club Diary"
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What is that?
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We found this notebook
in the school idol club room.
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This is something the students from
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the Jingu Music School wrote
before this school was created.
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These students tried to gather
students to do idol activities
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when they learned that
the school was going to close.
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This is what was written inside.
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"We continued being idols at our school,
but we're still going to lose our school."
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"We couldn't stop
our school from closing."
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"But we don't regret anything we've done."
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"Jingu Music School"
"Idol Club Diary"
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"The Jingu Music School
Idol Club Begins!!"
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"Because we came together as a school."
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"Through our activities, through music,
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we all connected!"
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"We were able to make
the best school ever!"
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Mother...
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"We all worked together,
dreamed the same dream,
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and went through all kinds
of emotions together."
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"This time we spent together
was like a miracle."
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"And that's why I promised everyone..."
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"That I would create a school that has
'connect' in the name here once again."
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"Yuigaoka Girls' High School"
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"I'm going to create a school
that connect everyone
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through music here once again."
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"That is my dream.
My dream I will see come true."
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Your mother created this school and wanted
to connect everyone through music.
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This school is to make
that dream come true.
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A school where the students of
both programs can be connected.
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Being a school idol was
your mother's best memories.
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Her best... memories...
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Ren, being a school idol...
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...were my best memories.
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This was tucked away with the notebook.
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Mother...
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Mother...
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Mother!
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Upsy daisy.
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Here you go. All that's left
of your mother's activities.
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You knew, didn't you?
That my mother was a school idol.
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Well, yes. Though I was
on the supporting side.
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Why didn't you tell me?
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Don't be too harsh with me, will ya?
She asked me not to say anything.
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She wanted you to make your own decisions
and for me to watch over you.
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Honestly, talk about a pain.
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By the way...
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Why are you speaking differently?
**[16:09] ---**
Hey, this is how I usually am.
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Well, you understand now,
so get a move on!
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Get ready for the school festival!
**[16:15] ---**
Yes, ma'am! Please excuse us.
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I'm sorry.
**[16:23] ---**
We're rather behind on the school festival
preparations because of me.
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Come with me.
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Wow...
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A little more to the right.
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Like this?
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Yeah!
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Where's the stepladder?
**[16:36] ---**
--Got it! Here you go!
--This is the school idols'...?
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Yup. The stage we're all creating for
our performance for the school festival.
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All...
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Say, Hazuki-*san*.
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Hazuki-*san*... No, Ren-*chan*.
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Won't you be a school idol with us?
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I have no right to do that
after all the grief I caused you...
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I want to sing with you
as a school idol, Ren-*chan*.
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For the sake of this school... No.
**[17:21] ---**
For the sake of all of the feelings
created in this place.
**[17:37] ---**
Don't worry! You can do it!
**[17:39] ---**
Be more honest with yourself.
**[17:41] ---**
We're always fine, fine!
**[18:15] ---**
Okay! Let's all get ready
for the school festival!
**[18:20] ---**
Yeah!
**[18:22] ---**
"Yuigaoka Girls' High School 1st
School Festival!"
**[18:22] ---**
Our first ever school festival
is next Sunday!
**[18:25] ---**
We'll be selling some rainbow *takoyaki*!
**[18:28] ---**
We hope you'll come support us!
**[18:30] ---**
Huh. I guess they're doing
a school festival.
**[18:33] ---**
Looks like it.
**[18:34] ---**
One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight!
**[18:38] ---**
One, two, three...
**[18:40] ---**
Amazing, Ren Ren!
**[18:42] ---**
Your figure skater skills are paying off!
You're nothing like that giant isopod.
**[18:47] ---**
I keep telling you
to stop calling me that!
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I'm happy.
**[18:51] ---**
You just joined but you're
basically fit to lead us.
**[18:54] ---**
You're far too kind.
**[18:56] ---**
Ren-*chan*, want to try being the center?
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It's going to be this school's
first school festival.
**[19:03] ---**
Yes, but...
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And I want you to sing, Ren-*chan*.
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Me, too.
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Me, three.
**[19:12] ---**
Well, I'm only going to be the center
on a much bigger stage.
**[19:17] ---**
Guess it's settled.
**[19:19] ---**
Coming through!
**[19:20] ---**
"Yuigaoka Girls' High School 1st
School Festival!"
**[19:21] ---**
Looking good!
**[19:22] ---**
Okay, over here next!
**[19:25] ---**
Everyone's staying this late?
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We all want everyone to notice our school.
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Everyone said we're
going to help create it together.
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Do you think we'll get more applicants?
**[19:38] ---**
To be honest, I have no idea.
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But we just have to do this.
We just have to believe.
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You're quite strong,
aren't you, Kanon-*san*?
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I wouldn't say that. It's just...
I love the moment something begins.
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Oh, I know!
**[19:56] ---**
What is this?
**[19:57] ---**
Since we're all here,
I figured we could try it.
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Could it be? I'll do it!
I've always dreamed of this!
**[20:05] ---**
Can't we just do the usual "hey" thing?
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Well, we're school idols.
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Let's connect this school through music!
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One!
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Two!
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Three!
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Four!
**[20:21] ---**
Five!
**[20:22] ---**
Yuigaoka Girls' High School Idol Club!
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Song for me! Song for you!
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*(Sing along with me ha-a)*
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Song for all!
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*I felt this on the day that we met*
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* My desire to make this come true*
* just keeps growing (Starting day a-)*
**[20:41] ---**
"Yuigaoka Girls' High School 1st School Festival!"
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* I'll help you protect the thing*
* you held onto so tightly*
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* That you were shaking because*
* you didn't want it to disappear*
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* Even the morning sun's bright rays*
* or sudden showers*
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* Become irreplaceable moments when*
* I'm able to smile together with you*
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* Those passionate feelings*
* within your chest*
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*On this staff notation*
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* Let's weave them together and*
* make them resonate through the blue sky*
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*Tears just don't suit you anymore*
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* Let's all go together*
* and keep on believing*
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*This Wish-Song always gives us courage*
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* The melody of hope*
* that we heard back then*
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*Created this wonderful present*
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* Let's hold it tight*
* and take it with us*
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*On this staff notation*
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* The future we wove together*
* is overflowing with light*
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*A smile always looks the best on you*
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* Let's all go together*
* and keep on believing*
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*This Wish-Song always gives us courage*
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Thank you so much!
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We're Yuigaoka Girls' High School's...
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...school idols!
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"Connected Feelings"
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"Episode 9: What's Your Name?"
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Next time, "What's Your Name?"
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