E4 - Tanaka's Revolution
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SIGN Tanaka's Revolution
[01:34] Pedestrian B
I'm serious, man!
SIGN Maid Café
SIGN Welcome Back, Master
[01:42] Shibagaki
Hey, you! What are you trying to do?
[01:45] Tanaka
Our story begins four years ago.
[01:49] Tanaka
At that time, I had just started
working for a game company.
[01:51] Tanaka
In order to examine our competitors' games,
[01:51] (Flashback) Boss A
There's broad demand for the
combination of intuitive puzzle games
[01:53] Tanaka
I was playing several free-to-play games.
[01:55] (Flashback) Boss A
and anime characters.
[01:56] Tanaka
Honestly, I don't like modern games.
[01:57] (Flashback) Boss A
Last year, Namico's Puzzle
Fantasy made over 40 billion.
[01:59] Tanaka
Games are supposed to be
an escape from reality.
[02:04] Tanaka
Having friends gives you an advantage.
[02:04] (Flashback) Coworker D
Seriously, I'd go if I could.
[02:06] Tanaka
Having money and time
gives you an advantage.
[02:06] (Flashback) Coworker D
You never show up!
[02:08] (Flashback) Coworker E
I promise I'll go next time.
[02:08] Tanaka
It's no different than reality.
[02:12] Tanaka
Going back even further, when I was
a third-year grade school student,
[02:14] (Flashback) Student A
Hey, that's the new Gandum!
[02:16] (Flashback) Student D
I won it in a giveaway!
[02:16] Tanaka
eraser collecting
was briefly a fad in my class.
[02:18] (Flashback) Student E
Lemme see!
[02:18] (Flashback) Student F
Wow!
SIGN Found Around School
[02:21] Tanaka
It was due to our homeroom teacher
being rather fussy about the wealth gap.
[02:25] Tanaka
All our possessions were standardized.
[02:27] Tanaka
Students were instructed not to
deviate from the average.
[02:31] Tanaka
However, there was one loophole: stationery.
[02:36] Tanaka
Among such products, a wide variety
of erasers were available in circulation,
[02:40] Tanaka
so as a class, we threw ourselves
into collecting erasers.
[02:42] (Flashback) Student A
Wow.
[02:43] Tanaka
Who had the most erasers.
[02:45] Tanaka
Who had the rarest erasers.
[02:46] Tanaka
That alone determined our class hierarchy.
[02:50] Tanaka
No, that's an exaggeration.
Actually, it's a lie.
[02:54] Tanaka
As you might expect,
athletic kids, smart kids,
[02:57] Tanaka
strong fighters, attractive kids,
artistic kids, and funny kids
[03:01] Tanaka
naturally stood near the top.
[03:05] Tanaka
But for the rest of us
who didn't have anything,
[03:05] (Flashback) Student K
The PE teacher's shirt
was hanging out during class.
[03:07] Tanaka
eraser collecting was our last hope
for squeezing into the top.
[03:12] Tanaka
No, this is also an exaggeration and a lie.
[03:16] (Flashback) Student
Did you see his face when he noticed?
[03:17] Tanaka
Even among the kids who had nothing,
[03:19] Tanaka
there were only two of us
who collected erasers seriously.
[03:22] Tanaka
Me and another kid named Sato.
[03:26] Tanaka
Sato was a nuisance.
[03:28] Tanaka
His parents frequently traveled for work,
which meant he was lonely.
[03:32] Tanaka
He received an allowance as well,
[03:34] Tanaka
and would ask his parents
to bring him back rare local erasers
[03:36] Tanaka
as souvenirs from their business trips.
[03:39] Tanaka
I think the reason I participated
[03:42] Tanaka
in this pointless showdown
between the two of us
[03:45] Tanaka
was because I already
possessed one rare eraser.
[03:50] Tanaka
It was an eraser shaped like a dodo.
[03:53] Tanaka
My relatives bought it for me
on an overseas trip.
[03:56] Tanaka
I loved birds.
[03:58] Tanaka
I read my bird encyclopedia again
and again until the pages wore out.
[04:02] (Flashback) Tanaka
You're an unusual bird, aren't you?
SIGN Pet House
[04:07] Tanaka
Once, I begged my father
to get me a pet bird.
[04:11] Tanaka
My father took me into the pet shop with
the understanding that we'd just look around,
[04:14] Tanaka
but in the end, he bought me
a gray male cockatiel.
[04:18] Tanaka
I named him Maru.
[04:20] Tanaka
Later he told my mother that he was
helping cultivate my aesthetic sensibility,
[04:23] Tanaka
but thinking on it, it was probably
just that he wasn't very expensive.
[04:26] Tanaka
They bought my brother
the expensive otaku computer games,
[04:30] Tanaka
and Maru must've been cheap in comparison.
[04:33] Tanaka
While doing my best to care for him,
[04:36] Tanaka
a relationship of trust was born between us.
[04:40] Tanaka
But back to my story.
[04:41] Tanaka
My dodo eraser certainly was rare,
[04:43] (Flashback) Student A
Sato-kun, where'd you get those?
[04:44] Tanaka
but the erasers that
I could afford on my allowance
[04:45] (Flashback) Student D
Wow.
[04:46] Tanaka
didn't stand a chance
against Sato's collection.
[04:47] (Flashback) Student E
Can I touch them?
[04:48] (Flashback) Sato
Sure.
[04:49] Tanaka
A tiny handful of students fawned over him,
[04:52] Tanaka
and I found it unbearably frustrating.
[04:55] Tanaka
I'd smugly return to using an ordinary
eraser after trying a bunch of others,
[05:00] Tanaka
or utter great insights like,
[05:02] Tanaka
"this is what they use instead of erasers
at art colleges," while using bread.
[05:05] Tanaka
But those low-class techniques that I pretended
were high-class were obviously ineffective,
[05:09] Tanaka
and every day I tasted defeat.
[05:13] Tanaka
Then something happened.
SIGN One-of-a-kind Super Rare Original Donraku Eraser
SIGN One-of-a-kind Super Rare Original Donraku Eraser
[05:21] (Flashback) Tanaka
A Donraku eraser...
SIGN Auctions > Toys > Games > Figures > Erasers
SIGN One-of-a-kind Super Rare
[05:30] Tanaka
"This is it," I thought.
[05:31] Tanaka
There was only one of them in the world.
[05:34] Tanaka
It was my only chance to turn things around.
[05:36] Tanaka
I'd show him.
[05:38] Tanaka
I returned home, and
once my family was asleep,
[05:41] Tanaka
I took my father's credit
card from his wallet
[05:43] Tanaka
and wrote down his credit card number.
[05:48] Tanaka
Considering how I was going to pay
for it, I needed a credit card.
[05:52] Tanaka
It was a typical card.
One accessible to everyone.
[05:54] Tanaka
The kind of card a student might use.
[05:56] Tanaka
When I learned that later,
I became a little sentimental,
[06:01] Tanaka
but that's another story.
[06:03] (Flashback) Sato
My dad bought this for me
when he went to Dubai.
[06:07] Tanaka
Just you wait.
[06:09] Tanaka
That day, after leaving school,
[06:10] Tanaka
during the limited period
when my brother wasn't home,
SIGN Number of Bids
SIGN Bidding History
[06:12] Top Right Sign
Time Remaining
SIGN 3 Days Details
SIGN Current Price
[06:13] Tanaka
I prepared myself and registered an account.
SIGN Place Bid
SIGN Seller Information
SIGN Follow
SIGN No refunds, no returns
SIGN Overall Rating: 24 | Positive Ratings: 30
[06:15] (Flashback) Tanaka
3,000 yen, huh?
[06:17] Tanaka
There were zero bids with
three days left on the auction.
[06:21] Tanaka
Since my time at a computer was limited,
[06:24] Tanaka
I didn't have time to strategize.
[06:25] Tanaka
I bid immediately.
[06:27] Tanaka
The price was 3,000 yen.
[06:29] Tanaka
It was hardly inexpensive for me,
[06:32] Tanaka
but it was possible that its price
would rise even higher.
SIGN Hilarious! Joke Hit Battle!
SIGN Newbies to Watch: The Walrus
SIGN Short Skit "Convenience Store"
[06:35] Celebrity A
What the hell kind of
employee are you? Enough.
[06:37] Tanaka
I erased the history and any other
trace that I'd used the computer
[06:38] Both
Thank you very much.
[06:41] Tanaka
and ate dinner with my family
as though nothing had happened.
[06:43] (Flashback) Tanaka
Mom, do we have anything for dessert?
[06:45] Tanaka
At that time, I felt elated, as though
I'd become a super hacker.
[06:57] Tanaka
The next day...
[07:02] (Flashback) Tanaka
It went up.
[07:03] Tanaka
I had a rival.
[07:05] Tanaka
In retrospect, this piece of shit
was hardly worth it.
SIGN Bid
SIGN Maximum Bid
SIGN yen
SIGN Place Bid
[07:08] Tanaka
I entered 3,600 yen into the bid field.
[07:12] Tanaka
On the final day of the auction...
[07:15] (Flashback) Tanaka
What?
[07:18] (Flashback) Tanaka
4,000 yen?
[07:19] Tanaka
My rival was stubborn.
[07:22] Tanaka
I felt his passion and determination
to acquire the eraser, no matter the cost.
[07:25] Tanaka
Battling against an opponent with
unknown intentions and budget
[07:28] Tanaka
is the charm of online auctions.
[07:31] Tanaka
However, I was determined.
[07:33] Tanaka
I input 4,100 yen.
SIGN Number of Bids
SIGN Bidding History
[07:42] Top Right Sign
Time Remaining
SIGN 12 Minutes Details
SIGN Current Price
SIGN Free Shipping
SIGN Place Bid
[07:43] (Flashback) Tanaka
Damn it!
[07:47] (Flashback) Tanaka
There's no time.
SIGN Bid
SIGN Maximum Bid
SIGN yen
SIGN Place Bid
SIGN Current Price
SIGN Yen
SIGN Free Shipping
SIGN Place Bid
SIGN Current Price
SIGN Yen
SIGN Free Shipping
SIGN Place Bid
[07:59] Tanaka
It was as though I'd been
arrested on false charges
[08:02] Tanaka
and was desperately trying
to prove my own innocence
[08:03] Tanaka
while the police presented more
and more physical evidence.
[08:06] Tanaka
I remember feeling that kind of despair.
[08:10] Tanaka
No, that's also an exaggeration and a lie.
[08:14] Tanaka
But it's true that I experienced
a despair that's difficult to describe.
[08:18] Tanaka
That's when it happened.
[08:20] (Flashback) Brother
I'm home.
SIGN Maximum Bid
SIGN yen
SIGN Bid
SIGN Maximum Bid
SIGN yen
SIGN Place Bid
[08:26] (Flashback) Tanaka
He'll outbid me. I know he'll outbid me.
SIGN Bid
SIGN Maximum Bid
SIGN yen
SIGN Maximum Bid
SIGN yen
SIGN Place Bid
SIGN Place Bid
[08:48] (Flashback) Brother
Hey.
[08:51] (Flashback) Tanaka
There was something I wanted to look up.
[08:54] (Flashback) Brother
I told you not to touch my stuff!
SIGN Congratulations! You have won the auction.
SIGN One-of-a-kind Super Rare Original Donraku Eraser
SIGN Auction ID: 32976128739 End Time and Date: 9/22 17:32
SIGN Number of Items: 1 Final Price 100,000 yen
SIGN Begin Transaction
SIGN Seller Information ditch-11
[09:02] Tanaka
It was me. I definitely won the auction.
SIGN Begin Transaction
SIGN Seller Information
[09:06] Tanaka
I had lost my mind.
[09:08] (Flashback) Student A
Let's play soccer.
[09:10] (Flashback) Student E
Let's sprint to the field.
[09:13] Tanaka
In Japan, a group of citizens
once staged a revolution
[09:17] Tanaka
due to their discontent
over the economic divide.
SIGN What is the Hyakushou Ikki
Tenant Farmer Uprising?
Edo Period
Tenant Farmers
Feudal Lords
[09:20] Tanaka
In this classroom, our teacher's efforts
to prevent the wealth gap from widening
[09:24] Tanaka
produced a twisted backlash
in exactly one student.
[09:29] Tanaka
It wasn't an organized movement
like an uprising or rebellion.
[09:32] Tanaka
It was a revolution brought
about by just one student.
[09:35] Tanaka
I called it Tanaka's Revolution.
[09:39] Tanaka
Once again, I returned home
and messaged the seller
[09:42] Tanaka
regarding the shipping
address for the eraser.
[09:44] Tanaka
All that remained was to wait for
my original Donraku eraser to arrive.
SIGN Tanaka
[09:51] Tanaka
One week passed.
[09:55] Tanaka
One month passed.
[09:58] Tanaka
My original Donraku eraser had not arrived.
[10:01] Tanaka
I recalled the words
"no refunds, no returns."
[10:04] Tanaka
I realized now that there were
plenty of things I could have done.
[10:06] (Flashback) Handsome
Maki-chan, let's compare answers.
[10:07] Tanaka
But at the time, I was bound firmly
by the words "no refunds, no returns,"
[10:08] (Flashback) Fighter
You just want to copy her homework.
[10:09] (Flashback) Artist
I always let you see my homework.
[10:12] Tanaka
and had no options.
[10:14] Tanaka
Besides, I consented
to bidding on the eraser.
[10:16] Tanaka
I had no right to demand compensation,
and I had nothing to return.
[10:21] Tanaka
Sato and the rest of my classmates
had already lost interest in erasers.
[10:26] Tanaka
Third-year grade school
students grow up fast.
[10:33] Tanaka
And when my father reviewed
his credit card statement,
[10:36] Tanaka
he beat me to a pulp.
[10:38] Tanaka
As he was beating me,
I wondered whose fault this was.
[10:43] Tanaka
My teacher. My classmates.
[10:45] Tanaka
Sato. My brother. My father.
[10:48] Tanaka
The seller. The bidder.
[10:50] Tanaka
Me. My country. History.
[10:53] Tanaka
Civilization. The government.
[10:55] Tanaka
God.
[10:57] Tanaka
No matter how I looked at it,
it was clearly my fault.
[11:00] Tanaka
And if there was a loser
in this situation...
[11:01] (Flashback) Mom
Honey, honey!
[11:03] Tanaka
...it was me.
[11:06] Tanaka
And so, Tanaka's Revolution ended.
[11:11] Tanaka
Returning to a previous topic,
[11:13] Tanaka
since then, I've come to despise
anything without a real form
[11:16] Tanaka
as well as competing with others.
[11:17] (Flashback) Coworker F
Good night.
[11:18] (Flashback) Tanaka
Good night.
[11:20] Tanaka
Games are meant to be played alone.
[11:22] Tanaka
All alone, battling against the developer.
SIGN Raise slimes...
SIGN Let's bike!
SIGN Purchase
SIGN Dragon Slayer
SIGN Exhilarating action
SIGN Purchase
SIGN Purchase
[11:28] Tanaka
That's when I encountered a certain game.
SIGN Zoological Garden
SIGN Gather and raise animals...
SIGN Purchase
SIGN Sengokusou
SIGN Live with generals Purchase
SIGN Purchase
[11:31] Tanaka
Zoological Garden,
commonly known as "Zooden."*
SIGN < Back
SIGN Zoological Garden
SIGN Purchase
SIGN 3245 Reviews
[11:34] Tanaka*
You raise unique animals
and put them in exhibits.
[11:37] Tanaka
As zoo director, you compete
for ranks on a worldwide scale.
[11:41] Tanaka
I had plenty of fun playing
as much as I could for free.
[11:45] Tanaka
I think collecting erasers back then
became the basis for this.
[11:48] Tanaka
My rank was awful, but I was
happy when I gained guests,
[11:52] Tanaka
and when I acquired a rare animal,
my brain tingled dangerously.
SIGN Super Rare
SIGN Snow Leopard
[11:58] Tanaka
There was a character
I was determined to acquire.
[12:01] Tanaka
The dodo.
SIGN Dodo
SIGN A now-extinct species of bird that once lived on Mauritius Island off of Madagascar. Due to its underdeveloped wings, it cannot fly.
SIGN Attractiveness
SIGN Care Difficulty
[12:01] Sign Left
Maintenance Cost 200 fpt Exhibit Area 12 Squares
SIGN Not yet acquired!
[12:02] Tanaka
In the game, the rarity of animals were ranked
[12:05] Tanaka
using terms such as Normal or Rare.
[12:07] Tanaka
As an extinct species,
[12:09] Tanaka
the dodo was Special Super Rare.
[12:11] Tanaka
Apparently it could be pulled
from the free gacha,
[12:13] Tanaka
but the odds were extremely low.
[12:15] Tanaka
Looking back, I took part in eraser
collecting because I had the dodo,
[12:19] Tanaka
and I was playing Zooden in order
to acquire the dodo.
[12:23] Tanaka
When I made that comparison,
[12:24] Tanaka
I felt as though it was
my destiny to acquire it.
[12:29] Tanaka
Maybe I'd spend a little money.
[12:31] Tanaka
I figured that would be it.
[12:33] Tanaka
I added 500 yen to my account
and pulled the gacha.
SIGN Purchase Hagenbecks
SIGN 6 Hagenbecks
SIGN 24 Hagenbecks
SIGN 68 Hagenbecks
SIGN Dugong
[12:39] Tanaka
The Dugong. Endangered species. Super Rare.
SIGN Super Rare
[12:43] Tanaka
I think I'd already lost
all restraint by this point.
[12:46] Tanaka
I looked at my own rank.
[12:48] Tanaka
It was terrible as usual,
SIGN World Ranking
[12:50] Tanaka
but out of curiosity, I looked
to see who was number one.
[13:00] (Flashback) Tanaka
ditch-11...
[13:03] Tanaka
It was the name that conned me
out of 100,000 yen back then.
[13:06] Tanaka
No, maybe it didn't arrive
because of trouble during shipping.
[13:11] Tanaka
Besides, I bore them no resentment at all.
[13:15] Tanaka
It wasn't even necessarily the same person.
[13:18] Tanaka
But. But.
[13:22] Tanaka
I couldn't believe that it was coincidence
I'd been reunited with this string of letters.
[13:25] Tanaka
I felt that it was destiny.
[13:28] Tanaka
If I were to take revenge,
it would be on my past self.
[13:31] Tanaka
And it would be my present self
who would save my past self.
[13:36] Tanaka
I added 100,000 yen.
[13:42] Tanaka
If I were to take revenge,
it would be on my past self.
[13:46] Tanaka
And it would be my present self
who would save my past self.
[13:52] Tanaka
That was four years ago.
[13:54] Tanaka
I'm still playing Zooden*.
[13:57] Tanaka
Thanks to the addition of new systems
[13:59] Tanaka
and events reflecting the real*
world keeping the game fresh,
[14:02] Tanaka
its content is still popular
around the world.
[14:06] Coworker F
Good morning.
[14:10] Boss B
I'd like to acquire new users
with a new design.
[14:11] Tanaka
In total, I've spent over
five million yen on this game.
[14:14] Coworker I
We need to capture people's interest.
[14:14] Tanaka
My rank is still only in the triple digits.
[14:16] Coworker D
Why don't we conduct some research?
[14:17] Tanaka
I still don't have a dodo.
[14:18] Coworker H
Good idea.
[14:19] Coworker G
We're spending our budget on research?
[14:21] Coworker E
But we have to.
[14:23] Boss A
Hey, Tanaka. Are you listening?
[14:26] Coworker B
Tanaka-kun?
[14:28] Boss A
Tanaka!
[14:29] Coworker A
Tanaka-kun!
[14:30] Coworker D
Tanaka!
[14:30] Coworker E
Tanaka!
[14:31] Text
The bird that went extinct
without ever learning to fly.
[14:31] Coworker H
Tanaka!
[14:34] Tanaka
Perhaps I was projecting myself onto it.
[14:36] Tanaka
It was just like me.
[14:38] Tanaka
No, if I died here without achieving
anything, I wouldn't even be Rare.
[14:43] Tanaka
I'd be just Normal.
SIGN Buy/Sell Zoological Garden Account
SIGN Purchase
SIGN Account with numerous Super Rare characters
Seller: tarou
First come, first served!
3 Super Rare characters
Seller: sakio
Assortment of 5 Super Rare characters
Seller: kinopi_22
[14:45] Tanaka
As a game that enjoys worldwide popularity,
SIGN Account with 10 3-star characters
Seller: yakitori45
Great deal! Account
with numerous endangered species
Seller: tarou
First come, first served!
10 Super Rare characters
Seller: kondo11
Assortment of 20 Limited Rare characters
Seller: kitanotakeshifan
[14:48] Tanaka
its market size is naturally large.
[14:50] Tanaka
There are even intermediaries
who buy and sell entire accounts.
[14:54] Tanaka
My triple-digit-ranked account
that I've spend over five million yen on
[14:58] Tanaka
would only sell for a few hundred thousand.
[15:00] Tanaka
If ditch-11's account
appeared on the market,
[15:03] Tanaka
it would go for a lot of money.
[15:06] Tanaka
An account with a dodo could be mine
for several tens of thousands of yen.
[15:10] Tanaka
But that's not it. It's not the same.
[15:13] Tanaka
"What is it about, then?" I ask myself.
[15:17] Tanaka
The romance? The catharsis?
[15:19] Tanaka
The release from oppression?
[15:21] Tanaka
The need for social recognition?
[15:22] Tanaka
The desire to feel superior to one's peers?
[15:24] Tanaka
I try on gussied-up words
and phrases for size.
[15:27] Tanaka
No. The truth is, I already know.
[15:30] Tanaka
I know those fancy words don't apply.
[15:34] Tanaka
It's simpler than that. Yes.
[15:37] Tanaka
A sickness. It's a sickness.
[15:41] Tanaka
Shut up!
[15:41] Coworker C
I didn't say anything...
[15:44] Tanaka
I'd begun spending tens of thousands of
yen on the game like it was nothing at all.
[15:48] Tanaka
I was completely numb.
[15:50] Tanaka
Everything I did was
to get my hands on a dodo.
[15:52] Tanaka
To get revenge on the boy
I was 16 years ago and save him.
[15:56] Tanaka
And to get closer to ditch-11,
[15:58] Tanaka
who continues to reign
from the number one spot.
[16:01] Tanaka
You just wait, ditch-11.
SIGN Super Rare
SIGN Red Panda
SIGN Super Rare
SIGN Okapi
SIGN Ultra Rare
SIGN Dodo
SIGN Ultra Rare
SIGN Dodo
[16:37] Tanaka
A dodo...
SIGN Ultra Rare
SIGN Dodo
[16:39] Tanaka
My four years...
[16:42] Tanaka
No, my 16 years...
[16:46] Tanaka
It finally paid off!
[16:48] Tanaka
Yes! I did it! A dodo!
[17:18] Clerk
Your backed up data
has been restored—
SIGN Snow Leopard
SIGN Dugong
SIGN Dodo
SIGN Animal List
SIGN Dodo
[17:36] Tanaka
My mind went blank.
[17:38] Tanaka
I couldn't think.
[17:40] Tanaka
I don't remember walking home.
[17:43] Tanaka
The loss I felt over the dodo
I had definitely acquired
[17:46] Tanaka
robbed me of all my willpower.
[17:49] Tanaka
But fate is cruel, and God had
taken something else from me.
[17:59] Tanaka
I think that's when the blue flame
inside of me finally came to life.
[18:05] Tanaka
At the very least, it wasn't God
who took my dodo from me.
[18:09] Tanaka
It was that taxi.
[18:11] Tanaka
It's not as though someone
took Maru from me, either.
[18:15] Tanaka
The life expectancy of a
cockatiel is about 15 years.
[18:17] Tanaka
He lived a full life.
[18:19] Tanaka
It just happened to be today.
[18:22] Tanaka
But sometimes, thinking about
this unfortunate coincidence
[18:26] Tanaka
makes me wonder if there is a God.
[18:31] Tanaka
In games, often the player
acquires a valuable item
[18:33] Tanaka
just when they think
they've reached a dead end.
[18:36] Tanaka
It's convenient. Of course it is.
[18:39] Tanaka
After all, somebody made it that way.
[18:41] Tanaka
Then there must be someone
who made this world, too.
[18:44] Tanaka
Perhaps this world has been programmed.
[18:48] Tanaka
Hey, God. It's you.
[18:53] Tanaka
This happened three days ago.
[18:59] Tanaka
Taxi... Kill... Maru... Dodo...
[19:08] Shibagaki
Ow. Hold on, buddy.
[19:11] Shibagaki
Apologize when you bump into someone.
[19:13] Shibagaki
That's common sense.
[19:15] Shibagaki
Don't you think?
[19:20] Shibagaki
Wait, wait. Hold on, buddy.
[19:23] Shibagaki
What's wrong? You've got
the face of a murderer.
[19:27] Shibagaki
Sorry. I'm just curious
due to the nature of my job.
[19:30] Tanaka
Hey, you. You're from the countryside.
Why'd you come out here?
[19:34] Shibagaki
The countryside?
[19:35] Shibagaki
I guess compared to Tokyo,
it is the countryside.
[19:38] Tanaka
Are you chasing a dream or something?
[19:40] Shibagaki
That's right. I came to Tokyo for
status, glory, and big money.
[19:45] Tanaka
But, you still haven't gotten those.
[19:48] Shibagaki
Well, Rome wasn't built in a day.
[19:50] Tanaka
What do you think you need
to do to get them?
[19:52] Shibagaki
If I knew that, my life would be easy.
[19:55] Shibagaki
My partner said it's luck, though.
[19:57] Tanaka
Your partner?
[19:59] Shibagaki
He's like my business partner.
[20:01] Tanaka
Luck, huh? You're right.
[20:04] Shibagaki
Maybe luck is involved,
[20:07] Shibagaki
but I don't want to give up
on the things I can control.
[20:10] Shibagaki
There's plenty to consider besides luck
[20:12] Shibagaki
when trying to figure out how to survive.
[20:14] Tanaka
You're saying the dodo was unlucky, then.
[20:17] Shibagaki
What?
[20:22] Shibagaki
What does that mean?
[20:23] Shibagaki
I thought you and I were
following the same road.
[20:26] Shibagaki
You're telling me we were actually
on the highway and subway?
[20:31] Tanaka
I feel like I've always been
searching for something.
[20:34] Tanaka
At the same time, my life has
always been lacking something.
[20:39] Tanaka
And desperately acquiring that something
yields only a moment of pleasure.
[20:45] Tanaka
Far from being good fortune,
[20:48] Tanaka
it's simply a moment of pleasure
produced by the release of dopamine.
[20:53] Tanaka
And?
[20:55] Tanaka
The single word that always follows
after I've acquired something I want.
[21:00] Tanaka
"And?"
[21:01] Tanaka
"So, what?" my other self asks me.
[21:05] Tanaka
It's always there,
hand-in-hand with nihilism.
[21:08] Tanaka
A truly formless pleasure.
[21:11] Tanaka
But right now, I'm experiencing being alive.
[21:15] Tanaka
It's because I found what I wanted
the moment I lost my dodo.
[21:20] Tanaka
Unlike before,
[21:21] Tanaka
it wasn't just an addition to my
collection that ended once acquired.
[21:24] Tanaka
What shall I do next?
[21:27] Tanaka
Just thinking about it excites me.
[21:30] Tanaka
It's a Rare Item with
potential for development.
[21:33] Tanaka
I believe everyone possesses
the impulse to attack.
[21:36] Tanaka
An impulse to attack that's
more exciting and justified
[21:39] Tanaka
the less you are to blame.
[21:43] Tanaka
I've been walking for three days since then.
[21:46] Tanaka
I'm used to chasing odds
far more mind-boggling.
[21:50] Tanaka
But this time, it's different.
[21:52] Tanaka
I felt something like a premonition.
[21:54] Tanaka
Earlier, I said that I could seize it
if I let go of my attachments,
[21:57] Tanaka
but there's another way
to acquire what I want.
[22:01] Tanaka
And that is by holding tightly
[22:05] Tanaka
onto a powerful attachment
that transcends all else.
[22:12] Shibagaki
Hey, you! What are you trying to do?
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[23:35] Shibagaki
I've never actually seen
someone point them all out
[23:37] Shibagaki
when they say something
is full of mistakes or flaws.
[23:40] Shibagaki
Why don't you carefully verbalize
each and every one of them, huh?
[23:42] Shibagaki
Probably too stupid to do it.
[23:44] Odokawa
You're pretty drunk.
[23:45] Shibagaki
Man, maybe I'll win the lottery.
[23:47] Odokawa
Your job is like a lottery.