E1 - An Error-ridden Prologue
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And we're down to the final spurt!
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One spring day...
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I came face to face with my destiny.
SIGN #1 "An Error-ridden Prologue"
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Oops...
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See you tonight!
SIGN Amber Concerto
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'Morning, mister!
[03:08] ---
Hm? You deliver papers now, Tomoya-kun?
[03:12] ---
What happened to that other job?
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I'm still working at the video store
and restaurant.
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I took on a morning job, that's all.
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You're such a go-getter.
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But isn't it hard to balance
all those jobs with school?
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I can handle it! After all,
I've got a big goal now.
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Which is why I don't have
time to dawdle! See ya!
[03:32] ---
What anime is that boy
hooked on this time?
SIGN Toyogasaki Private Academy
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Class B
Tomoya Aki
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Good morning, Sawamura-san.
[03:52] ---
Good morning.
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Oh, how are you, Ishimaki-san?
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And you, Satomi-san?
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Sawamura-san!
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Good morning!
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Sawamura-san, good morning!
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Sawamura-san, how have you been?
[04:04] ---
It's been too long, Sawamura-san!
[04:04] ---
Hey, look at this, we're all in Class G!
SIGN Class G Kiyo Ishimaki
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Oh, so we are.
SIGN Azusa Satomi Eriri Spencer Sawamura
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Let's have a good year together, then.
[04:32] ---
Sawamura-san?
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Hm? Oh, it's nothing.
[04:43] ---
Hey, Tomoya!
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Oh, hey, Yoshihiko.
[04:46] ---
Looks like we're in the
same class again this year!
[04:48] ---
I'm kinda busy right now.
Don't bother me.
[04:50] ---
What's so important? Are you doing
a roundup of the winter anime?
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Or reviewing light novels
that came out in March?
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I finished that stuff ages ago.
[04:58] ---
For anime, within 24 hours
of the finale's airing.
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For light novels,
within three days of publishing.
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For games, within a week of release.
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My mission is to post useful news,
divided into spoilers
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and spoiler-free, that
anyone can see and enjoy.
[05:10] ---
You big-league bloggers sure talk different.
So, what are you working on?
[05:15] ---
What you see here is a mission
of the utmost importance.
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It's an epic project that's worthy of
the beginning of my new otaku life.
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Whoa, check that out, Tomoya!
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Hey, what kind of friend asks a question
and then ignores me while I'm answering?
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Look, it's Sawamura-san!
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Eriri Spencer Sawamura.
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Half-Japanese, wealthy,
father an English diplomat...
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Plus, she's the super ace of the
art club who got accepted into
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the municipal art exhibition
right after she enrolled here!
[05:39] ---
What's the point of getting so
worked up over her now?
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Man, it's like her cuteness has been honed
even more now that she's in second year.
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You still haven't let go of 3D girls?
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I made a point of fixating on 2D girls
all through first year, but listen to you!
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What are you saying, you idiot?
That's exactly why!
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She's got fair skin!
She's half-Japanese!
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Blonde hair! In pigtails!
And she's in knee-socks!
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She's a moe heroine with every box
on the 2D checklist ticked off!
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You're the idiot.
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3D girls are way too much trouble.
[06:13] ---
Hey, Tomoya, aren't you going
to the opening ceremony?
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Sorry, go on ahead.
I'll catch up.
[06:24] ---
First Press Limited Edition
Amber Concerto
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That was careless, Eriri. It's not like you
to let a limited-edition pass you by.
[06:34] ---
Well, online retailers stopped
taking orders quite a while ago...
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I placed orders at all the shops
that were getting exclusives
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the day they started taking pre-orders—
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I told you not to talk to me at school!
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And what do we say to the
guy who lugged five boxes
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weighing 1.8kg each
all around Akiba on release day?
[06:52] ---
I gave you the bonus
wall scroll, didn't I?
[06:55] ---
You should be thanking me.
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Anyway, why did you come over
to Class G? You're in Class B, aren't you?
[07:02] ---
You know what class I'm in?
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They were only announced today.
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If you don't need anything, I'm leaving!
[07:10] ---
Hey, wait! I have something
important to discuss.
[07:13] ---
The opening ceremony
is about to start.
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It's now or never!
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Please!
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Well?
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It's a project proposal.
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For what?
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For the ultimate dating sim
that we're gonna make!
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I'm dying to find out how
someone would arrive at
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such a nonsensical, stupid,
downright painful notion.
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I'm glad you asked!
[07:42] ---
A life-changing event
happened to me last week!
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I felt the hand of something
at work that day.
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Call it fate, call it a divine revelation...
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Did you now?
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I know, isn't it amazing?!
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Isn't it like a girls' manga,
a romantic anime,
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a moe light novel, or the prologue
to some dating sim?!
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Yeah, it sounds like an event I've seen
a million times that's been done to death.
[08:03] ---
Winning formulas work
because people love them!
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So I just had to express what
I was feeling at that moment.
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You want to base a game around
your encounter with that girl?
[08:15] ---
When I saw her, game text and visuals
and music cascaded through my brain.
SIGN Mystery Girl That's right. This is actually my first time in town...
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That's how I knew.
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The only way to depict
this story is in game form.
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I didn't mean that,
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I meant, why don't you track her
down and tell her how you feel?
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Why would I want to profess
my feelings for some 3D girl?
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And? Why are you trying to drag me into
your little masturbatory fantasy?
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It's because you're the best
illustrator I know of!
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By day, you are Eriri Spencer Sawamura,
star of the Toyogasaki Academy Art Club.
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But by night,
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your secret otaku identity is a member
of the super-popular 18+ doujinshi circle,
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"Egoistic Lily,"
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Eri Kashiwagi!
[09:03] ---
Damn it, I keep telling you not to
say that name on school grounds!
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You'll do it, won't you?
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You're going to do it, right, Eriri?!
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As if, you moron!
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You promised me back when
we were in elementary school!
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I'm gonna be the president of a game
company one day, mark my words!
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When I do, I'll come hire you!
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I'll wait for you as long as it takes!
I'll be your game company's artist, Tomo-kun!
[09:27] ---
Eriri...
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Tomo-kun...
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As if schoolkids would make a promise
that specific and that mundane!
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We did! I know we did!
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If you're that gung-ho to do it,
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why don't you just do the illustrations
and scenario yourself?!
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That's the doujin way!
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It wouldn't work.
[09:46] ---
My skills couldn't depict that
girl's beauty in a million years.
[09:51] ---
She was really that cute?
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The scene is still
seared into my eyes.
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She wore a white one-piece dress
and a white beret.
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That fleeting glimpse of her
standing atop the hill,
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colored by cherry blossoms
dancing on the breeze...
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That doesn't tell me
a damn thing about her face.
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You don't remember what
she looked like, do you?
[10:09] ---
You're wrong!
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My power of expression isn't up to
capturing that perfect image, that's all!
[10:15] ---
Even trying to would demean her.
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That's why I need the power of
your illustrations, Eriri!
[10:22] ---
Anyway, Tomoya,
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your way of thinking is
warped from the get-go.
[10:29] ---
I never expected to hear that from
a girl who draws porno doujinshi!
[10:33] ---
When you say this is a passion project
but then foist off a key element,
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that tells me you aren't
serious about it at all.
[10:40] ---
That's exactly like a con man
who claims to be a producer
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who just wants to kick back
and enjoy the profits.
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I'm nothing like those halfhearted types!
I have drive and passion!
[10:50] ---
And I'm overflowing with ideas!
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I'm the only man for the job of
bringing this project proposal to fruition!
[10:56] ---
Wow, all those overflowing ideas can
fit on that scrap of paper, huh?
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"Boy meets mysterious girl, they flirt,
then share a joyous kiss, the end."
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That idea that "only you can bring to
fruition" fits into one sentence.
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Stop it, stop it, stop it!
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Later.
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Wait, Eriri!
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One more time! Hear me out
just one more time!
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There's nothing more to say.
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I'll be waiting in the
AV room after school.
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It's too late to be saying
that now, Tomoya.
[11:35] ---
And now, the presentation of the top
prize in the last month's mock exam.
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You look depressed.
[11:39] ---
Did you already get shot down by a girl
on the first day of the new semester?
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It's not that...
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But I'll admit that I'm now
facing a huge crisis.
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Utaha Kasumigaoka-san, Class 3C.
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Between me and the epic project that's worthy
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of the beginning of my new otaku life stands—
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Look, Tomoya!
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Hey, Yoshihiko, you ask a question and then don't listen...
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Check it out, it's Kasumigaoka-senpai!
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Utaha Kasumigaoka,
the smartest girl in school,
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who's never lost her seat as top
in her class in her two years here.
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Always lost in her own world...
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She's always nodding off in class
and never does her homework,
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but I hear the teachers
can't touch her.
[12:24] ---
You've never seen her do it, so don't act
like you know what you're talking about.
[12:28] ---
She sure is pretty, though...
[12:31] ---
She's one of the two top beauties
of Toyogasaki Academy.
[12:33] ---
It's not for nothing that they say Sawamura is
the light side to Kasumigaoka's dark side.
[12:39] ---
If you start comparing those two, it's
going to come back and haunt you.
[12:43] ---
But Kasumigaoka-senpai
has long, black hair!
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And big boobs!
And black stockings!
[12:51] ---
Don't you think she's a moe heroine
who's neck and neck with Sawamura-san?
[12:54] ---
Look, those are two books you don't
want to judge by their covers.
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I have to say, though, it's weird
how I never see them with guys
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even though they're so sought-after.
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Are they just good at hiding them?
Or do they hate guys?
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Don't ask me.
[13:10] ---
True, it wouldn't help to talk
to you about it, Mr. 2D-only.
SIGN There is class in the afternoon too! Don't go home just yet.
[13:27] ---
I had a feeling you'd be here.
[13:32] ---
You haven't had lunch yet, right?
[13:37] ---
Mind if I join you?
[13:45] ---
Oh, right.
[13:49] ---
Here.
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Bell?
[13:57] ---
"Bell"?
[13:58] ---
Oo an do azg be zumding, ite?
[13:59] ---
Sorry, I don't follow you.
[14:07] ---
Well? You want to ask
me something, right?
[14:10] ---
That's why you have the gall to
show your face to the girl
[14:13] ---
you cast aside
long ago, isn't it?
[14:15] ---
Don't say stuff that will give
people the wrong impression!
[14:21] ---
Well, what do you think
of my project proposal?
[14:24] ---
I've never written one before, so I'd
be glad if you could offer any advice.
[14:30] ---
Here's where I ask you for
an even bigger favor.
[14:34] ---
I'd be even happier if you came on
board the project, so if you...
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Trash to trash, rubbish to rubbish, ashes to ashes.
[14:40] ---
I poured my heart and soul into that!
[14:44] ---
Listen, Mr. Ethical.
SIGN Ethics
SIGN Slacker
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It's Tomoya.
SIGN Tomoya
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Your misguided passion, your
woefully ill-advised naiveté,
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and even your wildly misplaced tenacity
aren't without their charms.
[14:57] ---
Those all say the exact same thing
in slightly different ways.
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I can offer no counsel to something
that I find undeserving.
[15:07] ---
It's that bad?
[15:09] ---
I suppose I'd give it a zero
as a project proposal.
[15:12] ---
All I see is a mishmash
of parts I've seen elsewhere.
[15:16] ---
Look at any part of the story, and the
source material is easily recognizable.
[15:19] ---
And what's worse, the whole thing
is of such poor quality
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that it doesn't even rise to
the level of a degraded copy.
[15:25] ---
The more of this I read,
all I can do is sigh.
[15:28] ---
It's that terrible?
[15:30] ---
Anyway, I'm busy right now.
[15:34] ---
I can't join you in your spur-of-the-moment
"production house" games.
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It's not spur-of-the-moment!
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I've always wanted
to make a game.
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I've always wanted to get closer to
the creators I've admired, even if just a little.
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Utaha-senpai, remember
what you told me once?
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That I might, or might not, have what
it takes to be a game creator!
[15:58] ---
Did I say that?
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Anyway, aren't you just trying to change
the topic with cunning pleasantries?
[16:05] ---
To me, those words were like the spider's
thread lowered by Buddha!
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The smartest student in the history
of Toyogasaki Academy, Utaha Kasumigaoka...
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is actually...
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the super-popular high-school author,
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writer of the "Metronome in Love" series,
which has sold over 500,000 copies!
[16:23] ---
Utako Kasumi!
[16:25] ---
Given that you know that, you should
understand that I really am busy.
[16:32] ---
I've heard that you've started on a
new series, right? Congratulations!
[16:36] ---
Thank you. Goodbye, then.
[16:38] ---
But be that as it may!
[16:39] ---
One more time! Hear me out
just one more time...
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I'll be waiting in the
AV room after school today.
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Why did you have to
pick now, Tomoya-kun?
[17:06] ---
All done...
[17:07] ---
It's done!
[17:11] ---
Just you wait, Eriri!
Utaha-senpai!
[17:34] ---
Oh... Aki-kun.
[17:38] ---
Miss Hasumi says to come
to the faculty room.
[17:41] ---
It sounds like she wants you to take
some class materials to the AV room.
[17:47] ---
Sorry, but I can't go now.
[17:49] ---
There's something that I absolutely
have to do right now.
[17:53] ---
Oh, okay. I'll go tell her you said no, then.
[17:57] ---
Sorry, tell her I'll come in early
tomorrow and do it then.
[18:00] ---
All right, I will.
[18:02] ---
Later.
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Oh, and one more thing.
[18:05] ---
What is it now?
[18:07] ---
Thanks for earlier.
[18:08] ---
For what?
[18:10] ---
Remember? You picked up my hat
over spring break. That white beret.
[18:14] ---
Did I do that? I don't remember.
[18:17] ---
I'm not surprised.
It was quite a few days ago.
[18:21] ---
See you.
[18:22] ---
Yeah, see you tomorrow.
SIGN AV Room
[18:42] ---
Just because I'm here doesn't
mean I plan to sign on, got it?
[18:45] ---
I'm only hearing you out because
I wouldn't be able to get to sleep
[18:48] ---
if I thought you were
waiting here all night.
[18:50] ---
That's a laudable sentiment, Sawamura-san.
[18:56] ---
I suppose I've never begun
a conversation with you...
[18:59] ---
Utaha Kasumigaoka?!
[19:01] ---
but would you mind not
calling me by my full name,
[19:06] ---
Miss Eriri Spencer Sawamura?
[19:07] ---
What are you doing here?
[19:10] ---
What a coincidence, Sawamura-san.
[19:12] ---
I was just about to ask you
the very same question.
[19:16] ---
Wait, you weren't asked here
by Tomoya, were you?
[19:18] ---
I had a nagging suspicion when he
said he wanted to make a game,
[19:22] ---
but I can't believe he had his eye
on you to do the character designs.
[19:27] ---
What's that fool thinking, asking a gloomy
girl like you to write the scenario?
[19:31] ---
If you're going to play that card,
[19:33] ---
is it wise to entrust the illustrations
to a mega-delinquent
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who is a sham of a proper young lady,
perfect on the outside but rotten to the core?
[19:39] ---
Who are you calling
a delinquent?!
[19:41] ---
I confess that I am gloomy, but I think
that I'm truer to myself than you are.
[19:48] ---
Anyway, don't get roped in by that idiot just
because he was there for you once, you loner!
[19:54] ---
You're not one to talk, seeing as how
you're doing exactly the same thing.
[19:59] ---
I only came here to stop him!
[20:01] ---
No way is a crazy project
like that going to work out!
[20:05] ---
If it were that crazy, wouldn't it implode
on its own even if you hadn't come?
[20:13] ---
I'm out of here.
[20:15] ---
Good day, then.
[20:16] ---
Wait, are you going to stay?
[20:19] ---
Do you seriously buy
that absurd tall tale of his?
[20:22] ---
I don't see how that is
any of your concern.
[20:29] ---
Wait a minute!
[20:37] ---
What?
[20:39] ---
You're...
[20:40] ---
You're the...
[20:42] ---
I'm the what?
[20:45] ---
That hat, it was—
[20:47] ---
Looks like we're in the same class again.
Let's have a good year together, Aki-kun.
[20:52] ---
One spring day... I came
face to face with my destiny.
[20:57] ---
Um, Megumi Kano, right?
[21:01] ---
It's "Kato."
[21:02] ---
Right, that's what I thought it was!
[21:04] ---
But that was apparently a misunderstanding.
[22:42] ---
We've been stood up.
[22:45] ---
Yeah...
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