# E3 - Retake the Climax
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GYGG4E81Y/retake-the-climax)
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**[00:01] ---**
*Oh, so those two still haven't
given you the go-ahead.*
**[00:04] ---**
Yeah, the road to creatordom is a hard one.
**[00:08] ---**
*So, when is the next deadline?*
**[00:10] ---**
The end of Golden Week.
**[00:12] ---**
That's my final chance.
**[00:15] ---**
*You only have a few days, then.*
**[00:18] ---**
*Oh, but the long holiday starts today.*
**[00:21] ---**
You're right! Though the days may
be few, the hours are many!
**[00:25] ---**
I just need to think of nothing
but the game starting today!
**[00:28] ---**
*There's a proficiency test at the
beginning of the week, though.*
**[00:31] ---**
Be that as it may, given the situation,
we need another camp cram session!
**[00:35] ---**
Come in for a meeting, Kato!
**[00:37] ---**
No matter what it takes, we have to win those
two over and create our ultimate dating sim!
***SIGN*** Proposal
**[00:42] ---**
*Sorry, I can't make it this time.*
**[00:45] ---**
Why not? I thought you
had joined my circle.
**[00:49] ---**
*I have, but well...*
**[00:51] ---**
I'm sort of... in Hokkaido.
**[00:56] ---**
Today's the first day
of our family trip.
**[00:59] ---**
*How long will you be gone?*
**[01:00] ---**
Um, through the end of Golden Week.
**[01:07] ---**
*So that's how it is...*
**[02:40] ---**
Okay, let's do this!
Four days 'til the deadline!
***SIGN*** #3 "Retake the Climax"
**[02:44] ---**
Absolutely no anime. No games.
**[02:46] ---**
And no light novels!
***SIGN*** Date A Live
**[03:03] ---**
If I just read one, that'll give me
the final push I need!
**[03:12] ---**
Huh?
**[03:13] ---**
Oh, crap... I screwed up.
**[03:18] ---**
I need some water.
**[03:19] ---**
A cola for me, thanks.
**[03:21] ---**
Sure thing.
**[03:25] ---**
*An entire day down the tubes...*
**[03:30] ---**
*Well, I've still got three left,
so I guess it's okay.*
**[03:39] ---**
What are you doing here, Eriri?!
**[03:43] ---**
Oh, leave it over there, okay?
I'm screwed if it spills on my roughs.
**[03:47] ---**
My schedule is being screwed
by you letting yourself in!
**[03:51] ---**
I had to! I kept pressing the
doorbell and no one answered!
**[03:56] ---**
My point is, you haven't come
over here these past few years!
**[04:00] ---**
Because we haven't said two words to
each other these past few years.
**[04:08] ---**
So let me ask you again:
Why did you come over?
**[04:12] ---**
To work on my drafts for an event
this weekend, obviously.
**[04:19] ---**
Don't come over to a guy's house to
work on hardcore 18+ illustrations!
**[04:23] ---**
What else could I do?
**[04:24] ---**
I have monthly deadlines,
so don't be so unsympathetic, okay?!
**[04:31] ---**
No matter how you interpret that, it's only
a pathetic case of misdirected anger,
**[04:36] ---**
so surely you can draw
that crap at home!
**[04:38] ---**
Dad has guests over for a garden party,
so I came here to get away.
**[04:43] ---**
Lock yourself up in your room, then.
**[04:45] ---**
If I was at home, I'd have to
put in an appearance.
**[04:48] ---**
People like the previous Minister
of Foreign Affairs were there.
**[04:51] ---**
The complete disconnect between your posh
home life and the girl I see here is deliberate?
**[04:58] ---**
Bite me.
**[05:05] ---**
So, are you making progress?
**[05:06] ---**
I have three more days.
That's plenty of time.
**[05:08] ---**
Meaning you haven't made any at all.
**[05:11] ---**
How did you know?!
**[05:13] ---**
When a creator uses the number
of days left as an excuse,
**[05:18] ---**
it's always, without exception,
because he's behind schedule.
**[05:21] ---**
Don't make it sound so painful.
That's way too much reality for me.
**[05:26] ---**
Why not give up? Game creation
was always too much for you.
**[05:31] ---**
We don't know that yet!
**[05:33] ---**
I mean, we used to suck
equally badly back in the day!
**[05:38] ---**
We'd draw lousy pictures and make
lousy stories to go with them
**[05:41] ---**
and happily show them to
each other, remember?
**[05:43] ---**
I don't remember that far back.
**[05:46] ---**
But you're a member
of a popular circle now.
**[05:49] ---**
Anything that you can do,
I have to be able to do, too!
**[05:52] ---**
Have it your way, then.
**[05:54] ---**
Fine, I will have it my way!
**[05:57] ---**
And one day, I'll become a creator who's so
popular that you won't hold a candle to me!
**[06:02] ---**
If you can make a comeback like that,
I guess I was worried over nothing.
**[06:07] ---**
Worried?
**[06:10] ---**
It's nothing.
**[06:11] ---**
Hang on, did you come here to motivate me?
**[06:14] ---**
What are you talking about? Are you stupid?
**[06:16] ---**
Don't get the wrong idea
like some crazy person!
**[06:19] ---**
What's with that textbook tsundere reaction
that stinks to high heaven?
**[06:23] ---**
I'm not "dere"-ing!
I couldn't care less about you–
**[06:28] ---**
Who is it?! We're in the middle of
an important conversation here!
**[06:32] ---**
That was an important conversation, huh?
**[06:34] ---**
Isn't it more like you're acting
like you own the place?
**[06:37] ---**
Gueh!
**[06:39] ---**
Gueh?
**[06:42] ---**
Come on in, sorry about the mess.
**[06:49] ---**
This is tidier than I was expecting.
**[06:52] ---**
Although there can be no doubt
that this is an otaku's room.
**[06:55] ---**
Sure... I guess...
**[06:58] ---**
So, what brings you here today?
**[07:00] ---**
This is the first time you've
ever come over to my house.
**[07:04] ---**
True, this is a first for us.
**[07:07] ---**
But don't worry, I'm not flustered just yet.
**[07:11] ---**
It's more a case of the day that
was looming over you has come.
**[07:14] ---**
Or there is nowhere for
you to run, Mr. Ethical.
**[07:17] ---**
The rule at my house is to
treat guests like a king!
**[07:21] ---**
I guarantee you a safe return home!
**[07:28] ---**
I'm kidding.
**[07:31] ---**
I'm just visiting a soldier at the front.
**[07:33] ---**
So, how fares the battle?
**[07:37] ---**
Um, well...
**[07:39] ---**
It isn't, at all.
**[07:42] ---**
I was expecting more of a
simpering excuse from you.
**[07:44] ---**
That was refreshingly honest.
**[07:46] ---**
I learned to my chagrin quite recently
**[07:49] ---**
that such things don't work on
people in the same industry.
**[07:55] ---**
There's really no need to force
yourself to do this, you know.
**[07:58] ---**
Utaha-senpai?
**[07:59] ---**
If you give up now, your former daily routine
as a consumer pig awaits you, that's all.
**[08:06] ---**
I don't think that was a particularly
difficult life for you, Mr. Ethical.
**[08:11] ---**
No, it wasn't...
**[08:14] ---**
But I have mixed feelings about being
called a consumer pig to my face.
**[08:20] ---**
The life of a creator might seem glamorous,
but it's not all wine and roses.
**[08:26] ---**
It isn't?
**[08:29] ---**
The deadlines are murder,
the competition is rough,
**[08:32] ---**
and there's no telling
when your talent will dry up.
**[08:35] ---**
I don't want to hear
hackneyed cliches from
**[08:38] ---**
a young up-and-comer who's at
the height of her powers!
**[08:41] ---**
And worst of all are the haters.
**[08:44] ---**
When reviews are good, they deride
them as stealth marketing.
**[08:48] ---**
If a book doesn't sell well, they laugh
that the quality has dropped.
**[08:51] ---**
If you make excuses or rationalize, they say
you're refusing to accept responsibility.
**[08:57] ---**
I'd love nothing better than to round up
those ****s and get rid of them all!
**[08:59] ---**
Utaha-senpai, calm down!
**[09:04] ---**
That's why you should go on consuming my
works as you always have, Mr. Ethical.
**[09:09] ---**
Senpai...
**[09:11] ---**
Utaha-senpai, remember what
you said to me earlier?
**[09:17] ---**
You said that I still can't envision
the game I want to make.
**[09:21] ---**
Those words really struck
a chord with me.
**[09:24] ---**
I figured out that I didn't
know anything then.
**[09:28] ---**
But that's exactly why...
**[09:30] ---**
When I do see what
I want to create,
**[09:33] ---**
will I be able to find a solution
that will win you over?
**[09:37] ---**
That's what I'm not sure about.
**[09:41] ---**
So wait just a while longer.
**[09:44] ---**
Because I'll put together a project proposal
that will knock your socks off!
**[09:50] ---**
If you're that insistent, I can't stop you.
**[09:53] ---**
Do as you wish.
**[09:55] ---**
Thank you!
**[09:57] ---**
But in return, I won't
extend your deadline.
**[09:59] ---**
I'll be looking forward
to the end of our vacation.
**[10:02] ---**
You can count on me!
**[10:03] ---**
I'll put together a project that you
will be dying to take part in!
**[10:09] ---**
In that case, here's one more
piece of advice, Mr. Ethical.
**[10:12] ---**
Yes?
**[10:14] ---**
If you are serious about
wanting to form a circle...
**[10:18] ---**
If you are serious about wanting to create a
game with us all, drag all the members into it.
**[10:23] ---**
All the members?
**[10:25] ---**
If you don't, you'll never put out a quality
product no matter how hard you try.
**[10:30] ---**
You won't be able to keep
yourself motivated, either.
**[10:33] ---**
So for now...
**[10:35] ---**
if nothing else, make the circle members
you do have give their all.
**[10:42] ---**
Oh, and one more thing.
**[10:46] ---**
You should have hidden her bicycle, too.
**[10:48] ---**
Bicycle?
**[10:49] ---**
Until next week.
**[11:02] ---**
Utaha Kasumigaoka!
**[11:04] ---**
If you were going to curse her name,
you shouldn't have hidden.
**[11:08] ---**
No way am I gonna bump into
that woman in your room!
**[11:12] ---**
Anyway, she'd just be
condescending and say,
**[11:14] ---**
"I knew you were there all along"
all sarcastically!
**[11:17] ---**
She knew all along even without
bumping into you.
**[11:26] ---**
*What? I'm sorry,
I can't hear you.*
**[11:29] ---**
Wow, it's pretty noisy there.
Where are you? Sapporo?
**[11:33] ---**
*Uh, well... Something like that.*
**[11:37] ---**
Are you having fun?
**[11:39] ---**
*Yes, lots.*
**[11:40] ---**
Oh...
**[11:42] ---**
*So anyway, Aki-kun...
How is the deadline coming?*
**[11:45] ---**
About that, Kato...
**[11:49] ---**
*If nothing else, make the circle members
you do have give their all.*
**[11:52] ---**
Don't worry about me,
just focus on having fun.
**[11:54] ---**
I'll muddle through
on my own, just you watch.
**[11:58] ---**
Well, I'll let you go, Kato.
**[12:00] ---**
*Sorry, one more thing.*
**[12:02] ---**
What?
**[12:05] ---**
What was it about me
that appealed to you, Aki-kun?
**[12:11] ---**
*You know, like, "Boy, it sure
was fun when we did that,"*
**[12:15] ---**
*or, "Wow, I sure love that about her,"*
**[12:17] ---**
*or even the opposite, and something
that you didn't like.*
**[12:21] ---**
Have you contracted a fatal disease
and you won't live to see tomorrow?
**[12:26] ---**
*It's nothing that dramatic,
but, well, is there?*
**[12:32] ---**
Let me think...
**[12:37] ---**
Well, everything was fun. Really fun.
**[12:40] ---**
*Then there's no room
for improvement?*
**[12:43] ---**
But, well, I guess if there was
one change I could have...
**[12:47] ---**
*One thing?*
**[12:50] ---**
Maybe you could've been
more overbearing.
**[12:53] ---**
*Wait, are you saying that you wished
I was more mean-spirited?*
**[12:58] ---**
No, not like that at all.
Those two are plenty.
**[13:03] ---**
*How are they different?*
**[13:05] ---**
*Never mind. I'll think
of something myself.*
**[13:07] ---**
What?
**[13:08] ---**
*Talk to you later, Aki-kun.*
**[13:12] ---**
Sure.
***SIGN*** Title: (to be decided) Production concept: Prologue: Appeal Point of the Work: Character setting: Heroine A (name to be decided)
**[13:22] ---**
I can't, I can't...
***SIGN*** This LN is Hot! Breaking Light Novel News Blog
**[13:26] ---**
Well, maybe just for a bit.
**[13:32] ---**
Whoa, I wasted another whole day!
**[13:38] ---**
Two days left...
***SIGN*** Title: (to be decided) Production concept: Prologue: Appeal Point of the Work: Character setting: Heroine A (name to be decided)
**[13:40] ---**
No... There's still plenty of time!
***SIGN*** Give Up
***SIGN*** Give Up
**[13:59] ---**
*I never had any talent...*
***SIGN*** Give Up
**[14:06] ---**
I knew it, it's nothing but a hill.
**[14:09] ---**
*I thought that if I came here, I'd get
some ideas or remember something.*
**[14:15] ---**
*I can't see anything,
not as I am now...*
**[14:18] ---**
*The blossoms in full bloom.
The hat flying through the air.*
**[14:21] ---**
*Or even the heroine in her white
one-piece dress standing atop the hill.*
**[14:26] ---**
*Is it over? Is my dream at an end?*
**[14:29] ---**
*It began here... Will it also end here?*
**[14:46] ---**
It's been a long time.
**[14:48] ---**
We meet again.
**[14:52] ---**
Gosh, what a coincidence... Just kidding!
**[14:57] ---**
Kato?
**[14:58] ---**
Oh, you recognized me,
**[15:02] ---**
Tomoya Aki-kun!
**[15:13] ---**
What are you–
**[15:17] ---**
What are you doing?
**[15:22] ---**
Tell me, Aki-kun...
**[15:24] ---**
Tomoya-kun, I should say.
**[15:27] ---**
Is this the me that you were hoping for?
**[15:33] ---**
In anime, in games,
and in light novels,
**[15:39] ---**
does your ideal girl talk like this?
**[15:43] ---**
Move like this?
**[15:45] ---**
And fall in love like this?
**[15:55] ---**
Do I pass?
**[15:59] ---**
Could this me become the heroine of
the story you're trying to make?
**[16:05] ---**
Could she help you?
**[16:10] ---**
Hang on, weren't you in Hokkaido?
**[16:15] ---**
I came home a bit early.
**[16:18] ---**
Three days ago.
**[16:20] ---**
I didn't think they'd make the deadline
the last day of the long holiday.
**[16:23] ---**
I thought maybe I shouldn't go.
**[16:25] ---**
Don't give me that!
**[16:28] ---**
Why would you skip a family vacation
over a little thing like this?
**[16:31] ---**
Well, if I didn't help out, I think
you'd hold it against me forever.
**[16:37] ---**
Don't make me sound like
some clingy, creeper otaku.
**[16:40] ---**
Those are real, though!
**[16:41] ---**
More to the point, why didn't you
come by as soon as you got back?
**[16:45] ---**
Well, I wouldn't have been much use
even if I'd come in for a meeting.
**[16:49] ---**
Then what's the point
of you coming back?!
**[16:51] ---**
I thought I'd participate in circle
activities to provide motivation.
**[16:59] ---**
It's not just me, though.
**[17:01] ---**
Sawamura-san and Kasumigaoka-senpai
helped me out a lot.
**[17:06] ---**
They did?
**[17:08] ---**
Sawamura-san redesigned this dress
**[17:12] ---**
and tweaked it so it would
match your tastes precisely.
**[17:15] ---**
She said her concept was
"Mini, fluttery, 2D-y."
**[17:21] ---**
Those aren't my tastes, that's
the dream of all moe-otaku!
**[17:25] ---**
And my speaking style and performance were
straight from Kasumigaoka-senpai's script.
**[17:31] ---**
Her stage directions
are really precise...
**[17:34] ---**
I'm amazed you survived.
**[17:36] ---**
She wrote a script for
the Drama Club once,
**[17:39] ---**
and she wound up kicking three
people out of the club over that.
**[17:42] ---**
It was pretty fun, though.
**[17:45] ---**
I think I'll hit it off with those two.
**[17:49] ---**
As fellow circle members.
**[17:51] ---**
Kato... Are you on board with this?
**[17:55] ---**
Like I said, it's not just me.
**[17:57] ---**
You believe in my dream that might
be unrealistic and haphazard?
**[18:03] ---**
To be honest, I still have no clue what
it is that you're trying to accomplish.
**[18:08] ---**
You wouldn't...
**[18:09] ---**
But even so,
**[18:11] ---**
I understand all too well
that you're dead serious
**[18:14] ---**
about wanting to make
your dream come true.
**[18:17] ---**
Kato...
**[18:26] ---**
So hang in there, Tomoya-kun!
**[18:30] ---**
Make me a heroine whose happiness will
be the envy of everyone, okay?
**[18:36] ---**
Yeah, I promise I will!
**[18:38] ---**
I'm gonna turn you into a main heroine that
will tug at everyone's heartstrings!
**[18:44] ---**
Boy, I wish you would have phrased that
in a slightly less mortifying way...
**[18:50] ---**
And on that note, we're gonna convene
a meeting right now, Kato!
**[18:53] ---**
We're gonna make our ultimate
dating sim no matter what,
**[18:56] ---**
one that will bring those two on board!
**[19:00] ---**
Right now?!
**[19:02] ---**
Of course right now!
The deadline is tomorrow!
**[19:05] ---**
That's only a problem because you
haven't made any progress at all!
**[19:10] ---**
If you can nitpick, you can offer ideas!
**[19:13] ---**
Whisper to me in that
same style! Moe me up!
**[19:17] ---**
But we have school tomorrow, and I
really need to stop off at home.
**[19:20] ---**
Not to worry! I'll let you go
by 7AM tomorrow!
**[19:24] ---**
It takes girls longer to get ready,
so let me leave by 6!
**[19:29] ---**
Fine!
**[19:30] ---**
It would be crazy to end the
same way two episodes in a row!
**[19:33] ---**
What's crazy is your attitude!
**[19:37] ---**
Looks like we're going
to get roped into this.
**[19:39] ---**
His project proposal isn't done yet. We don't
know if he'll finish it by tomorrow.
**[19:44] ---**
The instant the main heroine came
on board, the battle was over.
**[19:49] ---**
If it annoys you so much, perhaps you
shouldn't have helped Kato-san.
**[19:54] ---**
What're you saying?
I couldn't care less!
**[19:57] ---**
Or that's not the issue. This has
never had anything to do with me.
**[20:02] ---**
If you don't do something about this habit
of being stubborn when push comes to shove,
**[20:07] ---**
you might come to regret it one day.
**[20:12] ---**
I already do.
**[20:13] ---**
I can't believe I'm in the same circle
as the Utako Kasumi of all people.
**[20:17] ---**
Actually, I'm rather looking forward
to working with the Eri Kashiwagi.
**[20:23] ---**
I am not gonna pick up after
a hack author like you!
***SIGN*** Game Project Proposal, 3rd Draft
**[22:07] ---**
Whatever anyone else
might say, this is a 0.
**[22:09] ---**
Hey, just a minute! I think this one
turned out pretty good!
**[22:12] ---**
All I see here is your cruel desire to
make out with your ideal heroine.
**[22:18] ---**
You were the one who told me to show you
the game I want to make!
**[22:21] ---**
It's rather annoying when
something is too overt.
**[22:24] ---**
I poured my heart
and soul into it!
**[22:26] ---**
I stayed up all last night to finish this,
the project proposal of my soul!
**[22:29] ---**
I know that, it's your attitude
that I don't care for.
**[22:32] ---**
It wasn't just me!
Kato worked her heart out, too!
**[22:35] ---**
Hey, say something!
**[22:37] ---**
Don't fall asleep!
**[22:39] ---**
Anyway, if you're the heroine,
sleep on your man's shoulder!
**[22:44] ---**
Ow! Hey! Wha–? Cut it out!
Stop that! Ow, damn it!