E5 - The Date Event of Crossing Paths
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[00:01] ---
All right, Kato-san.
Try and look huffy this time, please.
[00:05] ---
H-Huffy?
[00:07] ---
Ummm, here, it's like if you got
stood up by your boyfriend,
[00:11] ---
and you're all, "Come on, come on!
It's like I don't even know you anymore!"
[00:14] ---
That's the kind of feeling I mean.
[00:16] ---
There's no situation in real life where
you'd actually behave or talk that way.
[00:22] ---
So our circle activities begin at last.
[00:26] ---
Here, have some, Utaha-senpai.
SIGN Ahn!
[00:33] ---
Utaha-senpai?
SIGN Ahn! Ahn! Ahn! Ahn!
SIGN Ahn! Ahn! Ahn! Ahn! One more! One more! One more!
[00:58] ---
This won't do, my pencil broke.
Go buy me another right now, Tomoya.
SIGN #5 The Date Event of Crossing Paths
[02:36] ---
What? Kato-san, you can't even
do a disgusted glare?!
[02:42] ---
Fine, next just try an angry expression.
[02:45] ---
Imagine you've got an anger mark
on your temple.
[02:49] ---
That doesn't work either?
Well, what about a sweatdrop?
[02:53] ---
Can you not even get those
vertical lines on your face?!
[02:58] ---
So you can't even make
one standard manga face!
[03:02] ---
What exactly am I supposed to do now?!
[03:04] ---
There's not much I can say to that...
[03:08] ---
I'll go try a little self-study.
[03:11] ---
"Come on, come on,
it's like I don't even know you anymore..."
[03:16] ---
"Ah, don't get me wrong,
I didn't do this for you anyway..."
[03:22] ---
Looks like she's putting up a good fight.
[03:24] ---
I've never taken on a mission
as tough as this in my life.
[03:28] ---
Is that so.
[03:29] ---
If she were really expressionless,
[03:31] ---
we could maybe play her off
as a Rei Ayanami-type character,
[03:34] ---
but in her case, it's more that her
personality's just flimsy and half-baked...
[03:37] ---
Ah, that's true.
[03:39] ---
It's not so much that
she's expressionless,
[03:42] ---
just that the expressions she does have
are really noncommittal.
[03:45] ---
Seriously, I've never had a character
I can't use before...
[03:48] ---
Right? She's just got no character, right?
Isn't it just like I said?
[03:51] ---
That's such a pointless thing to boast about,
hearing it just annoys me.
[03:56] ---
That aside, we don't have a lot of time
left before the character design deadline.
[04:00] ---
We really don't...
[04:02] ---
Should we meet at your house this weekend
and knock it all out in one go?
[04:06] ---
Wait, this weekend?
[04:08] ---
What? Do you have other plans?
[04:10] ---
No...
[04:15] ---
By the way, Eriri...
[04:16] ---
What?
[04:18] ---
Have you ever gone on a date?
[04:26] ---
Was it really that big a question?
[04:28] ---
Just hearing the word from the mouth
of a gross otaku like you
[04:30] ---
would give anyone goosebumps!
[04:33] ---
A d-d-d-date...
d-d– are you asking me out?
[04:37] ---
No.
[04:39] ---
Is this an away game strategy?
[04:42] ---
Look, this is really just hypothetical,
[04:45] ---
but that's what you'd call it if you got
roped into going to the mall to look at clothes
[04:48] ---
and stuff with a girl, right?
[04:50] ---
I wouldn't go. Places like that
are full of human garbage.
[04:54] ---
They're just called "crowds."
[04:56] ---
If you need clothes,
[04:57] ---
why don't you just mail order them or
have a coordinator pick them out for you?
[05:01] ---
Try to put aside your special
Milady Shut-in quirks for a minute.
[05:05] ---
Basically, if you got caught in a suffocating
situation like that, what would you do?
[05:09] ---
Why are you asking me?
[05:11] ---
I figured you would probably
know what to do.
[05:14] ---
You're the one who always
wears a mask at school.
[05:19] ---
Ah, sorry... that was weird
of me to say. Forget about it.
[05:29] ---
Well, if we're talking away game strategy...
you should aim for a tie.
[05:33] ---
A tie?
[05:35] ---
Do a little bit of prior research, stay on
her conversational level as much as you can,
[05:38] ---
and if even that gets too hard,
just smile and fake it.
[05:42] ---
Smile?
[05:43] ---
Yes, even if you don't understand
what the other person's saying,
[05:46] ---
just smile in the meantime.
[05:48] ---
Restrain yourself from asking
any unnecessary questions.
[05:50] ---
Don't say anything
that seems too out of place.
[05:53] ---
And definitely don't do anything absurd
like bulldoze your opinions over hers...
[05:57] ---
Doesn't that sound boring to you?
[05:59] ---
If we went to all the trouble
[06:01] ---
of finding time to spend together,
shouldn't it be, you know, deeper?
[06:03] ---
That's what I mean,
that's the home game strategy.
[06:05] ---
It's good for if you're playing
in the otaku field.
[06:12] ---
But I... I just want to always be my usual self.
[06:16] ---
That's impossible.
Everyone's got a secret side to them.
[06:21] ---
But... Kato doesn't, does she?
[06:24] ---
She's a non-otaku, but even when
she got mixed up with us otaku,
[06:27] ---
she stayed exactly
the same as she was, right?
[06:29] ---
In a way, I think that's actually
pretty amazing about her.
[06:33] ---
So, I mean, I feel like I shouldn't just settle
for a tie and a forced smile with her...
[06:40] ---
So this was about a real date
after all, wasn't it?
[06:42] ---
You're going on a date
with Kato-san, aren't you?
[06:44] ---
Huh?
[06:45] ---
So after all you've relied on me,
in the end I was just a trial run?
[06:48] ---
I, Eriri Sawamura, was just being deceived!
[06:51] ---
That's not true!
We're just going shopping!
[06:54] ---
I'm going with her to
the Rokutenba Mall opening sale!
[06:57] ---
Which is exactly what you'd call a date!
[07:00] ---
So it really is a date? Even with your own
cousin, that's still a date, isn't it!
[07:04] ---
What are you even talking about?
[07:07] ---
U-Utaha...
[07:09] ---
...senpai?
[07:17] ---
It's here... the plot appears at last!
[07:19] ---
The protagonist disregards the yandere
heroine, and dates another girl...
[07:23] ---
but returns home and is knocked unconscious
by a sudden blow to the back of the head.
[07:26] ---
He awakens to find his
arms and legs bound;
[07:28] ---
unable to move, he calls out for help,
when who should appear before him but...!
[07:31] ---
That... That's kinda...
[07:33] ---
It comes out now and then during the creative
process... the dark side of the creator.
[07:38] ---
She's just getting carried away,
though, right?! That's all?!
[07:41] ---
Looks like you need
a punishment, Mr. Ethical...
[07:44] ---
Hang on a second!
You just called him Mr. Ethical!
[07:47] ---
Umm...
[07:48] ---
"W-Why do I have to worry so much
about a guy like that..."
SIGN Dating Sim Proposal
[08:00] ---
And so...
[08:02] ---
I pulled an all-nighter last night,
and came up with the plot.
[08:04] ---
That was fast!
[08:05] ---
Whoa, it's really thick...
You wrote all this in one day?
[08:09] ---
It looks like it's about five times bigger
than the proposal Tomoya wrote.
[08:13] ---
I can't pretend it's not painfully true,
but that's Utaha-senpai for you!
[08:19] ---
Just give it a read-through for now
and let me know what you think...
[08:23] ---
I'm just gonna sleep for a while...
[08:28] ---
That was quick...
SIGN For Mr. Ethical, By Mr. Ethical Overflowing with Ethics Super Healthy Dating Sim Plan (Tentative)
[08:54] ---
When his parents' job forces them to move
to a suburban city, the protagonist
[08:59] ---
Seiji Azumi transfers to a new school where,
atop a hill with the falling cherry blossom petals,
[09:03] ---
he has a fateful encounter
with a certain girl...
[09:05] ---
Umm, Sawamura-san,
is this protagonist your design too?
[09:09] ---
Well, he's based on
the handsomest guy I could think up...
[09:14] ---
The next day, by chance, they meet again...
in the class into which he's transferred.
[09:18] ---
That's such a cliched development!
[09:20] ---
The girl's name is Meguri Kano.
[09:22] ---
Huh, I feel like I've heard
that name somewhere...
[09:26] ---
Little by little, the distance between Seiji
and Meguri's hearts draws closer,
[09:30] ---
until finally they confirm their feelings
for each other and are bonded.
[09:34] ---
Wh-wh-whoa!
[09:37] ---
Wow, this is clearly modeled on Kato, but
she really gets that heart-pounding feeling!
[09:41] ---
Why don't you just stick to the narration?!
[09:44] ---
But all the while, Meguri's behavior
is slowly changing.
[09:50] ---
Her strange obssession with Seiji, her
unconscious fear that appears now and then,
[09:54] ---
and her memories of a time
before she was born.
[09:57] ---
On one such strange day, Seiji worries over
Meguri's changing state and calls out to her,
[10:01] ---
when suddenly she calls him...
[10:03] ---
Go, Kato!
[10:04] ---
Huh? A-ah, um...
[10:07] ---
"No, nothing's wrong... big brother."
[10:11] ---
"Big Brother!" There it is!
[10:12] ---
Keep it down.
[10:14] ---
At last, Meguri begins to recall
herself from a past age...
[10:18] ---
her immoral love, and family tragedy.
[10:20] ---
Every time she starts to regain her memories,
[10:23] ---
inexplicable events begin to take place
around the two of them.
[10:27] ---
Finally, before them appears an enemy whose
life goes back through centuries of history...
[10:34] ---
Whaaaat, what happens next is insane!
[10:37] ---
Ugh... come on...
[10:39] ---
Determined at last to protect each other
and defeat their enemy,
[10:43] ---
the two lovers assume the roles of the older
brother and younger sister of old!
[10:46] ---
Wait, there's no such thing as older brothers
and younger sisters in love, is there?
[10:50] ---
What are you talking about, Kato?
Of course there are, in the 2D realm!
[10:53] ---
Yes, Tomoya's exactly right. Can't you take
this a little more seriously, Kato-san?
[10:58] ---
What? Sawamura-san?
[11:00] ---
And then, the final battle!
[11:02] ---
When the difficult fight is done, the victorious
two at last sever the chains of past tragedy.
[11:07] ---
The sibling lovers finally face
their long, entwined future...
[11:12] ---
Go, Kato!
[11:13] ---
Ah, right, right, um...
[11:16] ---
"We'll always be together from now on,
won't we... I love you, big brother."
[11:21] ---
Hnnnnngh! There it is, there it is, there
it is, there it is... the "Big Brother" is back!
[11:25] ---
The word itself was there, but that careless
performance doesn't make it mean much...
[11:30] ---
Sorry, I'm still not used to
the rules of making 2D...
[11:36] ---
So, what do you think?
[11:37] ---
This is really exciting!
[11:39] ---
It's a whole different direction
from all your old Utako Kasumi works,
[11:43] ---
but it's so full of
tension and plot twists,
[11:46] ---
every time something new happened
I could hardly breathe!
[11:48] ---
So the main heroine was a little sister
in her past life, plus a yandere...
[11:53] ---
it was uncharacteristically sly of you.
But, well, I didn't hate it.
[12:00] ---
Um... I thought the setting was kind of stiff.
[12:04] ---
Ah... yeah.
[12:09] ---
Well, it doesn't seem like anyone's really against
it, so... should we call this the final draft?
[12:15] ---
Uh...
[12:16] ---
That's fine, isn't it?
[12:17] ---
I've got to get the character design finalized
soon, so it'd be best to have the plot finished.
[12:24] ---
Well then, it's finally finished...
[12:27] ---
Hang on a second!
[12:28] ---
Mr. Ethical...?
[12:30] ---
It's definitely exciting, I have no complaints
in that department, but...
[12:34] ---
I'd like if it had more of a conclusion.
SIGN Dating Sim Proposal
[12:41] ---
Get a hold of yourself, Tomoya. This has
been in the works for three days already!
[12:45] ---
Sorry.
[12:46] ---
More so even than doing nothing,
[12:49] ---
dragging at her feet is just going to bring
the creator's motivation down.
[12:51] ---
You're just such an idealistic, "this is a hundred
kinds of wrong and no right" type of director.
[12:57] ---
This should be fine,
it's plenty exciting already.
[13:01] ---
You said so yourself, didn't you?
So let's just move on already, all right?
[13:05] ---
I'm sorry, I can't allow that.
[13:06] ---
Tomoya!
[13:07] ---
It's absolutely exciting, it's amazing...
but it's just not satisfying enough to me.
[13:13] ---
Subjective, feelings-based criticism
like that doesn't get us anywhere!
[13:17] ---
Yeah. I wish I could explain
what I mean better, that's my fault...
[13:21] ---
But still, it's a waste. I just can't
call it a work of mine in this state.
[13:25] ---
Then why don't you write it yourself?
[13:27] ---
If you start saying things like that,
it's all over, Sawamura-san.
[13:31] ---
You know how there are things that a
director should never say to his creators?
[13:35] ---
Creators have things they should never
say to directors, the same way.
[13:39] ---
What you just said is one of them.
[13:40] ---
Utaha Kasumigaoka...! You... Who do you
think I'm trying to stand up for?
[13:45] ---
What you said just now, at least,
wasn't for my sake.
[13:52] ---
It's happening again.
[13:53] ---
Huh?
[13:54] ---
You won't give me an
answer now, either... Mr. Ethical...
[14:03] ---
Aki-kun...
[14:06] ---
Um, about our promise for tomorrow...
where we said we'd go to the Rokutenba Mall?
[14:13] ---
Huh, is it the weekend already?
[14:15] ---
Let's... postpone that, shall we?
[14:18] ---
Kato...
[14:19] ---
You're not really in the right mood for it
at the moment, right? So let's say, next time?
[14:26] ---
Aki-kun?
[14:29] ---
No, let's go after all.
[14:31] ---
Hm?
[14:32] ---
Let's have that date tomorrow.
[14:34] ---
Huh?
[14:35] ---
So we'll give this date thing a try, then?
[14:41] ---
There're so many people!
[14:43] ---
Y-Yeah...
[14:44] ---
Still, this is fun. I wonder
how many times it wraps around?
[14:52] ---
Are you all right, Aki-kun?
[14:54] ---
I-I'm fine...
[14:56] ---
Do you feel okay? Did the crowds put you off?
[14:59] ---
No, I'm fine with crowds... if it's a crowd
of otaku all under someone's leadership.
[15:05] ---
I think I might be less than fine with that.
[15:08] ---
Kato, does this really not bother you?
This chaotic throng of normals?
[15:13] ---
Well, normals or no, this is just
what happens with bargain sales, isn't it?
[15:18] ---
Really?
[15:20] ---
Ah, Aki-kun, it's open!
[15:28] ---
Sorry to call a break after we waited
in line since first thing in the morning and all.
[15:32] ---
No, I'm the one who should be sorry.
[15:34] ---
How is everyone this bad at forming lines?
[15:38] ---
The staff's just looking back and forth,
not even trying to rein in the chaos.
[15:42] ---
The customers are just barging in
everywhere and breaking the lines.
[15:44] ---
And the couple rate is unbelievably high!
Just go die, normals!
[15:49] ---
Regardless of the truth, though, from the
outside it looks like we're raising that rate...
[15:54] ---
So this is my away game baptism...
Bring it on, Rokutenba Mall.
[16:00] ---
I have no idea what you're saying,
[16:02] ---
but we probably should have come at least a
month after this place opened, shouldn't we?
[16:07] ---
No, I think it'd be the same
no matter when we came.
[16:09] ---
Do you think so?
[16:11] ---
I mean, it's not a problem of numbers, it's
about the sense of the people participating.
[16:15] ---
The sense?
[16:16] ---
The biggest line in Japan that I know
is nothing like this.
[16:20] ---
No one runs down the aisles, or walks
on the escalators, or cuts in line.
[16:25] ---
Everyone is highly aware that
they're surrounded by other participants,
[16:28] ---
and brims with enthusiasm
to make their event a success...
[16:32] ---
Ah, you must mean Comic-thingy, right?
[16:35] ---
It's not "Comic-thingy," it's a Comic Market, also known as Comiket!
[16:39] ---
It runs twice a year, in summer and winter.
[16:41] ---
More than 500,000 people gather and form
the largest doujinshi sales event in Japan–
[16:44] ---
No! In the world! And you want to call
something so grand, "Comic-thingy?!"
[16:50] ---
Wow, you really livened up all of a sudden.
[16:52] ---
That's right, at Comiket I would never
show this unsightly appearance!
[16:57] ---
Not even if ten times this number
of people were crowded in here...
[17:01] ---
I see... so that was the problem...
[17:01] ---
Well, this isn't Comiket, though, so there's
not much we can do about it.
[17:05] ---
You're wrong, there is something we can do.
[17:08] ---
I just have to think of them as otaku...
these are my people... those lovable asswipes...
[17:14] ---
Aki-kun?
[17:15] ---
Kato... Tell me all the stores
you wanted to go to today.
[17:19] ---
Just checking them off
on the map is fine.
[17:22] ---
Huh? But if I told you all of them,
do you know how many that'd be?
[17:26] ---
Don't worry about it, just list them all for now.
[17:30] ---
The conducting line...
[17:32] ---
Yes, here it is.
[17:35] ---
Which means, if we connect the route here,
[17:37] ---
then our procession from south to north
would be like this... Kato.
[17:41] ---
Hm?
[17:41] ---
Which one of these two circles –
I mean, stores – is more popular?
[17:46] ---
Ah, hmm, let's see... the closer one, I think.
[17:51] ---
Meaning it might be a little far,
but counter-clockwise is better...
[17:55] ---
since we were late starting
because of me. Got to be careful here.
[17:58] ---
You really don't need to
worry so much about it,
[18:00] ---
we can just go around however we want
and check out what stores we can.
[18:04] ---
I won't let this become a war of attrition
beyond what I've marked off!
[18:07] ---
Aki-kun?
[18:08] ---
Now then, Kato... It's time for me
to win this away game... Let's turn the tables!
[18:16] ---
Sorry for the wait!
[18:17] ---
Hey, did you get to buy what you came for?
[18:20] ---
Got it exactly!
[18:21] ---
Right, on to the next.
We'll make our way north like this.
[18:25] ---
Huh? Wasn't there one more place
we were going to go?
[18:28] ---
Unfortunately, my information shows that
the wait there is around two hours.
[18:32] ---
Whoa, guess we'd better give up
on that one then.
[18:35] ---
No, it's too soon to say yet.
[18:37] ---
It looks like right now, it's crammed with
people there to buy today-only limited things,
[18:42] ---
so once those are sold out,
it should clear up...
[18:44] ---
The situation is changing rapidly,
[18:46] ---
so we're going to need some very precise
information gathering and flexible judgment.
[18:52] ---
I can't believe how far you're going
for a simple shopping trip.
[18:55] ---
Otaku and normals know the ache
of being unable to buy something
[18:59] ---
you were looking forward to
just the same, don't they?
[19:02] ---
Well, I guess they must.
[19:04] ---
Let's go, Kato! This high-stakes
information warfare is already beginning!
[19:08] ---
Roger!
[19:13] ---
Keep going! Only a little bit left!
[19:15] ---
It seems like even more people
have gotten here since it turned to afternoon.
[19:19] ---
We'll have a surplus of time if we can just clear
this connecting walkway, go on!
[19:23] ---
O-Okay...
[19:27] ---
Kato!
[19:32] ---
We're moving, don't let go!
[19:36] ---
Aki-kun...
[19:49] ---
We made it, this is the last store!
[19:52] ---
Hell yeah!
[19:55] ---
Honestly, I didn't believe we could make it
through in one day... nice work, Aki-kun!
[20:02] ---
Don't tell me "nice work," it just
triggers the memories of it all again...
[20:08] ---
You can just rest there for a little while.
[20:11] ---
That's exactly what I'll do.
[20:29] ---
Huh? Hey, what's this store...
[20:40] ---
Yeah, not bad... these look good on you!
[20:44] ---
Um, I think.
[20:46] ---
Kato...?
[20:47] ---
This is for coming with me today.
Thanks, Aki-kun.
[21:03] ---
Kato...
[21:04] ---
Hm?
[21:05] ---
Oh, just...
[21:07] ---
Thanks.
[21:09] ---
Not at all.
[21:11] ---
But... I'm sorry.
I can't see you home after all.
[21:15] ---
There's somewhere I've got to go right away.
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