# E5 - The Date Event of Crossing Paths
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR9P31W36/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.