E9 - My Self in the Seashell
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"your heart"
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Akari-chan's heart... is inside me?
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I hope this song can fill you with hope:
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"Only One Yell."
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Akari... what should I do?
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Our eyes are focused
on the stage we dreamed of
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Keep moving forward one step at a time
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Anytime, anywhere;
I knew I could do more
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I could fly higher than yesterday
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Tears fall down our cheeks,
we stumble and fall ourselves
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Sometimes we even wanted to run away
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But hold onto that hope, don't give up
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That's right, it all starts here
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Going! One day, I'll fly
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Going! anywhere I want
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Going! We always believed in this path
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So we'll keep going down it,
no matter what happens
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Going! I'm sure our dream will come true
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Going! So never stop
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Going! chasing after that dream
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It's our promise,
so let's reach that wonderful place
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We're meant to shine up there
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Our glorious days!
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I'm sorry, can I try again?
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Is that stage really
where you want to be, Rena?
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Do you really love singing, Rena?
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Do you truly want to sing
from the bottom of your heart?
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♬ One day, even on the days
when it's raining hard ♬
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♬ I hear a voice calling me ♬
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I'm so nervous about today's interview.
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Wow, I didn't think you
got nervous, Uta-senpai.
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Since you're used to acting
in TV shows and movies and all.
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I'll never be used to it. I get
nervous even when I have a script.
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And there're no scripts
for interviews. I just can't!
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Why don't you just
be yourself, Uta-senpai?
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Be myself?
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I mean, that's why your
Cheerers are voting for you,
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not because you're playing a role,
but because they like you.
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So you'll cheer me on?
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Of course!
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And you won't vote me out?!
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Huh?!
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Can we not talk about this?
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What? Why?! Are you going
to vote for me, then?!
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I-I didn't say that!
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What about you, Suzune?
Do you know who you're voting for?
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Why aren't you saying anything?
Are you gonna vote for me or something?!
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Huh? Sorry, what'd you say, Uta-chan?
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Suzune-senpai, is everything okay?
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You came back late last night,
so something must be off...
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No, I'm fine.
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"How Does Everyone Feel About the Vote?"
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"How do YOU feel about the vote?"
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I've lived my whole life with
my many brothers and sisters.
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We ate together, slept together,
did everything together, really.
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So if someone told me to pick
two of them to go away forever,
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I just couldn't.
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I feel the same way about
my fellow members in the Project.
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We're all friends now, and to me,
we're like a second family.
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I know asking this will make
some people mad, but...
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There's really not another way
to weed two people out?
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"How are you feeling right now?"
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About the same, really.
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I've auditioned for tons of TV roles
before and lost the parts.
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Losing here would be nothing new.
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I'm guessing the reason
they're making us vote
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is to test who's got
what it takes to stay.
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So basically, I just need
to stay strong and be honest.
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So I'm going to make my
opinions known, loud and clear!
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"How are you feeling about
the encroaching vote?"
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Ever since I was little,
I've loved eating jingisukan.
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Have you heard of it?
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Typically, the meat is
marinated and then grilled,
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but you can also grill the meat,
then dip it in the marinade.
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It's super yummy! You all have to try it!
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I'm sure you can find a place
near you that makes it!
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"Please talk about the VOTE!"
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Um, I'd really like to go have
jingisukan with everyone someday.
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But not just that.
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I want to sing together
with everyone again.
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We live all over the country, you know!
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This is the only chance we have!
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The only interview left is Rena-chan's.
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Yep. With the vote so close,
we'd better schedule it while we can.
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Worst case scenario, we don't get her in.
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We can't let that happen.
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Rena-chan?
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She's not at the studio.
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Could she be in her room?
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What's up, Jun-chan?
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She apparently keeps
putting off her interview.
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The crew's not sure what to do.
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I see. I'll try talking to her.
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Thanks, ma'am!
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Your interview was so good, Nodoka!
I so agree with what you said!
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Really? We have to go get some
dipping jingisukan together!
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I meant the last half.
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Where you said you wanted
to sing together with us again.
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When we sang Naked Blue
together in Round 2,
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I felt we really came together,
like, as a group!
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Yeah, me, too! That's why
I want to sing together again!
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Same here.
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Right?
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But...
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We like, seriously have
to be ready for whatever happens.
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I love everyone, and super
wanna stay together,
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but that doesn't change the fact
that we still have to vote.
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You're right.
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Are we seriously cool with this?
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We're all here to make people smile,
to make people happy.
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But they're making us do something
to make someone cry...
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I saw your interviews. Seems the
two of you have opposing thoughts.
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Do you already know who you're voting for?
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If the rules say I must vote,
then I'll vote.
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I never expected all nine of us
to make it through to this round.
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If you don't want to vote,
you don't have to.
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They're not forcing you
to go through these auditions.
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You're right.
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But if we don't vote,
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then we'll be breaking the rules
and get disqualified, right?
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I couldn't fathom making it this far
and being disqualified like that.
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I'm here to clean your room!
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I'm coming in!
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Huh? Where could Rena-chan have gone?
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Rena-chan?
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There you are!
[10:22] ---
Are you okay? The crew's
getting worried about you.
[10:27] ---
Yes, I'm fine. I'm sorry
to make more work for you.
[10:31] ---
Hold it.
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Mind if we have a little chat?
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Every year, I meet all sorts of girls.
[10:43] ---
Everyone spends this one precious
summer chasing their dreams.
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They worry, they fight,
they get angry, they cry...
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But still, you're a mystery
to me, Rena-chan.
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Most girls will open up their shells
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and polish the pearl inside them
to a gleam to show everyone,
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in the hopes that that will
get them to win each round.
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But not you.
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Your shell's been shut tight
this entire time,
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and you haven't shown us
that gleaming pearl at all.
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Why is that?
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Because I...
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I don't know if I have a pearl inside me.
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It could just be a rock.
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I don't think you've got
a rock under that shell.
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"If singing vanished from the world,
I couldn't live on--singing is my life!"
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"If singing vanished from the world,
I couldn't live on--singing is my life!"
Do you really love singing, Rena?
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Do you truly want to sing
from the bottom of your heart?
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For the longest, longest time,
I've dreamed of standing here.
[12:23] ---
I love singing, and I love
Akari Amasawa-chan, too.
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So I'm going to put my
whole heart into my performance.
[12:34] ---
Thank you for listening!
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So how did you get here?
Was it your hard work and talent alone?
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Or is it because my sister is with you?
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Is it because you had her help?!
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I don't want to disappoint
all the people who've given us Yells.
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I think that's the most
important thing to us right now.
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I want to live on with all I have and
smile so someone else can feel hopeful.
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That's the life I want to live!
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Rena-chan?
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I'm, uh... I'm so--
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I'm sorry.
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Huh?
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I'm sorry for what I said yesterday.
[14:11] ---
That was really mean of me to say...
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No, it's all because of my letter.
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The donor and recipient aren't
supposed to find out who they are...
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It's not your fault, Suzune-san.
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Especially...
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...when I didn't join this world
because I loved singing.
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I just wanted to follow
in my sister's footsteps.
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Even though there's no way
I could ever be like her.
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That's not true...
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But I'm not like you at all.
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You have what my sister had.
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She loved singing, and always
put her heart into it.
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So I can say you made it this far
all on your own ability, Suzune-san.
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You loved your sister, didn't you?
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Yes. I did. I still love her now.
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So I know I might sound like a hypocrite,
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but I really was happy to find out.
[15:12] ---
Huh?
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To finally meet the person
whose life she saved...
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I never thought I would.
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I just don't know how to react.
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Please, take this.
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Thank you so much for saving my life.
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Suzune-san...
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No... Suzune.
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I'll be rooting for you the whole way.
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Take care of my sister for me, okay?
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Huh?
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Take her to that stage she loved so much.
[16:02] ---
I have to go. The crew is waiting for me.
[16:09] ---
Rena said that?
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I hear she's doing her interview now.
[16:14] ---
Oh, good, she is gonna do it!
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I wonder what she's gonna say.
[16:20] ---
Okay, Rena-chan, we're ready!
[16:23] ---
Okay.
[16:28] ---
Rolling in five, four, three, two...
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Hey, welcome back, Suzune-chan!
[16:45] ---
We're watching everyone's interviews.
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Rena's the only one missing now.
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Where is Rena-chan?
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She's not back yet.
[16:52] ---
Wonder where she went.
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Maybe she was embarrassed
to watch them with us.
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Welp, let's start it without her, then.
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"How are you feeling right now?"
[17:08] ---
Selection Project started its run
seven years ago with Season 1.
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Out of all the hopefuls nationwide,
one girl won the whole thing:
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my big sister, Akari Amasawa.
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For as long as I can remember,
I thought of her as the nicest,
[17:27] ---
cutest, sweetest sister a girl
could ever have asked for.
[17:31] ---
I dressed like her, even tried
to match her handwriting.
[17:34] ---
She loved strawberries,
so they became my favorite, too.
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But one day, I started having less
and less time to spend with her...
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Because she wasn't just mine anymore.
She was everyone's idol.
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I was sad at first, but I started to like
Akari Amasawa more and more,
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and soon, I was trying
to be her biggest fan.
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I even bought all her merch.
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It was then that she said something
that has always stayed with me.
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"Singing is my life."
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I could never say those
words myself, not now.
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Because no matter how much
I love my sister,
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I could never match her love for singing.
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I've walked the same road she did,
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and come to the Selection Project,
in pursuit of a goal:
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to know how it felt when
my sister stood up on that stage.
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But that's not a good enough
reason to be here.
[18:33] ---
Everyone is betting their lives on
making their idol dream come true.
[18:39] ---
All I'm doing is trying to be my sister.
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I don't have the right to stand
with them on that stage.
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I don't have the right to shove them
aside to get up there myself.
[18:52] ---
I can't say I want to sing up there...
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...because I don't really have a reason.
[18:59] ---
Rena-chan?
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Thank you so much for
giving me your Yells, everyone.
[19:10] ---
What's up with Rena? What happened?
[19:14] ---
That last sentence sounded
kind of like an apology.
[19:18] ---
But Rena-senpai hasn't done anything
she needs to apologize for.
[19:22] ---
Maybe she doesn't feel like
competing anymore.
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That's why she's making it
easy for us to vote for her.
[19:32] ---
Even if she is, are you
going to vote for her, Nagisa?
[19:36] ---
If we voted out Rena and made our debut,
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would you really be able to stand up
on that stage with a smile?
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I...
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I couldn't.
[19:45] ---
Listening to Rena's interview
cinched it for me.
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There's no way I could smile
on stage with any of us missing!
[19:53] ---
Same. I can't go on with
a family member missing.
[19:57] ---
But Rena-chan just said she might not
have a reason to sing at all...
[20:02] ---
If Rena's lost her motivation, then
there's not much we can do about that.
[20:07] ---
We might as well vote for her
to make things easier on her.
[20:12] ---
Shiori-senpai, do you think
it's okay to vote for her, then?!
[20:16] ---
I-I meant hypothetically!
I certainly wouldn't go that far!
[20:21] ---
Still, if she really
doesn't want to go on,
[20:25] ---
forcing her to would
just be cruel, wouldn't it?
[20:31] ---
I think Rena-chan is just
really unsure of what to do.
[20:36] ---
She doesn't know what her goal is.
[20:41] ---
Because she's been following
after her sister all this time.
[20:46] ---
We've all made it this far, though...
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But I can say one thing.
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We've gotta put on a smile,
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or we won't be able
to fill anyone with hope.
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One day, even on the days
when it's raining hard
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I hear a voice calling me
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You were always by my side,
no matter what
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To keep me focused forward
and moving ahead
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If I get to stand on the
stage of my dreams one day
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I know when I'm up there
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I'll think of your face
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Let my song, let my voice connect
with those precious memories
[21:56] ---
I never realized how much
they'd supported me
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Let my song, let my voice ring out
far across the distance
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Every last one of these warm emotions
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Your feelings will give me hope
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For my dreams to come true,
I need Only One Yell!
[22:33] ---
Okay, girls, your fateful moment is here!
[22:38] ---
Will those who've made their
decisions come forward and vote!
[22:46] ---
Never in any season have
we had all nine make it this far!
[22:49] ---
Now, these record-breaking girls will
put their fate into black and white!
[22:53] ---
From the regional finals until now,
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their journey is approaching its finale!
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Just one vote could change
the course of their lives forever!
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Only seven get to stay!
[23:29] ---
Two have to go!
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Who will it be?!
[23:38] ---
"My Self in the Seashell"
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