16bit Sensation: Another Layer 1x8

Directed by Keiichi Sasashima

Mamoru is hurled back in time to the year 1985. Echosoft, the game company previously occupying the Alcohol Soft building, enlists Mamoru for help creating their own bishojo games.

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1. Hey! Make it stop!

2. What in the world was that?

3. 16bit Sensation: Another Layer

4. 16bit Sensation: Another Layer

5. Sensei! What's with him?

6. Looks like a guest has dropped in through the ceiling.

7. Is that how guests are supposed to come in?

8. I heard they used a thing called an "entrance"!

9. Perhaps you could call it a multidimensional entrance.

10. Ah, he's awake!

11. What year are we in right now?

12. It's the year 1985.

13. 1985?

14. Where is it?

15. Not that!

16. Where could it be?

17. There!

18. The PC-9801 U!

19. Released in May 1985, it's the first model with 3.5" floppy drives!

20. Which means...

21. What?

22. It really is the year 1985!

23. Amazing!

24. By the way, what is this place?

25. This is Echosoft, a small, brand-new software company in Akihabara.

26. Waah!

27. When I opened the video game case,

28. there was a bright light and I traveled back in time.

29. Gogo no Tenshi-tachi is a game from 1985.

30. In other words, you're sent back to the release year of the game you open.

31. Is that how it works?

32. And this place...

33. It's the Alcohol Soft building!

34. This place was a game studio even before Dad opened up his shop here?

35. But how do I get back to the world that I came from?

36. How did Konoha go back, again?

37. Mamoru-san.

38. How about it?

39. Would you like to make games with us?

40. Huh?

41. The truth is, we began creating something called "bishojo games" just the other day.

42. However, we don't have any clue on what makes a good one.

43. Indeed!

44. Therefore, Mamoru-kun, could we ask you to help us?

45. On one condition.

46. A PC-98.

47. Let me use a PC-98.

48. I'd be happy to work for you then.

49. Very well.

50. I forgot to introduce myself.

51. Hm?

52. I'm the head of Echosoft, Echo.

53. I'm an Echosoft employee, Echo!

54. Okay, Mamoru-san.

55. We'll have you start working for us right away.

56. Sure.

57. I started working part-time at Echosoft,

58. a company I came across when I traveled back in time.

59. Basically the exact same thing that Konoha did.

60. The people at this company know my name for some reason,

61. and had no qualms in letting me work for them.

62. I can't help but wonder how Konoha's game turned out,

63. but if I'm in the year 1985, you could say that time has basically stopped.

64. Nothing will come out of worrying about it.

65. Since I don't know how to get back,

66. I had no choice but to stay here.

67. That said, Echosoft is a strange company.

68. They call themselves a game studio, but there are only two people working here.

69. What's more, the president's name is also Echo.

70. His assistant's name is Echo, too.

71. Even their dog's name is Echo.

72. You can't be serious.

73. Well, I'm not one to butt in on other people's business.

74. Since I've been hired part-time, I'll put in my wage's worth.

75. Game programming is a part of my duties.

76. The president, Echo One, gets an astounding amount of work done,

77. and he develops games at an incredible speed.

78. Graphic artist, scenario writer, sound composer,

79. not to mention programmer.

80. Echo One has taken on all of those roles.

81. Well, that wasn't too uncommon in the 80s.

82. This is an old technique called "cling wrap scanning".

83. You copy the line art, like this...

84. and then trace over it in a graphics editor.

85. No mouse involved.

86. Here, he's actually composing the background music.

87. Music Macro Language, or MML for short,

88. is a specialized description language that he's using to type out the musical score.

89. You can also use dedicated programs to compose music,

90. but for some people, writing MML directly is much faster.

91. To draw the characters, he's using a special tool called a pattern editor.

92. As you can see, he can use it to make pixel art of the characters,

93. and it also allows you to create animations for them.

94. Hey, do you have a minute?

95. Yes, what is it?

96. How come you're not using any green?

97. There are only eight colors available to use.

98. No, I know that much.

99. This character has blue armor.

100. I'll use green for a different character.

101. Ah.

102. So I guess this black part is supposed to be the shadow, then?

103. That's right.

104. Can you let me try something?

105. Sure...

106. How's that?

107. Well, well.

108. It looks just like a commercial game.

109. This is what's called dithering.

110. Well, I'm just going off what I've seen.

111. Mamoru-san, could you teach me some other things as well?

112. Yeah.

113. Thank you very much.

114. For example, there's no need to use the PSG for sound effects.

115. If you use system beeps like this...

116. I see, I see.

117. You're a programmer, but you can do all sorts of stuff.

118. Of course I can.

119. Programmers are the kings of game development.

120. In the past, it used to be that programmers would have to do everything by themselves.

121. Incidentally, the games we're making are for PC-88.

122. This may be a shady game company,

123. but what they're doing is no different from a normal studio.

124. However, their speed is on a different level.

125. Echo One never goes through trial and error, or makes any corrections.

126. It may sound absurd,

127. but in just one day, he can complete a surprisingly hefty game.

128. Instant beyond belief.

129. His assistant, Echo Two,

130. always wears weird clothes and asks me to give her a score on how cute she is.

131. Mamoru-kun!

132. How many points do I get today?

133. I don't really get it, so I just make up random numbers.

134. Apparently this is also part of my job.

135. Maybe I can just stay here...

136. Guess not.

137. Do you really need this many TVs to watch?

138. One should be more than enough.

139. It's all just the same program.

140. Do they look the same to you?

141. To me, they all look quite different.

142. An utter failure, it seems.

143. What's this?

144. This is a device to measure the energy that a game has.

145. An interesting game contains lots of energy.

146. Huh...

147. What an odd device.

148. The games that I make are completely devoid of energy.

149. Well, I don't know whether fun translates into energy,

150. but I can't tell from the design of the box that it would be any fun.

151. Is that something that you imagine?

152. How can you not imagine it?

153. I don't have the power to imagine anything.

154. I came from a place where imagination doesn't exist.

155. Therefore, I don't understand it.

156. Every time, my calculations are correct,

157. but when I actually create a game,

158. it doesn't have any of the thermal power that I'd expected.

159. To learn about this thing called imagination...

160. That's why I'm creating these games.

161. Mamoru-kun!

162. Hm?

163. How many points do I get today?

164. I was surprised at the idea of anyone in the world completely lacking an imagination,

165. but teaching someone what imagination was turned out to be fairly difficult.

166. It doesn't make any sense to not have an imagination.

167. You know what a donut tastes like, right?

168. For the ones that I've eaten, I do.

169. These two donuts taste basically the same.

170. Knowing that, you should be able to imagine how this one tastes.

171. That's not imagination.

172. It's reasoning based on experience.

173. No, that's not my point.

174. Um...

175. Now I'm getting confused here...

176. Mamoru-san.

177. Your kind have the ability to feel that something is interesting.

178. You can sense how other people feel, as if it was yourself.

179. In other words, that's imagination.

180. You can explain it to me, but not understand it yourself?

181. This is nothing more than analysis.

182. I wasn't using my imagination.

183. Hmm...

184. Imagination.

185. What is imagination?

186. One day, Echo Two disappeared.

187. And a full week passed without her return.

188. Two's been missing for a while.

189. You're right.

190. Is that all you have to say?

191. Aren't you worried about her?

192. Worried?

193. What is that?

194. She vanished under unnatural circumstances.

195. What if she's in danger right now?

196. Echo's just fine.

197. There's zero risk of her being in danger.

198. Is she really okay?

199. Yes.

200. That said, it sure is inconvenient without her around.

201. I'm going to go look for Two.

202. I wonder what kind of games Mamoru-san finds interesting.

203. Where have you been?

204. Mamoru-kun!

205. What are you doing here?

206. Don't give me that.

207. You didn't come back, so I came looking for you.

208. Why?

209. Why, you ask...

210. Well, I guess it's no big deal since I ran into you here,

211. but of course I'd be worried, after you went missing for a week without a word!

212. Worried?

213. What does "worried" mean?

214. What have you been up to over the past week?

215. I went on a walk with Echo!

216. That's one hell of a trek.

217. Okay, I'm heading back.

218. Mamoru-kun!

219. I'll go back with you!

220. Mamoru-kun!

221. How many points do I get today?

222. Akerue!

223. Huh?

224. Akerue!

225. Sensei.

226. I understand what imagination is now.

227. What is it, then?

228. I can't explain it.

229. I don't have any way of putting it into words.

230. Is that so?

231. Perhaps I've come to an understanding of sorts as well.

232. Let us merge into one.

233. Were there always this many stairs?

234. Up here, Mamoru-san.

235. Hello, Mamoru-san.

236. What's with the get-up?

237. I was performing maintenance on the device.

238. You can see all of Akihabara up here.

239. Did this building always go up this high?

240. Mamoru-san.

241. What do you think about this town?

242. Compared to '99, it's not as bright.

243. I can see it.

244. The abundance of energy gathering in this town.

245. In time, this will become a place where anything is possible.

246. That's the future that awaits this town.

247. This isn't reasoning based on my observations.

248. It's what I imagine.

249. You gained the power to imagine things?

250. Mamoru-san.

251. What do you think about the human power of imagination?

252. Beats me. I'm an engineer.

253. I let people like Konoha or Kyonshi deal with cultural ideas like that.

254. A world where fantastic monsters roam freely.

255. A paradise floating in the sky.

256. The dead rising from their graves.

257. A place that exists nowhere.

258. The power to recall things that don't exist, and give them form.

259. All humans have the power to create things of that nature,

260. as well as to experience them.

261. Perhaps that's what makes them human.

262. Don't you think?

263. The games that we created,

264. along with manga, novels, movies,

265. countless tales dating back to ancient times,

266. not to mention religions, nations, communities,

267. dreams, hopes, and despair.

268. All of these are concepts created through a shared imagination.

269. You can't just explain every single thing with imagination!

270. Sounds like you're the one imagining things now.

271. I know that you're well aware, Mamoru-san.

272. Of the energy that gathers when imagination is unleashed.

273. You should have experienced it not too long ago.

274. Isn't that right?

275. An earthquake?

276. An exceedingly rare kind of lifeform.

277. Through their imagination, humans become multidimensional beings,

278. and access present, past, future...

279. Different space-times, different events...

280. Gaining massive energy from quantum possibilities.

281. Upheld by thermodynamics as well.

282. You people...

283. What exactly are you?

284. Your kind are the future.

285. As well as the past.

286. And the present.

287. Imagination has the power to alter both time and space.

288. Imagination is what defines reality.

289. I'm a supporter of the games that you all have made.

290. I know we'll meet again someday.

291. I see.

292. So that's what it's like.

293. I left everything I bought behind...