1. Are you okay, Midori?Copy !req
2. I'm carsick.Copy !req
3. Do you need a bag?Copy !req
4. No.Copy !req
5. Okay, almost there.Copy !req
6. By the time I was in sixth grade,
my dream was to become an adventurer.Copy !req
7. We're gonna live here?Copy !req
8. Holy cow!Copy !req
9. It's on top of a river!Copy !req
10. I'm gonna go explore!Copy !req
11. You are? Be careful!Copy !req
12. It's gonna take a long time
to see everything here!Copy !req
13. Midori?Copy !req
14. I'm going to the airport to pick Dad up.Copy !req
15. Watch some anime and wait for me, okay?Copy !req
16. Okay. Be safe.Copy !req
17. It's raining like it's the
end of the world.Copy !req
18. It wasn't something I could do myself.Copy !req
19. But the big, epic world of adventure
I wanted to experience...Copy !req
20. was right in front of me.Copy !req
21. That was the first time I realized...Copy !req
22. that someone made the anime I watched.Copy !req
23. KeepCopy !req
24. YourCopy !req
25. HandsCopy !req
26. OffCopy !req
27. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!Copy !req
28. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!Copy !req
29. Here's what you asked for, Asakusa.Copy !req
30. Red bean soup and green soybean mochi.Copy !req
31. Excellent work, Kanamori.Copy !req
32. If you're that curious, you could
always head down there yourself.Copy !req
33. I don't do well in crowds.Copy !req
34. Huh? Kanamori? Where's my change?Copy !req
35. I'm taking it as a service fee.Copy !req
36. Why, Asakusa, did you expect to
get my labor without compensation?Copy !req
37. It's the age of robots! The time has come for—Copy !req
38. I guess I didn't think it through.Copy !req
39. Anyway, Kanamori, my friend...Copy !req
40. What's up?Copy !req
41. I'll buy you some milk,Copy !req
42. so would you come see the screening by the anime—Copy !req
43. Absolutely not. Sounds lame.Copy !req
44. I'm begging you!Copy !req
45. I'll up it to two bottles of the milk
they sell at the Ongyoku Bathhouse!Copy !req
46. Is this like how some people only go to
the bathroom as part of a group, Asakusa?Copy !req
47. I'd feel weird going alone.Copy !req
48. Why the anime club, exactly?Copy !req
49. Well, because I love anime, of course.Copy !req
50. Why not make something at home, on your own?Copy !req
51. It's hard to make anything more
than a short on your own.Copy !req
52. And I need the right kind of environment,
and an opportunity to get anything done.Copy !req
53. And that means you spend your days
just staring out at the campus?Copy !req
54. What exactly are you looking at, Your Excellency?Copy !req
55. Isn't it obvious, Kanamori?Copy !req
56. Look at this campus, built on the water!Copy !req
57. The continued renovations, over time,Copy !req
58. have created a layout both
complicated and inexplicable!Copy !req
59. A total lack of consistency
between upper and lower levels!Copy !req
60. The bridges that go into town!Copy !req
61. That clock, which isn't visible
from most of the campus!Copy !req
62. Which means we usually end up looking at...Copy !req
63. The clock over on the coast!Copy !req
64. It's a public building shaped like a dungeon!Copy !req
65. I want to make an anime with
this school as the setting!Copy !req
66. It's gonna look like this! What do you think?Copy !req
67. You get fired up at the drop
of a hat, don't you, Asakusa?Copy !req
68. I'm not sure what you want me to say...Copy !req
69. We just enrolled here, and you've
got all this... stuff.Copy !req
70. Don't you have anything better
to do with your energy?Copy !req
71. Come on, let's go to the anime
club's screening, Kanamori!Copy !req
72. Make it four bottles of milk.Copy !req
73. You're taking advantage of me.Copy !req
74. Go on, go on. Head in there.Copy !req
75. Please stop using me as a shield.Copy !req
76. Doesn't seem to be very busy...Copy !req
77. Let's sit in the back, Kanamori.Copy !req
78. Let's sit somewhere else!Copy !req
79. Start it up, please.Copy !req
80. What about this is entertaining to you?Copy !req
81. You have this simple-looking, round machine,Copy !req
82. that can fly thanks to a
unexplained anti-gravity device,Copy !req
83. which is depicted with an
attention to fine details...Copy !req
84. Like how they pick it up with their hands!Copy !req
85. It's like when you push a car,
hoping the engine will turn over!Copy !req
86. They're taking the obvious
visual cues of the animationCopy !req
87. and using it to create an air of reality!Copy !req
88. The spacing of the frame...Copy !req
89. Establishing the location...Copy !req
90. The relaxed pace that's set by the running!Copy !req
91. The way it sets up the character's physicality!Copy !req
92. And this sense of scale!Copy !req
93. Look at the size contrast created
in this crossover shot!Copy !req
94. And by having debris flying around,Copy !req
95. it creates a real sense of propulsion!Copy !req
96. And the movement of the air...Copy !req
97. With the character running against it,
showing the resistance,Copy !req
98. and how it pushes them around...Copy !req
99. Right here!Copy !req
100. You take something that's totally implausible,
but pass it off like it is!Copy !req
101. You take reality and then exaggerate
it in a way that makes sense!Copy !req
102. A character moves around on top of
a background, and it creates an entire world!Copy !req
103. Seeing a character wandering around a mysterious
world fills you with a sense of adventure—Copy !req
104. I understand, and you can stop now.Copy !req
105. Getting more of an explanation than
you asked for is excruciating.Copy !req
106. Sorry about that.Copy !req
107. I'll admit, anime is more
complicated than I ever thought.Copy !req
108. Excuse me, you in the hat?Copy !req
109. Nice to meet you. I'm a first-year, too!
Tsubame Mizusaki! I like anime, too!Copy !req
110. Wow, close! Uh, yes! Okay!Copy !req
111. Sorry to spring this on you,
but I need to borrow your hat!Copy !req
112. There she is.Copy !req
113. Whoa, are those MiBs?Copy !req
114. Thanks, see you later!Copy !req
115. Wait, my hat? Where'd it—Copy !req
116. Conan!Copy !req
117. Kana!Copy !req
118. A young girl, fleeing from villains...Copy !req
119. She's actually a famous fashion model...Copy !req
120. On top of being the daughter
of some huge megacorp's boss.Copy !req
121. I thought there were anti-monopoly
laws to get rid of those.Copy !req
122. This smells like cash...Copy !req
123. And adventure.Copy !req
124. There she is!Copy !req
125. Well, now...Copy !req
126. What are they talking about?Copy !req
127. I can't hear.Copy !req
128. If this is just a lecture, you didn't
need to follow me to school.Copy !req
129. I was looking forward to the
anime club's screening.Copy !req
130. I don't understand why I'm supposed to put
on an act just because my parents both do it!Copy !req
131. I want a normal life! Going home with
my friends, doing after school activities!Copy !req
132. Our orders are to keep you
from joining the anime club.Copy !req
133. So if it was live action or any other
kind of film club, it'd be fine?Copy !req
134. Correct.Copy !req
135. Asakusa...Copy !req
136. Go and make friends with Mizusaki, all right?Copy !req
137. Being an animator is a real job!Copy !req
138. You breathe life into all kinds of roles!Copy !req
139. And not just people, but wind,
the environment, machines...Copy !req
140. Sometimes they create performances
bigger than anything live action could!Copy !req
141. Hey...Copy !req
142. You're the girl who had the hat...Copy !req
143. S-Sup! Sorry about the delay!Copy !req
144. I was late catching my bike! Can you believe it?Copy !req
145. Hey, it's almost 2!Copy !req
146. Why don't we chill on the roof and chow
down our lunches, Tsubamecchy Mizusaki?Copy !req
147. Come on, there's a weirdo lurking around.Copy !req
148. Uh...Copy !req
149. Excuse me. Who are you, exactly?Copy !req
150. Run for it!Copy !req
151. Wait! Hey, hang on!Copy !req
152. Get back here!Copy !req
153. This way!Copy !req
154. Go up!Copy !req
155. There you are!Copy !req
156. That guy works for my parents!Copy !req
157. Thankfully, he's tough enough that
that probably didn't hurt him.Copy !req
158. Man, you grabbed me when I was taking a sip,Copy !req
159. and now I'm covered in strawberry milk!Copy !req
160. I am so sorry.Copy !req
161. It's kind of crazy you thought he
was some kind of bad guy, though.Copy !req
162. Sending someone to spy on you at school...Copy !req
163. Your parents keep you on
a short leash, don't they?Copy !req
164. Whoa, Kanamori!Copy !req
165. They won't shut up about
wanting me to be an actress.Copy !req
166. I'm not allowed to join the anime club,Copy !req
167. so I told him to get me a
strawberry milk and slipped away.Copy !req
168. Not that it matters now.Copy !req
169. Wow, I smell like strawberry milk.Copy !req
170. That's Mizusaki Tsubame!Copy !req
171. No sense in chatting with an audience.
Let's get you cleaned up.Copy !req
172. Kanamori, I'm not sure we should
be butting in this much.Copy !req
173. What're you saying? First you save
the princess, then comes the treasure.Copy !req
174. This isn't about rescuing a princess
from a villain! It's a family disagreement!Copy !req
175. I know you heard her talk about anime, Asakusa.Copy !req
176. Let's just escort her to the laundromat for now.Copy !req
177. You're scheming something up,
aren't you, Kanamori?Copy !req
178. Is this where you sleep?Copy !req
179. Mizusaki, that's where actual people sleep!Copy !req
180. Wait, someone lives here?Copy !req
181. Here we are.Copy !req
182. This is the laundromat?Copy !req
183. Admittedly, it doesn't exactly give
off the impression of cleanliness.Copy !req
184. Wow! Why is it in such an out-of-the-way place?Copy !req
185. There's a walkway on the second floor
that leads to the Ongyoku Bathhouse!Copy !req
186. Why's the air conditioner on the door?Copy !req
187. Lots of places have cramped entrances.Copy !req
188. It's bigger on the inside than I expected.Copy !req
189. This place is a bit like my secret hideout.Copy !req
190. Take this as an apology.Copy !req
191. Aw, you didn't have to...Copy !req
192. I've got some cash.Copy !req
193. Wow, thanks!Copy !req
194. Oh, no, just think of it as an investment.Copy !req
195. There's a waiting room on the second floor!Copy !req
196. I love weird buildings like this.
Can never draw them right, though...Copy !req
197. You draw, Mizusaki?Copy !req
198. Well, I want to be an animator.Copy !req
199. What kind of things do you draw?Copy !req
200. Take a look.Copy !req
201. What do you say, Asakusa?Copy !req
202. You can tell she's serious
about being an animator.Copy !req
203. Lots of figure drawing,
the kind I have trouble with.Copy !req
204. You draw too, Asakusa?Copy !req
205. Uh, well, I...Copy !req
206. Here you go.Copy !req
207. Thanks!Copy !req
208. I'm gonna take a look.Copy !req
209. Damn it, Kanamori, who said you could—Copy !req
210. Let me go!Copy !req
211. These are... image boards
and concept designs right?Copy !req
212. E-E-Exactly.Copy !req
213. What's an image board?Copy !req
214. It's the art done early in
anime production to establishCopy !req
215. the look and feel of the world.Copy !req
216. Are you trying to kill me?Copy !req
217. I've wanted to make anime
ever since elementary school,Copy !req
218. and this is the kind of
stuff I would always draw.Copy !req
219. But you're the first person to ever
recognize that it was concept art.Copy !req
220. I've never met anyone who
did concept design before.Copy !req
221. Most people just do character art. Including me.Copy !req
222. This is amazing... It's full of ideas.Copy !req
223. You want to try an overlay?Copy !req
224. It's like my art has a background!Copy !req
225. That worked better than I thought!Copy !req
226. Let's try with others.Copy !req
227. Yeah!Copy !req
228. How about this?Copy !req
229. Nice!Copy !req
230. And this?Copy !req
231. It looks good! This is fun!Copy !req
232. This is starting to get interesting!Copy !req
233. Mizusaki, how would you like to make
anime with Midori Asakusa here?Copy !req
234. But I'm not allowed to join the anime club.Copy !req
235. That's right! Where'd that come from?Copy !req
236. It's not like I have any experience,
or know-how, or the guts to—Copy !req
237. Why should a pair of bright young peopleCopy !req
238. let nonsense like that stop them?Copy !req
239. Do you want to make anime or not?Copy !req
240. If you can't join the anime club,Copy !req
241. then you can just start a new club of your own!Copy !req
242. We've got youth on our side.Copy !req
243. That means we don't stand to lose
anything here. There's no risk involved.Copy !req
244. And I may not know anything about anime,
but I can back you up in other ways.Copy !req
245. Why would you do that?Copy !req
246. Because a famous fashion model making
anime sounds like a great way to rake in cash.Copy !req
247. You want money?Copy !req
248. This ship is cool.Copy !req
249. You think? I just drew it because I
felt like I needed to try and do somethingCopy !req
250. other than characters.Copy !req
251. Asakusa, try drawing some
lines on the frame there!Copy !req
252. A couple of safety stripes, right?Copy !req
253. Go ahead and pull mine out!Copy !req
254. What do you suppose it does, though?Copy !req
255. I hadn't thought about it,
but I guess it's for construction.Copy !req
256. In that case, some arms
and winches would be good!Copy !req
257. Winches?Copy !req
258. Like the kind for spooling cables!Copy !req
259. Good idea! Put some on!Copy !req
260. Does it look good here?Copy !req
261. Wow!Copy !req
262. Y'know, I've never done any concept art before.Copy !req
263. I like setting up concepts.Copy !req
264. Did you ever draw a layout for a
secret base when you were a kid?Copy !req
265. That was always a ton of fun!Copy !req
266. I remember adding traps
and setting mines...Copy !req
267. Not sure who they were supposed to be for.Copy !req
268. The greatest world I can imagine!Copy !req
269. I draw to bring that world to life,Copy !req
270. so concepts are what it's all about!Copy !req
271. You're really something, Asakusa!Copy !req
272. In that case, let's keep going!
Maybe it should have a light around here?Copy !req
273. That'd make the engine look kind of cramped.Copy !req
274. I'd like it better if it moved around
in a more distinct way, though.Copy !req
275. How about something like this?
Wings like you'd see on a bug.Copy !req
276. Oh, wow! That's awesome!Copy !req
277. It can't really land like that, though.Copy !req
278. Let's add some landing gear with
tires for a counterweight,Copy !req
279. and turn the ducted fans into
contra-rotating propellers.Copy !req
280. We can attach a tail to make
it look like a dragonfly!Copy !req
281. It's done!Copy !req
282. Fantastic!Copy !req
283. And the wings' surfaces
are made of solar panels!Copy !req
284. Plus, the structure forCopy !req
285. the wing joints is modeled after
real exoskeletons and muscle fibers!Copy !req
286. It's tiny!Copy !req
287. It has to be, to be light enough.Copy !req
288. All right, let's do a motion
check for the wings.Copy !req
289. All good!Copy !req
290. Hold it!Copy !req
291. Oh, no! Let's get out of here!Copy !req
292. The switch for the launch
catapult is on the outside.Copy !req
293. I'll go!Copy !req
294. There was a door here?Copy !req
295. Is this it?Copy !req
296. Huh?Copy !req
297. It says number three is empty!Copy !req
298. That means there's no steam pressure!
The catapult's not gonna work!Copy !req
299. I'll push! Kanamori, help me!Copy !req
300. Whatever...Copy !req
301. Move!Copy !req
302. All right! Get in, you two!Copy !req
303. Come on!Copy !req
304. It worked! We're actually flying!Copy !req
305. Is there no way out of here?Copy !req
306. There are massive skyscrapers
in every direction!Copy !req
307. This is bad.Copy !req
308. Over there!Copy !req
309. It's too narrow!Copy !req
310. We'll fly sideways!Copy !req
311. It's not gonna work!Copy !req
312. Huh?Copy !req
313. What? What is it?Copy !req
314. One of the wings isn't responding!Copy !req
315. It took a hit!Copy !req
316. We're gonna crash!Copy !req
317. The three of us can figure this out!Copy !req
318. Kanamori, let's try and shift the weight!Copy !req
319. Oh, for the love of...Copy !req
320. Yeah!Copy !req
321. Ow, ow, ow...Copy !req
322. This... It's the greatest world.Copy !req
323. Is it just me, or did we go somewhere awesome?Copy !req
324. It felt like we saw something amazing.Copy !req
325. Oh, shoot, I need to go!Copy !req
326. The new anime by the animation dream team ofCopy !req
327. Inoue-san, Ohira-san, and Iso-san is gonna air!Copy !req
328. Can't you record it?Copy !req
329. I've gotta see it live!Copy !req
330. Which way is the station?Copy !req
331. I'll show you the shortest route!Copy !req
332. I am not running.Copy !req
333. But you always get better times than me.Copy !req
334. Mizusaki, how fast can you do 100 meters?Copy !req
335. When I was little, I used to say
I could do it in one second.Copy !req
336. Then we can get to the station in eight seconds!Copy !req
337. Whoever's last to the station
has to treat me to something.Copy !req
338. See ya!Copy !req
339. Hey, wait!Copy !req
340. That's cheating!Copy !req
341. You two are the ones who
decided to just stand around!Copy !req
342. Why wouldn't we?Copy !req
343. Kanamori, you're too fast!Copy !req
344. Your washing is done. Please unload the machine.Copy !req
345. Your washing is done. Please unload the machine.Copy !req