1. You know what it is, right?Copy !req
2. The sound club is selling their
audio through this website.Copy !req
3. They seem to be raking it in, too.Copy !req
4. And apparently, someone is taking
a cut of these profitsCopy !req
5. as "rent" for providing the Sound Club
with a base of operations.Copy !req
6. Our screening at the culture
festival was a success,Copy !req
7. which has resulted in
requests from several clubsCopy !req
8. who want a promotional movie like
what we did for the robot club.Copy !req
9. The boiled tofu group, the hula dance club,Copy !req
10. the sepak takraw club,
the choju-giga art restoration club...Copy !req
11. The carbohydrates revolution has sentCopy !req
12. us a proposal titled
"It's Electro-Magnetic Amoeba World!"Copy !req
13. That sounds great!Copy !req
14. Let's do it! Let's accept them all—Copy !req
15. But I turned them all down!Copy !req
16. Have you lost your mind, Kanamori?Copy !req
17. The DVD of the robot anime sold
120 copies at a price of 500 yen apiece,Copy !req
18. of which the eizouken only
came away with 15%—9,000 yen.Copy !req
19. This is because the rights to the film
belong to the commissioning client,Copy !req
20. the robot club.Copy !req
21. Even with additional fees for our efforts,Copy !req
22. we walked away with just under 20,000 yen.Copy !req
23. But the fact of the matter is,
at an hourly salary of 1,000 yen,Copy !req
24. we put in enough labor to earn 1.8 million yen!Copy !req
25. 1.8 m-million yen?Copy !req
26. We're students, so it's ultimately fine,Copy !req
27. but I consider it to be a
major loss for our club.Copy !req
28. That's rough.Copy !req
29. Business done under a school's jurisdiction
has certain pricing expectationsCopy !req
30. and budgetary constraintsCopy !req
31. which limit the individual unit price.Copy !req
32. Add the limitations of doing a
movie for an extracurricular group,Copy !req
33. and that limits our potential even further.Copy !req
34. Unless we're working for a
particularly popular group,Copy !req
35. that means the earnings are going to be thin.Copy !req
36. So for the reasons I just explained,
I turned down all the offers we received.Copy !req
37. M-Makes sense...Copy !req
38. To make up for our loss with this incident,Copy !req
39. if we sold our DVDs at 1,000 yen a piece,Copy !req
40. we would still need to sell 1,780 copies.Copy !req
41. Well, that ain't happening!Copy !req
42. Nope.Copy !req
43. And yet, look at what I found.Copy !req
44. "Self-Publishing Exhibition
and Sales Event..."Copy !req
45. Comet A?Copy !req
46. You wanna sell stuff outside of school?Copy !req
47. The eizouken needs money to survive!Copy !req
48. It's time for a new project!Copy !req
49. Let's sell the hell out of some DVDs, you dorks!Copy !req
50. KeepCopy !req
51. YourCopy !req
52. HandsCopy !req
53. OffCopy !req
54. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!Copy !req
55. Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!Copy !req
56. That building looks like a piece of shortcake!Copy !req
57. This leads to the mountain shrine,
so I'd guess it was Main Street originally,Copy !req
58. but the highway was headed in
that direction, and cut it off!Copy !req
59. This looks like a bridge,
but there's no river.Copy !req
60. Correct! There used to be a river.Copy !req
61. That's part of why the roads meander so much.Copy !req
62. Gives it a particular feel!Copy !req
63. Behold! Those poles will
split open, firing a missile!Copy !req
64. Look at those! Like the top of tanks!Copy !req
65. A colossus that no one can see!Copy !req
66. Gigantic creatures!Copy !req
67. Mobilize the gantry cranes!Copy !req
68. I always used to imagine this
stuff on the way home from school.Copy !req
69. Scorching...Copy !req
70. We're gonna get sunburnt.Copy !req
71. The dimensional phase-shift vessel!Copy !req
72. The water level's risen...Copy !req
73. Must be from all the rain yesterday.Copy !req
74. It acts like a natural refrigerator...Copy !req
75. Stop dawdling, Asakusa. It's obnoxious.Copy !req
76. Gotta say, I wasn't expecting you to suggest
we go out of our way for lunch, Kanamori.Copy !req
77. You'd normally say it's a waste of time.Copy !req
78. You're up to something, aren't you?Copy !req
79. Hey, what's that?Copy !req
80. It's an offering. For kappas.Copy !req
81. Kappas?Copy !req
82. There are apparently legends about
kappas having inhabited Shibahama.Copy !req
83. Likely because of how
pristine the water is here.Copy !req
84. It's too damn hot, so let's head down there.Copy !req
85. The underground! Very shrewd, Kanamori.Copy !req
86. I didn't know this was here!Copy !req
87. Shibahama gets snowed in during winter,
so its underground is pretty developed.Copy !req
88. It's just a run-down shopping district now.Copy !req
89. Th-This...Copy !req
90. Isn't it the legendary spiral
staircase shopping district,Copy !req
91. which is said to reach deep
into the belly of the earth?Copy !req
92. Let's eat here.Copy !req
93. What the...Copy !req
94. Hey!Copy !req
95. You came by!Copy !req
96. Hello.Copy !req
97. Huh...Copy !req
98. That's right! I watched your robot
anime at the culture festival!Copy !req
99. I remember you!Copy !req
100. And afterward, he sent a
passionate note of praise.Copy !req
101. So that's it.Copy !req
102. Y'know, I watch a fair bit of anime,
and yours was great! I was moved!Copy !req
103. The combination of realistic
robot design principlesCopy !req
104. with fantastical super robot action!Copy !req
105. That's the kind of robot anime people
like me have been waiting for!Copy !req
106. It had the verisimilitude
that makes you thinkCopy !req
107. the creators knew their stuff!Copy !req
108. And the monster seemed
like it'd be right at homeCopy !req
109. He's actually praising the short.Copy !req
110. in the Shibahama underground...Copy !req
111. It's incredible you girls managed to
pull that off while in high school!Copy !req
112. I still feel like we've got too much to
work on to accept it openly, though...Copy !req
113. You're prodigies!Copy !req
114. This is better than I thought.Copy !req
115. Yeah, seriously! I didn't think fruit
would go well with ramen.Copy !req
116. Star fruit has a pretty mild flavor,
so there's pear juice in this.Copy !req
117. You could even call it pear ramen instead.Copy !req
118. It goes to show that a dish can be goodCopy !req
119. even if the fruit used is barely noticeable,
or bad if you notice it too much.Copy !req
120. Although part of it being good meansCopy !req
121. demonstrating what's unique
about the fruit used.Copy !req
122. You never usually go that deep
with your thoughts about food.Copy !req
123. I think I get it.Copy !req
124. Sometimes you need to smother the taste
of the fruit for it to be good.Copy !req
125. Welcome!Copy !req
126. It's probably a little late to point this out,
but this place is built on an angle, huh?Copy !req
127. Right. Supposedly part of the reason
the noodles are served without brothCopy !req
128. is to keep it from spilling out.Copy !req
129. One pineapple dandan noodles,
and one dragon fruit dandan noodles!Copy !req
130. Just between you and me, I've got
an incredible idea up my sleeve.Copy !req
131. For an anime!Copy !req
132. I just have no idea how I'd ever get it made.Copy !req
133. You wanna hear?Copy !req
134. Uh, sure, sure!Copy !req
135. The protagonist is an
ordinary guy who works at aCopy !req
136. dandan noodle place like this!Copy !req
137. But he has a secret identity...Copy !req
138. He's actually an agent with the secret
police force that protects world peace!Copy !req
139. He uses his red pepper bombs
to fight off an alien invasion!Copy !req
140. Coming!Copy !req
141. Sounds good to me. Let's use
that for our new project.Copy !req
142. The Yoshidas' place is gonna
be closing this summer, too.Copy !req
143. It's getting more and more lonely around here.Copy !req
144. Looks like our film club has a fan!Copy !req
145. There are a lot of deserted storefronts.Copy !req
146. Not a lot of customers outside of ski season.Copy !req
147. So what are we doing for our next project?Copy !req
148. Are we gonna base it on one
of Asakusa's concepts again?Copy !req
149. Last time, we knew from the outsetCopy !req
150. it was going to be a robot
versus a giant monster...Copy !req
151. The first short had a setting from your
back catalog of ideas, right, Asakusa?Copy !req
152. That was just because we needed
something fast, so we chose something simple.Copy !req
153. And the second time around,
we used the school.Copy !req
154. What've you been doing there, Kanamori?Copy !req
155. Making posts.Copy !req
156. Having fun playing around on
social media. Must be nice!Copy !req
157. There is nothing fun about social media!Copy !req
158. Wait, you're already doing publicity?Copy !req
159. Right. It's better to attract eyes beforehandCopy !req
160. than trying to get attention
around the time of release.Copy !req
161. Say butter.Copy !req
162. Wait, what?Copy !req
163. Is it all right if I post this?Copy !req
164. Well, sure, if it gets us attention.Copy !req
165. I've been conscientious about
likeness rights so far,Copy !req
166. but I'd like to set it up so thatCopy !req
167. only our followers can view the
posts with your face in them.Copy !req
168. That's fine. My parents
handle my management anyway.Copy !req
169. I really wish people would pay
attention to our projects and not me, though.Copy !req
170. I wouldn't worry about that.Copy !req
171. The whole intent is to get people
to pay attention to the eizouken's output.Copy !req
172. We get them to develop an emotional attachment,Copy !req
173. and stimulate their urge to spend money.Copy !req
174. We're selling merch?Copy !req
175. There's demand for merchandise.Copy !req
176. That can be pricey to put together,Copy !req
177. but if we measure demand correctly,
we can avoid risk.Copy !req
178. We can bust our humps working on a new DVD,
and it might not sell at 1,000 yen...Copy !req
179. But all we need is to
stamp the club's logo on aCopy !req
180. t-shirt and we can sell that for 2,000 yen.Copy !req
181. Even if Tsubame Mizusaki is
what got them in the doors,Copy !req
182. the number of people who are genuinely
interested in our work is increasing.Copy !req
183. Part of our goal here is to ensureCopy !req
184. everyone who watched our last
project picks this one up, as well.Copy !req
185. The clips we post might go viral,Copy !req
186. giving people an idea of the
material we're working on...Copy !req
187. Having a large digital footprint can
help us in a variety of ways.Copy !req
188. You're a social media master.Copy !req
189. Wow! That's the Mizusaki bump!Copy !req
190. I never realized how important
advertising could be.Copy !req
191. Long ago, I bore witness to
the death of a liquor store!Copy !req
192. Is this the liquor store you mentioned?Copy !req
193. Seems busy enough.Copy !req
194. My relatives ran it.Copy !req
195. It was a drinking spot with a good reputation,Copy !req
196. particularly among fans of Japanese sake.Copy !req
197. But the owner had a high standard for quality,Copy !req
198. which did him no favors with the localsCopy !req
199. who just wanted to get hammered at a low price.Copy !req
200. That's a shame.Copy !req
201. The construction of the monorailCopy !req
202. meant that the street trolleys
were done away with,Copy !req
203. and since people drove more,
they couldn't drink as much,Copy !req
204. leading to even fewer customers...Copy !req
205. Which meant less of an emphasis on brewing,Copy !req
206. and by the time my uncle was running it,
they called it a general store.Copy !req
207. It's a bit more run down, now.Copy !req
208. An exemplary general store!Copy !req
209. It's so cute!Copy !req
210. Look!Copy !req
211. Minimori!Copy !req
212. What a hard worker.Copy !req
213. I heard pensions weren't
enough to get by anymore,Copy !req
214. so I was trying to earn money
apart from just my allowance.Copy !req
215. This place looks a lot cleaner! Thank you.Copy !req
216. Here's a little tip.Copy !req
217. Thank you very much.Copy !req
218. You should really wait until
you're home to open it...Copy !req
219. There's extra.Copy !req
220. I wanted to add something special
since you come by every day.Copy !req
221. I'm gonna clean some more.Copy !req
222. Old...Copy !req
223. Hello.Copy !req
224. Oh my goodness! You're covered in snow!Copy !req
225. Did you walk here? That couldn't have been easy!Copy !req
226. You're not going to open the store?Copy !req
227. No one's gonna be out in this snowstorm.Copy !req
228. Even the convenience stores are closed.Copy !req
229. But people need to buy stuff all the time.Copy !req
230. If we open up right now, we'll be
the only place making money.Copy !req
231. I saw footsteps in front
of the store, too.Copy !req
232. Okay, we'll need that snow shoveled, then!Copy !req
233. Okay.Copy !req
234. You ever notice the kinds of things she does?Copy !req
235. She started shoveling in front of
the vending machine, for instance...Copy !req
236. That means we can start making money
as soon as that bit of snow is cleared.Copy !req
237. Hot drinks sell at times like this.Copy !req
238. She really is thoughtful.Copy !req
239. She's always got her little eyes open.Copy !req
240. Did you know she has trouble with math?Copy !req
241. When she's got such a mind for business?Copy !req
242. Funny, isn't it?Copy !req
243. Thing is, you can be a math wiz, but if
you don't have a head for business—Copy !req
244. the way I don't—it won't matter.Copy !req
245. It's all clear.Copy !req
246. Attagirl!Copy !req
247. No tip this time.Copy !req
248. Instead, you can have these. Sell what
you've got, and make some money.Copy !req
249. Man, it's cold.Copy !req
250. Welcome.Copy !req
251. Do you have any gloves?Copy !req
252. I was thinking about shoveling,
but all I had were thin rubber ones...Copy !req
253. Oh, not like those.Copy !req
254. I was looking for something nice and thick
that the snow couldn't soak through.Copy !req
255. If you put your rubber gloves on top of these...Copy !req
256. Hey, yeah!Copy !req
257. Thank you very much.Copy !req
258. Already making a sale!Copy !req
259. And you sold a single pair of
working gloves for 100 yen,Copy !req
260. when they're usually a dozen for 300!Copy !req
261. Individual sales stack up.Copy !req
262. Hey, you're open!Copy !req
263. Welcome.Copy !req
264. Hey mister, is the vacant
lot across from you open?Copy !req
265. We were hoping to park there for a bit.Copy !req
266. Not a problem.Copy !req
267. Is it all right if we eat in here?Copy !req
268. Make yourself at home.Copy !req
269. We have instant noodles.Copy !req
270. That's perfect! You got hot water?Copy !req
271. We do.Copy !req
272. Hey, he says it's okay!Copy !req
273. Man, this is just what I needed!Copy !req
274. Can feel myself warming up!Copy !req
275. This is good stuff.Copy !req
276. We set out to help folks stuck in
the snow, but everywhere was closed!Copy !req
277. Even the convenience store, and we
were starving! I thought we might be done for!Copy !req
278. I never knew a place like this
was just across the way...Copy !req
279. I'm coming here every week from now on.Copy !req
280. I appreciate the thought, but we're
actually closing this month.Copy !req
281. What, really?Copy !req
282. We've been in the red for a while...Copy !req
283. Well, it's not the best location.Copy !req
284. You're kinda out of the way and hard to notice,Copy !req
285. plus there's a convenience
store right over there.Copy !req
286. It was better when the trains
were still running, but...Copy !req
287. They never finished that damn monorail, either.Copy !req
288. How about you only open up on snowy days?Copy !req
289. I don't think we could manage that.Copy !req
290. Man, if I had known sooner,
I would've told all my pals!Copy !req
291. You let our nasty old cars park outside,
and you let people stay and eat...Copy !req
292. This is a great place.Copy !req
293. But I guess since everyone going into
the mountains uses the other road...Copy !req
294. Thanks, come again.Copy !req
295. well, I guess not.Copy !req
296. You're closing even though
you could get customers?Copy !req
297. You need money to even keep a store open.Copy !req
298. Heating, repairs, taxes, insurance...Copy !req
299. The money to buy stock and have it brought in,Copy !req
300. which goes to waste if anything doesn't sell...Copy !req
301. And since we're out of the way,
customers just don't come by.Copy !req
302. We've been spending all kinds of money,
and only surviving off of what was left.Copy !req
303. You can't keep a business open with
only the odd customer here and there.Copy !req
304. No one's gonna come to a store...Copy !req
305. that nobody knows about.Copy !req
306. There's no point in focusing entirely
on the quality of your product.Copy !req
307. You need the right methods
and products at the right time,Copy !req
308. and you need advertising!Copy !req
309. If you think a good product is all
it takes to attract customers,Copy !req
310. you're dreaming!Copy !req
311. You can't do business without promotion,Copy !req
312. but without a product,
you can't even get started!Copy !req
313. High standards aren't enough!Copy !req
314. You also need to think about how
to loosen people's purse strings!Copy !req
315. And I'll make sure people
hear about what we make.Copy !req
316. About that...Copy !req
317. Last time, we used the Shibahama High campus,Copy !req
318. but this time, I'm thinking of basing
the story in the town itself!Copy !req
319. The bizarre terrain and constructions!Copy !req
320. A town that's like a watery labyrinth!Copy !req
321. Shibahama is a town where you can
see the remains of trial and errorCopy !req
322. throughout history, which makes it fascinating!Copy !req
323. It's a treasure chest of concepts!
A 4D pocket dimension full of ideas!Copy !req
324. The town comes under attack one day!Copy !req
325. Their enemies are UFOs!Copy !req
326. Rising to the challenge is the
anti-invasion weaponry installedCopy !req
327. throughout Shibahama!Copy !req
328. The spiral shopping district
rises from the underground!Copy !req
329. It launches a fleet of steam tanks!Copy !req
330. The town of Shibahama was
outfitted with weaponry!Copy !req
331. That's kinda cool!Copy !req
332. If we used the town for the setting,Copy !req
333. do you think people who live
here will be more invested?Copy !req
334. Can you wrap this up in 30 minutes?Copy !req
335. I'm still figuring out the details.Copy !req
336. But regardless, we've got the premise
and setting for our next project figured out!Copy !req
337. The eizouken's next project...Copy !req
338. is the Shibahama-UFO Battle!Copy !req
339. By the way, I heard that the student
council started taking the rent I'm paying.Copy !req
340. Wait, are we gonna be okay?Copy !req
341. What about the budget for the new project?Copy !req
342. I just finalized a deal where the
Shibahama Chamber of CommerceCopy !req
343. has agreed to fully finance the short.Copy !req
344. That's awesome!Copy !req
345. How'd you do it? Was it thuggery?Copy !req
346. Mr. Kashima from the
dandan noodle shop lent his support.Copy !req
347. He's the president of the
Young Person's Association,Copy !req
348. and has been working on local
revitalization projects for a while now.Copy !req
349. I pitched the idea of a local
promotional anime, and they ate it up.Copy !req
350. I didn't know Kashimacchy
was into stuff like that!Copy !req
351. That's a crazy coincidence...Copy !req
352. Wait, Kanamori, did you take us to
his shop knowing this would happen?Copy !req
353. All I did was help the two of you brainstorm.Copy !req
354. How is the story progressing?Copy !req
355. I'm getting there.Copy !req
356. Where's Mizusaki?Copy !req
357. Over there.Copy !req
358. She said she was working on a
new model of Adamski saucer.Copy !req
359. Let me see the storyboard.Copy !req
360. Here's what I've got.Copy !req
361. This is all the direction
you've given so far?Copy !req
362. You're overdoing it again, damn it!Copy !req
363. Quit making extra animation work!Copy !req
364. It's already done! It'll be fine!Copy !req
365. Get down here, now!Copy !req
366. Might need a few adjustments,
or there could be—Copy !req
367. Your little R&D project is canceled!Copy !req
368. It's just gonna get shot down
by this thing, anyway!Copy !req
369. Where's the beam? What about the laser?Copy !req
370. Energy weapons weren't originally supposed to beCopy !req
371. in the visible spectrum, anyway.Copy !req
372. There's no type of light that just
zips through the atmosphere like that!Copy !req
373. And besides, there are different
types of directed energy weapons.Copy !req
374. It's not all about lasers, y'know!Copy !req
375. And even with lasers, they fire
light at speeds the eye can't track,Copy !req
376. for only a fraction of a second,Copy !req
377. so it's not gonna look like
the spotlight at a concert!Copy !req
378. Even if it was plasma, there'd be—Copy !req
379. You might know what you're saying,Copy !req
380. but normal people are
going to be watching this.Copy !req
381. D-Does it not work?Copy !req
382. Wh-What the—?Copy !req
383. What's this sound?Copy !req
384. I don't really get all the specifics,Copy !req
385. but I was imagining this for after the gun fires.Copy !req
386. You can hear fans and chains come in contact.Copy !req
387. And the rumble is the excitation
of an electric generator.Copy !req
388. This really fits the way
the concept is conceived.Copy !req
389. Save the protracted analysis for
the next time we're getting ramen.Copy !req
390. Isn't it rattling a bit too much?Copy !req
391. Maybe a bit...Copy !req
392. What are you talking about?Copy !req
393. This is how it's supposed to sound!Copy !req
394. That's not it, the sound is fine...Copy !req
395. But I was thinking something more like...Copy !req
396. Like that!Copy !req
397. And what does that mean?Copy !req
398. For the, "Pow!" part, it doesn't
need any additional sound!Copy !req
399. And then no sound after that!Copy !req
400. Oh, so that's how you want it performed.Copy !req
401. Performed?Copy !req
402. What do you think of her take, Doumeki?Copy !req
403. I'm not opposed to it.Copy !req
404. That's it... It's a performance.Copy !req
405. The reason the plane's interior
was pitch black...Copy !req
406. It was to demonstrate how
vast and bright the sky was.Copy !req
407. Everything I've been doing
so far has been a performance.Copy !req
408. It's been that all along...Copy !req
409. To depict a vast, unknown world that youCopy !req
410. could never grasp from the
glimpse of a single image...Copy !req
411. I've been choosing what
to draw, and how, all along!Copy !req
412. But I never realized that what
I was doing was a performance!Copy !req
413. Oh, what bitter fruit my ignorance has borne!Copy !req
414. Construction and consistency!Copy !req
415. The glory that these factors give rise to!Copy !req
416. Performance will be how I demonstrate
the greatness of the world I've imagined!Copy !req
417. And with that being the case,
I must consider the issue further!Copy !req
418. I ain't drawing no lasers!Copy !req
419. Down, girl. Let me explain.Copy !req
420. Drawing a cannon that doesn't
emit a beam is important to me.Copy !req
421. Using this cut, you can make it obvious
that the gun is what shot downCopy !req
422. the UFO from their relative positions.Copy !req
423. But that's not enough to resolve the issue.Copy !req
424. You think there'll be dissonance
if there's no beam or bullets involved?Copy !req
425. Wrong!Copy !req
426. Listen up, people...Copy !req
427. "This is a directed energy weapon
that doesn't project a ray!"Copy !req
428. We have to make sure the
scene conveys that clearly!Copy !req
429. In other words, we add a cut that
makes it obvious something was fired,Copy !req
430. even if there was no beam!Copy !req
431. We beef that sucker up with visual cues
for a massive energy expenditure,Copy !req
432. whether it was visible or not!Copy !req
433. And we need sound, Doumeki!Copy !req
434. I get how you want the scene performed,
but what are the UFOs here for?Copy !req
435. Hey, yeah. Who's in them?Copy !req
436. That... I am not sure about, yet.Copy !req
437. Actually, why was the town
so heavily armed, anyway?Copy !req
438. I'm gonna think that up later, too!Copy !req
439. For now, our goal is to prepare for Comet A...Copy !req
440. By creating the greatest world!Copy !req