Huh?
He's back again.
Huh?
- That's Nakao. - You know him?
He's in my class.
- He came yesterday too. - You're kidding!
Huh? What? Why...
He must be suspicious of you.
Stop that.
- Huh? - What?
He must be after Kyu-chan.
What?
A robot has come to our class.
The principal says we must keep it a secret at all costs, but...
how could I tell anyone a crazy story
that "my classmate is a robot".
What do you want?
You...film that direction.
Ah, yes... that...
- Sorry. Just a passing fancy. - Huh?
I was just a bit infatuated.
But she isn't really my type.
What?
- Which means, I'm free. - No. What're you doing?
Quit filming me.
- 'Morning, Kageyama! - 'Morning!
'Morning! See you there!
Today's scene is no different than any other day.
- Right? - Yeah.
Good morning!
Too bad!
Huh? What is it?
- A stalker. - What?
Someone's following Kyuto.
Surely not.
- Nakao? - This is bad.
If he keeps following her...
he'll find out Kyuto's a robot!
But he's a nerd. He's not into girls, is he?
- Make Nakao give up on her. - How?
- Figure it out! - What?
- I'm counting on you. - I can't.
- I'm relying on you, okay? - No, wait. I can't. Impossible.
Wait! I can't. What?
"In the sluggish, endless everyday"
"something sparkling suddenly appeared."
What?
"Always we strive frantically to grasp that which shines"
"but if we hold it even a moment"
"we'll only return again to the meaningless classroom."
"Sparkling"?
That's love.
Love?
But we're talking about Nakao.
I probably should've done that too.
- Fallen in love? - Yeah.
It doesn't really matter with who...just...
going on a date.
A date?
You know, Ray Bradbury talks in his books about people...
walking together at night holding hands.
And that night becomes once-in-a-lifetime.
Once-in-a-lifetime...
The only date you go on
is a stroll at night?
Yeah.
I see...that's crazy.
Huh? So what would you do?
I would...
I'd do something normal.
Normal?
See a movie together...
then laugh so hard we cry...
Huh?
Before I came in, I should've done it...
Walk with someone at night...
Then even if surgery fails, I could think, "it's alright."
It's that big a thing?
Well, anything that ties you to this world
is a big thing.
Don't worry.
You'll be able to do that night time walk.
So when I get back, double date, right?
Something to hold me to this world...
- Wow! What should we choose? - I don't know.
There's just too many.
- Hurry! - Hold on. Hold on.
- Okay. On the count of three... - Okay. Ready?
Ready, and... that one!
"Always we strive frantically to grasp that which shines"
"but if we hold it even a moment"
"we'll only return again to the meaningless classroom."
I see.
Nakao...
...is in love.
KYUTO Episode 02
Hey. Is filming me all the time really fun?
- Okay, I'll film some... - Hey, stupid, that's mine.
Let go!
Do you know who she is?
Yamamoto?
Yamamoto...
It is Yamamoto!
That's Yamamoto...
Oh, that's a pick, probably Yamamoto's.
She plays guitar.
This is...a scale.
A... a scale? A scale from what?
- The Little Mermaid. - Little Mermaid. Huh? Her?
Good morning.
Have you fallen in love with a human man?
Did you come to meet a human man?
- Ogawa-sensei said to come now! Excuse us! - Did you lose your love?
For a human...
Okay. Let's see...
Yamamoto is human, not the Little Mermaid.
She's human and always will be. Understand?
But the scale...
This is a pick to play guitar.
It's made of plastic.
- Plastic. - Right.
So, return it to Yamamoto. Okay?
- What about the Little Mermaid? - She doesn't exist!
You won't find her anywhere in the world!
She's made up! A complete lie!
But in books...
There are lies in books.
The Little Mermaid is...a lie.
That's right, a lie. Total crap. Got it?
For what purpose?
What?
For what purpose... do humans write lies?
I don't know! Sorry.
Just don't call Yamamoto the Little Mermaid anymore!
Got it?
The Little Mermaid? Yes, I've heard of her.
Sorry to keep you waiting.
Though she could only live in the sea, she came on land.
That is extremely reckless.
Well, it's true it's stupid but...
she probably knew she was pushing herself too hard by leaving the ocean.
But...she was completely infatuated with that man.
"Infatuated"?
Being so in love, you forget to eat and sleep.
Is that a bad thing?
Well, you can't normally that way.
But something like that keeps you going, right?
Because you have that...
you can do your best for another day, right?
Something I'm infatuated with? I guess it's my work.
I love "education" more than words can say.
That's who I am.
Vivian-chan, huh? She was a lovely girl...
Kouchou-sensei is...
infatuated with work.
Well... I suppose so.
Sensei. Please return to work.
Was I wrong to dispose of them?
No. I was getting rid of them but...
I wanted to say good-bye to each in turn.
Heita. Are you infatuated with anything?
Yeah.
Are you infatuated with Nakao?
Yeah. Sorry, I have something to do.
Can you get home on your own?
Heita is infatuated with Nakao.
What a coincidence.
You come here too?
What're you reading?
[Luna - Full Throttle]
Wow...
Is it good?
She reminds me of someone.
Huh? What's wrong? Why are you running? Why are you running away?
Sorry.
I get it...
So that's why...
She looks like Kyuto.
Hey.
Huh? What's wrong?
- What is it? - No!
Wait! What?
What was that?
What things are women happy to hear?
"I will pay your rent."
What?! No, that wouldn't...
Oh, and "I'll pay your health insurance."
No, that can't be...
~ If I could kiss you, hold you tight
~would your inexperienced lips soften too?
You were so cool in your gig today!
Sorry. This is private.
Let's go.
What was that?
Who cares? Let's go.
I'm home.
Welcome home.
- Huh? What? Mom! - What is it?
- Just...just... - What? What is it?
Right? Right?
What? What is it?
~ Under the light of the full moon
~ we'll blow out the 16th candle
~ and after we've kissed for the 17th time
Why'd I never realize before now?
My little bro is Hajime!
~ It'll be our specialty
This part!
This part. C'mon. Do that.
Huh? Me?
Come on. Just for a bit.
- "Our specialty..." - What?
Come on. Do it!
"Our specialty..."
What is it? What's all this?
- Do it again! - Enough, enough.
Do it.
Enough!
- What're you doing? - Whose head is this?
- It's my head! - Shut up.
- Ow! Ow, ow, ow... - Don't be selfish...
You always have to wear your hair this way.
Okay! I will! Ow!
Then, I'm going.
See you.
She's here.
You're so ugly. Would Chaka seriously go out with you?
Did you hear me? Say something.
- Hey, Ugly. - Hey, Ugly! Stop there!
You gotta be kidding me. Why'd you run, huh?
Don't go near Chaka again!
- You get it? - Give me a break. Hello?
Don't mess with us.
Think Chaka's serious about you?
- Don't come to his gigs. - Don't get near him again.
Just stay away from him!
What's with you?
Ow, ow, ow!
Lemme go! What're you doing?
We surrender.
A white flag means "surrender."
What's wrong with you?
You cannot injure a person who has surrendered. That is a rule.
- She's freaking me out! - We surrender.
We surrender!
Are you hurt?
That's not it.
I want to just die...
It'd be better if I died...
Is this the place you can go on living?
How is it?
What should I do?
I should say it straight out to Nakao, huh?
"Don't touch my woman".
"My woman"?
Hey.
I understand.
I'll stop.
Are you sure?
It wasn't Kyuuto I liked in the first place, so...
Huh?
This is who I love.
Her. Right.
If, just if...
you could go on a date...
would that be a once-in-a-lifetime memory?
By date, I mean going for a walk or something...
I-i-if...
I could go on a w-walk with Luna-chan...
Luna-chan?
Ah. Luna-chan.
- I'd pay 30 million yen! - You have 30 million?!
How'd a student have that much?
- But you said 30 million... - I'm talking a loan.
After I graduate and work, I'll pay you back.
That's amazing.
Huh? What is?
Well.. for going on a walk...
Then...
- I'll pay 40 million! - OK! I get it.
Then...
as a final memory...
you'll go on a date?
After that, you can't ever follow her again.
Huh?
What? What, what is it? Huh?
I want to thank you, but I have nothing, so...
No, no. It's too important.
Fukai, you mightn't get it, but
it's that important to me!
- Fukai-kun! - Scared me...
You aren't doing your hair like yesterday?
Oh! You too?
- That Hajime guy... - Fukai, too loud.
- I won't ever again. - What? Please, one more time!
- Take pictures with me! - No. No way.
- Please? - No. No way.
No chance.
For crying out loud...
Just a sec.
- Okay. Peace! - Like this?
Enough, right? This many...
- Hajime close up. - Huh?
I'm worn out!
See you!
Is that Heita...
taking pictures with a girl?
Here.
Thanks.
See here, okay?
I just look a lot like the "specialty" idol. Okay?
That's why she asked me to take pictures with her.
That's all.
- It's fine. Don't try so hard. - But you've got the wrong idea.
See? You really do.
Look, I told you.
Kawai means nothing special to me.
No, she doesn't, really.
I had fun today.
- You know... - Yes?
Is it okay if you give me your email? So I can contact you...
Of course.
I don't really know how...
Oh! Shall I do it?
I'm sorry.
Why a telephone pole?
Well, I like telephone poles and stuff.
Oh, really...
No, no, I don't like them that much, but...
the shape reminds me of gates at shrines.
That's all.
Thank you for a lovely day.
Oh. Would you like to go for a drink now?
I'm sorry, today's a bit...
- Please don't say that. - No. It's true.
- Please! - No, really.
I'll pay your rent!
What?
I'll pay your health insurance too.
Oh! No! It's not like that! It's not!
It's not like that!
I'm sorry for calling you here.
Well, it's about your photos with Heita, right?
Don't worry. I won't tell anyone.
Oh. No. It isn't that...
It isn't?
I hope you won't tell others I'm an idol fanatic.
If people find out, they'd be put off by it. Right?
I don't think you get it, but...
this is pretty serious.
I do get it.
What?
I'm the same.
Well, I like someone but...
if everyone found out, they'd freak out so...
I can't tell anyone.
Kageyama, you're gallant though you don't look it.
What...? You think so?
Say, is the person you like...
What?
similar to Hajime?
Not exactly...
So you like Yasu? That's great!
- No. I... - I thought you'd copied me.
Oh. No. I didn't.
Oh. You know about Yasu's family?
Yasu worked so hard on his own, but his family all split up...
The night I heard about it, I cried!
Did you bawl?
- I cried too. Yeah. - Right?
I mean, on TV Yasu's the funny one, but...
behind the scenes he's suffered.
So, unless we give him our understanding...
there's no way to repay him, right?
Right, yeah. You're right.
Right...
Huh? What's wrong?
I've never said this stuff except online, so...
Miracles exist, don't they?
Right? Hey! Miracles...
Miracles...miracles do exist.
Right?
Will you go on a date with Nakao?
Why?
It will make Nakao happy?
- Are you sure? - Pretty sure.
Heita loves Nakao.
Huh? Why...
You are infatuated with Nakao.
You've got it wrong.
- Wrong? - Yes.
Why'd I be in love with Nakao?
Then...
why do you wish to make Nakao happy?
Well...
Look.
A lot of stuff going on can't be explained simply.
Heita wishes to make Nakao happy.
Again? True, but...
You love Nakao.
- Okay. Just leave it. - Heita wishes to make Nakao happy.
Heita is infatuated with Nakao.
- Heita loves Nakao. - Okay! Let's go home, okay?
- Heita loves Nakao... - Okay, yes, yes.
This part... Make it round, very round, then pull this tight.
There.
Hey! I'm going for a bath.
What's this? He's asleep?
[Date. 10/22, 4 pm]
Sounds like fun...a date.
What's this? Kyuto's on a date?
Why didn't you tell me?
When did you get here?
Are you on a date?
Me? No, a singles-mixer.
You go on those...
Did you find anyone special?
"Special," he says.
What would you call it? "Someone good"?
"Someone good"...
That's not good enough.
Someone who matches you?
Now look...
Love's a revolution.
It turns everything you knew upside-down and inside-out.
If it's just someone "matching" or "good",
nothing will turn inside-out.
I see...
Which means...
love won't begin with someone of that calibre.
I see.
Give me a copy of those, okay? I want a record of Kyuto.
See you!
E-excuse me!
Hmm?
If you did fall in love...
...and...
everything you know turns upside down...
what happens after that?
There'll be a different "you."
That is love.
Chaka, what you love isn't me, right?
What?
White dresses...
shoes with slender high heels...
neat shoulder length hair...
small, cute bags...
What're you on about?
I...truly am not human.
What?
I'm a mermaid princess!
I've been forcing myself!
Chaka, can you come to this world?
You can't, can you?
After all, we live in different places, right?
The place I can keep living...
Nakao-kun...
Can you do your best for another day?
I can. Probably even the day after, and the next, and next...forever.
I promise.
It is a promise.
Here.
Oh. Welcome back.
These too...
I'll give you these when I develop them.
Thank you.
I'll treasure them all my life.
Is this really enough for you?
It's more than enough.
Even if I become a useless, middle-aged businessman...
as long as I have those, I'll be able to keep going.
This is really enough?
There's no helping it, right?
The one I fell in love with
is 2-dimensional.
Heita.
Weeds!
Leaves.
Heita is infatuated with Nakao.
I said it's not like that.
Heita wishes to make Nakao happy.
Now, look...
Kyuto...is sleepy.
Huh? Wait. It's only a bit further.
What? Wait, wait! You're kidding me.
Gotta be joking.
Here like this?
Why should I be infatuated with Nakao, huh?
Why I wanted to make him happy
was that I thought he was better than me.
He can say outright he loves something inhuman.
I'm probably...a bigger coward than he is.
If it were me, I couldn't tell anyone
and I'd be afraid to admit that love even to myself.
What? Rain?
For a second...
I thought it was tears.
Idiot.
That's impossible.
Nakao said he won't follow her anymore.
Really? Thanks for that.
You like telephone poles?
What?
You gonna laugh?
No.
I'm a bit moved...
By what?
- I like steel towers. - What?
Really?
I never tell anyone in case they laugh.
I totally get it. I'm the same.
I never tell anyone.
Most people don't understand this kind of stuff, right?
I wonder if it's okay...
Hmm?
to love that stuff.
What're you saying? Of course it is!
No matter what a person loves, it's fine.
What're you doing?
Hey there! N-nothing really.
You're looking for something?
What're you looking for?
Well, a paper chopstick sleeve.
You wrote a memo on it?
No, no. It's an old keepsake.
From what?
From a place I took a girl with my first pay.
A date?
Yeah.
Wow...with Mom?
Someone else.
Not here? Of course not.
I've had it all this time...
if it got thrown out now...
You can't forget it even now
though it was so long ago.
I'm not in love with her.
But I want to hang on to how I felt then.
I was so worried the girl would see right through me.
But I wasn't afraid of anything.
I was fine, even with nothing.
I found it.
I found it!
Look. This is it! I found it!
I found the chopstick sleeve!
Just like Kubo said...
things that tie us to this world
may be the smallest things.
Here.
An evening stroll.
[It hurts when I laugh]
I'm sorry, sorry.
"Always we strive frantically to grasp that which shines"
There's a lot of depth in the idol world...
"but if we hold it even a moment"
"we'll only..."
"return again, to the meaningless classroom."
Good morning.
Next week, Fujino will return from extended leave from school, so...
we need to clean that desk, okay?
- Who's Fujino? - I don't know.
Fujino's been away all this semester, right?
Tsuki-chan...
Ogawa-sensei is here.
Fujino!
Let's do our best without pushing too hard, okay?
Tsuki-chan, are you listening?
I'm sorry. Thanks for coming.
Hey!
Come back any time, okay?
Kyuto-san.
Oh, right! Kyuto, would you mind going like this?
Things that tie me to this world...
No matter what a person loves, it's fine.
It turns everything you knew upside-down and inside-out.
That's adorable!
Ready, and pose!
That's it...
So I...am in love.
~ In a corner on the stairs [Kaidan no katasumi ni]
~ that person crouched cowering [suwari uzukumaru no ano hito ni]
~ I wonder what happened [nani ga atta n darou]
~ What did that person see? [Ittai nani wo mitekita n darou]
~ In a crowd of people [Hitogomi no naka de]
~ that man and woman glare at each other [niramiau danjou no aida ni]
~ I wonder what happened between them [nani ga okottarou]
~ What circumstances led them there? [Ittai donna jijou ga atta n darou]
~ Once, you called me outside [Itsuka boku wo yobidashita]
~ and the teacher yelled; that scene [sensei ga donatteta sono scene ha]
~ I wonder what it looked like [donna dattarou]
~ What on earth did I learn from it? [Ittai boku ha nani wo shitta n darou]
~ On the other side [Itsu kara ka tsuzuiteru]
~ of this war that's lasted since who knows when [sensou no hate ni donna koto ga]
~ I wonder what waits for us [matteru n darou]
~ And what can I do? [Soushite boku ni nani ga dekiru n darou]
~ The truth of things [Koto no shinsou ha nani mo]
~ we feel like we know, but we can't learn [shitteiru you de shirienai]
~ Even so, somehow or another [Sore demo dou ni ka kou ni ka]
~ It's like we were never here [ikiteita naka ga nai]
~ It's not enough to face futility [Muda ga atteba tarirarenai]
~ But there are too few things to believe in [Demo shinjirareru mono mo sukunai]
~ The only certain thing is my feelings [Tada hitotsu tashika na no ha boku no kimochi]
~ Let me hear your voice [Kimi no sono koe wo kikashite yo]
~ That's where I find something to believe in [Shinjireru mono ga soko ni aru yo]
~ The only certain thing is my time with you [Tada hitotsu tashika na no ha omae to no toki]
~ I love you [Kimi ga suki]
All that's left is passion.
A friend poked their nose into dangerous business.
Being human or not doesn't matter.
Being able to worry for others, and being worried about by others...
Isn't that enough?
Nakao!
Fukai...
A mark? On Fukai's chest?
Say you aren't. Scream it at the top of your lungs.
I'm not ugly!
I'm Fujino.
The same wind never blows twice.
Amidst all that... we live.