01x06 - Let's Do Better Than Last Time!

[bunniefuu]

We've definitely got to add all

the coloring and sound effects

we had to skip last time.

Definitely. We definitely do!

A story, too! I want it to be

even better than last time!

Even better!

96 days until the culture festival

Let's double what we did last time

Not double!!

Synopsis: Robot VS Monster

Title: TBD

Setting: Shibahama High School

15-20 minute runtime

"All Digital Animation"

Now using Bit Winsoft across the board!!

If we're going to have dialog,

that means we need voice actors, right?

We'll need to hold auditions.

I'd wait until the storyboard

is done to worry about that.

What about backgrounds?

Colored this time. Naturally, I'll—

The art club actually wants

to help us out this time.

They said our work

made an impression on them at the

budget committee, much like the robot club.

Huh, that's pretty cool.

I'm sure they realize they

can get something out of it.

As soon as Asakusa finishes the storyboards,

we'll meet with them to

hash out the backgrounds.

A meeting

You're going to need to explain

to them what kind of art we need.

I-I can't tell people what to do

Well, you also can't draw the backgrounds

for every cut on your own, can you?

No groaning, moaning, or excuses.

There's one other hurdle to deal with.

The robot club has requested that an

opening sequence be included.

Greatest, Strongest

Robot Song

The song is already in the works, apparently.

Lots of Nutrition!

Allgrapes

Natural Sweetness

Bright Day

Milk

Egg Biscuits

A

Cola

Recommended for

7 months and up

We'll discuss it in more detail

once the demo track is ready.

What about the music during the actual film?

I think it should be epic!

Could you handle that, Mizusaki?

Never done it before.

What about you, Asakusa?

I've never had a chance to try before.

I'll ask around to see if

anyone I know writes music.

We've got three times the amount

of time for production

But will our club activity

time be enough, Mizusaki?

No way! I've gotta work at home, too!

Animating designs with so many

lines is a ton of work, y'know.

They say you're not a real animator

until you can do 500 pieces of art a month,

but for anime, you need to be able

to draw the necessary amount of art

at the required standard of quality,

which is nothing like randomly dashing

off 500 doodles of whatever you want!

How difficult is it, exactly?

Imagine having to draw 500 rough drafts

while wearing gloves and handcuffs,

and if you're even 0.02 millimeters

off from frame to frame, you end up in hell.

But even before that, imagine having

to uniformly draw ten pieces of art

that accurately move a millimeter at a time,

while wearing armor, or you starve.

Having to draw three pieces

of art, every hour,

with so many lines, while thinking

about how it moves?

It's basically a curse!

Producing anime while in

high school is impossible!

So the entire premise of this club is invalid.

How are things coming along

for you, Asakusa?

So far, so good!

I'm pretty sure that can't be the case

since we're having to adjust the schedule

based on your progress with the storyboards.

Mizusaki, do you have any suggestions

for how we can improve our efficiency?

Well, it'd definitely be faster if

we had a computer in the club room.

That way, we can handle the finishing

touches and the photography here.

Having to use the PC room every time

we need to make slight adjustments

definitely eats up time.

I'm heading out.

Episode 6 Let's Do Better Than Last Time!

Keep

Your

Hands

Off

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Kanamori never came back, huh?

I imagine she went home.

Main

Gate

Let's get something to eat.

Kanamori is inviting us out to eat?

Wh-What is this place?

Does it look like a shoe store?

R

a

m

e

n

I can smell gasoline. Is this a good idea?

A few fumes never k*lled anybody.

This is my treat.

Whuzzat?!

Really?

Whoa, hold on! This is

Kanamori we're talking about!

Nothing is scarier than a

free meal from the yakuza!

It's fine.

I've just got ulterior motives.

That's the scary part!

Think of it as an advance

on your overtime.

Since we're going to have

to work on this project

outside of club hours to finish it.

Pickled

Garlic

That's more considerate than I would've figured.

Hardly. I'm only doing the obvious thing.

You'll be expected to work it off, eventually.

Bamboo Shoots

Seaweed & Salt

Roasted Pork

Ramen

Kake ramen!

Red pepper, please.

Can I get a soft-boiled egg in mine?

With extra wakame!

And firm noodles?

Sure thing!

So, Asakusa, have you made any

progress with the storyboards?

Es perfecto!

The time is before school is open.

That'll save us the trouble

of drawing people.

Good idea.

Generally speaking, it's the

same layout as Shibahama High.

Brrrmm

Brrrmm

There are eerie movements underground.

Whoosh

The water shoots up!

Splash

There's a sudden spray of water!

Here we have the base.

Computer Room

Crane

Hydraulic Pistons

Hatch

Observation Tower

w*r Room

Rabbit

Pump

Water Tank

Catapult

The first and second floor

are directly connected!

Looks good.

For various reasons, the robot

is now eight meters tall.

That's a fair bit bigger.

We'll need to confer with the robot club.

They're alerted to the monster's appearance!

There have been reports about

vibrations being detected underground.

Darker than the last cut

\h\h\h\h\h\h(but power is still on)

\h\h\h\h\h\h Monitor is lit brightly

Wall

Rotating emergency light

Voice on the Radio:

"It's a monster.

A crab-type monster

has appeared!"

Captain:

"Move out!

Everyone, to your positions!"

A1 (In Shadow)

A2 (Normal)

The robot is being mobilized!

The team rushes to their positions!

Off go the bolts!

Underwater

The gate opens!

Bottom of Gate

Outer Wall (Bright)

Light up the rails!

All the various machines come

alive in a dizzying fashion!

Preparing Launch

Launching

It launches!

Ejected from the catapult!

It encounters the crabtle underground

before the creature escapes,

but once it re-appears on the

school grounds, they battle!

The robot wins! The end!

Here you go.

The others will be a bit longer.

Go ahead and eat.

Appreciate it.

SHIBA8 is lit up

expl*si*n SE: Pow!

Struck by the cavitation,

SHIBA8 is blasted back

SE: Bang!

Time to eat!

These action scenes are extremely

broad, to put it lightly.

That's all up here.

Well, it needs to be on the damn page!

How is this "perfecto"?!

You're supposed to be specific!

I'm not good at action, okay?!

I've been drawing a bit of action myself.

The arm shakes from the impact of the blow!

It pulls a leg back to avoid

from getting too close.

That's cool!

And then, the arm is knocked back

from the recoil of an attack!

The movements leading into a charge

The wind-up for a punch

When you're trying to show a powerful hit,

you need to include these little movements!

That's some high-quality acting.

Why don't we let Mizusaki

choreograph the action scenes?

No objections.

Here's your kake ramen.

Sorry, the red pepper ramen's

gonna take a little bit longer.

Time to eat!

I wanted to ask, what're we

gonna do about sound effects?

They're really important.

Good question. What should we do?

For now, I can look into

using royalty-free ones.

That reminds me, I've made

arrangements for a computer.

How much was it?

Thirty-two thousand yen.

That is a thuggishly low price!

I talked to the information

service research group.

Apparently, every time they

put together a new PC,

they dispose of the old one,

no matter how powerful it was.

Like when they tear down new buildings

just to throw up newer ones.

What about the software and other stuff?

It's already taken care of.

It is?!

You sure about this, Kanamori?

We're not gonna get raided later, are we?

Would you put a sock in it already,

you cowardly raccoon dog?

For the software the school

already had paid for the licenses.

So it's basically free.

Here you are. One red pepper ramen.

I guess this is part of why she's so tall.

Her ramen's gonna get cold.

Okay, I'm ready to start

drawing when I get home!

If we're doing this on PC, there's a

tablet at home I can animate on.

You sure you won't get caught?

It's easy to hide stuff when you're in bed!

I'm gonna be animating at home and on the train!

Our goal this time is to complete this anime!

Completion isn't our goal,

it's a predetermined outcome!

We're not starting production,

we've already started!

That is a terrifying way to eat.

Thank you for the food! Check, please!

That'll be 2,450 yen!

Separate tickets, please.

I make it a point to never

carry more than 1,000 yen.

I'll pay you back for the ramen later.

What the heck?!

Student Council

The robot club explained what's up.

The student council has to

track the flow of money.

Why, are you going to tax us?

It's just a simple check to make

sure it's not being misused.

We've got a lot of crazy clubs,

like yours, and it keeps us busy.

Akihabara Culture Group & Fermented Foods Advocacy Club: Odor complaints

Drone Photography Club: Invasion of privacy

Messenger Pigeon Club: Forgery of school documents

Carbohydrates Revolution Lab: Dangerous protest activities

Sound Club: Ignored order to vacate

Lure Appreciation Club: Prohibited deals

Neue Deutsche Härte Club: Noise complaints

Saw Table Tennis: Destruction of equipment

Man-Faced Fish Investigation Lab: Incitement of other students

Exterior Club: Excessive spending on renovations

Messenger Pigeon Club: Forgery of school documents

Carbohydrates Revolution Lab: Dangerous protest activities

• Sound Club: Ignored order to vacate

• Lure Appreciation Club: Prohibited deals

• Neue Deutsche Härte Club: Noise complaints

• Saw Table Tennis: Destruction of equipment

Sound

Storage Building 3

Sliding Door

Music Room

Sound Club 2

Audio Room

Sound Club 3

Broadcast Room

Sound Club 4

Sound Club

Excuse me.

A sound-proof door, huh?

Would you knock it off?!

Who are you supposed to be?

I'm with the film club.

Film club? No, thanks.

I don't exactly need

your thanks, as it turns out.

Wh-What?!

Give it up

Hey!

Don't just barge in here!

A bit cold, isn't it?

What exactly do you want?

I'm here on behalf of the student council.

It seems you've been

occupying four club rooms,

on top of ignoring orders to vacate them.

Wow!

Whoa!

This is crazy!

You got here fast.

This place is totally amazing!

This room has every sound

effect you can imagine!

And how much do those cost to use?

There are free libraries,

and ones for professionals

that cost hundreds of thousands of yen

For movies, they tend to be custom made.

This room alone might be

worth over five million yen!

All right, let's sell it all!

The library isn't for sale, not for

whatever dirty money you're after!

You're looking at an audio collection!

A museum of sound, indexed by

location, time, and recorder!

You could search the entire world and

not find something this valuable!

That's right!

For example, look at these 72 different

recordings of Kegon Falls!

Kegon Falls: Clear Skies, Rain, Snow, Cloudy

72 Variants

Normally, when you're indicating

the season in anime

You have cicadas in summer,

bell crickets in fall,

and dogs howling at night in winter.

Not a lot of variety, right?

But here we've got 72 different

takes on the sounds of Kegon Falls!

That's every different type of weather

condition multiplied times three plus alpha!

Forget the four seasons, we're talking

about seventy-two times of year!

You're not going to find a massive

record like that anywhere else!

Yeah, what she said.

Now, if you understand, get out of here!

Before I call school security!

You still don't seem to

understand your situation.

I wouldn't try and threaten me, if I were you!

I'm recording this entire conversation!

You still don't seem to

understand your situation.

SEARCH WARRAN

We're here to enact legitimate

school council business.

Y-You can't trick me like

you can everybody else!

Everyone knows that anarchists,

street gangs, the yakuza,

violent criminals, and the

eizouken are public enemies!

So if you try to stick me up

and damage my precious sounds—

This has nothing to do with anarchy,

bureaucracy, or anything else.

The bottom line is you're squatting

here against the rules.

Read the damn thing!

I am done!

I give up! You can have the building back.

But do you realize how long it

took me to move this stuff in here?

And you want me to clear out in a rush?

When there's four whole rooms?!

That's not happening, especially considering

I don't have a budget.

Wait, there's another four rooms like this?!

The whole reason I joined

was the sound library,

but I'm the only club member

And now I'm supposed to clear

out right after joining?

I'm begging you, could you

pretend you didn't see me?

Either that, or loan me some cash?

You expect a loan when your club's got no budget

and is on the verge of

being dissolved? Damn, you're dumb.

What?! I won't let them dissolve the club!

I'm not seeing any other

outcomes for you right now.

Yeah

What a waste!

When there's all this great stuff

Meanwhile, listen to our audio situation!

Stop those sound effects right now!

This is what we're actually dealing with.

Please, make it stop!

We've got basically no sound effect files.

And even if we were to take

all of these files in,

we wouldn't be able to

digitize them quickly enough.

How about it?

We're willing to loan the

sound club our two stories

and one basement's worth of storage.

We'll also guarantee your independence

and continued existence.

In exchange, we'll be granted

free use of your sound library.

You can digitize and sell

the sound club's library in

order to secure your own funds,

and we'll take a service fee.

One other thing I'd like you to

be an audio advisor on our projects.

If it'll keep the club from being dissolved,

and won't cost me anything

O-Okay, agreed.

We have a deal, then.

Yes! We just scored all

the sound effects we need!

You'll need to empty this place

out and move everything today.

Whoa, I can't manage that! I've got

my hands full with existing business!

I should be able to manage next month

I suppose that'll have to do.

But make it some time this month.

Right, understood.

How about we get a formal handshake?

So I can report it to the student council.

Who, me?

The name's Asakusa. Nice to meet you.

I'm Doumeki.

Doumeki? How do you write that?

The kanji for "hundred-eyed demon."

Oh, wow! That's cool!

Yeah, yeah, I'm taking the shot. Look this way.

And click.

Kanamori! Good morning.

How are things progressing?

Straight to that, huh?

Film

Asakusa?

G'mornin!

How'd you come in from up there?

I found a route into the club from the forest

that passes through the sound

club's building three days ago!

Here's today's storyboards!

Wait, you already finished this much?

I see you're still fast when you get going.

I'm going exploring until

first period starts!

Asakusa has this ability to draw an

incredible amount once she gets going,

but she spends too much

time not drawing otherwise.

How do the storyboards look, Mizusaki?

There's a big clang, and then a rumble

And boom

Four days of delays, and then

three days' worth of progress.

Asakusa's motivation switch

Okay, lemme introduce you.

I'm the club president, Okamoto.

And working on this is gonna be

Nakamura and Kubo.

They're both second-years.

I'm Nakamura.

I'm Kubo. It's nice to meet you.

H-Hello there! It's nice to meet you!

Let's begin, then. Asakusa?

R-Right!

Uh, um

Here's the storyboard.

We've also got the data for you.

This scene takes place at around 6:00 AM,

so the light would be coming

from this direction.

Huh? What're these holes?

Oh, those are for pegs.

What pegs?

Uh, well, um

They hold the animation paper in

place when animation is being drawn.

It's also on the layouts, so you

can use them to make sure

the animation and backgrounds line up correctly.

They'll be fastened to them too,

so please be sure to note the peg

locations in the backgrounds.

What color is this car? And the model?

Uh, the car is going to be

a cel, so we'll be drawing that.

Anything you see that's yellow will be on a cel.

A cel? What's that?

Well, it's not actually a cel in this case

So, considering the type of material

Hey, why's there no students around?

Wouldn't a buncha people running

around be more of an anime thing?

Not that I'd know, but

W-Well, having additional people

makes it more difficult to draw.

That's why it's going to take

place so early in the day.

Yeah, but don'tcha think it'd be weird

if there wasn't a night watchman around, y'know?

Oh, sorry? Did I say something funny?

Never mind me!

What were you thinking for this one?

Uh W-Well

Something like this?

Oh, right. Yes.

You just need something similar

in atmosphere. I'll leave the details to you.

But since it's going to need to match the cel,

make sure you keep these lines intact—

Okay.

So, where is this building?

R-Right

Wait, what?

Film

Welcome back!

Huh? Where's Asakusa?

She needed to oxygenate her depleted brain.

Obsidian!

If the soil here was brought

in from the residential area,

that means there might be more

obsidian over on that mountain

Since the school grounds are

reclaimed land from a lake.

A groundhopper! They're so round and cute!

Groundhopper goes in the creature log.

I'll mark the boat remains and tires

as not being able to be removed.

As for the geological log,

I found some obsidian.

Soil is mostly clay, but with lots of stones.

There's a logic to all things.

A monster-fighting robot

Wait. Is this really what we should go with?

I've been trying to avoid thinking about it,

but shouldn't it be able to fold

its arms? And look directly up?

How does the pilot stay safe?

Would they be protected in this thing?

I'm having trouble breathing.

What if people criticize it?

Should we really have a robot like this?

Not to mention, giant robots are like a

collection of lies in the first place!

In that case

Let's ditch the giant robot anime!

Dumbass!

That's the one thing we can't do!

Stop rocking the boat.

But I can't come up with a robot

premise that can satisfy everybody!

It's fine. Your art is already amazing.

People who can't draw always say that!

You're more cynical than I figured.

Don't you worry.

I've got an alternative in mind.

Behold!

What's this tiny thing?

1) Press down the pedal

2) Twist the seat

3) Squeeze the lever

4) As it goes down,

they fold over

Hunting

Mode

(High

Speed)

Normal

Both

Buggy (Electric Powered Model)

Track control levers

Accelerator

Brake

A vehicle that's going to take down

the monster instead of the robot!

It's a buggy!

Taser g*n (Multi-Probe)

Panel pressed

Elected

Electric flow

Exterior

Generator & Converter

Cable length is 35 meters

Not very portable,

but has high output!

Buggy (Electric

Powered Model)

Track control levers

Accelerator

Break

Tail light

It's perfect!

Completely unacceptable!

We all agreed to this after trampling through

those contradictions in that

pain-in-the-neck meeting!

But the audience can be really harsh.

If we cut corners, the robot

police will catch on fast.

The pilot can't see behind them.

There's no space for an engine.

And how do they escape if there's an emergency?

Giant robots carry a lot

of responsibility, after all.

And working on a robot anime means

having to commit all kinds of crimes.

You're kind of doomed either way.

An imperfect giant robot

Is my only option being doomed

to settle for what we've got?

Since when are you slick enough to

satisfy everybody with your art, anyway?

Well, what the heck am I supposed to do?!

Just draw, and stop worrying

about anyone else.

My dear Kanamori, if I were that bold,

we wouldn't be having this discussion.

You can be quite foolish!

You want me to slap you silly?

Listen here. This project is only in

trouble if you think it's in trouble.

It's got nothing to do with anyone else.

Your only choice here is

to draw the kind of robot

that you would be satisfied with!

Everyone is working their hardest

to follow your directions.

That's because we all believe you've

imagined something incredible.

I won't be particular about

the final product as long

as it's done in time for the culture festival.

But if the finished product

is some boring piece of crap,

then that's your responsibility!

Because you're the director!

Film

Is she back?

Changing just the interior, huh?

This is amazing.

So that's the trick, huh?

I'm resuming my expedition!

Behold my blade, the Lightning Flash!

I guess Asakusa's motivation

switch is pretty random.

Random enough that we should let her run free.