konna hazu janainda atama kakae
こんなはずじゃないんだ 頭抱え
This can't be happening; I clasp my head in my hands,
houwa shita sekai kara nigedashitakute mogaiteiru
飽和した世界から 逃げ出したくてもがいている
As I struggle with my desire to escape from this saturated world.
sarasara suna no you ni toki ga sugiru
さらさら 砂のように時が過ぎる
Time goes flowing past with the rustling roar of sand,
kawaribae no shinai genjou
代わり映えのしない現状
Things never get any better;
yume no nai asu wo mitsume
夢のない明日を見つめ
I'm gazing on toward a dreamless tomorrow.
mayotte bakari no kinou sayonara shitai
迷ってばかりの昨日 さよならしたい
I want to bid farewell to my days of constantly feeling lost;
aragau you ni te wo nobashitemiru
抗うように 手を伸ばしてみる
I try stretching out my hand in resistance.
nanbyakumankai naite umarekawaru yo
何百万回 泣いて 生まれ変わるよ
We'll cry millions upon millions of tears, then be reborn,
akai me no mama de yukou egaita mirai he
赤い目のままで行こう 描いた未来へ
Let's keep going, with red in our eyes, toward the future we drew for ourselves.
koko made oide te wo narashiteru
ここまでおいで 手を鳴らしてる
Come over to me, I'm clapping my hands,
kimi ha doko no dare?
君はどこの誰
Who are you? Where are you coming from?
yami ni me wo korashite
闇に目を凝らして
I strain my eyes in the darkness.
nanimo mienu wakannai sore demo yuku yo
何も見えぬ わかんない それでも行くよ
I can't see a thing, and nothing makes sense, but I'll go anyway,
hikari ga sasu kimi ga matsu basho he
光が射す 君が待つ場所へ
To the place where you're waiting, lit by a beacon of light.
Episode 7
「Daydream」
Inspired by Sakaguchi Ango's 「Meiji-era Ango Detective Stories "The Foolish Apparition" and "The Retard"」
As to be expected from the "Defeated Detective".
Or maybe I should be calling you the "Great Detective".
Self-Proclaimed Novelist
Prisoner
Self-Proclaimed Novelist
Prisoner
Why do something like this?
I'm a novelist.
A novelist?
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Detective
Yuuki Shinjuurou
Detective
I write novels.
Not with a pen... but with reality.
Following the deductions of the "Great Detective",
all mysteries are brought to light!
I expected that Yajima would kill his own wife.
Why would you try to make that happen?
Because that's the role of the "Great Detective".
No matter how cruel the outcome,
to wait until all of the victims have met their deaths, then bring forth his deductions:
that is the "Great Detective".
No matter how tragic his reasons,
to expose everything in the light of day:
that is the "Great Detective".
I have chosen you...
...as this world's final "Great Detective".
You... chose me?
Yes! You are my very own "Great Detective"!
What is it you want?
There's no need for worry, I'm a novelist;
I don't care for anything other than writing stories.
However, I don't write upon paper; I write upon reality.
If you turn reality into a story...
Come alive, "Great Detective"!
Solve the mystery!
Somebody...!
War...
That's good!
Yuuki-chan, what are you doing?
Look, over there!
Over there?
Yuuki-san, the director asked me to get you for him!
What the heck, have you been slacking off again?
Izawa Sayo
Actress?
Izawa Sayo
Actress?
You're quite the celebrity to have an actress coming to fetch you!
Ah, sorry! I'll go right away.
Shinjuurou-kun, you're late!
This guy was over by the planes.
I knew it...
What do you mean, "You knew", Motoko-chan?
Men always love special effects.
Even my dad...
Yada Sumie
Actress?
Tanimura Motoko
Actress?
Yada Sumie
Tanimura Motoko
Actress?
My dad?
What is it, Motoko-chan?
It's nothing.
And neither of you are allowed to add "chan" to my name.
Mitaka Kichitarou
Movie Director?
Mitaka Kichitarou
Movie Director?
What are you all doing over there?!
He looks mad. Shall we get started?
Is your make-up ready?
I can go without it.
If I end up looking bad, it's because you suck at your job!
Let's do our best.
Please make me look beautiful.
Director, are we ready?
No enthusiasm, as usual...
I'll just go when I'm ready, then.
Sayo-san, I'm sure you have a boyfriend!
But Sumie-san looks like a princess-type,
you don't seem like you've ever been with a man.
What are you saying all of a sudden, Motoko-chan?!
I told you not to add the "chan"!
After all, I want to get to know the two of you better!
The three of us all escaped to here, fleeing from different places.
We were all taken in by the man who owns this room, and decided to live here.
The man equally lo...
Loved us?
That!
But on a certain day, he disappeared...
...and the three of us are wandering through the burning city.
But I heard that the director hasn't decided on the last scene.
We don't even know if we'll be able to reunite with the man.
I wonder if all four of us will be able to live happily together again.
I don't want that at all!
I want him to properly choose one amongst the three of us!
Oh my...
W-Why are you laughing?
Hey... C'mon!
They sure seem happy.
Don't you think so, Director?
Solve the mystery.
Mystery?
It hurts... It really hurts!
It's hot... Red...
I'm... So hot!
We're gonna die... We're all gonna die!
That's good!
I wonder why...
Why do I have to solve the mystery?
Nothing has even occurred...
If a war were to really break out, I don't think I'd make it out alive...
You're probably right...
Why?
'Cause I've never even imagined it...
If bombs really came falling from the sky,
I'd have no idea what to do.
That's true...
We haven't seen a war since before my grandfather's time.
There hasn't ever been a war.
No one loses the ones they love, or has their homes burned down.
There's no one thinking sorrowful thoughts.
That's why we're able to do things like make movies, right?
I'd really like to do that scene over after all.
Why?
I felt like I was losing to Sayo!
I can do better!
Ah, Director! I wanted to ask-
Yuuki Shinjuurou! What are you slacking off for?
Directer, would we be able to do another take?
Do you even get it? I'm the director!
Don't go causing me trouble!
Director, I want to do all I can for them...
Don't talk to them.
Get it?
I'll kill you.
Good work today!
Where... am I?
That's right, I had something to ask the director.
There's some mystery within this movie...
Something is strange about it...
You get it, don't you?! You're a beautiful butterfly!
I don't know...
Wait!
You can't!
Don't tell anyone! Please, don't!
Let go of me!
Please, just listen to me!
Tomorrow, right here. You must come.
What are you doing, Yuuki?
Get back to your room.
What were you doing, Director?
None of your business!
The camera work in this movie has been entrusted to me.
For many days now, I've been recording a film that targets high-brow audiences,
where modern Japan is pulled into war.
Which of the actresses was there with the director?
There's a mystery within this scene.
The mystery will be solved.
The truth must be exposed.
There wasn't a war.
JJ... Systems...
Mamori... Kaze?
Shinjuurou-sama!
Director!
What?
About last night...
Mitaka-san? Rosenberg and Schaffner are this way.
The Works of Director Frank Darabont
Is this a mystery as well?
They're kinda out of sync...
Is the director okay with this?
It's so hot!
Ah! I found some shade!
Yuuki Shinjuurou... are you looking at women again?
Yeah... you're referring to the actresses?
Tanimura and Yada are over there, right?
Izawa, too?
Yes.
What's wrong?
Yuuki-san!
I had something I wanted to ask the director about the script, but...
The last part of the script isn't written, so we asked him,
"Will we all go somewhere?"
And he responded, saying, "You won't be going anywhere; you're all sinners!"
Do you think so too, Shinjuurou-kun?
We have no idea who we are or where we're from...
...to end without any place to go is just too...
There was this line...
Is not war but a toy?
I'm not the only one who thinks this;
You... You too, have been treating war as a toy.
We should have tried to get more out of the war.
We should have clung to the war until we were battered and bruised...
...sucked it dry... entwined ourselves with it...
Those are the lines we say when we hear that the war has ended.
So, what about them?
All three of us have a different interpretation of their meaning.
Um, I think that if the war were over,
we should be happy that our lives will be returning to normal.
That's why it bothered me and I wanted to ask the director the meaning of it.
But that's not it!
There's no meaning in living a normal life.
With the war, and us running around like crazy,
aren't we supposed to have finally learned what it means to be alive?
Our existence becomes close to that of a beasts,
knowing only life and survival...
...but meeting that special person and being able to...
Love one another.
That!
I feel like I understand, or... What should I say...
I guess I'd like to try living at that fine line,
and I feel like constantly living an ordinary life is something terrible...
I suppose I'm a bit different.
I feel as if we're all being judged by the war.
Being judged?
Good people and bad people all die the same way, don't they?
For us to be sinners... I wonder if that's the meaning?
You're all overthinking it!
This is a movie!
What are you saying, Shinjuurou-kun?!
If that's the case, why make a movie like this?
For what purpose are we all fleeing amidst some imaginary war?!
So that we can learn just how precious our uninspirational,
boring, ordinary lives truly are.
That's not it!
Everyone's actually hoping...
...that, even if it's not a war, something grand will happen and help change them...
...that they'll be able to find something precious!
But, if someone loses their home or family to a volcanic eruption, or fire,
don't they naturally wish to have their ordinary lives back?
But there are also people who simply enjoy observing eruptions and fires.
Even knowing that it brings sorrow,
we wish for things that destroy our world, ourselves...
I'm wondering if that's why we must be judged for it...
I see.
The mystery that is a movie.
Shinjuurou-san?
Are you listening?
Hey, which of us do you think is right?
If you'd like, I can ask the director about the last part, then try writing it out.
We may find an answer that way.
Really?!
Yeah.
C'mon, lunch break is almost over!
Okay!
But this line used to be...
Thank you!
That's what I told you!
Even if that girl was one of the three of them,
they're all living earnestly.
They're betting everything on this movie.
Director! What is the meaning of this?!
Are you trying to ruin everything?!
Huh?
What the hell is in your hand?
What... is this?
Hey! What happened?
The director is...
It's as if he was hit by a train...
But that train is just part of the set. It's made of papier-mâché.
It can't even move.
Apparently, no one saw Mitaka-san after mealtime.
So... The last person to have met with him was... me?
But why did they have to kill him?
There's only one person with a motive.
Someone angry at Director Mitaka...
Someone who thought he was going to ruin the movie,
along with the efforts of these girls... Me.
Yuuki-san?
It's possible that I...
What kinds of things have you been dreaming up?
The story's all make-believe anyway!
It's a lie!
That's not true!
Yuuki-san, that's enough already! C'mon!
It won't stop!
Someone's telling me to solve the mystery!
If I assemble all the clues and make a deduction,
the criminal is...
...there's no one but me.
That's what we call a confession, isn't it?
Kaishou Rie
Metropolitan Police Detective?
Kaishou Rie
Metropolitan Police Detective?
Have I met you somewhere?
I'm Kaishou, of the Metropolitan Police Dept.
I'm arresting you on suspicion of murdering Director Mitaka Kichitarou!
awai asa moya ni sasayaku inori
淡い朝もやに ささやく祈り
Wandering hazily on a pale morning, hearing a whispered prayer,
yuganda keshiki wo kimi to nazotteyuku
歪んだ景色を 君となぞってゆく
You and I trace a twisted scenery.
hontou wo motome uso demo ii kara nante ne
“本当”を求め、「“嘘”でもいいから」なんてね
We're seeking the (truth), "We don't even care if it's a lie";
misukashiau you ni
見透かしあう様に
As if we can see right through it,
tadotteku
たどってく
We follow it along.
looking for, kotoba koete
Looking for 言葉越えて
Looking for, going beyond words,
ochiteiku hane no you ni
おちていく 羽のように
Like a falling feather.
looking for, mitsukete
Looking for ミツケテ
Looking for, find it,
koko de yorisou you ni
ここで よりそうように
So we can come closer together.
looking for, tokihodoite
Looking for 解きほどいて
Looking for, unravel it,
chigire kumo no you ni
ちぎれる 雲のように
Tear it apart, like a cloud.
looking for, mitsukete
Looking for ミツケテ
Looking for, find it,
koko de yorisou you ni
ここで よりそうように
So we can come closer together.
C'mon already! Let me see Shinjuurou!
Hey!
Inga
Assistant Detective
Inga
Assistant Detective
What should we do, Kazamori?
I can smell her scent close-by...
Hayami Seigen
National Police Agency Director of the Security Bureau
Hayami Seigen
National Police Agency Director of the Security Bureau
Hey, that's all the screen time I get?!
What's the idea?!
Do you know what'll happen if you make me angry?!
Look, part of the next episode was inspired by "The Election Murder",
and if you read the story first, it gives you all kinds of spoilers!
Should I spill? Should I talk? Should I give the game away here?!
Okay, actually...
Ah, K-Kazamori!
Stop! O-Okay! I won't do it!
Preview of Next Episode
Episode 8
「The King of Paradise」
Inspired by Sakaguchi Ango's 「Meiji-era Ango Detective Stories "The Foolish Apparition" and "The Election Murder"」
Next time on UN-GO: "The King of Paradise".
S-Stop it, Kazamori!!