"Right, then!" "where I picked up an abandoned kitten." "Using chopsticks will make school lunch fun!" "And using chopsticks also prevents senility in old men and women as well." "Right?" "Because, you see, chopsticks work the brain as well as the... hands..." "You stay here until it's safe..." "Uh, right!" "Chowtime!" "Die for the sake of our love!" "And to think that we used to have the ones with the split front, too..." "You do seem quite sharp, it's true." ""Split front?" What do you mean..." ""...we used to have the ones with the split front?" Hey, what's with these pigeons?" "I liked those split-fronts that we used to have, too..." "Huh?" "You also had a split front too, Ninamori?" "Split... front..." "with this thing in you." "Uh... right!" "Don't look at it!" "Ow!" "Ow, ow, ow!" "I pinched my finger!" "What?" "Is it for the teacher?" "What did he say?" "No brains." "He said he's going to go and get some split-fronts." "we're counting on you!" "Naota too, for heaven's sake?" "knock it out of the park!" "I wonder..." "You are so messed up." "Yeah, me too..." "Ever since the day of the big robot..." "Naota!" "...the smoke poured nonstop out of the Medical Mechanica factory." "Me, have personal feelings for him?" "The town was shrouded in white." "We couldn't see the sky or the stars." "It was enough to make one feel as if there were nothing at all beyond the town anymore that this was a town with no place to go..." "Aw, the signal is breaking up." "The gigantic hand was telling us that there was nothing we could do except stay where we were, forever." "It seemed to be the right hand of our jailer..." ""Spicy Hot Curry Bread Sold Here No More" My name is Haruhara Haruko." "I wonder if Haruko and Canti managed to get out into the outside world after they disappeared from our place..." "I... suppose it must be a hand..." "Yes, it is a hand..." "Do you suppose it will grab it?" "I think it... wants to grab it." "But it's so sudden, isn't it?" "or Kaji Hideki!" "I mean, it's looked like an iron all this time." "No, actually, it's been an iron all along." "anything, do you, Ta?" "Will it straighten out the wrinkles, do you suppose?" "What wrinkles?" "And how come it can take x-rays?" "The wrinkles in our brains, for instance?" "We've got a date to go get some, right?" "You mean, is Medical Mechanica attempting to increase the number of idiots on this planet?" "That's where it was built." "No, sir..." "It's Rahal who's really behaving stupidly, if anyone is. { } What's the connection here, huh?" "Well?" "She's always been that way." "It still seems rather indistinct." "If this is the Terminal Core, the part which controls the hand then that would explain why it isn't moving, wouldn't it?" "!" "That's right." "Forget the idiots this is our top priority!" "We've got to find it before the factory starts up!" "go with the character." ""FURl-KURA"" "Ta?" "cat's throat, it purrs, right?" "Ta!" "Where could he have gone?" "Hey, what's going on here?" "Tell us, already." "Huh?" "I challenge you to a duel for Haruko!" "Hey, isn't that your girlfriend?" "Naota!" "Are you just going to leave it like this?" "Boy, aren't you the energetic one..." "Still trying to force yourself to drink that bitter stuff, huh?" "The brain constantly demands fructose." "which makes all of this possible..." "If you want to get your mind back the way it was, you'd best drink sweet stuff instead." "Haven't you wised up yet?" "Every time something comes out of your head..." "you'll lose Haruko to me." "...you cause trouble for everybody." "What about you?" "Oh, and just so you know, I doubt that maid of yours is coming back." "The best thing for cats to do is to stick to other cats." "That high school girl sure looked lonely." "I'd have to say that the grown-up thing to do in this instance would be to be nice to her." "Do you know why Rahal made those moves on you?" "Oh, I forgot." "You didn't know that Rahal is the real name of that maid." "the mayor, for example..." "Well, what she wants is a man named Atomsk." "I only know him by reputation but Atomsk possesses power so fantastic that he can actually steal planets." "For this reason, he's known as the Pirate Lord." "Normally, he and she would be the worst of enemies but Atomsk has fallen into the clutches of Medical Mechanica." "You got anything?" "And Rahal has come to this planet in pursuit of him." "To rescue him, that is." "things will just get messier." "She's in love with him, you see." "And you saved him?" "Tasuku's phone number..." "the kind of look that will make..." "Hey, stop that!" "Stop that, I said!" "Oh, go ahead and eat it..." "But you have to do something for me in return." "From now on, you're going to be Ta." "the sickeningly sweet ones." "Nao!" "Dinner's ready!" "I wonder why." "You!" "They're really stupid." "What are you shouting for?" "Sit down and shut up "an old female acquaintance?"" "Yo." "Why you!" "How can you sit there in our living room as if nothing's happened..." "You brought the wrong equipment!" "...especially when you're a wanted fugitive!" "games in the evening..." "Oh, didn't I tell you?" "Haruko said she was going on vacation." "To Hawaii, she said." "without you adding to it." "Look at the Aloha shirts and spicy caviar she brought us!" "Wherever she went, it wasn't Hawaii!" "No way does a wanted fugitive just take a leisurely vacation!" "No, 80!" "You are so lame." "I'm gonna kill you." "You're going after the wrong person!" "Well, I'm on vacation in any case!" "I'm an Earthling, after all." "I'd just as soon be alone with my little Ta!" "Three loads, and that's it." "I'm not going anywhere with you!" "Look at this little baby blushing again!" "Stop squeezing me!" "My killer electroshock massage!" "I told you not to squeeze me there!" "I'm used to this kind of treatment." "Aw, what a lucky guy, getting squeezed like that!" "You were so cool." "Oh yes, getting his head rubbed like that getting his head rubbed like that, his eyes going round like that..." "But you're still in grade school." "...getting stroked just so, like that, getting rubbed, getting stroked getting stroked, stroked, stroked, stroked..." "Oh!" "Stop it!" "Stop it already!" "Enough!" "Back to the normal way of things back to regular anime..." "Anime?" "Does it shoot anything?" "Oh!" "I'm going crazy!" "Canti, go get me something to drink!" "Doing this in manga style takes time and trouble." "It's hard work." "It's too cold..." "AHHH!" "The camera operator has been begging us to stop it ever since the first episode." "And the viewers have been complaining that we're short-changing them, too." "Right?" "Don't give me that." "My head is still spinning." "Your head's spinning...?" "especially when I'm not wearing a helmet!" "From... stroking?" "What do you have to be afraid of?" "FuriKuri." "you who saved the town..." "Naota!" "Will you tell us once and for all, just what "FuriKuri" is?" "I don't know." "Why won't it stay up?" "There you go again." "You're the star!" "How can you not know?" "Tell us or we're going to get mad at you!" "talk going around, huh?" "Not you too, Grandpa!" "nothing for it, then..." "It doesn't matter what "FuriKuri" is, anyway!" "What?" "You operate it?" "Why do you keep hitting me?" "That's incredible!" "You're not making sense!" "Nothing fazes them, I swear." "Are you asleep?" "Who or what are you, exactly?" "And where do you really come from?" "Were you about to tell me you love me, by any chance?" "You..." "You're awake!" "You're blushing." "What have you been doing?" "!" "Why did you come back?" "Besides..." "To see you." "I realized that I just have to have your head." "Liar." "It's the truth." "Are you going away again?" "two are really involved?" "You want to come with me?" "brother's girlfriend, right?" "Would give all this up, and steal away with me?" "You're being awfully nice today." "You mustn't touch that with your bare hands!" "Because you're still a kid, that's why." "Where did you go?" "!" "Why did you just disappear like that?" "!" "Trapped in a town covered in smoke..." "He's an angel!" "...I'd begun to forget that there ever was a world outside." "My stomach hurts!" "I'd become used to a world where nothing out of the ordinary happens where everything that happens is just the same old, same old." "Is it?" "A world where I would just spend my days, inching ever closer to death." "Except that Haruko is here, and thus I won't forget that there is a world outside all of this." "bit interested in Haruko." "Ta!" "Ta?" "I brought you something to eat!" "Ta?" "OK, we're going up another 10 cm!" "It's bad." "This taste is meant for adults." "It is?" "doing stuff like operating Canti..." "You better believe it." "He hasn't been home lately either, it seems." "He's a runaway?" "Where were you?" "Maybe he went and eloped with that hot babe!" "You mean that bad girl, their housemaid, came back?" "I hear Miyajun's going to visit his house." "Got to be." "But there's no cure for something like this." "All he has to do is open his mouth and say what's in his heart." "I did it, and I was sobbing my heart out." "When?" "I'm sorry, Sir, but I lost him." "To my mother and father." "Your father...?" "flying all over the place..." "Your mother...?" "Is it water again?" "It's hopeless, Sir." "All we have here are the remains of its peripheral units." "So it's moving about under its own control." "You say you've seen the relevant data too?" "Yes, Sir." "Last week, at the Bureau." "Did you like the soda?" "Our own planet came this close to ending up the same way." "We don't dare make any mistakes in our dealings with Medical Mechanica." "these eyebrows, huh?" "But, Sir, what about that Pirate Lord?" "Surely he'll come to our aid." "Don't go pinning your hopes on that one." "He's not one of us, after all." "And there's no telling where Atomsk disappeared to, anyway." "put your agents up to?" "Eat as much as you like." "All high-school students carry them these days." "Are you growing furi-kuri horn?" "Before too long, I'll have to start giving you bigger things to eat, I guess." "Yuck!" "getting it on with Haruko..." "I told you not to buy something..." "you got to be like this you've never tried before just because it comes in big portions." "You're better off sticking with the brand you know." "Haruko arrived, I guess..." "Swap with me!" "If you keep doing things like this, you're going to get in real trouble someday." "When it happens, it happens." "And eating yucky ramen can also be an interesting experience." "out insurance policies." "I swear, this smoke is really getting to me." "You're always fighting against Medical Mechanica, right?" "Is it your job?" "It happened around here too the other day." "There's something I want really badly and they swiped it from me." "So I'm getting it back from them." "Can you do it?" "With your help, I can." "It was the TV!" "Bleah!" "This really is yucky!" "Swap with me!" "Forget it." "Damn!" "You're as self-centered as ever." "I've found you." "And now you will pay for splashing mud on me the other day." "Have at it." "OK, we're off to find another one." "Where did you go?" "I think we've done enough for one day." "bad person, by any chance?" "My friend says his sister's minibike got trashed last night." "Bye, Mom!" "You mean his sister, the punker?" "Must've dropped them somewhere." "I hear there's been a string of attacks from Second Street right up to here." "You're a casualty too." "And not only motorcycles, but bicycles and cars too." "We've got to hurry, or else someone will see us." "What was that?" "This has nothing to do with her." "Aww..." "Huh?" "That's the girl that Naota threw over." "like someone like that?" "What?" "What?" "Where'd she go?" "Was it something I said?" "It was six years ago." "Stop it!" "It's not on my revenge list!" "Why are you doing this, Ta?" "I thought you liked me too!" "It's wrong for you to be doing this!" "Oh no!" "My truck!" "Look at how much force..." "No, what I mean is, staying home from school is..." "Yes, of course, when I was the hamster monitor in Grade 6, Class 2..." "And you're responsible for it." "...I was absent from school with a cold..." "eyebrows like those." "...for two or three days, and when I went back, the hamster was dead." "I BET!" "There was such an uproar." "People were calling me a hamster killer." "And he's never once taken care of a hamster..." "We're talking about Naota now, am I right?" "Oh, he'll be fine, I tell you." "He'll grow up on his own, unlike a hamster." "What do you do on your days off, Kitsurubami?" "Um, I don't think this is the time for that..." "Oh, come on, we work together." "Don't be so cold." "Tell me." "This is problematic behavior." "but its remains are still here." "Any problems resulting from this are no big deal...!" "What's so great about that kid?" "Sir!" "It's huge!" "No, Ta!" "I don't want you to do this!" ""Ter...?" would do such a thing, right?" "That's the Terminal Core!" "This one's bigger than the one before!" "She's been raising it!" "Hey you!" "Save me, save me, save me, Tasuku!" "A crossing guard?" "What's it doing here?" "I'm the one who's going to save you, right?" "So it was a part of the Terminal Core all along!" "And then the hamster...!" "My car!" "Get off the way!" "name from now on!" "This is no time to be sleeping!" "I..." "I can't get loose!" "Let go of me!" "And now the climax!" "Back us up!" "Will..." "Will the factory go into action?" "No... it doesn't seem to be able to synchronize properly." "Why did you go and eat Ta?" "!" "There's still something missing." "Oh no!" "What's with the eyebrows?" "Why don't you have any eyebrows?" "I thought I told you not to trust that woman." "You're groping all over her!" "She doesn't think about anything but herself." "She doesn't care in the least about what happens to anyone or anything around her." "But you're not like that, are you?" "It's going to activate the plant!" "You want to save your family, your friends and that high-school girl too, am I right?" "Of course you do!" "It's only natural." "If you were a grown-up, you'd understand that!" "Come here!" "And don't let that woman manipulate you!" "real and what wasn't." "What's wrong with you" "How much trouble do you have to get in before you wise up?" "and do whatever I could for her." "You must really be an idiot!" "You brat!" "Ta..." "Help me get what I... want!" "Chowtime!" "This is terrible!" "Oh no!" "You..." "You..." "You idiot!" "I'm not going to be in that lousy play." "This is just what Medical Mechanica wants, don't you see?" "They raze whole planets throughout space for no reason at all!" "They've even captured the Pirate Lord and are using him for their own ends." "It's all over!" "Now entering final re-entry configuration." "We're done for!" "And it's no damn concern of mine..." "by the voting results." "...I tell you!" "All I want is Atomsk." "I couldn't care less what happens to this planet!" "I can't tell you about that!" "Wha..." "Wha..." "See what I mean?" "She's duped you so easily." "Why won't you believe me!" "Sir?" "Commander Amarao!" "You must abide by it." "Here it comes..." "Wha...?" "Oh no..." "That brat!" "He's gone over to the pirates?" "He's got the power of the Pirate Lord?" "!" "Ta... you can't have that power..." "It belongs to me!" "Don't try to keep me from what I want!" "Hey, this is the chancel've waited for the chance to get rid of all these outsiders!" "I show no mercy, not even to you, Ta!" "Nobody's going to eat that but me!" "That guitar!" "She's no different from Medical Mechanica!" "But don't think you're going to have everything your way!" "Teach her a lesson!" "I'm in love with you." "Atomsk!" "Is..." "Is that...?" "you'd get the lead role!" "Wha-What is this?" "What's going on?" "What's happening to me?" "N-O?" "!" "Is this the power?" "Well, thanks to you, Ta, I've lost the bastard again." "You want to come with me?" "No, it'd never work out." "You're still just a kid, after all." ""Good-bye, Naota."" "Mamimi left school, saying simply." "What do you think you're doing, drinking my drink?" "Ninamori?" "Shouldn't you be at morning practice?" "They did a hit-and-run on Miyaji!" "Naota you don't look right in a school uniform, you know that?" "Who asked you, anyway?" "Here you go." "I..." "I can't drink that bitter stuff!" "You really are just a little kid." "Wha..." "Wha..." "Wha..." "Oops, I'm gonna be late for practice." "Give me back my money!" "Hey, Naota, let me have it." "Nothing out of the ordinary ever happens." "It's all just the same old, same old." "Hey, TV Boy, you can open the store after you finish beating out the futons." "I cross the bridge every day, same as always, and the seasons change in their time." "Mamimi left town to become a professional photographer." "I don't know what became of her, though."