"[Caution] turn on the light in your room and sit up straight." "Be careful not to become an adult like this." "That's all." "[The mysterious space creature "Elizabeth": born September 7. 180 cm. 123 kg.]" "[1st Annual Weird Cosmic Pet Grand Prix Hosted by well-known Tamosan.]" "What time is it?" "It should be soon." "He's late." "That darn Sakamoto better not stand us up..." "Katsura!" "There!" "Looks like he's here." "Sakamoto's not here?" "He's wandering off like always." "He's one troublesome boss." "I see." "why did you call us out to a place like this?" "It's about this." "Katsura." "To me?" "Th-This is..." "["Pets Resemble Their Owners"]" "You can't do this." "You can't do your business here." "Your doo-doo is bigger than the size of furniture!" "Dammit!" "This is why I hate walking you!" "And after she said "I promise to take care of him!" "it's always the mom who winds up taking care of the dog!" "What?" "Am I the mom now?" "Hmph." "You can't even train a pet?" "Sad." "how do you intend to move an entire nation?" "And you call yourself a samurai?" "that...thing!" "Gross!" "It's not gross." "It's Elizabeth." "but paired with you...it's gross." "I guess that means you're gross." "That idiot Sakamoto dropped by my place the other day and left it behind." "He probably picked it up on some foreign planet." "Seems he's totally caught up with space travel." "Aren't you the guy who hates aliens?" "How could I hate an innocent creature like this?" "And besides... don't you think?" "Elizabeth." "Shall we take our walk on the riverbank?" "Zura..." "What the heck are you..." "Hey!" "What the?" "!" "Stop that!" "It's humongous!" "And stinks!" "I told you to stop!" "Good grief." "Katsura did that...?" "He sure has his weird side." "guess he's sort of mellowed." "too?" "We don't need a roommate who doesn't contribute." "The only things he contributes is feces and pain!" "nope nope." "yep." "I'm sorry." "and urine!" "let him go." "It's not okay." "He didn't add anything positive to that list!" "pets are just supposed to provide stress relief." "You shouldn't expect any other compensation from them." "We're looking for unusual pets for our show." "Huh?" "[1st champion:" "Susumu] [2nd champion:" "Hiroyuki] many different animals have arrived with the Amanto." "[3rd champion:" "Satoru]" "Is there a strange pet living in your neighborhood?" "We'll be crowning the strangest and cutest pet in Japan on our show!" "The winner will receive a fabulous prize..." "Stress relief...or fabulous prizes...which would you rather have?" "One week?" "!" "For sure." "so don't worry." "I feel like an oil tycoon!" "I can have all the pickled seaweed I want!" "you've got small ambitions..." "You sure seem confident." "Do you have something in mind?" "I do." "Unusual for him!" "Sort of..." "I'm getting the feeling it's something fishy..." "Otose!" "You mustn't trust what these guys say!" "It's all just talk!" "All B.S.!" "why're you back here looking as though nothing happened?" "you're in jail right now!" "Catherine was just recently released." "so she came back here." "old lady... hiring this thief who ran off with your shop's money..." "Are you trying to reform her or something?" "Nothing like that." "I just needed the help." "that's fine with me." "you cat-eared alien!" "you girly alien!" "you alien hag!" "I'll stuff a live fish into your mailbox one day!" "you alien glutton!" "Good one." "you've all had the chance to meet Catherine... don't you?" "shall we go to the park today?" "let's go." "bring it!" "Whenever you're ready!" "do your best." "go!" "Sadaharu!" "Sadaharu!" "Your paw!" "Sadaharu!" "Now the other one!" "Sadaharu!" "Sit!" "we can do this!" "He's gotten much better!" "could you tell him to be a bit more gentle?" "we're risking our lives for every basic trick." "What're you doing?" "Zura... it's Katsura." "I want to know what you're doing." "Can't you see?" "We're teaching Sadaharu tricks." "is that so?" "Which means you took my advice and had a change of heart?" "Don't be an idiot!" "Who'd have a change of heart just because of what you said?" "!" "Sadaharu's going to be on TV." "TV?" "That's why we're doing special training." "right?" "next is sitting up!" "Sadaharu!" "...TV." "[1st Annual Weird Cosmic Pet Grand Prix]" "No pet contestant is too strange!" "the more original." "1st Annual Weird Cosmic Pet Grand Prix!" "I'm Ho-ome!" "Welcome back." "Otose?" "Not good." "They ran off again." "They run away every time I go to collect the rent." "I'll beat the living daylights outta 'em." "Nothing you say is going to work with people like that." "One rotten apple spoils the batch." "The best thing is to chase them out before they ruin everything." "Isn't that talking too big for someone who was just released from jail?" "That was that." "This is this." "You sure have nerve." "Otose!" "Otose!" "Look at that!" "Quiet!" "Do you want to get thrown back into the slammer?" "!" "Do you?" "!" "Look." "Look at the TV!" "the Sakata family." "Sakata family?" "!" "What the hell are those morons up to now?" "!" "Their way of paying the rent...this is what they were talking about." "The team that gets past the preliminary round will earn the right to face our previous champion..." "Miss Garter Belt!" "Good luck!" "Bring it on!" "I can't believe we're actually doing this." "We're playing to win." "So psych yourself up!" "is that Sadaharu clamped onto Sakata?" "Are you all right?" "I'm fine." "Sadaharu is a bright pup." "This is his playful bite." "But you're bleeding... the judges are getting worried." "Stop the bleeding!" "Stop it!" "Kagura!" "Kagura." "Right." "Sadaharu!" "Stop!" "No snacks for you tonight!" "too?" "!" "Come on!" "Pull yourselves together." "We can't get to the finals like this!" "That so?" "The judges can't take their eyes off of me." "Of course they can't take their eyes off of you." "Look in the mirror!" "You're both stiff." "Use the entire stage!" "Move your bodies more!" "You're the one who looks like a robot!" "It would seem the owners are more unusual than their pet." "Let's cut to commercial." "All right!" "Let's welcome our next team." "Our next unusual pet is..." "Space Captain Katsura!" "What's he up to?" "A wanted man is disguising himself to get on TV." "He seems to really love his pet." "but he's also in love with that costume." "what exactly is a Space Captain?" "A captain in space." "You'll be facing Sadaharu over there." "The winner advances to the finals." "How confident are you?" "That's nothing but a huge dog." "My dog Taro back home is about that size." "Zura?" "!" "Stuff like that monster penguin of yours comes out of the faucet when I turn on the spigot at home!" "Too obvious!" "Stop making up such transparent lies!" "It's time to appeal to our judges!" "Come on and give it up." "It's time for the first round." "Show our judges your pet's most attractive features!" "our judges assign scores according to their own arbitrary judgment." "let's begin with the Sakata family." "This is your time to shine." "Go!" "Okay!" "Let's show them the results of your special training!" "Damn right you will." "We can't let this past week of bloody effort go to waste." "though." "Gin?" "Shinpachi?" "Sadaharu?" "This will work." "Trust in yourself." "son." "Who are you talking to?" "Sadaharu!" "Go!" "Sadaharu!" "Your paw!" "Now the other one!" "The final trick!" "Sit!" "Okay!" "Perfect!" "Hmph." "It's no different than the last time!" "As if force and blood are all it takes to call something a trick." "My Elizabeth doesn't do such lowly tricks." "it's Elizabeth's time to appeal to our judges." "Go ahead!" "Watch this!" "Paper and brushes?" "!" "What is she going to do?" "!" "Yes..." "Elizabeth!" "Oh!" "Elizabeth's drawing like crazy all of a sudden!" "Wh-What's that...?" "It's a wonderful painting!" "It's as though a human painted it!" "what kind of way is that to describe it?" "!" "That's being rude to Elizabeth." "Uh..." "Forgive me." "Hmph." "I could paint better than that!" "that's not the point." "It's all right." "We win on impact." "Don't worry." "We only won on quantity of blood." "This is fine work..." "I think this will achieve quite a high score." "let's see your scores." "My!" "We've got quite a point spread from the very start!" "Will it be possible to turn the tables?" "!" "That's what I'd like to know." "Hmph." "The match is over." "We'll now move on to round two." "I will toss this fried chicken bone." "The first pet that fetches this bone back to its master will be the winner." "000 points." "Put your heart and soul into this challenge!" "announcer." "Then what was the purpose of the first round?" "we needed to build the excitement..." "You don't need to do that!" "Change the rules right now!" "Hey Zura." "Don't argue with the producers!" "go on home!" "What?" "!" "now." "this will determine the winner." "good luck." "Why don't we just skip the boring contest and duke it out like men?" "I was hoping you'd say that!" "damn you!" "after all!" "Kagura?" "say something funny.]" "Why don't you go home?" "here we go!" "Ready..." "Get set..." "Go!" "What do we have here?" "!" "Idiot!" "The other way!" "and is chasing after his owner!" "I'm telling you!" "Uh-oh!" "Sakata charged into the judges' table!" "Stop that!" "Don't destroy the set!" "As for Elizabeth..." "What speed!" "but she's running at awesome speed!" "Huh?" "Are my eyes playing tricks on me?" "!" "I saw what looked like an old man's leg." "old man!" "Enough with your false accusations!" "Elizabeth trained hard just for today." "Don't call her an old man or things like that!" "Uh..." "Sorry." "Gin!" "run away toward the bone!" "Kagura!" "Call Sadaharu back!" "[I'm feeling a bit hungry.]" "Who're you talking to...?" "you stupid dog!" "Look out!" "Out of the way!" "I'm not moving." "As Annual Weird Cosmic Pet Grand Prix champion and its owner..." "I can't run from here!" "I'll take you on!" "Miss Garter Belt!" "Execute Plan C!" "Oh!" "Our champion is defeated so easily!" "How will we hold our finals?" "Sadaharu bites Sakata!" "anyway?" "!" "Gin!" "What'll we do?" "We're about to lose!" "move!" "look." "Want this?" "you damn brat!" "Go!" "Go?" "!" "It appears Sakata is using himself as bait to lure Sadaharu!" "Sadaharu is charging like a rhino!" "But Elizabeth has nearly reached the bone." "No fabulous prize for you." "Let go of Elizabeth!" "The fabulous prize belongs to me and Elizabeth." "don't you? I'll snap your master's neck." "What are you gonna do?" "He's not gonna do anything!" "He doesn't understand you!" "You bastards!" "You changed the format of the contest!" "we can't broadcast this!" "Who cares about your broadcast!" "the hell with it." "I'm pooped." "I'm going home." "Can you just get off me?" "What's going on?" "!" "That can't be." "Elizabe..." "[One moment please]" "What the hell was that?" "!" "What happened to Elizabeth?" "!" "Hey!" "Elizabeth!" "12)}[Preview] I lost everything." "The next episode:" "Scary!" "All I have now are my sunglasses." "unemployed." "Formerly a ranking Shogunate official.]" "he can't throw away his shades.]" "[What are you jerks looking at?" "]"