Episode 2, part 3:
KY: He’s kinda tall!
YK: It’s Nezumi! Not everyone recognized Nezumi--
KY: I’m really cool for recognizing him right off the bat!
YK: There are some who may not have instantly recognized him.
KY: Right. Wow!
YK: My…
KY: The first time I saw Nezumi in this scene in the anime, I thought he was stylish.
YH: How so?
KY: Well, he’s wearing that cool jacket, you know?
YH: Yeah. When he was a kid…
KY: Yeah! He was in a baggy shirt.
YH: Yep. Right, right. It was all baggy. Same as in the opening.
KY: When he first entered the scene I thought he looked like one of those stylish guys from Harajuku.
YK: Harajuku?! From Harajuku?! Seriously, Harajuku? [Nezumi and Sion are both in the car now] They’ve been reunited.
KY: It’s like, cool how the two ends of his scarf flutter behind him when he runs.
YK: Yeah… Now that I look closely, Rat is really white.
YH: He sure is, despite having lived in a harsh environment.
YK: Right, right. Normally you think he’d be dark with a tan.
KY: I figured it out! This superfiber cloth can also block UV rays.
[“Superfiber cloth?”]
YH: He just said it! Your timing was impeccable!
YK: It’s the superfiber cloth!
KY: Superfiber cloth!
YK: It’s hard to tell what “chosei cloth” means just by listening.
YH: Yeah, it is. I couldn’t tell.
YK: “Cho!” “Cho” means “super!”
KY” “Cho!” Super!
YH: So it’s superfiber cloth!
KY: Superfiber cloth!
YK: And that’s what it means, everyone.
KY: It’s superfiber cloth.
YK: Please go back and read the novels anew.
KY: Okay!
YK: Thus Nezumi has saved him.
KY: Right.
YK: Now they’re going to make a run for it.
KY: They’re fleeing!
YK: Yasukiyo, please share some behind-the-scenes info for this spot.
KY: Okay! During the escape scene after Nezumi rescues Sion,
YK: Uh-huh.
KY: there’s a spot where they race down a hill.
YK: That’s going on right now!
KY: Right, they’re descending the hill. He takes his ID and “Ugh!”
YK: What?
KY: “Get rid of it!”
YK: What’s his problem? Well, he has people waiting for him.
KY: Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! [in time with the flashbacks]
YH: Right, right. And he… throws it away!
KY: He throws it! Mom!
YK: He tossed it.
YH: Yeah.
KY: He tossed his ID bracelet. And then squeak! Squeak, squeak, squeak! That rat picks up his ID and runs off. Believe it or not, but up until this point,
YK: Uh-huh.
KY: Fullmetal Alchemist’s Director Yasuhiro Irie drew the key animation for this scene.
YK: They used a big shot!
YH: Wow!
KY: Supposedly he drew that scene.
YH: He drew that…
YK: The action in that scene was great.
KY: Right.
YH: It had a lot of emotion.
KY: Really, he made Nezumi’s movements so smooth!
YK: And now…
KY: It was like, “shwoosh, shwoosh!”
YK: Sion’s calmed down.
YH: Sion’s all calm and collected.
KY: Right.
YH: He feels safe, huh?
KY: Sion doesn’t act distraught, does he?
YK: Nezumi has the guts to say he’s taller, but Sion retorts right back at him.
KY: You’re right! Nezumi is really white!
YK: He’s so white he’s pale!
KY: He’s white! He’s pale!
YK: He’s the same color as me.
YH: He’s the exact same color as you, Kaji!
YK: Yeah. I may have been raised in the West District.
YH: Kaji, you’re white!
KY: Really?
YH: That’d make sense.
YK: Just maybe…
KY: Well, Sion’s brown hair is going to… you know?
YK: Yeah.
KY: His brown hair…
YK: Yeah!
YH: Let’s enjoy it for now! We’ve got to burn it to memory!
KY: Let’s burn it to memory!
YK: Yeah, it’s only around until the middle of episode 3.
KY: Right.
YK: Then we don’t get to see it anymore.
YH: At this point, Sion takes jokes seriously.
YK: Right.
YH: He’s pretty serious.
KY: He seems so naïve, doesn’t he?
YK: It’s like he only evaluates things based on his own values, you know?
KY: He has innocent eyes.
YK: But over time he starts to develop a better understanding of things.
KY: It’s like he’s still--
YK: He surpasses Nezumi’s expectations.
KY: Right.
YK: Or so it seems.
KY: He grows and matures, but now he’s still naïve.
YK: Yep. I believe that now. I originally thought that he was a resilient kid with a strong backbone. But looking back now that we’re done with the recording, he doesn’t seem to have broken free from his soft environment.
KY: He’s still very innocent at this point.
YK: Isn’t he? Even his expressions will change.
KY: Yeah, they will!
YH: Yeah, uh-huh!
YK: I can’t believe Nezumi right there! [when Nezumi speeds up the car to crash through the gate]
KY: 100 km/s! They hit 100 km/s!
YH: Freaky! That’s scary if you think about it.
YK: Yeah!
KY: It’s more--
YH: This is scarier than a roller coaster!
KY: Scary!
YK: Just yesterday he basically went on a date with Safu.
KY: Yeah!
YK: He probably never dreamed…
YH: …of this!
YK: that he’d be in a situation where they’d lose the roof of a car!
KY: Yeah. This was his very first roller coaster experience.
YK: Yeah! So, do you think No. 6 has something like an amusement park?
YH: What do you think?
KY: An amusement park?
YK: Village district!
KY: Village district?
YK: It seems like they’d have one.
YH: Doesn’t it?
KY: I wonder…
YK: But I don’t know if they actually have one…
KY: Even if they did, there would be a bunch of pickpockets.
YH: Check out Nezumi! [Nezumi’s puts on goggles]
YK: Nezumi in goggles!
YH: He’s kinda… he’s kinda weird, isn’t he?
YK: He is, isn’t he?
KY: I feel like they’re about to do synchronized swimming.
YH: That floor looks real.
YK: Nezumi’s super cute when he jumps. [into the sewer]
KY: Super cute! Boing! He extended both his legs!
YK: Wow! This is something else!
KY: Isn’t it?! Sion…
YK: I’d love it if Sion took off his coat.
YH: Yeah, yeah! I remember you mentioning that before!
KY: Good point!
YK: I bet it’s stinky and heavy.
KY: It’s got to be heavy!
YK: Even just carrying it would be a pain. He’s soaking wet.
KY: He’s so soaked.
YK: But so is Nezumi.
[shot of spots forming on Sion’s neck]
All: No!
YH: What is that?!
KY: No!
YH: What was that?!
YK: I hope it’s just an itchy rash.
KY: I know! [Nezumi opened the manhole cover] I love how Nezumi peeks out.
YH: I love this sky. I love it!
YK: I love this sky.
KY: This sky?
YK: This is the first time Sion’s been in the West District.
KY: Right.
YH: He made it.
KY: Yeah! Once he comes to the West District, the world takes on a yellow hue. There’s a blue hue inside of No. 6. It gives the image of a clear blue.
YK: It’s blue.
YH: It does.
YK: It doesn’t have sand, dirt, or dust.
KY: The world becomes colorful when they enter the West District. Yeah…
YH: It looks kinda like a painting.
YK: We get to see a lot of different shots of the city.
KY: Right.
YH: This song matches it perfectly.
YK: It’s scary!
YH: It has this hideous feeling to it.
KY: Right. It feels like No. 6’s music could swallow you up.
[shot scans across the landscape]
YK: Most impressive.
KY: Amazing.
YH: And here at the end, Nezumi says his big line.
KY: Check out that wall. Right.
[“Welcome to the real world.”]
YH: This is the real world!
YK: Right. Everything until now was all an illusion.
KY: It was all an illusion! It was all an illusion!
YH: We don’t monitor all of your actions!
KY: It was all a dream.
YK: Well, that’s episode 2.
KY: Right.
YK: We’ve just watched through it.
KY: We just watched through the episode.
YK: Yasukiyo, what did you think?
YH: How was it?
KY: Well, episode 2 took some crazy turns. Actually, we casually chatted right through some big scenes, didn’t we?
YH: The show kept on going while we were busy talking about the noitaminA shop!
KY: We skipped right over stuff! It feels like we plowed right on through. Yeah…
YK: Well, in the episode, after the closing credits, there is an illustration of one of the scenes.
KY: Right, there’s a final illustration.
YK: I believe we get to see one of toi8’s illustrations and hear a line. Every week, Takeeda of Fuji TV carefully selected a major line to use.
KY: A major line?
YK: During their discussions about what picture to use, they also discussed which lines to use. Careful consideration went into selecting which line to use in each and every episode.
KY: Okay.
YK: The lines are pulled from the next episode. Since they don’t have an animated preview,
KY: Right.
YK: they needed it to represent the episode.
KY: Right.
YK: That’s what they were going for.
KY: So they didn’t randomly pick out those lines!
YK: That’s right!
YH: Exactly!
KY: It was all thought out!
YK: It’s amazing.
YH: They had strong resolve!
KY: Yeah!
YH: You can really tell.
YK: If they asked for a simple sketch, they’d get something super high quality.
KY: It’d be super high quality! Seriously, this is all such high quality.
YK: Well, it originally didn’t have preview. The previews that were put on the official site have been added in.
KY: Right. The DVDs come with previews!
YK: Right. That’s right.
KY: I was really hoping they would put in some interesting previews.
YK: Yeah!
YH: Yeah!
KY: Are there any?
YK: Does it come with some?
KY: Maybe it’ll come on after this.
YK: It’s in the special menu!
KY: You can check it out in the special menu!
[shot of the mice]
KY: Yay!
YH: Cute!
YK: Rats! Their physiques vary a little.
KY: That picture of those three rats is my desktop background!
YK: Really?
KY: Yep.
YK: Well, that’s a wrap.
KY: Yep.
YH: Yeah.
KY: See you in episode 3!
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