Mobile Era 8013...
This anime is made for the viewer to enjoy the cuteness of robots, while enjoying a hardly noticeable, inoffensive investigation.
On Earth, where humans have long been extinct,
the hordes of military robots that were left behind
continue fighting an endless war.
The war really isn't ending...
We really need to find this laughter thing soon.
Let us... finally obtain... laughter today.
I wonder if there's some good way...
I was sorting through my library again,
and found another new document on laughter.
What was it this time?
Apparently the organic life forms called humans,
that once inhabited this planet, used a technique
called "one-liners" as a method to cause laughter.
What is this one-liner?
A one-liner is a phrase or action that
One-Liner (Noun) A form of comedy that gets laughs from an instantaneous phrase or movement.
which lasts a short time, from a few seconds to about ten seconds,
that tries to get an instant explosion of laughter.
The war will end... instantly.
Something like that existed?
So, humans were all able to do one-liners?
Apparently it's not that easy.
On an island country in the east,
apparently there was a custom where people of all ages
would give an award to the best one-liner.
I see.
She's probably talking about a Buzzword Contest
Let's try... one-liners.
Let's look for interesting one-liners in the database.
Wow, there are so many!
Indeed.
Fujii, give it a try.
Once again, a sudden tall order.
U-Um... How about this?
Glasses, glasses.
This is how things are going yet again.
How was that? Did that bring forth laughter?
What was that exactly?
I'm at a loss... for words.
The file said that it was a famous one-liner from that island country.
I couldn't get it at all.
I'll go ahead and try a different one.
Okay.
Comăneci!
Dot... dot... dot...
How was that?
Apparently this was rather famous, as well.
Um... what does "Comăneci" mean?
Her full name was Nadia Elena Comăneci.
Evidently she was a gymnast for a country called Romania.
Oh, I see.
And so I did my best to cheer her on
when I said it, but maybe it was hard to understand?
I-I don't think it was too bad.
Attempting to cheer someone on in a one-liner...
Something rather troublesome has again been produced.
Next, give it a try, Mori.
Kururinpa.
Huh?
W-Well prepared as usual, I see...
A mascot... that adds charm to the ballpark.
I see.
Considering she not only put on the the hat, but the head itself,
she may have exceeded the original.
Did it... produce laughter?
Well, I think you're rather close.
I wonder what we're lacking.
I think for it to be a complete one-liner, you have
to combine the phrase with the correct action.
I see. In that case, we're lacking information
to know how to correctly do it.
Glasses! My glasses!
Fujii, are you all right?
Yes. Sorry about that.
Apparently sometimes the correct answer is closer than you'd think.
Short phrases... actions... hard to imagine.
You're right. Maybe we should try doing a one-liner
that relies more on the action rather than the phrase itself.
Then how about this?
Apparently there was a legendary
human comedian who had a trillion gags.
Apparently this human frequently had longer than normal one-liners,
so we may be able to imagine the action
to go along with the joke better?
A member of a comedy duo whose name sounds
like a common Japanese name.
A brilliant idea. Let's look into this.
Apparently one of his most famous one-liners was
"I can't stand if you take out my spine,"
but I wonder what that means?
The spine... is like the main shaft... in a robot.
I see.
If you were to remove our main shaft, we wouldn't be able to stand.
That makes sense.
I'll give it a try.
Okay.
If you take out my main shaft, I can't stand anymore.
K-Kato, are you all right?!
Repair... Repair...
Pardon. Apparently my system was forcibly shut down.
How was that?
What do you mean? We were surprised and worried!
I'm glad... it didn't lead... to a huge malfunction...
That's odd. I wonder if I did something wrong?
Do you have anything else, Fujii??
Then um...
"Hey, hey, hey! I was super excited, then I was on my deathbed."
How was that?
I wonder if being super excited is like
having your CPU running at full capacity?
Deathbed... is like serious damage to robots...
I'll give it a try.
Hey, hey, hey! CPU at full capacity and then I was seriously damaged.
F-Fujii?!
Repair... Repair...
How was that? Did that produce any laughter?
I don't know if it successfully produced laughter,
but there's one thing that concerns me.
Concerns you?
Indeed. Since they talk about being on their deathbed,
wouldn't this have been this human's last one-liner?
Oh, you're right.
Once a human dies like that, you can't fix them.
Also, when you take out their spine,
it is probable that they were not able to participate in life after that.
Meaning this human has ended two lives.
Huh?! You're right!
I wonder what this means...
I have... one more... interesting one-liner.
Huh? What is it?
I'm going to try, "spin, spin, boom."
Spin, spin, spin, spin—
What?! Mori?!
Humans... shouldn't be able to live... through an explosion...
Indeed. It's a very frightening thing.
It appears that the humans that master one-liners
are able to obtain invincible bodies.
L-Laughter is amazing.
The robots' investigation has just begun.
To be continued in the second half.
Experiment! Experiment!
I have something I want to try out. Is that okay?
Did you find an interesting document?
I found something called "dizzy bat" in a file.
When playing a game that requires body movement,
apparently if you you first spun in circles with your head planted against a bat,
it produced laughter.
That's very interesting.
Dizzy bat! Let's try it!
Yes.
Subaru!
Experiment start.
Spinning Bat
I think this somehow created more casualties again...
It seems so.
Experiment failed!
To know laughter, we must understand humans.
Right.
Then...
What's this?
Um, apparently this is a place called a "classroom."
It's hard to tell what everything was used for.
Then let us all explore every inch of the database
and figure out what everything is used for.
Yes, let's try it.
Who wants to go first?
I'll go first.
Okay, right, left.
Yeah, one, two.
So, do you get it? Do you get it?
Not at all.
What?!
But...
Not at all.
You're kidding! Come on, look. One, two.
See, "one, two," was in some old sport like...
Um, one, two, one, two.
Come on, do you get it? One, two.
Boxing...
Dancing?
No, not dancing. There used to be some sport called boxing,
and they'd hit each other.
So you go one, two...
So you're not hitting that thing that looks
like a drum on your chest?
What? No. Not at all. Not at all.
That's not it.
The opponent... the opponent hits and you stop the blow, one, two.
Stop the blow, one, two.
Is what it is.
Let's go to the next one!
I shall take over.
We leave it to you.
What? It fits you, too?
There are too many possible candidates for Cinderella.
Do you get it?
Not at all.
Sort of...
I get that... it's about an old fairy tale... called Cinderella...
that I read in a file a long time ago...
Oh.
Indeed.
So the prince would choose a girl
depending on if the shoe fit.
But apparently this shoe fit a lot of people.
So does that mean the prince was okay with anybody?
That's pretty low, Prince...
So the prince decided with their feet.
So the prince was okay with anybody as long as the shoe fit?
Does he have a foot fetish?
Mori is going now.
Bow down and liick!
So, it's not just lick, but "liick."
Liick.
What? What is that?
This is from an old file that I read...
Yes?
Um...
Something about an "S" and an "M."
Yes.
I did this, thinking you'd like it since you're a masochist.
F-Fujii is?
Fujii.
W-W-Well, but...
I've seen something like th-that...
Wait a second.
So you just had to put on the sailor outfit?
That's because today's setting is a classroom!
Oh, right.
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