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Scientist Chen Hung Dao.
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Astronaut Christopher Bartholomew.
Astronaut Eirand Hammer.
Engineer Hubert Heim.
Engineer Leonov Norstein.
Assistant Navigator James Biko.
And next to him are EVA specialist Sally Silverstone...
...and fellow EVA specialist Hachirota Hoshino.
These 18 men and women are the Von Braun's handpicked crew.
These are the best of the best, culled from a pool...
...of some 20,000 applicants over a period of eight months.
With their selection, the crew of the Von Braun is now complete.
To have the honor of introducing crew members of their caliber to you today...
...as the first humans to challenge Jupiter fills me with joy that I can hardly contain.
The Jovian system development project that they will be undertaking...
...will spur humanity's development to new heights,
...and I am sure that tales of their great deeds will be handed down to future generations.
Hachimaki...
Hachimaki!
Stop spacing out! A reporter is asking you a question.
I'll repeat the question.
Do you have any worries at all over this long journey of seven years to Jupiter,
...a planet where no one has gone before?
Oh. Um...
Can we assume that it's because of your father that you decided to go to Jupiter?
Go? Go where?
Where am I going?
This guy's jokes aren't very funny, are they?
Our biggest worry on this project is that we'll have to listen to his jokes for seven years.
Soshite hito wa toki wo koeta yume wo miru, And people dream dreams that transcend time,
...seijyaku no umi ni idakarete. ...held in the arms of a still sea.
Tori ya kumo wo miagete wa... As they looked up at the birds and clouds,
...hakanai inochi moyashita... ...it set their ephemeral souls on fire...
...ikusen no asa ni. ...on a thousand mornings.
Hikari ga mukau basho e... I bet they're taking flight...
...habataku darou. ...to where the light is headed.
Negai wo hanatsu toki wa ima. Now is the time to launch your dreams.
Hatenaki yume wo noseta... Off into the frontier that is carrying...
...frontier e, ...boundless dreams,
...tooku tooku dive in the sky. ...farther and farther, dive in the sky.
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C'mon, Hachi, I wish you wouldn't say weird stuff like that.
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Gala occasions like that don't happen every day, you know?
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You've been acting funny ever since the attack.
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Are you sure you shouldn't go see the doctor?
I've passed all my medical checks.
It's not your body I'm worried about. It's, well...
Hey, our first vacation in ages is gonna start tomorrow.
Go have yourself a good time before you come back, you hear?
Yeah, try to have some fun!
Still, I can't believe how far the repairs have come here,
...even though it's only been six months since the Space Defense Front attack.
Looks like Galileo Development worked themselves to the bone...
...to have it ready before the crew's debut.
That President Dolf of theirs is a real piece of work.
Are you kidding me? Check it out, it's a bug!
Who brought them on board? We'd better contact the sanitation department.
Damn, and here I thought I could kiss bugs goodbye for a whole seven years...
What's up with the quarantine procedures around here?
Congratulations to Hometown Astronauts Goro and Hachirota Hoshino!
Mrs. Hoshino, congratulations!
Goodness...I'm used to seeing things like that for my husband, but not my son.
So, what're you gonna do on your vacation, Sally?
Me?
Hm...I'm gonna go back to Earth and have a picnic!
A picnic?
Yeah, on the bank of the Thames.
You'd never guess it from your face, but you've got a girlish side...
Leonov!
You're a celebrity now, so watch what you say and do.
Yeah, yeah...
Hey, Leo! Have you seen my son around?
If you're looking for Hachi, he came here on the flight before ours.
Geez, I should've known... Where'd that kid go?
Just a minute. They said to put those files in the folder on the server for now.
Aren't we going to transmit them to Technora?
President Dolf's orders. I don't know the details, but it's probably a security issue.
Even so, all these complicated procedures are getting out of hand.
I bet President Dolf is the only one who has access to all the information...
An O2 depletion alarm? From a spacesuit?
Aren't all the crew on vacation?
The signal's...coming from the lunar surface?
Rescue Command, this is Rescue 42.
We've found the subject.
Rescue Command, this is Rescue 42. We've found the subject.
This is Rescue Command.
Hoshino? You're Hachirota Hoshino, right? Can you hear me?
Yeah...
Pull yourself together!
What have you been doing out here for two days?!
Geez, if you hadn't been wearing one of the Von Braun's custom suits, you'd be dead.
Yeah, you're right...
Anyway, let me replenish your O2. Open up the cartridge on your back.
When we get back, I'm sending you in for a complete checkup, got it?
Get back? Back where? How?
Okay, Cheng-Shin.
You haven't carried passengers in a while, so make sure you're good and nervous.
Yes, sir. I understand.
Thank you for choosing to fly with us today.
We ask that our passengers follow the following rules while we are en route.
Mr. President! Where are the Hoshinos?
I sent them back to Earth.
Hachirota Hoshino is in need of R&R.
Then you could have sent the son by himself, couldn't you?
The father didn't need to go with him!
It was a request from the father.
Hachirota Hoshino wanted to continue with his training,
...but Goro Hoshino said that he would take him back to Earth personally.
Actually, Dr. Locksmith, there is another matter that I'd like to discuss with you.
What is it? You look awfully serious.
Oh, you'll have to forgive me, but it's an important matter...
Our flight has been delayed due to schedule adjustments.
Our departure will be one hour behind schedule.
Are you kidding me? Oh, man...
We've got an hour layover before our connecting flight...You hear?
And here we are, two celebrities who have to travel incognito...
You know?
Oh, hey, I know! I'll go buy us something to drink!
Hachi, what do you want? Some sake, right?
You're on! You better keep up with me!
That's okay, I'll...
That's right, Technora! Which way do I go to get to Technora?
To reach Technora, please use the elevator that's four blocks ahead...
...and take it to the business floor.
You can find their reception desk there.
Got it. Four blocks ahead, right?
That stupid kid...
Geez, Tanabe's still using this desk after all this time?
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Come to think of it, what did I write in my own will?
Well, I'll be! It's Hachi!
Hey, if you were coming, you should've let us know.
That was amazing, Hachi! I saw you on TV!
You've really made something of yourself!
Right! Wait here, I'll call Fee and the others!
Aren't they at the union meeting?
Right!
See, ever since we lost Claire and Tanabe, we've been awfully shorthanded around here.
She left?
You didn't know?
Oh, right! Um... Tanabe went home.
Back to Earth.
Ai went through a lot of things, and she ended up resigning from the company.
She quit.
W-Well, she's still young!
She can always start again from scratch.
Here are Tanabe's address and phone number.
She pretended that everything was okay, but she wanted to go see you, Hachi.
Go pay her a visit before you leave for Jupiter. Okay?
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182 centimeters?!
Let's see, that works out to an average of... um, 1.75cm a month!
You're growing like a weed, boy...
Show a little more consideration for the Earth when you're living down here!
Or more to the point, quit eating.
I'll take those pork cutlets off your hands.
You're not making any sense, old man. You should be happy that your son is growing.
You're growing too big, is my point.
Here you go, Hachi. You should eat up, too.
We won't be able to have these for the next seven years.
You don't have to let Kyu have 'em all.
Hachi quit growing a long time ago.
And while we're at it, don't act like hot stuff just 'cause you're going to Jupiter!
By the time you two get back from Jupiter, I'm gonna build a ship to go to Venus!
What're you spouting?
It was money that I earned that put those pork cutlets on your plate.
What's the matter, Hachi?
It was money that I earned that put those pork cutlets on your plate.
If you don't eat faster, they'll take them all.
Gee, really?
If you don't eat faster, they'll take them all.
Yeah, really.
If you don't eat faster, they'll take them all.
Yeah, really.
Who do you think you have to thank for growing so big, huh, boy?
That's okay.
Who do you think you have to thank for growing so big, huh, boy?
I'm done.
Their pitcher, Iketani, had a string of injuries last season.
Did something happen to Hachi?
Their pitcher, Iketani, had a string of injuries last season.
I dunno, maybe something did happen...
What do you think, Uchida? What's your opinion after seeing the season this far?
I dunno, maybe something did happen...
What do you think, Uchida? What's your opinion after seeing the season this far?
What's that mean?
What do you think, Uchida? What's your opinion after seeing the season this far?
I'm not really sure.
At first, I thought he had that bug that sailors always catch that's like the measles,
...so I let him be, but...
Will he be all right?
I'd thought he might snap out of it if he had some of your pork cutlets, but, well...
It sounds serious.
Yeah, I wonder what happened to him?
Oops. I accidentally left the office with it...
It's just gonna have a bunch of stuff about "love" in it, anyway...
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I-I'm Ai Tanabe, I just started here!
Maybe a diaper man like you wouldn't understand that, Sempai.
C'mon, Sempai! Let's see some spirit!
I did it! Sempai, I did it!
I-I'm so sorry! I just assumed...
You're renting a place in Arnould Area, too, Sempai?
Well, you're my sensei, right, Sempai?
I don't think this is a time for worrying about who's a rookie or who's a sempai!
This is no good! Rewrite it!
I knew you were rude and violent, but I didn't think you were capable of this, Sempai!
That's why I'm saying that you've got no delicacy!
I'll leave them love!
Look at that will you wrote! You're the one with the problem!
Why can't you understand?! We can't send this man back into space!
It's not like that at all! I was worried that you might...
Um...What do you mean by that?
Are they shooting out? Of my eyes, I mean.
Now it's your turn, Sempai. I told you, so now you go!
That's a simple reason.
No, it's your style. It's just what you'd expect.
How is he?! Is he going to be all right?!
Thank goodness... I'm so relieved...
Shut up!
Wait, don't go!
There's so much that I want to ask you and talk to you about!
You decided all on your own to quit the company and to try out for the Von Braun.
I wanted you to tell me about it. To talk to me about it...
Hey, you aren't having second thoughts, are you?
Man, you're weak. You're still trying to turn to others for help?
I told you before, didn't I? In the end, all humans are alone.
Yeah, I guess I am. I'm alone.
I'm really alone, aren't I?
You're right, I'm...
Hey, wait a minute!
What is this place?
There's nothing... Nothing at all.
Am I dead?
No, I'm alive.
That's the one thing I'm sure of.
But...
There's nothing here... I'm alone.
It's just me...
That's right, that's exactly what I said, isn't it?
That's exactly what I wanted, isn't it?
But...
Not here... Not like this...
Somebody!
That's right, this is what you wanted.
Shoot, and fall into the abyss.
Sure, I'll shoot.
I'll shoot, and then I'll...
No ammo?
Hakim! Don't act like you know it all!
My determination wasn't all talk.
I really did intend to put an end to it. I really intended to kill him.
But...the gun didn't fire.
I pulled the trigger, but the gun didn't fire.
It isn't my fault.
Whose is it, then?
Whose fault? No, what do I have to thank for it?
What do I owe my thanks to for not having to shoot him?
But I...
Come on, Sempai, let's go home.
Tanabe?
Let's go home, Sempai.
What're you waiting for, dummy Hachi?
Let's go, Hachimaki.
I'll leave you to it, Hachi!
Hachi, didn't I tell you that nobody gets overtime?
It's quitting time.
You never change, do you, Hachi?
I know you can do it, Hachi.
Right, Hachimaki?
Hachimaki...
Take it nice and easy, there's no rush.
What're you doing, you dumb kid?
Don't act big when your job's not done yet, Bro.
Hachi, the food will all be gone.
That...That was space?
If what I just saw was space, then what the hell have I been looking at up until now?
Excuse me, are you all right?
Sempai? Hachimaki Sempai?
Sempai?! Is that really you?!
I'll have my dad go get your bike later.
Thanks. Sorry about that.
Oh, that reminds me. I went all the way to the Von Braun to see you, Sempai.
Hey, the ship's off-limits to unauthorized personnel...
I cheated a little. I asked Colin to help me.
Colin? You mean that idiot son of the INTO chairman?
He says he works for INTO as an inspector now.
Just as we were asking them to call for you, we got caught up in that big mess.
You did?
Tanabe? Your legs didn't get hurt in the Space Defense Front attack, did they?
No, I escaped right away.
But the place where I came down was too far away from a manned facility.
What about an SOS?
I sent one out, but nobody answered.
I didn't have any choice, so I started to walk. But my O2 ran out on the way there.
And that's how...
Right. I was rescued by a shuttle bus that happened to be passing by.
But I suffered nerve damage from the oxygen deprivation,
...and I underwent a tricky procedure called a "nano nerve coupler" operation.
Hey, I remembered the medical lingo!
I was out here doing my rehabilitation exercises.
The doctors say that if I work hard at it, I'll make a full recovery.
They did, huh?
Right. Actually, Claire was discharged from the hospital right away.
Claire?
Oh. Claire escaped from the ship with me.
Apparently, she had been using a lot less O2 than I was.
There was less damage to her brain.
It sounded to me like my rehabilitation would take a long time,
...and since I didn't even know if I'd recover, I submitted a letter of resignation.
You did?
Yeah...
Oh.
Tanabe...There's something that I need to apologize to you for.
I read this without asking. So I thought I should apologize.
I shouldn't have.
I wrote out a proper will last year.
It said stuff like "Thank you for raising me," and "Goodbye," and "I'm sorry"...
They told me to write out another one this year,
...but after all the things I'd experienced firsthand out in space, and with you gone,
...I couldn't write anything.
And after all those things I said to you...
But nothing that I wrote felt right to me...
Oh...
Tanabe...When we ran into each other a minute ago,
...I think I figured something out.
My idea of space was too small.
Sure, there's a lot of painful stuff and questions without answers,
...but there's nothing in this world that isn't part of space.
I realized that even I'm connected to it. That those connections are what make up space.
I realized that maybe I'm okay with that.
I can't really explain it.
But that's what you were trying to tell me, wasn't it?
That everything in this world is connected.
And the thing that binds it all together is...
Gutto mizu wo nomihoshi, We gulp down some water...
...yuuyakegumo miageru no sa. ...and look up at the evening clouds.
Kyou mo ichinichi ga owatte, Let's wind our way home...
...gairoju no shita wo kaerou. ...under the roadside trees as another day ends.
Yaru koto darake de tenpatte, Even if life's so hectic that our tempers flare,
...muri wo shite, tsumazuite mo, ...we push ourselves too hard, and we stumble,
...nani ka kanarazu tsukanderu sa. ...I know there'll be something to grab hold of.
Kiraku ni ikou ze. Let's move on without a care in our hearts.
Subarashii jinsei dakara, It's a wonderful life,
...jibun wo aisuru yuuki wo motou. ...so let's have the courage to love ourselves.
Atarashii doa tataite... Let's take it one step at a time,
...hitotsu hitotsu aruite yukou. ...knocking on new doors on the way.
Subarashii jinsei na no sa. It's a wonderful life.
Kimi mo boku mo subete no hito mo... You and I and everyone else...
...yorokobi to kanashimi no imi... ...keep on searching for the meaning...
...sagashitsuzukete, so just on my way. ...of joy and sadness, so just on my way.
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