Original Concept EIICHI KAMAGATA
Original Story / Screenplay HIDEYUKI KURATA
Original Character Design TARAKU UON
Character Design / Animation Director MASASHI ISHIHAMA
Production Design NORIYUKI ZINGUZI
Art Director EASTER · YATUKUMI Art Conception HIROSHI IZUMI Color Coordinator MAYUMI TANAHASHI
Director of Cinematography KAZUNARI NISHIDA Editing MASANORI SAKAMOTO
Sound Effects MINORU YAMADA Sound Mixer YASUSHI NAGURA
Recording Director HIROMI KIKUTA Music Director TAKASHI KODAMA
Music TAKU IWASAKI
Producer TOMONORI OCHIKOSHI
Animation Producer YUJI MATSUKURA
Director KOJI MASUNARI
Animation Produced by J.C. STAFF
Produced by ANIPLEX INC.
Episode 18 Confession
Good morning.
Mornin'.
Breakfast will be ready in a minute.
Go wash your face.
OK.
Mornin'.
Um, Yomiko-san is...?
No, she won't come out.
I'll talk to her again later.
Anyway, let's eat.
You have to eat first before you do anything.
Thank you for the food.
Delicious!
Maggie-chan, your Japanese-style breakfast is good as anything else!
Hey, eat.
Maggie-chan, your Japanese-style breakfast is good as anything else!
It's good.
Um, well, I just followed the book that was here.
Thank you for the food.
Can we leave Yomiko-san as she is?
Since Nancy-san's with her, I think she's fine...
Is there a key to the room or something?
I think it only unlocks from inside.
But either way, I don't want to force it open.
She must have reasons for not wanting to talk.
But...
I brought you some tea.
Thank you.
The problem is him.
He's a very good boy.
But he's one of them.
But he's a good boy.
She's your mother!
Sensei?
Sensei!
Yomiko-chan!
Nancy-san.
What is it?
I'm sorry I lied to you.
It's OK.
We'll take over.
No need.
We will.
You should at least get some rest.
Otherwise, we'll all be in trouble when something happens.
You're right.
For three hours, then.
Woo-san, you take the roof.
You.
You tried to shoot me at school, didn't you?
Sorry.
Sorry doesn't cut it! Look at me!
I'll leave the rest for some other time.
Thanks.
But this is strange.
What is?
The people who're coming here to attack us are your people, right?
But you're on watch with me.
I kind of thought it is strange, too.
But I haven't reported to them.
Wendy-san will be mad at me, but I want to know the full story.
Yeah, well.
My sisters and the others are in complete truce mode toward you...
so I guess it's OK.
Sorry.
All right already.
On the second thought, I gotta give you another one!
Don't scare me like that!
But...
Yes, the men in the field have been instructed thus.
More than 80% of the distribution routes in the country...
are now under our control.
I thank you for your cooperation, Mr. Prime Minister.
Make sure President Cole is in agreement with us...
regarding the future plans.
I will. Rest assured.
Yes?
We've received the beta version of the Perfect Language.
Very well.
Choose whichever subject you think suitable...
and have an experiment performed on it.
Anything else?
Yes.
Junior stopped sending his scheduled reports.
Since when?
Yesterday.
We know his location from the signal...
But it seems he's disconnected his transmission.
Where is he?
In a mountain in Saitama. May I go get him?
We can't afford to have you go now.
Check his exact location as well as health conditions via satellite...
and send someone else.
I need you to take care of the briefing for the publishing companies.
Yes, sir.
Saitama.
Nee-san.
Yes?
Where do you know him from?
Anita-chan's school.
He came to take the book, didn't he?
I think so.
You think he's OK?
Yes, I do.
He was only working on orders.
Once we reason with him, he'll understand.
You're right.
Yes, I am.
What's the matter?
I was just thinking that you're an incredible person.
Don't be silly, Maggie-chan.
Hello.
Come out.
Come out, talk to me!
Yomiko-chan. I don't mind staying here.
It's just like before, right?
I'm concerned about the boy...
But you're more important to me.
How is she?
No response.
Oh.
I'm sorry.
It's OK.
What?
Nothing.
It's peaceful, isn't it?
How can you be so easygoing?
We're fugitives.
I know we are.
But what are we running away from?
How about the British Library bastards and Dokusensha?
Yeah, but you know...
We're running away from them...
but I feel like we're chasing something at the same time.
Are we chasing?
Or fleeing?
Nenene, didn't you get enough sleep?
Did you sleep well last night?
Silly.
What are you doing?
Silly, silly, silly!
Hey, stop playing, hey!
Damn.
- Right, and make that into a triangle.
- Yuk, I swallowed it.
- That's good.
- Tastes bad.
Right, and then unfold it.
Oh, you're up.
What are you doing?
Nobody's showing up, and we're bored.
Would you like to join us?
No thanks.
Did I do it right?
- Yes, you did very well.
- Wow!
Maggie-chan, that's a great soap bubble!
- Do you think it's a little too big?
- Maggie-nee, you're a genius!
- Do you think it's a little too big? - Junior-kun, look, look!
Er, yeah.
I changed my mind.
Teach me some.
If I show it to Maggi, she'll like it.
Nenene, look, look!
Ah?
Wow!
I'm sorry about that.
I'm ready to talk.
Um, Nancy-san and Junior-kun, if you could excuse us...
I'd like to hear it.
Please.
All right.
I met Nancy-san during an incident six years ago.
The "Great Men incident"?
Yes.
Nancy-san was initially on the great men's side...
but she was put into a nursing home after the event.
She gave birth to a child there.
The father was also one of the great men.
He and Nancy-san were lovers.
That child is you, Junior-kun.
However, soon after your birth, you were taken away from Nancy-san.
Why?
Because the British Library became interested in your body.
Having "great persons" for parents...
both your physical abilities and intellect are superior...
and beyond comparison to ordinary people.
But if it happened six years ago, the years don't add up.
I think they've accelerated his growth rate.
Before him, all the great men were brought into adulthood that way.
The British Library collected samples...
at the time of the incident, and learned the technique from those samples.
And what? Were they going to make him into an agent or something?
No.
Something worse than that.
The power behind the throne of the UK...
Mr. Gentlemen, whose body was coming to the end of its life.
They were quickly proceeding with a secret plan to transfer his intellect...
abilities, and personality into a different human vessel.
You mean...?
Yes...
Junior-kun has been raised and educated to become the vessel...
for Mr. Gentlemen.
You said he died...
The British Library took him away from Nancy-san and hid him.
Joker-san was the one who decided and directed it.
When I found that out, I just couldn't accept it...
So I went to Joker-san...
- Yomiko-chan! - Sensei!
I'm sorry.
So I've been raised to be a container?
So that they can shove that man inside me someday?
Transfer these things into me?
What's going to become of me then?
What's going to happen?
Chief Alex!
We're seeing changes in Junior!
Give me the details.
The numeric values of his audio and visual senses...
as well as memory and cognitive abilities are all increasing rapidly.
He's already reached the same level as Mr. Gentlemen.
What is his current location?
Saitama, Japan.
What is this place?
The British Library Special Operations Unit?
How?
I don't know.
Holograph!
Stick together!
We don't know what's going to happen!
What is it?
Nothing.
That's unacceptable!
What are you doing?
- Why don't you return the baby to Nancy-san?
- Sensei...
I already explained to you...
He has a very important mission.
That's not something we're allowed to decide of our own accord!
The Paper!
Calm yourself. Our job is to serve the UK.
In other words, we serve Mr. Gentlemen.
I promised Nancy-san...
I would protect her.
Which Nancy?
Well, it is of no matter, they're both our enemy.
You must put your personal affairs aside.
As long as you're here, you're The Paper.
An agent of the Special Operations Unit.
To risk the UK's future, in order to keep a promise to the enemy, is simply insane.
You seem to be a little upset. I suggest you take a vacation.
It's not right that someone must be sacrificed for Mr. Gentlemen!
It's too late to say such a thing.
What do you mean?
I mean it's nothing new.
The UK exists to ensure Mr. Gentlemen's life.
And for that, any means to justify the end are accepted.
That child is the exceptional resource we've finally discovered.
Now all the sacrifices we've made will be rewarded.
Donny will be pleased to hear it.
What about Donny?
Oh, did I not tell you?
Joker-san?
Your mentor and lover, Donny Nakajima, is still alive.
Although he looks completely different from how he used to.
No!
Sensei?
Sensei.
Natsukashii kaze no nioi dokoka sabishikute
Modorenai hibi wo hito wa itoshiku omouyo
Toki no chikara wa ooki sugite hitori kiri tada nagasarete mo
Shinjite iru tadori tsuku saki kawara nai egao no basho e
Futatsu ni wakareta yume demo
Tohkute mie naku temo
Kitto tsunaideru kokoro wa tsuyoku
Kanarazu mata aeru
Naita fuyu mo
Warai au natsu mo
Kokoro wa azuke rareta me wo tojita tokini
Kanji rareru yo ano koro no nukumori