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 24 You Know Me
This is a message from the government.
All residents are requested to report to the specified facility in the area...
on April 20, which is 10 days from today.
An important announcement from the United Kingdom will be given.
If you have any questions...
you may contact the local government office or access the government web site.
We can say that this is truly the biggest project...
in the history of mankind.
Exactly.
Since the dawn of history...
the cause of conflict has always been the lack of mutual understanding.
If people share the same values, ideas, and wisdom...
to understand one another, there will be no more war.
They almost make you think that we're the bad guys.
Trying to interfere with a long-awaited peace.
But...
It's not true peace.
I know.
Hey, careful with that!
Yomiko-chan, take me with you.
No, I'd like you to wait here until we come back.
I want to go!
I want to go and find out...
what I did.
What I was.
I want to get back what I lost.
I understand.
Hey.
Thank you.
But please be careful.
We've got to hurry.
If we miss today's flight, we won't be able to get to Europe.
Yes.
Sir.
Thank you very much for your help.
It's a hauler.
You have to compromise with its comfort.
OK.
We have to go.
We're heading for the British Library.
We'll somehow put a stop to Joker-san's plot.
Well, please stay and wait here.
When we get back, let's look for your sisters.
We'll help.
No.
They're not my sisters.
It was all a lie.
After all, I'm alone.
I have been, and will always be.
Um, you know, Joker-san is a liar.
He thinks nothing of telling lies, although he's not a bad person...
Well, I mean, he is a bad person.
So, I don't think you have to believe everything he said.
How can you say that?!
How do you know he was lying?!
I'm envious of you three.
You're so close to each other, helping and trusting each other.
If I had a sister, that's exactly how I'd want the relationship to be.
So I don't believe what Joker-san said.
I've read tens of thousands of books, but I've never come across a writer...
who was capable of coming up with such a script.
So...
I'm sorry. I can't put it in words very well.
Let's talk again after we come back.
Um, we'll be going then.
Yeah.
Where are you going?
Where should I go?
Where can I go to find the truth?
I've been selling books for several decades now...
and discovered something interesting.
Books always find a way to get to the exact person...
who longs for them from the bottom of their heart.
If you truly want to know the truth, you'll find it no matter where you go.
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT This is a message from the government.
All residents are requested to report to the specified facility in the area...
on April 20, which is 10 days from today.
An important announcement from the United Kingdom will be given.
If you have questions...
you may contact the local government office or access the government web site.
Anita-chan!
I knew you'd come back here!
Don't come near me!
Why?
We're not sisters at all!
The memories from Hong Kong are all fake, too.
How do you know?
Joker told me.
You knew and didn't tell me?
I just heard about it myself from Junior-kun.
You Know Me by Sumiregawa Nenene
Maggie-chan!
Nee-san...
Anita...
Anita-chan!
Let go of me!
Don't struggle.
Listen to what your sisters have to say.
You're not my sisters!
It's all a lie.
Both of you have just been controlled.
You guys aren't my sisters!
How dare you say such a thing!
It's the truth!
After all this, we've always been strangers!
It would've been better if I hadn't met you at all!
What kind of remark is that?
Are you saying you prefer to be alone in this world?
Nee-san... stop it.
It would've been better than this!
Do you have any idea...
how much fake happiness and fake kindness hurt a person?!
Yes, I do!
- Then why are you so unaffected?!
- Stop it, both of you.
- Why don't you have any tears?! - Stop it, both of you.
You don't care about us at all!
Anita!
Of course I do.
You girls are not being fair!
How come only you get to cry and yell?
I'm also...
Nee-san...
Even if our memories are fake...
the life we had here was absolutely real.
It wasn't a lie.
It wasn't a fake.
You girls know the real me.
You girls understand who I really am.
That's why I can believe in myself.
I want to continue to be your elder sister forever.
I want to be your younger sister, too.
I want to be your younger sister, and your elder sister.
I'm the only one who can manage being the younger sister of...
bums, like you two.
You're such a smart-mouth little girl.
A troublesome baby sister.
Shut up.
You Know Me I love you both.
You Know Me
A fool for a sister.
I have to go to the UK.
I handed Sensei over to the British Library.
I know.
But they set you up, right? Using me or Mi-nee as bait.
Otherwise, you wouldn't have done it.
I'm sorry. I'm an idiot.
It's not your fault.
They're the ones to blame for everything.
It's unforgivable.
Mi-nee?
Hurting Anita-chan, setting up Maggie-chan, and abducting Sensei and Junior-kun!
Him too?
I won't let them make fools of us anymore!
Now they've made me angry!
Three Sisters Conference!
It's been a while since we did that.
Those who are in favor of getting even with the British Library!
The revived three sisters, fight!
Yeah!
The glorious resurrection is close at hand.
What of Junior?
He's locked up.
Although we performed an examination...
the reason he lost the ability to penetrate solid objects is still unknown.
It appears as though his body was somehow damaged...
when he extracted his locator.
I see.
Please see to it that he be thoroughly examined to make sure...
there are no other effects.
After all...
he's the one on whose shoulders the world is soon to be placed.
And what about Sensei?
Physically healthy. Mentally stable as well.
She hasn't shown any resistance.
Oh? I wonder if she's finally accepted her fate.
Hey, I'm out of paper.
You.
A strange place to be running into you.
Are you OK?
Yes.
Why are you being locked up?
Because you betrayed them?
I see.
I feel like giving you at least a punch...
but I can see why you did what you did.
So I'll let you get away with it this time.
I'm sorry.
Um, you said something about paper.
I'm writing a new novel here.
At a time like this?
Yeah, that's how I feel myself.
But that's what I should be doing right now.
Mind you, I'm not doing it for the people here.
It's for me and those who are on the way here now.
Those who are on the way?
Yeah.
I just know that they'll come when I'm in a pinch like this.
That's...
I'm surprised myself that I trust them so much.
I'm absolutely sure that they'll come to rescue me.
So I feel that I have to have it ready for them to read when they get here.
Must be nice to have people you can trust.
I don't have anyone like that.
What are you talking about? You'll be rescued along with me.
Do you think they'd abandon you?
But I betrayed them and put them in danger.
Yeah, you did.
But still, they're the kind of people who'll come to rescue you.
Yomiko-chan, over there!
Excuse us for going ahead of you. Three Sisters' Detective Agency
Nee-san, aren't we almost to London?
Head northwest. When we hit the Thames, head up river.
Got it.
Apparently, the British Library Special Operations Unit used to be located...
in the basement of the British Museum.
Mi-nee, I just...
We lost visibility.
Go as far as you can.
Let's land near the Thames.
Got it.
Those were dinosaurs, weren't they?
They looked like pteranodons.
Our eyes aren't playing tricks on us, are they?
Then the British Library must have something to do with it.
A steam engine? In this day and age?
Strange.
Let's stay close together.
It seems that something's wrong with the city itself.
Why does everything look as if we've gone back in time?
The shape of the city is that of London 150 years ago.
It was around the time when the Industrial Revolution era ended...
and the harsh depression set in.
Did we enter a time-slip?
We've been attacked by an enemy that can do that kind of thing.
There were no pteranodons 150 years ago.
Right.
We stand out too much in these clothes.
Yeah.
Nee-san.
What's tha...!
What's that?
London 150 years ago.
A three-legged robot.
It's "The War of the Worlds" by Wells.
And the pteranodons are...
from Conan Doyle's "The Lost World".
What do you mean?
Those two things are both in old novels.
In stories that take place in London.
The city itself is replaying the past.
The source is the British Library?
It has to be.
Unbelievable.
What's going to become of the world if we let them go on like this?
Old buildings are our points of reference.
This is St Paul's Cathedral here...
and that's Big Ben, so...
It's around there.
Nee-san, the fog is...
What's that?
That's the British Library?
Probably.
That's the place...
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 wo azuke rareta me wo tojita tokini
Kanji rareru yo ano koro no nukumori