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 25 It's Not A Big Problem
How dare you deceive me, Joker!
It's a misunderstanding, Mr. President.
We're simply going forward with a plan for the good of mankind.
Be quiet! I've had enough of your clever talk!
We, the United States, will take military action...
in order to stop the UK from running rampant!
Very well.
Feel free to come from land, sea, or air.
We'll be happy to take you on.
Joker!
They've all been destroyed.
It's impossible to go from the sky.
Right, we have to think of another way.
We have to hurry, Nenene's in danger.
What?
What's going on? It looks as though we've gone inside an old book.
- You tell me.
- Yomiko-chan...
what are we going to do now?
We have to get into the British Library somehow.
Isn't there a secret route or something?
I always entered from the front door.
You're no use.
Um...
There's something that's been bothering me.
I only had time to take a quick look, but there are places...
that have changed, and others that have not, within the city.
Big Ben, the Tower of London, and Buckingham Palace...
all these buildings are the same as the ones in the London we know.
Is there anything in common between those buildings?
They're all old.
That's right.
On the other hand, there should be the Tower Bridge over there, but...
It's not, is it?
The completion of the Tower Bridge was, well...
1890.
Thank you.
So, I think that means the London we're in right now...
is how it was prior to that year.
Is knowing that gonna do us any good?
We have to go rescue Nenene!
- Anita dear! - Anita. We have to go rescue Nenene!
But we and the British Library haven't changed...
I mean, we haven't been affected in any way.
That robot back there didn't seem like it, either.
Don't you think it's a clue?
If we can find out how far back in the past this city is and...
find something that shouldn't be here in that period, then...
It must belong to the British Library.
And we can find a clue there.
How are we going to find it?
We don't know how London was in the past.
From books.
People of this period found information in books and papers.
Let's read everything we can get our hands on, and find clues.
OK.
We have seven more days until the day of the broadcast.
This is to get us through till then. Pay me back later, you hear me?
Yes, of course.
I mean it. Pay me back.
Thanks.
I wish I could read books like you guys.
No need to force yourself. I can't compare to Nee-san, either.
She's incredible.
Cheerful, tough, warm-hearted...
But you have your own good points, Ma-nee.
So do you.
Each of us is different. That's why it's meaningful for us to be together.
I'm finally beginning to be able to feel that way.
What are you two talking about?
It's a secret.
Ah, that's not fair!
Nee-san.
Only you two get along well without me.
You're a book drinker.
We've got a problem.
The Crystal Palace that was at the exhibition site two days ago...
is now in a town called Sydenham.
According to the records, the exhibition was held in 1851...
and the Palace was moved to Sydenham in 1854.
What it means is that at least three years have past in this city...
in the last two days.
Time is accelerated in this city, except for us?
Most likely.
It's going to be more difficult to find clues.
But how? Is it the power of the British Library as well?
No, I don't think even they have such power.
If anybody has it, it's...
Gentlemen.
Extraordinary. He's emitting so much energy, even during the system boot.
He must be pleased to have returned to London.
Oh, maybe he's saying he can't wait to get out.
David, the current status?
The boot process will complete in two days as scheduled. However...
Yes?
The books' durability has gone down more than we'd anticipated.
We weren't planning for this operation to take so long to begin with.
Meaning?
Rebooting is impossible.
We can't afford to fail.
Is there any reason we might fail?
Well, not at this point, but...
Not at this point. And there won't be in the future, either.
We've been exerting every possible effort into this operation...
for the past five years.
There's no reason we should fail.
Rebooting is impossible? Fine.
I was planning for us to succeed with one try to begin with.
We can do it. Only we can.
Who else on earth could carry out...
such a preposterous, great, and incredible plan?
It's only London for now, but the reborn Gentlemen...
with this ability of his, will re-write the world.
Just as he has done many times in the past.
I think this is the ability that the Gentlemen possesses.
If he becomes young again inside Junior's body...
He'll be beyond control.
Brilliant. I took the liberty of reading your work.
It's just what I'd have expected of you, Sumiregawa...
What do you want?
There's something we'd like you to do the day after tomorrow.
I knew you'd be coming to me one of these days.
You want the same thing as Dokusensha.
Drug me up, imprint the Perfect Language or whatever in my head...
and make me write a book for you, right?
Must be nice to be an evil organization...
because you guys can recycle the same idea over and over again.
That idea of theirs was useless.
You call that "perfect"? That's ridiculous.
What good is such a language...
which is not only agonizing to learn but also inefficient?
True brainwashing doesn't hurt anybody...
It slips into your brain without you even realizing.
Now, here's the question...
where do you think Gentlemen's enormous wisdom is?
Inside those books, isn't it?
What's inside the books is only a part of it.
Because his personality requires such an enormous capacity...
the majority of his wisdom is diffused into the air.
That is to say his wisdom exists everywhere.
It's just that nobody notices it.
The day after tomorrow, antennas around the world will collect it...
and transmit it here.
And, what will be the container of both that wisdom and...
his personality stored in the books is...
Junior-kun.
The new Gentlemen.
Immediately after the resurrection...
we will have him give word to the entire world.
Yes, you may call it a declaration for the new era.
Then he will start transmission from here.
That's all it takes to format the brains of people...
so that they can share the same values and a future under the same ideas.
It's just like providing a computer system free of charge.
We're really providing a public service.
So that you can write whatever software you want into people!
That's where you come in.
Christ was indeed a great man...
but what spread his greatness was the bible.
Such a great personality requires a book of enlightenment...
to spread his greatness.
And we'd like you people to write it.
We people?
Great literary figures of all ages and countries...
are waiting for you to join them.
Reading this manuscript made me acutely aware that...
you truly have a wonderful talent.
However, you're still not quite in the same league as them.
In order to close that gap...
we'd like you to meet the Gentlemen after he's regenerated.
They all met the Gentlemen while they were alive.
They met him, were inspired by him, and were awakened as writers.
You'll soon be counted among those distinguished writers.
Today is the last day.
What year is it now anyway?
The Albert Hall has already been completed, so I think it's around 1871.
My sisters don't surprise me, but how can you read like that and understand?
- Yes, you're no ordinary person.
- Incredible.
Yomiko-chan trained me.
It's speed-reading Yomiko-style, then.
Well, I guess.
Ah! It's the Underground!
It sure is.
I didn't know they had an underground railway in this period.
The London Underground is the oldest in the world.
The service already started in 1863.
You've become quite an expert on the UK.
Stop the carriage, please!
The line that opened in 1863 ran only between Farington and Paddington.
This Aldgate Station is a part of the inner-city loop that was built in 1884.
That means this is...
The station shouldn't exist.
Oops.
You, stop right there!
Ouch! What are you doing?
Do you know him?
- You've got the wrong man. He's Dokusensha's coordinator.
- You've got the wrong man. - We haven't asked you a thing yet! He's Dokusensha's coordinator.
Dokusensha?
I used to be with Dokusensha.
But now I am a liaison within the British Library.
Tell us, is the underground railway connected to the British Library...
as we guessed?
Who are you?
She's Nancy-san.
It's used to transport goods and human resources.
My job is to bring in materials and equipment.
Um...
Are you familiar with the inside, Kim-san?
Who are you?
She's Yomiko-san.
Well, I'm originally an informer.
I have a pretty good idea about what's inside, but...
Let's have all the info you got.
Who are you?
He's Drake-san.
This is my unlucky day.
He's my assistant. Here's the contract.
It's got a seal of approval.
It's huge.
British Library. British Library. This is the last stop, British Library.
Please make sure you have your belongings, before you get off.
The next train for Aldgate leaves at 5:15.
The building is large, but the upper part is mostly an antenna...
and the lower is a computer system.
The area where people come and go is not that big.
There are three things we must do.
Rescue Sensei, get Junior-kun before Gentlemen-san's books are...
transplanted into him.
And put a stop to Joker-san's operation.
Why don't we just destroy the building?
Then his operation will be totally ruined.
Ruining it is not enough. We must make him give up.
Otherwise, he'll just repeat the same thing.
Let's divide into three teams and act simultaneously.
We'll call it a success as long as two teams make it...
even if the third doesn't.
Of course, all three just have to succeed and then...
we won't have to worry about anything.
Don't worry. Today is my luckiest day of the year, the Big Lucky.
Nancy-san and Drake-san, please go rescue Junior-kun.
And you three go for Sensei.
Yes, but...
What about you?
I'm going to go stop Joker-san.
Nenene's probably waiting for you.
Yes. But I'm the one who has to stop Joker-san.
We'll rescue her at any cost.
With our lives.
Yomiko-chan.
It's your job as his mother.
Good luck. In truth, Nancy-san, you're much stronger than I am.
OK.
Don't put yourself in too much danger.
OK, let's synchronize watches. We'll make our respective moves in an hour.
Three, two, one, zero.
I've never liked you all this time.
Because you were always docile.
You constantly reminded me how dirty the job that I'm doing is.
To be honest, I'm a little relieved that you betrayed us.
I've always been afraid of you, all this time.
But I've also been hoping that you'd begin to like me.
I'm sorry, Junior.
You'll soon be reborn as a great man who unifies mankind as its leader.
If you still remember me, even as a faint memory...
feel free to take revenge on me.
Deployment simulation of the British Library antennas complete.
We've received the final report from Rwanda. Deployment simulation of the British Library antennas complete.
Appearance of the London Tower Bridge confirmed. We now have all 12 antennas ready to go.
The city will reach the 20th century within an hour.
Booting of the Gentlemen Reissue System complete.
Ladies and gentlemen! All preparations for the operation are now complete.
We will reissue him in one hour from now...
and subsequently announce to the world the beginning of the new era.
Nenene!
Anita!
Sensei!
You guys!
- I'm glad you look well. - What did you do that for?
We came here to rescue you.
Not there? No one at all?
Yeah. It's empty.
Damn! We've been tricked.
Sensei's here as well?
Yes, although we're taking separate actions.
She went on her own to stop that baldy.
On her own? That's dangerous!
I know! But she said that's what she wanted to do.
Is she going to die without reading my new work?
Please come with me, Joker-san.
Can this not wait? Unlike you, who is unemployed, I'm busy.
Oh, it's all right, Wendy-kun. It's not a big problem.
We have a situation in Sumiregawa Nenene's cell.
She's escaping with three intruders.
Bring Junior to the Gentlemen's chamber.
We're going to initiate the reissue.
Joker-san!
We are going to continue with the operation.
It's not a big problem.
A nostalgic smell of wind is somewhat lonesome
People think tenderly of the never returning days
The power of time is too big Even if I drift along by myself
I believe in my destination An unchanged place of smile
Even if it's a dream, split in two
Or you're just so far away and can't be seen
I'm sure we're strongly connected by our hearts
We'll definitely meet again
Even in the Winter in which I cried
and the Summer in which we laughed together
I could trust in you When I close my eyes
I can feel your warmth from those days