Is this...?
You know what it is.
I'm a time traveler; specifically from the year 2036.
Dear god...
We've met online a few times, you and me...
I post as John Titor.
Even the number of several billion heartbeats
suujuuoku mo no kodou no kazu sae
anata ni wa matataki teido no saji na toukyuu
is basic research with little glamor for you
anata ni wa matataki teido no saji na toukyuu
kako ni torawarete mirai wo nageku mo
Even locked in the past and lamenting the future
kako ni torawarete mirai wo nageku mo
chiri hitotsu gosan wo yurusanu hitsuzen
it's an inevitability that won't forgive miscalculating one speck of dust
chiri hitotsu gosan wo yurusanu hitsuzen
mugen ni hirogaru yume mo egaku mirai mo
The dreams that stretch out forever and the future we imagine
mugen ni hirogaru yume mo egaku mirai mo
bokutachi ni yurusareta kyoei no genri
are a vain theory we allowed
bokutachi ni yurusareta kyoei no genri
yuugen sore wa futatsu no hari ga shimesu
Finity, that's what the two hands of the clock point out
yuugen sore wa futatsu no hari ga shimesu
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
towards a cruel agreement and choice
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
Hacking to the Gate
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
dakara ima ichibyou goto ni sekaisen wo koete
That's why I want to cross world lines with each passing second
dakara ima ichibyou goto ni sekaisen wo koete
kimi no sono egao mamoritai no sa
and protect your smile
kimi no sono egao mamoritai no sa
soshite mata kanashimi no nai jikan no loop e to
And once again, into a time loop that contains no sadness
soshite mata kanashimi no nai jikan no loop e to
nomikomareteyuku kodoku no kansokusha
A swallowed solitary observer
nomikomareteyuku kodoku no kansokusha
Missing Link
Necrosis
By the year 2036...
SERN has taken complete control of the world.
Their word is law.
Democracy is nothing but a memory.
People sleepwalk through their lives completely devoid of hope.
Opposition is treason; treason is death.
I was a member of the anti-SERN resistance.
On the run, day and night,
living in the hit squads' crosshairs...
I realized they couldn't be defeated in my time.
So I bet my only chip--
the secret time-machine my father had left me.
That's why I'm here. I need to prevent that future.
Then all those things John Titor was posting online were true?
Yeah... Much as I wish they weren't.
But SERN's a research organization--
it doesn't have a standing army or anything like that...
I tried asking Titor about it online a bunch of times
and I never got a straight answer.
Hold on...
So that was you posting under the nom de web
"Chestnut Rice and Kamehame-ha"?!
Hey, she laid her cards out on the table...
So the least I can do is reciprocate, right...?
I hid my posts in plain sight...
Attributing them all to Hououin Kyouma--!
Yeah, we know that.
Once SERN builds a time-machine,
they're the ones who're calling all the shots...
With that kind of power at their disposal,
it doesn't take long for them to decide the world needs
to bend to their liking, for our own good, of course.
And one person did more than anyone else
to bring SERN's machine to fruition...
"The mother of time-travel," they call her... Makise Kurisu.
Are you saying I'm some kind of traitor...?!
I would never help them...!
I don't know where you got your information,
but it's obviously wrong!
It's true in 2036.
Is that why you've always been so hateful around me?
What about my future self, then?
Later in life, you're going to become an infamous terrorist.
A what?!
More like an anti-SERN freedom-fighter, actually.
Oh, also... you two should know...
By the time I leave in 2036, both of you are dead.
Time for me to go.
Wait a sec...!
You can't just drop a bombshell like that
and blithely sashay back to the future!
The future's a dead-end...
I'm heading to an earlier point in time...
Back to the year 1975.
Why nineteen seventy-five?
SERN is only able to build their time-machine
because they get their hands on a working version of one
from Akihabara and then improve on that technology.
Our Phone Wave, you mean?
Mhmm.
They managed to set up a worldwide monitoring system
to alert them to the emergence of any viable research
in the field of time-travel.
I hate to lay this at your doorstep, Okabe...
but that first D-mail you sent probably caught their eye.
You mean the one I sent in front of the Radio Building?
That's the one...
But if we can just delete that message
from their system altogether
before anyone over at SERN bothers to read it...
...we'll change... the future.
We'll toss life as we know it onto a world-line
where their time-travel ambitions never pan out!
Will making that jump help us save Mayuri's life?!
We can hope.
Then what are we waiting for?!
Let's go back in your machine and hack their database --!
We'll need to find an IBN 5100 to pull that off.
Wait, so... is that why...?
My mission was to travel back to 1975,
obtain an IBN 5100, and make sure that it got to you...
That's was all.
But I let myself get distracted,
and spent too much time looking for my dad...
I should've left this year way earlier.
What's going on?!
Oh my god.
Something's broken...!
Not good...!
Do we run?!
One of us is about to...!
Sneak out of here as soon as they're distracted!
Is someone in there...?
Who are you?!
Foolish man...!
Can you not see I'm clearly in the midst
of a foiling an Organization plot...?!
This'll send their ranks tumbling like so many dominoes!
I recommend you forget what you've seen here tonight...!
Now if you'll excuse me...!
What the hell?!
Get back here!
C'mon--let's go!
Hurry it up!
Look--I don't know what happens later, okay?!
But right now we're on the same side--so just trust me, dammit!
Okabe!
You're sure you weren't followed...?! Come on, then.
So now what? We can't exactly go back there...
I can't believe the time machine is broken...
Did crashing into the roof do it?
Hey, I didn't crash. I miscalculated the coordinates
and... well, kind of materialized mid-roof...
Semantics aside, though:
no... it wasn't broken when I got here.
What happened, then?
Remember that thunderstorm we had...?
I think that could have done it.
Maybe the lightning, or the rain...
Hell, probably both.
It's my fault.
If I hadn't stopped you from leaving that night...
Wait--I can use the Phone Wave!
Yeah, but you can only go back
as far as 48 hours with it, remember?
Right, of course--that was more than two days ago.
Heya, Okarin!
And Kurisu and Suzuha make three!
I cancelled the party tonight!
Why haven't you both gone home?!
Uh, she told me she wanted to un-cancel the party, so yeah.
Don't be grumpy! Look at the tasty snacks we picked up!
I told you to leave for today!
I'm sorry, honey. We're just dealing
with some important stuff right now, that's all.
Can I help?
Just call it a day.
I'll pay you back for all the snacks and stuff...
We'll have a party later on--I promise you.
Okay, then...
But only if you promise me that you're gonna be safe...!
'Cause I get all worried about you.
We'll be all right... You have my word.
Alright! See ya later, then!
See ya.
I hear they even stopped the trains.
You serious?
We have got to get the time-machine operational again.
Here's the plan...
Okabe jumps back to five hours ago,
when the lab first had time-leap functionality...
Then you jump back again to the full 48-hour maximum,
to 2 p.m. on the 11th... Everyone clear?
Sounds like that's as much time
as we're going to have to work with.
I just hope that it ends up being enough.
Whatever it takes to get that time-machine up
and running again, that's what we do--understood...?
I'll keep reliving those two days 'till it works!
This isn't about saving the world.
Not for me. Not anymore. This is about Mayuri!
Okabe?
Something the matter?
Get the lab members up here on the double.
There's something you all need to see.
It ain't a blue box... but it's still damn cool.
Can you fix it?
Hey, future-girl--what do you know about this thing?
I just used it--I don't know what's under the hood...
My dad's the one who put it together.
We can't possibly fix a time machine
from 2036 with the current technology--
How will we know unless we try?!
Just repair it, Daru! You have 48 hours...!
You're the only one who can do it!
Why 48 hours?
Because... it's just more of a challenge!
Look, if you can do it in two days,
I'll give you whatever you ask for, okay?
I'm in! I want a day-long date with Faris if I pull it off!
Fine. I'll make that happen somehow.
Hah...! Oh yeah, right.
I can make it happen...! I swear!
You want this pretty bad.
Damn right I do... Now fix it.
Then let's earn that date!
Oh!
There's something you gotta do.
You gotta bring us an IBN 5100 when it works again, okay?
Ooh! And an animation cell of this pose, from...
the 1975 mahou series "Radical Girl Omit-chan"!
Don't get greedy!
Want me to stay here and help out?
A good idea, but no...
We need you to get back to the lab
and finish up construction on the time-leap machine...
That way, if we miss our two-day deadline--
Okarin, wait...!
You're forgetting something really important...!
We gotta help Suzuha find her dad!
Don't worry about it, Mayuri--
Don't say that...!
I know you used the time-machine 'cause you're on a mission,
but you wanna see your dad, don'tcha?
You've never even met him!
I really wanna make it happen for you if I possibly can!
You know your father's online handle, don't you?
That was just a code-name... I don't know his real one.
So where did you get Amane?
Got it from my mom...
All I've got to go on is this one clue...
a pin he used to wear.
Okay, I remember you saying your dad
was somewhere in Akihabara this year... Never fear!
'Cause Detective Mayuri always gets her man!
Find him or not... She's a good egg.
What's the verdict?
Well, I could be talking outta my butt here...
but based on what I've been able to scope out so far,
the insides remind me a lot of how the Phone Wave operates.
So then, you might be able to get it working again after all?!
I've been wondering 'bout your dad, y'know...
if maybe he's somebody close to us.
I mean, he had enough info on us to know where
we were and what we were up to when it all went down...
Maybe... He didn't tell me anything in-person...
All I have is the information he left for me in his will...
My dad and I never actually met though, so there's that.
He was conducting his own time-travel research,
apart from whatever it was SERN was up to...
trying to undo some of what they'd done.
Pulling this off is the best way I know of to honor his memory.
Man... That really sucks, Suzuha...
But hey, don't worry about it!
I'll get this all fixed up, and you're in like Flynn!
And I'm gonna keep looking for your old man while you're off
doing your time traveling thing.
You just come back to us, okay?
Oh, and if you could get me that cel on the down-low...
that'd be cool...
I absolutely loathe making this stuff...
C'mon, Future Gadget Lab founder...
Think you ought've invented a robot to do this by now?
Coffee's an assistant's sacred duty.
Future Gadget the Second...
New R&D Prototype...
Alpha test number two-point-six-seven.
Or "Bamboo-Copter Cam," for short.
On account of the closed-circuit digital camera
we put in the base.
This is actually practical...!
We could use it to conduct an aerial search--!
Sadly, the camera lacks its own gyrometer,
and the spinning footage is nausea-inducing.
That seems like it's a pretty basic problem
for version two-point-six-seven.
Ah, but that's the only one... You see...
Daru tends to name things on a whim
without much concern for logic or convention.
Where's Daru?
Still there. Probably gonna pull an all-nighter.
The Divergence Meter...
You should be the one to keep this.
It's only fair,
considering you're the one who built it in the first place.
Remember, the big picture changes
if the tubes ever reflect a number bigger than one-point-oh.
And since you're the only one
with the Reading Steiner ability,
you're the only one who can track the changes.
Did my future self hand that over
to you right before he died?
Nu-uh. I've never even laid eyes on future-Okabe...
Too risky... seeing as how you're one of the founders
of the resistance group I'm a part of.
Me, spearhead the resistance? Surely you jest.
First I let Mayuri die through no fault of her own...
and then I go tilting at windmills like a goddamn fool?!
How can you say that?!
What's foolish about wanting to save the world from tyranny?!
Isn't that a goal worth dying over?!
Uh... how's it hanging?
I'mma bust out some questions,
yo, so holla at ya boooooy...! Wordtoyamutha!
Sorry. I don't speak jive.
Well that was nice and awkward...
I've a button that I want you to ID...
Have you seen this before?
Or, if you don't recognize it, then...
perhaps you know someone who would...?
Nah, it isn't ringing any bells...
Sorry... I wish I had something I could tell you.
I can't believe you said "wordtoyamutha"
to this guy, you freak...
Look, if you remember...
please don't hesitate to call.
Maybe the pin simply doesn't exist yet...
There's nothing to say it couldn't be made
in the near future.
Yeah, I guess...
Well... it's okay, maybe it just wasn't meant to be, y'know?
Hey, at least we tried.
So you're throwing in the towel?
Just like that? With a full day left?!
Why are you getting s--?
Listen!
Saving Mayuri's life is my absolute top priority...!
But, you are a lab member and I intend to help you out!
Dammit, that's just what friends do for one another!
But if you've already given up,
then what's the point of even trying?!
Hey, you don't have to yell about it.
Huh...?
Wow.
Sorry.
Attention, Attention!
What in the... nine hells...?
There was a kidnapping yesterday--right near here!
The kidnapper was wearing a pin just like the one on my fliers!
If you could give it a look it'd be a big help!
Okarin! You're here!
Lookie what I made!
Colorful...
Fliers are a pretty good idea, huh...?
I was thinking about everything real hard...
and then it just kinda hit me! Ooh!
And that's when I grabbed my markers and got to work!
I think I'll call it "Operation Attention!
Someone Got Kidnapped."
Advertising a bogus kidnapping
might be takin' things overboard...
What are you going to do
when the police take notice of this little--?
Never mind...! Time to go!
How come?
You! Miss...! stop!
I'm sorry, Okarin...
From this moment on,
how 'bout you run all your plans by me first, yeah?
Just to be safe side...
Huh?
What's with the kung-fu?
Never hurts to be prepared, that's all.
I'm glad I found you guys.
I got some terrible news out there...
Go on...
When I went to buy lunch...
I overheard two of the shop clerks gossiping.
I'm sorry, Suzuha,
but I think your dad might have kidnapped somebody!
Wait... what...? What's so funny, huh?
How goes it?
Take a soda break?
This is not my soda of choice
and it's room temperature,
but it's gonna be gone in like thirty seconds, bro.
Well? Do you think you can get it working?
Should have it done by tomorrow.
Check this guy out!
We're gonna have time to spare!
Daru's a cheetah when it comes to tech jobs.
He's so unassuming, I'd never have known he was a bad-ass.
Don't judge a book by its cover.
Guess you're right. Lesson learned.
Wanna hop in and lend a hand, Suzuha...?
The heat in the time-machine might be oppressive,
but it's nothing that couldn't be fixed
by stripping down to our unmentionables...
Why're you such a creeper?!
Wow, Suzuha and Daru make a pretty good match, huh!
Huh...?! How do you mean? Predator-prey?
I don't know how I mean it. But they just do.
What's going on?
Oh, it's nothing... Mayuri's just being inscrutable again.
I know you gotta go back to 1975,
but I'm gonna worry about you a lot...!
And if that time-machine could hold two people,
I would totally be going with you!
No offense, but how's that going to help ?
How can you ask that, silly?!
I'd hold her hand real tight...
and tell her stuff like, "Don't be scared,
'cause your friend Mayuri is here for you,
and we're in this thing together, come rain or shine!"
Listen... There's something I need to say...
and the chance might not come up later, so...
If that's how you feel, go ahead.
Thanks so much... You guys have really gone to bat for me.
When I first came back to this time,
I didn't know a single person around here, you know...?
This place might be walk in the park
compared to where I'm from...
but to me, it was still as scary as hell.
But now, just get a load of all the awesome people
here than I can call friend.
Traveling back to this period was a good idea...
This was... the most fun I've ever had.
I'm glad I got this time to be with you guys,
even if it wasn't for long...
Being a member of the Future Gadget Lab... it was nice.
Yeah, it was...
It's up to you.
You're the only chance we've got...
Promise me you'll keep the world the way it is now.
I promise...
Yes?
Yeah, is this the "wordtoyamutha" guy?"
You're the street vendor, right?
I just wanted you to know.
Last night, I met a guy who wanted
a pin like you were asking about.
You're telling me you found her father?!
I'll meet you in the alley in fifteen.
kisei sareta shikai mujihi naru
Our vision, controlled by someone, fills with cruelty
juuni no shihai nogarerarenai
We can't escape the twelve rules
ansoku no asu wo negatta
We wished for a tomorrow full of rest
te no naka no toutoi jishou no chihei he
to be given to the precious event horizon in our hands
toraware shi meiyaku arawareta gishou no rinkaku
In the promise we made in captivity appeared the contours of a lie
seimei no tenchi wa moumoku na jikan wo kizanda
The realm of life recorded a time of blindness
habatake butterfly
Fly, butterfly
kiseki no butterfly
O, miraculous butterfly
anata he sasagu
I will sacrifice to you
namida no butterfly
Butterflies of tears
mabushii butterfly
Dazzling butterflies
subete ga ima kakikaerareru
Everything is being rewritten