Now, a miracle is about to be created upon this planet.
One hot summer day…
…I died.
And then I saw…
…the future of this planet as it faced its death.
Juna!
Tokio!
Why kill?
Huh? If I don’t, then what’ll happen to the Earth?!
Why kill?
What are you talking about?
You told me to protect the Earth!
You fool.
I didn’t tell you to protect the Earth.
Huh?!
Are you sure she’s the right one?
Her mind and spirit are all totally in pieces.
And she can’t make out what you…
…tell her through your telepathy.
I have no choice.
Juna, the Avatar of Time…
…does not even have the sense of taste.
As she is now, she does not recognize the taste…
…of the foods she can eat in order to survive.
Earth Maiden Arjuna
Come on. You’re so useless!
Earth Maiden Arjuna Give me a break.
I was so worried about you…
Episode 4: Transmigration …that I wasn’t thinking about how much gas I had.
Oh, no.
I forgot which way to go.
What? Are you serious?
Are you lost?
You’re always at a loss as to which road to take.
Chris? Hey, have you been watching us all this time?
What’s the matter?
Is it that guy again?
I was a little worried about you.
Then, why don’t you just tell me which way I’m supposed to go?!
Tell me, tell me, huh?
Why do you think you have that power?
Huh?
Try to figure it out on your own.
What?
Cold-blooded bastard!
Are you all right?
What do you want?!
You’re going to be left behind.
What the heck…?
Those guys are pretty darn annoying.
Why do they make you do as they say?
What the hell happened anyway?
Back then…
…when I was dying because of that accident…
…I saw it.
The sight of this Earth…
…being degraded and poisoned everywhere.
Earth?
That’s when that guy Chris showed up and said that…
…if I was willing to protect this planet…
…he would give me my life back.
Your life?
You mean that kid back there?
You don’t have to believe me.
I… just didn’t want to…
Didn’t want to?
I just couldn’t bear the thought of never seeing you and Mom again.
Juna…
But, why you?
Why do you have to do it? I’m sure they’ve got others.
Even now, I can sometimes hear it.
The screams of the Earth.
Aren’t you just imagining that?
I don’t hear anything.
But…
I couldn’t stand it…
…if you really died…
Tokio…
How unusual nowadays.
Running away and eloping…
Eloping?!
What do you think you’re doing?!
– Still too young to be eloping.
– What the…?!
What’re you trying to pull, you pervert?!
Look at that. Pretty bad shape.
It’s like no one lives here.
You think this is wise?
Following that old man like this?
Those who don’t work don’t eat.
Huh?
If you want to eat, then work.
Work?
First you can collect the vegetables.
Collect what? Where are the vegetables?
Are your eyes nothing but empty sockets?
You watch nothing but TV…
…so you don’t see things anymore.
Empty sockets?
What’s up?! Those guys again?
Those guys?
Some kind of ghost-like figure.
Ghost?
J-Just in there…
I don’t see anything.
B-But I’m sure I saw it right there.
Huh?
It’s just a cucumber.
No way! This is a vegetable garden?
Quite lively in there, isn’t it?
You’ve got your cucumbers, squash, eggplant…
…cabbage, corn, soy beans, and even tomatoes.
Wow, that looks great!
Watch it. That’s asparagus.
This is asparagus?
So it is.
But this is pretty bad.
These weeds are out of control.
Why don’t you do a little weeding?
Why should I do any weeding?
Huh?
We even have to weed the flower garden at school.
The flowers and vegetables would lose out against the weeds, huh?
But do you think my vegetables are losing out against the weeds?
Aren’t they growing strong and healthy?
Oh, yeah…
Do you see that it’s real?
Do you see that what you see before you is real, young lady?
Real?
Boy, oh, boy…
There’re bugs all over these.
Excuse me, but the bugs are eating your vegetables.
Yes, they seem to be eating well.
Huh?
This old man’s bad news.
There’s something wrong with him.
These darn bugs!
There! There! There!
Why do you kill?
But the bugs are…
Why do you kill?
I mean, if the bugs eat up your vegetables…
Bugs get hungry, too.
But, then, what about people…?
Why do the insects eat the vegetables?
Until you’re able to answer that, you don’t get anything to eat.
What?!
Bathroom? Go out to the woods in the back.
What?!
We came all the way out to your house.
What comes from the land, ought to be returned to the land.
Sayuri and everyone must be pretty worried about us by now.
Hey, Tokio.
Why do insects…
…know which weeds and vegetables they can eat?
Right.
Here we go again with your “Why do…?” disease.
Think about it.
All the grasses look the same to me…
…but the bugs know exactly what they’re after.
I say it’s probably instinct.
But I didn’t know anything.
When I was left in the mountains…
…I didn’t know what I could eat.
I didn’t know anything.
Well, that can’t be helped.
Human beings aren’t like insects.
You think?
You really think we’re different? Humans and insects?
Well, they probably like it.
They find the leaves that are tasty and they eat them.
Here we go again with your “they like it”.
But I mean it.
I’ve always liked you a lot.
Darn!
Why, you!
What’s up?
No way…
It looks like the insects only eat the dark parts of the leaves.
Dark? What’d you mean?
Could it be that the insects start by eating the weaker…
…or bad parts of the leaves first?
You’re half-right.
What do you mean, half-right?
There was no such thing as good or bad in the world originally.
But I wonder what it is that you felt was bad.
Were you just referring to the leaves?
Or was there an even bigger reason?
You’re going to have to find the answers yourself.
You’re so mean.
But I’ll give you a break this time and feed you.
Really?!
All right!
Tomorrow morning, though.
Tomorrow?
I only have two meals a day. Beyond that, it’s just a waste.
What…?
Kojiro knows how to read people.
What’s the matter?!
Again… That shadow again…
No…Please don’t come…
Juna…
Young man, you’re going to be facing tough times ahead.
The young lady seems to be…
…able to see all kinds of things, even though she is so young.
Huh? See things?
You must protect her.
Earth Maiden Arjuna
Put a little more muscle into it, if you want to impress your girl.
Perverted old man…
Hey, is this grass really edible?
Even vegetables were once just weeds, you know.
Thanks for the breakfast!
This rice is so hard!
Huh?
It sure is.
It’s hulled red-kerneled rice.
Chew it well and it’ll start to taste better.
Hey, this isn’t too bad.
Yeah. It’s really good.
All right. I’m going to dig in.
Me, too!
– Wh-Why? – Juna?
That shadow again.
– What’re you doing?! – Quiet!
Now, take a nice big deep breath.
Breathe from deep down in your belly.
Right.
– Breathe deeper. – Huh?
Open up your heart.
Why am I…?
What?
Tokio…?
No way…
Is this all me? ls this me?
You?
I can see it.
I can see my image in the food.
Huh?
I can see the images of myself…
…you, and even the old man in the food.
Are you sure you’re all right?
I see. You’ve got good eyes.
What?
This food, the fish and vegetables…
…will soon be ingested by you, chewed…
…digested, absorbed…
…and will eventually become a part of your own body.
It’s going to be part of my body soon…
Then…
…the figure I saw yesterday in the garden must’ve been…
Eventually it will become a part of your body…
…and mine and the young man’s.
It represents the future of us.
The future of my form…
It is not to shoot the target.
But rather to become…
…one with the target.
All of the food becomes me… Becomes me…
Thanks for the food!
The squash and tomatoes and cabbage…
They all represent the future of us!
It’s a rice paddy.
That tickles!
Wow, look at all the fields.
Killing no insects or weeds…
…needing no fertilizer or tilling…
…fields tended by the organisms living in them.
No tilling?
The wind blows…
The insects dance…
Time passes…
The tiny lives…
…till the land on their own…
…and create new life.
Juna…
I gave up my career and my home, but not this one.
Gave up your career and home?
It’s all in the past.
Actually, I don’t think I will.
I’ve got to go along with her at least for a while.
How long will it last?
Just an old man talking to himself.
No!
What?!
Run!
If you don’t hang onto her…
…there’s no telling where she’ll go!
Right!
Juna!
Oh, no!
Juna!
Stop it!
Let go of me! Raajas…!
No! That’s no monster!
What?
No way…
Juna…
So they did it again, huh?
Again?
Why? Why do they have to kill?
The insects and the weeds…
…are nurturing the rice and vegetables together.
They’ve forgotten.
Blinded by short term efficiency, and a mistaken sense…
…of good appearance.
They’ve forgotten that the weeds, insects and all of the land…
…represent their future.
Why?
Why has everyone forgotten?
Maybe because people are too busy.
Busy with exams, work and study.
As people get caught up with the time on the clock…
…they forget the real now.
The real now…
The insects, weeds and the land…
…as well as human beings, become one.
That’s the real now.
The real now…
I don’t know what will happen Dounaru ka wakaranakute
I cry out loud Nakinagara koe wo ageru
Please Onegai
Don’t leave me alone Hitoribotchi ni sasenaide
Life can be disappointing Inochi wa akkenakute
You are really gone Hontou ni inakunatte
I want you to hold me again Mouichido daitehoshii
Only you were my angel Anatadakega tenshi dattanoni
The wind blows, and like wings… Kazega fuite watashiwa haneno yoni
…it wraps me in sadness Kanashimi wo matotte
It flies me away Tobasarete yukuno
The air and the stars… only the frail things… Kuuki to hoshi hakanai mono dakega
…gather here… to a pure place… Atsumaru kiyorakana
…to a place no one knows Daremo shiranai kuni e
Earth Maiden Arjuna
Intermission
Fields that need no tilling…
But why?
If fields don’t need to be tilled…
…why do people do it anyway?
Why do you think?
Well…
…isn’t it because there’s a better yield if you till the soil?
It’s true that if you till the soil, you can increase the yield slightly.
By using up the reserve of nutrients…
…that were accumulated in the soil.
But that won’t last forever.
Huh? Why?
The soil will die if you till it too much.
The soil will die?
That’s because the world of the bugs, worms…
…and the tiniest creatures in the soil that you can’t even see…
…is destroyed.
Huh?
To them, tilling is worse than…
…the kind of destruction you get from carpet-bombing in war.
But…
…even the fields that are tilled can yield some good crops.
That’s because they use fertilizers.
To replace the nutrients that were provided by the dead creatures.
But by giving the soil fertilizer…
…can’t you get nice, big vegetables and good rice?
Of course, the plants will grow well if you give the soil fertilizer.
But what if you gave it more than you had to…
…and you just get vegetables that are too big?
Too big?
That’s never a problem.
People always want bigger vegetables.
But if people get too big…
…they get heavy and become slow.
Well, that might be the case with humans…
Too much is as bad as too little, they say.
People and vegetables, cows and pigs are all the same.
With a lack of nutrition, they get thin and weak…
…if there’s too much, they get too fat…
…and get weak?
They get weak… [Chemical Fertilizer]
…and the bugs come…
When the wind blows, the cooper benefits.
If you till the land, the soil becomes weak.
Because the soil becomes weak, fertilizers become necessary.
The fields you give fertilizers to get eaten up by insects.
The more you overfeed livestock, the more they will tend to become ill.
And in order to get rid of those insects and viruses…
…we spray the fields with insecticide…
…or give the livestock medicine.
Vegetables and animals given too much insecticide and medicine…
…get weaker and weaker…
They may look bigger…
…but if people were to eat crops that have gotten weaker…
No…