kirakirakira kagayaki o minogasanaide
Don't miss the brightly shining light
anata no soba ni itsumo iru yo
that's always there beside you.
sore de kitto ne kangaekata shidai nanda
Then I'm sure the rest just depends on your perception.
sagasunjanakute kitsukeba iinda yo
You don't have to search for it, just notice that it's there!
atarimae no uragawa ni kakureteru yasashisa
There's a tenderness that lies hidden behind the most common things:
mainichi o irodoru hikari
A light that showers our days in color!
(Tiny Life) kiseki no kakera de
(Tiny Life) This world is constructed...
(Tiny Days) sekai wa dekiteru
(Tiny Days) ...by fragments of miracles!
muimi ni mieta mono ni anata mo atashi mo
Things that seemed meaningless at one point
mamoreteitari, shirazu ni aisareteru no
were actually protecting us, loving us... without us even knowing.
(Tiny Heart) afuredasu omoi
(Tiny Heart) A feeling flows forth...
(Tiny House) subete ni arigatou
(Tiny House) ...giving thanks for everything we've been given.
itsumademo itsumademo wasuretari shinai
We'll never, ever forget...
kono kimochi taisetsu ni zutto
cherishing this feeling forevermore!
AO and TC Subs presents:
Timing: Wilczur Script: Tohno OP: Haruto QC: bumbaloe, & Prokyon
Vs. Hresvelgr
Gourai!
We're having a battle!
A few hours prior
One, two...
...three!
Oh, my. It seems I won.
So if we play hide-and-seek... and if I find you, I can punish you however I like.
Wait a minute! That's not part of the rules at all!
When whoever is "it" exclaims "found you" and touches you...
Well, that touch can be either gentle or hard.
Goodness, really?
What are you talking about?!
I shall now begin counting.
One...
We should hurry and hide.
Two...
Understood.
Three...
Four...
Just getting found could be kinda dangerous!
Five...
Six...
They're so afraid of me that they're falling over themselves!
How lovely... How lovely!
I came up with this as a way of killing time while Ao was away, but...
I get the feeling we will be robbed of something important to us!
Eight...
Don't make a sound.
Nine...
Halting all functions.
Ten.
Ready or not...
I'm ready.
Found you.
Yes, you did. So, shall we find the others?
Wait, now there are two "its"?!
I'm trapped?
In that case... I'll run for it!
Someone is surely under there, crawling around like some maggot.
How shall we draw her out?
Gourai sensed danger and is making a run for it!
Base-chan. Found you.
F.A. Girl!
Base will be the next "it"!
Goodness, it seems I'm the first one to have been found.
It doesn't count if you come out on purpose!
This occurred to me earlier: Is it all right to run if you think you'll be found?
Sure is.
Yup!
I'll do my best!
F.A. Girl!
So, everyone hide, okay?
One, two, three...
four, five, six...
seven, eight...
nine, ten!
I'm gonna find you guys right off the bat!
That girl's an idiot!
Jinrai! Stylet! Found you!
Touch, touch, touch...
F.A. Girl!
Hm... Huh?
I'm home!
Ao!
Aural analysis complete. It is not a match with Ao.
Hey!
I'm home, you guys!
It's the robot cleaner.
Hey!
That's quite the sneaky tactic, Base-chan.
Pardon the intrusion!
C'mon out!
Looks like I'm running out of energy.
I'm sleepy...
Gourai!
We're having a battle!
Huh? Wha-wha-wha-?
Hey, Gourai, are you here?
I don't know that voice...
Analysis: No data.
Positive it is synthesized speech.
That makes sense.
Huh. There are people in this room...
but why aren't they coming out?
I've got it! They're hiding because they're scared of me, right?
No, it's just hide-and-seek, you idiot!
And yet! Slinking around and hiding is so boring!
Boring!
Wha-?
Oh, my.
Quite the ruffian, yes?
B-Baselard! Stop this. Baselard!
Baselard...? No, you're not.
Found ya, Gourai!
Who are you?
I'm Hresvelgr, and I'm the strongest of the Frame Arms Girls!
The strongest...?
"Hresvelgr"?
The company told me to come get more data on your fail rates.
My... fail rates?
Those guys keep losing to you, right?
How pitiful is that?
You're not very respectful, are you?
Anyway, Gourai, that's why... I'm going to beat you, hard!
Gourai!
"Hard," you say?
Please, break her.
Gourai!
Hresvelgr!
Frame Arms Girl Session...
- Go! - Bring it!
I'm gonna end you!
You're gettin' dragged down the street!
I'm gonna win with flair and then, BAM - victory!
I have a renewed sense of pride!
Way, way too slow!
I'm not done yet!
Hey, what gives? The front door is all busted up.
Huh?
Someone's fighting?
Gourai's all beat up!
Wow... Are you done for already?
All bark but no bite, is that it? C'mon, Gourai!
Find the weakness... and exploit it!
Seriously, let's keep fighting.
Got you!
Yes! She can't use her guns at that range!
This is the best! It's a thrill, right?
Lie down already, weakling.
I am Hresvelgr, and the wind is mine to control!
Oh, multitude of power, form now a spiral!
Verrill Shot Launcher: Tornado Typhoon Cyclone Slash!
Winner: Hresvelgr.
Sure enough, no one can beat me!
Yes! I knew I'd win.
Later!
Gourai...
Hey, you all. I found you!
Huh? What's going on?
Uh... How can I put this?
Well, Gourai-chan...
She lost.
First Tale of the F.A. Girls
Gourai?
Gourai!
Yes! I'm fine! All systems ready to go!
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I'm sorry!
What's with her?
She's not herself, is she?
So out of character.
Perhaps she's...
...fallen in love.
In love?!
What's this? How could she fall prey to such a thing? She's gone soft?!
Hey, Gourai! You've grown lax!
Oh, Jinrai.
Sorry, I... I didn't realize how much I'd been thinking about Hresvelgr.
Heresy!
So, this must be...
...love, right?
This is... love?
I keep replaying that battle in my head.
I think to myself, "If I'd done this...
Or if I'd thought of this...!"
Like this! Or this!
Ow, ow, ow! Why are you hitting me?!
Or this!
I get it. It stings doesn't it Gourai?
"Stings"?
Yeah.
You hate how powerless you feel, or there's some regret that you can't get over.
When you feel that way, we say "it stings".
To not want to lose...
Indeed.
Yes. Ao, it stings! Very much so!
Ao.
Please give me some money.
I want to get stronger and battle Hresvelgr again.
To do that, I'll need more powerful weapons!
So, please give me money!
You've gotten pretty blunt, haven't you?
But, wait, Factory Advance has randomly sent you weapons up till now, right?
I wonder if we can buy them from a shop or something...
Hmm... Dunno! We don't use normal weapons, so they might not be in any old shop.
If a powerful weapon is what you're after, then you yourself must become stronger.
Listen, Gourai: What you lack is DRIVE!
Understood...
Stylet.
Wh-what?
Please let me hit you.
At this rate, combat is the only option!
Hold on!
Ao, you're my opponent, are you? Understood!
Gourai, calm down!
Indeed. Taking on a human would be of little benefit.
Come to think of it, I don't know that much about you guys.
Even if I wanted to try to make you stronger, Gourai, I wouldn't know what to do.
So, like... Sorry.
Heard and understood.
Initiate search and summon of a specialist re: The history of the F.A. Girls.
Summon...
Hey! You can't just do that!
Though uncalled, I have arrived!
Wait, does that sound dated? Of a bygone era?
I happened to be passing by and, behold - a call for help!
Could this be destiny?
Your door was unlocked! How careless!
Bukiko, can you make a new weapon or something?
Aaah. Build something from scratch, huh?
Should we go with plastic resin?
No, vacuum forming.
But in terms of precision...
Put simply, the F.A. Girls are made using incredible technology.
That's not something you can just imitate!
"Incredible technology," huh?
I want to know more about this incredible technology!
Tell me about it, Bukiko!
Roger wilco and 10-4!
First Tale of the F.A. Girls
First Tale of the F.A. Girls.
Ao, how do you think the F.A. Girls are born?
They're made from clay or something and then get baked, right?
No, no!
Okay, here we go: Today's theme is how the F.A. Girls are made!
Acrylic, enamel! Dilute and lacquer!
Then - Top coat!
Well, here we are - the design room where everything begins!
The first step is deciding how an F.A. Girl will look and what equipment she'll have.
For example, Gourai will be like this!
Th-this is embarrassing...
To bring this idea to life, they use a 3D modelling software called CAD.
Once the idea is mapped out, first, they make a prototype.
These days, they're mostly machine-made...
but sure enough, the finishing is done by hand.
It's so small!
Naturally, the body can be neither shrunk nor enlarged...
Such detailed work would be beyond you, Ao.
Just thinking about it is making me lose my appetite!
Once the prototype is done, it's used to make a die-and-mold model!
Die Mold
The model has convex and concave parts, right?
Convex
Concave
Plastic is injected to make the parts.
Air
Plastic
It's efficient and beautiful!
Parts come out the same color and formed on a single frame.
The model has convex and concave parts, right?
What about our father?
Our father is...
he's out of the picture.
That's just creepy! The person who designed us is our father, right?
Then, the rough-cut die-and-mold is further refined...
And so, Ao!
Yes!
Out of these, which do you think would be used for finishing?
Well, um...
The nippers?
Wrong-o! Sad, isn't it?
Even the almighty Kotobuki Nippers can't be used for finishing.
The answer is - none of these. Yup!
That is the one thing to never do in a quiz.
For detailed finishing, they use... electricity!
It would take about three hours to go into detail, but put simply,
they use little bolts of lightning for the precise finishing.
But the final, final touch comes from human hands!
Even 0.1 mm can have a huge effect on the finished product!
Indeed, it's no exaggeration to say this is the stage upon which the entire modeling process rests!
For Ao-chan, this would be...
[Censored.]
Just don't say it.
The final die-and-mold is made using an injection molding machine.
This thing weighs 400 kilograms!
What?! That's more than six bales of rice! This "die-and-mold" is not to be taken lightly!
Now, this is where the "clay" - or more precisely, plastic - that you mentioned earlier comes into play.
They're made in small grains called "pellets,"
then melted down at 250 degrees Celsius and force-injected into the mold!
The plastic goes down hot, and it hits while the metal is hot!
This has gotten pretty incredible!
This is how they make the frame called a "runner."
Ah! This framework - it's from the melted-down pellets, isn't it?
Yes, yes!
Following this, there's the molding and trial fitting,
as it gets refined through the die-and-mold phase, over and over!
Adjustments are made at the micron level, fueled by unflinching resolve
and the desire to find the optimal solution - this is how you F.A. Girls were created!
Wow! All finished!
A lot of work, isn't it?
Quite the ordeal.
I can only imagine they're utter masochists.
Seeing all that again gets you pretty emotional, huh?
Indeed. This is how each of us were created.
Bukiko - this was useful.
Huh. So that's how it's done...
Still, you guys seem a bit more awesome.
Is there some new material or new process involved?
Well, of course!
Don't think of us as your average, mass-produced product!
The science that made me is second-to-none!
Still, the exact details are...
...secret.
Gourai?
Jinrai... you told me earlier that I lack drive, didn't you?
Indeed.
You were right.
Those who designed us were our fathers, and the die-and-molds were our mothers.
We were all born the same way.
But we have our uniquenesses, our own purposes!
We were born so that we can learn and think, experience and move forward!
I lost to Hresvelgr yesterday, but I might beat her tomorrow!
What's most important isn't a strong weapon: It's that I'm strong!
This is some great data!
I'm going to write a report and send it to Factory Advance.
I might get a good chunk of change for this!
Okay! I'm gonna stay up late to write it.
And we shall assist you!
Yeah!
Ao? What's wrong?
Factory Advance wrote back.
In a nutshell, "We knew all this. After all, we made them."
Yeah, I guess that's true!
Huh? There's more.
"We at this laboratory have decided that your opinion in this report,
namely, that 'emotions' and 'powerful weaponry' could aid in Gourai's reinforcement,
definitely warrant further observation.
Thus, we'll be sending you a set of parts that we've developed,
and ask that you record additional data."
Oh, dear!
Wh-what the heck is this?!
I'm sorry for inconveniencing you, Stylet, after having been rocked by my first defeat.
It's fine, but... why me?
That I cannot say.
"A Call to Action"
"Autumn Beckons..."
Next time, on Frame Arms Girl: Let's have...
...Session.
Actually, if there's a reason, that's kinda terrifying!