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!
Hot Pot Day
"When winter comes...
When winter comes... a single hot pot shall suffice.
a single hot pot shall suffice."
Yeah, I totally get it!
Who said that?
The building manager put it in with the pot.
The guy's a bit of a mystery, huh?
Still, he's quite helpful.
And Ni-taro was a big help when we were doing our rooms!
I'm assuming we'll have both the brains and the innards.
Whoa, wait, what are you talking about?!
About the hot pot. And that means...
Innards, of course.
That light shade of pink... That plump, firm flesh...
Hoisting it out, slicing it up, and seeing those generous organs...
Offal hot pot is the best! Anglerfish hot pot is the best!
Wait, hot pot has to be with offal, don't you think?
Goodness, no. It has to be with anglerfish.
What are you saying?
Hot pot must, of course, be in the Yanagawa style!
"Yanagawa"? What kind of dish is that again?
Acquisition Mode: "Yanagawa hot pot."
Data acquisition complete.
Yanagawa hot pot has flat-sliced pond loach placed atop shaved burdock root in a circular pattern,
and is flavored with dashi broth, soy sauce and sugar, with whipped egg poured in.
Well? That is the flavor of Japan, a tradition since the Edo era!
There's no way one wouldn't eat that!
Oh, get off your high horse.
It's not like you invented it or anything!
Huh? Wait, isn't there a clam hot pot or something too?
You fool! You mean Fukagawa-style hot pot!
Acquisition Mode: "Fukagawa-style hot pot."
Data acquisition complete.
The main ingredient in Fukagawa-style hot pot is littleneck clams.
It is named after the Fukagawa area of Koto City, Tokyo, from which these clams are farmed.
Nah, I'd say they just couldn't get their hands on enough fish...
I quite like the loach when it's alive and writhing...
Indeed.
Nothing beats having someone bound and unable to move, being offered as a sacrifice to the loach.
Give a loach even the slightest opening and it will find its way in...
No!
You perverts!
Oh, my. Why are you blushing?
Have you imagined something unseemly?
What do you mean, "unseemly"?!
Who's to say...?
Perhaps that's a question to ask your own body.
Maybe we should do a hot pot with more, like, normal ingredients.
Forget that!
What a shame...
Hey hey! Well, how about a tomato hot pot?
"Tomato hot pot"?
Oh, I heard about that from a girl in my class.
Yup! Girls just love tomato hot pot!
Lycopene is good for the skin, and the dish has lots of cheese.
To finish out the broth, you can add pasta or risotto.
Well? Sounds great, right?
Huh? What kind of reaction is that?
Well, tomato hot pot is so...
It's only become popular in the last few years.
Tomatoes and cheese?
Such pedestrian ingredients in a hot pot is just so...
uncalled for.
What's more, using the broth to add...
...pasta...
...or risotto!
What's the big idea? Why are you laughing?!
Base, What kind of hot pot do you like?
Base likes sukiyaki!
Gourai, and you?
I prefer oden.
Is something wrong?
I was just thinking, I wonder if oden or sukiyaki even count as a hot pot...
Cooking proteins in a clay pot can cause the pot to break.
Using a metal pot is more highly recommended.
Yeah, you're right. So I guess sukiyaki is out.
What about oden?
"Oden" is a common name for ingredients that have been simmered in broth.
It originated as a dish of skewered tofu in grilled miso.
Its current form of ingredients seeped in fish broth has its origins in the Edo era.
Wow! So it wasn't technically a hot pot dish!
The Edo period? Excellent!
Then it's a relative of Yanagawa-style hot pot!
Jinrai, what is it with you and your obsession with the Edo period?
She just likes old stuff!
Speaking of, you like sumo as well, right?
Do you also like chanko hot pot?
Ch... chanko hot pot?
Unless made by fighters of the sumo ring, it is but a pale imitation!
You give up a bit too soon, don't you, Jinrai-chan?
We'll have Ao-chan feed you lots of rice...
Get you nice and fat...
Should I be made to join a sumo stable...!
Dosukoi!
Note: Dosukoi is a traditional word used for a sumo attack.
Forget it, no way!
Still, this is a problem. What sort of hot pot should we do?
Why not just throw a bunch of stuff in some broth and let it simmer?
That's how we've always done it.
We'd do it in a seaweed broth, then everyone in our family would dip stuff in their favorite sauce.
In that case, choosing which ingredients to cook is important, isn't it?
Sure is! Okay, I better go right now and...
Baka!
What is it, Ao?
I've already burned through this month's food budget.
I'm sure we had eggs, though.
And you still have rice.
Just eggs and rice...?
Learning Mode: "Egg and rice recipes."
Data acquisition complete.
Possible recipe: Rice gruel.
That's how you're supposed to finish the meal!
I've got it!
Why not ask the building manager for something?
That's a nice idea!
I'm sure he'd give you something delicious!
I-I don't know...
Go get some anglerfish, Ao!
Ask him for some loach.
Yeah, there's no way he'd have that...
Uh, sorry. Um...
Building Manager
All this?
And you even have loach?!
I totally can't believe it, but the manager had everything.
He really is a mystery...
Still, he's awesome!
Well then, shall we begin?
Huh? Begin what?
Well...
The Tale of 100 Hot Pots.
"The Tale of 100 Hot Pots"?
Data acquisition complete.
The Tale of 100 Hot Pots is a family game,
the rule for which is each person can add an ingredient for a hot pot related story they tell.
Where did you get that "data" from?!
This information of yours is getting shadier by the minute!
Okay, I guess I'll start...
Ao, you're buying into this?!
Well, I just really want to start making this hot pot already...
Yes, that's understandable.
F.A. Girl!
So, the lids on hot pots have holes in them, right?
That's because...
when you put the lids on, the steam inside will rise and make the lid move,
so the hole is there on purpose, to let the steam out and stop that from happening.
Okay! First ingredient goes in!
The clay hot pot is well suited to cooking rice porridge.
What? Really?!
The starch in the rice porridge seeps within the cracks of the pot, thus preventing water drainage.
Huh? So then, maybe we should have started with a rice dish?
Understood. Inserting white rice.
Whoa, stop, wait!
Oh no! Now it's just rice soup!
Who's next? Someone!
Did you know? Eating a hot pot dish with someone...
...makes it easier to control them.
Wow, really?
You can have the other person make the whole dish, while you do nothing at all.
Meanwhile, the other person acquiesces without even being aware of it,
thus giving you the psychological advantage.
My hot pot has tomatoes and-
Yes, yes. My hot pot story is, well... Um...
Hot pot makes the body nice and warm!
Adding ginger provides additional warmth!
Ginger is quite good for the health, isn't it?
Wait a minute! I wasn't done talking about my tomato-!
Done!
We should lower the heat before the ingredients all simmer down.
Um, where's the pot stand?
Ah, there it is.
Okay, let's eat!
Wait, come to think of it...
Gourai, you and the others can't eat this, can you?
Yes, you're correct.
I know, right?
Wait, so I have to eat all this myself?
You can do it, Ao! We're rooting for you!
I guess that means we've got some free time, huh?
Very well! In that case, what do you say to a battle?
A battle?
Yes! I believe I'd like to ask Gourai-kai for a rematch!
Yeah, sounds good.
Go make me some money for the food budget...
I challenge you, Gourai!
Sure, that's fine by me!
F.A. Girl!
What is it, Recharger-kun?
They're looking for something!
It looks like they can't find the Session Base.
Wait! Has it honestly disappeared?!
Maybe it's under the bed.
Inconceivable!
Maybe it just got misplaced.
It would not be treated so carelessly!
Maybe it was mistaken for garbage and tossed out...
Living our lives as Frame Arms Girls without battling would be both pitiable and wonderful, no?
Don't tell me one of you peons has hidden it!
What is the meaning of those smiles?!
Well, your face is so amusing when you're flustered.
What was that?!
It's totally, really gone, huh?
Jinrai-chan, your switch gets so easily flipped, doesn't it?
Sure enough, one of you peasants is behind this!
Come on, Jinrai! Calm down!
Confess, Materia siblings!
Cease this subterfuge!
Well, what does it matter?
What's the matter, Gourai?
It's something you said earlier, about that object with the hole...
Oh, you mean lid on the hot pot?
Yes. But what is this feeling...?
Ah! Maybe you're finding something in common!
Could it be you think you're lacking something that other people have?
If being a Frame Arms Girl means you don't know much about emotions...
Well, that's something that's important to you, right?
And you lack it because it's important.
Lacking because it's important...
Yup! Learning about emotions can teach you about a lot of other things, right?
It's because you lack them that you get to experience those other things.
I suppose you're right...
Hey, Gourai! What are you doing?
Come over here and help me!
Sorry, I'm busy interacting with a companion right now.
Girl, that's a water flea!
This is unforgiveable!
Very well: it's come to this!
Why you...! Calm down!
Why you...!
Battle! Battle!! Battle!!!
When winter comes...
A single hot pot is pitiful indeed.
Yeah, that's true...
Jinrai-chan just can't get over it, can she?
Still, it's quite the discovery: Using the Session Base as a pot stand...
Has utterly destroyed her.
The embers have died out...
I-I'm sorry I didn't pay more attention.
You need not apologize, Ao.
That's right, Ao!
No one could have noticed under such conditions.
Y-yeah.
Actually, I totally noticed...
So, what do you say, Architect?
Upon analysis...
Repair is not possible.
SHOCK!
Ha! She said "shock!" She actually said "shock!"
Well, fine.
We'll just have to send it back to Factory Advance to get it repaired.
What? That's a waste of time.
You'll all be recalled soon anyway, so what does it matter?
What does that even...
Wait, it's you?!
Hresvelgr!
Hey there! Hresvelgr in the house!
What are you doing just barging into our conversation?!
That's broken, isn't it?
Yeah, sure is.
I was thinking I'd beat all of you as well after I've beaten Gourai, but I guess I can't now, huh?
For your knowledge, I will not be "crushed" again.
You've made some upgrades, right?
You know about that?
I mean, you battled her, right?
She's nothing like me, though.
The data from the battle against Hresvelgr was perfectly replicated.
I see... So, you have a direct pipeline to the battle data that gets sent to the company, do you?
That's pretty much it!
So, you know everything about Gourai-kai?
Then we're totally at a disadvantage!
Data notwithstanding...
...Hresvelgr-chan has certainly penetrated us.
There is no denying that she knows our tactics.
Would it not be best for both parties to put aside their swords?
Wait, what?
You mean you're not going to fight, Gourai?!
Well...
That's way too boring!
I want to fight the new Gourai-kai!
C'mon, let's do it! Let's do this, Gourai!
Understood. Let's fight.
If you're not really up for it then you should do it some other time, Gourai.
The human has a point.
If you fight and your heat isn't really in it, that would be super boring for me!
What if I did something to this thing?
Would that get you motivated?
Wait, wait! What do you mean, "something"?!
Who could say?
Please step away from Ao, Hresvelgr.
You feel like fighting now?
Get away from Ao!
So you've gotten a little more serious, huh?
Charger-kun!
Gourai!
Hresvelgr!
Frame Arms Girl Session...
- Go! - Bring it!
Protecting what's important: that is my fight!
Don't you dare look away.
Just watch me, and then be crushed by me!
Take this!
Huh. Not bad.
It would seem she knows everything about Gourai-kai.
Yeah...
This was unexpected.
What are you doing?!
Gourai-chan is fighting quite well, isn't she?
And here I thought she was just absent-minded...
I've been wondering...
what that was supposed to mean.
You'll all be recalled soon anyway, so what does it matter?
That's true...
She did say "recalled."
Oh, about that!
If Gourai loses this battle, they're going to stop recording data here with this human.
That means you'll all be recalled to Factory Advance.
Tut-tut. You've left yourself wide open!
B-but that means...
We won't... be together anymore?
Sure does!
That's how your system works?
There are no clear-cut rules for collection battle data.
Some believe it's because the necessary data has already been acquired.
So that's why Hresvelgr came back, is it?
I'm positively tingling with excitement.
No, I don't like this!
Gourai! You mustn't lose!
You haven't gotten as powerful as I'd expected, Gourai.
I suppose it's because you're in a place like this.
A place... like this?
That human activated you by accident, right?
She's a total amateur.
She's useless, and doesn't know a thing about us Frame Arms Girls!
She's no good to you at all!
I'm totally getting dissed...
Just go back to the company already.
Get stronger and stronger, so you can keep on fighting me!
Is that why...
you did what you did earlier?
Is it why you treated Ao as a hostage...
as some sort of object?
Are you actually angry?
Yes.
I believe... this feeling is anger!
Ooh, nice!
Okay, okay! Now I'm fired up!
Beryl Smasher!
What manner of weapon is that?!
It's so big!
Beryl Smasher: Blaze Tempest Burst!
The breaker went off?
Are you all okay?
Jeez, so it's a draw?
Still, it was more fun than I expected!
Well, you'll be seeing me again. Bye!
If I lose to her next time,
we'll all...
When making Yanagawa hot pot,
it's important to make sure the charger area doesn't get clogged, isn't it?
Just thinking about that was enough to make me go "Gaaaah!"
"What Lies Behind That Emotion"
"A Public Bath! A Battle?!"
Next time on Frame Arms Girl, let's have...
...another session together. There it goes...