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Even still, though nowadays revenue from BDs and DVDs is necessary to balance the production budget, I continue to assume that they will not sell.
All right, that's all for today.
Any other questions?
Teacher!
Are starfish edible?
Starfish?
I dunno, I've never had one.
I wanted to cook one for Sister.
I'm sure he'd be able to eat it.
Cook anything, and he'll be fine.
Oh, okay.
Well then! Let's get to cooking!
Wow, it's big!
Not that one! It has a torso!
A princess in clown's lipstick kisses you awake from your nap
You dreamers' tickets to your meeting are for a false VIP air force
I don't have time, what time is it? Class starts in five minutes
Don't rush, this is important, I meet you in five minutes
Venus is my neighbor, so why did it sneak up on me
Jesus is sitting right across from me, what do I do?
Here comes his attack, pretending he didn't hear my 'bye-bye'
He shows his shock, this is like a living hell
A wakeup kick for a greeting, my bare feet are always cut up
If you toss the chips in your hand at that girl, you may just sweep her off her feet in three winks
I don't hate you, I just don't like you, I don't know what I'm feeling
Don't wait, this is just a lull, I disappear with you in five minutes
Venus, she's always so lonely, don't look away
Jesus, if you're across from me, please listen
Episode 70 "Present"
Wow, he's wearing the same thing as he was when he left in silence after seeing me and Nino kiss!
Has he been like this all this time!?
Hey! Star!
A starfish. I'm a starfish.
See? It's a starfish!
Come on, Star!
I'm sorry if my looks fool you into thinking I'm a star.
I'm just a tiny, salty-smelling—
Star!
I'm a potato.
Either way, you're an ingredient!
Either way, you're rotten!
All right, let's give this a shot!
Ric, you're the taste-tester!
No way! Don't you mean the poison-tester?
Why are you in such a hurry to cook for Sister, any—
Fine, I'll tell you.
I want to thank him!
Thank him?
Sister bought me the bra I've wanted for so long!
Bra?
He must think I'm all grown up now!
Maybe he likes me!
What? but Sister's...
Hey, Ric!
I'll show you, just this once!
Doesn't it look so good on me?
I'm a big girl who can infiltrate the enemy base alone now!
What a wonderful design.
Isn't it?
It was a bulletproof vest.
Episode 71 "Embers"
Bra bra bra, I've got a bra!
Wait, if she's this excited about just one present...
Even though she's so little, she likes him so much that she came all the way from England looking for him.
What would happen if she knew how Sister feels about Maria?
That
That will happen again!
Hey, Ric.
Welcome.
Sister, where are you going?
To commune with Maria.
Sister!
Oh? Take care!
Sure.
Kitchen
Stella, aren't you curious about where he's going?
Didn't he say? To commune with Maria, right?
Maria?
Jesus's mommy!
Every time Sister makes a lot of cookies, he goes to commune with Maria!
But lately, he's been praying to her on a whole other level than he did back in England.
And I think I've heard the name Maria somewhere else too...
No! No, you haven't!
There's plenty of people here I haven't talked to yet.
That's perfectly fine!
I guess! I don't care about anyone but Sister!
Yeah, that's it!
That was close...
Sister's hot for the Maria that runs the farm.
Star!
The lady who runs the farm is named Maria?
Yep.
What are you telling her that for!?
Then Sister's really always talking about...
Wrong! Totally wrong!
You're terrible! Can't you play along!?
Retard!
If he's going to break her heart, let's get it done with while it won't hurt too much!
You'd never understand how much a one-sided crush hurts.
How much a one-sided crush hurts?
But she's still a little girl!
Stella...
New secret technique!
Aveshi Maria!
Aveshi!?
That's it. That's how I'll finish her off.
With this, I will... destroy Maria!
Destroy!?
I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Episode 72 "MSB (Mad Shot-down Brothers)"
A hundred times I'll make her regret getting close to Sister!
Wh—what!?
Have you even listened to Sister talk about her?
He's completely fallen for her!
Oh, I know.
Then why!?
How'd you get that big anyway!?
You know you've just loved and lost, right!?
No matter how much Sister loves Maria...
I love him a hundred times more!
Japanese is weird language like that.
I know about heartbreak... It's only natural that the heart hurts.
But what's this 'loved and lost' thing!?
Even if I don't have a thread of hope left, I'll never lose this feeling!
Sis...
Stand!
Before I start my counterattack, I need someone to taste-test my cooking!
Yes! Sis!
This is my best dish.
It looks tasty!
Starfish sauté!
It's all-natural!
Eat it while it's still hot.
The dinner at which Team Broken-Hearted was born.
Episode 73 "The Tyrant"
The power of "love" is strong.
Sometimes, through the force of that emotion, people show strength you'd never expect.
It's time, Boss.
Shall we go forth?
For the sake of my love for Sister?
Yes. This is...
Our target is Maria! The head of Maria!
Big sis!
You're the greatest, Boss!
This, too, is a miracle of love.
It's still hard to believe that's Stella...
Her head!
Guilty!
You guys!
You've been talking really dangerous.
You should already know this, but Maria's just a frail woman.
Shouldn't you worry about your own head rather than other people?
How long do you plan on staying with the enemy?
Enemy!?
Oh, you came to see me?
Oh, wait, you just fled here.
They were chasing after me, calling for my head!
You should run away too!
You may not know, but even though Stella plays innocent, she's actually incredibly evil!
Oh, that's fabulous.
She's cute, but I've wanter an opportunity to talk with her real self for a while now.
Wait, you knew she was just playing innocent?
I knew from the very beginning.
Hey, Maria, when does it start?
What's on the card?
Soon, my guests of honor!
Wh— Wait, you called her out!?
Doesn't it sound fun?
It's not fun at all, Maria, it's dangerous!
I'm not worried at all.
After all, I knew you'd come running here to protect me.
Here I come!
Save me, Ric!
I was bluffing, but I'm really scared...
My legs are shaking so hard I can't move, so I'll be watching from over here!
Isn't that an incredibly high vantage point!?
Oh, Ric!
I though you'd be shuddering in your room.
We thought so too!
Running away from them twice would be...
Wait, Nino!?
Plus, I can't look scared in front of my lover.
I'll be fine. Even if she looks like that now for some reason, she's still a little girl inside.
I can trick her by being an adult!
You're just confused now, okay, Stella?
You're letting your emotions run away with you, and making a mistake.
I'll be fine! I know we can work something out!
Okay? So just calm down a little and...
Give me your head.
Maria.
I can't talk with her unless I'm prepared to see the Star of Death.
You're so useless, Ric.
If I had to answer whether she was a human or a beast, I'd lean toward beast!
Fine, fine.
Stella, you were looking for me?
Yeah, I was!
Come on, Sister! Stop them somehow!
Don't be silly. If I did, Maria would...
This is no time to say you don't want her to be mad at you!
No, that's not it.
Maria would kill me.
Kill me a hundred times over.
Now, I'll show you the power of the new technique I developed for that purpose!
Final technique!
Aveshi—
Where did she!?
Don't be in such a hurry, Stella.
Why don't we have a talk first?
I can't believe she got behind sis!
That's not all!
The sheep were all woolly a minute ago...
But now they're shorn!
In just that moment!? Impossible!
As I expected from Maria.
It reminds me of the day we met.
Encountering each other on the battlefield, she shore me bald but for a single hair.
Her movements, never letting her guard down...
It was fascination at first sight.
Hello? Anyone home?
What did she just do!?
Wait, are you telling war stories!?
You didn't just make that up!?
Maria used to be a soldier too!?
No, Maria was that country's—
Never mind. I forgot all of a sudden.
She silenced you!?
I lost?
But all this time I've been... I've been...
Training as hard as I can so Sister would like me!
Stella...
For someone as weak as me, the only thing left...
Is seppuku!
Calm down, sis!
Let me go!
Calm—
You're not weak, Stella.
What are you doing, Maria? You don't need to comfort—
It's great to be honest about your feelings in front of someone that you love.
You're a wonderful strong girl.
Maybe we can be friends.
No way that'll happen!
Sis hasn't lost yet!
Don't worry! I'll avenge her!
Shooting star!
Wow, Stella! What a cute move!
I'll have to show you it later!
This was the worst thing that could have happened. The birth of Team Terrible.
Episode 74 "True Form"
My favorite magazine and cola.
Oh, and a pack of Seven Stars.
Here.
All the girls in the world
That will be 790 yen.
Should have short hair
Wow, he's kinda cute.
Yeah, he comes in every once in a while.
All the girls in the world
Love
But goddamn, your short hair kicks ass!
This weather's great.
Makes me feel all lighthearted.
And a trip up top to be reminded of the real world, too.
Wait, a normal person's down on the river.
It'd be better for his health if he left as soon as possible...
Wait! That's Star's trailer!
What, does he think it's just a wreck?
Hey, wait!
Don't! Someone lives in there!
Get out of there before you see something scary!
What?
Didn't someone other than you just come in?
What? I'm the only one here.
What? But someone just—
Wait, did you... Eat him!?
That has to be it.
I can't think of anything else.
I just figured it out!
Front
Body
Decoration
Real Mouth
Side
Body
Decoration
Real Mouth
Bottom
Real Mouth
Decoration
Body
Your real body is that mask!
Hi! Let's be friends!
Wow, you're cute! Sure thing!
You get close to young guys using that fancy body to pretend you're a fairy...
All right, I'm here!
You lure then, unsuspectingly, back to your trailer...
And once they've let down their guard...
Like that.
You live by consuming their bodies.
You're a parasitic life-form!
That's fucking scary!
Episode 75 "First-magnitude Star"
You maneater!
Shut the hell up!
That guy was me!
I thought I could get up in the morning and run down to the corner store.
Looks like I can't go out bare-faced.
Bare-faced?
Wait, if you were that guy, then aren't you admitting that that's a mask!?
No shit it's a mask.
I thought was the type to be like the Mayor and pretend he wasn't human.
Then why do you always wear it under the bridge?
This is just my pet theory,
but for a man in a mask, going without it is like a gal going without her makeup.
I can't show that to people like you .
I didn't know you were that much of a little girl!
I was just getting used to writing that mask off as your particular 'thing'!
Of course it's my 'thing'!
All right, I'm feelin' good today.
I'll be nice and explain exactly why I wear this mask.
So he's going to talk about his past?
Yes... It was four years ago...
A
1 Ore no Ballad 2 Ore no Tank-top 3 Ore no Love Song 4 Ore no Message Song 5 Ore no Fickle Salad 6 Ore no Crib 7 Ore no Hip-Hop 8 Ore to Sama Dasashi 9 Ore no Bonus Track
Ore no 3rd Album
Ore no 3rd Album / Me ~I made this~
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Me / Ore no 3rd Album Utatada Hikaru / tra SMAC / The Only Snot in the World Flippers / GAMERA TALK Hirai Yawara / Hell Spade / Body and Soul Bonjour Musume. / Seeds of Love Ashen / Invitation Rainy Day Service / Osaka Luna-2 / Gravity
My third album had just topped the Oricon charts.
Wait, what do you mean Oricon?
Why do you look so surprised?
I'm not here to play along with your fantasies.
My story is strictly nonfiction!
With the weirdo songs that you write, you'd never even get a record deal!
Weirdo!?
That really hurts, man.
Wait, he's accepting it?
Did I go too far?
You're right. I'm no good at writing lyrics or composing.
But my producer was one big ball of talent.
All I did was sing exactly as he said.
Ore no 3rd Album
A A A A A
Me / Ore no 3rd Album Utatada Hikaru / tra SMAC / The Only Snot in the World Flippers / GAMERA TALK Hirai Yawara / Hell
The facade was that I did everything, of course.
I was always pissed off at life back then.
While I had a break, I came to this riverbank alone.
The songs I wrote myself but could never let anyone hear, and whatever came to mind to let off stress...
Hey, babe. Bet you're bored of listening to my songs.
Yes! That girl was my fated Muse!
Okay, isn't that enough?
What!? I was just getting to the best part! Have some consideration!
Your head's been waxing and waning!
Wait, why ware you even wearing that!?
There have always been lots of rockers who cut themselves.
I covered it up with a moon mask,
You're like a fancy Sid Vicious.
Yeah, anyway.
The girl that was there is Nino.
At first, I wanted to be alone, and just ignored her.
Bugs don't eat anything but dirt
Even though it tastes like dirt
Nino listened to my song.
Hey, do you have a name?
Can't you tell by looking? I'm the moon!
The moon's up in the sky, silly.
I'm still the moon!
And what's your reasoning for that?
The moon only shines reflecting the light of the sun.
I'm the same way!
Without the sun of my producer, I can't sing!
I can't shine by myself! I'm just a shameful satellite!
Look.
You're lying, aren't you?
Weren't you just singing for yourself.
This is just trash compared to what I sing for a living!
I like it.
You're not the moon.
You're a sparkling first-magnitude star!
That's a gold-star answer, isn't it?
She told me that Venusians were talented at naming the stars.
So quit wearing a star mask!
That's all that beautiful story moved you to say?
No, I just wanted to say that.
I'll keep the rest of my comments to myself.
Fine, whatever.
My "love" for today is at max!
But if he was actually telling the truth, he's really amazing!
Your albums sold that much?
Yeah. Great, great memories.
Let's sound it out.
So you were on "Go Ahead"?
Yeah, of course I was. You're bringing back memories.
Lennon
Appears
So tomorrow again?
Go ahead!
I got a call from my good pal John!
And the next time I was on, I called Elvis!
Go ahead!
He shouted so loud his voice broke!
To me, he's just an excitable old man!
Wow, really.
So what was it, a séance special?
Nah, I called Elvis up live at home.
They're both dead.
He probably is making it all up.
That day, on the playground
We laughed without a reason
On my journey to pick up the pieces of my love
For some reason I'm always so lonely
I've got to get going, before the sky falls
Everything's in reverse, and I'm searching for you
Even though we're never going to arrive
Standing under the bridge, borne on the waves
We'll always be looking for an answer
Episode 76 "Arakawa Gag Contest"
Wait, where's the platform?
It was supposed to be Nino's turn,
but she was sound asleep, so we just dumped the bed in.
Wait, what if she falls off?
Nino! I'll save you!
She always does toss in her sleep.
No, I sleep-trained Nino in aikido.
Then that was a great trick!
Yeah, she sure got him.
We can call in "The—"
How about there?
Sister, how do you say that?
S.
How about this?
Te.
And that!?
Lla.
How about this?
I love.
It's time to go, Stella.
Next time, 10 Bridge.
Looks like I'm going to have to beat it out of you rather that sweet-talking it.
Illustration: Yukiko Sumiyoshi