"Clone Baby" Episode 1
There is only one chair prepared for us in life.
There are people who go around and hide their desires to be sitting in that chair.
They steal it from each other or kill others for it.
And...
... there were 11 lives that were created to target that chair.
They were born as clones but are not the exceptions.
This is to have them kill each other for that one chair.
This is the tale of those eleven clones.
It's all over.
This will end it all.
Having you die will help me out.
Who are you?
What do you want?
Go away!
Don't come near me!
- I want to... die already. - ... die already.
"I've had enough of my life!"
"Ah, I would change it all if I could."
Isn't that what you want to say?
It's easy to say those words.
But you honestly don't have the courage to kill yourself.
- I really do want to die... - Having you die will help me out.
Right... hurry up.
There has only been one chair prepared for this game of musical chairs.
What does that mean?
Let me help.
"CLONE BABY" 1st CLONE
We have over 500 million from the sales of last year's cloned cows.
We have continued to further our research with the creation of clone pigs and clone chickens.
But the development of human clones is still banned.
The next section is... Dr. Hazuki?
Hi, everyone.
Do you know why cloning humans is so frightening?
Humans using humans to create humans is dangerous.
Don't mind him. Right, the next section is the IPS newest...
One unique aspect of cloned animals, which began with the cloned sheep Dolly, is that they are created without male fertilization.
I have a question!
Does that mean males aren't needed to create clones? We wouldn't get any sex?
- There's got to be another method! - We'd be fine with it!
I shall continue the lesson.
The victim is 19 year old Muta Kanji.
His birthday is July 7th.
- Wakabayashi, there's no doubt... - Shogo, I know.
- But still... - That's horrible. - Yeah.
- This time the liver is missing from the body. - This is the fourth case.
The Tanabata (July 7th) murders have hit our jurisdiction now too.
- I'm alive? - How do you feel?
How does it feel to have committed suicide?
You...!
Ah, he's woken up.
Masamune!
Are you alright?
- I'm okay. - That's good. We were worried about you.
What is this? What happened?
Masamune, you missed a step and fell down the stairs.
- Do you remember? - Kanako, don't call your brother by his name.
- It's fine. Fine. - I'll go and call the doctor. - Okay.
I was...
- What's the matter? - Nothing...
- What happened to the fact that I should have died? - Masamune, you're being weird.
I'm sorry! I dropped one of the important samples.
- Just make the same thing again. - Eh?
That's what clones are.
I wonder why I'm here as normal?
Hadn't I been going to kill myself?
Um, where is the study room?
Um, go up those stairs to the second floor...
Marika...!
Hi, Masamune.
What happened to your left hand? Are you hurt?
Mm, it's nothing.
- Are you okay? - Mm, fine.
- It was the same... the same voice as always. - It doesn't hurt?
- Hey! Hey! - It was probably her voice calling me that has me here right now.
Ouch!
What is this?
I heard this from your dad, Masamune. You're aiming for the Science Department of Tokyo University?
- Mm. - Aren't your grades about 50 points too low?
50 is exaggerating!
- Another 35 points. - 35?!
- Oh? - Well, it's probably pointless, but I made that for you anyway.
- Don't put it on me without asking. - It's surprisingly effective as a lucky charm.
This birthmark we both have really is alike.
If you pass, you'd better say thank you to me!
- No way! - You brat!
- It's probably thanks to you. - Eh?
Surprisingly you've probably helped me out a lot.
- I'm always helping you. Anyway, what do you mean by "surprisingly?" - Oh?
It's gone.
Masamune, what happened to your bracelet?
Oh? Ah, well... um...
I think I lost it in the hospital.
You only just noticed that now?
That's lucky. Now you'll be sure to pass your university entrance exam.
Marika...
I wonder if our relationship will be lost too?
You're creepy, Masamune!
Don't try to run away!
Sorry...
Shouldn't you say, "I apologize?"
Nice pitching.
Hey, don't try to curl up and avoid the punches!
- The first one to scar him gets this as a prize. - For real? Here goes then!
Kidney, intestines and this time it's the liver.
One internal organ from each victim was taken.
Murder cases of 19 year olds born on Tanabata
But we've only received DNA from each victim.
- So that means the DNA of the victims and the perpetrators are the same? - Yes.
- Elaborate suicides! - Suicides?
Right? First you grab your shirt yourself.
- Your own shirt? - Then you punch yourself!
- You whack yourself with the weapon from behind! - Behind?
Then you can cleanly take out your own internal organ.
- That's... - ... impossible, right?
Good night, Masamune.
Someone help...
Someone swap places with me!
Shall I swap with you?
Let me help.
- You... - Shall I swap with you?
- Huh? - You've been bullied, right? And it's gotten pretty bad.
When did it start? From high school?
- Before that. - How uncool. You've been bullied?
What do you think the reason was? They could have chosen anyone to bully.
It didn't need to have been you.
If you don't like it, you could vanish from this world.
So you'd have to swap with someone else.
So swap with me!
Anyone would swap with someone else if that was a way out of this crappy life! Right!
So swap with me!
The deal has been made.
Silly, silly, silly! You should know better than to mess with a genius hacker.
There it is.
"The Tanabata (July 7th) murder case." There it is, there it is, there it is!
This case is incredible. Woo, yahoo~!
- Oh no, I'll be late. - Good morning. - Good morning.
Aoyagi household
Move. That's my chair.
- From today this is my chair. - Huh?!
- Move. - No. It's easier to see the TV from here, right?
If you don't have a proper breakfast, your brain won't be at full power. That's why we eat this cereal...
- I don't want any. - Ah, don't you?
Anyhow, do you know where my bracelet went? Did it fall off in the hospital?
- Eh? The one Marika gave you? - Eh, you weren't wearing it.
- I see. Anyhow, I'm off. - See you later. - Bye.
I'm late!
- Yo! - You're...
I took the test instead of you.
Eh?
Ms. Higuchi, there's something I'd like to ask you.
- What? - Are you quitting school?
Please don't quit.
Not...!!
I bet it's gotten harder to stay here.
Losing our mid-year tests was so bad of you. Well, I've always hated you anyway.
Like, you seem like such a haughty woman. Are you really?
You're probably not interested in any humans.
Are these mice the only ones you'll open your heart to?
Let me give you a retirement gift.
The one who stole the mid-year tests from your desk was me... me... me...
Does it feel like you were tricked? I guess these are the kinds of times when you use the phrase "knocked speechless."
What?
- What is this?! - It's the opposite.
- Huh? - I have an interest in humans.
Be in the park at 7 o'clock. Don't be even one minute late.
You understand, right?
Hey, what's with this guy?
Shall I swap with you?
Instead of me?
Each time we look at the data, it becomes clearer that the targets are 19 year olds born on July 7th.
19 year olds born on Tanabata (July 7th) equals 128 men in Tokyo city alone.
There was one guy who was reported missing 3 days ago.
Why have you suddenly gone quiet?
Well, I feel like I've seen that mark somewhere before.
Did you kill another one?
Something terrible again...!
Exclusive divine providence?
Exclusive divine providence, clones, magnetic laws, Asterisk plan
Marika...
It's him!
- Ah, Masamune? - What are you up to! - Calm down.
- I asked you what you're up to! - Stop it.
Don't just try to get only the good side of things.
It was you who asked me to swap with you, right?
Those were your words, weren't they?
Think about it.
Remember what you did up on that building's rooftop.
There has only been one chair prepared for this game of musical chairs.
Something must have happened on that day in that hospital.
- You're Katsushika Marika, aren't you? - Eh?
That's my bracelet!
- Wait! - Stop! What's the matter?
- Wait! - Please don't make a scene here.
- Me?! Wait! - Please calm down.
It's mine!
Let go of me!
- It's great to drink alcohol in the daytime. - We're acting like grown-ups by drinking at this time of day.
Ah, thanks. I'm glad I heard of the promotion.
Dad, would you ever get promoted?
What do you think you're up to?!
They met each other.
In the whirlpool of recurring lives...
... for that one moment...
... it seemed...
Who are you!?
... as if they were being guided by the gods...
... as they met.
Who are you?
Ichikawa Tomohiro as Aoyagi Masamune, Matsuzaka Tori as Kikuchi Hiro Matsushige Yutaka as Aoyagi Kazuma (father), Miki Honoka as Aoyagi Kanako (daughter) Taki Yukari as Katsushika Marika, Makita Tetsuya as Detective Katsushika Shogo
Kikuta Daisuke as Mikumo Gota, Inaba Yu as Ozu Sataoshi Yamazaki Kento as Okabe Jotaro, Suruga Taro as Detective Wakabayashi Haruki Kikuchi Akiko as Higuchi Rika (teacher), Shiga Kotaro as Dr. Hazuki Soichiro