01x03 - Tigerish" / "Nobae's Terror

[bunniefuu]

GAMESOME

You can't just concoct

any imaginary creature.

Things have to make sense.

Imagination is ruled by laws?

Dreams follow the laws of dreams.

Other universes have their own laws too.

What if there's a law that says no laws?

Anything is possible, isn't it?

Make up your mind.

We're back!

If you're far away, listen.

If you're close by, watch.

I dare not be presumptuous

and introduce this robot.

But if you must know, I will.

A steel body and an electronic brain.

Crying kids become silent

and silent kids start crying.

This is Jet Jaguar!

Finally, we meet.

Yun! Take that kid and run!

Let's fight fair and square…

I wasn't finished! Wait until I'm done!

Hold on!

Stupid beast!

What the heck?

You punk.

That hurts!

"Courtesan, how cruel of you."

My arm!

You can tear my body to pieces,

but I won't stop!

How dare you!

My precious Jet Jaguar…

"I put out my hand

and accept an octopus tentacle!"

It hurts!

Great Buddha, protect me!

Let this be a dream! I'll be a good man!

Yun?

Give it to me! You can't handle this!

PLAY WITH JET JAGUAR

What's this?

What did you expect?

I'll change the settings.

Hurry up!

RESTAR

SECONDS LEFT UNTIL RESTAR

-Get on with it!

-Seventy more seconds until it restarts.

SECONDS LEFT UNTIL RESTAR

Oh, no. What now?

Forty seconds. I'll stall him.

That's impossible.

Twenty seconds… I won't last.

Mr. O!

We made it in time.

Go, Jet Jaguar! Get him!

It flew?

What's that?

A bird? It's huge.

Something for the festival? No.

A pterosaur?

Get back down here, you coward!

This cry…

It's hot. Be careful. You'll get burned.

Better not touch it.

Is it dead?

It's hot?

CHIBA PREFECTURAL POLICE

I'm taking a look.

I'll be right back.

Hey!

Excuse me. Coming through.

I'm fine.

I'm not hurt.

Where are you taking me?

Are you listening? Who do you think I am?

Yun!

You can't.

They're my colleagues.

Yun!

How's Mr. O?

A few broken ribs,

but they said he'd be fine.

DO NOT ENTER

What is it?

What do you think?

Sorry. Excuse me.

The mysterious creature that suddenly

appeared during the festival…

Is it the last winged dinosaur?

Or are there others?

It resembles a Quetzalcoatlus.

Was it actually a dinosaur?

-Found as a fossil…

-Perhaps it's a runaway pet.

My friend couldn't escape.

It suddenly came flying…

Where did it come from?

Then it suddenly died?

Possibly of shock…

They couldn't catch it alive?

It'd be an important specimen

if it were alive.

Too bad they couldn't catch it alive.

Crucial evidence

is often destroyed by amateurs.

The operator was a local electrician

and robot designer…

He saved the children.

Was it self-defense?

He owned that weapon, right?

He should've waited for the police.

We're here in front of Otaki Factory.

The shutters are closed…

The self-diagnostic program

shows 1,345 malfunctions.

The main frame

had seven percent distortion,

twelve motors burned,

and eight had abnormal readings.

It needs a new hatch and right arm.

And batteries too.

It's badly damaged

but surprisingly resilient.

It did well.

But we have a problem.

How can we finish setting up

these three work robots by the weekend?

It will take ten days without Mr. O.

Jet Jaguar has to wait.

He said to forget those robots

and prepare for the next battle.

Satomi.

How was Mr. O?

Totally fine. He'll be released next week.

But they'll probably

kick him out before that.

He told me to show you this.

What is it?

That pterosaur

was one of these flying things.

"They'll be back. Just like this picture."

"Next time, it will be a flock."

"Make sure Jet Jaguar is repaired."

Do these look like the pterosaur?

The same picture

was displayed for the festival.

"Painting of Gojira"?

"Painting of Godzilla." A local legend

about an apocalyptic monster

that appears from the sea

when it turns red.

Apocalyptic? Sounds biblical.

Red sea? Red tide?

Is that a whale in the middle?

What do you think?

Mr. O's premonitions are often right.

But Jet Jaguar's parts won't be here

until next week.

Even after it's repaired,

it can't fight off a flock of them.

I have an idea.

Its cry?

Jet Jaguar recorded it.

And this.

The radio waves it emitted?

They're the same

as from the haunted mansion.

Its cry emits radio waves.

And the neon sign it destroyed

emits radio frequencies.

It was attracted to radio waves?

If it's how they communicate

I'll analyze this to produce

a signal that attracts them.

I see.

But what do we do when they're here?

I don't know.

Play the pipe and jump into the sea?

Perhaps it's not a dinosaur…

The former director,

two before me, showed it to me.

He said the director before him

showed it to him.

It wasn't like he was passing it down

to me or anything.

It's like one of those urban legends.

Like a mummified kappa

stored away in a temple.

It's just left there?

Shouldn't we investigate?

Sato, our job is to monitor radio waves.

Dinosaur bones are out of our purview.

And if the information somehow leaks out…

It was first observed three weeks ago…

If you're that concerned…

"Compact archives"?

Let me know if anything turns up.

"Year 1970."

The word "dinosaur,"

which means terrifying lizard…

I can't believe how agile they are

when they're so big.

I'm back.

I found the material you wanted.

You worked hard.

-I don't want to be uninstalled.

-You don't?

My character is linked to this computer.

But you're just a data structure.

What would you think if you woke up

one morning as a big insect?

Gregor Samsa?

Your data may be the same,

but the vessel is different.

These graphs…

I couldn't find data consistent

from figure 43 to figure 65

so I analyzed your notes about

transdimensional flying creatures.

You read my notes?

They're very interesting observations.

Aren't you going to publish them?

They're not organized. It's a big mess.

Let's get it organized and published.

If it's possible.

I'm on it.

Three billion yen.

Excuse me?

A museum is offering three billion yen

for that dead pterosaur.

Then I wonder how much

the skeleton in our basement is worth.

-Oh, how nostalgic.

-What are they?

Microfiche. Never heard of them?

We have the reader somewhere.

I'll go look.

What does it look like?

That's an OHP.

A 5-inch and 8-inch disk drive.

Not those either.

It looks more like a computer.

Here it is. The microfiche reader.

Now there are two of them

worth three billion.

Another dead winged dinosaur.

This is a beach 20km from the station…

Three more were found,

for a total of four…

A total of eight remains have been found.

Others may be flying around,

waiting to attack…

Here to catch a dinosaur?

The streets are full of…

I want one as a pet.

You didn't notice? I'll replay it.

The streetlights appear to flicker

when the dinosaurs cry.

They might be emitting

electromagnetic waves.

Can a living organism do that?

The tissue layers you see here are similar

to the electric eel's electric organs.

Its stomach was empty.

Did it starve to death?

Actually, we haven't found an organ

that works as a stomach…

The DNA of the pterosaurs

and other known animals…

The homeobox gene hasn't been detected.

The gene is a common feature

in many creatures on Earth…

The radioactive element,

radon, was detected…

Radioactive?

No immediate health issues…

A new, unidentified creature…

The word "kaiju"

means "strange beast" in old Japanese.

-So it's a radio-wave kaiju?

-Radio-wave monster Rodan.

Rodan, the radio-wave monster.

Rodan, the radio-wave monster.

Rodan!

"Radio-wave monster Rodan"?

Reaction to a paper? Whose?

A person called Professor Li responded

to your paper on the Internet.

My paper?

Why are you chilling an empty bottle?

Search for noodle soup base recipe.

Soy sauce, sugar, and what?

Mirin. Broth.

Broth? Search how to make bonito flakes.

It takes at least a year.

Can I use ketchup instead?

Tomato umami is glutamic acid.

Bonito umami is inosinic acid.

Should I distill it?

Or maybe use chromatography?

Oh, no!

It's so hot.

Sixty seconds overcooked.

You're 60 seconds too late.

What were we talking about?

There was a reaction to your paper

on the preprint server.

Paper? Mine?

Here it is.

"Introduction to Biologia Phantastica.

Mei Kamino."

"Co-written by Pelops II."

Did you do this?

I included my name.

It's collaborative research.

"The laws of physics distorted by

imaginary creatures' time regression…"

Is it a paper?

A scientific essay? What is it?

It's how it turned out.

I organized your data

and published a paper.

Well, you actually did a good job

organizing it but…

There are 32 people

who reacted to the title after 20 hours.

Five people downloaded the article.

One person sent a reaction via e-mail.

Reaction?

A person called Professor Li

sent you an e-mail about your article.

She wants to meet you in Tokyo.

Who does?

Professor Li, the sender of the e-mail,

wants to see you.

They said a microfiche lasts 100 years.

It must be 100 years old.

VERIFICATION OF SPECIMEN

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE RADIATION

"Old Tsuguno District Administration"?

"Ashihara"? It sounds familiar.

Michiyuki Ashihara

is the founder of this facility.

Really? You're well-informed.

Alarm system?

It's apparently very old

and nobody knows what it's for.

It's connected

to a machine in the basement

with a skeleton of a huge dinosaur.

Dinosaur? What are you talking about?

Well…

-Sato.

-Yes?

Give me a written report.

A dinosaur skeleton in the basement?

What's going on with him?

Professor Li,

a computational chemistry expert.

"Research on new molecules

through computer simulation."

Isn't it similar to your research?

Professor Li

studies molecules of the real world.

"Lightness, toughness, rigidness,

flexibility, strangeness."

She's discovered various new molecules

but hasn't been able

to synthesize them yet.

"SHIVA"?

It says she's currently a member

of SHIVA.consortium.

Ta-da!

Equipped with special Rodan antennas.

This is Gyro Canopy Tandem 2,

Gyro Z for short.

Short for what?

Mr. O.

Hey, I see you guys are ready.

Released already?

You idiot! I can't stay in bed forever.

A huge catch of deep-sea fish yesterday,

but not a single one today.

Rather than chasing fish that's not here…

Selling Rodan buns might be better.

Did you see that?

What's that?

That's…

Rodan.

Oh, my gosh.