Original subtitles

[wind whooshing]

[wind whooshing]

[SUIKA] All this time, we've been waiting to say.

♪

Hello, America!

[all gasp and chuckle]

[FEMALE EOM 207A] It's about time!

[KASEKI] Senku came through!

-[indistinct chatter] -[smirks]

That stupid trip was way too long!

But it's finally over.

Land ho!

[ALL] Meat, go!

[all cheering]

[laughs]

I am not surprised,

we went for a long time without meat

while we sailed the high seas.

[stomach rumbling]

-[gasps] -Hm.

We've been training hard, and quite long.

So the battle team would certainly benefit

from a nice meal of animal protein.

[whimpering]

Sign me up!

Bet there's some great wildlife

just waiting to be hunted out there!

What kinda animals even live here?

This is actually my first time traveling abroad!

Although, this isn't exactly

the kind of vacation I had in mind!

Vacation?

[laughs]

You know what, I think all you meatheads

might just be on to something.

♪

[flag fluttering]

[HOMURA] Look...

beyond the fog.

Uh?

[water burbling]

[telescope whirring]

Uh...

[waves crashing]

♪

Really, now.

We all knew it would be like this.

But then again, this is our very first

voyage overseas in the stone world.

We had no way of truly knowing

what we would find here.

♪

[GEN] It was a possibility,

that our Lilian lie was actually the truth,

and only Japan was still petrified.

Maybe the rest of the world was already back to normal.

Or maybe, they'd been spared

from the petrification beam from the beginning.

Deep in our hearts, though just a glimmer,

there was still some hope!

Y'know?

♪

-Check out that cape there. -Huh?

[KOHAKU] So many statues are all clumped together.

[MINAMI] You're right.

But why?

[SENKU] Hm.

Must've been a massive car pileup.

♪

[UKYO] All the cars would have corroded by now,

leaving only the statues behind.

Ugh! What a load of nonsense.

Cars driving on water?

[Ryusui laugh]

This place was once filled with cars.

I sailed by here a long time ago,

several thousand years.

Back then, this spot was known as the gateway to the Pacific.

That red practically glowing through

the San Francisco fog.

The Golden Gate Bridge.

♪

Then it's true.

Everything that humanity built.

Every last bit of it is gone now.

[MALE EX EOM 403A] If I'm being honest,

a huge part of me was banking on finding people

to help us out of this mess.

[MALE VILLAGER 307A] Yeah, same here.

[TAIJU] Listen,

you've got that backwards.

We're gonna find and raise us some corn!

And once we do that,

we're gonna use the power of science

to revive everyone in the world!

[SENKU] Damn straight.

We'll be the ones who are gonna help them out.

Every last one,

all 7.8 billion of 'em.

♪

[TAIJU] Finally! The US of A!

We have arrived!

[all cheering]

How 'bout that.

It's Lilian's homeland.

[Kohaku scoffs]

So this is America, huh?

I've heard so much about it,

and I've been dying for a peek, but uh...

[groans]

It doesn't seem much different from Japan.

Hm.

Looks like another forest to me.

[all groan]

Yeah, well.

I suppose all of the distinctly

American landmarks are gone.

So it's unrecognizable.

[giggles]

[SUIKA] Oh! It's a pine cone!

Except, it's huge!

How could a pine cone ever get this big?

[laughs]

[SENKU] That's a sequoia.

Sequio... What now?

[thudding]

This monster.

-[Suika scream] -That's bad!

Like, in a giant way!

[Kaseki laughs]

[KASEKI] I've seen my share of forests,

but never a tree like that!

It's almost as though

it's reaching clear to the heavens!

[SENKU] Sequoias are ridiculously huge.

They can grow over 80 meters tall,

making them the biggest trees on Earth.

[TAIJU] Whoa.

That's a whole lotta meters!

[vulture snarls]

[whimpering]

Huh, even after civilization's fall,

the world just keeps on reaching for more.

[gulps]

That's badass.

America.

[water burbling]

We'll split into teams here at the Sacramento River.

The resource acquisition team'll stay with the ship.

Meanwhile, the corn scout team will head inland.

As for the battle team,

our assignment is escorting the scouts

and dealing with dangerous wildlife.

♪

[engine revving]

We're gonna find this special corn

even if we gotta turn over every stone in America.

Yeah, that's really not that easible-fay.

America is big.

Like, huge!

That aside, what we seek may not exist anymore.

America's favorite crop may have hybridized

after all these years.

So, we'll try the Corn Belt.

If the yellow stuff's still around,

that's where we'll find it.

On the West Coast,

our best bet is Northern California.

♪

We'll go through San Francisco Bay,

and then just follow

the Sacramento River to the city beyond.

Um, hello, Earth to Senku.

You realize most people aren't as familiar

with American geography as you?

He lost me, too.

But basically, we'll find some corn up this river?

Let's get moving!

[GEN] Our little Chrome always finds his way to optimism

no matter the situation.

The ideal scout-team leader!

[rattling]

♪

[UKYO] Fall is almost over.

That means we're nearing the end of corn season.

Let's hope we're not too late.

Nah, that's not gonna be an issue.

The planet goes through a thing called precession.

Think of it like a toy top tilting as it spins.

Earth's axis has been shifting slightly

for the past 3,700 years.

Which is good news for us.

It means the planet's seasons

have been offset by about nine days.

[ALL] Whoa!

[TAIJU] So we just barely made it in time!

Don't party yet.

A shifted climate also brings

subtle ecological changes with it.

So there could be some big-ass animals

looking to make us their next meal.

I would gladly welcome an attack

by a sizable creature out here.

Me, too.

[GINRO] Hm.

Hey, wait a sec! Are you crazy?

Huh?

♪

[whimpering]

[GEN] There you go jinxing us again, Senku!

Though, actually,

I think I finally caught on to your game.

Yeah!

It's not bad luck or anything of the sort,

because there's no such thing

in science-man Senku's world,

so he just concocts the worst-case scenario

because he knows that's exactly what'll appen-hay!

♪

[gasps]

A float of American crocs!

[screams]

[CHROME] How are there so freakin'

many of those things?

[water bubbling]

[engine revving]

[smirks]

[ALLIGATOR 403A] Fresh meat!

[ALLIGATOR 403B] Fresh meat!

[ALLIGATOR 403C] Fresh meat!

[KOHAKU] Fresh meat!

[YO] Fresh meat!

Ah, I guess that explains it.

That's why you were all hoping we'd get attacked!

-Fresh meat! -Fresh meat!

[TSUKASA] Yes.

I'm so thankful for the great circle of life.

Mm.

Look at them go!

[GEN] Our almighty all-stars!

♪

[yelling]

[thuds]

[grunts]

[RYUSUI] You know what being in America means.

[fingers snap]

We can't leave here without having

some of these first.

[fire crackling, sizzling]

♪

[FRANCOIS] For your enjoyment, I present crocodile burgers.

[TAIJU, GEN] No way?

[BOTH] Hamburgers? Ah!

Hamburger?

Watch and learn.

Ya eat it like this.

[chomps]

[giggles]

[chomps] [munching]

Oh, wow, this tastes super yummy!

[all munching]

It's so bad!

And good!

I've never had anything like it!

My mouth is in ecstasy!

[groans]

[munching]

♪

[sobbing]

[sword slicing]

Senku.

Huh?

One of them swallowed this.

[SENKU] Ugh?

Huh?

Is there something inside it?

♪

[gasps]

[SENKU] Corn!

[KOHAKU] Uh...

That's the fabled American corn we're after?

[laughs]

Landed right in our hands.

Seems as though we'll find the key

to reviving all of humanity just upstream.

[engines revving]

So this is the life-giving corn, huh?

Yup.

That's the most OP corn variety of the Americas.

Say hello to the glorious yellow dent.

The corn's OP?

[chuckles]

I mean, it does taste like ass,

but its power is being insanely efficient

at producing alcohol.

Ah!

You know what that means! Yes!

We're finally gonna revive the whole world!

Hang on!

We're coming to save y'all, statues of America!

I should clarify that I have no idea

how much of this corn is left.

It's fine. Just takes a little.

We'll take what we can get and grow what we need!

[RYUSUI] It'll be a race against time either way.

We've still got to face our enemy soon,

fight the twisted Why Man.

Well, am I wrong?

You're not.

We're getting right to work, establishing Corn City!

[KOHAKU] Huh!

[yelling]

Tiny corn babies!

[Kohaku scoffs]

There's a bunch of them flowing down river.

[Hyoga whimpering]

[HOMURA] Um.

Stay strong, Hyoga.

Rest assured,

there's corn growing somewhere up ahead.

I betcha there's a whole crap load of it too!

Hm.

Corn drifting down the river seems

ten billion percent too convenient.

Wouldn't you say?

[phone ringing]

[YUZURIHA] Hello?

Speaking from the Perseus.

[GEN] Heya! Scout team speaking,

you should know we found corn in the river.

[all cheering]

That's nice and all, but we haven't actually

found it growing yet.

We need more intel.

Copy that?

So let us know

if you find any floating downstream, will ya?

[YUZURIHA] Okay, on it!

You heard the man, guys!

Keep your eyes peeled

and don't let one single kernel escape our sight!

[cheering]

♪

[growls]

[growls]

♪

[engines revving]

[sighs]

It's around here.

Those places you mentioned.

Their names were quite confusing.

I think you called it the Sacramento City area?

[crickets chirping]

[GEN] What are you making

in such a hurry over there?

A white cloth over a light?

You'll attract loads of bugs

with such a bright light at this hour.

That would be the whole idea,

and why it's called a light trap.

We can learn more about the area

by analyzing the phototactic bugs

this light attracts.

And if I'm right about this.

♪

[grunts]

[SENKU] Some European corn borers.

These guys subsist on corn.

And that confirms

there's a boatload of it nearby.

Butterflies?

-They're beautiful. -Uh?

Actually, they're moths.

You're not wrong.

But there really isn't that much difference

between them.

They have such a mystical kind of beauty.

[SENKU] Kohaku.

Actually, everyone from the village.

-[ALL] Huh? -[SENKU] Tell me something.

Have you ever seen moths like this before?

[Kohaku scoffs]

Now that you mention it,

I don't believe I've seen that one.

Though it's not something I ever really thought about.

This type much prefers snacking on cloth over grain.

That said, their numbers

should have dwindled when humanity vanished.

But that doesn't seem to be what's going on here.

Just look at how many gathered in no time flat.

It almost makes me wonder

if there's a settlement nearby farming loads of corn.

Come on! How can you be so serious at a time like this?

We're gonna revive all of humanity!

What more could you ask for

than to find a massive cornfield?

[gasps]

♪

[TSUKASA] What is that?

♪

Bloodlust.

What's wrong?

Is it some kind of beast?

There's nothing to fear

with our all-star battle team on the job!

You say as you're hiding behind me.

Our foe's ki, do you recognize it?

[TSUKASA] Ki? There's no such thing.

Rather, I believe we're perceiving

the byproducts of adrenaline coursing through our enemy.

Although, I can't claim to know that for certain.

Stay focused.

I vowed to protect these people.

I know that faint scent on the air.

[clatters]

[gasps]

[TSUKASA] It's smoke from a fired gun.

[HYOGA] It would seem our adversary

does things properly.

♪

In the end, we have been the ones...

lured in by a different kind of trap.

Retreat! To the boat!

[gunfire]

Ah!

[screams]

[grunts]

[gunfire]

[grunting]

It's a machine gun!

Machine gun? What the heck is that?

[gunfire]

Never doubt a captain when he's at his helm!

[tires screeching]

[RYUSUI] Water barrier!

[rumbling]

[gunfire]

♪

[rattling]

[STANLEY] Oh, how did they detect me?

[engines revving]

[GINRO] We're alive!

Thanks to Tsukasa's super senses.

[RYUSUI] I'm just glad everyone is in one piece.

Machine gun?

Who, how, and also why?

I thought there were no more humans left

around these parts.

I guess the US dodged petrification somehow?

They couldn't have.

'Cause how would you explain

all of those statues we found?

This means someone did it, just like Senku.

Revived on their own.

[all gasp]

And whoever it is, is growing corn.

[SENKU] Then we're lucky as hell.

Think we've got a science duel on our hands.

So, strap in.

Because we're looking at an epic showdown

against a real-life evil scientist.

[scoffs]

And if it's a fight like that.

We can't lose.

Don't tell me you're not stupid excited now.