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Say, Tsukimi...

When you get married, I'll make you a snow-white dress.

A snow-white dress just like this jellyfish.

It's beautiful...

Please keep what I'm about to sing

Just between us, okay?

The truth is, I want to keep my desires hidden deep in my heart

A secret, a secret

I want to take shortcuts

Never getting soaked by the rain

Never getting knocked over by the wind

Even if that's being devious, smile

Even if I'm a coward, play with me

I don't want to feel sad

Never getting soaked by tears

Never feeling at my wit's end

Just smile and think I'm insensitive

Only tell me about fun things

See, there are faces I want to see and voices I want to hear

When I wake up I trumpet my joy:

Good morning! Let's have another fine day!

"Princess Jellyfish" Good morning! Let's have another fine day!

"Princess Jellyfish"

It's beautiful...

It's... It's almost like you're the princess of the jellyfish!

Just of the jellyfish?!

Okay, let's do a purple jelly next!

What? Another one?

Why don't we have some tea first? Incidentally, is your father around?

Tsukimi...

You've had a complete awakening, haven't you?!

- Come again? - I knew I wasn't mistaken about you!

Make more, make more! Make as many jellyfish dresses as you want!

Oh, what a nice color! The same pinkish-mauve as an immature purple jelly!

Oh, my mom gave me that dress.

May I?

Oh? You want to give it a go? Okay...

Wow! Thank you!

What? You're gonna give it a go right here?

Oh, yes. That's the idea...

Wait... when you say you'll "give it a go," you mean with scissors?

Purple jellies! Purple jellies! Purple jellies are pink before they grow!

- Purple jellies are teeny-tiny,

- Let's get out of here... - Purple jellies are teeny-tiny,

- Agreed... - Purple jellies are teeny-tiny,

- Agreed... - but they hurt when they go stingy-stingy!

Purple jellies! Purple jellies! Purple jellies!

Do you think it would be all right if we visited again?

I saw a photo of the late Ichiro Koibuchi on the wall.

He's just my type, so I'd really love to meet Keiichiro too...

Perhaps we can pay another visit tomorrow.

In a home that spacious,

there must be a Taisho-style room perfect for Midoriko and Umeko...

It won't come off!

Amamizu-kan...

Umeko!

Matsuko! Yoshibo! O-Take!

Takeo!

"Jellyfish of Dreams"

Listen, I realize I was the one who dragged you into the fashion world,

so I can live with the fact that you've chopped up my dress

to make your own cute jellyfish dress, but...

"Sisterhood Mode"

"Sisterhood Mode" I can't believe Tsukimi just totally ignored me. She's usually so timid...

I can't believe Tsukimi just totally ignored me. She's usually so timid...

"After Mode" I can't believe Tsukimi just totally ignored me. She's usually so timid...

Tsukimi is fearsome in her fully awakened mode!

"Awakened Mode" Tsukimi is fearsome in her fully awakened mode!

Tsukimi is fearsome in her fully awakened mode!

Now that she's had an awakening, Tsukimi can keep making more and more dresses

while I handle the brand strategy...

I can see it all now...

We'll open our first store on New York's Fifth Avenue!

We'll have a second store on Rue Saint-Honoré in Paris...

And we'll launch our first wholly-owned Japanese outlet in Ginza!

We've made it to the top!

Oww!

Huh? Didn't you go home?

It's Amamizu-kan! It's!

Huh?

'Tis all over! Guan Yu is no more!

Th-Th-This can't be...

Calm down!

Chieko, have you called your mom?

I've tried and tried, but she won't pick up.

I knew it! Chieko's mother has been deceived!

Curse you, Dong Zhuo! You shall pay for this with your life!

Ah, this is the place!

Let's make this quick.

Hold on there!

Just what do you think you're doing so early in the morning?

We humble ourselves before you as before Zhuge Liang! Please, grant us a little time!

We can have everything hauled out in ten minutes!

My O gauge model railway is heavy, so I'd like a little more time than that.

Please! My babies are in there! Before you demolish it, at least let me..!

Demolish it? Oh, no, this isn't what you think.

- Huh? - What?

Yeah, apparently he mixed up which building we're supposed to demolish.

I did check, honest! But then...

Oh, if that's what you're looking for... isn't that it there?

We'll get the tarps off and have it back to normal right away.

Sorry for the trouble.

Sounds like the place is vacant now. They said all the residents have moved far away.

This is...

This is a really good shot. Great work as always, Sugi, my man.

Well, photography is my specialty.

Please accept this as a token of my apologies for all the trouble.

"Confectionery WEST" Please accept this as a token of my apologies for all the trouble.

"Confectionery WEST" Oh, how thoughtful of you!

Oh, how thoughtful of you!

It must really be rough, though, what with all the redevelopment plans.

Pardon?

I suppose this building's coming down soon too, right?

So Xuzhou has fallen as well...

Excavator machines are really cool, too...

That gentleman from the construction company was a hunk, don't you think?

They gave me some cookies from WEST! Let's have some tea.

Go WEST!

- Ls it the leaf pie set? - Any almond tarts?

Discuss what?

Hello, Mother?

Mother? Hello?!

We got cut off.

What did she want to say?

She said she had something important to discuss about Amamizu-kan...

This is all taking a turn for the worse...

Tidings of unconditional surrender?!

I guess now our only choice is to be live-in workers at the Yamanaka Hot Spring.

Just like in that show Haru-chan...

Ms. Inari. Are you trying to empty the coffeemaker?

Oh, my! Whatever am I thinking?

Ouch, hot!

What's the matter? Did something happen?

"Happen"?

You've been working a little too hard lately.

Maybe you should take some time off.

My brother should be back pretty soon. I guess I'll take this over there...

Kuranosuke!

Kuranosuke! Kuranosuke!

Th-The Burmese Harp?

Mizushima! Let's go back to Japan... no, that's not the issue!

Amamizu-kan's going to be torn to pieces!

Huh? I thought that was just a mix-up.

This is perfect timing, though. We still need to finish that one dress...

They're going to tear it down!

We have to make jellyfish dolls... Lots of them, and quick.

And then we have to buy Amamizu-kan!

- A hole! A hole in my finger! - Use a thimble.

For now, we'll shoot for 20 dolls per person per day.

100 a day. 1,000 in ten days!

Can we really do it?

We have no other choice. This is really all we can do...

- I cannot! - Talk about giving up fast!

My right hand! It refuses to do as I say!

- If only I could use it! - Sounds like you just lost interest to me.

I agree. You haven't even made one yet!

What we can do?

Wait!

There is a way...

Stylish magazines!

Legend has it touching these will make you horribly trendy in an instant!

Do you have any copies of Railway Journal?

We're gonna send in applications for every model-wanted ad and audition in these.

Take photos with this.

Panning technique!

We're gonna have people in the fashion industry see Tsukimi's dresses.

Someone's gonna love 'em, I just know it.

And if all goes well, we'll build a business out of them!

Th-The jellyfish dresses?

What's the point?

A piece of clothing costs 5,000 yen at most.

In fact, these fine garments of mine go for around 1,480 yen at Super Maruko!

Are you shocked?!

Fancy clothes fetch high prices!

We're talking hundreds of thousands of yen, or even more!

Don't you know anything about brand-name goods?

Brand-name?

- Wait, like Louis Llll or whoever? - Louis Vuitton.

My dresses? You can't be serious...

I am!

If I'm right, they will catch a professional's attention.

So you need to make dresses. Lots of 'em!

Hiya!

Oh, Sara, my girl!

You're looking just fabulous! You're a modern-day Muse!

Still popping over to Yokohama every chance you get?

Of course. That's where the action is! Bashamichi! Chinatown!

Just don't make too much of a spectacle of yourself.

You're our top model, after all.

Are those applications for the contest?

Yeah. A whole lot came in! Wanna take a look?

Afro!

It's commercial time!

Clara!

It's the second half!

Tequila!

How many years has it been since I've had a one-sided crush?

But no, I've got to push it out of my mind...

Whew, that was scary. I thought it was payback time for sure...

Shu-Shu, it is you!

Prime Minister...

We're in private company now! Call me Negi-pyon!

What can I do for you?

Everyone stopped talking to me once my support fell below 5%,

so I thought I'd go have some fun on my own.

Oh, right! I've got an extra ticket! You should come with me, Shu-Shu.

What? But, I...

So many Stylish...

Stay strong. This is for Amamizu-kan.

Still, these clothes, this atmosphere...

- I can't adapt! Not to this! - Oh!

Oh! The three of you look adorable! You're modern-day Muses!

Afro?

- Afro? - I cannot adapt!

Afro!

- I'm getting dizzy! - Afro!

Are we good to go?

Yes...

Um, but... are you really sure about this?

Huh?

I mean, this is my very first time making clothes,

and everyone else around us looks so much more put-together...

- Plus... - You're still talking like that?

You'll be fine. Trust me.

Oh, Kura-honey! Hiya!

Ah, a princess! You're a modern-day Muse!

Thanks.

Good morning!

Oh! How beautiful! You're a modern-day Muse!

Whoa! Is this a new dress?

Huh?

Who might this girl be?

Oh, she's Tsukimi, the girl I told you about the other day.

She designed these dresses. They're part of a brand we just launched.

A b-brand?! But I've only made two!

How do you expect to succeed if we don't start working it here?

But...

Your dress is totally cute!

Isn't it, though?

Huh? Wha?

Who's that?! She's way cute!

I wish my dress was like that...

I'm so jealous...

Next is entry #12! Kurumi Ebihara from Miyazaki Prefecture!

Next is entry #13!

- Emiri Machida from Kanagawa Prefecture!

- Where's Kurako? - Emiri Machida from Kanagawa Prefecture!

She better not be eating something tasty backstage...

Mom...

- Next is entry #14!

- I'm so nervous that my heart might just leap out of my mouth. - Next is entry #14!

- I'm so nervous that my heart might just leap out of my mouth. - Erika Higa from Okinawa Prefecture!

- But, for some reason, I don't feel the urge to run away, - Erika Higa from Okinawa Prefecture!

- But, for some reason, I don't feel the urge to run away, - Next is entry #15!

- Even though I'm sure my old self would have run outside by now... - Next is entry #15!

- Even though I'm sure my old self would have run outside by now... - Minako Noto from Ishikawa prefecture!

Could it be because he?

Let's make one!

Let's make a jellyfish dress!

Next is entry #35! Kurako Amamizu from Tokyo!

Amamizu?

That wretch! She took Amamizu-kan's name without even asking!

Mom...

I...

If there's a nice vacation home I'm gonna buy it,

so I'll count on you for the estimates and stuff, okay?

All right.

Okey-dokey, then!

He loves me. He loves me not. He loves me.

He loves me not...

Another one. One with lots of petals this time!

C-Certainly!

P-Please give my glasses back.

Chieko, get the pink dress. The one Tsukimi made.

This?

Yeah. Now put it on her.

P-Put it on?! I can't do that!

My ancestors would be ashamed of me,

- wearing a naked-shoulder dress like that!

- Call it "strapless." - Wearing a naked-shoulder dress like that!

I'd rather slit my belly and perish this instant than wear it.

Chieko, assist me!

Understood. But at least try it on before resorting to seppuku.

Why should I have to wear it anyway?!

We're #1 in every category by a landslide!

The designer can't just slink back home now!

Jiji, I'll hold her down. You put it on her.

Right.

Huh? Wha?

No!

Oh, no! The zipper won't fasten!

Yikes! You serious?!

Plus, her upper arms are pretty flabby...

Kill me... Kill me, please!

Don't worry, I'll sew you a stole right now. Oh, look, we even have fur!

How will you hold it in place? Safety pins?

Hmm, good question...

Um... Uh, where are we?

All right. Now wait right here.

Wait? Um, what's going on?

Oh, I forgot! The brand's name...

Huh?

Crap! What do we do? Let me think...

Finally, let's bring out the winners of the top score in all categories:

Kurako Amamizu and Tsukimi Kurashita, her designer.

Come on out!

Here we go.

Huh?!

Wh-What? A jellyfish?

Say, Tsukimi...

All girls can be beautiful princesses when they grow up.

Princesses!

Now for our lovely presenter, Sara!

What's the brand's name?

Umm...

Hey, what kind of animal is Clara in English?

Huh? Oh, in English?

Jelly... fish...

Then we'll go with that!

Who dares plunder my meat?!

That's what you get for dillydallying.

I am not dillydallying!

- I simply prefer my meat well-done! - Oh, this is ready.

- You haven't eaten at all, Tsukimi. - Damn you! At this rate,

- You haven't eaten at all, Tsukimi. - I'll never get to eat meat for as long as I live!

- This is Matsusaka beef, you know. - I'll never get to eat meat for as long as I live!

- I'm sorry. I'm just not very hungry... - I'll never get to eat meat for as long as I live!

- I'm sorry. I'm just not very hungry... - I prefer my meat rare.

- I'm sorry. I'm just not very hungry... - I can eat mine not even cooked.

- Ls something wrong? - I can eat mine not even cooked.

- Ls something wrong? - Oh, why was I cursed

- Yes... I had a near-death experience - Oh, why was I cursed

- Yes... I had a near-death experience - with this preference for well-done meat?!

- Just a little while ago... - with this preference for well-done meat?!

Huh?

First, I climbed up a long, long staircase in the pitch dark,

and then suddenly a door opened and I was surrounded by a bright light...

Am I dead?

They don't have yakiniku in heaven.

Ms. Mejiro requested seconds.

Oh, I'll do it, then...

Mom...

According to everyone else, I stood up on the stage and was introduced as a designer.

But all I remember is Kuranosuke asking me what jellyfish are called in English...

...and the feeling of my hand being held tightly.

I guess it'd be better to have a pro come up with something,

but I don't wanna spend a ton of money, either...

Then allow me to figure it out!

I've completed it! Everyone, give a shout of triumph!

"Jellius Fishicus" I've completed it! Everyone, give a shout of triumph!

"Jellius Fishicus" Here.

"Jellius Fishicus" What kind of clothes are you thinking of?

"Jelly" What kind of clothes are you thinking of?

"Jelly" This is it for sure.

"Jelly" Don't stick a random train in!

"Jelly Fish" Don't stick a random train in!

"Jelly Fish" How about this?

"Jelly Fish" Don't make it look like a café sign, either!

Don't make it look like a café sign, either!

Then, putting everyone's opinions together, what do you think of this?

"Jelly Fish" Then, putting everyone's opinions together, what do you think of this?

"Jelly Fish" That doesn't have a speck of anyone else's opinion in it!

That doesn't have a speck of anyone else's opinion in it!

Get serious, will you? Our goal is to get into a Mode à Paris someday!

A "moldy pari-pari"?

What are you talking about?

You know, like in the commercial for the super-thin "pari-pari" rice crackers!

Ugh, it's pointless to talk about it here.

Tsukimi?

Huh?

Oh, here you are.

Yuck, this wig stinks like meat...

Geez. Get used to it already, will you?

I-I'm fine as long as I don't look directly at you...

Come on, now. You gotta learn to look at me when I'm not in drag.

We share a common destiny now, you know.

Wh-What am I saying?! And what am I feeling bashful for?!

Um, can I ask you something?

Wh-What is it?

Do you think this will really work out well?

It will. It'll turn out great.

Mother...

Two Chiekos...

Twins?

No! She is Chieko's honorable mother!

My phone was stomped on and broken at an event with my darling Yon-sama.

So... you said you needed to talk to me about Amamizu-kan...

Yes, about that...

- Give us a little time! - I'll have no place for my Takeo collection if you kick us out! - Please, Mother! Reconsider!

Oh? You think I should sell it after all?

Huh?

Yon-sama decided to use Japan as his base for a while,

so I came here to tell you I don't need to sell the building anymore!

Mother...

But if you think I should reconsider, I will!

- Wait..! - Halt!

- Mom... - Wait..! - Halt!

- Hold on! Hold on! - It's already been six months since I left for Tokyo to try to make it as an illustrator.

The metropolis of Tokyo works in mysterious ways. It's one mystery after another.

I think this city must be made of mysteries.

"How about this?" I think this city must be made of mysteries.

"How about this?" So I have no doubt that many more mysteries are just around the corner.

So I have no doubt that many more mysteries are just around the corner.

They sure are!

I really want you to realize that you're gorgeous

Why haven't you realized it before this?

It's like you've lost your heart

I want you to realize it right away, right away, I want you to understand

I want you to realize it right away, I want you to realize your beauty

Because you're so very beautiful

I want to convey that to you

Your loveliness, forever and ever

I'll be so happy if you'll just realize your loveliness

I care about you, you know

Please, realize your beauty