Ohhh... Michica's beautiful foot... Too beautiful. I just want to stare at her all day...
What do you have to do to get that skin? I'm so glad I'm alive. More! I want to see more!
Michica is too beautiful every single day. How is she able to exist in such beauty? What do you think beauty is?
BEAUTY
BEAUTIFUL
What is beauty?
Do you like rock?
Yeah.
This is Marilyn Manson.
He's anti-Jesus Christ.
They say devil worship is appealing because they're the ultimate rebels,
and they don't force their values on anyone.
Or so they say.
Freedom.
Tell me your favorite song.
"I Don't Like the Drugs But the Drugs Like Me."
It means that he doesn't try to do drugs, but the drugs make him do it.
That was amazing.
She shattered every window.
Michica is cool as hell!
Going by broken-windows theory, we're screwed, aren't we?
Look, it's already blowing up on TikTok.
She is beautiful. No wonder she doesn't fit in at school.
She's so cute! Her legs are so long!
Yeah, I'm gonna stan her.
The moment anyone opens their mouth, it's always ugly nonsense.
It makes me sick.
We should sew their mouths shut, like ours, Michica.
That's a good idea.
There are some people you can barely tolerate existing, so long as they don't talk.
The filthier they are, the more they talk to cover it up, right?
Lips exist to offer kisses to what is truly dear.
Huh? That girl's so cute!
She really is like a doll.
So there really are girls who can wear clothes like that naturally.
She's cute, but it's kind of overwhelming.
I'm sorry. I was raised on Shuji Terayama's underground theater.
What lofty young maid is this, so high of brow and swoln with pride.
Wouldst thou then have some Shakespeare?
Arise, fair sun, and slay the envious moon.
For thou art a chaste virgin that servest the silver moon,
far fairer and beauteous art thou, by far, than thy master.
That moon is already sick with grief, and pale with sorrow.
Be thou no longer the moon's untouched maiden.
The moon is a jealous goddess.
She's not the kind of girl who'd be satisfied playing Juliet, huh?
More like Marie Antoinette or Cleopatra.
I am me.
CYBER KOWLOON WALLED CITY
But someday, age comes for the body.
Isn't it beautiful because it has an end?
I wanted to die while I was still in my teens.
If I could end things while I was still at my most beautiful,
I think that would be the ideal way to cash out.
CYBER KOWLOON WALLED CITY
Nothing lasts forever.
But memories remain as long as someone remembers them.
And they get beautified to the extreme.
Maybe that's why we stream, to capture the moments when we shine brightest.
So the vulgar masses, with their filthy, debased sensibilities,
can preserve me in whatever way suits them.
That's only one possible interpretation, and a pretty negative one.
Does human life feel ugly to you?
I think ordinary human living is something to hide as much as possible.
Hey, Kache, you broke up with your boyfriend recently, right?
Well, yeah. It's complicated.
- Whoa, seriously? - Maybe you'll meet someone new tonight.
For now, let's just drink! Good riddance!
Thanks.
Okay then, cheers.
I want to be seen as the kind of being that could live on tea alone.
I like movies.
I want them to let me in to that world on the screen,
that's far removed from everyday life.
Because it's filtered, right?
How is that different from editing apps?
I want to become one with the story inside the film.
That's completely different in purpose from doctoring everyday life.
What about being wrapped in primary colors and rhetoric like in a Godard film?
Or do you prefer Kubrick?
A delicately designed structure can bring out the charm of the people within it.
I suppose you'd also appreciate the silence in Takeshi Kitano's films.
Or maybe we should just lose ourselves in Akira Kurosawa's dazzling colors.
If we're talking anime, Mamoru Oshii's lighting is like a jewel of pure obsession.
I don't really connect with lofty expressions like beauty.
But if I had to put it into words...
maybe it's about getting closer to God.
How much worldly cravings
like money and fame can you cast aside, and still go on living?
You think so?
I'd think that makes you a boring person.
Although...
if you're getting closer to God,
I guess you'd stop being human in the first place.
There is no God.
These are the kinds of memories you want to keep looking at forever.
But...
to let them stagnate by sealing the beauty of this moment away for eternity
is like selling your soul to the devil.
There was a band called Dead or Alive.
Their vocalist, Pete Burns, was a very androgynous, sensual man.
- Glam rock? - Yeah.
Part of that David Bowie and Boy George lineage.
An era when men beautiful enough to look like women were in vogue.
But even though he was already that beautiful,
he became even more possessed by beauty and kept getting plastic surgery.
He developed body dysmorphia.
And the result was...
That despair is beyond anything we could possibly comprehend.
But the doctor said to the drastically changed Pete,
"You still have your singing."
Beauty is the only thing I know.
An era when men beautiful enough to look like women were in vogue.
Acne's totally normal when you're a teenager!
You're still plenty cute, so just go to school!
Michica!
I became the same as them.
The same as those ugly people!
The same as the filthy people at that school!
The same as them, the same as them, the same as them, the same as them!
I'm the same as them.
How did that feel?
How delightful!
You can make it there.
Beauty. What does it mean to be beautiful?
I can't let it end when I'm ugly like this.
I think it means being completed.
It is through death that a human being is made complete.
In that very moment, how beautifully delicate, how captivatingly,
can one end like a red rose that steals the eye?
Beauty is whatever one has "come to feel" is most beautiful.
It isn't objective prettiness or ugliness.
No matter how ugly or distorted it may look to others,
no one can interfere with the sensibility that makes it appear beautiful.
What stole my heart more than anything,
what I found most beautiful of all,
was the moment a girl dies and becomes eternal.
You looked beautiful, Michica.
Just wait. I'm going to mend a special dress that'll suit you perfectly, Michica.
As for me, I think those disheveled clothes you're wearing now
look the most wonderful on you.
I brought a present that'll suit you too, Lollipop.
An inverted cross.
A reverse symbol of Christ's crucifixion.
Perfect for a rebel against society, don't you think?
Someday, the time will come when you kill God, too.
Then I'd be Judas.
Judas Iscariot.
You really do know what true beauty is, Michica.
Here, the dress is finished.
It suits her after all. She really does look like a doll.
Lollipop, what do you think it means to be beautiful?
Perhaps it's a challenge to God.
I love structures.
Those buildings humanity piled higher and higher in order to climb,
even a little, toward God's heights.
I love the culture
that people of the past devoted their entire lives and all their artistry to!
I think that spirituality is beautiful.
The same goes for clothes and accessories.
NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW
As though to fill the loneliness of the night, Nechika-sama and a girl exchange words.
"You're more like me," the girl says. But what does she mean by that?
Next time, "Slip Inside This House."
EPISODE 6