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Ohhh... Michica's beautiful foot...
Too beautiful.
I just want to stare at her all day...

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What do you have to do to get that skin?
I'm so glad I'm alive.
More! I want to see more!

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Michica is too beautiful every single day.
How is she able to exist in such beauty?
What do you think beauty is?

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BEAUTY

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BEAUTY

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BEAUTIFUL

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<i>What is beauty?</i>

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Do you like rock?

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Yeah.

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This is Marilyn Manson.

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He's anti-Jesus Christ.

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They say devil worship is appealing
because they're the ultimate rebels,

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and they don't force
their values on anyone.

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Or so they say.

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Freedom.

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Tell me your favorite song.

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"I Don't Like the Drugs
But the Drugs Like Me."

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It means that he doesn't try to do drugs,
but the drugs make him do it.

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That was amazing.

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She shattered every window.

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Michica is cool as hell!

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Going by broken-windows theory,
we're screwed, aren't we?

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Look, it's already blowing up
on TikTok.

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She is beautiful. No wonder
she doesn't fit in at school.

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She's so cute! Her legs are so long!

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Yeah, I'm gonna stan her.

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The moment anyone opens their mouth,
it's always ugly nonsense.

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It makes me sick.

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We should sew their mouths shut,
like ours, Michica.

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That's a good idea.

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There are some people you can barely
tolerate existing, so long as they don't talk.

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The filthier they are, the more they talk
to cover it up, right?

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Lips exist to offer kisses to what is truly dear.

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Huh? That girl's so cute!

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She really is like a doll.

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So there really are girls who can
wear clothes like that naturally.

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She's cute, but it's kind of overwhelming.

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I'm sorry. I was raised on Shuji Terayama's
underground theater.

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What lofty young maid is this,
so high of brow and swoln with pride.

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Wouldst thou then have some Shakespeare?

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Arise, fair sun, and slay the envious moon.

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For thou art a chaste virgin
that servest the silver moon,

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far fairer and beauteous art thou,
by far, than thy master.

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That moon is already sick with grief,
and pale with sorrow.

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Be thou no longer
the moon's untouched maiden.

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The moon is a jealous goddess.

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She's not the kind of girl
who'd be satisfied playing Juliet, huh?

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More like Marie Antoinette or Cleopatra.

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I am me.

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CYBER KOWLOON WALLED CITY

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But someday, age comes for the body.

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Isn't it beautiful because it has an end?

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I wanted to die
while I was still in my teens.

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If I could end things
while I was still at my most beautiful,

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I think that would be
the ideal way to cash out.

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CYBER KOWLOON WALLED CITY

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Nothing lasts forever.

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But memories remain as long as
someone remembers them.

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And they get beautified to the extreme.

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Maybe that's why we stream, to capture
the moments when we shine brightest.

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So the vulgar masses,
with their filthy, debased sensibilities,

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can preserve me in whatever way suits them.

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That's only one possible interpretation,
and a pretty negative one.

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Does human life feel ugly to you?

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I think ordinary human living is something
to hide as much as possible.

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Hey, Kache, you broke up
with your boyfriend recently, right?

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Well, yeah. It's complicated.

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- Whoa, seriously?
- Maybe you'll meet someone new tonight.

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For now, let's just drink!
Good riddance!

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Good riddance!

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Thanks.

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Okay then, cheers.

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I want to be seen as the kind of being
that could live on tea alone.

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I like movies.

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I want them to let me in
to that world on the screen,

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that's far removed from everyday life.

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Because it's filtered, right?

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How is that different from editing apps?

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I want to become one
with the story inside the film.

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That's completely different in purpose
from doctoring everyday life.

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What about being wrapped in primary colors
and rhetoric like in a Godard film?

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Or do you prefer Kubrick?

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A delicately designed structure can bring out
the charm of the people within it.

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I suppose you'd also appreciate the silence
in Takeshi Kitano's films.

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Or maybe we should just lose ourselves
in Akira Kurosawa's dazzling colors.

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If we're talking anime, Mamoru Oshii's lighting
is like a jewel of pure obsession.

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I don't really connect
with lofty expressions like beauty.

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But if I had to put it into words...

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maybe it's about getting closer to God.

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How much worldly cravings

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like money and fame
can you cast aside, and still go on living?

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You think so?

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I'd think that makes you a boring person.

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Although...

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if you're getting closer to God,

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I guess you'd stop being human
in the first place.

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<i>There is no God.</i>

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These are the kinds of memories
you want to keep looking at forever.

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But...

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to let them stagnate by sealing
the beauty of this moment away for eternity

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is like selling your soul to the devil.

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There was a band called Dead or Alive.

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Their vocalist, Pete Burns, was a very
androgynous, sensual man.

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- Glam rock?
- Yeah.

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Part of that David Bowie
and Boy George lineage.

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An era when men beautiful enough
to look like women were in vogue.

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But even though
he was already that beautiful,

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he became even more possessed
by beauty and kept getting plastic surgery.

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He developed body dysmorphia.

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And the result was...

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That despair is beyond anything
we could possibly comprehend.

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But the doctor said
to the drastically changed Pete,

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"You still have your singing."

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Beauty is the only thing I know.

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An era when men beautiful enough
to look like women were in vogue.

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<i>Acne's totally normal
when you're a teenager!</i>

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<i>You're still plenty cute,
so just go to school!</i>

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Michica!

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<i>I became the same as them.</i>

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<i>The same as those ugly people!</i>

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<i>The same as the filthy people at that school!</i>

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<i>The same as them, the same as them,
the same as them, the same as them!</i>

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<i>The same as them, the same as them,
the same as them, the same as them!</i>

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<i>The same as them, the same as them,
the same as them, the same as them!</i>

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<i>I'm the same as them.</i>

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<i>I'm the same as them.</i>

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How did that feel?

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<i>How delightful!</i>

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You can make it there.

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<i>Beauty.
What does it mean to be beautiful?</i>

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I can't let it end when I'm ugly like this.

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<i>I think it means being completed.</i>

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<i>It is through death that a human being
is made complete.</i>

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<i>In that very moment, how beautifully
delicate, how captivatingly,</i>

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<i>can one end like a red rose
that steals the eye?</i>

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<i>Beauty is whatever one
has "come to feel" is most beautiful.</i>

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<i>It isn't objective prettiness or ugliness.</i>

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<i>No matter how ugly or distorted
it may look to others,</i>

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<i>no one can interfere with the sensibility
that makes it appear beautiful.</i>

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<i>What stole my heart more than anything,</i>

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<i>what I found most beautiful of all,</i>

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<i>was the moment a girl dies
and becomes eternal.</i>

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You looked beautiful, Michica.

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Just wait. I'm going to mend a special dress
that'll suit you perfectly, Michica.

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As for me, I think those disheveled
clothes you're wearing now

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look the most wonderful on you.

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I brought a present
that'll suit you too, Lollipop.

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An inverted cross.

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A reverse symbol of Christ's crucifixion.

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Perfect for a rebel against society,
don't you think?

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Someday, the time will come
when you kill God, too.

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Then I'd be Judas.

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Judas Iscariot.

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You really do know
what true beauty is, Michica.

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Here, the dress is finished.

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It suits her after all.
She really does look like a doll.

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Lollipop, what do you think
it means to be beautiful?

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Perhaps it's a challenge to God.

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I love structures.

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Those buildings humanity piled higher
and higher in order to climb,

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even a little, toward God's heights.

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I love the culture

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that people of the past devoted
their entire lives and all their artistry to!

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I think that spirituality is beautiful.

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The same goes for clothes and accessories.

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As though to fill the loneliness of the night,
Nechika-sama and a girl exchange words.

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"You're more like me," the girl says.
But what does she mean by that?

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Next time, "Slip Inside This House."

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EPISODE 6