1 00:01:16,490 --> 00:01:19,990 {\an8}Ohhh... Michica's beautiful foot... Too beautiful. I just want to stare at her all day... 2 00:01:26,500 --> 00:01:29,500 {\an8}What do you have to do to get that skin? I'm so glad I'm alive. More! I want to see more! 3 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,980 {\an8}Michica is too beautiful every single day. How is she able to exist in such beauty? What do you think beauty is? 4 00:01:52,980 --> 00:01:55,990 {\an8}BEAUTY 5 00:01:56,820 --> 00:01:57,990 {\an8}BEAUTY 6 00:01:59,740 --> 00:02:00,990 {\an8}BEAUTIFUL 7 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,000 What is beauty? 8 00:03:41,170 --> 00:03:42,840 Do you like rock? 9 00:03:43,180 --> 00:03:44,340 Yeah. 10 00:03:44,340 --> 00:03:46,010 This is Marilyn Manson. 11 00:03:46,300 --> 00:03:48,640 He's anti-Jesus Christ. 12 00:03:49,060 --> 00:03:52,980 They say devil worship is appealing because they're the ultimate rebels, 13 00:03:52,980 --> 00:03:54,900 and they don't force their values on anyone. 14 00:03:55,940 --> 00:03:57,020 {\an8}Or so they say. 15 00:03:57,520 --> 00:03:59,020 Freedom. 16 00:04:00,030 --> 00:04:02,030 Tell me your favorite song. 17 00:04:02,530 --> 00:04:06,450 "I Don't Like the Drugs But the Drugs Like Me." 18 00:04:06,820 --> 00:04:10,450 {\an8}It means that he doesn't try to do drugs, but the drugs make him do it. 19 00:04:18,290 --> 00:04:19,880 That was amazing. 20 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:21,260 She shattered every window. 21 00:04:21,260 --> 00:04:23,510 Michica is cool as hell! 22 00:04:23,510 --> 00:04:26,140 {\an8}Going by broken-windows theory, we're screwed, aren't we? 23 00:04:26,140 --> 00:04:28,220 {\an8}Look, it's already blowing up on TikTok. 24 00:04:28,220 --> 00:04:31,270 {\an8}She is beautiful. No wonder she doesn't fit in at school. 25 00:04:31,270 --> 00:04:33,020 {\an8}She's so cute! Her legs are so long! 26 00:04:33,020 --> 00:04:34,480 {\an8}Yeah, I'm gonna stan her. 27 00:04:56,670 --> 00:05:00,630 The moment anyone opens their mouth, it's always ugly nonsense. 28 00:05:00,630 --> 00:05:01,880 It makes me sick. 29 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:06,010 We should sew their mouths shut, like ours, Michica. 30 00:05:06,010 --> 00:05:07,680 That's a good idea. 31 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:12,720 There are some people you can barely tolerate existing, so long as they don't talk. 32 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,690 The filthier they are, the more they talk to cover it up, right? 33 00:05:16,770 --> 00:05:21,770 {\an8}Lips exist to offer kisses to what is truly dear. 34 00:07:23,150 --> 00:07:25,270 Huh? That girl's so cute! 35 00:07:25,270 --> 00:07:27,230 She really is like a doll. 36 00:07:27,230 --> 00:07:30,280 So there really are girls who can wear clothes like that naturally. 37 00:07:29,150 --> 00:07:31,990 {\an8}She's cute, but it's kind of overwhelming. 38 00:07:32,400 --> 00:07:38,120 I'm sorry. I was raised on Shuji Terayama's underground theater. 39 00:07:38,830 --> 00:07:41,250 {\an8}What lofty young maid is this, so high of brow and swoln with pride. 40 00:07:41,250 --> 00:07:43,040 {\an8}Wouldst thou then have some Shakespeare? 41 00:07:46,420 --> 00:07:52,590 Arise, fair sun, and slay the envious moon. 42 00:07:53,260 --> 00:07:55,720 {\an8}For thou art a chaste virgin that servest the silver moon, 43 00:07:55,720 --> 00:07:58,810 {\an8}far fairer and beauteous art thou, by far, than thy master. 44 00:08:02,140 --> 00:08:06,650 That moon is already sick with grief, and pale with sorrow. 45 00:08:07,190 --> 00:08:09,820 {\an8}Be thou no longer the moon's untouched maiden. 46 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:12,820 The moon is a jealous goddess. 47 00:08:20,160 --> 00:08:23,330 She's not the kind of girl who'd be satisfied playing Juliet, huh? 48 00:08:31,880 --> 00:08:35,510 More like Marie Antoinette or Cleopatra. 49 00:08:36,180 --> 00:08:38,010 I am me. 50 00:08:42,060 --> 00:08:52,070 {\an8}CYBER KOWLOON WALLED CITY 51 00:08:43,270 --> 00:08:45,940 But someday, age comes for the body. 52 00:08:45,940 --> 00:08:48,230 Isn't it beautiful because it has an end? 53 00:08:49,440 --> 00:08:52,070 I wanted to die while I was still in my teens. 54 00:08:52,530 --> 00:08:55,950 {\an8}If I could end things while I was still at my most beautiful, 55 00:08:56,200 --> 00:09:00,410 {\an8}I think that would be the ideal way to cash out. 56 00:09:00,580 --> 00:09:03,790 {\an8}CYBER KOWLOON WALLED CITY 57 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:03,790 Nothing lasts forever. 58 00:09:05,790 --> 00:09:09,460 But memories remain as long as someone remembers them. 59 00:09:09,460 --> 00:09:11,710 And they get beautified to the extreme. 60 00:09:12,130 --> 00:09:17,760 Maybe that's why we stream, to capture the moments when we shine brightest. 61 00:09:20,890 --> 00:09:23,970 So the vulgar masses, with their filthy, debased sensibilities, 62 00:09:23,970 --> 00:09:26,810 can preserve me in whatever way suits them. 63 00:09:27,650 --> 00:09:31,440 That's only one possible interpretation, and a pretty negative one. 64 00:09:31,860 --> 00:09:34,190 {\an8}Does human life feel ugly to you? 65 00:09:39,660 --> 00:09:45,160 I think ordinary human living is something to hide as much as possible. 66 00:09:47,500 --> 00:09:50,420 Hey, Kache, you broke up with your boyfriend recently, right? 67 00:09:50,420 --> 00:09:52,340 Well, yeah. It's complicated. 68 00:09:52,340 --> 00:09:55,460 - Whoa, seriously? - Maybe you'll meet someone new tonight. 69 00:09:55,880 --> 00:09:58,130 For now, let's just drink! Good riddance! 70 00:09:58,130 --> 00:09:59,930 Good riddance! 71 00:10:00,720 --> 00:10:01,720 Thanks. 72 00:10:02,560 --> 00:10:04,220 Okay then, cheers. 73 00:10:07,390 --> 00:10:12,230 {\an8}I want to be seen as the kind of being that could live on tea alone. 74 00:10:14,530 --> 00:10:15,990 I like movies. 75 00:10:16,110 --> 00:10:18,700 I want them to let me in to that world on the screen, 76 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:20,530 that's far removed from everyday life. 77 00:10:21,410 --> 00:10:23,700 {\an8}Because it's filtered, right? 78 00:10:23,830 --> 00:10:25,580 {\an8}How is that different from editing apps? 79 00:10:25,950 --> 00:10:29,250 I want to become one with the story inside the film. 80 00:10:29,790 --> 00:10:34,800 {\an8}That's completely different in purpose from doctoring everyday life. 81 00:10:35,500 --> 00:10:40,090 What about being wrapped in primary colors and rhetoric like in a Godard film? 82 00:10:45,010 --> 00:10:47,180 Or do you prefer Kubrick? 83 00:10:47,430 --> 00:10:52,100 A delicately designed structure can bring out the charm of the people within it. 84 00:10:56,440 --> 00:10:59,860 I suppose you'd also appreciate the silence in Takeshi Kitano's films. 85 00:11:01,740 --> 00:11:05,700 Or maybe we should just lose ourselves in Akira Kurosawa's dazzling colors. 86 00:11:06,200 --> 00:11:10,500 If we're talking anime, Mamoru Oshii's lighting is like a jewel of pure obsession. 87 00:11:14,790 --> 00:11:18,670 I don't really connect with lofty expressions like beauty. 88 00:11:18,840 --> 00:11:20,130 But if I had to put it into words... 89 00:11:20,630 --> 00:11:22,720 {\an8}maybe it's about getting closer to God. 90 00:11:23,050 --> 00:11:24,850 How much worldly cravings 91 00:11:24,850 --> 00:11:28,220 like money and fame can you cast aside, and still go on living? 92 00:11:28,390 --> 00:11:29,680 You think so? 93 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:31,730 I'd think that makes you a boring person. 94 00:11:32,900 --> 00:11:33,900 Although... 95 00:11:35,110 --> 00:11:37,400 if you're getting closer to God, 96 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:39,990 I guess you'd stop being human in the first place. 97 00:11:50,200 --> 00:11:56,790 There is no God. 98 00:12:48,850 --> 00:12:51,930 These are the kinds of memories you want to keep looking at forever. 99 00:12:54,140 --> 00:12:54,940 {\an8}But... 100 00:12:55,140 --> 00:13:00,150 to let them stagnate by sealing the beauty of this moment away for eternity 101 00:13:00,150 --> 00:13:04,240 is like selling your soul to the devil. 102 00:13:04,610 --> 00:13:07,320 There was a band called Dead or Alive. 103 00:13:07,320 --> 00:13:13,160 Their vocalist, Pete Burns, was a very androgynous, sensual man. 104 00:13:13,160 --> 00:13:14,870 - Glam rock? - Yeah. 105 00:13:15,330 --> 00:13:18,290 Part of that David Bowie and Boy George lineage. 106 00:13:18,750 --> 00:13:23,210 {\an8}An era when men beautiful enough to look like women were in vogue. 107 00:13:23,550 --> 00:13:26,590 But even though he was already that beautiful, 108 00:13:26,590 --> 00:13:30,010 he became even more possessed by beauty and kept getting plastic surgery. 109 00:13:30,010 --> 00:13:31,760 He developed body dysmorphia. 110 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:33,470 And the result was... 111 00:13:36,020 --> 00:13:40,400 {\an8}That despair is beyond anything we could possibly comprehend. 112 00:13:49,110 --> 00:13:53,080 But the doctor said to the drastically changed Pete, 113 00:13:53,370 --> 00:13:56,160 "You still have your singing." 114 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:00,170 {\an8}Beauty is the only thing I know. 115 00:14:06,340 --> 00:14:10,930 An era when men beautiful enough to look like women were in vogue. 116 00:15:07,650 --> 00:15:10,400 {\an8}Acne's totally normal when you're a teenager! 117 00:15:16,490 --> 00:15:19,410 {\an8}You're still plenty cute, so just go to school! 118 00:15:23,500 --> 00:15:25,130 Michica! 119 00:15:27,920 --> 00:15:29,760 {\an8}I became the same as them. 120 00:15:29,760 --> 00:15:31,340 {\an8}The same as those ugly people! 121 00:15:31,340 --> 00:15:34,140 {\an8}The same as the filthy people at that school! 122 00:15:34,140 --> 00:15:39,390 {\an8}The same as them, the same as them, the same as them, the same as them! 123 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:44,480 {\an8}The same as them, the same as them, the same as them, the same as them! 124 00:15:44,560 --> 00:15:49,990 {\an8}The same as them, the same as them, the same as them, the same as them! 125 00:15:50,070 --> 00:15:51,950 {\an8}I'm the same as them. 126 00:15:53,240 --> 00:15:54,950 I'm the same as them. 127 00:16:04,630 --> 00:16:06,250 How did that feel? 128 00:16:57,430 --> 00:16:58,850 How delightful! 129 00:17:10,190 --> 00:17:12,480 You can make it there. 130 00:17:14,450 --> 00:17:18,530 Beauty. What does it mean to be beautiful? 131 00:17:19,780 --> 00:17:23,950 I can't let it end when I'm ugly like this. 132 00:17:24,790 --> 00:17:28,290 {\an8}I think it means being completed. 133 00:17:28,790 --> 00:17:32,050 {\an8}It is through death that a human being is made complete. 134 00:17:32,250 --> 00:17:36,680 {\an8}In that very moment, how beautifully delicate, how captivatingly, 135 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,260 {\an8}can one end like a red rose that steals the eye? 136 00:17:43,470 --> 00:17:48,900 {\an8}Beauty is whatever one has "come to feel" is most beautiful. 137 00:17:49,520 --> 00:17:51,900 {\an8}It isn't objective prettiness or ugliness. 138 00:17:52,940 --> 00:17:55,740 {\an8}No matter how ugly or distorted it may look to others, 139 00:17:56,700 --> 00:18:03,830 no one can interfere with the sensibility that makes it appear beautiful. 140 00:19:33,500 --> 00:19:37,210 What stole my heart more than anything, 141 00:19:37,590 --> 00:19:40,380 what I found most beautiful of all, 142 00:19:40,930 --> 00:19:44,970 {\an8}was the moment a girl dies and becomes eternal. 143 00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,900 You looked beautiful, Michica. 144 00:20:37,690 --> 00:20:42,950 Just wait. I'm going to mend a special dress that'll suit you perfectly, Michica. 145 00:20:42,950 --> 00:20:45,780 As for me, I think those disheveled clothes you're wearing now 146 00:20:45,780 --> 00:20:47,910 look the most wonderful on you. 147 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:52,870 {\an8}I brought a present that'll suit you too, Lollipop. 148 00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:56,710 An inverted cross. 149 00:20:56,790 --> 00:20:59,500 A reverse symbol of Christ's crucifixion. 150 00:20:59,670 --> 00:21:02,130 Perfect for a rebel against society, don't you think? 151 00:21:03,300 --> 00:21:06,430 Someday, the time will come when you kill God, too. 152 00:21:08,850 --> 00:21:10,890 Then I'd be Judas. 153 00:21:11,100 --> 00:21:12,890 Judas Iscariot. 154 00:21:14,020 --> 00:21:17,400 You really do know what true beauty is, Michica. 155 00:21:17,520 --> 00:21:19,650 Here, the dress is finished. 156 00:21:21,190 --> 00:21:23,990 It suits her after all. She really does look like a doll. 157 00:21:24,490 --> 00:21:27,910 {\an8}Lollipop, what do you think it means to be beautiful? 158 00:21:28,570 --> 00:21:30,410 {\an8}Perhaps it's a challenge to God. 159 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:32,950 I love structures. 160 00:21:32,950 --> 00:21:36,290 Those buildings humanity piled higher and higher in order to climb, 161 00:21:36,290 --> 00:21:39,420 even a little, toward God's heights. 162 00:21:39,630 --> 00:21:41,050 I love the culture 163 00:21:41,050 --> 00:21:45,880 that people of the past devoted their entire lives and all their artistry to! 164 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:48,510 I think that spirituality is beautiful. 165 00:21:51,220 --> 00:21:54,310 The same goes for clothes and accessories. 166 00:23:24,980 --> 00:23:26,980 {\an8}NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW 167 00:23:26,980 --> 00:23:30,740 As though to fill the loneliness of the night, Nechika-sama and a girl exchange words. 168 00:23:31,110 --> 00:23:35,450 "You're more like me," the girl says. But what does she mean by that? 169 00:23:35,660 --> 00:23:38,000 Next time, "Slip Inside This House." 170 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,000 {\an8}EPISODE 6