Take, for example... a person on this earth...
who means more to you than yourself...
really does exist?
For example, what if something could change my life...
- Please read this. - I will!
like giving a love letter like on TV...
wearing clothes I saw in a magazine...
going on a date where everyone lines up to get into...
kissing like in a movie scene.
In the dead of night, I ask myself over and over...
"Would it have been fine if it wasn't me..."
"or even if it wasn't you?"
"The guy beside me would've done, right?"
"Was there any reason..."
"it had to be us two?"
It can begin and end at any time.
She's dead, isn't she?
Can something so disposable
really be love?
It isn't sold anywhere
and it has no name.
Is falling in love like that...
some incredible miracle?
Who threw a person away?
People aren't garbage, you morons!
I really hate this.
I hate this world.
What if...a person on this planet..
more important to you than yourself...
does exist?
Here, take this.
Hmm?
Well, I'm off.
- Okay, stay safe. - Your bag.
Thanks. Bye.
Have a good day.
Hello? Principal?
Sensei? How'd it go yesterday with that girl?
Was a Doctor of Engineering too much for you?
She has no luck with men. She's shy.
Well...she's not the type of woman I can get on with.
No, no. Just because you went on one date...
Huh? What? Hello, Principal?
Oh, thanks for yesterday.
Science lab...
I... class...attendance...
Science prep room!
[Science Preparation Room]
Sensei?
I...am finished.
Yes. Beautiful, beautiful.
Looks good.
Fukai-kun...
You said you'd have surgery if I let you touch my teeth, right?
Well...
- Why'd you say that? - Forget it. That's so long ago.
But who normally asks to touch someone's teeth?!
It's because they might make music.
Music?
Teeth look like piano keys so...
which note comes from you?
Don't over-react! I was a kid then.
I see...
The truth is...
even now, sometimes...
just once in a while...
there are times...
I think music might come from a person.
Of course...I know no music will come out so...
I don't touch people's teeth.
Doing something like that is uncivilised behaviour.
Anyway...
no way will musical notes come out.
Wanting to...
make sure of that...
is totally foolish.
No way!
No, I was just...
Please give me a name.
What?
Within 20 seconds of activation, please give me a name.
Give you a name? Me?
5...seconds left.
- 4... 3... - No. Wait! Hang on!
- 2... 1... - Q...
Kyuuto (Q10).
My name is... Kyuuto.
Yes.
What is your name?
Fukai Heita.
It was the note "la."
Fukai Heita...
has been authenticated.
I had met a girl who sounded the note "la."
Kyuuto = pun on "cute" (kyu-to)
KYUUTO Episode 01
A robot?
What? She looks human.
It's because she's humanoid.
- What? - A robot in human shape.
- So it will move? - If you switch it on.
But...a robot?
Lets put it back before things gets worse.
Principal.
It's moving.
Someone pressed the switch!
- Close it! Hurry, close it! - What? What's up?
- Huh? A girl's after you? - Close that!!
What? What do you want?
What do you want?
No, no! No!
Wait...who? Who's that?
Who's she? Who?
- Who? - I don't know!
[Principal's Office]
So...
what did you touch?
- Well... I just... - Didn't you touch something?!
Well... yes.
So where?
Where?
You touched where you can't say, huh?
Who are you?
I...
It spoke.
...belong to Fukai Heita.
- No, no, no... - Hey! What's that mean?
I don't know! Kyuuto's just saying that...
- Kyuuto? - It's her name.
How do you know her name?
There was this countdown, and I freaked out.
I had no choice.
Kyuuto...is sleepy.
Huh, what? Wait! Hey!
What? Now what?
Out of energy, huh?
I have no idea what energy it runs on.
What?
It's inhuman strength.
Well, it is a robot.
Robot?
She's a robot?
What... what? What is it?
This is...
What? What is it? Hey!
It really is a robot.
It is indeed.
What a gallant little thing. Though I don't understand it...
it's functioning, isn't it?
What?
A robot?
Do you suppose we've seen something we shouldn't have?
Maybe we should call the police.
The police, yes... we've seen too much.
If an underworld gang owns it, would they just let us go?
Underworld gang?
A plug converter.
So it runs on electricity...
We might get it to work.
What do we do?
Well, if we tell the police I picked up a girl...
would they tell my wife?
Well, not just your wife.
It'd be in the news?
Weekly magazines, talk shows, tv networks...
There it is.
Okay.
Excuse me!
How much longer must I stay like this?
How would I know something like that?
What?
Gotta be kidding...
- Nishimura-kun. - Here.
Fukai-kun.
Fukai-kun isn't here?
He went off with a girl and hasn't come back!
Quiet down. Quiet down!
- Okay! Fukushima-san... - Here.
- Miyazawa-kun. - Here.
- Morinaga-kun. - Here.
- Yamamoto-san. - Here.
I wonder what will happen to me.
[ Fujioka Makoto ]
He just...
What?
Nothing, just...
How did this happen?
I don't know.
I know nothing.
Who did that to my chair?
No clue...
You must have seen the person's face.
Well...
I don't think so.
Huh? Wait! What? Wait! What's going on?
Kyuto is awake.
That's great.
This robot is a secret between us four, so...
let's watch it in school for a while.
Does "us 4" include me?
We'll put it in your class. Look after it.
- Me? Why? - You're the best choice.
I have to take it home.
What is this?
A ball.
Ball.
Shouldn't we take it to the police?
But we'd have to tell them you touched a girl's molars.
Is that alright?
How'd you know...?
She told us.
What if your parents find out?
So embarrassing. I'd die first.
And it'll be all over the news.
This is the roof.
The roof.
It must be a learning-type robot.
It's like it's just been born. Hey, you!
Teach it lots, okay?
Why must I do it? It's not my job.
Can't be helped. You woke her after all.
Then... just push the reset button?
There must be one. She's a machine.
Then just pretend we never saw anything.
Once we pressed the switch... there's no going back.
Okay?
What?
I only promised to watch you
until classes are over today. Got it?
Leave that alone. It's just scribbles.
Scribbles.
That's right.
See you.
What is that?
Look, my time with you is over.
What?
What is it?
The city?
City.
So look, okay? That big one is the supermarket.
Then there's the steel tower
and that's the shopping district with the sleazy old greengrocer
and over there is London coffee shop with great egg-salad sandwiches.
There's also this really cool sandal shop...
Anyway, all this is the city.
All this is...the city.
That's right.
It's our city.
It's our...city.
Whoa! What're you looking at?!
You saw...?
No.
- You did. - What?
- Don't tell anyone! - I only saw a video of Kawai.
So don't tell anyone.
Eh, what?! You're in love with Kawai?
- Don't tell anyone. - I see. You're dating.
Dating Kawai would totally destroy my image.
It's not like you can do anything.
Don't tell anyone!
There's no door.
Why? Why no front door?
[Your door is confiscated till you pay your rent - Management]
That greedy landlord.
Oh my!
Someone save me!
What have you done?
When someone calls for help...
A robot. She's a robot?
The principal found it.
A robot?
It'd cost at least 100 million yen.
For the robot?
Well, it talks and walks.
Even though it's a robot.
That's right.
Did you change the light bulb?
Hm? No.
I get it.
A young lady brightens up the whole place, right?
Even if she's a robot.
Maybe...I'll get married.
- To a robot? - To a human.
Oh. I'll take a bath now.
Why tell me?
It's a long time since I saw Heita's surgery scar.
I wonder if it'll fade.
What're you looking at?
Heita's pet fish. Mom killed them.
What?
They looked dirty, so I cleaned them.
I used boiling water.
What? They'd die.
That's why she got new ones, so he won't notice.
But they look different.
Right, weren't they striped?
He'll notice. I'm not involved.
What do I do?
It's alright! Once mixed in...
What?
See, you can't tell. Look.
It's obvious.
Oh, hey! H-how was h-hospital?
Hmm?
Same as always.
Did they say you're better?
Yeah. No need to worry.
Oh. How was hospital?
I said, same as always.
Honestly...
Did you notice the fish tank?
Of course I did.
They're different.
Why didn't you say anything?
They're dead already.
They can't come back.
You...
really are cold-hearted.
[Angelfish Grave]
If something bad happens to Heita...
what will we do?
It'll be okay.
These guys gave themselves in his stead.
If someone gets bad karma, let it be me, not Heita.
No, me. Has to be me.
Take-chan...
[Science Preparation Room]
Better than a no-door place.
Everyone's pretending nothing happened.
I can't make a fuss.
Good morning.
Hey.
I'm wondering...
do you have a reset button?
I do. My left molars.
You do have one.
How can you just tell someone something so important?
Are you stupid?
Why are you angry?
Is that her from yesterday?
Right! She blew the door off.
But she's cute, hey?
But, Kawai, do you see her as your rival?
Okay, quiet down.
She's a transfer student.
I look forward to learning with you.
Where should she sit?
Well, next to Fukai of course.
She can have my seat.
She talks funny.
- It's weird. - Oh no! It's not like that.
She only just returned to Japan.
And so... you know?
She ran into Fukai after a long time.
I mean... well...
They're ... childhood friends.
- What? - Right?
What, really?
Yeah.
It's a huge coincidence.
- Se... Sensei! - Yes?
- Her name. - Name? Oh!
Right. Her name...
I am Kyuuto.
Kyuuto? Is it your last name?
Last name...last name.
This is Kyuto Karen.
- Karen? - So pretty...
"Flower" and "love" kanji?
Okay, now everyone introduce yourselves.
Start there.
Taki Reiji. Nice to meet you.
Souda Rika.
Nakao Jun.
Kotegawa Yui.
Fujioka Makoto.
Gojou Takuya.
- Akagawa Shiori. - Kageyama Satoshi
- Miyazawa Saburou. - Okazaki Asuka.
Nishimura Tomorou.
Hey! If you say your names so quickly, Kyuuto won't remember.
Do not worry.
I remember them.
Taki Reiji, Souda Rika, Nakao Jun...
Kotegawa Yui, Fujioka Makoto, Gojou Takuya, Akagawa Shiori...
Kageyama Satoshi, Miyazawa Saburou...
Okazaki Asuka, Nishimura Tomorou.
Amazing.
Her memory might be more amazing than Kawai's.
See that? Kawai looked put out.
The head of the class might fall.
- Then she's just be an ugly girl. - Hey. Honestly...
Please... continue.
Here. Now...
Anyway... standing out is bad.
Standing out is bad.
That's right. At school, go with the flow.
Why?
It's a rule for school. And...
This is your name.
Try writing it.
Hey!
You can write!
That's right. Like that. Huh?
This is the same as mine! Write differently!
Differently?
The characters are the same, but different for each person.
The same but different.
That's right. So... try changing them when you write.
Good...
That's backwards!
Man, what a pain.
Will you press the reset button?
You will not push it?
Kubo! Kubo, one sec.
Hey. What's up?
Write "Kyuuto Karen."
Huh? Why not ask a classmate?
It'd be bad to ask them, so...
Sorry.
I'll just find someone else.
Heita!
Hm?
I'm having surgery again.
I'll have to repeat second-year.
Here.
There! Stay there! Keep it!
Second-years are relaxed, hey?
Your class is on edge from entrance exams, right?
Hey, Kubo! Hurry up! This is crazy!
Run! Dash! Hurry up! Dash!
Hey, Heita...
The world isn't fair, is it?
But they say humanity will be destroyed in 2012.
No way. It won't be destroyed.
- Wanna ask? - Ask who?
There was a rumour...
If you write your wish and bury it under the steel tower, it comes true.
But it's mankind's destruction.
Too much?
Right now...
we can't even go to the tower to bury it.
Good work, everyone.
Heita. You do not run with everyone?
I can't.
My heart is defective.
Well...they did repairs
but it's not perfect.
W-what?
I will reset you.
That's impossible.
Humans have no reset buttons.
None.
Then what do you do?
When humans wish to reset...
what do they do?
Fukai?
Oh. Here.
- Fukushima. - Here.
- Let's see... Miyazawa. - Here.
- Sensei. - Mm? What is it?
Sensei, you did not call Fujioka Makoto's name.
- Right, he didn't. - Why'd you leave Fujioka out?
Why didn't you call him?
Well, there are circumstances.
- What circumstances? - It's a bit tough to...
Hey, what did Fujioka do?
He hasn't paid his tuition
because of stuff at home.
That's why his name was taken off the roster.
That's horrible.
Sensei, is that true?
Well, this is a private school. And you know...
Your parents pay your tuition. Back to class now.
Kyuuto. Sit down too.
Let's see.
Hey. Wait. Wait!
Where are you going?
I'm going to find Fujioka Makoto.
Leave it alone.
But Fujioka Makoto's name wasn't called.
All humans have something others can't understand
no matter how hard we try, so...
we pretend not to notice.
It's called "kindness."
I will look for Fujioka Makoto
then I will have his name called.
Well, yes.
Hey, wait. Where are you going?
Hey!
Don't go too far.
Make sure you come back.
I just...just... Excuse me.
Fujioka...
What are you doing?
It's a secret, okay? A secret.
I found some bread flour so we're making bread.
Ready and...
It's very therapeutic. Want to try?
Ready and...
I'm scared to wake up every morning.
Things at my house are getting worse.
I feel like I'll lose myself.
At school, I can get a grip.
School is the only place I can be normal.
But, I don't know what to do about what's happening.
Telling people only bothers them.
When people act kindly, it makes me feel worse.
You think so?
I think it's okay to cause a bit of bother.
No way. I don't want to worry everyone.
Sorry. I saw you.
I want to disappear.
It'd be better if I'd never existed.
Don't say that stuff.
Humans do not have a reset button.
That is why, when humans wish to redo something, they ask for help.
I will show you.
Please pull this.
Huh?
Pull it.
Pull this?
Okay.
Oh my!
Someone save me!
When you yell loudly...
someone will come to save you.
That is a human rule.
That's...
Have I made a mistake in what I have said?
It'd be nice if it were true.
If you scream loudly, someone will come to save you.
That would be a nice human rule.
Here you go.
Is anyone there?
Someone, save me!
Anyone!
Someone save me!
Please, save me!
Anyone!
Someone, please save me!
Huh? What's going on?
- What's that? - It's them.
What are they doing?
- They're asking for help. - Why?
How'd I know?
They seem super serious.
Hey, Sensei. Do something for them.
I'm just an employee. I can't.
Okay. Back to our lesson.
- You're so petty. - Don't call me petty!
Please save us!
- Back to class now. Hurry up. - Please, save us!
You know...
They're asking for help and we're just ignoring them?
That's not cool, is it?
- Should we scream with them? - To who?
Well... to...
the sky!
The sky? Like asking God?
We don't know if gods exist. Why'd we ask them?
If a news helicopter was flying over, we'd scream.
Yeah...
There was one the first day it snowed!
Right! And our class got its photo in the paper, right?
- But it's not gonna snow. - We'd have to solve a crime.
Yeah. Impossible.
One might fly over.
Today 'Monolith" have a surprise gig in Shibuya.
What? Seriously?
What? 'Monolith'? The rock band!
Shibuya will be in a panic!
Okay! Let's tell the news and get that helicopter!
Yeah!
Why are you getting excited? We're in class!
Please, save us!
Hey, you!
You're not loud enough!
Unless you yell louder, they'll never hear!
Hey! Get your desks. Go. Hurry.
Go on.
Alright. Let's go!
Excuse us.
What're they doing?
They're all going to yell "help" together.
I see...
A wig?
The teacher and everyone in class know.
But they pretend not to notice.
Is that coldness... or kindness?
Probably both.
It's not coming.
They mightn't send a helicopter just for a surprise gig.
We may have to end without a big climax, huh?
There it is!
Ow! Hot! Hot, hot...
Hot, hot...
It really did fly.
Tamiko.
They said it's canceled.
Someone must've told about the concert today.
This is the worst. I was really looking forward to it.
Right?
Yay! You feelin' the love?
No one came to save us.
No one came to help.
We know that.
Everyone understands.
Hey!
Huh?
No way! Seriously?
Ow...
Split it up! That's your share!
Kubo! Hey.
You cracked me up today.
And my hospital date's set.
When?
- Tomorrow. - Tomorrow, huh?
I'll cause everyone trouble again.
Do you remember...
that night we thought of destroying the world?
You know, I thought everything was my fault.
Having to go to hospital...
and that made Mom and Dad exhausted.
And my sister's grades dropped.
It was all my fault.
I couldn't carry that hurt.
I thought it'd be better for the world to disappear.
Truth is, it wasn't our fault.
I'm certain it's no-one's fault.
Do you know her?
Cool sandal shop.
- Stupid! Stupid! You're too loud! - Sleazy old man's grocery...
- Bridge. Shopping district. - Quiet! Yes, yes.
- Yes. That's right. Okay. - London Cafe with great egg sandwiches.
Real estate agency's flag ... flag... flag...
All this is our city.
Yes. That's right. It's our city.
Sorry. She's a bit weird.
That's a gacha-gacha.
Put in money and a toy comes out.
She's never seen one?
I really don't want humanity to be destroyed.
I want this city to go on, even after I die.
I think that now, too.
It has been born.
Not here...
Here! Found it!
It's here! I found it!
But...
That's disgusting!
But it's gross.
Can't tell with this. Nothing.
This part looks legible, yeah?
See?
It's been born.
"...world..."
The "world" has been born.
Why won't you call his name?
I can't act irresponsibly.
You're so petty.
That's right. I'm a small man.
In that case...
"Fujioka-kun, how are you today?"
Can't you say that?
I can't do that.
That's what I'd do.
Now I've gotten old,
I want to do nothing to make me think, "I wish I would've"..."
You're not old.
What is that?
I got it from Kubo-kun.
Huh? That guy doesn't miss a trick.
What's he up to?
Why...
did you throw it away?
Sorry.
It's okay. I know his number so...
I have the number in my memory.
It was the paper.
You want paper?
Paper... paper...
The characters are different.
If Kubo-kun did not write it, it is not the same.
I'm sorry.
Kyuto...
Since that day, Kyuuto...
hasn't spoken a single word.
- Kawai. - Here.
Kyuuto.
Kyuuto Karen.
Hey. What happened?
Don't ask me.
- Kotegawa. - Here.
I didn't know not being spoken to was this painful.
Shigematsu.
Fujioka.
Fujioka Makoto.
You doing okay?
Yes.
Oh, just now, I was chatting, so...
Okay. Time for class.
Oh dear.
Of course you can't talk.
You have no saliva, so chewing gum sticks your teeth together. OK?
[...world...]
Oh, right...
You gave Kyuuto your phone number, right?
Huh?
It's just...she lost that paper, so...write it again for her.
Huh, why? You know it. Just tell her.
No. Somehow...
she wants the one you wrote.
What's that mean?
She wants your handwriting.
Just write.
What?
What is this feeling?
Don't look so happy.
She's a robot.
She's not a person...
just an object.
If you get too excited, you'll be embarrassed later.
I wanted to tell him that second.
- There. - Thanks.
What is this?
I'm feeling spiteful.
That girl's kinda weird.
Totally weird.
To try to keep him from seeing...
I forced a smile.
As I did...
deep inside...
I realized a switch had been flipped.
A switch I didn't know existed because no-one had told me...
had been flipped.
In a corner, on the stairs [kaidan no katasumi ni]
that person cowering, crouching [suwari uzukumaru no ano hito ni]
I wonder what happened? [nani ga atta n darou]
What did that person see? [ittai nani wo mitekita n darou]
In a crowd of people [hitogomi no naka de]
that man and woman glare at each other [niramiau danjou no aida ni]
I wonder what happened between them [nani ga okottarou]
What circumstances led them there? [ittai donna jijou ga atta n darou]
Once you called me outside [itsuka boku wo yobidashita]
and the teacher yelled. That scene.. [sensei ga donatteta sono scene ha]
I wonder what it looked like [donna dattarou]
What on earth did I learn from it? [ittai boku ha nani wo shitta n darou]
On the other side [itsu kara ka tsuzuiteru]
of this war that's lasted since who knows when [sensou no hate ni donna koto ga]
I wonder what waits for us [matteru n darou]
And what can I do? [Soushite boku ni nani ga dekiru n darou]
The truth of things [Koto no shinsou ha nani mo]
we feel like we know, but we can't learn [shitteiru you de shirienai]
Even so, somehow or another, [sore demo dou ni ka kou ni ka]
it's like we were never here [ikiteita naka ga nai]
It's not enough to meet with futility [Muda ga atteba tarirarenai]
But there are too few things to believe in [Demo shinjirareru mono mo sukunai]
The only certain thing is my feelings [Tada hitotsu tashika na no ha boku no kimochi]
Let me hear your voice [Kimi no sono koe wo kikashite yo]
That's where I find something to believe in [Shinjireru mono ga soko ni aru yo]
The only certain thing is my time with you [Tada hitotsu tashika na no ha omae to no toki]
I love you [Kimi ga suki]
Love is a revolution.
Everything you know to be true gets flipped upside-down.
People can fall in love with whoever they like.
Is this a place you can keep living?
That's it.
I...am in love.