It's been five days since the satellite crashed into the Akihabara Radio Building.
Since morning, many people have gathered here to see it again,
but the satellite's origin remains unknown,
and it hasn't been scheduled to be be taken down.
Mail Received
Do you have a moment?
Are you here to see the satellite?
Could you tell us where you're from?
Even the number of several billion heartbeats
suujuuoku mo no kodou no kazu sae
anata ni wa matataki teido no saji na toukyuu
{}is basic research with little glamor for you
anata ni wa matataki teido no saji na toukyuu
kako ni torawarete mirai wo nageku mo
{}Even locked in the past and lamenting the future
kako ni torawarete mirai wo nageku mo
chiri hitotsu gosan wo yurusanu hitsuzen
it's an inevitability that won't forgive miscalculating one speck of dust
chiri hitotsu gosan wo yurusanu hitsuzen
mugen ni hirogaru yume mo egaku mirai mo
{}The dreams that stretch out forever and the future we imagine
mugen ni hirogaru yume mo egaku mirai mo
bokutachi ni yurusareta kyoei no genri
{}are a vain theory we allowed
bokutachi ni yurusareta kyoei no genri
yuugen sore wa futatsu no hari ga shimesu
{}Finity, that's what the two hands of the clock point out
yuugen sore wa futatsu no hari ga shimesu
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
{}towards a cruel agreement and choice
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
Hacking to the Gate
zankoku na yakujou to sentaku e hacking to the gate
dakara ima ichibyou goto ni sekaisen wo koete
{}That's why I want to cross world lines with each passing second
dakara ima ichibyou goto ni sekaisen wo koete
kimi no sono egao mamoritai no sa
{}and protect your smile
kimi no sono egao mamoritai no sa
soshite mata kanashimi no nai jikan no loop e to
{}And once again, into a time loop that contains no sadness
soshite mata kanashimi no nai jikan no loop e to
nomikomareteyuku kodoku no kansokusha
A swallowed solitary observer
nomikomareteyuku kodoku no kansokusha
Butterfly
Effect's
Divergence
This is it?
It's delicious!
Miss Amane, you've never had a beef bowl?
No, I've only heard rumors of it.
It's delicious.
It's even better if you put a raw egg on it.
If you call yourself a warrior,
you should be able to come to a beef bowl place by yourself.
Well, Daru and I come here often.
If you invite us, we'll go with you anytime.
I just remembered!
Last time, I had to pay for Okarin's meal.
It's possible that happened, yes.
It's not just possible! It happened!
Give me back my money!
Sadly, I don't have any on me today.
It's me.
Transfer the funds to my Swiss bank account.
What?
The Organization hacked into the Geneva servers?
No cell phones.
How terrible...
Um, he's just pretending.
So you were with them too, Suzu?
It was time for my lunch break.
If you came a bit earlier, you could've joined us.
Then, do you want to go all together tomorrow?
This time Okarin will—
What?
The Organization's sabotaging the process,
and it'll take a week to bring the servers back online?
It's Kurisu!
Assistant, did you get any sleep?
Don't call me "assistant."
Hey, part-timer.
If you're done with lunch, get back to work.
What's with her?
A round table?
Indeed.
What's that?
A meeting of lab members.
Have we ever had one before?
Do you even own a round table?
Not a physical one,
but the true round table lies within all lab members' hearts, right?
Whether it's true or not,
don't put anything weird in my heart.
Do you think there's one in Mayushii's heart too?
Yes, of course.
Really?
Yay!
But what's a round table?
Why a round table?
Are you supposed to be King Arthur?
I'm only a temporary lab member, anyway.
At any rate...
it's time for a round table.
We need to tell Mayuri about the current situation.
Situation?
And so,
in order to defeat SERN, we must perfect
the time machine functions of the Phone Microwave (name subject to change)
as soon as possible.
This is too hard for Mayushii to understand!
Just know that SERN is evil.
But how do we perfect it?
We've succeeded in sending messages to the past, right?
Only twice!
And we don't know what conditions trigger the phenomenon.
From what we observed last time,
it only occurs when there's electricity.
That's right!
Did you figure something out?
No.
"Emails Sent to the Past" is too long.
First, we need to find a name for them.
Another failed attempt to sound cool?
Don't say "another"!
Do you dare mock the great Hououin...
You'll just give it a stupid name, anyway.
How rude!
Then I'll tell you.
I've found the perfect name for the act of sending emails back in time...
I call it "Nostalgia Drive"!
You write it with the kanji for "journey crossing over time,"
but you read it "Nostalgia Drive."
Too complicated.
Rejected.
You!
Don't think you have the authority to reject—
Then let's have a vote.
Who agrees with "Nostalgia Drive"?
Not you too, Mayuri? Daru?
I think Kurisu is right.
Mayushii can't remember a long name like that.
It sounds like something invented by a nerdy teenager.
We should focus on making it easy to understand.
Since it's an email going back in time,
we could call it "Email That Flies Against Time."
What does "flies against time" mean?
That's not easy to understand at all.
It should be "The Email That Leapt Through Time."
That's a bit formal.
Hard to say, too.
You don't get to say that.
Your "Nostalgia Whatsit" was long too!
It's romantic! If it's romantic, it's okay!
So we can shorten it to Time-Leap.
Then we don't know what leapt through time!
Is it an email? A girl? Maybe a banana?
Mayushii has an idea!
Um... "Back to the Email"!
That would be going back to the email, not back in time,
which doesn't make sense.
Then "DeLorean Mail"!
That makes even less sense!
Hey...
Why don't we just shorten it to "D-mail"?
I like that.
Okay, it's decided then.
We will now begin the experiments with D-mail (name subject to change).
We can also cut the "(name subject to change)."
The operation is called "Operation Urd."
We don't need that either.
But we don't know what it takes to send a D-mail
or what it's got to do with electricity.
That's what we're going to find out.
I, Hououin Kyouma, have an idea.
We forgot the simplest and most important condition!
Which is...
the time it occurred!
The first D-mail was sent between 12:00 and 13:00.
The second occurred around 18:00.
If we attempt to replicate it at those times,
we'll succeed.
Probably.
That sounds too easy.
It's worth a shot.
Mayuri, the banana!
Mayushii's running low on bananas.
Do we have to put the banana in?
"Put the banana in"!
Daru, not now.
I want to see if it turns into jelly.
Now, assistant,
put the banana inside.
"Put the banana inside..."
Enough, you pervert!
I'm sorry.
I'll buy you a new banana later.
Really?
I'm so happy!
Okarin and Daru never buy me any.
Geez, you two...
Ow!
Being clumsy isn't cute.
The heck?
Pain, pain, go away!
Thanks, Mayuri.
Stop making a Lesbomagnetic Field and prepare the D-mail.
Yeah, yeah.
Is 120 seconds okay for the time?
Indeed.
Begin Operation Urd!
Now!
It's here.
It's here!
Where's the banana?
It's a gel-bana!
I've solved it at last.
As I thought, time was the D-mail's missing factor!
Nice job, Okabe.
I didn't realize it was so simple.
Does it bother you?
Still, I respect you for having the guts to admire me so closely.
Anyway, did the D-mail arrive?
It did.
It says it was sent five days ago.
Did you send two messages, Miss Makise?
No, just one.
It was split into two messages.
By the way, what does this message mean?
Look it up yourself.
Come to think of it,
the last D-mail was also split into multiple messages,
and some of it was lost.
And it went back in time five days too.
Yeah, there must be some kind of rules for it.
Which means that D-mail...
...was calling me an empty-headed idiot?
Took you a while.
Curse you, Christina. Taking advantage of a...
Wait a minute. Why are you buying so much?
The only food we need is nonperishable cup ramen.
One bag of the cheap chocolate is plenty.
I'm celebrating our experiment's success.
Go put it back.
Cheap-ass.
That's right.
I was so happy about the experiment's success that I forgot.
We learned SERN's terrifying secret.
And I even got Mayuri involved.
Was this really for the best?
It's Shining Finger.
What?
What are you doing?
You don't have your cell phone?
The great Hououin Kyouma's cell phone is
currently being used for an experiment that'll leave our names in history.
It's not here.
I'm back.
Huh?
O-O-Okarin!
Who's that erotic...
I mean sexy... 3D girl?
I'll introduce you.
This is Shining Finger, Kiryuu Moeka.
I-It's nice to meet you, Kiry—
Even I once had hope for the 3D world.
Yo!
Are you guys doing something fun?
Indeed.
We are doing experiments that'll leave our names in hist—
Leaving your names is fine...
but the boss is really pissed off.
He says the vibrations from the second story are really bad.
"I'll raise your rent 10,000 yen!"
Something like that.
10,000 yen?
Okay, leave this to me.
Tell my assistant to stop the experiments for the moment, Daru.
Roger.
You're shining like never before...
Is Makise Kurisu still there?
Oh, yeah. You were staring at her back there, weren't you?
So, what happened earlier? What's your deal with her?
Did something happen in the past?
Nothing in the past, no.
Yes, it was the summer when we were eight.
And on the dry riverbed of the Mississippi, your red-eared slider ran away...
It was nothing!
I saw her for the first time earlier!
Anyway, you should go see the boss.
What are you doing upstairs?
It's been shaking like an earthquake.
We're performing an experiment that'll rewrite scientific history.
But don't worry.
We won't do any more today—
I said stop!
What are you doing?
I said stop!
Miss Makise said to let her do it just one more time.
I sent you a message. Did you see it?
Of course not!
I warned you five days ago...
Don't mess with me—
Oh, when we weren't doing the experiments,
your phone went off a bunch of times.
Really!
Sorry!
Are you maybe
How've you been?
?
Well?
Sorry!
Are you maybe
How've you been?
?
Well?
Hey?
Hey
How've you been? Okabe
Well?
Find out anything about the IBN 5100 ?
Why didn't she just ask me directly?
What's wrong?
I don't know,
but he probably isn't getting enough calcium.
Whose fault is that?
Well, I got plenty of data,
and I pretty much figured out the rules for how the D-mail works.
What?
Each second on the timer represents one hour back in time.
One hundred twenty seconds turns into five days.
It's amazing that she figured out how to control how far it goes back, isn't it?
But the maximum amount of information that can be sent back is 36 English characters
or 18 Japanese characters.
It's too small.
I'd like to fix that.
I'm sure you can't send anything too big or send too much.
Maybe it's that Curb black hole...
Kerr black hole, indeed.
The hole's too tight!
Can you repeat that, Mayushii?
The part about the hole?
Shut up, pervert!
Anyhow, we can work out the details later,
but I'll say this:
August 2, 2010,
is a day that mankind will remember forever,
for us, the Future Gadget Lab,
has succeeded in developing humanity's
first time machine!
It's not the first one, right?
SERN beat us.
We didn't "develop" it, anyway.
It was all coincidence.
All of you, disrespecting my great declaration...
But Okarin...
I'm glad your experiments worked.
Where am I?
You're not moving.
Time and space have switched places here.
The event horizon?
You can't move through space,
and time is extended forever.
One second of your time is an eternity to me.
Is the edge of the universe running away?
No, that's not it, but something's expanding.
What is?
The universe?
Me?
You mustn't look back.
Eternity isn't infinity.
Even if time appears to extend toward eternity,
an end still exists.
When will it be one second later?
Look forward.
Reach the end.
You mustn't turn back.
That emailing freak again?
Her persistence...
You there?
It's dark
Wake up
I'm here
You asleep?
Does it bug you?
Sorry for yesterday Moeka
"Sorry for yesterday."
"Can I come see you?"
I'm here
At least answer me. Or are you pretending to not be there? Moeka
It didn't occur to you that I was asleep?
Wake up
Were you asleep? Moeka
I was asleep!
It's dark
I'm coming up the stairs right now. Moeka
What?
I'm outside.
I'll knock. If you're there, respond. Moeka
You said I could come see you, right? Moeka
Why use your cell phone?
I'm right here.
I'm not looking at it. Just say it.
I can show you, but I didn't think you'd come this early.
I get it!
You really want to interview me, don't you?
Why don't you talk?
I see... So that's it.
You're terrified of Mad Scientist Hououin Kyouma's sinister aura!
It's easier to send emails...
So, show me the IBN 5100.
Very well.
But I'm just showing it to you.
Once you've seen it, leave!
Is that all right?
Is she just a retro-PC fan?
Let me take a picture Moeka
But not my face.
If you photograph my face,
I'll have to silence you forever...
Please!
I'd like you to loan it to me, okay? I'd be happy if you'd help me carry it. Moeka
"I'd like you to loan it to me, okay?"
"I'd be happy if you'd help me carry..."
Why am I suddenly lending it to you?
And if you really want me to loan it to you, then look at me and say it.
Will you loan it to me?
Sadly, no.
I'm only borrowing it myself.
When I'm done,
I have to return it to its original owner.
Its original owner?
Yanabayashi Shrine.
Guten Morgen.
You're Miss Kiryuu from yesterday, right?
I didn't introduce you yesterday, did I?
My favorite right arm, Super Haker Daru.
It's "Super Hacker," man. Seriously.
Anyway, I thought I'd improve the Phone Microwave a little.
It's currently a bit of a pain in the ass, right?
Sending the D-mails to the past, that is.
What does he mean, "sending mails to the past"? Moeka
I-It's nothing.
You misheard.
He didn't say, "Sending emails to the past."
He said, "Sen Dingma Ils Tot Hepast,"
which is ancient Sumerian for "Did you eat breakfast?"
Good morning, Okarin!
Can Mayushii prepare the fried chicken before your time machine experiment?
Okabe.
I had an idea about the time machine.
It's me.
This is bad.
No.
Information about #8 has been leaked to a third party.
Ah, I get it. I'll do something about it.
What's going on?
He's totally ignoring all three of us?
Depending on the situation I'll have to
seal their mouths to keep them in check.
We can't let the Organization find—
Don't email me while I'm on the phone!
Could that be...
It can't be
It can't be FB?
"FB"?
Very well. I'll tell you everything.
Since you've found out, there's nothing else I can do.
Kiryuu Moeka,
from now on, you're Lab Member 005!
kisei sareta chikai mujihi nari juuni no shinri nogarerarenai
We cannot escape the 12 merciless truths and the controlled oath we took
ansoku no asu wo negattara
If we wish for a tomorrow full of rest
te no naka no toutoi jishou no chihei he
to be given to the precious event horizon in our hands
toraware shi meiyaku arawareta gishou no rinkaku
the promise we made in captivity turns out to be a phantom
seimei no tenshi wa moumoku na jikan wo kizanda
The angel of life recorded a time of blindness
habatake butterfly
A flapping butterfly
kiseki no butterfly
A miraculous butterfly
anata he sasageru
I will consecrate them to you
namida no butterfly
Butterflies of tears
mabushii butterfly
Dazzling butterflies
subete ga ima kakikaerareru
All those are being rewritten