SCRIPT:

0:02 Nighttime, a river embankment separated from a parking lot by trees, apartments in the background. A girl in a skirt runs through the trees.

0:08 Her clothes evoke gothic lolita.

0:10 A woman follows her slowly, holding a ladle.

0:12 The girl running is Rikka.

0:14 The woman spins the ladle around.

0:17 Rikka runs towards a playground building,

0:20 And takes shelter beneath it.

0:23 She looks to her side.

0:26 She looks forth and sees a cat with glowing eyes.

0:30 The woman throws the ladle like a boomerang.

0:32 It struck the slide Rikka was hiding near.

0:34 The woman slowly walks towards the playground.

2:08 Palm trees, sunny, Yuuta and Nibutani in a swimming pool.

2:28 Yuuta looks at Nibutani’s cleavage.

2:40 Water gun.

2:45 Pinned against a tree by the spray of a firehose.

2:48 Yuuta in his bed getting sprayed with water by Rikka.

2:52 Yuuta shoots up, and sees Rikka’s spray bottle with a pump.

3:02 The spray bottle is made of metal and rubber.

3:21 Rikka lifts her bangs, revealing a large bandage.

3:31 A costumed cat jumps on Yuuta.

3:38 Cleaning the water stain on the bed.

4:24 By a preschool bus.

4:37 Yuuta and Rikka walk together.

5:10 Classroom.

6:15 School kitchen.

6:24 Yuuta is taking a tray of measuring cups back.

6:52 Quick flashback to dream.

7:27 Quick flashback to last episode.

7:30 Yuuta stares at Nibutani, frozen, hands up.

7:54 Yuuta takes the other tray back.

8:15 Hampster running in a wheel, sparks fly.

8:20 He collapses at the thought.

8:33 An anatomy model, held by…

9:38 Hallway.

10:27 Apartments, evening.

10:50 Rikka types on a calculator taped to her apartment door.

11:25 Rikka’s room has old clocks, a laptop, and many odd decorations.

12:05 Yuuta notices that Kumin is looking at him.

12:31 Rikka pumps the metal spray bottle from earlier, and waters some plants with it.

13:05 Rikka’s older sister slammed the door open.

13:10 Yuuta and Kumin turn to Rikka. Rikka has a faintly nervous expression, a single bead of sweat.

13:26 Rikka runs to a pulley,

13:30 Closing the door.

13:35 Rikka’s older sister kept the door open with her ladle. Rikka has climbed out the window and is now descending a rope from the veranda. The sister follows. Camera stays on Yuuta and Kumin.

13:50 Yuuta and Kumin run down to Yuuta’s apartment.

13:52 Takanashis on Yuuta’s bed.

14:04 Rikka grabs an umbrella.

14:11 Rikka charges at her sister with the now-open umbrella, throwing the umbrella at her before jumping off the bed.

14:18 She then runs up a bookshelf like a ladder, astonishing Kumin; breaking the top level, concerning Yuuta; and launches herself back towards the bed, smashing her head on the ceiling lamp, finally falling onto the bed in a daze.

14:45 Rikka is out cold.

14:48 Takanashis’ living room.

14:56 Kumin is with them.

15:05 Rikka sleeps with Chimera.

15:45 Yuuta tries to snatch the audio recorder, but Tooka stops him.

16:03 Yuuta falls onto a couch, covering his ears.

16:12 Yuuta’s face is briefly made grotesque. There’s tears in his eyes.

16:27 The three enter Rikka’s room. The lights are off and it’s nighttime.

16:33 Tooka looks from the veranda and faintly sees Rikka running in the streets below.

16:38 Yuuta looks at the audio recorder on the living room table.

16:43 Outside. Yuuta runs with Kumin.

17:11 Flashback: a younger Rikka chains an apparently sleeping Tooka to her bed,

17:25 But behind her…

17:28 The three have taken cover.

17:35 Tooka walks on stone.

17:43 Kumin lifts her head above the cover to look in the direction of Tooka’s footsteps.

17:48 Kumin down!

17:54 Rikka carries Chimera and Yuuta carries Kumin, as Tooka scans her surroundings in the park near the apartments.

18:01 Playground building. The three youths are on the upper level.

18:14 Rikka takes Chimera off her head.

18:43 Chimera falls down a slide.

18:50 Rikka leaves by slide, and grabs her umbrella.

19:03 Rikka removed her eyepatch, revealing her golden iris. This eye now glows, as rings of red holograms of occult symbols emanate from it; a laser shoots from her eye!

19:14 She bites her thumb, and flings the drop of blood to her side, occult holograms emanate from her hand, suspending the drop in mid-air.

19:23 The blood is transformed into an extremely oversized weapon reminiscent of her umbrella.

19:34 Tooka approaches with a similarly oversized weapon reminiscent of her ladle.

19:40 Rikka leaps into the air, and launches a beam from Schwarz ZX, Tooka deflects it with her own weapon and fires a laser in turn, rending the ground beneath Rikka as Rikka dodges.

19:52 Rikka charges at Tooka and the two begin striking their weapons together like swordplay.

19:57 The two sisters are just fighting with a ladle and umbrella.

20:02 We switch back and forth to the battle as imagined by Rikka and as it’s really happening.

20:12 As imagined by Rikka, the battle is full of acrobatic choreography, both parties firing and dodging lasers rending the ground and destroying buildings, clashing weapons ten times the size of their wielders.

20:26 Finally, Tooka bashes Rikka’s forehead with the ladle, in reality, and she falls.

20:34 Chimera licks herself, Tooka holds up the audio recorder.

20:41 The three kids sit seiza afront Tooka, each with their hand on their forehead.

20:46 A box of large adhesive bandages.

20:49 Tooka walks away.

21:00 Apartments, nighttime.

21:03 Yuuta looks in the mirror, lifting his bangs.

21:07 He puts a bandage on his scratched-up forehead.

21:10 Brief flashback: Rikka revealing her bandage, and fighting with Tooka.

21:14 Yuuta stares at himself and his bandaged forehead.

21:22 He holds up a toy gun from a cardboard box.

21:30 Chimera outside Yuuta’s bedroom window. There’s a rope from Rikka’s veranda. Yuuta takes Chimera.

21:54 Rikka’s on her veranda, she rests her head on her hands.

22:02 To be continued.

23:31 This audio description was written by Macaronism. It was recorded by Macaronism in 2024 as part of the "Accessible Anime" project. This audio description may be used, shared and modified freely; the original script as well as an upload of only the audio description are available on tankie.tube/c/accessibleanime. You may also find the credits to this episode there, in the description of the original upload, to be read by your screenreader. Any commentary is welcome in the comments section of the original upload such that the Accessible Anime project may improve.

Once again, that's T-A-N-K-I-E dot T-U-B-E slash C slash A-C-C-E-S-S-I-B-L-E-A-N-I-M-E.

Piracy is an inherently moral act. This audio description only exists because the rightsholders do not find accessibility to be profitable enough.

I used the Kiki voice model for RVC in order to anonymize my voice. I apologize for any bad audio.

NOTES AND CORRECTIONS:

I forgot to say "End of audio description" at the end. Oops! I might reupload this video to fix that mistake later, but good Lord, getting my video editing programs to cooperate with me has me beat — so I think I'll take some time to recuperate in any case.

CREDITS:

Original work: Torako, published by KA Esuma Bunko / Kyoto Animation.

Produced by Yoko Hatta, Atsushi Isoyama, Shunji Inoue, Yoshihisa Nakayama.

Series planning: Jukki Hanada.

Character design & executive director of animation: Kazumi Ikeda.

Original character designs: Nozomi Ousaka.

Planning producer: Hideaki Hatta.

Producers: Eharu Oohashi, Shinichi Nakamura, Shigeru Saito.

Art: Mutsuo Shinohara.

Color design: Akiyo Takeda.

Director of photography: Rin Yamamoto.

Setting: Hiroyuki Takahashi.

Editing: Kengo Shigemura.

Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka.

Music producer: Shigeru Saito.

Music: Nijine.

Animation production: Kyoto Animation.

Director: Tatsuya Ishihara.

Presented by: Chu-ni byo demo KOI ga shitai Production Committee, Kyoto Animation, Pony Canyon, Lantis, TBS Animation.

Japanese vocal cast:

Jun Fukuyama as Yuta Togashi.

Maaya Uchida as Rikka Takanashi.

Chinatsu Akasaki as Shinka Nibutani.

Azumi Asakura as Kumin Tsuyuri.

Soichiro Hoshi as Makoto Isshiki.

Eri Sendai as Toka Takanashi.

Kaori Fukuhara as Kuzuha Togashi.

Mami Shitara as Yumeha Togashi.

Kikuko Inoue as Nanase Tsukumo.

Yuri Amano as Yuta's Mother.

Kanae Oki and Hiroshi Karasuda as Kimera.

Script by Jukki Hanada.

Storyboards by Tatsuya Ishihara.

Episode director: Ichiro Miyoshi.

Director of animation: Chiyoko Ueno.

Opening theme song: “Sparkling Daydream”.

Lyrics, music & arrangement: ZAQ.

Vocal: ZAQ.

Ending theme song: “Inside Identity”.

Lyrics, music & arrangement: ZAQ.

Vocal: Black Raison d’être, consisting of Rikka Takanashi, Shinka Nibutani, Kumin Tsuyuri, and Sanae Dekomori.

Opening animation:

Storyboards & director: Tatsuya Ishihara.

Director of animation: Kazumi Ikeda.

Key animation: Noriyuki Kitanohara, Taichi Ishidate, Shinpei Sawa, Masanao Murayama, Masaya Makita, Tatsuya Sato, Yumi Fujii, Kazuya Sakamoto, Nao Naito, Kohei Nakahara, Mariko Takahashi, Ryohei Muta, Takuya Yamamura, Minoru Oota.

Animation check: Emi Nakano.

Color setting: Akiyo Takeda.

Special effects: Rina Miura.

Background: Mutsuo Shinohara.

Photography: Rin Yamamoto.

Ending animation:

Storyboards & director: Naoko Yamada.

Director of animation: Kazumi Ikeda.

Key animation: Yoshinori Urata, Nami Iwasaki, Haruka Fujita, Nobuaki Maruki, Tomoko Yoshimura.

Animation check: Emi Nakano.

Color setting: Akiyo Takeda.

Special effects: Rina Miura.

Background: Mutsuo Shinohara.

Photography: Rin Yamamoto.

Publicity producers: Teppei Nojima, Yasushi Miwa.

Publicity: Mayumi Yamaguchi.

Assistant producer: Shion Yano.

Planning assistance: Yoshimi Nakajima, Yoshihito Muroichi.

Research assistance: Shiga Location Office, NPO Gamouno Kogen, Club/Shakunage School, Keihan Electric Railway Company Limited.

Creative coordinator: Ikuna Oohashi.

Production managers: Reina Suzuki, Risa Sakai.

Production assistance: Animation Do.

Animation production: Kyoto Animation.

Presented by: Chu-nibyo demo Production Partnership, Kyoto Animation, Pony Canyon, Lantis, TBS animation.

English language versions presented by Sentai Filmworks.

English vocal cast:

Margaret McDonald as Rikka Takanashi.

Genevieve Simmons as Toka Takanashi.

Leraldo Anzaldua as Yuta Togashi.

Maggie Flecknoe as Shinka Nibutani.

Ashley Miller as Yumeha Togashi.

Greg Ayers as Makoto Isshiki.

Emily Neves as Kumin Tsuyuri.

Monica Rial as Kuzuha Togashi.

Beth Lazarou as Yuta's Mom.

Executive producers: John Ledford, Eiichi Takahashi.

Producers: John Ledford, David Del Rio.

Production company: Sentai Filmworks.

Production: Luke Patterson, April Walker, Joey Goubeaud, Roxanne Terrell.

Director: Emily Neves.

ADR script: Lainee Hooks.

ADR manager: Brittany Deans.

Sound design & mix: Bryan Leach.

Audio engineers: Bryan Leach, Brent Marshall, Stanley Thomas, Ricardo Contreras, Christopher Borque.

Project translation: Javier Lopez.

Subtitle formatting: Dwayne Jones, Luke Patterson.

Blu-ray & DVD authoring: Joel McCray.

Technical assistance: Michael Olesch.

Production assistance: E.W. Rector the Third, Ned Gayle, Shannon Reed, José DeArmas, Cameron Hohle, Kjell Doucet.

SCRIPT:

00:56 The boy’s looking at sketches of his now-past self in his room.

01:11 Nighttime apartments: the boy fills a box with his old stuff and takes it to his veranda.

01:24 A rope from the apartment above.

01:26 A girl in a frilly gothic skirt is climbing down.

01:31 The boy approaches her flailing legs…

01:33 And she kicks him, not seeing him. He reaches his hands out for her feet to land on.

01:46 She has an eyepatch.

01:51 Brief cut to the girl’s skirt.

01:58 Brief cut to cherry blossoms.

02:00 The boy closes his eyes for a moment. The girl has disappeared. The boy looks out towards the ground below and sees that the girl is continuing to descend.

03:43 Daytime apartments.

03:47 He’s fiddling with his hair afront the mirror.

03:53 He points to his grin, toothbrush in mouth.

03:56 Kuzuha cocks her head.

04:03 Kuzuha takes the laundry to the veranda.

04:07 She sees her brother’s boxes.

04:15 She grabs a toy sword.

04:47 At the train station.

04:55 Yuuta goes to check himself in a mirror at the same time as a long-haired girl.

05:07 Yuuta walks elsewhere.

05:11 The eyepatched girl seen last night walks in front of Yuuta wearing his school’s uniform.

05:20 She glances at him.

05:27 She gestures at the train door as to cast a spell.

05:34 She looks at Yuuta with a knowing smile and boards with a silly walk.

05:41 The school. Yuuta runs.

05:46 Yuuta pants outside the classroom. He peeks inside.

05:59 Gym porch.

06:05 Flashback.

06:14 End of flashback.

06:38 The eyepatched girl was secretly listening to Yuuta’s monolog.

06:42 Classroom.

06:44 Yuuta sits down; someone pokes his back.

07:24 Yuuta looks around at the girls.

07:32 Yuuta notices the long-haired girl.

07:45 Surroundings fade; Yuuta smiles.

07:50 Surroundings unfade; the eyepatched girl suddenly stands before Yuuta.

07:58 She dramatically grabs her eyepatch.

08:20 She falls to the ground.

08:23 The two boys are bewildered; she looks up at them.

08:27 The rest of the class stares at Yuuta.

08:32 Nurse’s office.

08:44 Yuuta is to give the girl a bottle of eyedrops, but doesn’t.

09:00 She got the bottle.

09:08 She places a drop on her hand and licks it.

09:41 Yuuta stands frozen.

10:03 The girl covers her head and cowers.

10:53 Yuuta bounces around, knocking things over.

11:33 She stands, and walks towards Yuuta ready to raise her eyepatch. Yuuta walks backwards

11:39 And trips over something he knocked over earlier.

11:43 She raises her eyepatch, revealing a glowing, golden eye underneath.

12:03 She tripped and fell atop Yuuta.

12:06 Her eye is no longer glowing or golden.

12:20 Yuuta’s giving the girl eyedrops.

12:47 Auditorium.

13:10 Classroom.

13:33 Yuuta remembers his past loneliness and smiles like a cat.

13:45 Makoto points and Yuuta turns to look.

14:16 Takanashi stands beside the teacher.

14:18 She looks sad.

14:20 Staffroom.

14:37 Yuuta’s handed a small map.

14:47 Train station.

14:49 Yuuta’s on the phone.

14:54 Yuuta sits beside Takanashi.

15:45 Rikka gets up.

15:50 She runs and slides on rollershoes.

16:12 Rikka spun. She falls to the ground clutching her side.

16:22 Yuuta gets up. The two approach a vending machine.

16:28 Rikka makes a contemplative gesture, and begins pushing buttons on the machine.

16:44 The machine dropped a soda can labeled “Mr. Peter”.

16:56 From the vending machine.

17:06 Brief cut to a mover’s truck outside the apartments.

17:14 Apartments, late evening.

17:23 Many boxes.

17:40 Yuuta hit Rikka.

17:54 Weird statuettes.

18:04 Rikka opens an umbrella.

18:09 She jabs.

18:23 Rikka carries the box she was handed upstairs.

18:26 Yuuta glances at her back.

18:29 She stops.

18:37 Yuuta and Rikka carry the boxes upstairs over the course of half an hour or so.

18:41 Night falls.

18:54 Takanashi apartment. The lights are off.

19:07 Togashi apartment. Fried noodles.

19:27 Yuuta slammed a bowl down.

19:34 Yuuta was hit with a plastic sword.

20:09 Yuuta on veranda with the plastic sword.

20:15 Rikka stands behind Yuuta.

20:33 Yuuta put the sword in a box. He turns to face Rikka.

20:43 He closes a box.

20:52 He gets up to face Rikka.

21:01 Yuuta stares at Rikka,

21:05 Then turns away from her to look in a box.

21:07 Brief cut to Rikka’s gloomy expression.

21:10 Yuuta looks over his shoulder at Rikka’s face.

21:25 Yuuta opens the window to his room and puts a box of his old stuff through it.

21:39 Rikka smiles.

21:41 Yuuta finishes getting the boxes in and closes the window.

21:51 The two go inside.

21:59 Blooming flowers dripping with rain.

23:34 This audio description was written by Macaronism. It was recorded by Macaronism in 2024 as part of the "Accessible Anime" project. This audio description may be used, shared and modified freely; the original script as well as an upload of only the audio description are available on tankie.tube/c/accessibleanime. You may also find the credits to this episode there, in the description of the original upload, to be read by your screenreader. Any commentary is welcome in the comments section of the original upload such that the Accessible Anime project may improve.

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24:48 END OF AUDIO DESCRIPTION.

I used the Kiki voice model for RVC in order to anonymize my voice. I apologize for any bad audio.

NOTES AND CORRECTIONS:

12:47 When I say “auditorium”, note that like in many Japanese schools, it is simply the gym but with temporary folding chairs.

CREDITS:

Original work: Torako, published by KA Esuma Bunko / Kyoto Animation.

Produced by Yoko Hatta, Atsushi Isoyama, Shunji Inoue, Yoshihisa Nakayama.

Series planning: Jukki Hanada.

Character design & executive director of animation: Kazumi Ikeda.

Original character designs: Nozomi Ousaka.

Planning producer: Hideaki Hatta.

Producers: Eharu Oohashi, Shinichi Nakamura, Shigeru Saito.

Art: Mutsuo Shinohara.

Color design: Akiyo Takeda.

Director of photography: Rin Yamamoto.

Setting: Hiroyuki Takahashi.

Editing: Kengo Shigemura.

Sound director: Yota Tsuruoka.

Music producer: Shigeru Saito.

Music: Nijine.

Animation production: Kyoto Animation.

Director: Tatsuya Ishihara.

Presented by: Chu-ni byo demo KOI ga shitai Production Committee, Kyoto Animation, Pony Canyon, Lantis, TBS Animation.

Japanese vocal cast:

Jun Fukuyama as Yuta Togashi.

Maaya Uchida as Rikka Takanashi.

Chinatsu Akasaki as Shinka Nibutani.

Soichiro Hoshi as Makoto Isshiki.

Kaori Fukuhara as Kuzuha Togashi.

Mami Shitara as Yumeha Togashi.

Kikuko Inoue as Nanase Tsukumo.

Yuri Amano as Yuta’s Mother.

Hiroshi Karasuda as Teacher.

Kanae Oki and Juri Nagatsuma as Students.

Hochu Ootsuka as Narrator.

Script by Jukki Hanada.

Storyboards by Tatsuya Ishihara.

Episode director: Eisaku Kawanami.

Director of animation: Kayo Hikiyama.

Assistant director of animation: Miku Kadowaki.

Opening theme song: “Sparkling Daydream”.

Lyrics, music & arrangement: ZAQ.

Vocal: ZAQ.

Ending theme song: “Inside Identity”.

Lyrics, music & arrangement: ZAQ.

Vocal: Black Raison d’être, consisting of Rikka Takanashi, Shinka Nibutani, Kumin Tsuyuri, and Sanae Dekomori.

Opening animation:

Storyboards & director: Tatsuya Ishihara.

Director of animation: Kazumi Ikeda.

Key animation: Noriyuki Kitanohara, Taichi Ishidate, Shinpei Sawa, Masanao Murayama, Masaya Makita, Tatsuya Sato, Yumi Fujii, Kazuya Sakamoto, Nao Naito, Kohei Nakahara, Mariko Takahashi, Ryohei Muta, Takuya Yamamura, Minoru Oota.

Animation check: Emi Nakano.

Color setting: Akiyo Takeda.

Special effects: Rina Miura.

Background: Mutsuo Shinohara.

Photography: Rin Yamamoto.

Ending animation:

Storyboards & director: Naoko Yamada.

Director of animation: Kazumi Ikeda.

Key animation: Yoshinori Urata, Nami Iwasaki, Haruka Fujita, Nobuaki Maruki, Tomoko Yoshimura.

Animation check: Emi Nakano.

Color setting: Akiyo Takeda.

Special effects: Rina Miura.

Background: Mutsuo Shinohara.

Photography: Rin Yamamoto.

Publicity producers: Teppei Nojima, Yasushi Miwa.

Publicity: Mayumi Yamaguchi.

Assistant producer: Shion Yano.

Planning assistance: Yoshimi Nakajima, Yoshihito Muroichi.

Research assistance: Shiga Location Office, NPO Gamouno Kogen, Club/Shakunage School, Keihan Electric Railway Company Limited.

Creative coordinator: Ikuna Oohashi.

Production managers: Reina Suzuki, Risa Sakai.

Production assistance: Animation Do.

Animation production: Kyoto Animation.

Presented by: Chu-nibyo demo Production Partnership, Kyoto Animation, Pony Canyon, Lantis, TBS animation.

English language versions presented by Sentai Filmworks.

English vocal cast:

David Wald as Narrator.

Leraldo Anzaldua as Yuta Togashi.

Margaret McDonald as Rikka Takanashi.

Monica Rial as Kuzuha Togashi.

Beth Lazarou as Yuta’s Mom.

Maggie Flecknoe as Shinka Nibutani.

Greg Ayers as Makoto Isshiki.

Carli Mosier as Nanase Tsukumo.

Ashley Miller as Yumeha Togashi.

Additional voices: Allison Sumrall, Kyle Colby Jones, Carli Mosier, Houston Hayes, Emily Neves, David Matranga.

Executive producers: John Ledford, Eiichi Takahashi.

Producers: John Ledford, David Del Rio.

Production company: Sentai Filmworks.

Production: Luke Patterson, April Walker, Joey Goubeaud, Roxanne Terrell.

Director: Emily Neves.

ADR script: Lainee Hooks.

ADR manager: Brittany Deans.

Sound design & mix: Bryan Leach.

Audio engineers: Bryan Leach, Brent Marshall, Stanley Thomas, Ricardo Contreras, Christopher Borque.

Project translation: Javier Lopez.

Subtitle formatting: Dwayne Jones, Luke Patterson.

Blu-ray & DVD authoring: Joel McCray.

Technical assistance: Michael Olesch.

Production assistance: E.W. Rector the Third, Ned Gayle, Shannon Reed, José DeArmas, Cameron Hohle, Kjell Doucet.