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S01 E04 - Tanaka's Revolution
Tanaka recalls when he collected novelty erasers to fit in with his classmates during third grade sixteen years ago. He received a male gray cockatiel as a gift from his father. Later on, he used his father's credit card to purchase a rare eraser resembling mandrill rakugo performer Donraku Shofutei, eventually bidding ¥100,000 in an online auction. However, the eraser never arrived at his home, and his classmates moved on to playing soccer. When he started working at a video game company four years ago, Tanaka got addicted to the mobile game Zooden. He eventually spent ¥5,000,000 to collect super rare species. Upon finally acquiring the ultra rare dodo, Tanaka's celebration is short-lived when Odokawa swerved his taxi in front of Tanaka, who consequently drops his cellphone into a ditch. After getting his cellphone repaired and his data backup restored, Tanaka discovers that Zooden did not register the dodo before his data crashed. Wandering home, Tanaka falls into despair, heading to the park in order to bury his now-dead cockatiel. He finds Dobu's revolver buried in the dirt. After passing by Shibagaki in the streets the next day, a vengeful Tanaka soon sees Odokawa driving by in his taxi.

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00:00手流に寄り添って カーブを曲がればまた
00:13暗虚に堕ちていくようだ
00:18何が見える? 何が響いてる?
00:27答えてよ
00:40道はレコードで 日々を乗せた針が晒してるノイズ
00:45僕は背景になって 君にとっては所詮ゴミ
00:50リズムしたレジュメじゃ解けない夏のリズム
00:54気になりそうなレール 街に縁取られた自分を知って
01:00掻き違えた記憶
01:05また似合わない目線の先へ
01:14辿り着ける
01:20作詞・作曲・編曲 中島 優
01:27作詞・作曲・編曲 中島 優
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05:22A Tanraku eraser!
05:30This is it, I thought. There was only one of them in the whole world.
05:34This was my only chance to turn things around. I'd show him.
05:38I returned home, and once my family was asleep,
05:41I took my father's credit card from his wallet and wrote down its number and other info.
05:47Since there was no other way to pay for it, I needed a credit card to complete the transaction.
05:52It was a common card. Anyone could have one, even a student.
05:57When I realized that fact later, I became a little sentimental.
06:01But that's a story for another time.
06:03Check it out. My dad bought this one for me while my parents were at the bar.
06:07Just you wait.
06:09That day after school, during the brief time before my brother got home,
06:13I prepped up and registered an account.
06:15Huh? 3,000 yen?
06:18There were zero bids with three days left on the auction.
06:21Since my time at the computer was limited, there was no time to strategize.
06:26I bid immediately. It was 3,000 yen.
06:29That wasn't cheap for someone like me, but I couldn't risk that the price would rise even higher.
06:35Hey, what are you doing? Stop it!
06:38I erased the history and any other trace that I'd used the computer
06:41and ate dinner with my family like nothing had happened.
06:44Hey, Mom. Any dessert?
06:46I felt like I'd gotten away with it and was stoked.
06:48I was like a super spy and a super hacker.
06:57The next day.
07:02It went up.
07:04I had a rival. In hindsight, this piece of shit was hardly worth it.
07:09I entered 3,600 yen into the field and clicked to bid.
07:13Then, on the final day of the auction...
07:184,000?
07:20My rival was stubborn.
07:22I felt like they were determined to win this, no matter the cost.
07:26Battling an opponent with unknown intentions and budget is the charm and the curse of online auctions.
07:31However, I was determined.
07:34I typed 4,100 yen and pressed bid.
07:39The next day.
07:48There's no time.
08:00It was as though I'd been arrested on false charges
08:03and was desperately trying to prove my innocence
08:06but the police kept presenting more and more physical evidence against me.
08:11No, that too is an exaggeration and a lie.
08:15But it's true that the despair I experienced is hard to describe.
08:19That's when it happened.
08:21I'm home.
08:27This jerk.
08:29I know they're going to outbid me.
08:36I...
08:49Hey.
08:51There was something I wanted to look up?
08:55I told you not to touch my stuff!
09:02The message confirmed it.
09:04I'd definitely won the auction.
09:06I'd lost my mind.
09:08You guys want to play soccer?
09:10Sure! Race you to the field!
09:14In Japan, a group of citizens once staged a revolution
09:18due to their discontent over the economic divide.
09:21In this classroom, our teachers' efforts to prevent the wealth gap from widening
09:25produced an unexpected and twisted backlash in exactly one student.
09:30It wasn't organized like an uprising or a rebellion.
09:33It was a revolt brought about by a single individual.
09:36I called it...
09:37Tanaka's Revolution.
09:39Once again, I returned home and messaged the seller
09:42regarding the shipping address for the eraser.
09:44All that remained was to wait for my Donraku eraser to arrive.
09:51One week passed. No delivery.
09:56Soon, one month passed.
09:59My Donraku eraser hadn't arrived
10:02and the policy was no refunds, no returns.
10:05I know there were plenty of things I could have done,
10:08but at the time, I believed that the no refunds, no returns policy
10:12was just another way of saying I was screwed.
10:15Besides, I bid on the eraser of my own free will.
10:18I had no right to demand compensation, and I had nothing to return.
10:22Sato and the rest of my classmates had already lost all interest in erasers.
10:27Third graders sure do grow up fast, don't they?
10:33When my father reviewed his credit card statement,
10:36he beat the living hell out of me.
10:38As he was doing it, I began to wonder,
10:41whose fault was this?
10:43My teacher? My classmates? Sato?
10:47My brother? My father?
10:49The seller? The bidder? Me?
10:52My country? History? Civilization?
10:55The government? God?
10:57No matter how I looked at it, it was clearly my fault.
11:01There was only one loser in this situation,
11:04and without a doubt, it was me.
11:07And so, Tanaka's revolution ended.
11:12Returning to a previous topic,
11:14I've since come to despise competing with others
11:16as well as anything without a real form.
11:18Have a good night.
11:19Oh, thanks. You as well.
11:21Games are meant to be played all alone,
11:23just you doing battle against the developer.
11:27That's when a certain game caught my eye.
11:30Zoological Garden, commonly known as Zuden.
11:34You raise unique animals and put them in exhibits.
11:37You're a zoo director and you compete for ranks on a worldwide scale.
11:41I had plenty of fun playing as much as I could for free.
11:44I think collecting erasers back then became the basis for this.
11:48My rank was awful, but I didn't care.
11:51I was happy when I gained guests.
11:54And when I acquired a rare animal, my brain tingled dangerously.
11:58There was one character I was determined to get.
12:01The dodo.
12:03The game is set up to where the rarity of animals is ranked
12:05using terms such as normal or rare.
12:08As an extinct species, the dodo was special super rare.
12:11It could be pulled from the free god shop,
12:13but the odds were extremely low.
12:15Looking back, I took part in eraser collecting because I had the dodo.
12:20Now I was playing Zuden in order to acquire the dodo.
12:23When I made that comparison, I felt as though this was my destiny.
12:27I was meant to acquire it.
12:30Maybe I'd spend a little money.
12:32I figured that would be it.
12:34I added 500 yen to my account and pulled the gacha.
12:40The dugong.
12:41Endangered species. Super rare.
12:44I pretty much lost all restraint by this point.
12:47I checked out my ranking.
12:48It was terrible as usual, but out of curiosity,
12:51I looked to see who was number one.
13:01No way.
13:02Ditch Eleven.
13:04The name that conned me out of 100,000 yen.
13:07No, maybe it didn't arrive because of shipping issues or something.
13:12Besides, I didn't bear them any resentment at all.
13:15There was no guarantee it was even the same person,
13:18but still, maybe.
13:21It couldn't just be a coincidence that I'd been reunited with this string of letters.
13:26I felt that it was destiny.
13:28If I took revenge, it'd be on my past self,
13:31and it would be my present self who would save my past self.
13:37I added 100,000 yen.
13:40If I took revenge, it'd be on my past self,
13:44and it would be my present self who would save my past self.
13:50That was four years ago.
13:52I'm still playing Zudan.
13:55Thanks to the addition of new systems and events reflecting the real world keeping the game fresh,
13:59its content is still popular around the world.
14:02A real big win for the development team.
14:04Good morning.
14:06I've now spent over 5 million yen on this game.
14:10I'm still ranked in the triple digits,
14:13and I still don't have a dodo.
14:16I hear you, but we have to.
14:19Hey, Tanaka, are you listening?
14:22Tanaka?
14:24Tanaka!
14:26Perhaps I was projecting myself onto it.
14:29I mean, when you think about it.
14:32Perhaps I was projecting myself onto it.
14:35I mean, when you think about it.
14:37It was just like me.
14:39No, if I died without achieving anything,
14:42I wouldn't even be rare.
14:44I'd just be normal.
14:46As a game with worldwide popularity,
14:48its market size is naturally large.
14:51There are even intermediaries who buy and sell entire accounts.
14:54My triple-digit ranked account that I'd spent over 5 million yen on
14:58would only sell for a few hundred thousand.
15:01If Stitch Eleven's account appeared on the market,
15:03it'd be worth a lot.
15:07An account with a dodo could be mined for tens of thousands of yen.
15:10But that's not it.
15:12It's not the same.
15:14What's it about, then?
15:16I ask myself.
15:18The romance?
15:19The catharsis?
15:20The release from oppression?
15:22Social recognition?
15:24A sense of superiority?
15:26I tried on highbrow words for size.
15:29The truth is, I already know.
15:32I know those fancy words and phrases don't apply here.
15:35It's simpler than that.
15:37Yes.
15:38A sickness.
15:39It's a sickness.
15:41Shut your mouth!
15:42Huh? I didn't say anything.
15:45I dropped thousands of yen on a game like it was nothing.
15:49I'd gone numb.
15:50My one desire was getting my hands on a dodo.
15:53As vengeance and salvation for the boy I was years ago.
15:57And to get closer to Ditch Eleven, who continues to reign from the number one spot.
16:01Ditch Eleven.
16:03I'm coming for you.
16:28Dodo.
16:38Dodo.
16:40My four years.
16:43No.
16:44My sixteen years.
16:47All my work finally paid off!
16:49I did it!
16:50I did it!
16:52A dodo!
16:57Ah!
17:19Sir, your backed up data has been restored.
17:28Ah!
17:36I was stunned.
17:38My mind went blank.
17:40I couldn't think.
17:41I don't remember walking home.
17:44The loss I felt over the dodo I'd definitely acquired robbed me of all my willpower.
17:50But fate is cruel.
17:53And in my darkest hour, God had taken something else from me.
18:01I think that was the moment the blue flame inside of me finally came to life.
18:06And I knew it wasn't God who took my dodo from me.
18:10It was that taxi.
18:12It's not as though someone took Maru away from me either.
18:15The life expectancy of a cockatiel is about fifteen years.
18:19He lived a full life.
18:21Nothing happened to end today.
18:23But sometimes, thinking about this unfortunate coincidence makes me wonder if there really even is a God.
18:32In games, at a dead end, the player often acquires a valuable item.
18:37It's convenient.
18:38Of course it is.
18:39After all, someone made it that way.
18:42It's possible someone made this world too.
18:45Who knows?
18:46Maybe they even programmed it.
18:49Looks like there is a God.
18:51Hello there.
18:54This happened three days ago.
18:59My Maru.
19:01The dodo.
19:03Taxi.
19:04Taxi.
19:05Kill.
19:07My Maru.
19:08Ow!
19:09Watch where you're going, buddy!
19:11And when you bump into someone, you should apologize.
19:15It's... common sense.
19:20Wait.
19:21Hold up just a second.
19:23What's wrong?
19:24You've got the face of a serial killer.
19:27Just curious.
19:28My job has made me inquisitive.
19:30You sound rural.
19:32What made you come into this city?
19:34Rural?
19:35Well, I guess everywhere is rural compared to Tokyo, huh?
19:38You chasing a dream or something?
19:40That's right.
19:41I came to Tokyo for fame and fortune and to leave my mark on the world.
19:45But... you haven't done that yet.
19:48Not yet.
19:49But Rome wasn't built in a day, you know.
19:51What do you think you need to succeed?
19:53If I knew that, my life would be easy.
19:55My partner tells me that it's dumb luck, though.
19:58Your partner?
19:59Yeah.
20:00Sort of a business partner.
20:02Luck, huh?
20:03Maybe he's right.
20:05Well, maybe he is and maybe he isn't.
20:07Either way, I don't want to leave anything behind if I can control it.
20:10If you're trying to make it to the top in a place like Tokyo, there are plenty of things to consider besides luck.
20:15So you're saying the dodo isn't lucky, is that it?
20:17Huh?
20:22What do you mean by that?
20:24I thought we were on the same road, but now I don't know if we're on the same planet.
20:31I feel like I've always been searching for something.
20:34And yet, at the same time, my life has always been lacking something.
20:39And desperately acquiring that something yields only a brief moment of fleeting pleasure.
20:45Far from being any meaningful good fortune.
20:48It's simply a moment of happiness produced by the release of dopamine.
20:54And?
20:55That's the single word that always follows after I've acquired something I want.
21:00And?
21:01So what?
21:02My other self always asks me in those moments.
21:05It's always there, hand in hand with nihilism.
21:09A truly formless pleasure.
21:12But right now, I'm experiencing being alive.
21:16It's because I found what I wanted the moment I lost my dodo.
21:20It wasn't just an addition to my collection that ended once acquired.
21:24So then, what shall I do next?
21:27The possibilities excite me.
21:30It's a rare item with potential for development.
21:33I believe we all possess the impulse to attack.
21:36An impulse that grows more exciting by the moment.
21:40Especially when it seems like no one would blame you.
21:43I've been walking for three days since then.
21:46I'm used to chasing odds far steeper and more mind-boggling.
21:50But this time, it's different.
21:52I felt something like a premonition.
21:55Earlier I said I could seize it if I let go of my attachments.
21:58But there's another way to acquire what I want.
22:01And that would be by holding tightly onto a powerful attachment that transcends all else.
22:10Hey, slow down! What are you trying to do?
22:40I can't take it anymore.
22:42I can't take it anymore.
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23:32I can't take it anymore.
23:34I can't take it anymore.
23:36I've never seen someone actually point them out
23:38when they say something is full of mistakes or flaws.
23:40Why not carefully verbalize each and every one, huh?
23:42Probably too stupid to do so.
23:44You're pretty drunk.
23:46Eh, maybe I'll win the lottery.
23:48Your job is like a lottery.