Marginal#4: Kiss kara Tsukuru Big Bang (MARGINAL #4 the Animation)

The new star that everybody has been waiting for is about to start shining!

The new star that everybody has been waiting for is about to start shining!

It's almost time.

I'm getting nervous.

We'll be fine. We've worked hard to be here today.

Stop shaking, and let's go!

Let's fill the sky with stars!

We're Marginal #4!

A loud alarm keeps ringing

The night before the revolution is in

The prison was ablaze

Everybody is lamenting the death mask

Situation

Don't give me the shallow selfishness of

"I don't understand love anymore"

If you say that this is a trial

High lips, burned and charred by jealousy

All you need to do is invoke a spell to revive just a single memory

"I can't love anyone but you anymore"

Even if I end up being toyed with

because of your intense purity

They all begin with a kiss...

These millions of love revolutions

Say "evolution"

All you have to do

is show me

that your soul's ready to roar

They all begin with a kiss...

These millions of love revolutions

Say "evolution"

With you, there's no limit

This is something not even Napoleon would attempt

This miracle that our love can survive

Please show it to no one but me!

The Starclusters...

They look like real stars!

Episode 1

The Chaos Theory Born From the Stars

Congratulations on your debut!

We just had our debut at today's Universe Festival.

We're Marginal #4 from Pythagoras Productions!

Thank you for your support.

I'm sort of the leader. My name's Nomura R.

And I'm Nomura L.

R and I are twins, but I'm younger.

The name's Kirihara Atom. I'm Marginal #4's wild shooting star!

I'm Aiba Rui.

Our members are quite the characters, but we're all pleased to meet you.

Could you each tell us about how you feel after finishing your first show?

I was relieved that the crowd liked it.

"Fill the sky with stars" was the quest from our president.

Oh! "Quest" is a term they use in games. It's like a task that an NPC gives you.

R, calm down a bit.

Well, at first we didn't really know what it was supposed to mean.

But...

It was beautiful.

You guys saw it too, right? It really looked like there were stars everywhere.

What are your dreams as idols?

Of course that's to deliver a kiss to the ends of the galax—

The ends of the galaxy would be nice,

but first, we'd like to give everybody at home a dream, young and old alike.

I'd like to give them all marimo, too.

Did you know that they're really soothing?

Okay... S-So that means we're striving to be singing, dancing, game-playing,

idols that have a soothing effect when you look at us.

That is, we want to be number one to you, and the whole galaxy!

Umm... Well, I have a question for Rui-kun.

Do you have a favorite food?

Dried tofu skin.

What's a subject you're good at?

Math, I guess?

You used to be part of another unit.

How exactly did you come to join Marginal #4?

Why are you asking about that?

The previous unit doesn't matter.

The four of us here now are Marginal #4!

We have a situation!

The calls for a Marginal #4 encore just won't stop!

I've never heard of an encore during a festival.

That's our Starclusters!

All right, shall we do another song?!

Why don't we do three?

We don't have that many prepped!

That would really be overdoing it!

The next unit's...

It's okay! We have permission.

Break a leg!

How about we open the first encore with "a kiss to the ends of the galaxy"?

What is that even supposed to mean?

Of course it means that we're idols who'll spread our love throughout the universe!

R, you're the leader, so you say it!

What? Me?

Then we'll shout back, "With pleasure!"

That sounds fun.

Wait, are we seriously doing this?

Stop arguing, and let's go!

Jeez, they made their senpais wait.

If we weren't the ones going next, this would have caused quite a stir.

Indeed.

But it is Marginal #4 that the princesses are demanding.

Sorry for pulling something like this.

Well, it is for our cute kouhais.

So, from your position as senpais, what do you think?

Well, they're not bad.

You just can't be honest and say they're good, huh, Kira?

Don't be like that, boss. I'm always honest.

I especially mean Aiba Rui.

He sings and dances perfectly.

He's a full notch above the other three.

Shy, what about you?

I think it's good.

Atom rushes in, L stirs things up,

R isn't much of a leader, but still manages to keep them together...

And then there's Rui, who's always watching the others in a calm, objective manner.

Their personalities are quite distinct.

However...

Good work!

Makishima-san, Himuro-san, we're sorry for making you let us do that encore.

No need to worry about it.

Think of it as our present for your debut. Don't sweat it.

Thanks to that, the crowd was a thousand times hotter anyway.

Thank you so much!

They were so dignified about it.

Well, it's only a matter of time before we reach that level.

Another convertible?!

It's a special occasion.

You guys go back in this one.

Wow! This is so amazing! I can feel the amino acids pumping!

You mean adrenaline.

I feel like a princess.

Then I'm a prince!

You shouldn't let yourself go so much.

Why not?

Oh! This isn't the first time for you, huh?

Well, I've been in one before, yes.

What?! Oh, you mean with your old uni—

I thought we weren't talking about that.

Now, the four of us here are Marginal #4.

R-Right.

You boys have the makings of a brilliant star.

You need to diligently polish yourselves and each other

in order to become the real thing.

Your goal is a solo live concert at Shooting Star Hall.

Marginal #4 is just starting. You'll have to shine much, much brighter in the future.

Yes, ma'am!

We're not satisfied as we are now either!

Next, we're going to fill Shooting Star Hall with real stars!

That sounds a little bit unrealistic.

Really?

Now go and get some rest.

Of course! Thank you, boss.

Goodnight!

I'm grateful for you looking out for me back there.

You're just so stiff, Rui.

Our future is as bright as the stars reflected in the sky scrap!

They're skyscrapers, not sky scrap.

The article on our debut has over 10,000 retweets.

Don't tell me everything that happened yesterday was a dream.

If it was a dream, that means we all had the same dream.

A dream where we were playing around in a convertible full of marimo...

That wasn't what I dreamed about.

Hey, I saw it on Skitter!

You're amazing, Marginal Sharp 4!

Sharp? No.

Then is it this? "I"? The kanji for good?

The kanji "i" which means "good"

Marginal i-Four?

That's not the name of any idol unit.

It sounds like it could be an old idol unit name to me.

You mean in the Taisho era?

Abbreviated "Circle4"!

Knock it off! That sounds terrible.

I wonder if this happened to Rui at school, too.

He goes to an elite school, so I bet they handled it a bit better.

You think?

Marginal i-Four... I believe there was a naval submarine with a similar name.

You must mean the I-400 that was based on the designs of Yamamoto Isoroku.

Is that seriously what you think his school is like?

But isn't it like that? Rui-kun's really smart.

Incidentally, the number 56 is the eleventh tetranacci number.

The tetranacci numbers are...

Tetra... titties?

It would have been so much fun to go to the same school as Rui-kun.

Then we could have had lunch together.

That's roughly 1,200 kilocalories—clearly a lunch that's not part of a balanced diet.

How would that be any fun?

Seriously though, what kind of mental image do you have of Rui?

Also, L, your lunch has too many sausage bits.

I made L's portion, too.

Yoink!

Hey! That's mine. Give it back. Jeez.

Thank you!

Well, word will soon spread that we're Marginal #4...

Whether that's a good thing or not.

A tomato?

"Congratulations on your debut."