To all our new students, congratulations on starting school here.
At the moment, our club has only four members, so it is in danger of being disbanded.
Ow!
Do you want your youth to be filled with passion and excitement?
Then spend it with the Light Music Club!
W-Welcome to the Light Music Club.
W-What in the world is this?
I love you all!
This Miracle Sing Time ru-la-la continues in fits and starts
Sing, sing, that's the ultimate way to express your love
Even if the melody is clunky and the lyrics are dodgy
Sing out best of my soul
What should we do? We can't keep up
With this schedule that's being decided for us automatically
Dreams unlimited, the things we want are pouring and dash out into the hall to chill
If my manners are bad, sorry!
But don't judge this book by its cover
Totally hooked on playing - sparkle!
Could this be what youth is all about?
Ever ever... Forever Shine.
I really love you guys!
Ramp up the energy, ru-la-la Powerful Gig Time
The heart, the heart is a genius to look for excitement
Even if people go, "Wha..?", even if I make one mistake after another
I want to unleash the bravery that's bubbling up inside me
The tremolo attacks, the flam responds
So what? So what? What's wrong with being hyper?
Being happy always lets you feel the moment
Live on, girls! By your bare instincts
Big love, big love, thank you all for the big love
We'll sing, we'll sing, we'll sing again all day today with all our hearts
Extra: Planning Discussion!
What's wrong, Mio?!
Look at this!
The cookie tin?
Oh, it's empty.
Darn it, Yui!
I didn't eat them!
No, I didn't mean that. This didn't have cookies in it.
Did something happen?
Azusa! When did you...
Right. What IS this?
It was hidden in a cookie tin that was shoved to the back of the top shelf.
I had hidden it away...
Wait, she must mean...
The lost recruitment video we made for new students before Azu-nyan joined!
So... you watched it, Azusa?
Yes. I stumbled across it while I was cleaning.
So this is a recruitment video?
I thought I had hidden it away forever!
Are you all right, Mio-chan?
Wow, that takes me back. We put a lot of work into that thing.
We sure did! It's a tale that's as sad in the telling as it is in the hearing.
It all happened before you joined the club, Azusa.
Well?
It's recording just fine!
Come on, we're starting. Stop being so shy.
But this outfit is ridiculous!
Quit your grumbling!
Can you blame me?
Kill me and get it over with!
Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut!
What club is this supposed to be recruiting for?
It's completely unrelated to the Light Music Club!
Good point. Perhaps I should make it more revealing.
This ain't for old pervs!
Ow! Ritsu...
And wipe that grin off your face, Mugi!
I'm sorry.
For crying out loud...
When you suggested making a promotional video for the Light music Club,
I thought, "Hey, a sane idea for once," but this is what you were up to?
Don't be rude! I'm always dead serious!
That makes it worse!
When are you gonna get off me, Mio?!
Yui.
Join in the discussion, all right?
Start playing already!
Oops. How do I play a C chord again?
And this recruitment video is the end result of all that.
That really brings back memories!
But why did you hide it away?
That's because Mio was all like...
Over my dead body!
Because of her, it never saw the light of day,
and it got hidden away in that cookie tin.
Oh, I know! Why don't we make another?
A new recruitment video for incoming students!
One that won't be "lost" this time!
That's a good idea! Sure, why not?
To help with next year!
We might want to try something a little more serious this time.
You guys...
That's a fine idea!
Sawa-chan!
I'll let you borrow this.
Your camcorder?
How long were you standing there?
Leave everything to me!
Equipment, okay! Posing, okay!
Camera?
Okay! Camera?
Now, line!
W-Welcome to the Light Music Club, meow!
W-What are you making me do?!
This is unacceptable! If we're going to do this, let's take it seriously!
Inaugural Planning Meeting
Without further ado, the inaugural New Member Recruitment Video Planning Meeting
Chairwoman Without further ado, the inaugural New Member Recruitment Video Planning Meeting
is hereby called to order.
Ritchan, that was awesome!
In order to avoid the mistakes made in the previous project,
I would like us all to thoroughly discuss what sort of video we will make.
Does anyone have an idea to suggest?
Here!
The chair recognizes Miss Yamanaka. Here!
I request the use of more revealing outfits!
Like I said, I refuse to do that!
It should really be something that has more... oomph, you know?
Something that will make the viewers go, "I wanna join!" the first time they see it!
How about this, then? We make it like a Hollywood movie trailer.
The girls who rocked the Americas to their core...
Ritsu, where are you? What? I can't hear...
...are coming back!
This spring, they're finally coming to Japan!
The Light Music Club
The Light Music Club!
Kinda like that.
We haven't really "rocked" anything.
And what do you mean, coming to Japan? That's where we've been all along.
Fine! Then I'll go make outfits that really will rock everyone to the core!
Outfits the likes of which have never been seen!
I'll be in the sewing room!
Wait! I'll be in the sewing room!
Planning Meeting #2
On that note, does anyone have any ideas that are less insane?
If we don't do something, Mio-chan will be put into an outfit that will rock all the Americas.
Over my dead body!
Then you'll have to offer an idea in its place.
I've got it! What about having Ton-chan narrate it from his point of view,
sort of like the book "I Am a Cat"?
It would open with narration going, "I am a pig-nosed turtle."
I like it, it's very literary!
Oo! Oo! Would Ton-chan use such a formal speaking style?
If anything, I'd picture him being really casual and informal.
I always thought of Ton-chan as a girl.
Really? Well, in that case, how about a girly style?
Hi! I'm Ton-chan the pig-nosed turtle! Check it out, yo!
Something like that?
Ritchan, you were great!
But who will play Ton-chan in the video?
If it's not going to be someone who's in the club, that leaves...
Hi! I'm Ton-chan the pig-nosed turtle! Check it out, yo!
Is that all right?
Nodoka said, "Check it out, yo"...
The thing is, I think it might be hard to tell that this video is for the Light Music Club.
You have a point...
Planning Meeting #3
What we have to do is make the club sound appealing,
saying, "These great things will happen when you join the Light Music Club!"
With that in mind, how does this strike you?
Yes, that's true. The instant I joined the Light Music Club,
Today's guest: Ritsu Tainaka (alias) Yes, that's true. The instant I joined the Light Music Club,
Today's guest: Ritsu Tainaka (alias) I got into my top school pick, won the lottery,
grew taller, and my skin became silky smooth!
One lucky thing after another started happening to me.
Whatever troubles I had back then seem like a lifetime ago!
Before joining After joining Whatever troubles I had back then seem like a lifetime ago!
Before joining After joining That sounds like a sleazy infomercial.
Rejected?
Of course it's rejected!
In that case, what if we all dressed up in animal costumes and danced around?
This isn't some kid's show.
More to the point, those costumes scare people off.
Then what if we skipped the costumes and did short comedy skits?
Like dropping a tub on somebody?
Do we really need to add in slapstick?
Planning Meeting #4
Um...
Well... I'll have the strawberry tart!
THAT'S what you were thinking so hard about?!
Dibs on the Mont Blanc!
No fair, Ritsu! I called the Mont Blanc first!
Look, everyone! Would you please...
You don't want any, Azusa?
In that case... I'll take the banana tart!
How does this sound?
It would be like a made-for-TV suspense drama,
and the Light Music Club has a criminal cornered, but it really turns out to be...
Just so we're clear, there's to be no standing on the top of a cliff over the Sea of Japan.
Understood.
One dark and stormy night,
a typhoon has trapped the members of the Light Music Club at school,
and they disappear one by one, just like the lyrics of Rice Is a Side Dish?
On what planet does that make any sense?
Oh, the lyrics didn't go like that, did they?
Then we'll play it straight!
Music Room
Azusa!
"Light Music Club..." Azusa!
"Light Music Club..." Why that's...
"Light Music Club..." Gasp!
Is she telling us to go to the Light Music Club?
Then let's be off to the Light Music Club!
There, all the answers will be revealed!
If you're playing it straight, doesn't that make the killer the Light Music Club?
I'm playing a corpse?
Is that bad?
If you're going that route, make it like those "cursed video" movies that used to be popular,
and whoever watches the Light Music Club recruitment video...
That's more in line with the Occult Club.
That's not what the Occult Club studies.
You've done nothing but shoot down our ideas, Azusa.
What do YOU think we should do, then?
All right. I'll bring in a proper story treatment.
Hm...
It's no use. I'm trying to come up with sane ideas, but I'm drawing a complete blank.
Maybe you shouldn't be thinking about it so hard.
She's right. Just write down whatever pops into your head.
Nothing's popping into my head, though.
Start with some cool ad copy...
"The school festival live show that rocked Sakura High..."
"One thousand students were in the audience!"
"Do YOU have what it takes to join us and create a new legend?!"
Her thought processes are just like Miss Sawako's...
The visuals would be like a music video,
and you'd be playing in a waterfront warehouse or something.
You'd record it from a high angle, and make you totally awesome!
Um, something flashy like that would be good and all,
but I was thinking something a little more... handcrafted.
Something simple that highlights the appeal of the Light Music Club.
That would be more in tune with what the Light Music Club is really like.
What's good about the Light Music Club...
You get to stay up all night getting ready for the school festival!
You consider that a positive?
C'mon, it's fun to stay up all night at school!
In Jazz Club, we just do a little tuning the day before our show, and that's it.
That's because you guys practice regularly, unlike the Light Music Club.
That means you don't rush around in a panic before your shows.
And you guys also hang out and talk every day after school
while you have tea and snacks, right?
And you have summer training camps at a seaside vacation house, right?
You make it sound like all they do is eat and goof off.
Well, even though that IS all we do, we always seem to come through when it counts.
Now that I think about it, the Light Music Club is pretty amazing.
That's what the girls in Jazz Club say.
Even though the Light Music Club never seems to practice, your performances are great.
Our neighbor lady said the same thing!
That my sister can do anything when she applies herself.
Isn't that a little different?
I don't think so.
That's it!
Ah, I follow you!
You've structured it so that interviews are the main focus of the piece.
Right. I'll overlay interviews with students on top of footage
from our school festival live shows and our daily routine in the club room.
I should've known you could do it, Azusa!
But maybe it's a little TOO serious?
I like it. This way, there's no room for Miss Sawako's costumes.
Okay, let's go with this, then.
Girls! They're done!
Amazing costumes that will rock the Americas!
I hope that she didn't seriously intend to put us in those.
Shall we try to incorporate them into what we've come up with?
That won't be necessary!
That reminds me, where can we get footage from our school festival shows?
I haven't gotten a video of this year's show from Nodoka-chan yet!
Shouldn't they have it at the student council office?
Right, let's head right down and look!
Student Council Office
T-This is amazing!
What are you watching?
It's a dove! A dove appeared from inside his hat!
Whatever, just skip ahead!
We were after this act, remember?
I wanna see this one, too!
Yui-chan!
Hey, this is the DVD of the school festival from two years ago.
Ah, yes. Our live show two years ago.
That would be the one where a single trip propelled Mio-chan to stardom.
That legendary show!
Don't remind me!
All right. We're going to be filming the Light Music Club's typical activities now.
Wow, you're going all-out, aren't you?
I borrowed these from a friend in the Movie Club.
This is a slice-of-life scene, so don't worry about acting.
Just act naturally.
Um, first off... We'll start with a scene where we feed Ton-chan.
Ready to start filming.
Lights!
Action!
We're starting with a scene of us doing THIS?
You sure do love Ton-chan, Azu-nyan!
What's wrong with that?! Ton-chan's in the Light Music Club, too!
Isn't that great, Ton-chan? What's wrong with that?! Ton-chan's in the Light Music Club, too!
Next up is a tea scene.
And... action!
One, two... Dibs!
I'm rock!
I'm paper!
One, two!
And now, the scene where we study in the club room.
And... action!
No, Mio-chan! That's all wrong!
That's not what this formula means!
Let's say that X is going out shopping, all right?
And when X leaves, Y feels all sad and lonely,
demonstrating the intimate relationship between X and Y,
which is loyally awaiting X's return!
You don't need to do a skit like that!
The whole concept is "The Light Music Club being the Light Music Club."
Then we really do need to go with the tub drop gag here, huh?
We don't need a tub!
No? What's next?
Would you please just let it go?! What's next?
Would you please just let it go?! Another tea scene.
Oh, right.
I have Japanese sweets this time!
Score!
What are they? Sakura mochi? I just realized...
They're daifuku mochi!
They really never practice, do they?
Yahoo! They really never practice, do they?
Mio, tea! They really never practice, do they?
Mio, tea!
Get it yourself!
And... action!
Cut! Cut!
Yui-senpai, eat that more normally!
Oopsie! Take two!
And... action!
Cut!
Yui-senpai!
Oops, I messed up again. Let's do another take!
Action!
I'll tear off little pieces so I don't choke this time!
Cut! Cut!
She isn't doing this on purpose, is she?
Yui-senpai! Eat normally! She isn't doing this on purpose, is she?
Sorry... I need another take.
So she can stuff her face with daifuku mochi.
You're going to perform on the roof?
No, we're just delivering a recruitment message with the instruments in the background.
And then we just need to do interviews, and we're done, right?
Right.
Once you've got all your raw footage, bring it to me. I'll edit it for you.
I will. Thank you, ma'am.
Okay, Azusa! We're ready over here!
Right!
We're okay over here, too.
Ready.
Azusa! Are you ready?
I'm coming!
Coochy coochy coo!
Here we go!
And... action!
Light Music Club And... action!
Light Music Club
One, two... We're waiting for you at the Light Music Club!
Come join, okay?
Welcome! All will be well if you come!
Wait, the Light Music Club?
The one on the third floor?
Miss Hirayama's guitar work in their live shows? She was awesome!
Or was her name Hirakawa?
The third floor? I never really hear anyone practicing up there.
What's up with that?
Yes, I used to be a Light Music Club member, myself.
It's a lot different now than it was in my day,
but I think it's still a wonderful club.
And the best thing about it is their amazing faculty advisor!
The Light Music Club. I don't have anything to do with it.
It's okay, I guess.
Oh, right! My dad bought a new truck for his club recently!
That's the light TRUCK club!
Well, um... They're funny people.
The Light Music club is great and all, but think about the Volleyball Club!
Come on by!
Here goes!
Over to you, Akane!
Eri!
On it!
I love their sound. It's impressive for such a small club.
I think the Light Music Club is an important OOPART of the school festival.
Like the petrospheres of Costa Rica?
Kitsune udon? It comes with eggs in it now.
Wasn't she asking about the Light Music Club?
Oh, was she?
My sister always talks about how much fun she has at the Light Music Club every day!
I hear their training camps are at a vacation beach house that has a recording studio!
Man, I'm so jealous!
When they use the auditorium or a classroom,
it would make life easier for the student council if they submitted their request forms earlier.
Yes, that's right! The instant I joined the Light Music Club,
I got into my top school pick, won the lottery,
grew taller, and my skin became silky smooth!
One lucky thing after another started happening to me!
Whatever troubles I had back then seem like a lifetime ago!
They were so awesome at their school festival show!
You're the best, Mio!
I'd be so happy if they played again at next year's shopping center talent show.
Hello, everyone.
That's our Sawa-chan...
The editing is perfect!
She's the savior of the Light Music Club...
Satisfaction...
Light Music Club
One, two... We'll be waiting for you at the Light Music Club!
Come join, okay?!
Welcome! All will be well if you come!
W-Welcome to the Light Music Club, meow!
I couldn't bring myself to cut that scene!
Please keep everything except that last bit.
This version is going in the vault.
But if she cuts that scene, there won't be any shots with just you.
She's right, Azu-nyan.
After all those interview shots, it would be weird to not have one focusing on you.
Then let's record something right now!
Hey, what are you... Oh, come on...
Don't put me on the spot like this...
Um...
Welcome to the Light Music Club! Meow!
Please, just cut me out!
Crowded in the whiteboard
They are scribbles and free wishes
Even when the school bell rings out in the evening sun
Sorry, you can't diss the power to dream
Let's sing, louder, louder, louder, at the top of our lungs
Let our lips carry our hopes and dreams
Each time a word crosses them, it turns into light
They're pieces of our selves
I don't need any memories
Because right now, I'm deeply, powerfully in love
Sweet, grownup indulgences like losing self in memories
Are something that I'll pass on for a while yet
Next Time
I've never seen Yui-senpai this worked up before.
I have a pretty good idea of what she's up to.
Man, what a pain...
The apartment of a single teacher!
This one over here is excited, too.
That's nice and all, but, well, we also have to respect her privacy.
Respect her privacy?
S-She might have her boyfriend over. Or something.
Extra: Visiting!