OVERFLOW! – Prologue
Season: ES 2nd Year, Summer (June)
UOOOHH!! I AM! BLAZING HOT! RIGHT NOWWWWW!! ☆
Taaake this: fire extinguish~♪
BFH—!? H-Huh!? A towel suddenly flew onto my face!?
…Mm? But the towel is a little damp, it feels nice and cool…♪
Morisawa-senpai, didn’t you hype yourself up so hard that you nearly got heatstroke at work just the other day?1 Please calm yourself down a little with this.
Indeed. It’s been outrageously hot lately, so we must be mindful not to get heatstroke even when indoors.
Oh! So Takamine prepared this towel for my sake? Sengoku is such a good boy too, worrying about me~!
Let me hug you two in one go, it’s been a while! Theeere, there, there! ☆
It’s more like your fault rather than for your sake…
The temperature of the room shoots freakishly high up whenever you’re around, which is why I had it with me for my own protection. It’s hot, so please stay standing at the door and don’t come inside.
Wouldn’t that just be kicking me out of the room!?
But the room seriously does get hotter whenever he’s inside. Just how does that body work…?
Though, he becomes a walking heater in the winter, so it’s fine.2
fufu~ that just shows how eager he is about this. today is another day we will have a much higher [temperature], isn’t it~
Sorry. But of course I’d be eager here, y’know? It’s the ThanX Festival, the Fan ThanX Festival!
We get to convey our gratitude to all our fans who have always been supporting us. Don’t you think this is the best project ever? It’s important to express our feelings of gratitude! Both as a hero and as an idol!3
Also, it’s my turn to be the commander for a project after a long time.4 There’s no way I wouldn’t get into the spirit!
Kuuh~!! This passion boiling up endlessly within me—! My heartbeat is bright red and burniiingg~! It beckons and yells for me to convey my gratitude!
Woah, wh—!? Quit swinging your damn arms! You’ll hurt someone!
I feel as though that movement was a mixture of several things… Is Morisawa-dono getting influenced by something other than tokusatsu lately…?5
Ah, mhm. I recently got to know a work colleague, and we’ve been exchanging our recommended DVDS with each other, that’s why.
While they watch my recommendations, I watch theirs.
Hoho, that sounds like fun~ I’d love to try that out with someone~♪
You have it wrong, Takamine!
I’ve said it before, haven’t I? I don’t want to turn Ryuseitai into nothing but a tool for realizing my personal dreams!8
And actually, it’s because we take turns being the commander that my heart fires up at the rare opportunity, and what motivates me even more!
i understand~, chiaki. because it was such a special [opportunity], i also enjoyed my [commander position] a fair bit.9
Ohh! You get me, Kanata…!
of course…!
Well, the leader rotation’s one thing, but it’s also a pretty huge event for ES anyway, so I get why you’d be so revved up.
I actually asked the other units that have already done the Fan ThanX Festival ‘bout it—
And I heard you’re allowed to do whatever you like wherever practicable, plus the back-up from ES is pretty generous, too.
It goes to show how psyched up ES is ‘bout this project, yeah?
It appears so. It seems that each unit has been conducting a different project alongside the live show.
Ehhh… Just hearing about it sounds like it’ll be a tough job. Preparing for one live show is already challenging, but they’re doing other projects too…?
Doesn’t that just depend on what they decide to do? Some units left the project’s details to an event-planner, apparently.10
Huh, so that’s possible. That sounds like the comfiest option, so I’d like a project we could hand over to someone else.
Like what?
Mm~ Something like making cutout stand-ins, and putting them in suitable places?11 Like, “you, too, can become a member of Ryuseitai~”, sort of thing.
That’s more like a tourist attraction found deep in the mountains rather than a project for Fan ThanX Festival…
Wouldn’t a proposal like that only put Anzu in a fix? She’s the one spearheading this project, after all.
Ehh… I don’t think I’d want to trouble Anzu-san…
Then what are we, Ryuseitai, going to have for our project?
That’s what we’re going to discuss with Anzu soon enough, right? It’s why I called you all here today.
Oh, is that what it was?
You did mention in the message you sent us that you wanna talk ‘bout the ThanX Festival project, but…
You didn’t say that it’d be a briefin’ with Anzu-anego involved.12
I was wonderin’ why our briefin’ hasn’t started even though thirty minutes had passed since we got here, but this explains it.
is anzu-san [late]? that is unusual of her, no?
It seems like she suddenly had another job come in. She messaged me a moment ago that she’ll be late.
That’s why I’ve been deepening my bonds with all of you while waiting for her arrival.
“Deepening bonds”, when all it’s been is you getting intensely fired up.
Sound of quick footsteps
Mm? I hear hurried footsteps approaching us.
Oh? Maybe Anzu’s arrived?
Translation Notes
- ↑ Chiaki tends to overdo it in the summer and is susceptible to heatstroke, as seen in several of his summer voice lines.
- ↑ Midori has mentioned this several times before; the first mention was in Christmas Live, Dot to Dot 2.
- ↑ Chiaki has said this before in Climax, He Won’t Cry 3, a story that was also about repaying and showing gratitude to others.
- ↑ By the end of Supervillain, Ryuseitai decide to take turns being the leader depending on the job. Confirmed leader turns are listed here.
- ↑ Tokusatsu (meaning “special effects”) is a genre of live-action film or TV drama that makes heavy use of special effects. Some of the most well-known ones are Kamen Rider, Super Sentai series, and Godzilla. Read more here.
- ↑ Referring to when Ryuseitai was solely led by Chiaki. This was mainly during Chiaki’s time as a Yumenosaki third-year student, but he briefly returned back to being the sole leader in ES!! Era Year 1 as well, until the events of Supervillain.
- ↑ Midori’s leader turn was shown in Tropical, as the unit Yuruseitai.
- ↑ Chiaki was the one who suggested to have everyone be leaders of their own Ryuseitai, after being inspired by Tetora’s leadership and efforts in Ryuseitai Black. This is shown in the epilogue of Supervillain.
- ↑ Kanata’s leader turn was shown in Stella Maris, as the unit fish Ryuseitai (Ryuseitai-C).
- ↑ An example is 2wink, who worked with a representative from an event managing company. Read 2wink’s Fan ThanX Festival here.
- ↑ These sort of cutout stand-ins can also be seen in Midori’s leader/center song, RELAX PARADISE (It’s right at the beginning of the MV).
- ↑ Anego means “big sister”. It’s a respectful way to refer to a woman older than the speaker, or to refer to an elder sister.