Sora Yori Mo Tooi Basho: Notes

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CGDCT: Cute Girls Doing Cold Things. ❄️

I spent a chunk of today at an Anime Chicago discussion of 宇宙よりも遠い場所 / A Place Further than the Universe, which I watched all this week, much like my marathon of Violet Evergarden last month. I'm bad about that kind of thing.

Yorimoi is a great show, though, and I'm glad I went to the discussion because it pushed me to watch it, since otherwise I wouldn't have heard of it at all. And like every time I do this, took extensive notes that I'm saving for posterity here.

1. 
   Protagonist has a super-messy room
   高校に入ったらしたいこと
   宇宙 -> そら?
   Wants to ditch school and travel without a plan. But a rainy day? Goes to school
   Scared of change
   Girl runs by! Drops envelope full of yen! Kimari panicked and didn't take it to the police
   Finds girl crying and punching door in bathroom. Gives back money
   宇宙よりも遠い場所 is book title. Girl planning to go to Antarctica to find her mother, who disappeared. Has no friends, only works and saved money
   Saved Shirase from bullies. Invited to Antarctica!
   HIROSHIMA! check out boats!
   Animation is kind of weirdly liquid. Purin-like


2. 
   Shirase boat's crew is normally 自衛隊. But now, civilian exhibition!
   Gets absorbed in Antarctica news. Has to write lines!
   Shirase picks same 援助交際 job.
   Shirase gets angry about Kimari's doubts! But comes back
   Hinata, from part time job, also wants to come. Doesn't go to high school! But, smart
   Loves the honesty of their dreams
   Kabukicho!
   しつこいね、あの子
   Running away from people at meetup?
   なんかね、動いてる。私の青春、動いてる気がする！
   Free feeling.
   Collision! And caught
   High school girls don't meet requirements, but tries to buy way in as sponsor
   Shirase de-leaderafied!


3. 
   Yuzuki: 軽く死ねますね
   Onigiri shirt!
   Online streamer sent to Antarctica! Shiraishi Yuzuki. Suddenly shows up!
   Doesn't want to go Antarctica. Asks Shirase to go.
   Mother arrives! Also manager. Yuzuki driven by manager. Shirase embarrassed, can't perform for audience
   Yuzuki won't go, but if convince...
   Never had friends, since always child actress. Just wants human connection
   First friend hug ever from Kimari
   友達ってあの感じなのかな
   Crying happy to have friends
   Says will go if they can all go together
   Yuzuki: 軽く死ねますね, but this time happy! Aurora.


4. 
   Kimari needs to ask parents still! Horror!
   罰
   Must pass! But Hinata won't help
   Still need money
   Rules:
   A) 当たり前の事
   B) ボケっとしないで
   C) ちゃんとやれ
   Setting up flags to make line. Orienteering
   Tent sleeping
   うるかにしてください
   Captain came home! But Shirase mother did not
   良いですのね、面倒臭いの
   Megumi not happy about sunset shit


5. 
   School ceremony! They're going!
   Megumi, as a kid: お姉ちゃんになったのような来ました
   Ship is called ペンギン饅頭号
   Three months in Antarctica
   Little sister Rin helps pare down luggage. 自己責任だよ
   Megumi is pessimistic. And...jealous of Kimari's new friends? Tells rumors
   調子に乗ってると思われてるんだよ
   Karaoke time!
   Kimari wants to be a decisive person! Someone that Megumi can be proud of
   卵パラダイス! Farewell dinner
   Father cries at leaving!
   行ってきます！
   Megumi: 絶交しに来た。絶交だって言ったんだ。
   Megumi is the backstabber! Teenagers do dumb things when they're in their feelings. Megumi didn't want an independent Kimari. Without her being the mom friend, she didn't have anything to base her life on.
   Kimari invites Megumi to Antarctica!
   馬鹿いうんだよ。やっと一歩踏み出そうとしてるんだの。お前のいない世界に
   Kimari refuses!
   全てが動き出す！


6. 
   Kimari dreamed about being a plane
   Fist time on plane!
   Shirase crying about penguins! Kimari playing a game
   Merlion! Singapore sightseeing
   なんていうか、思ったよりガッカリしないな
   Singapore service after Japan! Efficient, fast, rude(?). Chahan! Durian icecream!
   私たちが見たことない所でも、知らない場所でも、いっぱいの人がいっぱいの生活している。毎日毎日途切れることなく
   Hinata lost passport!
   Shirase worried about expedition leaving them behind
   Kimari taking up whole bed! 殺意です
   Shirase trying to change tickets! Doesn't want to give up no matter what
   Hinata passport in Shirase's purse!! Jaws music. Yuzuki notices
   隠していますよね
   Durian eating time! Thanks to problems


7. 
   Showa station under civilian ownership
   Present door tags. Like school teachers
   All in same room. Yuzuki: 喧嘩しそうですけどね
   Showa Station unmanned for months. Have to restore
   Most people on the internet think the plan is pointless.
   Ask Kanae, but maybe she's hiding something?
   空を見るためかな
   Spy investigations
   だからさ、俺は計画するのが無理だな
   Secret plan?
   Star pattern on under bunk! Shirase's mother?
   「宇宙よりも遠い場所。それは決して氷で閉ざされた牢屋じゃない。まだ開かれていない世界で一番の宝箱」
   Plan for astronomical observatory
   The promise they made three years ago
   Shirase's mom walked out into a blizzard?
   わたいさ、私誰も踏んでいない雪に新た足跡好きだよね
   Schoolgirls! 犯罪ですからね
   Shirase speech. 母が言っていた南極の宝箱、この手で開けたいと思います。皆さん、南極に行きましょう！


8. 
   Setting sail!
   Interviewing crew members! Shirase is not good at it
   Peeling potatos! 男いも brand
   家で手伝えよしてよく分かるよ
   Running around ship. Lifting weights
   南極おる頃には、アマゾエスだね、私たち
   Hinata writes on Yuzuki's head: 死なせますヨン
   Everyone is seasick!
   Kanae: ジェットコースターみたいに内臓がふわああああぁ
   Hinata: こうなったら何度も食ってん、何度も吐いてる
   Outside to see the view.
   Next day! Iceberg ho!


9. 
   Shirase thinks she's been confessed to! But actually Toshio is in love with Gin
   呆れて言葉が出ないんです
   Include love lives in reports
   Gin and Shirase both think they're distant from each other
   Flashback! Gin called off the search for Takako
   Toshio asking people about being like a cloud But 言葉がならない
   Shirase doesn't know how to feel about Gin's leading the expedition that led to her mother's death
   Japan's allotment of Antarctic exploration post-WWII was very small
   Wait? Bullied?
   何度も何度も
   Takako's last words:「綺麗。綺麗だよ。とても」
   Step on ice! Frozen wasteland
   Shirase ranting against everyone who opposed her! ざま見ろ


10. 
    Kimari: 南極か？Hinata: 南極だね。Yuzuki: 南極ですね。Shirase: ...
    Arrived at Showa Station! Each get own rooms
    Penguin charge!
    Yuzuki gets part in drama! Worried about friends?
    親友なんですか？
    Defrost chicken!
    友達誓約書. But Shirase refuses!
    Yuzuki doesn't understand friendship and is trying to find a formality to seal it
    Yuzuki's birthday!
    ね。ね。ね


11. 
    Hinata's friends show up? Hinata doesn't want to talk!
    Plan to find Takako's body
    Hinata raging outside! ふざけんな！
    Nobue's boyfriend abandoned her.
    ひなた、何か困れたことない？
    Track team mail! School refusal?
    「一人にしちゃってごめんね」
    Hinata stepping on her senpai due to excitement at getting to compete. Quit club, then school
    Super-clean water!
    Shirase on the scenery: ケーキに囲まれているみたいです
    Others come to Hinata's defense!
    New Year's: 煩悩落とし


12. 
    Life after mother died felt like a dream
    Kimari tries to talk to Shirase
    Shirase worried nothing will change and she'll always feel terrible
    Shirase talks to Gin, Gin tells her to leave it up to herself. Sometimes ideas are all that gets you throught the injustice of the world
    Going
    こうして、最後の旅が始まった。日本から一万四千キロ。空よりも遠い彼方に思えたその場所へ
    Snowcat caravan
    Super cold: 感覚ない
    Gin has Shirase practice making response calls back to base
    Kimari: しらせちゃんのおかげで私、青春できた
    Looking in buried station for traces of Shirase's mother
    Find pictureof Shirase and her mother! And laptop? With all of Shirase's emails on it.


13. 
    So many duties
    "Ice Operation"
    Glacier かき氷
    Kimari kinds of wants to stay, but the othes point out they have things waiting
    Antarctic Baseball! Shirase hits!
    Shirase cut hair! And then smiles
    彼女たちが帰ります。諦めてください
    Companionship is why Shirase's mother loved Antarctica
    Off they go. Back home.
    Shirase gives Gin the photo of her mother. 私はもうなくても平気でしたら
    Gin finds outbox unsent mail!
    Aurora!
    Mail sent. 「本物はこの一万倍綺麗だよ」
    Picture of aurora
    Shirase left her million yen behind as an offering
    どこまで行っても、世界は広くて新しい何かは必ず見つかるから
    Megu-chan went to the Arctic