"Good evening, my lovely little slaves to fate."
Shishimai Rinka was a highschooler who ran a small café named Lion House in place of her grandmother. She lived her life much like any other person her age, but one day, she was caught up in an explosion while returning home on the train alongside her friend, Hitsuji Naomi. In an attempt to save her friend's life, she shields her on instinct the moment the explosion goes off, losing her life in the process. However, before she knew it, she was back at Lion House, happily chatting with her friends as if nothing had happened in the first place.
A few days later, she found herself in a strange world. Here she met Parca, an odd girl claiming to be a goddess. It turns out that she had somehow become a participant in Divine Selection, a ritual carried out over twelve weeks by twelve people, which allowed them to compete in order to undo their deaths. What shocked Rinka most of all, however, was the presence of her friend Mishima Miharu amongst the twelve.
In order to make it through Divine Selection, one must eliminate others by gathering information regarding their name, cause of death and regret in the real world, then "electing" them.
This turn of events would lead to her learning about the truth behind her death, as well as her own personal regrets. She would also come to face the reality that Miharu was willing to throw her life away for her sake, as well as the extents to which the other participants would go to in order to live through to the end.
Far more experiences than she ever could have imagined awaited her now, but where will her resolve lead her once all is said and done...?
By dawn, Elias had finished the restoration. He deleted his personal notes, but left one tiny, frame-perfect easter egg in the credits. To the casual viewer, it was just a flicker. But for anyone who watched Annie Hall with the subtitles on, looking for the truth between the lines, they might catch a single frame at the very end that simply read:
: Elias spent hours nudging white text blocks. When Alvy says, "Photography is a new art form," the subtitle below had to flash: I wonder what she looks like naked. It was a rhythmic puzzle. If the subtitle appeared a second too early, the joke died; a second too late, and it cluttered the next line.
: Elias froze. He checked the source files, but the third line didn't exist. He realized he had been staring at the flickering frames for so long that the movie was starting to talk back to his own life. He thought about his ex-girlfriend, Sarah, and how they used to argue about the ending of this very movie. He began typing his own thoughts into the subtitle track, just to see them rendered in that classic Futura font.
"Relationships are like sharks. They have to keep moving forward or they die. And what we have here is a dead shark."
: Late one night, the software glitched. As Elias played back the scene where Alvy and Annie break up on the street, a third layer of subtitles appeared—text that wasn't in the script. Spoken : "It was great." Original Subtitle : "It was a disaster."
By dawn, Elias had finished the restoration. He deleted his personal notes, but left one tiny, frame-perfect easter egg in the credits. To the casual viewer, it was just a flicker. But for anyone who watched Annie Hall with the subtitles on, looking for the truth between the lines, they might catch a single frame at the very end that simply read:
: Elias spent hours nudging white text blocks. When Alvy says, "Photography is a new art form," the subtitle below had to flash: I wonder what she looks like naked. It was a rhythmic puzzle. If the subtitle appeared a second too early, the joke died; a second too late, and it cluttered the next line.
: Elias froze. He checked the source files, but the third line didn't exist. He realized he had been staring at the flickering frames for so long that the movie was starting to talk back to his own life. He thought about his ex-girlfriend, Sarah, and how they used to argue about the ending of this very movie. He began typing his own thoughts into the subtitle track, just to see them rendered in that classic Futura font.
"Relationships are like sharks. They have to keep moving forward or they die. And what we have here is a dead shark."
: Late one night, the software glitched. As Elias played back the scene where Alvy and Annie break up on the street, a third layer of subtitles appeared—text that wasn't in the script. Spoken : "It was great." Original Subtitle : "It was a disaster."