Seaside Fashionista Episode 6 Part 2

Narration starts describing the weather as clear and beautiful. It’s the last day of the Tokyo Mode Collection as a deep voice echoes at the Bonus Track stage. Gyumao does a mic test, then starts hosting the presentation and thanking everyone for coming.

You make a note about how Gyumao isn’t using business vocabulary and speaking differently than usual (namely he’s not using his Engrish). Arachne says it’d be shocking for non-business sector people otherwise. Gyumao prompts the audience to applaud the unveiling of a new talent, the up and coming Arachne.

The crowd cheers as their attention focuses on the stage, and Arachne walks up with a composed smile on her face. She gives her greetings to everyone watching and says she feels so lucky to show off her best creations. You tell her the leads are the models, ask her to bring them out already, and mention she’ll have her turn later.

Arachne says she knows, then turns back to the venue at large to introduce her special guest, Gabriel. Gabriel flies in from above and stokes everyone’s excitement, saying she came to visit because she was called by a highly recommended designer. She then anime clothes changes into her swimsuit and says to start the show.

Managarm is in the audience and says his instinct as a member of Gabriel’s fan club was right. He’s glad he kept an eye on the designer who made Gabriel’s clothes, then starts nerding out over Gabriel. Managarm also prompts Kalki to start shouting too.

As Gabriel sings, the stars of the show start appearing. Gyumao starts off by describing Wakan Tanka, talking about how he’s worked out for American football and the accompanying design for his swimsuit.

Narration talks about how he doesn’t seem to be showing off appearance wise at all. He’s just walking down the runway with a calm smile not trying to highlight any part of himself. Despite that, no one can look away, and he behaves as though he’s used to it. A couple of rando students think he’s cool and ask if he’s really a newbie and not a pro model.

Ashigara is there and observes that Wakan Tanka doesn’t seem nervous at all, but maybe that’s to be expected. Gunzou is having sympathy stage fright while Kyuuma attempts to calm him down. Durga thinks it’s cool how Wakan Tanka went out there, shows up first, then gets everyone’s attention.

Daisuke is sadly envious that Wakan can look so impressive without needing to put something over his face. Durga asks him about that, but he claims it’s nothing. Wakan Tanka starts thinking about how he starts remembering things when he wears Arachne’s clothes, like the things he doesn’t want to forget and the things he feels he should always carry. He’s thankful for having met Arachne and swears he’ll always remember it no matter what. He also thanks you for being why it happened.

As Wakan Tanka finishes his lap, Gyumao introduces Suzuka next, referring to this a surprise attack from Kabukicho. Suzuka apparently had a hand in her intro speech since Gyumao uses gangster slang and asks the audience to behold her free world cutting edge high school girl style.

As a contrast to how Wakan acted, Suzuka does all she can to assert her presence. The way she walks, the way she looks, it all oozes power. However, this isn’t her swaggering. This is her being elegant and graceful. Some maid says they like the clothes, then asks what free world even means. The governor doesn’t know but thinks it sounds cool.

Ibaraki cheers for Suzuka and tells her to glare more. Tetsugyuu wonders if Suzuka could make a living as a model. Tetsuya complains about Tsukuyomi flaking out at the last minute and how that changes things. He initially thinks about how they could have gotten Marchosias to drag him along before he changes it to Shino.

Tetsuya comments on being uncomfortable with bright, showy places, so Gyoubu says it’s fine once in a while. Then he says he should take pictures of Suzuka in her nicest clothes, which Tetsuya agrees to since he’s already there.

Suzuka thinks about how it’s fine to deal with things by force, but she is a little thrown off by all the attention. She then rallies herself saying she needs to show guts and thinking high school girls need to be on top of trends. She’s wearing something Arachne made, so she should show some passion.

Gabriel finishes her song around the point Suzuka leaves the stage, so the BGM changes. Gyumao then goes on to introduce Amatsumara, saying he’s his business partner before telling everyone to look at his body. Amatsumara walks out in heavy steps with his suit on. He’s not the least bit fazed by the audience’s surprised murmuring at this, then strips off to his swimsuit.

Amatsumara tells everyone to take a good look at his swimsuit, and narration says Arachne actually planned for the suit to be easy to strip off, which seems to be that other gimmick she talked about before and something Amatsumara would need for lessons. The crowd yells about the quick change being something of a performance. A merman is amazed while a mermaid is close to crushing on Amatsumara over his body.

Kurogane is impressed and wonders how Amatsumara’s whole suit is created. Takemaru comments that the suit fit him really well and considers asking Arachne to make a suit for him too after the show. The ones he has now are falling apart or something. Kurogane then considers asking for one too, though he is concerned about having the money to pay for it. Takemaru then offers to cover for him and advises him to save his money for his dreams, I think. Kurogane then asks him to not treat him like a kid.

Amatsumara is embarrassed by all the audience attention, but since he still has plans to get used to bodybuilding competitions he figures being a model will be a step towards that. He also thinks a bit about how he’s heard actors can’t stop if they do it for three days and wonders if it’s the same for models. He doesn’t really plan on sticking with it, but he’s not opposed to the idea.

Narration talks about how Amatsumara’s oddity surprises the audience and gets them to cheer. After he leaves there’s a moment of silence, which is when Zabaniya shows up next as narration compares him to an assassin. Gyumao talks about how Zabaniya works at Daikanyama, then tells everyone to have a look at his body and the swimsuit that goes best with it.

As Zabaniya gets onto the runway, he does a full on 90 degree bowing and greeting, which narration says should be impossible. He then starts walking down the runway as he practiced so hard at, and his swimsuit draws even more attention to himself.

Some pirate (I think it’s him?) asks if he really did a bow like that and wonders if it’s an act. Some mage swoons and thinks that bow was cute and calls Zabaniya hot. Arslan starts laughing about what Zabaniya did, but Maria tells him to stop since she’s sure that’s Arachne’s idea. She then points out that Gabriel doesn’t seem fazed at all.

Gabriel turns out to be keeping up her poker face as she too is internally surprised. In her thoughts she says she didn’t see anything about the bowing in the plans she was shown. Arslan still somehow sees through it but figures Gabriel’s idol work means she’s good at hiding it. Maria then asks in shock if Zabaniya just ad libbed the bow on the spot. Arslan says it’s a good thing either way since it’s Zabaniya’s model debut.

We then tune into Zabaniya’s thoughts where it turns out the bow was a total mistake that he beats himself up over. He sees it as his inexperience showing and finds it embarrassing, though he reminds himself this is supposed to be atonement on his part to clear up his sins as he thinks of you and Arslan.

After Zabaniya’s turn is done, Gyumao says there’s one last showing, which will be three people: Arachne, Tsathoggua, and you. When Tsathoggua shows himself the mood and murmuring from the crowd changes. Arachne doesn’t seem to take any interest in that as she walks in between you two. Tsathoggua is looking down a little, while you can either go at it boldly or with embarrassment too.

Tsathoggua’s nerves are getting to him as he feels that the audience is confused by his being there, and he thinks he shouldn’t have did this after all. He worries about looking lame next to you and Arachne. Arachne however whispers you should all start walking with your chests puffed up.

Arachne says that even if the world laughs at you all, she’ll still try to shut it down with her pride. She then says you guys look fabulous, which leaves Tsathoggua speechless. Arachne then talks about how it’s thanks to you two that she can finally see, that she understands where she is. She wanted to be accepted by the world, yet she believed it never would. She was always afraid that she’d be laughed at and denied.

You notice that Arachne is shaking and ask if she’s also afraid. She admits that she always was, even when she was fronting her haughtiness. Even when she acted strong, she always had doubts deep within herself. But now she understands her punishment, the fear she held alone that someone somewhere would be sneering at her.

Arachne then says she’s not alone anymore, as she has two people here with her who believe in her. Tsathoggua seems touched, and you turn to him and act a bit prouder. He says he understands, and the audience notices and comments on him steadily getting cooler.

They also start recognizing him from the white suit pic circulating. Apparently Tsathoggua was nicknamed the Body Prince or something because of it, and they’re getting mindblown at the idea of seeing him in person. There’s also comments about the one next to him looking better too.

Tsathoggua starts smiling, and Arachne takes a mic as she walks. She thanks everyone for coming to the show, then says there’s something she wants to say to everyone. She calls herself a genius at making clothes, able to make anything with her hands. It is however based on the assumption that it will look good on the wearer.

No matter what fads may be going on, there’s going to be stuff that looks good, and stuff that won’t. She’s taken that into account when she made the swimsuits and asks everyone to get a good look at them as everyone lines up on stage again.

Arachne asks rhetorically about whether the clothes suit all the models despite their differences in body types and race. She says she started believing that clothes will become a part of a person when it comes to bringing out their hidden charm and coolness, then proclaims that to be her fashion brand.

Arachne wants everyone’s fashions to shine brightly, no matter the current trends. Trends are in the end just things that will lead you astray. Fashion on the other hand would be the proof of the shadow you hold within and unconcealable way of life. So her clothes would be the first time her fashion and everyone else’s fashions would interconnect with each other.

Arachne says she just has one thing she wants to get across as a designer. She says people may be hiding something, whether it be their ugly side, their weakness, or their fears thereof. And maybe people might not even notice any of this. But she says that’s still an irreplaceable part of themselves, no matter how afraid of it or how terrible they may think it is.

Arachne says it’s fine if people chose to show it, keep hiding it, or not pick up on it. But if people ever want to change and try to go somewhere else, she’ll make clothes for that reason, the clothes that will best show off those hidden parts. Arachne then loudly proclaims that she’s a true fashionista and mentions her passion for Shadows.

The crowd cheers loudly for Arachne’s speech, and narration questions how many people understood her thoughts. Maybe more than half of them will forget after the day is over. But there should be people who have picked up on what she was saying.

Amatsumara comments on the answer that Arachne has come to and says she seems to have broken through her doubts. Suzuka says Arachne will be going all the way with her conviction, and that she was moved by what she said.

Zabaniya mulls over Arachne talking about clothes being tied to one’s way of living and how changing one can change the other. Wakan Tanka adds that when one wants to change the clothes will help. Tsathoggua says no one seems to have made fun of him for his swimsuit and that noncasual clothes are nice every once in a while.

You tell Tsathoggua he was cool or cute out there. He laughs and says you look good too. Arachne then tells the party to stand up front one more time for a greeting, and the crowd claps for everyone as Arachne names them again.

You comment that it’d be nice if Arachne got her point across, wonder if she said everything she wanted to say, or wonder if she discovered her dream. Arachne thanks you and says it’s all due to you. She swears to one day fulfill her dream with her own hands. Gyumao then says this is the end of the Bonus Track and asks for one more round of applause for everyone.

Narration says the applause and cheering isn’t just a celebration for the event’s success. It’s also a celebration for the birth of a new designer, Arachne. And so the curtain falls on another summer battle and the episode ends, to be continued in the epilogue.