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Teku: Ladies and gentlemen! Boys, girls and people from all walks of life! Thank you for coming to our show!

Teku: Tonight, we will cast a magic spell that will light up Astro Park to the sky.

Itaru: We are the marvelous illusionist troupe, ASTRO9! Allow me, Itaru, to introduce you to our members. Here we have Hajime, Kagura, Dill, Kane, Aria, Karasu.

Itaru: And our leader, Teku!

Teku: Ever since the storm that destroyed the world five years ago, we were taken in by a miracle worker and were able to rebuild ourselves in Super Tokyo.

Teku: So to everyone who lives in this city— No...

Teku: It is exactly because we’re in Super Tokyo, we would like to present you the magic of believing.

Teku: Let us begin, Itaru.

Itaru: Behold, this is our Perfect Magic!

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Itaru: Good job, everyone! You guys were amazing tonight!

Itaru: ASTRO9 is the best!

Teku: (whispering) I understand.

Itaru: Huh, where’s Teku?

Teku: You can count on us. We’ll be there soon. Farewell.

Teku: Itaru.

Itaru: Did something happen?

Teku: There’s an emergency. Everyone, gear up!

Itaru: Now?! But we still have the encore—

Teku: Our “conversion” skill isn’t only for performance and tricks on stage. Isn’t that right?

Itaru: Yes. Being the park’s troubleshooter is also an important job of ours.

Itaru: Let’s go, team!

TL notes:

Unlike the earlier tracks, the setting for this voice drama takes place in Volume 1 of the novel. You can read a summary of the novel here.

Ryota finally showed up with his crystal! He has a green one. So now we're only missing 4 Psychic Fever crystals - Tsurugi, Ryushin, Kokoro and Ren. We'll probably see those tomorrow. There haven't been any repeats - no one has a crystal twice.

Ryota didn't have a crystal in Beautiful Liar, but got his in Jiggy Paradise; Kazuma had a crystal in Beautiful Liar and didn't have one in Justice is Blind; Riku didn't have a crystal in Justice is Blind, but had a crystal in Black Magic.

Unsure if the crystals are an Aesthetic thing, I'm not sure what theme is or is not happening with them. I just know everyone has them. Jiggy Paradise introduced at least one new color - Yoshi has a blue crystal. For the 'at least' part, I'm not sure if Ryuta or Ryusei have new colors. Ryuta's crystal could be yellow or orange - if it's yellow, it's a new crystal color; if it's orange, Jimmy and Weesa had orange crystals in Black Magic yesterday. Ryusei's crystal honestly looked more like a hunk of silver than a crystal, which would - be unique and new. So if it's silver, new color. If it's white, which is the only other possibility in my mind, then it's not a new color.

I have a document tracking who has what color crystal and what video they got their crystal in, but I'm again on mobile and that document is inaccessible at this time.

Kazuma showed up in Jiggy Paradise, much to my surprise! He had a shot unsheathing a katana.

Fanta showing up around Miku surprised me at first, then Itsuki showed up and I remembered that Miku's character, Future, has ties to both Astro9 and Kisaragi (Itsuki's character) - Future and Kisaragi both grew up in the same wealthy social circle. And Future's father is, I think, the owner of the park where Astro9 performs. Future's father is, at the least, Very Important to the park.

That shot of Masa grabbing Ryushin intrigues me - the facial expression he had seemed to be some form of "Got you", but not like - a surprised got you? A I know you and I've caught you kinda got you. Ryushin's expression also didn't catch me as "Oh, no, a strange enemy has grabbed my arm!"

I really need to, like, rewatch the prior MVs to look into the lion's head pen. It's been in all of them so far and Ryuta capping the pen is the shot that transitioned into Kazuma unsheathing the katana, which may be related, may just be the best place to do the transition.

Also, there was a shot that looked to me like Miku was having a clairvoyant moment and it included a shot from one of the 2019 videos - I'll have to rewatch those three to figure out which one eventually.

I think the background object is some sort of vault door, maybe? Other option is big ass turntable, but that doesn't seem right. Every other background is tied to the novels in some way - Mad Jesters have one of the Books of Chaos; Rowdy Shogun has the Black Diamond; and Astro9 has the mirror (that I cannot recall the name of) - and I'm fairly certain there is a vault of importance, while there aren't any big turntables.

Once again, there was the page flying through left to right with everyone watching it go. This has been a shot in every MV so far, since Ryota tore a page out of the book and threw it, and I'm wondering if the page keeps flying in Habanero or if maybe someone grabs it? Either one would work, but I feel like grabbing it would be a better ending. There haven't really been any - returning themes in the music videos between generations of BOT, so I feel like the flying page would be ending in this BOT generation.

For the Mad Jesters, they stole an object the Rowdy Shogun were hired to protect (though apparently the item was stolen before it got to the auction the Rowdy Shogun was hired for, so they didn't technically lose the object; but that was still an affront to Lupus's pride). Marduk has flat out tried to kill Rosso twice (ex-assassin instincts die hard, apparently) and the Mad Jesters once set off a number of bombs to bury the Rowdy Shogun in rubble.

For Jiggy Boys - well, they stole the Rowdy Shogun's helicopter while trying to frame Astro9 for the theft. Then crashing said helicopter. And then, after all of the trouble to frame Astro9 for the theft, they fucking admit it to the Rowdy Shogun that Jiggy Boys stole the fucking helicopter. My guys. You specifically dragged Rowdy Shogun into the problem so they could beat up Astro9 and then admitted you did so. Also, mocking two ex-assassins for wanting to turn their lives around is kinda not cool, Claude. And may very well further hinder any negotiations to get them to not want to kill you.