Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop/Synopsis

## Synopsis

Saturday, 10th July, at 10:25am as crickets chirp, a graffitied haiku can be seen on outside of Cherry's apartment building, on a warm summer day. Going into Cherry's room, we can see him type out the rest of the Haiku on his phone and tag it with #HAIKU before posting it onto the Curiosity platform. Continuing to recite his Haiku Cherry fixes his hair and puts on his headphones while looking in the mirror.

Switching to Smile's house, we can see her groan in frustration while looking at her teeth in the mirror. Running to her table, she grabs her mask and puts it on her face, adjusting it further and moves back, Juri and Mari observing the entire thing. Now having her mask on she moves back and happily jumps around exclaiming "Smile for me!"

Going over the city, we can see several green pastures and fields as cars and trucks move along the road, as frames slowly pan out to show the Oda Nouvelle Mall and the several cars parked outside of it. Going around, we can see more graffiti as Mr. Fujiyama is seen walking around with the jacket for a vinyl record entitled "Yamazakura", as he looks up to witness the graffiti on the wall. As we further explore the mall with Mr. Fujiyama, we see many locations filled to the brim with people. Going a little bit outside the mall, we can see him cross the road as Cherry follows suit; looking for him.

Looking out into the distance, Fujiyama stands; record jacket in hand as the birds proceed to fly. Quickly spotting the old man, Cherry runs to him putting his hand up to signal the passing car to come to a halt; almost failing to do so. The car stops in it's tracks as Cherry takes a leap in the other direction shocking both himself and the driver. He quickly runs off to Mr. Fujiyama as the car continues on it's way.

Bringing the record jacket closer to his face we can see him looking at its back cover; which had a young Sakura Fujiyama (at the time unknown) on it. Cherry walks closer to Mr. Fujiyama, calling out his name several times, before finally getting a response. Mr. Fujiyama exclaims about Cherry being there and Cherry is shocked by the loud noise and turns the other way; pulling his headphones over his ears. Quickly moving back to him, Cherry asks Mr. Fujiyama if he had found "it" and the latter responds by saying no. Cherry, slightly disappointed, tells Fujiyama that they should head back, putting out his hand for the old man to guide him back.

We switch scenes and are now inside the Oda Nouville Mall. The camera pans around to show the sign for the Tama Dental Clinic. Inside Smile's orthodontist is examining her braces and asking some questions. He shortly sends her on her way, reminding her of her future appointment. Smile promptly leaves and runs off to a secluded hallway inside the mall to put on her mask and look at herself in her phone camera. After confirming her braces cannot be seen she exclaims, "Showtime!"

Switching over to a view of the Curiosity Platform, we now see Smile has just started a live stream. Comments from her fans flow in through the chat on the side as she greets them all. She tells them they will be having fun with their favorite idol group, and states she is Smile from Orange Sunshine. She tells her viewers everyone is out at the mall for summer vacation. Smile proceeds to film around the mall, pointing out all of the "cute" things she can find.

The scene shifts to a view of Smile on a security camera before panning out to show a blonde man, later revealed to be named Motopuri, watching over them. A security guard walks up to him commenting on how busy the mall is. The two notice a Hikarun standee moving, and watch as Beaver mischievously looks out from behind it. They angrily call out his name, clearly recognizing him for the trouble he causes around the mall.

Meanwhile, Japan is trying his luck at a gachapon machine, on the hunt for a rare Hikarun figure while a group of kids watch over him. Beaver comes up to him holding the Hikarun standee he was seen with earlier, telling him it is theirs now. Two security guards approach from either side, accusing him of stealing store merchandise again, and start to close in. Beaver runs off with the standee and steals a skateboard from a nearby shop and starts skating through the mall, narrowly missing people in the crowd. Motopuri tries to cut him off from heading to his hide out on the roof, but this sends Beaver hurling down the escalator, launching off of a chair, and down to the bottom floor.

As Beaver rides through the crowds out of control, the camera cuts to a gathering crowd. A woman with a microphone exclaims that the baby crawling race will begin. Before she can say go, a baby starts crawling and she exclaims "False start!" Meanwhile, Cherry is seen standing at the back of the crowd with Mr. Fujiyama, peeking over to see what is going on. He opens his phone to a haiku dictionary, trying to come up with a haiku using the phrase "false start."

Smile sees the commotion of the baby race from another floor and immediately runs down stairs holding up her phone as she approaches the crowd. We can see Motopuri and security guards running in the same direction in the background. Smile stands next to Cherry at the back of the crowd, trying to get a good angel for her viewers.

Beaver is riding the skateboard around the outside of the crowd as Motopuri yells down at him from the next floor up. Not paying attention, Beaver runs right into Cherry and knocks him and Smile, over onto the floor. As they fall, his headphones and Smile's face mask slide partially off and their phones fly into the air. We can see that they both have very similar teal phone cases. As the two sit up and look at one another Smile's mask falls off, showing her braces. Cherry comments on them and Smile immediately flushes red and covers her face, running away but coming back to hurriedly grab one of the phones off the floor.

Motopuri and the security guards catch up to Beaver but he dodges them and runs off, leaving Cherry alone with Mr. Fujiyama again. He picks up the other phone and slides it into his pocket, starting to come up with a haiku about a girl with braces. Outside the mall we see Smile running off in the background as the camera pans to Toughboy. He is angrily looking at words that have been spray painted onto his car, grumbling about Beaver being the one who did it.

Back inside the mall we see a sign for Day Service Hidamari, and inside we see elderly talking as well as workers helping them with physical therapy. Cherry walks in with Mr. Fujiyama and everyone welcomes them back. A blonde worker named Nami asks Fujiyama if he "found it," but he simply opens up an empty record sleeve and shows her, shaking his head no. Another worker with short dark hair named Akiko asks her if she knows what he has been looking for, and she says he is looking for the record that goes inside the sleeve, but no one knows where he left it.

Mr. Fujiyama randomly yells out a haiku , with Cherry putting his headphones back on and telling him that was too loud. He proceeds to guess the author as Yukihiko Settsu, and Fujiyama nods. They both comment on the author's writing style, and Cherry reminds him to keep his voice down next time. Toughboy then storms inside asking around for Beaver, before getting flustered when Akiko greets him.

A worker with red hair calls for Mr. Fujiyama, telling him his grandson is here to pick him up. As Cherry helps Mr. Fujiyama over, Toughboy recollects himself and demands to know where Beaver is, showing him a picture of the graffiti on his car. Cherry comments on the writing being misspelled, but Toughboy is still upset. As he leaves with his grandfather, he tells Cherry to keep a lookout for Beaver. The worker with the red hair then approaches Cherry and tells him his shift is over and he can go home.

Cherry clocks out of work and walks outside, noticing more spray paint graffiti of haiku and commenting that it definitely was Beaver. Meanwhile, Smile is seen walking home outside. She pauses for a moment, crying out about how Cherry commented on her braces, and she notices she dropped her mask back at the mall. She sighs and pulls out her phone and opens the case, seeing a seasonal kigo dictionary and only then does Smile realize she grabbed the wrong phone at the mall.