Beet and Motz and Otowa Mansion

**Beet and Motz and Otowa Mansion** (ベトとモツと音羽館 *Beto to Motsu to Otowa-kan*), also called **Beethes and Motes and Otowakan** on Crunchyroll, is the first episode of Classicaloid season 1. It was released on October 8, 2016.

## Synopsis

"*Kanae is stuck with two strangers in her home, Motz and Beet-san. When a demolition crew arrives to tear down her house, Beet-san unleashes his musical rage.*"

## Summary

Kanae Otowa is an average high-school student and landlord of a large mansion inherited from her grandmother. She lives with two supposed roommates who introduce themselves as Ludwig van Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Beet and Motz for short). The two are shown to be eccentric at best and downright thoughtless at worst; Motz greets Kanae and her friend Sousuke by slipping down a railing in roller shoes and crashing into a wall, while Beet encases the mansion’s ballroom in smoke after trying to cook gyoza with makeshift flamethrowers.

In a conversation between Kanae and Sousuke, it’s revealed that Beet and Motz are friends of Kanae’s father, who encouraged the two to stay at the mansion despite Kanae’s wishes. It’s also mentioned that Kanae will soon be selling the property and moving out to Sousuke’s dismay, considering he’s using one of her spare rooms as storage for the instruments he’s collected but never actually learned to use.

Later that day, Kanae receives a sudden call from the contractors buying out her property, saying that they plan to demolish the mansion the very next day. She promptly tells Beet and Motz to pack up their things and leave, including Sousuke and his myriad of stuff. When asked where they were staying next, the two briefly consider Sousuke’s house as an alternative.

Alone with her thoughts after kicking the others out, Kanae begins to reminisce on the time she spent in the mansion as a child, and what her grandmother told her about the building’s history of hosting elaborate balls. In the ballroom stands a large mechanical organ; one that hasn’t worked for years, and that Kanae once promised her grandmother she'd get working again one day so that they could host one last ball.

Meanwhile, the other three sneak their way back into the mansion and into Sousuke’s storage room. Sousuke explains to Beet and Motz that Kanae’s family came from a wealthy lineage, before her father left home and wasted a majority of their inheritance on his “research”, resulting in he and Kanae’s mother parting ways. During the conversation Beet feels as though he’s on the verge of remembering something, but is unsure what.

The following morning, the demolishing plans soon come to a head as the front lawn floods with workers and construction vehicles. Despite the urgency from last night and Sousuke’s panic finally setting in, Beet and Motz have continued with business as usual, cooking gyoza and setting up parkour stunts across the ballroom walls. Kanae had finally accepted the mansion’s fate until Motz falls face-first into the ballroom’s organ, causing it to finally play music. As soon as she hears the organ and her childhood memories flood back once more, she changes her mind and screams out to not destroy the building.

But it’s too late–a wrecking ball had already crashed into the front wall, inadvertently causing Beet to drop his decently-cooked gyoza on the kitchen floor. In anger, and perhaps paralleling Kanae’s feelings, Beet unleashes what he sought to remember earlier: the power of Musik! Now donning a black suit and red scarf reminiscent of the original Beethoven, he uses a conductor’s baton to magically transform the area into an abstract fantasy world. The front of the Otowa mansion becomes a dance floor as illusions of dancing couples appear, including that of Kanae’s grandmother. Even still, the ballroom organ and construction vehicles both morph into giant robots, only to start dancing themselves! Kanae realizes that this is the ball she had always wanted to host, and vows to protect the mansion in her grandmother’s memory as Beet’s Musik comes to an end.

The area is returned to normal, and the construction workers who witnessed the magical occurrence take to their vehicles and evacuate in fear. The mansion is saved, but in turn, Beet and Motz soon get back to their freeloading antics, now with an enamored Sousuke in tow. Unbeknownst to them, however, is that the construction workers have contacted a mysterious figure known as Bach, and identify Beet and Motz as escaped Classicaloids. When asked by his subordinate Tchaiko about what to do with them, Bach responds with a single “Andante.”

## Staff Credits

* Screenplay: Ichirou Sakaki
* Storyboard: Yoichi Fujita, Eiji Abiko
* Episode Director: Tomoaki Koshida
* Chief Animation Director: Seiichi Hashimoto
* Animation Director: Kiyoaki Maeda

## Trivia

* The episode's cold open features Beethoven's symphonies Chorale and Fate.