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MMD Future Camera — Description
Chibi IA: What are you up to now Chibi Gumi?
Chibi Gumi: This is my latest invention Chibi IA!
Chibi IA: Looks like a camera to me and FYI, cameras have been around for about 200 years now ...
Chibi Gumi: Yes, but this one is different!
Chibi IA: Well since it was made by you, probably. It's not going to explode now is it?
Chibi Gumi: Since when did something I made explode recently?
Chibi IA: Let me think ... hmmm ... that thing that you made last week; what was it again?
Chibi Gumi: Oh that thing ... well that's toast now so nevermind. There's no way that this camera will explode!
Chibi IA: Well, what's so special about your camera anyway?
Chibi Gumi: Hehe, now you're asking the right question. Well this camera takes pictures of the future!
Chibi IA: Come again. Pictures of the future?
Chibi Gumi: Yeah, pictures of the future! Well you know all cameras can only take pictures of the past. Let me explain!
Chibi IA: I'm dying to know ... just make it short as I don't want to be listening to one of your long winded pseudo-science psycho babble lectures ...
Chibi Gumi: OK, since you're mathematically challenged anyway ...
Chibi IA: I'm not mathematically challenged, retard. My maths test scores are the same as yours. Actually, better now that I think about it since I don't need calculus formulas to solve simple equations like how much a dozen eggs cost if they were discounted by 5% ...
Chibi Gumi: Well, I can't help it if my maths skills are better than the maths teacher's. After all, I'm a genius you know!
Chibi IA: Opinions may differ on that last point, but get back on point will you? What's special about your camera again?
Chibi Gumi: It takes pictures of the future. Ordinary cameras can only take pictures of things in the past. So for example, if I take a picture of you now and then we look at it, it's a picture of you in the past since it can only record you 'now' and we can only look at the picture of you 'after now' which of course is in the future relative to 'now'!
Chibi IA: So what you're saying is that your camera is like a crystal ball that can look into the future?
Chibi Gumi: Yeah, that's exactly it!
Chibi IA: How far into the future?
Chibi Gumi: Well there's a slight problem with that, that I haven't quite resolved ...
Chibi IA: Why am I not surprised? But what is the problem?
Chibi Gumi: Well I can't control exactly how far into the future that the picture is taken, yet ...
Chibi IA: I don't understand ...
Chibi Gumi: OK, let's do this. Let me take a picture of you ...
Chibi IA: OK!

*CLICK*

Chibi Gumi: See here; that's what you'll look like in the future!
Chibi IA: Hmmm ... I look almost like my big sister, just prettier ...
Chibi Gumi: Yeah, and you've got wrinkles too!
Chibi IA: DO NOT!
Chibi Gumi: DO SO! The camera doesn't lie!
Chibi IA: That's not a wrinkle retard! That's cleavage! So I've got bigger boobs than my big sister!
Chibi Gumi: Cleavage? Oh really? That looks more like your butt crack to me ...

*SMACK*

Chibi Gumi: HEY THAT HURTS!
Chibi IA: Nevermind that, this looks fun! Take another one!
Chibi Gumi: Well, OK. Say 'CHEESE'!

*CLICK*

Chibi Gumi: Oh ... this isn't good ...
Chibi IA: What do you mean? Do I really have wrinkles?
Chibi Gumi: Well actually, no ...
Chibi IA: Well let me see!
Chibi Gumi: Eh ... well trust me when I tell you, you don't want to see this ...
Chibi IA: What am I naked in it?
Chibi Gumi: Well I suppose you are ... but on the plus side you don't have any wrinkles ... anymore ...
Chibi IA: LET ME SEE THAT YOU PERVERT!
Chibi Gumi: Nope, not a good idea ...

*SMACK*

Chibi Gumi: HEY THAT REALLY HURTS! You didn't have to hit me again you know!
Chibi IA: Did too! Sometimes, that's the only way to get through that thick skull of yours! So where exactly am I in this picture? All I see is a skeleton ...
Chibi Gumi: Well ...
Chibi IA: You don't mean ...
Chibi Gumi: Well ... yeah ... that ...
Chibi IA: ... skeleton is me!?
Chibi Gumi: Yep ...
Chibi IA: Oh ...

Awkward Pause ...

Chibi IA: Well, I suppose it's inevitable that we will all die at some point, so that can't be helped, but how far in the future is that picture of me?
Chibi Gumi: No idea ...

Another Awkward Pause ...

Chibi IA: Did you take any 'selfies'?
Chibi Gumi: Yeah, I did ...
Chibi IA: Let's see!
Chibi Gumi: Well, OK. This one is of me in just a couple of years from now and look, I'm similar to my big sister, but I've got bigger boobs!
Chibi IA: Is this the only one of you?
Chibi Gumi: Actually, no ... I have about a dozen more or so ...
Chibi IA: Let's see them!
Chibi Gumi: I rather that you didn't ...
Chibi IA: You got fat didn't you?
Chibi Gumi: Not exactly ...
Chibi IA: SHOW ME!
Chibi Gumi: OK! OK! Just don't hit me again!

Yet Another Awkward Pause ...

Chibi IA: These skeletons ... they're your skeleton, aren't they?
Chibi Gumi: Well, yeah ...
Chibi IA: So how come there's only one of you, or for that matter of me, that shows us as grown up and the rest are of us as skeletons?
Chibi Gumi: I'm still trying to work that out ...
Chibi IA: It doesn't mean we're going to die young now does it?
Chibi Gumi: Well, I'm not really sure. I have no idea how far the camera looks into the future every time I open the shutters ...

A Really Long Thought Filled Pause

Chibi IA: OK, I think I get this ...
Chibi Gumi: You do!?
Chibi IA: Yep, cause I'm smart and you're not!
Chibi Gumi: Yeah, really ...
Chibi IA: Shut up retard and listen! When you take the first picture, it is of us as we will be in a couple of years.
Chibi Gumi: Correct.
Chibi IA: But meanwhile, time is still passing.
Chibi Gumi: Yes ...
Chibi IA: So then the next picture you take is of us after we're dead.
Chibi Gumi: Also correct. But what I can't figure out is why the camera can't take a picture of us, for example, of us when we're full grown adults, or as moms or even as grandmas ...
Chibi IA: Actually, that's quite easy to explain in Quantum Physics terms!
Chibi Gumi: What do you know about Quantum Physics anyway, Chibi IA!?
Chibi IA: A lot more than you do, retard!
Chibi Gumi: Pray tell ...
Chibi IA: Well the reason why the camera can't take a picture of us when we're all grown up and all is really, really simple if you think about it.
Chibi Gumi: How so?
Chibi IA: Easy! Our futures are not set in stone. We control our own destinies and the camera can only record what will be, rather than what might be. So the first picture works because we will definitely grow up to look like our big sisters ...
Chibi Gumi: ... but with bigger boobs!
Chibi IA: ... and no wrinkles!

A Contemplative Pause ...

Chibi Gumi: So what does this all mean, Chibi IA?
Chibi IA: Simple retard, your 'future camera' is useless!
Chibi Gumi: Hmmm ... well now that I've thought about it, may be you're right ... sigh ...

Another Thoughtful Moment ...

Chibi Gumi: So I wasted a whole week working on this thing?
Chibi IA: Not really if you think about it.
Chibi Gumi: Huh?
Chibi IA: Well, don't you think it is a comforting thought to know that our futures aren't set in stone and that it is affected by the decisions that we make now and will make in the future?
Chibi Gumi: Yeah, that's true. So what should I do with this camera then?
Chibi IA: Give it to me for a moment ...

*SMASH!!!*

Chibi Gumi: HEY WHY DID YOU DO THAT!
Chibi IA: Why do you think?

Pause ...

Chibi Gumi: For once I think I agree with you ...
Chibi IA: Yep, there are just somethings we don't need to know or more accurately, we don't need to be reminded of.
Chibi Gumi: Sigh ... yeah, I think you're right about that this time.
Chibi IA: Correction, I'm always right! But come on, let's go to the store and get us a ramune and some snacks. It'll be on me!
Chibi Gumi: Yeah sure, thanks. I'm broke anyway since I spent all my pocket money on parts for that camera.
Chibi IA: I figured that too; come on let's go!
Chibi Gumi: So BTW, who do you think looks prettier as a skeleton? You or me?

*SMACK*

CREDITS
Chibi IA: Mqdl/Kiyo
© The First Place Co., Ltd.
Chibi Gumi: Mamama/Trackdancer
© The Internet Co., Ltd.

Park: 3DCG

Rendered in MMD 9.26 + MME
Post Production: Photoshop 7