"Let's watch the movie first," a voice belonging to a young girl rang out.
"No! Let's run the episode marathon," a second voice chimed in, this one belonging to someone even younger but male.
"But we did that last time as well, Rody," the first voice continued.
"Yes, but Abby, we have seen the movie so many times more than the episodes," the second voice, now identified as Rody, argued with Abby.
"That's because the movie came out first, genius," Abby countered back.
"I don't know, and I don't care. I want to watch the episodes again. Then after that, we will watch the movie," said Rody, showing a little pout on his face.
"Movie!"
"Episode!"
"Movie!"
"Episode!"
"Movie!"
Both of them continued arguing like this. After a few minutes of bickering, they couldn't reach a conclusion, so they just plopped down on the sofa in the living room.
After about 10 minutes of intense silence, Abby finally broke the tension.
"Hey, why don't we play that game? What's it called? Rock, paper, scissors. Yeah, rock, paper, scissors, just like Nobita and his friends. The one who wins gets to choose," Abby suggested with excitement in her voice, as if she had given a solution to the world's biggest problem.
"Oh! Yeah, let's do that!" Even Rody perked up; he clearly remembered Nobita and his friends playing this game when they needed to decide on something.
Both of them stood up, right in front of each other. "Are you ready?" Abby asked while moving her hands behind her back. Rody did the same; he also hid his hands behind his back.
Then both of them shouted:
"ROCK!"
"PAPER!"
"SCISSORS!"
As soon as the word "scissors" escaped from their mouths, their hands moved with lightning-fast speed from behind their backs to right in front of them.
As the results of this mighty clash were revealed, silence hung in the air. Both of them were frozen in their spots: Abby with her hands in the shape of scissors, and Rody with his hands in a fist shape, signifying rock.
"Oh yeah!" Rody roared as he had won this game, and now it meant that he was in charge of the controls.
"I won! I won! Oh yeah! I won!" Rody continued to jump around, excited for his victory.
"Alright, fine, we'll watch the episodes first," Abby grumbled but still agreed. It's not like she hated the episodes of Doraemon; she loved them as well. It's just her mood was to watch the movie first. But alas, plans were changed.
The siblings sat on the sofa once again; controls were in Rody's hands. He quickly navigated the screen in front of him and opened Vault Studio's page. He was ready to put on the episodes of Doraemon, starting from the first episode.
Before they could start watching, something else caught the attention of both the siblings. It was an icon on the top left of the page, an icon indicating an update.
"An update!" Rody and Abby both yelled at the same time.
Abby snatched the controller from Rody's hands, as she quickly tried to check what the update was. Normally, Rody wouldn't have let Abby snatch the controller, but this time was different. They had been almost bored for more than two months now.
Ever since Vault Studios had paused the Doraemon series, they had been just waiting for an update. While waiting, all they could do was just rewatch *Stand by Me* and the rest of the episodes.
Now there was finally an update, so there was no way in hell that they were going to miss it.
Both of them had expectations for this update in their hearts; both of them wished it would be new episodes for Doraemon.
Unfortunately for them, that was not the case. The update was a video, but it was only around two minutes long. Also, its name had nothing to do with Doraemon; instead, it read, "Trailer: Your Name."
"Your Name?" Rody muttered, confused.
"What is this? And what's a trailer?" Abby asked, confused.
"I don't know. Quick, let's check it out. Play it!" Rody, just as confused, still urged Abby to play the video.
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The video started with the logo of Vault Studios, flashing for a moment and vanishing. Then the screen lit up with a vibrant star falling from the sky. It passed through an ethereal-looking cluster of clouds.
"Wow! Is that the sky? It's so cool! I wanna go up there!" exclaimed Rody, looking at the depiction of skies and clouds in the video.
Then the scenes shifted to something different. Voices filled the room, two voices, one male and one female. They kept changing mid-sentence, finishing each other's lines.
The screen showed both the characters in different backgrounds. The male looked like he was in a city, a city similar to one in Doraemon. Meanwhile, what took their breath away was where the girl lived.
She lived in an area filled with greenery everywhere; their houses looked very different but gave a cozy feeling to the watchers.
The siblings stared at the screen, trying to process what they were seeing.
Surprised gasps escaped their mouths as they looked at the lake shown on the screen, the sun reflecting on it, houses built around it, and just the sheer opulence of the scenery was enough to take the siblings' breath away.
"That is so beautiful!" Abby muttered, looking at her screen.
"What is that, sis?" Rody asked, pointing to the lake filled with water.
"I don't know. I have never seen anything like that before," Abby answered, not knowing the answer herself either.
For a second there, they lost focus on the narrating voice. When they finally snapped back to reality, they heard the voices say:
"Are we really switching places?" both voices asked.
"I don't know who you are, but if we really cross each other, we will definitely know who we are," the girl's voice narrated.
"Whoever you are, I swear I will find you, no matter what it takes," the male voice sounded.
"So please, may I ask, your name?" both of their voices spoke out at the same time.
Then the screen flashed with the title of the movie, "Your Name." Below the title appeared an announcement: In theaters, Nebeska Galaxy, in 10 days.
After the trailer ended, the room fell silent. Both Abby and Rody were quiet for a moment.
"Oh my god! This is the project they were working on while stopping Doraemon," Abby exclaimed, as if struck with enlightenment.
"This looked so good and totally different from Doraemon," Rody also added.
"This is the new movie. I'm so excited for this. Also, did you see that at the end, they were switching places with each other?" Abby was practically squealing with excitement.
"That sounds so amazing, switching places with other people," Rody spoke, reflecting the same excitement as his sister.
"Yeah, imagine if we could do that. Maybe I could switch places with all those famous people," Abby said with a dreamy look.
"Yeah, yeah, stop it right there. Did you not see? It's releasing in 10 days and in theaters. Hurry up and buy tickets if you want to watch it," Rody urged Abby to buy the tickets.
"Oh yeah, let me see," Abby, being the big sister she is, got to work. Looking through Vault Studio's page, trying to find a way to buy the tickets, and there they were: a total of 100 million tickets were on sale for the first-day opening show.
But the worrisome thing was that they were vanishing in moments. The sale had only opened three minutes ago, and almost 80 million were gone; the rest were also almost gone.
So Abby hurriedly purchased two tickets. Only after seeing the confirmation did she take a breather.
"We got them," she yelled and hugged Rody in excitement, who also hugged her back.
The siblings were in cheers, and so were all those people who got their hands on the first-day tickets. While many unfortunate souls who couldn't get their hands on one were sulking.
It looked like such a long disappearance from Vault Studio had made people desperate for something new. All they could do now was wait and hope to get tickets for the next day.
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