The Pager Still Rings
Episodes
3 episodes
Episode 115 min 05 secFreeThe ShutterOne camera flash drops Jiyu, a job seeker from 2026 Seoul, into the body of Ruka, a gyaru in 1999 Shibuya. A boy who won't show his face presses his number into her hand, and its last four digits, 0840, are the ones she saw in a dream of him lying in the rain.
Episode 212 min 10 secFreeYour Angle's Wrong!On her second day, with a pager that still won't ring, an ace who can't dance Para Para falls flat in front of the One-Oh-Nine, wins the street back with a short-video dance from the future, and still drops to last in the rankings. That night Chinatsu lays down a single piece of evidence.
Episode 311 min 55 secNEWFreeHow to Wait in LineChinatsu reveals the photo came out of a machine with no power, and Jiyu learns the unwritten rules of the payphone line at Hachiko exit. Not even knowing her own pager number, she sends a second good morning with no name attached. Ren is standing at the very end of the line.
Cast
11 people
TachibanaLove interestHead of Mugen, the team that runs Shibuya's back alleys. When you're face to face with him, '...You're here' is all he says. Everyone on the street has switched to cell phones, but he still wears a beat-up old pager on his belt.
AmamiyaProtagonistA camera shutter clicks, you open your eyes, and the girl in the mirror is Amamiya Ruka, the legendary ace of the gyaru circle Honeybee. But you're the one inside her body, and you don't know a single dance step or the right angle for a purikura shot. Nobody asks where Ruka went. You'll have to live up to her name with nothing but a feel for trends from twenty-seven years in the future. All you have is a scrap of paper. On your first day, a man stopped some thugs from robbing you, then handed it to you without a word. It's his pager number. The millennium hits midnight in a month. If you can't read the numbers on that screen all the way to the end by then, you won't get to keep this face, or him.
TeradaMugen's number two, nicknamed Machine Gun Makoto. He talks fast, and he talks a lot. He's made himself the translator for a head who never says more than three words. The problem is that every translation comes out three times longer.
ChinatsuHoneybee's sharp tongue. Nobody's ever seen her smile. She was also the first in the circle to notice something was off about Ruka.
AyuLeader of the gyaru circle Honeybee and a goddess of ganguro makeup. She's bet her whole life on loose-sock angles and para para steps. She's a fool, and she's more serious than anyone.
UshioHead of the rival team Zero. He sent a formal challenge by fax, saying he'll take Center Gai on millennium night. Nobody has ever heard him raise his voice.
GodaMugen's front-line fighter. His body moves before his brain does. He keeps a shoujo manga folded up in his bag and thinks nobody knows.
MomoHoneybee's youngest kogal. She writes down everything that happens in the circle in her purikura notebook. She's the first person in this era to be on Jiyu's side.
MidoriBartender at the para para club Ruby Room. She can stand all night and her posture never slips. She's the only one on this street who doesn't talk about the dead like they're still here.
KondoOwner of the purikura shop. He calls the old machine in the corner 'the door back' and laughs. You never find out if he's joking.
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