#real fake 2nd stage
REAL⇔FAKE 2nd Stage Episode 1 Summary
Image source: REAL⇔FAKE 2nd Stage Official Website
CAST:(L→R)
Matsumura Ryuunosuke as Umehara Reijirou
Ino Hiroki as Uno Kouki
Wada Masanari as Sena Masayuki
Someya Toshiyuki as Moriya Hidetoshi
Aramaki Yoshihiko as Makino Nagisa
Ueda Keisuke as Ikuta Yuusuke
Aoi Shouta as Akane
Sato Ryuji as Suzuki Kakeru
Sasamori Hiroki as Inamori Mizuki
Summary under the cut. I may have gotten some things wrong, we’ll find out when MiaMaw releases their subs ^^;;
Prologue:In a room somewhere, Nagisa is on the floor, with his hands, arms, and feet tightly bound. Someone approaches him.
OP: RUMOR by Stellar CROWNS with Akane
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Setting: Stellar CROWNS [SC] house
-cute banter between the bois
-Reijirou turns on the TV and tells them to quiet down. It’s some kind of PR event featuring Akane. Everyone gathered around and watched.
-Akane announces that he is taking over as president of Queen Records [QR].
-SC are to take a break from activities due to Rin studying abroad
-He also introduces QR’s new unit “ASTRA RING” [AR] (members: Uno Kouki, Inamori Mizuki) who are to be Strellar CROWNS’s rival. Furthermore, in commemoration for their debut, AR would have a joint concert with SC
-=Rings by ASTRA RING=- (this song is kinda boppin)
-All SC members are surprised by this final announcement more so Yuusuke and Nagisa (btw since when did Kakeru call Nagisa ‘Nagi-chan’??? that’s so cute wth)
-Nagisa tells them that Uno, Inamori, Yuusuke, and himself were once in the group Fyrklöver (referenced in Season 1)
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Setting:ASTRA RING photoshoot, a few days later(?)
(presumably a studio inside QR building)
-Kakeru, Yuusuke, and Masayuki enters the studio to confront Akane about the joint live event
-He just tells them that he plans on making ASTRA RING top artists. Masayuki asks “What about Stellar CROWNS?” but Akane doesn’t answer and leaves. Kakeru runs out to follow him.
-Tension rises among the remaining four (Kouki, Mizuki, Masa, Yuusuke) but mainly because of Kouki attacking Yuusuke.
-Someone enters the room to dissipate the argument before it got physical. It’s Fyrklöver’s former producer, Kamishiro-san. He says that Akane hired him to be ASTRA RING’s manager.
-Masayuki asks about what happened with Fyrklöver but Yuusuke says he’s not ready to talk about it. Masa leaves it at that and they returned to their own studio for an interview.
-Kakeru catches up with Akane but even after pressing him, Akane still won’t explain anything. He leaves, and Kakeru follows him again.
-=outside QR building=-
-It looks like Kakeru lost Akane. Then, two men approached him identifying themselves as police. They told him that he is under suspicion of drug use.
-=back to the studio with Masa and Yuusuke and the interviewers, who are all waiting for Kakeru=-
-An article broke out on the internet accusing Masayuki of abuse of power towards his juniors in his high school soccer club, allegedly beating them up and making them do unfair punishments.
-Masayuki is put on the spot while the interviewer badgers him with questions, when a bigger news broke out. Cut to the scene of the media crowding around the police car where Kakeru is being forced into
Akane scene
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Setting: two days later, SC house, dining area
Kakeru tested negative in the drug test but was still held in police custody for one day (yesterday) after punching a policeman
Nagisa proposed to have a public apology to reassure their fans but Masa rejected it since he didn’t do anything wrong. He said he never punched his juniors, pointedly throwing a glance at Kakeru.
That wasn’t lost on Kakeru and soon they were out of their chairs and at each other’s throats while Reijirou calmed them down.
Just then, Nagisa read something on his phone and turned on the TV, where Yuusuke’s 'dark past’ is being revealed. He allegedly brought alcohol to school and smoked on campus which led to his suspension and grade repitition. This made him a famous delinquent in his hometown.
Kakeru turned off the TV and they discussed why this happening and who was behind this. Masayuki started doubting Akane and Kakeru immediately rejected the idea. The two of them started arguing again but Yuusuke shut them up and told Nagisa to follow him outside.
-=outside the house, Nagisa and Yuusuke=-
Seems like the two of them think that Astra Ring’s debut and the sudden spread of false rumors have a connection.
Yuusuke said it can’t be helped if the two (Kouki and Mizuki) have a grudge against him since he quit in the middle of their prep for Fyrklover’s first live event.
Flashback:Yuusuke apologizes to Kouki and Mizuki for quitting the group and everyone is sad and upset.(he quit because of his poor health)
Nagisa wondered how much Akane knew. He said it’s not that he’s doubting Akane, but he only wanted to make sure.
Masayuki is shown nearby, probably heard some of their convo
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Masayuki was about to head out when he sees Kakeru. Kakeru still firmly believes that Akane has nothing to do with any of this. Masa says he doesn’t want to doubt Akane too, so he’s going to look into it himself. Then he tells Kakeru to look after Yuusuke since they were former classmates
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Moriya’s office
He’s looking at some documents when Masayuki enters. He hurriedly puts them away in an envelope.
Masayuki asks for Moriya’s help in investigating the false rumors. Moriya reminds him that he’s a freelance director, not a detective. To this, Masayuki tells him he knows that Moriya helped Akane in filing the lawsuit
Then he grabs the envelope from Moriya’s hands and takes out the documents. His suspicions were right, it was information regarding Nagisa (and Fyrklovers?). Moriya takes it back away from him.
Masayuki presses him but Moriya denies every accusation. Finally he says, “I can’t tell you anything right now” and asks Masayuki to leave.
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QR Building, night
Nagisa visits Akane’s office but the room is dark and Akane is nowhere to be seen. On the table, he sees a document inside an envelope labeled “Investigation Report”. He just started reading through it when someone ??? him from behind (I have no idea what happened there, it’s like someone grabbed his neck and he fainted)
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somewhere inside QR building?
Akane is on the phone with Moriya. Seems like he reported what happened earlier with Masayuki. Akane doesn’t seem bothered as long as Moriya didn’t tell Masayuki anything.
Nagisa wakes up and realizes he’s on the floor with his hands and feet are bound. He struggles to free himself while calling out for help. Akane approached him and just stood there. He asks Akane to free him. Akane shook his head. Akane’s phone rings, and tells Nagisa to behave himself while he’s gone. As he turns to leave he says, “No matter how loud you scream, no one will hear you.”
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End of Episode 1
REAL⇔FAKE 2nd Stage Episode 2 Summary
CAST:
Aramaki YoshihikoasMakino Nagisa
Ueda KeisukeasIkuta Yuusuke
Wada MasanariasSena Masayuki
Sato RyujiasSuzuki Kakeru
Matsumura RyuunosukeasUmehara Reijirou
Someya ToshiyukiasMoriya Hidetoshi
Aoi ShoutaasAkane
Ino HirokiasUno Kouki
Sasamori HirokiasInamori Mizuki
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Opening theme
RUMOR by Stellar CROWNS with Akane
Ending theme
Garasu no Kutsu by Aoi Shouta
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Summary under the cut.
sorry i cut out the fluff and focused on the main story
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Same night
The one who called Akane in the last part of the previous episode turns out to be Masayuki. Akane asks to meet up with Masa tomorrow so they could talk.
Next day, early morning
Masa wakes up and sees that Nagisa still hasn’t come home. He was about to leave when he comes across Reijirou who was making bentou for their practice later. He explains the situation to him and heads out. Rei was gonna follow him but he was already out of sight when he went out the door.
Rei opens up his laptop and hacks into the mainframe to locate Masa’s phone using GPS(?).
–later–
Yuusuke reads fan tweets / replies on his phone, most of them expressing their sadness and disappointment due to the scandals coming out. Kakeru snatches the phone away from him, and found tweets from other fans defending Stellar CROWNS and expressing their belief in them.
They found the bentou on the table, with a message from Rei saying that he and Masa will be out looking for Nagisa.
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QUEEN RECORDS building
The guard told Masayuki that Nagisa didn’t come to the building, and that no one came last night.
QUEEN RECORDS indoor parking area(?)
Masa receives a call from Yuusuke, but gets cut off because his phone ran out of battery. He looks at the clock and sees that he has 50 minutes left before the arranged meeting with Akane, so he sets out for the meeting place.
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Dance Studio(?)
Yuusuke and Kakeru arrive together, and saw that Kouki and Mizuki (ASTRA RING) were already there. Kamishiro, ASTRA RING’s manager, explained that it was for the documentary that they’ll be shooting for STELLAR CROWNS and ASTRA RING’s joint live. Yuusuke and Kakeru were both surprised, and Kamishiro explained that it was Akane who decided this to recover from the recent scandals.
Kamishiro then asks them where the rest of Stellar CROWNS are.
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QUEEN RECORDS indoor parking area
Using the GPS(?), Rei arrives at the last location where Masa was before his phone went out. There he sees a set of keys with a strawberry keyholder on the ground.
–flashback–
Rei remembers that the keyholder was given by Masa to Nagisa. Nagisa names it “berry-yuki” (strawberry + Masayuki).
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Moriya arrives in his car at the parking area and sees Rei. Together, they went to the guard to ask him about Nagisa. They found out that all security camera footage from yesterday was deleted, as instructed by Akane.
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Dance Studio
Yuusuke explains the situation to ASTRA RING and their manager. Kakeru turns to leave to help with the search for the missing Nagisa. Kamishiro guilt-trips Yuusuke to stay. Yuusuke also convinces Kakeru to stay, telling him that both of them should do what they can do.
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QUEEN RECORDS indoor parking area
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Moriya is working on his laptop trying to restore the deleted security footage. Rei offers to help but Moriya declined saying that it’s not something amateurs can do. Moriya fails, and Rei takes over. He proceeds to do the fancy hacking thing while Moriya looked on in awe
(I said I cut out the fluff but I found the ‘hacking’ scenes so extra, I love it)
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Dance Studio
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Kouki picks a fight with Kakeru and Mizuki and Yuusuke stops them. Kakeru tries to leave, but Mizuki stops him to apologize, and then manages to force Kouki to apologize as well. Kakeru tells them to change to their practice clothes so they can start.
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Unknown location
Nagisa manages to free his feet so he got up and looked around. He found an envelope on a table and opens it.
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QUEEN RECORDS indoor parking area
The security footage got recovered successfully. (Moriya is like, “wtf?”) They looked at the footage from the camera in the parking area. They see Akane pushing a trolley with something like a body bag on it. As we walked by, something fell on the ground. They looked at it closer and it turned out to be the keys with the strawberry keyholder. A few moments later, a black van exits the parking area.
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Unknown location
Nagisa looks through the file inside the envelope. It turned out to be an investigation report about Kouki and Mizuki. It details Fyrklöver’s activities in chronological fashion, including the time when Yuusuke withdrew from the group and the time when Nagisa became busy with his acting career.
–flashback: 2014–
Nagisa is just about to enter the dance studio where Fyrklöver is practicing, when he hears Kouki and Mizuki talking. Kouki wonders what would happen to the two of them, since Yuusuke quit and Nagisa’s acting career is going well. Mizuki tells him that Kouki will do just fine, it’s just that no one has taken notice of his talent yet. Kouki asks him if he’s being sarcastic, or just trying to cheer him up. Mizuki answers that he really believes what he said. The two begin practice, and Nagisa only looks on.
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–flashback end
Just then, someone started to violently turn the door knob, trying to get in. Nagisa thinks it’s Akane and hurriedly tries to free his hands and arms.
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Masa is walking towards his and Akane’s arranged meeting place. A black van can be seen following him.
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Dance Studio, dressing area
Mizuki reads another article that just broke out, accusing Reijirou of being a part of an international hacking group.
Kouki asks Mizuki why he stopped him earlier when it seemed like it would’ve gone well. He tells him they should just hurry up and do it, when Mizuki kabedons stops him. Mizuki tells him to stop acting on his own, because it may be the end for the two of them.
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this photo gives me strange feelings
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Meeting Area (underpass)
Akane apologizes to Masayuki for dragging them into something once again. He tells them that they’re in danger. Before Masa could ask him for an explanation, a black van speeds straight at them. They both manage to get out of the way in time. But then, unknown men gets out of the van and rushes towards them. Akane gets tasered, and eventually Masayuki gets tasered as well. They were carried back to the van, and it speeds off to somewhere.
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Nagisa is struggling to free himself while someone is trying to get in the room.
Moriya and Reijirou are in Moriya’s car, hurrying to somewhere.
While Nagisa is still trying to untie himself, the door is opened. Two people walk in.
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End of Episode 2
