Ep. 3: Mahiru y Kiui colaboran en el proyecto de animación del video musical de JELEE

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A VTuber is shown live streaming from her bedroom, she ends the stream and sighs after. Mahiru, Kano, and Mei gather at the cafe to discuss JELEE's future direction. Mei shares her music, and Mahiru presents her illustration for the promotional art. Mahiru dances to Mei's music, sparking an idea in Kano's mind. Kano believes that having Mahiru's drawing move in sync with her actual dancing in the music video would be amusing. Mahiru tells Kano that they can reach out to her VTuber friend who specializes in streaming as a character model. They talk to the VTuber on a video call and Mahiru introduces her as Kiui, a childhood friend that she has always looked up to. The girls request Kiui's help in animating Mahiru's illustration for the MV, and she agrees. It is revealed that Kiui has a lot of free time due to living as a shut-in, spending entire nights streaming instead of sleeping. Several of Kiui's classmates show up to the festival, and Mahiru learns that Kiui no longer attends school. After Mahiru brings it up in one of their calls, Kiui abruptly ends the call in anger. A flashback reveals that Kiui did not fit in well with her elite prep school student body. She eventually started secluding herself from the outside world. At Mahiru's school festival, she decides to stream her performance to Kiui. The theme of the play involves dancing to try and convince a shut in goddess to come out. Mahiru's acting serves as both a school play event and a personal plea to Kiui to stop secluding herself. Kiui delivers the music video and the girls are impressed. Mahiru also assures Kiui that she doesn't mind if Kiui secludes herself, emphasizing that Kiui is still a very cool person to her. During a stream, Kiui plays JELEE's music video to promote the group. Later on, Kiui goes outside and finally meets Mahiru in person for the first time in two years. (Source: Wikipedia)