Air date: November 8, 2007

If growing up inevitably involves pain, then in order to distinguish which moment in the past was the "rite of passage," one has to recollect the painful thorn prick from the fetters of memory. This process too should be regarded as a form of initiation as a human being, which must be gone through before the ineluctable coming of death.

Script: Chiaki Konaka
Storyboard: Yoshitaka Koyama
Director: Kenichi Matsuzawa
Animation Directors: Masahiro Hamamori, Minoru Ueta