Episode 8

What Made Her Do It? is the 8th episode of the Gekidol anime.

Summary
Kaworu strikes a deal with Hirokazu to save Alice in Theater, while Hirokazu proposes that Kaworu join him in his dream.

Plot


Izumi is served some tea and she informs Seria and Airi that Doll will be taking the lead role in the next SMT play. Because of this, Izumi starts to question her place at the theater and expresses her interest to rejoin Alice in Theater, because of this, Airi slaps her. This leads into a scuffle between Airi and Izumi who both fight, which is stopped by Seria and is sequentially kissed on the cheek by Airi. Then Airi claims that she doesn't need Izumi anymore and that her and Seria will make Alice in Theater more famous together. Furious, Izumi then continues her scuffle between Airi, now with Seria caught in the action.



A flashback of Kaworu meeting Hirokazu for the first time is shown, where Kaworu tries to recruit Hirokazu into her newly established theater. Returning to Airi's apartment, the scuffle between Airi and Izumi ends and they patch things up with each other. Meanwhile, Kaworu meets with Hirokazu and the two strike a deal, where if Alice in Theater is able to get 3.5k people to the theater, he will allow Kaworu to keep the theater. The troupe is informed of the situation by Kaworu and they express their resolve to not let the theater be lost to SMT. Elsewhere, Izumi confronts Doll and challenges her to another duel.



Later, Kaworu treats Seria and Airi to some drinks and snacks in her room. There, Kaworu confines to the two how she's so proud of the progress the two have made with their acting skills. She also states her hopes that Izumi will return and earn her more money for herself. Once it's over, Kaworu meets with Akira outside and states how the rest is up to her. Eventually, the Alice in Theater's play begins at a rough start, all because their rival theater SMT's own version of the play out does theirs. So following Manami's suggestion to inflate the number of the attendance; a bunch of photo ops are done. Also, to spy on the competition, Kaworu watches SMT's version of their play and confronts Hirokazu, who details his yearning to acquire the original TMS machine. All because he once experienced the effects of it 5 years ago. Hirokazu then invites Kaworu to join him in his dream to rid the world of all conflict with his SMT machine. However, Kaworu flatly refuses as their dreams are not aligned with each other.

At the Alice in Theater, it's a full house there and Akira announces the departure of Kaworu from the troupe and that she's the new director. As this is going on, Kaworu visits the rumored crater involved the incident 5 years ago while noting her hopes for the troupe as she draws closer to a large spherical machine in the center of the crater. Meanwhile, the Alice in Theater troupe celebrate how they managed to meet their 3.5k goal to save the theater.

Characters

 * Izumi Hinasaki
 * Airi Kagami
 * Seria Morino
 * Kaworu Sakakibara
 * Hirokazu Takezaki
 * Manami Fujita
 * Akira Asagi
 * Mayuri Nakamura
 * Kazuharu Yamamoto
 * [[Doll]