The character design competition gets announced at their flower viewing. Just like Ko’s designs for “Fairies’ Stories” was chosen right after she had joined the company after graduating high school, everyone has a chance to enter. Aoba reads the proposal that Shizuku and the other members of the design team comes up with, and ends up going through a lot of trial and error. Aoba can’t seem to get the designs just right. She goes to visit Ko and sees that she has already completed numerous sketches that are all high quality and Aoba is amazed. Aoba uses her feelings of frustration from this to try to motivate her and enters the character design competition.
If you're going to be so rigid, maybe we 
need to round out your edges a bit more!
إن أردت أن تكون قاسياً هكذا فلعلّنا بحاجةٍ
لتطريةِ حوافك أكثر
Wenn du so unflexibel bist, müssen wir vielleicht
deine Ecken mal wieder etwas abrunden.
¡Tendré que tomar medidas
para remediar esa mente tan cuadrada!
¡Tendré que tomar medidas
para remediar esa mente tan cuadrada!
Sei un po' troppo rigido! Forse è il caso
di smussare un altro po' i tuoi spigoli!
Se você vai ser tão rígido, talvez seja
melhor deixarmos você mais redondo!
Бесполезный ластик, попрощайся
со своей прямоугольной формой!