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.
I went with a fantasy theme 
to allow for more free-form action,
اخترتُ الخيالَ كسِمةٍ أساسيّة كي تحظى
الشخصيّات بحرّيةٍ كبيرة
Ich habe mir das Thema Fantasy vorgenommen,
damit die Charaktere über viel Freiraum verfügen,
Elegí una temática de fantasía
para poder otorgarle más libertad
He elegido una temática de fantasía
para poder otorgarle más libertad
Les armes et les armures
se transforment.
Ho scelto un tema fantasy
 per la sua ampia libertà espressiva
Eu pedi fantasia para que os
personagens tivessem a liberdade
Оружие служит и защитой.