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.
This competition's just 
so that no one can complain.
فهذه المنافسة هي بالأساس كي
يشتكي أحد
Dieser Contest dient doch nur dazu,
dass alle das sehen können …
La competencia solo servirá
para reforzar su puesto…
La competición solo servirá
para reforzar su puesto…
Cette compétition,
c’est pour sauver les apparences…
Questa gara in pratica serve solo
a dimostrarlo a tutti, per cui...
Essa competição é para todos verem isso...
Мне кажется, конкурс нужен,
чтобы мы все с этим согласились.