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Date's Car is a vehicle and location in AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES.

Date's car, a modified Australian Ford Falcon, is Kaname Date's personal vehicle and means of transportation throughout Tokyo. As an Australian car, Date sits on the right seat while driving, while various passengers sit on the left seat.

Design[]

TBA

Story[]

TBA

Item Dialogue (AITSF)[]


Rearview Mirror[]

  • Default dialogue:
    1. The rearview mirror.
      I can see the scenery.
  • Day 2: saikAI, during the second driving segment:
    1. The rearview mirror.
      Date icon Date: Oh my god, there's a woman in the back seat!
      Iris icon Iris: What?! Where?!
      Date icon Date: Haha, I'm just screwing with you.
      Iris icon Iris: Mr. Date! Hmph! You're a meanie...
      Date icon Date: A meanie, huh?
    2. Iris icon Iris: Meanie meanie bo-beanie.
      Date icon Date: Banana fana fo-feanie...?
      Iris icon Iris: Fe fi mo-meanie!
      Date icon Date: Meanie...
      Date icon Date: I can't believe I remember that silly rhyme.
      Iris icon Iris: Hehehe... ♪
    3. You can see the scenery through the rear window.
  • Day 2: saikAI, during the third driving segment:
    1. The rearview mirror...
      Date icon Date: Look! A crazy grandma with a knife is running straight for us!
      Aibear icon Aiba: Mm-hm.
    2. You can see the scenery through the rear window.
  • Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (after finding Mizuki):
    1. There's no one in the back seat.
  • Day 3: syokubAI, during the second driving segment (after noticing Aiba):
    1. The rearview mirror.
      Aibear icon Aiba: (You tried to peek up that woman's skirt, didn't you?)
      Date icon Date: No! How would I even do that from this angle?!
    2. You can only see the scenery through the rear window.
  • Day 4: youdAI, during the second driving segment:
    1. The rearview mirror.
      Date icon Date: Mirror, mirror, in the car... Who is the most handsome policeman by far?
      Date icon Date: Why, that is Mr. Date, of course.
      Aibear icon Aiba: (Date, this is starting to concern me.)
      Aibear icon Aiba: (You really should get some sleep.)
    2. I can see the scenery out the rearview mirror.
  • Day 3: gyoukAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. The rearview mirror.
      Date icon Date: Look at that! A huge dog with a human face is chasing me!
      Aibear icon Aiba: (You should grant it the right of way.)
    2. You can see the scenery through the rear window.
  • Day 4: syuurAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. The rearview mirror...
      Aibear icon Aiba: (Date, this reminds me of Egyptian mythology.)
      Aibear icon Aiba: (Hathor, the mother of Ra. The mirror was one of her sacred symbols.)
      Date icon Date: Wasn't she a cow or something?
    2. You can see the scenery through the rear window.
  • Day 4: syuurAI, during the third driving segment:
    1. The rearview mirror...
      Date icon Date: There's a soaking-wet merman in the back seat!
      Iris icon Iris: What?!
      Date icon Date: I'm just kidding!
      Iris icon Iris: Don't joke around at a time like this!
      Iris icon Iris: You're gonna make me aggro!
      If the player inspected the Rearview Mirror on Day 2: saikAI:
      Date icon Date: What?
      If the player did not inspect the Rearview Mirror on Day 2: saikAI:
      Date icon Date: You keep saying that, I have no idea what that means...

Wheel[]

  • Default dialogue:
    1. The steering wheel.
  • Day 2: saikAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. This car isn't domestic.
      It's made in Australia, so the steering wheel is on the right side.
      That's because they also drive on the left side of the road.
    2. Date icon Date: (And Indians use the left too.)
      Aibear icon Aiba: (What?)
      Date icon Date: (Nothing, just thinking.)
  • Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (after finding Mizuki):
    1. The steering wheel.
      Mizuki icon Mizuki: Hey, Date. What would happen if I...grabbed the wheel and spun it super hard?
      Date icon Date: We would spend the rest of our very short time together thinking about how stupid that was.

Dashboard[]

  • Default dialogue:
    1. The dashboard.
  • Day 2: saikAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. The dashboard.
      The dash has a ton of stuff built in.
      It has the speedometer, tachometer, and other meters and gauges.
    2. Date icon Date: (This ride is pretty rad, huh?)
      Aibear icon Aiba: (It is indeed "rad.")
  • Day 2: saikAI, during the second driving segment:
    1. The dashboard.
      Iris icon Iris: Y'know, I'm feeling kind of bored...
      Date icon Date: Seriously?
  • Day 2: saikAI, during the third driving segment:
    1. The dash.
      Aibear icon Aiba: Dashboard.
      Date icon Date: Dash, bored...
  • Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (after finding Mizuki):
    1. The dashboard.
      Mizuki icon Mizuki: Hey, Date. Why do they call it a "dashboard"?
      Date icon Date: Because it makes the car go faster.
    2. Mizuki icon Mizuki: Uh-huh. And why do they call it a tachometer?
      Date icon Date: It measures how many tacos worth of revolutions the wheels spin. Because a tortilla is round.
      Date icon Date: Obviously.
  • Day 3: syokubAI, during the second driving segment (after noticing Aiba):
    1. The dashboard.
      Aibear icon Aiba: (A country in Southeast Asia that speaks mostly Bengali.)
      Date icon Date: That's "Bangladesh."
  • Day 4: youdAI, during the second driving segment:
    1. The dashboard.
      Date icon Date: These are tasty when they're golden-brown.
      Aibear icon Aiba: (I believe you're referring to "hash browns.")
  • Day 3: gyoukAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. The dashboard.
      Date icon Date: A zweihander...
      Aibear icon Aiba: (That's a "broadsword.")
  • Day 4: syuurAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. The dash.
      Aibear icon Aiba: (When you crash, the first thing you hit is the dash.)
      Date icon Date: Interesting...
    2. The dash.
  • Day 4: syuurAI, during the third driving segment:
    1. The dashboard.
      Iris icon Iris: Dangan.
      Date icon Date: Ronpa.

Center Console[]

  • Default dialogue:
    1. The center console.
  • Day 2: saikAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. The center console.
      It's got AC and radio controls in it.
    2. This is an older car, but it has a state-of-the-art computer installed in it.
      Aiba can even remotely control it.

Gearshift[]

  • Default dialogue:
    1. The gearshift.
  • Day 3: syokubAI, during the second driving segment (after noticing Aiba):
    1. The gearshift.
    2. It might look like it, but it's definitely not a hammer.
  • Day 4: youdAI, during the second driving segment:
    1. The gearshift.
    2. I like manuals more than automatic.
  • Day 3: gyoukAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. Aibear icon Aiba: (This shift lever is filthy.)
      Aibear icon Aiba: (Would you like me to wipe it off?)
      Date icon Date: No, it's perfectly clean!
      Date icon Date: How would you even wipe it anyway?
  • Day 4: syuurAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. The gearshift...
      Aibear icon Aiba: (Date, can I move the shifter around?)
      Date icon Date: No, don't!
      Date icon Date: Resist the urge!
  • Day 4: syuurAI, during the third driving segment:
    1. The gearshift.
      Iris icon Iris: The gear pusher.
      Date icon Date: It's a gear "shifter."

Glovebox[]

  • Default dialogue:
    1. The glovebox.
  • Day 2: saikAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. The glovebox.
      Iris icon Iris: Hey, you got any guns in here?
      Iris icon Iris: I bet you dooo...
      Date icon Date: No, not in there.
      Iris icon Iris: So you do have a gun!
  • Day 2: saikAI, during the second driving segment:
    1. The glovebox.
      Iris icon Iris: You know how stuff always gets beat up when you put it in here?
      Iris icon Iris: Don't you wish they could make these things a little nicer?
  • Day 2: saikAI, during the third driving segment:
    1. The glovebox.
      Aibear icon Aiba: Do you hide your risque reading material in there, Date?
      Date icon Date: Not at all! Why would I hide them there?
  • Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (before finding Mizuki):
    1. Date icon Date: Did I put anything in there...?
      Aibear icon Aiba: (You could have put a gold brick in there and it wouldn't slow us down this much.)
      Aibear icon Aiba: (Have you checked the back seat?)
      Date icon Date: Oh, right.
      Date icon Date: But I can't just turn around and look while I'm driving...
      Aibear icon Aiba: (Just check the rearview mirror!)
    2. The mirror...
  • Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (after finding Mizuki):
    1. The glovebox...
      Mizuki icon Mizuki: Is this where you keep your weird stuff?
      Date icon Date: No. But don't look!
      Damn, is it that obvious?
  • Day 3: syokubAI, during the second driving segment (after noticing Aiba):
    1. The glovebox.
      Aibear icon Aiba: (That is where the passenger vomits if they are feeling carsick.)
      Date icon Date: It most certainly is not!
  • Day 4: youdAI, during the second driving segment:
    1. The glovebox.
      Date icon Date: Boxing gloves.
      Aibear icon Aiba: (A boxer puts his boxing gloves in the glove box...)
      Okay, that's pushing it.
  • Day 3: gyoukAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. The glovebox.
      Aibear icon Aiba: (Date, last night when you were asleep...)
      Aibear icon Aiba: (I snuck out and put something inside the glovebox.)
      Date icon Date: What...?
      Aibear icon Aiba: (Flour in a plastic bag.)
      Date icon Date: Why would you do that?! I'm a cop!
  • Day 4: syuurAI, during the first driving segment:
    1. The glovebox.
      Aibear icon Aiba: (This box is where you keep your doves.)
      Date icon Date: It's not a "dove" box!
  • Day 4: syuurAI, during the third driving segment:
    1. The glovebox.
      Iris icon Iris: Um, Date...?
      Iris icon Iris: Have you got anything weird in here?
      Date icon Date: Weird?
      Iris icon Iris: Yeah, in these plastic baggies...
      Date icon Date: That's flour!
    2. There shouldn't be anything suspicious in there.

Passenger Seat[]

  • Default dialogue:
    1. The passenger seat.
  • Day 2: saikAI, during the third driving segment:
    1. It's the passenger seat.
      It's empty.
  • Day 3: syokubAI, during the first driving segment (before finding Mizuki):
    1. The passenger seat.
      No one is sitting in it.

Trivia[]

  • Date's car is a Ford Falcon. It's commonly believed that the actual model of Date's car is a Ford Falcon '89, since the name matches the two codenames attributed to Hayato Yagyu: the names Falco and Inmate #89. However, the car model itself matches closer to a Ford XA Falcon GT-HO, released in '72.[1][2]
  • During the second investigation segment in the chapter Day 2: Saturday –saikAI–, if you examine the Rearview Mirror twice, Date and Iris play The Name Game using the word "meanie." The Name Game originates from the 1964 song "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis[3], and has since become a common rhyme played by schoolchildren. As Date states that he can't believe he still remembers this song, it's possible that he used to play the Name Game with Iris herself 6 years ago, during the time he was dating Hitomi and before he got amnesia.
  • There are two variations of the item dialogue for the Rearview Mirror at the third driving segment of Day 4: syuurAI. If you inspected the Rearview Mirror on the second driving segment of Day 2: saikAI, Date responds to Iris's "You're gonna make me aggro!" with "What?" However, if you didn't inspect it, then Date responds with "You keep saying that, I have no idea what that means..."[4] This variation in text, however, is curious for two reasons:
    1. The two variations are actually flipped. The second line, where Date says "You keep saying that," is meant to be a continuation of his first interaction with Iris at the Rearview Mirror, while the "What?" is a surprised reaction to hearing the phrase for the first time. However, the lines were flipped, either on purpose or accidentally, resulting in the context for both being inverted.
    2. Iris's line "You're gonna make me aggro!" is based on her catchphrase commonly used throughout the game and within the Lemniscate YouTube series, which is originally ぷんすかぽんこら (Punsukaponkora) in Japanese. The phrase ぷんすかぽんこら is used in the original Japanese text when investigating the Rearview Mirror in Day 2: saikAI, which correlates to Date recognizing the phrase again in Day 4: syuurAI, but in the localization this specific usage of the phrase ぷんすかぽんこら in saikAI is changed to "Mr. Date! Hmph! You're a meanie...", as lead-up to the joke about The Name Game, as written above.[5]

Navigation[]

AI: THE SOMNIUM FILES
Media
AI: THE SOMNIUM FILESAI: THE SOMNIUM FILES DEMORaiNBOW AFFaiR Complete SoundtrackREVERIES IN THE RaiN SoundtrackTHOUGHTS REMaiN BELOW Artbook
Characters
Kaname DateAibaIris Sagan/A-setOta MatsushitaMizuki OkiuraBossPewterNew Cyclops Killer
Hitomi SaganMayumi MatsushitaRenju OkiuraMamaShoko NadamiSo SejimaMoma KumakuraRohan KumakuraCyclops Serial Killer
#89FalcoBodyguardsTakero MatsushitaManaka IwaiSaito SejimaYakuza AYakuza BNurseReceptionistMermaidTaxi DriverInspector
Locations
Tokyo
Chiyoda District: Police Headquarters (Boss's Office; Psync Room; Interrogation Room) • Sunfish Pocket
Koto District: Harbor Warehouse District (Cold Storage Warehouse) • Date Residence
Meguro District: Sagan ResidenceTiefblau
Minato District: Sejima ResidenceKumakura OfficeIkume ShrineLemniscateCentral Hospital
Near Kabasaki District: Bloom ParkOld Chemical PlantMatsushita Diner
Shinjuku District: Golden Yokocho (Marble)
Other: Fuchu City (Fuchu Prison) • Akikawa ValleyOkutama MountainsEitoku High
Somnia
SINKIN' IN THE BRaiN (Spoiler) • PSYNCIN' IN THE PaiN (Spoiler)
PSYNCIN' IN THE VaiN (Spoiler) • PSYNCIN' IN THE SWaiN (Spoiler)
PSYNCIN' IN THE SUSTaiN (Spoiler) • PSYNCIN' IN THE CAPTaiN (Spoiler)
PSYNCIN' IN THE CURTaiN (Spoiler) • PSYNCIN' IN THE REFRaiN (Spoiler)
PSYNCIN' IN THE VILLaiN (Spoiler) • PSYNCIN' IN THE MaiN: 1 (Spoiler)
PSYNCIN' IN THE MaiN: 2 (Spoiler)
PSYNCIN' IN THE MOUNTaiN (Spoiler) • PSYNCIN' IN THE CHaiN (Spoiler)
Chapters
Red Route: sigAIsaikAImeikAIsyokubAIrihAI
youdAIjikAIzugAIsyokuzAI
Yellow Route: syougAIseisAIhiAIsanpAI
Green Route: gumAIjukkAIkikAIjinnAIihAI
Purple Route: keitAIgyoukAIkyuusAIsyuurAIirAIdakkAIkekkAI
Pink Route: kenzAIjutAIkokkAIsousAIhakAIkassAI
Organizations
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (Advanced Brain Investigation Squad) • Ujisaki Family (Kumakura FamilyKumakura Estates) • Secret Society NAIXATLOZForeign Mercenaries
LemniscateSunfish PocketMarbleTiefblauFamiSto8-12Elgorg
Items
Wadjet SystemEvolverLight Synaptic Nerve Connection DeviceDate's CarShovelForgeOdoroki-man ChocolateGeostationary Satellite X00639
Events
Chemical Plant ExplosionOriginal Cyclops Serial KillingsBreak-In at Sagan ResidenceNew Cyclops Serial KillingsIncident at Minato District HighwayDisappearance of Renju OkiuraOperation: Iris Rescue
Full List of Events

References[]

  1. Wikipedia page for Ford Falcon XA
  2. To-Witter Archives 2019 (Tesa): September 25th - Kotaro Uchikoshi, the game's director and writer, made note of Date's car on a Twitter comment, and his wording implies that the chosen model of the car holds special significance, giving credence to the car being a Ford Falcon model of some kind.
  3. Shirley Ellis – The Name Game on YouTube
  4. Video of varying dialogue by @somniumfiIes
  5. The original text localized into The Name Game by @somniumfiIes
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