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Semifinals
Aoi: "Big Sis... she got swept up in the cicada die-off..."
The term "Semifinals" is a pun in Japanese, playing off γ»γ (Semi, cicada) and γγ‘γ€γγ« (Final, e.g. final moments) to mean the process of cicadas dying off after reproducing. Some seemingly dead cicadas may still be alive during this process: touching them can cause them to thrash around and buzz violently. For this reason, γ»γηεΌΎ (Semibakudan, cicada bomb) is used as an alternate term.