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Hiyokko
愛の言葉をリルシャイなハートがドキドキ Ai no kotoba o riru shai na haato ga dokidoki A shy heart saying sweet nothings beats so fast
Week 12 "Secret Talks and Spring Breeze" (Episode 069)
Screenplay: Okada Yoshikazu
Music: Miyagawa Akira
あの日観てたサウンドオプミュージック Ano hi mite ta saund oopu myuujikku That day when we saw "The Sound of Music"
Theme Song: Kuwata Keisuke "Wakai Hiroba" (Plaza of Youths)
瞼閉じれば蘇る Mabuta tojireba yomigaeru I can relive that day just by closing my eyes
Narrator: Masuda Akemi
幼い頃の大事な 宝物だけは Osanai koro no daijina takaramono dake wa It's the only precious treasure of my youth
Cast:
Yatabe Mineko: Arimura Kasumi
ずっと この胸に抱きしめて来たのさ Zutto kono mune ni dakishimete kita no sa One I've held in my heart all this time
Shimatani Jun'ichiro: Takeuchi Ryoma
Kusaka Sanae: Shishido Kafka
Tsubouchi Yuji: Asaka Kodai
夜の酒場でロンリーあの子今頃どうしてる Yoru no sakaba de Ronrii ano ko imagoro doushiteru The girl that night at the bar "Lonely," I wonder what's become of her
Nitta Keisuke: Okayama Amane
さなぎは今 蝶になってきっと誰がの腕の中 Sanagi wa ima chou ni natte kitto dare ga no ude no naka That pupa is now a butterfly and is surely in someone's arms
肩寄せ合い声合わせて Kata yose ai koe awasete Arms around one another, their voices unite
希望に燃える 恋の歌 Kiboueru ni moeru koi no uta In a burning with hope, song of love
It's great that he's come back, isn't it?
Manga Artist? Tsubouchi Yuji
Yes. Thank you very much.
I wonder?
Does this do anything to solve your fundamental problem?
After all, you two have been doing this for years and are still totally useless at it...
...and this does nothing to change that hopeless situation, now does it?
Am I wrong?
You don't have to speak to them so bluntly that way.
You're just being too cold.
I wonder if that may not be true.
Eh?
I suspect Sanae-san isn't that cold a person.
I think a truly cold person...
...wouldn't talk so much about someone else and for so long.
What does that mean?
That she enjoys talking to all of us. That actually she's someone who likes chatting...
...but needs to hide that behind her perverse way of speaking.
Look, though she's acting incomprehensible right now, she's enjoying this very much.
Isn't she?
I see.
I'm leaving.
Eh? Ah!
You there.
Yes.
Could it be you've fallen for me?
Huh?!
Eh?
Sorry, but since I dislike a man...
...who talks from on high as though he knows everything; just give up on me.
You have nothing to worry about there, so that's okay.
I'm not good about understanding people's emotions, either.
Ah, I see. That's good to hear.
Yes.
But, why aren't you angry with your buddy here?
Where's your, "What have you been doing?"
Well, um...
Whatever.
It's okay. All I wanted was for him to come back.
Keisuke...
Will you listen to my story?
Eh? Ah, yeah.
Ah but, if it's unpleasant, someone might not want to hear it...
Tell me.
We returned to Takaoka together at the end of the year...
...then I parted ways with you at the station.
Most likely it was because we were back at our parent's home after so long.
You could say we got caught up in the comfortable atmosphere or that we felt homesick.
We didn't leave Takaoka because we particularly hated it or anything.
But with this, we could confirm it to them.
That after all this time...
...we could show ourselves to our parents yet be firm about it being just a brief homecoming.
That we have our dream. One we can't forget.
That's true, isn't it?
Yeah.
And after eating delicious food to our heart's content...
...we'd come back bringing lots of food...
...and some spending money too, if at all possible.
Exactly like that.
Eh?
Dad...
...the slightly nice story I had imagined...
And then of course at my home they tried to stop me.
But, I wouldn't give in.
I didn't go along with all the tricks my parents used to hold me back.
And they really tried every trick in the book!
They even talked me into an omiai.
An omiai?
Ah! It was a total joke!
I thought I'd left that behind, but...
A woman who looks like this? You've gotta be kidding me!
Huh?
Weren't you shown a photo of her?
I would be shown one, now wouldn't I?
Then, what would you have done if she had been pretty?
Eh? In that case...
Geez...
Of course I would have declined it.
I wonder about that.
Right?
And?
Ah... After properly declining the omiai...
...I packed up to come back on January 4th!
Then what happened?
My family's in the transportation business.
On January 4th, they were busy with their first cargo of the year.
And just that morning one of the drivers got injured...
...so I couldn't help but lend them a hand.
Of course you should have.
It's finally turning into a nice story.
The driver said he figured it wasn't that bad and he'd shake it off if he just went home...
...so I agreed to help out for just the day.
But, well, his injury didn't heal up right away...
...so one day became another and soon I was helping out with the work.
I see.
That's right.
I thought about you the entire time.
What to do about you and how sorry I was.
But I thought about it like this.
"With the money I'll be taking back to Tokyo from this part time job..."
"...we'll be able to draw manga together again."
Yuji...
And next you'll say since that driver's injury healed, you were able to come back to Tokyo?
That took quite a long time to heal, didn't it?
No, his injury healed after about ten days.
Ten days?
It's been about two months since then, though.
Ah, yeah, that's true, isn't it?
So what were you doing?
Confess.
Well... That is...
I fell in love.
In love?
She's the daughter of one of our business partners.
While delivering packages there every day, um, how do I put this...
...I just... fell in love with her.
Such a pretty girl. She looks just like Naito Yoko.
(actress; she was in "The Sword of Doom" at this time)
Naito Yoko?
Naito Yoko, huh...
Eh?
Naito Yoko?
Then it's not surprising.
Indeed.
Shimatani-san, do you like her?
Yeah.
Ehh...
No, no, no... Um, not about that.
Um, what's with this "he couldn't help it then" feeling? Isn't that just strange?
We're talking Naito Yoko here.
Yeah.
That's right.
What is that?
Watch yourself. It's said men have these worthless places in which they'll strangely understand one another.
Indeed.
It was like meeting Naito Yoko every day!
They only just look alike, don't they!
Well, that's true, but...
Anyhow, she rejected you, right? That's why you returned to Tokyo, isn't it?
It was something like that, right?
Eh...
Bull's-eye.
I'll definitely become a famous manga artist and look back in triumph at her!
What's with that woman!
Eh? Is that the end?
That's the end.
That wasn't a nice story in the least.
No one said it would be a nice story.
That's true, but...
Are you okay with that?
Yes...
It's fine since he's come back.
I have to apologize, too.
For what?
I thought this a little.
I thought you wouldn't be coming back anymore...
...and I had decided to resign myself to that.
And I thought, "This might be good; this might be for the best."
What do you mean?
The two of us longed to be like Fujiko-sensei...
...but to begin with, that was going to be impossible...
...so I had started thinking it might be for the best...
...if I just went solo.
Eh?
Sorry. Forgive me!
What are you saying? That makes two of us!
Yuji!
Keisuke!
Ah, then, we'll be going.
That's right.
We should.
Ah! Please wait a minute!
Eh?
Eh?!
I'm getting a bad feeling about this.
Mineko-san!
Eh?
It seems you don't know very much about manga, right?
Yes. I'm sorry...
We want to hear the opinions of such people!
A manga magazine editor is what you'd call a manga professional!
So in a sense, the opinions of those people are the opinions of experts.
But their feelings are different from those of the real readers.
The real readers aren't manga experts.
It's better for us to listen to the impressions of people like you!
Somehow that reasoning has a certain screwiness to it.
They have a point. It does feel it's those people's fault for not approving of them.
Would you please read them?
Eh? Right now?
Yes!
Fly through the sky! Fat Robot-kun!
Dad... What should I do?
It's boring...
"Because I'm strange." "Very strange!" "Kerthump"
That just now was a lie. I thought it best to laugh a little.
Those two looked so very happy...
...that somehow I had no idea what it was I should do.
When I thought about how these two had worked so hard to draw this...
...and about all the thought they had put into their drawings.
Work hard towards our dream
When I imagined that...
...even though it was boring; even though it was really and truly boring...
When that image came into my head, then somehow...
Please... do your best.
She's deeply touched by it.
Those are... real tears.
My, my, today was set only in this apartment room, wasn't it?
To Be Continued
To be continued.
Showa Era Trip
Hiyokko
End
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