You had to make me remember something unnecessary...
Your face pisses me off.
You don't even know how easily you'll fall in the future.
You're excellent, Masami!
It's only been a year too.
I'm so proud of you!
Fujita-kun.
I feel like I see my old self in you,
and it makes me wanna slap your face.
HEAT 22- "LEADER-PARTNER"
Kugimiya-kun!
Kugimiya-kun, are you listening?
When someone's talking to you, let's look at their eyes.
'Kay...
Kugimiya-kun seems very absentminded for being a fifth grader already...
His two older brothers are superior students,
so maybe his parents don't pay enough attention to him?
A crooked tail!
Meoooow!
Did you lead him here?
Hello.
My name is Tadashi Kunieda.
They call me Edachu-san.
Do you have an interest in dance?
DANCE SCHOOL KUNIEDA
1ST YEAR
We will now begin the Pre-Junior Standard, 1st Qualifying Round.
Masami-kun! Make sure to escort her well!
There's so many people watching...
I feel sick...
Masami!
All that's scary...
I'll just make it all go away!
That's amazing, Masami-kun!
It's only your first year dancing and you're already a certified athlete!
Masami.
Coach Edachu.
Masami, your dance has beauty.
All the dancers I liked had that.
It's a beauty sculpted by history.
I'm sure you'll become a real dancer.
Dance?
Nonsense.
If that takes up his time, it'll affect his studying.
But Masami seems to enjoy it...
Enough!
Anyway, how were Naoki and Kazuki's nationwide practice exams?
3RD YEAR
I'm Chono from Dance Focus!
I came for the junior athlete article!
Wait, huh?
How come Kugimiya-kun's teaching the kids lesson?
Well, he's better at teaching than us.
Kugimiya-kun learns so fast
that we don't know what to teach him anymore...
That's our new upcoming star!
I can't wait for your next match!
Thank you!
4TH YEAR
Who's that huge blondie? Is he a foreigner?
His partner's Chizuru-chan!
Kaname Sengoku? He's 16?!
Someone amazing's popped up...
Kugimiya's been a bit boring lately.
I thought he was an amazing dancer when he first came out.
His dance style's too old.
Who's their coach again?
I think... Coach Kuni-something?
He seems like the type to force his dancing onto his students.
Don't make up stuff, you petty brains.
...you'll become a real dancer.
7TH YEAR
Hey, look.
Those are Hyodo Social Dance Academy's prized students.
I heard the leader's Marisa Hyodo's son.
Yeah, yeah, Kiyoharu Hyodo. The cultivated purebred.
He was certified among the Junior athletes too.
10TH YEAR
Masami.
Here, she's your new partner candidate I told you about.
Tamie Idogawa.
PRINCE MIKASA CUP STANDARD
Why?
Why am I...
in a place like this?
In second place is Yoshinori Iwakuma & Rei Mino.
The grand winners are Kaname Sengoku & Chizuru Hongo.
I won't get any better continuing this, so why am I hanging on to it?
Will someone just kill me?
I don't have the courage for suicide, so I wait for someone to kill me.
How sad is that?
If I quit dancing, those guys around me are probably gonna all laugh at me.
No, I can't.
What would I say to Edachu-san?
So...
there is a god.
Are you awake?
You were very lucky.
If you work on therapy, you'll be able to dance again too.
You devil!
It... looks like I'm finished.
It seems more serious than I'd thought.
It's too bad, but I won't be able to...
Once your injuries have healed, change studios with Idogawa-san.
What?
Masami...
I know you trusted and followed me...
but I was never real.
I'm just an ordinary Japanese man who admired the west.
I've continued dance until now because I liked it,
but my dancing seems to be too old now...
Masami...
I can't...
make you into a real dancer.
No...
No, don't...
Edachu-san...
please don't say that.
Kunieda-san was here?
Then you must've heard.
What now?
I wonder if the dance Kunieda-san and me were clinging onto...
was dead from the beginning.
Oh, what an unusual visitor.
Is your therapy going well?
Masami Kugimiya?
We're not a hospital...
but what do you need?
Coach Marisa...
what do you think a real dancer is?
This is out of the blue.
What do you think?
I can't tell what's real and what's not.
I just want to polish how I've been dancing all along
and prove that it's beautiful.
Why do you want to prove that your dancing is beautiful?
Because this is hell if I stay like this.
Because you can't win?
No...
I feel sick being watched by people.
My, you aren't the type to dance.
I know that myself.
And the truth is?
This cut-throat world is too cruel.
When I thought about how much longer this would continue, I lost all hope.
My, you sound as if you're a victim.
Coach, you wouldn't understand.
Kiyoharu-kun has talent.
You're the one that doesn't understand.
You say a cut-throat world,
but all those talented people you envy all have their own hell, you know.
Their own hell...
Yes, no matter what you do, you can't escape from hell.
Are you prepared to take that on?
12TH YEAR
This place sure is sickening.
So I ended back up in this hell...
I feel sick...
So sick...
Seriously...
What a damn good view.
Ch... Chi-chan?
Wait a minute... I haven't...
Whoa, I have cold sweat coming down my armpits...
My stomach...
My insides are twisting...
This's the song I like.
Right.
I like it too.
Oh yeah, sorry! There's a reason why I'm moving too much right now...
Your apology's late!
Unbelievable! Do you know how much trouble I went through?!
Ugh, jeez!
What am I doing?!
What am I doing not controlling my own body?
Hey.
Those two's Quickstep is just reusing their Waltz's figures.
They're changing the 3/4 time to 4/4 time,
and dancing the Waltz in the Quickstep's speed!
I'm a little interested in No. 13.
What? Which dress?
They're the short pair in red, but they look bigger for some reason.
It kind of reminds me of what they said at camp in Italy last month.
No matter how much the man moves,
the couple's minimum output depends on the woman's energy level.
The man's lead is to guide.
What actually becomes the power is the woman's follow.
And the man re-follows that
to connect it with the next lead and circulate the power.
Hiyama's what's really good.
She has a large body and she's strong, the same type as many overseas dancers.
Output...
In that case...
Fujita-kun would be carrying a monstrous engine right now.
What torque.
This power... can't I use it somehow?!
What a terrible lead and follow.
They're doing this on purpose, right?
What a good misconception.
What's wrong, Kiyoharu?
Oh, well.
I was waiting for this.
They're uneven from the start.
They don't understand each other's existence at all.
Then what do we do?
We must let them know how different each of them and their senses are.
Dance is a session between two different people.
Of course there'll be a lag.
To roughly put it, the lead and follow is just a cushion for that.
If you keep saying it's strange or that you don't understand,
then the way you're trying to fix that lag must be wrong.
Don't be afraid of each other.
Close your eyes and focus every nerve. Communicate with your bodies.
I'm gonna puke.
My insides are tensed up.
This arm...
How much of it is my own body?
Deja vu...
This... is the same as the Grand Prix in Shizuoka.
The four-legged illusion...
My head couldn't keep up to my body before...
But now, I've had my mind set that I'd agree with whatever my body accepts!
I gotta get this down!
Dancing is a world of the senses,
there's no way you can understand by another's words.
I've always thought...
that there's no such thing as synchronicity.
If there was something, it'd just be an extension of yourself,
like a very vague... presence.
It's heavy!
How do I dance with my body like this?!
Your body feels heavy because your partner is blending into your hold.
I get it...
My body isn't the heavy one.
This weight is... Chi-chan's.
I wanna dance... but Chi-chan's in the way.
When you feel that your partner's in the way,
it means she wants to move on her own.
Since Hiyama has more experience, her dance is more brushed up.
Her aesthetics are more firmly established within her.
Hiyama's pressure must be massive.
That's your partner's real form.
Then you gotta...
This power...
I gotta use it!
Tatara...
Yes, that's it.
Use it!
So heavy!
That weight...
will turn into power.
What's up with him...
Fujita, you know you're lucky?
A great example of a leader is right in front of you.
With a great teacher before you,
you'll learn no matter what.
They've just rearranged the Waltz to the Quickstep's basics,
but it looks so dynamic...
Their footwork's basic, but they've worked on how to use their upper body,
making themselves look like it's not a simple routine.
The exact opposite of the Kugimiya pair.
The Kugimiya pair...
dances a complicated choreography very carefully with confidence.
You can see the basics in every one of their moves.
It's a dance style centered on the basics.
Their strides are long and their upper bodies are still.
It's a basic so ideal you could put in a dance textbook.
Most of all dancers at competitions are like that.
Of course, that's not a bad thing.
However...
Among them,
the Fujita pair's unusual dancing won't fail to draw eyes.
That's just like...
Sengoku-san.
But... why all of a sudden now?
Those two had been searching this whole time.
For the real form of how they'd match.
Because Fujita was out of control from releasing his tissues,
Hiyama adjusted to him.
Fujita himself is trying to respond to Hiyama's energy with his lead.
Those two are pushing each other up by resisting and colliding.
What caused that was...
Hiyama's potential as a dancer.
Chinatsu Hiyama. I can't believe she's been tucked away all this time...
It's not like the Tatara-san I know...
...you said that Tatara was a fantastic leader.
Mako.
Umm.
Tatara-san... is a person who always notices how you're feeling.
So if I say something, he figures out what I mean and takes action.
Is that really it?
The Tatara-san right now is...
the Tatara-san just for Chinatsu-san.
You're a really great guy,
but I like guys who're more tough and daring.
That's more like it!
In the end...
Fujita will always be Fujita.
By adjusting to his partner, he even changes his own self.
So he's finally...
started taking the reins...
Next episode- "History and Evolution"