Even in these times...
I guess there's someone else besides you, big brother.
Who?! Where'd he come from?! Damn him, whoever he is!
Where does he get off, making flashy fireworks like that?!
What the hell?! What the hell?! The colors! The shapes!
I ain't takin' this lyin' down!
How'd he get those colors?! What'd he use, foreign chemicals?!
What kind of coloring agents did he put in that thing?! Damn it!
It's not fair! My first test in a long time, but then seein' somethin' like that--!
What'd we ever do to deserve this?!
I'm tellin' you...
--I can't take it anymore! --That Seikichi, I sure hope he don't get...
--Hey, Roku! You even listenin' --...arrested for this.
Huh? No... I mean, um...
That Lord Mizuno... he don't give a damn about the likes of you and me!
"No work" " No money" That Lord Mizuno... he don't give a damn about the likes of you and me!
"No work" " No money" He just sits there watchin' us...
"Drowning in debt" "What do we do...?!" He just sits there watchin' us...
Enjoyin' our sufferin'...!
I know whatcha mean...
I dunno where they get this "Luxuries Forbidden" stuff...
You see any of us livin' in luxury?!
This here's the last of it, honey.
Ah, okay.
Much obliged.
And we're so poor we can't even drink as much sake as we wanna...!
Sniff, sniff... sniff, sniff...
C'mon, c'mon!
You gotta cheer up a little! It's not exactly like you got dumped, now is it?
It's the same thing.
It'll happen someday! You'll find love!
I'm done trying.
Oh, really? Well, I just don't get it.
Why can't people seem to remember you?
--I mean, look how flashy you are! --I just don't make an impression.
Still... that little O-Nui girl remembered you right away, now didn't she?
Come to think of it, where'd Shinza run off to?
Took off, sayin' he had some kinda work or somethin'.
Really?!
This could be it! Could be it!
Maybe they'll decide to rebuild the whole house while they're at it!
Yeah, yeah! And maybe they'll need to replace all the roof tiles, too!
Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo! Woo-hoo!
It worked! Everything worked perfect!
--You're under arrest...! --Under arrest...!
Seize him!
--You're under arrest...! --Under arrest...!
There he is! Over here!
--You're under arrest...! --Under arrest...!
Oh! There he is!
--You're under arrest...! --Under arrest...!
There he is! This way!
You're under arrest! Under arrest!
--Eh? --Huh?
Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?
There ain't no one here!
Where are you?! Where the hell are you hidin' !
Projecting your image with a projector was a dirty trick.
Search every inch of the premises!
--Yessir! --Yessir!
--This is not good... --You're under arrest! Under arrest!
--I can't face the Commissioner empty-handed. --You're under arrest! Under arrest!
--Shit! --You're under arrest! Under arrest!
Whew! I'm glad I'm the comic relief!
Seize it.
Sir!
Wait!
I'll give chase.
Never mind. I doubt we'd be able to catch it on foot.
Instead, go get the corpse of the other one.
It... melted?!
Fireworks...?
All right! This time it really worked!
I still think it was a mistake, especially that really bright one...!
C'mon, Shunpei. We're movin' to another spot!
Ah, looks like Seikichi's at it again.
I sure hope he don't get caught...
Look, look! Seikichi's settin' off fireworks just to cheer you up!
I seriously doubt that.
Isn't this far enough?!
Keep going! Keep going!
But we're gonna get caught!
"Longevity" But we're gonna get caught!
"Longevity" Well, there goes Seikichi again.
You certainly can't call him lazy.
Whoa... wow!
Wow! Wow! Wow!
Fireworks...!
"Bright Red Fireworks Bloom in the Great City of Edo"
All right, that's all the trash out in front.
Now for the rest of it.
Leggo! Leggo! Leggo!
Stop it! Stop it! Leggo!
--Leggo! Leggo! Leggo! --Wait! Wait...! Wait...!
Wait just a minute, sir!
What seems to be the problem?
Problem? Here's the problem:
Last night we raided a forbidden house of tricks
and this is the miscreant who built all the trick gizmos.
How can you say that?! What proof do you have?
That's right! Ever since Council Elder Mizuno passed that law forbidding all luxuries...
all us here at the row house've been mindin' our own business!
In that case, whose little magic trick was that carving on the gizmo...
that says " Shinza of the Hyakkenbori-Furai row house," hmm?
"Ram, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Boar, ..., Ox, Tiger, ..." that says " Shinza of the Hyakkenbori-Furai row house," hmm?
"Ram, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, Boar, ..., Ox, Tiger, ..."
"Shinza, Hyakkenbori-Furai Row House"
Shinza, you moron!
Yeah, well it turned out so good that I just couldn't help--
Idiot! You're the idiot of all idiots!
--What'd you call me?! --You're such a little--!
Hey, even Shinza acts on whims from time to time. Give him a break.
Cleaning up Edo's trash is my job here. I can't just look the other way.
Did you say trash?!
I should've known... Seikichi.
Are we just trash to you?
Knock it off, Seikichi.
That's right, trash. Or maybe you prefer " garbage."
I mean, this place was covered in trash!
"Remembering..." I mean, this place was covered in trash!
What's all this trash lying around?! I can't stand all this mess! I couldn't take it! I've been cleaning up the neighborhood all morning!
That's not exactly what he meant...
What I don't get about you people...
is how you can be so poor and still put out so much trash.
Wait, a haiku just came to me--
"We have no money"
"We cannot buy anything"
"So we have no trash" Boop!
"by Nishinosuke" "So we have no trash" Boop!
"by Nishinosuke" The season word is " poverty."
"by Nishinosuke" See what I mean? It's common sense.
So how come this place has so much junk lying around?
When people live in a big pile of trash, they just naturally become trash.
Well, if we only had some money, we wouldn't be livin' in a place like this anyway...
--What was that?! --Nothing at all, sir!
You think we like being poor?!
We're carpenters...
...and entertainers...
...and engineers.
We mind our own business and abide by the laws of the land.
--So where do you get off talkin' to us like--! --Aren't you forgetting fireworks makers?
Eh?! Uh... well...
And speaking of fireworks,
I hear a piece of trash somewhere shot up some fireworks last night.
If I'm not mistaken, it happened around Kozukappara.
Oh yeah?
Speaking of which, Seikichi...
Staying out all night seems just a tad unusual for a straight-laced kid such as yourself.
So where were you?
Uh... I was uh...
"Man Wanted" Uh... I was uh...
"Man Wanted" Nothing good can come of fireworks, boy. Not from fireworks.
"Man Wanted" Fireworks confuse the people, and they also cause fires.
There's everything to lose and nothing to gain.
Compared to fireworks, making mechanical gizmos is almost cute.
If you go shooting off fireworks in the city in this day and age, you'd better be prepared...
"Banished" If you go shooting off fireworks in the city in this day and age, you'd better be prepared...
"Banished" to be banished from Edo...
or if you're really unlucky, marooned on an island.
"Marooned" or if you're really unlucky, marooned on an island.
"Marooned" What?!
Lord Torii, the City Commissioner of South Edo, is very serious about the law.
And that's no threat.
So Seikichi... getting back to you.
You're a single man, and it's none of my business where you go to have fun.
But from where I stand, that pack on your back
sure looks an awful lot like a fireworks cannon.
You came out swinging all right,
but now it looks like it's starting to backfire on you, Seikichi Tamaya.
So then, where were you? Well?
I... I, uh...
How 'bout I explain the whole thing.
Gin!
Oh great. It's the locksmith.
Ah, it's the Hatchobori Hound, out bright and early, I see.
I'm Nishinosuke Akai! There's no " Hatchobori" in my name...!
Ah, sorry 'bout that.
So straight-laced Seikichi and galavanting Ginjiro stay out all night together...
I'd say that's a most unusual pairing.
Can you please not give me that suspicious look first thing in the morning?
After all, I'm just back from a job.
About Seikichi, I just asked him to come along and help.
A job...?!
Sure! At a certain major store, the lady owner accidentally got locked in the storehouse.
They couldn't find the key, and it took me this whole time just to get the lock open.
Which major store?
Well, I can't tell you that.
They told me to keep it quiet for the sake of the store's reputation and all.
If a locksmith can't keep his own mouth locked, his clients won't trust him.
It won't take me long to find out if I start looking into it.
The issue is whether it's me who spills the beans...
...it was Shirahamaya.
Oh?
And you never heard it from me, okay?
Well, you seem to have got your story straight so far. But um...
what is this, Seikichi?
It's gunpowder, isn't it?
So what are you doing with gunpowder?
Uh... um...
Uhh, I was gonna get him to blow through the wall if I couldn't handle the lock!
That's the whole reason I asked him to come along!
All right, then what's in the pack?
I felt it just a minute ago, and it's hard to think it's anything but a fireworks cannon...
It's a, um--
C'mon, enough already! It's just one question after another with you!
What are you, five years old?!
Oh, Gin! Now that's just going too far.
I'm terribly sorry about that. It's just that he's such an innocent boy...
Seikichi, open the pack!
--Eh?! --Just do it!
Okay...
I knew it.
What?!
What the hell's all this?!
Why, it's a complete set of professional locksmithing tools, of course.
I was just having Seikichi here hold onto it for me.
But can we close it up now?
I need 'em for my work, and I'm afraid they'll rust in the morning dew.
Like I give a shit.
All right... but if you're lying, the truth'll come out before long, mark my words.
Sure thing!
Go... go... go... go... go...
But you are coming with me!
Good luck, Shinza! I'll tell the old man what happened, okay?
I'm begging you! I'm really, really, really begging you!
Whew, that was a close one.
Way to go, Gin! You're such a master of bullshit!
Good job, good job!
When you say it, even though it's a compliment, it still kinda pisses me off.
But anyway... I say way to go Tenho and Tenten for their tricky fingers.
You two really have the stuff!
However down on my luck I may be, I'm still Tenho Adabanatei!
Duping a dumbshit cop like that's not even a challenge.
Wait, where's my fireworks cannon?!
Ah...
Wow! That was awesome!
I can't believe you swapped it out just like that!
Ah, it was nothin'. Compared to doing it for paying customers, this was a cinch.
You really saved my butt.
But uh... why the outhouse?
The outhouse is the perfect place... because it's an outhouse.
Eh...
But you sure are a pig-headed one, aren't you?
Huh?
If you wanna test fireworks, why not do it at the foot of Mount Fuji?
Or wherever. Just way back in the mountains where there's less people around.
I can't do that! I can't leave Edo! Otherwise it won't work!
In a different place the wind'd be different, the air'd be different...
and that means the color of the fireworks'd be different!
If we're talkin' Edo fireworks, then testin' 'em anywhere else'd be meaningless!
Even if it means you wind up being marooned on an island...?
I'm pretty sure these super-strict government reforms ain't gonna last forever.
And when the bans are lifted, I don't wanna lose out to any other fireworks makers.
Fireworks that stay fixed in the eyes of the people who see 'em...
Those are the kind of fireworks I wanna make bloom in the night sky!
All right, I get the picture.
Standing here listening to you jabber on about fireworks
it feels like our newly-risen morning sun is gonna start setting again.
By the way, Seikichi what happened to Shunpei?
He stopped off at a shrine.
Said he had some kinda important business or whatnot.
Hey, Gin!
What're we gonna do about Shinza?
We'll talk to the old man.
Once the cop gets his bribe later on, I'm sure it'll work out just fine.
Makes me so mad... havin' to grease the palm of some leering Hatchobori goon.
Those are just the times we live in.
Cut out that racket!
First thing in the morning...!
Clatter this, clatter that... clatter this, clatter that... clatter this, clatter that...!
--So the roof tiler finally wakes up, eh. --Man can't even sleep in his own house!
--Here Shinza's been pinched...! --Why doncha try thinkin' 'bout someone else for a change?!
--And you don't seem very goddamn concerned about it!
--Shut up! --And you don't seem very goddamn concerned about it!
Others are others and I'm me! I'm hung-over, and I got a headache...!
So how come you don't have any trouble wakin' up?!
But it don't matter if I wake up 'cause there ain't no work anyway!
All that happens when I wake up is I get hungry!
So why don't you get your ass back in bed?!
What, you ain't tired?! Well, how 'bout I put your ass to sleep right now!
Whoa! Cut it out! Aren't those your work tools?!
--Someone's gonna get hurt! --Shut up! Shut up!
Shut up!
Well, what's this? An early-morning marathon...?
Everyone's so full of energy!
I don't think it's a marathon.
Ow!
Stop bothering the neighbors first thing in the morning!
I'm so sorry, everyone. This happens every time.
Get in there!
Well then, well then...
If Rokube's already up and at 'em, I suppose that means it's high time for us, too.
In that case, shall we break this little party up for the time being?
Yeah!
Hey, Seikichi...
Don't rush it.
I ain't rushin'.
Then I guess everything's fine.
"Beware of Fires"
What are you doing, shouting like that?! Look, now you made me drop a spark!
Eh?!
My tatami mat!
Ow-wow-wow-wow!
Hot hot hot hot!
You idiot! What kinda person lights fireworks inside the house?!
This kind of person.
Are you tryin' to make fun of me or somethin' !
You asked, Seikichi, so I answered! "What kind of person?" "This kind of person."
I'm not making fun of you at all!
That's what I mean! You're makin' fun of--!
Wait, who are you? Why do you know my name?
You're Seikichi Tamaya, right? The fireworks maker.
Yeah, that's right. That's right, but how...?
You shot some up last night, didn't you? Some really big fireworks.
I don't know nothin' about that...
They were so pretty! I've never seen fireworks that pretty in my entire life!
Really? You thought so? Er, I mean... dunno what you're talkin' about.
You have some interesting ideas.
They were like sparklers.
What?
I'm right, aren't I? You were trying to make some kind of giant sparkler, right?
What're you gettin' at?
Look, a sparkler has this burning ember, and it goes crackle crackle crackle...
shooting off all these other sparks, right? It's the same thing.
"Video Re-Creation" shooting off all these other sparks, right? It's the same thing.
"Video Re-Creation" You pack several smaller balls of gunpowder inside one large ball.
"Video Re-Creation" When the big ball explodes, it sends the smaller balls shooting in all directions.
"Video Re-Creation" Then all the smaller balls explode, making a giant flower of light in the night sky.
How did you know that?
It's obvious just from looking at it.
That's impossible!
I wanted to make huge fireworks, somethin' no one'd ever done before,
somethin' no one'd ever seen before.
I thought up all kindsa ideas and used every kinda device I could think of,
and this was my first big blast!
So for you to figure it out just like that after only seein' it one time...
I don't believe you!
I knew it was you, Seikichi.
Oh... well, uh... I mean...
My eyes weren't deceiving me after all!
Seikichi, the reason I came here is because I have a request for you.
A request...?!
A job request. How high can you launch your fireworks?
When it comes to height, no one can top me.
Is that true?
Yeah.
Even to the moon?
Eh?!
"Fire Be Gone" Eh?!
"Fire Be Gone" I want you to make me a firework that'll go all the way to the moon.
"The moon"... you mean the moon?!
That's right, the moon.
Come take me far away
"Oh! Edo Rocket"
Artificial shooting stars made with tricks
Asia is all the rage these days
Take me away anytime
Take me far away
The Yokocho, the sushi stands, the Kaminari
The great international city of Edo
Take me all the way there
Take me far away
Up in the sky just after the rain
Way way up high
The Holy Sun smiles down upon us
Take me someplace far
Take me far away
I looked up from the roof of the castle
And the full moon was shining so pretty
At times like those
The tears come dripping out
Just kidding, it's all lies
Take me far away
"Next time"
Huh, you want me to talk?! Why me all of a sudden?!
Usually it's the main character who does this kind of thing...!
Ooo... it doesn't make sense! It doesn't make sense! It's not logical!
Wait, my name is Shunpei...
Oh no! I'm out of time!
Next time, the second episode of Oh! Edo Rocket...
"The Man Was Waiting" Next time, the second episode of Oh! Edo Rocket...
"The Man Was Waiting" Tamaya!