I'll be the one
I guess you were lost when I met you
Still there were tears in your eyes
So out of trust and I knew
No more than mysteries and lies
There you were, wild and free
Reachin' out like you needed me
A helping hand to make it right
I am holding you all through the night
I'll be the one. I'll be the one
Who will make all your sorrows undone
I'll be the light. I'll be the light
When you feel like there's nowhere to run
I'll be the one
I'll be the light
Where you can run
To make it alright
MADAME CATHERINE
I-chan, come on.
Cheer up, will ya?
I can't.
Right now, the bugs in my tummy are eating up all my cheer.
Excuse me.
The silky-smooth, cute little boy there...
Me?
Yes, you.
You're really hungry right now, aren't you?
Yeah.
Are you going to give me something to eat?
That's not it.
I can see everything.
The past, the present and the future.
A fortune-teller?
Yeah.
Once, that's all I was. A fortune-teller.
And a completely bogus one at that.
What, a bogus fortune-teller, huh?
But now I am...
Hey, listen to me!
Ah, I can see. I can see.
Note: Daifuku mochi [ 大福餅 ] - rice cake stuffed with sweet bean jam.
I can see that your mother's got daifuku mochi from your neighbor Yamazaki-san.
Huh?
But you won't be able to have any.
Oh no!
H-Hey!
Daifuku! Daifuku! Daifuku! Daifuku!
Daifuku! Daifuku!
I-chan?
Aunty, may I have one more?
Hey, mind your manners!
Go ahead.
I got them from someone myself, but they're good, right?
And the last one is always the most delicious.
Here you go.
Wait a minute!
Get your hands off my daifuku!
Ichiro!
Hey, Ichiro!
Let go of her, Ichiro!
What are you doing?!
My daifuku is...
Dammit!
Hey!
Let me out, you hag!
Gimme my daifuku back!
- Gimme my daifuku back! - I'm sorry, Ichiro-chan.
I'm sorry, Ichiro-chan.
There just weren't enough for everyone.
Say, Hisae-san, let him out.
No, no.
He needs to be punished a little.
I'm sorry, but can I leave him in here till dinner time?
He'll be loud as usual though.
That's fine, but...
But I'm just afraid that if you use our shed for this, Ichiro-chan might curse us for it...
Let me out, you hag!
See? Isn't it just like I said?
Are you listening to me, you old crone?!
Don't mess with me!
Hey! That's my line to you, you dumb kid!
Hag! Hag! Damn hag!
How did that happen?
I just meant to threaten you a little by taking off my makeup...
But to think that my whole skull came off
Y-You were a ghost?
Well? Didn't things happen just as I said?
Don't you think it's a wonderful power?
You see, when I was alive,
I was this greedy, bogus fortune-teller who was begging to be sued many times over.
But for some reason...
the moment I died, my sixth sense came alive.
This is no longer mere fortune-telling. It's like a superpower.
What do you think?
- What do you think? - Quit it already!
I bet you came here to ask me to do this and that so you can cross over like everyone else.
But I'm not a servant of you damn ghosts!
Please don't classify me with all those other spirits.
I have a special ability.
You should be honored to have even met me.
Right now, I'm really unfortunate.
I've been locked up in a place like this.
And I'm hungry.
She'll be here to let you out soon enough.
She'll say, "Ichiro, it's dinner time."
Have you thought over what you did a little?
Come on out quickly. We have curry and rice tonight.
You really are a fake!
She promised me hamburgers today!
Even so, tonight you're having curry and rice.
Ichiro, have you thought over what you did a little?
Come on out quickly. We have curry and rice tonight.
The menu tonight is curry and rice without meat.
And you'll have three potatoes on your plate.
But you poor thing, you won't be able to eat that either.
Shut up, you bogus fortune-telling hag!
Hamburgers! Hamburgers!
Why isn't it hamburgers!
You promised we'd have hamburgers tonight!
Things came up.
I'll make them for you next time.
And you like curry and rice a lot too, right?
Give it up.
Disappear, you bogus old hag!
Ichiro!
That's no way to talk!
I'm sorry for having broken my promise too, but...
Shut up!
Don't whine like a girl over something like food!
A man should eat whatever is served to him quietly.
Actually, you see...
What?
I'm sorry.
I kinda forgot to add meat to the curry today.
What?!
If you don't add meat to curry, then where are you gonna add meat to?!
Oh well, it's all right.
As long as it's edible.
Is that so?
Curry and rice without meat.
Here you go, Ichiro.
One, two, three, four pieces!
There are four pieces of potato!
See, it isn't three.
Like hell it's all gonna happen like you say it will.
That's not fair!
There are four pieces of potato on Ichiro's plate!
And I got only two!
Unforgivable!
I have only three pieces left!
Hey, give it back!
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
I'll give you mine.
So don't fight.
Here you go.
Four pieces!
Gran'pa, if you do that, it becomes unfair again.
Oh, is that how it is?
It's not good to be unfair.
Three pieces of potato.
So? Feeling awed yet?
With things working out so perfectly there's nothing you can possibly say, right?
Oh yeah...
Today I was told I'm the best carpenter in Japan.
Oh? You're done working on Honda-san's place?
There's just a little more left.
But with a skilled craftsman like me around...
Geez, if only I had this power when I was alive I could have made so much money
It's really troublesome to be able to predict each and every thing.
I don't want to hear about it!
Geez, no more of those stories, please!
Huh?
What? What was that?
Just when your daddy was having a good time talking...
What's with you? I'm letting you reap the benefits of my great power for free.
My fee is usually extremely high.
It's probably a fluke.
You probably have no talent at all!
Don't act all high and mighty!
Ichiro!
You little...
Who is the person...
that puts the food on the table in this house?!
My curry!
Hey!
Dammit!
Let me out!
Honey, please talk to Hanada-san!
If they keep locking Ichiro-chan in our shed like this...
Should we just put a nameplate up on the shed?
Saying "Hanada Ichiro's residence."
Don't kid around.
Looks like you missed out on eating it, huh?
Shut up! It's all your fault, damn you!
Drop dead!
It would have worked out like this either way.
And I'm already dead, nyah nyah.
Well? Wouldn't you like to pair up with me?
See! Here it comes.
You're trying to make me do something so you can cross over.
Didn't I tell you not to compare me to those guys?
In my case, it's a question of whether or not I go to hell.
I got it!
When you were alive, you were a bogus fortune-teller
and a con artist, that is, a villain in general.
So there's no way you could go to heaven after dying, huh?
Yay!
Hell! Hell!
You really think you've never done anything bad?
Should I tell you just how many frogs and bugs you've tortured and killed to this day?
We're cut of the same cloth, we are.
You could call us comrades.
Got it?
We are meant to join hands in cooperation.
We need to help lost sheep find their way again.
But I'm hungry. I'm in no shape to be taking care of no sheep.
You think I care if sheep get their belly buttons in a twist or drown themselves in a quagmire?!
But at this rate, I'm going to hell for sure.
And you are...
stuck with a fate of no food till morning.
Your reward will be... a great feast to fill your stomach.
If you'd prefer to stay hungry till morning, I'm fine with that too.
What'll it be?
Y-You're not lying about the feast, right?
Listen up, Ichiro.
I'm Madame Catherine.
Mandamu Katarina?
Madame Catherine!
Mada...
I'm Mandamu Katarinu's apprentice...
Mushi Ichiro.
How many times do I have to repeat myself for you to understand?!
You're really stupid!
It's Madame Catherine!
And you are Monsieur Icheero!
Ichiro.
Not like that!
Ichee...
Got it?
You just need to do as I say.
Simple, right?
Worse comes to worst, I can just borrow your body.
It's not simple at all!
I'm so hungry, I can't do anything at all.
Once it's over, you'll get your feast.
How many times do I have to tell you!
God, you're irritating!
But... I'm about to die right now.
I need to have at least a morsel of something.
You're such a tiresome brat!
Monsieur Icheero...
I'm going to give you this bag.
There is candy inside.
I believe it should satisfy your tummy for a while.
But...
this should be opened only when it's really, really, really...
the very, very, very last moment.
IF!
If you open it before the very last moment...
Then...?
The candy will go poof!
In the blink of an eye, the contents will turn into something you really won't want to eat.
So what'll you do?
Do you want to open it right now?
I... I think I can hold out for just a while longer.
All right!
Monsieur Icheero...
Oh, I was at a complete loss upon hearing that Madame Catherine had passed away.
You came at a really good time, Monsieur Icheero.
One of the men is really rich, but...
He lies all the time so I can't trust him at all.
The next one never lies, and so I can trust him.
But he never works and so is dirt poor.
And the third one never lies, is a hard worker, and therefore is stable.
But his personality is completely twisted.
Monsieur Icheero...
Which of these three men would make me happy?
Bogus?!
Yep.
But when I followed Madame's instructions, my sales went up to number two in the store!
Just a coincidence.
I moved to a store in the southern direction.
And I wore a dress in my lucky color, yellow.
And I followed the pattern of "okay, okay, no" when it came to dates outside of the store.
And I spent a fortune to fix up my eyes and nose!
It was all because she told me this would make me happy!
When you can't even make a single person happy...
it's impossible for you yourself to become happy.
Go back to the country and raise your child properly.
Your child might teach you how to become happy.
Hey, was that lady just now a lost sheep?
That's right.
Didn't she get lost because you cheated her?
Yep.
But even if it weren't for me, she would've been caught up in something, somewhere.
She's that type.
So just how many more lost sheep are there?!
Shut up.
Just one more.
Just one more?
That's right.
Other than that, there wasn't much of an effect on the others.
Most of them turned wiser after being burned once and aren't lost anymore.
Just one more, huh?
It's not the very last yet...
So...
According to you...
If things continue like this, there's no hope of him getting into college?
Right, Monsieur Icheero?
Yep.
She told us that the direction of the entrance way was bad, and so we rebuilt it.
We even refitted the water pipes.
Note: Mizuko's curse is a curse placed on a house by an aborted or stillborn child. It is said that if this is not nullified, the unborn child will bring misfortune to the house.
In order to rid ourselves of Mizuko's curse,
we spent a lot of money on other things as well, in addition to Madame's fee!
You're past 20.
Get away from your mothers bosom already and start working seriously.
You thief!
Give me my money back!
Hi!
Isn't it great that we got off with just that?
With this, my ticket to hell has been canceled.
And you can get your feast.
And we showed the lost sheep the way.
Wow!
We killed three birds with one stone!
So now good things will happen to all of them?
Like I care about that!
The rest is their personal problem.
It's no longer my responsibility.
Well then, Monsieur Icheero.
Good job
Let's meet again soon.
Hey...
Hey, wait!
What about the feast you promised?!
If you manage to get home without losing your way,
there'll be a feast waiting for you before you know it.
Hey, Mom...
Why are you making so many hamburgers?
I can't just sit at home doing nothing while Dad and Gran'pa are out looking for Ichiro.
And he must be really hunggry by now.
But you said he wouldn't get any food till morning!
The minute he disappears, this is how you become.
How sly of Ichiro.
I... It's no good.
My stomach is so empty, I think I'm gonna die.
I absolutely must eat something.
Yep, this has got to the very last moment.
It's dog crap!
I... I guess it really wasn't the very last moment!
Ichiro!
Ichiro-chan!
Ichiro!
- Ichiro! - Hey! Ichiro-chan!
Hey! Ichiro-chan!
Don't pretend you're sorry
I know you're not
You know you got the power
To make me weak inside
Girl you leave me breathless
But it's okay
'Cause you are my survival
Now hear me say
I can't imagine
Life without your love
Even forever don't seem like long enough
'Cause everytime I breathe I take you in
And my heart beats again
Baby I can't help it
You keep me drowning in your love
Everytime I try to rise above
I'm swept away by love
Baby I can't help it
You keep me drowning in your love
Souta's mom and Kei's dad are finally getting married.
They've decided to live together at Souta's place.
Everyone's really busy with helping them move.
I thought of going to play with Souta,
but it looks like Souta's hiding something.
Hey, Souta! Whatcha got there?
From now on, I'm going to protect my sister and my family.
FAMILY
Souta, what's the matter with you?