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
AMONOJAKU
This is the past...?
You've got to protect Yokomizo's old man from me while I'm trying to get him drunk.
That is your mission.
Got it?
And don't forget, you shitty brat.
Your enemy is not the nice guy you see now. It's me from 13 years ago.
A genuine, indisputable Amanojaku!
Are you all right, little boy?
Oh my, you're all naked.
Did that dog steal your clothes?
You poor little thing.
Come with me. I can lend you something to wear.
I see...
This is summer from 13 years ago.
This way, this way.
What are you doing? Come on.
There's this store that I frequent.
Their grilled chicken is really good.
Oh, there he is!
That's him!
Please wait a minute.
I have something really important to do!
What are you talking about?
No matter how important it is, you have time to put some clothes on, right?
Hey, what is it?!
Please wait!
It's really, really important!
Sorry about this, Yokomizo...
I'm forcing a newlywed like you to keep me company.
Oh, it's fine. Don't worry about it.
Geez, I'm pretty pathetic, huh?
Having my wife run out on me...
I know you don't drink,
but would you like to keep me company over some chicken for a bit?
If I don't have at least one drink, it'll be really hard going back home.
I understand how you feel.
What do you understand?! Huh?!
Seeing me like this, I bet you're thinking it's no wonder my wife ran out on me, right?
I bet you're thinking it's a miracle I got married in the first place!
H-Hey...
I guess you don't want to keep a man like me company for a second more than necessary.
What's the matter with you, Te-chan?
I can't keep you company drinking, but I can listen as much as you need.
Forget the talking.
Just keep me company drinking instead.
Go on, drink up.
Well...
Wait just a minute!
You can't drink, Mister Yokomizo!
Huh?
Who are you?
Tonight's the night you have to do your duty and sow your seed.
It's no time to be drinking.
Hey there, Yokomizo-san!
Be good now and go sow some, all right man?
Take that, Amanojaku!
No matter who you possess, it's gonna be for nothing.
Now that I'm here, there's no room for your mischief anymore.
Yokomizo, I'm sorry.
Why did I say something like that?
I really lost it there.
No...
Just go on home and do your thing with your cute wife.
Making kids or whatever else.
Don't be silly.
I was planning on keeping you company as long as necessary today.
No way I'm going back home.
Hey, stop that, Yokomizo.
You can't hold your drink.
But you asked me to keep you company, right?
I'm telling you, you can't, you stupid old man!
Hey!
Who are you anyway?
You have to sow them today!
It's gotta do with the ovulation!
Shut up.
What the hell is happening?
Listen carefully.
I'm gonna send you back to a narrow window of time.
If you don't succeed, you're gonna live forever within that period of time.
What should I do?
What's your weakness?
Love.
Love!
What the hell is love?!
Oh my, you're all naked.
Did that dog steal your clothes?
You poor little thing.
Ma'am, what's love?
Love?
Love...
Love, huh?
Why don't you come over to my place?
My husband is really knowledgeable.
He knows about a lot of things.
He reads a lot of books.
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Love...
It is something that steals without hesitation.
He that is loved, has been stolen.
But strangely enough, he has been stolen by no one.
And yet,
he who loves, is stealing for certain.
Note: Arishima Takeo [ 有島 武郎 ]: Author of Oshiminaku Ai wa Ubau [ おしみなく愛は奪う ] or "Love Robs without Hesitation."
That is what my master, Arishima Takeo, has written in his book.
Do you understand, kid?
I don't get it.
It's because you're not trying to understand.
Explain it so that it's easier to understand.
It's probably impossible to explain it to a kid like you no matter how many times I try.
The easiest kind of love to understand is...
this!
I'm sure your mom has done this to you too, right?
Where she hugs you tight and rubs her cheek firmly against yours.
That's how I got this old man too.
Right?
Nothing can win against love.
Love. That is the ultimate weapon.
The ultimate weapon...
Wait just a minute!
Huh?
What are we supposed to wait for, huh?
Guess I was too late!
Love. That is the ultimate weapon.
Where she hugs you tight and rubs her cheek firmly against yours.
A-All right, in that case...
Tight hug!
I don't like you at all, but I like you!
You're not cute at all, but you're cute!
This works!
Are you all right, kid?
Wait just a minute!
Whose kid is that?
You can't drink, Mister Yokomizo!
The ultimate weapon.
That is...
Love!
Tight hugging it is!
Love!
Tight hugging it is!
L... Let go, you brat!
Let go of me!
If you don't let go, I'm gonna smack you!
Te-chan, don't be violent.
How's that?
Tight little hugs it is!
Wh-What a kid!
He makes me feel so nasty, I can't stay in there!
What have I been...?
I did it!
Amanojaku lost to love and had to flee!
I finally did it!
At last...
Come on, Mister.
Hurry up and go home.
Today's the fateful day of sowing.
What's that?
Someone you know?
- Nope. - Like I said, please don't drink.
Like I said, please don't drink.
Let's all go home, okay?
He's right, Yokomizo.
Let's just go home.
There's something weird about tonight.
What with this strange kid butting in and all...
Don't kid around!
After coming to a bar, you plan on going home without drinking?!
How can that be?
What am I saying?!
So, what's it gonna be?
D-Don t tell me Amanojaku has possessed me?!
We decide to go home after you tell us not to drink,
and now you're hollering for us to drink?
He's like a perverse little amanojaku.
Y-You got it!
The enemy is Amanojaku!
Whoa! So you guys all know Amanojaku, huh?
Well, he's got a point.
Can't come into a bar and not drink.
That's right.
Of course!
No, no, you can't do that!
Cheers!
Come on, drink up!
Huh?
Amanojaku?
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Make it sweet and simple, old man.
And short.
I haven't even said anything yet.
Is that how you speak when seeking knowledge from someone you're meeting for the first time?
Fool.
An amanojaku is a spirit that instigates people to do bad things...
by taking advantage of their desires.
It's a type of demon.
Well, they don't exist in reality.
But it's used to refer to people who do such-things.
They exist.
Huh?
See, when you find fault with me like that, you're acting like an amanojaku.
They love to trouble people.
And they do exactly the opposite of what people like.
They're twisted, perverse beings that enjoy doing
the opposite of everything that people wish for.
Doing the opposite of what people wish for...?
I see!
The opposite, huh?
All right, opposite it is.
Hold that alcohol!
Actually, you don't have to wait.
Opposite, opposite.
Hey, Amanojaku.
I mean... Amanojaku-san.
Could you please make Mister Yokomizo drink lots and lots of alcohol?
It's gonna be terrible if he goes back home early tonight.
Who are you?
I'm your partner!
If the old man goes and makes a baby tonight, it's gonna be really bad.
So... Please, partner?!
Partner?
Stop kidding around.
Please!
It's really, really going to be bad.
So please, just don't let him leave tonight.
You really don't want him to leave tonight, right?
Someone you know, Te-chan?
Yokomizo, go on home.
What are you talking about, Te-chan?
Oh, don't worry about anything.
Just go on home and make good with the god of new marriages.
But Te-chan, I can't leave you alone.
Oh, don't worry about it.
- Oh, don't worry about it. - No way!
I'm going to have that kid keep me company instead.
Is that so?
Then I guess I'll leave. See ya.
No way...
All right kid I'm going to have you keep me company all night long-
Of course, Amanojaku!
Lets cause lots of mischief together!
It'll be tons of fun!
We're partners!
Let's stick to each other like glue!
No way! I refuse!
Yay!
Yay! Yay!
We did it, Jiro!
Let go of me.
Don't leave me alone!
But I wanna see how Mister Yokomizo sows his seed!
If I don't follow him right now, I'll lose sight of him!
Idiot.
You gotta wait till you're grown up.
No way!
I wanna see how the seed and the egg stick together!
Funny kid.
You wouldn't understand even if you saw it.
Why not?
Why?
That's because...
It's love.
Love?
That's right, love.
There's no point in seeing it if you don't understand love.
Oh...
I know what love is!
Tight hug.
Now look here...
Am I wrong?
Yeah.
What's important is the heart.
The heart?
To think of each other without distrust.
Love is born when two such hearts come to understand each other.
You need to understand love first, kid.
You'll understand as you get older.
Though I've been abandoned by both love and my wife.
Wait!
You're leaving?!
I really want to see!
Mister, that's love... right?
Yay!
I'm so happy, I'm gonna cry a little!
And then I'm gonna laugh again!
Looks like you're really happy, huh, partner?
Oh my god, It's you!
Relax, partner.
I'm not the me from 13 years ago.
I'm the Amanojaku of present day.
So you're free now, huh?
Aren't you glad?
I hope you're grateful to us.
For what?!
Huh?
You sure took your time, kid.
Think about the person who was waiting for you.
Why did it take so long to do such a tiny little thing?
You owe me big time.
H-How dare you even say something like that?
Oh well, thanks to you I'm free again.
Now more than ever, I can cross the dimensions of space and time to do as I please.
Shouldn't you have learned your lesson by now?
If you do something bad enough to change another persons destiny
and end up getting sealed inside him, I'm...
But when that happens, partner, it'll be your turn to help me, right?
What?!
See ya, partner!
I'll be sure to make you pay your debt to me someday.
Wait!
Dammit...
Yokomizo-san...
Yokomizo Hitomi-chan...
Thank you, Hanada-san.
Just call her Toku-chan. Right?
Yeah.
And far from being thanked, I actually need to apologize.
It looks like my little brother had stolen that photo.
The brother you talked about in your essay, who can see ghosts?
That's right.
That shitty brat Ichiro.
Whoa Chii-chan, this is Toku-chans brother we're talking about here.
That's all right. It's the truth.
He's the shame of our household.
But it's a good thing you found that photo, right?
Man, I wish you were a boy, Hitomi-chan.
Huh? It's best for us that she's a girl.
You think so?
If she was a guy, I'd be made to keep you company for your first-love angst stories.
It would've been a pain.
No way!
It's true. You tend to like new things, Toku-chan.
There you are, you monstrous Fugly!
Ichiro!
Your brother, Toku-chan?
I won't let you get away this time!
Stay right there!
Hey, Yokochin-kun!
Don't be stupid, Ichiro!
Is he all right?!
Yeah, he's just fine.
Geez, stupid Ichiro.
So you became a girl, Yokochin-kun...
That's really good.
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
I have to go to abacus class?
Mom says it's because I'm way too naughty.
But you cant subdue me just by sending me to extra classes!
The teacher there is really scary, though.
He knocks you with his fist and flicks you with his finger.
So they call him Knockflick.
If you don't listen to me, you're gonna get it as many times as necessary.
KNOCKFLICK
Dammit!