The SUNYTRY presentation.
The 300 million. It's ours.
I'm afraid you're off the project.
Why?
That's art. Graffiti art.
Incredible...
Show me what you've got.
Being a mediocrity.
Is that how you're going to fight your mediocre life?
Eren, just you wait.
I won't give up like this!
I'll never give up!
In that moment...
I was so pumped up and yet...
I'm as uninspired as ever.
Ah, Yuko.
Really?
That's what I get for trying to console you?
Console me?
I know you were taken off the project.
Word travels fast.
Nobody likes the sales department, but that doesn't mean we're deaf.
I figured you must feel down, so here.
You love art, right?
I thought this might cheer you up.
I'm so lucky to have you, huh? [They both joined the company in the same year.]
Alright, time for my karaoke of hell with one of our clients.
Eren...
Eren? Over here, please.
Hey, she can't speak English?
I'm sorry, but that's just how she is.
So Eren, you know most of your artwork goes for around 200 thousand, right?
So I was wondering, because your artwork is so valuable,
why don't you paint more?
Well anyway, your artwork has been in the market for more than three years now, right?
So, do you have any plans to come up with anything new?
Where is she going?
I'm sorry. Could we do this another time?
Eren.
Translation: HPriest @ d-addicts Twitter: @hpriestsubs
Hidarikiki no Eren [Eren the Left Handed]
EP2: Papa's hand wasn't like that.
Yamagishi-san, where have you been?
We're in the middle of a lesson.
Still a blank canvas.
Why aren't you drawing?
I hate drawing.
You won't be able to graduate like this.
Anyone with a sheet of paper and a pencil can draw.
Wait... Yamagishi-san!
Say, did she use a ruler?
Is it even possible to draw such a perfectly straight line?
Van Gogh became obsessed with drawing, cut off his own ear and killed himself.
You selfish idiot.
Even though you were such a good painter...
What a loser.
Eren-chan, I need you to help me with something.
You're eating your hair again.
I want to make a bookshelf, so could you blacken those?
Wait, did you make all the shelves yourself?
I sure did.
Doing things yourself is fun.
Doesn't it feel great to get lost in the process of making something?
You've never had that feeling?
Not really, no.
Eren, your hair.
( "Just heat it in the microwave. - Mama" )
You've been drawing ever since Mama left for work?
Uh-huh.
Without eating?
Uh-huh.
For 14 hours?
What do you think is the purpose of your left hand?
It's usually for eating, studying
and to hold the hand of the person you like, right?
But you know...
Once in a while...
There are people who only have it for painting.
Papa, why are you crying?
Papa's hand wasn't like that...
Those who get to exhibit their stuff here surely must be talented...
Up-and-coming artists?
Those?
You're fucking kidding me...
Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!
Doesn't it feel great to get lost in the process of making something?
Anyone with a sheet of paper and a pencil can draw.
Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit! Bullshit!
Those... suck!
Papa wasn't like this!
He was more serious!
This can't be...
Mama?
Making it his life. Staking his life!
But even that wasn't enough!
E-ren ["loves drawing"]
Was it really suicide?
They say he jumped in front of a car.
He died cursing.
Eren!
Please, stop drawing!
Please stop! Eren!
Incredible!
She sure is incredible...
Meanwhile, I'm sitting here doing odd jobes despite being a designer.
First thing tomorrow,
I want a cataloged list of all sneakers sold in the 90s
and the respective advertising references.
It just keeps piling up...
Which reminds me...
Was it when I joined the company?
Listen, there are four types of people who can make something of themselves.
Four?
Realists who grow by analyzing themselves with a cool head.
Realists?
Narcissists who never doubt their own success.
Sadists who make others abide their own judgement.
And one more.
The one furthest away from you,
the type that only knows one way to live...
Artists.
I actually feel like I'm neither of those.
Well, not everyone can be like them.
That's life.
Koichi, you have too high expectations.
No company is going to nurture you.
I haven't changed at all.
Wait! We were going to the atelier today.
Ah, my bad. I got plans.
You're still looking for that vandal?
You should give up already.
I can't.
Not after what I saw.
The exams are coming up!
At this rate you won't make it into an art college!
A real artist doesn't need to go to an atelier.
There are a lot of great artists there
and apparently the students are on a different level, too.
- Just give it a look and you'll... - I'll go.
Let's go.
Oh, it's this place?
"Bashamichi Art Academy"
That's right.
Why did you suddenly change your mind?
I figured it might be possible to find that person here.
I don't remember the face at all, you know.
The drawing was too powerful,
so I only grasped that this person is left-handed.
Although I'm pretty sure it was a woman.
It really had that much of an impact on him?
I'm Kaido, the president.
You're the ones who called earlier.
Yes, thank you for having us.
Well, look around as much as you want.
- Thanks. - Thanks.
What is Eren doing here?
Huh? Are you from the same school as Eren?
Yes.
Her father was my senior in college.
She's been coming here ever since she was little.
Sayuri, you know that girl?
He really doesn't recognize her.
Eren...
A kid from our school?
She's pretty.
If that's true, I think it's for the better.
It's better not to get involved with her.
We're not like her.
We're no protagonists of some dramatic life story.
Excuse me.
Is this place only for students aiming for college?
There are also those who failed once.
Koichi knows that, too.
That's why you want to go to college,
join an ad company and become a designer.
You're using a pragmatic approach, right?
That's good.
An attainable dream.
A tangible success.
I checked their works, but none of them come even close.
Really?
I better lure her out by drawing graffiti on the school's wall.
- You really shouldn't do that. - Why not?
There's this rule, you know.
You're only allowed to draw over existing graffiti if you're more skilled.
so I'm going to lure her out with a drawing that will make her jealous.
Koichi.
I want us to go to the same college.
I want to...
...walk the same path as you.
Where's that coming from?
A returnee like you should have higher goals.
There's gotta be something else you want to do.
No, I...
Besides, it's not that simple to walk the same path.
This path is a matter of life and death for me.
How dare you...
Life and death, you say?
No matter how serious you are,
if there's no reward, you're going to ruin yourself and everyone around you.
Eren, do you like to draw?
Yes, I do. It's fun.
Good. Nothing else matters.
E-ren ["loves drawing"]
My name is like a curse.
I've been stuck ever since the day he died, neither moving forward nor backwards.
Show me!
If you really are that amazing,
go and make me forget about drawing.
He sucks...
This is even worse than I expected.
Your name is Eren, right?
It was you? Back then.
You suck!
You suck real bad.
I will get better.
Hey!
Stop!
You tell yourself that in the mirror?
Don't gimme that smug look.
How dare you drag me into your little fap game, you jerk!
This isn't a game. I'm serious!
I was serious about this one, even if it sucks!
Then how many current artists do you know?
You like drawing, right?
Can you name 10 people? There are about that many!
There are about that many at best!
Eren...
For 100,000 people with a dream,
10 people would be a good quota.
10,000 to 1. This is the reality!
Not having what it takes yet staking one's life on it.
You're just going to ruin yourself and everyone around you.
Can you please calm down!?
You don't know that.
You don't know unless you try!
If everyone was going to give up that easily,
then nobody would accomplish anything!
I'll make something of myself.
And what is that?
Something!
- I'll make something of myself. - And what the hell is that!?
I have to become something!
I can't...
...keep on living a boring life.
I'm not giving up!
No matter what it takes, I'm not giving up!
Whatever.
Koichi-san.
Refreshments.
Thanks.
Oh? You're making progress.
I remembered something that inspired me.
Like an ex-girlfriend?
No.
More like a rival.
What? Are we in a shonen manga now?
I get that a lot.
I'll help with the rest.
Thanks.
Want me to do this one?
Yes, please.
Maybe it's true
and I'm neither of the four types I was told by Sawamura-san.
At least it's very unlikely that I'm an artist like Eren.
But I'm not giving up.
No matter what it takes, I'm not giving up.
Okay, I'll call you.
Okay, well... I don't know.
Can you give me my bag?
I don't know when my schedule will open up.
Maybe... next Thursday, I guess?
Okay.
Eren, can't you find anything you want to paint?
Are you afraid to face yourself?
Hey, Laura!
I'll change the question.
Haven't you found any rivals to spark your motivation?
Stop!
Where would that person be?
Yokohama.
- Good morning. - Morning.
- Good morning. - Hey.
Thanks. I'll use those as reference.
Sure.
Also, I just got contacted by sales.
It's about a CM for some potato chips.
[commercial]
Wanna join us in the meeting?
I do!
Ok.
I'll be going ahead. Bring some past examples.
You got it!
You really were a lifesaver.
I like yakiniku.
Right, that's the least I can do.
An in-house meeting with three people from the sales department?
What's going on here?
This gig is serious.
Hey!
What's your problem?
You're late!
My apologies.
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