E2 - Tokyo City Esperion

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[00:08] Ashito
    Is that the Tokyo Met building?
[00:11] Driver
    No, it's just a regular office building.
    So where are you trying to go?
[00:15] Ashito
    Tokyo City Esperion's Soccer Town.
[00:18] Ashito
    I'm here to play soccer.
[00:20] Ashito
    And take part in the youth team tryouts.
[02:00] Ashito
    All of this is one big soccer facility?!
[02:01] Sign
    Tokyo City Esperion
[02:13] Ashito
    They must be here for tryouts like me.
[02:16] Ashito
    Guess I'd better get out there!
[02:19] Ashito
    Oh, uh, the registration fee...
[02:28] Ashito
    Oh, sorry.
[02:39] Hana
    Are you the one from Ehime?
[02:43] Ashito
    Uh, yeah, I am, but how did you...
[02:47] Hana
    Your hair.
[02:47] Hana
    I was told a guy with hair
    like Valderrama's was coming.
[02:51] Hana
    My bro said it, not me.
[02:54] Ashito
    Your bro?!
[02:57] Ashito
    Cut that out! Who the heck are you anyway,
     showin' up outta nowhere?!
[03:02] Hana
    My bro's been going on and on about you.
[03:07] Hana
    So annoying.
[03:10] Mibu
    Hana-chan, hurry it up.
    The tryouts are about to start.
[03:14] Hana
    Oh, coming!
[03:19] Hana
    Follow me.
[03:21] Hana
    You're here for the tryouts, right?
[03:26] Hana
    We have a total of 86 hopefuls.
    Candidates with promise include:
[03:31] Hana
    Tachibana Soichiro from Yokoyama Musashino's
    Junior Youth soccer team.
[03:37] Hana
    He was on the team that won the
     Kanto boys' soccer tournament.
[03:41] Hana
    Kaneda Akinori, captain of the prestigious
     Tama Central Junior High team.
[03:47] Hana
    Hasegawa Yudai from Seiran Junior High.
[03:51] Hana
    Lee Jong Suk, also from Seiran Junior High.
[03:55] Hana
    Have you achieved
    anything of note in Ehime?
[04:03] Hana
    What's my bro thinking?
[04:08] Hana
    The front desk's over there.
[04:10] Hana
    You pay the 5,000 yen
     registration fee there.
[04:13] Hana
    Good luck. Do your best. See ya.
[04:16] Ashito
    Wow.
[04:20] Ashito
    A grass field!
[04:22] Ashito
    I get to play soccer on
    such a beautiful field today!
[04:26] Ashito
    I wish Shun could see this!
[04:34] Date
    I'm Date, the head coach.
[04:36] Date
    As you may already know, Tokyo City Esperion FC
     is in its ninth year in the J1 League.
[04:43] Date
    We've won the league title once,
    and the Emperor's Cup once, too.
[04:47] Date
    Our first team's record is solid.
[04:50] Date
    And it all comes down to the
    training of our youth players.
[04:54] Date
    Esperion's youth coaching is
    considered the finest in Japan.
[04:59] Date
    You can take it from here, Manager Fukuda.
[05:02] Fukuda
    Thank you all for coming today.
[05:10] Fukuda
    I believe that a team that fails to nurture
     the next generation has no future.
[05:14] Fukuda
    In reality, however, pro soccer clubs end up
[05:17] Fukuda
    having to acquire players from other clubs
    to shore up any weaknesses in their team.
[05:24] Fukuda
    But what if that player you acquire
     ends up being a disappointment?
[05:28] Fukuda
    There's no such issue with players who
    we've raised from when they were young.
[05:32] Fukuda
    We know their skills and
    personalities better than anyone.
[05:37] Fukuda
    Plus their strengths and weaknesses.
[05:40] Fukuda
    You guys can soak up the club's
    style of play as you train.
[05:45] Fukuda
    That's what it means to "raise" players.
[05:48] Fukuda
    The future of Japanese
    soccer lies in raising players.
[05:52] Fukuda
    If you pass today, we'll work together.
[05:55] Fukuda
    If you don't, use this experience
    to become a better player,
[05:59] Fukuda
    then come laugh at us because
    we couldn't see your potential.
[06:05] Fukuda
    All right!
[06:07] Fukuda
    How was that, Benzen? No flubs whatsoever.
[06:10] Benzen
    You just ruined it.
[06:13] Ashito
    Crap. I know hardly anything about the
    J.League, youth teams, or this club.
[06:20] Ashito
    I only came 'cause I was invited...
[06:26] Ashito
    And yet, I can't get my heart to calm down!
[06:34] Fukuda
    Oh, just one more thing.
[06:37] Fukuda
    It's quite rare for us to snap up
    any players from these tryouts.
[06:43] Fukuda
    There's a good chance we won't pick any of you.
[06:45] Ashito
    What?
[06:47] Ashito
    Why'd you spring that on us now, old man?!
[06:50] Benzen
    What's that?! Show some respect!
[06:53] Ashito
    But it's not fair!
[06:55] Ashito
    So many people came here,
    all wanting to get in!
[06:58] Ashito
    Not picking anyone's just plain wrong!
[07:10] Tsukishima
    M-Manager Fukuda...
[07:14] Fukuda
    Oh, right. I guess I didn't mention that part.
[07:19] Fukuda
    It slipped my mind, Ashito.
    I was kinda short on time. My bad.
[07:25] Ashito
    H-He's wearing sandals?!
[07:28] Ashito**
    Th-This team's managed
    by a crazy, creepy old man.
[07:33] Fukuda
    Youth teams aren't soccer schools.
    We can only take players who are game-ready.
[07:40] Fukuda
    In last year's intake, with the
    players one year above you,
[07:44] Fukuda
    we added 15 players to our youth team.
[07:47] Fukuda
    Of these, three were scouted,
    one made it in from the tryouts,
[07:51] Fukuda
    and 11 got promoted
     from the junior youth team.
[07:55] Ashito
    Promoted... from the junior youth team?
[07:58] Fukuda
    Yes. Most of the time,
    over half the youth team intake
[08:01] Fukuda
    is made up of players promoted
    from the junior youth team.
[08:06] Fukuda
    Last year, there were 25 third-years
     in the junior youth team.
[08:13] Fukuda
    Which means 14 kids who'd worked hard
     believing they'd be promoted weren't.
[08:18] Fukuda
    Then there's the scouted players.
[08:20] Fukuda
    Talent scouts are always on the
    lookout for promising players in Tokyo.
[08:26] Fukuda
    If we find someone worthwhile, we negotiate
     directly with them to join the team.
[08:33] Ashito
    So you're saying I wasn't "worthwhile"?
[08:36] Fukuda
    In short, thanks to the work done by our
     scout team, we already know all about you.
[08:43] Fukuda
    All 86 of you here today are players
     we didn't think were worth snapping up.
[08:49] Benzen
    Hey, now...
[08:50] Tsukishima
    Don't say it like that, Manager Fukuda.
[08:53] Date
    Fukuda...
[08:54] Fukuda
    However...
[08:56] Fukuda
    All of you already know that.
[08:59] Fukuda
    You know your worth, but you came here to take
     a chance on what is a very slim possibility.
[09:04] Fukuda
    So many of you came here
    wanting to join Tokyo City Esperion.
[09:10] Fukuda
    Players who can crawl up through a
    crowd like this really do shine through.
[09:16] Fukuda
    I'd say that spark is essential to this club.
[09:19] Fukuda
    That spirit of defiance.
    A player who can turn the tables.
[09:23] Fukuda
    We'd kill to get players like that.
[09:26] Fukuda
    Display that spark and we will find you.
[09:30] Fukuda
    So do your best.
[09:32] Applicants
    Yeah!
[09:39] Benzen
    The first stage of assessment
     is the fitness test.
[09:47] Tsukishima
    That's 6.1 seconds.
[09:50] Applicant A
    A new PB!
[09:51] Ohtomo
    Hey, you're trembling.
[09:54] Ashito
    Huh?
[09:57] Ohtomo
    S-Seems like I am, too.
[09:59] Ohtomo
    I get a stomachache when I'm nervous.
[10:03] Ohtomo
    It hurts.
[10:04] Ashito
    You're the very first person who's spoken
     to me since I got here. Congratulations!
[10:09] Ashito
    I'm Aoi Ashito.
[10:10] Ashito
    My position is "Genius Forward."
[10:14] Ohtomo
    I'm Ohtomo Eisaku.
[10:16] Ohtomo
    But forget about names! 
    This is all your fault!
[10:20] Ashito
    Huh?
[10:21] Ohtomo
    Because you couldn't keep your mouth shut,
    Manager Fukuda gave us that speech.
[10:25] Ohtomo
    And now, everyone's fired up.
[10:28] Ohtomo
    A bunch of 'em were
     bundles of nerves before.
[10:31] Ohtomo
    I actually had a shot...
[10:34] Ashito
    Oh, is that so?
[10:38] Ashito
    You're right. Lots of these guys
    looked super stiff at the start.
[10:41] Ashito
    But I like it this way better.
[10:43] Ohtomo
    Huh?
[10:45] Ashito
    I get to play soccer with
    these guys at their best.
[10:54] Tsukishima
    Next up, we'll play some
    20-minute mini-games of 7-on-7.
[10:58] Tsukishima
    This is the most important
     element of the first stage.
[11:01] Tsukishima
    Good luck, everyone!
[11:03] Ohtomo
    Who the hell decided these teams?
[11:07] Ohtomo
    This is so unfair.
[11:10] Ashito
    Bring it on!
[11:23] Hana
    Hey, bro! How's the grading going?
[11:26] Fukuda
    Hana, I told you not to call me
    that out here on the field.
[11:31] Hana
    Oh, sorry, "Manager Fukuda."
[11:34] Tsukihima
    Hana-chan, I'm sorry for making
    you work under this scorching sun.
[11:38] Tsukihima
    Even if you're Manager Fukuda's sister...
[11:41] Hana
    I don't mind!
[11:43] Hana
    It's nothing compared to the guys out there.
    They're putting their careers on the line.
[11:50] Hana
    Though the game going on here
     seems kinda... one-sided.
[12:13] Ohtomo
    Hey! What do you think you're doing?!
[12:16] Ohtomo
    Don't try and do it all by yourself!
[12:18] Ohtomo
    You keep giving the ball away, Ehime!
[12:21] Ashito
    It's 'cause you guys aren't passing to me!
[12:24] Ashito
    I wanna score, but since no one's passing to me,
[12:28] Ashito
    I have to take it upfield all by myself!
[12:29] Ohtomo
    No one's passing to you 'cause you
    don't let go of it once you have it!
[12:33] Ohtomo
    Despite all that big talk,
    you're just another show-off.
[12:42] Ohtomo
    You've got the guts to try things.
    I can see that.
[12:45] Ohtomo
    And it's not all your fault.
[12:47] Ohtomo
    We've got zero teamwork.
[12:50] Ohtomo
    We need to pull ourselves together.
[12:53] Spectator A
    The white team appears to be arguing.
[12:55] Spectator A
    It's understandable, though.
    They're totally outclassed.
[12:59] Spectator B
    Especially by that guy,
    Tachibana Soichiro.
[13:05] Ashito
    What was that?!
[13:06] Spectator B
    Rumor is, the main purpose of these tryouts
     is to work out whether or not to sign him up.
[13:15] Ashito
    Nice!
[13:16] Ashito
    I'm free over here!
[13:18] Ashito
    I'm free!
[13:24] Ohtomo
    Don't worry, Kaneda! It was a nice try!
[13:32] Hana
    Bro, is it really okay to have such a
    huge gap in skills between the teams?
[13:39] Fukuda
    Their careers are at stake in these tryouts.
[13:43] Fukuda
    All of them want to stand out and be noticed.
[13:47] Fukuda
    It's all me, me, me.
[13:49] Fukuda
    In a makeshift team where
     no one knows each other,
[13:53] Fukuda
    showing off your A-game
     is next to impossible.
[13:55] Fukuda
    "What's needed right now?"
[13:58] Fukuda
    "What role should I play in
     this imperfect situation?"
[14:02] Fukuda
    We aren't judging their
    physicality or techniques.
[14:07] ---
    We're judging their ability
     to think—their intelligence.
[14:11] Coach A
    That boy from Ehime's no good.
[14:14] Coach A
    He's stopped moving completely.
[14:16] Coach B
    Why'd Manager Fukuda even get him
     to come all the way out here?
[14:25] Ashito
    Dammit. My bad habit strikes again.
[14:29] (Flashback) Ohtomo
    You're just another show-off!
[14:35] Ashito
    It was thanks to my friends that
    I could play the way I wanted.
[14:41] Ashito
    I must never forget that.
[14:47] Ashito
    Playing with these guys,
    I can see that they're all skilled.
[14:55] Ashito
    I want to play real soccer with these guys!
[15:20] Ashito
    Ohtomo!
[15:26] Coach A
    Hey, what's he doing?
[15:28] Coach A
    He's a forward, but he's dropped
     all the way into defense...
[15:32] Coach B
    Is he still hung up on making a
    grandstand play this late in the game?
[15:35] Ohtomo
    What are you doing, Ehime?
[15:37] Ohtomo
    Pass it back to me! C'mon already!
[15:40] Nakano
    Keep the ball away from our goal area!
[15:42] Benzen
    Five minutes left! Do your absolute
     best so you won't have any regrets!
[15:48] Ashito
    Bear with it! I can do this!
[15:50] Coach A
    Unfortunately, he hasn't made the cut,
    even though he came all the way from Ehime...
[15:54] Coach A
    Aoi 
     Ashito
[15:56] Kaneda
    Dammit!
[15:58] Kaneda
    What the heck is he doing?!
[16:11] Ashito
    Please...
[16:13] Ashito
    I'm begging you! Just take
    one more step into our half!
[16:16] Ohtomo
    What's going on?
[16:18] Ohtomo
    Why's Ehime keeping the ball in that area?
[16:22] Ohtomo
    What's he aiming to do?
[16:24] Red Team No.16
    Funky Hair over there
     is totally panicking.
[16:28] Lee
    Yeah.
[16:29] Lee
    If we press him, we can win back the ball.
[16:31] Lee
    Let's go.
[16:39] Hana
    Ah! What's he doing?! Why's he
    dribbling towards his own goal?!
[16:43] Ohtomo
    Kaneda, run!
[16:57] Ashito
    Eat that!
[17:01] Ohtomo
    Awesome! Well done, Kaneda!
[17:04] Ohtomo
    That was me! My instruction was key!
[17:07] Ohtomo
    Without it, you wouldn't have
     been there, right? Right?!
[17:10] Ashito
    Hey! Did ya see that?!
[17:13] Ashito
    I'm the guy who shines even when he
     doesn't score! Yup, that's me, Aoi Ashito!
[17:17] Ashito
    Me, me, me, me!
[17:19] Ashito
    I-It was pure luck that it actually worked...
[17:24] Ashito
    Assists feel great, huh?
[17:35] Tsukishima
    Amazing!
[17:36] Tsukishima
    So cool! What a treat we just witnessed, huh?
[17:39] Tsukishima
    It was all so perfectly timed, wasn't it?
[17:41] Tsukishima
    As the forward, he dropped
    all the way into his own half,
[17:44] Tsukishima
    and drew in the opposition.
    Even their defenders.
[17:48] Tsukishima
    That created an opening in the
    other half for a fraction of a second.
[17:52] Tsukishima
    He seized that chance to send a long
     pass upfield with pinpoint precision.
[17:57] Tsukishima
    In his play, I saw a glimpse of his bird's-eye
     view that covers the whole field!
[18:05] Fukuda
    Okay, time's up!
[18:08] Fukuda
    We will now go decide which 11 players
     move on to the final stage of assessment.
[18:17] Ohtomo
    How can you eat so much, Aoi?
[18:21] Ashito
    Why are you hardly eating, Ohtomo?
[18:23] Ohtomo
    The food won't go down 'cause
    I'm nervous about whether I made the cut.
[18:27] Ohtomo
    I didn't get any time on
    the ball... Like, at all...
[18:32] Coach A
    Tachibana Soichiro. Kaneda Akinori.
[18:35] Coach A
    Hasegawa Yudai. Lee Jong Suk.
[18:38] Coach A
    They're all solid choices.
[18:41] Fukuda
    Tsukishima, what do you think?
[18:44] Tsukishima
    Ohtomo Eisaku-kun!
[18:46] Tsukishima
    He was very unique.
[18:48] Coach C
    Ohtomo Eisaku?
[18:50] Coach C
    I don't think he did anything of note...
[18:53] Tsukishima
    It was more his behavior on and
    off the field, rather than his skills.
[18:56] Tsukishima
    Did you notice?
[18:57] Date
    Of course.
[18:58] Benzen
    I did, too.
[18:59] Tsukishima
    Even before the tryouts started,
    he was chatting to different players.
[19:05] Tsukishima
    Especially those on the white team
     with numbers close to his.
[19:10] Tsukishima
    Do you know what that means?
[19:11] Tsukishima
    In those interactions with players
    likely to be on his team in the mini-game,
[19:17] Tsukishima
    he was gauging their
    personalities and playing styles.
[19:20] Coach C
    Aren't you reading too much into it?
[19:22] Tsukishima
    No, no, I'm telling you.
    Trust me. He's a shrewd one.
[19:27] Tsukishima
    He was also the only one who tried to pump up
     his team when the chips were down.
[19:33] Fukuda
    We're short on midfielders, so let's keep him.
[19:37] Coach A
    The real question mark is Aoi Ashito.
[19:41] Coach A
    We're very split on him.
[19:51] Ashito
    W-Wait, you...
[19:53] Ashito
    I see. I didn't realize
     you were a cafeteria lady.
[19:56] Hana
    I'm not! You saw me helping out
    with the tryouts!
[20:00] Hana
    I'm just volunteering for today.
    I'm just a normal junior high school student.
[20:03] Hana
    But never mind that.
[20:05] Hana
    No more seconds for you.
[20:06] Ashito
    What?!
[20:08] Hana
    Why's that surprising?
[20:09] Hana
    If you make the cut, you
    have to play again right away.
[20:13] Hana
    On top of that, you've had too much
    fried food, which is hard to digest.
[20:19] Hana
    Hey...
[20:21] Hana
    A reckless guy like you couldn't think far enough
     ahead to pull off a perfect pass like that.
[20:27] Hana
    So was it just a happy accident?
[20:32] Ashito
    To be honest with you,
    I'm not totally sure myself.
[20:36] Ashito
    They'd completely owned
    us up until that point,
[20:39] Ashito
    so I just looked around the field,
    thinking we had to do something.
[20:45] Ashito
    It's a habit of mine.
[20:46] Ashito
    Looking around the field calms me down.
[20:49] Ashito
    I don't really remember much after that.
[20:52] Ashito
    My body just sort of reacted...
[20:55] Hana
    I see! So it was intuition!
[20:59] Hana
    I'm so relieved.
[21:00] Hana
    I knew it wasn't something
    a mere teenager could copy.
[21:04] Ashito
    Huh?
[21:05] Hana
    My all-time favorite player said
     he never stopped thinking about soccer.
[21:11] Hana
    During training, during a match,
    even when he wasn't playing soccer,
[21:15] Hana
    he thought and thought
     and... thought about it.
[21:22] Hana
    If you do, "You're able to do things
     without thinking about them."
[21:27] Hana
    "That's when you've truly
    mastered your craft," he said.
[21:32] Hana
    "It's similar to intuition, but different."
[21:37] Hana
    Good luck.
[21:38] Hana
    "A man is but a thinking reed."
[21:41] Hana
    I'm Ichijo Hana. Nice to meet you!
[21:44] Hana
    I'm Manager Fukuda's sister.
    Or well, stepsister.
[21:54] Announcer
    Goal!
[21:56] Announcer
    Unstoppable 23-year-old, Fukuda Tatsuya,
[21:59] Announcer
    sent a laser beam of a long pass
    upfield from inside his own half!
[22:22] Announcement
    Attention, all candidates.
[22:26] Announcement
    We have selected who will
    move on to the next stage.
[22:30] Announcement
    Please make your way to the field.
[24:19] Sign
    Next Episode
[24:19] Sign
    The Final Test Begins
[24:19] Sign
    This is a work of fiction, and bears no relation to any actual persons, organizations, or names.
[24:23] Fukuda
    The next episode of Aoashi is:
    "The Final Test Begins."