8 - I... Can't Fly Anymore.
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SIGN Notice of Withdrawal Flying Circus Team Tobisawa Misaki For personal reasons.
[00:01] A
Wha—
[00:02] Mas
N-No way...
[00:04] Mas
What?
[00:06] Mas
Y-Y-You're kidding, right?
[00:10] Mad
Kagami-sensei said she
found this on her desk.
[00:14] A
Why, Misaki-chan...
SIGN Episode Eight:
"I... Can't Fly Anymore."
[01:58] A
Misaki-chan!
[02:00] Mas
Misaki-senpai!
[02:01] Mas
How are you at school already?!
[02:03] Mas
Oh, you must've wound up sleep-
deprived after waking up too early!
[02:07] Mas
So that's why you turned in that notice!
[02:08] Mas
Wait, what does sleep deprivation
have to do quitting the team?!
[02:12] Mad
You're not supposed to point
that out yourself, Mashiro-cchi.
[02:16] Mi
Ugh, keep it down. It's too
early in the meowning.
[02:18] Mas
You're not serious, right?
[02:21] Mas
D-D—
[02:22] Mi
Derp pucker.
[02:25] Mas
What?
[02:25] Mi
Your turn. R.
[02:27] Mas
Huh? R-R...
[02:29] Mas
Rururu...
[02:31] A
Uh, this is no time to
be playing word chain.
[02:34] Mi
I never expected Asuka
to play the straight man.
[02:37] Mad
Talk to us, Misaki.
[02:39] Mad
What are you thinking?
[02:40] Mas
Come on! Can't you read?!
[02:47] Mi
Well, I got bored with it. And I couldn't
deal with the morning purractice.
[02:53] Mad
We're being serious here, Misaki.
[02:56] Mi
Don't worry your pretty
little heads about me.
[02:58] Mas
How could we not worry?!
[03:01] Mi
Class is gonna start. Get going.
[03:05] Mas
I'll be back!
[03:22] A
Misaki-chan's not coming back.
[03:26] Mad
She ran away, eh?
[03:29] Mas
Misaki-senpai!
[03:31] Mas
Where are you? I brought you udon!
[03:36] Mas
In times like this...
[03:39] Ho
Tobisawa Misaki-san of Class 2-C,
[03:42] Ho
please report to the student
counseling room at once.
[03:47] H
What the...?
[03:50] Mad
Did Misaki do something bad?
[03:53] A
Maybe she quit the team so she wouldn't
get us caught up in the mess?
[03:59] Mas
What are you two doing here?
[04:01] A
Didn't you hear Misaki-chan get summoned?
[04:04] A
We got worried and rushed here.
[04:07] Mas
Sorry, that was a trap I set.
[04:10] Mad
Seriously?
[04:11] Mas
I can't believe you two
fell for it and she didn't.
[04:15] A
So she hasn't shown up?
[04:19] A
Misaki-chan!
[04:23] Mas
Why would you tip off the target?
[04:25] Mad
Misaki!
[04:27] A
S-Silly me!
[04:30] Mas
Misaki-senpai!
[04:33] Mad
Mashiro-cchi!
[04:35] A
A-Are you all right?
[04:37] Mas
Mission failed.
[04:40] A
Misaki-chan...
[04:42] Mas
We still have after school!
[04:44] Mas
We'll put Phase Two of the Capture
Misaki-senpai Operation in motion!
[04:49] Mas
Here's the first part of the plan.
[04:51] Mas
As soon as the bell rings,
[04:53] Mas
Asuka-senpai and Madoka-senpai secure
the front and rear exits of the classroom.
[04:59] T
Let's stop here for today.
[05:23] T
Uh, could you let me through?
[05:26] A
O-Oh, sorry about that.
[05:31] Mad
She ran away!
[05:36] A
Misaki-chan!
[05:37] Mad
Misaki!
[05:44] Sh
Tobisawa!
[05:45] Mi
Captain?!
[05:46] Mi
I mean, former captain?!
[05:48] Mi
Were you that hurt by my retirement?!
[05:54] Mad
Bro, I'm dead sure that
wasn't the reason why!
[05:57] Sh
Wh-What? She wasn't
following me out the door?
[06:08] Mad
She went up to the roof?
[06:17] Mi
Cleared fur takeoff!
[06:20] Mad
Oh, come on!
SIGN Madoka - Sorry! (>_<;) Look up!
[06:30] Mas
Up?
[06:36] Mas
Misaki-senpai!
[06:38] Mas
It's against the rules to take off from
anywhere other than the terminals.
[06:49] Mi
Why am I running away?
[06:52] A
Misaki-chan!
[06:54] Mi
Asuka?!
[06:55] Mi
Jeez!
[06:57] A
Misaki-chan!
[07:00] A
Please wait!
[07:05] A
Why are you quitting?
[07:07] A
Did something happen?
[07:11] A
I want to keep flying with you!
[07:20] Mi
I... can't fly anymore.
[07:27] Mi
Like, I stopped finding it fun, you know?
[07:31] Mi
You should stick to it, though.
[07:33] Mi
You're good enough to go toe-to-toe with
Shindo-san despite only having just started.
[07:38] Mi
And you're gonna take part in
the fall tournament, right?
[07:41] Mi
Better get back to practice, then.
[07:47] Mad
She can't fly anymore?
[07:49] A
Yes.
[07:51] A
She said she stopped finding it fun.
[07:55] Mas
In that case, let's turn this
team into something she'd enjoy.
[07:59] Mad
Like?
[07:59] Mas
The FC Udon team!
[08:01] Mad
What kind of team would that even be?
[08:03] Mas
A team that eats udon indoors on rainy days.
[08:07] Mas
How about the FC Nukazuke Pickles team, then?
[08:09] Mas
Or the Sleeping-In FC team?
[08:11] Mas
The Game FC team, maybe!
[08:12] Mad
That's just something you'd enjoy.
[08:16] H
Leave her alone.
[08:19] H
Quit putting so much pressure on her.
[08:25] A
Got it.
[08:27] Mad
Well, Misaki can be pretty
hard to reason with.
[08:30] Mad
Besides, she might come back
all by herself eventually.
[08:33] Mas
Right.
[08:34] Mad
Y'know, I was worried you'd quit with her.
[08:40] Mas
I want to get better and better.
[08:47] A
Same here.
[08:48] A
The former captain's counting on
us to win the fall tournament, too.
[08:52] Mad
Yeah. Time to grind in practice.
[08:55] Mad
As a famous baseball player once said,
[09:00] ---
it's the baby steps that lead to big results!
[09:04] A
Wow, you're a cutting-edge captain! Got it!
[09:06] Mas
You're making her sound like a razor.
[09:07] Mad
Are you talking about my razor-sharp wit?
[09:09] A
Let's do our best!
[09:16] Mad
"Stopped finding it fun," huh?
[09:19] Mad
Do people really fall out of
love with something that fast?
[09:25] Aoi
And here I was glad the team was
finally getting back on its feet.
[09:32] Aoi
But there's no need to force
yourself to keep going.
[09:35] Aoi
Whether you pack it up or
not is entirely up to you.
[09:41] Aoi
That said...
[09:43] Aoi
You can understand how Tobisawa
feels, right, Masaya?
[10:16] MGM
And just what are you makin' for me?
[10:18] Mi
Wait and see.
[10:23] Mi
Huh? We're out.
[10:29] Mi
I wonder if I can still go out and get some.
[10:47] H
Here shopping?
[10:49] Mi
Y-Yeah...
[10:51] H
My folks went out tonight,
so I came to buy dinner.
[11:01] Mi
Hey...
[11:03] Mi
Why won't you say anything to me?
[11:08] Mi
I guess it doesn't matter that I'm gone, huh?
[11:12] Mi
There are more talented people left on the team.
[11:14] H
Stop it. Don't say that.
[11:18] Mi
Sorry, I...
[11:21] Mi
Oh, I know.
[11:24] H
L-Let's eat.
[11:32] H
This is great!
[11:33] Mi
It's curry made with flyer stock!
[11:35] H
Oh...
[11:36] Mi
I made the fukujinzuke and
rakkyo pickles myself, too.
[11:40] MGM
Eat as much as you like, okay?
[11:42] H
I will, thank you.
[11:53] H
Thanks for dinner.
[11:54] Mi
See you tomorrow, then—
[11:56] H
Misaki.
[12:00] Mi
What?
[12:02] H
You asked me earlier why I
wouldn't say anything to you.
[12:10] H
It's just that I get how you feel.
[12:16] H
Because I ran away from FC, too.
[12:31] H
I started playing Flying
Circus in grade school.
[12:35] H
I was basically invincible for ages,
and I even won the All-Japans.
[12:40] H
At first, I was just happy that I could
soar the skies and had so much fun flying.
SIGN The Prodigy Hinata Masaya
[12:46] H
But when I got selected to represent
Japan in the World Cup, I got cold feet.
[12:54] H
I think people instinctively get scared
once they dedicate themselves to a craft.
[12:59] H
We fear failure. We fear losing.
[13:02] H
We fear running into
someone better than us.
[13:07] H
The moment I started having those feelings,
[13:09] ---
I stopped finding flying fun.
[13:13] H
That's around the time a boy who called
himself a beginner challenged me to a match.
[13:23] H
And would you believe it? I lost.
[13:28] H
I felt like I'd gone as far as I could—
that it was the end of the line—
[13:33] H
and decided to quit FC right then and there.
[13:36] H
Actually, I think I just needed
a reason, any reason, to quit.
[13:41] H
I wanted to run away from
FC as quickly as possible.
[13:46] H
But there's one thing I've
realized since quitting.
[13:51] H
It's hard to stay on the run.
[14:03] Mad
Misaki wasn't her usual self today either.
[14:07] Mas
It was as if her mind was somewhere else,
[14:09] ---
even while eating udon for lunch.
[14:11] Mas
I've never seen her be that
apathetic toward udon before.
[14:17] Mas
Not you, too, Asuka-senpai.
[14:20] A
What did she mean, flying
wasn't fun anymore?
[14:24] A
I just can't wrap my head around it.
[14:32] Mas
What's going on?
[14:34] Mad
Wh-What's a helicopter doing at our school?!
[14:41] H
Avalon...?
[14:44] G
What's with that helicopter?
[14:44] G
What's going on? Some sort of incident?
[14:46] G
Must be filming for a movie.
[15:01] Mad
What's happening, Sensei?!
[15:06] Ir
Sorry for dropping by without notice.
[15:09] Ir
I was just going to suggest a
practice match against Saki.
[15:14] H
A match?
[15:20] A
A match against Inui-san!
[15:23] I
Will you accept?
[15:26] Aoi
Not happening, sorry. It's too sudden.
[15:28] A
I'd love to!
[15:30] Aoi
Kurashina?
[15:31] A
That final was incredible!
[15:34] I
You're...
[15:35] A
Kurashina Asuka!
[15:37] I
Oh, Shindo's opponent in the third round?
[15:40] I
Perfect.
[15:42] I
Ask for the match, Saki.
[15:45] Sa
Please.
[15:57] Aoi
Kurashina.
[15:58] A
Y-Yes?
[15:59] Aoi
If you start having a hard time,
let Masaya know immediately.
[16:04] Aoi
This is a practice match.
[16:06] Aoi
Do not push yourself.
[16:08] A
O-Okay.
[16:10] H
Asuka.
[16:12] H
From the second line onwards, go after
her and turn it into a dogfight.
[16:17] H
Just stay on the attack.
[16:19] A
Got it!
[16:24] A
I'm really excited I get to play you.
[16:29] A
Sorry, that wasn't appropriate
for pre-match talk.
[16:33] Ho
Here we go!
[16:34] Ho
The All-Japan Summer
Tournament champion, Inui,
[16:36] Ho
and the third-round-loser
but up-and-comer Kurashina!
[16:41] Ho
Their practice match is about to begin!
[16:44] Mas
Who asked for commentary?
[16:50] I
Saki, let us show them our beautiful FC.
[16:55] Sa
Okay, Irina.
[16:57] Sh
On your marks...
[17:00] Sh
Set!
[17:06] Ho
It's 1-0.
[17:08] Ho
Inui has opened the scoring.
[17:10] I
Saki: Birdcage.
[17:12] Sa
Okay, Irina.
[17:20] Ho
What's this? Inui has come to
a standstill high up above!
[17:25] H
I knew it.
[17:26] H
She's planning on turning this into a
repeat of the match against Shindo-san!
[17:31] Aoi
Kurashina'll have to attack from below,
which will put her at a disadvantage.
[17:36] Aoi
That said, if she goes after the next buoy,
[17:39] ---
Inui will beat her to it.
[17:41] Mad
But at this rate...
[17:44] Ho
Kurashina took a shortcut to the second line,
[17:46] Ho
so she can't go after the next buoy
unless she crosses Inui or touches her!
[17:50] A
Coach.
[17:51] H
Use a high yo-yo to get directly below Inui!
[17:54] A
Directly below?
[17:56] H
I'll tell you as soon as she makes a move.
[17:58] H
Use an air kick turn to accelerate
in the opposite direction.
[18:00] H
That should get you flying close to Inui.
[18:03] A
Understood!
[18:04] A
Here I go!
[18:07] H
There she goes!
[18:17] H
Touch her somewhere, anywhere!
[18:20] A
Got it!
[18:31] A
Here I go!
[18:37] A
Once more!
[18:46] A
Coach, she keeps fending off all my attacks!
[18:50] Ho
What the...
[18:51] Mas
No matter where she attacks from,
[18:53] ---
Inui keeps repelling her the same way.
[18:55] Mad
What's going on?
[18:57] Aoi
Inui's sending Kurashina flying
downwards at the same angle each time.
[19:02] Mad
That's just a coincidence, right?
[19:03] Aoi
Wrong.
[19:05] Aoi
It's all been planned precisely.
[19:12] Mi
Asuka...
[19:17] H
Create some breathing room!
[19:19] H
You'll just wear yourself out like this!
[19:21] A
O-Okay!
[19:27] Sa
You're not getting away.
[19:36] A
Inui-san...
[19:37] Ho
Kurashina's back is wide open,
so why won't Inui move in for the kill?
[19:53] I
How do you like our perfect and beautiful FC?
[19:58] I
We took what you left
unfinished and perfected it.
[20:02] H
Use some feints, Asuka!
[20:04] H
Vary your flight both
vertically and horizontally!
[20:06] A
I-I can't!
[20:08] A
No matter where I run,
she'll be right above me.
[20:12] A
I don't see an exit anywhere!
[20:16] Aoi
Thoroughly controlling the opponent
[20:18] Aoi
to make them exhaust themselves
by flying around pointlessly...
[20:22] Aoi
"Birdcage" is a fitting name for that tactic.
[20:26] Sh
One minute left!
[20:28] I
Saki, stay alert and perfect
until the final whistle.
[20:31] Sa
Okay, Irina.
[20:33] H
If there's no exit, we'll
have to make one ourselves.
[20:37] H
Asuka, use an air kick turn
and fly right into Inui!
[20:40] H
From this close, it should
be enough to throw her off!
[21:19] Mi
Asuka!
[21:31] Mi
Asuka?
[21:35] A
I was no good at all.
[21:39] A
I even got you soaking wet, Misaki-chan.
[21:42] A
I'm sorry.
[21:45] Mad
Take a quick shower and change.
[21:47] Mas
And then let's go eat some udon!
[21:50] A
Oh, good idea.
[21:52] Mad
B-Back to school we go, then.
[21:54] Mas
Yeah!
[21:56] A
R—
[21:58] A
Right...
[22:00] A
Yeah...
[22:08] A
I...
[22:11] [SONG] Sign
To Be Continued
SIGN Preview
[23:46] ---
I believe this means to just go for it.
[23:48] ---
That's not it. Let's just eat.
[23:51] ---
The answer is in the sky!
SIGN Episode Nine: "The Answer is in the Sky!"