E15.5 - So I wish for a memory

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SIGN    Chihayafuru 3
SIGN    Chihayafuru 3
SIGN    The Players'
    Lack of
    Presence
    Is an Issue
SIGN    My romance with Retro-kun keeps me busy,
     but I'm not opposed to appearing, y'know
[01:17] Sumire
    It's all matches!
[01:19] Sumire
    Are they that bent on
    undermining our sex appeal?!
[01:21] Tsukuba
    You can't blame them.
[01:22] Sumire
    But why?!
SIGN    Take a look
SIGN    Love Element in Chihayafuru
SIGN    Take a look
    at this chart.
[01:24] Tsukuba
    70 percent of the love element
     in this anime
[01:26] Tsukuba
    depended on your love story,
[01:28] Tsukuba
    but lately, even you've
    been focusing on karuta.
SIGN    He's right!
[01:31] Tsukuba
    For the next 20 percent, the only ones
    we can count on are Retro and Porky's sister.
[01:36] Sumire
    Them?!
SIGN    The remaining 10 percent is just barely the main character...
SIGN    Verse 15.5
SIGN    So I wish
     for a
    memory
[01:44] Miyauchi
    Everyone! I have terrible news!
SIGN    21 59th Master/57th Queen East Japan Qualifiers 21 59th Master/57th Queen West Japan Qualifiers
[01:47] Taichi
    What?!
[01:49] Taichi
    The Master and Queen qualifiers overlap
    with the dates of our class trip!
SIGN    Mizusawa High School Second-Year Class Trip Schedule
    October 20-23
[01:53] Taichi
    Why is it on the 21st?!
     It's usually a week earlier!
[02:03] Harada
    Feels like a team match, doesn't it?
[02:06] Harada
    Four Shiranami Society players
    made it to the quarterfinals.
[02:10] Harada
    That's a first!
[02:12] Harada
    This is a four-on-four
    team match in every way!
[02:16] Harada
    And of course, our goal is...
[02:18] Harada
    four wins for the Shiranami Society!
[02:23] [POEM] Hirota
    Look for the sound...
[02:25] [POEM] Hirota
    In the sleepy spring...
[02:28] Sudo
    Wait, did you really get that?
[02:30] Taichi
    Huh?
[02:31] Sudo
    Okay, then. If that's what you think.
[02:34] Sudo
    Keep it.
[02:35] Hiroshi
    This is why I hate playing high schoolers.
[02:39] [POEM] Hirota
    Impassionate gods have never seen
[02:50] Sakura
    She lost it!
[02:52] Sakura
    She really lost one!
[02:54] Sakura
    And it was "Impassionate"!
[02:55] [POEM] Hirota
    Impassioned was your...
[02:58] Chihaya
    She took—
[02:58] Harada
    Got there in time!
[03:04] Hiroshi
    Dr. Harada's "Got there in time"...
[03:11] Both
    Thank you very much.
[03:13] Hiroshi
    Yes!
[03:15] Both
    What?!
[03:16] [POEM] Hirota
    Impassioned vows...
[03:18] Both
    Thank you very much.
[03:20] Taichi
    Murao-san won?
[03:25] Taichi
    Whether they win or lose...
[03:27] Chihaya
    They give us strength.
[03:32] [POEM] Hirota
    for the night would drag on
    when I thought of my beloved
[03:42] [POEM] Hirota
    Since I could not hide my love,
SIGN    people would always ask if I was pining for someone
[03:49] Taichi
    Chihaya isn't here.
[03:51] Taichi
    Arata is watching.
[03:53] Taichi
    And...
[03:55] Taichi
    Dr. Harada is weighing him down.
[04:03] Arata
    There's no way Murao-san will lose.
[04:09] Arata
    There's no way.
[04:12] Harada
    Maybe the best way Eyelashes
    can improve is actually...
[04:21] Harada
    with defensive karuta!
SIGN    The Players'
     Overwhelming
    Presence
    Is an Issue
SIGN    Personally, I wish they would wear tabi or
     socks when on tatami... Please?
[04:28] Rieko
    From the Fujisaki training camp
    to the Yoshino Tournament...
[04:31] Rieko
    It's definitely karuta season.
[04:33] Kanade
    I don't even know which
    match I should watch.
[04:36] Sudo
    I don't care who watches who!
    Just show more of my matches!
[04:40] Mochida
    I lost to Ririka-chan at some point, too!
[04:42] Retro
    And don't ignore me just
    because I'm Class B!
[04:44] Harada
    If they'd animate my thought process
    when I set up matches,
[04:48] Harada
    it'd be highly educational to
    karuta players all over Japan.
[04:51] Makoto
    They made it look like I was
    soundly defeated, but I wasn't!
[04:55] Harada
    No, my match should take higher priority.
[04:58] Kuri
    Murao-kun and Arata-kun's match
    was worth watching, too!
[05:00] Kitano
    You fools should be watching Yumin play!
[05:03] Harada
    My match!
[05:04] Kitano
    Yumin!
[05:04] Kuri
    Arata-kun's match!
[05:04] Kanade
    I feel... so full...
SIGN    The Career Path and the Karuta Path
[05:12] Narrator
    Satoshi, the husband of
    Inokuma Haruka, grade 6,
[05:15] Narrator
    is a producer at a TV station.
[05:16] Narrator
    He's a very busy man who works on
    a popular daily morning show.
SIGN    Waaaah
SIGN    3 AM: Wake up 6 AM: Program airs 8 AM: Review meeting 10 AM: Briefing 12 PM: Lunch break 1 PM: Preparing next day's episode 3 PM: Planning meetings, etc. 6 PM: Meetings with cast members (drinks)
SIGN    Aww, there, there...
    Sheesh...
[05:21] Haruka
    Daddy gets up early and
    works hard all day long.
[05:24] Haruka
    Just look at that schedu—
SIGN    6 PM: Meetings with cast members (drinks)
SIGN    Off I go!
SIGN    Drinking is an important part of my job...
[05:27] Haruka
    Thanks for taking the kids!
[05:28] Haruka
    I'll be sure to say on TV that
    I got stronger
[05:30] Haruka
    and came back as Queen because
    you turned down your drinking parties!
[05:34] [POEM] Reader
    While some dodge...
[05:35] [POEM] Reader
    As the years pass...
[05:37] [POEM] Reader
    Since the dew...
[05:38] Miyauchi
    Tasuki!
[05:40] Taichi
    E-Excuse us for a moment!
[05:43] Chihaya
    The Yoshino Tournament Class A final...
[05:48] Both
    Okay.
[05:50] Chihaya
    That's where we are, together.
[05:52] [POEM] Reader
    The night breaks to day...
[05:55] Chihaya
    It's hard to take anything!
[05:56] Chihaya
    He's able to take cards in that
    long top row with thrusts!
[05:59] [POEM] Reader
    May the scarlet kadsuras...
SIGN    Alas, another autumn has passed in vain
[06:04] Chihaya
    This is hard...
[06:06] Chihaya
    It's hard to breathe...
[06:09] (Flashback) Sakura
    Maintain your posture.
[06:15] Chihaya
    Don't close off my chest.
[06:17] Chihaya
    Raise my eye level.
[06:22] Chihaya
    Oh... It's you, Taichi.
[06:24] Taichi
    Huh?
[06:25] Taichi
    Uh, yeah, it's me.
[06:27] Chihaya
    He's playing like someone I don't know,
[06:29] Chihaya
    but he's Taichi.
[06:30] [POEM] Reader
    Impassioned was your promise...
[06:33] Chihaya
    He's Taichi. I don't have to be afraid.
[06:37] Chihaya
    But I don't want to lose.
[06:40] Chihaya
    There's no "his side" or "my side."
[06:42] Chihaya
    Here I come, Taichi!
[06:43] Taichi
    Chihaya, you idiot! I have a plan!
[06:46] Taichi
    I won't play along with
    your contest of speed!
[06:49] Arata
    What...
[06:52] Arata
    is this?
[06:58] Arata
    What is it?
[07:02] Arata
    What is this?
[07:05] Arata
    Why did I lose?
[07:08] Arata
    Why...
[07:10] Arata
    Why aren't I the one
[07:12] Arata
    playing against Chihaya right now?
[07:17] Guy
    The Yoshino Tournament Class A winner is
[07:20] Guy
    Ayase Chihaya-san of the Shiranami Society.
[07:25] Arata
    You might laugh at this,
[07:27] Arata
    but for whatever reason,
[07:29] Arata
    I always thought of Chihaya as yours.
[07:34] Arata
    But Chihaya doesn't really belong
    to anyone, does she?
[07:42] Mom
    Chihaya!
[07:43] Mom
    I'm sorry I ran late!
[07:51] Mom
    So, how'd your match go?
[07:53] Mom
    Did you do the best you could?
[07:55] Mom
    Was it fun?
SIGN    Huh?
[07:59] Both
    Huh?
[08:00] Chihaya
    M-Mom... I...
[08:05] Chihaya
    I want to go on the class trip!
[08:09] Mom
    Huh? O-Of course you can go!
[08:12] Chihaya
    I want...
[08:14] Chihaya
    to be a high school teacher!
[08:18] Chihaya
    What kind of teacher would I be
    if I've never been on a class trip?!
[08:23] Chihaya
    I want to be Queen, too,
[08:26] Chihaya
    but I want to be an advisor and coach,
    like Ms. Miyauchi and Coach Sakurazawa!
[08:35] Chihaya
    But today was this hakama's first match,
[08:40] Chihaya
    and I wanted to win!
[08:43] Chihaya
    I did win!
[08:46] Chihaya
    Taichi and I worked so hard!
SIGN    My Path
SIGN    Self-made flash cards
SIGN    I can memorize nucleic acid sequences, but I still can't get the Hundred Poets down...
[08:54] Nishida
    It's kinda surprising, though.
[08:57] Nishida
    I didn't know Ayase had already decided
    what she wanted to do after graduation.
[09:00] Kanade
    Huh? Well, of course. We only have
    one year of high school left.
SIGN    That's right.
[09:05] Kanade
    I really want to take Professor Mutsu's
    classical literature class at WU!
SIGN    My family runs a drugstore, so I'm thinking of being a pharmacist,
SIGN    but I could just stay in college as a professional researcher.
[09:19] Nishida
    Huh?
[09:20] Kanade
    What about you, Porky?
    Something in economics? Law?
[09:23] Nishida
    U-Uh, well... m-maybe something overseas?
SIGN    Fourth Future Plans Questionnaire
    Year 2 Class 9
    Name: Nishida Yusei
    
     College | Department | Reasons
    
    First Choice: How can I become a Michelin inspector?
    Second Choice:
    Third Choice:
SIGN    Studying abroad? That'd be amazing!
SIGN    What?!
[09:31] Suo
    After I win my fifth consecutive title,
     I'm going to retire.
[09:37] Arata
    What?
[09:39] Arata
    The Master... is retiring?
[09:42] Nishida
    Ayase...
[09:44] Nishida
    I just asked my senpai in the Suihoku Society
    who's helping at the qualifiers,
[09:48] Nishida
    and he said his name's on the list!
[09:50] Nishida
    Mashima's name is on the list
    of registered participants
[09:53] Nishida
    in tomorrow's East Japan qualifiers
[10:01] Sumire
    Mashima-senpai...
[10:03] Sumire
    He's working hard to be
    what he wants to be!
[10:10] Taichi
    Me...
[10:13] [POEM] Reader
    Long last we meet...
SIGN    East Japan Semifinals
    
    Master
    Harada vs. Koishikawa
    Tsuboguchi vs. Sudo
    
    Queen
    Sakurazawa vs. Yamamoto
    Inokuma vs. Yamashiro
[10:19] Arata
    Taichi didn't make it.
[10:26] Arata
    Why did I just sigh?
[10:28] Arata
    Why did knowing Taichi lost make me sigh?
[10:31] [POEM] Reader
    Would this old...
[10:33] [POEM] Reader
    As this trip...
[10:36] Arata
    Why am I...
[10:40] Arata
    You're getting in my way, Taichi!
[10:42] Arata
    Why are you there?
[10:46] Arata
    Taichi has a way of being unfair.
[10:50] Arata
    And he's not particularly talented,
    like Chihaya is.
[10:53] Arata
    Maybe I...
[10:56] Arata
    always looked down on Taichi in karuta.
[11:02] Arata
    On my own friend...
[11:09] Murao
    Just a moment, please.
[11:15] Murao
    Yamashiro-san is reading for us.
    We can't waste that.
[11:19] Murao
    Come back to us, Arata.
[11:36] [POEM] Reader
    Gust of wind...
[11:38] [POEM] Reader
    Swift waters parted...
[11:41] Kuri
    Arata-kun usually plays with a
    balance of offense and defense,
[11:46] Kuri
    but he's attacking hard.
[11:49] Kuri
    He's calling the momentum to him.
SIGN    East Japan Qualifiers Dr. Harada (Winner)
[11:55] Kuri
    The momentum to fight
[11:57] Kuri
    East Japan's number one,
    the king of offensive karuta.
SIGN    Katsugi Books
     Is Open for
     Business
SIGN    Huh?! If I take off my glasses,
     I'll be more popular?
SIGN    Why don't you try it?
[12:04] Guy
    Arata-kun hasn't been coming in to work lately.
SIGN    Siiigh
SIGN    Arata-kun ain't here today, either?
[12:09] Guy
    The old local lady who's a
    fan of his is sighing hard.
SIGN    Where can I find Ultimate Facts Theory: 30 Lectures?
[12:12] Guy
    Day after day, I'm unable to answer deep
    questions about which books are where.
[12:18] Guy
    But I'll still be cheering him on!
SIGN    Arata
[12:22] Guy
    But if Arata-kun does well,
    Fukui and the Fukui dialect
SIGN    Loves his hometown
[12:26] Guy
    will show up in more anime!
SIGN    Huh?
SIGN    That's what you're hoping for?!
SIGN    The Secret
     Number One
SIGN    Welcome to Awara!
    
     Chihayafuru Week in Awara
SIGN    Don't act
     embarrassed!!
[12:34] Kuri
    Murao Shinichi of the Nagumo Society is
    somewhat famous in certain circles.
SIGN    No.1 in Men
    People Secretly
    Wish They
    Could Marry
[12:39] Kuri
    He's an honest man who
    works at Awara City Hall.
[12:42] Kuri
    He was blessed with talent
    in karuta from a young age
SIGN    No.1 in Men Who Secretly Care About Their Little Brothers
[12:45] Kuri
    and has been No. 1 in Japan in
    elementary, middle, and high school.
[12:47] Kuri
    He graduated from a prestigious university
    in Kansai with high grades,
[12:51] Kuri
    and the only misfortune in his life...
SIGN    Giant Wall Loser
[12:53] Kuri
    is being the same age as Suo Hisashi!
SIGN    No.1 in Men
    People Secretly Wish
    Would Be the Master
[12:56] Guy
    Things would be so much easier for us
    if Murao-kun was the Master.
[12:59] Guy
    It would be so much better for our karuta
    lectures if Murao-kun was the Master!
[13:04] Kuri
    The bigger a loser the Master is,
    the greater the pressure!
[13:07] Kuri
    You can do it, Murao-kun!
[13:10] Harada
    You know, I never thought
[13:12] Harada
    the day would come when I'd
    be playing you, Glasses.
[13:16] Harada
    When I was younger,
    I did play your grandpa,
[13:19] Harada
    Eternal Master Wataya Hajime, just once.
[13:23] Harada
    He was good.
[13:25] Harada
    It's a great memory.
[13:27] Harada
    You probably can't understand yet
    since you're still young,
[13:31] Harada
    but it brings me the greatest joy
    that I get to play you.
[13:36] [POEM] Kyoji
    The hazed field of reeds conceals
    clumps of bamboo shoots,
[13:38] Kuri
    He lunged that far on a dead card?!
[13:39] [POEM] Kyoji
    May the scarlet kadsuras...
SIGN    Dead card
[13:41] Tsutomu
    He's lunging with his whole body!
[13:42] [POEM] Kyoji
    Look for the sound...
SIGN    Dead card
[13:43] Kanade
    Scary!
[13:44] [POEM] Kyoji
    The sight of the lonely moon...
[13:45] Harada
    Yes! Gotcha!
[13:47] Girls
    There it is! Dr. Harada's "Yes! Gotcha!"
[13:49] [POEM] Kyoji
    The hazed early dawn mist over the Kawagiri
[13:53] [POEM] Kyoki
    All alone...
[13:56] All
    He...
[13:56] All
    He's fast!
[13:59] Lady
    Dr. Harada hasn't been paying
    attention to his own side...
[14:02] Hiroshi
    There it is!
[14:03] Taichi
    The incredible acceleration that none
    of us could reproduce in practice!
[14:06] Arata
    I'm happy.
[14:08] Arata
    I'm happy I get to play Dr. Harada.
[14:12] Arata
    I'm happy he's so strong.
[14:14] Arata
    But...
[14:16] Arata
    I'll be the one to win.
[14:19] [POEM] Kyoji
    The fall wind parts...
[14:21] Chihaya
    Dr. Harada...
[14:23] Taichi
    Dr. Harada...
[14:24] Tsukuba
    Dr. Harada...
[14:25] Harada
    I've been a mentor for a long time.
[14:30] Harada
    You'll be able to take more of them
    if you don't move them.
[14:34] Harada
    I have a duty to prove that to you!
[14:37] Harada
    All right! I got in!
[14:44] Chihaya
    The first match goes to Dr. Harada!
[14:46] Harada
    I'd like to withdraw from
    the second match.
[14:56] Arata
    Hup...
[15:00] Mom
    That's... his grandpa's kimono...
[15:07] Mom
    And the way the metal fittings on the heel
    of his sandal brush the floor as he walks...
[15:15] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Arata.
[15:17] (Flashback) Chihaya
    No matter how far we go, Dr. Harada
    will always be a mentor to all of us.
[15:23] (Flashback) Chihaya
    You can't beat him as just Arata.
[15:27] Arata
    I'm moving my cards.
[15:29] Both
    He put all the one-syllable
    cards in the lower right!
[15:34] Harada
    Master Wataya's play style...
[15:39] Harada
    I'll break through it!
[15:41] Harada
    I'll make you regret putting all your
    one-syllable cards in your lower right!
[15:47] Harada
    No big deal!
[15:50] Kitano
    What is this?
[15:52] Kitano
    Even Harada's playing
    is starting to look...
[16:02] Suo
    Dr. Harada's great.
[16:05] Suo
    He's exciting.
[16:08] Suo
    If I...
[16:11] Suo
    could pick who I face in the Master match,
[16:14] Suo
    I'd want it to be Dr. Harada.
[16:18] Kuri
    He lost one!
[16:19] Kuri
    Arata-kun lost a one-syllable
    card on his own side!
[16:37] Chihaya
    Dr. Harada!
[16:38] Guy
    The winner of the Master
    challenger playoff is...
[16:42] Chihaya
    It's Dr. Harada!
[16:44] Guy
    ...Harada Hideo, grade 6!
[16:52] Chihaya
    Arata...
[16:54] Arata
    Oh... Chihaya.
[16:56] Chihaya
    Arata, um...
[16:58] Chihaya
    Th-That was close!
[17:00] Chihaya
    It was an incredible match!
[17:04] Arata
    Yeah...
[17:05] Chihaya
    You and Dr. Harada play in completely
    different ways. It was so interesting to see!
[17:16] Arata
    What would you have done, Chihaya?
[17:19] Chihaya
    Huh?
[17:20] Arata
    At the end...
[17:25] Chihaya
    I play offensive karuta,
[17:28] Chihaya
    so I think I would've sent both
    "Gust" and "Impassionate."
[17:32] Chihaya
    Because they're special.
[17:40] Chihaya
    The more I want a card,
    the faster I let it go.
[17:45] Chihaya
    Then I go in determined to take it.
[17:59] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Arata!
[18:00] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Let's play karuta together forever!
[18:12] Arata
    I love you, Chihaya.
[18:26] Arata
    Taichi might have told you this,
[18:28] Arata
    but I'm planning to go to college here.
[18:32] Arata
    If you want...
[18:35] Arata
    let's play karuta together.
[18:41] Sumire
    You're not going to tell him, are you?
[18:43] Sumire
    That Wataya-san confessed
    his love to Ayase-senpai?
[18:47] Kanade
    No one except the people involved
    has any right to butt in.
[18:50] Kanade
    But...
[18:52] Kanade
    If President Mashima could become involved...
[18:56] Kanade
    I might say something.
[19:03] Kanade
    Is something out there?
[19:05] Chihaya
    Yeah. That pigeon.
[19:07] Kanade
    Oh, I see it. It's a white one.
[19:10] Kanade
    Those are rare.
[19:11] Chihaya
    It's pretty.
[19:14] Chihaya
    It almost seems like it's shining.
[19:18] Chihaya
    I wonder... is it pregnant?
[19:20] Chihaya
    Is it happy?
[19:22] Chihaya
    Is it shining because it's happy?
[19:30] Chihaya
    Kana-chan...
[19:33] Chihaya
    I want...
[19:35] Chihaya
    to play a match like that one
    at the challenger playoffs.
[19:41] Kanade
    Huh?! Chihaya-chan, I think
    you're conflating something here!
[19:44] Kanade
    You're mixing up your emotional response to
    Dr. Harada's play and Wataya-san's confession!
[19:49] Kanade
    I know they were both
    epoch-making events, but...
[19:52] Kanade
    As a young girl, shouldn't the
    confession be your main focus?!
SIGN    Bye-bye
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Hngh...
[19:56] Kanade
    Chihaya-chan!
[20:00] Suo
    This is Suo.
[20:02] (Flashback) Chihaya
    Will you play a match with me sometime?
[20:06] Suo
    Since you asked me the other day...
SIGN    Hold the phone closer!
[20:09] Suo
    How about a match with me?
[20:13] [POEM] Reader
    When winds send waves...
[20:15] Chihaya
    Shoot! A fault!
[20:16] [POEM] Reader
    As this trip takes...
[20:17] Chihaya
    Another fault!
[20:19] Chihaya
    But Suo-san cleanly avoided it!
[20:21] Suo
    Pff...
[20:25] Chihaya
    ...and aim for one point!
[20:28] Chihaya
    I missed again!
[20:30] Chihaya
    I even practiced aiming at a single point!
[20:38] Suo
    Oh, sorry.
[20:40] Suo
    Sorry.
[20:43] Suo
    You're very interesting.
[20:45] Chihaya
    Oh... uh... n-no...
[20:46] Suo
    You're pretty, positive,
    and you never lose heart.
[20:50] Suo
    You have friends, and even a boyfriend.
[20:52] Suo
    And you want to be Queen, too?
[20:58] Suo
    You can't.
SIGN    You're running bonus
    clips, and I'm not
    even in them?!
SIGN    Timidness
    and
    Sadness
SIGN    Chitosefuru
SIGN    Bonus clips...
     I haven't actually talked yet...
[21:06] Sumire
    This is the end of the bonus clips?!
[21:08] Sumire
    That's a lazy approach to a recap episode!
[21:11] Nishida
    The viewers aren't gonna
    want to watch this.
SIGN    Was there even a point in doing it?
[21:15] Kanade
    It seems they were told that there's no point in
    a Chihaya recap episode without bonus clips,
[21:20] Kanade
    so they're worried about that.
[21:21] All
    Who's "they"?
[21:23] Kanade
    Uh...
[21:25] Kanade
    Heaven?
SIGN    See you next week!
SIGN    I actually got to
    appear this season...
SIGN    We never even got to speak
    in the bonus clips...