E15.5 - So I wish for a memory Source: Crunchyroll Translator: Editor: Timer: QC: (Please feel free to edit the speaker names if incomplete or inaccurate. Names are handled on a best-effort basis depending on the info on the source file. Dialogue is left as is.) 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...