E6 - Tatsuta River Ablaze

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SIGN    Yoshino
    Tournament
[00:01] Guy
    This is unusual. The finalists are
     the same age and from the same society?
SIGN    Class A Final
[00:05] Guy
    And in Class A?
SIGN    Mashima Taichi (Shiranami Society)
SIGN    Ayase Chihaya (Shiranami Society)
[00:12] Kanade
    Chihaya-chan!
SIGN    Mashima...
[00:15] Retro
    And in the Class B final...
SIGN    Retro Go! Class A
SIGN    Kinashi Hiro (Hokuo Karuta Society)
[00:20] Retro
    Kinashi Hiro!
SIGN    Arashi
SIGN    Gotokuji Saneatsu (Yokohama Arashi Society)
[00:23] Sane
    Gotokuji Saneatsu!
[00:26] Sane
    Age 38, just married.
[00:28] Sane
    My new wife dragged me into karuta,
[00:30] Sane
    so I busted my butt to get
    good enough to impress her!
[00:33] Sane
    I'm the up-and-coming devoted husband
    who picked up this game in no time!
SIGN    Class C
[00:36] Wife
    You can do it!
[00:37] Sane
    You could never understand what
    I've got riding on this, boy.
[00:40] Retro
    You don't have much riding on this at all!
[00:42] Retro
    What about my ten years of karuta experience
    and the expectations of my club?!
[00:46] Sane
    Ten years, and you're still in Class B?
    What a side character!
[00:48] Sane
    Make way for the star!
[00:50] Guy
    You may begin placing your
    cards in ten minutes.
SIGN    Chihayafuru 3
SIGN    Chihayafuru 3
SIGN    Verse 6
SIGN    Tatsuta
    River
    Ablaze
[02:17] Kanade
    Prez...
[02:21] Rieko
    Let's take a short break.
    I'll fix your kimono.
[02:26] Rieko
    Chihaya-chan, Kanade took
    care of you, right?
[02:29] Rieko
    This makes it even.
[02:34] Chihaya
    The final...
[02:37] Chihaya
    I'm playing Taichi in an official match.
[02:45] Arata
    Chihaya.
[02:48] Chihaya
    Arata...
[02:49] Arata
    Time for the final, eh?
[02:51] Arata
    But I came here with my society by car,
[02:55] Arata
    so I have to leave now.
[02:57] Chihaya
    What?!
[02:58] Arata
    I'm dying to stay and watch, but we need to
    get our middle schooler members home.
[03:04] Chihaya
    Oh... Okay.
[03:08] Chihaya
    Okay. Take care.
[03:11] Chihaya
    Uh-huh.
[03:14] Arata
    No...
[03:15] Arata
    I'll stay!
[03:16] Arata
    I'll watch the final!
[03:18] Arata
    Even if it's just me, I can kill time
    until the first train in the morning!
SIGN    I can go to school half a day late.
[03:22] Chihaya
    But...
[03:23] Arata
    I'll watch.
[03:25] Arata
    Something tells me I need to watch this.
[03:31] Harada
    Don't be such a stranger, Glasses!
[03:34] Harada
    You're welcome to spend
    the night at my place!
[03:37] Harada
    We'll play a practice match or two,
    and it'll be morning before you know it.
SIGN    No intention of
    letting him sleep
[03:41] Murao
    No, no, Harada-san.
     There's no need for that.
[03:44] Murao
    Our president and I will stay, too.
[03:45] Harada
    You should leave, Murao-kun.
    You have work tomorrow, don't you?
[03:48] Murao
    If we leave right after the final,
[03:51] Murao
    we can get to Fukui by 3 AM.
[03:53] Harada
    Won't that be rough on you?
[03:55] Murao
    It'd be rougher on me to leave without
    understanding why I lost to Mashima-kun!
[04:04] Arata
    Murao-san...
[04:13] Arata
    You said you were going to win
    all your games today in that kimono, right?
[04:20] Arata
    I'm going to watch.
[04:30] Taichi
    I appreciate this, Oe-san.
[04:32] Taichi
    You always do so much for us.
[04:34] Rieko
    Just call me Rieko, and we'll call it even.
[04:45] Rieko
    You're hunching over.
[04:47] Rieko
    Your back is bent.
[04:48] Taichi
    O-Oh...
[04:50] Rieko
    The collar won't sit right
    if your shoulders are too tight.
[04:52] Taichi
    Uh... Sorry.
[04:54] Rieko
    Everyone does that when
    they're not used to it.
[04:57] Rieko
    It's just what happens when
    you live in Western clothes.
[05:01] Rieko
    Once you get used to wearing a kimono,
[05:04] Rieko
    the positions of your shoulder
    blades start to change.
[05:07] Rieko
    It makes your shoulders drop backward a bit.
[05:12] Rieko
    It loosens up your body.
[05:17] Rieko
    But some parts still need to be tight!
[05:21] Reiko
    Did you know this about the obi?
[05:26] Rieko
    An obi has several lines drawn across it.
[05:31] Rieko
    The two lines near the edge of the lappet
     are called the kaikiri-sen.
[05:34] Rieko
    The kaikiri-sen where
    you make the first fold
[05:37] Rieko
    are the two hand-claps given
    when visiting a shrine.
[05:40] Rieko
    The kasumi-sen is the shrine gate.
[05:43] Rieko
    The patterned part is
    the road leading to the shrine.
[05:47] Rieko
    And finally, the tesaki
    is the bow after praying.
[05:56] Rieko
    It will support you.
[06:10] Sakura
    What do you want to do?
[06:11] Sakura
    If we watch the final, we'll get home late.
[06:16] Rion
    I want... to stay and watch.
[06:19] Makoto
    Th-Then I guess I'll have to stay, too.
[06:22] Hyuga
    I'll stay too!
[06:24] Makoto
    You can go, Cheers!
[06:32] Sumire
    I've seen Ayase-senpai and Mashima-senpai
    play each other lots of times.
[06:38] Sumire
    Every day, in that room...
[06:40] Sumire
    I've grown accustomed to it.
[06:44] Sumire
    And yet...
[06:59] Sumire
    Why...
[07:10] Sumire
    ...does it feel like I'm seeing
    it for the first time?
[07:15] Guy
    Please place your cards.
[07:21] Nishida
    Ayase has the advantage.
[07:23] Nishida
    Since she won her last match
    by default, she got to rest.
[07:27] Nishida
    But Mashima's at his peak of exhaustion.
[07:29] Tsutomu
    In all of my data from
    the past year and a half,
[07:32] Tsutomu
    Ayase's win rate is 75 percent.
[07:34] Tsutomu
    And it was actually more than 80 percent
    before she injured her right hand.
[07:38] Tsutomu
    But...
[07:39] Tsutomu
    Since her injury healed,
[07:41] Tsutomu
    she's won 60 percent
    and Mashima has won 40 percent.
[07:44] Tsutomu
    Mashima's improving at
    a faster rate than Ayase.
[07:56] Kanade
    Huh?!
[07:58] Nishida
    That's...
[07:59] Tsutomu
    He changed his placement a lot!
[08:01] Tsutomu
    Mashima?!
[08:10] Chihaya
    F-Fourteen cards in his top row?
[08:13] Chihaya
    I've never seen that before!
[08:15] Chihaya
    The one-syllable cards he usually puts
    at the lower right are at the top left?
[08:19] Chihaya
    All the "May" cards are on the lower right?
[08:21] Chihaya
    Why? He never puts the ones with
    similar sounds near each other!
[08:24] Harada
    Messing with your own placement
    is suicide, Eyelashes.
[08:29] Chihaya
    This is different from usual.
[08:31] Chihaya
    He's even ignoring established practice.
[08:33] Sakura
    No.
[08:35] Sakura
    It's because these two practice
    together as often as they do
[08:37] Sakura
    that this change can prove
    to be a killer blow.
[08:41] Taichi
    To make it harder...
[08:44] Chihaya
    To make it harder...
[08:47] Chihaya
    To make it harder...
[08:50] Chihaya
    He came up with this placement
    to use against me, and me alone.
[08:54] (Flashback) Taichi
    This fall, I'm gonna beat you playing
    right-handed in an official match.
[09:00] Chihaya
    It's blowing this way...
[09:03] Taichi
    I'm going to beat Chihaya.
[09:06] Both
    H-He's fired up...
[09:08] [POEM] Reader
    Here comes spring, now the flower blooms
[09:13] Hiroshi
    Chihaya-chan's under pressure.
[09:15] Hiroshi
    His little trick blindsided her
    and threw her off-pace.
[09:19] [POEM] Reader
    Gust of wind leaves fall leaves falling,
[09:23] Guy
    Sh-She's fast!
[09:24] Nishida
    She's still calm! She got
    the "Gust" on her own side!
[09:27] Tsutomu
    Mashima's been fast lately too,
[09:29] Tsutomu
    but she's relaxed and taking
    cards her usual way.
[09:31] Tsutomu
    Don't get too worked up, Mashima!
[09:36] [POEM] Reader
    May it be that I find...
[09:39] [POEM] Reader
    Long last we meet, only for
    me to leave hurriedly,
SIGN    for I could not recognize you, like the moon hidden behind the clouds
[09:45] Nishida
    A one-syllable card from his own side!
[09:47] Tsutomu
    He took it by swiping the whole row!
[09:50] Arata
    "Long"... A one-syllable card
    on his own side.
[09:53] Arata
    He's looked at them closely.
[09:55] Arata
    He's given them plenty of thought.
[09:59] Harada
    Eyelashes...
[10:03] Taichi
    "Impassioned was" and "Impassioned
    vows" are at the center right.
[10:07] Taichi
    I know she'll be coming
    after "Impassionate."
SIGN    May the time
SIGN    May the scarlet
SIGN    May my sighs
SIGN    May I see
[10:10] Taichi
    While she's targeting that area,
[10:12] Taichi
    she won't go for the "May" or
    "My" cards, or the top row.
SIGN    My own home
SIGN    My fear is not
SIGN    My life
[10:17] Harada
    He predicted which cards she'd go for
[10:19] Harada
    and placed the key cards
    some distance apart.
[10:22] Harada
    When did Eyelashes learn this?
[10:25] Taichi
    I split up the other loaded syllables, too.
[10:27] Taichi
    You're afraid of committing
    faults, aren't you?
[10:30] [POEM] Reader
    While some dodge the famous waves of
    Takashi shore to avoid getting wet,
[10:34] Makoto
    That was a decisive strike!
[10:36] Hyuga
    She took "While some" that quickly?
[10:38] Rion
    She's gotten even better
    at telling sounds apart.
[10:43] Chihaya
    "While some," "While the,"
    "While autumn," "While I,"
[10:46] Chihaya
    "While it brings," "While it
    pains," and "While it may"...
[10:49] Chihaya
    The "While" cards are tough, but...
[10:54] Chihaya
    I think I'm close to figuring them out.
[10:58] Chihaya
    I feel like I was given some kind of hint.
[11:02] Chihaya
    Taichi's placement is hard to work with,
[11:04] [POEM] Reader
    I deflect your artful words
    to keep my sleeves dry
[11:05] Chihaya
    but I just need to play my own karuta.
[11:12] [POEM] Reader
    As the years pass, I will
    find myself longing for
[11:14] Sakura
    He took it after covering it.
[11:16] Sakura
    His motions are smoother... and faster.
[11:19] [POEM] Reader
    Since the dew atop the blades of grass
    has been scattered by the winds,
[11:21] Arata
    She took the exact card she was aiming for.
[11:23] Arata
    And she's fast!
[11:42] Kanade
    Even after an injury,
    getting stuck in a rut,
[11:46] Kanade
    and failing by getting too worked up...
[11:48] Kanade
    The Prez and Captain kept going
    through things like that, and yet...
[12:05] Miyauchi
    Ta...
[12:06] Miyauchi
    Tasuki!
[12:08] Taichi
    E-Excuse us for a moment!
[12:10] Taichi
    Why did you forget that, Chihaya?!
[12:13] Chihaya
    If you'd had yours on,
    I would've remembered!
[12:15] Taichi
    You're blaming me?!
[12:19] Chihaya
    The Yoshino Tournament Class A final...
[12:24] Both
    Okay.
[12:26] Chihaya
    That's where we are, together.
[12:36] Chihaya
    Together.
[12:40] Chihaya
    The sun's gone down, but no one's leaving.
[12:46] Chihaya
    I have to see this through
    with my own karuta!
[12:54] Guy
    What's going on with this match?
[12:56] Guy
    A match between high schoolers,
    in the same society at that,
[13:00] Guy
    shouldn't feel as tense as a
    typical match, but this...
[13:06] Guy
    It's like when those two played in the final
    at the High School Class A Championship.
[13:12] Guy
    Their seriousness wells up,
    and they wring out every last drop.
[13:21] [POEM] Reader
    The night breaks to day,
    and day turns to night,
[13:26] Chihaya
    It's hard to take anything!
[13:28] Chihaya
    He's able to take cards in that
    long top row with thrusts!
[13:32] Nishida
    His placement is so unusual,
    it's making Ayase cautious.
[13:36] Tsutomu
    But this is important.
    Mashima hasn't made any mistakes yet.
[13:41] Nishida
    But how's he doing it?
[13:43] Nishida
    It's his seventh match,
    so he should be exhausted,
[13:46] Nishida
    and he's always had trouble
    forgetting his previous matches...
[13:51] Arata
    I forget the initial layout
    and memorize the current one.
[13:56] Taichi
    That's not as easy as he made it sound.
[14:00] Taichi
    But...
[14:01] [POEM] Reader
    May the scarlet kadsuras of Mount
    Afusaka live up to their name
[14:04] Harada
    He's snatching up cards while Chihaya-chan's
    busy worrying about the top row.
[14:10] Harada
    Eyelashes...
[14:12] Harada
    By making such drastic changes
    to your placement,
[14:16] Harada
    you put pressure on yourself, too...
[14:19] Harada
    along with a sense of adversity and tension.
[14:23] Tsutomu
    He's desperate, but it's working.
[14:26] Nishida
    Just how strong is his
    concentration, anyway?
[14:29] Nishida
    He was already good at memorization,
[14:31] Nishida
    but he's reformed it into
    something even stronger!
[14:35] Sumire
    Mashima-senpai...
[14:37] Sumire
    How can you...
[14:40] Sumire
    How can you pull off something like that?
[14:42] Sumire
    Mashima-senpai...
[14:45] Chihaya
    This is hard.
[14:47] Chihaya
    It's hard to attack his side.
[14:49] Chihaya
    I have to persevere.
[14:51] Chihaya
    Don't lose any of the ones on my side.
[14:53] Chihaya
    Check them over...
[14:54] [POEM] Reader
    and allow us this secret rendezvous
[14:55] Chihaya
    Check them over...
[14:57] Chihaya
    This is hard...
[14:59] Chihaya
    It's hard to breathe...
[15:03] [POEM] Reader
    The emotions experienced after
    a long-awaited reunion
[15:04] Hiroshi
    Chihaya-chan faulted!
[15:06] Arata
    Not only that...
[15:07] Nishida
    It's a semi-double fault!
[15:09] Nishida
    "The emotions" on Taichi's side was read,
SIGN    Semi-Double Fault
SIGN    Correct card
SIGN    Fault
[15:11] Nishida
    and she hit "The sight of
    the" on her own side!
[15:14] Kanade
    The first mistake! That'll hurt!
SIGN    Alas, another autumn has passed in vain
[15:26] Nishida
    He avoided sending "Impassioned"
    to make her try to target it,
[15:29] Nishida
    but now he's sent her
    the last overlapping "Im—" card!
[15:33] Nishida
    One of her target cards
    is on her own side now!
[15:38] Chihaya
    This is hard...
[15:40] Tsutomu
    I didn't know momentum
    could be built this way.
[15:42] Tsutomu
    He's using multiple strategies to
    make her focus on her own side.
[15:47] Tsutomu
    If she takes any, they're on her side.
[15:48] Tsutomu
    She believes in offensive karuta,
    but he's making her play defensively.
[15:54] Chihaya
    It's hard to breathe...
[15:57] Sakura
    Maintain your posture.
[16:04] Chihaya
    Don't close off my chest.
[16:07] Chihaya
    Raise my eye level.
[16:21] Chihaya
    Oh... It's you, Taichi.
[16:23] Taichi
    Huh?
[16:24] Taichi
    Uh, yeah, it's me.
[16:27] [POEM] Reader
    banish any lingering memories of the past
[16:37] [POEM] Reader
    Impassioned was your promise of salvation
[16:39] Arata
    Their hands...
[16:40] Nishida
    He got it, just barely!
[16:42] Nishida
    Right after he sent it!
SIGN    He took his time sending that card.
[16:47] Tsutomu
    Mashima knows where Ayase
    prefers to put "Impassioned."
[16:52] Tsutomu
    Before he even sent that card,
    he'd already memorized where it would be!
[16:58] Taichi
    Are you okay?
[16:59] Chihaya
    Huh?
[17:00] Taichi
    I bumped your finger, right? Are you okay?
[17:04] Chihaya
    Oh... Yeah, I'm fine.
[17:07] Taichi
    Good.
[17:21] Chihaya
    He's Taichi.
[17:25] Chihaya
    He's playing like someone I don't know,
[17:28] Chihaya
    but he's Taichi.
[17:32] Chihaya
    He's Taichi, but he seems like a stranger.
[17:37] Chihaya
    But he's Taichi.
[17:43] Chihaya
    He's the guy who's worked so
    hard with me all this time.
[17:56] Chihaya
    His side... my side...
[17:59] Chihaya
    His side?
[18:00] Chihaya
    My side?
[18:06] [POEM] Reader
    Look for the sound of the cuckoo
SIGN    but instead you see a pale moon in the dawn sky
[18:12] Guy
    "L-Look for the sound"?
[18:14] Lady
    She's fast!
[18:17] Chihaya
    He's Taichi. I don't have to be afraid.
[18:21] Chihaya
    But I don't want to lose.
[18:24] Chihaya
    There's no "his side" or "my side."
[18:26] Chihaya
    Here I come, Taichi!
[18:27] Taichi
    Chihaya, you idiot! I have a plan!
[18:30] Taichi
    I won't play along with
    your contest of speed!
[18:39] Sumire
    Ayase-senpai is looking at Mashima-senpai.
[18:45] Sumire
    She's looking...
[18:47] Sumire
    She's looking at him.
[18:49] Sumire
    Even if it's not out of love or romance...
[18:54] [POEM] Reader
    The hazed early dawn mist
    over the Kawagiri River
[18:56] Chihaya
    He beat me to a multi-syllable card!
[18:58] Taichi
    Better believe it!
[19:00] Sumire
    Those eyes are looking at Mashima-senpai,
    just like he has always wanted...
SIGN    Wh-What is it, Kana-chan?
[19:11] Kanade
    Desktomu-kun, don't you remember?
[19:14] Kanade
    When I played against you in
    the Class D final last year...
[19:19] Kanade
    I was able to give 120 percent
[19:21] Kanade
    because I was playing against you.
[19:24] Kanade
    Because I wasn't all worked up
    about playing my own karuta.
[19:29] Kanade
    To this day, that's still the
    best game I've ever played.
[19:37] Kanade
    Don't you think Chihaya-chan
    and President Mashima
[19:42] Kanade
    are both at their absolute best
    in this match, too?
[19:53] Mom
    Have a good night.
[19:56] Mom
    Everyone's out until late tonight.
[19:59] Mom
    So, dinner for Chihaya...
[20:00] [Messenger] ---
    1 new message
    
    Chihaya's cell
    
    
    
    
    
    
    Close Read
[20:06] Mom
    What?!
[20:07] [Messenger] ---
    Sender: Chihaya's cell
    Subject: Final round
    
    I made it to the final for the first time!
    I'll do my best in the kimono you bought for me!
    You should come watch if you have time, Mom!
[20:08] Chihaya
    I made it to the final for the first time!
[20:10] Chihaya
    I'll do my best in the
    kimono you bought for me!
[20:13] Chihaya
    You should come watch if you have time, Mom!
[20:18] Guy
    The last Class A tournament before
    the Master and Queen qualifiers
[20:22] Guy
    comes down to two high
    schoolers in the final.
[20:25] Guy
    I thought they got here on pure momentum,
    but they're not to be taken lightly.
[20:29] Guy
    What are this year's qualifiers
    going to be like?
[20:33] (Flashback) Hajima
    Arata...
[20:36] (Flashback) Hajime
    When did you have the
    most fun playing karuta?
[20:54] Arata
    What...
[20:57] Arata
    is this?
[21:00] Arata
    What is it?
[21:02] Harada
    Chihaya-chan takes cards,
    and Eyelashes picks them up.
[21:06] Harada
    Who will be the one to
    seize the flow in the end?
[21:11] Harada
    Which one?!
[21:13] Arata
    What is this?
[21:16] Arata
    Why did I lose?
[21:19] Arata
    Why...
[21:21] Arata
    Why aren't I the one
[21:23] Arata
    playing against Chihaya right now?
SIGN    reminds me of the lonely dawns after we parted