9 - The Beauty of Flowers, Bird Steps, and Moon
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SIGN Silver General
[00:13] Piyo
You play shogi, too?
[00:15] Takeru
Sort of. Just for fun, though.
[00:21] Piyo
Tsume shogi?
[00:26] [SONG] Text
Bishop
[00:31] Nya
Mornin'!
[00:33] Nya
What're you playing this boring game for?
[00:36] Takeru
Shogi is not boring.
[00:38] Piyo
It's no game, either.
[00:40] Nya
I'm... sorry.
[01:02] [SONG] Title
ETOTAMA
SIGN Episode 9: The Beauty of Flowers,
Bird Steps, and Moon
[02:27] Piyo
I told you, I won't let a stupid cat like you
[02:30] Piyo
have your way all the time, stupid cat!
[02:31] Nya
Don't call me stupid!
[02:33] Piyo
What's wrong with calling
a stupid cat "stupid"?
[02:35] Piyo
Just get out of here!
[02:36] Nya
I won't! I'm going to join the—
[02:38] Piyo
The zodiac doesn't need a stupid cat!
[02:40] Piyo
You'll never be part of it!
[02:42] Nya
The ETM12 rules say if I get
[02:44] Nya
all twelve of your Sol/Lull Seals, I can!
[02:47] Piyo
Oh? Then how many do you have now?
[02:50] Nya
Mo-tan, Usa-tan, Mei-tan, Shima-tan,
[02:53] Nya
Key, Inu, Shar-tan, and Uma-tan!
[02:56] Piyo
You're still missing four.
[02:58] Nya
It'll be fine!
[02:59] Piyo
You think you can beat Chu-tan?
[03:01] Piyo
The strongest of the Eto-shin?
[03:03] Piyo
How? Do you have a plan?
[03:05] Piyo
Do you have the confidence?
Do you have any basis to back that up?
[03:09] Nya
T-Takeru...
[03:12] Takeru
Look how dirty it is now...
[03:15] Nya
Um... Takeru-han?
[03:19] Piyo
Chu-tan aside, you'll never defeat me.
[03:24] Nya
I can beat you! Choose your method
of battle right now, Piyo-tan!
[03:28] Piyo
Shogi.
[03:29] Nya
Okay! Let's get the Sol/Lull Seal battle—
[03:31] Takeru
Don't underestimate shogi.
[03:34] Takeru
Shogi is the universe.
[03:39] Nya
Uh...
[03:40] Nya
Okay, anyway, the Sol/Lull Seal battle—
[03:43] Takeru
I'm saying...
[03:44] Takeru
Wait, Nya-tan.
[03:47] Nya
Why?
[03:49] Takeru
You don't know anything about shogi yet.
[03:52] Takeru
You should first play a casual game
[03:55] Takeru
with Piyo-tan, unbound by rules.
SIGN King
[04:01] Nya
I just put these pieces
of wood on the board?
[04:10] Piyo
Now, let us begin, Nya-tan-san.
[04:13] Nya
Huh?! Who are you now?!
SIGN Eto Rank Master Piyo
[04:17] Piyo
Eto rank: Master Piyo.
[04:18] Nya
Who's that?!
[04:20] Takeru
The game between Master Piyo and
[04:23] Takeru
Nya-tan will now begin.
[04:25] Piyo
Wait a moment. The handicap...
[04:28] Takeru
You're right. She'll need a handicap.
[04:32] [SONG] Text
Pawn
[04:33] [SONG] Text
Naked King
[04:33] Takeru
Naked king and three pawns.
SIGN Three Pawns
[04:35] Piyo
Let us play.
[04:37] Nya
We'll play, all right!
SIGN King
[04:39] [SONG] Text
Promoted Pawn
[04:39] Piyo
Check.
[04:40] Takeru
Nya-tan has lost this game.
[04:43] Nya
What?
[04:44] Nya
Why? How did I lose?
[04:47] Takeru
When your king is cornered, you lose.
[04:50] Piyo
This is not worth my time.
[04:52] Piyo
You can never defeat me with
that childish mentality.
[04:56] Nya
Don't lecture me like some bigshot
over a dumb game like shogi!
[05:01] Takeru
Nya-tan, shogi is not a "dumb game."
[05:04] Takeru
Shogi is the universe.
[05:06] Nya
Sorry, Takeru, you keep saying that,
[05:09] Nya
but I have no idea what it means.
[05:11] Piyo
Indeed...
[05:12] Piyo
Shogi is the universe.
[05:15] Takeru
Shogi is numbers, flow, and logic.
[05:19] Takeru
Within that framework,
energy streams outward,
[05:23] Takeru
never breaking, always upholding the rules.
[05:26] Takeru
Just like the universe,
[05:27] Takeru
still expanding infinitely even now.
[05:32] Piyo
Shogi is body, mind, and existence itself.
[05:36] Piyo
It is all living things in
this world materialized.
[05:40] Piyo
It is born and grows within us,
[05:43] Piyo
sometimes changing as we
battle with ourselves.
[05:46] Piyo
It is eternal.
[05:48] Piyo
It only makes sense to liken such a thing to
[05:51] Piyo
the universe that gave our
world its beginning.
[05:53] Nya
Um, um...
[05:55] Nya
Okay, just take three steps
and forget everythi—
[05:58] Takeru
You can't pretend it never happened
[06:00] Takeru
just because it's turned into a pain.
[06:03] Nya
I'll make you see that no matter
what cool things you say,
[06:05] Nya
you'll forget it instantly anyway!
[06:08] Piyo
I know that!
[06:10] Piyo
Once I take three steps, I forget.
[06:13] Piyo
I forget almost everything.
[06:15] Piyo
But as is the nature of the rooster clan,
[06:17] Piyo
only negative emotions remain in me forever,
[06:20] Piyo
piling higher and higher.
SIGN King
[06:22] [SONG] Text
Promoted Pawn
[06:22] Piyo
When I was about to be engulfed
by those negative emotions,
[06:25] Piyo
only shogi could save me.
[06:27] Piyo
While playing shogi, I can become empty.
[06:30] Piyo
By playing shogi, I can be myself.
[06:34] Takeru
I understand how you feel.
[06:36] Nya
Seriously?!
SIGN point
[06:41] Nya
Play me one more time!
[06:43] Piyo
I refuse.
[06:45] Piyo
As you are now, you can
only play useless shogi.
[06:50] Nya
Takeru! Train me in how to play shogi!
SIGN Menacing
[06:54] Nya
I won't lose to that chicken who
falls flat off the starting line!
[06:57] Piyo
Interesting.
[06:58] Piyo
Then, when your training is
complete, I'll play you again.
[07:01] Piyo
With our Sol/Lull Seals
on the line this time.
[07:04] Nya
All right! I'll be waiting!
[07:11] Nya
Takeru, train me!
[07:16] Takeru
Nya-tan, you already know how
each piece moves, right?
[07:21] Nya
Of course I do! Perfectly!
[07:23] Inu
That's a huge shogi board!
[07:25] Dora
I made it with my Sol/Lull.
[07:27] Dora
It's my special Shogi
Master Training Board.
[07:31] Takeru
Okay, start with the pawn!
[07:32] [SONG] Text
Pawn
[07:32] Nya
Pawn!
[07:33] Nya
Pawn, pawn...
[07:38] Takeru
The pawn can only move forward
one space at a time!
[07:41] Key
Scary...
[07:42] Shima
Making her learn shogi physically, huh?
[07:44] Uri
That shogi board is the
materialization of what happens
[07:46] Uri
when Takeru-san gets serious,
expressed through the power of Eto-shin.
SIGN Rook
[07:50] Takeru
Next, the rook!
[07:52] Nya
Hi-meow!
[07:55] Takeru
The rook can only move up,
down, left, or right!
SIGN Bishop
[07:58] Nya
Hot!
[07:59] Takeru
The bishop can move any number
of spaces diagonally!
SIGN Silver General
[08:02] Nya
Hot again!
[08:04] Takeru
Silver can only move one space
forward or diagonally!
SIGN Gold General
[08:07] Nya
Uri!
[08:09] Takeru
Gold can move one space in any
direction but diagonally backwards!
SIGN Knight
[08:12] Nya
Horse!
[08:13] Takeru
The knight moves two spaces forward,
then one space to either left or right!
SIGN Lance
SIGN Eek!
[08:17] Nya
Cow!
[08:18] Takeru
The lance moves straight ahead!
SIGN Eek!
[08:21] Takeru
By the way, kings can move
one space in any direction!
SIGN Pant Pant
[08:27] Nya
Shogi... is terrifying...
SIGN Pant Pant
[08:30] Takeru
Have you learned how the pieces move now?
[08:33] Inu
She's totally learned it.
[08:34] Key
In the form of trauma.
[08:36] Dora
So this training is to make
her learn it physically
[08:38] Dora
as well as to train her mentally, then?
[08:41] Shima
Get a little stronger now
while ya can, Nya-tan.
[08:45] Takeru
That's it for today!
[08:47] Takeru
All right, let's begin today's training.
[08:50] Nya
Okay!
[08:54] Takeru
Today, we'll use Dora-tan's special
[08:56] Takeru
Shogi Master Training Screen Door Board
[08:59] Takeru
to play blindfolded shogi.
[09:01] Nya
Blindfolded shogi?
[09:03] Takeru
You play shogi in your head.
[09:06] Takeru
Picture the shogi board, imagine your hand,
[09:09] Takeru
and predict the opponent's moves.
[09:10] Nya
I can't do that!
[09:12] Takeru
If you can't do this,
you can never beat Piyo-tan.
[09:17] Nya
Okay, fine! I'll do it!
[09:19] Nya
7-6, pawn!
[09:22] Takeru
Then I'll...
[09:23] Nya
Where? Where?!
[09:27] Nya
That's dangerous!
[09:28] Takeru
That was 8-4, pawn.
[09:30] Takeru
You need to predict where I'll move
and dodge it, or you'll be stabbed.
[09:34] Uri
Yep, yep!
[09:35] Nya
Are you serious?
[09:36] Nya
In that case...
[09:37] Nya
6-8, silver!
[09:40] Takeru
6-2, silver!
[09:42] Takreu
That one might have been easy to predict.
[09:45] Nya
5-6, pawn!
[09:49] Takeru
That was 5-4, pawn!
[09:55] Nya
Hey, you boar!
[09:56] Uri
I just added a little spice to it.
[09:58] Nya
Don't spice it up without warning!
[10:00] Nya
And you know, I can't
think calmly like this!
[10:03] Takeru
You won't always be in situations
where you can think calmly!
[10:07] Takeru
Come on! We're not stopping
until the sun goes down!
[10:09] Mo
Nya-tan, you can do it!
SIGN
Even a Cat Can Understand!
Introduction to Basic Shogi Moves
[10:15] Takeru
The quickest way to learn how to play shogi
[10:18] Takeru
is to memorize all the shogi proverbs.
SIGN Certain Victory
SIGN Book of Shogi Proverbs
[10:21] Nya
There are so many complicated words...
[10:24] Takeru
The strategies themselves are often
expressed in these proverbs.
[10:28] Takeru
So you should...
[10:36] Takeru
I think that's all for today.
SIGN
If an Eto-musume collects Sol/Lull Seals from all of the Eto-shin,
she will be promoted to Eto-shin. The newly-promoted Eto-shin
earns the right to demote one Eto-shin to Eto-musume.
SIGN
The Zodiac Precepts protect the chaste souls of the Eto
and govern the Eto-shin Selection Festival (ETM12).
Any Eto-musume who violates these Precepts
will be judged by the Conference of Gods.
[10:51] Nya
Here I come!
[10:55] Takeru
Don't give up!
[10:56] Takeru
Hold on to the powerful
desire to play shogi!
[11:05] Takeru
Nya-tan! With a half-hearted attitude,
[11:07] Takeru
you can't even touch a shogi board!
[11:10] Nya
One more time! Here I come!
[11:15] Takeru
You're not feeling it enough!
[11:17] Nya
I won't lose...
[11:20] Nya
I won't lose!
[11:23] Takeru
3-4, pawn!
[11:25] Nya
6-6, pawn!
[11:26] Takeru
4-2, silver!
[11:28] Nya
5-8, silver, right!
SIGN Book of Shogi Proverbs
[11:44] [SONG] Text
Amazing!
[11:50] Takeru
3-2, gold!
[11:52] Takeru
4-1, king!
[11:54] Takeru
5-3, gold!
[12:13] ---
SIGN King
SIGN Please take one
[12:31] Takeru
Let's go.
[12:33] Nya
Yeah!
[12:34] Nya
First off, 2-6, pawn!
[12:38] Takeru
3-4, pawn!
[12:40] Takeru
2-5, pawn!
[12:42] Takeru
3-3, bishop!
[12:44] Nya
I can tell... I can tell!
[12:47] Nya
7-6, pawn!
[12:48] Takeru
The fight's on!
[12:56] Nya
Your move is 2-2, silver.
[13:00] Takeru
Well done, Nya-tan!
[13:02] Takeru
You read my moves perfectly!
[13:06] Nya
Shogi is all about getting
into your opponent's head.
[13:10] Nya
Knowing what your opponent is thinking,
[13:12] Nya
and how you should fight them...
[13:15] Nya
To always have an eye on the future.
[13:17] Takeru
That's how you read their moves.
[13:20] Takeru
Let's play a game tonight.
[13:22] Nya
Okay.
[13:24] Inu
We've been totally left behind, haven't we?
[13:27] Key
Yeah.
[14:00] Nya
This is...
[14:12] Takeru
You've done well to come this far.
[14:13] Nya
Takeru, shogi is really fun.
[14:17] Takeru
Nya-tan.
[14:19] Nya
I was playing
[14:20] Nya
against myself just now.
[14:23] Takeru
Yes... That's why shogi is the universe.
[14:26] Takeru
Your face looks much better,
[14:29] Takeru
Nya-tan.
[14:31] Both
Thank you for the game.
[14:33] Key
Will this really be okay?
[14:35] Uri
Will what be okay?
[14:36] Inu
This anime.
[14:40] Mo
Oh, she's here!
[14:45] Piyo
It looks like you've made progress.
[14:48] Nya
It's time to battle!
[14:52] Piyo
Then let's start the game!
[14:54] [SONG] Text
Approved
[14:56] Both
Etotama! Sol/Lull Charge!
SIGN Rooster Cat
[15:14] Nya
Cat Eto-musume, Nya-tan!
[15:18] Piyo
Rooster Eto-musume, Piyo-tan!
[15:47] Nya
Today, I am me, but I am not me.
[15:51] Piyo
My moves are the moves of motionlessness.
[15:54] Nya
A pawn is worth a thousand golds.
[15:57] Piyo
The battle begins with a pawn's sacrifice.
[16:01] Key
Um...
[16:02] Inu
What are they talking about?
[16:04] Takeru
Nya-tan said, "If you get careless because
[16:07] Takeru
you think I'm a lower rank, you'll lose."
[16:10] Takeru
And Piyo-tan said,
"That confidence just because
[16:13] Takeru
you can play shogi a little now
[16:15] Takeru
is what will bring about your defeat."
[16:17] InuKey
Oh...
[16:18] Uri
They're having a conversation
with shogi proverbs.
[16:21] Shima
This has gotten pretty wild.
[16:23] Takeru
They're starting.
[16:30] Takeru
Nekodamashi?
SIGN Nekodamashi
[16:33] Dora
That's a rather unusual move to start with.
[16:36] Takeru
No, the nekodamashi isn't
a tricky move at all.
[16:41] Takeru
The patterns of moves that could
begin here are infinite.
[16:44] Nya
A moment ago, you said your
moves are motionless.
[16:49] Nya
My moves are nomadic.
[16:51] Nya
I allow them to dance as
freely as they wish.
[16:55] Takeru
Nya-tan, your moves are building up a flow!
[17:06] Takeru
This is good! Nya-tan has the advantage!
[17:18] Piyo
I had thought this might be
[17:20] Piyo
an interesting game, but...
[17:27] Takeru
A torisashi now?!
SIGN Torisashi
[17:28] Key
What happened?
[17:30] Inu
I have no idea!
[17:32] Takeru
That one move by Piyo-tan just
turned the tide of this game.
[17:35] InuKey
What?!
[17:36] Shima
How? What's going on?
[18:01] Piyo
You were drifting about within
[18:03] Piyo
the flow that I created.
[18:07] Piyo
You thought you had arrived
on the other side,
[18:10] Piyo
but you were still adrift in the
midst of this great river.
[18:14] Key
Is Nya-tan gonna lose?
[18:17] Takeru
It'll be really difficult to get
out of her current position.
[18:21] Takeru
Honestly, in the same position,
I'd have no plan.
[18:23] All
What?!
[18:24] Shima
Well, I dunno what's goin' on,
[18:26] Shima
but this is turnin' into
one intense battle.
[18:30] Dora
Yes, this isn't like Nya-tan at all.
[18:34] Takeru
I might have been suppressing what's
[18:36] Takeru
great about Nya-tan...
[18:39] Takeru
Nya-tan! There's a saying
I haven't taught you yet!
[18:43] Takeru
If you learn this proverb too soon,
[18:45] Takeru
you can never learn to play shogi properly.
[18:48] Takeru
That's why I didn't tell you.
[18:50] Takeru
But...
[18:51] Takeru
You're ready now!
SIGN A Master
[18:55] Takeru
A master needs no patterns!
[18:56] [SONG] ---
Needs No Patterns
[18:59] Takeru
A shogi master doesn't rely
on standard patterns alone,
[19:02] Takeru
but reads and uses many
unique moves to win!
[19:05] Takeru
That's what the proverb means.
[19:09] Nya
A master needs no patterns...
[19:11] Nya
That's right!
[19:17] Nya
To walk the magnificent path of the
past that is standard patterns,
[19:22] Nya
striving for one's own desired
destination at its end...
[19:30] Nya
Is this... a piece of me?
[19:37] Nya
I felt like
[19:39] Nya
I was on the verge of
remembering something...
[19:43] Nya
I finally understand!
[19:46] Nya
Shogi is the universe!
[19:48] Nya
I'll embrace that universe
[19:50] Nya
and play shogi my way!
[20:01] Nya
Cat clan secret technique:
SIGN Nekojarashi
[20:03] Nya
Nekojarashi!
[20:20] Piyo
What?
[20:22] Piyo
What is that?
[20:28] Piyo
I've lost.
[20:31] Nya
Thank you for the game.
[20:38] Takeru
Sh-She won...
[20:41] Takeru
Nya-tan won!
[20:43] All
All right!
[20:46] Nya
M-My feet...
[20:49] Nya
Th-They're numb...
SIGN Ache Ache
SIGN Rooster
[20:51] Nya
It hurts! It hurts! It really hurts!
[20:54] Nya
What is this?! I hate shogi!
[20:56] Nya
It's boring! It's no fun at all!
[20:58] Nya
I've had enough! I'll never play it again!
[21:00] Nya
I'm hungry! I'm having yakiniku
to celebrate my victory!
SIGN Step
SIGN Steps
SIGN Steps
[21:12] Piyo
Hey! Why do you have my Sol/Lull Seal?!
[21:16] Nya
I won it from you in battle!
[21:18] Piyo
What? That's impossible! Don't lie!
[21:21] Nya
I'm not lying! I put up a really good fight!
[21:23] Takeru
Good grief...
[21:23] Piyo
Stop lying, you stupid cat!
[21:25] Nya
What'd you say, stupid?!
[21:35] Nya
I'm gonna go get Takeru!
[21:35] Takeru
She turned back into the
old Nya-tan in no time.
[21:37] All
Okay!
[21:39] Takeru
I wanted to play one more game with her...
[21:42] Nya
Takeru, we're ready to start
cooking the yakiniku!
[21:44] Takeru
Okay, I'll be right there.
[21:54] Nya
Okay, now let's go have yakiniku!
[21:56] Nya
Meat! Meat! Meat!
[22:00] Takeru
Nya-tan needs no patterns.
SIGN Next Time
[23:35] Piyo
Here's the fortune for those born
in the year of the rooster.
[23:37] Piyo
Whatever you do, don't hang
around any stupid cats.
[23:40] Piyo
That is al—
[23:42] Piyo
Er... Huh? What was I talking about?
[23:45] Nya
You took three steps.
[23:47] Takeru
Next time: Eternal Pervert.
SIGN Eternal Pervert
SIGN Remember this until next week!
SIGN Illustration: Sasaki Mikoi
SIGN You... Stupid cat!!!
SIGN Rooster
SIGN Cheep Cheep