E21 - Meaning and Role
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"Koto Club"
"#21 Meaning and Role"
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"Koto Club"
"#21 Meaning and Role"
I wondered what it was about when
you told me to come in at 5:00 am.
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You've been starting your practice
this early every day?
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No wonder you're always here first.
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Aren't you sleepy, though?
You're not exactly a morning person.
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I wanna dive into my bed right now.
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The ensemble by Hozuki and
Miss Dojima was incredible.
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Yeah.
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All this time,
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I've been thinking that I should be able
to play like Hozuki by nationals,
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but I might've been wrong.
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What do you mean?
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I feel we should find our own way
and stand alongside her.
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"Find our own way"?
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Takinami said something about
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thinking about the meaning
and role of our sound, right?
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Well, I still don't know the answer at all,
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but I think it goes beyond just playing
each note with care and skill.
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True. I thought... I had to
practice harder, too, but...
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Chika... Seriously... I sometimes feel
like you're leaving me in the dust.
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But... "we"... huh?
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Okay!
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Let's give a 17-string performance
grand enough
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to match Hozuki's performance!
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Yeah!
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--First, we'll double our current practice time.
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--Hey, Chika... I wanna make sure that I
stand alongside you, too, you know.
--First, we'll double our current practice time.
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--Hey, Chika... I wanna make sure that I
stand alongside you, too, you know.
--Do you know how many hours are in a day?
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You and Mizuhara are becoming
in tune for the second koto part.
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Yeah! Kota has been practicing super hard!
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You and Mittsu seem to be doing well
without any problems.
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Mittsu's performance sounds
delicate and beautiful.
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Yeah!
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But... our first koto performance is plain.
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What?!
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It's kinda serious.
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It's not a laughing matter! We're told
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that the expression of
the piece changes depending on
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how the first and second kotos
are played together, you know!
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This has been bothering me for quite
some time... "Serious and boring."
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What? It's not boring! It's cool!
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What?
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Being "serious" is cool!
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So make the best of it. You guys on
first koto play with some serious style.
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And we, the second koto,
aim to make it lively.
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And...
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Hey, Kurata! Are you listening?!
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Yes, I'm listening! I'm sorry!
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Oh? Miss Dojima! You're early.
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Adachi...
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Are you okay today?
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What?
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Your eyes. If you get dust in them again
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or something happens,
please don't hesitate to tell us.
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I'll probably be okay.
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That's good.
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Whoa! I'm the first here! Lucky me!
I can have Miss Dojima all to myself!
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Please give me special training
until the others come!
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You've been working very hard, Adachi.
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You think so? But Chika works
a lot harder than I do.
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He can play better and has
a better ear for music than me,
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but he practices a lot more than I do.
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Mr. Takinami was talking about
the meaning and the role of our sound.
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I think Chika has a reason to feel this
is really important to him for sure...
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But to be honest, my sound doesn't...
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A-Anyway, I'll work hard so that
I won't hold the others back.
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Your sound harmonizes very well
with all the others'.
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What?
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Mr. Takinami told me the reason why
he picked you for the 17-string.
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The sound quality of our club
members are all different, right?
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So if things go wrong, the music could
become completely disorganized.
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But Adachi's sound harmonizes very well
with all those different sounds.
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It connects everyone's sound very nicely.
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That's why he assigned you the 17-string,
which is the core of the piece.
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He said so, and I agree with him.
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It connects... everyone's sound...
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Thank you very much...
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I'll work hard!
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"Koto Club"
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"Koto Club"
Sane.
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Did you change how you play?
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What? You think so? I can't tell
a difference myself, though.
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It might be because I figured out
the meaning and role of my sound.
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What? You did?! What is it?!
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What? It's a secret.
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It's embarrassing to say it myself.
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--Don't "it's a secret" me!
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--Satowa. Did you change how you play a little?
--Don't "it's a secret" me!
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Yes. My index finger has always been weak.
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I do think it's getting a lot better lately,
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but after I heard your performance,
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I realized I still had
a long way to go after all.
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I'm having a hard time giving
every note the same weight.
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If you'd like, please use this.
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Play wearing this. I often practice that way.
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Your total attention goes to your ears
and your senses get finely honed,
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which makes it easier to
converse with your own sound.
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You can have it, so try it
when you practice alone.
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Thank you very much.
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You're welcome.
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I have to hurry up and move forward, too.
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"Chika Kudo"
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"Chika Kudo"
I have to hurry up and stand alongside her.
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I have to hurry up and stand alongside her.
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I have to... hurry up...
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Crap... I feel kinda woozy.
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Oh, good morning. I was finally able
to come in before you.
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Four-eyes...
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You've been practicing
this early every day, huh?
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Not really...
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I'm a total morning person,
so I wake up early.
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Well, it's not convincing
when you look so sleepy.
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Kudo. Aren't you overdoing it
with practice lately?
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Hm? What do you mean? I'm not overdoing it.
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Rather, I'm not practicing enough.
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We've got only one month
before the competition.
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His fingers...! Just how much
has he been practicing...?!
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You're practicing too much!
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I said it's not enough!
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As it stands, we can't go to nationals!
I have to practice more!
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I do get how you feel, but you're
still a first-year student!
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So don't be so hasty.
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You'll still have a chance next year to--
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Next year won't work for you guys!
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Next year... will be too late.
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If you get it, move. You're in the way of--
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I forbid you to practice!
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--What?!
--Doing it too much is counterproductive!
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Shut up! I can't get better
without practicing, you idiot!
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I'm telling you to think about how you do it!
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Shut the hell up!
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--Hey! I said no practice!
--Let go of me!
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Dammit! What are we doing?
We wasted a lot of time.
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It was a good diversion, wasn't it?
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There's something I've been wondering...
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...about your sound.
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Wh-What is it?!
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Your sound... sometimes shines...
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"Sh-Shines"...?
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Yeah. Sometimes.
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It shines...
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...very gently...
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...and warmly.
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I've been curious what that sound
is about all this time...
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But I think I finally know what it is.
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That sound is your soul itself.
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It's your soul itself.
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Shoot! I said exactly what
I thought without thinking!
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What the heck? You must've
hit your head or something.
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I shouldn't have said that.
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Hey, Chika.
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You know sound? It touches people's souls.
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And pieces of music are the souls
of the people who create them.
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I don't know what this piece
means to you, but...
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To tell you the truth,
I played this piece hoping
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that people would smile after listening to it.
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See the entire piece thoroughly.
Understand its flow.
[10:22] ---
Akira. We have guests,
so please prepare some tea for them.
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Guests?
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Mr. Takagi... The others are all senior
members of the Hozuki School, too.
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Come see them later to say hello.
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Make tea for the grand master, too.
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Grandmother.
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Is it okay... for me to sit in the meeting, too?
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Sure. Come with me.
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Hmph. I don't like the look in her eyes...
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But she won't be able to do anything anyway.
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Well, she can just sit there and watch quietly.
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Since Akira is taking her time
shutting down that club,
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I'll put an end to it for good.
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What is this about?
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"I wanna do it, too."
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I called for this meeting in order to
discuss the grand master's daughter.
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She was excommunicated after causing
trouble for the school before
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and now, she is about to
jeopardize the school again.
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"Jeopardize the school"?
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Satowa belongs to a koto club
at her high school right now.
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But it's only a koto club in name.
They're a group of delinquents.
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Oh, I'm sorry. It was just anticlimactic, so...
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That's Mr. Takagi's son...
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I wondered what this was about.
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The excommunicated daughter's club activities?
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It's not something we, adults,
have to meet and--
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Even if one of the delinquents has
gotten into trouble with the police?
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"Strawberry Au Lait"
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"Strawberry Au Lait"
Oh? Chika. Aren't you going to
the lunch-break practice today?
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Oh? Chika. Aren't you going to
the lunch-break practice today?
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That damn four-eyes forbade me
to go until my hand heals.
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Your hand?
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Oh, I get it. You practiced like an idiot,
right? Use your head at little.
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Shut up.
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Satowa. You're going to the practice now?
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Yeah.
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Well then, see you later.
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Kudo...
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Got a minute?
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Huh?
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Ahhh! What's going on?!
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--Is he gonna confess his love?!
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--I was worried about Satowa,
so I investigated the club.
--Is he gonna confess his love?!
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I heard that one of the club members
named Kudo is a famous delinquent.
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He got in trouble with the police
many times due to his violence.
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Violence?!
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It seems that his grandfather is a koto maker.
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This is hard to believe, but he even caused
an outrageous incident last year,
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attacking his grandfather's house
with his delinquent friends.
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Attack?!
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Rather than just a delinquent,
that sounds like he's a criminal.
[13:14] ---
Kudo did...?
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I really wanna know what
kind of piece "Tenkyu" is.
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"What kind"?
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I wanna know what kind of situation
you were in at the time,
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what you were thinking,
and who you created this piece for.
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My granddad said...
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...that pieces of music are "the souls
of the people who create them."
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So I don't wanna play it without
knowing those things.
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Actually, since I've been playing it
without knowing them,
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I feel like something has been
missing all this time.
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It'll be a story solely about my family.
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Is that gonna help your performance?
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It'll help a lot!
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Okay.
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You're saying that Satowa is hanging out
with such a dangerous boy?
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Yes. Satowa must hate Hozuki
since she was excommunicated.
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This boy and Satowa being in
a koto club together made me think...
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...that they might be plotting
something like "revenge."
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Play one more time.
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We're not neglecting them.
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I threw a tantrum on that big stage.
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I-I'd like to play... with you.
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Satowa's actions at the competition
severely demeaned the Hozuki name.
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We must do everything to prevent
further damage to Hozuki's reputation.
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We'll ask the school to disband the club
and have Satowa transfer to another--
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How stupid...
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What?
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You couldn't hear me? I said, "How stupid."
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Akira...? What're you--?
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I've held my tongue as you talked,
but "revenge"? That's ridiculous.
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How can you say things like that when
you don't know anything about Kudo?
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You're the one who's plotting
something, right, Grandmother?!
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You've been secretly snooping
around on high school students
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and now you're just saying whatever,
whether it's true or not!
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You're the one who is outrageous,
Grandmother!
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Do you know this student Kudo?
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Yes. I've been giving lessons
to that koto club.
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The idea they're plotting
"revenge" is nonsense.
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I see. Then--
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Akira! You poor dear!
It must be that you're exhausted!
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You must not know what you're saying.
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No, I do know very well what I'm saying.
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But you should take a second
look at yourself, Grandmother.
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Wha...?!
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It's true... that due to
the preconceptions I had,
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I just assumed that the students
were not serious about the koto.
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But I was wrong.
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Kudo and Satowa, and of course,
the other members too,
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face the koto very seriously.
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They just purely love the koto...
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...and want to become better at it.
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You're the only one who cannot
always face the koto, Grandmother!
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All you think about
are things like your position,
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making the school famous,
and dragging others down.
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Why don't you stop that and face
the koto for a change?
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A-A-Akira... Who do you think
you're talking--?
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Ms. Dojima...
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That's enough. You put your granddaughter
in this difficult position.
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Mr. Takagi...
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Akira. Is this student Kudo really someone
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who's going to be harmful
to Satowa or the Hozuki School?
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I don't know what he was like in the past,
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but right now, his attitude towards
the koto is very earnest and sincere.
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I see.
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What do you guys think? I don't think
we need to be concerned right--
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Hold on a second, please!
Even if he's not causing problems now,
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human nature doesn't change so easi--
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That's enough!
[17:25] ---
No further discussion
on this subject is necessary.
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Ms. Dojima. Please show them out.
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You, too, Grand Master?!
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Also...
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I won't allow you to investigate
my daughter and her friends
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and say whatever you like!
I find it repugnant!
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Although I did excommunicate her...
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...she's still my daughter.
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Grand Master.
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She feels that club and her friends
are precious enough for her
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to even get down on her hands and
knees to ask a favor of me, right?
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I think so.
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Then that's fine.
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The qualifier for nationals
will be held next month.
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Satowa will perform, too.
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Grand Master, why don't you come see it?
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I no longer have...
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...the right to do that.
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Mr. Takagi. I'm sorry for behaving
like that in front of everyone.
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That's okay.
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I was relieved to find out
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that Hozuki still has a young person
like you with such backbone.
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I look forward to your successful future.
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Thank you very much.
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Hmph! Backbone, he said?!
[18:41] ---
That club is full of troublemakers.
I bet they'll cause trouble someday.
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When they do, don't come crying to me!
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So it was like that...
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...up to the point when "Tenkyu" was created.
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I see.
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Got it. Thanks.
[19:10] ---
Hey, do you mind telling the others
what you just told me?
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What?
[19:15] ---
I finally feel like I can figure out
how I should play that piece.
[19:19] ---
But stories about my family would only be...
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It might irritate us if it were a family story
of someone we don't care about,
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but it's different in your case.
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Different?
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We do care about you.
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Well, I'm not gonna force you, though.
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Why... is Kudo always like this?
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Always...
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Kudo. I'll treat you to a Paplico.
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What?! Why?!
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I just felt like it.
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I wonder someday...
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...if I could return...
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...the same amount of warmth...
you gave me...
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Someday...
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"Koto Club"
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"Koto Club"
There.
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"Koto Club"
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The spot where it livens up while
each part becomes the theme in turn...
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Can you make those handoffs smoother?
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Smoother?
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So smooth that the listener
can't tell when they happened.
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And, from there, it's like you'll
gradually show your own tone color.
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You can sing to your heart's content.
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Just make sure you lock down the tempo.
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I see...
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This is the best part of the piece,
so play with your sound
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to your heart's content.
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And Hozuki.
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You play the start of the piece very softly,
but can you make it a little tense?
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Tense?
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You're probably doing it unconsciously,
but your sound is overall gentle.
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You seem to completely deny your
performance from the competition,
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but that sound had an incredible power.
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Don't get rid of it. Make the best use of it.
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By putting that sound in the piece,
the other parts will shine more.
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Okay.
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Sounds like it'll be an amazing performance.
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I wonder when the last time was...
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...that I felt excited like this...
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"Keishi"
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Thus...
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...with each of us conveying
our feelings in our sound...
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"Ms. Chiharu Hozuki"
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...the qualifier for nationals...
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...was about to begin.
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Next time, "Morning of the Showdown."
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"#22 Morning of the Showdown"
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