# E3 - The Koto Club Reborn
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GREXNDZ9Y/the-koto-club-reborn)
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We're almost done with the repairs.
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We can finally get back
to doing normal club stuff!
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"Nishina Instruments"
Even with the instruments back,
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"Nishina Instruments"
if we don't get two more members
within the month, we'll be disbanded.
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"Nishina Instruments"
Because of a *certain someone*,
we haven't even had any visitors yet.
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"Nishina Instruments"
What did you say?!
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I heard you're a pretty infamous
delinquent around here.
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When the rumor that he joined the club spread,
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people probably got too scared
to even approach us.
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Says you! Why don't you bring
one or two of your girl friends?!
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Oh, is that no good!? You got no friends?!
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Unfortunately!
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I've been surrounded by adults
my whole life so no one's on my level.
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Anyway!
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If we don't get anyone to join
and we disband, it'll be your fault!
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"#3 The Koto Club Reborn"
Jeez.
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"#3 The Koto Club Reborn"
If some baby's hesitating 'cause
I'm there, we don't need 'em.
**[02:20] ---**
Chika! It's been so long!
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Kota, stop!
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Yo, Tetsuki. Chika.
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Sane, Mittsu!
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By the way, Chika.
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I heard you actually joined the koto club.
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Following in your late granddad's footsteps...
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Wah, you're making me cry, damn it!
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Ugh, you guys are annoying!
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Crap.
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Whoa, cute! Who is she?!
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Hello, Kudo.
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Are these people your friends, perhaps?
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Yes, we're Kudo's friends!
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Nice to meet you. I'm Satowa Hozuki,
also from the koto club.
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Nice to meet you, too!
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Hey, don't be deceived guys!
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This girl has a split personality
that's unthinkably mean--
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How dare you say such things
about a frail young girl!
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I envy you, being in a club with a cute girl.
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Maybe I should join the koto club, too.
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Oh, please do!
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Huh?
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We're actually short on members.
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If nothing changes soon, we'll be disbanded.
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And plus...
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...if delightful people like you were to join,
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I'd be so happy.
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We'll join!
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Hold it right there!
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We'll become the koto club's saviors!
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What the hell are you thinking?
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They're all actually thinking of doing this!
What are we gonna do?
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We don't really need them
to play the koto, right?
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All we need is their names.
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As long as they put their names down
for the club, we won't be disbanded.
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E-Evil...
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I-If you keep doing stuff like this,
you'll never have friends.
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I don't need any.
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I'm used to being alone anyway.
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"Koto Club"
And with that,
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we are the koto club's saviors:
Saneyasu Adachi...
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...Michitaka Sakai...
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...and Kota Mizuhara!
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S-Saviors? Wh-What's going on...?
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Don't worry about it.
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They'll get bored and leave soon anyway.
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"Club Application Form"
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Those damn delinquents...
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"Nishina Instruments"
Whoa, awesome! There's so many!
**[04:22] ---**
Looks like the noisy one has multiplied.
**[04:24] ---**
Here, plectrums and their bands.
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Choose some that fit.
**[04:28] ---**
Hozuki!
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Could you pick out plectrums for Kudo?
**[04:31] ---**
What?!
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Why me...?
**[04:34] ---**
I'm... gonna go help out over there, so...
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I'll leave it to you.
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Let me see your hand.
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I don't... know much about koto schools,
**[04:52] ---**
but it means your parents
play the koto too, right?
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What of it?
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Nothing really...
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So did you learn from your parents?
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That's none of your business.
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Wha--
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What's with this girl's fingertips?
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They're so hard.
**[05:10] ---**
"For woodworking
glue"
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Whoa, my own plectrums!
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Is three plectrums enough?
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Yup, since you use your fingers for the rest.
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Is everyone finished?
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Uh, yes!
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Right then.
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That'll be 5,000 yen per person.
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F-Five thousand yen?!
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What? We have to pay for this?!
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--Of course you do.
--Damn it... I forgot about money...
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I'll definitely bring more tomorrow!
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For the time being, this is all I have.
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Do you have a way of getting money?
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I-I'll figure something out.
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Money doesn't just come out of nowhere.
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Once I save up some money, I'll come back...
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S-Sorry, Kudo. I wasn't thinking.
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That's right, idiot four-eyes!
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Huh?
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You did help us repair the kotos, after all.
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I'll consider that payment.
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Ah, then... what about ours...?
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I'm not so kind as to give freebies to idiots
who aren't really interested.
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"Should've known..."
Should've known...
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I'll use them well...
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That's why I'm giving them to you.
**[06:26] ---**
How was it yesterday? With Sane and everyone.
**[06:29] ---**
It was useless. They just made
a fuss and went home.
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Ah, as expected?
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I mean, they're not gonna come back, anyway.
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Joining the club was just them
getting carried... away...
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Yo, Chika! You're late!
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Why are you guys here again?!
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You don't even wanna play the koto, right?!
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Yeah, we won't be playing,
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but you guys can enter competitions
without us, right?
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We don't mind lending
our names to the koto club.
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Yay, we're geniuses!
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You guys...
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This is exactly as she planned!
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Idiot! You fell for it, didn't you?!
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--Shuddup, idiot!
--Hey, guys!
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If you're gonna get violent,
do it somewhere else!
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Hmph, as I thought.
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I thought it'd be like this.
**[07:14] ---**
V-Vice-principal?!
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Crap...
**[07:16] ---**
What a joke of a club.
**[07:18] ---**
I'll report this to the principal,
and he'll deal--
**[07:21] ---**
Who would join a club just to fool around!
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Hmph. If that's the case,
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why don't you let me hear you play right now?
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We can't!
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We were just about to start practicing.
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Then I give you a week.
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If in a week's time you can perform
in a way that satisfies me,
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then I'll approve of the club.
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B-But...
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Bring it on!
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We can satisfy you in a week--
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One month...
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Can you please at least give us a month?
**[07:48] ---**
Hozuki!
**[07:50] ---**
Please excuse me for cutting in.
**[07:53] ---**
I'm also of the koto club.
**[07:55] ---**
*You* are?
**[07:56] ---**
We could probably manage
a simple piece in a week.
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However, that would surely
not satisfy you, correct?
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So, one month.
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If given that,
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we can do a performance that'll make
the whole school approve.
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Wait-- Hozuki?!
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Are you serious?
**[08:17] ---**
Of course.
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All right, all right!
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I'm looking forward to hearing you in a month.
**[08:26] ---**
H-Hozuki, why did you say that?!
**[08:29] ---**
Whatever we play in front
of that vice-principal,
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in the end he'll just say, "I'm not satisfied."
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But if we do a huge performance
in front of everyone,
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he'll have no choice but to approve.
**[08:42] ---**
Y-You make it sound easy, but...
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With these members, can we really
do a huge performance...
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Sorry!
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Without those three,
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we'll be short members, and,
either way, we'll be disbanded.
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Chika's mad, isn't he?
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But it's not like we can play the koto.
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--We'd just hold them back.
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--Vice-principal.
--We'd just hold them back.
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What are we gonna do about them?
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Kudo and his friends don't
really want to play the koto.
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In one month's time,
the koto club will be disbanded.
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Can't rely on the police to do their job, huh?
**[09:15] ---**
Rotten delinquents like Kudo
should be taken to reform school.
**[09:21] ---**
Sane!
**[09:25] ---**
Hey, Tetsuki?
**[09:26] ---**
How come you hang out with
that Kudo kid from class C?
**[09:29] ---**
Huh? I've known him since we were kids.
**[09:31] ---**
But I never hear anything good about him.
**[09:34] ---**
Shouldn't you stop getting involved with him?
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Probably...
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Man, what is that Tetsuki thinking?
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Hey!
**[09:43] ---**
What?
**[09:48] ---**
Don't underestimate me, middle schooler!
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Sto--
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K-Kudo?!
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What do you think you're doing?!
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Bastard!
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Why?
**[10:05] ---**
We aren't even friends!
**[10:09] ---**
You guys hang out with Tetsuki a lot, right?
**[10:14] ---**
Risking his life and spilling blood
for a friend of a friend...
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I thought I'd be all cool and return the favor
**[10:27] ---**
the next time he got in a big fight, but...
**[10:33] ---**
Jeez, were we all thinking
the same thing, huh?
**[10:37] ---**
You guys...
**[10:38] ---**
I mean, we have nothing better to do anyway.
**[10:40] ---**
We know each other so well.
**[10:42] ---**
I can return the favor like this, too, huh?
**[10:44] ---**
Hey, Granny! Give us those things!
**[10:47] ---**
Three sets of those things you
put on your fingers, please!
**[10:50] ---**
Hey!
**[10:51] ---**
Why the hell are you guys back again?!
**[10:54] ---**
Hmph... You think we'd just run away like that?
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You really don't get us, huh?
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We wouldn't dare upset a girl!
**[11:04] ---**
In that case,
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you've all become official members
of the club now, yes?
**[11:09] ---**
Yes, that's right!
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Hm, I see...
**[11:13] ---**
I'm glad you turned out more
simple-minded than I thought.
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Huh?
**[11:18] ---**
Now that you're official members
that are gonna play,
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prepare yourselves, because I
won't be going easy on you.
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H-Hozuki?
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--This can't be!
**[11:27] ---**
--I told you, didn't I?!
--This can't be!
**[11:30] ---**
"Michitaka (Mittsu) Sakai" "Kota (Kota) Mizuhara"
"Saneyasu (Sane) Adachi"
**[11:33] ---**
For now, to give a basic
explanation of the koto...
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A typical koto has thirteen strings.
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When played, there are moveable
bridges under the strings.
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These can be tuned to the sounds
needed for each piece.
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Music is written in traditional koto notation,
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or in staff notation, like that used
with the piano and such.
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Done!
**[11:52] ---**
Now, let's start with the
simple piece, "Sakura, Sakura."
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Here, play.
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So fast!
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You little-- Don't teach so half-heartedly!
**[11:57] ---**
Half-heartedly?
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Playing will make you learn faster
than me explaining everything!
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What? Is it actually that you have
no self-confidence?
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Bring it on! I'll play this in no time!
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"Sakura, Sakura"
**[12:08] ---**
Huh, a spell?
**[12:11] ---**
Where's my "please, teach me"?
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Crap!
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Um, if I remember right...
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One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...
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Oh, it's this one!
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Seven, seven again, then eight...
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Take that! I can do this after all!
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Then next is...
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An eyeball?
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"...20 minutes later."
I don't get the koto!
**[12:39] ---**
"...20 minutes later."
My knee, my legs!
**[12:41] ---**
"...20 minutes later."
The sakura should just fall already!
**[12:43] ---**
"...20 minutes later."
Takezo...
**[12:44] ---**
In one month's time,
this club will probably disband.
**[12:47] ---**
Not you, too, H-Hozuki.
**[12:50] ---**
I didn't expect these people
to be this unable to play.
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Quiet, you little--!
**[12:54] ---**
I can still keep going!
**[12:56] ---**
Kudo...
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There is one thing we could do.
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We could completely skip over the basics
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and start learning the piece we're going
to play one month from now.
**[13:07] ---**
B-But we haven't decided on
the piece we're going to play.
**[13:10] ---**
There is one piece I was considering...
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Huh?
**[13:14] ---**
Ah, but it might be impossible for these guys.
**[13:16] ---**
I can play it!
**[13:17] ---**
I don't care how difficult it is!
I'll definitely play it!
**[13:21] ---**
In that case...
**[13:26] ---**
"Spring Traditional Japanese Music Festival
Experience the world of
traditional Japanese music."
**[13:28] ---**
Will you go watch this?
**[13:30] ---**
They'll be performing the piece there.
**[13:34] ---**
They're playing here?
**[13:38] ---**
Hozuki, you seem like you're in disguise.
**[13:41] ---**
Well, yes...
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My face is well-known in the field of
traditional Japanese music, so...
**[13:45] ---**
I-I see...
**[13:47] ---**
By the way, what kind of piece
is the one you were considering?
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"Ryuuseigun"
**[13:51] ---**
"Ryuuseigun"
It's called "Ryuuseigun."
**[13:53] ---**
"Ryuuseigun"?
**[13:55] ---**
"Spring Traditional Japanese Music Festival"
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Hey, isn't that one in the middle really big?
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It has 17 strings.
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It's a low-toned koto. Like a bass guitar.
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It is the core of this piece.
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Next is "Ryuuseigun" composed by Taki Ayase.
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It will be performed by students
of the Hozuki koto school.
**[14:13] ---**
B-By Hozuki, he means...
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Yes.
**[14:16] ---**
Today's performers are
the Hozuki school's elite.
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They're just kids!
**[14:22] ---**
Grade schoolers?!
**[14:23] ---**
What? I feel so relieved.
**[14:26] ---**
Right?
**[14:27] ---**
If grade schoolers can play it,
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a month should be enough
for even us to learn it.
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So that's it.
**[14:53] ---**
Let's try and learn that piece
before the month is up.
**[14:55] ---**
Are you insane?!
**[14:56] ---**
Me aside...
**[14:57] ---**
Do you really think these guys can
learn something that awesome?!
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You can't play it either!
**[15:01] ---**
H-Hozuki, I think it'd be best
if we find another piece...
**[15:04] ---**
We'll be fine.
**[15:05] ---**
Aside from the 17-stringed koto,
the piece isn't that hard.
**[15:10] ---**
I'll play the 17-stringed koto.
**[15:12] ---**
With this many people,
we can make enough of an impact.
**[15:15] ---**
If all goes well, in one month's time,
**[15:17] ---**
the vice-principal and the whole school
will be just as amazed as you are now.
**[15:22] ---**
Probably.
**[15:25] ---**
Well, I mean...
**[15:26] ---**
If you really think it's impossible
then we can find another piece.
**[15:30] ---**
Which would mean this, correct?
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"Grade Schoolers"
**[15:33] ---**
"Grade Schoolers"
"Below"
**[15:34] ---**
Who said they couldn't do it?
**[15:36] ---**
This'll be child's play!
**[15:38] ---**
Right, guys!?
**[15:39] ---**
Yeah!
**[15:40] ---**
I'm so glad you guys are idiots.
**[15:41] ---**
Um, but our club doesn't
have a 17-stringed koto...
**[15:45] ---**
I have my own, so I'll bring it in from home.
**[15:48] ---**
That would be great, but it'll be heavy.
**[15:51] ---**
Uh, I can come pick it up from your house--
**[15:53] ---**
I-It's okay!
**[15:54] ---**
Huh? But it's bigger than an ordinary koto...
**[15:57] ---**
I can bring it myself!
**[15:59] ---**
Just leave her.
**[16:00] ---**
She's rich, so she probably has an assistant
who can drive it over for her.
**[16:03] ---**
You be quiet.
**[16:06] ---**
Oh, it's those kids from earlier...
**[16:11] ---**
I wonder if that's their teacher...
**[16:13] ---**
Which means... it's Hozuki's mother?
**[16:16] ---**
Hozuki, you don't want to go talk to her?
**[16:19] ---**
I'm fine.
**[16:24] ---**
What should we do now?
**[16:25] ---**
Let's all go eat somewhere!
**[16:27] ---**
Okay, how about a family restaurant or--
**[16:29] ---**
I'll pass.
**[16:31] ---**
See you later...
**[16:44] ---**
Oh, is this the 17-stringed koto?
**[16:47] ---**
Y-You!
**[16:48] ---**
Looks rough. Shall I help you out?
**[16:52] ---**
Are you kidding me?!
**[16:53] ---**
I couldn't bear it if I let you
carry it and it got damaged!
**[16:59] ---**
I see...
**[17:03] ---**
"Ryuuseigun" is a five-part piece
for the 17-string and koto.
**[17:06] ---**
In other words, each person
will be playing their own part,
**[17:06] ---**
"Ryuuseigun"
In other words, each person
will be playing their own part,
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"Ryuuseigun"
and everyone is playing something different.
**[17:11] ---**
So that means...
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We can't look at someone else and play...
**[17:14] ---**
Or pretend to play...
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That's right.
**[17:18] ---**
Plus, you're each responsible for a part,
so there's no running away either.
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Ever.
**[17:29] ---**
There's no way I can play this!
**[17:31] ---**
Kudo, are you all right?
**[17:34] ---**
No problem, no problem!
Let's get started already!
**[17:38] ---**
No! You play string six here!
**[17:40] ---**
How many times do I have to say
it before you understand?!
**[17:42] ---**
Wah! Having to look so quickly
I don't know which is which!
**[17:45] ---**
You just have to make your body learn them!
**[17:48] ---**
Hey... can we stop here for today?
**[17:51] ---**
Y-You're right.
**[17:52] ---**
If we do too much at the start, we won't last.
**[17:55] ---**
This doesn't even count as practicing.
**[17:57] ---**
Starting tomorrow, we'll also be having
morning practice, so be ready.
**[18:00] ---**
Morning practice?!
**[18:01] ---**
Huh?!
**[18:03] ---**
Hey, you. Don't rush ahead on your own.
**[18:06] ---**
They're trying their best as it is.
**[18:08] ---**
You shut your mouth.
**[18:10] ---**
You don't know anything.
**[18:11] ---**
I may not know much about the koto yet,
**[18:14] ---**
but I'm trying my best, too!
**[18:15] ---**
This is your best?
**[18:17] ---**
Just how easy can you be on yourself?
**[18:19] ---**
At this rate, there's no doubt
we'll be disbanded.
**[18:22] ---**
Even though we have to perform in front
of the whole school in a month,
**[18:26] ---**
you guys don't even know
which string is which!
**[18:29] ---**
But it was you that said we
had to do this performance--
**[18:32] ---**
If we're pointing fingers, then it's
all because you're here, isn't it?
**[18:38] ---**
I-It's getting late, so let's
stop here for today. Okay?
**[18:42] ---**
Come on everyone, let's tidy up!
**[18:48] ---**
Huh? She's that strict?
**[18:51] ---**
Then, I wonder if she was taught
in that same Spartan style.
**[18:55] ---**
Huh?
**[18:56] ---**
You know?
**[18:56] ---**
People teach based on the way
they were taught themselves, no?
**[19:00] ---**
Moreover, you say she's the daughter
of a grand master, right?
**[19:02] ---**
Must have been tough, in a lot of ways.
**[19:10] ---**
Hey, you. Don't rush ahead on your own.
**[19:14] ---**
Hozuki.
**[19:17] ---**
Takezo, I'm sorry about yesterday.
**[19:20] ---**
Ah, no.
**[19:21] ---**
I didn't really act like
a club president, either, so...
**[19:24] ---**
If everyone quits the club, it'll be my fault.
**[19:27] ---**
Huh? Hold on!
**[19:29] ---**
No one's going to quit the club so suddenly!
**[19:31] ---**
Ah, well, I don't know about those three, but...
**[19:35] ---**
But I'm sure whatever happens,
Kudo'll never quit.
**[19:42] ---**
Anyone would want to quit
after someone went that far.
**[19:48] ---**
Why are you trying so hard
by yourself, Satowa?
**[19:52] ---**
All we wanna do is have fun...
**[19:54] ---**
But you're so serious it's scary.
**[19:57] ---**
I can't keep up with you. Just play by yourself.
**[20:02] ---**
What's up, Chika? Calling us out all this way.
**[20:06] ---**
I have something to give you.
**[20:09] ---**
Here. I made them myself. Use 'em!
**[20:13] ---**
Don't laugh!
**[20:15] ---**
You... made these? Why would you do that?
**[20:17] ---**
Huh?! To make that girl speechless, of course!
**[20:22] ---**
What? He can't possibly be planning
to get revenge or something?
**[20:26] ---**
This is why delinquents are...
**[20:27] ---**
I see, I see. Then, I'll take it.
**[20:30] ---**
All right! Let's all make her speechless!
**[20:33] ---**
See ya!
**[20:37] ---**
After all, this guy's "best" is...
**[20:41] ---**
"one"
"two
"three"
"four"
**[20:49] ---**
Huh? What was that just now?
**[20:51] ---**
A koto made of cardboard?!
**[20:54] ---**
Um, five... five and...
**[21:06] ---**
I'm sure whatever happens, Kudo'll never quit.
**[21:11] ---**
Next is, six... six...
**[21:13] ---**
Hey.
**[21:14] ---**
It'd be best to stop writing the names
of the strings on the side.
**[21:17] ---**
Yo--
**[21:18] ---**
If you have them there, you'll get
into the habit of relying on them.
**[21:23] ---**
Well, in your case,
**[21:25] ---**
it'll probably take you a month alone
to remember the strings.
**[21:28] ---**
Huh?!
**[21:29] ---**
But well...
**[21:31] ---**
...considering all that,
**[21:33] ---**
at least, your form on the hand
you play with is perfect.
**[21:37] ---**
I'm sure you had a good teacher.
**[23:38] ---**
Next time, "The First Resounding Note."
**[23:41] ---**
"#4 The First Resounding Note"
Next time, "The First Resounding Note."