E1 - Let's Go! Down the Path of Pottery

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[00:00] Himeno
    This is the town of Tajimi,
    in Gifu prefecture.
[00:04] Himeno
    It's been home to some of the
    hottest days Japan's ever seen...
[00:06] Himeno
    But in October, it's pretty comfortable.
[00:08] Himeno
    It's a town all about ceramics.
[00:11] Himeno
    My name is Toyokawa Himeno.
    I moved here in April,
[00:15] Himeno
    and after joining my school's pottery club,
[00:17] Himeno
    I had my first experiencing
    with making ceramics!
[00:19] Himeno
    After learning that my dearly
    departed Mom was an amazing potter,
[00:25] Himeno
    I started trying a lot of different things,
[00:27] Himeno
    almost like she was encouraging me to...
[00:30] Himeno
    And while it wasn't a smooth trip,
[00:32] Himeno
    I was finally able to make
    something I was proud of.
[00:36] Himeno
    Even if it broke.
[00:40] Himeno
    Now it feels like I'm finally at the
    starting line for my pottery journey.
[00:48] Himeno
    Cutting it kinda close...
[00:49] Grandma
    Watch out for traffic.
[00:51] Himeno
    Okay!
[00:55] Dad
    What's that on your strap?
[00:57] Himeno
    Pretty, isn't it?
[00:58] Himeno
    It's a piece of the cushion that you broke!
[01:02] Dad
    Oh, that's what you did with it?
[01:04] Himeno
    I really love how the
    crystalline glaze turned out!
[01:08] Dad
    What're you going to make next?
[01:10] Himeno
    Well, next...
[01:16] Himeno
    I can't think of anything!
[01:19] Himeno
    I won't be able to come up with
    any ideas without some inspiration.
[01:22] Himeno
    Like when your mug got broke,
    or when the contest came up.
[01:26] Himeno
    Anyway, I'm heading out!
[01:29] Nao
    Good morning!
SIGN    Let's Go! Down the Path of Pottery
[03:06] Himeno
    I want to make something
    more wonderful next time...
[03:11] Nao
    What do you mean, exactly?
[03:13] Himeno
    Well, y'know...
[03:16] Himeno
    I can't think of anything!
[03:19] Touko
    I'm sure it'll be okay.
[03:21] Touko
    You mentioned how much you enjoyed
    a lot of people seeing your piece, right?
[03:25] Touko
    As long as you still feel the same way...
[03:28] Miku
    Come in!
[03:31] Matsuse
    We meet again, Aoki-san!
[03:34] Touko
    Matsuse-san?
[03:35] Miku
    Is this a friend of Touko-senpai's?
[03:37] Touko
    I don't know if I'd say that...
[03:39] Matsuse
    Our relationship is far more than that.
[03:42] Matsuse
    I might live in Aichi now,
[03:44] Matsuse
    but there was a time where we
    were best friends here in Gifu,
[03:46] Matsuse
    who competed against each other in pottery!
[03:49] Matsuse
    No, it was more than that.
[03:51] Matsuse
    We were friends for life! Honored friends!
[03:55] Touko
    So, uh, what brings you by? And so suddenly.
[03:59] Matsuse
    I wanted to tell you something.
[04:01] Matsuse
    I saw your winning piece
    from that recent contest.
[04:04] Matsuse
    It was magnificent!
[04:07] Touko
    Th-Thank you...
[04:09] Matsuse
    But it's not good enough
    to win the grand prize!
[04:14] Matsuse
    I could see indecision in the
    way the glaze was applied!
[04:17] Matsuse
    You know why, don't you?
[04:27] Touko
    And?
[04:29] Matsuse
    I want you to submit something
    for the exhibition
[04:31] Matsuse
    that's going to be run by your
    grandfather in November!
[04:33] Matsuse
    I'll be submitting, too, and
    if you don't, then we're through!
[04:36] Touko
    Well, I guess that means we're through.
[04:39] Matsuse
    No! Never!
[04:43] Matsuse
    I'll be waiting!
[04:50] Nao
    It feels like a storm passed through...
[04:52] Miku
    I didn't know you had a friend like that!
[04:55] Miku
    Is she always that way?
[04:57] Touko
    She's not a bad person.
[04:59] Touko
    She gave me some important advice, once.
[05:02] Touko
    She's a little too intense for me, though.
[05:05] Touko
    Come on. Let's get back to the wheel.
[05:25] Himeno
    Touko-senpai.
[05:26] Touko
    Yes?
[05:28] Hime
    What was the advice that
    Matsuse-san gave you?
[05:33] Touko
    "Don't concentrate on the finger."
[05:35] Touko
    "Or you'll miss the moon."
[05:39] Hime
    I don't follow, at all.
[05:42] Touko
    This is the way I interpreted it...
[05:45] Touko
    "Don't just focus on improving
    your technical skills."
[05:48] Touko
    "That's not the real core of pottery."
[05:53] Hime
    Then what is the real core?
[05:55] Nao
    I guess Aoki-senpai didn't
    make that clear, huh?
[05:58] Nao
    "A good question. It's probably something
    that needs to be figured out by yourself."
[06:03] Hime
    That was great! You sounded
    just like Touko-senpai!
[06:06] Nao
    Huh?
[06:07] Hime
    You should try that in
    the club room next time!
[06:09] Hime
    Everyone would think it's great!
[06:11] Nao
    I am not doing that!
[06:12] Hime
    Aw, why not?
[06:13] Nao
    Can't, I just can't, no way!
[06:15] Hime
    See ya!
[06:18] Hime
    I'm home.
[06:19] Sensei
    Welcome back.
[06:21] Hime
    Sensei! Thanks for coming by.
[06:24] Kusano
    I really do see the resemblance.
[06:27] Kusano
    Your cushion had amazing colors.
[06:31] Hime
    You're Kusano-sensei, right?
[06:33] Hime
    You were the pottery club adviser last year!
[06:36] Hime
    I appreciate your evaluation
    during the contest.
[06:41] Kusano
    During the judging, I saw your
    name and realized who you were.
[06:44] Kusano
    Toyokawa and Tokikawa's daughter.
[06:48] Himeno
    You know each other?
[06:49] Dad
    He was two years ahead
     of us in high school.
[06:53] Kusano
    I was in the pottery club with your mother.
[06:55] Sensei
    And I'm ten years Kusano-sensei's junior.
[06:59] Hime
    Wait, you went to the same school, too?!
[07:02] Sensei
    Sure did. And I used to hang
    out with the pottery club.
[07:05] Sensei
    The same way Naruse-san does, now.
[07:08] Sensei
    That was around the time your
    mom came back to town...
[07:19] (Flashback) Mom
    For you!
[07:22] Sensei
    She had a new project underway, and the
    pottery club ended up helping her.
[07:27] Sensei
    It seemed like fun, so I pitched in, too.
[07:31] Himeno
    Did you meet Dad back then, too?
[07:33] Sensei
    Yep! I met them both at the time!
[07:36] Sensei
    Although I didn't talk too much with them.
[07:39] Kusano
    Didn't you write a poem about what happened?
[07:43] Kusano
    You were in the literature club, right?
[07:45] Sensei
    Please don't bring up that kind of thing
    in front of one of my students!
[07:47] Sensei
    It's too embarrassing!
[07:50] Hime
    Um, can I ask you something?
[08:00] Kusano
    The core of pottery, huh?
[08:02] Kusano
    Considering how subjective it is,
    there's no easy explanation...
[08:07] Hime
    That makes sense.
[08:10] Kusano
    But maybe some stories about your mom
    will help you figure something out?
[08:16] Hime
    I'd love to hear about her!
[08:18] Dad
    Nothing too weird, okay?
[08:20] Kusano
    Of course not!
[08:22] Kusano
    Do you remember when she suddenly started
    drinking coffee in her third year?
[08:26] Dad
    Oh, I remember that!
[08:29] Kusano
    I was attending art school in Tokyo,
    but had come back for summer vacation.
[08:34] Kusano
    And when I checked out the club room...
[08:41] (Flashback) Kusano
    Wh-What the heck?!
[08:51] (Flashback) Kusano
    Tokikawa! Tokikawa, wake up!
[08:56] (Flashback) Kusano
    Did you seriously just crash here?
[09:00] (Flashback) Mom
    Hey, Kusano-senpai! It's been a while.
[09:03] (Flashback) Kusano
    What exactly happened here?
[09:06] (Flashback) Mom
    Oh, well, I started making
    them on Saturday...
[09:09] (Flashback) Mom
    And fell asleep at some point!
[09:12] (Flashback) Kusano
    You realize it's Monday afternoon, right?
[09:14] (Flashback) Kusano
    Did you attend any of your classes?
[09:20] (Flashback) Mom
    I skipped everything!
[09:24] Hime
    Mom could be pretty bold, huh?
[09:26] Kusano
    She was apparently trying every
    different shape that came to mind,
[09:29] Kusano
    in order to find the cup that'd
    make coffee taste the best.
[09:33] Kusano
    And after firing them all,
    she tried them all out...
[09:36] (Flashback) Mom
    I think this one might be it...
[09:43] (Flashback) Mom
    But it doesn't really feel like
    a definitive winner, y'know?
[09:47] Kusano
    And then she stopped coming
    by the club room...
[09:53] Kusano
    Because she was checking out
    all of the cafes in town.
[09:57] Kusano
    Which made a great excuse for a bunch
    of dates, if I remember right.
[10:01] Hime
    Is that what happened?
[10:02] Dad
    Here we go again...
[10:05] Dad
    Although it was fun riding around
    on the back of her scooter.
[10:09] Hime
    Wait, when you rode together
    you would cling to her?
[10:13] Dad
    To her shoulders! That's all!
SIGN    Coffee Spaghetti
[10:15] Dad
    Anyway, she would drink a cup coffee,
[10:18] Dad
    and then afterwards she would
    tell me her in-depth opinion...
SIGN    Café Mokuba
[10:20] Dad
    It wasn't at all romantic.
[10:23] Dad
    She'd just take a bunch of notes,
    and we'd be off to the next spot.
[10:26] Sensei
    And did it actually help her?
[10:29] Kusano
    See, that's the really incredible thing.
[10:36] (Flashback) Kusano
    Tokikawa!
[10:37] (Flashback) Mom
    Oh, senpai! Welcome.
[10:40] (Flashback) Kusano
    Are you trying to turn the
    club room into a tea house?
[10:43] (Flashback) Kusano
    Why'd you make so many of the same cup?
[10:45] (Flashback) Mom
    They're not the same.
[10:49] (Flashback) Mom
    I've made slight changes to the
    inside of the cup every time.
[10:54] (Flashback) Kusano
    Seriously?
[10:56] (Flashback) Mom
    I thought that it'd be
    fun to do latte art, too,
[10:59] (Flashback) Mom
    and then I realized how important convection is.
[11:01] (Flashback) Mom
    I'm trying to make the ultimate cup,
    with the ideal convection heating!
[11:07] Kusano
    You're really amazing.
[11:11] Kusano
    And after she managed to come up
    with her ultimate cup,
[11:15] Kusano
    she took it around to
    cafés all over town...
[11:18] Kusano
    It was a huge hit.
[11:19] Sensei
    That's incredible.
[11:21] Hime
    Whatever happened to that cup?
[11:24] Kusano
    It's gone missing.
[11:25] Hime
    Seriously?
[11:27] Kusano
    She said she was going to give it to me,
[11:29] Kusano
    but then something else grabbed her
    attention, and it got lost in the process.
[11:33] Dad
    That sounds like her.
[11:37] Hime
    Maybe I should get out and
    do some legwork, too...
[11:42] Hime
    I mean, Mom would run around all over Tajimi
[11:46] Hime
    when she didn't know what
    she wanted to make, right?
[11:49] Hime
    Maybe I should try doing that
     until I find the right inspiration!
[11:58] Kusano
    Sounds good to me.
[12:04] Kusano
    You might find the core of
    your pottery if you do that.
[12:09] Kusano
    All of these were made by her, too, right?
[12:12] Dad
    Yes.
[12:13] Kusano
    Can I have this one, Toyokawa?
[12:15] Dad
    Go right on ahead.
[12:19] Kusano
    It's been twenty years...
[12:30] Hime
    I think things are going to get really fun!
[12:33] Hime
    I'm going to try walking all over town!
[12:39] Dad
    In that case, once you make something
    good, we can put it right there.
[12:48] Dad
    It'll be the spot for
    Toyokawa Himeno's masterpiece.
[12:52] Hime
    That kind of makes me nervous...
[12:55] Hime
    But, yeah! Sounds good!
[13:03] Hime
    I wonder what I'm going to make.
[13:07] Hime
    I'm looking forward to it!
[14:25] Sign
    The bob-cut haired girl, and the sole member
SIGN    Mini Mini Pottery Club
[14:27] Sign
    of the bob-cut haired girl
    study club, the plain girl...
[14:30] Sign
    But they happen to share a certain secret!
[14:33] Sign
    Next time is "My Paradise."
SIGN    Next Time:
SIGN    My Paradise
[14:36] Sign
    Let this miraculous story
    be engraved on your heart!