E1 - Looking Forward to Working With You
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[00:01] Narrator
It has been 30 years
since the glory of that summer.
[00:04] Narrator
The Meisei baseball club
that won the championship
[00:07] Narrator
in its first tournament is returning.
SIGN Meisei
SIGN High School
[00:11] Narrator
They're a battery of brothers
and classmates... It's complicated.
[00:13] Narrator
This is the story of their adventures
with their little sister,
SIGN 1986 68th Koshien
National High School
Tournament
Champions
Meisei High School
[00:17] Narrator
a tale of love and youthful days.
[00:19] Narrator
Their goal is the same:
Get to the Koshien Tournament!
[00:24] Colorcaster
It's the East Tokyo Tournament semifinals.
Game one: Meisei vs. Toushu.
SIGN Meisei
SIGN Toushu
SIGN 10
SIGN 11
SIGN 12
SIGN 13
SIGN 14
[00:30] Colorcaster
It's extra innings and we're in the 14th.
The winner will be a step closer to Koshien.
[00:35] Colorcaster
It's a rare pitchers' duel between
Toushu's Mita and Meisei's Tachibana.
[00:46] Colorcaster
Kaga, batting third,
swings for the fences on the first pitch.
[00:48] Colorcaster
Kaga hits it square!
The bat makes a loud noise, and the ball...
[00:53] Colorcaster
...finds its way into
Tachibana's glove again!
[00:56] Colorcaster
And the third base runner
is caught off base again!
[00:58] Touma
So lucky.
[01:00] Colorcaster
A line out to the pitcher for two outs!
[01:02] Colorcaster
And...
SIGN 1986 68th Koshien
National High School
Tournament
Champions
Meisei High School
SIGN Meisei
SIGN High School
SIGN ~ Our Second Summer, Beyond the Sky ~
SIGN Punch
SIGN We're a-coming!
Koshien
Meisei High Baseball Team
[02:58] Otomi
Tou!
[03:23] Otomi
Tou!
[03:29] Narrator
MIX has begun.
[03:32] Narrator**
This boy is Male Lead #1: Touma Tachibana.
SIGN Touma
SIGN Tachibana
[03:37] Narrator
He's a 10th grader at Meisei High School,
and the baseball team's ace.
SIGN Sound Effects
SIGN Sound Effects
SIGN Sound Effects
SIGN Sound Effects
[03:42] Narrator
And this girl is Female Lead #1:
SIGN Sound Effects
SIGN Sound Effects
SIGN Sound Effects
[03:45] Narrator
Touma's little sister who isn't
related by blood, Otomi Tachibana.
SIGN Otomi
SIGN Tachibana
[03:50] Narrator
She's a 9th grader at Meisei Junior High.
[03:53] Otomi
A friend has come calling on you.
[03:56] Touma
Huh?
[03:57] Narrator
Furthermore, this boy is Male Lead #2:
Souichirou Tachibana.
[04:02] Narrator
He's a 10th grader at Meisei High School,
and the baseball team's catcher.
SIGN Souichirou
SIGN Tachibana
[04:06] Narrator
He's Touma's older brother, and they share
a birthday, but they're not blood-related.
[04:11] Souichirou
Right.
[04:12] Narrator
And further furthermore,
[04:14] Narrator
this is Female Lead #2: Haruka Ooyama.
SIGN Haruka
SIGN Ooyama
[04:17] Narrator
She's a 10th grader at Meisei High School,
and the baseball team's caretaker.
[04:28] Nishimura
How long did you plan on sleeping?
[04:34] Touma
Otomi, I don't see this
friend you said was here.
[04:38] Nishimura
Hey!
[04:39] Narrator
This is Takumi Nishimura,
[04:41] Narrator
a 10th grader at Seinan High School,
and their baseball team's ace.
SIGN Takumi
SIGN Nishimura
[04:46] Touma
It was a good game.
SIGN Toushu
Steamrolls Yet
Another Team
[04:48] Touma
I watched it on TV.
[04:49] Nishimura
Some "good game."
[04:51] Nishimura
Hiroki Mita only pitched the last inning.
Who wants to play a final against relievers?
[04:57] Touma
Still, Toushu's something else. Even their
#2 and #3 pitchers are on another level.
[05:02] Nishimura
Exactly!
[05:04] Nishimura
They coulda run those guys in
the semifinal against Meisei!
[05:09] Nishimura
So why...
[05:11] Nishimura
Why'd they have their ace pitching
instead? And all 14 innings at that!
[05:15] Touma
How should I know?
[05:17] Nishimura
I'd have pitched way better
if I'd been up against their ace.
[05:21] Touma
Yeah, sure.
[05:23] Nishimura
Plus...
SIGN Toushu
Steamrolls Yet
Another Team,
Heads to the
Promised Land
SIGN Mita
SIGN Mita
SIGN Mita
SIGN Toushu
[05:24] Nishimura
With all the coverage that semifinal got,
[05:28] Nishimura
even if we'd won, they'd have
said it was thanks to Meisei
[05:31] Nishimura
for making sure Hiroki Mita couldn't start.
[05:34] Nishimura
How was I supposed to give
my all in a match like that?!
[05:38] Touma
You sure can run your mouth
first thing in the morning.
[05:41] Nishimura
It's way past first thing!
[05:43] Otomi
Yeah, it's almost noon.
[05:46] Touma
What's that?
[05:48] Otomi
Your friend brought it, Tou.
[05:52] Touma
Any for me?
[05:53] Nishimura
Heck no.
[05:55] Touma
What the hell?
[05:57] Touma
And you!
[05:58] Touma
Don't let him into the house
just 'cause he brought cake!
[06:01] Nishimura
Leave her alone.
Otomi did nothing wrong.
[06:04] Touma
Can it!
SIGN Punch
[06:05] Touma
Quit blaming others for you losing
first thing in the morning!
[06:09] Nishimura
It's not first thing!
[06:10] Touma
I already lost sleep 'cause of nightmares
about my wild throw losing that match!
[06:15] Nishimura
Seriously, do you know what time it is?!
[06:29] Souichirou
More club hopefuls?
[06:34] Haruka
You're here early. I thought
practice wasn't until this afternoon.
[06:37] Souichirou
I saw you pulling weeds
from our balcony at home.
[06:43] Haruka
Just trying to make up for the time I spent
doing basically nothing with a broken arm.
[06:48] Souichirou
You going back to the
rhythmic gymnastics club?
[06:51] Haruka
I dunno. The advisor had these
weirdly high expectations for me.
[06:58] Souichirou
Nothing weird about
those high expectations.
[07:02] Haruka
Well, either way, it's nothing to worry about.
[07:06] Haruka
We've got plenty of
female caretaker applicants.
[07:09] Souichirou
A bunch of trend chasers who don't
know the first thing about baseball,
[07:13] Souichirou
but wanna join because
of all the coverage, yeah?
[07:15] Haruka
Don't underestimate
modern baseball fangirls.
[07:19] Haruka
It's the boys that are the bigger problem.
[07:22] Haruka
Because the team got such huge
press coverage lots of days in a row,
[07:26] Haruka
we've got a bunch of shallow guys applying
[07:28] Haruka
in the hopes that joining Meisei's
baseball team will get them girls.
[07:33] Souichirou
Yup, that's a rogues' gallery of
shallow guys from each class.
[07:37] Haruka
Besides, anyone who's spent the year up to now
bumming around instead of joining a club
[07:41] Haruka
is unlikely to be of any help to the team.
[07:44] Souichirou
There's one guy here who
doesn't fit that description.
[07:48] Souichirou
But...
[07:50] Haruka
But?
SIGN Baseball Club Application
SIGN Name:
SIGN Kenji
Nishiki
SIGN Class:
[07:52] Souichirou
He might be trouble.
[07:55] Otomi
Oh?
[07:57] Otomi
Sou and Haruka meeting up
on the baseball field?
[08:01] Otomi
Yes, I see.
[08:03] Otomi
That's why he was in such a rush
to get dressed and go out earlier.
[08:08] Otomi
He might just be serious about this one.
[08:11] Touma
He's just skirt-chasing like always.
[08:15] Otomi
But he's been turning down invitations
from all his other lady-friends lately.
[08:20] Touma
Of course he has.
[08:22] Touma
He's been busy with tournament stuff.
[08:26] Nishimura
Hey, can I borrow those?
[08:28] Otomi
Oh, uh, sure.
[08:30] Nishimura
Let's have a look.
[08:34] Nishimura
Huh?
[08:35] Nishimura
Isn't that your girlfriend?
[08:42] Nishimura
Yeah, our Seinan bus picked you guys up
while you were on a date that time, right?
[08:47] Touma
Like I said, we were just out on a walk
and hit a run of bad luck.
[08:52] Otomi
A love triangle involving the beautiful
team caretaker and the sibling battery...
[08:57] Touma
The phone's ringing, Otomi.
[08:59] Otomi
Yeah, yeah.
[09:02] Otomi
Hello?
[09:05] Otomi
Oh? Mom?
[09:10] Otomi
What?
[09:12] Otomi
Right.
[09:15] Otomi
Okay. Got it.
[09:17] Otomi
See you.
[09:20] Touma
What's up?
[09:23] Otomi
Mom was in a traffic accident.
[09:25] Otomi
She's gonna be at the hospital for a while,
so she said we have to handle our own lunch.
[09:30] Touma
A traffic accident?
[09:32] Otomi
Yeah, but it didn't sound too serious.
[09:35] Otomi
She sounded upbeat.
[09:37] Nishimura
Don't underestimate traffic accidents.
[09:40] Nishimura
Do you know what hospital she's at?
[09:42] Otomi
Yeah.
[09:44] Nishimura
You should go there right away.
[09:46] Otomi
Oh, but she said it wasn't serious
and that we shouldn't worry.
[09:50] Nishimura
Five years ago, my aunt said
it wasn't serious and came home,
[09:53] Nishimura
then died suddenly the next day.
[09:56] Nishimura
You can get hit in places and not know
anything's wrong. So when in a traffic accident...
[10:01] Nishimura
you should get a full run of tests!
[10:04] Nishimura
Get to the hospital, both of you!
[10:05] Otomi
Oh, but we're waiting for a package...
[10:09] Nishimura
I'll take care of that for you!
[10:12] Nishimura
Just get going!
[10:19] Touma
Jeez...
[10:21] Touma
Okay, fine.
[10:23] Touma
Don't worry, Otomi.
[10:25] Touma
He's Seinan's ace and
the son of their manager.
[10:28] Touma
Any funny business and it's a real
life-or-death problem for their team.
[10:32] Nishimura
What do you mean, "funny business"?
[10:34] Touma
Oh, I'm just saying we can definitely
trust you to watch the house.
[10:38] Nishimura
Glad you see that.
[10:40] Touma
But, Otomi, you should lock your room,
just to be on the safe side.
[10:44] Otomi
Right.
[10:44] Nishimura
What do you mean, "on the safe side"?!
[10:50] Otomi
Should we let Sou know?
[10:52] Touma
Nah, we can check up on her first.
[10:57] Touma
We're only playing along since
Nishimura got so intense about it, anyway.
SIGN Tanba
Hospital
[11:02] Touma
But...
[11:04] Mayumi
I never said I was the one
in the traffic accident.
[11:08] Otomi
Huh?
[11:09] Mayumi
I was walking with Mrs. Tanaka,
and a car ran over her toe.
[11:15] Mayumi
They're just doing her X-rays now.
[11:18] Mayumi
But she wasn't limping or anything,
so I'm sure she'll be fine.
[11:22] Narrator
This is Mayumi Tachibana,
Souichirou and Otomi's mother.
SIGN Mayumi Tachibana
[11:27] Touma
Yeah, figures.
[11:29] Narrator
She's also Touma's mother,
though they're not related by blood.
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SIGN Meisei's Near Revival!
SIGN Some watching the Meisei High School team—
especially first-year pitcher, Touma Tachibana—
found themselves reminded of the intense battles
thirty years ago. In the semifinals, Meisei faced
Toushu High led by their indomitable ace, Mita.
Before the game, common wisdom suggested
it would be a guaranteed victory for Toushu;
that Meisei's record meant the path to a win
for them was nigh-on impossible. But that belief
was upended the moment the match started.
In the bottom of the first, Meisei's ace,
Tachibana (Touma), struck out the side...
[11:37] Narrator
And this is the Tachibana family
patriarch, Eisuke Tachibana.
SIGN Eisuke Tachibana
[11:40] Eisuke
Oh, hello! I'm Touma's father.
[11:43] Narrator
Both widowed, Eisuke and
Mayumi remarried each other
[11:47] Narrator
to form a blended family
with their children.
[11:50] Narrator
The result is the thing
everyone's got their eye on:
[11:53] Narrator
Meisei's battery of brothers.
SIGN Tanba Hospital
[11:58] Narrator
Now then, back to our story.
[12:02] Touma
Darn it.
[12:06] Nishiki
Hey.
[12:09] Touma
Nishiki?
[12:11] Touma
What happened to you?
[12:14] Nishiki
Lost my footing on some
stone steps up to a shrine.
[12:18] Touma
You okay?
[12:20] Nishiki
Yeah, think so.
[12:23] Announcer
Mr. Nishiki, we're ready for you.
[12:26] Nishiki
Later.
[12:29] Nishiki
Oh, right.
[12:32] Nishiki
Looking forward to working with you.
SIGN Tanba Hospital
[12:40] Otomi
He was in a fight, right?
[12:42] Touma
I'd say so, yeah.
[12:46] Otomi
So...
SIGN Tanba Hospital
[12:47] Otomi
How does he expect to be working with you?
[12:52] Touma
No idea.
[13:17] Narrator
Ryou Akai.
[13:18] Narrator
A 9th grader at Meisei Junior High.
SIGN Ryou
SIGN Akai
[13:20] Narrator
He's currently on the soccer team,
and he's Otomi's classmate.
[13:24] Ryou
I'm home.
[13:26] Ryou
I'm hungry.
[13:28] Ryou
Anything to eat?
[13:31] Akai's Mother
I can make you some ramen,
but dinner will be ready soon.
[13:35] Ryou
I can't wait. Can you make it?
[13:39] Akai's Mother
How did your match go?
[13:42] Ryou
Oh. We lost, actually.
[13:45] Akai's Mother
Again?
[13:46] Ryou
Hey, come on, our last match was...
[13:49] Ryou
Uh, I think...
[13:52] Ryou
We won 3-2, didn't we?
[13:54] Akai's Mother
How would I know?
[13:56] Akai's Mother
If you're eating that junk now,
will you want dinner later than usual?
[14:00] Ryou
Don't worry. I'll eat at
the normal time. No problem.
[14:05] Narrator
Tomohito Akai, a 10th grader at Kenjo
High School. He's on the baseball team.
SIGN Tomohito
SIGN Akai
[14:09] Narrator
This sibling relationship
is a bit complicated, too.
[14:19] Narrator
Arisa Mita.
[14:20] Narrator
A 9th grader at Meisei Junior High.
She's the caretaker for their soccer team.
SIGN Arisa Mita
[14:25] Tomohito
You again?
[14:26] Arisa
I could say the same to you!
[14:31] Tomohito
What is it today?
[14:33] Arisa
I thought Ryou might be upset
about losing the match.
[14:37] Arisa
I wanted to check on him.
[14:39] Tomohito
You really seem to have
a lot of time on your hands.
[14:44] Tomohito
Is he seriously applying himself to soccer?
[14:48] Arisa
Huh? He's the best player on the team.
[14:52] Tomohito
That's not what I asked, stupid.
[14:55] Arisa
Who are you calling "stupid"?!
[14:57] Arisa
Hey, answer me!
[15:23] Imagawa
Hey, hey! Look alive over there!
[15:26] Imagawa
Let's get it all cleaned up!
[15:30] Touma
You turned it down?
[15:33] Touma
Nishiki's application.
[15:35] Imagawa
Yeah.
[15:38] Imagawa
I'm hungry. Let's grab
something on the way back.
SIGN DRAGON
[15:45] Souichirou
Huh?
SIGN DRAGON
[15:47] Imagawa
Wasn't this a ramen place?
SIGN DRAGON
[15:49] Touma
I thought it was.
[15:51] Haruka
It was. Up until two weeks ago.
SIGN DRAGON
SIGN DRAGON
SIGN DRAGON
[15:56] Imagawa
Why'd it change?
It pulled in tons of customers.
[16:00] Imagawa
Why a coffee shop in this day and age?
[16:02] Haruka
Ramen places get way
too busy around lunchtime.
[16:06] Imagawa
Huh?
[16:08] Haruka
I think he got frustrated that he couldn't go
watch any of Meisei's games because of it.
[16:14] Souichirou
I'm thankful for the support,
[16:17] Souichirou
but can he really make a living like that?
[16:20] Touma
Dunno.
[16:21] Haruka
He kind of treats the whole
thing like a hobby anyway.
[16:24] Haruka
Believe it or not, he's pretty rich, apparently.
[16:27] Souichirou
With a face like his, you have to wonder
if he earned his money in an honest—
[16:32] Masaki
Quit flappin' your gums in front of my shop!
[16:34] Masaki
In or out? Make up your dang minds, will ya?
SIGN DRAGON
[16:37] Touma
Do they even do food here?
[16:39] Haruka
Apparently, he recommends
the napolitan spaghetti.
[16:42] Souichirou
Want to join us, Haruka?
[16:45] Haruka
Sorry, but I need to have dinner ready
by the time Dad gets home.
[16:51] Haruka
See you!
SIGN DRAGON
[16:58] Imagawa
So, about Nishiki...
[17:00] Imagawa
Yeah, I turned him down.
SIGN Chinese
Food
SIGN Chinese
Food
[17:02] Souichirou
You really think he won't work?
[17:05] Imagawa
You guys know him better than I do, right?
[17:09] Touma
Well, I heard he quit the baseball
team before eighth grade
[17:13] Touma
and fell in with a bad crowd, but...
[17:16] Touma
He was always a pretty quiet guy.
[17:18] Touma
I'm not sure I ever had
a real conversation with him.
[17:22] Imagawa
Well, he won't work.
[17:25] Imagawa
I saw it. When he quit the team...
[17:30] Imagawa
I saw him punch Kuroyanagi,
the junior high team's manager.
[17:36] Imagawa
The manager told me to stay quiet,
though, so I never told anyone.
[17:41] Imagawa
He just won't work. He's too dangerous.
[17:44] Imagawa
How would you even have to fall on
a shrine stairway to get injuries like that?!
[17:49] Masaki
Here. Your napolitan spaghetti.
[17:52] Touma
Chopsticks?
[17:54] Masaki
Just use 'em.
[17:55] Masaki
I've got tons of leftover
disposable chopsticks.
SIGN Chinese
Food
SIGN Chinese
Food
[17:59] Souichirou
I suspect the chopsticks
aren't the only things left over.
[18:02] Masaki
I'm still remodeling.
[18:05] Masaki
Listen up, new captain!
[18:07] Masaki
Don't go getting the wrong idea!
[18:09] Masaki
Meisei got as far as it did this year
due to a series of lucky breaks.
[18:13] Masaki
First of all, none of the teams
you faced scouted you beforehand.
[18:17] Masaki
Of the teams that made the round of 16,
you had the most errors in a single game,
[18:20] Masaki
and the worst team batting average!
[18:22] Masaki
And in the semifinals,
you lost in a 14-inning shutout!
[18:25] Masaki
I know you were facing Mita and all,
but you never even got close to scoring!
[18:30] Imagawa
Can't really argue with that.
[18:32] Masaki
I don't know why nobody noticed a battery
as good as you in your junior high days.
[18:37] Touma
Yeah, that's a long story.
[18:40] Masaki
But next time, you can expect to
be thoroughly watched, analyzed,
[18:43] Masaki
and strategized against
by all the other teams!
[18:46] Masaki
And they'll definitely target
your weak spot: your fielding!
[18:49] Imagawa
Hey, shop master, got any tabasco?
[18:51] Masaki
I've got plenty of chili oil.
[18:57] Masaki
That's not to say I'm not grateful
to see the team as strong as it is!
[19:03] Souichirou
Should you really be drinking that much?
[19:05] Masaki
No worries! Business will be dead all night!
SIGN DRAGON
[19:12] Souichirou
It's true that our defense will take
a big hit with the seniors leaving.
[19:17] Touma
Yeah.
[19:18] Imagawa
We just need to practice,
and we'll get better.
[19:22] Imagawa
Well, somewhat better.
[19:24] Imagawa
There'll be promising guys coming up
from the junior high school, too, right?
[19:28] Touma
Oh, tons!
[19:30] Touma
There's Natsuno. And...
[19:33] Touma
There's Natsuno. And...
[19:36] Touma
Natsuno.
[19:37] Imagawa
Right, right.
[19:38] Imagawa
That should be enough.
[19:41] Imagawa
Huh?
[19:43] Imagawa
Hey, wake up, you rotten shop master!
[19:46] Imagawa
How'd the beers you drank end up on our tab?!
[19:51] Masaki
Ah, sorry, sorry! I wasn't
thinking and did my usual thing.
[19:54] Imagawa
What do you mean, "your usual thing"?
[19:56] Masaki
Meisei Baseball forever!
[19:58] Imagawa
Don't change the subject!
SIGN Meisei Junior High School
[20:09] Natsuno
Don't make me say it again!
You gotta get a better jump on it!
[20:13] Narrator
Ichiban Natsuno.
[20:14] Narrator
A 9th grader at Meisei Junior High, its
pitcher, and Touma's promising new recruit.
SIGN Ichiban
SIGN Natsuno
[20:23] Otomi
Hey, c'mon, Natsuno.
[20:25] Otomi
The new team can't focus with members of the
graduating class hanging around all the time.
[20:29] Natsuno
They've gotta work on their fielding more.
[20:32] Natsuno
They won't be any help to the
high school team otherwise.
[20:36] Team Member A
S'all good, man.
[20:37] Natsuno
It's not good at all, you dunce!
[20:40] Natsuno
We're gonna practice our fielding
until summer vacation ends!
[21:23] Narrator
And so, the new school term began.
[21:26] Narrator
Oh goodness! I almost forgot
a core member of our cast!
[21:30] Narrator
The Tachibanas' beloved pooch, Punch.
[21:40] Narrator
The Meisei High School baseball team
would be aiming for the next Koshien.
[21:44] Narrator
But the journey there
certainly wouldn't be smooth.
[23:22] Narrator
Fall arrives, leaving behind the
fervor of the summer Koshien.
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SIGN Tachibana
[23:26] Narrator
The Meisei High School
baseball team revs up again.
[23:30] Narrator
A man falls from the
stone stairs of a shrine.
[23:34] Narrator
And another man steps into action.
[23:39] Narrator
Next time on MIX*:
"Leave Me Alone" is the name of our story.*
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SIGN Tachibana
SIGN Leave Me Alone
SIGN Leave Me Alone