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!
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[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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[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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