E17 - It Really is Special, isn't It?

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SIGN    Ice
SIGN    Ice
SIGN    Ice
SIGN    Festival
SIGN    ~ Our Second Summer, Beyond the Sky ~
[02:24] Eisuke
    You okay?
[02:26] Mystery Man
    Oh, just twisted my ankle
    a little. I'll be fine.
[02:32] Eisuke
    Well, take care.
[02:52] Nishimura's Dad
    Okay, let's go over it, just to be sure.
[02:56] Nishimura
    Go over it?
[02:59] Nishimura's Dad
    Yeah. Just to be sure.
SIGN    National High School Baseball Championships
SIGN    East Tokyo
    Division
SIGN    Kenjo
SIGN    Houkaidai Ni
SIGN    Shirayama
SIGN    Toushu
SIGN    Kenjo
SIGN    Houkaidai Ni
SIGN    Shirayama
SIGN    Toushu
SIGN    Seinan
SIGN    Akanodai
SIGN    Meisei High
SIGN    Saijo
[03:02] Nishimura's Dad
    We now know the quarterfinal lineup
[03:05] Nishimura's Dad
    of the National High School Baseball
    Championships, East Tokyo Division.
SIGN    National High School Baseball Championships
SIGN    Seinan
SIGN    Akanodai
SIGN    Meisei High
[03:10] Nishimura's Dad
    Only seeded schools remain.
[03:13] Nishimura's Dad
    It's almost a little too predictable.
[03:15] Nishimura
    The final will be predictable, too.
    It'll be Seinan vs. Kenjo.
[03:19] Nishimura
    And in the eyes of the people,
    Kenjo's the favorite,
[03:23] Nishimura
    so if they wanna see an upset,
    that's the one we'll get.
SIGN    Akanodai
SIGN    Meisei High
SIGN    National High School Baseball Championships
SIGN    Seinan
[03:27] Nishimura's Dad
    Apparently, the game they
    want to see is Meisei vs. Kenjo.
SIGN    East Tokyo Division Final 8 Decided!
SIGN    Extraordinary Cleanup Batter Akai
SIGN    Kenjo
SIGN    Kenjo
SIGN    All Eyes on This Sibling Battery!
SIGN    Meisei
    High
SIGN    Meisei
    High
SIGN    East
    Tokyo
    High
    School
    Baseball
    Teams
SIGN    Houkaidai
     Ni
SIGN    Toushu
SIGN    Seinan
SIGN    Meisei
     High
SIGN    Hayashi
    Family
    Grave
SIGN    Hayashi
    Family
    Grave
SIGN    Sawai Family Grave
[03:52] Ooyama
    Hey, fancy meeting you here.
[04:00] Eisuke
    I bet Sawai's laughing at us.
[04:04] Eisuke
    Over how we got so worked up about
    a "fateful match" of our own making.
SIGN    Sawai Family Grave
[04:09] Ooyama
    My bad.
[04:11] Senbongi
    I'm sure there's some meaning to
    any match-up if you go back far enough.
[04:18] Eisuke
    True. We've been doing this
    for a hundred years, after all.
[04:23] Ooyama
    High school baseball, huh?
[04:26] Ooyama
    People might get mad at me
    for treating it as special, but...
[04:28] Ooyama
    When you think about it,
     it really is special, isn't it?
[04:41] Ooyama
    What's up?
[04:42] Eisuke
    You hear it, don't you?
[04:46] Eisuke
    That favorite phrase of his,
    whispered among the cicadas.
[04:51] Ooyama
    Whose?
[04:52] Eisuke
    The favorite phrase of Keiichi Sawai.
[05:01] Eisuke
    "Let's go... Let's go... to Koshien..."
[05:06] Ooyama
    Hey, I do hear it!
[05:10] Eisuke
    Right?
[05:11] Ooyama
    But that's not Sawai's voice.
[05:15] Ooyama
    It's your lousy ventriloquist act!
[05:19] Eisuke
    I've been rumbled, huh?
[05:20] Ooyama
    Take this! And this! And this!
[05:27] (Flashback) Sawai
    Let's go to Koshien.
[05:36] Senbongi
    I heard you, Sawai-san.
[05:55] Komiyama
    Looks like what the people want
     is a Meisei vs. Kenjo final.
[06:01] Ookuma
    Nah.
[06:04] Ookuma
    What the people want is Meisei vs. Sumi Tech.
[06:10] Ookuma
    That match is legendary.
[06:23] Ookuma
    To all the middle-aged men
    who lived through that summer,
[06:26] Ookuma
    including the ones writing
     those articles, anyway.
[06:33] Ookuma
    Kenjo, huh?
[06:35] Ookuma
    Why'd they change their name again?
[06:38] Komiyama
    Because they dropped their
    industrial arts program, I assume.
[06:42] Ookuma
    Oh, right.
[06:44] Komiyama
    A Meisei vs. Sumi Tech final, huh?
[06:49] Ookuma
    Doesn't seem too likely, of course.
[06:53] Ookuma
    The people and the media
    have an unjustly low opinion...
[06:58] Ookuma
    of both Seinan and
    their manager, Nishimura.
[07:04] Kita
    An unjustly low opinion, huh?
[07:08] Tomohito
    I agree.
SIGN    Meisei High School
[07:18] Imagawa
    Here.
[07:20] Touma
    What's that?
[07:21] Imagawa
    Provisions from Nikaidou.
[07:23] Imagawa
    Take it to Otomi to help with her cold.
[07:27] Touma
    She said she's all better now, though.
[07:30] Imagawa
    Just do it.
[07:31] Imagawa
    You're not training with
    the rest of us today, anyway.
[07:34] Imagawa
    Put in a little face time
    and see how she's doing.
[07:38] Touma
    Fine.
[07:40] Touma
    See ya.
[07:43] Nikaidou
    I don't remember giving a watermelon.
[07:49] Imagawa
    Souichirou's idea.
[07:53] Imagawa
    Apparently, part of Touma's
    indispensable post-win ritual
[07:57] Imagawa
    is going over the scorebook with Otomi
    and explaining the match results in detail.
[08:05] Imagawa
    She's right there across the street, but they
    don't see each other much during tourneys.
[08:10] Imagawa
    So we had to give him an excuse.
[08:18] Nikaidou
    Good on Souichirou.
    He cares about his little brother.
[08:21] Imagawa
    Nah. He cares about his little sister.
[08:25] Nikaidou
    Either way, it's a more positive
    relationship than you'd expect.
[08:29] Nikaidou
    Family really is an inscrutable thing.
[08:37] Imagawa
    Hey, you're not gonna watch practice?
[08:40] Nikaidou
    You don't want me to buy
    watermelon for the rest of you?
[08:45] Imagawa
    I wish you all the best.
[09:01] Narrator
    Let's go over it, just to be sure.
[09:03] Narrator
    Meisei's baseball team needs
    three more wins to reach Koshien.
[09:08] Touma
    Anyone want watermelon?
[09:21] Lady
    Otomi! Otomi!
[09:24] Lady
    You'd better watch out.
[09:26] Otomi
    What?
[09:28] Lady
    A shifty-looking guy on a bicycle has been
    doing laps around here, looking for you.
[09:35] Otomi
    A shifty-looking guy on a bicycle?
[09:38] Lady
    Just don't go down
    any dark alleys, all right?
[09:43] Otomi
    I won't. Thanks.
[09:47] Lady
    We'll be closing to cheer on your
    brothers' next match, by the way.
[09:52] Otomi
    Thanks. Please do.
[10:08] Sasaki
    Mr. Harada!
[10:14] Sasaki
    I knew it was you!
[10:15] Sasaki
    It's been so long!
[10:17] Sasaki
    How have you been?
[10:21] Sasaki's Daughter
    C'mon, Dad. We're gonna be late.
[10:24] Sasaki
    Right, right.
[10:25] Sasaki
    Let's catch up sometime soon, Mr. Harada!
[10:31] Sasaki
    Later!
[10:36] Man A
    Sure. See you.
[10:49] Otomi
    Weird.
[10:50] Nishimura
    Otomi!
[10:54] Man A
    Hey!
[11:03] Nishimura
    I just happened to be passing by!
     Fancy meeting you here!
[11:08] Otomi
    The shifty-looking guy
    on a bicycle appears.
[11:15] Harada
    Nishimura...
[11:20] Otomi
    Oh? You two know each other?
[11:23] Harada
    Yeah. We're classmates, right?
[11:26] Nishimura
    What? Hell freaking no!
[11:30] Nishimura
    Don't act surprised, old man.
[11:32] Nishimura
    What the hell is wrong with you?
[11:34] Otomi
    Oh, I remember.
[11:35] Otomi
    You guys played catch before, right?
[11:39] Nishimura
    If you can even call that "catch."
[11:44] Nishimura
    Is he an ex-boxer or something?
[11:46] Otomi
    Dunno.
[11:48] Nishimura
    "Dunno"? Haven't you asked him?
[11:51] Otomi
    Asking him doesn't do any good.
[11:55] Harada
    So we're really not classmates, Nishimura?
[11:59] Nishimura
    Shut up, old man!
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[12:22] Touma & Koma
    One, two! One, two!
[12:29] Koma
    A shifty-looking guy on
    a bicycle is watching us.
[12:35] Touma
    Nishimura?
[12:38] Touma
    Need something?
[12:41] Nishimura
    Just dropping by since
    I was in the neighborhood.
[12:44] Nishimura
    I was worried you might not
    last long enough to play Seinan.
[12:48] Mayumi
    Nishimura! Did you manage to find Otomi?
[12:52] Nishimura
    O-Oh, yes!
[12:54] Nishimura
    She had to go to band practice, though.
[13:14] Nishimura
    Saijo's a pretty tough opponent, you know.
[13:19] Nishimura
    They don't have a monster batter
     like Akai in their lineup,
[13:23] Nishimura
    but every batter is one to watch out for.
[13:27] Touma
    What are you even doing here?
[13:29] Nishimura
    You pitching back-to-back?
[13:35] Natsuno
    First!
[13:38] Nishimura
    Or are you gonna go as
    far as you can with him?
[13:43] Touma
    That's up to the manager to decide.
[13:45] Nishimura
    I really can't have you guys losing yet.
[13:50] Nishimura
    I gotta show my dad
    the semifinal against Meisei
[13:53] Nishimura
    that he missed out on in his
    third summer of high school,
[13:56] Nishimura
    and which he always kept pestering
    me about when I was growing up.
[14:02] Nishimura
    Seinan's gonna win this one, of course.
[14:15] Nishimura
    What a waste.
[14:19] Haruka
    Touma!
[14:23] Haruka
    Mind humoring the newspaper
    club with an interview?
[14:27] Touma
    Sure.
[14:41] Tsuda
    Okay. Let's all take a break.
[14:44] Yoshiko
    Boy, it's hot.
[14:48] Yoshiko
    Otomi, c'mere a minute!
[14:51] Otomi
    Hm?
[14:58] Nishimura
    You get it now?
[15:00] Natsuno
    Can we go through it one more time?
[15:01] Nishimura
    Like I said...
[15:08] Touma
    What's that guy doing now?
[15:14] Imagawa
    Nishimura says he and Natsuno
    have similar pitching styles,
[15:18] Imagawa
    so he can see all the things he's messing up.
[15:23] Imagawa
    He just watched and grumbled for a while,
[15:26] Imagawa
    but he kept getting annoyed, and finally...
[15:30] Nishimura
    It's all wrong! Are you even watching?
[15:33] Touma
    You don't think he's giving him
    bad advice to sabotage us, do you?
[15:38] Imagawa
    If there was any sign of that,
    Souichirou wouldn't allow it.
[15:50] Haruka
    "A boy who just loves baseball"
    is a good expression.
SIGN    Dad
SIGN    Cell Phone
[15:59] Touma
    Nishimura! Your dad's calling you!
[16:03] Nishimura
    Crap.
[16:05] Nishimura
    Get it now? Just remember
    those twelve simple points.
[16:10] Natsuno
    "Just" twelve?
[16:19] Ooyama
    Wasn't that Nishimura from Seinan?
[16:22] Souichirou
    It must be his appearance and attitude.
[16:27] Souichirou
    A pitcher like that really
    deserves more attention.
[16:33] Tsuda
    Okay! Take your seats!
[16:36] Kids
    Yes, ma'am.
[16:37] Tsuda
    Let's start from the top again.
[16:40] Tsuda
    Ready?
[16:41] Tsuda
    Imagine you're in the Alps stands
     at Koshien and focus.
[16:46] Tsuda
    Three, four...
SIGN    Meiji
    Jingu
     Baseball
     Stadium
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    Jingu
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     Stadium
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    Jingu
     Baseball
     Stadium
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    Jingu
     Baseball
     Stadium
SIGN    Meiji
    Jingu
     Baseball
     Stadium
SIGN    Meiji
    Jingu
     Baseball
     Stadium
SIGN    Meiji Jingu Baseball Stadium
[16:53] Narrator
    The National High School
    Baseball Championships.
[16:57] Narrator
    The East Tokyo Division quarterfinals.
SIGN    DRAGON
[17:01] Narrator
    Highlights.
[17:02] Customer A
    Just the highlights?
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[17:04] Customer A
    Hey now. Isn't that a giveaway
    that nothing surprising will happen?
[17:09] Customer B
    Right?
[17:10] Mystery Man
    You'd think that, wouldn't you?
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[17:14] Mystery Man
    But the motto of that particular author is:
     "Meet their hopes. Betray their expectations."
[17:20] Mystery Man
    It's at times like these that
    caution is most required.
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SIGN    Kenjo
SIGN    Houkaidai Ni
SIGN    1st
SIGN    2nd
SIGN    3rd
SIGN    4th
[17:28] Narrator
    Kenjo vs. Houkaidai Ni.
[17:32] Colorcaster
    Another walk.
[17:35] Colorcaster
    Even with no runners on base,
[17:37] Colorcaster
    these pitchers won't even
    try throwing a strike to Akai.
[17:43] Colorcaster
    He's been on base three times,
    all from intentional walks.
[17:47] Colorcaster
    Houkaidai Ni High's bench has studiously
    avoided pitching to this stellar cleanup.
[17:52] Colorcaster
    But for their ace pitcher, Gotou,
    who struggles with runners on base,
[17:58] Colorcaster
    is this really the ideal strategy?
[18:01] Colorcaster
    Even without Akai, Kenjo has a strong lineup,
    with numerous hitters averaging over .400.
[18:09] Colorcaster
    The result...
SIGN    Kenjo
SIGN    Houkaidai Ni
SIGN    1st
SIGN    2nd
SIGN    3rd
SIGN    4th
SIGN    5th
SIGN    6th
SIGN    7th
[18:14] Colorcaster
    The game has become extremely one-sided,
    with victory all but clinched in the seventh.
[18:19] Colorcaster
    Akai's fourth at-bat.
[18:23] Colorcaster
    He throws a strike...
[18:29] Colorcaster
    And it's into the lower deck
    of the right field stands!
[18:31] Colorcaster
    The favorites have no weak spots!
[18:34] Colorcaster
    It was a match that truly
    showed off Kenjo's strengths.
SIGN    Kenjo
SIGN    Houkaidai Ni
SIGN    (Called in the 7th)
[18:38] Narrator
    Next, Shirayama vs. Toushu.
[18:42] Colorcaster
    Last year, Toushu High won the whole summer.
SIGN    4th
SIGN    5th
SIGN    6th
SIGN    7th
SIGN    8th
[18:46] Colorcaster
    They're feeling the loss
    of their wonder ace, Mita,
[18:50] Colorcaster
    and they've had close game
    after close game.
[18:52] Colorcaster
    And in this one, they've gone
    into extra innings tied at 3-3.
[18:55] Colorcaster
    But...
[19:01] Colorcaster
    This year's Toushu team
    performs best under pressure.
[19:06] Colorcaster
    Last year's champions gain
    momentum with a walkoff.
[19:10] Colorcaster
    A troublesome opponent for Kenjo stays in.
SIGN    Shirayama
SIGN    Toushu
SIGN    (Walkoff in the 10th)
[19:14] Colorcaster
    We can't wait to see that semifinal.
[19:17] Narrator
    Seinan vs. Akanodai.
[19:22] Colorcaster
    Watch this. Seinan's number one, Nishimura,
    takes to the mound in the eighth.
[19:31] Colorcaster
    Incredible. A perfect save.
    Six consecutive strikeouts.
[19:36] Colorcaster
    The only son of veteran manager, Nishimura,
[19:38] Colorcaster
    whose dislike of the media and interviews
    is legendary: Takumi Nishimura.
[19:43] Colorcaster
    Those who recall the manager's playing days
    know their looks and form are identical.
[19:48] Colorcaster
    Seinan High got to the final last year,
[19:53] Colorcaster
    and they've made it to
    the semifinals once more.
[19:57] Nishimura
    Huh? That's all you have to say?!
SIGN    Seinan
SIGN    Akanodai
[20:00] Colorcaster
    And now, to find out who Seinan will face.
[20:04] Narrator
    Meisei High vs. Saijo.
[20:16] Colorcaster
    Meisei's starting pitcher, Natsuno,
    struggles with his control out of the gate,
[20:20] Colorcaster
    giving Saijo a promising two-run lead.
[20:25] Colorcaster
    But Meisei's bats have
    the long ball working this game.
[20:29] Colorcaster
    Batting fifth, Nangou ties things up
    with a two-run big fly.
[20:31] Colorcaster
    Batting seventh,
    Koma homers to take the lead.
[20:34] Colorcaster
    Batting fourth, Imagawa goes deep
    for a three-run shot.
[20:36] Colorcaster
    The Meisei lottery trio
    put six runs on the board.
[20:40] Colorcaster
    And Natsuno on the mound steps it up, too.
[20:43] Natsuno
    Okay, I get it now.
[20:45] Natsuno
    Like this!
[20:47] Souichirou
    That's it.
[20:50] Colorcaster
    From the second onward,
    his breaking ball movement
[20:52] Colorcaster
    and his control make him
    seem like a different person.
[20:57] Colorcaster
    And in the seventh...
[21:00] Colorcaster
    An error from the lottery
    gives up a third run.
[21:04] Colorcaster
    But he pitches eight innings,
SIGN    Meisei
SIGN    Saijo
SIGN    1st
SIGN    2nd
SIGN    3rd
SIGN    4th
SIGN    5th
SIGN    6th
SIGN    7th
SIGN    8th
SIGN    9th
[21:05] Colorcaster
    with a line of six hits, three walks,
    and three runs, two of them earned.
[21:17] Colorcaster
    Ace Touma Tachibana closes out
    the ninth to win the game.
SIGN    DRAGON
SIGN    Meisei High
SIGN    Saijo
[21:25] Customer A
    Hey, hang on!
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[21:27] Customer A
    It all went how you'd expect it to!
[21:30] Customer B
    Hey, old man!
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[21:36] Customer B
    Hey, where's the guy who was sitting there?
[21:40] Masaki
    Beats me.
SIGN    DRAGON
[21:43] Narrator
    Next up: the semifinals!
[21:46] Narrator
    Beat the shifty-looking guy on a bicycle!
[23:21] Narrator
    A rival. An opponent you want to beat.
[23:25] Narrator
    Through mutual encouragement,
    seek your own goals.
[23:28] Narrator
    Hit each other with everything you've got.
[23:32] Narrator
    With the next stage in mind, play ball!
[23:36] Narrator
    Next time on MIX*: "Who Is That?"
    is the name of our story.*
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