# E1 - Princess Sakuna of the Lofty Realm
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**[00:14] Sakuna**
So this is rice.
**[00:17] Sakuna**
It's so warm.
**[00:22] Sakuna**
The smell of the earth and
grass feels so comfortable.
**[00:26] Sakuna**
This fertile feeling satisfies the spirit.
**[00:29] Sakuna**
So this is my mother's...
**[00:33] Toyohana**
Sakuna. Sakuna.
**[00:38] Toyohana**
Sakuna.
**[00:38] Kokorowa**
Sakuna. Sakuna. Sakuna.
**[00:44] Sakuna**
Kokorowa?
**[00:46] Sakuna**
Why would you wake someone
who's sleeping so comfortably?
**[00:49] Sakuna**
Tama, water.
**[00:52] Kokorowa**
Tama is out.
**[00:54] Kokorowa**
The Bridge of Heaven just appeared,
and some humans crossed over.
**[01:01] Sakuna**
Humans?
**[01:14] Tauemon**
What is this place?
**[01:15] Kinta**
I can't see anything in this fog.
**[01:18] Voice**
Turn back. Turn back!
**[01:23] Myrthe**
What?
**[01:24] Yui**
What is this voice?
**[01:25] Voice**
Uninvited guests, the Lofty
Realm lies beyond this point.
**[01:31] Voice**
Humans do not belong there.
**[01:35] Voice**
Turn back. Turn back!
**[01:42] Ishimaru**
I finally found you, Katsura.
**[01:47] Tauemon**
Ishimaru.
**[01:49] Tauemon**
Ishimaru, why won't you leave us alone?
**[01:53] Ishimaru**
I doubt you realize it since you left
the group, but we're scraping by.
**[01:58] Ishimaru**
I can't allow those kids or a
traitor like you to walk free.
**[02:05] Tauemon**
Th-Then you leave me with no choice.
**[02:16] Kinta**
What are you being so weak-kneed for?
**[02:20] Ishimaru**
And you call yourself a samurai.
**[02:24] Ishimaru**
No matter. Let's settle this.
**[02:29] Ishimaru**
Who are you?
**[02:30] Sakuna**
Don't mind me. Carry on
with what you were doing.
**[02:34] Sakuna**
You're humans, aren't you?
**[02:36] Sakuna**
Newly arrived, and you're
already trying to kill each other?
**[02:38] Sakuna**
How amusing.
**[02:39] Sakuna**
Go on. Keep going.
**[02:41] Ishimaru**
That's a nice kimono you've got there.
**[02:45] Sakuna**
Even a lowly fellow like you
can recognize its quality?
**[02:50] Sakuna**
This fabric is expensive.
**[02:53] Sakuna**
It's worthy of Princess Sakuna,
the harvest goddess.
**[02:58] Tauemon**
Harvest goddess?
**[03:00] Ishimaru**
I was wondering what you'd
say, but a goddess?
**[03:04] Ishimaru**
You stink of sake for just a little kid.
**[03:08] Sakuna**
What did you say? I am...
**[03:14] Sakuna**
a grown adult!
**[03:21] Sakuna**
His insolence ruined my buzz.
**[03:25] Sakuna**
Humans, beyond this point is the
Lofty Realm, the domain of the gods.
**[03:31] Sakuna**
This bridge will vanish eventually.
**[03:33] Sakuna**
You should turn back before it does.
**[03:36] Tauemon**
The domain of the gods?
**[03:39] Myrthe**
Yanato has two worlds?
**[03:43] Yui**
Look.
***SIGN*** Episode 1:
Princess Sakuna of the Lofty Realm
**[05:29] Tama**
You kicked the human?
**[05:34] Sakuna**
Yes, for his insolence.
**[05:37] Sakuna**
He got what he deserved.
**[05:39] Tama**
How many times have I told you?
**[05:41] Tama**
This is the Lofty Realm, where
the many gods of Yanato reside.
**[05:45] Tama**
You should act more like a
goddess, Your Highness.
**[05:49] Tama**
Your Highness!
**[05:51] Sakuna**
I know! Shut up.
**[05:53] Kokorowa**
Sakuna, you've returned.
**[05:56] Sakuna**
Yeah. Kokorowa, you missed out on the fun.
**[06:00] Sakuna**
There was an insolent human.
**[06:02] Sakuna**
When I kicked him, he went
flying like a grain of rice.
**[06:06] Kokorowa**
Then the Bridge of Heaven really does connect
**[06:10] Kokorowa**
the Lofty Realm to the Lowly
Realm where humans reside.
**[06:15] Kokorowa**
The bridge...
**[06:17] Tama**
The Bridge of Heaven suddenly
appears and suddenly vanishes.
**[06:21] Tama**
Even Lady Kamuhitsuki said
it's difficult to manage.
**[06:27] Voice**
Lady Kamuhitsuki has arrived!
**[06:31] Voice**
Lady Kamuhitsuki has arrived!
**[06:42] Kamuhitsuki**
I am pleased to have my
accession to the throne
**[06:45] Kamuhitsuki**
celebrated again this year with
such a marvelous banquet.
**[06:50] Kamuhitsuki**
This is because of all of
you. You have my thanks.
**[06:55] Sakuna**
Lady Kamuhitsuki is as big as ever.
**[06:59] Tama**
She'll hear you.
**[07:00] Kamuhitsuki**
I shall now announce your
duties for the year.
**[07:10] Sakuna**
I was wondering what this meeting was for.
**[07:14] Sakuna**
I'm sure I'll get it again.
**[07:17] Sakuna**
After all, official duties are assigned
according to our offerings.
**[07:19] Tama**
Your Highness, show some respect.
**[07:21] Kamuhitsuki**
I shall now assign the first of the duties.
**[07:25] Kamuhitsuki**
Princess Sakuna, step forward.
**[07:28] Sakuna**
See?
**[07:37] Sakuna**
You have my deepest gratitude.
**[07:39] Kamuhitsuki**
The flavor of your rice offering
was impressive indeed.
**[07:44] Kamuhitsuki**
I look forward to another
year of service from you.
***SIGN*** Duty
**[07:50] Hyotan**
Princess Sakuna again?
**[07:52] Madam**
It'll be her for a while.
**[07:55] Madam**
She's still got a mountain of rice stored.
**[08:03] Sakuna**
This is exhausting.
**[08:08] Sakuna**
What is this automaton?
**[08:10] Kokorowa**
It's my offering this year.
**[08:13] Kokorowa**
It's perfect for guarding a shrine.
**[08:17] Sakuna**
Impressive.
**[08:20] Sakuna**
It'll be nice if you're assigned
an official duty someday.
**[08:22] Sakuna**
Now let's go.
**[08:24] Sakuna**
Apparently, those who received duties
this year receive new rooms.
**[08:29] Kokorowa**
New rooms?
**[08:31] Sakuna**
They're supposed to be pretty
high up. Let's go check it out.
**[08:38] Sakuna**
Now this is impressive.
**[08:41] Sakuna**
Look! You can see so far into the distance.
**[08:44] Sakuna**
And it's huge.
**[08:46] Sakuna**
You can roll around all you want
and never bump into anything.
**[08:50] Kokorowa**
It's certainly impressive that
they have rooms like this.
**[08:54] Sakuna**
You can come hang out anytime.
**[08:57] Sakuna**
I think I'll drink while
enjoying this scenery.
**[09:01] Sakuna**
Tama, bring me sake.
**[09:03] Tama**
There's something we should discuss first.
**[09:06] Sakuna**
We can talk later. Sake comes first.
**[09:08] Tama**
Your Highness!
**[09:10] Sakuna**
Make it quick.
**[09:13] Tama**
Very well.
**[09:15] Tama**
The rice you have been offering as tribute
**[09:18] Tama**
was grown and harvested through
the efforts of your mother
**[09:23] Tama**
and former harvest goddess Lady Toyohana.
**[09:29] Tama**
It was grown far away on the Isle
of Demons with Lord Takeribi.
**[09:34] Tama**
Have you not been offering
this stored rice every year
**[09:38] Tama**
without doing anything yourself?
**[09:41] Sakuna**
So what if I am?
**[09:43] Sakuna**
My mother and father's rice belongs to me.
**[09:46] Sakuna**
Now that they're missing,
I should do as I see fit.
**[09:50] Tama**
But the other gods know this.
**[09:54] Tama**
Some frown upon the way you receive
an official post every year
**[09:58] Tama**
without breaking a sweat yourself.
**[10:02] Tama**
You should mend your ways and
be more like your mother...
**[10:08] Sakuna**
Are you finished?
**[10:10] Tama**
No, I am *not* finished! In the first place—
**[10:20] Tama**
I'm not a dog!
**[10:23] Sakuna**
What are you, if not a little round dog?
**[10:27] Tama**
I may look like one,
**[10:29] Tama**
but I'm the spirit of the Blade of
Hoshidama that was once your father's.
**[10:33] Tama**
I look like this since only a part of it
**[10:36] Tama**
transformed into a spirit
when the blade was broken.
**[10:41] Sakuna**
What's wrong?
**[10:42] Kokorowa**
It seems to have detected intruders.
**[10:50] Sakuna**
What?!
**[10:53] Tama**
What's going on?
**[10:55] Kokorowa**
Look.
**[11:00] Yui**
What is that?
**[11:03] Kinta**
That huge puppet is moving!
**[11:05] Myrthe**
Oh, how marvelous!
**[11:14] Tauemon**
Run!
**[11:17] Sakuna**
Impressive. I'd expect no less from
Kokorowa, goddess of inventions.
**[11:23] Tama**
More importantly, what are
those humans doing here?
**[11:26] Tama**
I thought you kicked them off the bridge.
**[11:28] Sakuna**
One of them.
**[11:30] Sakuna**
I told them to turn back.
**[11:33] Sakuna**
If Lady Kamuhitsuki finds out I allowed
humans in here, I'll be in big trouble.
**[11:38] Tama**
What are you going to do?
**[11:40] Sakuna**
I'm going to catch them and throw
them into the clouds
**[11:42] Sakuna**
before this becomes a big deal.
**[11:44] Tama**
So violent!
**[11:45] Sakuna**
Oh, shut up.
**[11:49] Sakuna**
This is no time to worry about that.
**[11:54] Kinta**
I'm gonna fall!
**[11:56] Yui**
Kinta!
**[12:03] Sakuna**
Oh no. Damn that automaton.
**[12:06] Sakuna**
It's making the situation worse.
**[12:08] Tama**
Not your Divine Raiment.
**[12:10] Tama**
You caused a disturbance just
the other day with that.
**[12:12] Sakuna**
It's too late for that!
**[12:28] Sakuna**
Where did they go?
**[12:31] Sakuna**
The rice I offered to Lady
Kamuhitsuki is stored that way.
**[12:36] Sakuna**
Hey, you! Wait!
**[12:54] Yui**
I've never eaten white rice before.
**[12:58] Kinta**
There's still so much of it.
**[13:00] Sakuna**
Now you've done it, humans!
***SIGN*** Oil
**[13:15] Kamuhitsuki**
What a fragrant smell.
***SIGN*** Storing
Rice
***SIGN*** In order to feed people for a year, rice
harvested in the fall must be stored in a
way that preserves its quality. Rice was
once stored in well-ventilated raised
storehouses with rat guards, with efforts
made to protect the rice from mold or rats.
Toyohana's storehouse is protected from
damage by divine energy.
***SIGN*** m 0 0 l 140 0 140 130 0 130
**[13:25] Sakuna**
My sincerest apologies!
**[13:27] Kamuhitsuki**
Princess Sakuna, as daughter
of the war god Takeribi,
**[13:33] Kamuhitsuki**
I appointed you to an important post.
**[13:35] Kamuhitsuki**
I can't believe you destroyed both
the offerings and the storehouse.
**[13:39] Sakuna**
No, you've got it all wrong.
**[13:41] Sakuna**
Lady Kamuhitsuki, this all
started because the humans—
**[13:45] Kamuhitsuki**
You're a god! Don't try to
blame the humans for this!
**[13:49] Kamuhitsuki**
Besides, it was your carelessness
that brought them here.
**[13:56] Kamuhitsuki**
Now then, where are the humans?
**[13:58] Tama**
Here.
**[14:01] Kinta**
What? Is that a monster?
**[14:03] Yui**
No. She's a god.
**[14:07] Myrthe**
This is Yanato's god?
**[14:10] Kamuhitsuki**
Indeed. I am Kamuhitsuki,
head goddess of the Lofty Realm.
**[14:15] Kamuhitsuki**
Identify yourselves, humans.
**[14:20] Tauemon**
I am Katsura Uemon-no-jou Takamori.
**[14:24] Tauemon**
People call me Tauemon.
**[14:27] Kinta**
I'm Kinta. Are you an empress?
**[14:30] Yui**
I'm Yui.
**[14:31] Yui**
I don't want to be here.
Please send us back.
**[14:35] Myrthe**
I am Myrthe.
**[14:37] Myrthe**
And this is Kaimaru.
**[14:40] Kamuhitsuki**
Gods and humans must remain
in their separate worlds,
**[14:44] Kamuhitsuki**
the Lofty Realm and the Lowly Realm.
**[14:48] Kamuhitsuki**
However, the Bridge of Heaven you crossed
to get here has already vanished.
**[14:54] Tauemon**
Does that mean we're...
**[14:56] Kamuhitsuki**
Until the bridge reappears, you shall deal
with the aftermath of this disturbance.
**[15:01] Sakuna**
What do you mean?
**[15:04] Kamuhitsuki**
Princess Sakuna, you're aware of
the Isle of Demons, are you not?
**[15:09] Kamuhitsuki**
It's the remote island where your parents
met and defeated the evil god Omizuchi.
**[15:15] Sakuna**
Yes, but it's said that demons still
reside there beyond even your control.
**[15:22] Kamuhitsuki**
You will go to this island and cultivate it
while determining why demons are born there.
**[15:30] Tama**
The Isle of Demons! This is too much.
**[15:34] Sakuna**
But it takes days to get there from here.
**[15:37] Kamuhitsuki**
What? Surely you don't intend to commute.
**[15:41] Kamuhitsuki**
Naturally, you will live on the
island and fulfill your duty.
**[15:45] Sakuna**
Live on the island? What about the capital?
**[15:48] Kamuhitsuki**
You're right. Until you have fulfilled your
duty, you are banished from the capital.
**[15:53] Sakuna**
Banished?!
**[15:57] Kamuhitsuki**
This is an official decree.
**[16:00] Kamuhitsuki**
That is all. You may leave.
**[16:02] Sakuna**
Please wait, Lady Kamuhitsuki!
**[16:05] Sakuna**
This is too much!
**[16:07] Sakuna**
Lady Kamuhitsuki!
**[16:11] Kinta**
She disappeared.
**[16:12] Yui**
So that was a god.
**[16:17] Sakuna**
This... This is all your fault...
**[16:22] Kinta**
What?
**[16:24] Sakuna**
Why didn't you turn back when I told you to?
**[16:26] Sakuna**
Didn't I say that humans didn't belong here?
**[16:31] Tauemon**
We had nowhere to return to.
**[16:34] Tauemon**
Our only choice was to move forward.
**[16:40] Kinta**
Let go of me.
**[16:41] Tama**
Your Highness, this is the audience chamber.
**[16:45] Sakuna**
I know.
**[16:53] Sakuna**
Kokorowa...
**[16:56] Sakuna**
I know. Kokorowa, will you come with me?
**[16:59] Kokorowa**
What?
**[17:00] Sakuna**
Yes, that would be best.
**[17:02] Sakuna**
You're the goddess of invention.
Having you around would be a huge help.
**[17:06] Sakuna**
We're childhood friends, aren't
we? We're best friends, right?
**[17:09] Sakuna**
Please!
**[17:11] Kokorowa**
But...
**[17:13] Sakuna**
Tama, are you okay with this?
**[17:16] Sakuna**
You were so opposed when I said
I was going to the Isle of Demons
**[17:21] Sakuna**
to look for my mother.
**[17:23] Tama**
That's because you were still young.
**[17:27] Sakuna**
If I say left, you say right.
**[17:29] Sakuna**
You're always disagreeing
with everything I say.
**[17:32] Kokorowa**
I feel kind of sorry for Sakuna.
**[17:38] Tama**
But I believe Lady Kamuhitsuki issued
this edict so she'd mend her ways.
**[17:47] Tama**
After defeating Omizuchi, her mother,
Lady Toyohana, supported herself
**[17:52] Tama**
by growing rice and hunting on
that island with her father.
**[18:00] Tama**
Making Her Highness experience the same thing
**[18:03] Tama**
will make her realize she
is the harvest goddess.
**[18:06] Tama**
Perhaps that was her intention.
**[18:10] Kokorowa**
You could be right.
**[18:14] Kokorowa**
Wait here for a while.
**[18:17] Kinta**
It's pretty big. Is this the ocean?
**[18:24] Yui**
It's salty. Tastes just
like our world's sea.
**[18:28] Kokorowa**
The Lofty Realm and Lowly Realm
are two sides of the same coin.
**[18:32] Kokorowa**
They influence one another.
**[18:34] Kokorowa**
When there's more famine
or war in the Lowly World,
**[18:38] Kokorowa**
the harvest is poorer in
the Lofty World as well.
**[18:42] Tauemon**
Then something bad may happen.
**[18:46] Tauemon**
The Lowly World is in a terrible state
right now due to war and famine.
**[18:51] Kokorowa**
I see.
**[18:53] Myrthe**
Is the Lowly World below us?
**[18:57] Yui**
Now that you mention it, I wonder.
**[18:59] Yui**
Is the world of people beyond
the bottom of the sea?
**[19:03] Kokorowa**
They say there are clouds
in the depths.
**[19:07] Kokorowa**
But not even gods can go there,
so there's no way to know.
**[19:14] Myrthe**
Oh, amazing! Yanato is an incredible place.
**[19:17] Tauemon**
The world is a strange place indeed.
**[19:23] Kinta**
So, what's that noisy goddess doing?
**[19:37] Tama**
Your Highness, it's time.
**[19:39] Sakuna**
I know.
**[19:44] Tama**
Leave the sake!
**[19:46] Sakuna**
What? Why?
**[19:47] Tama**
Forgive me, but that is Lady
Kamuhitsuki's decree.
**[19:51] Tama**
You're not to drink for a while.
**[19:54] Sakuna**
But...
**[19:55] Sakuna**
I won't do it.
**[19:56] Tama**
Your Highness.
**[19:58] Sakuna**
I don't want to do this!
**[20:03] Tama**
Your Highness, don't behave
like a spoiled child.
**[20:07] Tama**
You're a god.
**[20:08] Sakuna**
Shut up!
**[20:09] Sakuna**
I heard Lady Kamuhitsuki shut
herself in a chest once, too.
**[20:14] Kokorowa**
Is something the matter?
**[20:15] Tama**
Ah, Lady Kokorowa. As you can
see, Her Highness is...
**[20:21] Kokorowa**
Sakuna.
**[20:22] Sakuna**
Is that you, Kokorowa? Could you ask
Lady Kamuhitsuki to forgive me?
**[20:28] Sakuna**
You're smart. I bet Lady
Kamuhitsuki would listen to you.
**[20:32] Kokorowa**
Sakuna, is that really what you want?
**[20:37] Sakuna**
Huh?
**[20:38] Kokorowa**
Didn't you say you'd become a great
god someday and find your parents?
**[20:47] Kokorowa**
Were you lying when you said that?
**[20:49] Sakuna**
No! But how long do you
think it's been since then?
**[20:54] Sakuna**
My parents went missing
when I was still nursing.
**[20:58] Sakuna**
I've never had a mother or father.
**[21:02] Kokorowa**
You've given up, then.
**[21:04] Kokorowa**
You're not going to the Isle of Demons,
the last known location
**[21:09] Kokorowa**
of your father, Lord Takeribi,
and your mother, Lady Toyohana?
**[21:33] Sakuna**
Kokorowa.
**[21:35] Kokorowa**
Sakuna.
**[21:39] Sakuna**
What's this?
**[21:40] Sakuna**
It's Oboro Zoushi!
***SIGN*** Oboro Zoushi
Koushi Oborozuki
**[21:43] Sakuna**
Hey, wait. What are you doing?
**[21:46] Sakuna**
I'm a goddess!
**[21:47] Sakuna**
Show some respect!
**[21:49] Sakuna**
Hey, let go!
**[21:50] Kokorowa**
Please look after Sakuna.
**[21:52] Tama**
I shall protect her with my life. Farewell.
**[21:58] Kokorowa**
I'll miss her, but...
**[22:09] Sakuna**
I still don't want to go!
**[22:11] Sakuna**
I can't survive outside
the capital. I'll die!
**[22:16] Yui**
She's exaggerating.
**[22:17] Kinta**
She's such a noisy goddess.
**[22:20] Tama**
Your Highness, please stop.
**[22:24] Tauemon**
What a beautiful dawn.
**[22:30] Sakuna**
Beyond the horizon...
**[22:32] Tama**
It's waiting for us.
**[22:34] Tama**
That island you're deeply connected to.