Chihayafuru 16

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- Come on, y’all! [linked] Hurry up!
Text beside logo: 16th song

Harada: Today’s tournament was brutal. [linked] I can’t believe no one made it into the top 8.
Harada aside: I lost too, but still…
Box: People from Shiranami Karuta Meet

- Cheer up, Harada-sensei. [linked] Thanks to that, we can now come support Chihaya’s team for the High School prelims.
- But if they’ve lost already, then we came for nothing.

Harada: Mami-chan, don’t be so negative…

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- Ugh…
- They lost…?

Taichi: The problem is our ordering strategy for the final round.

Taichi: Hokuou Gakuen is said to have two A-Level players. [linked] That slit-eyed guy is probably one of them…
Nishida: That really short guy with the round eyes is the other one.

Taichi: Nishida, you know him?
Nishida: He started playing pretty early on. [linked] I’ve met him at practice Meets. [aside] He’s 1 year above me.

Kana: But we don’t know which order the Hokuou players will be in, do we?

Taichi: That’s true. Still…
Chihaya aside above her head: Ummm / Ummm
Taichi: …if we know their order, we’ll have a better chance of getting 3 wins…
Chihaya aside: So we’re trying to avoid being matched up with the A-Level players? / Who the? / What the?

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Chihaya: Enough already!
Paper: Final Round / Mizusawa High School // Meatbun-kun / Kana-chan / Taichi / Desk-kun / Chihaya
Chihaya: We’ll go with this!

Taichi: Chihaya, [linked] don’t just randomly write down whatever. [linked] And don’t put down people’s nicknames!
Chihaya: It’s not random!

Chihaya: I… [linked] …thought this up during our match against West High.

Chihaya: The person who can shout the loudest, and who’s best able to see the overall situation, should be in central position. [linked] In our team, that person is Taichi.
Chihaya: It’s not a position for someone like me, who can’t see anything beyond her own match.

Chihaya: On the other hand, the positions at both ends should be occupied by people who focus on their own matches and can win quickly.
Chihaya: That’d be me and Meatbun-kun.

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Chihaya: Kana-chan and Desk-kun will be… [linked] …positioned between me, Taichi and Meatbun-kun, and derive encouragement from us.
Paper: [highest bubble] monitoring overall situation [6 bubbles below that] Chihaya / Desk / Taichi / Kana-chan / Meat / working hard [lowest bubble] working very hard
Chihaya: Rather than base our order on Hokuou’s…
Chihaya: …I want our formation to be one where we can all perform at a hundred percent.

Chihaya: Because we will win, no matter who our opponents are!

- Chihaya…

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- a little while ago,
- you looked like you were about to cry, but now—
Paper: Round / Final Round // School / Mizusawa High School // Nishida Yuusei // Ooe Kanade // Mashima Taichi // Komano Tsutomu // Ayase Chihaya
- Here is Mizusawa High’s ordering sequence form.

Harada: Eyelash-kun. Eyelash-kun.

Taichi: Harada-sensei!
Harada aside: Ah— thank god // thank god
Harada: You’ve been racking up the wins, I hear. And now you’re in the final round. [linked] Chihaya-chan’s in top form, too.

Taichi: Sensei, I… [linked] had no idea that even Chihaya gets stressed out…
Harada: Eh? [linked] Chihaya does!? [aside] that’s rare

- “You’re the only one who absolutely cannot lose.”

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Taichi: Chihaya’s usually so resilient…
Taichi: …but I said the wrong thing…

Taichi: …and nearly caused her to have a breakdown…

Taichi: I don’t even understand CHIHAYA. That won’t do, will it?
Taichi: I’m the club president, after all.

Taichi: Well then, I’ll be on my way.

- This is why…
- …I can’t look away.

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- “Even if I put the entirety of my youth on the line, I can’t surpass Arata.”

- The fact that you’re here…
- …is proof that you’ve changed, don’t you think?

- Harada-sensei. Harada-sensei.
Harada: Hm?
- I found a kid that hasn’t changed a bit over there.

Hyoro: Hyorot Answer!
Card: Hyorot

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Hyoro: So it’s 1) Nishida 2) Ooe 3) Mashima 4) Komano 5) Ayase. [linked] Going for a drastic change in ordering, are they?
Aside: totally confident

- You know— we don’t need to go this far against them, do we? [linked] It’s not like they’re all that strong.

Sudou: For some reason… [linked] I smell yakiniku.

Sudou: Aah! Was it you, Mochida-sensei?
Mochida: Eh? [linked] But I didn’t eat yakiniku.
Sudou: Huh, that’s even more amazing.

- Mocchi always smells yummy, huh—
- I wanna eat meat now. Meat—
Sudou: In any case,
Sudou: 5) is my opponent.

Hyoro: Alrighty! [linked] 3)’s Mashima is my opponent!

- Eh? [linked] Why him, Hyoro-kun?
Hyoro: We were in the same Karuta Meet in primary school, [linked] and I’ve never lost against him.

Hyoro: He must be reluctant to face me.
Bold text: self-assured

Aside: Is… is that so…
- I’ll randomly allocate the rest then.

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- It’s the preliminaries, so let’s finish this quick. [linked] This year we’ll get our revenge against Shizuoka’s Fujisaki for sure.

- Let’s all win our matches and go to the National Tournament!
- Of course!

Mochida: Everyone, [linked] focus only on what’s in the distance and you’ll get tripped up.
- Yeah, yeah. Sensei, could you hand this in for us?

- You’re probably tired of it, but…
- you’ll be taking us to Oumi Jinguu this year too.

- Now then, [linked] I’ll read out the order…
- …for the final round between Hokuou Gakuen and Mizusawa High School.

- Hokuou Gakuen, Amakasu-kun.
Aside: Ah! That’s me!

- Mizusawa High School, Nishida-kun.

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- Hokuou Gakuen, Ryuugasaki-kun. [linked] Mizusawa High School, Ooe-san.
Aside: Eek!

- Hokuou Gakuen, Kinashi-kun.
Aside: Here!
- Mizusawa High School, Mashima-kun.
Aside: Wha—

- Hokuou Gakuen, Takuma-kun.

- Mizusawa High School, Komano-kun.

- Hokuou Gakuen, Sudou-kun.
- Mizusawa High School, Ayase-san.

- All correct!!
- Hyorot cards are terrifying!!

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- That’s a traditional school for you.
- They’re in a league of their own.

- Please treat us kindly.
- P- [linked] Please treat us kindly.

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Sudou: Ow

Chihaya: Ah! [linked] I’m sorry!

Sudou: Where’s your “my apologies”?

Chihaya: Huh?
Aside: There it is.
Sudou: Where’s your “my apologies”?

Chihaya: I said I’m sorry.
Chihaya: Did you not hear it?

Sudou: I won’t be satisfied if it isn’t “my apologies”.
Chihaya: Huh?

Chihaya linked: What’s with this guy?

- Time. Please arrange your cards.

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- Wh…

- What arrangement is that!?

- Calm down, Chihaya-chan.

- He knows Chihaya-chan’s special card and is trying to shake her up.
Hyoro aside: It was me who told him, obviously.
- Going so far as to disturb his own set arrangement… he’s rather confident—

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Harada: Aren’t you Mochida-kun from Harukawa Karuta Meet?
Mochida: Wah! Harada-san.
Harada: Well well. So you’re coaching Hokuou Gakuen.

Mochida: You can’t really call it coaching. [linked] I’m not very good. I just like playing.
Mochida: I- [linked] I can only pray for them.

Harada: That kid on this end made an odd arrangement.
Mochida: Ahh… honestly, Sudou-kun is an odd kid. [linked] He’s fond of doing things that annoy people…

Mochida: …but if he didn’t have that side to him…
Mochida: He’s capable of becoming Meijin someday.

Harada: That may be so, but he just might lose to my student.
Mochida: No no, I doubt it. That girl’s only a 1st year in high school, isn’t she?
Harada: Oh no, I’m serious.
Bold text: Doting coaches

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Harada: I believe she’ll be Queen in the future.
- Begin.

- Nani wazu ni sakuya kono hana fuyu gomori—
- Hokuou, let’s win all 5 matches!
- Yeah!
- Ima wo haru beto sakuya kono hana—

Nishida: Mi
Kana: zu

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Taichi: sa
Komano: wa

Chihaya: FIGHT!

- Ima wo haru beto sakuya kono hana—
- Mizusawa didn’t do any cheering before, did they?
- Maybe they thought it up just a while ago?

- Don’t be confused by this “Chihaya”.

- Just play like usual…

- Focus on attacking.

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- Ta
- chi wakare—

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Harada: He sent out both “Tama” and “Tachi” from Chihaya’s territory.
Harada: So he also plays Aggressive Karuta. [NB. Aggressive Karuta focuses on attacking cards in the opponent’s territory]

Mochida: Sudou’s S is stands for “striking relentlessly”.
Aside: good going

Harada: And Chihaya-chan went for “Taki” in her opponent’s territory.
Harada: Not bad. [linked] Good luck, Chihaya-chan.

Hyoro: I kept it!

- Nice! I got it too!

- I captured it!

- Sudou?

Sudou: I got it, naturally.

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- All 5 of them…

Taichi: The fight starts now!
Taichi: Mizusawa, attack!!

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- Attack.

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- It’s okay even if you’re unsure.
- Reach out…

- …assault your opponent’s territory.

Hyoro: Well well, Mashima, [linked] you’re pretty worked up. Were you always like that?

- Attack.

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- Kaze wo itami—

- Ima wa tada—
- The cards are…

- I want to attack, but the cards are no help.
- They keep coming from my own territory.

Sudou: Here [heart]

Sudou: Here [here]

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- “Aggressive Karuta”…

- …is a style that involves actively acquiring cards from the opponent’s territory.
- It serves to deal mental damage to the opponent, but more importantly…

- …it allows the player to organize their own territory advantageously through the sending of cards.
- Chihaya-chan…

- …don’t get caught up in his pace—
- uneasy

- Calm down.

- Calm down.
Chihaya: Haah
Chihaya: Haah
- Confirm each cards’ position…

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- Its presence dominates my vision.
- This “Chihaya” is really irritating!

- Ah!?

- Just when…

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- a card from the opponent’s territory finally appeared—

- “My apologies”…
- Since you wouldn’t say it…

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- Got it!

Komano: I got it!
Komano: I captured a card! [linked] Yesss!!

- Wh-
- What’s up with him? It’s just one card.

Chihaya: Desk-ku…

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Komano: Ayase!
Komano: Even I got a card from my opponent’s territory! [linked] You can’t…

Komano: You can’t let your attacks be thwarted!!

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Komano: Yes! [linked] I can do this.
Komano: I can do this. [linked] Let’s take another card.

Nishida: I got it too!

Taichi: I kept it as well!

Kana: I’m definitely getting the next one!

- When playing individual matches…
- …a card was just a card.

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- But now—

- Hoo—
- Now—

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- I’m going to get a card for my team.