Kokou no Hito 89

I still haven't given up.

[Kokou no Hito 89 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Narration: Mount Fuji
Elevation 3776m, located on the border of the Shizuoka and Yamanishi Prefectures. The highest peak in Japan.
A sightseeing destination that, come summer, over 300,000 mountain climbers come from all over Japan seeking the peak.
Title: 89th Climb Believed in Path
信仰の対象としてその山を敬い崇める登り続けてきた
Since over 1000 years ago, as targets of worship, that mountain has been constantly climbed as a means of honor and reverence.
心の原風景
And even for current Japanese, Mount Fuji is core fundamental scenery. The most familiar mountain.
「絹本著色富士曼茶羅図」
Bottom: "Color on Silk Fuji Mandala"
富士山本宮浅間大社所蔵
In possession of the Fujisan Hongu- Sengen Taisha

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Narration: But once winter comes
Headline: Mount Fuji First Snow-Capped Peak
[Absolutely everything else is cut off and completely plot irrelevant anyhow.]
Narration: a celestial nymphs dressed in a white robe dances on the peak.
一転 たやすく人間を寄せつけない
And just like that, there's a reversal, and humans won't come near.
Transfiguring into God's domain.

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Title: 89th Climb Believed in Path
[You see, when the means of speaking gets crazy weird like that it gets really hard to translate...]

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Ipod: Playing
[Uh, despite the fact that that title makes no sense, it seems that is in fact the name of that song by that artist. Both of which I've never heard of... and it sounds stupid.]
SFX: KAAAAAN
SFX: KAAN
暖冬と寒波の入り混じで
Takemura: With a combination of a mild winter and a cold wave,
お鉢に氷柱ができてるなんて
even though it's March, icicles are forming in the crater...

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Takemura: Lucky.

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Takemura: !!!
SFX: Garara
Takemura: Haha, I really lost my head there.
With so little oxygen,
this is an excellent place to adapt to high areas before going to the Himalayas.
SFX: KARAN KARAN
I'm counting on you, senpai...!!
Mori: January 15th
the 130cm cross section is...
On March 10th, at 110cm...

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今年も冬の雪らしい雪が少ない圧密雪化の本番はこれからだ...
Mori: This year, too, there's little winter-like snow. So this is really how far the snow's consolidated...
This year's first snow-capped peak, itself, was late.
And the number of days of snowfall was fewer.

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Mori: It looks like
all we can do is hope for spring snow this year, too...
Takemura: Senpai.
Are ya still measuring?
Come on, nobody but you's around.
Just make some numbers up to put in.
Let's hurry over to ice climb on those icicles!!
Mori: I have work.
SFX: ZAH

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雪密度の計測は温暖化に与える影響の研究に必要なデータベースになるんだ
Mori: Measuring snow density is a necessary database for research on the affects caused by warming temperature.
If it's not accurate, it's meaningless.
SFX: ZAH ZAH
SFX: ZAKU
SFX: ZAH ZAH
Takemura: Just how many meters are you digging?
Mori: 4 meters.

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Takemura: The man even called "Solo Climb Mori Buntarou"
ignoring climbing for this
土龍みたいにせこせこ穴掘って暮らしてこれで本当に満足なんスか？
Are you really satisfied with living digging holes like a mole, like this?
Mori: For me, it's important work.
SFX: ZAH
SFX: ZAH ZAH
Takemura: ...Senpai,

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Takemura: Mountains and work,
which is more important?
Mori: They both are.

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SFX: ZAH ZAH
SFX: ZAH
[I think climbing's cooler, too, Takemura.]

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Takemura: I came all the way here, but
I guess it was a false start.
You're late, senpai.
Even though you don't have work after noon...
Pole: Tenchi Kyou
(Border of Heaven and Earth)

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五合目左藤小屋
Sign: Fifth Station Satou Cabin
Mori: Good, I've cut down 2 minutes from yesterday!!
From here, the 5th station, it's 1500 meters to the peak.
The goal time to the top is just 1 hour 45 minutes...
駆け上がれんば肺の体積は30%増える
If I can run up to the 3000m elevation at once, my lung capacity will increase by 30%.
I'll endure that burden...!!!

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Mori: It may be greedy,
but

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Mori: I won't give up on work nor mountains-----...

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Kokou no Hito
The Climber