3-gatsu no Lion 101

It got late.. buuut I finished.

[3-Gatsu no Lion 101 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Title: Chapter.101
Swimming Man (2)
Sign: Downtown Bus
Sangatsu Town

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Handwritten (Top): Young Master!
Harunobu-samaaah!
(Bottom): Elizabeth and Harunobu-kun.

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Irie: There's a total of 24 people in B2.
We have 10 matches a year
of which the top 2 rise in class.
---If I lose today,
I'll have to win every last match in this period
or I'll lose my chance at going up a class.

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Irie: Kiriyama retreated his Gin.
At the end of a 2-hour long think...
he probably anticipated that I would use my kei.
----But
by pulling back a piece he's already moved forward,
even if he's thinking about what'll happen further down the line, he's still putting himself 'a move behind'...
I consider myself a pretty patient player,
----But this boy is something else.
He's like this at 19 years old...?

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Irie: ---And he's stopping to think again here...?
----He has a careful
and probably very quiet shogi game...
SFX: SUH...
SFX: TASHIH
SFX: PASHIHH

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SFX: SU...
Irie: 3-6 Kaku......!!
So that 3-9 Gin was
----I get it now...!!
He played that because he was predicting this board?!!

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Irie: I was thinking 'He sure is taking a while...'
but
I never anticipated he'd read this far ahead.
Gray Bars: In an instant, I felt a sensation
like a gigantic fish was slipping by me.
Irie: Calm down!!
The tide is changing.
----You cannot get carried away by this!

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SFX: PASHIH PASHIH
SFX: KARAN...
Irie: I lost a kei... that hurts.
But
Kiriyama's formation is in disorder.
Okay,
what do I do now?

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SFX: SUH...
Irie: ----Now he's...
organizing his formation...?
This sensation... I remember it.
-----That's right.
It's from the first time I went up against Souya back in C2.

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Irie: A huge
ferocious yet beautiful creature
slipped by C2 and C1 in an instant.
Even though I was a creature that swam, too,
he felt like he a fish, not a human.
He was on a whole different plane.
----I couldn't help but feel 'There was really nothing I could do against this guy.'

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Irie: ---But
I couldn't pretend it didn't hurt.
The first time I touched a shogi piece
was when I was 6 years old.
If I'd let that end with me drowning back then
---I
wouldn't be playing shogi for 40 years!!
SFX: KANNN

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SFX: PASHIHH
Irie: 3-6 Kei................!!

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SFX: GABOHH BOKOH GABOBOBO BO...

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SFX: PAKYAH...
Woman: Okay,
here you are.
SFX: KOTOH...
SFX: GUPIH
Irie: Here.
Woman: Ice?
Irie: Yeah...
one.
Woman: You drink some rather odd things, don't you?
Hiyashi ame and... whiskey?
SFX: KARAN

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Guy: This cup sure takes me back.
I used to drink this at my wife's parents house all the time.
I've never seen someone drink one like this...
Hiyashi ame and whiskey...
Handwritten: Amesky?
Woman: Hey,
I was surprised, too, at first,
---but it's actually quite addicting.
Handwritten: It's so sweet and thick!
Old guy: ----Seeing as you come here so often, are you perhaps a shogi player, too?
Irie: Yes.
Old guy: Oh, I see.
That's quite a difficult job...
Woman: We get all sorts of shogi players in here,
but with Irie-san you really never can tell
whether he won or lost.

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Irie: On days I win, I'm really happy.
On days I lose, I'm introspective.
---But
I decided I can't
worry too much.
---This sea is
still vast.
And there will be plenty of other days.
Bottom: Chapter.101 E N D

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Top Right Small: An article by Senzaki Manabu
Top Right Big: Senzaki Manabu's Lion Shogi Column
Big Right: Are there Shogi Players that get Better Gradually?
Article: I learned shogi when I was 6 years old and I entered the Shoureikai when I was 10 years old. In those 4 years, I can state with certainty that I didn't improve at a constant rate. I got a lot better really fast from ages 7 to 8. In concrete terms, I went from amateur 5-kyuu to 4-dan. Very short periods of spectacular improvement are very much found at the pro level. Shogi is a game of logic, so gradually improving step by step is much more common than this sort of rapid burst of improvement, but when I look at examples of shogi players, they sometimes seem to grasp a sense of something. Perhaps you could call this talent.
So you make it through the severe world of the Shoureikai and make it to working as a shogi player. But really, that's where the battle actually begins. If you win, you're in heaven. Your mood couldn't be higher and your bank account sings. If you lose, it's hell. You feel awful and your wallet is empty. And the days of those swamp-like battles continue on and on.
When you become a shogi player, you don't have the periods of of improvement you had as a kid that came as natural as bamboo growing. After all, you've already acquired tons of techniques so there's not much higher to go. All you can do is improve little by little. So normally the most vital methods for accomplishing that are studying, research, and practice. But there are those that do that that get better, and those that do that and do not. Why...? I don't know. I really can't give any answer but that.
However, there are also players that completely transform without warning. I believe that up to age 30, everyone has the potential for that. At some point, you just start winning rapidly. Even if that's what it looks to amateurs, pro players working in the same industry know a lot about potential, so they frequently aren't surprised.
I think probably, players in those periods find a harmony between technique and spirit and that comes out in their moves... a bit hard to understand, isn't it? Yes, it's a pretty hard world to understand. To supplement that, the game of shogi is a science, and matches are one of the humanities. Something hard to pinpoint, something like fighting spirit, is an important element in deciding wins and losses. So I feel that when your humanities brain and science brain are in sync with each other, you win like crazy.
Now then, after age 30, or at a certain set age, you barely have these explosive win streaks anymore. Still, you need to get better or you won't be able to stand a chance against younger players. This rides on daily studying and stamina. Stamina is important among all else. Tenacity is vital to matches, but stamina is indispensable for keeping up that tenacity. Your mind and body are one. But... oh, it's so difficult. Since the number of various things outside of shogi increase.
Senzaki Manabu is 44 years old. That's a difficult age, but he's still giving it his all. He solves mating shogi puzzles, he goes to study groups, he hits punching bags to keep his body sharp, and he has the determination to keep winning and winning.

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