Hoop Men 5

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Hoopmen 05

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-Yashiba Metropolitan High School
-Basketball Club
-Komuta Atsumu (1st Year)
-Imai Yasunori (1st Year)
-Joshua Kuji Griffin Jr. (1st Year)
-Haraguchi Eiji (1st Year)
-Ide Akinobu (1st Year)
-Satou Yuuho (1st Year)
-Nakanishi Chisato (3rd Year)
-Yaguchi Kenichirou (3rd Year)
-Hanai Yuusuke (2nd Year)
-Fukuda Yoshito (2nd Year)
-Yoshino Shinji (2nd Year)
Chapter 5 The Way Home
Kawaguchi Yukinori

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Sidebar- Sensei appears!! Feels like he’s about to say something good!?
S- Young people must not give up
S- Face forward as you always do… Keep chasing
S- The backs of your future selves…
S- …How was that!? That was a good line wasn’t it!?
S- How was it Nakanishi!? It was good wasn’t it? Wa ha ha ha!!
N- Ah, yes sir!
Y- Hey Icchan I feel like we’ve become caught up with someone suspicious… who is that?
I- Yeah…
S- Yes… if you give up running…
S- You’ll become like me
S- Right
I- The Basketball Club Coach, Tameyoshi-sensei
Y- Coach?
Y- Eh, coach!!?

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H- Even if you call him a coach it’s not like he has any basketball experience
E- What really? Then why is he the coach…
V- I wanna ask
H- Well there weren’t any teachers with experience so it was for the time being or something
J- It seems he did karate when he was a student
3- Really –
H- Occasionally he comes to watch practice and tells the manager stories of his heroism
H/w- At that time sensei’s left hook… bang!!
H/w- Really – wow
H- And he makes the captain listen to him complain
H/w- Listen Nakanishi, I was bullied by the student advisor Yamaguchi (T/N: sorry, It’s not actually Yamaguchi but I can’t see the kanji it’s too small
H/w- Yes sir
H- He gives the appropriate instructions then goes home
S- Alright let’s try running one more time
E- He said something so good I thought he must be an amazing person
H/w- Right Yuuho
J- He’s all talk
S- Alright gather round!!
H/w- Yes sir!
J- But it really has been a long time since he last appeared…
J- Why did he come?
S- Oh!!

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S- So you’re Joshua!!! Oh!!! How do you do~!!! (T/N: he says the last bit in English with a bad accent)
S- Wah!! Ha!!
S- What’s this? If it isn’t Komuta!
S- That was amazing just now! That’s the thing called a dunk right?
S- Okay okay (T/N: also in English)
S- Ah~ well I heard this rumour
S- ‘There’s these two amazing guys in the basketball club’ I heard so I came to see…
S- It feels like we can win this time…!!
S- In the destined battle against Tokiwa Chuou High..!!
J- Eh
J- We’re going to do it?
S- Yeah!!

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C- Yeah… The coach at Tokiwa Chuou High was Tameyoshi-sensei’s junior in university…
C- We often have practice matches with them
Box- Everything after is just what I heard but
Y- It seems when Tameyoshi was a student he had his girlfriend stolen by the Tokiwa Chuou coach…
Y- It seems he calls those practice matches battles of destiny…
S- This time we’ll take em down!!
H/w- Yeah
Y- …a match…!! Yeah, my debut battle…!!!
Y- It seems their team is considerably stronger than ours…
Y- Up to now it’s been an embarrassingly bad loss every time but…
Y- I’m sure this time we’ll…

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S- So anyway I’m counting on you guys this time!!
S- Let’s beat those bastards at Tokiwa Chuou so badly they can’t even speak!!
T- A match huh…
T- It’s true we have Josh and Komuta so it might be a good match…
R- Yeah…
R- Who are you gonna use as starters captain?

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C- Yeah well first
-Me, the Captain (3rd Year)
-Yaguchi, the Vice Captain (3rd Year)
-The most skilled second year, Hanai
C- Right
C- Then… of course
Command tower Josh (1st Year)
Ace Komuta (1st Year)
C- …and that’s five
Y- I, won’t be in!?
Y- Ku… With this I’ll be what is commonly called a ‘benchwarmer’
Y- …Even though I tried so hard…
J- Yuuho!!
J- Let’s do dribbling practice with everyone who’s still here!!
J- The foundations of basketball are built on keeping the ball with you on the court!!
J- Without that you can’t do anything on the court
J- You must become able to do ‘that’
Y- ‘That’?

08
A- Did it just rain then?
K- Not at all

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Y- Two balls at the same time… and while talking too…
J- You can do it if you think ‘Whenever you have a free moment be touching the ball’
Y- I run until I don’t want to practice anymore
Y- The tension I had built up immediately dropped when practice was over
Y- When I first felt the cold sweat dripping down my back –
Y- Something boiled up inside me

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Y- A feeling that I could never defeat Komuta
Y- Because I get fired up during practice
Y- Wait!! I won’t lose Komuta!!
Y- Didn’t I say I was going to improve!?
Y- So I think
Y- But now
Y- When I’m calm

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Y- When I remember Komuta…
Y- And Josh’s plays…
Y- I can’t think of any way that I can become like that…
J- Why’re you spacing out Yuuho…
J- Where are you going!? The dribble practice…
Y- …I’ve had enough
Y- For today…
Y- …Jeez, I… Even though I’m not suitable I just get jealous of Komuta and become pissed… I’m so lame

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K- Phew –
K- Oh
K- Hey
Y- Yeah… hey
K- Ah – it’s so hot
K- -Ah
K- Hey were you okay back there
H/w- you got bumped right

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K- You’d never done basketball before had you
K- I heard you joined the basketball club as a translator
K- I was thinking ‘What the hell is this guy he’s sure got guts’
K- I was scared
Y- N…No
H/w- hahaha
Y- I’m just a benchwarmer after all
Y- Komuta-kun is much more…
K- Hey hey hey who’s Komuta
K- I’m Atsumu
H/w- Nice to meet ya
Y- …My old enemy Komuta Atsumu…
Y- Is much more
Y- Normal that I thought

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Y- Atsumu… when did you start basketball?
K- Third grade
K- Hey Yuuho is that the way you go home?
K- Then I’ll go around that way today
Y- I knew it it’s hopeless unless you start when you’re young…
Y- Ah, yum
K- Right! It’s good isn’t it?
Y- …Eh, what’s this a basketball specialty store?
K- Yuuho you’re using the shoes you borrowed from Yaguchi-san that he used to use as basketball shoes at the moment aren’t you?
Y- Expensive!
Y- Basketball shoes were this kind of thing!? …I’ll be right
Y- These great shoes would be wasted on a worthless player like me… haha…

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K- When you started basketball has nothing to do with it, there are pro players who started in high school
K- On the other hand there’s people who’ve played since they were kids and never won
Y- Atsumu’s a normal, good guy
Y- I became pathetic but making him an enemy by myself
Y- Hmph… this is painful but I’ll leave Koganei-chan up to you, Atsumu…
K- Eh seriously!? Toyoda-san, Miss Hachi High likes Josh!?
K- What is this even though I had my eye on her-!!

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K- Ah crap, I want a girlfriend
Y- Eh…
Y- Don’t you have a girlfriend?
K- Nope
Y- I was conflicted and had never endeavoured to ask him but
Y- I tried asking him straight
Y- How about Koganei-san?
K- Huh? What’s with that?
Y- Well because you guys get along so well… are you going out?

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K- Ah well she’s my childhood friend
K- But there’s no way we’d be going out, I just couldn’t with her
K- But she’s a bit weird in the head
K- And she’s really noisy
Y- At any rate
Y- When I got off the train I felt the gloominess in my heart had lifted
Y- a match… Yeah, my debut battle…
J- You can do it if you think ‘Whenever you have a free moment be touching the ball
K- There are pro players who started in high school
Y- I suddenly thought

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Y- I wanna practice
Y- Hm…
H/w- my phone

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P- Josh
Y- If in the future
Y- I have an autobiography I want it to say this
J- I have something I want to show you Yuuho
Y- This day was the day I devoted myself to basketball
Tagline- Knowing the reality… Having friends… The real start is from here!!