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Carnation

小さく丸めた躯は今

Chisaku marumeta karada wa ima

My body, tiny and curled up, is right now

Week 2 "My Destiny Is Opened" Episode 12

かなしみ隠し震えて

Kanashimi kakushi furuete

Trembling with hidden sorrows

Screenplay Watanabe Aya

Music Satō Naoki Musical Performance\h Face Music

Theme Song "Carnation" Sheena Ringo

命を表していろのね

Inochi o arawashite iro no ne

My life is represented by my color, isn't it

Cast

Ohara Itoko Ono Machiko

Ohara Chiyo Asau Yumi

Ohara Haru Shoji Terue

重く濡らした瞼は今

Omoku nurashita mabuta wa ima

My eyelids, heavily soaked, are right now

Yoshida Natsu Kuriyama Chiaki

Kinomoto Eisaku Kōmoto Masahiro

Masuya Kōkichi Thomas Ken

Yasuoka Tamae Hamada Mari Yasuoka Taizō\h Suga Takamasa

よろこび映す日の為

Yorokobi utsusu hi no tame

Reflecting my rapture of this day

Yasuoka Kansuke Onoue Hiroyuki Ohara Shizuko\h Yagyū Miyu

Ohara Kyoko Maki Mei Ohara Mitsuko\h Yoshida Aoi Okamura\h Kawano Tomohiro

心を育てているのね

Kokoro o sodatete iru no ne

That's how a heart is raised, isn't it

Shingūji Genzō Ishida Tarō

Ohara Zensaku Kobayashi Kaoru

Here today...

This person is a Chindonya, a traditional Japanese group of sandwich board advertisers

...with ceremonial music and speeches...

...the business, Kinomoto Electrical Store, will be unveiled!

Yes, eat up, eat up! Okay!

Kinomoto Electrical Shop

Yeah, eat up, eat up!

The thing about electricity is...

Kinomoto Eisaku

...um... how do I put it?

Well...

...it's like magic.

Magic?

Yeah. From here on...

...we'll be using electricity to do things like laundry and for cleaning.

Look...

...the most successful thing out there...

...is the radio box.

Ah, I know about radio.

Really?

Eh? What is it, what is it?

What kind of box do you think it is?

Hmm... something like...

...a box with something inside it!

Yeah!

Like a Tengu?

Tengu - long-nosed goblin

Oh!

Candy! There's candy inside it, right?!

Oh, oh!

It can't be candy. Clouds.

Clouds in the sky.

Look...

...the answer is...

You can hear a person's voice coming from it!

Inside is...

...well, it's not people or musical instruments.

Yet even so...

...you can hear people's voices...

...and musical instruments from it!

Doesn't that sound like fun?

Yeah, I don't get that.

Eh? Where are you going?

Yeah, I don't get it, either.

Wait...

If I had a box, it'd be better to have a pretty one that I could put my own things in.

No, no! If you saw one, you'd understand!

And you'd definitely want one!

I wonder...

Just wait. In just a little longer...

...this place'll be filled with them!

It's a new age! The age of electricity!

I'm home!

Ah.

Dear...

I've brought you some medicine.

Eh?

For the bug in your stomach.

Huh?

Please drink this.

A bug in my stomach...

Why would I have such a thing?

Please take it, okay?

Please come! Each and every one of you!

I don't like him.

Every time that man Ohara sees me, he says, "Pretty girl, pretty girl"...

...to try and flatter me.

That's not flattery. He really thinks that.

Kishiwada Major Landowner Shingūji Genzō

No way. I know for certain that it's just flattery.

Welcome!

Ah!

Good afternoon.

Eh...

Once again...

...congratulations on your good fortune.

Ala?

You've come empty-handed?

I thought you'd have brought the fabrics.

Yes...

I'm sorry!

There's nothing...

...I can do but apologize for this.

I see.

I truly am very sorry.

This doesn't bother me.

I can just order them from a different store.

More importantly...

...what will you do?

Close your store?

It's embarrassing to say this though.

Huh?

I'm still... unsure.

Ah...

I can understand that.

However...

You should quit it as soon as possible.

Once a business starts to fail, it goes straight to rock-bottom.

If you're slow in reaching that point, you can't start over.

The new school term had started.

I still hadn't gotten my father's permission to go there, but...

Masuya Patch Store

...just a peek...

Masuya Patch Store

...I wanted to have just a little peek at it.

As long as I didn't meet anyone and hurried home...

...nothing bad would happen.

Okamura, I'll ask you for this.

Yes.

Okay, everyone, let's do it!

Yes!

Oi, Yamaguchi, put that down.

Yes, sorry.

Oi, Yamaguchi, that goes over here.

Oi! You haven't put that down.

Yes!

I have no money.

Ya'd better get some then.

Ah.

It's Kansuke.

But he's chosen to ignore me when we meet on the road...

...so I'll ignore him, too.

If yas don't listen to what I says and buys it, ya know what'll happen, right?

Yas don't have ta think up nothing...

...just do as we says is fine.

If a policeman comes, just tell 'em that.

Yeah, tell 'em that.

But I...

I guess I don't want to.

Huh?

Listen up! Do you wants what happened to yas the other day ta happen again?!

What's up with you!?

I'm Ohara Itoko!

I'm the friend of that weakling over there!

You intend to bully the weak just 'cause yer stronger?!

What a rotten nature ya've got!

Get off 'im!

Oww...

I got sand in my eyes.

Hold on a minute.

Take this!

Idiot! Yer da rotten one!

Scum!

Wait!

Hey, hey... It's Ito-chan.

A fight?

Why would a schoolgirl like you do that?!

Don't get angry with her.

It's my fault.

Huh?

Some guys from my school were bullying me and Ito-chan went after them.

Shut up!

Go home! Go home!

Kansuke, you fool!

Go home!

Itoko, what are you doing?!

I told you to leave, didn't I?! Leave!

All right. I'll go home.

Goodbye.

Itoko.

Want to eat some porridge?

Hmm...

What is it?

Does it still hurt?

What kind of guys would kick a girl in the stomach?

I just...

They just kicked and kicked at me.

Are you crying?

Does it hurt that much?

It doesn't hurt!

It's mortifying.

Huh?

'Cause Kansuke saved me.

What's mortifying about that?

'Cause I was the one trying to save Kansuke!

Fool. Something wrong with that?

It's that...

...just 'cause he's a boy...

...he's much stronger than me.

So he's stronger. That's not fine with you?

It's not fine with me!

Nothing fine about it at all!

All the boys I know...

...are getting increasingly stronger...

...and leaving me behind.

At this rate...

...I won't be able to win against them my entire life.

You're a girl.

You can do the things a girl can do.

You can, look...

...sew.

Sewing's a fine thing.

Dad said, "That's no good!"

And, "Don't sew Appappa."

In that case, sewing something else is fine.

No!

I wanna sew Appappas!

I wanna work at Masuya Patch Store!

A sewing machine is my Danjiri!

What's that? "My Danjiri?"

I'm...

...not allowed to ride the Danjiri.

I can't wear a dress.

And I can't use a sewing machine, either...

And I even lost to Kansuke!

I can't take anymore!

Ohara Dry-goods Store

The next morning.

Sit down.

Once the Danjiri festival is over...

...you can quit the Girl's School.

And...

...you can go to that patch shop!

Eh...

Really?

Really?!

I can?! Really?!

However!

Don't think you're going to work.

It's just to study...

I'm so happy! Ah, I can do it!?

Ah! Ah!

Listen up!

Study!

It's 100 years too soon...

...for a dumb kid like you to go to work.

You're just going there to study.

Anyhow, all Dad would say was "study, study" over and over.

But at that time, I still didn't recognize any of it's significance.

Only to study and just to study.

Sōrya! Sōrya! Sōrya! Sōrya!

It's coming!

Whaa!

Sōrya! Sōrya! Sōrya! Sōrya! Sōrya! Sōrya!

Taizō-niichan!

Taizō-niichan!

Taizō-niichan, look...

...I'll be able to ride my own Danjiri.

Do you remember?

It's a sewing machine.

To Be Continued

Week 3: "Passion"

Carnation

End

Early Showa Era, Children of Toyonaka-shi, Osaka

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