People, at times when everything does not go well,
look for a reason to live.
Circumstance and timing,
divine intervention and luck,
these bring out many good circumstances which comfort oneself.
Though it's not expected to, if you can change it once,
if you change it, will it really turn out well?
If it can't be done the first time,
for one to do it the second time,
where will one's confidence come from?
His name is Iwase Ken.
Now,
this man's true merit is going to be tested.
Though the kiss was successful,
having pushed aside the crucial confession,
as to the marriage, there was no progress in this true love where there should have been.
I wonder,
will happiness ever come to visit this man?
2003 A.D,
Rei-san, in her second year in University.
When Rei-san's birthday came, the distance between the two was slowly closing in.
Oi, why'd you suddenly skip?
Why'd you suddenly skip our first year?
What?
There were more pictures during our first year!
What has suddenly gotten into you?
And I'm not in them.
This isn't your wedding, you know!
Stop kidding me...
When I think about it now, it's such a sad birthday, dont you think?
For your 20th birthday, it shouldn't have been just beer in the lab!
I remember I wanted to cry, that's why I was a rather sad.
Really? But you really didn't cry.
Is that so?
I feel like what you said was "What happened to my teenage years?"
I don't remember anymore.
But, for us to do our best that day, we tried to cope for the competition,
so it wasn't completely wasted, wasn't it?
Well, when I think of it now...
At the instant Rei turned twenty,
the one who was with her was Tada-san.
Why is it that no matter how hard I try, we never meet eye to eye?
Why didn't I celebrate it with her earlier?
I want to go back...
I'll celebrate Rei's birthday when I go back, but,
But the photo doesn't include me!
Oh.
I'm not there though!
Did you strain your eyes?
You're there, alright! There!
It's okay even if it's like that?
Who said it's not possible?
I didn't think it was impossible...
You selfishly decide that is impossible, so you give up without challenging it.
Well, I guess you can proclaim your being limited to all of mankind now.
I guess.
Without striking the opponent, you closed the door of miracle with your own hands,
so there's no reason for happiness and other things to just drop in.
Though you say such despondent words,
have you truly seen such broken people?
On the other hand, I feel like I'd like to see such people.
People are brave creatures.
To say your feelings to another is will not be wasted.
I guess you're right...
I'll have this hamburger.
But, that's what you ate the last time.
Who decided I can't eat the same thing?
Listen.
To decide without thinking is taboo.
Keep that in mind!
Okay.
Ask, and it shall be given.
Hallelujah chance!
Eh?
Who's this?
--- cheating, right?!
Here Ken doesn't know the context of what Yuuko's referring to, since what she says is only "uwaki shita desu yo?!" which translates basically as "___ cheated, right?!". Yuuko refers to Mikio here, but then Ken doesn't know that and thinks that he's the one she's referring to.
Right?!
What are you saying?
Don't play dumb! Say the truth already!
It's a misunderstanding! I never did something like that!
Why do you know the reason?
Eh?!
That's why I already told you I wasn't cheating, didn't I?
Yesterday evening, I stayed at Ken's house.
When things go bad, you always lie about being in Ken's house!
It's not a lie! Right?
Oh so this is Mikio's girlfriend!
So, what did you do?
The one-on-one combat has now begun!
We went to the video rental place, then Ken borrowed a video.
That's a lie!
I said it's not a lie!
Then what did you borrow?
What did we...
AND YUUKO'S ATTACK CONTINUES!
Tell me the title. Answer right away!
Well, that won't be coming from our mouths. Right?
AH! That's 'cause its totally adult rated!
Disgusting!
It's a misunderstanding!
Ken, what sort of interests do you have?
Yesterday was about a sexy mature lady.
YOU!!
That's mean!
Stupid! Nowadays, this is incredibly popular, you know!
Hey! Give it! Give it!
This one's for the store, I have another one so have a go at it!
You'll break it!
ENOUGH WITH THIS!!
I'm going home.
Leave from the house right away.
You two! A little calm conversation is...
Okay, got it.
Then I'll just put this in the master key post.
Why me?!
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Kenzo!
Stop idling!
Kenzo should help transfer too!!
Didn't I tell you?
By the way,
is there a reason why we should be helping out?
This is for the lunch treat!
I know already!
So,
I'll just return the key.
How long have she and Mikio been going out?
About three years.
Well, I guess it ended.
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Finally, we see the sight of player Mikio!
Yuuko's running after him!
WHOAH!
EH?!
It came.
The irritating merry go round.
Once, twice, thrice.
What is that?
Ah! It's a kiss on the forehead!
They're kissing in broad daylight!
Uwah!
Aaaahhhh.... But the first biggest damage is Ken, right?
You got washed up by the water!
Why Kedon?!
Kedon - short for kakedon, which is a hot noodle soup in kakejiru, which made of dashi (soup stock), Japanese soy sauce, and mirin(seasoned rice wine).
Right!
Huh?
When you say you're treating us, you normally buy THAT!
Sukiyaki
Geez, I don't have that much money!
Ah, when are we gonna graduate into eating sukiyaki huh?
Once, I was able to.
Uwah! Traitor!
You're so... You're so not my friend!
Before you graduate to sukiyaki, you should graduate from being a virgin first.
Hey! You! The sukiyaki's most impor--- What the!
You're really strange.
I'm not strange!
And teeny!
I'll grow big too!
Please give me an order of sukiyaki please!
He's here!
Now... Did you say sukiyaki just now?
The meat that was saved from the black sea which was becoming murky,
is softly floating in the lake of egg yolk.
Ah! Does art that is beyond this exist? Right, Master?!
You're horrible!
I want to eat that art too!
AHAHAHA!
The three words of the King that I'd like to whisper for a thousand years are these:
Thus, work hard! Work a bit harder. Work to the bitter end!
Bye! Peace mark!
Isn't Mikio's girlfriend really something?
Yeah. She can't normally be handled easily.
Isn't it scary that she'd go to that extent?
That's impossible for me!
I think people have their own unique strengths and weaknesses.
Maybe...
Should I face it, or should I not face it, I wonder...
Eh?
At times when there's something you don't want to lose,
though firm in your stride,
you struggle with all you might to move on a step at a time.
What am I saying?
Uh-huh.
Uhm, Rei...
Yeah?
Today--
Yoshida-san!
You mean me?
The 3rd year student who was supposed to present in the competition backed out.
So, I immediately thought of Yoshida-san.
It's that competition at that time...
Isn't this great?
'Cause the second prize is an authentic Yonezawagyu Sukiyaki set!
Yonezawagyu - Yonezawa beef; famous type of beef which hails from Yamagata prefecture.
Wow! Really?! We HAVE to get this!
This year, Rei, though the youngest, grabbed the first prize.
And, her hopes of being recommended into graduate school were answered.
Right,
this competition had immense meaning in Rei's life.
But, today's the deadline! Can you make it in time?
Last time, you submitted a project didn't you?
Yes.
If you improve that a bit,
I think it'll coincide with the theme of this competition.
We can have the post office postmark it, so long as we send it before midnight, so I think we can just barely make it in time.
I think you can win the first prize.
But, what about the birthday celebration?
Birthday celebration?
Since today is Rei's last day as a teen,
we'll eat dinner, then afterwards, have a countdown party...
Is that so?
Though I'm really can't wait,
the truth is, there's next year, or the year after that...
Isn't this your chance?
It's ok if you do it.
Ok.
Right! Let's just make up for it more tomorrow, right?
Yeah! Let's do it tomorrow! Tomorrow!
I'm truly sorry.
Everyone's really nice, don't you think?
It's part of our friendship!
Then, I'd see my previous project.
So, let's do this then?
Yes.
The theme for this year's competition though...
Yes?
Oh. It's just Kenzo.
Hey! Don't do that at me!
I really don't want to catch a cold on my 20th birthday!
Here.
What's this?
I still haven't used this up yet.
What?
You'll win the first prize with that.
And eat sukiyaki with it too.
Medium Good Fortune
Fortune
Medium good fortune?
The right to hinder this important fight at this crucial time of her life,
is not mine.
I myself never knew of her hard work.
I am so uneasy.
Oh!
Did you think this present will pass of as my birthday present?!
That's not the last I'll give!
Words from someone who can't even pay his cellphone bills!
Eh?
Geez! This is not the time for me to think about your problems!
What will we do if we don't make it in time today?
I don't have money anymore. At least, maybe if I stop time, or maybe go back in time...
There's no reason for miracles like that to exist! Crazy!
By the way, money's too elusive all time time!
It's so far away... Happiness...
Here!
Thanks.
You're teenage years are gonna end today.
Even so, nothing changes when you reach the twenties.
Rei,
Do you have a battle which hasn't been decided until now?
There's.. only one...
I thought of doing it,
since there's only one...
Really? I thought you surely had none...
Before our third year junior high school's,
graduation ceremony, I wore a letter.
I was waiting for the person I liked.
"Today too, I'm going to give it..."
But in the end, the plan to give it to him that day was useless.
Though I waited so long,
only for that day, did he not pass by there.
At that time,
I thought "Are we really destined to be?"
But then, I thought I can give it someday.
But even though I've held on to the letter ever since,
The situation which didn't let me give it always came.
Is that so?
Stupid, isn't it?
Until my last day of my teenage years,
I'm still dragging this on.
You didn't get to open up properly,
so you'll always be dragging that with you I guess...
Thank you very much.
What the?! I'm so not happy with three sevens!
Didn't that change?
Mikio!
Yeah?
Can't the place where you work take in a part timer?
I think I have to ask.
I want to work there today.
Eh?! Today?
It's so sudden, it's impossible!
I'm begging you! You're my friend!
Why?
I'm utterly broke!
You have a cold, don't you? So it's impossible. Impossible. Can you stop that?!
It's your fault!
Please!
Hey, Tsuru.
Oh! What is it?
There's a place I want to go out to, but...
It has come!
There's still time until the deadline...
So it's ok for you not to strain yourself like that.
In the case of your entry, if you make it a point to connect the empty areas,
I think it greatly will attract a lot of eyes, right?
Ah.. I'm sorry...
Unless your faced by your own powers,
you can't find an agreeable answer, right?
For example...
It's just an example though...
In Teacher's case,
if there's a problem to which an answer never comes is in front of you,
what do you do?
A problem to which the answer doesn't come?
No matter how many years,
just like parallel lines, a problem, which always doesn't have an answer, exists.
In my case, I'd thoroughly ponder it.
And if that doesn't work, I'll just look for another problem.
It even exists in Mathematics, a problem which doesn't have an answer.
But, if one doesn't try,
you won't know if there is or isn't an answer.
So, you can only try and see.
Teacher Itoh!
I'm still short by 2000...
What?
For that ceramic set!
The road to ceramic arts is still blocked...
You're definitely mistaken.
Hey, you...
You suddenly become uncharacteristically kind when it comes to Rei.
Is your rollercoaster attitude some kinda plan?
It's not like that.
Whatever it is, I wanna know!
When you become kind sometimes, you really are hurting your partner.
Go home already.
I don't have a "partner".
If you go to this extent, what do you want then?
Even you worked this part-time job desperately for that 50 thousand yen camera!
Why do you know that?
Not good.
Hey, why do you know that? I still haven't told anybody!
Okay! Let's get to work.
Aren't you listening?
Huh?
Weren't you listening when I said why we're here?
That's ok!
For me, with the two of us being here is enough already.
Sorry.
Why're you being so sulky?
Actually,
I'm going to ambush my boyfriend.
Ah! Guerilla plan, huh?
So, should I punch him then?
It's ok! You don't have to do that.
I think you're the one who's gonna be beat up.
What are you saying?
When I do more, it will be great! Just like this!
It's ok. Your opponent's level three in Karate, you know.
I'm in trouble!
I won't do it then.
Oh no!
I'm sorry.
I'll clean it up!
Ken, go home. It'll be ok.
Don't strain yourself!
What did I come back here for anyway?
Where's "here"?
The past...
The past?!?!
I still...
Hey, Ken! Are you all right?
Hey... Ken...
Enough already! It's useless!
No... I really don't have a cold...
I'm sorry, but can you please go home?
You. Help him up.
Yes. Sorry for the trouble.
Here. This is for your hard work.
Go home before you get worse.
Why did I have to catch a cold at this time?
Kenzo's that sick?
He was falling apart during work too...
What?
He always doesn't have money, so he wanted to earn today.
He didn't listen and went on to get a today-only job!
I told him to stop, but it was utterly useless.
He's sleeping now, so I think it's ok...
Oh...
We can't go on like we did in University after all...
Though we won't meet much, I'll be waiting!
So stop being so selfish!
Even so...
is it impossible?
Sorry.
No!
I don't want us to break up!
This me now,
doesn't have anything left to face you with!
Commander!
The guerrilla plan has failed!
One person has sustained minor injuries!
I look so stupid.
I'm so stupid, right?!
Let's head home.
You're not stupid!
You're DEFINITELY not stupid!
If that's the case,
if you're stupid, then what do you make of me?!
I w-won't be called stupid... I'll be Super Stupid then?!
Ah! This is making me cry.
If I cry, don't come near me.
O-Oh! From now on,
From now on, I won't go there! I won't go a step further! Don't worry!
Ok!
Always...
I'll always be by your side.
Thanks.
Yosh! Come here!
Come on! Come!
Never once was I able to celebrate Rei's birthday the right way
Though I got another chance to celebrate it,
the person who's celebrating it isn't here.
I may have come back,
but with me lying here motionless and unable to sleep,
in the end, our history,
has repeated itself like this.
Thank you, Kenzo-kun...
To Kenzo
At times when there's something you don't want to lose,
though firm in your stride,
you struggle with all you might to move on a step at a time.
What am I saying?
Unless your faced by your own powers, you can't find an agreeable answer, right?
To Kenzo
I'm so sorry!
I need to go after all.
In my teenage years,
even if there's a problem which cannot be resolved no matter what...
Until today,
I was afraid of knowing the real answer,
so I have always been running away.
But I thought about it,
and I don't want to turn twenty without facing it.
But, I'll make this final today.
If not... then I feel like my twenties are going to be quite saddening.
But that would make your submission of the subject late, right?
To have to sacrifice this competition, is that problem that valuable?
I know that what I said was selfish.
But, on this last day of my teens,
If I don't face this squarely,
for sure, I'll regret this my entire life.
Is that so?
I understand.
I'm truly sorry!
Ah! It's ok...
Being honest to your own feelings,
I think there's nothing wrong with that.
Just as you thought,
to not have any regrets is most important.
If there isn't an answer there,
it's okay to find a new problem again, right?
Yes!
Kenzo!
It's just me but,
I bought medicine!
Since we met,
twelve years has already passed, right?
Because we've always been close,
I really haven't said a lot of things honestly...
I...
With regards to Kenzo...
With Kenzo, I've always...
Kenzo?
Hey Ken! Stop messing around! You haven't been answering your phone!
Hey wait!
Even if you haven't called, we still have to meet up! We'll be waiting, ok?
We're waiting!
You have to come, ok!
Wait...
Hey you... You may have come in the evening, but, what are you still doing here at this time?
Please excuse me. Is it ok if I wait for only a little while more?
Well, it's almost 12 o'clock, so we'd like to close already.
Soon, Rei will...
My friend will come...
Even if today's date on the deadline was extended, she'll definitely be here.
Even if you say that,
look, it's written here too, that we close at 12 o'clock, ok?
I beg of you!
Hey, though you dogeza, it's still bothersome for us, okay?
Just 10 minutes more!
Please wait for 10 more minutes!
I beg of you!
To Kenzo,
It's my first time writing a letter.
Even in high school, we were together again, right?
At the time of the announcement of those who passed,
I was worried about Kenzo's number more than my own.
When I found your number, I was truly overjoyed.
My mouth said, why are we together in high school too?
"I wasn't imitating you or anything," was kinda what I said.
When we met,
I really wasn't able to become honest,
and I never had a good expression like that.
Forgive me for that.
Sorry, ne?
When I transferred during 3rd grade in elementary,
When I was worried about my lost eraser,
I remember you gave me half of yours.
Since that day,
for me, Iwase Ken,
the one I call Kenzo,
Became an important person.
Ever since our meeting,
I always see you by my side.
Mister, I'm really very sorry, but,
we can't wait any longer.
I started liking baseball,
though you don't run that fast,
and when we eat a lot, our stomachs soon want to burst,
and I suddenly become unpleasant,
I'm naturally kind, but I show a brusque attitude,
though we fight a lot, and a lot of things enter my mind,
Kenzo,
for me,
will always,
will always be an important person.
Because you're important,
though I don't say nice things, sometimes it comes out unintentionally.
That's why,
The words I truly want to say,
have slowly become harsh.
With Kenzo,
until now, when I think of how I don't want to not be able to talk to you,
I haven't said how truly painful that is.
But, today,
I'll say it.
Kenzo is someone,
I have always loved.
Kenzo is someone,
I really love.
Take care of yourself.
Rei
Yoshida-san!
The competition commission just called,
if we directly bring it by tomorrow morning, the people accepting will still recognize it.
You don't want to do it?
I guess, I think I don't want to giving up.
Ok.
It's finished.
You did a very good job.
Thank you very much.
Today's your birthday, right?
Ah... Yeah...
I'm really sorry that you have only me as your partner to celebrate...
No, that's not true...
Congratulations on your birthday.
Thank you very much.
Ah!
Cheers!
By the way,
how did your problem turn out?
Did an agreeable answer come about?
The answer...
There wasn't one.
But, It's cleared up now.'
Though I've always been hurt,
it surely ends today.
I,
during second grade in elementary,
asked about the clouds which float in the sky,
that no matter what I do to catch it,
they ascended further up Mt. Fuji, and I bugged and bugged my parents why.
Upon arriving at Mt. Fuji,
I was greatly excited to see the clouds before me.
Taking a lot of vinyl sacks from my backpack,
I tried to stuff them with clouds...
At that moment,
I was surprised.
I noticed that I couldn't catch the clouds.
I sat down and wailed.
In the end, even climbing up here didn't work.
But, when I remember it,
I'm happy that I was able to do it.
I'm so sorry!
Oh... I'm sorry...
Perhaps, it was so boring that it brings you to the extent of crying?
That's not it.
For a while,
I remembered something from my teens.
It's kinda cool, isn't it?
I think the time of our youth has a sweet fragrance to it.
Sweet fragrance?
After drinking this, shall we go there?
I think doesn't take an hour by car to get to the meeting place.
Ok.
Let's take a picture!
Let's take one as a first commemoration of your being twenty.
It's embarrassing to take it alone,
so please join me.
Ah... Is m-me ok with you?
Yes. Please!
Here we go!
Do you remember what I said before you time-slipped?
The one about wrong impressions.
You,
for her sake,
thought that, after she submits her entry, you would celebrate.
That is the reason why that's another wrong impression.
Her true desire was not to be able to pass the competition.
Ironic, isn't it, how you both thought of each other and yet did not meet.
In true love,
there should be nothing else except for one's selfishness.
Though you think that way, you don't act by your own principles.
I wonder why one likes that about their partner.
Such bothersome banter.
So, you're losing courage!
They're still not going out, right?
I think there's a chance left.
I guess so, huh?
Well, to go back or to not go back,
is your agenda anyway.
On this day,
Rei is going to be confessed to by Tada-san.
Each time I remember this day,
it painfully shoots through my heart.