namida no ame ga hoo wo tataku
涙の雨が頬をたたく
As a shower of tears falls upon my cheeks,
tabi ni utsukushiku
たびに美しく
I become more and more beautiful.
kudaranai ru-ru kara hamidasezu ni naiteita
くだらないルールからはみ出せずに泣いていた
I've been in tears over the senseless rules I can't come to accept,
boyakesugita mirai chizu
ぼやけすぎた未来地図
And the map of my future is too muddled to read.
surihetta kokoro wo umetakute atsumeta
すり減ったココロを埋めたくて集めた
I've been trying to mend my damaged heart,
iranai mono bakari
要らないモノばかり
but now it's filled with things I don't even need.
baibai ano itoshiki hibi ha
バイバイあの愛しき日々は
Bye bye, my precious days...
modori ha shinai kara
戻りはしないから
...to which I'll never return.
hiraiteyuku chiisaku tojita kokoro ga
開いてゆく小さく閉じたココロが
My tiny, closed off heart...
yoru no sumi de shizuka ni
夜の隅で静かに
...begins to open quietly in a corner of the night.
irodzuiteku motto fukaku yasashiku
色付いてくもっと深く優しく
It ripens with the morning light,
asa no hikari wo ukete
朝の光を受けて
growing deeper, more tender.
namida no ame ga hoo wo tataku
涙の雨が頬をたたく
As a shower of tears falls upon my cheeks,
tabi ni utsukushiku
たびに美しく
I become more and more beautiful.
Oh, polishing both my body and soul...
I want you...
Jirou-san, once you're done with that, please clean the backyard too.
Eh- Yes, young master.
Good morning.
Ah, the new semester starts today, huh?
It looks good on you, Ohana-chan.
Yes, indeed.
School uniforms bring out the purity of a girl quite well.
Jirou-san.
I'll go clean the backyard now!
That guy's really good at cleaning the bathhouse, for some reason.
Maybe he's making practical use of his personal interests.
Minko-san!
Let's get going already!
Minko-san!
You've got a lot of extra space in that outfit.
It's as if you're dressing up as an elementary student.
Wha-
Hey, Touru.
About that new dish you wanted to try making...
Ah, would you like to give it a taste?
What are you doing?
I'm so nervous...
Don't worry.
I'm sure you'll make friends in no time.
I wish Touru-san could hear you say that.
Hm?
It's nothing.
I hope we'll all be in the same class!
Being in the same class as you would be so hobiron.
That "hobiron" must be hard to use in everyday conversation.
I can't tell if you're referring to me or the situation.
Shut up! Shut up! Hobiron!
Wow.
It belongs to that inn over there.
Oh!
That's Fukuya, the famous inn, right?
Fukuya
Yeah, it's in all the guidebooks.
Fukuya
A powerful rival has appeared!
Appeared? They've been around even longer than Kissui Inn.
Fukuya
Whoa!
Wow!
It's so pretty!
You sure are enjoying yourself, Ohana-san.
But look!
Usually, when they bloom like this,
it's so crowded you can't even walk-
Ah...
Wait for me! Kou-chan!
Ah, my bag got caught on something.
Stay close to me.
This is kind of embarrassing...
Take this then.
In actuality, Kou-chan was always taking care of me.
Ohana-san?
Ah...
What's the matter?
I-It's nothing.
How should I reply... to his text?
Staff Room
You'll be okay on your own now, right?
Thanks, Nako-san.
See you then.
Please let me be in the same class as them...
Are you Matsumae?
Y-Yes.
U-Um...
Matsumae... Ohana!
Ohana...!
Hey, hey! At least try to be in your seats for the first day.
Take a look, you guys love transfer students!
Give your attention.
Introduce yourself, transfer student.
U-Um...
My name is Matsumae Ohana.
I came from Tokyo.
Amazing! She's from Tokyo!
I've seen that hairpin in a magazine!
I bought them from a 300 yen shop...
Her perm looks like a foreign boy's!
So fashionable!
My hair is just naturally wavy like this.
Her skirt height is also adjusted!
That was Touru-san's handiwork.
Minko-
Matsumae-san!
Where in Tokyo did you come from?
Shinjuku? Harajuku? Shibuya? Odaiba?
People don't even live in those places!
No, they do.
Do you have a boyfriend?
B-Boyfriend?
K-Kou-chan isn't really my...
Matsumae-san, you work at the same inn as Tsurugi-san, right?
Minko-san?
Yeah.
That's right, we live in the same room-
Ooh! Seriously!?
Please tell me how Princess Minko is outside of school!
P-Princess Minko?
Yes.
Princess Minko gives off the image like a mountain girl who'd look great in a white dress.
The way she's so strict,
with no openings, makes her seem like a precious flower.
She usually just wears a jersey, and has trouble expressing herself though...
Hey! Please take some candid pictures of the princess' everyday life for me!
I'll pay 3000 yen for it!
Huh?!
I'll pay 3500 yen if you get one right after she's taken a bath!
Why, you... Looking at the princess in such a lewd way!
Let's settle this on the rooftop!
E-Excuse me...
Stop right there!
Y-Yuina-chan.
Geez, what're you all doing?
Y'all are troubling Ohana-san.
I know! Ohana-san, the next class is Home Economics!
We can go practise together, OK?
Let's go! All right?
See you, everybody!
I can't believe I'm in the same class as Princess Minko and Yuina, the two most popular girls in school.
I may have already used up my entire life's luck here.
Why I'm sorry for dragging you around like that.
It was hard dealing with everyone like that, right?
But they don't mean any harm, so please forgive them.
She was covering for me.
Thank you very much.
Yuina-san, you aren't from around here either?
Hm?
Ah, because of the way I talk?
I felt like speaking in a fake Kansai dialect today.
It seems kind of off...
But that's quite a peculiar thing to do in the first place.
You're the Kissui Inn lady's granddaughter, right?
I'm a granddaughter too.
Eh?
Wakura Yuina.
I'm the young successor to Fukuya Inn!
That famous inn?
Nah, it's just old.
I bet you study every day in preparation for taking over the inn, huh?
Hmm, not really.
My grandmother nags me about it though.
So, you don't plan on succeeding it?
It's fine either way, I guess.
As long as I'm having fun, either way is fine.
Yuina-san, you're pretty cool.
Really?
Ah, there's someone like that at Kissui Inn too, right?
A cool person.
At our place?
A cool person?
Who? Does she mean Jiroumaru-san?
But he's quite a pervert, you know.
No way!
Min-chi is extremely popular with the boys.
Her shoe locker's always filled with love letters.
Hmm. She is quite pretty.
What did you want to talk to me about?
Oh... Speak of the devil!
Min-
I...
I've always liked you.
So...
I don't like you.
Wow...
That's harsh.
Please wait.
Wow, he's not backing down.
T-Then what type of man do you like?
Why do I have to tell you that?
I'm serious about this.
I don't want to give up so easily.
I want to become closer to your ideal man.
So please!
Someone with a sharp tongue,
but is actually really kind.
Someone who always takes the initiative, and gives his all at work.
Someone whose hair is about this long,
eyes that are a bit slanted, and long eyelashes.
She sure is specific.
The person Min-chi likes is...
He must be quite the man.
Far from the likes of someone like Touru-san.
Eh? Um...
What the hell do they mean, "Mountain Girl"?
Confessed to behind the school building? What?!
What's with that bitter-sweet situation!
I'm sorry!
Yet here I am, surrounded by nothing but work; no men to be found.
Fine then.
I'll take a picture of Minko with her hair done up tight...
...and crush the delusions of those high school boys.
What's wrong?
It's nothing.
Aah... What are you doing, you idiot?
Look, skewers require more of a twist.
Like this.
All at once.
Tomoe-san! Get a hold of yourself!
What is it, Ohana-chan?
You seem quite full of yourself.
Let me guess. You...
...have a boyfriend, don't you!
B-But Kou-chan isn't my...
Kou-chan?
Is that a boy's name?!
It is a boy's name, but...
Ah! You're mistaken!
You traitor!
Kou-chan
Sorry I didn't come to see you off. Ohana, do your best!!
Kou-chan
I'm doing my best.
Kou-chan,
Kou-chan, how have you been?
I feels a bit unfair to write back as if his confession never happened.
Delete.
Kou-chan
So, taking into account those wonderful things you said to me the other day, I've been doing great!
So, taking into account those wonderful things you said to me the other day,
So, taking into account those wonderful things you said to me the other day, I've been doing great!
I've been doing great!
So, taking into account those wonderful things you said to me the other day, I've been doing great!
Delete!
I can't do this!
Ohana-san?
Squat. Stretch.
Bunny hop exercise.
I'm amazed.
There are things that even you have trouble expressing to others.
That just means I'm an average idiot.
That's not true.
I'm kind of jealous of your ability to speak your mind.
Eh!?
Uh, what is...
Ooh! Eh- Ah- That-
It lives around here.
It's a grey heron.
Is it all right for it to be here?
Shouldn't it be in a zoo or something?
Fukuya
We're here, Ohana-san.
Ah, the notice from the neighbourhood council.
Yes, thank you.
What a spacious lobby!
Y-Yeah.
Are you two from Kissui Inn?
Ah...
Yes!
She's a bit... frightening.
I'm so glad you came with me.
N-Nako-san, this...
I'd be so scared by myself.
You aren't scared of this?
Do you mind if we stop by somewhere?
S-Sure. I don't min-
I was quite sheltered as a child.
I wanted to change that about myself, so I started working at the inn.
Wow, that's quite a feat.
But, I'm still not quite there yet.
I've always visited the shrine here, to pray to the deity.
Deity?
A little girl who's accompanied by fox spirits.
That's why she keeps losing her way.
The deity gets lost?
Yes.
That's why the Bonbori Festival takes place every October.
Bonbori Festival...
In October,
On the day when all the deities in Japan return to Izumo,
everyone will hang up bonbori to show them the path.
Ah...
To make sure the deities do not stray from the proper path.
The proper path...
How wonderful...
That sounds like a really wonderful festival, Nako-chi!
Nako-chi?
Ah, well...
Minko is Min-chi, so I thought Nako-san could be Nako-chi.
Ah, you don't like it?
That's not it!
I'm just really happy to be given a nickname.
R-Really?
I wanted my friends and I to call each other by nicknames,
Tsurugi Minko
Minmi
Minmin
Mimo
Minpo
but I didn't know how to.
Minko-chan...
Min-chan...
Minmin...
Tsurugi Minko
Minmi
Minmin
Mimo
Minpo
Tsurugi Minko
Minchan
M-Min-chi-
I-I stuttered!
Min-chi... that sounds like minced meat.
It's a nickname for minced meat!
What is it, Nako?
Ah...
Um, about tomorrow's breakfast for the Mist Room...
Heh, that's pretty neat.
No way...
I know that's how Minko came up with hobiron,
but I wonder if all the people around here write down their thoughts.
How prudent.
Eh?
N-Nothing.
Hey, Nako-chi, think of a nickname for me too.
I-I'll try to.
I can't wait!
The aroma of sakura petals is quite a nice touch.
Yes. Touru made it.
That boy is becoming quite capable, isn't he?
Well then...
The tables have all been set.
Okay, then-
Yes? Got it.
Ohana-san, I'll be right back.
Hey! What are you doing?
Here he comes.
Grilled items don't go there.
Ah, I'm sorry.
You'll make the food look bad.
Oh, yeah... How was school?
Eh?
You probably didn't make any friends, did you?
Given how inconsiderate you are.
The successor of Fukuya Inn goes to your school too, right?
Yuina-san?
Even though you're the same age, there's a pretty big difference between you two...
...in terms of development.
Could you be talking about my upper arm?
Ah, Minko-san.
I'll take care of this.
She has other things to do.
Go on, I've got this.
Minko, take this one.
Got it.
She covered for me.
Minko-san is such a nice person.
I wish I could get along with her.
I should start by trying to call her Min-chi.
I-I should say something...
Um...
I know.
Girls get along better when they talk about a common enemy.
Um... Minko-san.
Thank you very much for earlier.
Ah, geez... Touru-san is always complaining.
It's like you can even see the evil of his soul coming through his eyes.
Oh, she reacted.
All right, this is where I use the nickname...
Hey, don't you agree? Min-chi-
Eh?
You are seriously... so hobiron!
So hobiron?
Touru-san never complains.
He may be harsh,
but that's because he's looking out for us more than anyone.
He also works harder than anyone.
He's actually...
...kinder than anyone else!
"He may be harsh, but he's actually kind and hard working."
I've heard this somewhere before...
Ahh!!
Could it be that the person Min-chi likes is...
Min-chi!
What have I done...?
Good night!
Good morning!
Minko-san!
Wait! I'm sorry!
I took things too far again.
About Touru-san... I...
Hobiron!
You're going too far by just saying that! Why won't you understand?
I'm sorry!
Touru-san.
Eh.
Wha-
Y-Yuina-san?
Let's party!
Let's party?
M-Minko-san!
Episode 4
Grey Heron Rhapsody
yume wo miru sukoshi temae de
夢をみる少し手前で
Just before I drift off into my dreams,
oitekita mono ha nan dakke
置いてきたものはなんだっけ
I wonder what it was I've left behind,
wasurete shimaitaku ha nai kedo
忘れてしまいたくはないけど
I don't want to let it just slip away.
tokiori futto kioki no sumi ni ukabu no ha
時折ふっと記憶の隅に浮かぶのは
Every so often it floats up in the corner of my mind,
fuwari boyaketa sepia iro
ふんわりぼやけたセピア色
A dim and gentle sepia color,
me no mae wo fusagu hibi no mukou sukoshi zutsu tooku
目の前を塞ぐ日々の向こう少しずつ遠く
Lying just beyond the days when I started covering my eyes. It's getting further and further away.
daitai nande iki wo kirashite
大体なんで息を切らして
Why on Earth do we keep running,
hashitterundarou
走ってるんだろう
Until we're completely out of breath?
supi-do agete yuku hodo tachidomaru koto ga kowakute
スピードを上げてゆくほど立ち止まることが怖くて
The more we increase our speed, the more frightening it is to stop,
hayaku naru kodou ni fure koko ni iru to tashikameta
早くなる鼓動に触れココに居ると確かめた
As we feel our heart beats rising, we find proof that we exist here.
kokoro no oku no chiisa na koe ni mimi wo sumashitara
ココロの奥の小さな声に耳を澄ましたら
If we strain our ears to hear the tiny voices in the backs of our hearts,
tsutsumikomu sekai ga harehirogaru yo ashita he
包み込む世界が晴れ広がるよ明日へ
Our bundled up world will unfold into tomorrow.
To fall in love with someone is a pretty incredible thing.
He won't be coming.
What do you mean?
I saw something last night.
Kitchen hand.
Please! Let me work here!
Episode 5
A Cook's Tearful Longing