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jumukus · 4 years ago

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A3! Event: +3Ghosts Episode 3 Translation

Due to the things he heard at Masumi and Madoka’s campus, Misumi is not doing great during rehearsal. Meanwhile, Kumon...

Kumon: "I wanted to participate as well."

…

National competition, huh…

*phone rings*

Kumon: Hello.

Yamaguchi: "Hello? Kumon, we won today's match!"

Kumon: What!? For real!?

Yamaguchi: "Our next opponent is a team that has never lost a game before. I feel like we could finally see the national!"

Kumon: That's awesome!

Yamaguchi: "I know, right!?"

Kumon: Don't let your guard down.

Yamaguchi: "I got it, man."

Kumon: Because I'll definitely go see the finals of the district competition.

Yamaguchi: "OK! How about you?"

Kumon: We've started preparing for our next play.

It's a story where the characters are aiming for the national dance competition. I'll be the co-lead.

Yamaguchi: "You're doing your best in acting as ever, huh. Let's work hard to aim for our own 'national,' kay?"

Kumon: Yep. See ya.

*beeps*

Kumon: ...How nice.

--.

(No! What are you being jealous for, Kumon!)

(I'll be aiming for the national dance competition as Sora Natsukawa on the stage, along with the Summer Troupe members.)

(What I'm aiming for is different from Yamaguchi and the baseball club members.)

(My Koshien dream has come true during our First Crush Baseball play, so why am I concerned over this?)

(I should have gotten over it… I'm so pathetic to end up thinking about it even for a moment.)

(Get a grip, me! I've gotta do my best for everyone's sake, since they have entrusted this role to me!)

…

*door opens*

Muku: Kyu-chan?

Kumon: !?

Muku: The rehearsal is about to start. Are you okay?

Kumon: Y-Yep! I was just spacing out while reading the script!

Muku: Is that so?

Kumon: "Ah, hold on, hold on! S-Say, can you teach me dancing!?"

Misumi: "Why me… Do you not have any dance clubs in your school?"

Kumon: "I can't go to school right now. Besides, I can only practice from evening to night. That's why…"

Misumi: "...I have physical therapy tomorrow."

Kumon: "I see…"

Misumi: "But I can come since I have quite free time."

Kumon: "For real!? Say, can I bring my friends too!? I'm sure they'll be happy! They've also been practicing dancing, after all."

Misumi: "Sure."

Kumon: "My name is Sora Natsukawa!"

Misumi: "I'm Kousei Kizu. Just call me Kousei."

Kumon: "Nice to meet you, Kousei!"

Izumi: …

(For some reason, both of them are not doing great.)

(Misumi-kun is spacing out, and I can't feel the enthusiasm Kumon-kun had when he asked me to let him play Sora…)

Okay. Let's end our rehearsal today.

There are still some parts that don't feel right to me, but I guess it's because today is still our first rehearsal--Not to mention that it's been a while since we last delivered a Summer Troupe play.

Let's get back on track little by little. Good work for today.

Misumi: Nice work~.

Kumon: Good work.

Izumi: Oh right, Misumi-kun, when will Madoka-kun come to watch? I'll secure a ticket for him.

Misumi: Oh, umm…

Tenma: You invited him, right?

Misumi: Umm~... Looks like he won't be able to make it since he's busy helping Father.

Izumi: Oh, really?

Muku: It's such a shame…

Misumi: I'm hungry, so I'll go eat some onigiris~!

Yuki: ...Don't you think he's acting kind of weird?

Kazunari: Makes me wonder if something happened with Madochin.

Tenma: He went to Masumi's uni, right?

Izumi: Shall we ask Masumi-kun?

Masumi: He said he'd come, but he didn't in the end.

Izumi: What!? Is that so?

Kazunari: What happened, then…

Tenma: He said Madoka can't come since he's busy helping his father out.

Masumi: Busy helping his father--.

Ah, don't tell me…

Izumi: ?

Izumi: I see…

Tenma: So that's what happened…

Izumi: Facing such a family now will be asking too much, huh…

While I don't know Madoka-kun that well, I'm not sure whether those words were directed towards Misumi-kun…

Kazunari: It's kinda different from his image~.

Muku: He looked like he wanted to get along with Misumi-san.

Yuki: Even so, those two have been estranged for a long time. It's not like they can get along right away.

Tenma: At any rate, they need time.

Izumi: It'd be nice if there's something that can help them get along…

Muku: Speaking of, you've brought some fireworks home, right, Kyu-chan?

Kumon: Ah--.

Kazunari: Fireworks! Sounds nice!

Tenma: When it comes to Summer Troupe, of course it's gotta be fireworks.

Kumon: But they may be dampened…

Izumi: (Something to do in summer…)

Ah! That reminds me! There'll be a summer festival taking place soon.

Kazunari: Sounds great! I have an idea, then… *whispers*

Muku: Okay, okay.

Tenma: I see.

Yuki: I'll end up sacrificing my costume-making time, though.

Tenma: Costumes should be the last thing you could think of when our lead actor is being like that, you know.

Yuki: Well, you have a point.

Kazunari: It's settled, then!

Tenma: You too, Kumon. Let us know if you need anything.

Kumon: ...Sure, thanks!

Staff: Let's take a break!

Tenma: …

...1, 2, 3, 4.

Hiro: Hey, are you going to make your idol debut after this?

Tenma: No, our next play will be about a high school students' dance team.

Hiro: That's certainly a story that's unique to the young newborn troupe.

Back during our time, we barely performed sparkling stories about youth like that.

Tenma: What was your most favorite play, Hiro-san?

Hiro: …

There's a lot, I can't choose.

Tenma: Hakkaku-san loved the pirate play, right?

Hiro: --How did you know that?

Tenma: I heard it from the manager. He said it was a popular play.

Hiro: ...Yeah.

Tenma: We also did a pirate play with Misumi as the lead.

We found Hakkaku-san's treasure map at that time. We ran around to search for the treasure.

Hiro: Hakkaku-san's treasure map? Did you find that treasure in the end?

Tenma: It was in Ikaruga's residence. We had a little bit of a hard time getting that.

Hiro: What's the treasure?

Tenma: …

"Would you like to make a deal?"

Hiro: ...How cheeky. What do you want?

Tenma: We're currently looking for the video footage of the first gen's pirate play. Do you know something about it?

Hiro: ...Who knows. I don't have it.

Tenma: What a letdown…

Hiro: Show me what Hakkaku-san's treasure is the next time I stop by at the dorm.

Tenma: Got it.

< Episode 2 | Masterlist | Episode 4 >

#a3!#a3! translation #spring troupe #summer troupe #tenma sumeragi #yuki rurikawa #muku sakisaka #kazunari miyoshi #misumi ikaruga #kumon hyodo #masumi usui

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murasaki-murasame · 7 years ago

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Wasn’t really expecting chapter 18 to be up this early. I feel like the last few chapters’ translations have come out a bit earlier than usual. Not that I’m complaining.

I think I remember hearing mixed things about this chapter around when it came out in Japan, but I liked it. Then again, I like Futaba a lot as a character.

Anyway, more detailed thoughts under the cut.

Seeing Touma with a Vita at the start of the chapter was kinda amusing, since I actually got myself one a week or two ago. I feel kinda jealous that he has a Slim model, even though I know his friend just lent him it. I wanted to get one of them, but I could only get an original model. I wonder if Touma’s kinda bad/inexperienced with technology, given that he seemed kinda confused by what seemed to be the Vita going into sleep mode. I guess it makes sense that he’d be less into gaming and whatnot than Taichi.

It’s really cute that Touma feels kinda guilty about wanting Taichi to visit him every day. Thankfully Taichi’s fine with it, and wants to come anyway. I like that they’re getting a chance to hang out, even if the circumstances are kinda awkward.

I wonder how long Touma’s been in the hospital for, by this point. Apparently we’re near the end of July in-story, but I forget when the accident happened. I doubt it’s been THAT long, otherwise the fact that Futaba and Masumi apparently never visited after the first time would be a bit weird.

Mami still bugs me a bit, but at least she’s being way less rude to Taichi than I was fearing. She does kinda need to learn to back off a little, though. I still can’t tell if anything important is being set up with her character. It feels like her whole thing with Touma is going to lead to something dramatic, but I dunno.

I know that Touma probably genuinely likes his other friends, but man I can only imagine how awkward it must be for him to constantly be around Those Kinds of straight dudes. I think this is the second time that one dude’s visited Touma and immediately implied that he must be looking at some kind of porn. I wonder if Touma ever has moments of being like ‘haha yeah c: totally c: I sure do love those big, beautiful, incredibly female women c:’. It reminds me of when I was at school like five years ago and a random dude I was sitting next to turned toward me and was like ‘so which girls in this class do you think are hot?’. Like . . . dude . . . . please. Stop. I’m glad that his other friends seem to be regularly visiting him, though.

Are we . . . meant to know who that other group of girls are, and why they seem to have some kind of an issue with Mami and co? I feel like we are, but I can’t remember them.

On the one hand I can’t really blame them for complaining about Mami behind her back because she kinda deserves it, but on the other hand, they were way out of line with insulting Futaba like that. Thankfully one of them [who I guess is a friend of Futaba’s??? maybe???] defended her.

I can kinda see how an outsider might assume the worst about Futaba’s motives and actions in terms of her obviously having a crush on Touma while also being friends with Taichi, but it’s still kinda uncalled-for.

I wasn’t sure how I felt about it at first, but I like how the story is handling this whole theme of Futaba’s confusion and frustration about all of the drama and baggage behind how society treats interactions and relationships between men and women. It really is awful that people, including Taichi herself, are giving her such a hard time because she just has multiple guys she knows who she likes and enjoys being around. It’s definitely kinda made wonky by the fact that she obviously DOES have romantic feelings for Taichi, but it sucks that the characters are basically all framing her desire to befriend and support Taichi as something manipulative and self-serving. It’s one of the reasons why I kinda hope that she doesn’t have an actual crush on Taichi, since it’d do a better job of hammering in the whole idea of ‘you don’t have to have a crush on someone to want to be around them and be nice to them’.

Usually I don’t care much for stories that are like ‘but what, like, IS love???’, but I kinda liked how it was discussed here. Probably because it also intersected with what I said above, of how Futaba is also grappling with the illogical and misogynistic ways that people view male-female interactions. It’s understandable why she feels so confused about it. Especially since she has pretty valid and clear reasons for why she’d feel strongly about wanting to support Taichi right now even if you ignore her probable crush on him. Like, she’s already witnessed how badly he’s taking this whole thing and how much he’s beating himself up and isolating himself over it. It makes perfect sense why she’d be hurting for him, and why she’d want to help him through it. You get what I mean.

I guess this explains why Futaba, at least, hasn’t really been visiting Touma. I hope she can come to understand that she doesn’t have to only choose to be around one of them, though.

I can really feel for how awkward Futaba must feel, being made to basically pit her feelings for Touma and her feelings for Taichi against each other, to justify why one of them is more important to her than the other one. Which, of course, also means having to label one of them as being the ‘less important’ one, which she obviously doesn’t want to do. Especially since, in this whole context, the idea of someone being ‘less important’ comes with the baggage of ‘you should just avoid them, then, and only stay with the person who’s more important to you’. It actually makes a good amount of sense that Masumi would kinda see things this way as well, with what she said earlier about not having any interest in caring about people outside of her immediate circle. It makes sense why she’d be more open to the idea of basically ranking people’s importance to her than Futaba is.

I can see where Masumi was coming from, in trying to dig deeper into Futaba’s feelings by seeing how she felt about the hypothetical idea of either of the boys already being in a relationship with someone else, but hoo boy do I not want to sit through that incredibly uncomfortable panel of Futaba imagining Touma and Masumi dating ever again. Yikes. It kinda hurt to see her gripping her arm like that when she talked about the hypothetical scenario of herself dating Taichi. I guess other people can read it differently, but she seems clearly uncomfortable about the idea of it because she’s, you know, not attracted to him like that. But on some level she might still feel almost guilty about not being able to experience those feelings.

[Also I really like the panel of Futaba thinking about Taichi after that. He looked really pretty in it. It also makes me even more envious of how Kaito draws hair. It’s a lot harder than it sounds to draw hair in a way that looks nice and actually ‘feels right’ when you look at it.]

And yeah this part makes it pretty clear that Futaba genuinely has a crush on Taichi. Which I have mixed feelings about. Like, at least in a vacuum, I really like her dynamic with Taichi, and I would probably ship them if they were in any other manga, but in the overall context of this series, it feels a little . . . too easy, I guess, that Taichi’s feelings might be requited. Since from day one the story has been all about unrequited love, it’s sorta disappointing to think that the protagonist’s crush would end up being requited, especially since it’s probably the one one that’ll go that way. I still think it’d just kinda suck if this ends with Taichi and Futaba hooking up, while Touma and Masumi just have to deal with their unrequited feelings. Especially since, even in that case, I doubt we’d get to actually see them properly move on and find other partners before the story ends.

I like the current conflict and tension between Taichi and Futaba, and I’m excited to see them overcome that, but it does leave a bit of a sour taste in my mouth to think that it’s probably going to end in a romantic way. We’ll see how it goes.

I know that, with the whole unrequited love theme, it’d kinda go against that if anyone’s crushes worked out, but it’s pretty undeniable that it’s just predictable and conventional to have the straight people get what they want in the end. At least if we got a Taichi/Touma ending, if not also a Futaba/Masumi ending, that would be genuinely surprising, unconventional, and against the norm for the genre. It’d be hard to call that a ‘betrayal of the central theme’ or whatever when basically nothing else like this actually ends that way.

Also, it must be bittersweet for Masumi to be increasingly aware of Futaba’s crush on Taichi, since it just makes it even clearer for her how her own feelings are doomed to stay one-sided.

I see why Futaba feels that way, but it’s sad seeing her feel like it’d be better if she stayed away from both Taichi and Touma now, in case she makes things worse for them.

I wonder how the next chapter will go. Given how long v2 was, I think the next chapter should be the end of v3, so if it’s anything like the last two volumes it’ll probably be something dramatic.

I can see why a lot of people probably disliked this chapter, but even though I have my aforementioned reservations about the idea of her having a crush on Taichi, I really do love Futaba as a character, so these sorts of chapters are nice.

#murasaki rambles #ao no flag

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the-evolving-falcon · 8 years ago

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character in general: I’m rather neutral about Yuzu and she’s neither complex, nor morally gray enough for me to truly develop an interest in her. Her relationship with Yuuya is adorable, though, and I just love her interactions with Masumi and Serena. Too bad she never really got to interact with them later in the story :(Regardless of my overall disinterest, however, I still believe she deserved much better than what has been happening to her from the second half of the Synchro Arc, as she used to be much more than a plot device to motivate Yuuya and to be a damsel in distress for him to rescue.

how they play them: Your take on Yuzu is just wonderful - and has long surpassed her canon self. She is exactly what she should have been, had the writers not ruined her, and the balance between badassery and her feminine side is just perfect. She feels very real and human, and her relationships with other muses are always genuine. I just adore your Yuzu and she’s the reason I went from disliking Yuzu in general to being neutral about her. Your Yuzu muse and my interactions with her are also the reason I got into Serenadeshipping in the first place, so... yes, your Yuzu muse is muuuuch too good to be true

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Shun + Yuzu: It’s a good platonic ship, and I’d love to see Yuzu try to bully a confuuuused Shun into adopting her as his little sis, while he teaches her to be more realistic about the impending war and her role in the Professor’s plans.

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momorabu · 7 years ago

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22.07.2017

A3! Main Story - Episode 1: Show Must Go On! (Chapter 8 - 14)

Finally I have some free time to write about A3~! (Though mostly it’s because I still haven’t finish reading the next ensemble stars even story that I was going to translate, it was horrendously long… ) I’ve actually finished reading this about a month ago, not long after I finished reading the earlier 7 chapters ^^; Finally I can proceed with this story~! I felt that Tsuzuru shines quite alot for these chapters so had a really good time reading through and writing about it ^^

Anyway as always, the summary of the story can be found below. Translation may not be 100% accurate due to my poor Japanese skills~

Chapter 8: 目の下にビッグベア / The Big Bear under the Eyes

After a week, it was finally the deadline of the script. Sakuya was worried and asked Masumi on Tsuzuru’s progress. Masumi answered that he had no idea that cause “me” to have to diss him that he doesn’t know even though they’re living in the same room =w=“ (I guess both of them just don’t talk in there…? =w=“) Masumi admitted that they don’t talk in the room or say… he doesn’t really notice Tsuzuru’s presence that much since he mentioned that Tsuzuru seems to have blend with the computre OWO” (Seems that he kept sitting in front of the computer working on his script TWT)

Citron remarked that he had recently tried to talk to Tsuzuru, but he gets no reaction from him at all, and with Itaru adding in that he noticed that Tsuzuru seems to have even taken a break from school recently (he skipped his university lessons?! OWO”), he felt that it’s best to take a look on his status.

Sakuya asked “me” on what’s going to happen if Tsuzuru didn’t manage to finish his script, to which “I” answered that unfortunately we would have to make do and use other scripts instead, as we really couldn’t afford anymore time to wait for it to be completed as it would lessen even more time that we already seems to lack to practise for the play. It was set that we would start practising our lines starting from tomorrow. If Tsuzuru didn’t managed to finish the script, it would really seems that we had wasted a week in waiting for it, and thus “I” thought to myself that we would have to try to make up for it later on.

In the end, “I” decided that “I” shall go check up on Tsuzuru, with the rest wanting to go with me… other than Itaru. He mentioned that he had felt unwell since yesterday night, and requested to take a break from today’s practice as well. “I” agreed to let him take a break.

Arriving at the door of Tsuzuru’s room, “I” thought to myself on whether “I” have made a wrong choice in believing in Tsuzuru that he would complete the script, and knocked on the door to tell him that “I’m” here to check on his progress. However, there’s no sound from inside the room at all from Tsuzuru, as “I” began to get worried. Citron was still smiling as he guessed that perhaps Tsuzuru was just asleep, but upon hearing from Masumi that he might be dead had gotten “me” worried enough to open the door in a hurry. (Masumi! Please don’t say words like that to make people worry! ><”)

Opening the door, we found Tsuzuru had collapsed. Sakuya and Citron quickly went over to help him up when Masumi asked us to take a look at the computer. The last few words on the screen stated “It’s done”, (Literally it’s more like “it’s all written”) and that gets “me” excited to know that Tsuzuru had finished writing the script. We also realised that Tsuzuru had fallen asleep actually (that’s why he collapsed ^^;), and decided to let him take a rest since he must have not slept for many nights, and shall print out the script. Citron had initially wanted to wake him up but after “I” told him that we should let him rest, he understood and commented that Tsuzuru had “big bears” under his eyes XD (They’re panda eyes, not big bear Citron XD)

Chapter 9: ロミオとジュリアス / Romeo and Julius

Reading through the script as we’ve printed them out, Sakuya noticed that Juliet had become a male character in this version, and rather than love, Tsuzuru had changed the story to be talking about the friendship between guys instead. Sakuya finished reading through the script and complimented it to be really interesting, to which “I” agreed, since Tsuzuru had not only diverted our crisis of having someone to act as a female by making Juliet as a guy, he also changed the story such that it seems natural that the story was talking about friendship too. (Masumi commented that it was just normal, though I wonder whether he’s saying it as the truth or he’s just jealous actually ^^;)

We were just going to assign the roles of the story when Tsuzuru barged into the room. He was worried that he isn’t going to make it before the deadline but upon knowing that we already have the script in our hands, he asked “me” on “my” opinion on his script. Knowing that “I” found it perfect and gave it a pass to use it for our play, Tsuzuru gave a sigh of relieve~ (Congratulations, Tsuzuru!)

He revealed that he had used his past as a hint to write this story about friendship actually, since in the past, Tsuzuru had separated from his friend too due to his family. It was a sad ending for Tsuzuru since he and his friend ended up drifting apart even though they used to be really closed back then, but in the script he had written, it had a happy ending instead, where Romeo and Julius ended up travelling together. Tsuzuru mentioned that since the first generation Spring Troupe had a cheerful and bright image, he wanted that image to remain as it is and thus decided to give the story a happy ending.

Regarding on how the roles were assigned, Tsuzuru stated that he had written who is suitable for which role on the script itself. He had appointed that the male lead, Romeo shall be Sakuya, since he was the first member of the company after all, and Tsuzuru felt that he’s someone who seems to fit the spring troupe’s image the most. “I” agreed too, since Sakuya gave off the image that he’s always bright and cheerful, and felt that it was perfect for him.

Sakuya blushed and admitted that he’s already satisfied to be able to act on stage, claiming that he’s alright even if he acted as a supporting role or even the background. (”I” had to diss him that we do not need someone to act as the background ^^;) It was also decided by “me” that Sakuya shall be the chairman (座長) of the spring troupe too, which is similar to being the leader of it.(Congratulations, Sakuya!)

Julius was decided to be assigned to Masumi, whereas Tsuzuru himself would act as Mercutio, who was Romeo’s close friend. Itaru, being older than them, would act as Tybalt, being Julius big brother (in the original it was more like Juliet’s cousin though?) Lastly, Citron shall be the priest, where he grumbled that the priest had very little lines. Tsuzuru explained that he purposely make it so since Citron can’t even speak Japanese well at this point of time ^^:

“I” was very impressed with Tsuzru for even being able to match the characters to the actors and praised him. With everything set in stone, “I” was confident that with practice, we would be able to perform in our best conditions. Masumi commented that “I” seems to be in a good mood and excited, to which “I” answered that “I” am since this was such a good script that “I” can’t wait to start practice with it.(Masumi seems kind of jealous when he commented that he could also write such a script too… ^^;)

It was decided that everyone shall look through the script and practice shall start tomorrow. Since Itaru wasn’t around earlier on, “I” decided to hand the script over to him and let him know what his role in. Knocking his room’s door gets no reply, “I” wondered whether he was asleep, but since “I” heard some soft tapping sound coming from inside, “I” called out to Itaru that “I’m” coming in.

Opening the door, “I” got screamed at by Itaru at “me” not to come in. He was pissed that he had missed a 3-kill and sort of just cursed at “me” OAO” He scolded “me” for coming in suddenly without permission, asking “me” that “I” should have seen that he’s busy OWO” Itaru had came really close to “me” when he said that and it ended up being a kabe-don when he stood so close to “me” O///O (He’s… so different from earlier on OAO”)

“I” noticed that what he was “busy” with was that he was in the middle of a game, and “I” was confused by the major change in Itaru that “I” asked him who is he? XD Itaru answered confidently his full name and my image of a mature Itaru was crushed. “I” hurriedly handed the script to him and told him that the role he was assigned to was written on it as well. With that, “I” rushed out of the room in a hurry. Once outside of his room, “I” calmed “myself” down and told “myself” that Itaru had just become weird because of his illness. But “I” can’t help but wonder whether he would be “cured” tomorrow…

Chapter 10: エーアが薄い2人 / The Awkward Atmosphere Between the Two (Lit. Thin Air)

The next day at the practice room, “I” announced to everyone that we’re going to start praticing with the script today. Citron was still disappointed with his lines, since he only have like 5 of them. (Poor Citron, I hope you have more lines next time TWT) Itaru thanked “me” for sending the script over last night, and asked whether he had behaved weirdly last night since he might have been abit drowsy after getting awake.Since Itaru was back to “normal” like yesterday, “I” guessed that he must have “recovered” from last night and wondered what was up with him at that time.

Masumi didn’t had his script with him and declared that he doesn’t need it since he had already remembered all his lines. (Wow… to remember the whole script in less than a day! +A+) “I” was impressed and found him really talented actually.

However, the practice doesn’t seems to proceed well with Sakuya and the others struggling, that in the end, Masumi remarked that he found it very difficult to act with them since they’re always stuck. This happened while Masumi was acting a scene with Sakuya, where he seems to have forgotten his lines, and while Tsuruzu tried to speak up for Sakuya by saying that this was to be expected since they’ve just started practising, he got dissed by Masumi instead by saying he’s not into the story at all when he was the writer for it. He also mentioned that Tsuzuru doesn’t seems like he grab hold of the character he had written at all, and that ended up angering Tsuzuru. (Since I believed that Tsuzuru must have put in alot of effort and understood about the characters when he wrote the story, he must have felt insulted TWT) Masumi commented that when Tsuzuru recited his lines, it felt that he wasn’t thinking about anything at all, to which Tsuzuru explained to him that it’s not that he doesn’t understand about the character, it’s just that he had trouble acting the expressions and feelings out.

As the atmosphere started to worsen, “I” decided to butt in and stopped them from quarreling. Sakuya who was in between them apologised for his amateur skills. Tsuzuru had asked Masumi to get along well with them but that gets another rebuttal from him that whether they’re asking him to lower his skills for them. Obviously that angered Tsuzuru once again and “I” had to tell them to take a break instead since no one seems to be up in the mood for more practice.

Since we’re all on a break, Itaru told ‘me“ that he was still not feeling well and wanted to rest early for today. “I” agreed to let him off once again, but wondered if he’s really sick since “I” could see that he was well enough to play games yesterday…

Chapter 11: 家庭内別居 / Living Apart in the Same Family

The practice resumed and during one night, Masumi corrected Tsuzuru’s lines. He remarked that Tsuzuru didn’t even remember his own lines when he was the one who wrote them. Masumi had even remembered the lines of the other members, though he just brushed it off as being able to remember because he had heard it everyday. (But to say that even an idiot could do that… is abit too much Masumi =w=“)

The atmosphere between Tsuzuru and Masumi had turned bad once again, though “I” had to agree with Masumi that they don’t seem to be making any much progress and worried that we might really not have enough time to practice well enough to perform by the event date. Since the atmosphere had gotten even more awkward than before, it made it even harder to practice and thus more mistakes were easily committed than usual. “I” decided to end the night practice for today, but requested everyone to practise more on their own since their progress were later than scheduled. (Woah,”I” wasn’t shy in speaking out the truth +W+)

Masumi remarked that rather than “everyone”, it’s more like “two of them” required more practice. (He was referring to Sakuya and Tsuzuru actually, so that really stung for Tsuzuru as he rebutted that Masumi had a bad taste… These two are really not getting along D: )

Sakuya apologised as he admitted that he knew that he was the one who required more practice. (Aww~ Poor Sakuya TWT I feel kind of bad for him since he’s not the type who would defend himself at Masumi’s attack like this TWT)

Back at Sakuya and Citron’s room, the two of them were preparing to turn off the lights and head for sleep when Tsuzuru knocked on their door and asked to come in. Tsuzuru had appeared with his pillow, claiming that he didn’t want to stay in the same room as Masumi and thus requested Sakuya and Citron to let him stay in their room. (Kind of cute that Tsuzuru would actually make a fuss this time, kind of unlike him being childish for once ^^;)

He grumbled that just listening to Masumi’s name was enough to make him feel fed up. Tsuzuru was actually practicing by himself in his room just now, but ended up getting pissed off since Masumi kept correcting him. (I wonder that perhaps it’s just how Masumi gives his advice?)

However, Sakuya mentioned that it was unlike of Masumi to do that, since he had noticed that Masumi always seem to be alone at school, adding on that Masumi was popular at school among the girls with his looks, but it was rumored that he would never reply to anybody even if they talked to him. Sakuya was initially surprised that Masumi to take a liking to the director (”me”), but seeing his reactions to the rest of troupe members, Sakuya guessed that Masumi doesn’t seems to have much interests in them.

Tsuzuru noticed that Masumi had become so aggressive ever since the practice for the play had started, when suddenly Citron stated that he got it, answering that Masumi must be a tsundere OWO” (Tsuzuru immediately shot it down by saying that Masumi was not “dere” at all XD)

Continuing on, Sakuya guessed that perhaps Masumi was just used to not being interested in other people since he was always alone even at home as his parents were always working overseas and that he doesn’t have any siblings being an only child. This was something that Tsuzuru would find it hard to imagine since he has lots of brothers.

Even though the words said by Masumi maybe considered quite hurtful, Sakuya had felt that what he had said to be correct. He knew that he panicked easily, and that he lacked alot in practise, Citron tried to cheer Sakuya up, by telling him don’t mind about it since Citron himself didn’t mind even if he couldn’t say his lines ^^; (Tsuzuru had to ask him to please mind since he’ll definitely need to brush up on his Japanese XD)

Knowing that they really lack alot in term of skills, Tsuzuru decided that he shall practise in the morning too. Sakuya and Citron thought that it was a great idea and wanted to join in too. They then decided to gather at the practice room at 6AM the next morning.

Sakuya offered Tsuzuru his bed but Tsuzuru decided he shall head back to his own room, since he felt that he should inform Masumi about the morning practice tomorrow, though he wondered whether Masumi would turn up or not. (Sakuya greatly believed he would though ^^)

Citron thought that they should inform “me” and Itaru about it too, and thus the three of them head off together to Itaru’s room. Knocking on his door gets no reply once again, but Tsuzuru noticed that there’s tapping sound coming from the room, which seems to be made by a controller. However, before Tsuzuru could finished his words about guessing that the tapping sound were by a controller, Sakuya had already jumped into conclusions by thinking that the sound were made by a cockroach, and quickly opened the door to want to get rid of it XD

Opening the door revealed a happy Itaru as he had just finished a 10 kill~ Tsuzuru had guessed correctly that Itaru was in the middle of a game. Citron remarked that Itaru was in relax mode. (Well his hairstyle just proves it XD) Sakuya relayed the message to Itaru that they’re having morning practice the next day and invited him to join them. Since it was quite early at 6AM, Itaru told them that he would think about it.

When the three of them left Itaru’s room, Sakuya remarked that Itaru seems a little different than usual (Tsuzuru dissed that it’s not just “a little” though XD) Tsuzuru commented that he seems to recognise the game that Itaru was playing, stating that it was an online game that a lot “useless” people seems to be playing ^^: Suddenly, Citron started speaking really smoothly and answered the game’s name (its too complicated that I can’t really translate that ><”), even stating that it’s a FPS game and looking at Itaru’s equipment just now, Citron was sure that Itaru was a “useless” person XD (Why are you guys saying this so confidently? ^^”) Tsuzuru dissed that Citron seems “terrible” too for knowing such stuff but Citron claimed that he knew it because it was a must to learn this in the education system at his country. (What kind of school did he went to in his hometown… =w=“) He laughed it off and said it was a joke in the end though. (If so… how does he knew about it?)

Sakuya worried whether Itaru would join them tomorrow for the morning practice, since he seems to be quite busy gaming instead…

Chapter 12: 飛耀のために / For the Reason to be able to Fly

The next morning, “I” showed up and told them that “I” was impressed that they had voluntarily took up morning practice, and that seeing that they’re willing to work hard, “I” would give “my” all to help support them. Masumi had joined us, even though Tsuzuru dissed that he was still sleeping when he was here though ^^:

Itaru had also joined us, and Sakuya felt bad since Itaru seems to be busy with his gaming. Listening to their conversation, “I” was sure that what “I” saw that night was not a dream indeed. Itaru said that he could practice with them as long as his game doesn’t seems to be wasting any HP, to which Citron helped to explain the term, and what he meant that was the game which Itaru is playing uses HP, and there are times where his HP would go down and requires time to heal, so… rather than wasting time waiting for it, he might as well turn up for practice~ (Do you even sleep Itaru? OWO”) Tsuzuru was impressed once again that Citron knew about it, but he just smiled and said that it’s common knowledge in his country XD

One night, we’ve managed to get through the script smoothly. Everyone was glad about the improvement, and Sakuya said that it’s thanks to all the morning practises which we’ve been attending.

However, to “me” it seems that we’ve taken too much time just to go through the script smoothly together, and felt that to feel relieved now would be dangerous. (Since there’s still lots to practise and brush up on!) But upon seeing how happy everyone seems to be, “I” couldn’t bear to say such harsh words as it might dampen their spirits…

As “I” was wondering what “I” should do at the entrance of the house, “I” noticed the manager and asked what he was doing. He answered that he was taking this chance to tidy the outfits of the first generation spring troupe’s as well as some small props that he had found, but it seems that it’s going to be hard work since they looked really bad as they weren’t well taken care of during the past few years. However, for the huge props, the managed told “me” not to worry as he had knew someone who could help out, though for the outfits he would need to get some new ones definitely…

“I” offered to help him but he told “me” not to worry and just concentrate on the practice instead, and instead asked on how “I” was doing with the practice with the actors. “I” admitted to him that we’ve finally just managed to go through the lines together and as expected it wasn’t as smooth as the time where the first generation spring troupe had practised in the past. The manager had a great idea though, and offered to contact one of the person who was in the first generation spring troupe in the end. (Thank you, Manager~! ^^ Finally, he had showed to be of some use…. ^^;)

Chapter 13: 初代春組OB / First Generation Spring Troupe’s OB (lit. Alumni)

“I” remembered to what the manager had told “me” before at the earlier night, where he mentioned that someone from the initial spring troupe was now working as a teacher in an acting school and offered to contact him. “I” was practicing with the members on how they should stand on stage, and it seems that atmosphere had ease up, with Itaru even going to the toilet in the midst practice (and Tsuzuru guessed that he must be going off to game for awhile =w=“)

“I” was worried as “I” thought that at this pace, we won’t be able to make it by the performance date, but felt bad if “I” were to scold them now… Just then, someone shouted and claimed that this place seems more like a play in a kindergarten. “I” turned around and saw a man standing there. Approaching him, “I” asked him who is it and that it was not allowed to have people were not related to the company coming in here. The man was shocked and asked “me” who “I” was instead, but stopped in mid sentence when he realised that “I” was the daughter of the original director (”my” dad), and was surprised that “I’ve” grown up to be so big when “I” was so tiny back then. (Well… “I” guessed it had been many years since then by now… ^^;)

He introduced himself as Kashima Yuzo, and claimed that he had came because the manager had cried and begged him to come and take care of the new spring troupe members. (Masumi dissed that he just looked like a yakuza, with Kamekichi commenting that he had aged =w=“)

Noticing that since Kamekichi seems to recognise him, Sakuya guessed that he must be someone from the first generation of the spring troupe. Yuzo asked the members to hurry up and start acting him, being their first audience.

However, after they’ve finished their act, his comment was that he had wanted to get up from his seat for 300 times ><” (Even Tsuzuru had to say that was a really harsh one liner comment =w=“)

Yuzo mentioned that the lines that they were saying were unbearable for him, and that they would make the audience find it hard to bear with their acting. Starting with Citron, he commented that even with just 5 lines, if he can’t even do it properly, his level is even worse than a kindergarten kid. Even though Citron was not good at Japanese since he was a exchange student, Yuzo spare no mercy for him, stating that if he can’t even speak Japanese well, he should actually forget about participating in a Japanese drama play, since his attempts at speaking Japanese could even make the audience “wake up” from the world they were supposed to be enchanted into when they’re watching the play.

Next, he commented on Tsuzuru’s acting, saying that he’s just reciting his lines and seems like he doesn’t understand the script. Tsuzuru was defensive and stated that he was the one who had written the script, and Yuzo further reprimanded him, saying that him acting like this was just a reflection of himself getting satisfied since the emotions and feelings from the story does not get relayed to the audience at all.

Towards Itaru, Yuzo doesn’t even have any remarks for him at all, and just told him that if he doesn’t have the heart and passion to act, he should just get off the stage D: (Somehow he could sense that Itaru doesn’t put his heart into acting compared to the others… OAO”)

For Masumi, Yuzo noticed that he was always checking “me” out when he was acting, and told Masumi that he had thought that his acting was boring. Sakuya was disappointed that even Masumi seems to have failed in Yuzo’s eyes, since he commented that they were all just little chicks (newbies) on stage.

Lastly, it was Sakuya’s turn to be commented on. Yuzo told him that he had no idea about performing on stage even though he was the main lead, and requested them to start over. That was the end of the commentary of Yuzo, though he said that he would come again next week to watch them act.

Noticing that everyone seems to be in low spirits after being scolded, “I” wondered perhaps it was too overboard, but Yuzo just smiled and said that he noticed that the guy who acted as Romeo had the passion, and thus would be able to go far in the future. (He’s referring to Sakuya~ ^^)

Looking at “me”, he said that whether the spring troupe would be able to survive or not depends on “me”, which in this case, it was my responsibility that they had landed in such a terrible state. “I” then realised that it was due to “my” failure of teaching and leading them that they were still so bad at acting. “I” told Yuzo that “I” would definitely work hard from now on, and looking at “me” being all pumped up, he commented that he would want “my” dad to see “me” like this.

Realising that he knew “my” dad, “I” asked him whether he knew anything about his whereabouts, but Yuzo sadly said that he knew nothing at all and felt apologetic about it.

Chapter 14: おやすみシアター / Good Night Theater

That night, no one was in the mood for dinner as the manager was shocked that everyone had left most of their food uneaten. He even told them that he’s going to end up eating all the golden curry made by “me”, but it gets no reactions from them. “I” told the manager that it was probably due to Yuzo’s words which gets everyone’s mood to be like this, and the manager was worried whether everyone would get too sad about the harsh words that they ended up quitting from the company. (Oh no! Please… don’t ><”)

However, “I” believed that everyone would not just quit like this, since what Yuzo had said was all true about their acting skills. “I” believed that they would buck up and work towards the future once again after getting over their slump now, and all “I” could do now was to believe in them and support them.

Sakuya was heading out of his room when he met Tsuzuru. Noticing that Sakuya was carrying his pillows and blankets, Tsuzuru asked him where on earth is he heading to with them. Sakuya explained that he find it hard to sleep since he kept remembering what Yuzo had said, and said that him being satisfied to be able to stand on stage won’t do since he doesn’t thought anything about performing on stage when he does it, and thus decided to head to the stage to sleep on it so that hopefully he could understand more about the stage.

Even Citron wanted to tag along and accompany Sakuya, that Tsuzuru was shocked that the two of them were going to just carry all their pillows and blankets all the way to the theater and sleep there. Sakuya said that he knew that this was a stupid idea, but he just wanted to do something about the situation now somehow. In the end, Tsuzuru decided to join them, and also decided to get Masumi and Itaru involved too XD (Since they’re a team after all~)

Masumi wasn’t pleased that he was being dragged here, though Itaru doesn’t mind where he sleeps as long as he could still play his game. (He’s probably playing them on his phone now… =w=“) Citron remarked that them sleeping together at the theater seems fun like a training camp, though for his version was that they had to take turns to sleep and look out for the enemy. (It sounds like he was in a warzone =w=“)

After awhile, Sakuya asked them whether they were still awake and for their opinion on how they felt about Yuzo’s comment which they had received today. Tsuzuru admitted that he had felt angry about it, since it seems that Yuzo was just saying like he knew everything. Itaru agreed that it was indeed quite harsh though for Citron, somehow he felt excited being scolded by him. (That Tsuzuru dissed on whether he’s a pervert… ^^;)

Sakuya confessed that he had indeed found it really harsh initially, but he had felt that what Yuzo had said to be correct, and that he does it because of the love for the company. Sakuya had noticed that “I” seems to be troubled when they were acting, to which Masumi added on that it started when they started practising at their positions on stage. Both of them agreed that “I” noticed and looked at them(as in the whole spring troupe) the most, and Tsuruzu guessed that “I” must not be satisfied at by their performance to show a troubled look most of the time.

In the end, Tsuzuru said that such comments can’t be prevented and decided to use them as “grains” to help him to improve himself. Sakuya agreed and expressed that he wanted to know more about the stage, and act even more. However, Itaru seems deep in thought about it, and doesn’t mentioned anything when Sakuya asked him about it… (I wonder what he’s thinking… OWO”)

Passing by the dorm, “I” realised that Sakuya’s room had his door ajar and worried that he might have run off after getting a shock from Yuzo’s words. Realising that everyone had disappeared, “I” began to get really worried and went off to look for them. In the end, “I” was relieved to find them asleep on the stage at the theater, though “I” wondered why on earth are they sleeping over there. But “I” guessed that they must have gathered there to ponder about something on stage, and felt relieved that the spring troupe had not ran away from the stage, and instead decided to face their problems face on.

And that’s now for the next 7 chapters~ Glad that things were going along though they’re still encountering lots of problems. Script down, members ready but their acting… It’s great that we have a senior member to look after us (though he’s very harsh), since with just “me” and the manager, it’s kind of worrying how the company is going to head off too~

Itaru seems to have his own share of problems… but he’s not sharing them yet. I actually worried for him the most since he doesn’t even need nor want to be actor actually, and had just entered because there’s free lodging and food =w=“ Hopefully more will be revealed in the later chapters~ Though it’ll be awhile for me to write the translation for them out since I haven’t even read them yet ^^;

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