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Tsurune Blu-ray Vol. 3 Drama CD Translation

This was long overdue but we’ve got volume 1 translated now! I must confess the entire time I worked on this after everything that’s happened lately I kind of just. Forgot the title of the track so I had to run and dig it out as I’m posting.

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Tsui ni Kaikin!? Kaito to Masa-san no Naresome

(arrows being shot) Seiya: (claps)* I’ll retrieve the arrows! (leaves) Kaito: Nanao, could you come and look at my shooting form? In case it isn’t flowing smoothly* again. Nanao: Hmm~ It looks fine though? Kaito: It feels like my arrow tip droops down the moment I become unaware of it. Minato: Maybe try it while being conscious of your whole body? Kaito: Huh? Minato: I mean, things like the method, angle, or the amount of pressure, just forget all that and do it how you’d like. Kaito: (hesitant) Minato: Er, how do I say this...maybe “looking at it in perspective” works? Ryohei, nervous: Minato has a point, doesn’t he..!* Nanao: Yeah, yeah! On the other hand, it’ll be just as bad if you get too hung up on it. Kaito: Alright. Ryohei & Nanao: Eh- Kaito: What’s with that ‘eh’? Ryohei: Eh, no, well- it’s just... Kaito: Huh..? Narumiya, your hakama’s slipping down. Minato: Eh? Ah, true, it’s gotten loose. Thanks, Onogi. (rustling fabric, probably Minato fixing his hakama) Nanao: Somehow, it’s like Kacchan and Minato are… Ryohei: Getting along..? Kaito: Hah? You’ve got it wrong. Nanao: No, no, compared to before, you totally get along better! You’re even exchanging advice with each other. Kaito: Advice like this is nothing, isn’t it? Minato: But I’m still glad you told me, if I got caught on the hem and fell, it wouldn’t be good.* Kaito: The preliminaries for the prefectural tournament are coming up, so it’s best you quit it with those amateurish mistakes. Minato: Yeah. Seiya: (walks back in carrying arrows and returns them) I’ve finished retrieving the arrows. ...Er, did something happen? Ryohei and Nanao are grinning. Nanao: Hmm~~ Not really~ Ryohei: We were just talking about getting along and doing our best at prefecturals! Kaito: Oi… Minato: That’s right, for Tommy-sensei and Masa-san too. Ryohei: Oh now that you say that, when Masa-san came here to be our coach, Kaito called him “Masa-san” too, didn’t he? Kaito, hesitating a bit: ...Yeah. Ryohei: Are you and Masa-san close? Did you know each other? Kaito, smug: You could say that. Ryohei: And Minato only met him at Yata Shrine this year… Minato: Ah, yeah. Ryohei: What about Kaito? Kaito, really smug: I knew him much longer before that. Ryohei, excited: Ehhhh?? Around when? How’d you meet? Nanao: Well, that was a story from when Kacchan’s face was cuter and isn’t as scary as it is now, wasn’t it? Kaito: Don’t say gross things. Nanao, acting narrator: On the morning of that day, Kacchan was running late so he ran with all his might… In-story Kaito, running: Oh nooo~ I’m going to be late~! (bumps into someone) Ah~! Owwie… Nanao: Kacchan, who turned the corner, bumped into someone and said... In-story Kaito: Watch it! That could’ve been dangerous! (~gasps~) In-story Masa-san: Are you alright, little flighty one? In-story Kaito: (sparkling sound effect) My prince..? Nanao: And that was the start of Kacchan and Masa-san’s relationship.*  Kaito: Tha- Ryohei: Ehhh!! It’s kind of like a manga, isn’t it?! Kaito: Because it is from a manga! Don’t just believe it! Ryohei: Wha...eh? Minato: It isn’t true? Kaito: I just told you it wasn’t. Nanao: (laughs) Sorry, sorry~ I was just messing around a little. It really went like… (raining) In-story Masa-san: I see, so you were abandoned? In-story Kaito: (kicked puppy noise) Nanao: That abandoned puppy was- Kaito: I'll knock you to the ground! Nanao: (laughs) No way~ I didn’t even say anything yet~~ Minato: Eh? So there wasn’t any abandoned puppy? Kaito: Didn’t I just say it wasn’t that kind of story!? Seiya: Then when did you and Takigawa-san meet? Kaito: …Fifth grade. Ryohei: Fifth grade?! Ehh, that really is from way back! Kaito: I guess so. Ryohei: How did it go? Kaito: ...That’s- Nanao: On that day, it- Kaito: You don’t get to talk, Nanao. You don’t know anything about it! Ryohei: Eh, Nanao doesn’t know either? Nanao: He just told me “Masa-san saved him” and that was it. Minato: If you don’t want to talk about it then, it’s fine, you don’t need to force yourself. Kaito: It’s not like I don’t want to. (various noises from the bg) Kaito: It was during the summer of fifth grade when I went to a fireworks show that he saved me. Ryohei: Ehhhh, that’s cutting it too short! Seiya: Saved you from what? Nanao: We need all the details.* Kaito: What I mean is, Masa-san saved me when I got caught in with some delinquents. Minato, concerned: Delinquents? Even though you were only a grade-schooler? Nanao: (sighs) Ah… Kacchan, you hit your growth spurt around then, right? You could’ve maybe even passed for a middle-schooler. Kaito: I was already really antsy since I lost sight of my parents, and those people just casually came over and got me involved. Nanao: (laughs) You were totally misunderstood, huh? Ryohei: Like, “What’re you glaring at, bastard?” or something? Kaito: I wasn’t. Minato: And then? Kaito: Well, after that, there wasn’t really...The way I saw it, there wasn’t anything else I could do but run from there, but then someone carrying this long stick spoke up, saying, “Now, now, calm down.*” (huffs) ...I don’t remember the rest of it that well! Ryohei: By ‘long stick’ you mean…a bow? Kaito: Yeah. I didn’t know anything about kyuudou that time. When I saw a hakama I’d only think of kendo and stuff like that. Seiya: If you were in fifth grade then that means, Takigawa-san was a college freshman? Nanao: Masa-san as a uni student, huh...somehow, I can’t imagine it! Minato: Is that the reason you started kyuudou? Kaito: I only learned Masa-san did kyuudou a long while after that. Even if I asked him to teach me, he’d turn me down and say, “There’s no way a university student can teach you.” Ryohei: Aww… Kaito: So I only properly started archery when I got into middle school. Seiya: You didn’t think of trying out other clubs? For someone of your build, there’d be a lot trying to recruit you, right? Nanao: I even tried inviting him to soccer once since a face-off between cousins sounds fun, doesn’t it? Kaito: I’m not interested in things like that. Nanao: Seeee? (disappointed tone) Kacchan’s this kind of person. Ryohei: Didn’t Nanao pick kyuudou over soccer too though? You went to different middle schools right, so wouldn’t it be fine to pick different clubs? Nanao: That’s because there’s no way I can lose to Kacchan, is there? Kaito: Nanao you… Nanao: Well that and ever since the summer of our fifth year, up until we got into middle school, aaalllll he’d talk about was “kyuudou this, kyuudou that” so much that even I got brainwashed into it. Kaito: Hah? Who’s brainwashing who? Seiya: Somehow...I think I know what you mean. Nanao: Right?? Minato: I wonder how Masa-san drew his bow when he was in middle school or high school. I wish I could’ve seen it. Kaito: I’m definitely sure he hit the target a lot. Ryohei: Maybe there’s pictures from that time! Nanao: I’ll ask Ren-san about them next time~ Minato: Thanks. Kaito: If you get some, send them over to me, okay? Nanao: Heh~~ Does Kacchan want to see them as well? Kaito: (sputters) S-Shut up, ‘s there a problem with that!? Ryohei: Ah, he’s turning red! This is what they call “tsundere”, right? Kaito: Idi- you- I don’t- You’re wrong!! Nanao: More like he hit bullseye, didn’t he~? You targeted Minato so much at first because you rejected* the fact that Masa-san accepted him, right? Kaito: That’s not it! It’s got nothing to do with Masa-san at all. Narumiya was being indecisive and it annoyed me, that’s it. Minato: Ah- I’m sorry!! Kaito, struggling: ...It’s this part of you that I can’t see eye to eye with! Ryohei: Ehh~~ Nanao: (laughing) Yes, yes~ Seiya: I understand how you feel. Minato: Eh? Seiya: (softly scoffs) It’s great that we were able to find out how Onogi and Takigawa-san met. It really was a shoujo-manga-like meeting, wasn’t it? Kaito: It was not a shoujo manga!!

Notes: -Not exactly a translation note but more a kyuudou tidbit: you gotta clap as you say you’re about to go get the arrows so the people know to stop shooting and well. Not shoot you. -My old friend 水流(mizunagare)/flow of water. There’s a lot of stretching for context for this one folks but I went with the assumption of Kaito thinking his form isn’t ‘flowing’ well. -This is usually written as ‘some truth’ but that doesn’t really sound like Ryohei imo -I can’t find for sure what Minato said back there but I’m going intelligent guess it’s that, if I happen to figure it out I’ll edit it properly right away! -Since Nanao was poking fun at Kaito here yes that is exactly what he said, the word is 馴れ初め(naresome) it’s also in the title~ -Nanao literally said ‘5w1h’ aka the who/what/when/where/why and how of a situation. -Usually I would use just “now, now” or “there, there” for まあまあ but leaving it as just that seemed really incomplete. -The word (反採用/hansaiyou) Nanao says in itself doesn’t exist as a ‘word’ per se in japanese though literally it means ‘opposite of acceptance’ from 反(han)/anti-, in opposition and 採用(saiyou)/acceptance, appointment so. Rejection.