WEBVTT 00:07.780 --> 00:09.520 Such good memories... 00:11.860 --> 00:14.380 She hears a voice from behind her. 00:15.300 --> 00:18.420 And when she turns back, there's no one there. 00:19.140 --> 00:29.020 A Hundred Scenes of AWAJIMA 00:19.700 --> 00:22.510 Classic ghost story, huh? 01:49.020 --> 01:51.520 Awajima Ghost Stories 01:50.400 --> 01:52.280 Horiuchi-san. 01:55.110 --> 01:58.950 Could you take these to Hayashi-sensei? 01:59.430 --> 02:02.470 Sorry, it's just that we have a committee meeting. 02:03.660 --> 02:04.570 Okay. 02:06.390 --> 02:08.600 They make it so obvious. 02:08.600 --> 02:11.890 They've been using me as an errand girl. 02:15.680 --> 02:19.820 The music room is full of the spirits of the dead. 02:19.820 --> 02:22.590 A corpse hangs in the gym storage room. 02:22.590 --> 02:24.510 In the bathroom resides Hanako-san. 02:25.120 --> 02:27.510 Schools are treasure troves of ghost stories. 02:28.310 --> 02:33.020 But it's the living that scare me the most. 02:33.590 --> 02:38.940 The friends you were so close with up till yesterday can suddenly turn on you today. 02:38.940 --> 02:40.450 Music Room 02:39.920 --> 02:41.450 Pardon me. 02:43.580 --> 02:45.150 Thank you. 02:45.150 --> 02:47.340 That must've been a lot to carry on your own. 02:47.930 --> 02:49.720 No, not at all. 02:50.270 --> 02:52.030 Now, if you'll excuse me... 02:54.320 --> 02:58.100 Compared to human malice, a stack of paper weighs nothing. 03:10.920 --> 03:12.920 Did you find the music you were looking for? 03:12.920 --> 03:13.940 Yes. 03:13.940 --> 03:16.560 Well, I'll leave you with the key. 03:16.560 --> 03:18.640 Be sure to lock the door when you leave. 03:18.640 --> 03:20.560 Okay. Thank you. 03:21.040 --> 03:23.340 Break a leg at the cultural festival! 03:25.990 --> 03:27.830 Hey, I hear a piano! 03:27.830 --> 03:32.000 Staying late at school is part of the fun the night before the cultural festival! 03:32.000 --> 03:33.450 It's scary, though. 03:33.810 --> 03:36.830 I hear there's a ghost in the bathroom by the gym. 03:36.830 --> 03:40.620 Oh, I can believe that. It's weirdly dark there for some reason. 03:40.620 --> 03:42.640 Stop it! 03:43.190 --> 03:47.750 For upperclassmen, the cultural festival is the culmination of two years' work. 03:48.470 --> 03:51.270 Ryouko-chan, phone! 03:52.320 --> 03:54.190 It's Kinue Takehara-san. 03:54.190 --> 03:56.650 You went to middle school with her, didn't you? 04:02.840 --> 04:05.360 You're doing Romeo and Juliet? 04:06.020 --> 04:07.130 Yeah. 04:07.440 --> 04:10.370 And it got me thinking of way back when. 04:12.590 --> 04:14.010 Such good memories... 04:16.480 --> 04:19.140 We did Romeo and Juliet back then too. 04:21.790 --> 04:23.700 Your hand, my lady. 04:23.700 --> 04:25.770 Gladly, my prince. 04:27.260 --> 04:29.130 Will you come watch? 04:29.720 --> 04:30.620 I'll be there. 04:33.970 --> 04:35.320 I don't know. 04:35.320 --> 04:37.060 I might not go. 04:38.280 --> 04:40.520 My mom says... 04:40.520 --> 04:43.370 Oh, crap. I mean, my mother says... 04:44.080 --> 04:45.720 It's fine. 04:47.960 --> 04:50.850 She wanted to be an actress. 04:51.390 --> 04:53.120 Not the only mom around like that. 04:53.120 --> 04:55.800 I guess they want to live their dreams through their kids. 04:55.800 --> 04:58.990 I guess that's how it goes for most folks. 04:59.950 --> 05:02.930 My mother's a bit different, though. 05:03.950 --> 05:06.950 She doesn't entirely seem happy. 05:06.950 --> 05:09.420 If anything, she's trying to drag me down. 05:09.420 --> 05:11.620 Seriously? 05:11.620 --> 05:14.500 My grandma and dad have been on my side. 05:14.500 --> 05:16.420 I think it's the only reason I'm holding up. 05:17.840 --> 05:20.760 Believe me, some families are like that. 05:20.760 --> 05:21.700 Huh. 05:22.650 --> 05:25.440 Not everyone's dreams come true. 05:25.910 --> 05:28.680 I knew that from the start. 05:29.510 --> 05:31.270 Rationally, at least. 05:31.710 --> 05:33.860 Horiuchi-san! 05:35.400 --> 05:38.080 Sorry, actually, never mind. 05:39.770 --> 05:41.740 This place is a cesspool. 05:42.320 --> 05:47.340 Of dreams, hopes, despair, envy, jealousy, resentment... 05:48.010 --> 05:52.360 I think I see where people get their ghost stories here. 05:53.290 --> 05:57.970 Still, though, it's the living that scare me most. 05:59.380 --> 06:00.480 A test of courage? 06:00.940 --> 06:04.250 Yeah. You know how we're staying in the costume room today? 06:04.250 --> 06:06.360 We get a thirty-minute break. 06:06.360 --> 06:07.970 And when we do... 06:08.350 --> 06:09.800 Who wants café au lait? 06:09.800 --> 06:10.290 Me! 06:10.290 --> 06:11.480 Me too! 06:13.800 --> 06:15.070 What was that? 06:15.070 --> 06:17.860 Apparently they're doing a test of courage. 06:17.860 --> 06:19.800 How silly. 06:19.800 --> 06:21.090 It's fine. 06:21.090 --> 06:24.490 Those girls have been working on our costumes for days. 06:24.490 --> 06:26.250 They gotta let off some steam. 06:26.530 --> 06:28.940 You're patient, aren't you, Senpai? 06:28.940 --> 06:30.010 Sure am! 06:30.380 --> 06:32.480 Since I know what I'm doing after school and all. 06:33.010 --> 06:35.040 I guess I'm not feeling as tense. 06:37.360 --> 06:39.380 Say, um... 06:40.400 --> 06:42.720 Are you really quitting? 06:44.900 --> 06:47.740 Don't be so gloomy. 06:48.220 --> 06:51.750 But you've finally improved. 06:51.750 --> 06:53.300 It's such a waste. 06:55.160 --> 06:58.630 I'm doing better because I made the decision to quit. 07:03.250 --> 07:08.130 Choosing the same path doesn't necessarily mean going the same way. 07:18.380 --> 07:22.980 The building's so lively at night during cultural festival season. I like it. 07:23.470 --> 07:25.430 Pipe down! 07:28.050 --> 07:29.560 Good grief. 07:29.560 --> 07:31.030 What's the matter? 07:31.460 --> 07:34.330 The prep students were holding a test of courage. 07:34.330 --> 07:36.470 I don't believe it. 07:36.470 --> 07:39.880 Huh. A test of courage in the dead of winter, you say? 07:40.340 --> 07:44.900 Speaking of which, every school has its own urban legends of sorts. 07:44.900 --> 07:47.390 Does ours have any that you know of? 07:47.390 --> 07:48.920 Sure we do. 07:49.560 --> 07:52.540 This place is full of dreams and dashed hopes. 07:52.820 --> 07:58.180 I've seen plenty of people go through it. Myself included. 07:58.180 --> 07:59.680 Don't say that. 07:59.680 --> 08:03.140 This school is teeming with spirits. 08:07.960 --> 08:09.570 Kinu-chan, what's wrong? 08:10.610 --> 08:11.940 It's nothing. 08:12.410 --> 08:15.200 I heard a voice, so I turned around... 08:15.200 --> 08:16.830 But there's no one there. 08:17.800 --> 08:20.080 Knock it off! 08:22.040 --> 08:24.580 Not the most imaginative ghost story. 08:26.940 --> 08:29.510 It's not an easy world you're walking into. 08:29.510 --> 08:32.120 I'm not going to force you to do it. 08:32.120 --> 08:33.730 I know that. 08:34.940 --> 08:36.730 I never thought it would be easy. 08:38.070 --> 08:40.360 I might even come home crying. 08:40.760 --> 08:43.320 But I won't. I won't make excuses. 08:43.320 --> 08:45.520 You're better off having excuses for yourself. 08:45.520 --> 08:48.610 No, stop! You're going to ruin my resolve. 08:48.830 --> 08:50.600 Why would you talk to me like that? 08:51.170 --> 08:53.710 You really are just like your grandmother. 08:53.710 --> 08:55.730 You lack composure. 08:55.730 --> 08:57.790 You act like you're pushing yourself, 08:57.790 --> 09:00.360 but you're just making the people around you suffer. 09:00.820 --> 09:01.830 Huh? 09:01.830 --> 09:03.000 What are you talking about? 09:07.190 --> 09:08.630 Never mind. 09:15.280 --> 09:17.620 Whatcha ruminating about? 09:20.220 --> 09:23.510 Did you know, Oshiage-san? They're here. 09:23.510 --> 09:25.270 Huh? No. What are? 09:25.580 --> 09:26.640 You mean bugs, right? 09:26.640 --> 09:27.770 Please say you do! 09:28.010 --> 09:31.400 Is that really what you want? I thought you hated bugs. 09:32.470 --> 09:34.220 Better than ghosts. 09:35.000 --> 09:36.990 You've outed yourself. 09:36.990 --> 09:39.690 Why does everyone love ghost stories? 09:39.690 --> 09:41.530 It's not even like we have time for them. 09:42.610 --> 09:45.400 I do think words have power, though. 09:45.400 --> 09:47.860 So you'd best be careful what you say out loud. 09:48.610 --> 09:50.910 You're the one who started it! 09:51.560 --> 09:55.550 If you have questions, you ought to ask. 10:01.500 --> 10:02.690 But... 10:07.090 --> 10:09.340 Is it true that you tried to kill yourself? 10:10.750 --> 10:14.270 That's a pretty blunt question after all that hesitation! 10:14.270 --> 10:17.560 I just don't know how to ask stuff like this more politely. 10:18.600 --> 10:21.250 "Is something on your mind?" 10:21.250 --> 10:23.390 Or "Has something gotten you down?" 10:24.000 --> 10:26.830 You have to get to the heart of the problem more gently. 10:27.210 --> 10:31.950 Don't you think it's tactless to ask outright if I tried to kill myself? 10:32.360 --> 10:33.330 Sorry. 10:36.790 --> 10:37.830 Just messing. 10:39.380 --> 10:40.550 I don't know... 10:41.000 --> 10:43.330 if I wanted to die or not. 10:44.240 --> 10:47.120 I just randomly felt like it. 10:47.980 --> 10:50.830 But I blurted it out, 10:50.830 --> 10:54.990 and Ohshima-san had to go telling everyone like it was a big deal. 10:55.220 --> 10:56.570 That's horrible. 10:56.570 --> 10:57.880 She's horrible. 10:59.820 --> 11:03.050 But it's fine. I'm even worse than her. 11:04.250 --> 11:07.830 Remember Emi Okabe-san? The girl who quit. 11:08.600 --> 11:12.130 I was in Ibuki-san's clique. 11:12.570 --> 11:14.820 She's pretty isolated now. 11:15.260 --> 11:16.160 Yeah. 11:17.420 --> 11:18.960 I'm awful, aren't I? 11:20.450 --> 11:23.600 I knew Okabe-san was being bullied. 11:24.080 --> 11:27.440 I didn't participate, but I didn't say anything either. 11:27.890 --> 11:30.240 I'm not any better. 11:32.320 --> 11:34.750 It wasn't supposed to be like this. 11:37.840 --> 11:41.860 And with that, she quit school. 11:42.750 --> 11:45.000 "It wasn't supposed to be like this." 11:45.000 --> 11:48.880 I'm sure that's how plenty of other students felt too. 11:50.100 --> 11:53.920 What a surprise. I would have never thought you'd call me. 11:54.520 --> 11:58.080 Well, I am your daughter's main teacher. 11:58.520 --> 12:01.090 I heard you've been a good mom to her. 12:01.090 --> 12:03.960 I'm not a good mother by any stretch. 12:04.280 --> 12:07.460 She's following in your footsteps, though! 12:07.790 --> 12:09.840 That's not true either. 12:09.840 --> 12:11.970 I'm one of the quitters. 12:13.740 --> 12:15.870 I feel like this is my punishment. 12:15.870 --> 12:19.110 And I know it's arrogant of me to even think that. 12:20.020 --> 12:22.870 I ran away from Awajima, yet I can't escape it. 12:24.110 --> 12:27.370 My daughter will be successful. 12:27.370 --> 12:31.910 Yet I can't be genuinely happy for her. 12:32.710 --> 12:34.210 I'm awful, aren't I? 12:35.850 --> 12:38.890 Is this place truly a cesspool? 12:38.890 --> 12:40.720 Let's take it from the top! 12:42.500 --> 12:44.630 I'll be out for half an hour or so. 12:44.630 --> 12:46.460 Got it. 12:49.770 --> 12:54.040 I wonder if she's being punished too. 12:55.010 --> 12:56.400 Bye, Sensei! 12:55.820 --> 12:57.660 See you tomorrow. 12:57.660 --> 12:59.660 Thank you all too. 12:57.660 --> 12:59.660 Thank you. 13:05.060 --> 13:06.400 Such good memories... 13:12.890 --> 13:17.640 At the very least, this isn't somewhere we should look back on fondly. 13:18.520 --> 13:20.850 Did you hear? Okabe-san quit. 13:20.850 --> 13:22.370 Do you think... 13:22.370 --> 13:23.460 Yeah. 13:23.730 --> 13:25.510 How will she face the class? 13:25.510 --> 13:26.200 Right? 13:33.110 --> 13:34.370 Good morning. 13:41.930 --> 13:44.200 I never even said good morning. 13:44.610 --> 13:47.980 I just ignored her, as though she'd never existed to begin with. 13:48.590 --> 13:50.630 As though she deserved it. 13:53.990 --> 13:57.620 It hasn't changed a bit! 13:57.970 --> 13:59.830 That's it! That's it right there! 13:59.830 --> 14:01.670 That's Awajima! 14:01.670 --> 14:04.810 My granddaughter goes there, you know? 14:04.160 --> 14:05.140 Mom... 14:05.140 --> 14:06.880 My, that's impressive. 14:06.880 --> 14:09.790 They're having their cultural festival today! 14:09.790 --> 14:13.170 And this one here, she's my daughter! 14:13.170 --> 14:15.370 She graduated from Awajima too! 14:15.370 --> 14:18.150 Wow, you must have passed down the talent. 14:18.150 --> 14:20.900 Exactly! 14:20.280 --> 14:21.870 Please stop, Mom. 14:22.400 --> 14:25.260 I never graduated. 14:25.900 --> 14:27.520 I quit. 14:28.330 --> 14:29.960 I ran away. 14:34.600 --> 14:36.280 Sumiyoshi-san! 14:37.050 --> 14:40.550 Oh, no, you go by Ifukube-san now. 14:40.550 --> 14:43.680 Seeing you here, I was transported right back to those days! 14:46.290 --> 14:47.870 I came with my mother. 14:47.870 --> 14:51.000 She's running around campus, going on and on about old times. 14:49.170 --> 14:51.010 Squee 14:49.900 --> 14:51.010 Squee 14:52.820 --> 14:54.570 Please don't cry. 14:54.570 --> 14:55.510 I'm sorry... 14:56.270 --> 14:58.000 I'm just so happy. 14:58.450 --> 14:59.880 I'm so happy. 15:00.640 --> 15:03.360 I know you don't feel good about this place. 15:03.980 --> 15:06.270 I have my regrets too. 15:07.510 --> 15:10.380 I wish we could have graduated together. 15:10.840 --> 15:13.160 So I'm very happy today... 15:14.740 --> 15:17.500 Am I really allowed to get so nostalgic about this place? 15:19.320 --> 15:23.920 Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona, where we lay our scene, 15:23.920 --> 15:26.360 from ancient grudge break to new mutiny, 15:26.360 --> 15:29.120 where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. 15:29.880 --> 15:34.360 The two hours' traffic of our stage, the which if you with patient ears attend, 15:34.360 --> 15:36.050 what here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. 15:39.760 --> 15:41.060 Tell me, daughter Juliet, 15:41.720 --> 15:45.130 how stands your disposition to be married? 15:45.800 --> 15:49.650 I haven't thought about getting married yet. 15:49.650 --> 15:51.200 Is that really Juliet's line? 15:52.820 --> 15:54.580 Mine too, I guess. 15:55.820 --> 15:58.450 Juliet wouldn't know yet either, right? 15:58.450 --> 16:01.550 She wasn't even fourteen at the time. 16:02.080 --> 16:09.700 "Come Lammas-eve at night shall she be fourteen." 16:11.110 --> 16:14.610 Wow, did you memorize all your lines already? 16:17.020 --> 16:19.540 Let's make it a great performance. 16:19.540 --> 16:20.430 Yeah. 16:23.250 --> 16:25.790 I'm looking forward to it, Prince Takehara. 16:26.220 --> 16:28.770 Likewise, Princess Ryouko! 16:30.300 --> 16:34.010 That girl playing Romeo is so fantastic! 16:33.230 --> 16:36.120 Art thou not Romeo and a Montague? 16:34.440 --> 16:36.960 We need to remember her name. 16:36.120 --> 16:41.120 Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike. 16:41.120 --> 16:44.270 That was so good! So good! 16:42.840 --> 16:44.250 We're missing a sword! 16:43.510 --> 16:45.420 Someone go check! 16:43.950 --> 16:44.980 Where's the first aid box? 16:44.270 --> 16:45.880 Look, my hands are still shaking! 16:59.880 --> 17:01.890 You were beautiful up there. 17:02.360 --> 17:04.070 Kinue-chan! 17:04.850 --> 17:06.010 Grandma! 17:06.010 --> 17:07.930 That was fantastic! 17:07.930 --> 17:10.090 I'm so proud of you! 17:10.090 --> 17:13.650 I wanted you to be the first one to see. 17:13.650 --> 17:16.230 That's my line! 17:16.650 --> 17:19.380 Look at how you've grown! 17:17.910 --> 17:20.220 I'm gonna go to Awajima too! 17:22.510 --> 17:24.030 Sorry, Grandma. 17:24.030 --> 17:26.380 I gotta see my friend. 17:34.790 --> 17:36.040 Aren't you chilly? 17:37.120 --> 17:41.250 Maybe I'm still buzzing. I don't feel cold at all. 17:41.250 --> 17:42.300 That's not good. 17:43.910 --> 17:45.340 You'll catch a cold. 17:47.180 --> 17:49.440 Oh, thanks. 17:51.550 --> 17:53.980 You cut your hair. 17:53.980 --> 17:54.850 Yeah. 17:55.800 --> 17:57.960 Are you going into acting? 17:58.390 --> 17:59.260 Yeah. 17:59.700 --> 18:01.570 I'm hoping I can become an actor. 18:04.340 --> 18:07.930 And I want to do it for the long term. 18:10.390 --> 18:11.590 What about you? 18:13.520 --> 18:17.200 I still think you're wasting your talent. 18:20.420 --> 18:22.380 Awajima isn't everything. 18:24.760 --> 18:27.060 Are you really in a position to say that? 18:27.060 --> 18:28.220 I mean... 18:31.050 --> 18:32.810 That's what I really thought. 18:33.660 --> 18:36.810 I've been thinking about why I'm the only one who's here. 18:38.720 --> 18:39.960 This whole time. 18:41.340 --> 18:45.610 You and I were supposed to walk this path together. 18:46.250 --> 18:48.830 How did we end up apart? 18:49.920 --> 18:52.070 Still, that's just ego. 18:52.510 --> 18:55.970 I think I pitied you. 18:56.530 --> 18:59.990 I'm here with my family's support. 19:00.950 --> 19:03.140 And that's something you didn't have. 19:04.780 --> 19:07.700 I must have told myself that I was just lonely. 19:08.470 --> 19:09.760 I'm sorry. 19:11.370 --> 19:17.160 You sure are a good person with a sheltered upbringing. 19:17.160 --> 19:19.600 You think so? 19:20.980 --> 19:24.170 My emotions are a lot more vile. 19:24.170 --> 19:25.110 Really? 19:25.510 --> 19:26.650 Really. 19:27.740 --> 19:31.880 If you ask me, you're a far better person than me. 19:32.550 --> 19:38.420 The world I'm aiming for is full of all kinds of nasty creatures. 19:39.090 --> 19:41.060 Not that this one's much different, I guess. 19:43.170 --> 19:50.080 I think I would've been exhausted if I'd stuck around such a pure soul anyway. 19:50.880 --> 19:52.690 I'm glad I came, though. 19:53.560 --> 19:55.960 I've been prepared to say that this whole time. 19:57.330 --> 19:59.840 So long as I was here, I wanted to feel that way too. 20:00.940 --> 20:03.740 I didn't want to become any uglier. 20:05.630 --> 20:07.140 Kinue-san. 20:07.140 --> 20:08.280 Yes? 20:08.280 --> 20:11.450 I wanted to become you. 20:13.660 --> 20:15.190 Me? 20:15.190 --> 20:16.280 Yes. 20:16.770 --> 20:22.790 I didn't want to be like you. I wanted to be you. 20:24.550 --> 20:26.660 Well, that's rather... 20:29.860 --> 20:31.520 I'm glad I came today. 20:32.500 --> 20:34.460 I was only pretending to feel that way before. 20:34.460 --> 20:35.300 You were?! 20:36.080 --> 20:37.940 But I mean it this time. 20:42.210 --> 20:44.890 I finally got a weight off my chest. 20:48.960 --> 20:50.420 Or maybe not. 20:51.370 --> 20:53.450 Maybe it isn't that simple. 20:55.450 --> 20:59.060 But it's true that I feel a little better. 21:01.420 --> 21:05.840 I was always the one making myself suffer. 21:07.970 --> 21:11.590 At the bottom of the cesspool is a mirror. 21:12.850 --> 21:14.790 I can't wait to get this off my back. 21:15.910 --> 21:21.210 In pursuit of relief, we end up finding more suffering. 21:22.440 --> 21:23.700 Ibuki-san? 21:26.370 --> 21:27.730 I... 21:29.150 --> 21:30.710 It's me, Sumiyoshi. 21:31.730 --> 21:34.110 T-Takehara-senpai! 21:36.750 --> 21:37.710 Tabata-san. 21:37.710 --> 21:39.090 Please let me shake your hand! 21:39.090 --> 21:40.850 What's gotten into you? 21:40.850 --> 21:42.880 This is going to be you next year. 21:43.220 --> 21:44.370 But, but, but... 21:44.370 --> 21:46.870 It was really beautiful! 21:46.870 --> 21:48.000 Thank you. 21:48.420 --> 21:51.600 To be honest, I was a little worried... 21:52.360 --> 21:55.520 that the emotions might overwhelm me to tears. 21:56.890 --> 22:01.790 But that thought vanished once I was on stage. 22:04.920 --> 22:06.840 That's the kind of world this is. 22:09.820 --> 22:13.030 She heard a voice saying, "Such good memories..." 22:13.640 --> 22:16.600 And when she turned back, no one was there. 22:17.720 --> 22:20.790 I heard about Emi Okabe-san. 22:24.210 --> 22:28.430 Are you here in order to make up for your guilt? 22:30.310 --> 22:31.690 I can't say. 22:35.460 --> 22:37.690 I'm sorry to have put this all on you. 22:38.360 --> 22:40.190 I'm the one at fault. 22:41.220 --> 22:43.660 But such apologies don't mean anything. 22:44.300 --> 22:47.700 The one we should be apologizing to is no longer here. 22:48.450 --> 22:50.230 Horiuchi-san! 22:51.750 --> 22:54.960 Sorry, could you take this back? 22:56.760 --> 22:58.480 Enough is enough. 22:58.480 --> 23:00.310 This is so childish. 23:01.720 --> 23:04.490 I'm not going to turn around for some ghost's voice. 23:05.650 --> 23:08.250 It's not the most imaginative ghost story.