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All things must come to an end.

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Even the strongest will someday fall.

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Tragic.

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Truly tragic.

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But if we are to live, we must accept it.

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What is it?

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Even in a place like this,
flowers still bloom.

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The Northern Court in Kyoto,
the Southern Court in Yoshino...

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This was an era torn between two courts,
where civil war never ceased.

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Onwards.

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The people were starved for food,
for employment, for entertainment,

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and for life itself.

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Jinen Koji

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Kanze Troupe!

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Kan'ami!

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What's so interesting?

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Please, no issues today.

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Ishiya, what are you doing?

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Goro?

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You'll be seen.

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He's doing it again.

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Head in the clouds.

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Bird bones are extremely light.

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That is why they can fly.

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Horse's legs are very thin
so they can run fast.

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Birds are formed to fly.

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Horses are formed to run.

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So then what are humans formed for?

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Sir?

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Not for dance.

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I know that for sure.

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Dancing seems an unnatural act for humans.

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Yet people still pursue
what is unnatural for them.

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I don't understand.

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Sir? Sir, listen!

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It's your cue!

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Sir!

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Come on!

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Sir! Sir!

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Oniyasha!

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I speak to you, Jinen Koji.

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What is it?

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Well done!

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Let's go.

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I did it again!

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What's with that doll?

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Give it back!

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Sorry.

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I wasn't paying attention either.

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A turtle?

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I'm Kamekichi.

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I'm very sorry, Father.

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For what?

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Jinen Koji is Kanze Troupe's main attraction.

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If its popularity fades,
it might affect all of sarugaku theater.

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I apologize for disturbing the performance.

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As long as you understand.

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But...

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Hifumi. Toshigo.

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Yes?

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Back away.

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I enjoyed today's performance.

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Thank you.

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Come again.

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Kan'ami!

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Oh, you came again?

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The day is close when sarugaku theater
will overtake dengaku theater!

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Thanks to all of you.

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Share these with your troupe.

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Thank you.

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There's really no limit
to our leader's stamina, huh?

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The audience has been
growing bigger and bigger.

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Master, is it true we've gotten
requests to perform in the capital?

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It is.

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Wow.

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It's impressive how he grew the troupe
in a single generation

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Unfortunately...

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Oniyasha!

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Are you okay?

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Ishiya...

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He got mad at me again.

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Don't cry.

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Sob sob.

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I'll help pull too. You stand there.

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Ready?

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Never mind. I'll do it alone.

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What a crybaby.

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At least he doesn't cry
in front of his father.

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We're so close to a new future
for sarugaku, but...

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Oniyasha! Keep going!

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Have some dango when you're done!

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Have some dango when you're done!

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At least he's got a pretty face.

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At least he's got a pretty face.

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Aw, man.

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I wish I were handsome too.

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Did you just scoff at me?

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You did it again!

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We'll never finish.

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Yokai monsters must be adding more weight.

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Y-yokai?!

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I have heard that a lot of
evil spirits lurk around here...

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Ishiya, you can go home.

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Father told me to do this
on my own, anyway.

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Sir...

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Trying to slack off?

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Ack!

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You thought I haven't noticed
you sneaking off to town?

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Not the town!

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I just went down to the river...

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and I've been practicing!

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You can't go out without
your father's permission.

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But...

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It's just for a while!

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I've done nothing but read, write,
and practice since I was little!

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Why can't I have a little free time?

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Wait, are you helping out
only to keep an eye on me?

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Ack.

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Father's orders?

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Well, uhh...

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I'm sorry, sir!

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I've had enough.

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Everyone only thinks about Father.

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Father only thinks about his craft.

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He doesn't think of me as his son.

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Father isn't teaching his son his craft.

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He's watching to see if I understand
what a good performance is

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and what isn't.

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Straighten up!

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You are not formed to dance.

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That is why your performance is no good.

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I hate dance.

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I hate Father!

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I don't understand how Father thinks.

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Really?

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You understand him?

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I mean...

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I have an idea, but it's vague
and hazy and pretty fuzzy...

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I know!

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When our leader dances, the world changes.

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The world changes?

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The world... changes?

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I guess that doesn't make sense.

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Sorry.

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With my bad leg, I can't travel very far,

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let alone dance at all.

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But for some reason,

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when I see our leader dance,

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I feel like I can go anywhere.

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That's the power of his dance.

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I don't understand.

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Anyway! Just don't wander off without me!

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Understand?

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I understand.

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Good!

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Oniyasha?

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Where are you, sir?

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Sir?

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Sir?

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Oniyasha?

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Sir?

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Where are you?

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Oniyasha!

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Oniyasha!

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Again?

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Sir! Please come out!

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Please, sir! Where are you?

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Please, sir! Where are you?

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Forgive me, Ishiya.

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Oniyasha!

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Kogane!

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Your dad got you down again?

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You must be feeling down too.

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Another fight with your friend?

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I'm not friends with a guy like that!

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There's no life in his eyes.
He's a demon, like an oni.

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My father's an oni too!

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So your name is Oniyasha
because you're the son of an oni?

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That's not why!

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Haven't seen you lately.
How've you been?

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What about you?

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How's your brother who was
born from a gourd?

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Huh? Did I ever say that?

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You did!

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Before that, you said you came
from across the sea.

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And before that you found a talking rabbit.

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Hey!

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And you said you lived with
a pine tree yokai

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that was going to eat you soon.

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Did I say that?

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We're always talking nonsense, aren't we?

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I only do that because you do!

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But your nonsense tales aren't so bad!

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Really?

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Yeah, really!

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You got strong legs.

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Kogane...

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You look funny!

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Can't catch me!

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Stop!

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What's that screaming?

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The festival was canceled.

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The harvest was bad this year.

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It must be a wild crowd dancing.

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A wild crowd... dancing?

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Even if the big wars are over,
there's nothing to eat.

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People die so easily.

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Some steal to live,

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while some women sell their bodies.

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They're all sick of this world.

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Dancing gets it all out.

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What meaning is there in it?

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Whether they dance or not, people die.

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Dancing cannot change the world.

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I should get home.

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All right.

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People are not formed to dance.

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If they have food and shelter,
people can live without dance.

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Then why do people watch and dance?

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Why?

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I'm lost!

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Um, I'm sorry to interrupt,
but I've lost my way.

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That way.

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Thank you very much.

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Why were we born?

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Why were we born?

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Singing?

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To have fun and play?

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Why were we born?

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A shirabyoshi?

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Why were we born?

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To revel in joy?

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When I hear the voices of children playing

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Such a raspy voice.

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When I hear the voices of children playing

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When I hear the voices of children playing

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But...

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When I hear the voices of children playing

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my body begins to sway on its own

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Dance, dance, snail.

241
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If you will not dance,
then the cows and horses will kick you.

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It's good.

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Pardon me!

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That...

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That was "good"?

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I don't understand.

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What about it did I think was good?

248
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I don't understand at all.

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But if I could possess that "good"...

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If that day should ever come...

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Oniyasha, age 11.

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He would later become
the Noh actor, Zeami.

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He doesn't yet know he is headed to
an expanding world,

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wider than the rivers, the oceans,

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and even the sky.

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{\pos(704,316.8)}{\an7}1374 - Kyoto,

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{\pos(704,367.2)}{\an7}Northern Court

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{\pos(665.6,64.8)}{\an7}Graaa!

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{\pos(627.2,367.2)}{\an7}KANZE

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{\pos(345.6,216)}{\an7}Hey!

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{\pos(921.6,259.2)}{\an7}Graaa!

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{\pos(601.6,496.8)}{\an7}GOOD

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{\pos(806.4,187.2)}{\an7}Episode 1

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{\pos(627.2,410.4)}{\an7}Why Do People Dance?

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{\pos(870.4,626.4)}{\an7}Kazuto Mihara / Kodansha