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Who the heck are you?!

Hey! Who are you?!

The money!

The women!

The skills!

The fame!

I got it all on my own!

You slacked off!

It's your own damn fault!

It's your damn fault

you never made a name for yourself, isn't it?!

If I don't become something, I'll be too bored to keep living...

What do you mean, "something"?

I didn't know anything about her.

I barely recalled speaking to her.

All I knew was that...

she was a southpaw.

CONGRATULATIONS ON NATIONALS: TABLE TENNIS, TENNIS, BASEBALL, GO & SHOGI

I wonder if the guys on the baseball team and stuff are popular.

I wonder if their parents tell them to quit

KOICHI ASAKURA (17)

because it won't benefit their futures...

Asakura-kun?

Oh, uh...

SAYURI KATO (17)

I'm Sayuri Kato.

Come to think of it, aren't you in the art club too, Asakura-kun?

Hmm... Well, for now.

I'm a little surprised.

You don't seem like the artsy type.

You neither, Kato-san.

You haven't been coming to club lately, have you?

No, I've been busy preparing for exams.

I like drawing,

but there're so few jobs where you can put that to use.

And there's no way you can make a living as a painter, you know?

Are you still attending the art club, Asakura-kun?

Well, occasionally...

I'm thinking of becoming a designer.

A designer?

You know, a graphic designer.

Like... The person who makes posters and stuff.

It's like a proper academic discipline,

and you can become one if you study.

Even if you don't have one major talent,

if you multiply the few decent talents you've got...

I think you can probably make a decent living.

You're more mature than I thought, Asakura-kun.

Huh?

Yamane-kun from the baseball club just asked me out.

Why are you late?!

O-Oh, is that right?

I'm sorry, sir!

He said I should go out with him because he's going pro once he graduates.

Are you even up to this?!

I'm sorry, sir!

And?

I laughed.

YAMANAKA BOOKSTORE

Welcome!

I'll take this, please.

You're into this too? The arts?

The arts?

No, no... I'm into design.

Thank you as always.

Eren-chan!

Van Gogh's good...

Damn, Van Gogh...

You piss me off.

Come on, Eren-chan.

YAMANAKA BOOKSTORE TOSHIMASA YAMANAKA

No reading on the clock, all right?

Here. Please go restock.

A kid from your school was here just now.

A boy. He bought some kind of art magazine.

Are the arts in vogue at your school or something?

Not really.

Eren-chan...

EREN YAMAGISHI (17)

You're eating your hair again.

I want to make a bookshelf.

Could you spray it all black for me?

Are all the shelves in the store handmade?

Sure are. DIY Sundays are nice.

Try it sometime, Eren-chan.

It just feels great to fully immerse yourself in making something.

You ever have moments like that?

Can't say I do.

I told him I didn't need these, jeez...

Will water get this out?

Eren?

Eren.

Eren!

AREN YAMAGISHI

You're eating your hair again.

Have you been drawing this whole time?

Yep.

Without eating your meal?

EREN, MICROWAVE THESE BEFORE YOU EAT THEM OKAY? —MOM

Yep.

EREN, MICROWAVE THESE BEFORE YOU EAT THEM, OKAY? —MOM

Eren...

What do you think your left hand is for?

Normally, you eat with it, you do your studies with it,

and you hold the hand of someone you love with it, right?

But you know, once in a great while...

Once in a truly great while,

someone's born with the sole purpose to draw with it.

Your left hand is very special...

Unlike your dad's.

Dad?

Why are you crying?

My hand wasn't like that.

A COLLABORATIVE WORK BY TEN UP-AND-COMING YOUNG ARTISTS

You gotta be kiddin' me...

You gotta be kiddin' me.

You gotta be kiddin' me!

You suck!

JAPANESE ART DIRECTORS 100

ARTISTIC INNOVATION VOL. 18: OIL PAINTING WINDOW TO THE ARTS 7 & 4

Koichi!

What a lovely drawing!

Great job!

Yeah!

This says you got the "Great Job" award.

Good for you.

I'll draw lots and lots more!

Hey, Koichi.

Drawing pictures again, I see.

High school entrance exams are coming up!

Shut up...

I am studying.

ARTISTIC INNOVATION VOL. 19: SCULPTURE

These drawings will do you no good in the fu—

I know that!

I know that...

Koichi, don't you need to go to art club?

Don't you have to get into an art school to be a designer?

But no one's better than me.

There're bound to be better artists at the art universities in Tokyo.

Better than me? I doubt that.

It's fine. I'm not going to be an artist anyway.

It'd be nice to be a designer at an ad agency.

I'll go to an art school, get hired at an ad agency,

and then marry a gravure idol.

You're so stupid.

Koichi! Kato-san!

Takeyama?

Fujino-sensei says to come to the art room.

Listen, it's not that I suspect any of you.

But lately, there've been strange pranks going on in the neighborhood.

And apparently, the culprit was wearing our school uniform.

But why is the art club being...

Well, the thing is...

Someone left scribbles.

Scribbles?

Whoa.

Wow.

This is good.

Koichi?

It's graffiti.

The Basquiat... of Yokohama.

Graffiti is an art movement that really took off in America.

It's mostly considered vandalism, though.

You never heard of Keith Haring or Basquiat?

Huh...

What do you mean, "huh"?! You should know these!

Anyway, the thing with graffiti is that there's an unwritten rule

where only a better artist can paint over someone else's work.

A COLLABORATIVE WORK BY A TEN UP-AND-COMING YOUNG ARTISTS

So the fact that our infamous scribbler, the Basquiat of Yokohama,

tagged the walls of this art museum means that...

They think their art is better than what's in the museum?

That's exactly what it means.

The world sure is full of strange people.

Wh-What?

I'll spray something too.

What?

I'll spray a picture that'll make them so jealous,

it'll lure them out to spray over it!

What kind of plan is that?

EXTREMELY FLAMMABLE

Actually, I already bought the supplies for it.

Why go to all that trouble?

I really felt the pressure when I saw what they'd painted.

Because I thought I was the best in the school, you know?

Knowing there's someone around who can paint like that...

I'm feeling super pressured.

His brain's filled with shonen manga.

All right! I'll help you out.

But first, let's discuss this with Fujino-sensei.

If we do it without permission, it'll cause a fuss.

You're right!

Try not to get too fired up, okay?

I'm not a protagonist.

I'M NOT A PROTAGONIST

Since childhood, I've handled everything flawlessly and effortlessly.

I'm able to perform above expectations without putting in any extra work.

When you're average, you start to realize...

just how much better off or worse off some people are.

Yeah, we should really use a motif that packs a punch.

How about a sunflower?

Oh, that's a great idea!

Huh... Then wanna put it here?

A misguided dream is tragic, you know?

How about a little higher?

Koichi, I really love your childish side.

Like this, right?!

Yeah, yeah! Looking good!

I think it's cute.

But you know...

That's not what's good about you.

Hey, let's go check out the storehouse painting later.

What do you mean?

What, you don't know?

The guys in the art club are painting a picture on the storehouse wall.

Huh? Who cares?

But I heard they're actually pretty good.

Uh-huh. Isn't this by whoever scribbled on the art museum?

Talk about lame.

Painting more today?

Of course I am!

I'll keep repainting it until the Basquiat of Yokohama comes out!

Jeez, you just never learn, do you?

But I'm kind of glad. You're finally making art again.

Preparing for art school exams comes next, right?

Sayuri...

Wh-What?

I bet you're Basquiat, aren't you?

You did all this just to get me fired up.

That's right. I'm the infamous Basquiat.

Yeah, right. As if.

Say, maybe I'll go to art school too...

I want to go to the same one you do, Koichi.

What are you saying?

Don't be ridiculous.

You can't decide that capriciously.

You have other things you want to do, don't you?

What? But...

I...

Oh, Eren...

She's a childhood friend of mine.

She lives close by and...

Huh? Hey...

Don't worry about it. She's just shy.

I guess people really are getting into the arts, huh?

They're even painting a big mural at your school, Eren-chan.

I heard it's pretty good.

Man! We really made a masterpiece, didn't we?!

Even Basquiat won't keep quiet about this one!

Right, Sayuri?!

Hmm? Yeah, you're right.

Koichi, that isn't what's good about you.

What's up with that?

Hey, wouldn't it be better to make the colors a little more pop and fancy?

You'll go to art school, become a designer,

You're right!

Takeyama, you're on a roll!

get a few good jobs here and there, and...

A Keith Haring-style would work here too!

Oh, crap! I left my phone at the storehouse.

Ya goof.

Imma go and get it!

I'll go with you...

Nah, it's all good. You guys go on home.

A dream that size is just right for me.

It's far better than an idiot trying to get into the big leagues.

Koichi...

You must already know...

that we don't live dramatic enough lives to be the protagonists.

Are you calling Koichi?

Yeah. I figure he should be there by now.

It's dark, so I thought this would help.

You're good.

Aren't I?

Who's here at this hour?

If only I could go back to that day during high school...

Would I...

have chosen a different future?

Please...

I haven't been able to go anywhere since.

I can't move forward or backward.

It's just ahead...

If it's really that great,

please let me just forget about the arts!

It sucks.

Seriously... This just sucks.

It's like it's embodying the "art is an explosion" quote.

It's nothing more than sloppy imagery.

Is it meant to be abstract? Or is it terrible representational art?

Seriously, what is this?!

The sunrise?! The sunset?!

Even the colors are so dull...

ART CLUB SAYURI

You're...

Can't say it?

That I'm "the Basquiat of Yokohama."

You wanted to find the infamous scribbler and become a hero, right?

Why not call a teacher, or even the police?

N-No, you're wrong! That's not what I...

Then what the hell is that?!

What's so freakin' fun about doing something so damn annoying?!

It's an eyesore...

What the hell?

I-I...

want to get better...

I'm going to get better.

Better than you!

I saw your art and got fired up...

I couldn't believe someone my age could be that good...

That's why I—

You're obnoxious!

Don't go and get yourself all hyped up.

jerk-off.

You've got no taste.

Hopelessly so.

Just give up.

Welcome home.

Mom, you're home early today.

MISATO YAMAGISHI

I haven't made dinner yet.

Sorry.

You can do it after you relax a bit.

You must be tired from work too, Eren.

How's the job going?

It's fine.

How about school? Are you having fun?

It's fine.

All done.

What are you doing after you graduate?

I've told you before that I'm going to work.

Eren...

If you still want to do art,

why don't you try for art school?

Um... If it's about the money, we're fine.

I have some saved up.

Okay?

Back then...

Mom!

I'm fine already.

I'm going to bed.

Eren, what a lovely drawing.

Um...

The kitty cat... It's sleeping.

I wonder why...

It's sleeping even though its eyes are open.

How can I draw it so it looks like it's awake?

Mom... I want to get better at drawing.

Better than anyone.

Mom... I'm sorry.

But I'm not a kid anymore.

Why?

What makes you think I could be the only one drawing

with the money we inherited from dad after he died?

All right, everyone, gather around!

Why didn't you come to morning practice?

My bad. I couldn't get out of bed.

Jeez, man.

Oh, the art club painted another picture on the warehouse.

Again?

It's pretty good.

It's like a person's face.

Huh. Maybe I'll swing by for a bit.

A face?

Wasn't it a sunrise or a sunset?

Did he redo it after that?

Were you up all night painting?

So sleepy...

I can't believe you.

It's because she said some stuff that really stirred me up...

I won't mention it to Sayuri.

She's her childhood friend, after all.

I kinda just suddenly got the urge to—

Huh?

E-Eren?!

I'm gonna kill you!

You seriously piss me off!

Don't go around doing shitty scribbles just for kicks and getting off on it!

It wasn't for kicks!

I'm serious... I'm painting with all I've got!

You liar!

I'm not lying!

I've decided to become a designer.

How many can you name?

What?

Designers. How many can you name?

Can you name even ten?

I'm just talking the ones who made it.

As for the rest...

the other art students... How many are there?

Ten thousand people?

And what about those trying to get into art school?

Ten times that number?

There are a hundred thousand people chasing that dream,

but only one out of that hundred thousand makes it.

That's the reality.

Even if the unworthy stake their lives on the dream, only misery awaits.

Both for them and the people around them!

You don't know that.

You won't know unless you try!

If we gave up every time someone said something was impossible,

then no one would ever do anything at all!

I'm... going to become something!

What do you mean, "something"?

Something, damn it!

I want to become something!

I saw your painting, and I wanted to be something!

It made me think I have to become something too!

I'm asking what the hell that "something" is!

I don't know!

But... If...

If I don't become something, I'll be too bored to keep living...

Eren, move away from Koichi.

Eren... Just you watch...

I'm gonna do it... I'll become something!

EPISODE 1: THE BASQUIAT OF YOKOHAMA

Translation\h\h\h\h\h\hYukari Murase-Louden

{Timing\h\h\h\h\h\h} Editing\h\h\h\h\h\hRiley Dalton

Quality Control\h\h\h\h\h\hSMR Translation Check\h\h\h\h\h\hRei Miyasaka