Original subtitles

I got something!

It's pretty big!

Ragworms are tasty!

What?!

Muromi-san on the Shore

Episode 1 "Muromi-san on the Brink"

Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!

Stay still for a second!

Hurry and get it out!

Okay, okay...

Be gentle.

This'll be my first French kiss.

What?

I was just so surprised...

Seein's how I couldn't be more hungry, I went ahead

That's some accent...

and took a bite, and there was this hook.

Uh, so who are you?

Me?

I'm Muromi!

You just tell me your name like everything's normal...

You look like a mermaid.

Your tail's a mess, though.

Don't look at that.

So who're you?

Mukoujima Takurou.

Takkun!

Takkun?

So you're the one who caught me?

What'cha gonna do now?

It's not like I can do...

Hey, don't eat my ragworms!

Come on? What's the problem?

It's not like you'll run out.

I just did!

You know, they always say a fish will run away

if you don't keep giving her bait.

Actually, I'd kind of like you to go away about now.

Takkun, you jerk.

Come on, all my bait is gone now.

I guess I'll use a lure.

I wanted to fetch some more starfish, but there's not enough...

I need someone to help me.

You too can be a star if you help me get starfish!

How was that?!

Annoying...

So what are you going to do with the starfish, anyway?

What?

You know, they're starfish...

Can you do anything?

I'm just a starfish.

Uh...

Shuriken!

Ow...

If you had no plan, you didn't have to force a joke in.

That must have been terrible.

I didn't think you wanted to hear more!

You know, we kind of do look like shuriken!

Fishing is boring, ya know?

Knock it off already!

Let's have fun!

How can you call someone else's hobby not fun?

Why not go visit someone else?

Oh, I got something!

Hey, what are you doing?!

My boobs fell out there! I can't believe you!

Release!

I feel violated...

I can't really get it out...

You're such a tease.

How?

What's that, anyway?

This lure?

What's a lure?

It's fake bait.

You use it to get fish to bite.

I see...

Chomp!

Ow! Ow! Ow!

You knew there was a hook on it and you bit anyway.

Are you a useless black bass or something?

I knew it was a trap and I still fell for it.

I'm a failure of a woman.

You're like a thirty-something who's spent

all her money on host clubs.

Pull yourself together. You're not a kid anymore.

Complaining to starfish isn't going to do you any good.

Sigh.

Muromi-san!

Takkun!

Shoo! Shoo!

He's still after me!

Scary! Seagulls are scary!

Do they see you as a small fish?

I-If they attack again, I'll shoo them away for you,

so could you get off me?

You're not lying?

Thank god you're a man! I can count on you!

Come on, let go!

You're pretty low on the food chain, I guess.

You're cut where the birds pecked you.

Want me to put on some antibacterial ointment?

Why do you have that with you?

Sometimes I get stabbed by the fishing hooks or fish teeth, stuff like that.

I'm not sure if it'll work on a mermaid, but...

It's better than just leaving you be.

Don't touch me someplace weird when you're rubbing it on.

Put it on yourself!

Abeshi!

Yes!

Yes!

Yes!

Oh yeah, I have to thank you for saving me.

Is there anything you want?

You mean repaying the guy who saved you, like in fairy tales?

Like the crane or turtle?

You're not going to take me to the underwater castle, Ryuuguujou, are you?

You want me to take you?

It really exists? The Ryuuguujou?

Nah, it doesn't.

Of course it doesn't exist!

Damn it, Muromi-san actually existing is already enough of a fairy tale.

You're talking about fairy tales here!

I just don't know what's going on anymore.

Yeah, it couldn't exist...

The Ryuuguujou's been gone for a long time.

There's only a stone memorial left now.

So there was one!

There's a AEOM Mall nearby.

Ryuuguujou Memorial

The AEOM Group's opening stores on the bottom of the sea?!

There's a sale today!

How about I buy everyone matching swimsuits?

They'll be sold out of everything if I don't get there soon.

I wonder if alcohol is on sale, too?

They seem to have urban development under control, too!

I don't know what's going on anymore!

Maybe I should go there again. It's been a while.

That cry... Is it another seagull?!

She's got a lot of predators to worry about.

There are a lot of jellyfish here.

Now there's not going to be any fish.

I'm going numb!

I guess there's one.

Wait, Muromi-san!

If you're going numb, that means they're shooting poison into you!

Huh? Really?

No wonder I thought I hurt all over for a second there.

They sure like eating.

Well, their bodies are almost all stomach.

What the hell?

So you're saying they wanted to eat me?

I was really starting to like that pleasurable pain thing going on.

You're not affected by jellyfish poison, Muromi-san?

Hm, I guess it depends on how much I get hit with, but...

Oh yeah.

Ow...

When I was all tangled up with a Chironex jellyfish in Okinawa,

I was knocking on Heaven's door in several ways, if you get my drift.

Kids, do not try this at home. You will die.

So it doesn't affect you, then.

You guys are lucky.

You can just float there and get food.

I think you have it pretty easy too, though.

Oh yeah, there were a bunch of jellyfish

that came to Japan not too long ago and it was a mess.

Was that really because of global warming?

Do you know anything?

Pfft, global warming?

You hear about global warming a lot lately, but I'm not sure.

Climate changes all the time, ya know?

You think so?

You know the Earth has a history of being destroyed and being recreated.

It wasn't too long ago that the dinosaurs were reigning over the Earth.

When a meteor fell and the ice age came, they disappeared in an instant.

There was a global flood, too.

Species that couldn't adapt met natural selection!

W-Wait a second...

Muromi-san, you've been alive since the Cretaceous and Jurassic Periods?!

That's rude!

It's not like I wouldn't know the history of the Earth too.

Could you not treat me like some middle-aged woman?

Sorry, but does a 9-digit age qualify as "middle-aged"?

Muromi-san, who did you learn history from anyway?

Your mom or something?

Poseidon.

So now we have the name of the Greek god of the sea.

It's not like I know everything.

I was just taught what happened before I was born at school.

School?

You don't know what happened before you were born either, right?

Fine. I'm sorry I asked.

So when were you born anyway, Muromi—

Jellyfish Strike!

Jellyfish Strike!!!

Ow!

Hmph. No manners at all.

You shouldn't ask a woman her age.

Fine. This guy with no manners will leave you be, then.

Wait, Takkun!

Stop by again.

Muromi-san's so difficult,

right?

Yeah...

We've got good weather again today.

Yeah.

Hey Takkun, I've got something to ask of you.

Of me?

You're the only one I can ask stuff like this...

Well, if it's something I can do...

What is it?

I... Uh...

You know...

Fertilize these?

Hell no!

To be continued...

Takkun, are you leaving already? Don't go!

I want to come with you.

Muromi-san...

I thought guys liked stuff like that?

No, actually it turns them off.

That's strange.

That's what it said in the May 1752 Edition of XXX.

Next Time "Muromi-san and the Legendary Sea Creatures"

They've got XXX in the sea?

Sure do!

All of XXX?