Original subtitles

Congratulations. It's a draft notice.

What's wrong?

It could be peritonitis.

Is that a serious illness?

In the worst case...

- Manpei-san? - Hang in there!

Manpuku

♫Marumatteru senakani ni morai naki ♫I get infectious weeping looking at your stooped shoulders

I Will Find It for You!

Week 3

♫Haji datte issho ni ♫We'll share the humiliation too

♫Hikoukigumo bonyari nagamu ♫Gazing absentmindedly at contrails

♫Kokoro kokoni arazu ♫Here in body, but not in spirit

♫Nenkan totaru moshi shitara ♫If I was to calculate an annual total

♫Tsukiau watashi sugoi? ♫Aren't I amazing for keeping you company?

♫Toboketeru mayuge ni morai warai ♫ I get infectious laughter looking at your comical eyebrows

♫Tere datta nandatte ♫Be it embarrassment or whatever

♫Morai naki morai warai morai ikari ♫Infectious weeping, infectious laughter, infectious anger

♫Moraippaji don to koi! ♫Infectious embarrassment. Bring them on!

♫Seiten mo donten mo hekireki mo ♫Sunny days, cloudy days, thunderous days too

Please save Manpei-san...

I'll go do the ohyakudo mairi again tomorrow.

Thanks, Mom. For doing that for Manpei-san.

I'm doing it for you.

I'm going to bed now.

Fukuko.

Fukuko.

Manpei-san?

The worst is over now.

- It's over? - Really?

He should be fine now.

Manpei-san.

However, he should rest in bed for a while.

- How long is for a while? - One or two months.

Thank you, Doctor.

Your ohyakudo mairi must have worked.

That's right. Mom went and did ohyakudo mairi for you, Manpei-san.

I told you that was... Well, I guess I'm old-fashioned.

Manpei-chan.

We heard he woke up. Is it true?

- Mister! - Mister!

- Thank you. - Huh?

Thank you.

Where's Mother?

She's sleeping.

Ah... nothing tastes better than rice.

It's the first time I've had rice in a while.

Unlike Osaka, we can get rice here.

- Thank you. - Sure.

What's the matter?

Your life was saved, but you don't look too happy.

I had a dream before I woke up.

A dream?

I was standing on a bank of a river and was trying to cross that river.

Who was?

I was.

Was that the River of Three Crossings?

Then I saw Mother standing on the opposite bank.

Your mother?

No... Fukuko's mother.

What?

"Don't come this way," she chided me...

"Yes," I replied, and when I turned around, I woke up.

Mom was on the other side of the River of Three Crossings?

Actually, I don't know if that was the River of Three Crossings or not.

That was definitely the River of Three Crossings.

So was that Mother who saved me after all?

I've been wondering if I should thank her.

No...I don't think you should. Definitely!

Really?

Is that why you couldn't look happy?

Yeah...

What!

You're so weird.

Stop sighing, Mom.

- But... - There's nothing we can do about it.

A few days after going down with peritonitis,

Manpei-san, who got his second draft notice, enlisted.

But again, he was sent home on the same day.

Manpei-san.

Shall we go outside for a while?

Let's go take a walk.

It's the best time of the year, isn't it?

Yes, it is.

It doesn't seem possible that Japan's at war.

Manpei-chan.

Are you all right now?

- Yes. - He's fine.

Manpei-san, I'm glad to see you're all well.

Thank you.

- Mister! - It's Mister!

- Mister! - Mister!

Are you all well now?

He is. But he doesn't have much energy yet.

That's what's called convalescing.

I hope you get well soon.

- Let's go catch fish again. - Let's do it again, Mister.

Yes, let's.

Over there!

Everyone, take cover~!

Is everyone all right?

Raise your head!

It's all right now.

- Is everyone all right? - Are you all right?

- Where's Goro? - Goro?

- Goro! - Goro-kun!

Here I am.

Are you all right? Ah~ thank goodness.

What was that?! Fukuko!

The U.S. Forces' fighter plane!

Manpei-san?

- Mister! - Did you get shot?

- Are you hurt? - What's wrong!

Damn! Damn~!

Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit~!

Manpei-san...

What's the matter?

I'm pathetic... Damn! I'm pathetic!

Mother... I'm sorry.

Fukuko... forgive me!

I can't do anything... I can't do anything!

About what?

For getting a disease like that... For being sickly like this...

For getting the draft notice, but again...

Everyone's working for the country, but I...!

Shit~!

Stop thinking like that!

Even if you don't go to war, there are things you can do for the country, I'm sure.

I want Manpei-san to be alive.

No matter what anyone says, I want you to live!

You got sick. There's nothing you can do about that.

Just as Fukuko said,

there are other things you can do for the country.

- That's right! - That's right, Manpei-chan.

That's right, Mister.

Let's go home, Manpei-san.

Something I can do...

Don't worry.

I will find it for you.

You're an inventor, aren't you?

Can't you come up with something that everyone would want?

Let me stay here. I'll do anything.

It's a thief. Come out! Come out!

Long time no see!