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「#06」
After the crazy finish between ETU and Tokyo Victory, the stage is changed to the Japan Football League press conference. However, the excitement didn’t drop much as Tatsumi used ETU’s low 15th (out of 18) standing last season to place pressure on the other coaches, suggesting they would be put to shame if they lost to his team. With the way he stated so matter-of-factly that his position is ideal due to the lack of expectations, I love how Tatsumi silenced the media’s laughter by adding that he’ll help a weak club like ETU take out some of the big ones to make soccer in Japan interesting again. Not only was no one laughing at that point, most of the other coaches, including Tokyo Victory’s Hiraizumi (Arimoto Yoshitaka), saw Tatsumi as nothing more than a young, naive, and arrogant coach who didn’t even bother to dress up for the occasion. The best part of that though was how Tatsumi remained confident in the face of all of them, and no one could really doubt he had the potential to do so given ETU’s preseason match against Tokyo Victory. I’d say he made an enemy out of almost all his opposition, but it sure as hell set the tone for the rest of the series.
For one, Tatsumi didn’t flinch in the face of rank 2 Osaka Gunners’ coach Dulfer and instead made him acknowledge his abilities as a coach with a mere handshake. He also didn’t think much of one of ETU’s previous coaches, Fuwa (Omoro Masayuki), who was in charge of the team when it dropped two divisions and later left to manage Nagoya Gran Palace. With his unshakable resolve, it was nice to see Tatsumi continue to draw in the attention of everyone else in one way or another, including the manager of the Japanese national team, Blanc. It was pretty befitting of Tatsumi’s nonchalant personality to not bother learning the names of people he doesn’t expect to cross paths with — even when he’s the biggest name in the country for his occupation — but what their friendly interactions really emphasized is that Tatsumi is at least national-level caliber when it comes to managing soccer teams. Like seriously, who cares what all the other old coach farts think when the head honcho is on Tatsumi’s side.
As far as character introductions go, freelance writer Fujisawa Katsura (Oka Hiroe) should provide an interesting perspective from the press side of things, which is an angle I wasn’t expecting to see in this series. In any case, I love how the story got right back into things with a season opener against last year’s rank 6 Javelin Iwata team, led by Kurashige (Kojima Toshihiko). Known as a sly and cunning coach, he already got the jump on ETU with his team scoring on a cross, but I wouldn’t count Tatsumi out by any stretch of the imagination when he spent a whole night studying video on the opposition and the game’s just started.
* There was a fair bit of dialogue in other languages this episodes (e.g. Dutch, French), so it was interesting hearing some of Seki Tomokazu‘s current English speaking skills (…or lack thereof).
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The Dutch voice actor was horrible. At least the Dutch was correct, though (I’m looking at you, Samurai Champloo)
Oh the other guy was talking Dutch too? I didn’t even notice because his Dutch was so horrible 🙁
I realise I’m asking too much though D:
I was actually quite favorably impressed with how the languages were handled. The people who were dutch or french were played by dutch or french voice actors (or people who are at least fluent, which is quite a difference to other animes), while the translators probably have been played by Japanese (that’s what I’m assuming given the truly awful accent).
And the Frenchman’s English had strong French accent too. LOL
For a losing team the fans do indeed have massive funds.
The national manager looks so funny I have seen that character design somewhere else; can’t place it now. I love the kids trying to become real fans by memorizing weird facts about the team members.
Didn’t Samurai Champloo have PERFECT Belgium-speaking characters? 😛
The french seemed pretty good… I think lol
Tatsumi is the Special One
Must say the Dutch voicing was rather poorly :p I’m dutch myself and I barely made anything out of it. Great ep, though it looks like ETU will be losing this match 🙁
lol @ everyone commenting on the different languages :b the french seemed okay but the english was pretty painful, heh. can’t wait for the continuation of the match!
another great episode, I like how they gave us many things in the same episode. because I thought first that they will show only the conference…
I didn’t get why did Tatsumi use japanese when talking with the frenchman (because tatsumi used english with him sometimes). maybe the french manager understands a little japanese but can’t speak it…?