Sakuya | I wonder what this company-wide meeting is going to be about? |
Masumi | Who knows. |
Banri | .... |
Juza | .... |
Banri | Sit over there. I’m sick of being close to you in our room. |
Juza | Then you go over there. |
Banri | Aaah? |
Taichi | Hey, hey! Ban-chan! Let's sit over there~! |
Omi | Juza, you come this way. |
Banri | .... |
Juza | .... |
Itaru | Isn't this our first time meeting across troupes? |
Citron | I bet we're going to play a bingo game! |
Itaru | I doubt it.... |
Citron | I'm going to aim to win the deserted island! |
Itaru | That’s too big of a scale. |
Misumi | Lots of people~. |
Kazunari | Everyone’s here—does that mean this is an Autumn Troupe welcome meeting? |
Muku | But we did one yesterday night? |
Kazunari | It's daytime, so maybe it’s a takoyaki party! |
Izumi | (Sakyo-san said he wanted to hold a company-wide meaning regarding the regulations of the troupe, but... I wonder what he means by regulations.) |
Sakyo | ....Is everyone here? Then let's begin. |
| So, upon joining this troupe, I have something to say to you all. —Sakoda. |
Sakoda | Yessir! |
Izumi | (What's with that paper....) |
Omi | The new slogan of MANKAI Company...? |
Citron | Miso・Konnyaku・Celery Lifestyle....? |
Sakyo | Simple・Frugal・Saving Lifestyle. |
Sakoda | Listen up! This is the slogan aniki made! Written by me, Sakoda Ken! |
Kazunari | Why so suddenly? |
Muku | I wonder if we’re on a tight budget? |
Sakyo | First. Each troupe gets 20 minutes to bathe. |
Sakuya | Eh!? 20 minutes!? |
Itaru | What is this, the military..... |
Masumi | I can't bathe with five people. I'll bathe with Director. |
Izumi | Rejected! |
Sakyo | Rejected. |
| Next. Lights will be out at 10 PM. I'll be switching off the circuit breaker, so assume you can’t use electricity from then on. |
Itaru | Seriously? There goes my late-night anime. |
Kazunari | That’s way too early!! |
Sakyo | And then... et cetera, et cetera.... we're saving here and there... cutting this and that..... |
Izumi | (His saving plans are incredibly detailed....!) |
| Isn't this going to be impossible.....? |
Kazunari | Seriously, it’s impossible! |
Itaru | This is tyranny. |
Misumi | This is troublesome~. |
Sakyo | Shut up! |
| Do you know how much the electricity, water, and heating bills cost for this dorm!? |
Izumi | (Is it that much?) |
| Manager, how much is it? |
Manager | ....I wonder? |
Izumi | You don't know!? |
Manager | I've never paid the bills, but one of the seven mysteries of this dorm is that we've never been charged for them! |
Izumi | No, you shouldn’t leave that as a mystery!? |
Sakyo | ....Check in on it immediately. |
Omi | Normally, they'd stop the water and electricity if we didn't pay the bills. |
Izumi | Yeah. |
| (Does this mean someone has been paying our bills for us...?) |
Sakyo | Let me remind you. This company owes my group ten million yen. |
| If you can't pay us back by the deadline, we'll crush this troupe without a second thought. You haven’t forgotten that, right? |
Manager | Eeeeh!? But, that was before Furuichi-san joined the troupe... Now that we're teammates, doesn't that nullify our debts.... |
Sakyo | Like hell that’d happen! |
Izumi | (I thought maybe he’d make things a bit easier on us, but I guess I was too hopeful....) |
Omi | Is there still a lot of debt left to pay? |
Sakyo | The spring and summer performances helped a little, but we still have a long way to go. |
| How exactly do you plan on repaying the rest of your debts? Director-san, Manager Matsukawa, do you have any ideas? |
Izumi | U, ummm... |
| (The only thing on my mind was completing all the performances up to the Winter Troupe....!) |
Manager | The Fleur Award! |
Izumi | Eh? |
Manager | It's the greatest theatre award in Japan, given to the best show that year! Its prize is ten million yen—enough money to repay all our debts! |
Sakyo | How do you expect this run-down company to get that award!? Even the first generation only made it to the nomination. |
Izumi | Even the first generation... |
| (Considering our current skill level, we probably won’t even be nominated....) |
Itaru | No-win game. |
Manager | Oh no... Then what should we do? |
Sakyo | Nation-wide performances. |
Izumi | Nation-wide performances? |
Sakyo | We’ll make a profit by hosting MANKAI Company’s first performances for each season at different local theatres across the country. |
Izumi | Ah, I see. That way, when one troupe is performing at MANKAI Theatre, the other troupes can perform at other locations. |
Kazunari | Wow! A vacation across the country! I'm so hype~! |
Citron | We can toil! |
Itaru | Tour, yeah. |
Manager | That’s an idea~! The first generation did the same thing! |
Sakyo | Aside from than that, we should hold fan events, and sell goods, because those are likely to generate profits. |
| More specifically.... et cetera, et cetera. |
Izumi | (Incredible. He's already thinking about goods and fan meetings in such detail.....) |
Manager | Wow~! Our financial adviser and manager is incredible, as expected! So reliable! |
Sakyo | Since when was I. |
Manager | Eh? That's what he is, right, Director? |
Izumi | Eh? Umm, yes. |
Sakyo | Geez.... |
Izumi | (His job is being forced onto him the same way mine was....) |
Sakyo | Well, putting aside debts and whatnot, I do think we should aim for it. |
Izumi | For what? |
Sakyo | The Fleur Award. It’s a level your father couldn't reach. |
Izumi | (Now that he mentions it, I recall getting a phone call from father when I was in middle school about a nomination for the Fleur Award....) |
| (I’d never heard him sound so excited. It really must be an amazing award.) |
| (Though in the end, he disappeared the very next year....) |
Manager | In Veludo Town, rumor is that GOD-za, led by Kamikizaka Reni, is most likely to win the next Fleur award. |
Yuki | GOD-za... the place with that nasty guy, huh. |
Kazunari | Let's aim to be even better than GOD-za! |
Citron | Yeah—! |
Misumi | Yeah—! |
Omi | Debts, huh... then we’ve got to do our best too, Autumn Troupe. |
Juza | Yeah. |
Banri | Well, it'll work out somehow. |
Taichi | ...... |
Sakyo | Well, our first goal is to pull off Autumn and Winter Troupe’s performances. |
Izumi | You’re right... |
| (The Fleur Award comes way after that...!) |