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Happy Birthday Sawamura Eijun

An explanation… To keep my brain from rusting I started a project to translate the drama tracks that came with the character song CDs and other stuff relating to Daiya no Ace (because I love them and they’re all hilarious). My disclaimer - I am not a native speaker of Japanese, but I will do my best!

Character Song CD 03: Kominato Haruichi Drama Track 01 Featuring Haruichi, Ryousuke and Eijun

Scene: It’s (probably) dark at the back of the dorms. In any case, Ryousuke has summoned his brother to this place for a private chat. Frankly, being summoned anywhere alone by Ryousuke is pretty ominous, but Haruichi’s probably immune. A discussion between brothers into which Eijun stumbles and as a result, becomes the focus of Ryousuke’s latest amusement.

H: What is it?

Ace of the Diamond/Daiya no Ace by Terajima Yuuji has amazing art. While dynamic, the artist doesn’t sacrifice clarity, and that’s part of what makes it an addictive, suspenseful read. The images above are some of the pages that stuck with me.

The anime has its moments of fluidity too, but the comic really hits it out of the park (‘eeeyyy) If you end up picking up Daiya, I at least recommend watching the first 16 or so episodes since those early arcs are adapted particularly well. (You can watch the animated adaptation legally on Crunchyroll)

Daiya interests me because it starts out like a standard, hot-blooded shounen sports series then ends up going in a much more grounded and ruthless direction. Sawamura is a shounen hero in an environment that destroys shounen heroes. Players get injured frequently and have to recover (and recovery isn’t easy), players make mistakes with long term consequences for themselves and the team, and no matter how hard they work some players never get to be regulars, etc… it’s refreshing.

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