Calm and mannered New Year's greetings 2-Hard

Calm New Year's manners 2-1H

[Inubouzaki house]

TV comedian A: Cut it out already!

TV comedian B: Thank you very much!

Fuu: Must be hard to be a comedian, hard at work from the very first day of the year.

Its: Actually, aside from live broadcasts, most New Year shows are filmed in December.

Fuu: Huh, really!? I'm impressed you know that.

Fuu: Wait, of course you'd know that! You're going to be entering the showbiz industry as a singer soon!

Its: I-It's not like it's decided that I'll become one...

Fuu: Nuh-uh, we're talking about you, of course you can become one! You'll the be the finest diva in Shikoku!

Fuu: Hm? Who could it be? Coming!

Yuu: Excuse us!

Tou: Fuu-senpai, I brought some mochi.

Its: Ah, everyone! Welcome.

Kar: I'm done with training for today and I had free time, so I dropped by.

SON: But Nibosshi, you're the one who suggested to go to Fuumin-senpai's place.

Kar: Stu-... N-No I didn't!

Its: Heehee, Karin-san, you're not being honest.

Kar: Wha-!?

Yuu: New Year TV shows, huh. I watch basically nothing but comedy shows.

Tou: The busiest time of the year for comedians.

Kar: If we're talking manzai comedy, then Fuu is a total boke.

Fuu: Eh!? I'm a tsukkomi, right!?

Yuu: Karin-chan would do good as a tsukkomi!

Kar: Well, you can't be one unless you've got common sense. And I'm that kind of person.

Fuu: You? Common sense? People with common sense don't say "dried sardines" all the time!

Kar: I don't say it all the time! It's just that dried sardines are nutritionally perfect, and I want sardine goods to be more widespread...

Fuu: See, you keep saying it.

Kar: Ah!?

TV comedian C: Cut it out already!

TV comedian D: Thank you very much!

Fuu/Kar: ...

Tou: Comedy duo, Fuu & Karin... That could work.

SON: The perfect manzai duo!

Its: I'll do a single card tarot divination now... I got the Wheel of Fortune, upright position.

Its: It means "success"! You'll definitely become first-rate performers!

Fuu/Kar: No we won't!

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Calm and mannered New Year's greetings 2-2H

[Sanshuu Middle - Rooftop]

Gin: If we're talking New Year games... Spinning tops.

Tam: But! We're city girls, just some random spinning tops won't cut it!

Tam: We're going to be using these tops! Topblades! [1]

Gin: Allow me to explain! Topblades are high-tech spinning top entertainment that's popular with kids!

Gin: The manga and anime are really popular too!

Tam: Tama's gonna be using this one! Red Crimson Hawk!

Gin: This is... The crazy-rare spinning top the main character of the anime uses, isn't it!?

Tam: Heh heh heh... Looks like the battle's over before it even began.

Gin: Hmph... I'm actually relaxed now.

Tam: What?

Gin: If my opponent was some chump, it'd be over in a second, and that's no fun...

Gin: My spinning top is this!

Tam: Shining Mount Fuji!? That's the SS-tier rare top the rival used in the anime!

Gin: Yes, precisely.

Tam: Heh... I dare say, you are a worthy opponent! Let's go, Gin!

Gin: Yes!

Tam: 3 charges, free entry! No-option battle! [2]

Gin: Charge in!

Tam: Nice charge in!

Tam: What!?

Gin: Some top flew in from the outside and blew ours out!?

Mysterious voice: Heh heh heh... To think I would happen upon Bladers here... The world truly is vast.

Tam: You are-!?

Yum: Allow Miroku Yumiko to intrude!

Gin: A third Blader...

Yum: My top, Super Celeb Eggplant, breathes fire.

Tam: Tama'll get you back... Tama doesn't lose!

Gin: I'll show you my Blade spirit! Now, let's begin!

Yum: A million charges, free entry! No-option battle!

Gin/Yum/Tam: Charge in!

[Food court]

Son: That was my first dream of the year.

Sum: The contents are a mess, but you got Mt. Fuji, a hawk and an eggplant. That's Sonocchi for you... [3]

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Notes:
1 - Reference to Beyblade.
2 - Reference to Artificial Insect KABUTO BORG Victory by Victory.
3 - Reference to the Japanese belief that seeing the Mt. Fuji, a hawk and an eggplant on your first dream of the year brings good fortune.

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Calm and mannered New Year's greetings 2-3H

[Sanshuu Middle - Courtyard]

Yuu: Waah! Aah, it's falling!

Yuu: Aww, my kite fell... Tougou-san, it's impressive how high yours is flying.

Tou: It's all about practice. After that, it's up to how the wind feels. It's practically luck.

Yuu: Okay, I'm going to fly it high this time! Eeei!

Tou: Heehee... Ah!

Tou: The string snapped and the kite flew away...

Yuu: I'm going to chase it!

Tou: It's fine, Yuuna-chan. That kite... became free.

Yuu: Free... I see.

Tou: All beings are fundamentally free. Nobody can shackle their will.

Tou: So... Nobody can shackle my desire to hug you, Yuuna-chan, for that is my free will.

Tou: Yuuna-chan.

Yuu: Tougou-san...

Yuu: Uh, what was the next line again?

Anz: Cut!

Anz: Yuuki-san, you can't do that! Memorise your lines properly!

SON: We're going to be showing this play at the kindergarten once the winter break ends, so we don't have any time left.

SON: You can do it, Yuuyu!

Tou: Won't this play be... too much of a shock for kindergarteners?

Anz: No it will not! Don't treat children like they're children, please!

Anz: Children living in our day and age full of shocks won't be satisfied with something half-hearted!

Yuu: I-I see...

Anz: Okay, play "Freedom And Shackles", 2nd chapter, retake!

Shi: Acting... is hard.

Nat: We should just fly kites and enjoy ourselves.

Shi: Flying kites... is also pretty hard.

Hin: Heehee. This reminds me of when we were kids, Wakaba-chan. Back then we also flew kites, just like this.

Wak: Yeah. You're right, Hinata.

Hin: Say, Wakaba-chan.

Wak: What is it?

Hin: Wakaba-chan... Do you want to be shackled?

Hin: Ah! The wind is pulling me along with the kite...

Wak: Hinata!

Wak: Phew, I cut the string. That was close.

Hin: Thank you very much, Wakaba-chan!

Wak: The shackle question aside, if something tries to bind you, I'll cut it down.

Hin: Heehee. Wakaba-chan, you're so cool.

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Calm and mannered New Year's greetings 2-4H

[Sanshuu Middle - Hallway]

Meb: For training, I should probably keep resting time in mind, after all...

Suz: Ah, Mebu!

Meb: Ah, Suzume. Perfect timing. I've been thinking up a training regimen...

Suz: I'm sorry! I didn't mean Mebu, I meant boss!

Meb: Huh? Boss?

Meb: I-I see... That happened, huh. Sorry.

Suz: So boss, my apologies! I haven't finished the task you gave me yet!

Meb: S-Stop calling me boss. And what task are you talking about?

Suz: Huh? You don't remember that either? Mebu, you told me to build a model of a five-storied pagoda.

Meb: ...I've got no recollection of that...

Suz: Eeeh!? And here I'm having so much trouble with the first story of the pagoda right now...

Meb: I really am sorry...

Suz: You also told me to build a house...

Meb: I don't remember that either...

Suz: I see... But thank goodness. There's no way I could build a house.

Suz: Though if you built a house and lived there together with me, it'd be the safest thing in the world, so I'd be alright with that.

Suz: But me, I can't build a house. Mebu, you should probably say no to amazake from now on.

Meb: Yeah, I'll be careful... Sorry.

Suz: No, it's fine. Alright, see you!

Meb: (I really did something bad there...)

Meb: (Hmm... Maybe I should build an actual log house and gift it to Suzume as an apology...)