1. Episode 190 "Arakawa King Game Finals"Copy !req
2. The final match of the Arakawa King Game was Sister versus Maria.Copy !req
3. Their rivalry echoed like thunder through the heavens,Copy !req
4. but the name of the victor was still hidden in the clouds...Copy !req
5. Or so we thought.Copy !req
6. But Sister had lost too much blood due to Maria's poison-tongued preemptive attack.Copy !req
7. He was already in critical condition.Copy !req
8. This is all we have for transfusions. It's not enough.Copy !req
9. No, it's fine. Any more would just weigh me down.Copy !req
10. Sound the bell!Copy !req
11. A normal man would be unconscious...Copy !req
12. He may die.Copy !req
13. Ric, that is.Copy !req
14. And so, the life-or-death battle began...Copy !req
15. Come on, everyone's watching Cosmos vs. AlienCopy !req
16. Their battles are always marvelousCopy !req
17. He commands a fleet, but he's really been an alien since before he was bornCopy !req
18. The distance between "micro" and "macro" is so importantCopy !req
19. At least when it comes to misunderstandings in space treatiesCopy !req
20. If it's this or be the second coming of Adam and EveCopy !req
21. Everyone's probably better off how they are nowCopy !req
22. Come on, take a closer lookCopy !req
23. Come on, be a little more eagerCopy !req
24. Come on, let's hold hands gentlyCopy !req
25. Come on, put a smile onCopy !req
26. Talk and talk, gossip up a stormCopy !req
27. But soon it's more than just a jokeCopy !req
28. Cross the mountains, cross the valleysCopy !req
29. Get to the planet he lives onCopy !req
30. Come on, everyone's watching the captain, the queen, and the aceCopy !req
31. Yes, the missile counterbarrage is readyCopy !req
32. But the man aiming has really been an alien since before he was bornCopy !req
33. Now, the cosmos is spaceCopy !req
34. It's just one wide sweepCopy !req
35. The cosmos's sugary tasteCopy !req
36. It's just one sweetCopy !req
37. Just a pinch of magic when you're together with herCopy !req
38. Just a pinch of sugar and you can have herCopy !req
39. Episode 191 "Fated Confrontation"Copy !req
40. And now it begins!Copy !req
41. The no-weapon-restrictions, lawless, no-referee-needed King Game final match!Copy !req
42. Fight!Copy !req
43. Huh, I never expected you to volunteer yourself as a blood donor.Copy !req
44. Of course I did!Copy !req
45. No matter what, we need to make sure Sister wins!Copy !req
46. If Maria becomes King, we'll end up as the untouchables in her caste system!Copy !req
47. Yeah, I'm not looking forward to that either.Copy !req
48. But Sister's head-over-heels for Maria!Copy !req
49. Do you think he can point a gun at the woman he loves!?Copy !req
50. Come on, Star, what are you always saying?Copy !req
51. "If you've fallen for her..."Copy !req
52. "Go on the attack!"Copy !req
53. We never expected a missile attack!Copy !req
54. I guess we were wrong, but if he's going for it we can't really—Copy !req
55. No, he's overdoing it!Copy !req
56. That'll kill even Ma—Copy !req
57. How slow.Copy !req
58. Even a newborn lamb is faster!Copy !req
59. As expected. You're as sharp as ever.Copy !req
60. The skills that won you the name "the Beautiful Interceptor"...Copy !req
61. You haven't changed at all either.Copy !req
62. Still relying on your guns.Copy !req
63. That's—!Copy !req
64. Battlefield shearing secret technique!Copy !req
65. Sazae's Father!Copy !req
66. This chill!Copy !req
67. Just seeing her stance, a chill runs through my scalp!Copy !req
68. It is said that the same man's hairstyle rose to the top of each of their minds...Copy !req
69. Episode 192 "Glass Heart"Copy !req
70. I heard of that long ago!Copy !req
71. The reason Sister keeps a poker face isCopy !req
72. the laughter of his squadmates after he was hit with Sazae's Father!Copy !req
73. It's strong enough to take away Sister's smile!Copy !req
74. If I knew he had such a glass heart,Copy !req
75. I should have laughed as hard as I wanted to about his getup when we first met!Copy !req
76. Episode 193 "Word of God"Copy !req
77. Is Sister okay?Copy !req
78. If he's been hit by it once, a second time...Copy !req
79. Wrong.Copy !req
80. Were it merely a test of might, Sister would win.Copy !req
81. But Maria aims to sap his strength with her poison tongue.Copy !req
82. More than a fierce physical technique, she aims to sap his will to fight by layering on the trauma!Copy !req
83. Sister's trembling!Copy !req
84. His shots will miss!Copy !req
85. No, worse, he's about to snap!Copy !req
86. Sister's going to lose!Copy !req
87. I hear it!Copy !req
88. I hear God's voice!Copy !req
89. What's he talking about!?Copy !req
90. A fear-induced hallucination?Copy !req
91. Will he be all right?Copy !req
92. O Father! What do you mean by "open thine eyes" and "throw away thine gun"?Copy !req
93. Wait, it's for real!?Copy !req
94. What? I've been wrong about so much?Copy !req
95. I've really wanted to hear him say that, just not right now!Copy !req
96. Sister! Don't listen to Him!Copy !req
97. Don't you always say you only believe in things you can shoot!?Copy !req
98. I am a servant of the Lord. His orders are absolute.Copy !req
99. His voice leads me to salvation.Copy !req
100. I shall follow.Copy !req
101. Sister...Copy !req
102. Throw away my gun.Copy !req
103. And take up a knife!Copy !req
104. Remember the basics of CQC!Copy !req
105. Semper fi, o Lord!Copy !req
106. God isn't supposed to give that kind of practical advice!Copy !req
107. Judging by the silhouette, it was a different legend.Copy !req
108. Episode 194 "Lethal Weapon"Copy !req
109. Anyway! Sister! Come on, you absolutely can't lose to Maria!Copy !req
110. He dodged at that range!?Copy !req
111. No! Maria's aim was—Copy !req
112. To pin Sister down!Copy !req
113. Sister's veil put a dent in the floor!Copy !req
114. Why are you wearing weights while fighting?Copy !req
115. As a handicap.Copy !req
116. Why did they stop?Copy !req
117. Look! The ring is covered in blood!Copy !req
118. How!? They're not moving at all!Copy !req
119. No... They're fighting...Copy !req
120. Fighting so fast the eye can't follow. To the observer, it looks like they're perfectly still.Copy !req
121. No way!Copy !req
122. I'm probably the only one here who can see their fight.Copy !req
123. No... I can see it as well.Copy !req
124. Really!?Copy !req
125. I can't see a thing.Copy !req
126. Yeah, they just look like they're standing there.Copy !req
127. But...Copy !req
128. I can feel it in my soul...Copy !req
129. The clash of flame on flame!Copy !req
130. Keep going!Copy !req
131. Both of you, keep going!Copy !req
132. Yes! You're both real men!Copy !req
133. Sister! Maria! You're both so cool!Copy !req
134. It doesn't even matter who wins!Copy !req
135. What wonderful pure will to power!Copy !req
136. Pure will to power...Copy !req
137. They don't care about the throne or royal prerogative anymore...Copy !req
138. They just want to prove themselves!Copy !req
139. This is true battle!Copy !req
140. Sister!Copy !req
141. Maria!Copy !req
142. You're both real men!Copy !req
143. You're sweaty.Copy !req
144. You smell like a bug.Copy !req
145. You don't even remotely remind me of a human.Copy !req
146. Huh? Maria? What happened to the high-speed movement?Copy !req
147. The clash of souls...Copy !req
148. Oh? Whatever could you be talking about?Copy !req
149. I just explained to Sister exactly what was wrong with him like usual.Copy !req
150. Oh, by the way.Copy !req
151. It's not Maria.Copy !req
152. Call me Queen.Copy !req
153. Thus, an Empress was born.Copy !req
154. Episode 195 "Maria's Desires"Copy !req
155. At the end of the Arakawa King Game, the one seated in the throneCopy !req
156. was none other than the most fearsome of them all, Maria!Copy !req
157. What's wrong, Ric?Copy !req
158. Go ahead. Announce my decree.Copy !req
159. What's wrong, Ric!?Copy !req
160. What's written on it!?Copy !req
161. You think we'll accept this!?Copy !req
162. This is an absolute order.Copy !req
163. My subjects in Arakawa!Copy !req
164. My poor sheep are cold. Make clothes for them.Copy !req
165. What is that!? Some kind of coded message!?Copy !req
166. Episode 196 "A Man's Job"Copy !req
167. When she says sheep, does she mean all of us?Copy !req
168. And are the clothes some kind of torture device?Copy !req
169. If you want to, we can do that.Copy !req
170. I shore my sheep on a recent warm day, but it's gotten chilly again.Copy !req
171. So I wanted to make them clothes out of their wool.Copy !req
172. I knew you looked out for your lackeys, Maria!Copy !req
173. Making clothes!? That sounds fun! Can I help out?Copy !req
174. Of course. In fact, you have to.Copy !req
175. You can make clothes out of wool?Copy !req
176. Of course.Copy !req
177. Then...Copy !req
178. Make all of my hair into a belt!Copy !req
179. My head will be lighter and my tummy won't get cold!Copy !req
180. A yellow belt, huh?Copy !req
181. Reconsider that, Nino!Copy !req
182. Won't that make your head cold, though?Copy !req
183. I guess.Copy !req
184. If you need a belt, I'll make you one.Copy !req
185. She's acting like she has a conscience again!Copy !req
186. No way... When Maria ascended to the throne...Copy !req
187. I expected her to decree something like "Change the waters of the Arakawa into blood!"Copy !req
188. You must have mistaken me for some demon.Copy !req
189. I just joined in because it sounded fun. I didn't really have any wishes in mind.Copy !req
190. That's terrible in its own way!Copy !req
191. After all...Copy !req
192. Somehow I'm happier here than I ever could have imagined myself being.Copy !req
193. All right, everyone! Time to wash the wool!Copy !req
194. Okay!Copy !req
195. I don't really know much about her past either, but she obviously isn't a good person.Copy !req
196. On the other hand, were she evil, she would never get along so well with animals.Copy !req
197. At least, that's what I think.Copy !req
198. I guess.Copy !req
199. We don't think she's all that terrible either...Copy !req
200. All right, let's help out!Copy !req
201. Tell us what to do!Copy !req
202. Forsooth!Copy !req
203. Oh, thanks guys!Copy !req
204. I have something else for you men to do, though.Copy !req
205. Why don't you go over there...Copy !req
206. And be dogs.Copy !req
207. Dogs?Copy !req
208. You know, to herd the sheep.Copy !req
209. I have little gifts for you to get you to work hard, too.Copy !req
210. All right, pick a collar and get down and grovel!Copy !req
211. Maria seemed truly happy.Copy !req
212. Episode 197 "A Dog's Life"Copy !req
213. It's okay, you'll be fine.Copy !req
214. You just need to bring the sheep back from grazing into the paddock.Copy !req
215. Just copy what the old hands do!Copy !req
216. There's no way I can move like that!Copy !req
217. It's okay. There's a first time for everyone.Copy !req
218. Don't overdo it, just do what you can.Copy !req
219. Maria...Copy !req
220. Now didn't I tell you to grovel?Copy !req
221. Well, um, if I do that I can't move as fast...Copy !req
222. Come on, look at Sister.Copy !req
223. He's fast!Copy !req
224. And wait, isn't that prone infiltration!?Copy !req
225. What are you standing there for!?Copy !req
226. Get over there and scare them in the other direction!Copy !req
227. Wait, scare them how?Copy !req
228. Stare them down! Make them think you're going to eat them!Copy !req
229. No way! Come on, I'm gonna get trampled!Copy !req
230. That was close...Copy !req
231. What a pro.Copy !req
232. Here, good boy.Copy !req
233. See, like that.Copy !req
234. Wow, it works! The sheep are turning away!Copy !req
235. This'll be fun.Copy !req
236. Star, your face is going back to normal!Copy !req
237. Don't let down your guards!Copy !req
238. Keep making the kind of face you would at the worst parts of life and society!Copy !req
239. Here goes!Copy !req
240. Rejected appeals.Copy !req
241. Getting married for the sake of it.Copy !req
242. The darkness of society.Copy !req
243. The doughnut phenomenon.Copy !req
244. Pointless village festivals.Copy !req
245. The Meiji Restoration.Copy !req
246. The Omiya incident.Copy !req
247. Sword wounds.Copy !req
248. Let's go! Keep it up!Copy !req
249. Come at them from 2 o' clock!Copy !req
250. Starboard! Not enough despair!Copy !req
251. Now!Copy !req
252. Charge the sheep ahead!Copy !req
253. Episode 198 "Counting Sheep"Copy !req
254. Wow, you got all the sheep together!Copy !req
255. Good work!Copy !req
256. We finished the clothes too!Copy !req
257. Why are you so depressed?Copy !req
258. One last thing, Sister. Go down the list and count all the sheep.Copy !req
259. Understood.Copy !req
260. Counting sheep, huh, Sister?Copy !req
261. Be careful not to fall asleep!Copy !req
262. David... Sa'id... Tom...Copy !req
263. Huh, they have some cool-sounding names. Almost like they're named after people.Copy !req
264. Really? I guess so. They're all...Copy !req
265. Names of men I've loved...Copy !req
266. Carl. Shiro.Copy !req
267. Dusty. Raleigh.Copy !req
268. Sister! If you keep counting those sheep, you'll never wake up!Copy !req
269. Episode 199 "Flowing White Lines"Copy !req
270. Oh, great, they all fit perfectly.Copy !req
271. Now they won't get colds!Copy !req
272. We're done with Maria's decree!Copy !req
273. It's obvious that the bulk of that order was for us!Copy !req
274. All right, guys, let's get together on the shore and cap this off!Copy !req
275. We're floating everyone's wishes down the river!Copy !req
276. You still have those!?Copy !req
277. No way!Copy !req
278. No peeking!Copy !req
279. Hurry up!Copy !req
280. All right, everyone! Face the river and salute!Copy !req
281. Well, I guess that's how it works out.Copy !req
282. Those kinds of wishes are better fulfilled oneself.Copy !req
283. You're right, Ric.Copy !req
284. I mean, I am a grown man now.Copy !req
285. Hey, this looks like Ric's writing.Copy !req
286. Mm-hm.Copy !req
287. Well there.Copy !req
288. Don't pull them out of the water!Copy !req
289. Oh, hey, this is yours, isn't it?Copy !req
290. An all-day date with Nino!Copy !req
291. How beta can you get?Copy !req
292. Nino?Copy !req
293. Man, what a kerfluffle! They're all caught up here!Copy !req
294. No worries, the paper'll dissolve.Copy !req
295. I can't stand the shame!Copy !req
296. You shouldn't be ashamed of your wishes!Copy !req
297. That's all well and good, but—!Copy !req
298. What are you doing, Nino?Copy !req
299. One got caught there?Copy !req
300. Yeah.Copy !req
301. Don't worry, Nino.Copy !req
302. Ric...Copy !req
303. Remember when I waded out into the river when your grass boat got caught?Copy !req
304. I won't fall in again.Copy !req
305. I know the currents now, and how slippery that rock is.Copy !req
306. I've learned how to read the flow of the river.Copy !req
307. And I think I understand why you look so lonely sometimes.Copy !req
308. Ric...Copy !req
309. To be together with everyone foreverCopy !req
310. It'll be okay.Copy !req
311. Let's be together forever.Copy !req
312. Now, in the past, and in the future.Copy !req
313. With me the earthling...Copy !req
314. With everyone!Copy !req
315. Let's always be together!Copy !req
316. Yes.Copy !req
317. On my journey to pick up the pieces of my loveCopy !req
318. For some reason I'm always so lonelyCopy !req
319. I've got to get going, before the sky's tears start to fallCopy !req
320. Everything's falling to pieces, as I search for that voiceCopy !req
321. Someday we'll both be looking for each otherCopy !req
322. The days flow by, one by one, murmuring like a streamCopy !req
323. Someday, someday, we'll get thereCopy !req
324. Forlorn, with it slipping through my handsCopy !req
325. Restless, I can't sleepCopy !req
326. I yelled out, don't leave meCopy !req
327. Don't leave me, stay with me foreverCopy !req
328. Don't leave me, don't leave me, don't leave meCopy !req
329. Episode 200 "Applause for You"Copy !req
330. No matter what,Copy !req
331. my eyes could not be torn from the stage.Copy !req
332. I discarded the opera glasses, which served only to shatter the magic.Copy !req
333. Even had I stared, I would only have been blinded by your radiance.Copy !req
334. The crying mannequin...Copy !req
335. All secrets were concealed within the lion's cage.Copy !req
336. What you've shown meCopy !req
337. could only be answered with thundering applause.Copy !req
338. That you not return behind the curtain...Copy !req
339. That the circus never leave...Copy !req
340. For now, I can only clap as if praying.Copy !req
341. Illustration: Hikaru NakamuraCopy !req