rock paper scissors…but anime?!

#7692B0 [humna / holl] #738C6A

eng dub
are you ready for battle?
I was born ready.
we’ll see about that.
oh, really?
-silence / suspense-
whenever you’re ready.
name…
-looks up-
you know, I’ve been preparing for this my whole life.
so? you’re still going to lose.
well, I-I’m here to reclaim what’s mine!
which is?
the satisfaction of winning!
-amazed-
you can’t have that…n-nobody has ever taken it from
me!
oh yeah? w-well then…I’ll be the one to defeat you!
hah, I’d like to see you try.
w-well, how should we decide who wins?
how about a game of…
rock paper scissors.
h-huh? no…the classic game in which two players
compete. both players will choose between either rock,
paper or scissors, each deciding whether the player wins
or loses. scissors cuts paper, paper covers rock, and
rock smashes scissors. it’s a classic way to settle any
argument!
ready when you are, beginner.
rock…
(Should I choose scissors? N-No…I should go with
paper! She will almost surely choose rock).
paper…
(they’ll definitely choose paper, it’s the starter option. I
should go with scissors).
scissors…
(if this goes wrong, at least I still have two more
chances…)
shoot!
[scissors / paper]
-shocked-
wha-?!
you see? just give up now! you will never be as good as
me!
n-no…I can do this! I’ll beat you if it’s the last thing I
do.
I don’t think that will happen.
ready, loser?
-nod-
rock…
(I know what to do exactly…they’ll think that I’ll try to
catch them out and go with scissors again, and so they
will go with rock. That means I should go with paper).
paper…
(What is she going to do? her face is so unreadable…
what if she thinks that I’ll go with paper again, that will
mean she’d go with scissors. But then I should trick her
by choosing…rock).
scissors…
(there’s no way that they can steal the satisfaction from
me).
shoot!
[paper / rock]
EH?! b-but…
well, don’t say I didn’t warn you! I already made it
clear…
you’ll never steal the ultimate satisfaction from me.
you forget, I have another chance!
and just like the past two, it’ll just go to waste again.
we’ll see about that.
ready when you are.
-breath in-
rock…
(right…I can do this. she hasn’t used rock yet, so she’ll
try to catch me out by choosing scissors. it won’t be
paper, she just used paper. that means I should choose
rock).
paper…
(okay. they’ll go with scissors since they haven’t use it
yet. so I should go with rock).
scissors…
(come on…)
shoot!
[rock / rock]
huh. well, I was right. you can’t win a single game. but
I guess a draw is the next best thing…
still though. I only have to win one more and then I’m
victorious! you still have two to go.
w-well…I-I can change that! I’ll make sure I take the
ultimate satisfaction from you!
let’s get this over with, then.
-nods-
rock…
(you know exactly what to do. they’ll almost certainly
go with rock, trying to catch me out, since they just
used that. so, of course, I can defeat them once and for
all by using paper)!
paper…
(I know. she’ll choose scissors, as she knows that most
will usually finish with paper. so that means, to reclaim
the ultimate satisfaction, I must choose rock. just like
my friend used to say to me…when in doubt, just go
with your gut. and i never realized how important that
would be until they were defeated in the intense battle
of noughts and crosses…I’ll never forget that day).
scissors…
(I can’t wait to see the look on their face when they
lose. this reminds me of when I defeated her friend in
the classic game of noughts and crosses, a 2-player
game in which each player chooses either noughts or
crosses and must get three in a row on a 3x3 grid. I’ll
never forget that day. it shaped me into who I am now).
shoot!
[paper / rock]
n-no…
haha! I knew that I would be victorious.
you…you beat me.
of course, I did. like I told you, nobody will ever take
the ultimate satisfaction from me ever again…
ever…again? s-someone has…defeated you?
-sigh-
you know, ever since I was a child, I’d always dreamed
of having the ultimate satisfaction. and the moment I
claimed it for myself, everyone started to turn on me.
they all wanted it for themselves…and eventually,
someone took it. but I knew that I couldn’t let this
stand. I trained every day…wishing that someday I
could win in back. and finally, I got it back. in the
classic game of noughts and crosses.
wait…y-you took the ultimate satisfaction from my
friend?
yes. that was her last game. I won. I reclaimed the
ultimate satisfaction and ever since, it’s been mine.
I c-can’t believe you.
well, that’s just the way of the world.

-walking home in the dark-

-falls to floor-
-le poof-
-friend appears beside them-
-my hero academia moment-

jap dub

Tatakai no junbi wa dekite imasu ka?

Watashi wa junbi ga dekite umaremashita.
Sō iu kotodeshou.
Mā, hontōni?
Junbi ga dekitara itsu demo.
gozonji no yō ni, watashi wa kore made zutto junbi
shite kimashita.
Sorede? Anata wa mada makerudeshou.
Ē to, watashi wa watashi no mono o torimodosu tame ni
koko ni imasu!
Doredesu ka?
Shōri no yorokobi!