PLAY TRANSLATION — SKY GALLERY
a/n: this is my first time translating a play!! so please excuse the mistakes!! let me know and i will rectify it!! please enjoy!!
(The stage this time is Sky Gallery, a place said to bring good luck to college students and painters.)
(When a solo exhibition happens, newcomers wanting to be painters, believing in the rumour, believe good luck will come in and their work will surely sell.)
Aoumi: Sakurada, thank you for your hard work. This solo exhibition was also a great success.
It’s amazing that most of the works will have buyers in the second solo exhibition. Fans are following.
Sakurada: It won’t sell after all…
Sakurada: Each work is like a precious child! I’m terrified to sell it!
I can hear them all upset with me! I’m sorry! It was my bad! I won’t sell you!
Even if we live in water and sprout, we will always be together! (AN: i am,, so confused by this line)
Customer: Eh? Isn’t this for sale?
Sakurada: I’m sorry! I can’t sell them! Please go home! I’ll protect the children!
Aoumi: Sakurada, calm down!
Sakurada: Are you really so terrible you’d sell your child!?
Sakurada: You want to take care of yourself, don’t you!?
Aoumi: Hmm… well, I guess that’s right.
Shirato: Mr. Aoumi, don’t get wrapped up in all that!
Sakurada: Sorry Mr. Aoumi. I had so many things for this solo exhibition… after all, I…
Aoumi: I understand the overflowing love for your work. I think that’s what makes your work so appealing.
But the day comes when children have to leave the nest.
All the works up here are packed with Sakurada’s love and have the power to fly across the world.
Don’t you want to see the children nesting up to find their place and empowering different people?
Sakurada: Ah, you’re right… this is a fledgling! I’m so stupid!
I’m unqualified as a parent! I’m an idiot!
Customer: So… can you sell it?
Shirato: Of course. We’ll process it here.
Aoumi: Looking forward to seeing you again!
Shirato: I wondered what would happen this time…
Aoumi: Yeah, well, Sakurada was like this in the last solo exhibition too.
(Kumon has turned the quirky new painter Sakurada into a nice character.)
(Kazu’s Aoumi looks more mature than usual and Tenma’s slightly chilled Shirato are both friendly and nice.)
Aoumi: Oh, Shinonome, welcome. I’ve been hearing a lot about your reputation these days.
Aoumi: Glad to help you. Shirato, could you bring me some tea?
Shinonome: Waaah!! Shirato!! Why are you here!?
Shirato: Long time no see.
Aoumi: Do you know each other?
Shinonome: We’re high school friends — same art club!
Shirato: I didn’t realise Shinonome was developing individually here.
Shinonome: I didn’t even know Shirato worked here! Didn’t you get a job right after high school?
Shirato: A lot of things happened.
Shinonome: Yeah, but I’m happy I get to work with Shirato again!
Shirato: Actually, we’re separate. I’m an apprentice.
Aoumi: Mr. Shirato, please join us. I thought it was time to learn about the project launch.
Shinonome: Yay! Nice to meet you!
Tsuzuru: The up and coming painter Shinonome is closer to Ikaruga…
It fits perfectly. It feels like the stage is brighter.
(After the meeting with Shinonome, a new college student brings his work to the gallery. )
Aoumi: Nice to meet you. I’m Aoumi, owner of the Sky Gallery.
Moegi: Haha, nice to meet you. I’m Moegi.
Aoumi: Okay, can you show me your portfolio now?
Moegi: Um, yes, this is— awawawa!
Shirato: Is everything okay?
Moegi: Oh, how about that…?
Aoumi: I think it’s really good! The details here are also nice.
These works are so close to everyday life. The customers will love them too.
Moegi: That’s right! I also love this painting! This one has a very good colour balance.
Aoumi: Yes, I understand.
Moegi: Then… this picture has a cloud motif.
The inside and outside of human beings are expressed by the appearance seen when entering the clouds, but the gap is good.
Aoumi: Yeah. Let’s open a solo exhibition.
Moegi: Ah… Well… Sorry, I’m quitting…
Moegi: I’m really sorry! Excuse me!
Juza: Muku makes such a character naturally. It’s hard for me…
(Following Moegi, another college student arrived.)
Aoumi: Sounds good. I think many of the customers will like it because they can tell they’re facing the theme seriously head on.
Yamabuki: That’s right! I think it’s really good too!
The painting deals with multifaceted motifs within the theme, and it’s very deep!
The more I look at it, the more I see it, and the more I can approach the theme from various directions!
Aoumi: Yeah. Let’s hold a solo exhibition together.
Yamabuki: That… I’ll stop! Excuse me!
Shirato: Well, isn’t this popular?
Aoumi: It feels like ping pong dash…
Shirato: I mean, it’s rude, right? It’s better not to deal with it.
Aoumi: Hm… there may be some circumstances, but what to do with their work is purely the creators will.
Shirato: Ah, that’s right.
Aoumi: However, for it to be expressed, is something everyone has, even if the people seeing it is greater or lesser.
More than anything, I want you to see the work. So let’s check again and give up if it doesn’t work.
Aoumi: Oh, Sakurada, right now is—
Sakurada: I’m really sorry to bother you again!
I decided I’d be happy to send the children away this time, but I’m so unskilled I couldn’t finish!
Aoumi: It’s okay. Sakurada’s work has been completed, including all that.
Aoumi: Well, calm down. Please do your best to make great works from now on.
Sakurada: Yes! Then excuse me!
Aoumi: Ah, I wanted to hold a solo exhibition next time, so an art school student brought it to me.
Sakurada: It’s my junior.
Aoumi: Is that so? Mr. Yamabuki—
Sakurada: It’s Moegi, isn’t it?
Sakurada: Yes. If you want to find the person, you can come see them. Well, I’ll leave with this.
Shirato: Is it that Mr. Yamabuki brought in Mr. Moegi’s work?
Aoumi: Then, who’s work did Mr. Moegi bring in?
Shirato: It’s not the same persons work, is it?
Aoumi: The style and approach to the theme are too different.
Shirato: Anyway, you shouldn’t trust someone who lies and brings you another persons portfolio.
Aoumi: I’ll leave the flyer, have a brief meeting and then return.
Shirato: So… this is what an art school looks like.
Aoumi: Huh? Those two people, one on one…
Moegi: Why did you do that? If it’s you, you can immediately recognise your own painting.
Yamabuki: It’s not true. It’s absolutely impossible. That’s why I brought my own work.
Moegi: It’s not impossible! Because Mr. Aoumi develops them individually.
(A/N) this whole precious section I’m pretty unsure on. sorry!!
Yamabuki: What? What do you mean?
Moegi: … Sorry. I also brought Yamabuki’s portfolio to Mr. Aoumi.
Aoumi: Ah… was that the case?
Shirato: Isn’t it similar?
Aoumi: Mind telling me the story of you two for the time being?
In other words, both of you weren’t confident in your work and involuntarily brought the others… is that so?
Moegi: I thought if it was Yamabukis work, it would definitely be accepted. Besides, I wanted to see Yamabukis solo exhibition.
But Yamabuki insisted he won’t do it because he’s not confident.
I didn’t know I went to Mr. Aoumi.
Yamabuki: That’s my line. You said that you absolutely couldn’t do a solo exhibition. I’ve said many times you’re perfectly okay.
Shirato: They’re very similar people.
Aoumi: The direction of their work is completely different though.
Moegi: Anyway, that’s why I declined the solo exhibition.
Yamabuki: It’s enough for me to get approval from Mr. Aoumi. Nobody would come to one of my solo exhibitions anyway.
Even if they come, I’m sure everyone will walk out thinking they made a mistake.
Moegi: My solo exhibition would be criticised on SNS and burned. I can’t stop reading it even if I’m mentally down.
In the end, I won’t be able to go to college, so I’ll stop.
Aoumi: Both of them are very specific and backwards!
Shirato: In that case, you don’t have to force them to develop.
Aoumi: But they both came to the Sky Gallery themselves, right?
Aoumi: But I’m not confident in my work.
Aoumi: But Moegi likes Yamabukis work, and Yamabuki likes Moegis.
Moegi: Yamabuki should definitely hold a solo exhibition!
Yamabuki: If it’s Moegis work, everyone will come to see it!
Aoumi: Then Moegi should show Yamabukis work, and Yamabuki should show Moegis.
Aoumi: Of course, the artists' names should be each other’s names.
If it’s the other person's work, can you confidently put it in front of you?
Then you can think of your work as a two person exhibition.
Moegi: If it’s the same as Yamabukis work… I may not be able to see my work, but Yamabukis work will be tricked…
Yamabuki: If it’s with Moegis work, everyone will be satisfied with about half of them, and the criticism may be controversial.
Aoumi: Let’s do our best.
Taichi: This time, Mucchan and Yukichan are like a pair~
Their height is around the same, and Mucchan is perfect for Yukis character!
Shirato: Why do you give a partner so troublesome that much?
Aoumi: I want everyone to know good works.
And I want the artist to understand the power of their work. It’s a feeling people can only get when they see it for themselves.
That’s why I’m doing the gallery at the moment. Well, it’s a sale from my father.
Shirato: You inherited the gallery from your father, right?
Aoumi: Yes. I learned to work as an assistant, just like you.
Shirato: I’m jealous that you have such a big gallery in a prime location.
Aoumi: That’s right. Thanks to my father though, there’s pressure in that.
( With the two person exhibition of Moegi and Yamabuki completed successfully, preparations begin for Shinonome’s solo exhibition. )
Aoumi: Did you get in touch with Shinonome?
Aoumi: Strange… I’ve had the meeting running for 30 minutes but I can’t seem to connect with him at all.
Aoumi: I’m worried I can’t get in touch with him.
And I have to design the guide and print it. He won’t be on time, right?
I need the main picture, but I haven’t heard from him.
Shirato: By the way… When I was in high school, I suddenly went absent and I couldn’t go home. I was missing for a few days. (There’s something about a police officer here I can’t quite translate.)
Aoumi: Huh? Wasn’t it difficult? Wait, I have to hurry and find it.
Shirato: Would you like to go home for the time being? ( SO WE’RE JUST GLOSSING OVER THAT???)
Aoumi: Shinonome! Shinonome, are you there? No answer…
Shirato: I’ve confirmed it now, but it seems like he never even did go to college.
Aoumi: Then… his parents house?
Shirato: How? Seems Shinonomes parents are overseas.
Aoumi: I see… Where did you go? I wonder if I wait, will you be back in a few days?
Shirato: When I was in high school, I was about to freeze to death on the riverbed.
Aoumi: It’s a bad pattern if we don’t find him! But even if you look for it in dark clouds…
Shirato: I’ll go where I think he likes.
Shinonome: Ah, I found it. I was just about to make a bed.
Shirato: Don’t make it. You’ll be caught by the police again.
Shinonome: You always find me Shirato. Why?
Shirato: I get how you think. It’s almost my favourite scenery.
Shinonome: That’s right! As expected from Shirato!
Aoumi: I see… it’s your favourite landscape. It’s certainly moderately rough and it’s an atmosphere that seems to be the motif of Shinonomes work.
Shirato: Why did you have a meeting?
Shinonome: Well… the weather was nice?
Shinonome: I’m sorry, I’m sorry… I actually couldn’t make the main painting at all.
Aoumi: Eh!? But I have to print the guide soon…
Shinonome: I’ll bring it on the morning of the first day, so I’ll design it somehow.
Aoumi: Understood. Shinonome, please concentrate on the production.
Shirato: Can we trust you? He doesn’t exactly have the concept of meeting the deadline.
Aoumi: Still, it’s his solo exhibition. If he can’t make satisfying work, it won’t work.
(The first day of the solo exhibition…)
Aoumi: Shirato, is Shinonome—
Aoumi: We’re about to open. At this rate, the main wall will be…
Shirato: What should I do?
Aoumi: Customers are already in line. We have no choice but to open. I’ll explain it to the customers.
Thank you for visiting us! We’d like to apologise to everyone before the opening.
Shirato: Aoumi, he’s here.
Shirato: The painting has arrived.
I’m sorry! I’m sorry! Please wait for a while!
Aoumi: This is… Shinonome’s new work… I like it.
It feels different from usual, but even if it’s different in my mind, I want to hear it from you. What about Shinonome?
Shirato: It came by courier.
Aoumi: Ah, I wonder if he will come by later.
Aoumi: Ah, time to prepare for closing.
Shinonome: Sorry, I’m late.
Aoumi: Shinonome! Thank you for your hard work! Is the new work secure?
Shinonome: I brought it because it was finally finished. I was right on time for the first day.
Aoumi: Eh? But the picture that arrived in the morning…
Shinonome: What? Is it not my picture?
Aoumi: …? Then who on earth…?
Shirato: I didn’t confirm with the distributor. Excuse me.
Aoumi: It’s not your fault. The customer who bought it explained it to me.
Shirato: I’m sorry, I’m quitting.
Aoumi: Ah… that’s why you feel a need to be responsible.
Aoumi: … Can’t answer the phone? I wonder if I was originally thinking of quitting. I was so enthusiastic about studying and… I was saved…
The work produced? The style is similar, and it’s been completed… Who drew it?
Shinonome: Ah, Aoumin, good job. (A NICKNAME? SOBS)
Aoumi: Thank you for your hard work at the solo exhibition. It was a great success this time too.
Aoumi: Shinonome, it’s about the art forgery. Has this happened before?
Shinonome: Yeah, nope. I’m not that famous.
Aoumi: Is that so? … Then what about people with a similar style in art school?
Shinonome: Not that I’ve seen. By the way, what about Shirato? Isn’t he the same today?
Aoumi: Huh? Didn’t you hear? Shirato quit.
Shinonome: Eh!? Really!? I’m sorry…
He suddenly quit the art club in his third year. He’s better than me. He quit painting.
Shinonome: Look, this is one of our art club exhibitions at the school festival. Nostalgic…
Aoumi: Oh, your style was already established. By the way, what’s this?
Shinonome: Oh, this is a picture of Shirato.
Shinonome: I think there are other pictures. Here’s this, this was this…
Aoumi: The style is different, but the motif is similar to yours.
Shinonome: That’s right. If you go to the painting you will certainly see it.
Aoumi: Maybe the creator of the painting is…
Shirato: I drew it. I’m sorry.
Aoumi: It was you after all… but why?
Shirato: I wanted you to recognise my painting.
I wanted to join the art club in high school, then go to art school and continue painting.
But I gave up because of financial reasons. I was opposed by my parents.
That’s why I was jealous of Shinonome. He could go to art school as a matter of fact, and at the same time, I was upset.
It depends on where everything is decided regardless of your efforts.
Honestly, at first I didn’t trust you.
It was your amazing father who made the Sky Gallery, not you.
Even if it was a part time job, I thought I would quit if I made a real achievement.
But when I see you working hard with each painter, I feel embarrassed…
At the same time, I wanted to see if my painting would be accepted by you.
I thought if I could get it approved, I wouldn’t regret giving up on the path of painting.
Aoumi: Shirato’s work must be released as Shirato’s work. That lie doesn’t reach the hearts of anyone.
Please show me your true work. And I want you to know the power of that work.
Your work has power. The power to appeal to the viewers heart.
Regardless of circumstance, it is your own power. So keep making it.
There is a way to become a painter without going to art school. I want to help with that. That’s why I’m doing this job.
Shirato: Thank you, Mr Aoumi.
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