Aitsu ga Kamite de Shimote ga Boku de Season 1 English Subtitles
hi. do you like shows about how difficult it is wanting to succeed onstage? do you like comedy of the variety where the joke is really stupid you can't help but laugh anyway?
do you like characters whose relationships to each other can be described as not quite friend, not quite family, not quite lover, but in fact none other than Commitment to the Bit?
if you answered yes to any or all of these questions, i'd like to offer you my personal favourite drama for the past five years, aitsu ga kamite de shimote ga boku de (he's on stage left and on stage right it's me) (or if you check the few official english sources, two peas in a pod???)
the show follows a comedian, tokiura (aramaki yoshihiko), as he gets sent off to a theatre known for housing only the worst performers. there he meets shima (wada masanari), who asks to be his manzai partner after seeing him onstage only once. alongside the rest of the cast--shima's previous partner narimiya (sakiyama tsubasa) now working with hebiya (torigoe yuki), childhood friends wanno (hashimoto shohei) and inukai (tanaka ryousei) trying to break from their cutesy image, and genda (jinnai sho) in a temporary partnership with amano (umetsu mizuki)-- --this theatre kind of sucks. and everyone is bad at their job. but god if they aren't going to try to make it big anyways.
links and more miscellaneous yapping under the cut!
hi again! i'm the translator! sorry about callout to previous tags but i do want to talk about a very common mistranslation of this show's title: äžæ and äžæ are more often than not read as jouzu (good) and heta (bad) thus leading to "he is good and bad is me"
HOWEVER. in the conveniently provided furigana (since of course it'd also be easy to misread it this way in japanese otherwise): they're read as kamite and shimote, or stage left and stage right respectively, in reference to where they stand during performances.
really, the most fucked up part of this is that stage left is up and stage right is down.
i do wonder if it's an intentional joke but i feel like if it were they would have alluded to such at some point or another? similarly to like...inukai and wanno being Dogs, people holding snake plushie while talking about hebiya, etc.
especially since they do actually make jokes close to the title and this one is, Very Easy to make. (for all i know they have and i just missed it somewhere. lol.)
anyway, that's all, i just wanted to say something since you will not believe the number of times i've seen the title written this way out in the wild and every time i'm like NOT WHAT IT'S CALLED