From: doi@jrd.dec.com (Hitoshi Doi)
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Subject: Touch episode 20
Date: 27 Aug 92 22:33:53 GMT
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Here is a synopsis of Touch episode 20.
I'm doing this from the Touch TV anime manga volume 5,
not from the actual TV episode.
 
Touch episode 20  "Dousuruno?  Tatsuya no yasashisa surechigai!"
                  [What are you going to do?
                   Tatsuya's kindness just missed!]
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	Summary by Hitoshi Doi, 1992.08.27

Minami was cooking her special lunch for the baseball team.  Tatsuya
snuck up to the window to take a little taste.  He said that he was
testing it for the rest of the baseball team.  Tatsuya had actually come
to bring some extra clothes for his brother.

Kazuya was practicing his pitching with Koutarou.  Then they spotted
Tatsuya standing by the edge of the field.  Koutarou thought it was
something to eat and happily went to Tatsuya.  But when he found out
that it was clothes, he got very disappointed and started fighting with
Punch.  Kazuya thanked his brother.

Tatsuya said, "Mother is feeling a little lonely.  Can't you come home
for just one day?"

"If we lose, I can go home right away," Kazuya replied.

"Then don't come home.  Mother will just have to wait a while.."

When Kazuya asked Tatsuya to come watch the game, Tatsuya said that he
might if he felt like it.  Then Tatsuya noticed that Kazuya was using a
very old, worn out glove.  Kazuya said that it was still usable.

That night, Tatsuya got paid for his work at Minamikaze.  Minami's father
had given Tatsuya a little extra because he had worked very hard.  Then
he asked Tatsuya to work again the next day, as he was planning to go see
the baseball game.

The next day, Meisei played against Inomata in the fourth round of the
regional tournament.  Koutarou hit a homerun in the third inning and
things were looking bright for Meisei.  Kazuya overpowered the opponents'
batters and pitched a shutout as Meisei won 3-0.

After the game, Tatsuya went to the school carrying a bag from a sporting
goods store.  He found that the Meisei team was gathered around something
on the practice field.  Kazuya noticed his brother and quickly ran to him
with a new glove in his hand.  A group of former Meisei baseball team
members got together and bought new gloves for the entire team.  When
Kazuya showed Tatsuya his new glove, he said, "Look, it's a nice glove.
It's really expensive."

Then Tatsuya quickly said, "35,000 yen."

"What?" Kazuya was surprised.

"Oh..  I just thought that it might cost something around there.."

Kazuya told Tatsuya that he had guessed the cost exactly.  Then he asked
why Tatsuya had come that day.  Tatsuya just said that it was nothing and
told his brother to keep winning.

Tatsuya went to a park bench and sat down.  He opened the bag that he was
carrying and took out the 35,000 yen glove that he had bought for his
brother.  Then Harada came along eating some ice cream.  When he found
out what Tatsuya had done, he said that Tatsuya was a kind older brother.
But Harada also asked if Tatsuya was always going to be a kind older
brother.  When Tatsuya asked what he meant, Harada walked away.

That afternoon the coach talked to the Meisei team, "There are only three
days left in the tournament.  Now that we've come this far, all we can do
now is to do our best.  There is no reason for you all to sleep over here
any more.  Go home and get a good night's sleep.  Let's win tomorrow!"

Tatsuya's mother was preparing a lot of special dishes for dinner.  She
was very happy because Kazuya was coming home.  Tatsuya thought that she
was doing a little too much.  Then some people from the neighborhood came
and brought some food and drinks.  Tatsuya's father invited them in to
enjoy the party.

Later Kazuya came home, but he and Minami went over to Minamikaze to get
away from the party that was going on at his house.  Kazuya sat down and
asked for an ice coffee.  While Minami's father was getting it, Kazuya
started to wrap his new glove with some string so that it would be easier
to use the next day.  When Minami's father saw the glove, he asked if
that was the one Tatsuya had given him.  Then Minami's father told Kazuya
that Tatsuya had spent his entire earnings on that glove.  Kazuya finally
realized what Tatsuya had been carrying earlier that day when he had come
to visit him.

Kazuya and Minami started playing with fireworks outside.  When Tatsuya
got out of the bath, he went outside and saw them.  Minami spotted
Tatsuya and told him to come play with them.

Later Tatsuya, Kazuya, and Minami were playing poker in the study room.
"I'll bet five chips," Kazuya said after seeing his hand.  Tatsuya
matched it, but Minami folded.  Then Kazuya showed his cards.  Kazuya
had three aces.  When Minami asked what Tatsuya had, Tatsuya looked at
his cards, thought about it, and put his cards down.  Then Tatsuya said,
"I lost!  You're very lucky.  You'll go to the Koushien for sure!"

But Kazuya reached over and opened Tatsuya's cards.  Tatsuya had a
straight.  Minami quickly said that Tatsuya should have won.  Then Kazuya
stared at his brother and said, "Play seriously!"  But Tatsuya said that
it didn't matter because it was just for fun.  Then Kazuya started
shuffling the cards and said, "Then, a real serious game!  Let's bet..!"

"What?" Tatsuya asked.

"Minami!" Kazuya replied.  Then Kazuya continued, "The one who wins can
make Minami his wife."

Tatsuya and Kazuya stared at each other.  But Minami slapped the cards
away from Kazuya's hands, and said, "I'm not a poker chip!"

"I'm glad..  I was wondering what I would do if I had lost," Kazuya said
and got up.  Kazuya said good night and left the room to go to sleep.

After Kazuya had left, Tatsuya told Minami that Kazuya was serious.
Minami asked, "If you would have continued that game, would you have
lost on purpose again?"  Before Tatsuya could answer, Minami got up to
leave.  When she reached the door, Minami said, "I'm..  I'm serious too!
Good night.."

The next day, Tatsuya went up to his mother and asked where Kazuya was.
She said that Kazuya had left for the baseball game a long time ago.
Tatsuya was holding Kazuya's string wrapped glove, and said that Kazuya
had forgotten his glove.  But his mother said that Kazuya had his glove
with him when he left in the morning.  Tatsuya went back to his room to
look at the bag that he had hidden under his bed.  The new glove that
Tatsuya had bought was missing.

At the stadium, the quarter-final game of the regional tournament between
Meisei and Kawada began.
--
Hitoshi Doi, International Open Systems Engineering       doi@jrd.dec.com
Japan Research and Development Center              decwrl!jrd.dec.com!doi
Digital Equipment Corporation Japan         [from Japan: doi@dec-j.co.jp]
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