This year, it's a lot harder to call any one part of the many 24hrTV split videos "Ohno's Task," because his overall task was the balloon project. This is one of the longest segments from that project where Ohno goes to visit one of the artists who contributes to the balloon.
The file this translation is based off of is from
forgyoza / my12 clubbox. If you're unable to download it from either of those sources, let me know and I'll upload it here :) I only translated Ohno's part of the video, not entire thing.
[Text: Congential Cerebral Palsy
Severely Handicaped Right Hand and Left Leg
Yukawa Misato (19)]
Ohno: The person I visited was Yukawa Misato, who has a severe handicap in her right hand and left leg because of cerebral palsy. Because she can't hold a brush well, painting is hard work. The reason Misato-san has continued to paint painting after painting on huge canvases is... A certain painful personal experience was the beginning.
Misato: Yes, when I was in elementary and middle school, I was bullied.
Ohno: Because of her condition, if she was surprised by a loud noise her body would have spasms. Finding that girl funny, pranksters would torment her by blowing a whistle next to her. During that time, painting pictures became a comfort to her.
Misato: I get completely absorbed in it and can forget everything that's bothering me.
Ohno: It dissapears, doesn't it. I draw too, it lets you just relax.
Misato: Painting became a comfort -
Ohno: A comfort.
Misato: - Well, of course the people around me were comforting too, but painting also comforted me...
Ohno: What does - what does painting mean to you, Misato-san?
Misato: Let's see...painting gives me strength in a lot of different ways.
Ohno: By painting, Misato-san says she's been able to become optomistic and has gained power to do many things. Even so, she still battles unimaginable fear. That fear is...
Misato: It's inevitable that one day I'll become unable to move and that...well, I don't know how many years it'll be, but it could be next year and that...I'm really scared of that more than death. Because I can move, I'm painting because I want to keep doing my best to be able to move.
Ohno: Do you want to continue painting?
Misato: I want to continue as long as [Ohno: as long as-] my hand can still move.
Ohno: I was overwhelmed by her optimism. She revealed to me what she her challenge was for the project.
Misato: A painting of the sea - an underwater picture.
Ohno: Ahh.
Misato: I've never painted anything like that, so -
Ohno: An underwater picture?
Misato: Yes.
Ohno: Ahh. "I want to draw a picture of the sea." Watching Misato-san say that with so much enthusiasm, I wanted to somehow lend her strength. So then.... You want to go to an aquarium?
Misato: Right now?
Ohno: You wanna go now?
Misato: Wow! Should we go?
Ohno: Alright! Let's go!
Misato: No way! Yay! I'm happy, I'm really happy.
Ohno: And so, we set off for...
Ohno & Misato: I see it!
Misato: There it is!
Ohno Kanagawa Prefecture, Fujisawa City: Shinenoshima Aquarium. Oh! Oh!
Misato: It's huge!
Ohno: Wow, it's huge! In front of our eyes the Sagami Bay Large Tank appeared.
Misato: It's beautiful!
Ohno: Inside this huge 9 meter high tank there are about 20,000 fish of 90 different breeds swimming around. Look up there, it's amazing!
Misato: Are those sardines?
Ohno: I think they are. [Text: Roughly 8,000 Sardines]
Misato: They all move as a group.
Ohno: Why do you want to use the sea as your motif?
Misato: Hmm...I wonder...I guess because I've never seen real fish in person like this.
Ohno: Since you haven't seen them...
Misato: Because I haven't, I feel like I want to try to paint them.
Ohno: You do- mm-hmm. Look, look! Because she usually can't go out much, Misato-san's eyes sparkled as she looked at the tanks.
Misato: It would be great if I could be that flexible!
Ohno: Then the last thing we found was...A baby dolphin that was just born in June and it's mother.
Misato: Ah, I think they's coming?
Ohno: There they are.
Misato: They're here they're here they're here! Wow! They really came. They seem so nice.
Ohno: They had such kind looking faces!
Misato: They really did.
Ohno: They were cute, weren't they.
Misato: They were! Reaally cute.
Ohno: To see the show, we went to the Dolphin Show Stadium.
Ohno: This is awesome!
Misato: Wow!
Ohno: Up until now, Misato-san has only painted from photographs. With real dolphins in front of her, the smile on her face dissapeared before anyone noticed and her expression became serious. Was I able to help her a little? As I was feeling this way, she gave me some strong words.
Misato: I want to do my best to draw from now on.
Ohno: I'm looking forward to it!
Misato: Thank you very much.
Ohno: Alright, I'll be waiting for you at the Budoukan.
Misato: Okay!
Ohno: Thank you.
Misato: Thank you so much!
Ohno: I'll be waiting!
Misato: Okay! Thank you so much!
Ohno: The ocean scenery we saw together on this day...how will it end up being painted? What kind of amazing painting will it be when it's finished? Finally, the picture Misato-san vowed to paint has arrived at the Budoukan. So! The painting Misato-san finished is here. So, should I open it right away?
Kondo Haruna (Harisenbon): Yes.
Ohno: Open!
All: Oooohhh!
Female Commedian Who's Name I Can't Remember: Wow, that's beautiful!
Ohno: Wow, it's completely changed.
Nino: Amazing!
Female Commedian Who's Name I Can't Remember: It's beautiful!
Kondo Haruna (Harisenbon): Yes, the theme of this painting is "Journey." Like these dolphins in the middle- Misato-san's dream is to have a happy family like these dolphins.
Ohno: Well- When I saw it, these dolphins weren't here at all, it was just the heart. This was magnificantly-
Kondo Haruna (Harisenbon): It really is!
Ohno: To be able to draw with this kind of color usage and imagination just having visited an aquarium is amazing.
Kondo Haruna (Harisenbon): Yes, this is really wonderful.
Ohno: We're going to put this painting into the huge balloon too so...we'll do our best.
Tokumitsu Kazuo: That's right!
Ohno: Yes. Thank you, Misato-chan!
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