Ren'Ai Shindan - Detailed Summaries/Translation
This is going to take me a /long/ time. And may be more than one post. But... here goes.
This post and any subsequent related posts will contain detailed spoilers for the various arcs of the "Ren'Ai Shindan" drama series.
Warnings for the series in general include: Boys' Love (gayness), Girls' Love (lesbians), Violence, Partial Nudity, Implied Sexual Situations, Implied Sibling Love, Character Death, Serious Illness, Mental Incapacitation and Un-subtle Symbolism.
翼のカケラ (Tsubasa no Kakera)
First, the title has a dual meaning. It could be "Pieces of a Wing" or it could be "Pieces of Tsubasa". Tsubasa is the main character of the arc, but his name also holds the meaning of wings or a wing.
Episode 1
"Father," Tsubasa narrates. "I still haven't forget what happened that day. Can I really go back to the person I was that day? Father, I'm still lost in the fog of that morning."
Walking to classes at the university, Tsubasa is distracted by the sound of shattering pottery and heads down a side alleyway. Before he can try to approach or flee from the young man he sees there, he is pulled off to another alley by three thugs.
They taunt him for being the son of the famous sculptor 'Amano', taking his art kit and joking that he must not need simple things like that. After threatening him with his own knife they beat him up, telling him that he's too lame to be such a 'celebrity' and should get up and fight back.
That day, something in me was crushed.
At school, he finds a seemingly empty private studio where he finally relaxes a little, trying to clean up his ruined clothes. He's obviously frustrated, but unable to do anything about it.
Enter a lovely ephemeral and mostly-naked man who gives Tsubasa a clean shirt and asks what's happened to him. He introduces himself as Cain, and Tsubasa introduces himself with his full name 'Amano Tsubasa'. Cain doesn't seem to react to the name, but drops his sheet and offers a handshake.
A bit later, Tsubasa is examining a small sculpture of a wing. When asked if he likes that sort of thing however, he says meerly that he knows a little about it since his fathers sculpts.
After a tense moment, Tsubasa suggests that perhaps Cain should wear a shirt, because he might catch a cold or something. Cain responds literally 'Nah, I'll be fine. I'm always like this.' Tsubasa wants to add more, but instead comments more on the sculpture. He's told that it's not in-fact Cain's work at all, and wonders what sort of person could have created it.
On the way home, still wearing Cain's shirt, Tsubasa sees the pottery-smashing man from before evading the same thugs that beat him up. He asks what's wrong, see's that he other man is injured and is then abruptly dragged back to the other man's house. Tsubasa tries to tend to his wounds, but flees when the man presses him down on a bed and tries to kiss him. Even so, when the man returns from an uncomfortable-looking shower, he finds a first aid kit on his doorstep.
Some time later, the same thugs start harassing Tsubasa again, but this time the mysterious pottery-smashing-man interferes, under the pretense of returning Tsubasa's handkerchief, he stands up to the thugs, who are surprised that he's even alive. They call him a murderer, but decide to leave. Tsubasa works up the courage to ask if the previous injury was for his sake. When he gets no reply he asks to at least have the man's name. Which he gets, before the man disappears again: Kaminaga Leo.
Tsubasa goes to see Cain again, falling asleep outside his door when he's apparently not home. Cain invites him in when he returns and they talk as he works with clay. Tsubasa talks about how his admiration for his father's work got him into art, and about how the finely detailed yet powerful pieces that his father make inspire him. When Tsubasa wistfully says that he'd like to become like his father, Cain kindly says that for him it should be possible. Tsubasa denies this, of course, saying that he has no talent and isn't blood-related to his father anyway. Cain distracts him with a lesson on the pottery wheel.
"At that time, Icarus met with the wrath of the king of Minos. Icarus's father, Daedalus, was imprisoned in a high place. Always the famous inventor, Daedalus collected the feathers left by the birds, stiffening them with wax an creating a huge pair of wings. Together with his father, Icarus took those wings and flew away. Young Icarus ignored his father's warnings, flying higher and higher. In the heat of the sun, the wax melted from his and they fell to the ground. Without his wings, Icarus fell to his death in the sea.
In the midst of being distracted by Cain, they both look up to see Leo, who walks straight to the wing sculpture that Tsubasa had admired before. He makes to destroy it, saying that it has nothing to do with Tsubasa anyway. When Tsubasa stops him from smashing it, he throws it to Tsubasa instead "If you want it that badly, then I'll give it to you." In chasing Leo, Tsubasa trips and breaks the statue anyway.
"Father, will I really be able to take off safely? On that day, I was ready to fly off into the forbidden sky."
Episode 2
Narration: "Father, why do you suppose Icarus ignored his father's warnings and aimed for the heavens? Right now, in my sleeping heart, I'm trying to do away with these misdirected feelings. Father, why am I..."
Tsubasa chases after Leo, trying to appologize for breaking the statue. Leo, though obviously upset, say that it's up to Tsubasa what he did with it, since he gave it to him already.
When Tsubasa promises to fix it (or make things up in a more general sense), Leo demands that in exchange Tsubasa should hang out with him on the next weekend.
[Pausing here due to lack of time]
Episode 3
Coming Soon...
This post and any subsequent related posts will contain detailed spoilers for the various arcs of the "Ren'Ai Shindan" drama series.
Warnings for the series in general include: Boys' Love (gayness), Girls' Love (lesbians), Violence, Partial Nudity, Implied Sexual Situations, Implied Sibling Love, Character Death, Serious Illness, Mental Incapacitation and Un-subtle Symbolism.
翼のカケラ (Tsubasa no Kakera)
First, the title has a dual meaning. It could be "Pieces of a Wing" or it could be "Pieces of Tsubasa". Tsubasa is the main character of the arc, but his name also holds the meaning of wings or a wing.
Episode 1
"Father," Tsubasa narrates. "I still haven't forget what happened that day. Can I really go back to the person I was that day? Father, I'm still lost in the fog of that morning."
Walking to classes at the university, Tsubasa is distracted by the sound of shattering pottery and heads down a side alleyway. Before he can try to approach or flee from the young man he sees there, he is pulled off to another alley by three thugs.
They taunt him for being the son of the famous sculptor 'Amano', taking his art kit and joking that he must not need simple things like that. After threatening him with his own knife they beat him up, telling him that he's too lame to be such a 'celebrity' and should get up and fight back.
That day, something in me was crushed.
At school, he finds a seemingly empty private studio where he finally relaxes a little, trying to clean up his ruined clothes. He's obviously frustrated, but unable to do anything about it.
Enter a lovely ephemeral and mostly-naked man who gives Tsubasa a clean shirt and asks what's happened to him. He introduces himself as Cain, and Tsubasa introduces himself with his full name 'Amano Tsubasa'. Cain doesn't seem to react to the name, but drops his sheet and offers a handshake.
A bit later, Tsubasa is examining a small sculpture of a wing. When asked if he likes that sort of thing however, he says meerly that he knows a little about it since his fathers sculpts.
After a tense moment, Tsubasa suggests that perhaps Cain should wear a shirt, because he might catch a cold or something. Cain responds literally 'Nah, I'll be fine. I'm always like this.' Tsubasa wants to add more, but instead comments more on the sculpture. He's told that it's not in-fact Cain's work at all, and wonders what sort of person could have created it.
On the way home, still wearing Cain's shirt, Tsubasa sees the pottery-smashing man from before evading the same thugs that beat him up. He asks what's wrong, see's that he other man is injured and is then abruptly dragged back to the other man's house. Tsubasa tries to tend to his wounds, but flees when the man presses him down on a bed and tries to kiss him. Even so, when the man returns from an uncomfortable-looking shower, he finds a first aid kit on his doorstep.
Some time later, the same thugs start harassing Tsubasa again, but this time the mysterious pottery-smashing-man interferes, under the pretense of returning Tsubasa's handkerchief, he stands up to the thugs, who are surprised that he's even alive. They call him a murderer, but decide to leave. Tsubasa works up the courage to ask if the previous injury was for his sake. When he gets no reply he asks to at least have the man's name. Which he gets, before the man disappears again: Kaminaga Leo.
Tsubasa goes to see Cain again, falling asleep outside his door when he's apparently not home. Cain invites him in when he returns and they talk as he works with clay. Tsubasa talks about how his admiration for his father's work got him into art, and about how the finely detailed yet powerful pieces that his father make inspire him. When Tsubasa wistfully says that he'd like to become like his father, Cain kindly says that for him it should be possible. Tsubasa denies this, of course, saying that he has no talent and isn't blood-related to his father anyway. Cain distracts him with a lesson on the pottery wheel.
"At that time, Icarus met with the wrath of the king of Minos. Icarus's father, Daedalus, was imprisoned in a high place. Always the famous inventor, Daedalus collected the feathers left by the birds, stiffening them with wax an creating a huge pair of wings. Together with his father, Icarus took those wings and flew away. Young Icarus ignored his father's warnings, flying higher and higher. In the heat of the sun, the wax melted from his and they fell to the ground. Without his wings, Icarus fell to his death in the sea.
In the midst of being distracted by Cain, they both look up to see Leo, who walks straight to the wing sculpture that Tsubasa had admired before. He makes to destroy it, saying that it has nothing to do with Tsubasa anyway. When Tsubasa stops him from smashing it, he throws it to Tsubasa instead "If you want it that badly, then I'll give it to you." In chasing Leo, Tsubasa trips and breaks the statue anyway.
"Father, will I really be able to take off safely? On that day, I was ready to fly off into the forbidden sky."
Episode 2
Narration: "Father, why do you suppose Icarus ignored his father's warnings and aimed for the heavens? Right now, in my sleeping heart, I'm trying to do away with these misdirected feelings. Father, why am I..."
Tsubasa chases after Leo, trying to appologize for breaking the statue. Leo, though obviously upset, say that it's up to Tsubasa what he did with it, since he gave it to him already.
When Tsubasa promises to fix it (or make things up in a more general sense), Leo demands that in exchange Tsubasa should hang out with him on the next weekend.
[Pausing here due to lack of time]
Episode 3
Coming Soon...