Flute: That guy... Are you sure he's a hero...?
Hamel (off): WA HA HA, BRING ME MORE MONEY--- AND LOOK HAPPY--
elder: The truth hurts...
Oboe: It pretty much does...
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Page 49
(a large city on top of
a mountain against a stormy sky; lightning crackles about it)
narration: This legend has been passed
from person to person from ancient times...
fx: <crash>
(Pandora stands over the box,
ready to open it. The shadow of a large demon is thrown on the
floor surrounding her)
narration: A very long time ago, all
evil was locked away in a box...
But a woman named Pandora opened the box...
(a large bat-like monster raises
a weapon to strike at people as they run away in panic)
narration: And from the box "evil"
descended upon the world...
The peaceful people were no match for the monsters and the world
was brought to ruin...
(mothers huddle with their children,
frightened and crying, behind them an image of the crucifix)
narration: The savior who will answer
their prayers---
Page 50
(full page view of Hamel
playing his violin, ready for action. A small Oboe stands in the
corner, pointing at Hamel horrified)
narration: And the "hope"
was the last thing out of the box...
Is supposed to be him.
(smoke and flames rip through
buildings)
fx: <flames roar>
(many people lie dead on the ground)
fx: <thunder rolling>
Pages 52-3
(double panel of three
large lizard-type monsters holding a child and laughing while
townspeople surround them frightened)
fx: <bong>
monster: Wahahaha!
(closeup of the child, a boy,
crying and screaming)
boy: Wa---h Mo---m!!
(several townspeople gather fearfully,
prominent among them, an elder man in the front, shaking with
anger, and a woman, the mother, shaking nervously behind him)
mother: Aaa---
elder: <grunts>
(two of the monsters laugh and
loll their tongues)
monster 1: Heey---!
fx: <thunder rolls>
monster 2: Let's bring this one back to our demon king
as an offering of food---!!
Page 54
(aerial view of the three
monsters facing off the crowd of townspeople)
voice (off): <grunts>
fx: <swish>
(the elder stands angrily, an
arm outstretched to make his point)
elder: This mountain town Staccato is
small and poor...
But before you take one of our own as food,
we'll fight you with all our might.
(the monster holding the boy laughs)
fx: <grin>
monster: Heh heh heh, are you sure?
If you try to oppose us...
(the monster's mace rises in the
air)
fx: <zip>
(the monster swings the mace towards
the boy in his hand)
monster: IT'S THE DEATH PENALTY---!!
boy:
!
Wa---h!
Page 55
(the scene blurs)
fx: <bash>
(the monster crashes the mace
into the ground as a girl, grabbing the boy, falls to safety)
fx: <crash>
(the girl falls on her back with
the boy in her arms)
fx: <thump>
(close up of the monster's face,
taken by surprise)
monster: Huh---
(the elder and several townspeople
start in surprise)
townspeople: O---oh!
Page 56
(the boy looks up at his
savior in surprise)
girl: There there, don't cry anymore.
boy:
Flute!
(close up of the girl winking
as the boy looks at her in surprise)
Flute: Right---
(distant shot of Flute holding
the boy in her arms as he cries hysterically)
boy: Miss Flute---!
Wah
Flute:
There there, you really don't have to cry anymore!
(two of the monsters close in
on Flute and the boy)
monster 1: Whaat? This girl?
fx: <swish>
monster 2: You want to get crushed too, heh heh heh.
(a shaky hand holds up a crucifix)
fx: <tremble>
(Flute stands stoically before
the monsters, holding out her crucifix)
Flute: Be quiet you evil fiend!
fx: <swing>
Page 57
(distant aerial view of
the monsters, Flute and the crowd)
Flute: What do you think you're doing
with this townspeople---!
These are very peaceful, good people.
elder:
Fl--- Flute, please stop.
(close up of Flute's face, darkened
with anger as she holds up the crucifix)
Flute: How dare you!
(the monster bashes Flute away
with his mace)
fx: <bang>
(the elder and townspeople stare
in shock)
elder: FLUTE
(right profile of Flute's face
as blood flies out of her mouth)
Flute: !!
(the monster grabs Flute by the
head)
fx: <grab>
Page 58
(the monster lifts Flute
high into the air by her head)
Flute: AAAA...
(close up of the monster's face
as he smiles, his tongue lolling)
monster: Feh--- Sassy girl isn't she.
(Flute struggles angrily in the
monster's grip)
Flute: <grunt>
(distant shot of the monster holding
Flute up and laughing, the other monster behind him laughing as
well)
monster (rear): Heh heh heh I think you could take the bitch to
the capital and sell her off.
both: WA HA HA HA
monster (holding Flute): And we could make her a really nice and expensive
serving girl ~~~
(the mother and her child, and
several other townspeople watch in fear)
mother: Aa Flute
boy:
Miss
townsperson:
Damn---
Page 59
(close up of Flute in
the monster's grip, crying)
Flute: Somebody...
(the elder closes his eyes, shaking
as he hopes fervently. Something flies at him from behind)
elder: Oh... Somebody.
(Oboe flies towards the elder
as everybody stops in surprise)
Oboe: It's such a horrible thing...
(Oboe alights on the elder's shoulder,
who watches him in shock)
Oboe: Lizard type monsters...
elder:
Ye--- yes---
(the elder is drawn in white and
Oboe in gray against a black background. A note of music appears
above his head)
elder: The--- the crow speaks.
(the three monsters freeze as
they hear music)
monster 1: Hm---?
monster 2:
Wha-- what is that music?
Page 60
(the three monsters stop
in shock as above them, standing on a spire, is Hamel playing
his violin)
(close up of the three monsters
in shock)
monsters: Wha...
(close up of Flute, shifting her
eyes to the side tiredly)
Flute: Eh---
(the townspeople stop in surprise)
(close up of Hamel looking down
somewhat angrily, partially condescending)
fx: <swish>
Page 61
(the elder's eyes widen
in shock)
elder: <grunts>
(two of the monsters start getting
nervous as Flute looks up with them curiously)
monster 1: Ho-- how did that violin
playing guy get up on that roof
monster 2:
Who the hell are you?!
(Hamel speaks expressionlessly,
his eyes hidden by his hair, from the roof)
Hamel: Let go of the girl.
monster(s):
Wha-- What~~~!
(full shot of Hamel cracking his
knuckles, overlaid by a close up of his angry face. Behind him
the sky is dark and stormy)
Hamel: Otherwise you'll be hearing Hell's
march...
fx: <thunder rolling>
Page 62
(close up of the three
monsters looking extremely nervous)
monster(s): Eek...!
Eeek---
(the monsters cower as they speak
amongst themselves)
monster: He-- hey. He's pretty strong.
monster:
Ri... right... I'm getting worried---
fx: <plop>
(Flute crashes to the ground)
fx: <crash>
(Oboe flies over to Flute with
her hat)
Oboe: Are you okay? Miss!
fx: <flap flap>
Flute:
Eh--?
Ye-- yes...
(Oboe is relieved and Flute is
stunned as she holds her hat)
Oboe: That was very brave of you to
rescue that child... You're a very good person...
Flute:
[The... the crow talks...]
Oboe:
A very sweet girl...
Flute:
Ye-- yes.
(lightning flares behind Hamel,
the three monsters below in total shock)
monster(s): EH--!
(several townspeople gather around
the elder in disbelief)
elder: I knew it!
He's so immeasurably strong that even the fire dragon avoids him
and he is known as the remote region's strongest warrior!!
townsperson:
Is-- is that true, Elder---!
(the three monsters completely
start to freak out)
monster(s): Wha wha wha wha what~~~!
Page 64
(close up of Hamel's expressionless
face as he looks down, framed by roses)
(Flute looks up, blushing, her
heart skipping a beat)
fx: <thump>
Flute: The... legendary hero Hamel...
(angled profile of Hamel, somewhat sad-eyed, still framed by roses)
(Flute smiles and blushes, also
framed by roses, her heart beginning to pound)
fx: <thump thump>
(Oboe alights on the elder's shoulder
and speaks as the elder freezes in surprise)
Oboe: As long as innocent people suffer
and cry silent tears,
Hamel... will be there.
Page 65
(Flute smiles happily
and dons her hat)
fx: <thump thump>
(the townspeople cheer and smile)
townspeople: Oh-- great hero---!
(the elder and Oboe look upwards)
(two of the monsters look at each
other mortified)
monster 1: Wha... what should we do...
monster 2: We
should just go home hungry...
(everyone freezes as in the distance,
Hamel takes a swan dive off the spire)
monster(s): Eek---
fx: <fwip>
(Hamel somersaults in the air)
everyone: OOOHHHHH---
Page 66
(Hamel crashes in a heap
into the ground. Two of the monsters just watch blankly)
fx: <foom>
<crack>
(Flute settles her hat on her
head with a mortified, disbelieving look on her face)
Flute: Eh?
(Hamel screams wildly as he grabs
his right leg. The monsters watch in blank shock behind him. Oboe
screams at Hamel from the corner)
Hamel: GGYYYAAAHHH
I BROKE
MY LEG~~~
Oboe: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING---!
Page 67
(Flute and the townspeople
watch on with flat, mortified expressions)
(Hamel's hand reaches up)
fx: <swish>
(Hamel's cape swirls)
fx: <fwish>
(Hamel stands seriously and proudly;
however, his right leg is bent up at an unnatural angle. Oboe
is in the corner sweating as he stares at the leg)
fx: <thunder rumbling>
Hamel: Hmph. It's true that I'm the
"legendary strongest greatest hero", super-extra-large
violin playing mastser Hamel.
Run now while you still can.
fx: <tremble tremble>
Oboe:
[Hey, hey, your leg is turned the wrong way...]
(the three monsters stare with flat expressions in disbelief)
Page 68
(the three monsters start
beating on Hamel with weapons and fists. Oboe and Flute just watch
on and sweat)
fx: <whap>
monster 1: Who's running you idiot
fx: <slap>
Hamel: Gyeeehhh
fx: <kick>
<stomp>
monster 2: Who's the strongest hero---!!
monster 3:
Wow--- he's really weaker than he appears---
Oboe:
It's about time the hero... (TN:
Sorry, I just couldn't decipher the kanji)
Flute: Aah
(Flute watches worriedly as do
the elder and some townspeople)
townsperson: Eek...
Flute: Sto--
sto...
(Flute screams with all her might
and clasps her hands)
Flute: Stop---
(Hamel crazily punches the monsters
away)
Hamel: THAT HURT, YOU MORONS~~~!
fx: <phoom>
Page 69
(Flute and the others
stare in comic shock)
Flute: Eh---
(the three monsters cower)
monster 1: Im... impossible
monster 2:
We really pounded him~~~
(Hamel stands with his violin,
his arms outsretched by his sides. The monsters look on frearfully)
fx: <rumble rumble rumble>
Hamel: How dare you beat on my elegant
beautiful face~~~
The price you'll pay is high~~~
(Hamel holds his violin and bow
before him, ready to play, and lightning flares behind him)
Hamel: I'LL MAKE YOU LISTEN TO MY SUPER-EXTRA-LARGE
VIOLIN---!
AS A PRELUDE TO YOUR DEATH---!
(the three monsters stare in shock
and abject fear)
monster(s): Wha---
Page 70
(Hamel leans back as he
plays dramatically)
(aerial view of Hamel playing as he performs a plié)
(Hamel leans forward with an over-serious look on his face as he plays)
(aerial view of Hamel as he turns while playing)
(Hamel finishes the turn)
(Hamel leans forward in a type of arabesque and continues to play)
(the monsters all show different
reactions: one is fearful, the other frustrated, the third blank-faced
and confused)
monster 1: Wha... what-- he's started
playing his dumb looking instrument and really stupidly---
monster 2:
Vi-- violin! It's a violin to be precise---
monster 3:
[It looks like a double bass...]
Page 71
(Hamel plays between the
monsters and the townspeople against a dark, circularly clouded
background)
(two of the monsters begin to
cower)
monster 1: Wha-- what's this guy...?
monster 2: This
time... what's he up to
(close up of the elder, his eyes
widening in realization)
elder: Bu---
(several townspeople look around
unsure)
man 1: But this...!
man 2:
Aah
(Flute clutches her crucifix to
her chest as she startles with realization)
Flute: Def-- definitely a powerful musician
but stupid!
This music is sublime and beautiful---!
Page 72
(Flute watches Oboe curiously
as he speaks)
Oboe: "The Song of the Earth".
(Hamel plays, more seriously this
time)
Oboe (off): The great symphonist Mahler's
10th symphony, "The Song of the Earth".
(as Oboe speaks, the face of Mahler
appears beside him)
Oboe: His mother and father were always
fighting. He was one of 14 siblings, 6 of which died of natural
causes (TN: that "natural cause" was diptheria, which
at that time, was quite common), one in an accident, one committed
suicide, and his beloved mother Marie had a bad heart. Mahler
was not blessed with a happy home.
(Flute, the elder, and the townspeople
gather behind Oboe to listen against the misty, dark background)
Oboe: Also, Mahler himself suffered
from the same heart condition as his mother.
Mahler was always fighting death, and what came from that is the
symphony "Song of the Earth".
(Oboe is silhouetted in the foreground
as a shocked Flute is in focus behind him)
Oboe: The music you're listening to
brings out the heart's fondest memories.
(close up of Flute, crying)
Oboe (narration): Te-- tears...
fx: <drip>
Page 73
(view of the tops of buildings
in the middle of winter as snow falls)
(aerial view of the town, and
people bustling about)
voice (off): <baby's rattling cry>
(a small baby in a basket sits
outside at a doorstep with a note, reading "Please take care
of this child" attached to its blanket)
baby: <crying>
(several people look behind them,
irritated, as they walk by)
baby (off): <crying>
(aerial view of the baby at the
doorstep as people walk by)
baby: <crying>
Page 74
(two old hands reach out)
(aerial view of the elder, from
the back, kneeling in front of the baby)
elder: Oh, okay okay...
baby:
<crying>
elder: You
must be cold... Poor thing...
(the elder holds the baby in his
arms, smiling)
elder: Really, don't cry, it'll be okay.
Really, it's all right.
(close up of Flute, with her hand
covering her mouth, crying; overlaid is an image of the elder
holding the baby, her, as the note, along with a crucifix, lie
in the crib)
Flute: Grandad---
fx: <drip>
(profile of Flute, crying as she
tilts her head up, clasping her hands together by her chest)
Flute: Aah, what has this music shaken
from my heart---
(Flute turns in surprise as a
dark shadow trembles in the corner)
Flute: Wha--!
fx: <tremble tremble>
(Flute and the elder stand blank
faced and disbelieving in the background as the three monsters
continue to weep pitifully in the foreground)
elder: ....
monster 1: <whimper>
monster 2:
I can't go on~~~
monster 3:
Forgive me~~~
I'm sorry~~~
(Flute stands tensely as she thinks)
Flute: I-- I get it! They were moved
by the beautiful music
The fiends felt so guilty for their evil ways that it changed
them...
(close up of Flute's eye, shocked)
Flute: Who-- who in the world is
he...
WHA--!
Page 76
(Hamel plays the violin
at the three monsters while they try to kill themselves. Flute
face faults and Oboe just watches blank faced but darkly)
Hamel: Take that die die~~
Hurry up and die~~
(Flute is blank faced in shock
as Hamel tries to kick the monster about to hang himself off his
block)
Hamel: Take~~ that. Hurry up and die
already!
fx: <whap>
<rattle rattle>
monster: Eek--
(the monster cries as Hamel stands
irritated behind him)
monster: I-- I can't~~ I can't die--!
(the three monsters prostrate
themselves in front of Hamel)
monsters: We-- we're sorry
fx: <bow>
monsters: We won't do any thing bad
anymo~~re.
We'll enter a monastery~~~
We'll atone all our lives~~~
(close up of a weepy eyed, flower-framed
monster)
monster: We will...
(close up of Hamel looking down expressionless, but not unsympathetically)
(Flute stands with her hands clasped behind her back in surprise)
Page 77
(Hamel walks away wiping
his hands as the three monsters lay beaten on the floor with barrels
and barrels stuffed in their mouths. The barrels have writing
on them reading "diseased", "lump", "little
monkey", "paint brush", "painting", some
other writing I can't decipher, and a flag reading "monkey's
uncle"; Flute and the elder, as long as the crowd, stand
speechless in the background)
fx: <slap slap>
<blink blink>
monster: How cruel...
(Oboe speaks to the surprise of
the elder and Flute)
Oboe: A-- a person wants to leave his
name behind for the future generations as a great composer but
rumor can ruin that...
[Bu-- but this is cheating...]
(close up of Oboe speaking, Flute
still listening behind him)
Oboe: Each of a composer's famous pieces
leaves behind sympathetic feelings.
(close up of Oboe's eye, intense)
Oboe: HE (Hamel) CONVEYS THIS IN HIS
PERFORMANCE!
HE USES THIS TALENT TO CONFUSE AND DEFEAT HIS ENEMIES --!
Page 78
(Hamel stands before Flute,
neither one's face visible. The townspeople stand behind them
in anticipation)
fx: <rustle>
(close up of Hamel speaking expressionlessly)
Hamel: You were hurt...
(Flute looks up surprised at Hamel)
fx: <ba-bump>
Flute: Eh-- yeah, well...
(Flute starts bowing and thanking
Hamel in front of a confused and happy crowd)
Flute: Ah--! Well... Thank you so much--!
We owe you greatly--!
fx: <fawning>
(Hamel's hand lifts Flute's hat from her head, who freezes in surprise)
Page 79
(Hamel fastidiously ties
a bandage to Flute's head)
(close up of Hamel smiling)
Hamel: Now you're okay.
fx: <grin>
(Flute falls on her rear on the
floor, smiling with tears welling up in her eyes)
Flute: Ha... Hamel, sir.
fx: <drop>
(misty view of Flute wiping away
her tears and Hamel kneeling before her. Both are smiling)
Flute: Thank you... Sweet
hero...
Page 80
(everyone starts cheering
around Hamel and Flute)
crowd: Great hero--!
Thank you so much--!
fx: <clapping>
(the elder, smiling, approaches
Hamel and Oboe)
elder: We really owe you a huge debt
of gratitude.
(Oboe laughs dismissively from
Hamel's shoulder, but gets a suspicious side long glance from
Hamel)
Oboe: Oh ho ho, no thanks are necessary.
fx: <blink>
Oboe: We
would naturally want to help...
(Hamel, his face hidden, grabs
Oboe in his fist and bops him over the head to the bug-eyed surprise
of Flute and the elder)
fx: <bong>
Oboe: OUT.
(Hamel walks away and tosses Oboe
over his shoulder)
fx: <fling>
(Oboe lies crying on the ground
in the foreground with a huge lump on his head as Hamel stands
smiling smugly in the background to the shock of the crowd)
Hamel: Hmph... A reward, huh... (TN: the phrase the elder and Flute used
to thank Hamel before, while implied as being a thank you, literally
means that a reward is owed, thus the difference in Oboe and Hamel's
interpretation)
fx: <rustle>
crowd: [....]
fx: <blink blink>
Page 81
(Hamel starts scribbling
on a piece of paper as Flute and the elder, backed by the crowd,
watch in confusion)
Hamel: Let's see. Emergency handling
of three lizard type monsters...
And included medical treatment...
fx: <scritch scritch
scritch>
(close up of Flute standing blank faced in confusion)
(the elder watches Hamel similarly
as he continues to write)
Hamel: And now there's the special beginning
of fiscal year service fee too~~~
You guys are lu~~cky.
(a bill)
bill: Bill
2,000,000 Yen (TN: approx. 18, 326.77 as of 31 October, 2000)
Medical treatment fee
Monster extermination (three)
Super extra large vio (cut
off)
Heisei (cut off)
(the elder stares at the bill,
his face dark but his expression hidden while Hamel just shrugs
and smiles innocently)
Hamel: Well-- that's the way it go~~es~~~
[Heh heh heh]
elder:
Two million Yen.
(the elder holds up the bill,
which reads "bill...")
elder: You-- you want us to pay this?
Page 82
(Hamel rubs his hands
together in the foreground, smiling, while Flute, the elder, and
the crowd stand blank faced in the background)
Hamel: Of course-- that's business,
after all--
elder: Bus...
business, you say?
(close up of Flute winking and
laughing)
Flute: No-- no way-- Hamel is just joking---
Very fun.
(Hamel grabs Flute around the
neck as he did Oboe and bops her on the head. The elder goes bug
eyed)
Flute: NY--
fx: <bonk>
(Hamel tosses Flute over his shoulder
to the mortification of the elder)
fx: <flip>
(Flute, crying and sporting a
huge lump, lies next to Oboe who is lying the same way. Hamel
just walks away from them towards a shocked crowd)
Flute: ....
fx: <blink blink>
<drip>
Page 83
(a big fisted Hamel grabs
and threatens a terrified elder in front of a panicking crowd)
Hamel: You bastard-- This is a business
after all~~~ What did you think, hey---!
townsperson 1: Eek!
townsperson 2: Wah-- Elder~~!
(Flute, blood dripping down her
forehead, and Oboe continue to lie on the ground)
Flute: Tha-- that guy...
fx: <drip drip drip>
(a foot sticks out on a rock outcropping
overlooking Staccato)
fx: <wind howling>
<rustle>
(a large monster stands shadowed
on the high rock against a stormy sky)
fx: <thunder rolling>
Page 84
(close up of the monster's
glowing eyes sharp, toothy grin)
fx: <thunder rolling>
monster: The hero Hamel...
<chuckles>
(Hamel sits on a large throne
holding a large turkey leg and a mug labeled "sake",
surrounded by village girls dressed as playboy bunnies. The girls
are forcing smiles as they serve him food and drink and fan him
with a fan labeled "fan". A large banner hangs over
him reads "Thank you for everything Great Hamel!!!".
The panel is labeled at the bottom "the village girls")
Hamel: Wa ha ha! That's it--- that's
it---
Look sincere, sin--cere--!
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