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[Ainosuke and Tadashi's day off]
Both Ainosuke and Tadashi were sleeping in their beds in the dark rooms, in two split screens. Tadashi on the right and Ainosuke on the left.
A smartphone with a charging cable was placed near Tadashi's pillow. Tadashi's pajamas were the gray ones we saw in the key visual.
Ainosuke woke up at 5:30 without an alarm. His pajamas appeared to be open-collared, front-opening, dark blue fabric with red lines. They were probably silk pajamas?
Ainosuke took a shower, his naked body could be seen from the side, although it was obscured by the steam. His muscular torso, obliques and muscular legs were visible. His buttocks were covered by the steam, perhaps because the OVA was rated G by Eirin (= The Film Classification and Rating Organization of Japan).
He started humming a piece of popular classical music, Elgar's
Salut d'Amour, as far as I could see. Wearing a red bathrobe, he hummed and danced in his room as if he had a partner. He opened the curtains, it was a bright morning and the gothic bed with red fabrics could be seen.
Around 8:00, he was sitting on the garden table in the shade of a tree in his bathrobe with his hair down (it was the first time we saw his hair like that!). In the background you can see the pool with the shiny water surface! There was a maid serving a plate (of bread?), but she said nothing. There seemed to be a teapot and some dishes on the table. Ainosuke looked at the book in his hand with a nonchalant expression (perhaps because it was in front of his servant?). The letters on the book were not visible, but it seemed to be written horizontally, so it could be English? He sipped some tea from the white cup.
All this happened on the left screen. On the right screen, Tadashi continued to sleep, barely moving.
Around 9:00 (hereafter, I won't put "?" to the time, and some of them may be incorrect. I tried to remember them, but there were too many to remember...), back in his room, Ainosuke sat at his usual desk in his bathrobe. He took out a cane with a red heart-shaped tip (apparently a riding crop) and swung it with a smile. At that moment, in the right screen, Tadashi moved a little in his sleep... Oh no, his master's swing will reach the distant dog!
And then he took off his bathrobe. What we could see were his muscular legs. Ainosuke changed into the white shirts with a white tie. He ran a red comb through his hair, arranged it in his usual slicked-back style and smiled with satisfaction.
Ainosuke, dressed in black and white riding clothes (seemed to be standard one, with a helmet), was happily riding his horse in the riding grounds (somewhere in the Shindo estate) with a big smile on his face. Ofc with the heart-shaped riding crop. I could not remember, but the horse seemed to be black or dark brown.
At 15:00, back in his room again, we could see there were the heart-shaped riding crop and a black case, and hear the sound of the shower. Oh, Ainosuke took a shower again after exercising!
Ainosuke changed his clothes to his standard waistcoat. He watched Langa on a big screen in his room. It was a still image of Langa's face, not a movie, which seemed to be an image we saw at the end of ep. 10 (Smiling with Reki in the skatepark, in the monitor there was no Reki, ofc). Hmm, could he remember, "Love comes with obstacles, doesn't it?"
At that moment, the sleeping Tadashi was lying on his stomach. He buried his face in the pillow. Hm, maybe he didn't want to interrupt his master's time with Snow?
This time, Ainosuke seemed to enjoy a tea with sugar and cognac (We could see a bottle of reddish colored liquid, but the label only said COGNAC). This style was called Tea Royal in Japan, please refer to the movie on
Nittoh Tea YouTube. The flame was blue. Hey, hey, sir, is it your love that burns for
your Snow!? His face was lit by the flame, looking like a scene from a horror movie. Here, Ainosuke also drank tea, so maybe he can drink alcohol??
At 16:00, on the right screen, Tadashi's alarm went off on the phone he kept by his pillow. It was Beethoven's
Moonlight Sonata, but he seemed to stop the alarm and continued to sleep...
Ainosuke held his Matador board (put on the floor against the wall) and seemed to start practicing Full Swing Kiss.
(In this scene, what we could see was mainly his shadow moving in the room, so we could not see the actual swing of Adam. But on the
YouTube introducing the SK8 EP Cheering Screening, the VAs talked about Full Swing Kiss, from about 2:10 on.)
"You are not allowed to swing your skateboard in the theater. We'd better warn you for your own safety. On the screen you can see (Adam) practicing FSK, but if you swing your board, it's dangerous for the people next to you. Please don't swing your board even at the FSK scene. But if you swing it just a little bit, it would be okay. Mini FSK, or mini kiss, please try to (swing a little), do kiss kiss."
On the screen there was another still image of Langa, who looked sad. Was it after the qualifier (ep. 7) or during a fight with Joe (ep. 9)? Something like "Why am I skating...?" to himself. Sometimes we could see Ainosuke pointing his board at the screen (Langa's face was always there), the horn side, not the heart side.
Ainosuke practicing FSK with the picture of sad Langa... why... Did he want to send his love to his fave, like a fanboy swinging penlights for his
oshi idol? This sad Langa might be the one on the monitor in ep. 10, when Ainosuke said things like: "Oh, you look sad. Maybe you're getting cold feet about our wedding?" So this could be one of his favorite pictures of Langa.
Hey, Ainosuke, could you spend your quality time happily, for hours, just looking at the face of your favorite teenager? You don't have to watch him skate?? (There was no character line, Ainosuke just showed a small smile, these are all my fantasy!)
At 16:30, the alarm went off again, but Tadashi was just wriggled. "Oh my God," Tadashi finally woke up at 16:37 and hurriedly started to wash his face, change clothes, etc. His room looked like an ordinary apartment, but according to producer Uryu, he lives somewhere in the Shindo Mansion.
Ainosuke put the board back against the wall. At 16:50, when the split screen ended and became one screen, Tadashi came to Ainosuke's room in his usual secretary's suite. Ainosuke once again sat at his usual desk.
Tadashi said, "Before tonight's meeting, I would like to ask for your cooperation in discussing next week's party. Your preparations for S are loaded in the car..." or something like that. He had a tuft of bed hair on the back of his head!?
Ainosuke: What time did you get up today?
Tadashi: Eleven o'clock, sir. (a big lie)
Ainosuke: Hm... How was your first day off in a long while without a collar?
Tadashi: Ah, sir, I'm afraid I don't understand what you mean.
Ainosuke: I asked you, how did
you feel on your day off. (in a stern tone)
Tadashi: Oh, yes, thanks to you I was able to spend a satisfying time.
Ainosuke: Satisfying... Huh?
Tadashi bowed so that Ainosuke could see his bed hair. Furthermore, he walked past Tadashi and turned around to look at the back of Tadashi's head so that his bed hair would have been clearly visible. But Ainosuke said nothing, smiled amusedly a little. Tadashi seemed not to have noticed his hair.
Later it got dark, maybe the time after the meeting. Ainosuke was in his S style without a mask, Tadashi was still in his suit. They started talking in front of Adam's helicopter in a heliport.
Ainosuke suddenly extended his hand to Tadashi without saying a word. Tadashi got a little scared (he might remember how his master treated him in S1, like his hair was grabbed in ep. 8), but Ainosuke only touched his back hair gently!!
Ainosuke: You have nice hair, right?
Tadashi: S-sorry...!
Ainosuke: Now, turn around.
Then Ainosuke put some hair wax on his fingers (was it a preparation for his S style?) and tidied Tadashi's bed hair.
Ainosuke: You are a dog. So you should at least keep your hair tidy, okay?
Tadashi just looked surprised. Of course you were.
Ainosuke: Dogs... oh yes, let's make today's S a dog show. A contest of the skaters!
As Ainosuke saying some English words,
originality,
aesthetics,
balance,
character etc. (maybe his points to judge dogs, or skaters), we could see images of each skater + a dog. Langa (Angel!Langa in ep. 5) as Samoyed,
skating style, Shadow holding fireworks as a bulldog, Miya as Pomeranian (jumping through a big ring), Tadashi as Shepherd(?), Cherry was a longhaired dog. and Joe was a sort of big dog,
aesthetics. There was NO Reki and a dog, this was Adam's POV after all.
The BGM here was one of the masterpieces "The Way of Thaw", which was played in ep. 12, at the end of Langa and Adam's beef.
Tadashi: How should we judge skaters as dogs?
Ainosuke: The audience will decide, of course.
Tadashi: How about sending a drone to measure how the crowd cheers and reacts?
Ainosuke: Hm, you've come to express (your opinion).
Tadashi: I-I just thought the dog show was a good idea...!
Then Ainosuke reached out his hand to Tadashi again and gently poked his dog's nose.
Ainosuke: Good idea, we can take it.
Tadashi: Thank you (master, bow-wow)!
Here, Tadashi finally made a wide smile.
Ainosuke: Tonight we have a dog show in S!
Ainosuke spread his hands and declared in high spirits. Then the two of them walked towards the helicopter to S.
(I didn't know about the actual dog show, but I could learn something with
Wikipedia. Ainosuke might have love for dogs, yeah.)
[Three little comedies of Hiromi in the flower shop]
These all happened within S1, according to Uryu. Each episode is short in length, but there were title cards with chibi characters.
1.
[Title card] Tadashi buying many bouquets of roses, and Hiromi eagerly loading them onto a cart. Each bouquets is in a different color. Were they an errand for Ainosuke? Tadashi had a yellow purse with a pattern that looked like a red rose.
Kazu and a woman with long brown wavy hair, not Miki, came to the flower shop to buy a small bouquet of red roses. Was it a new girlfriend of Kazu?
They seemed to be out of order in the checkout line. So Hiromi tried to pull them out of the checkout line by saying, "Sir, could you please stand in line?!" and threatening them in a big way. Then, Hiromi kindly spoke to an old woman in a line, "Thank you for waiting!" Did this happen after Kazu attacked Hiromi?
2.
[Title card] On the counter of the shop, Hiromi made a big flower arrangement, but the wrapping was torn, and to his surprise, Sketchy came out from inside.
Hiromi was carrying four bags of soil on his shoulder. The manager complimented him on his strength, and he tried to show her a good deed by opening the lid of her coffee bottle with the fingers of his other hand. The manager was surprised and pleased and said, "You're great!" and touched Hiromi's arm. He turned red. Then she got the bottle and started drinking, but the coffee that was supposed to be cold was now hot!
3.
[Title card] Hiromi, the romantic, looks up at the night sky with sparkling eyes on a balcony decorated with flowers.
A little girl came to the flower shop with a woman to return an umbrella she had borrowed from Hiromi. The umbrella was white with a small yellow and light blue flower pattern with a red border. Hiromi returned soaking wet and had to leave the shop early.
The manager visited Hiromi's apartment to return his umbrella. She praised his generosity. Hiromi managed to answer with only his head peeking out of the door (He was dressed as Shadow from the neck down to go to S!).