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All ye gathered,
my name is Yashimano Hage.
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As of this year, I shall be nine
hundred and ninety-nine years of age.
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Comrades!
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Why have the humans encroached
more here in Honshuu than in Shikoku?
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It is because...
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...we tanuki have protected
our mountains so completely.
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In Shikoku, if they anger the tanuki,
the humans know the price they will pay.
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The proof is that I,
and these other two here,...
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...are enshrined in the temples
where the humans worship us.
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Allow me to introduce myself.
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I am Inugami Gyobu, leader of eight
hundred and eight tanuki in Matsuyama.
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And I am the descendant of Kincho
Daimyojin, the sixth in the Kincho line.
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In order to overwhelm
the humans of Tokyo,...
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...we have decided to prepare
a special spell, ``Operation Poltergeist.''
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Leading Operation Poltergeist...
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...will require an incredible amount
of mental concentration.
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Any one of us may lose
his life in carrying out this spell.
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But, my comrades, if all of you
execute this operation flawlessly,...
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...the humans will surely change
their attitude toward tanuki.
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They will regain
their respect and fear for us!
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And when that happens,...
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...we will use their fear and
force them to stop their development.
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There is more than one way to do this.
:04:56
We may not be the Ship of Mud
from Kachikachi Mountain,...