The Amazing Deer Man, episode 1

A village.

A priestess is talking about getting someone to replace her.

Earthquake.

A guy is talking about the very high number of earthquakes that have been taking place in a certain area, and what it might lead to.

He points out some of the problems that could happen, including traffic jams and damaged power plants.

Japan could be severely affected.

There's some kind of legend about a catfish and how it relates to stopping the earthquake.

Ogawa Takanobu goes into how, at different times in his life, things have gone wrong for him. In this case, this is his first day on the job at this company, and it has just gone bankrupt.

He's being kicked out.

He is offering him a chance to become a school teacher.

It's a girl's school.

The woman, who I assume he thought was his girlfriend, says she wants to marry the guy in the lab who is his bitter enemy. Ogawa agrees to leave the lab and go teach at the girl's school.

Apparently this is the inside of one of their trains, and it looks really neat to me. Ogawa, by the way, has had even more bad luck.

There are loads of deer where he is going.

One deer in particular has been watching Ogawa.

He finally gets to a hotel.

Some girl comes in and catches him with his shirt off. The woman running the hotel told him to take it off so she can clean it.

There's an earthquake while he's taking a bath.

The woman he met is a teacher at the school he's going to.

The deer that is watching him. (The frame colors change quite a bit. This time it's blue, once before it was a golden yellow.)

The staff room at the school.

His classroom. It looks like there's around thirty students in the class.

This is part of how Japanese classes are run. When the teacher comes in the students stand, then bow.

One of the girls is late for class.

Her excuse for being late is that she had to park her deer somewhere. This also shows just how bad the translation is in this version of the movie. The girl also claims that people ride the deer.

The head of that portion of the school calls the girl into the office after class. Her punishment is to write the school rules down a certain number of times.

God's amulet?

The other teacher explains some of the local mythology.

The same deer keeps following him and looking at him.

The girl seems to be very defiant.

The other teacher takes him on a tour of the area.

She's like him in a lot of ways.

An interesting view.

They seem well suited for each other.

He's told her to report to the office this time. She admits she hates him, and says he is too sensitive.

He takes a bite of crackers normally fed to deer. The next day there's a note on his blackboard asking if the “deer cake” was tasty, yet, when he was feeding the deer, he looked around very carefully and there was no one in sight.

The next day he's out early. He sees two deer bow to another one.

The deer talks to him.

He looks at the deer.

This is a scene shown several times. The center object resembles a fin or a tail. It moves, and an earthquake results.


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