Title: ゴールドGōrudo (Gold)
English Title: Gold
Episode 01
Saotome Yūri: Parents provide food for their children, maintain a clean home, and give them allowances. Who would these children respect in the future if they are in a disrespectful relationship with such parents? Manners of speech are important. Those who have the courtesy to rephrase their words are much more adequate. There are many things you must have ingrained in them by the time they reach sixth grade: holding their chopsticks properly, always having good posture, respecting their elders, properly saying their greetings. In other words, this is creating a foundation for your children. This must be taught strictly no matter how many times you repeat yourself. An intimate friendly relationship is impossible.
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Saotome Yūri: It would be fine if you live on an unpopulated island. Spoil them and let them run free. But children will go out into society; they will live encountering other people.
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Saotome Yūri: Those raised by wolves will become wolves. And those raised by lazy people will become lazy, right? No, there's also the risk of intelligent people becoming nasty and sly.
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Saotome Yūri: There is 10% of people who are born good. And there is also 10% of people born bad. That isn't influenced by environment. As parents, we should be thinking of looking after the remaining 80%. Both good and bad people depend on the foundation, and children can go either way. You must perfect their foundation by sixth grade.
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Saotome Yūri: (The most important thing that children must remember is) perseverance. I heard that there are many children who easily become uncontrollable. It's the result of being spoiled. The most important thing is to have them remember patience...
Saotome Yūri: Patience, listens to others, a strong heart that doesn't give up or run away, doesn't make excuses, doesn't cheat, and more than anything, doesn't blame others. A lovely child on the inside and out. (It is possible) to be a 'beautiful' child.
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Saotome Yūri: Everything is decided before they enter junior high, whether they have the qualifications to interact with people in society.
Saotome Yūri: I'm sure I said in the beginning; we don't have much time. Honestly, it doesn't matter what your answers are. Answering my questions immediately is what's correct.
Saotome Yūri: Secretaries shouldn't be strongly self-assertive, especially since I won't ask for your every opinion.
Saotome Yūri: Last question. If the world were to end tomorrow, what would you do today?
?: I would spend it with those important to me.
Nīkura Rika: I would probably do what I normally do.
Saotome Yūri: Let me tell you, independence isn't economical. It's mental, mentality...
Saotome Yūri: Pride. In other words, a sense of beauty is extremely important.
Saotome Yūri: Understand? If you're told to do painful and unreasonable things, then answer with endurance. Next time, just do the same with your subordinates.
Saotome Yūri: This is how the history of glory will continue.
Saotome Yūri: In the past, if there was a divorce, children would always say they want to go with their mothers, even though mothers are nagging and more bossy. In other words, it's a survival instinct. (Mothers) make meals, and keep the house clean. It isn't about who they like or not, it was a selection by the court.
Nīkura Rika: They do say that mothers are better parents.
Saotome Yūri: However, the circumstances have changed recently. Women have started to work as well, and more families have fathers who also help raise the children. Sometimes the fathers even make the meals, and drop the children off at kindergarten.
Nīkura Rika: I want that kind of husband.
Saotome Yūri: Your children will end up saying, "It's okay even if it's not Mommy" that way. They'll want to go with the father more than the mother, who is sometimes hysterical. They'll think like that even though it's you who carried them for ten months and ten days, and went through difficult child birth.
Nīkura Rika: In short, meals and housekeeping.
Saotome Yūri: If you get married and have children, you must do those two things with it ingrained in you.
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Saotome Yūri: Meals and cleaning, seeing such as an unrewarding routine job will affect your children...
Nīkura Rika: You have to do it with ease.
Saotome Yūri: The children are watching, "Who is working harder for my sake?" Just having a career and working to earn money doesn't mean it'll come easy. If you don't want to be betrayed then you can't slip up there.
Saotome Yūri: I believe that people should put in great effort so that they won't come to a standstill. There's still more. I can still go on; higher, further.
Saotome Yūri: I believe that if you don't pull out your hidden potential, then you will continue to decline.
Episode 02
Saotome Yūri: Ask me about that first. That difference in order is where modesty and shame splits off.
Saotome Yūri: It's fine when you're young and still getting support from your parents. But when a girl has reached marriageable age like you, the important thing in the long run for a girl looking for a marriage partner is economical strength.
Nīkura Rika: That's something that's better to have.
Saotome Yūri: Of course it's better to have.
Saotome Yūri: No. If you don't have it then your brain for shopping can't be satisfied. In other words, you won't become happy.
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Saotome Yūri: It's money after all. You're not happy if there's no money.
Saotome Yūri: Do you have any friends? Do you have anybody you can call your best friend?
Nīkura Rika: Yes, there are some: people from my junior college and friends from my high school club.
Saotome Yūri: Are those really friends?
Nīkura Rika: Well, yes.
Saotome Yūri: Do they also think so?
Nīkura Rika: I think they do.
Saotome Yūri: Do they sometimes worry about you more than themselves?
Nīkura Rika: Um, probably.
Saotome Yūri: Probably is not good. You can't call them friends if you can't say that with certainty, right?
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Saotome Yūri: There are one or two people in one's lifetime, friends who know you more than you know yourself. At most. Or you might not meet any.
Saotome Yūri: I understand the feeling of frustration. If you live, you'll encounter various situations. However...
Saotome Yūri: When you have that emotion, there are those who spring back up and tell themselves to keep trying, and those who resent the other person or the company or even the whole society. I believe there are these two kinds of people. That's (because of) the difference in character.
Nīkura Rika: I think it can't be helped that your feelings of love disappeared, since they're only affections. But you'll really regret it if you let it end so badly...
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Saotome Yūri: The break up determines a man's character.
Saotome Yūri: First, I'm the one who decides if this is impossible. You don't have the right to decide. Got it? Not even a little.
Episode 03
Saotome Yūri: Giving birth without qualification or resolve, the result is child abandonment. In that case, it's fine to not have children...
Saotome Yūri: It's fine for those who can't be parents to not become one. It'll be okay if those who do have the resolve and qualification give birth to several children.
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Saotome Yūri: It might be a strange way of saying it, but there are people who are suitable (to become parents) and those who aren't.
Saotome Yūri: People's good deeds all originated from hypocrisy. Children who give up their seats for the elderly are praised. They keep doing it because someone praises them for doing something kind. It's fine if the origin is hypocrisy. But one day that will become normal. They'll feel bad if they don't do it, even if nobody praises them. Before long, it will naturally turn into true kindness.
Hasumi Jōji: It'll be the same even if you resent someone or sulk or persevere. Nobody will help you.
Hasumi Jōji: Just one thing. You don't have the time or the money to try to do anything. Only one thing. Find something that you are really good at. It's not about what you like or hate, something you believe you are better than anyone else at... You can find something you're better at than other children. And then, only with that...
Saotome Yūri: Risk your life doing it.
Hasumi Jōji: To become the best,
Saotome Yūri: To be as good as being able to get a gold medal,
Hasumi Jōji: Risk your life doing it!
Saotome Yūri: Risk your life doing it!
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Hasumi Jōji: If there is someone better, try harder and defeat them!
Episode 04
Saotome Kō: But this is something you always said, "When women are discussing things, it can't be helped even if you say one way is better. Women already have the answer, they just want others to listen.
Saotome Yūri: Did I say that?
Saotome Kō: For example, when she asks, "Does the blue or red outfit match better?", you told me to casually answer with "What do you think?" And when she mumbles to herself, "I think the red one's better", I should respond, "I think so, too". You told me to say that without hesitation.
Saotome Shūichi: Why can't people help hurting others no matter what?
Episode 05
Saotome Yūri: Girls are strong because they change from girls to ladies to women, and even to mothers. They get stronger with every transformation.
Hasumi Jōji: Nobody introduces every person they've dated to the family.
Saotome Yūri: Is it like that?
Hasumi Jōji: Especially when they know the family will be against the relationship.
Saotome Yūri: There's a saying that goes, "Yesterday's rival is today's friend."
Episode 06
Saotome Shūichi: They say family is an encouragement, but I think differently. They can make you try hard, but they can't fight for you. Isn't that why they relay the baton once they have kids? They think, "I've done enough, let this kid fight instead".
Saotome Yūri: You know, by nature a man's brain doesn't wish for a conversation without a conclusion. In contrast, women find meaning in talking itself.
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Saotome Yūri: A man chattering is like a proof of his dishonesty because 90% are lies... That's why in terms of honesty and loyalty, a quiet guy is more reliable. But women would interpret it as lacking affection. It's the ancient story of conflicting values.
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Saotome Yūri: Men's words don't convey any feelings either. Let actions speak, not words. Like what efforts they make for you.
Hasumi Jōji: There's a saying that you can't see the forest for the trees.
Saotome Yūri: There are people who say one can start over no matter how many mistakes one makes. I start laughing whenever I hear these words. That only applies to unintentional crimes. If intentional or on impulse however... that's not to be applied on malicious criminals.
Episode 07
Jindai ?: What do you think we businessmen and politician consider important to be on the top?
Nīkura Rika: That is, talent or effort?
Jindai ?: That's a commoner's way of thinking.
Saotome Yūri: He often says that even if the action and the person were the same, there's one thing that makes the difference.
Nīkura Rika: What is that?
Saotome Yūri: Fortune!
Nīkura Rika: Fortune?!
Saotome Yūri: Either you're lucky or you're not. That kind of fortune.
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Saotome Yūri: "Do your best and let God take care of the rest." No matter what efforts you make, the outcome is influenced by fortune or misfortune.
Nīkura Rika: I didn't expect you to be the type who considers such things.
Saotome Yūri: I cannot help considering them. Like the Olympics every four years, sometimes they don't coincide with the peak of one's body, and sometimes there's no strong rival at that time.
Nīkura Rika: Now that you mention that, it's true.
Saotome Yūri: You can't see it as anything but God's prank. Even if you work with utmost effort, you need good fortune to get rewarded. If I may say so, life sure is hard.
Jindai Saori: If you think about losing, there's no point in participating, right?
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Jindai Saori: Everything is a matter of worth. Whether objects or people, each has its price.
Saotome Yūri: ... but I'm simply not suited to be a politician. I think a professional politician must live in an endlessly gray world. About issues like foreign trade or deregulation, one can't take a frankly black or white stance. There is no way one could do something dangerous like that. If you're too outspokenly black or white in your manifest, and you can't get it done in the end, you'll just despair of it.
Saotome Yūri: For me, I can say with confidence that my children themselves are jewels for me...
Saotome Yūri: All children are like raw ore. But unless refined, they remain mere stones. Through strict upbringing, children will realize that much by themselves and will seek to refine themselves with excitement. Observing that is my delight...
Episode 08
Episode 09
Episode 10
Saotome Yūri: It's hard to say something like that at the right time in the right way, etc. It's hard to find the right words for a contestant. No, I'm sure there are no right words. To assume that you're able to encourage or help is a very arrogant way of thinking. Whatever you say, you can't take their place.
Episode 11
Saotome Yūri: Charlie Chaplin, the king of the silent movie, was once asked in an interview, "What is your masterpiece?" He mentioned none of his outstanding works but answered, "The next one." He replied, "The next one will be one. Probably I'll give the same answer next time, too." What a wonderful answer, right?
Saotome Yūri: The most useless thing in this world is badmouthing someone out of envy. If you're that free, drain some sweat, think and do something about it yourself.
Saotome Yūri: Happiness or unhappiness don't matter as long as you're alive. Fortune and misfortune always alternate like a swing. However, it would be terrible if it stopped. There would only be boredom, eternal boredom.
