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The Training Daze dub is Unfortunate for so many reasons, obscuring a lot of facts about Kojiro/James and Musashi/Jessie (including references to their pre-established pasts!), but the saddest lost bit to me couldn’t be fixed even with main-series-and-not-Chronicles 4Kids dubbing, because the dub had changed the original motto from the start.

So, you kind of lose the fact that the very first lines of the motto were (very likely) thought up on the spot, by Kojiro waiting for the right dramatic moment to take off those bandages he’s wearing over clothes, while moving freely, and clearly doesn’t need anymore…

When Musashi/Jessie’s wondering aloud to herself, alone again (aside from Nyasu/Meowth, really), as she walks, bitter about her life…

“Is this all that there is?”

Even though this time, this time, she actually opened up to her partner, trusted him, and wanted to make this team work, she’s alone again… to add further insult to injury, she had just opened up to him how she had been completely alone up until now (all that moving from foster home to foster home, losing her mother…), with Kojiro admitting he had lived his entire life running away.

Leaning behind a tree, in the same dramatic way they’d often perform the motto together later, he echoes what she says (”Nanda kanda”/”This and that” from Musashi’s part of the motto, “If you ask us about ‘this and that’” is a filler word, she’ll usually echo the last thing Satoshi/Ash and friends say when the Rockets are found out! + It’s always followed by Kojiro’s same answer each time…)

“If you ask us ‘is this all that there is?’
Our answer will be the universe’s compassion!“

Knowing the context he came up with that line, that always seemed random or terribly ironic while they’re committing crimes, it makes it a thousand times sweeter and also provides a really beautiful context for that line, when spoken from him to her in such a desolate situation, and it’s such a shame dub-only watchers miss it! ;_;

“A team mate who won’t run away…“ I think that’s what she said as she wiped her tears, with her back to them, because she’s so proud, but– there it is.

Someone who had lived his entire life running away found someone he chose not to run away from and someone who had been alone all her life found someone who wouldn’t abandon her.

Oh gosh… He does this again in Ep048 too, before he pulls her into the balloon. This…. This is something he does whenever he wants to be of great comfort to her and remind her she’s not alone… And he does it MULTIPLE TIMES in canon…

I’m going to CRY.

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