Narrator: Best place. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the vagabonds. Their mission: the real place to live peacefully. *(1) This is a saga in search of 'Best Place'. A saga of Ryu, a man without a place, and his friend…

Muscle Punch: Ryu-san…
Ryu: What! You have problem with my hair?
Muscle Punch: No, no, no. Cheer up, Ryu-san. Even though we have been unlucky lately…
Ryu: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Why does a good guy like me have to lose his sword and his place? Is there justice in this world?
Blue Chateau: Ryu-san already goes bonker. What should we do, Muscle Punch (nickname)?
Muscle Punch: That's what I try to do. I have found new "Best Place."

< Episode 18: Best Place Episode 1 >

< Temple >
Yoh: Manta, do you think we can give this back to Ryu?
Manta: Do you really want to return a sword to Ryu?
Yoh: Yeah, we broke his.
Manta: Even so, do we need to return that to someone like him?

Yoh: Oh, can I borrow your money, Manta? I forget to bring my wallet
Manta< shouting >: Don't you listen to me? Huh… Anyway, that is just the way you are. How much is it? I will share half of that.
Yoh: Ha ha, sorry, Manta. I will return you as soon as we get to my place.
Manta: Your place?
Manta< thinking >: Come to think of it, I don't know much about his living. I don't even know where he lives. I really want to know that.
Manta: OK.
Yoh: All right. Let's buy this and go to my place.

< Ryu standing in front of Funbari Bowl >
Ryu: This is our new home… Best Place.

Muscle Punch: Funbari Bowl. It's just 30 minutes by bus and 40 minutes by walking to underground train station. This place is too far from the city, that's why not much people come and it has to close. The best thing is… this is a new place. With some fix on the electric system, now we can even play videogames.
Henchmen: That's great, Muscle Punch!

Muscle Punch: What do you think, Ryu-san?
Ryu: Muscle Punch (nickname), you…
Muscle Punch: Ryu-san…
< Ryu punches Muscle Punch >
Ryu< shouting >: …do not know anything about Best Place!!
Muscle Punch: What did I do wrong, Ryu-san?
Ryu: This place is so far from underground train station. We can't go anywhere easily.
Muscle Punch: But, it's not like we are finding an apartment…
Ryu: Best Place is the place that we will live happily, not just a place to hang out, isn't it?

< Henchmen cry >
Henchmen: Ryu-san. We were wrong! We will try to find it again!
< Anna walks by >
Muscle Punch: What happens, Ryu-san?
Ryu: I found it.

Ryu: My Best Place.
Henchmen: What?!
Muscle Punch: Wait, how can that girl be Best Place?
Ryu: Finally, I have found. My Best Place is in your heart.
< Ryu asks Anna out >
Ryu: Would you be my Best Place?

Anna: Your hair looks stupid.
< Ryu faints >
Henchmen: Hold on, Ryu-san.
Muscle Punch: Ryu-san, how can a guy like you have love at first sight?
Blue Chateau: On the top of that, that girl is surely weird, walking along in a place like this.
Ryu: Fools, the harder to get she is, the more interesting it will be. A man is judged by his action, not hairstyle. Let's follow her!
Blue Chateau: What?

< at Yoh's place >
Manta: Wow! You place is so big!
Yoh: Just a rental house. Come in.
Manta: Even you rent it, this is so big, you must pay a lot of rent.

Yoh: I do not live alone, and the rent is only 1,000 Yen.
Anna: I am home. Oh, Manta, you come to visit?
Manta: Anna?
Anna: Do you have any problem?
Manta: You just said, "I am home." Don't tell me that you live together…
Ryu< suddenly jumps out >: Together? You are just a bunch of kids. How can your parent allow it?

Yoh: Ryu the wooden sword…
Ryu: You! How can you be here?
Anna: Oh, it's you. What's wrong with we live together? We are fiancée.

< Ryu is cut into half by the word "fiancee" >
Ryu: You… I will not forget this!
< Ryu runs away >
Manta: "Not forget this"?
Yoh: Ah, his sword.
< Later that night >
Manta: Your parent allows you two to just live by yourself?
Anna: Who says we live by ourselves?

Yoh: Don't forget Amidamaru.
Amidamaru: How can you, Manta?
Manta: That's a relief.
Yoh: Why so?
Anna: Not only Amidamaru. Since I moved here, I hardly have any privacy. Do you know how much is the rent?
Manta: Um, 1,000 yen.
Anna: 1,000 yen for a house this big, don't you think there must be any catch?
Manta: Or…

< ghosts appear >
Anna: Yes, there are ghosts in this place. Seems like they died because of fire. This place is cheap, but it is so irritating.
Yoh: Ha ha we are not afraid of ghost, after all.
Manta: Ghost… ghost couple.

Muscle Punch: He said "I want to cry alone, you guys go out"
Junk hood: Poor him.
Space shot: He should not like that kind of girl
Muscle Punch: So our quest for Best Place comes to an end.
Ball Boy: Ah!
Space shot: You forget something, Ball boy?
Ball Boy: Now I remember that story grandma used to tell me. That bowling place is cursed.
Henchemen: Ha ha ha. You still believe in those fairy tales?
< Back to Funbari Bowl >
Ryu: That head phone boy, breaks my heart into pieces. I am so angry!

???: He he. I will help you take care of him then.
Ryu: What? Is there a person here?
< Warrior ghost appears >
???: I will kill that kid for you

Translation Note:

*(1) Apologies for all Trekkies out there. I didn't intend to make fun of StarTrek, but I couldn't help :). I believe Mr. Takei would intend to do so…