2014 - Summer
Before the attaining a 14-year-old ardent wish,
His heart is in Nirvana Shanti.
Discarding wordly desires, it is in the serene Nirvana grounds.
Pleased to meet you.
Acting mainly as your facilitator, I am the Goddess of Mercy (Guanyin).
To be exact, Avalokite?vara Boddhisattva in Sanskrit.
What, say it one more time?
No way!
2000 - Summer
In summer of 2000, St. Mishima Girls High School's chapel was burned to the ground.
Boys are forbidden from entering!
ABSOLUTELY AGAINST MERGER! All parents
NO BOYS
Ever since that day whenever Heisuke hears the sirens of a fire truck,
Fire?
his hands have come to sweat.
Sensei, are you okay?
Mm?
Yeah
Alright everyone
We go in with "Ready"
Ready!
Sunday Theater
GOMEN NE SEISHUN! Regret from My School Days 1
There are 3 private high schools in Mishima city, Shizuoka prefecture.
May 2014
All use the Sunzu Line of Izuhakone Railway,
commonly known as Izupakko.
Getting off at the Mishima Hirokouji station are students of the prestigious Sunzu West High School
Nishikou = West High
also known as Nishikou.
Every year it produces many successful applicants to Tokyo University.
A coeducational preparatory school.
Its deviation score is 66.
Deviation score refers to the deviation of the average grades to evaluate learning ability. 60 or more is considered to be a good school.
Getting off at the next Mishima Tamachi station is the previously mentioned St. Mishima Girls High School.
Mi can be read as San, Jo = Girl
Also known as Sanjo.
A dignified Catholic girls school.
Deviation score is 60
Ones who are left are students of Heisuke's almamater, Komagata University Affiliated Mishima High School.
To differentiate from Nishikou,
Tonkou = East High
it is called Tonkou, although there is no "East" in the school name.
Deviation score is 44.
Hey hey, bow
In actuality, the nearest station from Tonkou and Sanjo is the same.
Tonkou
Well you see, they're this nearby.
Sanjo
But Sanjo students get off one station earlier.
Because they do not want to breathe the same air as Tonkou students even 1 second longer.
She definitely is!
Her chin is not split!
What splits is not the chin but the nose though, okay.
As expected of 3rd place in All Mishima High School Quiz Tournament!
Idiot, not All Mishima, it's All Shizuoka tournament!
When does it split, the nose?
Eh, eh, what was that now?
Nothing!
Huh?
Are you for real Ebisawa?
Is the nose split?
Here she comes, here she comes, G-cup!
In any case, worship.
She's probably dating a Nishikou student anyway right
Ah, dammit!
Boobs!
There's some boobs!
Enduring boobs with boobs!
What are you glaring at you stupid shit!
There he goes again, the Crows la-di-da.
Crows: manga series about high school delinquents; the base for Crows Zero movies
Let's make it clear who's carrying the Tonkou name!
No one wants to carry that kind of name.
You there Lone Crows!
What are you doing even after becoming 3rd year!?
Let's go
Just try and take the summit of black crows!
You're purple right?
Tonkou is a Buddhist school but,
pretty much nobody knows the meaning of the Heart Sutra.
The principal doesn't know either.
If you're saying "Bla bla bla" say it more softly.
Sannomiya Daizaburou, a.k.a 3D
His name has two "3" characters
Hara-sensei, once the adoration ends, come to the principal office, okay
Don't run in the hallways
Excuse me
Oh Handa, what happened?
It's not me, Narita-kun was in the Izupakko...
What what, what happened?
My cellphone was taken away.
Cellphone? By whom?
Probably, the fug from Sanjo.
Hey!
Don't say "fug"!
Apparently he was secretly filming.
He's saying he wasn't!
Apparently he wasn't secretly filming.
He was secretly filming!
He was, he was secretly filming, right?
Is that true?
I was just watching sneezing dogs on video sites.
How shameless!
Are you a master of the shameless dogma!?
Sister! I understand your sentiments, but the accused is denying it.
Who cares about the accused!
We have a witness.
Witness?
Our school guidance counselor was riding in the same train.
Tonkou and Sanjo, which lie adjacent with distance of a mere 100 meters,
are plagued by not meeting enrollment quota and financial difficulties that accompany declining birth rate.
Time and again rumors of merging start up and spread around.
Us too, the against parties are not few.
Like the headstrong PTA and the alumni association,
plus, the head teacher is a hardheaded hardcore.
Sanjo is delinquent in corporate taxes payment, I heard?
Donations cannot cover, in bankruptcy.
Looks like both school directors can open table for discussion in the near future.
This is a matter of time I guess?
We will not do merger!
Don't throw rakugan!
Rakugan: dry confection of starch (e.g. rice, soy or barley flour) and sugar, mixed and pressed into a pattern
With love and humility, we have protected chastity at all cost.
Our school's traditions & order,
I will not let it be ceased in my term!
A woman harder than a rakugan!
Besides
That case is unsolved!
Don't apologize easily.
Women band together and get all high and mighty.
Sorry, sorry!
Sorry!
What is it? What's your business?
Um um
I am from Komagata University Affiliated...
From Tonkou?
Yes, from Tonkou.
Right, they're wearing Tonkou's uniform too.
And?
So, I am the counselor, Hara. A cellphone...
Cellphone!?
My student's cellphone...
That's right, because at this school possesion of cellphones is nor permitted as per school regulations.
Then?
So, secretly filming your student with phone...
Secretly filming?
He wasn't! He was falsely charged...
Falsely charged!
False yes, false uhm...
What is it!?
The school guidance counselor?
That's me.
Oh, I see, I see.
St. Mishima Girls High School's guidance counselor, Hachiya.
Do you have any questions?
Question, none, yeah, none.
Please wait a moment!
What strong pressure that was
By the way why were you quiet! Help me, student body president!
Even if I wanted to, there was no opening!
Oy, what's wrong Narita-kun!?
It was her.
What?
What what what what
Data has been erased.
Give it up!
Hachiya?
I show you myself as it is
"Let It Go" Japanese translation is "As Is"
No!
No no, not noticing me just now is not right!
I was here the whole time!
Heisuke's older brother, Ippei.
3000 yen
I wasn't looking.
You did, didn't you?
Elena's as is self.
I didn't! I did! On the other hand 3000 yen is enough?
3240 yen
Don't add in consumption tax!
She was for sale!
Her wife Elena was a former gravure model/actress.
That's enough already, Ippei-chan.
Elena-gacchi is a ditz anyway...
Where's Dad?
Elena-gacchi is a ditz, forward-looking, positive-thinking anyway, right?
Hey, where's Dad? Where's Dad!?
Dad is at Girl's Bar.
This is the head of the family, Chief Priest Heita.
Head of the Tonkou alumni association.
Shouldn't she shave her head first, that stuck up Sister.
Have her become Setouchi Jakucho!
Setouchi Jakucho: a Bhikkuni (Buddhist nun), writer and activist.
Let's do that, right! Mama, go and buy a clipper!
Would you like to have some eel liver boiled in sweetened soy sauce, Priest?
Give us some liver.
Welcome
Even though they're the one troubled financially and brought us merger talks,
bringing up incident from the past now...
Is that it, the chapel fire incident.
They're still saying that the culprit is a Tonkou student, you know.
Beer.
What about liver? Eel liver.
I have viper liver too. If you eat it, it'll be all kinds of wow.
Oh you came, pro side.
Sister-in-law got you horny so Girl's Bar?
I'm not pro nor against.
Just complying with the decision.
Me too.
What!?
What's up with that, that bride's outrageous body!? Heard she's 24.
That thing huh. Shocked me.
Ippei can touch her at no cost. Why can't I!?
Before we start zen meditation, Elena-chan,
Yes
No bra is problematic.
Forgive me
But I'm someone who can't bear constricting things.
If you don't constrict them,
my...
a lot of me will be constricted.
I don't get what you're saying!
Shut up! Face front!
Zen master Dogen says
Zen meditation, more specifically this,
in other words, of the heart,
Hei-chan, Hei-chan! Come here a bit
Please stop with the "Hei-chan"
Rysso, rysso
School nurse, Awashima Mai
Tonkou's sole female staff.
14 years ago she was generally acknowledged as the Madonna of the school.
Sensei, is it true that women whose tip of the nose is split is not a virgin?
I don't know that stuff.
Madonna-sensei, yours is split, isn't it?
Not split!
Then, are you a virgin?
That's...
Like a virgin
Stop it already!
Help me, Satoshi-kun!
Sensei, although my nose is big, I'm small over there.
Like I care!
Somehow she got through the years interestingly, and
her nickname too...
After Madonna, Former Madonna, Faux Madonna, Mademoiselle, Donnama,
Donmai-sensei, I scraped my elbow.
donmai: don't mind
Spit on it and it'll heal.
It seems that Ebisawa-kun of Class 3 is dating a Sanjo student.
In exchange for restoring Narita-kun's phone data,
I used his ID to infiltrate messaging app.
What are you doing?
Unexpectedly they don't notice.
But I'm also impersonating some other people too so,
feels like I'm losing myself.
Ebisawa: Easier said than done... Furui: Don't be a coward you punk! Murai: Good luck! Akishima: Wish fulfillment!
Ebisawa...
Before summer break
he's going to discard his virginity, it seems...
By the way, the rumor that Donmai-sensei is still a virgin...
The girl is Sanjo's 3rd year class C's Abe Amari.
Plain at first glance, but she's a cheerleader.
Alright, confess.
Hachiya-sensei,
her heart has not caught up with the growth of her body.
Abe-san
It's true that there's someone that I like.
But I wonder if it can be said that we're dating?
I wonder if it can be said that we're dating?
Studying together at Gusto and the like,
Gusto: chain diner/family restaurant
Obscene!
While interlocking fingers under the table
keep looking up obscene English words in the dictionary, right?
Hey hey, what does this mean?
Which one?
This here
I don't get it unless you say it
I can't sa~~y it
I hate monologues.
I'm sorry.
Studying together
That's all fine and good.
Nishikou's students' academic level is high.
Nishikou?
Is it not?
Don't tell me!
Tonkou student!?
Principal!
Shame on you! This easy girl!
Principal, you must not come out!
Nishikou Nishikou it's a Nishikou student.
Really!? Swear it to God! Can you say it swearing to God!?
For real, right!
Yes!
As you can see relationships between Tonkou and Sanjo students are forbidden by school regulations.
If so, that's fine.
In Tonkou's school regulations...
"Relationships with the opposite sex must be maintained at a certain distance."
That's the only thing written.
But, Sanjo's school regulations
Those who date Tonkou students will be suspended indefinitely.
Singled out by name
Plus, heavy charge!
Because of Ebisawa-kun, Abe-san will get suspended.
But everyone is sneakily dating!
Are they!?
Not to sell out friends but, like Ooki or Akishima, they pose as Nishikou students and hit on girls repeatedly.
That quiz king? How?
Like this
Ah! Nishikou's uniform!
Look, there there there!
You go! You go!
Uhm... what cup are you?
What are you asking!?
Don't you have any pride?
How was it during your time, Sensei?
Something similar I guess
That's right, there were no LINE or Twitter back then,
but we had Schola and Deluxe Beppin.
Schola: magazine for young men Deluxe Beppin: porn magazine
Didn't you used to lend and borrow porn magazines here?
Sensei, please go somewhere.
Go where!? This is the infirmary!
When I was a Tonkou student, that is 14 years ago,
Where are you going?
at that time, Sanjo didn't have a swimming pool.
Every year when summer came, they had access to Tonkou's pool.
For real!?
Where are you going?
That's why
when summer is near, everyone got restless.
They're here!
Beiyan! Over here, Beiyan
But pool! The changing room right?
They're trying to fool us but this year apparently they're changing in the Biology room! Hurry, we have to get there first!
They're coming!
They were already in bathing suits.
Like, I wanted to try going that far.
I didn't want to see it that badly but
Something like, couldn't go against the distinct will of Tonkou students.
It's true that when everyone go crazy,
if there's one person who is cold, he would be dissed intensely.
Well, I was basically starving for women too.
Don't get our pool dirty!
Shut up, are you monkeys!? Are you purple monkeys!
Damn it.
What's wrong Beiyan?
I dropped my bike keys.
Shouldn't it be in the Biology room?
I'm sorry
Hey
is it this?
Yes, thank you.
I'm late
Everyone is at the pool already, right?
What kind of miraculous development!? Opening of a porn?
Shut up. Where were you listening from?
Then then then?
Did you go out with that girl?
Don't get impatient
My friend Satoshi, he is a model student rare for Tonkou,
he's also in the student body and the like.
I asked Sanjo's student body president.
Beautiful eyes and short hair, it should be Yuko, she said.
Right right, this girl this girl! Can I have this?
Moreover, heard she doesn't have a boyfriend
Really?
Really. What are you going to do, Heisuke?
Like I was saying, she wouldn't date a Tonkou student, would she?
Furthermore she's Christian, my house is a temple, she looks smart, and serious...
Beiyan!
What!
You're a man right? Be confident! You can do it, I tell you
Beiyan is a super nice person, and funny,
eats fast, drinks juice fast, picks up phone fast...
Satoshi...
And and,
is good at making rocket fireworks fly.
I don't feel like I can do it though.
You can, I'm telling you
If you don't go for it, you're not a man.
You're the only person telling me stuff like that.
Beiyan
Calling me Beiyan is only you too.
Bye bye
Uhm, excuse me.
Oh, hello
I wrote this, read it.
Thank you.
It's working, this is definitely working.
A love letter....
Were you in Showa!?
Showa period: Year 1926-1989
You are more Showa.
So, did you date her?
Nope.
Why!?
That summer break, there was a fire at Sanjo's chapel.
A girl who was dating a Tonkou student thought that if there was a fire at her school
there would be a merger and becomes a coed,
Wasn't there a comic story like that?
That, something kunoichi?
"Yaoya Oshichi" right. It's not a comic story but a true story.
Yaoya Oshichi, literally "greengrocer Oshichi", was a daughter of the greengrocer Tarobei who lived in beginning of the Edo period. She was burned at the stake for attempting to commit arson.
What I heard is, a girl chosen to be Miss Sanjo
had pig's blood on her head...
That's the movie "Carrie"
But then, of the next 3 movies which one John Travolta did not star in?
Number 1 "Back to the Future" Number 2 "Carrie" Number 3 "Pulp Fiction"
He's making it a quiz!
Then, Sanjo got a pool by summer of the following year.
The interaction between Tonkou and Sanjo from then on was completely gone.
What's wrong, Ebisawa?
Nothing
Hey, why do we have to break up?
Sensei told me to.
By dating me you will become a greengrocer, it seems.
Greengrocer?
Are you going to be a greengrocer, Ebisawa-kun? What about university?
I'm going. Amarin too is going to a university in Tokyo, right?
Rather than dating now, hiding it and sneaking, after graduation let's date in the open...
Amarin is fine with now.
I'm thinking it's alright to introduce Ebisawa-kun to my friends.
Me too, I want to brag.
Aah, if Tonkou and Sanjo merged,
we could date openly.
Amarin
Ebisawa-kun
I lo...
Get away!
Have a nice day
You know what, for both our sakes, for the moment let's keep our distance...
I'd rather you be forceful!
What?
What school regulations? What entrance exams?
If you love Amarin, claim me more forcefully, take me!
Amarin!
Get away!
Ave-san!
What were you shouting about Ave-san?
Maybe you're imagining things?
Be careful, Tonkou students wander around here.
No way. That's creepy.
Wanna go to Sukiya? Jinbou have 3 coupons for miso zoup.
Foreign looking girl has an accent and speaks a little messy Japanese Sukiya: restaurant name
Yeah!
Let's go
That's Murai's dad right?
This man that evidently looks rich,
is Tonkou's director, Murai Shintarou.
Papa was saying that there's an important discussion.
Important discussion?
Could it be...
No no no no way!
And then Heisuke's papa arrives.
Pitifully pales in comparison...
Makes you want to hit him with a rag.
Punk!
Don't actually hit him!
Who!? Who threw this rag from what year what class!?
So that's the case, please work hard.
Excuse me.
He's here he's here, Hara-sensei.
Thanks for coming.
There's no place to sit so please stand.
So, why did you call me?
St. Mishima Girls High School's director pulled out of school management apparently.
They rebuilt their chapel and built a pool in 2000, right?
The construction costs, they're still paying those.
In a word, they're selling out huh.
Like Kintetsu Buffaloes.
Kintetsu Buffaloes: pro baseball team
Good for you, Heisuke. We're merging.
Is it decided?
But Sanjo has put in several conditions.
If we refused those, Sanjo would probably close down.
It's the other way around!
We're the one who should be issuing conditions!
Exactly! Our Tonkou has penetrated for 99 years since its inception with "austerity and fortitude"
Please stop saying that "austerity and fortitude"
Says the the first condition.
Says the?
Discard the manly image, it says.
Sanjo's education philosophy is
"Love and humility and chastity" so
Let's take the middle way and go with "austerity and humility"?
Which side are you 3D? Pro or what?
Whichever is fine.
You're taking this so lightly!
Rude! It's very advantageous for us too.
For some years now Tonkou's enrollment has continued to be below the quota,
Sanjo's admission is highly competitive.
However, of all places, why with a Catholic school?
The founder of this school was a virtuous monk who trained at the Soho Zen head temple...
Let's stop with the incense theatrics already!
OI!
Christmas party, Halloween too, we normally do those and party.
Let's be honest.
It's not like I became a twisted priest...
Recall! First remove you from the principal office...
Um, since it's a merge, would the school name change too?
You're asking that?
Tonkou is Tonkou, right?
But it wasn't Tonkou in the first place though.
Not "EHH!?"
Because Sunzu West High School was established,
To differentiate, the local people started calling it Tonkou.
It's a derogatory term!
Let's mend Tonkou with this opportunity.
That is actually the last condition.
I don't want to say it...
We don't need "East." It wasn't there originally anyway.
On the contrary, only "East" remains.
Look
St. Mishima Girls High School East
It's a bus stop!
Are you kidding me? Who's going to accept this shitty conditions!
Like I said it's a chance to refurbish our image.
But Tonkou student's won't settle with that.
Why such one-sided conditions?
Excuse us
Because our deviation score is high. Because our name recognition is high.
Because we're equipped with outstanding faculty and efficient curriculum.
Do you have any questions?
No
Not people I'm familiar with.
These are school counselor Hachiya-sensei and student body president
Nakai.
St. Mishima Girls HS is a preparatory school that boasts active passing rate of 70%.
i.e. 70% of students pass university entrance exams
We have no intention of being dragged down with affiliation with Komagata, a C-ranked university.
Aiming for the vital point, out of the blue.
The atmosphere at our site is, as before,
adamantly opposed to merging with Tonkou!
As early as now, petition signature campaign have begun among the parents committee.
A path of thorns, isn't it, Priest.
That's our line, Sister
There's a saying "patience of a saint" (lit. Buddha has 3 face angles)
Since you came I've been pissed off 7 times already.
My depth of compassion has surpassed Buddha.
If only you would be sokushinbutsu just like that, we would all have peace.
sokushinbutsu: monks who practise austerity to the point of death and mummification
8th time!
We were just talking about the name.
I believe we have requested for St. Mishima Girls High School East.
Allow us to reject that.
How about St. Mishima Girls High School Boys Division?
That could work, it has both "girl" and "boy" in it, sounds like a co-ed.
Absolutely no!
Yeah, absolutely no!
Well then, this conversation never happens.
That's right. Yeah.
We tried hard but it's impossible.
Merge ceased!
Uhm
How about asking the students' opinion once?
The students are the ones whose environment would actually change, right?
Even if the adults go back and forth, we're not getting anywhere...
I wonder if that is so?
Students graduate in 3 years anyhow.
While we have to watch over and chaperon students for a long time.
Exactly! You understand, Miss.
See, even from this kind of crude, of low character OB,
OB is an alumnus that provides guidance for current students
we have to protect our delicate and easily hurt students.
We absolute do not take the responsibility and pressure on us lightly.
So strong-willed... I don't hate it.
Our students are not immune to boys.
Tonkou students don't know how to treat girls.
When you put confused male and female lambs in the same cage...
Ooh, they'll merge, they'll merge huh
Be quiet there!
What do you think?
Me?
You
Coeducational school, pro? Against?
As a student representative of our proud Tonkou...
Nakai-san? I was still talking...
I was still talking!
There's no point in listening to a president who can't even say his personal opinion!
School to me is a sanctuary.
If it comes to merger I'd rather have it closed down.
This is the opinion of students.
Go ahead.
Huh?
You look like you want to say something.
Daringly,
I was wondering what happens we put them in the same cage?
Ha?
Just one class of third years,
How about we make just one class of third years co-ed like an experiment and observe,
I was thinking that.
I apologize.
Experiment, students are not mice.
Mice are fine, don't you think?
In any case they'll graduate in 6 months anyway.
Like a no cost coeducational trial course for 6 months.
This is where I come in.
Hara-kun
When problems arise, it will be too late.
That's it. Listening to the discussion, nothing resonated, I thought.
I, from middle school and on went to boys school. I have no co-ed institution experience.
That's why, what kind of problems will arise, I can't even begin to imagine.
It's a first for both teachers and students, even though it's impossible to predict what problems will arise,
there's should be no pro or against, right?
Therefore, through an experiment for 6 months, we examine closely the advantages and disadvantages of a co-ed school.
For example, will academic strength degrade, or will active passing rate decrease,
If the bad influence that you worry about occurs, stop the merger.
If on the contrary there are huge advantages,
do the merger with a clear mind.
What do you think?
What's up with you? You're persuasive as hell today.
Am I?
I understand
Then let us take this back and consider it.
Eh?
Eh really?
Today the first constructive opinion came out,
We too, being obstinate all the time won't open any roads.
Alright then shortly...
we will get in touch.
May 14, Thu
Handa, say it one more time.
Yes
Pioneering the merger of Tonkou and Sanjo, starting from the 2nd term this class only
will become coeducational, such a proposal has been put forward.
HUH!?
Quiet. Alright alright.
Be quiet!
I get your feelings. Sensei too was surprised.
Almost every year, rumors of a merger spread around and disappear
Every time we become restless, get our hopes up, and let down, right.
This time too, it is not decided yet.
Actually, it depends on you all.
It has nothing to do with us, we're graduating anyway.
I am against it too!
This most important period of all, just before entrance exams, to be coed with girls...
By the way, girls will be coming to Tonkou, so some from here will go to Sanjo?
That's correct.
Is there anyone who wants to go?
Eh.... no, no way...
That reaction, is within my assumption.
From the time I was a student, nothing has changed.
That can't go on!
Not "Oooh" you idiots.
Handa go back to your seat.
Yes
Listen to me, for those who went to boys school from middle school it's been 6 years.
Even from high school it's been 3 years.
Days of learning in classrooms with just men.
Try saying the good things of a boys school.
No women!
I'm asking what are the merits of no women.
Free dirty jokes
Me! Just strip and you can get a big laugh!
Ok then ok then ok then, on the other side, try saying the disadvantages.
No women!
Hmm, no women so what?
Can't think of a thing?
Can't think of a thing...
Actually, me too.
I couldn't think of anything.
Not popular.
You're sure you'd be popular if you were in coed!?
Like I would
Popular guys are popular even in boys school.
Well, like me, or Ebisawa.
Ok ok ok ok ok, c'mon c'mon!
No disadvantages mean we're in our comfort zone.
However, once you graduate there are women in the outside world.
There are women other than Mom, big sis, little sis, Donmai-sensei.
In such an uncomfortable world
you think it's "just strip and you can get big laugh"?
Now that you're all silenced let me give you a simple quiz.
Really? I'll definitely answer it.
Okay. Read it out loud.
"I cannot date anybody right now"
Words that girls often use in times like this.
"I have cram school," or "I have club activities, right."
When you get told this by the other party
what do you think is the probability of being able to date her?
50%
Why why?
Isn't she making an appeal that she has no boyfriend?
Declaring explicitly that she's not taken, shouldn't it be 80%?
Alternatively, looking for a practical only physical relationship?
Ah, in that case 100%!
The answer? Any of us correct?
No way any of that was correct.
It's a roundabout way of saying it, but in essence it means this.
I don't have a boyfriend, but I don't want to date you
What!?
This is what she really feels.
Why won't she just spell it out?
Because she doesn't want to be hated even by the guy she hates.
A girl who says "I won't date anybody"
is NOT not dating anybody.
She's dating, without a doubt!
With someone other than you!
What's wrong Hei-chan? Uncharacteristically fired up.
Did something happen?
Not really
70% of Tonkou students become taciturn once they graduate.
Because they don't form conversations with women.
Before long they fall sick, overeat due to stress,
miss marriageable age with hair loss, friends leave them,
Then they realize that other than work texts, the only texts that come are invitation to Tonkou reunion.
A step towards Japan's declining birth rate.
Let me say this, not as your teacher but as your Tonkou senior.
If you're going to be ashamed, the earlier the better.
Ah, if only Tonkou and Sanjo merged, we could date openly.
Face girls!
And face your dull selves!
I'd rather you be forceful!
What school regulations!? What entrance exams!?
Thinking about why you're not popular is a waste of time!
If you love Amarin, claim me more forcefully, take me!
Alright everyone close your eyes.
Those who are for coed, raise your hand.
Okay open your eyes.
With this, it was decided that 3rd Year Class 3 of Komagata University Affliated Mishima High School
will become a coeducational class starting from the 2nd term.
Closing Ceremony
Half of the class, 15 people, were selected
to be sent to Sanjo's 3rd Year Class C.
Furui Yutaka CROWS
Conversely, Class 3 will receive 15 girls.
What about Heisuke-kun?
(filled out by Donmai-sensei) Name: Hara Heisuke Address: Eirakuji temple Date of birth: Some day in '83 (A very unlucky day) Blood type: O Aspirations after graduation: Looking for a wife!!! I'm from a boys school, so I'm an amateur virgin! Just saying!
Me? I had no intention of going though.
Eh? I was told by the principal to go?
Is that so?
Is there a problem?
No, I'm sorry. I'll clean up right away.
I will be in your favor starting from the 2nd term. My name is Hachiya, pleased to meet you!
Nice to meet you
Oh here
The roster and material of the remaining 15 people in Class C.
Okay.
Hachiya-sensei!
What is it?
Sensei, do you have siblings...
Do you have an older sister?
Yes, an older sister.
Right?
You're Hachiya Yuko-san's little sister, right?
Whoa really, this takes me back!
I'm sorry, getting excited all by myself.
I'm in the same year as your sister.
I talked with her several times.
I see. Has Yuko-san changed?
I have not seen my sister in many years.
Totally impossible.
Why!?
You said if it became coed we could date openly.
I didn't think it would actually come true.
Why?
Do you have somebody else you like?
Then, why?
If we go to the same class, Ebisawa-kun will hate Amari.
I won't.
You will.
Because, Amarin acts a little different at school.
I'm different too.
At school, I don't put on wax on hair...
Not that level of difference!
Like, at school my character is different.
Like, not the real me
Amarin?
It is only in front of Ebisawa-kun.
That Amarin can be as she is.
Meanwhile, Heisuke tasted an unprecedented sense of fulfillment.
That was long.
In his 10th year of being a teacher
9 years
In his 9th year, he accomplished a brilliant feat.
But we can't tell yet.
Hei-chan
Finally I can atone for my sins, Mom.
Hei-chan
Would you listen to it?
Before than can I relax my legs?
I met Yuko's little sister.
She's a teacher at Sanjo.
Hey, I want to relax my legs. I'm relaxing them ok
More relaxed than that?
Ah, I'm revived.
Then?
Hmm. I didn't get any news.
She said she hasn't seen her for many years.
That time, even though I commute by bike,
I went all the way to Mishima Station, took the train and came home.
Even though we rode on the same car, we did not talk nor
did our eyes meet.
And then one day, the morning of the closing ceremony of the 1st term,
in the Izupakko,
I received this!
You've been keeping it
You're disgusted eh? But how could I throw it away
Until entrance exams are over, I've decided I won't date anybody.
If you're fine with being from friends first, please email me.
What do you think?
Uh, I wonder if she's testing Beiyan's seriousness?
Huh why?
This is an email address for a computer right
As opposed to an email address for cellphones.
Right, Sanjo forbids cellphones
Plus, probably computer that is used together by the family.
That she told you this address by risking being seen by her family,
What what?
...the hell!
Means she's conscious of marriage!
Eh? Why? But it says from friends...
"From," Beiyan!
What's important here is rather than "friends" is "from"
From friends to what?
To the grave?
In other words
Marriage...
Obviously right!
Beiyan, there's nothing you have to do besides sending an email.
With Satoshi giving me a push, I sent emails every day.
From "Good morning," until "Good night."
When it's a lot, I sent like 30 in a day.
Since it's from computer, the replies were one per day, but they came.
Then in August, I took the plunge and asked her out for fireworks.
Then a reply came.
Are you a crime lab?
Satoshi!
Hey Satoshi!
Come on wake up!
What is it Beiyan?
Look it came it came, a reply came.
If I can I will go.
What do you think, will she come?
I'm not sure
She'll definitely come!
Right! She will right!
That's amazing!
I did it!
Even I remember that day.
Aniki! You used my wax right!
Just a teeny bit should be okay!?
Ippei too was going to a group date or something, the two of you were restless since morning.
You changed clothes so many times, going back and forth the corridor.
Ippei, put on a polo shirt, since your face is a polo-shirt face.
What should I make for dinner?
Don't need
But Yuko didn't come.
Hello, Satoshi
She didn't come after all
No way.
Really?
Can you come over now? Let's do fireworks school.
School?
Fireworks?
Really? Eh?
They would be a waste wouldn't they, since I bought a lot.
Oh, you mean that kind of fireworks.
About what time can you come?
Um, ah...
Hm, sorry.
If I can I'll go.
Huh? Hello? Hello?
You were so stupid. Things would've been fine if you had gone home.
If I had gone home earlier than Aniki, felt like Dad would have made fun of me.
For some reason I headed to school.
Right right, it was fireworks festival that night.
Hmm?
Yuko?
Satoshi...
Hello
Seriously...
Sorry what? I couldn't hear you. What's up?
Yuko not yet?
Hello. What was that just now? Where are you now?
Hello
Shit
Is it this?
I'm late. Everyone's at the pool already, right?
Shit
"I won't date anybody"
you said, didn't you!
"You Said" lyrics by scriptwriter Kudo Kankuro
You won't date anyone, you said
Studying is your boyfriend, you said
A flashy guy is impossible, you said
You don't judge based on looks, you said
(Li li li li li liar) You are a liar
In the end, I fired up all 20 rocket fireworks.
(Li li li li li liar) Hopelessly I love you
Even so I wasn't satisfied.
Even 20 handheld rocket fireworks failed to reach them.
I want to know the truth (God)
I don't want to know the truth
Tell me the truth (Buddha)
Don't say the truth
You say it, I'll beat you up
You love me, you love me, you love me, you said
I'm home.
Where did you go, Hei-chan?
You didn't see Dad?
No, what happened?
A fire at Sanjo.
It's on TV right now. Fire originated at the chapel, it's mostly burned down
seems like the fire has spread to school building...
Hei-chan?
Sorry
What's wrong? You don't feel well?
Not that
I'm fine
Hei-chan!
Where are you going?
Hei-chan!
Ever since that, Hei-chan hasn't looked me in the eyes once, right
Sorry
I feel like Mom knows.
Why didn't you come forward?
Because you were afraid of Dad?
That too.
That too, but...
You didn't want to be thought of committing arson as revenge for getting dumped?
You were afraid of getting ashamed?
Hei-chan?
Sleepy?
Sorry
I intend to tell the truth someday.
What a hopeless kid
Oh this way huh
Two students who were on the roof of Sanjo at the time of the fire,
Tsutaya Satoshi and Hachiya Yuko,
were questioned by the police.
Because there was not enough evidence they were not charged but
rumors spread like wildfire.
Yuko dropped out of high school voluntarily.
Satoshi too was expelled because his attendance was lacking.
Nobody knew those two's whereabouts after that.
What with elopement,
working as a hostess in Atami,
and becoming a professional pachinko player in Nagoya,
all rumors from gossipy adults.
And then 14 years after that
September 1, 2014
Alright everyone, we go in with "Ready"
Ready!
Sensei, this is
for mankind a small step but,
Yeah for Tonkou students
a giant leap.
I'm sealing off the quiz character here.
You are?
Going with low voice too, I'm seriously gunning for popularity through the Fukuyama route.
i.e. Fukuyama Masaharu, actor and singer
I'll smack you if you call me "quiz"
Me too, sealing off Crows route and going with Rokudenashi Blues.
Rokudenashi Blues: boxing-themed manga series; lots of action
That's not much difference!
Welcome to Man's World!
Ah! This guy groomed his eyebrows!
What the heck, are you Kyoumoto Masaki?
Kyoumoto Masaki: singer, actor, talento, guitarist
Hey Murai, come here quick
Yeah
Sorry sorry
Okay then, from me.
Sensei
Yeah
Who's that?
There are girls like that?
Like, feels like she's the boss, huh?
Uhm, replacing Hachiya-sensei, I will be this class's homeroom teacher.
My name is Hara Heisuke.
Students call me Hara-sensei or Hei-chan, or
flipping hei and suke,
sukebe: pervert "i" after an "e" only makes the "e" a long vowel
Sukebe!
As you know, Sanjo and Tonkou
have started moving towards a merger to coeducational institution starting the next fiscal year.
You all are pioneers who will set history in motion,
as well as starting runners who will pass the baton to your juniors.
Well, let's not ponder it rigidly and have fun.
They too usually go on life without feminine contact, so
right, don't know where to look , huh
What's wrong? Not feeling so hot in the woman's world?
Yeah, like, it smells good.
That's true
Do self-introductions properly okay.
Because you can't definitively say that there's no one among here who will be your future spouse.
It's often said, "What is declining birth rate?" but, if boys and girls comprehend each other's position well,
Sensei, is this a lesson?
It's boring, I'd rather study for mock exams.
If it was a lesson I was thinking I should bear and listen to it.
Me too, I am hungry.
Is this homeroom? Lesson?
Whichever it is, the bell has not rung.
Ah, ah, I'm sorry.
Can I eat my bento?
bento: boxed meal
The bell has rung, so it's time for self-introductions...
That just now is the 5-minute-before bell.
Why have you been stealing looks!?
Not "eh", you been grinning, waving your hand a little, you gay!?
What happened, what happened?
Which one which one!?
That monkey look alike?
Next to monkey, that flashy brows.
No no, I wasn't...
What are you laughing for!?
Are you a wind-up doll!?
Well...
Don't joke around!
A girl doing something like this...
We shouldn't because we're girls!?
If boys, they can throw things?
Entering before the bell rang, making us listen to tepid idealism,
making goo goo eyes at us, and even so girls are supposed to endure it all?
Endure it, find a spouse from among these, and bear children, is that what you're saying?
Sexual harrassment! Sexual harrassment remark!
No no no!
Like I was saying don't joke around!
I'm sorry!
Not droopy eyes, brows!
Droopy eyes!?
Not Jinbou, wasn't he looking at Ave-san?
She's crying? Abe-chan is crying!
Hey, is this really Sanjo?
I'm not a monkey, I'm not a monkey!
Quiet, please be quiet!
Before that please apologize.
Apologize, who to whom?
Who's a monkey....
Amari, say something
Don't freaking look at me you fag! I'll sue you for sexual harassment!
Amarin...
This is a prestigious girls high school, one of the best in the prefecture.
With love and humility, protecting chastity at all cost.
This the unfaked demeanor of St. Mishima Girls High School.
Please be quiet!
Quiet!
You mean moral training?
Think about it, facing each other, you're definitely going to find something good!
Wait right there
You! What are you doing!?
Please help me!
Hey hey hey! Whose is this!?
Because those two are dating!
I'll do my best too.