I will have you all recruit members who buy this Unequaled Kombucha Z.
And as a result, what a surprise!
Those members will recruit new members in turn, and money will start flowing in!
Will we really make a profit?
Of course!
I have never once told a lie, ever since I was born!
Will something like this really sell?
Of course it will!
Our membership will keep expanding, and all of you will become filthy rich!
Besides that...
Hey mister, you sure do have a cute face.
What are you doing?
S-Stop it please!
Wow, he's so naive.
Please stop it, I said!
Ah? Are you talking to me?
Yes, I'm talking to you.
Fellow, Itoshiki Nozomu!
Fellow?
You haven't shown up for our meetings lately.
You haven't contacted us either, what is going on?
Meeting? What are you talking about?
Isn't it obvious?
I'm talking about Hamasho's meetings.
Revolutionary religious group Hamasho's.
Religious group Hamasho?
Indeed. You know it, right?
After all, you are a high-ranking official.
A high-ranking official?
Me?
I have no idea.
I don't know anything about that.
Besides, what on earth does Hamasho mean?
Is it an abbreviation for Hamada Shoko's name?
Or for Hamada Shogo?
It is neither one of those.
It's a group that does all sorts of things on the beach while covered in people's urine!
Abbreviated it is... Hamasho.
There's no way such a ridiculous religion can exist!
What did you say?
You just called it a ridiculous religion, didn't you?
Y-You're a heretic!
He's a heretic!
Wh-What's going on?
He's a heretic!
He's a heretic.
Don't forgive the traitor! Capture him!
I experienced something terrible there.
I should be safe here.
No way!
I'm no follower of your group!
So I haven't betrayed you, either!
You're mistaken! You've got the wrong person!
This is absurd!
There's no way a ridiculous thing like this can be true!
I'm in despair!
The absurdity of this world has left me in despair!
What? You let Itoshiku Nozomu escape?
I don't care how you do it!
Just capture him!
Sieg Hamasho!
If I'm lucky...
What is going on here?
I've discovered your weakness!
Women and lotus root!
W-What is this?
So we finally meet, Nozomu-kun!
I will give you, the traitor you are, the alteration.
You will become a warrior for our splendid Hamasho!
An altered human?
What are you saying?
Such an unrealistic thing can never...
They exist!
Yes, begin!
Please, if you are going to alter me,
turn me into a grasshopper man, or a beetle man,
at least into a mysteryman with a clean image!
Understood.
We will turn you into a mole-cricket man!
I'm in despair!
Being turned into a mole-cricket man has left me in despair!
I'm already underpaid, and now I've been turned into a mole-cricket man too!
Damn, I'll go die!
No, wait a bit.
This life which isn't worth living,
I might be happier if I let them alter my brain as well.
W-What should I do?
Save me!
I was so surprised to find you sleeping there.
You came from Tokyo, right?
Y-Yes...
I thought as much.
We were worried about you.
You were supposed to be transferred here earlier.
Transfer? What do you mean by that?
This person is going to be your new teacher.
Teacher?
It's nice to meet you all, from today onwards I will be teaching you.
My name is Itoshiki Nozomu.
Question.
Is it all right to call you left-wing guerrilla from now on?
Left-wing guerrilla?
Why that?
For some reason it just feels as if you're leftwing and a guerrilla.
I see.
Indeed, he does look like a left-wing guerrilla.
Mr. Left-wing guerrilla! Mr. Left-wing guerrilla! Mr. Left-wing guerrilla!
I'm in despair!
Being given some nickname without knowing the meaning of it has left me in despair!
Let me go and die this time.
Teacher!
If you're going to die, would you care to help someone?
Help someone?
With a fake marriage.
We want you to marry the Sacred Hanajibu Empire's daughter.
A fake marriage? Hanajibu?
This is the girl.
Rumba Rumba Rumba Rumba Rumba!
Rumba Rumba Rumba Rumba Rumba
Rumba Rumba Rumba Rumba Rumba!
Rumba Rumba Rumba Rumba Rumba
samayou sugata wa sanagara Rumba
Your wandering figure looks as if it were dancing the Rumba
yoromeku sugata mo mechakucha rumba
Your reeling figure is damned Rumba, too
furatsukinagara mo ikiteirumba
You're living the Rumba and staggering from it, too
hata kara mina dansu ni mierumba
From the field it looks like everyone is dancing
yokereba issho ni odorimasen ka
Don't you want to dance with me?
ie ie anata jya odoremasen wa
No, no, I can't dance with you
Hitori jya munashii odoro yo rumba
It feels pointless on your own, let's dance the Rumba
ototoi kiyagare hitori de rumba
You should've come yesterday, I danced the Rumba on my own
ore no nedan wo dare ga kimeta, tora ya hyou ga bokura no kokoro nimo
Who decided my price, there are tigers and panthers in my heart as well
kemonotachi ga hisomu koto shiranai kara yatsura
Because those people don't know that those beasts are hiding
yasui ne wo tsukeyagatte tokihanatsu ze
They gave you a cheap price, I'm setting them free
Saa nigemadore sono suki ni odoro yo bokutachi wa rumba
Well, let us dance the Rumba while they escape
hohoemi karuyaka ni kimi to sono hi ha kuru no ka wakaranakute
I don't know whether the day that I smile with you will come
I am a pitiful truant girl in this world.
However.
I will go to school of my own volition.
Of course I have my reasons.
Because no one thinks I'm pitiful.
Why aren't you worried and come to my house?
Who are you?
I'm a student in this class.
I'm a truant!
Aren't you at school now?
Just for today.
I-I see.
Sorry, but I'm not your homeroom teacher.
Then, what is my teacher doing?
Eh, well...
He has been truant since last week.
The teacher is truant?
It isn't all that unusual these days.
A teacher's truancy is more dangerous than a student's.
I wonder if he's all right, I'm worried about him.
They're putting me aside and worrying about him!
That's all right.
When they see this, they will worry about me even if they hate it.
How did you get that wound?
Are you okay?
I did it!
What a terrible wound!
I'm all right.
I only fell.
You don't get such a wound just from falling.
The rumor goes it's because of domestic violence, DV, by her dad.
DV?
It's kind of worrying.
Worrying?
Putting me aside again and worrying about her...
You hear a lot about DV lately, it's not that unusual.
I haven't come to school because I have far more pressing problems.
My dad failed at his work, and our house was taken away.
We had to run from debt-collectors and live in a four-and-a-half tatami mat room.
We had a life where we didn't know whether or not we could eat each day.
I wasn't in a position where I could go to school...
You must've had it bad since you were so poor.
I did it!
Japan is wealthy!
There is food on the ground.
We won't starve to death!
But that's just wrong.
Picking up garbage from the ground.
But... I was so hungry.
These are mushrooms that grew in my country as well.
Do you know which is edible?
I wonder...
They're both poisonous, you can eat neither of them!
I ate them anyway.
I ate them anyway, if I didn't, I'd starve to death.
Two of my friends who ate them together with me, pitifully...
Enough already!
She's so worrisome.
They're putting me aside again and worrying about someone else!
I got it.
If you're so hellbent on not worrying about me,
I'll just have to do something extreme.
Maybe I should just die...
NO!
Don't do it!
I did it!
W-W-W-What's going on?
I didn't know you were here, Teacher.
What is this person doing?
As you can see, he attempted suicide.
Suicide?
It happens all the time.
Don't worry about it too much.
Our eyes met!
That man is our homeroom teacher.
H-He's our teacher?
Surprising, right?
There's only troublesome students in this class.
That's why our teacher is like that.
But I'm glad. Seeing you're normal.
Normal?
Normal, normal, normal!
Normal is never used in a positive sense!
Ohh, I'm so happy for you An-chan.
You already made some friends, I see.
Are you good friends with Mika-chan?
We're good friends!
How about Kenta-kun?
We're good friends!
And how about Nami-chan?
Normal.
Normal is never... Never used in a positive sense!
Is that manga any fun?
Normal.
His girlfriend is cute, don't you think?
Normal.
This is a normal job so...
I'm not normal!
I'm a pitiful truant girl!
Even if you say you're a pitiful truant girl, our teacher is the same.
I am destined to be truant, not just in high school, but even in driving school.
Even driving school?
Even from driving school, where everyone, no matter how dangerous they are, can graduate somehow?
On the contrary, exactly those kinds of people get it in one go.
By the way, Fujiyoshi-san's brother is truant from the Momogi animation school.
Don't say that!
It's quite pitiful.
Being a normal truant lacks impact!
On top of that, if you're a truant student, then why are you at school?
I mean, then you're just normal, right?
Either be a normal student, or don't come to school, pick one!
Your behavior is extremely irritating!
Get your act together!
Are you a student in this class, as well?
I'm glad you're normal.
After all, in this class there are 31, no, 32 desperate students.
In other words, the classroom of despair!
By the way, it's not like I haven't thought about the parts of the class roster covered in blood.
Didn't you just spill coffee on it?
Now that I think of it, there's a lot of dangerous-looking people in here.
Then being a truant is still better!
Come with me!
That girl for example...
She's the anti-truant!
Anti-truant?
Rather than students not coming to school, the ones who don't leave school are way more troublesome!
This girl has locked herself up in school all the time, and refuses to leave.
Well, if you think about it normally, there's no way you two could ever meet.
Because you came to school, you accidentally met!
Like it is written in Tsuji Jinsei's book, "there's no use enticing me!!"
W-What's this about being an anti-truant?
She just doesn't leave school, right?
From society's point of view, never even showing up is much worse!
She just doesn't leave school?
Komori-san, teach this girl the horrors of anti-truancy!
If you say so, Teacher, I will.
Well now, will you be able to be anti-truant, I wonder?
If you manage to stay in school, victory will be yours.
Isn't that easy?
The music that is played after classes are dismissed, Traumerei.
Ah! I want to go home, already!
You feel uneasy, right? You feel lonely, right?
T-This is peanuts!
Soup that the noble lady...
Wearing cat fur...
I didn't know the Traumerei had lyrics.
Makes...
I go to the neighborhood...
Where Grandmother no longer is...
Tart that the noble lady...
Wearing dog fur makes...
Two shovels were sold at the hardware store...
What is this?
These lyrics pierce you all the way to your insides!
I'm becoming unstable, I'm becoming unstable!
At the hardware store...
The depth of the hole is like the son's...
Don't add screwed-up lyrics to the Traumerei!
Ah, Komori-chan!
Are you a friend of this school hikikomori?
Komori-chan isn't a hikikomori!
She's a Zashiki Warashi.
Zashiki Warashi: A child-like ghost which inhabits the room of a house, bringing its owners great fortune.
Thanks to Komori-chan Hikikomori'ing in our school,
we are able to maintain our prosperity.
If we let her marry, our entire school will crumble in an instant.
The house she left before she came here, was regretfully destroyed.
Komori-chan is an official member of the All Japan Zashiki Warashi Alliance,
and because she's a proper Warashi, you can relax.
What are you saying?
Uh, things become complicated when you come out.
Well then, see you later!
Wh-What's going on?
W-What's this?
The smell of curry drifting in at night from people's homes.
Mother!
The shadow of a horizontal bar rising on the schoolyard.
The sad crying of animals.
One's own tired face reflected in the glass of the dark hallway.
It's best not to overdo it and go home.
It'll only get worse.
In a dark school like this, an anxious state of mind only sees greater anxiety.
No way! There's no way that'll happen!
Right, Teacher?
Y-Yea...
There's someone behind you!
There's no one there, is there?
D-Don't say such strange things!
I swear, just now!
There is someone after all!
There isn't someone after all?
Why can't you see her?
It can't be... a ghost?!
I-I'm just going out for some air.
It's dark! It's scary! I want to go home!
It's really scary!
It's okay!
It's not scary!
Because not just the two of us are here in the dark!
Look, a baby!
The lower halves of babies are hanging from the ceiling!
I'm not your mother!
Not your mother!
Mother!
NO!
That was my truancy experience.
Ah, things like that happened as well.
I had completely forgotten that you were a truant.
Yea, yea.
How can you forget such a dramatic thing?
Eh?
Well...
Because it's rather normal?
Don't say normal!
ano toki deawanakerya yume de
If only we hadn't met that time
unasarenaide irareta
We wouldn't have had to see this nightmare
anata ga kono yo ni umarenakereba
If only you weren't born into this world
netami nantte, itami nantte
Things like pain and envy...
shirazu ni sunda anata ga
We wouldn't have had to experience that
moshi a-atta no wa
Suppose you had met
watashi to mattaku gyaku no hito
Someone completely different from me
makka na ito de tsunagiau no ga mieru
A connection with the red thread of fate would be visible
watashi wa aoi ito o sawatte mite yo
I will try and touch the blue thread
kono kokoro wa ima katte ni koi wo shite
This heart is falling in love on its own
katte ni kizu tsuiteru
Getting hurt on its own
sawaranaide yo
Don't touch me
kono omoi kanawanai no nara
If I can't overcome these feelings
massao na aza
A pale bruise
mune no naka no nokoru dake de
Will be all that remains in my heart
Land of the Departed.
When I left the tunnel there was another tunnel.
When I left that tunnel, there was yet another tunnel.
When I left that other tunnel, there was yet another other tunnel.
The tunnels just keep coming, it's tunnels all the way.
My life.
When I left the tunnel there was another tunnel.