K-Kazeoso-kun is such a good person...!
Shironuma...
I love you.
Good for you, Sabako.
It's thanks to everyone....
Good for you...
It's because Yano-san and Yoshida-san kept pushing me forward.
You big idiot!
She was trying to say it's because you worked so hard.
For me to be able to be with such kind people, it makes me so...
...happy!
Wait!
What a hoot!
You got some great stuff, Switch!
We've got tests the day after tomorrow!
Why the hell are you filming some drama?
Well, I was in it too, but...
Blowing off steam, that's all.
Let's film these DVDs 'cause they're funny!
I call it:
"Kimi ni Todokahen nen!" (Nope, Ain't Reaching You)
So she doesn't reach him after all?
Speaking of DVDs, there's a little rumor going around about one.
What is it, Switch?
A cursed DVD?
Episode 10: You Mustn't Watch
Somehow, when you watch that DVD, misfortune will surely befall you...
Will you cut it out already, seriously?
No one can speak about what the video shows...
In other words, no one knows!
Why the hell are you spreading rumors?
That's what Yuuki-san said.
You two sure are buddy-buddy.
If you say that, she's going to show up again.
That story is the truth!
See, here she is!
And we are not buddies at all!
And she's coming inside!
Um, is the Sket-dan open for business?
Yeah, we are.
What are we, an oden shop?
Ah, I'm sorry.
I am Kuramoto Ayumi, from class E.
I have something I'd like to consult you about...
Consult?
Looks like you have a customer.
Then, I shall be gone.
Begone, evil demon.
Farewell, Switch-kun.
For perpetuity.
For eternity.
Hurry up and go!
Although I don't really know the reason,
I'm worried because a friend of mine has been acting depressed.
I thought that I could at least try and cheer her up...
So I was wondering if you could help, or something...
I see.
I like this kind of request!
Yeah! The springtime of youth!
I would also like to be told "Being able to be with good people makes me happy."
Okay, get to it, people!
Wait!
What's wrong?
Cheer her up? Like that?
Are you saying there's a way other than the afro way?!
There isn't?!
Oh, what am I to do with you?
A/V Room
Thank you very much!
Crap...
Not even a trace of a smile!
I've never bombed this bad in my entire life!
And we worked so hard on our comedy act just for times like this!
Can a human being really keep a face that emotionless?
It's like looking at a portrait.
And now, Bossun does 100 gags in a row!
Don't be going crazy!
Then why don't we have a screening of this DVD, "Kimi ni Todokahen nen!"?
That's embarrassing, so let's not!
Then, here comes the afro!
That gross afro can go jump in a lake!
Ahem.
You're in the Broadcasting Club, Yagi-chan?
So, you're always here in the A/V room, then?
Actually, I don't really know...
What kind of things does the Broadcasting Club do?
Oh, that's the ticket, Bossun!
Lunch announcements, music for various functions,
end of school announcements, calling people to the office...
Clam it, you!
I am currently finishing up the creation of a work
that will be submitted to the broadcasting competition.
I am in the TV documentary division.
There are also divisions for narration, announcing, radio documentaries...
Get a clue, you dolt, and keep quiet!
I see...
Must be tough having to do editing right before tests.
That's enough.
Thank you, it was very enjoyable.
Kura-chan...
You asked them here, yes?
I am sorry about making you go to the trouble.
But there isn't anything wrong, really.
Don't worry about me.
Yagi-chan, if there's a problem, come ask us for help!
If you have something to talk about, you can tell us anything!
Something to talk about?
Why do you look so troubled?
Maybe she saw something freaky while she was editing.
Like, a DVD?
Seriously?
You're kidding me...
For real?
I'm going home!
Wait a sec!
Don't bother me any...
Yagi-chan!
What was that DVD?
What was it a video of?
It has nothing to do with you.
I told you, don't bother with me.
This is something nobody should watch.
A DVD that no one should watch...
You saw, didn't you...
Will you see stars after I bury you into the ground?
Stop it!
Thinking about this isn't getting anywhere!
No, look at this.
She took "Kimi ni Todokahen nen" with her by mistake.
This is hers.
S-Seriously?!
- End of Sixth Period -
Okay, that's all for today.
Everyone, good luck on the test.
Yagi, is something the matter?
Was my class really that boring?
Why do you ask?
Because you're usually so enthusiastic, but it's like your mind's somewhere else.
I am sorry.
Maybe I'm not a teacher you can rely on,
but if you have something you're worried about, I'm happy to listen.
I'm your homeroom teacher, and the sponsor of the Broadcasting Club too, after all.
Thank you very much.
But you needn't worry, there is nothing the matter.
Hey, Yagi!
Yagi!
No, no! I ain't watching!
Then pipe down! You don't have to watch it if you don't wanna!
What are you talking about?
If you watch it, then that slinky thing's gonna come out!
Like this!
Fine, enough already!
You don't have to watch it!
But who else is gonna fight it?!
Fight?
It?
Um...
Did you watch it yet?
Oh, Kuramoto-san.
No, not yet.
It does feel a bit off to just watch something that's not yours...
It's definitely embarrassing to have your cosplay seen behind your back.
Cosplay?!
Oh, it's you. I was wondering what all the racket was.
Yoshimura-sensei!
A/V Room
- After School -
A cursed DVD, huh?
It's hard to believe,
but if this has something to do with Yagi acting strangely, then let's take a look!
Take a look?!
If you do that...
What's gonna happen?!
That's...
Don't look!
Those are the questions from tomorrow's midterms!
So, this is for cheating?
Yeah.
Filming it was faster than making copies...
It was filmed while passing by the teacher's desk.
Don't tell me Yagi-chan...
I don't believe it.
No way she...
However, when she was a first-year,
there was an incident where she was suspected of cheating.
Seriously?
It's true.
It was all the talk around the girls in class.
Now that I think about it, it's true that three days ago,
when I went to see Yagi-chan in the A/V room...
She quickly hid something in her bag.
What?
I don't want to consider it, but when you think about it...
Kuramoto... I know this isn't what you want to hear,
but she might have been hiding this!
You saw, didn't you?
Yagi-chan...
Yagi...
Why?
Why would you do something like this?
I...
You just gave in to temptation, right?
I...
Please, Sensei, don't tell the whole school about...
B-But...
I understand.
I'll keep it a secret from the rest of the school.
Yagi, I know you're a sincere person.
It must have been because of the stress from the tests.
You were tired out, and just...
I...
Yagi!
Himeko!
Leave her to me!
This is also my fault for not giving her emotional support!
Sensei, you shouldn't blame yourself.
Anyway, it's dangerous to have this here.
We cannot allow anyone to see this, no matter what!
I have to lock it away.
Everybody understand?
The fact this is here is a secret between you three and me!
Right!
Yagi-chan...
Cheating, cheating...
That's why she always gets the top score.
That rumor is completely groundless!
I do no such thing!
Yagi, can I see you in the teachers' office?
Cheating, is it?
No morals...
Say something...
Yagi-chan...
So you were up here...
Good work, Himeko.
What do you want?
The girls admitted afterwards
that the rumors they spread about you cheating on midterms were false.
You didn't fight back?
I did! But I gave up.
And you'll just let this time go by without the truth coming out as well?
But, no one ever...
We do!
As long as you believe in us...
...we'll believe in you!
I've never cheated, even once!
That's right...
I found that DVD by accident.
It was after school, three days ago.
I went to the A/V room to work on editing,
and the DVD was just sitting there.
I thought it was one I'd filmed myself, and played it without thinking...
Then, just like Kura-chan said, I hid it inside my bag.
But I swear I didn't watch the DVD again!
Why didn't you tell anyone?
Because when I went home that day, I found this in my shoe box.
What's that?
So that's how it is.
Do NOT watch the DVD Do NOT tell anyone If you do, people will doubt you NO ONE will believe you
The real cheater is using the accusations of cheating last year to keep you quiet.
Yes... I did exactly what the cheater thought I would.
I was scared and couldn't do anything.
I couldn't tell anyone, either.
I thought that no one would believe me again...
Even so...
Sure, I thought about going public!
I thought about talking with Yoshimura-sensei or Kura-chan...
But if something like this got out,
I felt that people would start looking at me with those doubting eyes again...
And I also felt so frustrated seeing it!
Like all the effort I put into studying had suddenly been spoiled!
And that's why you said we shouldn't watch...
That's right!
If you get involved, you'll be suspected, too!
I can't have you get in trouble for my sake!
Okay, I get the picture now.
Leave the rest to us!
We're gonna catch that cheating bastard, you betcha!
But...
And if we do, we have a request.
A request?
We want you to smile for us once!
It's here!
The Next Morning
Oh? Everyone's here.
I apologize for this being so early, but I wanted to clear up the misunderstanding.
Misunderstanding?
Go on.
It wasn't me!
The real culprit is someone else.
I wanted you to know, Kura-chan.
True culprit? Then, who is it?
Oh, we made sure he was invited...
Isn't that right, Yoshimura-sensei?!
H-Hold it right there!
It was this memo:
"Your crimes will be revealed. Bring the locker key with you and come to the A/V room."
I came here because this was in my shoe box!
It was you who put it there, wasn't it?
Who do you think you are?
We're just doing what you did!
What I...?
That's right! You can't weasel your way outta this anymore.
The one behind the cheating was you, Yoshimura-sensei!
You snuck into the teachers' office,
took out the questions on the test and filmed them with a camera.
Just thinking logically, the only one who could do that would be a teacher.
After you checked it on the player in the A/V room,
you forgot and left it on the table.
But when you realized and came back to retrieve it...
It was already too late!
Yagi-chan was already watching it.
Then, unfortunately, Kuramoto-san came by.
At that point it was out of your hands.
You couldn't even lift a finger as you watched Yagi-chan take the DVD home with her.
"Oh, crap! I have to do something!"
Panicking, you came up with a plan.
You'd use Yagi-chan's past to make sure she didn't say anything.
"Do NOT watch that DVD".
You're the one who put that mysterious note in Yagi-chan's shoe box!
Because you knew that Yagi-chan wouldn't do anything once she read that!
What the hell are you talking about?
You think you can accuse a teacher of something like that?
You better have a good reason for it!
Sure! Let's take a look at that DVD!
What's filmed on it, exactly?
That's the proof, you say?
Yes.
Understood.
Then, we'll just double check.
We'll check just what's on this DVD!
Yeah!
Bossun!
It'll be fine.
I remembered when we watched it yesterday.
Switch!
These are math questions, there's no doubt of that.
But there's nothing here that says it's the midterm, and you said:
Don't look!
Those are the questions from tomorrow's midterms!
You're the Japanese History teacher!
How could you know this was the midterm test just from seeing that?
T-That's because...
I-I just inferred...
That doesn't prove anything!
Don't stop the DVD!
The proof is on this DVD.
It should be.
It should be?
Yes, it should.
After all, yesterday you stopped the playback, Sensei.
That smelled a little fishy to me.
After all, Yagi-chan didn't know who the culprit was.
That means it shouldn't have been a problem for the culprit for her to keep it.
Just as long as their face doesn't appear on the DVD, that is!
Oh, I see!
Don't be silly!
Can't you tell this is all a lie?
What are you going to do when there's nothing on it?
The proof is there!
It should be!
Fine then.
If there's nothing on this DVD, then you'll all be taking responsibility!
You might even be expelled!
Sure! If it's to protect Yagi-chan, we're prepared to go that far, damn it!
Got it, Yagi-chan? When this crisis is over...
...you'd better keep that promise!
Look!
How about that?
I don't see anything!
The criminal isn't shown at all!
Switch, rewind that scene.
Hold it!
If you keep up this foolishness, you'll really be expelled!
Switch...
Roger that.
There! Switch, pause it!
Don't!
Switch, zoom in on the mirror in the upper-right!
Uh-oh... I think I've seen that person somewhere before.
Indeed! It is the Japanese History teacher!
It is you, Yoshimura-sensei!
You sure did it.
People see this, and you're through.
You were worried whether or not Yagi-chan saw this far.
That's why you were subtly asking around.
However, she didn't act like she knew who was behind it,
nor was she gonna tell anyone at school about it.
Just like you wanted, Yagi-chan was too worried to do anything about it.
Not bad, Sket-dan!
That's right!
I'm the one who was behind it!
And so what?!
What's wrong with selling the test questions to the idiots in the class?
I was once filled with dreams, you know?
I worked hard every day, and finally stood at the teacher's lectern!
But who knew how much my feelings really get through to the students?
One day, it just suddenly seemed like a giant farce.
I thought about selling test questions to the crappy students.
What are you going to do, Sket-dan?
Going to tell the school about this?
Go right ahead.
But will they believe you?
You think they'll believe a past cheater
and some wannabe detective helper club over a school employee?
I'm a teacher!
I'm way more trustworthy than you people!
Yagi... Blab all you want.
No one will believe you!
It's true that no one would probably believe us.
But...!
Switch!
What if...
...every student was a witness?
DJ Yoshimura, our little talk was broadcast throughout the entire school!
You bastards!
What the hell are you people doing?!
Stop this broadcast at once, and return to your classrooms!
And...
Yoshimura-sensei, you will head to the teachers' office this instant.
Yagi...
You'd better watch yourself.
Take things too seriously, and this may well happen to you.
Okay, it's time to go, Yoshimura-sensei.
Yagi-chan!
I'm sorry for doubting you!
I'm a horrible person for doubting my friend!
Kura-chan...
It's okay.
I should have told you about it sooner.
As long as there are people like this in the school...
Man, that was nerve-wracking!
I mean, I was pretty sure, but...
If there wasn't anything on the DVD, we'd have been expelled!
If that ever happens, we should just form a Sket focused startup company, yes?
Oh, give us a break!
Thank you very much!
After School
They postponed tomorrow's test.
Phew, that's a relief.
I didn't study one bit.
Neither did I. Not one bit.
Spoken like someone who most definitely did.
Yagi-chan.
What should I say?
Since I didn't trust anyone, there was no reason for anyone to trust me, and yet...
Thank you very much.
Why do you have that look on your face?
You don't get it!
And after we asked so nicely...
Thank you, everyone.
Okay!
We got a shot of that smile!
Cut! That's a wrap, Director!
Who do you think you are, people?
Clubroom Talk Corner!
There you have it!
Let's get this corner started this week again with a bang!
I bet everyone's forgotten the point of it by now.
Did you say something?
Then, without delay, let's dump that info!
Ta-da!
This is our Sket-dan's clubroom!
Oh, it's like this.
If I recall, we got that bench from the sports department since they didn't need it anymore.
We've got three lockers, a perfect match!
You see, I am actually quite fond of lockers.
Note: Bossun is doing an impression of Watanabe Atsushi, host of a TV Asahi show which introduces various buildings
Your impressions are killer, Bossun!
Note: The design of Pelolin is a parody of Peko-chan, the mascot of confectionery/restaurant chain Fujiya Co.
After episode 4, the Pelolin doll that we won from the contest
has been sitting on Himeko's desk.
Note: While I'm at it, "Kimi ni Todokahen nen" is "Kimi ni Todokanai" in an Osakan dialect, which is the negative of the title "Kimi ni Todoke" it is parodying. The names are also parodied: Sadako->Sabako, Kuronuma(Blackswamp)->Shironuma(Whiteswamp), Kazehaya(Windfast)->Kazeoso(Windslow)
And just like this, we'll keep presenting you with all kinds of fun information!
Until next time!
That's it for this corner!
Sket Dance!
Finally got to do it right, sheesh...
Yabas! Look at this!
Some kind of game tournament?
You want us to participate?
Yeah! Yabas!
Naw, don't feel like it.
We Student Council members do not have that kind of free time!
Don't go saying that.
I hear that the Sket-dan will be...
The Student Council will be participating, I hear.
What did you say?!
Next time the curtain rises on: The Real-Deal Bibage Battle!
Yabas!
There's nothing "yabas" about it!
We're the ones who are sure to win!
Sket Dance!