Damn, these cookies are pretty good, Himeko!
Seriously?
Yeah! I'd never think you made 'em yourself.
They're shaped just like the Sket Mark, and they're baked skillfully.
I think you'd make an excellent wife, Himeko.
Yeah, totally.
Why don't you 'n me get hitched like, 10 years from now?
W-What's that supposed to mean?!
Are you saying that for real?
Huh?
It's a joke, duh.
A joke?!
Goddamn immature piece of... Pisses me off.
No concept of what not to say in front of a lady at all.
And there she goes subconsciously starting to clean wwww
Hey! Don't go sweepin' up dust when people are eatin' here!
No consideration at all. That ain't wife material right there.
What the...
Why you...
Stupid...
You ever heard of delicacy?!
You ain't got a single crumb of it!
Um... You know...
Maybe you're not getting what I mean...
You know... I'm like, not good with words...
As if! You're always blabbing on like there's no tomorrow!
Enough of this crap!
I'm chuckin' you out the back!
No, no! I ain't goin'!
Switch, get me my Cyclone!
No!
Out the back!
Episode 15: Mistaken Angel the 13th
J-son-sensei!
J-son?
Sensei?
I apologize for startling you.
Oh, we're sorry, too!
You two didn't take shop as an elective, so I suppose you don't know him.
Teacher: Son Junichi
The shop teacher, Son Junichi-sensei.
Most of the students affectionately call him J-son-sensei.
J-son-sensei
I'm like, so sorry about before!
We were just totally scared back then!
It is okay. I have gotten used to that.
I do not mind in the slightest.
What? He's like, totally bummed!
He ain't used to it at all!
The Darkness of the Heart
I do not mind in the slightest!
J-son-sensei has a fragile heart.
The Door of the Heart
He is twice as sensitive as a normal person, so watch what you say.
Compared to how he looks, that's just nuts!
By the way, I cannot stand horror movies.
What the heck?!
Try takin' a gander at your own mug!
Careful, Himeko...
I do not mind in the slightest!
The Darkness of the Heart
See, he's hurt by it.
The Door of the Heart
I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!
An omiai? Like, where you meet prospective marriage partners?
You're going to an omiai, Sensei?
Yes, tomorrow.
Oh, she's a real catch!
I have had countless omiais prior to this...
Um... I... Uh...
I am sorry!
Did you scald yourself?!
But I am refused every time.
Tomorrow, finally, I want it to go well!
I'm not getting any younger, and I want my parents to be able to see some grandkids.
Grandkids?
I suspect that my appearance is a source of all the prior failures...
However, perhaps my overly-nervous personality is also contributing.
Sometimes I get so nervous, I don't even know what's going on, and I'm poor with words...
At this point I don't know what to do.
Poor with words?
No problem!
Just leave everything to the man they call the Word Wizard, I, Bossun, aka Fujisaki Yuusuke!
Bossun, you okay?
Didn't you just say you weren't good with words?
So you're actually some Word Wizard?
We'll help ya out, J-son-sensei.
Ignoring me, are you?
Thank you very much.
But it's your scary face that's worse than your way with words.
Plus, that stiff expression.
You're not moving your muscles at all... It looks just like you're wearing a hockey mask.
You know?
Yeah, and all those moles... They're symmetrical, too!
Try smiling a little!
S-Smile?
Right, smiles are important, you know?
Come on, smile!
Now, smile!
*smiley*
That ain't a smile!
That was just a friggin' sound effect!
Or wait, the fact it actually made that sound is weird...
Smile more! Like, for real!
B-But, I am smiling.
Look carefully at the corners of my mouth.
The corners?
*smiley*
See?
You call that a smile?!
That ain't gonna cut it!
It don't look a bit like any smile I seen!
But, I am smiling.
I smile like this often at home.
While I am watching my favorite comedy programs...
Creepy! What's with that laugh?
Great, he's bummed again.
What a handful!
I will knock you down personally...
J-son-sensei, you're a big guy but soft-spoken, you know?
Why don't you try speaking more clearly?
Looking scary on the outside can also be seen as manly!
That's it!
Speak more clearly?
Ready, Sensei? You're gonna repeat after me to practice!
Here I go!
I am a high school shop teacher!
And because my face is this way, I am called J-son-sensei by the students!
Bossun, I like it!
Great! Now you try, Sensei.
Give me bright and cheerful!
R-Right...
I-I...
No good! Say it louder!
I-I am a teacher who chops up trees!
Crap!
B-Because of this accursed body, the students refer to me as such...
*gulp*
Yes! They call me J-son-sensei!
No!
Stop, stop stop!
And you're thinking about marriage?!
I'm sorry...
You'd think speaking clearly would be easy to do.
Like you should talk!
Wouldn't it be faster to just round up some horror film addicts?
I wonder if there's anything we could do?
What if we utilize "the gap"?
Gap?
When there is a gap between one's personality and outward appearance,
it can be called a moe point.
Rather than appealing with manliness, couldn't attacking on a different angle be a winning strategy?
That's it!
J-son-sensei, do you have some kind of special talent?
You know, somethin' unexpected...
A talent?
Let me see...
I am good at doing sound mimicry.
Sound mimicry?
That's totally unexpected!
Great, perfect! Nice and old-school!
That's totally opposite your image!
Sound mimicry... That's like...
Making train sounds...
Or the chirping of crickets, right?
Give it a try!
Right...
Well, then...
I will now recreate an unpleasant sound effect from Japanese horror films.
That's no different at all!
So much for the gap!
Marriage, my ass!
I mean, why the heck'd you choose that sound?
Didn't you just say you couldn't stand horror movies?
I don't like them, but for some reason I am drawn to them...
Well, I guess I can see that.
Continuing: Unpleasant sound effect from Japanese horror films #2.
Give it a rest already!
The Day of the Omiai
Omi Aiko
U-Um...
Uh, don't mind us!
We just love J-son-sensei so much we just had to just come!
We most definitely did not come because he asked us to, most definitely!
Come on, Sensei, say something! Introduce yourself.
R-Right...
Nice and loud!
R-Right.
Louder!
Right!
Not answering me, the introduction!
Right...
What a splendid day we have today!
Man, he's crazy nervous!
And, er, in spite of this terrible weather...
Sunny or rainy, which is it?!
I am so glad you were able to make it here!
Crap! He's sweating way more than normal!
I truly...
Y-Your neck!
I truly...
...thank you!
Time, time! You okay?!
What the hell is he doing?!
I thought this might happen, so I brought an emergency kit.
You rock!
You thought this might happen?!
I-I am sorry for making you see that.
I am poor with words, and get very nervous...
Despite my fearsome appearance...
Son-san.
Son-san?
I came here today after seeing your picture ahead of time, you know.
Please, do not worry yourself.
I am not afraid of you at all.
Anyway, you really do seem to be loved by your students.
May I also call you J-son-sensei?
Yes!
Please, call me that!
Guess there was no need to worry.
With her, there's no need to worry.
Yeah. And it looks like he's not so nervous anymore.
We should now leave this to the young ones, and get ourselves out of the way.
Sure, but they're older than us.
What subject do you teach at school, Sensei?
I-I'm a teacher that chops up trees!
Uh, Sensei?
I-I love saws!
I especially love the feeling of chopping a man-sized log of wood in half with electric saws!
J-son-sensei!
Among them, my favorite is most definitely the vibrating sound of a chainsaw!
Crap! He's so nervous he's going out of control!
What the hell's so funny?!
Oh! I have a special talent I would like to show you!
A-A talent?
M-May I show you?
Sure...
The sound of a chainsaw...
Anything but that!
But that!
Crap!
Special Beam Cannon.
'Tis like the sound of time's tears...
You a poet now, Switch?
Being no good at speaking is a tough nut to crack, you know?
Even the Word Wizard throws up his hands.
Yeah... And I thought that omiai was actually going well there.
Are you a Wizard? Or not?
Oh, thanks for the work!
You really saved me.
That dirty shed is cleaned up nice and tidy!
Thanks a bunch!
Now we can slowly turn this into the club room...
You know what club I'm talking about, right?
You know?!
The Genesis Club.
Correct!
I knew you'd know! Your burning passion! Your Heart of Genesis!
My brain's scrambling!
That's right! I figured one of these days it'll be the Genesis club room!
How about it?
Why not a friendly game of Genesis afterwards?
No! Hurry up and find other club members!
Come now, I know you're totally Genesistin'!
What the heck is Genesistin'?
And stop rubbing that against me!
Yamanobe-sensei, may I have something from this?
OK! Whatever you'd like, 'kay?
He sure loves to dumpster dive.
Not like he'll find any treasure in there...
I found treasure!
Seriously?!
It's not something crappy?!
It's Gumin-gumi's mascot character, Musaborou the Layabout!
Figures.
Keep it.
Plus, it's a rare color edition!
Whatever!
Oh, there you are!
Hey, Sket-dan!
It's Kura-chan!
What's the matter? Need something?
Actually, it's not me. It's him.
Him?
Right. The guy over there.
Guy?!
No way... You have a boyfriend, Kura-chan?!
No, it's not that.
He's in my class.
What's with his posture?
He's been standing in front of the Sket-dan's clubroom like that.
I think he needs a consultation.
We've been together since middle school.
He finds communicating difficult, so I think it was very difficult for him to come here.
You're like his wife or something, Kura-chan.
A person who isn't good at communicating?
Not this again.
So, what's your name?
Tell us your name. Come on, name.
Datenshi (Fallen Angel).
Tateishi?
Tateishi-kun?
Huh? Didn't he say Datenshi?
Datenshi isn't a name! He's Tateishi, duh!
His name is Date.
X Datenshi
O Date
That's completely different!
He totally said Tateishi, I know it!
No, he didn't! He said Datenshi!
Whatever!
Anyway, just say your own name right.
Date-kun, you see...
He idolizes Visual Kei bands, and so he talks with that "style" in mind...
He expresses himself in extremely few words that are difficult to understand.
What a pain in the ass!
You're in high school and you can't even talk right?!
What a pain.
Like you should talk!
Sheesh! Stop talking like a weirdo, and speak normally!
I'm gonna ask it again: What's your name?
Dante.
Why?!
You just said Dante!
Don't go changing it a little bit!
Stop it, Himeko! Don't lay hands on him!
Say "Date" damn it! And those little poses you make piss me off!
Scrambling. Brains.
Um, I'll be leaving now.
What? You're leaving, Kura-chan?
Yeah, sorry.
I promised to go shopping today with Yagi-chan.
Really? Yagi-chan does things like go out shopping?
Well, sure...
What'll Yagi-chan be buying?
Oh, you see...
Really? Yagi-chan?
And that's not all.
Really? I've never seen that in person!
I wanna go out shopping with Yagi-chan, too!
Don't do it, Himeko! Don't you run out on me!
Anyway, thanks for everything!
What'll we do? It's another words-worthless.
It didn't go well with J-son-sensei, but we've surely learned from our mistakes!
Time to get revenge, Word Wizard!
R-Right.
Hell yeah!
This time I will show you my super wizard skills!
Good, got it.
Leave it to us.
So, what's the request?
Can you please explain it to us in as simple terms as possible?
Descended.
What?!
Descended? What descended?
Like, your mood or something?
Stop trying to say everything in one word!
It ain't getting us anywhere!
Bossun, don't you think he means he dropped something?
Oh, that might be it!
That's right! He dropped something!
Isn't that right?
H-He nodded!
Dante actually nodded!
I've got it!
We got it, straight on!
That's right! He's just shy!
We just have to warm him up is all!
Okay, that's the way!
Now, tell us what you lost, straight out!
Wings.
Wings Flying to the Banquet.
Give it a rest!
Say it right!
Don't do it, Himeko!
You've got that look on your face!
See, he's frightened! Dante's frightened!
Hell if I care, you bum!
U-Uh, okay, right.
Let's start by being a little more friendly with him.
If we can get him to open up to us, then...
Why do we have to go through this rigamarole?
He really is such a pain.
I said: Like you should talk!
Right then.
Dante, what's your favorite food?
Next stop: Hoshimidai. Hoshimidai.
The exit will open on the right-hand side.
Jelly beans?
Right, there you have it.
And the winner is, jelly beans.
Those things aren't even that good!
They're just pure sugar!
They don't hold a candle to the complex flavors of Pelocan!
Sounds like he just said whatever the fanciest looking candy was.
No good, he's still closed off from us.
Don't you have anything other than that flashy-looking candy?
Hambe... Teriyaki burger.
Got it! He said teriyaki burger!
He actually can say normal things! Totally normal!
Furthermore, he corrected himself a little.
He must really enjoy them!
Great! That heart's openin' up!
Now then, when do those teriyaki burgers taste the best?
That's a good question!
Empty Stomach.
Argh, no!
He's totally obsessed about answering in one word!
What's with that freaky policy?
You think you're all cool, huh?
Dante, Dante... Listen up!
Empty stomach is true and all, but there's all kinds of other situations that...
What situation makes them taste the best?
Bossun, you always try your best...
First, we fix the guy's tendency to only talk in single words.
Current Topic: At what time is eating a teriyaki burger delicious?
If I can hold a longer conversation, I should be able to get him to open up his heart!
Sunday-noon-post-lonely-theatergoing.
I believe he is saying that teriyaki burgers are delicious
when eaten after leaving the movie theater in the afternoon, having seen a movie alone.
Don't go abridging things without reason!
Why do you have to say everything in a single damn word?!
Well, it's not really like a single word.
It's a string of kanji and more like chinese!
Anyway, this guy clearly has some lonely weekends.
It ain't right goin' to watch movies alone and then pigging out on fast food!
Are you destined to be a manga artist or what?!
Whatever. Anyway, what kind of movies do you like?
He's being pretty murky here...
Oh, maybe it's that, you know... Esoteric stuff?
Yeah... Like stuff only hardcore people would know.
Switch here knows all about movies, so no need to be embarrassed, just say it.
He's started to write something.
Too embarrassed to say it aloud?
See what I said? It's some weird freaky cult movie thing.
That's the mark of "The Spiral".
The Spiral?
A gothic horror movie that was quite the rage a little while ago.
It was a cult movie that gained such a fervent following, some youths even got tattoos of the mark.
That's nothing to be embarrassed of!
Now keep going and tell us everything about you!
It fits right in with your Visual Kei taste!
Naruto...
An anime movie?!
What is wrong with you, seriously?!
What's Visual Kei about Naruto?!
Movie@strong-dattebayo.jp
Don't force yourself to say it in English!
What's with the .jp? You're making it sound like some email address!
Fine, enough warming up!
You're gonna tell us about the request now.
What was the thing you dropped?
False Dream.
Switch: Cyclone!
Wait, don't be hasty, Himeko!
Let's listen just a little more!
Don't throw him with your belly button!
Why am I being so desperate about this?
Explain to us more concretely, in a simpler way to understand!
We're here to help, okay?
K-Key...
Key? You dropped a key?
No? Then, what?
Embrace the Heart's Key.
Enough! I don't get it at all!
C-Calm down, Himeko!
You expect me to calm down?! Kiii!!
"Kii"?
He just said key...
Embrace can also mean "to hold"...
Key holder?
Oh, that's right! Key holder!
See? It's hard to understand, but he's been giving us hints!
Then, can we figure out what kind of key holder?
He said "False Dream", right?
False can mean "lie".
Lie dream... No, that's not it.
Lie can also mean to lie down.
Lie down, huh?
Lie down, and sleep...
Sleep, and dream...
Gumin-gumi!
That merchandise you picked up of Saborou the Layabout was a key holder, wasn't it?
That's it! You cracked it, Bossun!
I've got it right here.
Yes! This is it!
We got it, Dante! You lost this key holder, right?!
Wow, we rock! What a coincidence!
Awesome! This one was just awesome, like a flash of inspiration!
Solved!
Request: solved!
Communication: achieved!
The Sket-dan is victorious!
Dream of lie.
Kura-chan here!
Actually, see, it's a basic explanation of the Visual Kei band name, Dream of Lie.
The band name comes from the Japanese Itsuwari no Yume.
Itsuwari no Yume.
Their live shows are called Banquets.
Wings Flying to the Banquet.
Their tickets are called "wings".
Wings...
Their live tour this year is called the "Embrace the Heart's Key" tour.
Embrace the Heart's Key.
All the mysteries are solved!
Even though Date-kun really did talk in specifics...
Whether he's bad with words or bad at communication,
the one thing that gets through is our never-give-up spirit!
You got that right!
Mistaken Angel!
Mistaken Angel (You people have got it wrong)
Himeko, what're you doing with a guitar?
For the festival!
You didn't know?
That's right. It's a fully sanctioned school activity!
And, you're gonna play that?
Yeah! I'll be in a band that's playing!
FYI, as will I!
And so will I!
In order to liven up the festival, all of us Student Council members will participate!
Yay!
A band?
Then I'm in, too!
I am so totally in!
Next time: Kaimei Rock Festival!
Who will possibly end up the grand winner?!
Sket Dance!