Geez, peace at last.
So what are they building over there?
No clue.
It's going to be a soba restaurant.
Do you two live nearby?
Please come visit us once we open.
Mitsuru Adachi
（Serialized in Shogakukan's 「Weekly Shonen Sunday」）
Created by
Toshihiro Nakazawa
Nobumasa Sawabe
Planning
Masato Hayashi
Rei Anami (TV TOKYO)
Shin'ichirou Tsuzuki
Planning Assistance
Toshisato Okuno Shin Omura Takenori Ichihara
Tetsuya Takeda
Supervisors
Original Planning Assistance
Michihiro Tsuchiya
Series Composition
Yuji Kondo
Main Character Design
Maho Takahashi
Tomoyuki Matsumoto
Koichi Imano
Art Design
Subcharacter Design
Prop Design
Kayoko Ono
Miki Tsubouchi
Hiromi Komine
Yutaka Kuramoto
Art Director
Color Design
Photography Director
Editing
Nobuhide Tanaka Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
Kotaro Nakagawa
Takeshi Takadera
HALF H・P STUDIO
Music Producer
Music
Sound Director
Sound Production
「Summer Rain」
Lyrics／Composition: Kentaro Kobuchi
Arrangement: Kobukuro
Kobukuro
（Warner Music Japan）
Opening Theme
Shogakukan Music & Digital Entertainment
TV-TOKYO Music
Warner Music Japan
Music Assistance
Ryosuke Sakurai
Animation Producer
Animation Production
Shin'nosuke Wada (TV TOKYO) Naohiko Furuichi
Producers
Osamu Sekita
Director
Shogakukan Shueisha Production
Production Studio
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Wakaba.
Huh?
Oh, I'm talking about the bag.
This is actually from the fruit store in front of the Oizumi Park station.
Would you like a loquat?
Thank you.
Here you go.
Please come eat at our store when you're in the neighborhood.
We're actually next door neighbors.
Oh, I see.
I'm sorry if the construction's making a lot of noise.
Oh no, it's all right.
I hope we can become good neighbors.
See you.
Wakaba, huh?
Did she look like her?
I wouldn't know.
She died when we were in fifth grade.
I mean if she were still alive.
The Wakaba inside me is still the way she was in fifth grade.
I've never even imagined what she would look like as a high schooler.
Until now.
Right?
This loquat seed is too big!
This is going to be interesting.
You said you like soba, didn't you?
Yeah.
They're opening a new soba restaurant.
Where?
The place next to Ko's.
You know how there's been some construction there, right?
Over there, huh?
Now that you mention it, I guess I remember the people who used to live there moving out.
So that place is going to become a soba restaurant.
I'm sure Ko's going to be happy since he loves soba.
There haven't been any good soba restaurants around here, after all.
I need money, Dad.
What for?
For clothes.
Didn't I tell you that I was going shopping today?
Oh yeah.
Could you buy something a girl would wear from time to time?
You don't have any other skirts than your school uniform, you know.
I'm off, then.
Huh?
Where did Aoba go?
She's going shopping with her friends.
Don't worry, she's going with her girlfriends.
And here I was, hoping I'd ask her to a movie on her day off from training.
There's a summer festival?
All right, I'll ask Aoba to come with me!
Baseball practice won't be able to come between this one I bet.
Right?
Yeah.
All right, let's do this!
Please come visit us.
Will do!
Please come visit us.
Aoba!
Coming!
What's that flyer for?
Looks like we're getting a soba restaurant around here.
Are they decent?
No clue.
Is he going to eat dinner?
Did you say something?
Is Yuhei eating dinner with us?
He said he's going back home today, so no.
Why don't you close the window?
Isn't it noisy?
I'm sorry if the construction's making a lot of noise.
Nah, not really.
Looks like our next door neighbors finally piped down a bit.
Sounds like they've started rehearsing for the summer festival.
Yeah.
They're rehearsing for the festival, huh?
Now that's something to look forward to.
I'll be back by evening two days from now, okay?
We're going to go to the summer festival the day after that, okay?
Ko.
Ko?
Hey Ko!
Wakaba.
Huh?
What are you spacing out for?
Didn't I say we were going to the summer festival after I came back from camp?
You came back!
I'm back.
Welcome home.
Shall we go?
Wakaba?
Hey!
Wakaba!
Where am I?
At a soba restaurant.
Oh come on.
About tomorrow, Aoba—
Tell me later.
What's wrong?
My alarm clock stopped ringing.
I just bought this not too long ago, too.
Did you drop it somewhere?
I did no such thing!
But it's got dings everywhere.
That's because I use things to make it stop ringing sometimes.
"Things"?
Like the metal bat by my bed.
Dad probably won't give me money for a new one.
I guess this'll have to come out of my own pocket.
Man, this sucks.
Don't worry, I'll fix it for you.
Really?
You know I'm good with my hands, right?
Just leave it to me.
This should be a piece of cake.
Like a walk in the park.
What's Mizuki doing? It's dinner time.
Who knows.
Could you get him before the side dishes get cold?
A piece of cake, my ass.
It's fixed!
Here.
I even evened out the dings.
Thanks a bunch!
Ichiyo says come down and eat dinner already.
Boy am I starving.
Good with your hands, huh?
Did you say something?
Not really.
Man this is tiring.
That Azuma sure picked the best time to skip out on us.
He's probably training back at his house, too.
You guys are going to the summer festival today, aren't you?
Yeah.
All right.
Let's go check it out together.
We'll make friends with girls wearing yukatas and...
I don't have time for that.
Huh?
Our store is putting out a shaved ice stand at the festival.
Wanna come help?
You're joking, right?
What about you, Nakanishi?
I'll pass.
Is it because of Kyoko Nakagawa?
Yup.
She's supposed to buy me some yakisoba.
When did you...
Do you want me to come with you?
Oh, shut it!
Fine, do what you want.
I'll just go and get all the ladies with Kitamura.
Not with him you won't.
Why not?
He's got a prior engagement.
You better go report the results of the tournament to Waka, okay?
You're going to the summer festival, aren't you?
I bet she's going to be angry.
How about you try harder next year so she won't be?
It's the bottom of the first,
and Ryuou Academy gets their chance at drawing first blood.
With two outs and a runner on second,
cleanup hitter Keitaro Mishima steps to the plate.
He's hit it!
I wonder if he's planning on going by himself again this year.
Ko, I mean.
Waka's with him.
It's already been six years, huh?
Oh, you're back?
Yes.
If you're looking for Ko, you just missed him.
That's strange.
I should have been in the Koshien by now.
I guess I wasn't in 11th grade in your dream.
That must be it.
Now then,
let's get going.
Come on, let's go.
Aren't you going to wear a yukata?
As if I'd wear one.
It's too much of a bother.
I'm only going with you because you fixed my clock for me.
I can just stay home if you have a problem with that.
There's no problem, none at all!
Hold on a second, Aoba!
Do you think Waka's done eating this cake, Ichiyo?
Not yet.
Didn't you already eat your share just now?
Huh?
Isn't the summer festival that way?
I need to visit another place before that.
Visit where?
Do you think she's done eating now?
Not yet.
Where are we going, Aoba?
To visit her grave.
Her grave?
Oh, right.
Wakaba's grave.
Stop for a second.
What is it?
I need use the men's room.
I'll be right back; I just have to pee.
I pee.
Sorry I kept you waiting.
What's wrong?
Do you think dead people grow older, too?
Come one, come all!
Hey.
I see someone's working hard.
Hey, Akaishi.
You look more natural doing this than playing catcher.
Oh, shut up.
Have you seen Senda and others?
Nope.
Do you ever stop eating?
Who cares, it's the summer festival.
You'd be eating like this even if it wasn't a summer festival.
Could this be...?
N-No, I met her on the way here and...
No need to be shy, man.
You guys look good together.
As if we do!
We're trying to keep his weight down, so please don't let him eat too much.
Roger that.
Oh come on, don't say that.
Can't you fools see I'm working here?
If you're not buying anything, go be on your merry way.
I'll buy something.
Give me two bottles of ramune.
I'll take a strawberry shaved ice.
You're eating again?
Here you go.
Two bottles of ramune.
Hey, what are you doing, Akaishi?
Hey, Nakanishi...
Huh?
...do you think ghosts grow older, too?
There they are.
Mom! Dad!
Come on, didn't you guys say you were going to wait for me at the entrance?
Sorry.
We saw how fun the festival looked and couldn't help ourselves.
And who's that behind you?
He lives at the store next door to the place we're moving into.
Remember the sports equipment store?
Oh yeah.
He's the owner's son and his name...
Oh my, I haven't asked you your name yet, have I?
It's Ko Kitamura.
We're the Takigawas.
Nice to meet you.
The Takigawas, huh.
I'm Akane, their daughter.
I'm sorry, I should have told you earlier.
Oh no, it's nice to meet you.
Would you like to walk around with us?
Yes, since we did just meet and all...
Oh no, I'll excuse myself here.
Thanks for showing me around!
Hey, little man,
you shouldn't be walking around with your head down like that.
Ko!
Tada.
I'm wearing Waka's yukata.
Surprised?
I bet you thought I was Waka for a second.
Yeah.
Well they are sisters, after all.
Don't you fall for me because I look like her, okay?
I know.
Oh, I didn't mean it;
it was just a joke.
Huh?
What?
You're by yourself?
Do you not see your sisters behind me?
Oh, that's not what I meant, I...
Let's go, Aoba.
Do you think ghosts grow older, too?
Aoba!
Would you be quiet?
On a date?
You be quiet, too.
That's no way to talk to your senior!
You, sir, need to be quiet.
Adding "sir" doesn't make it any better!
Yeah, yeah.
More importantly, make sure you drop her off safe when you guys go back, okay?
Drop who off?
Do I have to tell you?
See you.
Did she really look that much like her?
Like your dead sister, that is.
The Waka inside me is still the way she was in fifth grade.
She doesn't get older.
He said the exact same thing.
I heard you guys are three sisters.
Kitamura told me.
We're actually four sisters.
Next time, on Cross Game Episode Thirty-Two:
Wait.
Akane Takigawa.
An 11th grader at Seisen Girls Academy.
Born June 25th.
Type "A" blood type.