Hey! Don't change the channel!
You don't want to miss what's coming up!
What? The boarding house is haunted?
But I can't pass up on the manga library.
I'll give the ghost a lecture then!
The eyes of the students bear uncut diamonds.
Junichiro Kagami, the Ultimate Otaku Teacher, is always the first to find them!
C-Clean up the boarding house?
Yes, it's been closed off for a year for various reasons.
But I can't leave it that way forever, so I was planning on re-opening it soon.
Thus, I'd like to have your entire class stay overnight to tidy the place up.
I refuse.
"Ultimate Otaku Teacher #16 | Search"
"Take Me to the Afterlife"
Cleaning this whole building up?!
Yes! Let's do a good job!
"Icho Academy Class 2-3 Kanan Chinami (Anime Voice)"
"Icho Academy Class 2-3 Kiriko Shikishima (Potatoes)"
Huh? Why do we have to do this?
I love cleaning!
This is suspicious.
Big bro the YD, all excited about manual labor?
"Icho Academy Class 2-3 Seijuro Nanami "(Cyborg Human)"
The chairperson must have told him something.
"Manga Library"
Wow, what a stash!
This place has more manga than most bookstores!
Heh, so this is it.
Yeah, it's just like you said.
"Dome Dome"
It's got everything from classic hits to niche masterpieces!
I know a way to "clean" this real fast...
What?! Wait, don't do that, Cyborg Human!
Hot!
Big bro...
I'm kidding, obviously.
Cyborgs don't tell jokes!
I'll handle this room by myself, the rest of you work on the other rooms!
Wait, big bro!
Just go!
Alright, let's put all of these back on the shelves.
"That Star"
Oh.
I told you, I'll handle this by myself!
Huh?
I thought someone was looking at me...
I guess I was just imagining it.
Why do we have to do this for Otaku Teacher?
"Icho Academy Class 2-3 Kisaki Tenjoin (Real name Sachiko Tanaka)"
This sucks.
Yeah, he owes us a BBQ dinner, at least.
We can't afford that!
Make the chairperson pay for it.
BBQ dinner on the chairperson? Great!
Kiriko, what type of meat do you like?
Beef? Or pork, or chicken maybe?
It's hard to put one over the others.
Cows, pigs, birds... I see them in my head.
I see how they were before they died... I can't say one is better or worse!
Huh? Why? Nobody was there.
We have to clean up the shards.
Huh? Where did the mop go?
Hey, who did this?
I just wiped that part up, it's messy again!
Hey, did anyone take my cleaning rag?
Ow! Who just hit my head?!
Could this be...
Wow, I'm so tired!
Tomorrow we'll work on the north side!
What's wrong?
You look like a BL otaku girl who can't find her friends at the event hall.
Oh, um, it's nothing...
I'm pretty sure I just heard the shower...
"Girls' Bath"
It's here! It's a ghost!
What? What's going on?
What ghost?
I, um...
It's nothing. My next manga is a horror story, so I asked her to act out a scene for me.
Sorry to startle you all.
Kisaki...
We shouldn't make everyone panic. But...
...do you know something? Explain to me.
Oh, oops.
I fell asleep after concentrating too hard on the manga.
Wh-Who is it?!
Scary...
Umajima the Rich Shark is scary!
You're not a student from my class, are you?
Wait, are you talking to me?!
Who else is there?
What?! She floats!
Oh, she fell.
I've been a ghost for a year now, and I haven't talked to anyone until now!
Oh, for over a year? No wonder...
A-A ghost?!
Yeah, I heard about it from an older student once.
A year ago, there was an accident in this boarding house.
A student died.
That rumor does sound familiar.
I've never heard that before.
I never talked to anyone.
I punched everyone before they could talk.
I never came to school, how would I know.
It must be the ghost of that student...
S-Stay back!
Your kind belongs in manga!
Don't appear in real life!
Uh oh, did I anger her...?
This is an actual conversation!
Wait, so you're happy? Confusing!
I have a request for you!
N-Now what?!
Can you...
Can you help me depart to the afterlife?
Hey, Options! You never mentioned a ghost!
"Chairperson, Hiiragi Academy Koyomi Hiiragi (Options)"
Oh, so it was haunted after all.
What do you mean "after all"?!
You had this planned from the start!
I'm not a monk or a ghost sweeper!
Mr. Kagami, do you know why I chose you, not a monk or a ghost sweeper?
Huh?
That is because...
...I thought it would be more amusing.
Good luck in leading her to the afterlife!
I have high hopes for you, Mr. Kagami.
Thank you in advance...
"GABURA, Big Swingup!, The Star We Saw That Day, Pyogees, Saeimo: How to Defeat a Boring Sister, Class 2-3"
I see.
You got caught in an unlucky accident
and you loved manga so much, you couldn't leave this place.
Before I knew it, I lost my way to the afterlife.
You love manga that much?
Yes! My most favorite manga is Classroom of the Terminus.
It's the most exciting and unpredictable one I know!
I wonder what Kisaki Tenjoin, the author, is like!
Caught a cold?
She must be a mature lady with lots of life experience!
Nah, she's a high school student.
What?! Really?!
A high school student, like me, wrote that?!
Do you want to see with your own eyes?
Kisaki-sensei, can I come in?
Big bro?
Come in.
What are you all doing here?
A ghost! This place is haunted!
Oh, you mean...
...this one?
Nice to meet you! Ghost here!
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to startle you.
It's just, this is the first time in a year so many people showed up.
I tried too hard to get everyone's attention, and...
And so, this is the sensei herself, Kisaki Tenjoin.
"Itadakimasu!"
Hmm? Who is this?
Junichiro, I'm not interested in ghosts.
She's a big fan of yours.
What?!
My apologies!
Kisaki-sensei really only cares about her readers.
Sensei! I'm a huge fan of Classroom of the Terminus.
Whenever I read it, it makes me think about life.
Um...
This is the copy of Classroom of the Terminus volume 1 that I carry everywhere.
"Classroom of the Terminus"
This is the copy of Classroom of the Terminus volume 1 that I carry everywhere.
It's a first edition of course, and I've read it over and over, until the pages wore out.
I really, really enjoy it.
I just wanted to meet you to tell you that.
Are you sure that's it?
Um, that's...
Don't you have a request for Kisaki-sensei?
Um...
It's about your first serialized work, Hanauta, how it ended.
Hanauta?
That manga that didn't end, because the magazine it ran in got shut down.
So if you have a storyboard, or just a plot overview, of how it ended...
Can you show her, Sensei?
Oh? Where...
Did I ask too much and anger her?
Anger? With that?
I wouldn't introduce her to you if she would be angered with just that.
Tenjoin-sensei...
This is the last episode of Hanauta that I completed for myself,
something I knew would never see publication.
I vowed never to show this to anyone...
But you're technically not human, so you can read it.
Junichiro, not you!
Seijuro.
--Let's go, Otaku Teacher! --I wanna read it too! Kisaki-sensei!
Get off of me Cyborg Human!
I gotta read it! I have to!
I'm so happy.
I have no attachment left in this world.
Thank you!
I'm satisfied...
H-Huh?
Strange...
One second... I'll get going soon.
How... Why?
Why can't I move on to the afterlife?
That's because you still have an unfulfilled yearn.
Time to start the lecture.
An earthbound ghost is a spirit who is
bound to a specific location due to a strong attachment.
I thought your attachment was to this stack of manga.
However, that's probably not the case.
Otaku Teacher?
--Big bro? --Mr. Kagami?
It must be in here.
I knew it.
When you read Classroom of the Terminus,
it made you want to draw manga too, right?
"Classroom of the Terminus" "Kisaki Tenjoin"
"Manga kit"
But at that moment, an unbalanced bookshelf toppled over...
So that's how...
Yes...
That's horrible...
But can't you draw in your current form?
You can read, right?
I can't.
Touching things take a lot of energy for me.
Just turning a page requires effort.
Complex activities like drawing would be too hard.
I see...
Is something wrong?
No, it's nothing.
"Manga kit"
The beginners' kit... I remember this.
Do you want me to teach you how to use it?
Yes! Please!
You just said it's too hard...
So, in order to use this kit...
Yes!
Pick any tool you like, and draw whatever you want!
Period!
U-Umm...
Aren't there, like, skills for each tool that I need to practice?
If you have time to waste on that, draw!
It's the fastest way to improve your pen skills too!
But... "Draw"? I don't know what to draw...
Interesting things!
Find something you think is interesting and draw it.
That's all there is to it!
When I was small, I used to doodle at the park.
One day...
Then what?
Huh?
Come on, I wanna see what happens next!
Doing something that I found to be interesting also made someone else happy.
The sense of joy at that moment was overwhelming.
That's why, to this day, I can't stop doodling.
That's really what being an artist boils down to.
I want to draw too!
Let's start drawing then!
Kisaki-sensei! Are you okay?
Yeah, I'm okay. Just got a little dizzy.
You must be tired from working all night!
It's already late, you should get some rest!
Huh? No, I'm... Hey, Junichiro?!
You too, Suzune, and the rest of you!
Huh? Big bro!
There might be some way we can help...
It's fine! I got this!
Don't let anybody in this room until I say it's okay, understood?
O-Okay...
Okay! Let's make some manga!
Yes!
It's been a while since the last time I saw big bro give that look.
Thanks for helping!
I've helped Kisaki-sensei on her work too.
Wow, I'm jealous!
You're doing well with that pen.
I don't know why, but I feel really good today!
Usually, I get very tired just by turning pages on a book.
Today I don't feel tired at all from drawing!
Good, that's really good.
What's wrong, Mr. Kagami?!
I'm sucking up his life energy!
Is that why I feel so good?
Is this why Tenjoin-sensei suddenly got dizzy...?
Is that why they had to shut this boarding house down...?
It's all my fault!
Don't worry about me, keep drawing!
Wh-What?! I can't do that!
Take as much energy as you need!
Just draw!
What is it like to yearn to read manga, even after death?
What is amusing to you?
I want to read your manga.
Yes!
Morning!
Hey!
Otaku Teacher didn't go back to his room.
Is he still drawing manga?
Um, I finished...
It's just one page, though.
Oh yeah! The moment I was waiting for!
"On my way home from school, I saw a shooting star.
I took the opportunity to make lots of wishes.
Unfortunately, it was a space station.
I was too busy making wishes to get away...
...and unfortunately, I died.
To my surprise, however, dying made my wish come true.
It was..."
"It was..." What was it?
This is great! From the very first page!
I can't wait to find out what happens next!
Hey?
It's just like how Tenjoin-sensei described.
I've never felt so good...
Hey, you're fading away!
Come on! You've only finished the first page!
The first page is all I need...
I was able to share a feeling with the author I look up to.
Thank you...
Thank you for telling me my manga is good.
Wait! This lecture isn't over yet!
Mr. Kagami,
next time, I'll be your student properly.
Let's talk about manga some more, okay?
Big bro!
She took off.
Smiling like a fool.
Nishikujo.
Matome Nishikujo. That was her name.
She was quite amusing in life as well.
Yeah...
She grabbed my heart with just one page.
She was quite the fantastic author.
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Hi, I'm Matome Nishikujo, aka Ghost Girl!
I met Kisaki-sensei, drew my first manga,
and was able to successfully leave for the afterlife!
Next episode,
Kotaro Araki the truant is finally coming to school!
It's not as smooth as it could be.
Isn't that the girls' uniform?
Period Seventeen, "Turmoil on Day One."
"Maid Cafe Heart on Heart"
That looks like fun.
Maybe in my next life...