New Year's Greetings
Cold.
Quietly...
Sacred arrow!
Hey, wait... Happy New Year!
Happy New Year.
Don't say "sacred arrow" when you stab me with a sacred arrow.
Do you see criminals on TV shows shouting "blunt instrument"?
But it's kinda like I'm setting a new standard, right?
You're not. Shut up.
Breath!
I feel the warmth...
Sacred arrow!
Okay. Time for hitting.
Ow! What's the big deal? It's an arrow for destroying demons!
The demons inside you are destroyed now!
Oh, I see. Then let me destroy your demons, too.
Ow! My butt! Oh! It hurts!
I got to start flirting with you so early this year.
The things you come up with are so not right.
Episode 7 3rd Semester!
Have you visited the shrine yet?
My family made me go with them.
Then let's not go today. I bet it's still crowded.
Where should we go? Is this a date?
With a sacred arrow?
Let's go to my place. There's no one there today.
Lonesome girl.
Entryway!
Enough already.
I'm coming in!
So warm!
When is Yukari-chan coming back again?
Tomorrow, I think.
No way she'd be back before the 3rd.
Being from a rich family must be tough around New Year's.
Darn you people who can relax in others' houses...
I couldn't do it.
To: Yukari Subject: HNY Yuzuko is in my house, past...
Oh, wrong word.
Passed out. When are you coming back?
Yui-chan... I'm sorry...
What did she do to me in her dream?
Or am I just mad so often that she dreams about it?
I feel kinda bad.
Forgive me...
Maybe this year, I'll try not to get mad so often.
Yui... chan...
No, not possible.
I'm dying... dying...
Gorilla?
Why?
What? Wasn't there a gorilla here? A lowland gorilla?
No, there wasn't.
Hey, natto.
Can I have this?
Oh, sure.
Yay!
Huh?
You got any hot rice?
Sorry, I don't.
Oh! This was the gorilla!
A little late!
New Year's Greetings
Yui-chan!
Stop it! You do this every year.
Aww, but...
I went without smelling you for three whole days!
What? You do that?
I sure do!
Don't smell me!
Don't pull on the fur!
Okay, let's go to your house.
What, again?
I'm gonna tell Yuzu-chan I'm going to your house, too!
Today is my turn!
You're pretty hyper today.
I don't like this.
Why don't we go to that place?
That restaurant you mentioned at the end of the year.
What?
I didn't mention anything.
Whoa, I really don't like this.
So early in the year, too.
Yui-chan's room! So warm!
It feels like so long since I've been here!
You came here at the end of the year.
Here!
Okay.
I remember some juice spilled here and made it really sticky.
Yeah. You spilled that, right?
It's so clean now!
What's with you? What's with you today?!
The truth is...
Wh-What is it?
I'm so exhausted from the New Year.
I can't take any more.
I kinda have to pee... but I'm falling asleep...
No, you should probably go... especially if you're tired.
I guess I should wake her up.
Oh, I know.
Gorilla?
Huh? Is that the normal response?
I was dreaming about a gorilla. A mountain gorilla.
Different species, at least.
We're coming in!
Are you coming every day?
Hey, did you guys gain weight over New Year's?
Thank you very much.
No, that's not what I meant.
I was just cutting a castella cake.
You're cutting them too big!
Are you trying to be happy?!
Castella is so delicious! Especially the brown sugar part.
They have brown sugar?
Is that the classy castella?
That's classy?
I guess you wouldn't call it "classy" in classy conversations.
Really?
Yeah.
Oh, did you have a traditional New Year's meal?
Yeah! I had mine with chestnut sweet potatoes.
Yukari-chan, you love chestnuts, don't you?
Yes!
What a good appetite!
Oh! Classy chestnut sweet potatoes!
What's that supposed to mean?
I had soup with rice cakes, too!
Classy soup with rice cakes!
Black soybeans, too!
Classy black soybeans!
They were very good.
Classy black soybeans sound pretty amazing.
Huh?
I wonder if Yui-chan's little bean is just as delicious?
Yui-chan's classy bean.
We should probably stop now...
Yui-chan stabbed my butt with a sacred arrow!
You stabbed me first!
Yukari, were you a hit with the old folks again this year?
Aw, stop!
Sometimes Yukari-chan says jokes so old, I don't understand them.
It's the old people's influence, I guess.
It's just...
they treat me exactly like they did when I was in elementary school.
They just think you're cute.
Ow!
Stop! That tickles!
What was that?!
An eye-poke?!
She's going for the eyes?!
Just a minute, Yui-chan.
Wait. Wait a minute.
Please don't kill us. -Yuzuko, Yukari
How about we go outside for a bit?
Huh? But it's cold.
I want to make light of it while it still feels like New Year's.
I know what you mean!
Cold!
Bad idea...
But it won't feel like New Year's much longer...
You're really trying hard to make light of this.
It's so... white out here.
Is it snowing?
No, just... it's just a feeling the town has.
They say, "the town is white for New Year's." So poetic!
Yeah, so cool!
Hey! Yui-chan's all red!
Shut up!
How blissful you must be.
I've gotten used to the cold.
Yeah.
A dog!
Bow wow!
A cat!
Meow!
Is this what they call the New Year's mood?
It's just being stupid.
Oden
Did you make a New Year's resolution, Yui-chan?
You don't have to say it if it's something embarrassing.
No, it's not. Why would you think that?
You don't have to tell us if you don't want to.
Huh?
She's right! It's not like I'm dying to hear it.
No, I'll tell you.
No, it's fine!
Just let it go!
Let me tell you what it is!
We're back!
Pizza bun!
Pork bun!
Curry bun!
So happy!
So wonderful!
So perfect!
What should we do for the rest of winter break?
We don't have long.
New Year's took all our time away.
Hey! I want to drive a car!
As long as it's on private property, you don't need a license.
Does the Hinata family own a ton of land?
What? Of course not.
Okay, she seems happy with that.
Then what should we do?
From: Yuzuko Subject: Excuse me Are you free tomorrow? Could we hang out to-gorilla-ther?
From: Yukari Subject: Buzz! (Message received noise) Want to go to that restaurant tomorrow? Yuzu-chan mentioned it. I thought we could hang out to-gorilla-ther.
They're obsessed with gorillas, now?
Data Processing Club
Mom!
Long time no see!
We're back!
Yes, welcome back!
Mom!
Mom! Mom!
Mom!
M-Mom!
Mom!
Mom... Mom...!
I don't know what you're doing, but cut it out!
Mom, did you watch "No Laughing Assassin" on New Year's Eve?
I did! With my friends!
Guy friends?
No, my girl friends.
If you played along with the punishment game,
your butt would be in trouble, huh?
Yeah!
Oh, yes! Our butts were awfully sore on New Year's!
She does that... with her friends?
Yuyushiki!
February 5th
February's Goal Maintaining Good Health
Chocolate is so sweet and good!
That's a pretty vague topic.
It's fine! Chocolate is sweet and good!
Right?
Yui-chan, do you feel sad when people die?
What?
Then... what's the problem?
What?! What are you talking about?!
I'm just saying!
I don't know anything about you anymore, Yui-chan!
Giant animals are a romantic idea, right?
Yeah...
The ocean is our mother, right?
Yeah...
Hands sure are useful, right?
Huh? Yeah...
Well, what's chocolate, then?
Sweet and good?
See?!
Don't point at me!
Hey, can we say some more obvious things?
How are you enjoying this?
So... Forests are warm, right?
Why did you choose that?
Yui-chan's cute, right?
Hey! That's the one I was gonna hit her with at the end!
Oh! I'm sorry! I wasn't thinking!
Jeez!
What do I say to that?
Yui-chan, you know how you often get that
bothered expression when we talk?
Yeah. I guess.
I honestly can't get enough of it.
More? Can we have more?
What are you talking about?
Would you look at us all bothered-like?
No! You have to bother me properly!
I mean, don't bother me at all!
Oh, I really can't get enough of that.
Never enough.
Hey! You know chocolate fondue?
Yeah. I've never eaten it, though.
Would you stick your hand in one for me?
What?
What the... what is this?
That's... an amazing idea!
Can I take the pinky?
Then I want the ring and middle fingers!
Double-up?! Amazing!
I'm not sure if I feel bothered or grossed out.
I'm going to the bathroom.
Okay.
Hey. Knock it off.
Guess who!
A fool you are, to throw your life away like this.
Her life?!
My life?!
By the way, Yui-chan,
it's mean to try to kill me just because I chopped you.
I guess.
If you had no skull, then I'd be the mean one.
That's too mean!
But you do have a skull!
Just because I do doesn't make it okay, see?
Ow, ow, ow! Wait, wait!
Hey, Yui-chan, let me take a mold of your head!
What? Why?
To make a chocolate shaped like your head.
And when you open it, there'd be a huge chocolate truffle inside!
That... that's so...
You're being really gross today.
Don't hate me, please.
Sure.
Chiho, they're talking about chocolate.
What?
I think Ichii-san was talking about chocolate.
Go on. Don't you want to give them some?
Sure.
Like I care.
So... I make chocolate every year. Do you want some?
Every year?
Are you sure?
I want some!
Oh, yeah, Ai-chan.
If you were to make a chocolate shaped like a body part, which would it be?
What? Body part?
I don't know.
Maybe... the eye? It would be round.
Oh! You'd be Xiahou Dun! He ate his own!
You're a fan of Dun?
The snow's letting up!
Looks like it.
Data Processing Club
Today's theme: "Eyes"
Eyes
A cat's eyes have low sensitivity to R in the RGB spectrum,
but can see G and B vividly, it says.
They can't see the rising sun flag!
They couldn't see red lights, either!
Sounds rough.
They'd see the green jacket version vividly, though, right?
Yeah!
Cagliostro is the cat's meow! Right?
The cat's meow?
There are very few people with red eyes.
About 0.001% of the population.
Too bad, since you love cats.
Oh! I could die!
A dragonfly's compound eye contains 20,000 eyes
Magnified view
It says a dragonfly's compound eye contains 20,000 eyes.
What?!
20,000?! That's amazing.
It's double 10,000!
Yeah. 5,000 times 4.
But only half of 40,000.
"An army of 20,000" would be amazing, right?
It's amazing for eyes, too!
Being 20,000 years old would be amazing, right?
Like trees, right?
The protein needed to send visual information to your
brain was named pikachurin.
Pikachurin Pikachurin (English: Pikachurin) is an extracellular matrix protein used in optical nerve transmissions... Description In 2008, the research team of Takahisa Furukawa at the Osaka Bioscience Institute announced...
I give up.
Did they pick that name while they were drunk?
The big-shot who picked it probably had kids!
Oh! That's it!
I guess that makes sense.
Just one kid, you think?
They're a big-shot, right? They're probably loaded.
Maybe three kids?
Probably!
Boy, girl, boy?
Girl, boy, girl?
Are you done with pikachurin already?
Eye summary
Okay! Let's summarize and go home!
Right!
Eye summary
Eye Summary Pikachurin, guys!
Then how about...
Eye Summary
Girl, boy, girl
You like that combination, huh?
But what about eyes?
Eye Summary
A red cat would be sad...
What's with that pose?
The snow's completely stopped!
It's all iced up.
Cold!
I bet she'll hit me for this.
Iceorry about hitting you with ice.
I don't know how you come up with those on the spot...
I diverted your wrath?!
The power of puns truly knows no limits!
Huh? Why?
Jut one pun diverted the full blast of your anger!
In the Heian Period, bamboo rake talismans were used as weapons.
Then decorative pine-bamboo pots were traps?
Next Episode
They're shaped like it.
We're In Our Second Year Now
Then sacred arrows were arrows?
Yeah. Wait, what?