Oh, crap!
Riko, you realize what time it is?
I know!
Ouch!
She's like this every morning.
I thought she'd become more of a lady after entering Fuji Girls'.
Give up already, Mom.
She's past the age of being what you want her to be.
I already think of her as my older brother.
Ren, you bastard!
Damn it, you violent woman!
You know, this is why boys are always turning you down!
You brat!
If you're that bitter, why don't you get someone to confess to you?
It's happened to me.
Huh?!
Enough! You're both going to be late!
Rentaro, stop opening your sister's old wounds and get ready!
Okay.
Another one just opened.
Riko, you can do it.
And again...
I-I know you're made of the right stuff, Riko! Right? Right?
Oh, yeah.
Remember our old neighbor, Satoshi-kun?
I ran into him the other day.
He used to look like a little girl, but he's grown quite manly.
According to his mother, he's very popular now.
I think it'd be good for you to act a little girlier, too.
I'll never... I'll never be...
Boys don't treat me like a girl.
I never get past friendship, and I always get shot down.
I'll never be popular!
Kurahashi Riko-san is wonderfully wild as always!
After School
The Terrible Legend of Riko
Riko, is something wrong?
Don't worry about it.
Come on, let's get to it.
Okay.
If I were as pretty and girly as Maki, I'm sure I'd be popular.
This time...
We'll practice creating auras that'll make boys want to talk to us on the street!
She's an idiot on the inside, though.
Are you saying you want to be hit on?
What? N-No!
Nothing that direct.
Just a casual greeting and a conversation...
As the first step, you know...
Let's begin as friends!
Love and peace for all of humankind!
The freedom heart is a world treasure!
I have a Guinness-level heart!
How are those related?
People often keep their distance from me.
You know I don't have many friends.
I thought boys might treat me the same way.
She does seem too perfect on the outside.
What if I secretly watch boys from the shadows, quivering in loneliness?
They might talk to you... to ask if you're all right.
You're lucky you have so many friends.
You must know all the tricks to drawing others toward you.
You're a true master of love!
A popular girl!
This lie really stings today.
Anyway, the others sure are late.
Suzu is out with a cold.
Something came up, so Eno's going home.
I'm skipping, too.
Oh, I see.
I just can't stand this girl.
Shame I don't get to practice romance with the master.
Especially this side of her.
What should we do, Riko?
Ah, enough of this!
Why don't we take the day off and have some fun?
Didn't you say you wanted some hair accessories?
Oh! Yes, let's go!
We bought some cute ones.
Yes.
Is it all right if we stop by the bookstore?
Sure!
This has been a nice change of pace.
Huh?
What is she doing here?
Did you come to put your romantic efforts into practice?
What?!
Good luck.
I'll be watching.
D-Did we come here so boys would talk to us?
Hey!
Riko, show me how to do it.
You heard her, Kurahashi.
Kurahashi?
Wh-What am I going to do?
I wonder if anyone will talk to me...
Riko?
Someone's talking to me, but...
Who?
It's really you, Riko!
It's been so long.
Huh?
I heard you'd gone to Fuji Girls'. I see it was true!
Who?
Who is this?
I want to ask him.
Good to see you again!
I'm such an idiot.
An ex-boyfriend?
No!
Oh, someone you rejected?
No, he's...
No, actually... that...
Huh?
That was a long time ago.
I-It's...
Damn it!
Hey, wait!
Riko, you heartbreaker!
What?
I didn't think it was true.
I'm surprised.
No, it's...
Well, yeah.
It happens a lot.
I want to ask, I want to ask!
I want to ask who he is!
I don't remember him at all.
He must be someone who used to like me...
Nee-chan?!
Mom, it's an emergency!
Nee-chan suddenly burst into flames on the side of the road!
What's going on?!
The Next Morning
Ren-kun, do you want to go to school together?
I'll go by myself.
Aww...
You should've gone with them.
No way. It's too much hassle.
At times like this, I'm jealous of Nee-chan.
Huh?
You little brat.
Riko, you heartbreaker.
Stop that.
I love that it's not a lie!
How did you meet him?
Was he a classmate?
Sorry, but I don't remember.
You little devil!
I love that it's technically not a lie!
He called you by your first name,
so I thought you must have had a special relationship.
Yeah, that's true.
The only ones who call me Riko are cousins and childhood friends.
I admire that, though.
I hope someone will call me Natsuo someday.
I've already purchased an IC recorder to capture that shining moment!
Go return that!
See if they'll exchange what's inside your head, too!
You must have been special to him, though.
Please try to remember, for his sake.
Okay.
Who was that?
I rejected him?
A long time ago?
I don't remember anything,
but...
By the way, Riko.
What's going on with you and Ikezawa-kun?
Who's that?
You heartbreaker.
You could at least remember him.
Ow!
That hurt! What are you...
I'm attending the cram school you went to for your entrance exams, remember?
He stopped me to talk the other day.
He asked me all about you.
He was surprised when I told him you were on the student council.
Could it be?
When's your next lesson?
Huh? It's today.
I'll go with you.
You seem strangely geared up.
Y-You're just imagining things.
Oh, there's Ikezawa-kun.
What?
Which one?
Right there.
With the glasses.
It's Yan!
Yan?
Kurahashi?
Hey, Yan. It's been a while!
Don't call me Yan.
That weird nickname has stuck to me, thanks to you.
My name's Ikezawa Masaomi.
You're totally ignoring my actual name.
That's not true.
See?
Ikezawa-kun
Ikezawa
Ikeyan
Yanta
Yan
What kind of free-form alteration is that?!
I'm going now.
I can't believe you're on the student council.
Fuji Girls' has fallen far.
What did you say?
You haven't changed at all.
Guess it wasn't him.
Of course it wasn't.
There's no way I'd meet him so...
Yan!
Don't call me Yan.
Sorry I'm late.
Wait!
Hey!
Who hasn't changed?
Hey, wait! Wait up!
You, the one who confessed to me a long time ago!
The one I rejected!
D-Damn you!
First you made fun of me with your friends, and now this?
You're terrible.
Y-You've got the wrong idea!
How do you figure?
Because I don't even remember.
I don't remember your confession, or turning you down at all!
So I can't make fun of you for it!
That's even worse!
You really don't remember?
Sorry.
Um, g-give me a hint?
I had the wrong person.
What? Hey, wait!
Shut up, let go!
But now I'm curious.
It doesn't matter if you don't remember, stupid Riko.
I don't care if your curiosity keeps you up at night!
In fact, I hope it does!
Was that...
For a second, I felt like I was about to remember...
Hey, Riko. Riko!
What do you want?
I had her send me a picture.
Remember?
I told you I ran into him the other day.
Satoshi-kun.
Summer Vacation
Children's Festival
I wanted to show you, so I had his mother take a picture.
Satoshi-kun really has changed, hasn't he?
When he was on your soccer team, he was so cute.
This is a trick!
Of course I won't recognize him if he changed that much!
Besides, I haven't seen him since he transferred away in third grade.
It's no wonder I forgot.
Teammates are so nice, aren't they?
When I asked if he remembered you,
he said there was no way he would forget a friend he played with.
Oh?
If you lie down there, I'll step on you.
Please do.
No, that's gross.
He used to live nearby.
He was your teammate and childhood friend.
And you...
I know. Don't say it.
I don't remember him confessing his feelings to me at all, either.
He seems to be attending that cram school,
so I'm going to go apologize to him.
Would it be all right if I went with you?
What?
My grades have fallen lately.
I'd been looking for a good cram school.
You liar, you're at the top of your class.
But I want to interact with boys, too!
Our test run the other day was cut short!
That was...
I won't get in your way. Please!
But...
I've already looked up the school's address.
I've acquired a schedule, too.
Are you threatening me?
Irikimi Cram School
Hey.
Did something happen between you and Kurahashi?
Not really.
Nothing happened.
You sprinted away from her.
That's because I suddenly had to go to the bathroom.
Seeing girls like her always makes my stomach hurt.
Really?
Today will be another tough day for you, then.
Try not to wet yourself.
Hey, I want to talk to you!
Yan, talk to Maki.
What?
Thanks!
Hey, hear me out!
I-I'm sorry.
I remembered afterwards.
Oh, really?
It doesn't matter.
I'm going now.
Um, I'm sorry, really!
You've gotten so masculine, I didn't notice...
It's not much of an excuse.
I-I've gotten so... what?
Huh?
Th-That's right!
You're so manly, I didn't recognize you!
Unlike before, you're really hot now!
You're a man from every angle!
I... I guess you couldn't help it, then.
All right!
Anyway, um...
when did you confess to me?
Your personality hasn't changed at all, though.
But, you're on the student council, right?
Yan told me.
I can't even imagine it.
You still look the same when you laugh!
So cute!
Missed something important again
Wh-What should I do?
I should introduce myself first, right?
H-Hello, Yan-san.
Yan-san? Um...
Who are you calling Yan?
Hello.
It's a beautiful evening glow.
What are you trying to do?
You speak Japanese well.
Well, I am Japanese.
Are you making fun of me?
No, I didn't mean...
You didn't respond, so I thought you might be an exchange student.
I'm obviously not.
You think you can make fun of people just because you're kind of cute, don't you?
Why are you reacting like that?
That doesn't make sense!
But... I-I've never had a boy
call me c-cute before.
What?
Wh-What are you, some kind of idiot?!
Huh?!
What is going on?
He called me cute when he thought I made fun of him.
Why is he calling me stupid now?
Are you a tsundere?!
What are you talking about?!
I don't understand boys!
Hey!
Th-That's what I want to say.
I don't understand her at all.
Riko!
Sorry about that, Maki.
Riko!
Yan-san called me cute.
You're cute.
R-Really?
Yan did?
But then he called me stupid immediately after.
You took that seriously? Are you stupid?
What?
Yan's terrible!
I'm gonna have a little chat with him!
Wh-What was that?
Oh, Nagi. How'd it go with Kurahashi?
I don't understand.
I don't understand any of them.
The Next Day
What are you reading?
The Life of an Amorous Man
It seems not all men are gentlemen like Huggy.
I'm reading to expand my knowledge.
Marquis de Sade
Don't choose books that'll create new misconceptions.
Boys are so...
If you put them on the same level as these, you'll only hurt yourself.
I wasn't ready for an actual experience yet.
I must practice more.
I know!
Today's subject will be techniques for meeting only boys who are your type.
There are none.
I'm jealous of the girl who asked us for advice.
She's met someone she won't give up on, no matter how much it hurts.
That girl, huh?
I wish she'd tell us if anything happened after that.
I-It's an emergency!
What is it?
We got another request for romantic advice in the suggestion box.
What?
"I just started going out with my boyfriend..."
They're already moving forward!
"What should I say if I just want to be friends?"
What?
How did it progress that far?
It's an emergency!
We've already got an emergency on our hands!
We received another note in the suggestion box, and...
What? Hold on.
Look at this.
It was in the suggestion box in the south building.
Romantic Advice I was thinking of changing my hairstyle, but what kind of hair do boys like?
This is the previous note.
This is the one Suzu brought from the north building.
This is the one Enomoto-senpai brought from the south building.
Their handwriting and situations are completely different.
The one who wants to break up isn't the first girl.
Let's calm down and get a grasp of the situation.
We'll split up and check the other suggestion boxes.
Also...
In order to respond to the request, we should simulate a breakup.
Calm down.
What can I do to make a boy's heart skip and get his attention?
A third one from in front of the gym.
A fourth from the club room's building.
The other notes were normal.
That's four requests total for romantic advice.
The girls who attended the meeting when our lab was exposed...
After that broadcast, they must think we're offering romantic advice anytime.
If the rumor spreads, the teachers might find out.
We haven't heard any rumors yet, so we should still be all right.
Even if they do find out, we're keeping a close eye on our data.
There's no evidence.
I've been learning from someone.
What should we do about these requests?
We can't take over the broadcast room again.
Can we ignore them?
I'd rather not.
Besides, if we only respond to one student,
people might think we're playing favorites and lose faith in us.
This has become a tough problem.
You're right.
It really has.
So, what's the toughest problem?
Conducting our romantic research, of course.
And not having a means to convey our answers.
So your romantic research has something to do with the suggestion boxes.
What?
Wh-Who is she?
I knew you could do it, Momo-senpai!
We've got valuable testimony now!
This scoop will be...
Nana-chan.
Sorry for causing trouble.
Come on, let's go.
You shouldn't have said that, Nana-chan.
I was so happy, I couldn't help it.
After all, with that scoop...
Last Boss
We'll finally be able to outwit our old foe, Mizushima Sayori.
Nana-chan, too loud.
Wh-Who were they?
I remember now.
They're Minami-senpai and Ichikawa-san, from the newspaper association.
The newspaper?
This really is becoming...
...a huge problem.
Preview
You're terrible, Riko.
I kind of agree, too.
But Riko is popular.
It's not her fault she can't remember every boy who has confessed his love for her.
Y-Yeah, that's it.
That's right!
Yeah, that's right.
I couldn't remember my boyfriend's name, either.
I deleted all his emails, thinking they were spam, and eventually broke up with him.
You're right, I'm terrible.
I'm so sorry I forgot you!
To the Kurahashi House!
Don't miss the next episode!