Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight
Episode 12 (END)
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<82nd Seioh Student Council>
No, I did wake up!
<38 sec>
small sign on blue
<2nd terminal>
<1 year, 5 months later>
Bye bye!!
S-Sorry!
I'm really sorry!
But, listen, Mu-chi!
I was watching "Today's Fortune" on Ohayo TV.
Oh, shortcut, shortcut.
Umm, today's Aquarius is in the third position.
and Mu-chi, your Scorpio was...
Your... Scorpio... was...
Just run already!
J-Just five minutes!
I think I just need five minutes.
Okay? Okay?
Hey!
Nya?
Up here, up here.
And a one, two...
We're late, late, Mikan-chan!
Geez.
To be late on such an important day...
No, a bit more that way.
No, no!
I said to the left!
Uh, a bit more to the right!
Ah, maybe to the left.
Which is it?!
I said, left!
Good morning.
Mikan-senpai!
Good morning!
Good mor-
Uh oh...
Okay, okay!
I'll get out, I'll get out!
Please come with everybody after the ceremony, okay?
You must not peek at all, okay?!
Mikan-senpai!!!
Excuse me!
March 10th, 2037.
The weather was wonderful,
a perfect day for graduation.
Signed - Former Seioh High School Student Council Secretary, Inamori Mika.
Manabi-chan!
These sakura are wonderful.
A full bloom!
Yeah.
Nothing has changed at Seioh High School.
Although we have been merged with Aikoh management-wise,
thanks to Kyoko-san's efforts,
the new uniforms and other changes to the school were cancelled.
Rumor has it that Kyoko-san personally proposed this after the School Fair.
Everyone's still easy-going.
Some people read manga all day long,
others chat,
some eat snacks...
Nothing has changed at all.
Was she there?
No.
Gosh, where did she go?
Safe...
Uehara-senpai!
YES?!
HUH?!
You sure are popular, Mu-chi-san.
Are you kidding me?
I don't swing that way.
Oh, what's the big deal?
Why not give them a button as a present?
Note: When senpais give kouhais their (2nd) button, it means they are giving them their hearts.
Momo, is that a new model?
I told Dad that I'd be using it at school,
so I got him to buy it for me.
Ah, I see.
What was it called again?
Tokyo Digi... Digi...
Digital Journalist Professional School.
And what will you do there?
Doing digital journalism, probably.
Probably?
You get into the Olympics and I'll be interviewing you, okay?
I just got into a professional squad.
The Olympics are much too far away...
But you plan on going, right?
Well, some day.
Well, good luck.
Oh, that was an unexpectedly honest response from you.
Quiet, you!
Mu-chi-san is headed for the pros,
Momo is going to a professional school,
Mei-tan's going to college!
That's a pretty decent line.
Yeah.
But the most shocking one is still...
...her...
A free-ter?!
Note: "Free-ter" is a term used for people who hop from part-time job to part-time job, showing that they do whatever they want.
Yeah.
Why?
What do you mean, "Why"?
I just... didn't think it was like you...
You managed to graduate from high school, but you're going to turn into a free-ter now?
It's not like this is old or anything;
I've never been a free-ter before.
I've managed to experience the life of a student to its fullest now.
So now, I want to work as hard as I can!
To choose to work or to be a student...
That kind of worry was never a problem for Amamiya-san to begin with.
Is that how it is?
Gree-tings!
I brought some Christmas cakes.
Want to have some?
These look... delicious...
These are Sol Plasticci a do mon cakes, right?
First-class quality brand cakes.
Is that a special move name or something?
Oh yeah, your family's pretty rich, right, Momo?
You didn't know?
The Odori Group is a big corporation that has more than sixty different enterprises under its wings,
She is the quintessential rich girl.
I never knew!!!
The makers of your air board,
our school's agenda books,
our cellphones...
...are all Odori Group companies.
I never knew!!!
Wh-What else do you guys do?
And you, Mikan?
Let's see, this computer,
What are you doing after you graduate?
these desks,
and the socks you're wearing.
To America.
I never knew!!!
Notice things already.
You guys are amazing.
I've thought of going to America.
You got yourself a cute photo.
I had it retaken five times.
Three years, eh?
I'll come back from time to time.
America, huh?
So far away.
Where in America again?
LA?
Oregon.
Oregon's the place that has the Angkor Wat, right?
I think that's Cambodia.
You're not going to give up on studying abroad?
You want to see what you can do in an unknown place.
Yeah.
You want to look for exciting and wonderful things by yourself all over again.
Yeah.
That's wonderful!
Mikan-chan, you're really wonderful!
Seioh High School didn't change at all.
However, I think I wanted to try and change myself a bit.
Note: "Aogeba Tootoshi" is a song sung at all graduations in Japan, akin to how "Promp and Circumstance" is played in the United States
Look up and respect
my teacher's gratitude.
And now the conferral of the graduation diplomas.
Remarks from the graduating class' representative.
They say "time flies by",
and the three years of student life really went by fast.
As I stand here where our three years of high school life ends,
I say "time flies by"-
Uehara-senpai!
Please give me your button!
Me, too!
I'll take your ribbon, then!
I want your skirt!
I can't give you my skirt!
Let's just start the party.
Hey you, don't be eating!
Here we go.
Well then,
let's begin with the 82nd Seioh Student Council Reflection Meeting.
Ahem.
Let's start with you, Mu-chi.
M-Me?!
Hey, I'm not even a real officer or anything.
Don't worry, don't worry.
Neither are you, Odori-san.
Don't worry, don't worry.
Umm... let's see...
That...
Next, Momo-chan.
Hey!
Yes!
I don't have anything in particular to reflect on!
Let me predict:
You'll go through your whole life without reflecting on anything, probably!
MerorinQ!
For me,
my first point.
I would like to leave behind the know-hows of running the Student Council..
...to the next group of students not through my actions but data-
I'm next.
Listen, damn it!
My reflection is about me causing trouble for everyone.
I'm sorry.
I'm always like "forward, go!" and running ahead by myself,
and we got into a lot of trouble because of that, right?
That's all good, isn't it?
It was fun, after all.
Yeah.
So even though I'll reflect on that,
I don't regret it at all.
This ends the 82nd Seioh Student Council.
But...
I'll be "Forward, going" in the future, too!
And for last, I'll ask Mikan-chan, okay?
Do the finale nicely, okay?
Wow, I feel pressure.
Umm...
My reflection is about me not taking action by myself.
Although my tenure in the Student Council was the longest,
I always have to be dragged by everyone,
and I feel like I can only follow behind.
So... So...
Huh?
That's weird.
I wasn't going to... cry...
This is weird.
I always... always have to be dragged by everyone,
and I feel like I can only follow behind.
So, I want to go America,
so that I can find exciting and wonderful things on my own.
But I don't wanna...
I don't want this to be the end!
This to be the end...
I want to stay at school longer!
I want to stay with everyone longer!
Mikan...
I...
Maybe I shouldn't go to America after-
Mikan-chan!
Manabi-chan...
I want to be...
You need to go.
You need to.
We'll always be together no matter where we are or where we go.
All of us, forever.
Guys...
This isn't the end.
This is a beginning.
That's why you need to go.
Okay?
"We will always be together."
It's easy to put it in words,
but I am scared after all.
But, I'll try to believe in it.
That we'll always be together.
I'll be able to believe in that if I remember all the things we did.
So... wait for me...
Bye bye!
I'll find a bunch of exciting and wonderful things when I get back!
I told you we should've went by train!
Quiet, you!!!
Fifteen minutes until boarding.
We won't be able to make it!
It's all because Mei said we should go by car.
You said it'd be easier this way, too!
Besides, why are you driving a manual car when you just got your driver's license?
It was cheaper, okay?!
Ah, the engine stalled again.
I'll be going, everyone.
Mika-chin!
Inamori-san!
Mikan!
Mikan-chan!!!
Guys...
Yes, this isn't the end.
This is a beginning.
Everything...
...from now on is...
...the beginning of our story starts now!
Banner: The 82nd Seioh Student Council members + alpha
You guys ready?
Ready whenever!
Is this really okay?
Of course, of course.
They'll disappear after one night.
Momo-chan's family invented this new spray!
All right, let's go!
Forward...
GO!