Crap!
It's so freakin' hot, isn't it?
Hey!
Focus on your work! Or you'll get injured.
Sorry.
This is not a factory.
Hey, why did you take off your mask?
I'm talking to you!
Sorry!
Do it properly, you dummies!
This is a high school
where I'm currently enrolled...
Asuka Prefectural Technical High School.
Ya f***ing bastards!
There's a lot of male students in this Tech school...
.also known as 'Asuko.'
March 23, 2011
Registration Day Asuka Technical High School Students
If only I hadn't made a mistake in filling up the exam sheets...
I would have gone to the high school of my choice.
Here is a set of textbooks and tools.
These required tools are all a mystery to me.
I'm Nao's grandfather.
My granddaughter...
has some concerns
she'd like to clarify.
Uhm,
are there other girls who will be enrolling, too?
This year we have a lot.
There are three.
...Three.
I'm sure you'll be friends with them real quick.
Umm...
How many of the graduates get into college?
Well, last year it was 3 percent.
3 percent...
But...
more than 90 percent of them were able to find jobs.
90 percent?
That's quite reassuring to hear.
That's right.
And we aren't choosy when it comes to qualifications.
Here, it's supposed to be a secret but
we also allow part-time working students.
I see, such a free-thinking school.
Life is hard for most of our students here.
I really didn't intend to
enroll in a place like this.
Hey!
What?!
Ya bastard... don't f*** with me!
I'm certain of it.
Nao,
Nao, it's a good school, huh?
I think...
I just took the worst stumble of my life.
~ASUKO MARCH!~ >>:<< Subtitles by: earthcolors Retiming by: furransu
First Term: April 4
Episode 1: "1 Female vs. 27 Good-looking guys!! The miracle of the Technical High School begins"
Hi, cutey.
Hey, pretty cutey...
Cute!
S-sorry...
Super cute!
Wow, a pretty chick!
What clubs will you be joining?
Not sure yet.
Hey!
What the hell you doin' here!
Ya bastard...
We're talking to you!
Alright, everybody sit.
You 3 at the back,
it's better if you sit down.
Hey!
Well, starting today...
we'll be spending a year together...
I'm your teacher-in-charge...
-Hiragana...?
[Hiragana is a simpler form of writing]
I am Omukai Toru.
He thinks we're too stupid to read kanji.
[Higher level of writing expected to be used in high school]
Huh?
Yeah....
I'm also your teacher for the Electric Science course.
Incidentally,
I have just gotten married
so hopefully there will be no problems.
He means... about his married life?
Right.
I mean don't cause any problems
so I won't be late in going home.
Ah.
Hey, turn down the ringer.
Sorry!
When in class, you put it on silent mode.
Do you confiscate it?
If we're strict about such things,
nobody will ever graduate from this school, right?
As expected of Asuko.
In my class, an average of
5 students who take this course...
drop-out every year.
This is the pits.
Huh?
-What are you doing...? -Quiet.
Sho-kun! Sho-kun!
Sho-kun!
How dare you...?!
Well, then...
see you next time.
Why is there...
'host' in this school?
This is the training room for the Mechanical Arts Department.
Primarily welding, casting and lathe are what you learn in this place.
You get to practice on cars here, too.
Ah, don't touch, don't touch.
Don't get too close to it. Today, you just get to watch.
Smells like a factory...
It smells crazy, isn't it?
I'm glad to finally see a girl!
Me, too.
We're only 3 this year?
It's tough, huh?
I'm from the B-Group, Takada Maiko.
Wanna eat lunch with me tomorrow?
Yes!
Please, stop it!
That's oil.
I know!
Hey, are you ok?
Will you please stop looking!
Darn...
[Omukai]
Just bring it back after you use it.
Ugh, darn it...
Nao...
How was school today?
Grandpa? Don't come in!
About what happened...
Just tell me later!
You can remove oil stains easily using make-up remover.
Eh, really?
Why didn't you tell me earlier?
Well, you said 'later,' that's why.
Well, then, it's ready... Yup. Clear the table now.
Voila~! It's fava beans...
...vichyssoise.
Looks delicious!
It's to celebrate your admission in school.
Courtesy of the chef. Try it Try it!
Ah, sorry.
I may quit that school.
Quit? What will you do then?
I don't know yet...
Maybe I'll transfer.
You have to decide properly.
Just don't follow your dad by transferring to a school abroad.
Just go to any Japanese high school here
What I wanted was to go to that all-female high school.
That girls' school is no different from Asuko, is it?
Of course it's different!
It was a mistake asking you about which high school I should go to.
I wonder why you recommended Asuko to me.
Because you were crying and crying after you failed the entrance exam.
The Asuko exam was the only one I could find that still had vacancies, right?
I'm better off as a 'ronin.'
[modern slang for a person who is without a school because he failed all the entrance exams]
Why don't you just try to go through with it...
Enough! Thanks for the food.
Wait, listen for awhile, Nao.
But grandpa's preachings are always long.
Alright, then I'll make it 30 minutes.
It's still long.
Then, 15 minutes
Make it 15 seconds.
Fine.
They say 'you sit on a stone for 3 years.
[An idiom about working on something for a long time before you see the results]
In 3 years, that will be graduation then.
That's right.
Your 15 seconds are up.
Eh~?
Nao, wait.
What about dinner?
I cooked a delicious mallard duck for you.
Alright, next is practical training.
Everyone,
change into your work clothes.
Ah, Yoshino, Yoshino... sorry.
The women's locker room is on the 4th floor.
Yes.
Over there?
'Women's Locker Room'
So far.
This...
Yoshino Nao-chan?
Yes.
I heard about you.
I'm a freshman too, Aizawa Momo, from D Group.
How did you know my name?
The upperclassmen were talking about you.
They said the other girl is really pretty.
Eh?
But aren't there 3 of us freshmen girls?
Nope. There's just the two of us now.
This morning, that girl from Group B just submitted a withdrawal notice.
Huh?
No way...
Too bad for her, right?
Women in Tech Schools are 'tasty.'
Since we have an unlimited selection of men here...
All the guys are 'hungry' for us.
Just wanna make it clear to you,
I have my eyes
already set on Yokoyama Aruto.
Huh?
You don't know him?
He's a former child actor...
He played the main character in 'Papa is a 5th Grader.'
Oh... that child...
Try not to get any ideas about him, ok?
I did not come here for that.
Yeah, right.
As if she's so pure.
Is everyone here?
I'm the Mechanical Arts teacher, Okano.
Nice to meet you.
Zzup.
What's wrong?
Why aren't you in work clothes?
Uh... it wasn't the right size.
Huh? If you don't wear it, you can't join the class.
Why are you letting Little Miss Delicate join this class anyway?
She never wanted to do practical training anyway.
The truth is she wanted to go to an exclusive high school for pampered ladies.
I wish I got into a girls high school just like you.
It was so bad!
It smells like a factory, so revolting...
Anyway...
Who really wants to study in Asuko?
Am I right?
This is a stupid school that no one wants to be in anyway.
What did you say?
Can't help it if a lot of losers choose to enroll here.
What did you mean by that? You wanna start a fight?
I wasn't talking to you! Stupid!
Who you calling stupid?
Shut up you bastard!
What the hell?!
What?
If you wanna fight like a true man...
Use your bare hands.
What does that mean?
Huh?
This is so beneath me.
Oww~...
Hey hey, are you ok?
You guys, just stop it, dammit!
I'll weld your mouth and nose so tight it'll be impossible for you to breathe.
Excuse me...
Ah.
I knew you wanted more of my kisses.
What! Of course not!
No no no, please stop it!
Wait...
Eh? Wait, sensei!
Why don't you just do your hanky-panky in the gym?
Is it because it's more hygienic here, isn't it?
That's right.
You're wrong!
Am I?
So then...
move away from each other.
Ok, get up now.
I think you're just pretending to be sick.
Now hurry and go back to your class.
Ok then, see you.
And...
what about you?
I hit my elbow during practical training.
Oh, I see.
Sit down.
This place,
you see is also like a woman's shelter.
Huh?
You can come here any time....
especially if the guys are giving you a tough time, like right now.
Ok.
Hey, is that an Asuko uniform?
You mean, where idiots go?
I heard that the girls who go there are 'easy.'
Sorry for waiting.
Natsumi, you're late!
Ah, this is my friend from school, Yuzuki.
I was expecting a tough girl from Asuko.
But you're so cute, Nao-chan!
Let's be friends.
Hey, do you wear work clothes when you're in a Technical High School?
Yeah...
when we're in training.
Really?
At least once, I'd like to wear one.
Girls usually don't ever get to wear one.
Yeah, you're right.
You're late, Ni-chan!*
[*Older brother]
-I'm hungry! -Me, too
Sorry sorry.
I couldn't get time-out from work.
Anyway...
tada~!
Wow! Ni-chan, this is great!
Here.
Ah...
Seita, don't eat it all!
Learn to share, ok?
Well, have to get back to work.
What are you doing here?
No reason...
I was with my friends...
Bye.
You're late.
They added an hour to my part-time work.
Will that affect your studies?
But I have to do it...
I want to help you with the finances.
That's ok.
We can manage somehow.
No, we can't...
Huh?
These screws are so cheap, it doesn't make sense at all.
You think I should...
shut this place down?
Not really... I never said such a thing...
[Training Laboratory]
Ah, this is dangerous!
Careful. You might get burned.
-Ah, sh*t! -See? Focus now.
Why is she not doing anything?
Oh,
she was injured during the Mechanical Training course.
Isn't that an old type of soldering iron!
What?
Look at this.
Shut up!
What's with this thick wire?
Shut up, idiot!
Alright, then.
That's enough for today.
Unplug your soldering iron first.
Then, you can go.
Ah...
Are you ok?
-I'm sorry...
It's ok, they're just old junk anyway.
Just put them all back in the box...
Alright, class, you can go!
Hey, hey... Did you see my soldering iron?
Wasn't it in the lab?
Hey, how about you?
Did you see my soldering iron?
What did it look like?
It's an old orange one with some tape wrapped around it.
Nah, I didn't see it.
It's cheap, after all.
-Sooo funny! -Isn't it?
Why did it become like that?
I don't know why it's like that.
By the way...
is she coming today?
Yeah...
is it ok?
But she's from Asuko, right?
It's bad to be seen with someone from there.
Certainly, but...
Well, enough about that... Look at this picture.
-So funny... -Isn't that dangerous?
It's really popular right now.
Hello!
I'm...
the brother of Tamaki Makoto.
Oh...
are you waiting for your brother?
Yeah,
but...
he's busy. Looks like he's not coming out.
I see...
Bye then...
Seiji-nichan, I'm hungry.
Hang in there. Here, eat this airburger.
[*imaginary burger]
Since today's a special day, here's an air cheeseburger.
Air burger again? A real one would be nice.
Don't act like a spoiled kid.
What the hell were you thinking?
Huh?
Why did you treat them with hamburgers?
You wanted to give them a taste...
of what you get to eat everyday?
You trying to say I can't feed my siblings with the food I give them?!
Offering food for the poor, you think you're so above us.
It's not like that...
And what about this?
I certainly don't want this 1000 yen soldering iron from you.
You wanted to rub it in my face that I'm too poor to buy one myself?!
That wasn't...
the reason.
What then?
Because I think I accidentally threw yours away.
It was a form of apology.
Just because it looks old and broken you thought of throwing it away.
Like the way you look down on this school that you find so dumb and dirty.
She looks down on all of us.
Got that right.
Just wished they'd shut up...
Naive people like you are what I hate the most.
Why do I have to explain myself to you?
May it be hamburgers or soldering iron...
I bought them because I wanted to help,
what's wrong with that?
What?
I know why you look at me differently.
You put up a wall just because I'm a girl.
If you see yourselves as poor or stupid of course that's what you'll become!
It's really annoying!
Maybe Asuko students do deserve to be looked down on!
Wazzup~...
Huh?
I knew...
I don't have a place in this school.
Even here...
-We'll get along. -Really?
-Yeah, we're perfect for each other.
Even here...
Aruto, I like your hand...
What is it?
Hmm?
Nothing.
What you saw earlier... Were you jealous?
No, I'm not.
You look better when you smile...
you look cute when you cry though.
Yet you know nothing.
I do know why.
You wanna quit this school, don't you?
I only missed answering one test item.
Because of that one error,
the rest of my answers got shifted...
And from that simple mistake...
it became the biggest stumble of my life.
As you can see...
I never expected to be in a place like this.
But maybe it's good that you stumbled here.
Eh...?
This place... it ain't so bad.
Are you sure?
What's a former child actor like you doing here anyway?
You're talented...
and you can easily go back to the life you've had before.
Maybe because...
I don't want to see the sky anymore.
I'm so sorry.
My business..
hadn't had
any profits lately.
Oh please, not again.
You're the fifth person who
used that same excuse.
Didn't earn much... this and that... I'm tired of hearing it!
Huh?
This is all I have...
This is all...
Please don't make me lose my factory.
Please I'm begging you.
And you're the third person who knelt before us today.
Please... Please, I beg you!
Making screws for a living... seems like a big mistake.
Only dumb ones do these...
Completely useless people.
What a loser... pathetic.
You guys go back to the house.
Where you going, Oni-chan?
Hello.
*Help!*
Eh?
They're trying to kill Ni-chan!
He's getting killed!
What... you had enough?
Cancel the debt...
If you can't pay then don't borrow money in the first place!
Stupid brat.
Here! Over here! Hurry!
Ni-chan!
Ni-chan, are you ok? Ni-chan?
Oni-chan, are you alright?
Oni-chan!
Ni-chan!
What is she doing here?
We should call the police...
No need.
I started the fight anyway...
Why did you do that?
Those guys made fun of my dad's work.
You're like them.
Looking down on those who work in a factory.
Not true...I don't look down on such things.
My dad's factory...
it's noisy, smelly, and dirty.
And to top it all off, it's not even earning at all.
Like that old soldering iron that you threw away.
That was my dad's.
You can't easily replace that
because they're my dad's tools.
Is that so...
Nobody realizes it...
but the screws my dad makes help build this country.
He's going to pass the factory to me someday so that's why I have to enter Asuko.
I need to seriously train for it.
That's why people who look down on it annoy me.
I've only been complaining about the girly things I wasn't getting...
A high school sailor uniform, girlfriends, nice clothes to wear...
While all this time...
Yes.
Nao...
Aren't you going to eat?
No.
You're having a tough time in school?
It is tough... in a sense that...
I don't know a lot of things, I guess.
If you don't know whether you want to study in that school or not...
By all means...
you can transfer to another school
I won't stop you.
Maybe you'll be happier if you'll transfer to this school.
Grandpa...
[Daiichi Technical High School Transfer Form]
You don't understand at all!
Sorry I'm late, Nao. No. it's ok.
The two of us haven't been together for a long time.
Nao-chan~!
Yuzuki-chan...
Thank you for coming!
My friends saw you in our pictures and has been nagging me to introduce them to you.
Both of them are college students, they'll be hired by a major trading firm soon.
Nao-chan, where do you go to school?
-Well... -She goes to Asuko.
I knew a guy who came from Asuko, he was low-bred and vulgar...
He always gets into fights with me during high school.
-That's so scary! -Isn't it?
You're not like that, are you?
Well...
Huh? What's this?
Hold on...
-Is it out of gas? -It can't be...
I just filled up the tank.
Sorry but my car just stalled.
Can you fix it somehow?
Well, I only make screws.
You can charge us, we'll pay it.
Makoto,
get me my ratchet wrench!
Dad, I have to go to work.
-Wow! A cool car! -Ah, stop!
Don't touch it, it'll get dirty.
I'm sorry.
You guys go back to the house.
Okay.
Can it be fixed?
Unfriendly, huh?
You mean they just make screws here so it's like a factory, huh?
What a boring thing to make.
How can anyone work hard for such an investment?
Ah, Onee-chan!
Hey, Ni-chan!
Shh! It's a secret.. secret.
Hey,
do you go to Asuko?
What's it to you?
Nothing, really.
No surprise, huh?
C'mon, don't scowling at me like that.
It's ok.
My brother can't fight.
Eh?
When dad heard the last time he fought, he was so angry.
Nobody realizes it but the screws my dad makes help build this country.
He'll pass the factory to me someday that's why I entered Asuko.
Excuse me, I'm taking up Social Science so I just wanna ask...
People who graduate from Asuko end up working in a place like this, right?
What's wrong with that?
If you have to make screws for a living... Your life is like screwed up as well.
You jerk...
Please don't say bad things about my father and brother!
Seiko-chan...
Father stays up late at night and works very hard.
Oni-chan also works hard at his part-time job.
But...
a girl like you is happier if she has more cute clothes to wear?
If you have more money...
you'd get to wear plenty of nice little dresses...
and more yummy food to eat.
Not like this.
Don't mess with us...!
You have no right to think you're better off than them.
You've never earned a single yen on your own.
You've never done anything serious by yourselves.
You're not entitled to make fun of these people!
What's this?
Just because you're both from the same school, you're taking his side?
At least I'm certain...
that I don't want to be with you guys.
What?
An Asuko student should be with her other Asuko friends since they're well-suited for each other.
Why you--
It's fixed.
Then how much for the repair?
I don't need anything from you, just hurry and get lost.
Huh?
Get lost.
Come inside, kids. Come on.
Let's go.
Nao, you'll be ok?
Yeah.
Wait...
Go home.
Huh?
Even if you said those things to them it doesn't mean things are fine between us.
The screws my dad makes help build this country.
He'll pass to me the factory that's why I entered Asuko.
Yoshino!
Why are you still here?
I was just looking for something.
We took out all the junk and put them here.
Why?
Because they'll be collected tomorrow.
I thought you were able to buy a soldering iron earlier?
No... that one had no meaning.
Just to remind you....
Your sensei is still newly-married.
Please go home. You don't have to lock up here anyway.
Well, then...
I hope you'll be alright.
It hurts...
Aruto.
What's wrong?
Let's go home now.
Yeah.
Are you thirsty?
Why are you still here?
I can't leave you here all alone.
Sorry...
You wanna wear this?
'Omukai'
No, thanks....
Okay~...
It's cold...
Ah... I fell asleep.
Alright...
Today we'll practice using the ammeter.
You get one tester each.
Ok, thanks.
Huh?
Was that your soldering iron all along?
Eh?
Why do you ask?
No reason.
Wait wait.. what is it?
I wanna know...
Actually...
Alright, keep soldering the 3 pins...
Sorry I was late!
The women's locker room is too far from here.
Is that so?
So are there any available seats around?
This one's free.
Okay.
Then...
sit next to Tamaki.
Yes.
Keep the tip of soldering iron away from you.
Be careful as it gets hotter.
That uniform surprisingly looks good on you.
Really?
Thanks for this.
Yeah.
-Ouch, hot! -Careful with it.
Here you go.
Aah! It's cold... Hey, watch what you're doing!
Sorry...
-Hey, what are you doing? -Sorry...
Like I said before, this is not a factory...
This is a high school
where I am currently enrolled...
Asuka Prefectural Technical High School...
also known as 'Asuko.'
Oh, Yokoyama, you finally showed up.
The same class...?
You're in my way.
Ah... sorry!
What did you do, stupid?! Quick and clean that up!
I guess I'll try to bear it for now...
Subtitles by: earthcolors
Retiming by: furransu Subtitles by: earthcolors
Retiming by: furransu
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