Study Hall
No freakin' way.
I can't believe she changed that much!
Isn't that crazy?
Huh? Oh, uh...
Whoa, Sonezaki-san, you look awesome!
Who know you'd get hot just by taking off your glasses? What is this, a manga?!
Oh hey, you totally look like Erika!
Erika?
She kinda does.
Wait, didn't someone say that before?
Oh, yeah! Amagi said Sonezaki looked like Erika!
Hey, that's right!
Whoa, Sonezaki-san, are you into Amagi or something?
Come on, that's-
Don't you go getting the wrong idea!
Why on Earth would I fall for someone as superficial as him?!
I just felt like changing my look, that's all!
She's got a point!
Pretty much the only people who've ever liked me are dogs and street vendors.
Dude, come on.
Forget that, I was totally right about her.
You owe me a soda. I want a Fanta!
Wait, when was this a bet?
Quit complaining and get me a Grape Fanta!
Dude, you have the worst taste.
What in the world...
Ai kara umareta issatsu no hon ni wa
Mada kakareteinai koi to iu hitomoji
Why does everyone want to know about it?
What's so wonderful about it?
Did you want to know about it, too?
Would I not have known you if I hadn't learned about it?
I don't want it to be like this!
Taikutsu na juugo peeji datta
Tsugi o mekuru to iki ga tsumari oboreta
Moji ni dekinai kono kanjou ni
Kyou mo rifujin ni uchinomesareta
Keppeki datta shiritakunakatta
Kono kurushisa no shoutai toka dakedo
Kizutsuitemo yomukoto o yamenai
Kirei ja irarenai
Kimi o shiru peeji
Arabure otometachi aragae otometachi
Itami o shitte yuke
Shiori wa iranai
What in the world?! Really, what in the world?!
Episode 4: The Purpose of Books
They say it when I don't change my look,
then say it when I do!
Do Not
Enter
What in the world...
Sorry.
Don't worry. I don't think anyone's getting the wrong idea about how you feel.
I'd be...
...kinda disappointed if it really was the wrong idea, though.
I think I was really starting to fall for you, Sonezaki-san.
I want a written report! Fifty pages!
A-a report?
You've just been hoodwinked by my new look, isn't that right?!
U-uh, no, that's not...
If not, then write the report!
Fifty pages about when, where, why, and how you fell for me!
Fifty full pages!
Wait, why fifty page-
If you can't handle that, then I won't acknowledge your imminent feelings for me!
Acknowledge... What?
Sonezaki-san made a real transformation, huh, Kazusa?
Kazusa?
Huh?!
U-uh, I've got somewhere to be...
Really?
Oh, did something happen between you and Izumi-kun?
Something...
or even you, Kazusa!
I haven't even thought about wanting to do it with anyone! Not one bit!
Not one bit...
Kazusa?
Sorry, I gotta head home! See you later!
Did I say something wrong?
You're fine.
Lovesickness just makes it hard to stay calm.
Love...
Have you ever been in love before, Miss Sugawara?
Huh?
I've never fallen in love with a boy.
That's why if Kazusa's worried about Izumi-kun, or the guy she likes...
I don't think I'd be able to give her any advice...
I really wish I could.
I'm glad the Literature Club survived.
Huh?
You can discover so many different feelings by reading books.
It's fine to borrow those feelings, even if they're not your own.
But how am I supposed to help Kazusa with borrowed feelings?
Your desire to help Kazusa is your own, true feelings, right?
R-right!
Then apart from those really important feelings,
the rest doesn't matter much.
You're really pretty.
Huh?
To be honest... when I first met you, you were so pretty, I thought it'd be hard to get along with you.
But my impression of you quickly changed,
you were pretty, but didn't have an ego, you did things your own way, and you were really funny,
and I started wanting to be your friend.
Out of all the girls I've met in my life, I've only ever had two best friends,
and they're you and Kazusa.
R-really?!
Yeah.
Wow...
All students should have gone home already.
I looked up what "Tough Kids Drink Milo" means.
Milo is a powdered drink, and that was a commercial.
I've had that drink before.
Probably.
I... well, I wasn't a strong kid when I was little.
My health wasn't the best, so I was in the hospital a lot.
I spent all that time reading and daydreaming,
daydreaming of a much stronger self...
You say that, but the vast majority of those daydreams were adult in nature.
Well, I can't deny that.
A young man full of sexual fantasies becoming a high school teacher is a bit of a problem, wouldn't you say?
Don't worry, I have no appetite for high school girls.
The Egg of Sin
They're disgusting.
High school girls have dry, rough skin.
Comparing them to an unripe fruit may sound pleasant,
but their undeveloped meat is hard and tough.
They're overly honest, and use expressions far too wild and dramatic to appear in literature.
One might think them fresh and interesting, when really, they're just crude and unrefined.
You supposedly hate high school girls this much, but you were ready to meet one you'd met online.
Can you explain that to me?
Your writing didn't feel wild or dramatic at all.
From the phrases you used, I expected you to be a middle-aged man.
But it seemed I assumed wrong,
and I was curious about who Hitoto-san might really be.
Are you saying my writing's just clichéd?!
Huh?
Is this conduct within your expectations?
N-no, it's not...
Wh-what?
Why?
It throbbed...
Everywhere just... throbbed.
Oh, you've got cram school now, yeah?
Yeah.
Good-bye!
Good-bye.
The Boastful
Minister's Party
Directed by Hisashi Saegusa
Hisashi Saegusa Interview
Soyokaze Troupe
I do get inspired by the performances of children.
Children are certainly not pure.
They experience strife, they suffer, they plot and plan.
Yet the darkness they harbor within them is tinged in the purest shade.
Dark and somewhat transparent, like black frosted glass-
Creep.
That's all for today. With tests coming up...
Hey Sudo-san, wanna go to karaoke with us?
Huh? Karaoke?
Yeah, we've been meaning to invite you out!
Sure, but...
Sugimoto! Sudo-san says she'll come with for karaoke!
Huh?
Alright!
Geez, cut it out, guys.
You're paying!
Let's go for the triple premium service!
It's on Sugimoto!
Izumi hasn't thought about doing anything like that with me...
He said he hasn't thought about doing it with anyone like Asada-san, too,
but maybe that means he doesn't like me...
Wait, do I want Izumi to look at me like that?
No! Don't think, don't think!
Read a book, read a book, read a book!
Why does this make her want to die?
Books give words to emotions you couldn't understand before.
When you take that newly named emotion into your heart once more,
another new emotion is born.
That emotion is a resounding joy that digs deep into your core.
Digs deep into my core...
I get it.
Books aren't an escape,
they're there to put a name to those hazy feelings I can't understand.
Wanna fuck, wanna fuck, wanna fuck!
Wanna fuck!
Wanna fuck, wanna fuck, wanna fuck!
What the hell did you put in?!
Wanna fuck!
What a moron.
Wanna fuck you right now, today!
C'mon, it's a classic!
Wanna fuck you in every way!
Cut it out, man!
You're making Sudo-san uncomfortable!
Wanna go outside?
Sorry to drag you along with us.
If you want, we could hang some other-
Hey, so!
I'm not really comfortable with that kind of stuff...
Yeah, figured.
I hope you don't get the wrong idea about him, 'cause they're really not bad guys...
That's not it!
I mean, yeah, that's part of it,
but, like... just everyone being so supportive of me.
I'm really sorry if I'm misunderstanding things, but...
I don't know a lot about relationships between guys and girls,
so if that's what you're expecting from me...
Huh?
Whoa, I'm not expecting that at all!
So it was just a misunderstanding!
I mean, I can't say at all, 'cause that would be wrong...
Do you not remember me?
I changed schools a lot when I was little.
I was at this new school, worried I wouldn't make friends,
or that everyone would exclude me,
but then I saw you, Sudo-san.
You didn't have a lot of friends, right?
But you seemed like you were okay with being on your own.
You looked like you were too young for the grade, but you'd be sitting up straight, reading a book.
You looked so mature.
I thought you were really cool.
I ended up transferring again after that, but I'd think about you every now and then.
And you made me think about myself.
Like, "Man, I want to be as confident in myself as Sudo-san."
Sugimoto-kun...
I do want to get to know you better,
but not in that guy-girl kind of way.
Can we add each other on Rine?
Sure.
Hitoto: Milo-san?
Trying to run, is he.
That's what real lust feels like.
Just then, I came to understand just how sensitive the nerve endings in my inner thighs were...
Wait, man is a rope?
Someone else said that man was a river...
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Who said that again?
Ugh, guess I'd better pick up that book I stopped reading and read fu-
Mo-chin
RINE Audio
What kind of reaction is that?
I mean, it's just so sweet!
An old classmate who's never forgotten you? That's straight out of a shojo manga!
Sure...
It does make me happy that he's always been thinking about me.
He sounds really sweet.
Yeah.
I feel just like you do, Kazusa.
If I had to do it with someone, then I'd want to do it with someone I liked.
Uh, I mean...
Maybe I'll start falling for Sugimoto-kun.
Maybe if I do... I'll want to do it with him.
I dunno...
Yeah, I don't know, either.
Let's read books!
Sonezaki-senpai said we should!
So did Miss Sugawara!
Yeah!
Just as I thought.
He didn't write it after all.
Hey, Osone!
Yo, wanna have lunch together, Osone?
No, thank you.
Oh, are you embarrassed to show people what's in your lunch?
Don't worry. Look at mine, I was so rushed this morning I just threw some meatballs...
She turned me down.
Why're you trying to be friends with Sonezaki?
I wanna ask her something.
Hold on, Jujo, you actually brought a lunch? When does that happen?
If I ate lunch with that stinking cloud of perfume, I wouldn't be able to taste any of my food!
The door's open. That's unusual.
Sonezaki-san.
Huh?! Wait, wha-
I wrote the report!
Sonezaki-san told me to write a report, and fifty pages, no less.
Honestly, I wasn't sure what to do, so after thinking about it, I went to take a bath.
Ah, yes, here we go. A classic example of the male-written report.
When burdened with the task of writing, they fill the sheet with unnecessary information.
And the way he's trying to be funny is so lame.
Well, I figured I'd give writing it a shot.
You haven't even written anything yet!
Sonezaki-san is cute.
She's very serious and intense, but she's not all perfect, I can tell.
And I don't think she likes it when other people comment on her appearance.
What do you mean, you don't think? I said it outright.
Is he stupid?!
I know she probably won't like this,
but when I think of her, I always come back to how cute she is.
In this report, I'm going to try and express how I feel about Sonezaki-san.
cute cute cute cute
Ugh, look at this. He's already given up!
cute cute cute cute cute cute cute cute cute cute
I suppose this is the extent of his feelings for me.
This is how he pads his report...
Ugh, now I'm experiencing semantic satiation!
Look, he wrote "ucte" here!
And over here he wrote "cutte"!
cute
Ugly.
Ugly!
She's so ugly.
What a know-it-all.
God, I hate her.
Stop wasting our oxygen.
Skank.
Uggo.
cute
What is it about him?
All the hurtful words people have thrown at me in the past...
...are slowly being washed away by this rain of "cute".
Sonezaki-san is cute!
Will
you
go
out
with
Will you go out
with me?
Oh my god, no way!
Banana chocolate and chocolate bananas are so different!
C'mon, you can say both!
Why does it matter?
Like, are you dumb?
You're stepping on something.
Oh, sorry, I totally didn't notice!
Oh no, it's all dirty! Can I buy you a new one?
Thanks, that'll be 450 yen.
What?! There's no way a notebook costs-
I'll go get my wallet.
Sorry.
Why are you apologizing, Norimoto-kun?
I mean...
You really are strange.
Well, so are you, Sugawara-san.
You're always way too chill...
Hey.
What?
There's something I haven't been able to think about with a cool head.
Could you hear me out?
Is Miss Sugawara not here today?
All three, in sync.
High school girls are quite unpredictable.
Purity
They're stupid in ways I didn't even consider.
You're pretty rude for tossing around words like stupid and clichéd.
Sorry, I thought you might still be upset about the cliché thing...
I was trying to patch things up.
Let me be honest.
I now understand what it means to be sexually aroused.
That got a reaction.
Uh, no, it was just so out of the blue.
I thought you had no problems with my expressions, seeing as they were so clichéd.
That wasn't very clichéd.
So it's true...
Huh?
H... Hongo-san?!
Please, Milo-sensei!
Teach me...
Teach me the reality!
Reading books that have sexy scenes in them is kind of exhausting, huh...
Yeah, it is.
Still, the more I think about these feelings I wanted to name,
the harder it is to find the difference between sexual desire and love...
At least, that's how it feels...
Before I die,
I want to have sex.
What's up, Kazusa?
Kamisama tell me
Kamisama oshiete
(Naani?)
(Douzo)
Otona wa nigai mono ga suki nano?
Mou kotaete yo
Itsumo ayafuya dawa
(Okoranaide)
Juunengo no jibun ni douga o totte mita kedo
Sugu keshita
Isshukan dake de seiipai yo
Calendar nuritsubushite
Dokidoki shiyou kaisei
Koi o shite otona butteru Cinderella wa
Kirakira kyuukutsu de garasu no kutsu o nuki suteta
Senobi yamete chikara nuite shinkokyuu shite
Soudayo tanoshimou ima no watashi o
Atto iu ma no yume o taisetsu ni shite
Next Episode
In that moment, I learned what that meant.
I want you so badly.
H-hold on!
Don't you want to do it with me?!
You could do it with a high school girl.
YES!
I think there's something wrong with guys who expect girls to pay.
I can't stop thinking about sex,
so I can't stop connecting it to everything!
Because girls have a sex drive, too?
Kazusa must have it hard...
May I make a proposal?
N-no! Stop!
Episode 5:
Things That Changed
Before We Knew It
I don't know what to do anymore.