On this day at Seton Academy,
everyone was abuzz over the arrival of a certain special transfer student.
A Few Days Ago
For a few days before this, all the students in the school
Drawing for Jobs to Prepare a Welcome for the New Student
had been making preparations to welcome this new student.
Draw From This Box
Decorations! Super Easy
Yeah!
Draw From This Box
Building a Hot Spring! Super Hard
Damn it!
Why do I have to do this by myself?
Will Jin-kun be okay by himself?
He said himself that he'd be fine.
We gotta work hard when we get back, too!
She's here!
Awesome car!
Sweet!
She's really here!
The new student was going to represent one of the world's three rarest animals,
the top idol of the animal world,
whose economic effect amounts to tens of billions of yen...
Panda Arrives!!
The panda arrives!
Join the Pack!
Seton Academy
Unnatural interspecies relations are strictly forbidden!!
Miyubi: Dead
Welcome to Seton Academy!
Seton Academy Record 6 The Legend of the Panda Girl
I'm sorry the students made such a commotion.
I'm Meimei the panda!
It's a pleasure to be joining this school.
I'm her manager, Fengfeng.
I will observe these next two trial days
to determine whether she will formally enroll here.
Understood.
Please, help yourself to some bamboo grass.
Thank you!
That bamboo isn't the umbrella bamboo that I like!
Moso Bamboo
Umbrella Bamboo
I'm leaving.
What?!
I will have some umbrella bamboo airlifted here at once!
You will cover the cost!
Er... Uh-huh...
About 90% of the cost of panda food is transporting it.
It costs a total of four million yen per year!
W-Water...
This student could be quite a handful.
Well, her home country has certainly spoiled her.
In China, pandas are classified under Class 1 national conservation status,
and they are treated with the utmost care.
Trial Day 1
A Warm Welcome to Meimei
Let's All Be Friends
I'm Hadano Miki, the student council president,
and I'll be showing you around the school.
I'm sorry I have to do this with clothes on.
Clothes?
Um, nothing! Now, then...
Why don't I show you the student dormitory first?
Huh?!
Before that, do something funny.
What?!
Now, Meimei.
You're putting me on the spot...
This is boring! I'm leaving!
Please, Student Council President!
W-W-Wait just a minute!
I never expected this.
Wh-Why don't you do the thing
that cracked everyone up at the student council welcome party?
Oh, yes!
All right.
Then...
I've molted!
Mol
ted
Let's All Be Friends
Looks like it'll be more fun to look around on my own!
Shiho-dono...
A lion! I've never seen a lion before!
Wh-What?
Are you the panda rumored to be transferring here?
What're you doing in here?
Oh, uh... I wasn't peeping or anything.
I was just thinking, that's all.
Thinking?
I was about to cut off my mane not long ago,
but if I can't see Shiho-dono for a while, there's no need to—
If you're cutting it, I want it!
Now nobody will be able to tell I'm a panda!
My mane...
My... mane!
Seton Academy is fun!
What's that smell?
These are panda dumplings.
They don't even taste that good.
How to Make Panda Dumplings
< Ingredients > Makes 2
Cornmeal
Defatted soy flour
Millet sugar
Milk
(Panda milk made from a special
mixture)
Water
Panda dumplings are a type of steamed dumpling made for pandas using cornmeal.
They're so cute!
Jeez... You're too impressionable.
Do you think the panda will keep attending this school?
She will!
We even made it so she can bathe in a hot spring!
If the panda happens to join the cooking club,
maybe we'll get lots of new members all at once.
Really?!
Of course!
She's the world's idol, after all!
The world's?
So many new members...
That's good!
Who the hell is this?
These are delicious! What are they?!
Koalas make a "gweeeh" when trying to intimidate a foe.
It's scary.
Yukari!
Yukari-chan, calm down!
Hey, I want more of these! Make me some!
Excuse me?! Who do you think you are?!
Huh?
Oh, right!
I was a panda in disguise!
The panda?! Why are you here?!
Something smelled yummy.
Oh, you followed the smell of the panda dumplings?
That makes sense, considering you're a panda.
Yep! I'm a panda!
Everyone does whatever I want,
and I can get away with anything.
Everyone loves pandas, after all.
Right? So now that you know, hurry up and make more.
Don't get too full of yourself, you stupid panda.
Stu...pid... pan...da?
Make more!
Shut up! Stop talking!
No! Let go of me!
Pandas make a "meeeh" sound.
Hey!
Excuse me! Do you think you can get away with doing that to me?!
You'll be executed! Executed!
What is this?
Meimei! Thank goodness you're all right!
Don't run off like that! I was worried about you!
Meimei? What's wrong?
I've never been treated this way before in my entire life.
Who is that guy? What's his deal?
A panda!
Trial Day 2
She's so cute!
The real deal!
You're gonna make me those panda dumplings today, right?
Nope.
You're so selfish!
You're one to talk!
I will not tolerate any rude comments toward Meimei!
Um, who are you?
My apologies.
Fengfeng
I'm her manager, Fengfeng.
In our home country, you can be executed for causing a panda to feel stress!
Who cares?
When are you gonna make them for me, then?
Why do you just assume I'm gonna make them?
In our club, we all decide what we'll cook together.
Now you know, so beat it, stupid panda!
You'll be executed! Executed!
So kill me, then!
Ye Ming Sha
Th-This is...
One of the legendary delicacies of China,
ye ming sha, made of dried bat feces!
Please accept it as a greeting from us.
Pandas rule!
This makes it easy to get around.
Please accept it as a greeting from us.
What?! Your fans will join my pack?!
Incidentally, Meimei has 1.3 billion fans.
One?! Point?! Three?! Billion?!
Cooking Room
Let's make panda dumplings!
She bought them all off.
I mean, I think it's okay, since she's here and all.
But, Hino-san...
Expensive Silk Apron
You too, Hitomi-chan?!
Well, c'mon! Hurry up!
Hurry it up!
Fine, but you're helping, you stupid panda!
Keep it up, Meimei!
You're doing great!
Knead harder.
Why do I have to do this?!
He who does not work, neither shall he eat.
Ugh! I'm not doing this anymore!
Hey.
Pick it up.
Don't waste perfectly good food.
I'll pick it up!
No.
Pick it up yourself.
What's his deal?
He has no affection for pandas at all!
Not only that,
but the way he's abusing me...
I mean, it's not as if I like it or anything!
It's just... being treated this way is new to me...
Keep your hands moving, stupid panda!
Aiya!
Several Minutes Later
They're done!
Good for you, Meimei-chan!
Amazing, Meimei!
Well, they're not too bad for a first try.
They're mine, you hear?! Mine!
I know that. Just eat them already.
The ones you made yourself are better than yesterday's, right?
Hey, Meimei, do you want to join our cooking club?
Huh?
Hey!
We must decline.
If she does that, she'll be treated cruelly by that man every day.
Treated cruelly every day...
I haven't even decided if she'll enroll here yet.
It's okay! Jin's always really nice!
No! We don't need a selfish panda like her!
Why?!
Seton Academy: Join the Pack!
Red panda!
Seton Academy: Join the Pack!
Ragdoll!
The Next Day
When the day came, she was so cute that
all the animals thought she was an imaginary creature.
Love
Meimei-mei! Meimei-mei!
Welcome, Giant Panda
In 1972, when pandas went on display at Ueno Zoo,
floods of visitors came to see them every day.
The lines to get in
were even longer than the entry line for the modern-day Comic Market.
Please Wait
Panda Enrolls!!
The panda enrolls!
You're sure? You're really sure about this, Meimei?
Stop asking that.
Sheesh... Why should a panda like me have to beg so much just to join a club?
Cooking Room
What do I have to do to join the cooking club, then?
Meimei?
Just get licked by me!
I told you, no!
No matter how popular she is around the world,
she's not joining this club!
I said I'm joining, and that means I'm joining!
Then you need to get all the current members to agree to it.
There's one other member of the cooking club.
Cooking Room
I wonder what the other member's like.
Well, I'm a panda, so I'll be fine either way.
You were startled when a stranger came in, huh?
It's okay, Kurumi.
Hi there! I'm Meimei! Nice to meet you!
Scary!
House cats usually aren't quick to accept newcomers.
What should we do, Jin?
Well, we can either run the stupid panda out...
or create an environment that gives priority to the cat, who came first.
What I'm saying is...
Meimei!
What is this?!
That's too mean!
Aaaah
Uh, no, I think she likes it.
But is this really going to make Kurumi feel better—
Long time no see!
It did!
Kurumi-chan, that girl over there is Meimei-chan.
She's a really nice girl.
So you two should be friends.
She closed herself off again!
Sorry, Kurumi-chan...
Just give up already.
No! I'll stay in here until Kurumi-chan accepts me!
Meimei-chan...
Don't be ridiculous!
You know I can't just leave you in here!
That's right! We can't leave you here by yourself!
Yeah! There's no way we can just leave you!
Don't interfere!
This is between me and Kurumi-chan!
They left...
Now that I think about it,
why should I have to go through all this?!
She's just a ghost member, anyway!
Sniffle...
Pretty...
Wh-What are you doing here?
Just so you know, whether you approve of me or not,
I'm not leaving the cooking club!
Are you listening to me?!
Since I'm a panda,
I've had it easy and lacked for nothing all my life.
But this has been the most fun I've ever had.
So long as I get to stay here,
I want to be with Jin and the others.
Wait!
Fengfeng, breakfast...
Oh, yeah.
A blanket? But who...
A rat?
Wait, did Kurumi-chan do this?
Eek! The cat from the cooking club!
Help me, President!
She left me a gift!
Oh, you're awake!
Meimei! Are you okay?!
Hey, let me out!
Kurumi-chan gave me her approval!
What?
She ran away, but there was a rat lying there!
That's proof she accepts me!
Th-That's nice, Meimei-chan.
I-I knew it!
Y-Yay...
Well, I guess you've put in the effort.
What? I'm not lying!
There really was a rat!
Sure, sure.
Listen to me!
Kurumi-chan!
Morning!
What's all this?
U-Um... Thanks for the rat.
We're friends now, right?
Huh?!
Wait... Kurumi-chan!
What?! Why...
Hey, it doesn't mean she hates you.
That's just how cats show affection.
This is great, Meimei!
Welcome to the cooking club, Meimei-chan!
Now, as a sign that we're packmates, you can lick me!
Lick you?
Since I'm the boss, the rules say you have to lick my mouth!
Great, we've got another pain in the a—
What, what, what? Did I do it wrong?
I'm the boss!
You're not supposed to do it to Jin!
Huh?!
How long must you toy with me like this?
Shiver
You demon!
You'll be executed! You'll be executed for this!
Like I care!
It's warming me right up!
Yeah!
You know, no matter what he might say,
Jin-kun did almost all the work to build this hot spring.
Huh? I don't believe it.
Meimei, you must've gotten cold when you spent the night in that cage.
You didn't get a cold, did you?
Momantai.
Oh, by the way, that blanket...
Blanket?
Animal Failures
Awoooo
See ya!
Damn...
This uniform is so drafty.
I'm sure I just sensed someone strong.
Did I imagine it?
It's dangerous to go near a carnivore.
Let's go, Shiho-kun.
Captain...
I knew it!
He's not just some bald dude!
Next Time
Ranka here!
Meimei here.
In the next episode...... huh!?
A really strong student challenges me!?
So long, Ranka...... I'll take care of the rest!
I'll be a really good boss!
Hey!! Jin will get mad again if you say that!
Aiyaaaaa! (Happy)
Seton Academy Record 7
The Wild Habits of a Troubled Animal