"Kodomo no Omocha"
The rumor that I love you is true. Yes it is.
Whether you're awake or asleep…
You can't avoid it,
…so don't worry about it.
If I sneak into your heart by ridding you of that other love…
…is that a sin?
At sunset, when the children go home,
today's incident is burning love!
You can be sure of it!
7 O'Clock News!
Please, our relationship…
Ah, don't condemn me for a true kiss…
This town without fire…
Let's ignite it with our love!
Ah, don't live carelessly!
That's asking for too much!
Yoo-hoo!
Sch-ool!
Yiee! It's 8:30!
Kurata Sana, age 11.
"I'm an Elementary School Student With a Pimp"
How come you didn't wake me up, Mama!?
—Only just five minutes sooner would have been fine! —A sleeping child grows.
—Why couldn't you call me earlier!? —A child who sleeps in…
…grows even more. Good morning, Sana.
Oh, she's gone.
"Breakfast with Sana and Mama."
There, okay!
—Morning, Shimura-san! —Morning, Sana-chan.
Oh, I'm so late! Why is this happening?
I'm already late! Mama, please, take me!
Whether you sleep in is up to you.
But your mother is not so open-minded…
…as to let you go to school without breakfast.
I humbly accept…
You don't need to rush so. Your school isn't going anywhere.
Very good.
Morning, Sana-chan. It's a nice day out.
Whoa! Rei-kun, good morning!
I am desperately, terribly late!
It was already 8:30 when I woke up, and Mama won't wake me up!
Then she made me sit down and eat breakfast!
I'll take you there in my car.
Ah! Rei-kun, you're so nice!
I love you! I love you! I love you!
This handsome, sharp-looking man is my boyfriend and pimp, Rei-kun.
Let's go, Rei-kun. Mama, I'm off!
Drive safely as you rip on out of here!
Oh, by the way, this is Mama. She's a fairly successful novelist.
She even won the Aoki Laureate Prize.
It's true.
"Rei-kun's Safe Driving"
Rei-kun, you're going slow! This is too slow! It would be quicker if I ran!
You're being passed by pedestrians!
I will deliver you to school reliably and safely, Sana-chan.
That is my job, after all.
Rei-kun…!
You're being passed by kindergarteners!
—Yay! I love you! —Waah! Look out!
Rei-kun, you're just worried about Sana-chan,
that's why you're driving safely, huh!?
You really, really are my boyfriend, huh?
Rei-kun, I leave everything in your hands!
Rei-kun, you just drive as safely as your heart tells you to!
Rei-kun! Rei-kun! Rei-kun!
Thank you, Rei-kun! We got here safely!
Well, that is my job, after all.
Sana-chan!
About today, you remember that we have a live broadcast of "Child's Toy," right?
So, when school lets out, I'll come pick you up.
Roger!
Okay, okay, perhaps I should explain some things here.
Ever since Sana-chan was little, at her mother's suggestion,
she has been in a theatrical company
called "Gekidan Komawari, (The Ensemble Circle),"
and has been very active in the entertainment world.
Today, there is a live broadcast of a show called "Child's Toy,"
Ah! How long are you going to kiss him!? Cut! Cut! Cut! Cut!
"Everything was fine up until now…"
"6th Grade, 3rd Class"
Everything was fine up until now…
It's been a little while since I became a sixth grader, and changed classes.
There's a problem with this class.
See? They're at it now.
Stop this! Everyone, put your desks back!
It's time to do arithmetic! It has already started!
We're already 30 minutes late!
That's it. The boys pick on the teacher more and more,
and lately, it's been doing nothing but escalating.
Ah, she's crying again. But even teachers that cry so readily are still teachers.
—Ah, Sana-chan! —Sana-chan!
It's happening again.
The boys are just getting worse and worse.
It's just our class. Our lessons aren't getting anywhere.
Hayama Akito…
He's the one!
He started picking on the teacher, and leads the boys in everything.
He's like the devil.
Where did my desk go?
Oh, here it is, here it is.
Hey, Hayama Akito-kun, good morning!
It looks like you must have eaten something wrong again today,
which has put you in a bad mood,
and explains the sullen look on your face, huh?
Ignore me, will you!?
Anyhow, this desk is mine! Get your filthy feet off of it!
Come on! Babbit! Babbit! Move your feet! Come on! Come on!
And while you're at it, tell the other boys to stop doing this, too!
You're the one who put them up to this--!
Sensei! I have some questions about the parts
that I had to leave early for last time because of work.
Huh? What are they, Sana-chan?
Here, here, you see?
It says three parenthesis minus triangle double-circle X close parenthesis, right?
A pair of cranes slipped on some…
Sensei! My stomach hurts! Sensei! Sensei!
Sensei! Here, here, here! I don't understand this at all here!
What does this mean exactly?
Sensei, those guys are obviously faking, so leave them alone! Come on, come on!
Oh, right.
More importantly, here! I'd like you to teach me this part.
There… there, you see… There, you see…
What? What? How do you do it?
—It hurts! It hurts! Away you go! —It hurts! It hurts! Away you go! —It hurts! It hurts! Away you go!
Boys!
Oh, come on now, don't cry. Don't cry, Mitsuya-sensei.
Sniffle… sniffle…
Don't sniffle-sniffle, I tell you.
Ah, you moron…
—A-ha-ha! Once we laughed, —A-ha-ha! Once we laughed, —A-ha-ha! Once we laughed,
—our stomachs feel better! —our stomachs feel better! —our stomachs feel better!
Cut it out already! We can hear your noise all the way at the end of the hall!
—Enter Mitsuya-sensei's boyfriend! —Enter Mitsuya-sensei's boyfriend! —Enter Mitsuya-sensei's boyfriend!
—Those two are doin' it! —Those two are doin' it! —Those two are doin' it!
Mitsuya-sensei, you've got to keep it together.
But… but…
How long do you guys think you can get away with doing this!?
All right! You go, Tanaka-sensei! You tell them!
Here you are sixth graders,
and can't even tell the difference between class time and free time--!
What's wrong, Tanaka-sensei?
What happened to the enthusiasm you had when you came in here?
What? What is it? Did something happen?
What's going on? How come?
What's that self-assured smile all about?
Does he have something on the teacher, or something?
—No, I can't take this! —Wait up! Mitsuya-sensei!
You're the one who needs to wait up!
What's going on here?
What? What?
What is it? What's going on here?
What is this!?
"'Child's Toy' Live Broadcast!!"
Yuck! Yuck! No! No! No!
Three days ago, and the day before yesterday, and yesterday, and today,
and tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow,
and two days from tomorrow, I'm going to become a stupid student,
and it's all because of one guy!
And why do the other boys follow him!?
This is the television studio's makeup room.
Today, we're having a live broadcast of the popular show "Child's Toy,"
so all of the children here are nervous.
Not.
He's the devil! Hayama Akito! He is the devil!
So, Suji-san, is this how my hair is going to be when I go on today?
Well, Sana-chan, you keep moving.
Ah, Rei-kun! What are you shooting!?
This week's Sana-chan.
You know, Sana-chan, your Manager-san has a reputation
for being a nicer man than the other actors.
Aah! You're after him!
Sure, if he's a nice man, I'm taken with him.
You can't put the moves on him. Rei-kun is my boyfriend and my pimp.
Pimp!? Sana-chan, do you know what that word means?
Sure I know. I make sure to give him his spending money every month.
Right, Rei-kun?
Huh?
That dummy needs to get "ba-bing!" socked sometime! Ba-bing! Ba-bing!
By "that dummy," you mean that problem child Hayama-kun?
He's nothing as cutesy as a "problem child." He's the devil!
Don't do anything rash, Sana-chan. You're a girl, after all.
It's okay, it's okay!
Using these sword fighting steps that I learned in Gekidan Komawari…
…and cut him apart! Cut him apart! Poke that big dummy like this!
Ah, it's xxxx-chan, from xxxxx!
Sana-chan, I haven't seen you in a while.
Thanks for doing xxxxx's new single, "xxxxxxx." It's great, huh?
I'm glad you like it.
Well now, Sana-chan, you're doing "Child's Toy" live today?
That's right!
Ah, I always watch it. I'll be pulling for you, okay?
Thanks, xxxx-chan!
Oops, couldn't help it.
Well then, Sana-chan, see you later.
"Zenjiro's "Child's Toy""
The cherry blossoms are in bloom for a new school yea-uh!
Fantastic!
So how about this new toim? Are you having a "happy new school yea-uh?"
What're you, stupid?
Made any "new good friends?"
Hardly.
And how about your new teach-uhs?
Does anyone have any eye-poppingly good looking teach-uhs?
No one like that here.
Isn't that nice? Nothing but new stuff for awl you youngst-uhs.
No, not "nothing but."
I shua wish I could be re-bawn as a kid again.
What are you, stupid?
Eh, what?
What's the matt-uh, Sana-chan? You're in a real fussy mood.
That's right.
Even though it's springtime?
Even though it's springtime.
You aren't having fun this school yea-uh?
It's the absolute worst.
You know what? The world of a child isn't the sweet life
that you make it out to be, Zenjiro-sensei.
Oh no?
No, it's a "hazardousurvival world,"
where you either kill, don't kill, or get killed!
"Hazardousurvival?"
That's right, "Hazardousurvival!" It's a "Yakiniku plate" jungle,
that a soft middle-aged man like you, Zenjiro-sensei,
could never hope to survive in!
—Grilled…? —Yes!
Every single day in our class,
our teacher's tears flood up almost to floor level!
During classtime, soccer balls fly around, rockets fly around,
and even tigers howl!
Are you listening to me, Zenjiro-sensei? Are you listening to me, everyone?
That's no school!
That is a zoo! And the boys are just monkeys on Monkey Mountain! Monkeys!
Am I right? Yeah? Am I right?
Every single solitary individual specific distinct separate last one of them!
And it's him! It's all his fault! Him! Him!
Who? Who?
Him, I tell you!
Who, Ah'm asking you!?
You, Hayama! I mean you!
Are you listening to me, Hayama!? You stupid monkey,
Hayama Akito, of the 6th grade, 3rd Class at Shinbo Elementary School!
You! You! It's all your fault!
I rub my sleepy eyes open every morning and go to school seriously!
If only you weren't there!
If only you weren't there, the school would be peaceful!
Hey! What are you doing!? Let me go! Let me go! Hayama!
That was a load off! Right now, I feel like you do
when you've been all backed up, and all packed up, and then…
…you poop it allll out! I feel terrific!
That was something we hadn't seen in quite a while, Sana.
Though your wardrobe was a bit plain.
Still, I hope that this devil-sent Hayama-kun
isn't thinking about getting back at you, Sana-chan.
No need to worry! I'm not the least bit afraid of that brat!
After all, he can't do a single thing by himself.
He's just a big sissy, with shriveled-up nards!
Then he might just stir up the other boys in the class
and come after you in a group.
Mama…!
Mama is just stating the possibility.
At any rate, at your word, the ill repute of this young boy Hayama
has now spread to the far reaches of the land,
to the millions of people who were watching television,
and has been input into their heads.
If this young boy is as much a devil-sent child as you say he is, Sana,
then it's only proper that there should be a proportional retaliation, right?
If the worst should happen, I'll still be around, though.
Rei-kun…!
Ah! I love you, Rei-kun! If they get back at me,
you'll break their bones a million times over,
and mail them back to them using business parcel delivery, right?
—Rei-kun! Rei-kun! Rei-kun! —Well now, I have twelve hours until deadline.
—Rei-kun! Rei-kun! —It's about time children were going to bed.
Yes, Mama! Rei-kun, let's sleep together!
Sure.
Hey, until she graduates from elementary school,
don't show her anything beyond a kiss on the cheek.
Understood.
"Sana-chan Sings"
♪ My mood graph goes up and down! ♪
♪ My mood graph goes up and down! My mood graph goes up and down! ♪
♪ I slept in this morning ♪
♪ Sana is a Sleeping Ishimatsu of the forest ♪
♪ When I get to school, there's Hayama the devil ♪
♪ He is the worst, always bothering Sana-chan ♪
♪ The teacher is crying, the boys are all wild monkeys ♪
♪ The classroom is Hayama's House of Evil! ♪
♪ I had a lot of anger pent up inside ♪
♪ But I let it all out on a live "Child's Toy"! ♪
♪ Now my anger is under control! ♪
♪ This is Sana-chan's love song! ♪
Huh? That was a love song?
Okay, good night.
Yoo-hoo!
Sch-ool!
Eh!? I'm late again!?
Good morning.
You're two minutes faster than yesterday. Nice job.
Sensei, your editor is here.
Thank you, Shimura.
Mm, very good.
Good morning, Sensei. I've come to pick up your manuscript.
What? Sensei? Huh? Your manuscript!
Good morning!
Thanks, Rei-kun. Today, we just barely made it here safe.
Sana-chan…
Eh? What?
Are you sure you're okay by yourself? Should I walk you to your classroom?
Are you worried about me, Rei-kun?
Uh-huh, sure I am.
I'm all right, I tell you. If anything should happen,
I'll use these Cossack Kung Fu Steps that I learned in Gekidan Komawari
to go bam-ba~m!!
I see. Well then, let me give this to you.
Eh? What's this?
"Burutcha," The walkie-talkie that shakes.
Burutcha?
Now, even if you and I are separated, Sana-chan, by pushing this switch,
the device will vibrate, sending me a signal.
Oh? So, this is my hotline to you, Rei-kun?
Right. Shall we try it?
T-this w-works p-pretty g-good!
S-so, w-when t-this h-happens,
I-I'll c-come t-to h-help y-you r-right a-away.
T-thanks, R-Rei-kun. T-these a-are k-kind o-of f-funny.
All that shaking made me short on time!
There you are! Komawari Step!!
Sana-chan, you can't come here!
What's up?
Sana-chan, you should stay home.
The boys who watched TV yesterday said they were going to clobber you, Sana-chan!
Heh? What a simple bunch to figure out! You can just relax.
I won't let myself be clobbered so easily. Nothing to worry about!
If anything happens, Rei-kun gave me this shakey…
Eh? Shakey? Huh? Shakey? Shakey? Shakey!?
Ah, that was fun! Thanks, Rei-kun.
Aah! I gave it back to Rei-kun!
See you later, Sana-chan!
He didn't notice either, for some reason…
Ah! They're here!
Don't get too full of yourself, Kurata!
Why, you! You talked about Hayama-san on television!
You're a smart-aleck, just because you're a little bit cute!
Oh? This is a surprise, you king of the wiseguys!
What's so wrong with being a little cute and a smart-aleck?
Look, you…!
Run!
But Sana-chan…!
I can't let you all get caught in the middle of this. Hurry!
We'll go get Tanaka-sensei.
If you guys were to see yourselves in the mirror right now,
you'd see a bunch of incredibly barefaced fools!
You guys make monkeys look smart!
What!?
Remember this. Folks like you are called "asses that boar the lion."
We're what?
I'm not sure what that means, but I don't like it!
What she means to say is "asses that borrow the lion's skin."
Damn it!
Next time, ask an adult near you what she means!
—Let her have it! —Pound her face in!
Pound it in!
Pound it in!?
Ah! It got pounded in! I can't go on television like this!
Whassis? Sana-chan is absent?
I heard her face got pounded in.
Eeee! Whassat!?
We're scared!
Then again, a bold change of image could let Sana bring new life to the show!
The ratings would go up unexpectedly!
Sana-chan's popularity would soar!
In all the excitement, I'd escape to Hawaii with Rei-kun!
The sunsets in Hawaii are romantic!
Sana-chan, I love you.
Rei-kun…!
But then, the press would find us there, too!
"Mysterious Creature Discovered with Asian Man in Hawaii"
the article would wrongly say!
The name of Kurata Sana would ring throughout the world
as first face-pounded-in entertainer!
Face pounded in!
Oh, I actually forgot about the monkeys…!.
We're really going to pound your face in!
What are you doing?
Hayama-san…!
There you are, Boss Monkey!
She talked about you on television yesterday, Hayama-san.
Leave the girl alone.
Eh? But…
Just leave her alone.
What was he thinking?
Hayama-san, what do you have in the bag?
Toys.
Kurata! I'm coming to help right now!
Oh, Kurata!
—You're safe? —Sana-chan, are you all right?
Tanaka-sensei takes a long time in the bathroom.
Sorry.
Kurata, are you…?
I'm fine. Let's go to class.
We sure will!
Stop! Stop that! Stop!
Ha! This is fun!
What? What are those?
Water pistols!
We got them from Hayama-san.
These are great!
Hayama-san's idea of using colored ink instead of water is also very good!
Stop this! Stop already, you guys!
Ah, it's starting again.
You guys!
Stop that!
Cut that out, you guys! I can't put up with any more of this! I'm about to…
What are you going to do?
What are you going to do, Sensei?
I don't mind going public with this.
I've exposed you adults' true nature.
Cut it out already, would you?
"Back against the wall."
That's what you say about times like these.
In dire straits,
I've been waiting for an answer.
My confessions are worked out long in advance,
to always go along with the scenario.
My heart may be settled, but my mind is in a…
…panic!!
When my friends invite me by, suddenly,
he's there.
And our usual classroom…
…quick-changes into a merry-go-round…
…for two.
Although I've said nothing but wisecracks…
…up to now, just for today,
I'm going to be honest and sincere,
so BOY, take a look my way!
When my friends invite me by, suddenly,
he's there,
And our usual classroom…
…quick-changes into a merry-go-round…
…for two.
Hoy! In Sana-chan's next adventures…
I've run out of foursquarence! Sana, the champion of justice,
will finally, finally step forward!
I'll stop at nothing to take advantage of whatever weakness he has,
for the sake of justice!
Oh, Hayama's weakness? What is it? What is it? What is it?
How do I beat him? How do I beat him?
What should I do, should I do, should I, should I, Sri Lanka!?
Next time on Child's Toy, Episode 2 of the Thrills of Love and Courage Saga:
"The Whole Classroom is a Monkey Mountain" "The Whole Classroom is a Monkey Mountain"
Okay, let's have a fair fight!
"The Whole Classroom is a Monkey Mountain" What kind of story is this, I wonder?