"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!
I'm Kurata Sana, a 6th grader and TV personality.
My beloved Mama is an Aoki-award winning novelist.
Sagami Rei-kun, my chauffeur, manager, and former boyfriend.
The mysterious white bat straight man.
My voice is doing fine!
Hayama Akito, my natural enemy and good friend.
Let me introduce my classmates! Tsuyoshi-kun and Aya-chan.
These two are head over heels with each other, the bastards!
Hisae-chan, who's sort of a traditional Tokyoite, and Mami-chan.
Today's story is about Mami-chan.
"A Band-Aid For the Heart?"
Time for gym class! I'm going to go give it my all!
What is everyone doing over there?
Hey, everyone, what are you doing?
Ah, Sana-chan, it's Kurosuke! Kurosuke!
Croquet?
Ku-ro-su-ke.
Yo, Kurosuke! I don't see him.
Sana-chan!
Yes?
Sana-chan, do you want to give it a try?
Oh, how pretty!
—You know, you can give Kurosuke some water to drink —Oh, wonderful! Cute! Coquettish! Lovely!
—with this bottle. Want to try? —Delicious (that would be yucky) Great! Plate! Empire State Building!
The story moves on!
I can give him water with this?
Sip!
Aren't rabbits not supposed to drink water?
That's just a superstition.
—But you do have to be careful not to give them too much to drink. —I'm caught here.
Really? Okay…
—Mm-hmm. I also have to be careful how much watery foods I give him, —Somebody, get me out.
—or else it will upset his stomach. —I said I'm caught here.
Wow, I didn't know that you took such good care of Kurosuke, Mami-chan.
It's almost like you're Kurosuke's mother, Mami-chan.
I got myself out.
It was my turn when Kurosuke left the nest,
and Kurosuke was so little compared to the other bunnies.
Ah, Sana-chan, that's enough.
Oh, okay. If he drinks too much, he'll get the runs.
Right, right.
Ah, class is starting!
Gym! Gym!
That's right, ma'am, the next class is gym, where you will be jumping rope.
I forgot my jump rope! I'm going to go run back to the classroom.
Will you make it in time?
Okay, I'll tell the teacher "There was a huge herd of sheep crossing the road,
so Mami-chan will be late" for you!
Don't do that!
Why not!?
Because that doesn't happen very often in Japan.
Have some?
Don't get too full of yourself, just because Mami-chan pampers you!
Babbit wants to be pampered, too.
"6th Grade 3rd Class"
"Gym time!" What a bother. This is what I get for worrying only about Kurosuke.
Huh? Why am I hiding?
What? No one's here. I'm sleepy…
Hayama-kun! I wonder if he's skipping class.
Never mind him, get the rope.
What are you doing?
Are you all right?
Hey…
No…
Stay back…
No…
No!
Stay back!
…big herd of cows!
Cows?
"It's Mami-chan…" Hmm, I'm worried.
What's the matter?
Did something happen to you?
Mm-mm…
Mami-chan, let's go to the nurse's office.
Can you stand?
Hayama!
What did you do!?
What did you do to Mami-chan!?
Mami-chan wouldn't have screamed if you hadn't done something!
She wouldn't be so scared, you know!
Let go.
Let go of me.
Hey, Hayama, you're acting a little funny, aren't you?
Why don't you tell your big sister about it?
All right, I'll shake it out of you with my Burutcha--!
This won't do. If you're going to open it, be sure to close it. Hmm?
My, what a cute little bat!
Just kidding.
I'm caught here…
"Sana doesn't understand?" Babbit has just arrived.
"Sana doesn't understand?" —Babbit-san, I brought my friend. —Hey, it's the American…
"Sana doesn't understand?" Aloha. I'm Hawaii-Babbit.
I really don't know what's going on.
"Erevest" I really don't know what's going on.
It appears that something happened to Mami-chan,
but there's something wrong with Hayama, too. I wonder what.
You don't have any idea?
I don't think that anything has happened
between Hayama and Mami-chan since that one incident.
And afterward, Hayama apologized for his stupidity. After all this time…
After all this time?
After… all… this… time…?
You're the only one who thinks it's "after all this time."
Do you remember just what happened when Hayama-kun ran wild?
He plunged Mami-chan into that pond, right?
The boys that Hayama-kun was ordering around poked at Mami-chan, right?
Do you know what kind of scars that leaves on the heart of a little girl
who has had that happen to her?
Can you understand that?
It's frightening. It hurts.
When the two of them are alone together,
she might be reminded sometimes of what she felt at the time.
Scars of the heart do not disappear over a mere apology.
It's possible that she will continue to resent Hayama-kun
for the rest of her life.
That's just how scars of the heart are.
So that's it. I thought that it was all in the past. However,
I guess to Mami-chan, it isn't.
I'm going out!
Gaah! An avalanche!? Onda! Onda!
Is this his day off?
"Suzuki"
So, I'm here at Mami-chan's house, but what should I say to her?
Ba-bing, push the button, ba-bing!
What are you hesitating for, Kurata Sana!?
Would you go home without doing anything!?
Push it! Push it!
Excuse me, it's a little to the left…
That's a strange sound.
Over there, over there!
"Stop doing that" I can push it. "Ding-dong."
"Stop doing that" Oweowe.
Yes?
Huh? What is it, Sana-chan?
Babbit is here, too.
Oh, I see. I went home early, so you came because you were worried about me.
Sorry about that. Come on in.
That's okay, I'll stay here.
Babbit is okay here, too.
Are you for sure coming to school tomorrow?
Yeah, I'll be fine.
Sure you will. Kurosuke will be waiting for you, and all.
Isn't he cute?
Come on, you were going to talk about Hayama, right? Come on, come on!
He's a lot cuter than that strange animal loitering around over there, huh?
You say that, and I'm going to grow huge!
Sana-chan, you idiot!
Say, Mami-chan…
Mami-chan, about Hayama… by any chance--?
Sana-chan, thanks for coming by today. I'll see you at school tomorrow!
Mami-chan…
Sana-chan, it's okay… Don't worry…
I'm sorry.
Sure enough…
It's just like Mama said.
She said that just because you apologized,
that doesn't mean that everything up to now is swept away.
So, Mami-chan must still be upset about it.
I mean, you're not the only one who did that awful thing to Mami-chan,
but Hayama, you're the one who Mami-chan is most afraid of. That must be it.
I think that when you wound someone's heart,
it's something that can't be undone.
"Water spilled does not return with a bang," and all.
It's not "bang," it's "basin."
"Water spilled does not return to the basin,"
which means that once water is spilled, you can't put it back the way it was,
has come to mean something that cannot be undone.
Even so,
we're still kids, and we're still young,
and maybe if we want to undo something, it can be undone, right?
Having Mami-chan resenting Hayama like this from now on…
There's absolutely no way I'm going to have my friends
resenting and being resented by each other!
So what are you going to do?
"Sana-chan thinks!"
Happy!
Whoo! Happy!
♪ Happy, happy, happy, everyone happy, ♪
♪ chuck away the sadness and the pain, ♪
♪ have fun singing, enjoy the humor, ♪
♪ every day is happy, happy, happy! ♪
♪ Hayama and Mami-chan, returning water to the basin, ♪
♪ somehow or other, somehow or other, somehow or other, somehow or other, ♪
♪ becoming friends again, happy-py! ♪
Happy!
Sana-chan's Mission, Mark I… I guess you'd call it.
Good morning.
Mami-chan, are you okay?
Mm-hmm.
I don't know what we'd do if you stayed home, Mami-chan.
Yeah, that's right.
Oh, dear. Let's not mention what happened yesterday!
Hello!
Mami-chan, is there a type of boy that you prefer?
What's this, out of the blue, Sana-chan?
Okay! Let me handle it! I know, how about xxxx-chan from xxxxx?
Yeah, he's cool!
Where's xxxx-chan!? Is he inside that bag!?
I doubt he would be.
It's xxxx-chan's hair!
It's just a wig.
Now for a model… all right, there's one!
There is?
You there, come here a minute.
We put this on him…
Yo, Hayama!
Ah, they're eating it up.
Sorry!
Here's this one!
Okay, how about this one?
Or this one?
One more!
So, which one is best, Mami-chan?
"Where Mami-chan used to be" Huh?
Mami-chan went to go check on Kurosuke.
No good, huh?
A-one, a-two, a-hoy-hoy-hoy-hoy…
Mami-chan!
We're the get-along bunnies!
Well? Are we cute?
This is kind of fun, huh?
But I'm starting to get hot and tired, Sana-chan.
Mm-hmm! That is cute!
That really is cute! What fun!
Let me introduce our members! Sasaki Tsuyoshi-kun!
Hayama Akito-kun!
Huh?
"Where Hayama used to be"
No fair running away, Akito-kun.
"Where Hayama used to be" Yeah.
In dreams, my eyes see you in dreams
Hayama! What good will running away do!?
Hayama?
Hey!
Hayama, don't beat up the school building! If you don't want to dance, then say so!
Hayama…
"Hayama…"
Whoa…
"Hayama…"
Whoa…
Now you've done it.
The thing about scars of the heart, you see,
is that I doubt you can fix them by slapping a Heal-Band on them.
I wonder if your little first aid treatment wasn't something like that.
What Hayama-kun did to Mami-chan
was something he absolutely should not have done.
That's something that Hayama-kun is aware of.
Ever since Hayama-kun realized "I've done something that I shouldn't have done,"
he has had his heart wounded, too.
You only thought about how Mami-chan had been hurt, didn't you?
No matter how many bandages you have ready,
you won't be able to provide enough first aid to either Mami-chan's scars,
or to Hayama-kun's scars, that way.
Hayama has been suffering too, huh?
Isn't there anything I can do?
Watuh spilled does not retoin to the basin game!
Today we're having our first in a series of poisonally experience with provoibs!
In this game, that huge basin is gonna tilt ovuh, making you slip and slip,
and if you fawl, you're out!
But if you fawl, look, there's this cushion!
It's nice and sawft, and feels pretty good,
which means that if you fawl, you'll be awl right,
but once you fawl, you can't get back up into the basin.
What a hawsh game this is! Zero! Zero! Zero! Zero!
Everything's gonna be awl gone!
Okay, good luck, everyone!
Oh? Sana-chan's the only one left?
If I fall, there's no going back.
Sana-chan, good luck!
Sana-chan sure is hanging in there today, huh?
Ah, hello, Higashiyamato-san. Oh, what's with the hat and T-shirt?
Yeah, aren't they nice? I got them as gifts from New York.
I bought them for him.
Yeah, I'm so pleased. Thank you.
Sane-yan, who are you talking to?
Sane-yan?
Er, Higashiyamato-san!
"Sane-yan" appears to be a name that only Zenjiro calls him by.
Babbit is going to call him that too. Sane-yan!
Okay, Baby's Rock!
Ah, Sana-chan!
I fell!
That's a shame, Sana-chan. You can't go back to the basin anymore.
No, I'm going back!
If I go up to the second floor and swing my way around, I'll get back!
I did it! Water spilled returned with a bang!
I did it! I undid what was done!
But still…
Sensei, you know…
…said that even if you don't know what scars a person has on their hearts,
you can still feel them,
and that if you can convey to them that you feel with them,
Sana-chan, you might be able to do something about it.
I wonder if I can convey that.
Sure you can!
Really?
Mm-hmm. You can.
"Off" This week's Father Hayama.
"Off" Papa-san?
"Off" Oh, he's off, is he?
"Off" Leave this to the pros!
This week's Sana-chan!
With a trophy for returning spilled water to the basin!
That should be about right.
Kurosuke, during the next art class, I'm going to the park to do sketches,
so I'm going to leave your water here for you.
There's a straw coming out of it so you don't drink too much, okay?
You can only drink as much as the straw will reach.
Mami-chan, we're all going!
—Ah, okay, I'm coming right now! —Everyone, line up.
"Let's draw pictures in the park"
Mm, art in the fall…
Hey, Mami-chan…
I'm drawing Kurosuke!
He looks like this, right?
What?
Sana-chan's Kurosuke looks like this.
I guess it looks like him.
Hmm, it needs something else. Oh, I know!
If I put a little spiral on his tummy…!
Kurosuke doesn't have one of those.
No, he doesn't.
Sana-chan, Mami-chan…
What did you draw?
I want to see, too.
Kurosuke!
Oh, how cute! Look, I drew someone playing the saxophone.
Me too!
I wonder what Hisae-chan is drawing.
Let's go see!
Let's go!
I'm drawing an
"I have to play this game as a penalty because I lost at billiards" person.
—Here's mine. —I drew this.
Why doesn't anyone draw a landscape, like normal?
There's still some time, so everyone draw another one.
Hayama's not here! He's playing hooky, huh?
Yes, he is playing hooky.
Don't drink too much water.
Mami-chan, are you done?
More or less. What about you, Sana-chan?
Yeah, I'm done. I'm done, but my colors seem to have run together.
Amazing!
Here's the picture.
There's something alive there in the middle, huh?
That's a bench.
Hayama, you paint something, too!
Um, Kurata-san, I don't think you should be walking too far out.
—It could be dangerous if a car came. —It's been two hours since we've been away from the school!
Hayama!
Hey, what do you think you're doing, cutting class!?
Hey!
What are you doing, out of nowhere!?
The rab…
The rab?
—bit is acting strange.
If I had only measured out your water, you wouldn't have upset your stomach!
Sometimes rabbits die from diarrhea, don't they?
But if it's diarrhea from drinking too much water, they're okay, right?
Hey!
The veterinarian is here!
Stop dawdling.
Over here!
He's gotten pretty weak, huh?
I've taken what measures I can for now. Make sure to keep him warm.
Right.
—Okay then… —Can't you fix him up right, you quack?
Who are you calling a quack!?
I'm a first-rate doctor! Who's a quack!? I'll kill you!
Akito-kun, you've got me caught in the middle, too! I'm flying!
We haven't paid his consultation fee yet.
Hayama…
Can't you fix him up right?
He's worried about Kurosuke, too.
"Kurosuke…" Babbit will refrain from making any comments this time.
Okay, everyone, go on home now. Let Sensei take it from here, okay?
—Mami-chan, the folks at home must be worried about you. —Kurosuke…
—What? —What? —What?
Kurosuke! Kurosuke!
Mami-chan!
Mami-chan, let me hold Kurosuke.
I feel so bad for you, Mami-chan.
You can't help it if he's dead, you know.
Mami-chan!
It's Kurosuke!
Kurosuke!
I'm sorry… Kurosuke, I'm sorry!
—Mami-chan! —That's great, Mami-chan!
Hayama…
Hayama, wait up!
Bring something to feed Kurosuke tomorrow morning.
Why?
Never mind, don't worry about it, just do what I tell you.
But just in case…
Just in case things get messed up even worse than before,
then you can hold it against me for the rest of your life, okay?
—Just go and, ba-bing, bring some food to the rabbit hutch, okay? —Huh?
"Just in case?"
I was about to say something, but I forgot what it was.
Melon.
Just a second.
Can I give this to him?
No.
Oh. Never mind.
If you give him that much to eat at once, you're going to upset his stomach again.
Oh, is that right?
You…
…and the rabbit…
…are both pretty strong.
You forgot your melon.
Hayama!
Did you bring Kurosuke something to eat?
Yeah.
You did? You did? You did?
Oh, you're playing Tanuki, huh?
Mami-chan appears to be doing fine, too!
Maybe I'll sing!
"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'd forgotten all about it! Do you guys remember?
The chick that I gave to Aono-chan?
Huh? Who's Aono-chan? You're being a little too forgetful there, sir!
Time sure does fly. The chick has now become a fine rooster!
However, this creates a huge problem! Living in the city sure is hard!
Next time on Kodomo no Omocha, Episode 26, the Rub Those Sleepy Eyes and Dizzy Head saga,
Cock-a-Doodle-Doo, Morning is Coming
It's going to be absol-oodle-doo… I'm too sleepy…