"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 affiliated with Gekidan Komawari.
My beloved Mama is a famous novelist, who has even won the Aoki Laureate Prize.
And that's her chipmunk, Maro-chan.
My former boyfriend, Sagami Rei-kun.
Right now, he's earnestly on the way to becoming a fine manager.
The mysterious white bat straight man, Babbit.
My liquid diet is delicious.
Hayama Akito, my natural enemy.
Even so, right now, when I'm around him, I'm relaxed for some reason.
Hayama…
What are you doing?
What is that thing!?
Well, you know… I'm not sure what it is, but it's yours.
After the middle birthday party and Christmas Eve party ended,
—just as I was breathing easy… —A present?
…suddenly, I was kissed by Hayama!
I got kissed! I got kissed! I got kissed!
But this time, I couldn't avoid him, you know?
Could this be… could this be my first kiss?
But before I had a chance to think, the Kurata household was in big trouble!
The Kurata household… has gone bankrupt.
B-b-bankrupt!?
"Suddenly, One Day, I'm a Homeless Girl"
Oh, my. There's red paper hanging off of everything.
Whoa, everything in here, too!
Oh, dear, in here, too.
Seized… seized…
Oh, Sana-chan's room has seizure papers on everything…
"Seized" Uh… um, what happens to everything that has been seized?
"Seized" You can't use it.
Then, Babbit can't be used, either? Farewell!
That's just a supermarket receipt, so it doesn't have any bearing.
What!? Thank goodness! But don't be so misleading!
What exactly is going on?
There's nothing more to it. Bankrupt means bankrupt.
But that means that all of your property will be seized, right?
Which explains why the gentlemen from the tax office
are all working so hard right now, doesn't it?
"Doesn't it?"
How can you say it so casually!? What on earth happened!?
Well, you see…
Click…
♪ There was once a certain company, ♪
♪ that was trying to get a loan from the bank. ♪
♪ I was the guarantor on the loan, ♪
♪ a guarantor that I should not have been. ♪
♪ Then the company went under, hey! ♪
♪ and the debt came crashing down on my shoulders. ♪
♪ In other words, I, too am bankrupt, bankrupt. ♪
♪ Since I am the guarantor, there's nothing I can do. ♪
This is no time to be explaining things in song.
Why not?
Ah! Even my Nopia!
Sensei, this… this is a serious matter! This is a serious matter, Sensei!
I know.
Why did you trust those people so easily?
It's not about whether I trusted them or not.
It's fate. This is all fate.
Fate? Is that the reason why you didn't care if all of your property was taken from you?
It could be.
What are you planning to do now?
Now, now, Rei-kun, calm down. Ultimately, this is all a nightmare.
Once we wake up, we'll say "Ah, it was just a dream!"
Even so,
with a man here whose face is as expressionless as his, this is not reality.
Huh? I am Okouchi, from the tax office.
You'll have to excuse my expressionless face,
but this is real.
Whoa, for having an expressionless face, that was quite a dramatic touch.
Well then, might I have a moment?
What do you want?
Tell me, if you were to take a lady out on a date, what course would you select?
Let's see… Of course,
I would wait for her in front of the statue of Saigo Takamori, in Ueno Park.
We would visit the art gallery and the museum,
and then we would go to a classical music coffeehouse,
and talk about our futures over slightly bitter espressos.
That is the way a date should be.
You have a severe personality, where everything is measured with a square rule.
Oh, dear…
This, despite having such a round face.
If I may, as of right now, this house is the property of the state.
You are being evicted immediately!
Evicted?
What's… going on?
It was all so sudden… it just happened all at once…
How can we be… standing here…
gazing at the house… we've been living in for so long?
Come on, let's get going.
Don't cry, Shimura-san.
Sensei, Sana-chan… Sagami-san, you all take good care of yourselves, now.
You too.
Shimura-san, we're really grateful for everything.
Shimura-san…
We'll be able to see each other again soon, right?
—Of course we will. —Shimura-san…
Sana-chan!
Shimura-san! I'll never forget…
I'll never forget the taste of your Thai-style curry!
Shimura-san…
What about asking the folks back home in Kusatsu if they could help out somehow?
For what reason?
For what reason? So that we can go on living the way we always have.
In life, there are mountains, and there are valleys.
We're raking it in just by being alive.
That's right! It's not as though they've taken our lives from us, huh?
We won't get anywhere if we just flap around, will we?
Oh, that's my girl. The rain should stop sometime tomorrow, too.
Sensei! Sensei! I found something!
"This is their new home?" A cooperative apartment!
This is the apartment that I lived in before.
It has been vacant ever since.
The media won't find you here, either.
Uh, it's not to your liking, then? I'd suppose not. It's dirty and cramped.
It has walls. It has windows.
And more than that, it has a roof.
Mama, it also has a pillar for no reason.
Thank you, Onda. We're grateful.
Not at all.
Sana! We'll climb our way out of here to reach for tomorrow's stars!
Mm-hmm, that we will, Mama!
Look! That will be the star you reach for, Sana!
Which one? Mama, which one?
It's raining tonight.
Let's do this again tomorrow night, Mama.
"Sana-chan sings" You brought your Norinori machine, huh?
♪ We're raking it in just by being alive. ♪
? We're raking it in just by being alive. ?
♪ Even with nothing else, we still have our lives. ♪
♪ Having life proves that we're alive. ♪
♪ As long as we're alive, let's have fun. ♪
♪ Serious fun, right, and pure. ♪
♪ Starting today, our tomorrows are bright. ♪
♪ The rain will stop, and the days will be bright. ♪
Hold it down, you ignorant jerks!
If you can't be quiet, I'll knock you flat!
Think a little about how you're disturbing the neighbors!
My name is Kurata, and we just moved in here today.
Uh, and you are?
I-I'm Kuma, and I live in the next room over.
Mister, come join us in our excitement!
You dumb jackass! We're all miserable because of the rain!
Keep it down in here!
Which is why you should get stirred up.
Sana, let's get enthused quietly.
♪ As long as we're alive, let's have fun. ♪
♪ Serious fun, with low voices. ♪
That's just depressing.
Time passes…
"New Year's Eve comes once a year" On New Year's Eve, we eat soba noodles, soba noodles!
So, this is the end of this year.
I never would have thought we'd be spending New Year's Eve in a place like this.
The images are starting to come forward!
I can write! I can write! I can write like mad!
You're not using this adversity as material to write again, are you?
'ulp…
That's it! I'll write an essay about all this.
"It was a solemn New Year's Eve."
"I had never heard the temple bells sound so sad."
Oh, that's good, that's good.
—"Suddenly, an expressionless man came by, —These folks sure are tough, huh?
—and yelled 'You are being evicted immediately!'" —These folks sure are tough, huh?
—I'm going to bed. —Hey, there's one more page. Tonight, I'm going to write 108 pages!
"Happy New Year -Babbit" Happy New Year! This is a New Year's card from Babbit to all of you!
Just like that, the days went by,
"New school term" and the new school term started.
Hey, everyone, did you hear about what happened to Sana-chan's house?
Mm-hmm. It came out in the weeklies.
It says that Sana-chan's whole house got seized.
They're bankrupt, and their whereabouts are unknown.
"The rumors were spreading" Rumors spread quickly, huh?
Good morning!
Sana-chan!
Ah, you're alive!
Are you okay?
Say, are you depressed?
Huh? About what? I'm doing fine!
But Sana-chan, your family went b-… b-…
Boy, these hassaku oranges are delicious, huh?
Mm-hmm, delicious! Shall we all share one?
Oh, you all know about it already?
That's right, my family has gone a bit bankrupt.
I-is that true, Sana-chan? Why did that happen? Aah, poor Sana-chan!
Huh? Am I the only one who didn't know?
Yep.
Akito-kun, Akito-kun,
did you know, did you know? Sana-chan's family went bankrupt.
I heard.
You knew?
Yo…
Yo.
You seem… up, huh?
Yeah…
"They remembered the kiss…" There's a lot to take in.
Listen, you can use these, Sana-chan.
Oh, thanks! Grateful, grateful!
We're all in it together when someone's in trouble, right?
I'm so happy. This is a big help.
Here, you can have this.
Even you, Gomi-kun?
An eraser, shaped like a turd?
You've got bad taste, but I'm still glad for this.
Thank you, Gomi-kun.
Y-yeah.
Listen, is there anything else you want?
Hmm, nothing right now.
Say, we should give her something too, shouldn't we?
Sana-chan's family had everything taken away from them.
It looks like she doesn't have anything.
—What would we give her? —Well, let's see…
Futons, or blankets, senbei crackers, chocolate, margarine, nail clippers,
pocket tissues, animal picture books, green turtles…
Yes, I'm just confirming our schedule…
Huh? Those plans have fallen through?
I see…
That's the third one now.
Yum! Yum!
Sana-chan!
I hoid you were having problems, that you were in trouble.
It's not all that serious.
Let me take care of it. These are costumes, but you can take them awl if you want.
Uh, thank you. It will help to have something to wear.
What about food? if you don't eat right, you won't stay healthy.
Oh, they give us these bento lunches to eat at work.
Oh, but Mama is there alone in our room.
I knew it.
Hey, Uchiyamada!
Toin it ovuh! Toin it ovuh!
What?
That bento.
Sure.
What are you, dumb?
When I say toin the bento ovuh, I mean toin it ovuh to Sana-chan!
Oh, that's okay, that's okay. I couldn't take Uchiyamada-kun's bento away from him.
Uh-uh, that's okay. I've already eaten six of them.
That's why you're so fat!
"You good boys and girls eat balanced meals, okay?" Do some exercise.
We got a lot of stuff, huh?
Still, it's tough, not having a car.
But this is the weight of everyone's regard for us. I'm glad.
Sana-chan!
"Sana-chan's drawing song" I know this is sudden, but here's a Sana-chan drawing song.
"Sana-chan's drawing song" Get your paper and crayon ready!
♪ First there comes a mountain, and then, ♪
♪ water comes splashing down from it. ♪
♪ Get two cups ready, ♪
♪ and then add two handles. ♪
♪ Butterflies come flying in, ♪
♪ with tails growing out of their behinds. ♪
♪ Here a slope, there a slope, ups-a-daisy, ♪
♪ and draw in the eye like an arrow. ♪
♪ Let's draw one more arrow. ♪
♪ It's time for gym, so bring out the vaulting boxes. ♪
♪ Stick a second one on top of it, ♪
♪ The letter "ku," the letter "ku," the letter "ku," hey! ♪
♪ Then we stick six beans on. ♪
♪ And now we've drawn Sana-chan! ♪
♪ Dance! Dance! Hey! Hey! Hey! ♪
♪ This is the Sana-chan drawing song! ♪
Let's see… perhaps a paid vacation.
"Babbit's drawing song"
♪ Rice cake, bump, bump, line, line, triangle, ♪
♪ raindrop with a heart in it, draw the wings, ♪
♪ and it's Babbit! ♪
I came because I was wondering if you were having any problems.
Well, everyone is being so nice to me.
Still, there must be a lot of inconveniences, right?
If there's anything I can do for you, feel free to ask.
Thanks.
Huh? Do we have a visitor?
Please leave!
See, the company president told me to come check on you,
to make sure you weren't having any problems, so that's why I'm here.
Please leave!
I am grateful for your concern.
However, there are many other people in the world who are living
with far more urgent needs than we have. We are not all that badly off.
Indeed.
However, in your present circumstances, you must have some expenses, right?
"Please accept this money… Yumezono Matata, President, Dreaming Pro"
This is just a small token from him.
I said no thank you, and I meant no thank you!
I will never, for any reason, accept his money!
Very well.
I will leave, for now.
Hey, Sana-chan, Sagami-san.
We will meet again.
It seems like I've seen that man with absolutely no taste in clothes
somewhere before…
"Who is that?" Look forward to the answer next time.
Well, I don't know what to say.
I came to see if there wasn't anything I could do for you.
Your concern is more than enough, Naozumi-kun.
But we've already brought home all of these handouts.
We will just thank you for the sentiment.
Very well. In that case, please accept my sentiments.
Shut up! You're going to wake up Ayana-chan!
S-sorry…
"It's an apartment, after all!"
But what are we going to do with this?
We can't very well return it, and we can't very well throw it out.
There's no harm in us keeping it.
Seeing as how you're eating it.
"And so, another morning arrives"
Good morning, Sana.
Good morning, Mama.
Oh, I slept so well.
She's wearing it.
Sana-chan, you cooked breakfast.
Mm-hmm, we can't afford to get by in life by relying on others.
Sweet-and-sour pork flavored with ketchup,
mixed with bamboo shoots, rice porridge, and leftover bento.
Such ground-breaking good taste, your eyeballs might pop out!
"Now to eat it" You're going to eat that?
Mm, this is good, this is good.
Our eyeballs really might come popping out,
it's so bad.
They did eat it!
Hayama!
Yo.
It's cold this morning, huh?
Wow, that's an out-of-character thing for you to say!
Hey…
It'd be nice… if it warms up…
soon…
It sure would.
Huh?
Hayama, it's snowing again.
Good morning, Sana-chan, Akito-kun!
Ah! I forgot! I left it inside there!
They wouldn't have seized that, too! I'm going to go get it!
Sana-chan wouldn't be going to her old house, would she?
If she's going to get something that was seized,
that will make her a burglar.
That commercial has been cancelled, too?
Yes, I understand.
What's going on here, exactly?
"The Kuratas' former house"
Sure enough.
We're going, right? We're going in, right?
Sana-chan?
They pasted these slips of paper on?
Mm-hmm. Seems kind of cruel, huh?
Looks like it happened suddenly.
I'll bet they were just having morning tea when they were chased out.
Sana-chan?
"Ooh-ooh"
Sana-chan!
Oh, I heard a voice, and thought it was the man from the tax office!
You were hiding?
"Ooh-ooh" Didn't I look like a monkey?
Nope.
Be that as it may, what are you doing here?
What are you doing here?
Oh, I just forgot something here.
"Forgot something?" What?
The power has been shut off, so it's probably ruined.
Thank goodness! There's still a little left!
Huh?
You came to see that thing?
Well, after all, it does represent your feelings, Hayama.
Your feelings? What feelings, Akito-kun?
First chop of the year!
But it's too bad you can't take that with you, huh?
Uh-uh, I just wanted to see it one more time.
I never even said goodbye.
Hayama…
Here it comes, here it comes.
Say, there's still some film left.
Maybe I should go take pictures of the things in my room.
Go shoot some memories, Sana-chan.
Is there somebody in here!?
Yikes!
Leave this to us.
Who's there!? Come on out!
Hey, you! This place is off-limits!
Hello! I'm the strange young man who dances everywhere he goes.
Akito-kun, you do it too!
Now, see here! This is no place for children to be playing!
Thanks for being here with me up to now, everyone.
Goodbye.
—Hey! You can't play with the things in this house! —What do we do, what do we do now? We run away, we run away now.
—You're not allowed to ride in that, either! —What do we do, what do we do now? We goof around, we goof around now.
T-that, either… that, either!
—It's nice to horse around once in a while. It's nice to horse around once in a while. —T-that belongs… that belongs to the state!
Tsuyoshi, sounds like she's done.
Huh? Already?
Oh, Mister, you spin real good, huh?
Those of you who can spin well, come join Gekidan Komawari!
—Did you get them taken? —Mm-hmm. Thanks.
This week's Mama.
This thing is warm!
Thank goodness.
Hayama and Tsuyoshi-kun, if you hadn't come along,
I might not have been able to say goodbye to everything.
It's not as though you've lost everything.
We'll always be together with you, Sana-chan.
I know that.
I may have changed houses, but as much as before… mm-mm,
even more than before, I feel like you're here together with me.
That's right.
I'm glad this wasn't a dream. Just by being alive, I'm razoring it in!
That's raking it in, Sana-chan!
What do you mean, you're canceling again!?
Hello? Hello?
This can't be possible…
Sana-chan doesn't have any work?
Okay, now to work like crazy, take on a whole bunch of good jobs, and razor it in!
Sana-chan sure is strong, huh?
What about school?
It's all DAIJO-BU DAIJO-BU
When you sing this song, your worries will go
Bye Bye Bye
Cuz your heart will be carefree,
and your body will be healthy,
so resolve when to give up
Bye Bye Bye Bye
(Sing-ken-ken ken-ken)
(Tidak apa-apa, Nday kambay kambay)
It's always the same old nonsense,
U-MAI U-MAI U-MAI U-MAI U-MAI
(Mm? Could be you're fairly dumb…)
and then later comes the whimpering,
KU-RAI KU-RAI KU-RAI KU-RAI KU-RAI
(Ah… it's fine, it's fine, it's fine)
It's all crazy over there,
it's all "waah!"over here,
and the whole Earth is spinning the wrong way.
So at this point now, yeah at this point now,
you can laugh it away, excuse me, I must be going.
DAIJO-BU DAIJO-BU
When you sing this song, your worries will go
Bye Bye Bye
Cuz you tried your MECHA-KUCHA best,
to PECHA-KUCHA out a "Hi,"
so just keep going on like this!
Wai Wai Wai Wai
DAIJO-BU DAIJO-BU
Once your lips touch, you can't change your mind.
Cuz your heart will be carefree,
and your body will be healthy,
so resolve when to give up
Bye Bye Bye Bye
(Sing-ken-ken ken-ken, Tidak apa-apa)
(Gwaenchansseumnida, kwenchanayo)
(Mou man tai!)
Hoy! In Sana-chan's next adventures…
That's right, just by being alive, I'm razoring it in! I mean, raking it in!
It's okay, it's okay, I'll just "ba-bing" do a bunch of work! Or so I thought,
but then Sana-chan doesn't have any work. It's all gone. Even "Child's Toy" is gone.
I can't do anything like this.
Next time on Kodomo no Omocha, Episode 41, the "is this farewell to a discouraged,
'we're-out-of-everything' Rei-kun?" installment,
He Got Me Blacklisted
Use those New Year's gifts wisely, now!