"Kodomo no Omocha"
Both today and tomorrow, I've got time to kick back.
My family of four and I are going to stay the night.
Put on an Egyptian front and become a sphinx,
and for an American feeling, Texas!
When you're sitting pretty, with enough and to spare,
and yet you always shilly-shally,
and your bitter face and bitter feelings both teeter-totter,
it's time to get out of there!
I am feeling Ultra Relax,
a wonderful, invincible Relax.
A one-step-above kind of Deluxe.
I may be a little jumbled, but when I'm called on, ba-ba-ba-ba-bang!
I always feel Relax,
a humble, simple, sort of Deluxe.
Bright! Clear! Alert-headed, peep-peep!
Keep your eyes on me, okay!?
I'm Kurata Sana, first year junior high school student.
My manager and driver Rei-kun.
Aoki Award winning Mama and squirrel Maro-chan.
My best friend who I met in the bathroom, Fuka.
Mysterious commenting white bat, Babbit.
Babbit started learning the ukulele too.
Let's start with the C note.
Hayama Akito, my dear friend, which means he's a fool.
The math video teacher.
I'll give it a shot.
Episode 92: A Simple Math Video
Good morning.
Good morning!
Sana-chan's excited today.
It's the beginning of the semester.
That means... [You can go home early on the first day of the semester.]
White dolphin!
Alright I'll do my best for the 3rd semester.
You're showing great Spring spirit!
Whatever it is, now I'm full of
Bam Bam Pow Pow try hard and do it spirit!
Could it possibly be Akito told her his feelings?
Hey, Sana, what did you do for New Year's?
For New Year's?
I went with Mama and Rei-kun to the shrine...
...and rice cake just came up...
...and then Rei-kun said something... about FC...
What? What's she talking about?
So what's with her and Akito now? Geez!
Oh yeah, Hayama came to my house too.
With his dad.
Why the dad?
Hello?
You're late, Sand-chan!
You haven't worked in a long time! You're gonna be late on the first day!
Yes, yes, yes, yes!
So bye bye!
See you tomorrow!
Quick, quick!
Ah Sana-chan, wanna eat lunch with us?
Sorry, I have work now so
invite me some other day!
Hey Hayama!
See you later!
That girl...
I have my script, my make-up case and my snack.
I haven't worked in such long time.
I feel strangely nervous.
It's your comeback for work and
your first job is some dull role.
It's not dull.
This...
...is the Studio!?
This is too harsh! Sana-chan! Let's quit!
Well, well, the most important is the content of the job.
Ah wait up!
Good morning.
Good morning!
Ah, hey Sana-chan.
I am the director Karesusukibara.
Nice to meet you.
Kurata Sana here, nice to meet you.
Hello.
This is the Cameraman and the A.D.
Itou Ichiro, nice to meet you.
Only two!?
Nice to meet you.
Let's begin.
Yes.
We wanted you to be in the role of the math teacher,
but can you do one more little role...?
You see we didn't have enough budget so we couldn't hire some of the kids...
Yeah we have no money.
What are you talking about?! Don't joke around!
I understand, I'll try my best.
Sana-chan.
I'm glad, so let's get started.
We've to do it before the sunset. So we can save studio rent and electrical fees.
Yeah because we have no money.
So let's come and see the set.
What... is Sana-chan's comeback going to be some poor and dull dirty role?
Hey you're infected by that weird habit.
You, young one there.
You have an uneasy look in your face.
But that's alright, because I've been a cameraman for 40 years
and I was filming even before Technicolor.
They used to call color films this. [Technicolor]
He's a big veteran.
This guy here filmed Ishihara Yutarou and Misora Hibari.
I can cook and clean and I'm a pretty useful A.D. so trust me too.
Y... yes...
Let's rehearse one of the student's Nanda-chan's pose...
...the part where she understands what the math teacher said.
OK.
Oh I see, this is easy easy.
Alright!
Oh I see! This is easy easy!
Wow that's good! Very clever!
Is it? It is...
Math Teacher is... like this.
I'm the math teacher.
This image is pretty lousy.
Nanda-chan is... like this.
Oh I see, this is easy easy.
This one is cute.
And how you do it...
So now let's start with addition.
This is easy easy.
I wonder what 2+2 is.
It's 4, it's easy easy!
Wow, you did very well!
That's weird.
Sana-chan's comeback work is something like this!?
I agree.
OK, let's start from the short parts.
From problem 5.
Yes.
if you read the script.
3,2,1... 9!
So, OK! Question 5 is a geometry problem.
Nanda-chan, please read the problem.
Yes! A trapezoid and par-al-lel-o...
This is bad! It's trapezoid and parallelogram.
Oh, I see.
Trapezoid and Parallelogram. She read that as that,
that way is harder.
Wow an adlib joke, now that's cool.
Oh no, it's not a joke.
You said something unnecessary again.
Sana-chan, I heard that you were bad at math
but I didn't know you couldn't even read the word.
It's embarrassing but I'm not really used it.
I think this problem of whether she could do math or not happened before.
Let's go.
My new job started! If you would like you can come and see it!
Sana-chan!
It's so touching,
Sana-chan herself gave us record-mail.
I wonder what kind of job it is.
She surprised us with movies and Broadway.
I bet it'll be something bigger.
Oh, what a wonderful feeling it is to be invited.
I wonder if that's true.
What is this?
No way, Sana-chan's working here?
Anyone here?
Oh Sana-chan is here.
But this is too cruel! it's too cruel!
Sana-chan, why!
This is bad, taking so much time.
The sun is going down soon.
Yeah one light won't do much good
because we don't have money.
What is this job?
OK Sana-chan let's do the easiest problem, Question 1.
It'll be alright with this one right?
I'll do my best with all my strength.
I wonder what happened... Sana-chan's gloomy.
It's too weird.
Nanda-chan, let's try to solve this problem.
Sure,
47 multiply 67, First 7 multiply 7 is 49
4 multiply 7... ten of six...
Cut cut!
If you do up to that end you're going to go out of the shot.
Sorry.
The set is small, and we don't have money, so by careful.
Sana-chan, is possible... you don't know how to multiply?
Well I could manage the first half...
But when it comes to factors of 6 and 7 and 8... well...
It can't be true! A middle school student Sana can't do multiplication?!
Director! Today, let's stop the multiplication now.
We'll go over the rest at home.
so please start from another problem!
Next is division by fractions.
It seems hard but it's really easy.
Turn the fraction that's going to be divided upside down and multiply.
Yes. Now this one is good.
OK, Nanda-chan's line.
Oh, I don't get it, it's all gibberish.
Sana-chan, that's not in the script.
But I don't know why you flip it, and
it's division but you multiply.
It's all gibberish.
Sana-chan...
I don't wanna see this anymore!
Chitose-kun, wait!
Anyway it's not about if Sana-chan understands or not,
This is acting,
so act as if you know it, like the script. Because we don't have money, OK?
Please! Please!
Yes, Sana-chan, let's just do it.
And it's not that big of a job.
But this video is for kids who aren't really good at math right?
I'm like that too, and I can't understand...
So those kids won't...
Oh, Sana-chan so you're going to complain about my writing again, huh?
Mizoguchi-sensei!
Sensei, sorry for coming all this way.
I heard the circumstances.
It seems you're having a problem with it.
Yeah a little.
No, it's not a LITTLE.
Well Karesusukibara-san, shall we give up for today, and start fresh tomorrow?
Yeah... but we don't have money so...
I understand...
but I understand Sana-chan's reasoning.
I'll revise the script where it's hard to understand.
Sana-chan took this job at the last minute too.
Then she will have time to practice Nanda-chan's line.
But we don't have money...
Please.
Sensei.
I understand, if it means that much to you.
Thank you.
You're actually a pretty good guy.
Ah! What is this!? A bug a bug! It's a BUG!!
He didn't change.
Oh well, oh well.
I caused so much trouble.
Mizoguchi-sensei said that...
So let's work hard tomorrow.
Hey you still have that weird habit.
Sana-chan!
Oh you guys came.
Ah where is Chitose-kun?
Hew got shocked and went home.
This job isn't right for you, Sana-chan.
It's dull and...
You don't know what even elementary scholars could solve.
But you gonna try to teach math. I think it's impossible.
I want you to do something more pretty and gorgeous.
But not this job.
Maybe I rushed my fences...
I wonder if it's impossible for a person like me to teach math.
Sana-chan, then do you wanna quit this job?
It's a little job,
so why don't we take the chance and go to London.
Ah! You mean the London in France?
London is in England!
Yes in London you could really enroll into a prestigious acting school and...
raise your skills and make a big splash when you come back!
Eh! I could do that?
You could do that!
I'll be responsible.
So if we go to London with Asako,
I'll be with Sana-chan!
So you're only thinking about yourself.
It's not true.
That's not Sana-chan.
The real Sana-chan is prettier and always bright like a sunflower.
Yes, what we saw today... is not the real Sana-chan.
She's different.
That has to be...
London huh...
I heard the London stage is famous...
And there are a lot of great actors.
It might be fun to go London.
I won't have to do math.
But this is like that time I couldn't deal with...
When I felt so sad watching Hayama and Fuka together.
I ran away to New York.
...when I came back it was the same...
Nothing was solved.
So I really don't know but...
...I think that if you run away nothing good will happen.
And I also like working a lot.
Ah! I can't sum up my thoughts!
But cross out London, circle the math video!
So, if that's gonna happen...
Let's study! Study study!
I give up.
Sana.
You always try to do everything by yourself,
but that's wrong.
When you have a problem then you beg to god.
When god isn't there, then you beg to people.
When you have a problem, you have a friend you can depend on, right?
That's right Mama! Yeah! Mama's a genius!
Yeah Mama's right.
So Sana, if you choose that, can you hurry and shut the window?
Ah! OK.
Ah! Onda-san.
Sensei, your deadline. What to do?
Beg to a person if god isn't here.
Onda, write it for me.
I can't do that!
I can't do anything with these hands.
Oh sorry.
No matter what you say, I'm not gonna write!
Stop...
Write your own story. ['Deadline', scary?]
Friend, friend.
At this time a friend I should depend on is...
Oh, but it seems they couldn't help.
Anybody else?
He'll be scary if I ask something stupid.
Anybody else would do it?
Ah! There is! But I wonder if she will do it.
Leave it to me!
Well, leave it to you!
So with today and tomorrow,
I'll have to make you understand these pages, right?
Exactly what you said. Thank you very much.
I'm gonna say this in advance, but I'm a strict teacher.
Prepare yourself.
Thank you because I am a weakling who can't even do multiplication.
You can't do multiplication!?
What? You don't know even the multiplication!
We're in 7th grade,
we're doing even harder math, algebra...
Yes, I'm very sorry.
My math life. I'll sing to you...
If I think back, in first grade...
...I did commercial shoots and skipped school.
Oops I tripped.
...and fell flat on my face in second grade.
I tumbled through third grade.
Fourth grade was off and splash.
I thought this was bad and tried to crawl up.
And while I struggled and struggled,
...fifth grade math came crashing down.
And I was back in the pit again.
A blub blubbing sixth grade.
I wanna go to a country without math.
Sensei, can I actually improve?
Math is a subject that you have to build one block at a time.
If you have some trouble in the middle, you must make it clear,
or you cannot understand at all day after day.
So you had to give up.
But if you fix that problem now you can gradually catch up.
You can catch up to everyone.
Really?
Yeah, probably.
But the one thing I really don't understand
is why we have to study math.
What are you saying!
Now that way of thinking is wrong!
Math is a skill you must have in order to live life!
Whether the milk in the supermarket is cheap...
If that coat got cheaper and is a bargain...
If we don't use the power of math we won't know anything!
That means we must use math to drive a hard bargain in everyday life.
Can't you just listen to people seriously!
Don't eat snacks!
So I will try to help you learn it.
Fuka-san!
Fuka and Sana work hard together.
Math is life.
Life is math...math is life... if math...
Fuka I'm sorry.
What are you talking about, we're best friends.
But come to think of it, we're sitting here together eating snacks.
Math... math is life. It's predestined.
Math is life.
Life is math. It's predestined.
The four species, take it easy!
We're best friends for life!
We'll have splendid life.
It'll benefit you all your life if you learn math.
I'm sorry, Fuka.
You're welcome! We're good friends!
This the first time got to eat and talk like this.
With our shocking meeting in the bathroom on the first day of junior high...
It's cool that we're friends.
That time I thought that we looked like each other.
But our personalities are really different.
Well same for grades too.
I wonder what's happen with Sana and Akito...
but I really don't care about that anymore.
Ah this is so peaceful.
Hold on there, you can't fall into a peaceful mode this fast!
See it's the same.
So 4 * 7 and 7 * 4 is...
The same, 28!
That's right.
OH! I see! Easy easy!
Easy easy!
People who are not good at math are not confident about getting better.
And I think everybody wonders why we
have to learn this kind of lousy thing.
So I think the video will come out well if we answer that question.
But...
That sounds interesting!
Sana-chan,
can you tell me more of your ideas?
But if we do more we'll run out of time. And we don't have money.
We will manage this within the timeframe.
From now on I'll revise my script,
and all we have to do is to film it all the way.
Now Sana-chan...
Wasn't Mizoguchi-san only here to review this job?
Oh! I see.
Yes, but he's actually putting passion into it. It's weird, isn't it?
If he doesn't call me a bug he's a pretty good guy.
Mizoguchi-san took most of Fuka's and my ideas.
And our video subject really changed.
The filming went along smoothly.
So you guys aren't afraid of math anymore right?
This is the end of the math teacher video volume 1.
Yes, Sensei!
If you trip then you have to just wake up again,
and everything will be alright!
Math is life!
Cut! OK!
Good work, good work!
It's finally over.
Ah Sana-chan, good work.
Good work.
Keep up the good work with the 2nd volume.
Yes, leave it to me!
Well because of Mizoguchi-san, we got a lot of our ideas in the 1st volume
But if the reviews are not good...
I'm afraid the work will be weird with Sana-chan's ideas added in.
I wonder if it'll be alright because we don't have money.
And Sana-chan got infected too.
Anyway... [The first volume of the math video is finished.]
Mizo-chan I heard rumors that you're working on an educational video.
You're the scriptwriter who awes the audience, why this?
It's because it's a job that justifies all this work.
I wanted to do this job.
I'm home.
You look tired. I'll prepared your dinner at once.
OK.
Oh yeah a letter came for you.
I put it there.
Eh really?
Oh, this!
I wonder if it's a fan letter. It's been a long time.
What? From Kurata Sana?
I'm Kurata Sana, actress and first year junior high school student. Nice to meet you.
Rei-kun what is this?
What does it say?
"You're a fake..."
"The real Kurata Sana is me!"
What the hell?
What's going on!?
"Wait, I already want to break up!"
I said while deflecting a kiss now,
Firmly pushing you away.
Before my eyes, surprised, you fell silent.
I want to avoid the road I must follow.
It's not that I can't see the end.
Just going around in circles, even from getting lost
If I see it clearly now it should give me courage.
Love me deeper. I want to hug and hurt you. (I wanna hurt ya.)
Touch me, pinch me, I'll chase after you. (I'm gonna catch ya!)
Deeper, deeper, get serious quickly. (You gotta get me.)
because I want to cry with you.
Love me deeper, hugging and starting over. (I wanna hurt ya.)
Hold me, pinch me, I want to push through it. (I gotta getcha!)
Deeper, Deeper, hurry up and wake up! (You gotta get me!)
Love only me that way.