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- With the entrance exams nearby, everyone is focused in it... except, naturally, for Tomo, who goes out of her way to ask wordplay questions to Chiyo, greatly stumping her. But both of them are outmatched by Osaka, who manages to answer all questions correctly and cluelessly. She asks Chiyo what would be a suitable career for her, and is informed that she could be a teacher. Upon consulting Yukari for advice, she feels insulted and chews Chiyo out for "thinking she is an idiot". At Chiyo's house, later, the girls gather to study . At New Year's Day, the girls gather at a temple to pray for their success in the entrance exams . Tomo is mortified to get bad luck in her New Year's fortune but, upon meeting their teachers, Yukari informs them that the son of the temple keeper did not pass his entrance exams, so it would be useless to pray there. Before their entrance exams, Osaka comes up with a superstition to allow them all to pass: they each must split a pair of chopsticks perfectly in half, though she does not know how to do it until taught by Chiyo, who in turn gives them all lucky charms of her own. At another study session at Chiyo's house, she muses about how fast their high school period passed by them, and they are about to graduate. Kagura and Sakaki manage to pass their exams, but Tomo and Osaka do not. However, they still have another chance to make it, and thanks to Chiyo, they eventually do. With that, there is only a violently resolute Yomi left to pass her own exams.
- After school, Chiyo invites Osaka to the bookstore, since she wants to buy a panda photo album, prompting Osaka to question whether a panda's fur is white on black or the opposite. After Yomi and Tomo are asked the same question, Osaka quickly changes the subject to mention something "scary" that happened to her the other day: she smelled a fart that did not come from her. The next day, when Yukari comes for class, she declares being tired of teaching only English and starts an impromptu P.E. class, after a frustrated attempt with math. She proposes a soccer match with her students, but after seeing her own ineptitude, she switches to dodgeball, in which Chiyo's teammates are knocked out one by one and, instead of hitting her, Tomo just teases by throwing the ball over her head. Later at the teachers' lounge, Yukari is checking an year-end catalog, musing over its contents, especially the Matsuzaka beef. At class, Kagura wants to know if Chiyo still believes in Santa Claus, getting into an argument with Tomo over Santa's abilities when she decides to ask Chiyo directly. She settles the matter by saying that Santa is her father, leaving Sakaki overly flustered. Then Tomo asks what would Yomi like for Christmas: she asks for a large sum of money, but Chiyo comes and says she wants the star from a Christmas tree in the station square, causing Tomo to tease Yomi for her greed. Then Kagura asks if reindeers exist, since Santa does not exist. Tomo is convinced that reindeers do not exist, though even Osaka proves her wrong. The night before Christmas, the girls get together to spend some time, eventually going to karaoke. There, everyone is amazed with Sakaki's talent at singing, but get quite the opposite impression of Yomi's singing.
- The summer holidays begin. Nyamo attempts to make Yukari set herself a schedule for the holidays. Yukari draws a pie chart, splitting her time between sleep, free-time and swimming. Meanwhile, Yomi, Tomo and Osaka are invited to go to Chiyo's house. They are overwhelmed by the spaciousness and the splendour of the mansion. They are even more surprised when Chiyo invites them to her summer holiday house. Meeting at a train station, Tomo finds out that Chiyo has invited Sakaki, Yukari and Nyamo as well. After riding to Chiyo's house in Yukari's beaten-up car, which is dubbed the Yukari-mobile, Chiyo and Osaka claim that they are not afraid of roller coasters anymore. Yomi, Tomi and Chiyo play in the ocean while Yukari and Nyamo relax under a parasol. Sakaki and Osaka sit together with Osaka spouting trivia. Tomi and Osaka try to make the night more exciting with scary stories and dirty talks. Afterwards they all play with fireworks.
- For the culture festival, a haunted cafe is considered but decided against. Since the previous year’s stuffed animal exhibition was popular, the girls decide to create a stuffed animal cafe. Sakaki designs a daddy hat for the servers, but she wears a Neco Coneco on her head. Chiyo wears a cute penguin costume. Yukari taunts Kurosawa for not having a cute student like Chiyo in her homeroom. Kimura wants a daddy hat like the one Kagura is wearing, and he pulls it on so his eyes are covered. He scares away customers by advertising the cuteness in an unappealing way. It is Kaorin’s hat; she is happy to wear a Neco Coneco like Sakari. Tomo volunteers to retrieve the hat, but Yomi notes that Tomo has been wandering around campus rather than serving customers. While on break, Osaka and Chiyo check out what the other classes are doing. Because the arms of Chiyo’s penguin costume are too short, Osaka must feed Chiyo her octopus cakes and taiyaki. When they return to the stuffed animal cafe, it is packed with customers who had noticed Chiyo’s cuteness. No more breaks.
- The girls are finally seniors. A disadvantage is that they must now walk up three flights of stairs. They are still together in Yukari’s class, except for Kaorin . Tomo has a new hairstyle . Kurosawa’s class gets her a handbag for her birthday. This upsets Yukari, mostly because her class forgot her birthday . The next day Yukari’s class gives her a present; at first Yukari thinks they want her to give it to Kurosawa. On her way to show off the present to Kurosawa’s class, she is stopped by Kimura. Kagura remembers college exams are coming up, but Tomo thinks Kagura will get a sports recommendation. Tomo plans to join Interpol. Osaka wonders what police officers write in their notebooks. Chiyo plans to study at an American college, to which Kagura compares her to Kazuhiro Sasaki and Ichiro Suzuki. Tomo and Osaka then start considering that Chiyo might get caught and killed, but Sakaki tranquilizes them by mentioning that Chiyo's dad will come to her aid. Later after school, Tomo says that Chiyo might as well become President once studying in the USA, making Osaka fantasize about how would Chiyo's country be like, populated by many little lookalikes of her. Weight-conscious Yomi buys pork buns, but it’s all right since they have no sugar. Tomo, Yomi, and Chiyo meet some of Chiyo’s former classmates. They now wear sailor uniforms, which Chiyo never got to wear since she started high school at such an early age. Kaorin, being Kimura’s favorite, becomes class president. She is sad that she is no longer in the same class as Sakaki. However, since Kimura is going to be her homeroom teacher this year, she resolves to find his good points, after having a run-in with his wife, who had come to bring him lunch. One of his good points would be taking care of flowers, but he has labeled a bed of flowers “Kimurin & Kaorin’s Flower Garden.”
- Chiyo invites Osaka, Yomi, Kagura, Kaorin, Sakaki, and Tomo to the summer house, but Kaorin has astronomy camp and can’t come. Yukari invites herself. Chiyo and Osaka discover that two people shouldn’t ride on the same bike. They meet Tomo, who is shopping for an awesome swimsuit. Osaka takes too many tissue packets. Osaka confuses the escalator with the elevator. Sakaki arrives early the next morning so she can wait with Tadakichi. Since Chiyo was mentally damaged after riding in Yukari’s car the previous summer, she has asked her father to rent a van for Kurosawa to drive. At the terminal, Kaorin is sad that she can’t be with Sakaki, but Kimura tells her “You have me!” After arriving at the summer house, Tomo grabs the key from Chiyo and throws it into the nearby woods. Everyone except Yukari looks for the key. Chiyo finds it, and Yomi has Sakaki restrain Tomo while Chiyo opens the door. Tomo claims that 3-on-1 isn’t fair. At the beach, Tomo announce that she will break a watermelon with her deadly right hand, but before she can do so a blindfolded Kagura breaks it with a bat. Yomi takes requests for drinks but will not buy the beer Tomo asks for. By the time Yomi is back with Osaka’s orange juice, Osaka’s inner tube has drifted far from shore. Sakaki sculpts a cat with kitten in the sand and Osaka’s return destroys the artwork. Everyone changes into their yukatas for the summer festival. Kurosawa does not know how to wear one, but she does know how to tie a necktie, according to Yukari. Sakaki wins a cat with kitten toy at a shooting gallery and Kagura declares her a sniper. Back at the summer house, Yukari confiscates beer from Tomo. Kurosawa is afraid Yukari will tell secrets about her if she gets drunk, so she drinks Yukari’s sake. After drinking half the bottle of sake and several cans of beer, Kurosawa answers Tomo’s question about the relation between adult men and women. The next morning, Sakaki is embarrassed to meet Kurosawa, who wonders where Chiyo learned something. Yukari tells her, “From you.” Kagura, Osaka, Tomo, and Yomi enthusiastically and respectfully greet Kurosawa and thank her for information from the previous night.
- Yukari promises her class free drinks and Korean barbecue if they win the athletics festival. A photo falls out of Kimura’s pocket. He has a pretty wife. The girls are incredulous, but he shows them a photo of his family including his daughter. Shooting contest: Chiyo, Tomo, and Osaka have ambitious aspirations; Chiyo gets one ball in but the others do not. Ball-rolling event: Tomo rolls the gigantic ball over her partner Chiyo. Obstacle course: Osaka enjoys putting her face in flour but does not win. Kiba-sen: Tomo is the horseman, and the horse is made up of Yomi, Osaka, and Chiyo even though Osaka threw late in Rock-Paper-Scissors; the horse collapses, partly because Osaka pretends to eat with chopsticks to figure out right from left, without confronting a horseman and horse from another class. Yomi and Chiyo are drinking juice to replenish the water they’ve lost, but according to Tomo they should just drink water because they’re supposed to get juice from Yukari after winning. Tomo uses an empty juice can to find out how good a person Kimura’s wife really is. Borrowing race: Chiyo needs to borrow “stupid” so she borrows Tomo. Three-legged race: Chihiro sprained her ankle, so Kaorin is partnered with Sakaki! 10km marathon: Yomi will use it to work off the calories from taiyaki. Tomo starts with a last spurt to take the lead, but she, Osaka, and Chiyo come in last. Sakaki and Kagura came in sixth and fifth, respectively, but Tomo is still proud of being first for the first kilometer. Yukari’s class wins the festival, but Tomo no longer wants juice after hearing Yukari taunting Kurosawa’s class. And apparently the 10km marathon was not so good for working off calories.
- Osaka compares her life in Tokyo to Osaka. She is oblivious to the chaos around her in the classroom, caused by a cockroach, focused on eye floaters instead. She shows her clumsiness in PE and her lack of physical fitness, losing to Chiyo in a race. After eating spicy food, Osaka develops a hiccup, which Chiyo, Tomo, Sakaki and Koyomi "Yomi" Mizuhara try to get rid of using traditional and foolish methods. It appears to have transferred to Chiyo. Osaka plays on a Japanese idiom. She get caught daydreaming about Chiyo's pigtails during Yukari-sensei's class and dozes off again.
- Several students are sleepy during Yukari’s English class . During lunch Osaka opens a “Yawning Studio” with Tomo and Chiyo as students. They fall asleep and are late for Kurosawa’s P.E. class. The swim team only practices during the summer, but Kagura is training really hard because she wants to get into the nationals this year. She tells Sakaki, Yomi, Osaka, Tomo, and Chiyo that they belong to the “go home club” . Chiyo goes out alone late at night to buy erasers at the convenience store. Luckily, Kagura comes along. Chiyo wishes she would grow up more quickly, but Kagura can’t imagine herself working or marrying someone. Yomi listens to a radio show while doing homework. Tomo comes in through the window. A letter is read on the air. Tomo infers that Yomi wrote it and is greatly amused. Yukari invited Kurosawa to go “flower watching” that evening, but they are doing it at a hotel bar. They meet Eiko who is now a section chief. She invites Kurosawa to apply for a position with one of the gyms her company owns. Kurosawa will not change jobs, which Yukari supports since she rides to school with Kurosawa. Eiko invites some guys from work to join them. Yukari apparently freaks them out. The two teachers decide to drink some more. Kurosawa thinks that maybe she should go through with the arrangement that her parents brought up involving a potential husband. The next day she yawns an awesome yawn!
- Kagura notices a man having trouble moving his bags up to the station, and offers assistance, only to find he doesn't speak Japanese. She tries to communicate her intent. She apparently succeeds eventually. Yukari noticed her struggle, and attempts to demonstrate how to do it better. She, however, is stumped by a German. Kagura relates the story to Sakaki, which draws an insult from Tomo. Kagura tests her by asking what I.T. stands for. Tomo doesn't know, Yomi makes up a convincing answer, but Chiyo answers correctly. Kagura joins Sakaki on the way to school, and starts talking about mountain bikes, but Sakaki is distracted by blooming flowers. At lunchtime, Kagura challenges Sakaki to speed-eating, but Sakaki refuses to eat at faster than normal speed. At P.E., Sakaki hits one of Kagura's pitches; Chiyo tries to catch it, but it hits her on the head instead. When it comes time to take physical measurements, Tomo is excited over an increased bust size. Mr. Kimura is overly curious about Kagura's outcome, but returns to class upon seeing the nearly-flat Osaka. Tomo ribs Yomi about preparing for her turn. Kagura looks at pictures of mountain bikes with Sakaki, but upsets her by drawing on a picture of a Neco Coneco. On the way home, the biting cat approaches her. When she reaches out to pet it, it headbutts her, knocking her to her knees, then latches onto her hand with its teeth. Kagura swats it off, then hits it in the head until it runs away. At home, Sakaki daydreams of being in a meadow with cats. They initially growl, but she shakes her head and they turn friendly, gathering around her for petting. Her magazine breaks her thoughts, but she reads of a road where cats gather, and sets out for it. When she returns and meets Chiyo and Kagura, she is bandaged in several places and sporting an arm sling. Later, she tries to pet a cat, which bites her hand and only lets go when Sakaki inadvertently hits Kagura's face with it. Kagura removes it and tosses it aside. Kagura begins scaring away any cats near Sakaki until Sakaki says not to; she wants to face the problem herself. Pointed toward a nearby cat, Sakaki moves to pet it, and is bitten... but starts petting it with the other hand. Kaorin notices Sakaki at the arcade. Sakaki has been playing the crane game, but hides the cats of her labor, so Kaorin thinks she plays other kinds of games.
- When Kimura is asked why he became a teacher, he replies that he like high school girls. The girls criticize his blunt comment but the boys commend Kimura for his sincerity. While changing for swim class, Tomo and Yomi compares breast size of the gang. Nyamo is in charge of the swim class but Kimura stays to watch. When he manages to infuriate Nyamo, she kicks him out of the pool area. Chiyo admits that she cannot swim but can dog-paddle. Osaka tries to learn how to float by being a corpse. Yukari interrupts this by bellyflopping into the pool. Kimura manages to sneak back into the pool. Yukari challenges Nyamo to a "Barbecue Cup Relay" but Yukari has a leg cramp halfway through the first lap. Nyamo takes her out of the pool to massage her leg. Meanwhile, students from Yukari's class and Nyamo's class challenge each other in their respective teacher's place. Chiyo, Yomi, Osaka and Tomi see Kimura messing behind a bush. They find out that he was picking out bottle for recycling and witness him giving 10,000 yen to charity.
- Osaka dreams Chiyo flying using her pigtails as propellers. When Osaka takes Chiyo's pigtails off her head, Chiyo collapses. Osaka panics, attaches Chiyo's pigtails to her head and flies away. Meanwhile Tomo dreams about herself being a heroic high school student, winning beauty contests and scoring fulls marks in a test while Chiyo and Yomi score zero marks. At the same time, Sakaki dreams about meeting her neighborhood cat. When she tries to pat it, the cat flees. Chiyo introduces a cat to her but the cat identifies himself as Chiyo-chichi. She also dreams about being invited to Chiyo's house, seeing a clumsy penguin being Chiyo's maid and eating dinner with Chiyo and her father. Kaorin dreams about being rescued from the yakuza by Sakaki. Her dream is interrupted by her mother waking her up to meet her friends at a temple for New Years'. When the group assemble, they remember that Chiyo were in their respective dreams. Yomi comes along to see Chiyo frantically asking what she was like in their dreams.
- Chiyo, in her capacity as class president, asks the class what they want to do for the upcoming cultural festival. Yukari says that conventional and orthodox ways mark the death of intellect and Chiyo comes up with a suggestion box. A stuffed animal exhibition is drawn from the suggestion box. Kimura attempts to give his own suggestion but is silenced by Tomo. Sakaki pats Mr. Tadakichi, Chiyo's dog, and is awed to see Chiyo riding on her dog. The day of the cultural festival arrives. Tomo wears the cat suit and runs around the school in it to advertise the exhibition. Kimura ruins the swim team's stall just by being there. Throughout the day, students buy stuffed toys from the exhibition. Due to her height, Chiyo wearing the cat suit is considered scary by Yomi and Kaorin. After the festival, Yomi, Osaka, Tomo and Chiyo have a victory parade on the beach with Tomo inside the cat suit.
- As summertime comes, so does summer vacation. Tomo proposes that, this year, their trip to Chiyo's summer house is made with the intent to study for the entrance exams "in a quieter place". This year, also, Kaorin is able to accompany them. So, since the total now amounts to nine, they will have to split up between Nyamo's car... and Yukari's horribly battered car. Kaorin is initially frightened to board it, but nervously decides otherwise after Sakaki volunteers to go with Yukari, which leaves the girl just as traumatized as Chiyo. Upon arriving at the summer house, Tomo reveals her deception to Chiyo and everyone else: she lied about studying just to go to the beach and have a blast, though even Yukari enforces them to study through subtle advice. The girls take to their studies late that night: Tomo is frustrated that her plan was dashed, while Osaka asks of everything to everyone. Suddenly, Kagura asks Nyamo to help her with math and she, being a P.E. teacher, is unable to help and gets very nervous about it, prompting Yukari to show her up just by making a speech in English. The next morning, Kaorin tries to take pictures of Sakaki, but Tomo jumps in front of her camera every time. Later, as Osaka wakes up, she expresses, still sleepy, her desire to wake Yukari up by banging at a frying pan, but when she heads into Yukari's room, she has a knife in her hand, which scares the teacher out of her mind. When summer vacation ends, Tomo comes to class in a highly delusional, near-catatonic state, driven by her lack of motivation, in which Osaka soon joins her. Chiyo tries desperately to get them motivated, to no avail, until Kagura knocks both of them down to get them motivated. Later, Yukari comes to class much in the same state, causing Chiyo to react accordingly.
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