"These days, no matter what I'm doing" "His face keeps popping up" "Twenty-four hours is chock-full of time" "But he's tied it all up" "Now, I'm gonna start working" "But he always gets in my way" "I'm a really, really, really, really hard worker" "But I was already under his spell" "No matter what I'm doing, I can't help but think about him" "And my mind is filled with him" "I just can't do anything now unless he's there for me" "He's always there inside me, me, me, me, me, me, me" "Why do annoying things like exams exist in this world?" "!" "I definitely got a zero on today's English." "That's super-bad." "Say, Aya, teach me the key points for tomorrow's math." "Easy for you to say, but it's tough on Aya, because you don't have the basics down." "What's with that condescending tone?" "!" "Miyu thinks she did pretty good on today's exam." "What?" "!" "Then teach me the key points for tomorrow!" "And I'm saying, do a little studying of your own!" "You're gonna abandon your friend, you traitor?" "!" "You're so self-centered!" "Self-centered!" "Yo!" "Ran!" "Are you guys planning on doing a nighter here to study for midterms?" ""Nighter" means "all-nighter"." "That's common knowledge for everyone." "Not a nighter, but we figured we'd go over the key points at least." "Meisho Number 1 uses bubble sheets, don't they?" "Lucky you." "I guess." "If you're lucky, you can rack up points." "I bet this is a breeze for you, Aya." "Not exactly, especially since I haven't been going to cram school much lately." "Because you've been having fun with us!" "Studying is totally useless for your future!" "You gotta have fun while you've got the chance!" "I don't think it works quite like that for people planning to go to college." "Man, who the hell talks about college in the first year of high school?" "Our school is technically focused on getting us into college, so we're already starting to hear about deviation scores and stuff." "Basically, it's bad if you get into the habit of goofing off like you." "What are you talking about?" "Aya will be fine!" "She's always reading reference books even when we're eating and having fun." "Right?" "But it looks like you guys study more than I expected." "Heart " " In Pieces " " Is It Over With Aya?" "!" "All right!" "Exams are over!" "(Big-Guts)" "Hey, does that pose mean..." "Did you do pretty well?" "By my estimations, I'll get at least ten points!" "For real?" "Ten points?" "Say, Miss Hoshino?" "About the third question." "Which did you answer?" "A or C?" "Oh, I wasn't sure about that part too." "I'm sorry, I'm not very confident about it myself." "No way!" "You, Miss Hoshino?" "!" "You're at the top of our class!" "Well..." "That problem must have been easy for you." "Not really." "You've changed a little since you started hanging out with Miss Kotobuki's group." "What do you mean?" "You seem to prefer goofing off to studying now." "Sort of like, if you keep bad company, you'll eventually..." "Don't say things like that." "I don't see why I should take that from you." "What?" "We're saying this for your sake." "Hanging out with those girls..." "Exams are over!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "I hope you don't regret it later." "Exams are over!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Woohoo!" "Forget it." "Let's go home." "Hey!" "Don't dance on top of your desk!" "Sure thing!" "(New Today)" "This book's a little expensive, but I've been wanting it for a while." "What's the point in reading so many books and becoming even smarter than you already are?" "Why don't you try reading some books too, Ran?" "Do I look like someone that reads books?" "You only read manga after all." "On top of that, you specialize in reading at the bookstore." "What're you bumping into me for?" "!" "What?" "!" "You're the one that bumped into me!" "I've never seen you around here before." "What's going on, Mami?" "She's giving me the eye." "(The Eye = The Evil Eye)" "If you're waiting to get hit on, give it up." "No one would give you the time of day." "Wow, all three of you are real cute!" "Hey, hey, tell us your names?" "What high school do you go to?" "Do you always hang out around here?" "A first year in Hounan High School." "I'm Ran Kotobuki and I own Shibuya!" "My gal spirit ain't so rotten that I'd let small fry like you guys hit on me!" "Small fry?" "I'm Mami Honda and I own Bukuro." "(Mami Honda" " Age 16)" "You want a one-on-one?" "If you start running now with your tail between your legs, you can get away without getting hurt." "What did you say?" "!" "Don't get cocky, you bitch!" "Get her, Mami!" "Oh really, she gets worked up so easily!" "This is bad!" "Damn, right when it was getting good." "Mami, hurry!" "You got off easy!" "Aya!" "Come on, let's get out of here too!" "What?" "!" "Aya got called to the Guidance Room?" "!" "Miyu said she saw her going in with Naka Teach." "Why?" "Did she do something bad?" "I don't know, but her parents seemed to be here too, and Mr. Nakanishi looked pretty serious." "Did they find out about that?" "No, not at this late date." "Aya!" "What's going on?" "We were all worried." "Hey, did Naka Teach say something to you?" "Depending on what he said, I'll go storm the faculty office." "Why haven't you said anything?" "Tell us what's going on!" "Did he say something?" "Leave me alone." "Don't talk to me anymore." "What's with that?" "!" "You saying we're through all of a sudden?" "!" "Aya, come on, quit babbling nonsense and..." "I said, leave me alone!" "Hey, don't run in the..." "Hey, wait!" "Aya!" "Don't run!" "Kotobuki!" "You've got nowhere to run now." "Let's hear your explanation." "Why do we gotta call it quits?" "My grades..." "My grades from the exams took a nosedive." "My parents got a call about it and they also found out I was skipping cram school." "They were sure I had bad friends and they lectured me all night long." "Hey, man, it's our fault?" "Don't go getting depressed over every little thing." "What do you mean, a little thing?" "!" "Can you understand how I feel?" "!" "I'm an only child and a lot's been expected of me since I was little." "I like to make my parents happy, so I study hard to try not to disappoint them." "At home, I always worry about how my parents see me and I can't even relax in my own room." "That's how I've always lived!" "The look on my parents' faces when they found out about my grades..." "They looked like they'd been betrayed by someone they trusted." "Can you understand how I felt when I saw that look?" "!" "Of course not." "My life doesn't belong to my parents." "Unlike you." "What a stupid life." "Spending your entire life trying to live up to your parents." "It's our fault that your grades went down?" "Sure, you can think that if you want." "But if you're gonna call it quits with us anyway, I'll tell you this much." "Even you know just how precious the moment you're living now is, right?" "Then shouldn't you be living, not for others, but for yourself?" "!" "Guess that was a bit cheesy." "Ran, wait a minute!" "Is it really over between us?" "!" "You talk as if you know everything." "This is fine how it turned out." "This is fine..." "Bow!" "Don't forget to do your homework." "Especially you, Kotobuki!" "Got it?" "Sure, thing!" "Leave it to me!" "Wait, Aya!" "Hey, we're going to Shibuya now." "You want to come..." "I told you, didn't I?" "I said, don't talk to me." "Life!" "Miyu wants you and Ran to make up." "Make up?" "Miyu will back you up, so I'm sure Ran will..." "You still don't seem to get it, so I'll let you know now." "I think, in the end, we live in different worlds." "I have to go finish my homework in the library." "Sorry." "Aya..." "(Karaoke)" "Now, I'm gonna start working" "But he always gets in my way" "I'm a really, really, really, really hard worker" "Come on, Ran, you've sung ten songs in a row now!" "Super-self-cent!" "(Self-cent = Self-centered)" "Let go of the mike already!" "(Self-cent = Self-centered)" "No matter what I'm doing" "I can't help but think about him" "And my mind is filled with him" "Stop it!" "I just can't do anything now" "Really, she can be so dishonest with herself sometimes." "Unless he's there for me" "He's always there inside... (Shibuya Central Seminar)" "Here's the schedule for the upcoming mock tests!" "You'll get left behind if you drag your feet!" "Properly plan things out now and tackle it accordingly!" "(Amusement Park Toshimaen 9:00, Go to Shibuya with Ran!" ", Shopping, Movie, Shibuya Hachikou 1:30, Shopping)" "Got that?" "!" "(Amusement Park Toshimaen 9:00, Go to Shibuya with Ran!" ", Shopping, Movie, Shibuya Hachikou 1:30, Shopping)" ""In spring, it is the dawn that is most beautiful." "As the light creeps over the hills, the outlines are dyed a faint red and wisps of purplish cloud trail over them." "In summer, the night." "Not only when the moon shines, but on dark nights..."" "There's an event going on at Spanish Hill!" "Wait for me!" "(32nd Mock Test Top)" "(#15" " Aya Hoshino)" "Man, I might not make it into the advancement course with these grades." "I'm on shaky ground too." "You still don't know that." "You don't have to start saying things like that already." "It's fine for you, Miss Hoshino." "That's right, you'll probably easily get accepted to your first choice." "Oh, I envy you so much." "You're guaranteed a bright future." "A bright future..." "Say, are you really fine with how things are?" "Oh, I envy you so much." "You're guaranteed a bright future." "My future..." "What is my future?" "A future where all I do is study." "A future where all I do is try to make my parents happy." "Just how long do I have to keep being the model student?" "Oh, no!" "My math notebook!" "You're on your own (Ran Kotobuki has arrived!" ")" "for the upcoming makeup exams." "(Ran Kotobuki has arrived!" ")" "I won't be able to teach you the key points anymore." "Teach her?" "But what was with her?" "!" "Pale gal!" "Dirt poor!" "Record of being disciplined!" "Hey, it's Kotobuki." "What's wrong?" "You look down." "Did you get dumped by a guy or something?" "What did you say?" "What?" "!" "What did you say?" "!" "What's going on here?" "!" "Ran Kick!" "Is she super-violent or what?" "!" "Shuddup, you stupid trio!" "I'm in a bad mood right now!" "Ran, you're getting a little too out of hand lately." "You might not get to be all cocky and throw your weight around for long!" "What?" "Don't you know that the Bukuro gals are trying to take over Shibuya?" "!" "That's right!" "That's right!" "Bukuro, you say?" "!" "They were just hanging out around the South Entrance." "They're trying to invade my turf?" "!" "Oh, Ran!" "We're the ones that told you and we get no thanks?" "!" "You could be a little grateful!" "She super-pisses me off!" "Teach her?" "Don't be such a brat!" "That hurt, didn't it?" "!" "But if you really were a thing, you wouldn't be able to feel pain!" "She's the one that taught me." "Even you know just how precious the moment you're living now is, right?" "All sorts of important things... (Shibuya Central Seminar)" "Then shouldn't you be living, not for others, but for yourself?" "!" "That guitarist sucks." "Don't you think so?" "Otohata..." "It's rare to see you by yourself." "You too, Otohata." "I'm meeting up with Yuya here." "I'm skipping cram school and I ended up here somehow." "I wonder if I'm ultimately only thinking about myself?" "I am, aren't I?" "That's right, I'm really just a self-centered, mean girl and I've just pretended to be a model student all this time." "I'm not even that smart to begin with, so I studied much harder than everyone else." "But I didn't want people to know how hard I was pushing myself." "It always weighed heavily on me." "I don't even like studying that much." "But if you take away studying from me, my existence becomes really meaningless like an empty shell." "I feel like my life might become worthless." "I was afraid of disappointing my parents and teachers!" "That's why, when my grades fell," "I didn't think twice about blaming it on my friends." "Why am I like this?" "Why do I keep doing things that make me hate myself?" "There are no guarantees or anything that if you suffer hardships now you'll get to be happy in the future." "And I think what constitutes happiness differs from situation to situation." "In that case, rather than pushing yourself and agonizing over it, why don't you try living the present how you want to?" "Otohata..." "I like you better when you're smiling, you know." "Don't cry so much." "It looks like I made you cry." "Thank you." "Sorry!" "Did you wait long?" "What?" "Hey, Rei, you shouldn't make girls cry." "You're such a gigolo." "Moron, it's not like that." "Aya, you want to come hang out with us too?" "Hey!" "I thought I'd seen you somewhere." "You're the girl from the other day." "Who the heck are you guys?" "Isn't Kotobuki around?" "What?" "You know Ran?" "You'd have way more fun hanging out with us than these guys." "Show us around Shibuya." "Hey!" "Don't touch Aya!" "So, her name's Aya." "You wanna fight?" "!" "What did you say?" "!" "Hey..." "Take that dirty hand of yours off her right this minute!" "Ran..." "Hey, you were there the other day too." "I said, let her go, you small fry!" "Hey, quit calling us small fry!" "Shuddup!" "You stay quiet like the small fry that you are!" "Ow!" "Owowow..." "If you touch her again, it won't be just punches and kicks next time!" "This here is a precious, dear friend of mine!" "Ran..." "She said, dear friend." "Talk about super-embarrassing!" "You've got some nerve, Kotobuki!" "You can't even do anything without your groupies!" "What?" "!" "I'll take on a one-on-one fight or anything you want!" "You guys don't stand a chance against the great Ran Kotobuki, even if you all came at me at once!" "I don't care how many hundreds you bring against me." "I won't let you lay a finger on my friends or the town of Shibuya!" "This is my turf and don't you forget it!" "Got that?" "!" "Let's call it quits for today, Mami." "The odds aren't in our favor." "Harue?" "Hey, Kotobuki!" "Just you remember this!" "I'll forget about you the second I get a chance!" "Hurry it up!" "It hurts." "My nose is bleeding." "Sheesh, you guys could've given me a little backup!" "Sorry." "You beat them up without giving us any time and you know it." "Aya, you're a disaster waiting to happen, so make sure you hang out where l can see you when you're in Shibuya." "No!" "I'm not a child, okay?" "Will you..." "Will you still be my friend?" "Moron, I don't ever remember saying that I was through with you." "That's right." "Thanks to everyone, I've been able to come to a resolution." "From now on, I won't push myself and I'll live in the now!" "Right!" "All that matters is if you're having fun now!" "That's an ironclad rule for gals!" "All right, in celebration of our renewed friendship, let's go kara-mara today!" "(Kara-mara = Karaoke Marathon)" "Agreed!" "But let's eat something before that." "Crying made me hungry." "What?" "You were crying?" "Rei the gigolo made her cry." "Man, that's mean!" "I did not!" "I hate it, you're always laughing" "And so strong and cute and popular" "I hate it, I'm so dull and slow" "And no one needs me..." "You're smart and always so perfect" "People probably just make fun of me" "To be honest, I want to try talking to you" "I want to become friends with you" "I was so envious of you" "And my shoulders would tremble as I cried alone" "Tell me, are you alone and afraid too?" "Is everyone miserable and weak?" "If only I had more courage" "I would have given you a hug" "Next Super GALS!" "Swim, swim, swimming at the pool!" "Take a nap on the beach, sleep, snore." "I even bought the bikini that I've been wanting." "Now, let's everyone head for the pool!" "If you carefully focus your senses, chu-chu datchu Sayo's voice." "I was trying to go out in secret, but I've been found out!" "Darn." "With the appearance of my kid sister, Sayo," "I feel like a disturbance or two will crop up around me again!" "Next time on Super GALS!" "Ran Kotobuki," "Pool " " Exciting " " Junior Detectives!" "Don't you miss it!" "That's an ironclad rule for gals!"