"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" "Okay, we'll start shooting now." "I'm counting on you, Asou." "I like that look of ennui." "Okay!" "Okay!" "Let's keep going just like that!" "Asou, you look great!" "Man, what a surprise!" "I didn't know you could pull off this kind of style." "Super high school student, Yuya Asou, breaking new ground?" "New ground..." "Crossing Shibuya " " Fun-Fun " " Grand Prix" "Okay, good work!" "(Reserved Until 15:00 Today)" "Asou, Otohata, looking forward to working with you again." "Super high school student Yuya Asou special, right?" "You're getting really popular lately." "In the next popularity poll, you might end up in first place." "Then maybe you won't be called Second Place anymore." "I..." "I wanted to become first place in her eyes." "That was all." "Then why didn't you just tell her so earlier?" "He..." "He seems like a stupid monkey at first sight, but he's the guy that Ran chose." "Yuya..." "(Call:" "Ran Kotobuki)" "Yes!" "Yes!" "Hello?" "Second Place, here!" "Oh, Ran?" "!" "Long time no see!" "It hasn't been that long?" "What?" "Am I free?" "Yeah, really free!" "Totally free!" "What?" "Bowling?" "Okay, okay, you can count on me!" "I'll come flying!" "Oh, okay, see you later!" "Just hang in there for a teeny sec!" "Okay, okay, thanks." "Second Place, signing out!" "See you in just a bit!" "Hey, Rei!" "Bowling!" "Come on, get up!" "Get up right away!" "Get up now!" "You're coming bowling with me!" "Simple guy..." "Yay!" "My real name is Tatsuki Kuroi!" "The para-para king of Machida!" "Machida Black for short!" "Hello and noodle!" "In Japanese, that would be, "Hello, wanko buckwheat noodles!"" "Why are you here?" "!" "No, normally, it's more natural that he's here." "Ook?" "All right, looks like all six of us are here!" "So, let's pick pairs by drawing lots!" "What?" "Pairs?" "In other words, two people make up one group." "This is my chance." "With lots, there's a possibility I'll get paired up with Ran." "I've gotta put my spirit into it and..." "Okay, then you get the last one, Second Place." "What?" "!" "And so..." "The star mark is us, the "New Age Lovey-Dovey" Team!" "We got paired up, even when we drew lots!" "Are we like destined to be together or what?" "!" "Ook!" "Up next, the circle mark is these two!" "Let's see, the "Model Students with Good Grades" Team!" "What a haphazard name." "Good luck to us both." "Oh, sure." "Following right along, these are the last two!" "Well... the "There is Fortune in Leftovers" Team!" "No fair!" "It's just not fair!" "How mean can the god of fate be?" "!" "Oh?" "You're not happy with Miyu as your partner?" "Oh no, no way." "That's not what I meant, but..." "Now, as usual, for the team coming in last place," "I have a gift of Ran's Special Juice!" "I expect you to chug down a large mug of it and don't you forget it!" "What?" "What?" "Is that stuff good?" "Did Ran really make it herself?" "!" "All right!" "I'll go first!" "Ran!" "Fight!" "Ran, good luck!" "Here I go!" "Gutsy straight ball!" "What the hell?" "!" "One pin left?" "!" "Too bad!" "Don't worry, don't worry!" "Leave the rest to me, my girl!" "Love and power!" "I'll get the spare with the power of love!" "Tatsukichi, good luck!" "Yes, Sir!" "Let's monkey!" "Oh, mistake." "In Japanese, that would be, "Even monkeys fall from trees."" "That is so uncool!" "Hey, play seriously, Tatsukichi!" "What're you gonna do if we lose?" "!" "Ook..." "Now, next up is the Leftovers Team!" "Second Place, hit it big!" "Second Place, fight!" "Second Place, miss!" "I wasn't able to get on the same team as Ran, but I'm going to show her how cool I am and make a play for her that way!" "Watch me, Ran!" "Hey, hey." "So, what's the special juice like?" "First, I put bitter melon in the juicer." "Oh, bitter melon!" "From Okinawa!" "The taste of home cooking!" "What?" "!" "Are you originally from Okinawa?" "Non, non, I was born and raised in Machida." "Machida all the way for sixteen years." "What the heck is up with that?" "Hey, Tatsukichi!" "What?" "I'm betting it all on this game!" "I need you to get serious about it too!" "I'll show you what real bowling is all about!" "Dig the wax out of your eyes and watch closely!" "Dig the wax out of my eyes?" "!" "That sounds painful!" "Use Japanese properly!" "I don't have to take that from you!" "Ook." "Second Place sure is totally into this game." "He must really like bowling." "What he likes isn't bowling, you know?" "Second Place..." "Pitiable..." "The first thing about bowling is judging the condition of the lane." "Considering Ran's earlier delivery and the oiling job," "I judge this lane to be slightly faster than normal." "I hold the ball in the natural hook position and if I deliver it normally, it'll go low in the pocket." "But I won't run!" "I'll go for the right spot and aim for the pocket with a tight hook!" "This is my style!" "I'll show you a man's way of life!" "I have no clue what you're talking about." "I can't understand." "In Japanese, that would be, "gobbledygook."" "Second Place, good luck!" "That's it!" "Come on!" "All right!" "Bingo!" "How about that, Tatsukichi?" "!" "Did you see my soul out there?" "!" "Yes, brother!" "I learned a lot!" "Thank you very, very much!" "No, that's not what I meant." "Otohata, nice strike!" "That was fast!" "Tatsukichi, I'm counting on you!" "Get it right!" "Okay, no prob!" "Leave it to me!" "Thanks to Second Place, I've got the hang of it now!" "Like hell you can get it so easily." "Magic ball, monkey magic!" "Make miracle!" "Yay!" "Strike!" "I like!" "You did it, Tatsukichi!" "You totally copied Second Place's form!" "There's an ape for ya!" "Ook!" "Thank you, Second Place!" "I just watched you and sort of did it, and it was a piece of cake!" "Very thanks!" "Shuddup!" "You're trying to pick a fight with me, aren't you?" "!" "Yuya, calm down." "Damn it!" "Tatsukichi, I won't let it end like this!" "There are still nine frames left." "The battle has only just begun!" "But..." "And here are the results!" "First place goes to..." "Model Students with Good Grades Team!" "That was an easy win." "Otohata, thanks for your hard work." "Oh, sure." "You're actually pretty good, Aya." "It was just luck." "Finishing in second place is us, the New Age Lovey-Dovey Team!" "Ook!" "And of course, coming in dead last is the Leftovers Team!" "So, there you have the results!" "It's all over for me." "There, there, don't cry, don't cry." "All right, let's go on to the penalty game!" "I feel sick..." "Are you okay?" "You didn't have to push it." "I would have drank some too." "Oh, no, I couldn't let you do that." "It's like we lost because of me anyway." "Man, we were this close to coming in last place." "Sorry, sorry." "But even if we had lost, I would've drank your share too." "If it's to protect you, Ran, a liton or two of the special juice would be nothing!" "You uber stupid!" "You mean liter!" "(Uber Stupid = Super Stupid)" "Hey, we're kind of getting into a romantic mood." "Wanna kiss?" "No!" "But well, I guess I wouldn't mind holding hands." "Lucky me!" "Hold it right there!" "That's..." "That's?" "That's..." "That's?" "Do that after you've defeated me!" "What?" "Is it me or is Second Place acting a little strange today?" "Don't look at me." "Please." "But you know, I'm Ran's boyfriend." "And I'm saying that I don't acknowledge that!" "It got kind of lost in the team game earlier, but I want to fight one-on-one with you!" "Fight me fair and square!" "Second Place is totally going overboard." "I get it." "In other words, you're saying you'll test Tatsukichi to see if he's worthy of being my boyfriend, right?" "What?" "No, that wasn't what I..." "Sounds like fun!" "Count me in!" "All right!" "I'll accept your challenge!" "And afterwards, I can confidently call myself Ran's boyfriend!" "Great!" "Well said, Tatsukichi!" "Do your best!" "Ook!" "What?" "But wait..." "Hello?" "Hold it right there!" "Ran, if you're doing this, let me join in!" "I want to be your boyfriend too!" "That's right!" "All the guys in Shibuya idolize you!" "We'd appreciate your consideration!" "All right." "Permission granted!" "Anyone who wants to be my boyfriend can come!" "You can all compete!" "YEAH!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "That's me!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Yeah!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "That's right!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "That's me!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Yo!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "Kotobuki!" "All right, got it." "Who was it?" "A friend of mine in Shibuya." "Looks like Kotobuki's holding an event." "She's having the guys compete over her, and she's going to make the winner her boyfriend." "Who the hell does she think she is?" "It pisses me off." "Mami?" "I just had an interesting idea." "Well, here we are at last!" "(Competition for Ran Kotobuki Crossing Shibuya Fun-Fun GP)" "Here in this park, a horde of GL guys have gathered in the hopes of becoming the boyfriend of Shibuya's number one gal, Ran Kotobuki!" "And now, we have an opening greeting from the producer, and in a sense, the prize of this race, Ran Kotobuki!" "Everyone, please welcome her with a warm round of applause!" "You guys..." "You wanna be my boyfriend?" "!" "The guy who becomes my boyfriend super-obviously needs to be GL!" "He must be super-excellent in everything there is including strength, of course, and intelligence and spirit!" "First place!" "Number one!" "Only the winner who grabs the top spot himself can become my boyfriend!" "You wanna be my boyfriend?" "!" "Are you afraid of penalty games?" "!" "Did you do your homework?" "!" "A-B-C-D?" "!" "Now, it's almost the start time." "Everyone, take your places!" "Ready!" "Woo-hoo!" "Hey, Second Place, not bad!" "How?" "How did this end up being such a huge mess?" "Why?" "Second Place, why are you crying?" "Shut up!" "When you get right down to it, this is ALL your fault!" "I am not gonna lose this fight!" "All right!" "I'm not gonna lose either!" "So, Tatsukichi and Second Place are in the lead after all." "Good, good." "Hey, hey, Ran." "How far are they supposed to run?" "Oh, well, that." "They'll keep running until the numbers go down a good bit." "I can't go on." "I don't normally exercise." "Guys are dropping out in droves at the intensely high pace." "The battle is already taking on the characteristics of a survival race!" "(Checkpoint 2)" "What are we going to do in this place?" "What?" "(Headband:" "Success)" "Why... aren't you... tired?" "You... endurance... freak!" "Here you go." "Aya!" "Next up is an intelligence test." "Good luck." "Intelligence test?" "All right, it's time to show off the abilities of the prestigious Meisho 1 High School!" "I'll put some distance between Tatsukichi and me with this!" "You can advance as soon as you get eighty points or more." "Good luck, everyone." "INTELLIGENCE CHECK" "Hey, it's a bubble sheet test." "Ook!" "Aya, if you advance as soon as you get more than eighty points, does that mean you can try as many times as you want?" "Well, it isn't against the rules..." "Ook!" "Okay!" "Thirty points." "Ook!" "Fifty points." "Ook ook!" "Twenty points." "Ook ook ook!" "Oh, eighty points." "You pass." "Ook!" "Ook ook ook!" "Ook ook ook!" "Aya, here you go!" "Okay, let's see..." "One hundred points." "You pass." "All right!" "Tatsukichi can sit there and struggle all he wants!" "But he went ahead already." "What?" "!" "For real?" "!" "(Checkpoint 3)" "Para-para dance contest!" "Yeah!" "At this checkpoint, we'll use the para-para scoring machine to check out your sense of style in dancing!" "First dancer up is..." "The para-para king of Machida, Tatsuki Kuroi!" "And don't you forget it!" "Music start!" "Bravo!" "You pass!" "No complaints here!" "Next up..." "Number two, Yuya Asou!" "Watch closely, Tatsukichi!" "Music start!" "Good going, Second Place!" "I had no idea you were good at para." "As if!" "What?" "That's payback for the bowling." "I just aped the dance that you did!" "So take that!" "For real?" "That's even more amazing!" "It won't be long before you're the para-para king of Shibuya!" "I don't give a damn about that!" "Say, Aya?" "Next dancer, please!" "What's she going to do if a stranger wins?" "Racer 49, Ikeda, will now dance!" "I don't know." "Music start!" "Checkpoint three is over!" "All right, let's keep going!" "Don't fall behind, you guys!" "If your girlfriend is about to get hit by a car, throw yourself in there and save her!" "That's a qualification for being my boyfriend!" "Reflex contest!" "If there's a fire, get to her even before the firemen do!" "That's a qualification for being my boyfriend!" "For that, you need sprinting power!" "Nothing says sprinting power like climbing stairs!" "Ramen is one of my favorite foods!" "You love everything that your girlfriend does!" "That's a qualification for being my boyfriend!" "Eat fast and eat lots!" "You have to humor her willfulness and go along with her every whim!" "That's a qualification for being my boyfriend!" "For that, you need perseverance!" "Nothing says perseverance like moxibustion!" "All right, let's go onto the next one!" "Monster..." "Now, the race is finally drawing to a conclusion!" "The final test is..." "Right over here!" "Free climbing contest!" "And over here are the four brave souls who will attempt this wall!" "Racer 1, Kuroi!" "Racer 2, Asou!" "Racer 49, Ikeda!" "Racer 50, Fukuroda!" "Come tears, come laughter, this is the end!" "The grand finale of fate!" "Ready!" "Tatsukichi!" "Second Place!" "Go for it!" "Second Place!" "I'm secretly rooting for you!" "Ikeda and Fukuroda made it through like they were supposed to." "Mami, when are you going to spring the trap?" "Spring the trap?" "What are you talking about?" "Aren't you going to use those two to ruin this event?" "I ain't gonna do that." "What do you mean?" "I'm going to have those two win." "And then..." "All right!" "I'll make you my boyfriend, just like I promised." "Oh, you know, I changed my mind." "What?" "!" "Why?" "!" "Oh, what a beautiful lady!" "You are far more bewitching than Ran Kotobuki of Shibuya!" "My, my, what a troublesome boy." "Something like that!" "If you have your heart set on doing it that way," "How do you like that, Kotobuki?" "!" "I won't stop you, but..." "How do you like that, Kotobuki?" "!" "Now, they're only a short distance from the top!" "What kind of drama could possibly be awaiting them?" "!" "Damn it, they just keep getting in my way!" "Tatsukichi!" "What?" "Be careful!" "Those guys up there are planting something into the holds!" "A tack!" "Hey, you!" "Dirty tricks like this are no thank you in my book!" "Well, don't hold it against us." "What?" "We've got our own reasons for what we're doing." "Now..." "Fukuroda, you're getting too far ahead!" "Your role is to interfere with their progress, remember?" "!" "Sorry, Ikeda." "Forgive me!" "I also..." "I also..." "I also want to become Ran's boyfriend!" "Hey, you moron!" "Miss Mami's going to beat the crap out of you!" "And that's what I don't want!" "I don't wanna slave away under Miss Mami anymore!" "You moron!" "Ikeda!" "If that's what we're talking about," "I like Ran more than Miss Mami too!" "I don't wanna go back to Bukuro and that psycho bitch either!" "Hey, fall!" "What the hell?" "!" "YOU fall!" "Fall!" "Fall!" "Fall!" "Fall!" "Fall!" "Goodness!" "Two have now dropped out of the race!" "They were saying all sorts of things..." "So that's how it is." "I'll make sure you can't walk back to Bukuro just like you wanted." "Hey, Second Place, are you okay?" "They got your finger, right?" "Shut up." "What?" "I told you that my fight with you was dead serious." "Quit being weirdly compassionate!" "Hey, no fair!" "Both of you, hang in there!" "Fight!" "Hey, what the heck are you guys doing?" "!" "Can't you tell just by looking?" "It's dangerous, so hurry up and get down here!" "Hey, policeman!" "Shoot, that's Ran's older brother." "For real?" "!" "Hey, what's wrong, Second Place?" "I just remembered..." "I'm acrophobic." "What?" "Hey, you okay?" "I told you not to touch." "I guess the result of the race ended up being unclear." "Say, Ran?" "What were you going to do if a stranger won?" "I don't lie." "I would have made him my boyfriend." "No way!" "But whether he would still be my boyfriend the next day would have depended on the guy." "What's up with that?" "Hey, brother, good work." "Hey, it's not like I've acknowledged you, okay?" "Oh, no, let's be friends, brother." "I ain't your brother!" "Second Place..." "You're a really nice guy." "You worried about if Tatsukichi was worthy of being my boyfriend, even when you're acrophobic!" "You really are the nicest guy!" "Thanks, Second Place!" "Ran..." "Good, good!" "You look alive today for some reason." "Okay, okay." "Very, very good." "The look of ennui from before was good too, but you look best when you have a refreshing smile on your face." "You think so?" "Thank you very much." "Well, shall we get a little more work done?" "Yes, Sir!" "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!" "Beat from supplementary classes, dizzy headed, studying is a pain, and Shiori's all about kendo." "My fellow supplementary class sufferer, Shiori Asai is kendo all the way." "Her ability is first rate and her dream is first place at the high school national competition!" "For Shiori, the next tournament is her fateful last chance!" "I'll keep my promise with you too, so make sure you win this thing!" "All right!" "Part, part time job, part time job!" "Guess I'll step up and help out for the sake of a friend!" "Next time on Super GALS!" "Ran Kotobuki," "Promise " " Bye-bye " " Kendo Girl" "Don't you miss it!" "That's an ironclad rule for gals!"