Episode 7

Introduction
The main trio are at school. Yoshitake remarks that it was already the final semester, and Tadakuni says they should start thinking about college soon. Hidenori says he wants to stay in high school forever. When Tadakuni responds that it’s impossible, he adds that he’s being figurative and that in his heart, he’d always be a high school boy. The other two seem impressed with that line.

Hidenori then adds that since this anime is like Sazae-san, they’d always be in their second year of high school.

Opening Theme Song
“Shiny Tale” – by Mix Speakers Inc.

High School Boys and the One-Trick Talent Show
Main article: Chapter 39

The trio are gathered in Tadakuni’s room. Yoshitake, standing before the others, announces that he’s going to perform a trick and holds up a writhing crab. Hesitantly and slowly, he brings it towards his mouth and yells in pain when it pinches his lower lip. Hidenori asks him what he was even planning to do and Tadakuni says he doesn’t get it.

Hidenori then gestures to Tadakuni, who gets up for his turn. Holding up a milk carton, he announces that he’ll shoot milk from his eyes. He pulls one eye open with a finger and tilts the carton towards the eye. Yoshitake points out what he’s doing is weird and Hidenori adds that he’s supposed to shoot it from his eye. The milk falls from the carton and into Tadakuni’s eye, and he closes it shut to make it seem like the fallout is from his eye.

Yoshitake angrily asks him what the point of that was. After Tadakuni dries his face, Hidenori stands up and tells the others to pay attention. He tenses up, crouches a bit and groans as if taking a great deal of effort. After a few seconds of sustained groaning, the zipper to his pants automatically comes down, and Tadakuni and Yoshitake are stunned. Hidenori’s groaning reaches a crescendo.

Intermission
A notice says “We’re often asked how to abbreviate ‘Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou’, but we can’t come up with a good one, so just use the full name”. Hidenori, in a deep and exaggerated voice, greets the viewers and tells them that the show is brought to them by the following sponsors. Tadakuni wonders if it’s FM (radio).

High School Boys and Indoor Adventures
Main article: Chapter 37

In Tadakuni’s house, Hidenori turns and tells the others he’s bored, so they should role-play Dragon Quest. He sits before Tadakuni and asks him to choose an adventure diary. Tadakuni asks if they’re resuming from a save, and picks diary 2. Immediately, Yoshitake grabs Hidenori (who wails in distress) from behind and yells threateningly to Tadakuni not to come closer if he cared for the girl’s life. Tadakuni remarks that this was a great checkpoint to start from.

From behind him, Yoshitake calls him a rookie and tells him in an aged, strict voice not to anger the villain. Addressing Yoshitake as ‘Captain’, Hidenori’s second character charges at the villain, but the Captain tells ‘Depp’ that he is no match for him. Tadakuni is bewildered by the rapid changes, even more so when the Captain declares this the ‘end of training’.

He is then asked by the Captain how it felt to be the White Knight, and suggests that they relax with a nice bath. On their way to the bath-house, a new character (Hidenori) with a deep voice and threatening aura tells them he won’t let them pass. They ask him who he is, and he says it doesn’t matter. He adds that if they absolutely needed to go, they would have to pay him the entrance fee. He turns out to be the bath-house manager.

Tadakuni is surprised when the Captain heads for the women’s entrance, not having realized his leader was supposed to be a girl. Depp then joins Tadakuni, but Tadakuni’s forgotten who he is, which offends him. New characters begin introducing themselves to Tadakuni, such as Markovich the subordinate (Yoshitake) and Hopper (Hidenori), and the sheer number of characters overwhelms him. Hopper explains that there are many characters because they are all part of the army that plans to storm the demon lord’s castle the next day.

The bath-house manager then adds that the demon lord might be anticipating this, confusing Tadakuni as to why he’s still tagging along. The Captain declares that it’s time to set off, but the group stops upon hearing a deep laugh. A shadowy figure (Hidenori again) confronts them, claiming to have found them at last. The Captain demands to know who it is, and Tadakuni points out that it’s pretty obvious just from the silhouette.

High School Boys and Indoor Adventures 2
Main article: Chapter 38

Continuing from the previous short, the scene is set with Yoshitake demanding to know who the shadow is. A narrator (Hidenori) explains that Tadakuni the hero is on a journey to fight the demon lord, and lists all his companions (including Jack, who hasn’t made an appearance yet). The mysterious shadow is finally revealed, who is indeed Hidenori. His character turns out to be a lady whose child has been abducted, and begs the heroes for help. This leaves Tadakuni confounded.

The Captain says they can’t ignore someone in need, but Tadakuni has already forgotten who she is and questions her identity. Then, Hidenori adopts a new voice and says that the child is most likely on the eastern island for which they would need a ship. Tadakuni asks him who he is and he says he’s Jack. Indignantly, Tadakuni points out there's no Jack in his crew.

Jack responds by punching him in the stomach. The Captain, ignoring the hero's plight, announces that they’ve reached the harbour. An official (Hidenori) says they would need a permit from the western town, and the Captain decides to head there. At the new location, another official (Hidenori yet again) strikes a deal with them to give them the permit if they defeat the dragon living in the northern mountains.

En route, Tadakuni asks why there were so many detours just to save a kid. Markovich claims that it’s the thrill of an RPG, and Hopper adds that it’s more fun the longer it is. As usual, Tadakuni is unable to identify who's who. The Captain and the bath-house owner then announce that they’ve reached the dangerous-looking mountains. Tadakuni repeats that they've lost him.

The sound of a door indicates that Tadakuni’s younger sister is home. Hidenori and Yoshitake turn around, shaking in alarm, and announce that the demon lord has arrived. They tell Tadakuni it’s the last battle, waving away his objection that they still had a child to rescue. Bursting into the corridor, the two confront Tadakuni’s sister, telling the demon lord to repent for its sins.

She easily brings them to their knees with a hand each. Struggling in pain, they ask Tadakuni for help. He asks them if he should save their progress right there. Hidenori agrees, and a ‘save game’ sound plays.

High School Boys and Older Brothers
Main article: Chapter 40

Tadakuni’s younger sister and Yoshitake’s older sister are at a café along with a bespectacled boy, who is revealed to be Hidenori’s older brother Yūsuke. He nervously asks them what they wanted to talk about. Yoshitake’s sister responds that it was something regarding all their brothers. She adds that the boys needed to act their age. She reminds him that he used to be their ringleader when they were kids and that they might listen to him.

He agrees, and she asks about a girl standing nearby if Yūsuke came with her because she was his girlfriend. He unconvincingly says yes. Yoshitake’s sister immediately stands up and tells Yūsuke she's loved him all along, startling him. Tadakuni’s sister remarks that his companion hadn’t moved at all. Blushing, Yūsuke admits it was a lie, and that she was a senior in one of his clubs. He is accused of trying to show off by Yoshitake’s sister, but he deflects and tells them to get back on track.

The girls then start to detail their brothers’ nefarious activities. At one point, Yoshitake’s sister tells Yūsuke that they keep stealing Tadakuni’s sister’s panties, and he sympathizes. She adds that they said something horrible to her last Christmas. Yūsuke casually remarks that he knew she was bawling somewhere in town as a result, and it was the first time he’d ever seen her cry. He stops himself upon seeing her frosty reaction, but she slowly gets up and asks him in a low, menacing tone how he’d ‘seen’ it. She becomes sure that someone had sent him a snapshot of the incident.

Tadakuni’s sister puts him in a headlock from behind, and he struggles in vain. Yoshitake’s sister approaches him with the intent to take his phone, but finds something pink in his pocket, which turns out to be a pair of panties. Confused, she asks what it is. Tadakuni’s sister snaps that it’s her panties, tightening the lock and crushing Yūsuke’s glasses in the process.

Transition scene: As the girls leave, Yoshitake’s sister remarks that Yūsuke didn’t seem to have a girlfriend, and her voice trails off. Tadakuni’s sister reacts sharply and looks at her, worried.

High School Boys and Being Yourself
Main article: Chapter 41

Hidenori is sitting at his usual riverbank spot at sunset, when he realizes that the Literary Girl is once again behind him. Cursing, he silently vows that no matter how many times she cornered him, he’d never stop visiting the bank and if anything, he’d drive her away. Just then, he notices that she’s wearing a guilty look. He realizes that he glared at her the last time for doing something rude, and she now felt bad about it.

He feels there’s no need for an apology, but is impressed that she has the courage to approach him. Hidenori then thinks that instead of trying to recreate fictional scenes, apologizing would be a more important life experience for her. At this point, she reaches out to call him, causing her papers to be swept away from her open bag by the wind. Both of them react in shock, and the girl trips and falls over while chasing the papers, leaving Hidenori in disbelief at her clumsiness.

The Literary Girl gets up with her hand bruised. Seeing this, Hidenori is concerned and pulls out a bandage, but is bewildered to see her taking out her own box of bandages. However, she struggles to open it, and Hidenori is almost unable to contain himself when she gives up just moments later. Calming down, she then takes out a bottle to drink but chokes, before spewing water everywhere. While trying to regain her composure, she is caught unawares by a sneeze and ends up spreading goo over both hands.

Inwardly, Hidenori begs desperately for a break as she fumbles to get some tissues from her bag. He is almost in tears from controlling his laughter. The Literary Girl finally fishes out some tissues but they get swept away by the wind as well. As she desperately runs to catch them, she slips and falls, crashing right into Hidenori’s back with her legs ending up over his shoulders. Hidenori stares ahead, blank-faced, while she turns red. A long, highly awkward silence ensues.

Now past her limits, the girl starts wailing loudly. As she cries, Hidenori thinks to himself that it’s okay for him to see her lame side, as that’s what comes out when one really tries to be oneself. The Literary Girl recovers and pulls herself to her feet once again. Dusting herself off, she stands up behind him, bringing them back to square one.

Hidenori tells her that he wasn’t angry, so there was no need to worry. Standing up, he starts telling her to cheer up, but his head slams into her nose. Blood spurts from it and she cries out in pain, falling over in a faint. Hidenori turns around and assesses the situation before warily concluding “That's not good”.

Transition scene: Hidenori has left his coat behind to cover the unconscious Literary Girl. She mumbles the show’s name.

High School Boys and Careers
Main article: Chapter 42

In Class 2-A, the homeroom teacher is collecting the career guidance questionnaire she had given out. As she arranges them, a thought strikes her, and she asks the class if they’d answered it in the right spirit. The boys observe a grim silence in response. Fearing the worst, she decides to go through the forms right there.

Picking up a sheet, she sees that the space for ‘career choice’ has been filled out with ‘Middle school student’. Holding it up to the class, she yells that this is exactly what she was talking about, and requests them to be a little more serious. Upon taking the next one, she sees that the response is ‘Ghost’. Agitated, the teacher tells the respondent to just die right then.

The next form says ‘Sports adventurer’, confusing her as to whether it was sports-related or adventure-related. She’s creeped out by the fourth sheet with its response of ‘Teacher’s wife’ and is just confused by the fifth, which says ‘Science entertainer’.

The teacher’s aggravation reaches a height with the next form, which says ‘I don’t want to be a lawyer’, and she punches the desk in frustration. She picks out one more sheet, and sees that the response is ‘Enter college’.

Put off by getting a semi-serious response for once, she regards it in blank silence, before flipping the desk in anger and scattering the papers, wondering why there was no joke in there. The teacher is then shown walking down the corridor after leaving the class, muttering to herself.

High School Boys and Mitsuo
Yoshitake, Megane, Motoharu and Chapatsu are sitting in an empty classroom. Seemingly continuing a conversation, Yoshitake tells the others that the most annoying thing about Mitsuo was that he always sang kid’s songs during karaoke. Chapatsu asks if he’s trying to be silly, but Yoshitake says he probably genuinely likes them. Chapatsu says he doesn’t get it, then adds that Mitsuo was known not to like eating kiwi.

It turned out that when he ate them for the first time as a kid, he tried chewing them whole and got the hairs stuck on his tongue, causing him to gag. Even now, the word ‘kiwi’ made him gag similarly. Yoshitake says Mitsuo’s stupid that way. Motoharu then pipes up with a childhood story, and says that Mitsuo was really happy when his parents gave him his first cell phone. He asked Motoharu to turn off the lights and call the phone.

When Motoharu asked for the reason, he said that one could then see the EM waves flowing into the room. Yoshitake and Megane laugh loudly at this, proclaiming him an idiot. Motoharu is then reminded of another story. Chapatsu and Yoshitake ask what it is, and he tells the others that he pranked Mitsuo in elementary school by exchanging his shoes with a girl’s. The prank ended up working too well, because the two of them not only wore the wrong shoes, but ended up graduating without realizing it.

The sends the others into peals of laughter, and they remark that it was such a Mitsuo thing to do, calling him a fool again. The man himself is revealed to be standing just outside the class, rightly annoyed after having heard some part of the conversation. Deciding to break it up, he walks in and says hi. They greet him in turn.

Yoshitake then recalls something and says that he’s got some more Mitsuo stories. Motoharu, Chapatsu and Megane are instantly interested and ask for details. Mitsuo, shell-shocked, wonders how they could have the nerve to continue in his presence.

High School Boys and Mitsuo 2
Continuing from the previous setting, Mitsuo admonishes the four for turning his past into a joke. Chapatsu says it wasn’t like that, and that he respects him for some of those stories. He recalls an incident when Mitsuo was unable to eat a carrot-and-radish dish from the cafeteria, so he held it in his mouth until the lunch bell rang and dashed to the pond in the garden, where he spat it out.

Mitsuo coldly responds that Chapatsu himself had once mixed his milk into vegetable soup since he hated milk, only making everything harder to ingest in the process. However, a red-faced Yoshitake springs up and says it was he himself who had done that. Ignoring this, Motoharu says he had something to apologize to Mitsuo for. He mentions that when playing as kids, Mitsuo would sometimes start crying and then run home.

He probably thought that nobody had caught on, but everyone knew that he had soiled his pants. Tearful with held-back laughter, Motoharu says sorry. Agitated, Yoshitake says that was really him again. He asks the others why all of their stories were targeting him. Megane then asks who it was that sang so loudly in music class that the teacher had to yell at him to shut up, and Yoshitake reacts in embarrassment again.

Eager to turn the tide, he tells Mitsuo that he knew something else about him. Back in fourth grade, he had sat in another girl’s seat by accident, which somehow made her cry as a result. However, due to not realizing it, he ended up apologizing to her for hours after school without understanding why he was at fault.

Mitsuo responds that that had never happened. Confused, Yoshitake mulls it over. Getting a weird expression on his face, he sheepishly wonders if that too was his own incident. Mitsuo tells him there’s no way he would know.

Ending Theme Song
“Ohisama” – by Amesaki Annainin

Theme Song
High School Girls are Funky Jingle

High School Girl Power
Main article: Chapter 32.3

In Habara’s room, a tall girl from Central High slams down a picture of a demon sitting on a chamber pot, and asks the trio to identify it. Habara’s answer of ‘some anime character’ is declared correct, while the other two, who answer ‘Belphegor’ are declared wrong. Addressing her as senpai, Yanagin protests that her answer is right. Ikushima adds that a demon on a chamber pot had to be Belphegor.

Yanagin’s senior snaps and declares that high school girls shouldn’t know those details. Ikushima protests that it’s no big deal if they read the Dictionnaire Infernal, but the senior flips her table in anger and tells her to shut it. Standing up, she tells them she came over because they wanted to jazz up their high school girl charm, but that Ikushima and Yanagin were doing really badly.

To test if they understood her, she holds up another placard with a character and asks them to identify it. Ikushima instantly answers with ‘I don’t know’, which is pronounced correct. She tells them to pretend like they’re idiots, and pulls out a third placard. This one has a sketch of Oda Nobunaga on it, with even the name ‘Oda Nobu’ written on it. They realize this is a tricky one, but Yanagin goes for it and answers with the real name.

The senior considers this, before saying it’s incorrect, much to the others’ consternation. She yells at them again, saying that high school girls should appear to lack basic general knowledge if they wanted to appear cute. Holding her skirt, she says that everyone else’s brains and eyes were directed in that area, and is about to pull it up before the camera moves away prudently and Ikushima and Yanagin restrain her.

They yell at her to stop riling up the audience and beg her to go home. Yanagin’s senior responds that she doesn’t care and asks Habara to end the chapter with a bang. Habara signs off cheerfully, saying goodbye until the next week.

Outro
A notice on screen says that the next episode features the short ‘High School Boys and Manga’ and others. Hidenori says “Next week on Sazae-san…” and Tadakuni says it’s the wrong show. Another notice says “Next week’s the long-awaited second term”.

It adds “Their lives as second-year high schoolers still goes on!”. Hidenori then announces in the style of a Sazae-san character that the show was brought to the viewers by the following sponsors.

End Screen
The end screen features seven panels of Yoshitake, with the send-off message “See You Next Week”. The third panel is mirrored compared to the others.

Characters
In order of appearance:
 * Yoshitake
 * Tadakuni
 * Hidenori
 * Tadakuni's younger sister
 * Yūsuke's senior
 * Yūsuke
 * Yoshitake's older sister
 * The Literary Girl
 * Homeroom teacher
 * Chapatsu
 * Motoharu
 * Megane
 * Mitsuo
 * Yanagin's senior
 * Habara
 * Ikushima
 * Yanagin

Trivia

 * The show Sazae-san referred to in the intro is one of Japan’s most famous manga, with an ongoing (as of 2020) anime that is the longest running animated show in history. Its name is spoken normally in the intro, but censored for some reason in the outro.
 * Differences between the anime and manga:
 * The end scenes of the following shorts are manga-only:
 * High School Boys and the One-Trick Talent Show - in which the show goes on.
 * High School Boys and Indoor Adventures (1 & 2)
 * High School Boys and Mitsuo
 * In “Older Brothers”:
 * The name of the café is ‘Café Capin’ (manga) and ‘Café Capim’ (anime).
 * The girl Yūsuke tries to pass off as his girlfriend is depicted with different outfits in the anime and manga.
 * Yūsuke keeps Tadakuni’s sister’s panties in his trouser pocket in the manga, but in his shirt pocket in the anime.
 * By the end of the short in the manga, the girls have finished their food. However, the food is left untouched in the anime.
 * In the transition scene, the girls are wearing sweaters in the anime (which they weren’t during the short) but not in the manga.
 * In “Being Yourself”, the Literary Girl gets a cut on her hand when she falls over in the manga. In the anime, it’s shown as a bruise instead.
 * In “Careers”, the transition scene from the manga is incorporated directly into the anime as a short clip rather than a still. Also, the class in the anime is clearly stated to be 2-A, but the manga leaves it unclear.
 * Fake brands: In “Indoor Adventures”, Yoshitake is shown reading an edition of ‘Ganigani Magazine’ (a reference to the manga’s parent Gangan Magazine) before they start playing.