From: pjconley@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Pat J Conley)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime
Subject: episode summaries for Kimagure Orange Road 1-48
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Date: 30 Nov 1992 15:30:08 GMT
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EPISODE 1: Tenkousei! Hazukashinagara hatsukoi shimasu
     Kyosuke Kasuga has just moved into this town, and meets
     Ayukawa, Hikaru-chan and all the rest.

     Kyosuke Kasuga has just moved to the new neighborhood, and
he's counting some nearby steps.  At the top he sees a bright
orange UFO, but it turns out to be a "red straw hat" which he
catches.  He then meets Madoka Ayukawa, a beautiful and
mysterious girl, and they argue about whether there are 100 or 99
steps.  They finally agree on 99.5 and she gives him the hat
whimsically, telling him it looks better on him anyway.
     Kyosuke goes home and walks into the middle of a fight
between his sisters, Kurumi and Manami.  Kyosuke reprimands
Kurumi for using her powers openly-- their ESP abilities must
remain a secret, or else the family will have to move again. 
This is the reason why the family has just moved here-- At the
last school, Kurumi had used her powers to enable her to run the
100 meter dash at an incredible speed.
     At school, he "experiences" Hikaru-chan, who's gotten a ride
to school on a motorcycle from an unreliable "yatsu" character. 
Later he meets Komatsu and Hatta, two perverts, who are happy to
befriend the brother of those two cute new girls(his sisters).
Later, Hikaru and Ayukawa must fight off an attack by friends of
the boy Hikaru insulted.  While Kyosuke and his sisters are
watching, Madoka pushes the last "yatsu" into a convenient canal,
then Madoka decides go to "Marlboro country."  Kyosuke, seizing
the moral high ground, tells her, "If you smoke from now on, you
won't be able to have healthy babies," and destroys her cigarette
with his powers.  Ayukawa begins a long standing tradition by
slapping him silly.
     In the end, Kyosuke holds the hat she gave him and nurses
his face to stock "Ayukawa saxophone" music closes the episode.


EPISODE 2: Ano musumeni choppiri lemon no kiss wo
     Kyosuke attains "Darling-hood" in Hikaru-chan's eyes and
     sees a softer side to Madoka's character.

     Kyosuke has an intricate fantasy about being with Ayukawa by
the seaside in yellow tint, but ends up kissing Jingle's
backside.  In the hallway at school, as he's hurrying to class,
he sees Ayukawa and prepares to be insulted, but she says, "It's
okay.  The teacher's not there yet."  Ah-ha, Kyosuke thinks,
Ayukawa is cute after all.  Later, Kyosuke makes a fool of
himself by:  1)clapping stupidly for Ayukawa when she gets off
the balance beam, and 2)missing the winning basket in the
basketball game they were playing, because he wouldn't let
himself use his powers.  After the game, however, when he thinks
he is alone in the gym, he throws the ball, manipulating it with
his powers, and makes it in the basket, not knowing that Hikaru
is watching him.  She is much impressed with his ability.
Afterward, running in the halls after Komatsu and Hatta, he runs
into Hikaru, knocking her down.  She's happy to oblige this great
athlete, especially since she thinks he kissed her as they went
down.  Kyosuke gets in big trouble, however, for such
shenanigans.  Ayukawa enters the principal's office while Kyosuke
is getting bawled out, hears what happened, and assists him by
sending a flower into an offending sensei's face, even though she
doesn't know what to make of what she's hearing.
    Returning to his homeroom, he finds Ayukawa waiting there to
return his bag to him.  Hikaru-chan giggles about her newfound
"darling."


EPISODE 3: Kibunha yurete rolling hatsu date
     A triangle around Kyosuke, Ayukawa and Hikaru begins to be
     established when he misses a date with Hikaru-chan because
     he was with Madoka.

     Komatsu and Hatta drag Kyosuke off to their favorite eating
establishment(across the walk from an aerobics center)and give
him tickets to Disco Mobeius(which is incidentally the only disco
in the Orange Road universe)to give to the twins for them. 
Kyosuke is adamant about not letting his sisters into such a
place, but Kurumi finds and steals one ticket anyway.
     Looking for her inside the disco, Kyosuke meets up with
Hikaru-chan and must dance with her.  During "cheek-time,"
Ayukawa sees them, and dances with someone else to make Kyosuke
feel bad.  
    Hikaru and Kyosuke make a date for the next day, but Kyosuke,
arriving early, decides to rent a rowboat and row around the
lake.  He meets up with Ayukawa, who's just fought off an attack
from some nondescript jerks, and they have their "rowing first
date" together.  When a child falls in the water, Madoka prepares
to go save him, but Kyosuke does it instead, winning the
gratitude of the child's mother and impressing Ayukawa.  Sitting
in a restaurant talking, Madoka mentions that today was "like a
date or something."  Kyosuke remembers his missed date with
Hikaru and blurts it out, ruining the mood with Ayukawa.  She
gets up to leave and tells him, "Wash it before you return it,"
referring to the jacket she loaned him.
     Returning to where he was supposed to meet Hikaru-chan, he
finds written, "Kyosuke no baka!" which of course means "Stupid
Kyosuke!"  Kyosuke ends the episode with a cold.


EPISODE 4: Hikaru-chan!!! Osawagase no C taiken!!!
     Gossip turns a visit to Kyosuke's house by Hikaru-chan into
     a miniature scandal for the two of them.

    Kyosuke, sick at home due to events of the last episode, lies
to Hikaru about why he missed their date, saying, "I was helping
my dad at work."
  The two are served tea while sitting on Kyosuke's bed by his
sisters, and Manami remarks, "Finally he's brought home a girl." 
     The next day at school, Kyosuke finds that everyone thinks
that he and Hikaru made a noisy C, i.e. spent the night together,
when all they did was sit on his bed and talk(the Japanese system
of "bases" goes A-B-C, where as Americans go first base, second
base, etc., with regards to how  far you've gone with a person of
the opposite sex).  The rumors are started by Manami and Kurumi
and made worse by telling them to Komatsu and Hatta, and then,
the rest of the school.  Everyone's upset at Kyosuke, even
Ayukawa, and Hikaru's bouncing off the walls with happiness
doesn't help make Ayukawa think that nothing happened between the
two of them. 
    Later, Hikaru-chan corners him and climbs all over him with
happiness, with everyone in the school sees watching. 
Embarrassed and sick, Kyosuke collapses.  At home, his sisters
take care of him.  Kyosuke keeps trying to call Ayukawa to tell
her the truth, but she only says, "I'm really busy right now,"
when she finally answers the phone.  Alone, Ayukawa says to her
teddy bear, "We hate that person, don't we?"
    Back at school, Hikaru tells Kyosuke about how close she and
Ayukawa have been, since kids, and about an episode where Ayukawa
saved her from a bully.  Meanwhile, in a movie, Ayukawa gets
accosted by more nondescript jerks which seem to pervade in this
show, and Kyosuke tries to help by levitating a bulldozer at the
offenders.  He drops it, though, because his illness is
interfering with his ESP abilities, but succeeds in covering the
jerks with tar.  In the end, he's able to convince Ayukawa that
he and Hikaru didn't do anything.


EPISODE 5: Futari no himitsu tomado arbeit
     Kyosuke discovers that Madoka's secret is not a lover but a
     part-time job, at a "ki-saten" called Abakabu.

    Kyosuke's family is going to Hokkaido for a vacation, but
Kyosuke, upset by recent news from Hikaru-chan that Ayukawa's
been acting strangely, decides not to go.  Hikaru has seen
Ayukawa walking somewhere with a man she doesn't recognize.
    Deciding that the only thing to do is to follow Ayukawa
around, he goes to her house, and follows her from bus to bus,
eventually meeting up with her in a "ki-saten," or coffee shop,
called Abcb(pronounced Abakabu).  She's working part-time,
something Japanese high-schoolers are not supposed to do, and is
surprised to see Kyosuke.  She and the Master(the Master of the
pub, a name taken from the British, which is why we call him by
this funny name)rationalize for a few minutes about why it's okay
for her to work when she's not supposed to be in school.  "Won't
you help out?" she asks, and of course Kyosuke(who has nothing
better to do at all, with his family in Hokkaido)agrees.
When Komatsu and Hatta come into the coffee shop, Kyosuke and
Ayukawa get scared-- they know those two are the biggest gossips
in the school, and their "secret" would be known by everyone in
no time if they're seen.  Kyosuke uses his powers to increase the
prices on the menu from 500 yen to 50,000 yen, facilitating a
rapid exit by the two perverts.
    After enjoying a drink together with the Master and closing
the store, Kyosuke and Ayukawa sit and talk.  "Do you really like
her?  I mean Hikaru," Ayukawa says, then gets embarrassed and
says never mind.  Afterward, they wait for the bus at the bus
stop.  Unfortunately, the last bus has already gone-- Ayukawa
can't get home.  Ayukawa collapses from exhaustion against
Kyosuke and says, "Will you stay at my place tonight?"  Kyosuke's
in shock over what she's just said, but just then Hikaru pulls up
to take Madoka home.  Kyosuke asks Hikaru if she knew about
Ayukawa's job.  Yes, Ayukawa had telephoned her and told her
yesterday.

EPISODE 6:  Aitsuha rival koino chuukanshiken
     A black-belted rival for Ayukawa's love turns out to be
     sweet on Hikaru-chan in actuality.

    Someone is following Kyosuke to school.  It turns out to be
Hino Yuusaku, a young martial arts stud who predicts bad things
for Kyosuke's health if he doesn't leave "that girl" alone. 
Yuusaku is talking about Hikaru-chan, but Kyosuke thinks he means
Madoka.
     Kyosuke is helping Hikaru study for the end-of-term finals,
but at the same time is getting help from Ayukawa at Abcb.  He
doesn't want either to know that he's studying with the other. 
On top of this, all the extra teleportation he's been engaging
in(to get from place to place quickly)is sapping his strength.    
 Seeing how closely Ayukawa and this new boy, Yuusaku, talk
together when they do so in his presence, Kyosuke still thinks
Yuusaku must like Madoka.  "Do you know him?" she asks Kyosuke,
who evades.  She then explains that she, Hikaru and Yuusaku have
been friends since they were children.  They even used to take
baths together, a point which Kyosuke isn't too thrilled to hear.
    Kyosuke sees Yuusaku and Ayukawa talking from afar(Yuusaku
was asking Ayukawa what he should do about Hikaru, whom he really
loves), and then Ayukawa appears near Kyosuke and says, "He
really likes her."  Because in Japanese you don't always have to
name the subject and object, Kyosuke interpreted what she said
as, "He really likes me," which seems to confirm all of Kyosuke's
fears.
     Later, in Abcb, Kyosuke tries to keep Hikaru from finding
out that he was also studying with Madoka.  Ayukawa's made him
extra study materials, telling him in a private note that it's
okay that he was studying with Hikaru-chan at the same time.
    After the tests, Kyosuke has passed the finals barely, and
he's worried what Ayukawa will say when she sees how low his test
scores were.  Kyosuke later overhears a talk between Yuusaku and
Hikaru in which Yu-kun tried to tell Hikaru how he felt about
her, but gave up from embarrassment.  He now knows the truth.


EPISODE 7:  Madoka no shiseikatsu Kuchizuke spark iro
     Kyosuke is given a glimpse of Madoka's dark past, and is
     filled with questions.

    Kyosuke's at Komatsu's house, and they get to talking about
Ayukawa.  Kyosuke realizes that he really doesn't know all that
much about Ayukawa's past.  He's attacked by conflicting images
of Ayukawa asking him to stay at her house back in episode 5 on
the one hand, and the "normal" girl he's used to on the other
hand.
     Ayukawa and Kyosuke go to a cafe bar, and they run into some
obnoxious people form Madoka's mysterious past.  They call
Kyosuke "bo-ya"(boy I assume)and tease Madoka about the company
she's keeping these days, which gets Kyosuke mad and makes him
wonder about who these people are, or were, to his Ayukawa.  In
the bar, Kyosuke's surprised that they're drinking real alcohol,
but Madoka says it's okay, go ahead.  Kyosuke does and gets
rather a snootful.  
    On the way home, Kyosuke asks Madoka about the people they
met, and about what kind of life she led before she met him.  He
tries to kiss her so she deals him a deadly "Ayukawa Slap."
    The next day she doesn't want to talk to him in school.  When
Hikaru accosts him, he tells her not to be so open with her
affections in public, and she run off, offended.  Hikaru talks
with Madoka, asks her if anything happened between Kyosuke and
Madoka last night-- Madoka says, no, nothing.
    Later, Hikaru is feeding Kyosuke like a baby on the roof, and
Kyosuke sees Ayukawa at the entrance.  He pretends to see a UFO
as an excuse to chase Madoka.  Using his powers of teleportation,
he catches her, and apologizes.  Ayukawa agrees that the
sake(saki to you Americans)they drank was a mistake.  "Ah, I'm so
hungry!  I didn't eat any lunch," Ayukawa says, feeling better,
so Kyosuke throws her his sandwich, somehow managing to keep it
from flying in ten directions at once.


EPISODE 8:  Kimiha eago!  Nagisa no shutter chance
     Kyosuke and Yuusaku worry about Hikaru, who is going to be
     modeling for an unknown photographer, changing as she
     becomes a famous model.

    Coming home, Kyosuke is surprised to see dozens of beautiful
models his father is photographing.  Takashi(their
father)announces he's going back to being a professional
"camaraman"(photographer).
     At school, all the boys like the pictures Kyosuke's father
took of the beautiful women.  Yuusaku shows up and asks to talk
to Kyosuke alone on the roof.  Kyosuke thinks he's going to beat
him up for something he's done, but Yuusaku instead begs him not
to let Hikaru go into modeling.  Madoka shows up, and we learn
that Hikaru is going to have a photographer take her pictures
this Sunday.  Yuusaku found this out the other day when he asked
her to go to a concert with him the following Sunday.  Both
Kyosuke and Yuusaku are afraid of what would happen to their
Hikaru-chan if she became a famous model.  Hikaru then appears
and tells her "darling" about her chance to break into modeling.
     Ayukawa later tells Kyosuke not to worry, that she will be
going with Hikaru to see that nothing bad happens. 
     That Sunday, Kyosuke is surprised that his father is working
that day.  Kyosuke himself is going to babysit his sisters and
protect them from Komatsu and Hatta, the perverts, who are going
to the beach on a double date.  Everyone meets accidentally at
the train station, and we learn that the person who will be
photographing Hikaru is Takashi himself, Kyosuke's father, who
didn't know that this pretty girl he was going to photograph,
Hikaru-chan, was his son's girlfriend.  Hikaru upsets Ayukawa by
calling Kyosuke's father "Otosama," which means "father."
    At the beach, Hikaru models for Takashi, with Kyosuke
assisting.  Ayukawa, feeling useless, decides to go home, but
Takashi asks Kyosuke if he couldn't take Ayukawa's picture as
well, and Kyosuke goes after Ayukawa, asking her not to go home.
    Ayukawa, too, models for Takashi, who is impressed with her. 
Later, at school, Kyosuke thinks he's showing Ayukawa a picture
he likes, one of her and him walking by the beach that his father
snapped, but he accidentally shows one of him and Hikaru, making
Ayukawa mad.  He puts the correct picture in her shoe locker for
her to find later.

EPISODE 9:  Kurumi-chan date no shikata oshiemasu
     Kurumi-chan goes on a date with a dangerous character,
     causing Kyosuke and everyone to mobilize to find her.

    Walking through town, Kyosuke spies Yuusaku, looking through
the glass of a store at Hikaru and Madoka, who are
shopping(Yu-kun will do a "Mr. Lingerie").  Later, Kyosuke and
the others hear that Kurumi has gotten lost, that she went off
with a boy.  They get an image of the culprit from the
description, and set off to find him.  Kyosuke almost gets into
trouble when he finds someone who fits the description, and
Madoka must come to his rescue.
    Setting to join in the search for Kyosuke's sister, Kyosuke
and Madoka pass through a lover's park, and get embarrassed to
see everyone kissing.  A police officer wants to know what
they're doing here, and Madoka gets defensive and pulls Kyosuke
out of there.
    We find out that Kurumi is really out on a date with
Komatsu's older brother, an insecure boy, who watches videos on
how to get a date and is rather upset at the food bills Kurumi is
running up.
    Back in the park, Kurumi is looking for Jingle, and Komatsu's
brother decides it's time to make his move.  Kyosuke hears
Kurumi's scream nearby and runs to find her.  Meanwhile, Komatsu,
in a rowboat with Manami, makes his own move.  Suddenly, his
brother comes screaming out of the sky(put there by Kurumi when
he tried to kiss her)and splashes down.
    Kyosuke finally finds Kurumi, holding Jingle and wondering
what all the commotion is about, and the episode ends.


EPISODE 10:  Yochimu!  Hikaru-chan ga shinjau
     Kyosuke dreams that Hikaru-chan is going to die, and Hikaru
     tries to use this against Kyosuke to learn his true
     feelings for her.

    Kyosuke has one of his "yochimu" prophetic dreams, this time
about Hikaru's death.  He had a vision of her on the other side
of a park bench, moving farther and farther away from him.  At
breakfast, Kyosuke remembers when he was a kid and his dreams
would visit him, only most of the time they'd really come true
somehow.  They also used to make him wet his bed. 
    At school, Hikaru is all over Kyosuke, which gets Ayukawa
miffed at Kyosuke.  During PE, Kurumi accidentally sends a
volleyball into Yuusaku's face, and Hikaru has to come to her
rescue, flaring at Yuusaku.  Kurumi explains to Hikaru about her
brother's dream, that Hikaru would die, and Hikaru decides to
use that to her advantage.  She goes home sick, and Kyosuke is
worried that his dream may be coming true.
    At Hikaru's house, he finds Yuusaku already there, not
pleased to see him.  At a restaurant, Hikaru starts to fall
asleep in Kyosuke's arms, and asks Yuusaku to go away so she can
be "futari dake-de" with her Darling.  Yuusaku, who by now also
thinks Hikaru's going to die, departs, saying his final goodbye
to Hikaru.
    On a park bench, Kyosuke and Hikaru are re-living his dream,
she is dying in her arms(although we know she's only pretending). 
Meanwhile, in a supermarket, the twins tell Madoka about
Kyosuke's dream, and she realizes why he's been acting so strange
today.
    Outside, Yuusaku is stopping traffic so Hikaru can be "alone"
with her Darling, just like she asked, and he falls into Madoka's
arms, upset.  Back on the bench, Yuusaku and the others have
arrived to dump a bucket of water on both Hikaru and Kyosuke for
being so silly, at Ayukawa's suggestion.

EPISODE 11: Narasanaide wedding bell!!!
     A big misunderstanding convinces Kyosuke that Ayukawa is
     getting married, when it's really her older sister.

    At Abcb, Kyosuke notices Madoka flipping through wedding
magazines, wearing a new ring, and wonders what's up.  When
Madoka receives a secretive phone call from a man and she won't
explain it, he worries even more.  That night he has a "yochimu"
prophetic dream about Madoka getting married and is scared.
   The next day a car pulls up to the school and Madoka gets out,
accompanied by a handsome man.  Madoka fixes his tie in a
personal way and he drives off.  In class, Kyosuke tries to use
telepathy to read Ayukawa's thoughts.  All he gets is a picture
of Ayukawa in a wedding dress before noticing that everyone
has stopped to watch him concentrating so hard.  "If you need to
go to the bathroom that bad, just go," his teacher tells him.
    Kyosuke runs into Ayukawa on the phone to her mystery man. 
"At Abcb at around 5:00.  Is that okay?" he hears her say.  When
he asks her about it, she says, "That was a grown-up
conversation," and strolls off.

    Kyosuke shows up before Ayukawa was scheduled to leave with
her mystery man, all dressed up with his hair greased back and
looking altogether very silly.  Before he can say anything to
Ayukawa she goes off in the car with her man.  He finds out where
she's at from the Master and borrows his bicycle.  Using his
powers, he gets there in the middle of the wedding ceremony and
beats on the door, in a scene teleported from the movie "The
Graduate."
    Back at Abcb, Kyosuke apologizes for the misunderstanding. 
Madoka explains that it was a dress rehearsal for her sister's
wedding, and the man is her sister's fiance.  After Kyosuke
crashed the wedding, we are shown, he and Madoka got in the back
of a passing bus, just as in The Graduate.


EPISODE 12:  America ryuugaku Sayonara Madoka
     After Ayukawa's sister's wedding, Madoka makes plans to join
     her parents in Los Angeles, upsetting everyone around her.

    Ayukawa's sister gets married amid much thrown rice, not
imported from California(and they show Madoka's sister's face,
which they're not supposed to do).  Madoka catches the bouquet.
     In the paper, near the wedding announcement, Kyosuke reads
terrible news: it says Madoka will be returning to America to
attend school there.  Hikaru complains openly about Madoka
leaving, but Kyosuke is too affected to say anything.
     Packing up her things at home, Madoka plays the piano and
thinks, remembering all the wonderful things her sister told her
about America.  At home, Kyosuke can't sleep.
     The next day at school, Kyosuke meets Yuusaku, who is
scuffed from just having gotten into a fight defending Madoka's
name.  Saddened, Ayukawa plays her saxophone to stock saxophone
music.  The wind blows her papers across the room, and somehow
she knows Kyosuke had been standing outside the door.
    On the roof, everyone eats a goodbye banquet for Ayukawa. 
That night, everyone's waiting for her to arrive at Abcb for her
sayonara-party, but she doesn't show up, so everyone sets out to
look for her.  It turns out that she's been waiting at Kyosuke's
house for him to come home, but since he hasn't shown up she goes
to look for him too.  They both end up at the Playground of Wind
at the top of "the stairs" and talk amid cherry blossoms.  "I
knew you'd be here," he tells her.  On the swings, Ayukawa talks
about how much she loves the city they live in(it remains unnamed
throughout the series, so I just call it "Konomachi" which means
"this town"), but how much she's looking forward to seeing New
York, Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, etc.  Kyosuke tells her, "Ever
since that time on these stairs...since that time I've loved this
city the best."
    After the tension breaks, Ayukawa laughs and says, "Did you
really think I was going to America?"  She apparently never
intended to go to America, she explains.  It was all a
misunderstanding.  At the airport, everyone sees
Ayukawa's sister and her new husband off to America.


EPISODE 13:  Shisen shuuchuu! Hikaru-chan daihenshin
     To get her Darling to like her more, Hikaru tries dressing
     up and changing her style radically.
     Hikaru-chan shows up at a school recycling drive, but it's a
new Hikaru-chan we see, a beautiful made-up Hikaru-chan with
make-up and new clothes.  No one recognizes her, not even
Kyosuke.  When she's mobbed by screaming admirers, all she wants
is her Senpai, her Kyosuke.
     Later, Ayukawa and Kyosuke talk about Hikaru's
transformation.  "Would you say she's become more sexy?" Ayukawa
teases.  Everyone seems to like the change in Hikaru-chan, even
Yuusaku, who attempts to defend her from her new suitors.
    Meanwhile, Kyosuke's been given tickets by his dad to a rock
group called "Bob's" and told, "Just take whoever you like." 
Kyosuke wants to ask Madoka, but Hikaru's always on the scene. 
Hikaru-chan's new cuteness eventually makes him change his mind
and ask her to the concert.  Later, in her room, Madoka tries on
glasses and boyish clothes to see what she would like with a
transformation of her own.  Meanwhile, Kurumi is seeking to
imitate Hikaru's new image, helping Jingle into the 80s in the
process.  Yuusaku,  who wants to be Hikaru's bodyguard, is
training to protect her.
     Later, Kyosuke is at the concert with Hikaru-chan, enjoying
himself.  However, Kyosuke slips accidentally, calling her
Ayukawa, and she runs away crying.  This wasn't a good thing.
    Meanwhile Yuusaku has dragged Kyosuke to a rainwater runoff
and prepares to fight him for Hikaru-chan.  Hikaru shows up,
yelling at Yuusaku to stop.  When Madoka shows up, asking what's
going on, the fight is over.  Everyone ends up at Abcb drinking
coffee and talking out all their problems and speaking in fast,
unintelligible Japanese, just like they always do.


EPISODE 14:  Yochimu!  Madoka ha nanjakuotoko ga okirai
     Kyosuke, a real girly-man, tries to address the problem of
     his lack of manliness.

     Kyosuke has a dream about Madoka telling him goodbye, that
they can never meet again.  While out jogging, Kyosuke meets
Kurumi and Manami at a girl's gym, where Ayukawa is engaging in a
little pro-wrestling.  Kyosuke is surprised to see her in "a
place like this" but knows that Madoka is always full of
surprises.  Hikaru is there too, cheering Madoka on.
     We flash back to early that morning briefly, with Kurumi and
Manami asking permission from their father to participate in the
wrestling tournament if they promise not to use their powers. 
Takashi says yes despite Kyosuke's concerns that they won't be
able to help themselves.
    Back at the gym, one of the girls claps Kyosuke on the
shoulder and he falls down, with a bucket landing on his head. 
He's depressed at how weak he appears in front of Madoka and
Hikaru, and decides to spy on Yuusaku's karate classes and see if
he can't learn anything.  He is found out and pulled inside by
Yuusaku, who makes him really work at getting the karate drills
right, while taking the opportunity to beat up on him a little. 
Hikaru puts a stop to the latter soon enough.  Ayukawa also shows
up, laughing a
little at Kyosuke when he falls down, but Kyosuke sends a glare
of pure determination at Madoka, who shuts up.  He impresses
everyone with his determination, if not his karate skill.
     At Abcb, Ayukawa is full of strange thoughts, wondering why
Kyosuke is being so athletic all of the sudden.  Yuusaku blurts
in with news that something terrible has happened -- Kyosuke has
challenged one of the masters of the school and has gotten
himself beat up.
     They arrive at the hospital and Yuusaku takes Hikaru home. 
Ayukawa, alone with the sleeping Kyosuke, who is beaten all to
hell, decides to kiss him.  He wakes up at the wrong minute to
see her face over his; at that moment Hikaru comes back in,
necessitating a quick about face by both Kyosuke and Madoka.
She's happy that Kyosuke is awake.  Meanwhile, Kyosuke wonders
what Madoka was doing.
    Meanwhile, at the "Festival of the Weaver" party, Hikaru
sings, and Kyosuke goes outside to think(and maybe to get away
from Hikaru's singing?).  He assumes that the events of the day
must have no relation to his "yochimu" of that morning, and
forgets about it.
Ayukawa shows up, and hangs a pagan religious trinket on the tree
that is out on the porch for that purpose.  Kyosuke wants to read
what she wrote on it, but she won't let him. 


EPISODE 15:  Madoka no kesshin!  Sankakukankei ni period
     Hikaru gets a clue and realizes that Kyosuke must like
     someone else, and Kyosuke must work fast to keep his
     relationships with her and Madoka intact.

     Ushiko-san and Umao-san's kiss is interrupted by some noisy
neighbors-- Kurumi and Manami are having a knock-down drag-out
fight over a dress that Kurumi "borrowed".  They both try to get
Kyosuke to take their side, but Kyosuke is too smart for them. 
The Kasuga pad is littered with mounted photographs -- Takashi is
having a display in a local art gallery and they're getting
ready.  This is to be the pinnacle of Takashi's distinguished
career, so he's a little nervous.
     At school, Kyosuke is out of it.  When Hikaru-chan shows up
he's not in the mood for her cuteness.  He offends her by telling
her, "I'm going to get mad!" when she comes on too strong, and
she goes to talk with Madoka-san up on the roof of the school. 
Hikaru gets the idea that her Darling might be secretly in
love with someone else, and Madoka reacts to this(of course
Madoka is that someone), but tells her not to worry.
     Now for some filler.  Kurumi accidentally hits Yuusaku with
a volleyball and nearly tastes his wrath.  But Hikaru-chan shows
up to keep him in line(Didn't we see this back in episode 10? 
Someone check it for me.  I've watched both episodes too many
time to do so).
     Walking home, Madoka thinks back to when she and Hikaru were
children, looking for four-leaf clovers.  Madoka found one but
Hikaru wanted it.  Being the good "o-nechan"(big sister)that she
is, Ayukawa gave it to Hikaru.
    More filler.  Manami has cut her finger somehow, and Ayukawa
bandages it for her.  Why not just use a shower scene if the plot
isn't 22 minutes long? We wouldn't mind.
     Meanwhile, Ayukawa is being cold to Kyosuke, not wanting to
walk home with him, being unfriendly at Abcb, etc.  Kyosuke feels
like he's being treated as if he had told Madoka a lie and gotten
caught, but he didn't do anything. Everyone except Madoka is 
helping Takashi set up his pictures(some of which we saw back in
episode 8)at his display, but Kyosuke is even more out of it than
ever, thinking about Ayukawa.  Hikaru picks up his strangeness
and starts to get mad.  To thank them for helping, Takashi says
he'll take everyone out for dinner, but Hikaru stays behind to
have a talk with Kyosuke.  "You've been strange today, Darling,"
she says.  "Strange!  Strange!  Strange!"  When she backs Kyosuke
up against a picture of Madoka and accuses him of "having someone
else he likes," Kyosuke is forced to lie to her.  "You're
definitely...wrong."  She comes around, reassured, and says,
 "That's what Madoka-san said."  Kyosuke figures out why Madoka
has been so cold to him all day.
    On an excuse, Kyosuke leaves the restaurant to go call
Madoka, who the Master let go home early.  Kyosuke gets an
answering machine, and tries to explain to the machine, but
can't.  Madoka is out playing more saxophone music to old
footage, and Kyosuke searches for her.
     Meanwhile, Madoka has gone home and listened to the machine. 
She takes a shower(oh, here's my shower scene)and is just getting
out when Kyosuke calls again.  She doesn't want to pick up the
phone, but it keeps ringing.  She eventually does, and pretends
to be her own answering machine.  She tells Kyosuke that it's
okay and waves to him through the window.
     Meanwhile, everyone goes to see the pictures, and Kurumi and
Manami try to make Kyosuke say whose picture is prettier.


EPISODE 16:  Shinjiru shinjinai UFO wo mita Madoka
     When Kyosuke and Madoka see a UFO that was really created by
     Kurumi's powers, Kyosuke must ask her to keep the UFO
     sighting a secret, causing confusion and a falling out
     between the two.

    While walking outside, Kyosuke and Madoka see a UFO and
manage to snap a picture.  Kyosuke later discovers it was his
family, using Kurumi's powers and fooling around.  To avoid
attention which could lead to someone finding out about his
family's powers, he asks Ayukawa to keep the sighting a secret. 
She agrees, not really wanting to, but then Hikaru sees the
picture and suddenly the whole school knows.  Kyosuke denies the
sighting but Madoka doesn't like being called a liar.
    The next day, the last day before summer vacation, Madoka
doesn't come to school, and when Kyosuke goes to look for her,
she's hanging out with "waru," bad people from her past who ride
motorcycles and smoke cigarettes(intake of breath!).  He races on
the Master's bicycle to stop her, augmenting his speed with
his powers, but when he finally catches up with her, she rides
off, apparently having re-joined the motorcycle gang and leaving
his life forever.
     He's crushed, but then she comes down the hill to see him,
and they talk about the UFO sighting.  He apologizes for making
her look bad, and tells her that, yes, of course the UFO was
really there.  Up in the sky, then, there really is a UFO, and
all the Orange Road characters see it this time.  "Could
it be...that the UFO I saw the other night was really...?"  He
realizes that the UFO he and Madoka saw together was a real UFO
after all, and not Kurumi animating household appliances.  "In
the summer of my 15th year, I, Kasuga Kyosuke saw a UFO," he
declares to himself.


EPISODE 17:  Natsu no yuuwaku ikinari double date
     Kyosuke wants to be in two places at once, and uses his
     teleportation powers to accomplish this goal.

     It's summer, and Kyosuke needs to be studying(Japanese kids
have homework over summer break, ugh!).  He gets invited both by
Ayukawa to the library and by Hikaru to the pool, and he accepts
both invitations, flipping back and forth with his teleportation.
     But over-use of his powers drains him, and he eventually
falls asleep in front of Ayukawa in the library.  She leaves,
angry, not wanting to go to the summer festival of fireworks that
night-- she has to work at Abcb anyway, she says.
    Kyosuke goes home to finish the homework he didn't get done
while fooling around with Hikaru-chan at the pool, and brings it
to Madoka at Abcb to show her.  She checks the almost-finished
workbook then says okay, let's go see the fireworks.  At that
moment, however, the fireworks end.  Kyosuke saves the day by
teleporting some fireworks from his house and they have a nice
time on the floor of Abcb celebrating the start of summer
themselves.


EPISODE 18:  Madoka chousen!  Big Monday!!!
     Ayukawa must surf the legendary "Big Monday" wave so that a
     friend's dead boyfriend can finally be at peace.

     It's the beginning of the one-month summer vacation for
Japanese kids, and Kyosuke, Madoka, Hikaru-chan and Yuusaku are
going to spend some time at a beach resort.  Some customers at
Abcb were going to go then had changed their plans and given the
bus tickets to the Master, who gave them to Ayukawa and the
others.
     After running some "playing at the beach" filler footage,
Kyosuke tells us in an aside that the beach they're at is famous
among surfing circles.  According to the Legend of Big Monday, on
the first sunny Monday of August in the afternoon, a gigantic
wave appears.  Surfers always try to surf it but no
one's ever been able to do it.
     A mysterious and beautiful girl walks past them carrying a
surfboard.  Kyosuke is given pause by her.  But doesn't she know
about the legend? he thinks.
     Meanwhile, Kurumi and Manami use their powers to remind
"Oyaji"(a slang word that means "father")of the beach to try to
get him to take them.  The method seems effective.
     Back at the beach.  The group has met an old Jiisan fishing
who tells them a story:  There's a female ghost named Koto who
comes to this beach.  Many years ago, she was a pretty peasant
girl living near a castle which stood where the resort is.  The
lord had ordered her to come to the castle to be his concubine. 
There was a handsome boy who took her away the night she was
supposed to go to the castle, but soldiers appeared with arrows
and they fell into the sea.
Koto, who always looks lonely because her lover died, has a scar
on her wrist from an arrow.  Kyosuke gulps-- he's always been
weak to these kinds of stories.  Hikaru remarks that Madoka, too,
dislikes ghost stories.  Just then they see the girl they saw
earlier surfing.  Madoka thinks she looks somehow sad.
     That night, the same girl passes Yuusaku, giving him a
start.  He looks in the guest register and gulps -- her name
happens to be Koto.  Hikaru and Ayukawa go skinny-dipping in the
bath and the girl passes Madoka, who notices a scar on the girl's
wrist.  The old man's words come back to her and she thinks that
the girl might really be the ghost. 
     Kyosuke meets Ayukawa outside, and the two go for a walk to
the beach.  They discuss whether or not the girl Koto is the
ghost, and Kyosuke tells her what Yuusaku found out.  Ayukawa
stumbles across Koto, standing on the beach, and faints.  Kyosuke
starts to run away but goes back.  "Don't touch her!" he shouts,
running to save Madoka from the clutches of the "ghost."
     Koto is puzzled at his behavior; she was trying to help
Ayukawa.  It turns out that she is no ghost after all.  She had
been walking on the beach and had stepped on a piece of glass --
this beach is getting so trashy, she remarks.  "I'm no ghost, but
I wish I could see one," she says.  She explains that her
boyfriend died at this beach three years ago trying to surf the
Big Monday wave.  She says she's here to try to surf the wave
tomorrow in place of him, but "if he couldn't, then I probably
won't be able to, but if I don't even try I can never forget him
or marry."
     She thanks him and asks if Ayukawa is his "kanojo", his
girlfriend.  "Be sure to protect her...This is just the beginning
for you two."  Then she walks away.
     Ayukawa wakes up on the way back.  "Good morning," Kyosuke
says.  Got to practice that English there, kid, in time for the
Hawaii OAV.  Ayukawa is alarmed, asks of Koto was really the
ghost.  Kyosuke tries to pretend that she was the ghost but
breaks up in laughter. 
     The next day, Ayukawa is going to ride the Big Monday wave
in place of Koto.  Everyone's concerned, but she says, I'll be
okay -- Koto's boyfriend will protect her in Koto's place.
     Madoka rides the wave, but towards the end, wipes out
terribly.  Kyosuke tries to use his powers to try to pull her out
of the water, but can't find her.  Hikaru wants to swim after
Ayukawa but Yuusaku stops her.  Suddenly, Ayukawa reappears on
the surfboard.  She explains later how a strange force pulled her
out of the water when she thought she'd drowned.  It was Koto's
dead boyfriend after all, she says.  Kyosuke doesn't mind the
mistake.  He celebrates the events of the day by trying out
Ayukawa's surfboard himself...

EPISODE 19:  Futari no taiken kinjirareta koinoshima
     Kyosuke and Madoka are marooned on a deserted island and
     have a romantic experience.

     The gang is at the same seaside resort as last episode,
enjoying their brief summer vacation.  Yuusaku gets an idea --
let's rent rowboats and go out into the harbor.  Good idea,
Yuusaku!
    They set out in two boats, Hikaru and Yuusaku in one and
Kyosuke and Madoka in the other.  The rowing is hard work. 
Hikaru complains about not being in the same boat as "darling." 
Kyosuke takes a short rest and in no time the other boat is far
away, bouncing on the waves.  Their boat is caught in the current
and carried even farther.  To try to meet up with the other boat,
Kyosuke uses his powers to move the boat while he rows.  They end
up at an island in the middle of the bay.  Ayukawa is happy, but
Kyosuke thinks he's failed.
    Nearby, Pops Kasuga, Manami & Kurumi and the perverts are on
a ship, relaxing and enjoying a Japanese family pastime --
photography. 
    Back on the island, Kyosuke wakes up to find Ayukawa gone. 
He eventually finds her bathing in a lagoon, but for some reason
she's a mermaid!  And with new seashells!  It turns out to be a
dream sequence -- Kyosuke is rebuked by Ayukawa for peeping at
her bathing. 
    Afterwards they sit and talk.  "I wonder if Hikaru's okay,"
Ayukawa says. "She's with that jerk," Kyosuke says.  "Yu-kun?" 
Kyosuke says yes and does his best imitation of his "raibaru." 
Kyosuke thinks to himself that being here with Ayukawa is
paradise, and compares the two of them to "that movie"(he's
talking about The Blue Lagoon).  "But...the two people in that
movie..." Ah-hah, he's figured it out!  Next, they run and play
in the sand.
    Meanwhile, Hikaru and Yuusaku are far away from the island,
and Hikaru is trying to rally Yuusaku's manliness.  But he's just
too tired.  Eventually they arrive back at the beach they started
out at.  Just then the boat the others are on passes and Hikaru's
boat is spotted. 
    Back at the island:  more play.  The sun is starting to hang
low.  Kyosuke and Ayukawa look at each other for a long time. 
Something has descended on the two of them.  "Shall we go home?"
she says.  Hikaru and Yuusaku must be worried.  When they get to
where Ayukawa had tied up the boat, however, when they get there,
it's gone!
    Back on land, the others find out that Kyosuke's boat hasn't
been returned at the rental office yet.  Komatsu suggests that
Ayukawa and Kyosuke should be "making out" just fine together and
Yuusaku does a Karate Kid attack on him, making Hikaru cheer.  
"But is Darling really okay?" she says next, deflating
Yuusaku -- she, of course, is a girl "he would very much like to
call his girlfriend."  Dunderheaded Kurumi implies that Kyosuke
must be alright with his powers and Manami and their father laugh
it off.
    A few hundred feet out to see of the island, Kyosuke appears
and falls into the sea.  He's too weak, he realizes, after using
his powers all afternoon to move the boat, to teleport all the
way to shore.  They really can't go home.
    He swims back then spies Ayukawa attempting to climb a cliff
face for help.  She's doing it because it was her fault she
didn't tie the boat up properly.  She falls -- Kyosuke catches
her then falls himself.  A rock ledge lies below them, but
Kyosuke summons up the last of his powers to "zap" it away.
    Night has fallen.  They sit by a fire, talking.  Ayukawa gets
upset at herself for letting the boat drift away.  Kyosuke gives
her an apple and they both get very silent.
    "Ah..." Ayukawa begins.  "Do you remember that first time
working at Abcb?" She's referring to what happened back in
episode 5, with Madoka, tired after closing at Abcb, laying her
head down on Kyosuke's shoulder, asking him if he's stay at her
place that night.  "I remember," he says.  "Will you please
pretend you didn't hear it?"  "Why?" Kyosuke asks.  "That's the
first time I'd ever said anything like that...I said that,
but...Now I just want to keep you special."  "Ayukawa," Kyosuke
says.  Madoka sticks her tongue out.  "I can't help it," she
says.  "I was just a bad kid."
    The fire cracks -- Ayukawa is startled and moves next to
Kyosuke.  They look into each other's eyes for a long moment. 
Suddenly they move to kiss -- and a spotlight shines on them from
above!  It's a rescue helicopter containing who else but
Hikaru-chan...
    Kyosuke thinks to himself:  "Why...does the summer of my 15th
year have to end...?


EPISODE 20:  Hikaru mokugeki!  Gasshuku ha kikenga ippai
     At a tennis camp, Hikaru sees Kyosuke with Ayukawa
     practicing and gets the wrong idea.

    This is the episode where Kyosuke says "sono toki boku wa"
all the time.  It's also the first episode with the new "Ah-ha"
credits, as seen that music video from way back in the 80s.
    As we open, the group is on a train, going to tennis camp for
a week or so.  Ayukawa seems moody, perhaps having something to
do with last episode's adventure on the island with Kyosuke. 
Komatsu and Hatta make fools of themselves then get yelled at by
a "kakko-ii"(good style)tennis instructor named Tatapa-senpai who
has glistening teeth and looks like Umao-san.  All the girls go
crazy for Tatapa-senpai, making the two perverts' candy bars
wilt.
    At the tennis school, no one can even return the ball once to
Tatapa-senpai, but Kyosuke manages to, with the help of Kurumi
using her powers when she shouldn't.  As a result, Kyosuke is
placed in A-class, as opposed to C-class, where Hikaru and most
of the others are.  Hikaru is upset about this, but when Kyosuke
finds out that Madoka is in A-class too, he is secretly glad.
Ayukawa tells Hikaru that she and Kyosuke can come see Hikaru
after practice starts, which makes Hikaru happy.
    Later, Kyosuke runs into Tatapa-san, who tells him that
they'll be practicing together(Tatapa-san thinks Kyosuke is a
tennis pro because he hit one ball right, but Kyosuke really
can't play tennis at all -- "sucks desu").
Kyosuke is worried about having to practice with the imposing
instructor, and decides to get some practice in alone in the
woods.
    Ayukawa happens across Kyosuke and helps him better his
swing.  Meanwhile, everyone is dancing in cel-economic fashion,
and Hikaru wonders where her darling is.  She eventually finds
him, practicing alone with Madoka, and thinks the worst.  Later,
Ayukawa goes to talk to Hikaru, who is pretending to be asleep in
a bed with no sheet and one simple-to-draw blanket that are
common in animation.
    The next day, Tatapa-san, trying to hide from some girls who
are chasing him, gets into a rowboat with Hikaru -- hey, a
"rowing first date."  On the water, he makes a pass at her, but
she resists him and falls in the water, unable to swim. 
Tatapa-san can't swim either, and is too cowardly to jump in
after her.  Kyosuke shows up and manages to save her, however.
    Later, Hikaru goes to see Kyosuke, who, in a dream, cries
out, "Hikaru-chan!  Watch out!"  She is touched that he really
does care for her, and gives him a peck on the cheek.
    Outside, Tatapa-san shows up, fresh from an appointment with
Ayukawa the Dentist.  Back inside, Kyosuke wakes up, confused
about a dream that Hikaru was mad, then kissed him.


EPISODE 21  Kyosuke pinch!  Arashi ga oka no amai sasayaki
     A cute girl scared because of an impending operation
     manipulates Kyosuke into a compromising position and an
     "Ayukawa slap."

    Part two of the Tennis Camp episode.  Jingle wakes up and is
shocked to find himself flying slowly over the landscape.  It's
Kurumi who is doing it, of course-- she's bringing Jingle to her. 
Manami notices her sister using her power and stops her.
    Later, everyone is really, really board watching a tennis
ball go back and forth, back and forth.  Komatsu and Hatta try to
sneak off but are caught.  Kyosuke, however, with his powers of
teleportation, is able to escape the boring situation.
    Out by the lake, Kyosuke throws rocks in the water and
relaxes.  A girl closely resembling Madoka but with glasses shows
up, wearing a hat like the one Madoka gave Kyosuke, but yellow. 
The wind blows it into the water, reminding Kyosuke of his first
meeting with Madoka)and Kyosuke goes to retrieve it for her, but
she tells him not to worry.  The girl introduces herself as
Kumiko(same name as that babe from Karate Kid II)then surprises
Kyosuke by asking if he is "hitori," or single.  She asks him if
there is any girl that Kyosuke likes, and Kyosuke stutters and
says no, not really, without thinking.  Kumiko then takes him by
the arm and they go off, Kyosuke not suspecting that Ayukawa is
hiding behind a tree watching the two of them.
    After they're gone, Komatsu and Hatta tell Madoka about them
seeing Kyosuke with the new girl.  Ayukawa tells them not to tell
anyone, but when Hikaru shows up asking if they've seen Kyosuke,
Hatta almost spills the beans but wets himself instead.
    Kyosuke and Kumiko are running in the grass on the mountains. 
Kurumi falls and Kyosuke falls on top of her and they lie there
like that for a long time.  Kyosuke almost bends to kiss her, but
the wind blows and stops him.  He then notices Kumiko is crying
and is totally shocked.  It starts to rain so Kumiko and Kyosuke
run to where Kumiko lives nearby.  
     Meanwhile, Jingle has just arrived, thanks to Kurumi's
powers.  Manami scolds Kurumi for bringing the cat in her
suitcase and laughs it off.  Lightning strikes again, and
everyone but Hikaru-chan hides under the table.  Hikaru goes out
into the rain to look for her "darling," but Yuusaku stops her,
saying that it's too dangerous.  Ayukawa, who of course knows
about Kumiko, tells Hikaru not to waste her time worrying about a
"jerk like him."
    At Kumiko's house, Kyosuke and Kumiko's clothes are drying by
the fire, and both are in their underwear.  Kumiko approaches
Kyosuke, wearing only a towel and her "bra n' panties," but
Kyosuke turns away.  "Why?  Tell me?" she says, and lowers the
towel.  He says, "I'm sorry," turning away again.  "Am, I not
pretty?" she asks, hurt, and Kyosuke tells her vehemently that
no, that's not the problem.  "Because I'm only a junior high
school student, this is bad!" he tells her by way of an excuse. 
"Well, just think about it," Kumiko tells him, upset at being
turned down.
    Meanwhile, Madoka is playing her saxophone in the rain.  As
she plays, the sun comes out, and Hikaru says, "I'm going to look
for darling."  Outside, everyone is walking around, calling
Kyosuke's name.  Madoka finds a Kurumi's handkerchief and, to
throw the others off the trail, tells them to look further down
the mountain.  She is going to go in the direction of the
handkerchief.  
    Back at Kumiko's house, she's crying, and says, "I'm so
embarrassed." Kyosuke tells her to get dressed, but
unfortunately, at that moment Madoka appears outside the cabin,
walking towards them.  Kyosuke notices her but doesn't know what
to do.  Madoka walks in, without a search warrant(this is Japan
after all), sees Kumiko half-naked, then sees Kyosuke's feet
sticking out from under the clothes on the clothesline.
She parts the clothes to make sure it's Kyosuke -- Kyosuke says,
"Hi!" lamely -- then leaves.  Kyosuke goes after her and Madoka
stops and turns around slowly.  She's so upset there are eight,
count them, eight of those little vibrating "emotion reflections"
in her eyes as she deals Kyosuke a deadly "Ayukawa slap."  Then
Kumiko appears at the door, pleading for Madoka to stop.  "We
didn't do anything!  It's the truth!  I'm sorry, I made him do
it, I thought it would be okay.  I thought it would be okay to do
anything."  She explains that she's going to get a dangerous
operation next week, and this was why she was trying to have sex
with Kyosuke. 
    In the end, Madoka, Kurumi and all the others put cute little
floaty boats in the water(more Karate Kid II refs)to give Kumiko
good luck with her operation.  "We'll do this again next year,"
Madoka says.  The geeks want to know what Kyosuke did with Kumiko
and tell him that Ayukawa, too, saw him walk away with her. 
Kyosuke is surprised why Madoka didn't stop him back then. 
    Later, the group receives a postcard from Kumiko, writing
that the operation was a success and thanking them for all they
did.  Kyosuke thinks to himself:  "Kyosuke Kasuga:  this was the
end of the great circle of my summer."

EPISODE 22:  Otonano kankei!  Madoka himitsu no asagaeri
     When Madoka joins a local rock band without telling Kyosuke,
     he gets the wrong idea completely and puts everyone's
     relationships in jeopardy.

    In a blatant attempt to fill the episode out, Kyosuke
reminisces back to episode 17 when he suddenly noticed Madoka's
cleavage.  Kyosuke goes into Abcb but is surprised to find that
Madoka's not there -- an older, beautiful woman has taken her
place.  We then see Ayukawa with a mysterious man she calls
"Shu-chan"(the "chan," a dimunitive variant of "san" implies
closeness).  Going back to Abcb, Kyosuke has just spilled his
coffee, crying "Ayukawa quit?"  The new woman behind the counter
teases Kyosuke, implying that he must like Ayukawa, but he laughs
it off with a little more vigor than he needs:  "Me and Ayukawa? 
Hahahaha!"  Kyosuke suddenly remembers something about Ayukawa
telling Kyosuke the other day that she wouldn't be at Abcb that
night, and Kyosuke leaves in a hurry. 
    Meanwhile, in a grocery store, Hikaru-chan obviously knows
something about what's going on with Madoka, and almost gives it
away.  Hikaru ditches him to avoid giving away the secret,
sending Kyosuke into a pile of stacked cans.  Hikaru wants to go
help her Darling, but Yuusaku stops her, telling her that "this
is for Madoka-san."  The implication is that Madoka's got a
boyfriend that she wants to keep a secret from Kyosuke.  Later,
Kyosuke is at Komatsu's house with Hatta.  The geeks tease their
friend by pretending to be calling Ayukawa's phone answering
machine and pretending to be him, but they were really calling
Kyosuke's sister Kurumi.
    The next morning, Kyosuke is passing by a building when he
sees Ayukawa and her mystery man Shu-chan emerge.  The way they
talk(informally)makes Kyosuke think they're really close. 
Shu-chan asks if she wants some breakfast after the all-nighter,
but she says she's fine.  Madoka and her man get in a car and
drive away, Ayukawa seeing Kyosuke hiding behind a bush as they
pull away. Kyosuke is really upset, and he sees that all the
buildings around where is he are named things like Hotel Candy
and Hotel Persian Love, and thinks that Ayukawa has just spent
the night with this man in a cheap hotel. While Kyosuke is at the
playground thinking, the beautiful woman from Abcb shows up, and
introduces herself as Yukari.  She is very forward and asks if
Kyosuke likes her.  Before Kyosuke can act, she takes him by the
arm, winking at him.
    At a "girl's" movie called Love Story, Kyosuke begins to fall
asleep, and starts picturing Yukari and himself instead of the
actors on the screen.  His hand falls on her, and she snuggles
close to him.
    At a crosswalk, Hikaru shows up, and Kyosuke becomes tense. 
Hikaru screams and beats him on the chest, but not because he's
walking around with this strange beautiful woman named Yukari,
but because Kyosuke didn't tell Hikaru that he already knew "the
secret"(which Yukari is a part of, and if Kyosuke is with Yukari
then he must know already, although he doesn't). 
    After eating, Hikaru tells Kyosuke and Yukari, let's go.  She
is saying, let's go see Madoka's premier in the rock band she's
playing in(of which Yukari is the lead singer), but Kyosuke think
they're all going to go do something with Ayukawa and her new
boyfriend.  "I'm not going to go," he says, confusing both Hikaru
and Yukari, and he and Yukari leave.  Outside, Yukari says,
"Let's go to a good place," implying that the two of them will go
to a hotel and do grown-up things.
    Meanwhile, at the hotel where Ayukawa and the band will be
playing, Hikaru has told Madoka what happened with Kyosuke.  "He
said he wouldn't come?" Ayukawa says, thinking that Kyosuke knows
the whole story but still will not come and see her play. 
Madoka's mystery man shows up and is revealed as a member of the
band, the drummer.  Madoka suddenly remembers Kyosuke seeing her
after staying up all night with Shu-chan the morning before and
thinks she understands. 
    Meanwhile, Yukari has taken Kyosuke to a "rabu hoteru" called
1987 Candy(good name).  Yukari says, let's go, and when Kyosuke
doesn't move, she says, "I understand now.  It's your first
time."  Kyosuke tries to deny it(ba ha ha)and thinks to himself
that he isn't sure if he wants to be a part of a relationship
that is this grown-up.  He remembers Ayukawa with her mystery
man, however, and goes into the hotel with Yukari, angry and
wanting to hurt Madoka.
    In the hallway, Yukari corners Kyosuke and makes like she's
going to kiss him.  She opens the door instead, and Kyosuke falls
inside, but it's not a cheap hotel room, but one of those big
rooms they rent out for Creation Cons.  Kyosuke is shocked to see
Ayukawa playing guitar for a band.  Kyosuke is so confused.
    Shu-chan stands up and tells everyone not to worry, Yukari is
here now.  He then introduces the "new face" in the band, Madoka
Ayukawa.  Kyosuke now knows the truth and feels silly.
    Yukari appears in costume and starts to sing a song that
Madoka wrote.  During the course of the song, she takes a ribbon
and ties it around Madoka in a heart-shape, who is surprised, and
throws the other end to Kyosuke -- nudge nudge, knowwhatahmean? 
Ayukawa is so surprised she stops playing, but somehow the music
doesn't stop.  This song is a rare treat for Robotech fans --
singing with actual lip-syncing.  Wow!
    Back at Abcb, Yukari and Shu-chan are having a fight. 
Kyosuke rises to see what's the matter, but Ayukawa tells him to
stay where he is.  "Those two people are adults," she tells him. 
She then remarks to Kyosuke that Shu-chan is her cousin(his full
name is Shuichi Sawada), surprising Kyosuke again.


EPISODE 23:  Kyosuke Madoka daigenka!  Koino ninninsankyaku
     When Kyosuke and Madoka must represent their class in a
     school marathon, they get into an argument about which of
     them would win.

    Kyosuke is shopping with Hikaru-chan but has to evade Yuusaku
when he shows up, angry because Kyosuke is with Hikaru.  Yuusaku
ends up getting the stuffing knocked out of him when he goes into
the wrong dressing room.
    There is to be a marathon at the school, and each class has
to nominate some runners to participate even though no one wants
to.  Komatsu and Hatta conspire to nominate Kyosuke, who is too
out of it to defend himself.  Ayukawa, absent that day, also gets
chosen by the class. 
    At Abcb, Ayukawa upsets Kyosuke by implying he's too weak to
put up a good showing and that she'll have to stay back with him
so she doesn't offend him.  Kyosuke fantasizes about smacking her
around and her apologizing for what she said but this doesn't
really happen.  In the end, Kyosuke leaves Abcb in a huff.
    While trying to get into shape, Kyosuke kicks around the idea
of using his powers to enable his class to win and him to beat
Madoka.  He checks out a public restroom as a possible place to
teleport where no one can see him, but Hikaru surprises him and
he tells her that he was checking to see if it was clean or not.
    At the shoe lockers, Madoka and Kyosuke meet again.  Madoka
tries to be nice, but Kyosuke sticks his tongue out at her.
    Later, Kyosuke is practicing, running alongside Hikaru-chan--
Kyosuke truly is a "girly man."  Yuusaku wants to train alongside
Kyosuke, just to be near Hikaru-chan, but Hikaru tells him to get
lost.
    At home, Manami is tending to Kyosuke's broken body. 
Takashi, their father, reminds Kyosuke to be sure not to use his
powers at school.
    More training, this time taking them past Abcb.  Ayukawa sees
how bad off Kyosuke is and feels sorry for him, but he sees her
looking at him and tells Hikaru to keep going.
    Lying on a bench by himself, Kyosuke is going over his plan
to use his teleporation to win the race.  Ayukawa shows up to
call off the bet and apologize, but ends up pushing him into a
fountain, which, in the Izumi Matsumoto universe, will cause you
to catch a cold 100% of the time.
    Kyosuke is sitting in the bath, thinking about the race and
his sickness, but his power goes off accidentally and he
teleports, nude, into an Ushiko/Umao-san love scene, then gets
rained on.
    Hikaru tells Ayukawa that she feels sorry for her Darling,
saying that maybe he practiced too much.  Ayukawa knows he's sick
and feels bad about causing his cold.
    At Kyosuke's house, Ayukawa comes to see Kyosuke, who opens
the door for her using his powers, thinking it must be one of his
sisters.  "Who is it? Kurumi?  Manami?"  When he finds out who it
is, he says, "Don't come in, who let you in here?"  Ayukawa is
really sad.  Kyosuke finally lets her come in and she takes good
care of him.  "You'll be okay," Madoka says.  Kyosuke suddenly
looks at Ayukawa, and the little "emotional reflectors" in their
eyes start to jiggle.  He hugs her tightly, or does he?  No, he
really hugged his pillow.  Ayukawa tells him that she doesn't
feel good about the two of them running in the marathon
separately as opposed to as a team.  "Of course!" Kyosuke says,
realizing that the cold is an excuse to get out of his bet with
Madoka.  They should run as a team after all.
    The day of the marathon has come, and everyone is running. 
Kyosuke and Madoka are running together, resting and taking it
easy.  After several hours, everyone else has come in and
Hikaru-chan is wondering where Madoka and Kyosuke are.  After a
while, the two of them show up and run to where Hikaru and
Yuusaku are waiting for them.  


EPISODE 24: Kazuya toujou!  Panic kid ni goyoujin
     Kazuya, Kyosuke's little cousin, is introduced, and he tries
     to use his powers of mind-reading to help Kyosuke out with
     his relationship problems. 

    Kyosuke is on his way out when a small version of himself
runs into his family jewels -- it's his cousin Calvin, er, I mean
Kazuya, who looks exactly like Kyosuke except that he's only five
years old.  Takashi explains who Kazuya is and asks that somebody
take responsibility for him for the day and take him outside. 
Kurumi and Manami are happy to do this but Kazuya says, "I hate
childish girls."  So Kyosuke must take Kazuya with him.
    On the way to Abcb, Kyosuke runs into a big tough guy who
tries to pick a fight.  Kazuya proves he's a Japanese anime
version of Calvin by yelling, "Hey, watch where you're walking!"
as the man passes by.  At Abcb, Kazuya is a big hit with Ayukawa. 
Kyosuke is shocked when Kazuya touches Madoka's breasts lovingly
and calls them "guramah", which refers to the, ah, size and
curvature.  Kyosuke pulls Kazuya out of there in a hurry, but
Madoka catches up with them and asks them to wait for her.
    While she calls the Master at Abcb to ask for the day off so
she can be with Kazuya and Kyosuke, Kyosuke wonders idly what
color panties Madoka has on today.  "Pink," Kazuya answers, and
uses his power to make a wind to conveniently lift her skirt. 
"See?"  Kyosuke wonders at how Kazuya knew what he was thinking. 
On the train, Kyosuke goes over all that has happened, and
wonders if, somehow, he, Kyosuke, might not have the power of
telepathy and he just didn't know about it.
    Back at the Kasuga ranch, Hikaru-chan has shown up asking
about her Darling.  Kurumi shakes the rocks in her head back and
forth and they make the sound "bu-rum, bu-rum" to show that she
doesn't know where they are. 
    Meanwhile, Madoka and Kyosuke are walking Kazuya around the
playground("New Tokyo"), having great fun.  When Madoka climbs a
jungle gym, Kazuya pushes her(accidentally?), and Kyosuke must
catch her.  This he does, but he cops a feel on the way down,
accidentally.  He thinks to himself, "That felt good," and Kazuya
repeats this for Madoka's benefit.
    Later, Kazuya proves he has thick skin by swinging on vines
with Jingoro-chan hanging on to his shirt.  Kyosuke brings drinks
to the others.  "A very energetic kid," Madoka says. 
"But...mysterious."  Madoka comments that Kazuya looks a lot like
Kyosuke.  Kyosuke thinks again about the possibility that he
might have telepathy, but just then Kazuya comes up and, in
Kyosuke's head, says, "You can't read her mind...I'm the one with
the telepathy.  Hey, why don't I read Madoka-onechan's heart for
you?"  Kyosuke over-reacts and embarrasses himself in front of
Madoka in the process.
    Next they go to the zoo, but Hikaru-chan sees them and,
somehow(through gross stupidity no doubt)comes up with the idea
that Kazuya is Madoka and Kyosuke's son, that they actually had a
child without Hikaru knowing about it(bwahahahahahaha, oh well,
Hikaru will get hers in the Orange Road movie).  Kyosuke runs
after her and manages to make her listen to the truth. Kazuya
asks Hikaru if she is Kyosuke's girlfriend, and Kyosuke chokes on
his answer, denying it, telling Hikaru that it's because Kazuya
is just a little kid.  Kazuya reads Kyosuke's true feelings and
decides to do Kyosuke a favor by making "this girl give you up." 
In a train tunnel, he tells Hikaru that Kyosuke really loves
Madoka, crushing Hikaru-chan and making her run away.  Kyosuke
chases her and tells her not to believe anything he hears from a
kid like Kazuya.  Hikaru-chan hugs Kyosuke in happiness, which
turns Madoka off.

    Later, eating Ice Cream, a word which doesn't need to be
capitalized but is anyway, Kazuya arranges to have Madoka take
him away to clean ice cream off his clothes.  Alone, Hikaru
laments that she is an only child, saying "You have Manami and
Kurumi, and Madoka has her sister, but I..."  "You've got me,
haven't you?" Kyosuke says.  This pleases Hikaru-chan so much
that she just sits there and purrs.  Kazuya and Madoka return,
and Kyosuke now realizes he's done more damage to his
relationship with Madoka than before.
    Running for the train, Ayukawa is still a cold fish.  Kazuya
uses his powers to fix it so that they get separated from he and
Hikaru, so that Kyosuke and Ayukawa can be alone.  On the train,
a "chi-kahn"(pervert on a train)tries to get funny with Madoka,
but Kyosuke inserts himself between the two.  I won't let anyone
touch Ayukawa, he thinks to himself.  Madoka warms up and says,
"Ne, Kasuga-kun, I guess the two children want to go off
somewhere alone together," which is incidentally pretty mean to
say about Hikaru-chan.  The train stops and Hikaru and Kazuya are
there.
    Walking home, Kazuya shines to Kyosuke, "You didn't do it
quickly enough." He then runs ahead of the three and says,
"Oneesan-tachi, is it really okay like this?"  He's referring the
games they each play in order to keep the love/friendship
triangle intact.  Madoka takes this to heart and proves it by
going home and playing stock saxophone music into the night air.
    Nearing his own house, Kyosuke is met by Kurumi and Manami,
who give him some bad news:  Kazuya's family is moving to the
neighboring town -- Kazuya will be around forever, or at least
for the next three episodes!


EPISODE 25:  Abunai jikoanji!  Kyosuke-kun henshinsu
     Kyosuke accidentally self-hypnotizes himself into an asshole
     and finds mixed results.

     Little Kazuya joins the Kasuga family for breakfast, and
does Jingle a favor by feeding him at the table(of course, since
Kurumi didn't cook this time).  When Kyosuke gently scolds him
for it, everyone decides that Kyosuke has something wrong with
him, that he's not forceful enough, and lets him know it. 
Broken, Kyosuke stares at himself in the mirror and inadvertently
self-hypnotizes himself to be stronger.  Transformed, Kyosuke
becomes "kakko-ii," Mr. Slick.
     The new Kyosuke upsets Kurumi by using his powers
openly, teleporting to school and what not-- she doesn't think
she should have to not use her powers when others are around but
her brother can.
     At school, Kyosuke is a true extravert, languishing in the
attention everyone now gives him, using his powers in dangerous
ways.  Kurumi, in school, is learning from Kyosuke's new bad
example and is using her powers around others, too.
     With his new insensitivity, Kyosuke hurts Hikaru's feelings
by telling her he can't eat the lunch she's brought for him--
he's already eaten all the other girls' presents.
     Ayukawa, after talking with Hikaru on the roof of the
school, goes to talk to Kyosuke.  Kyosuke surprises her by asking
him out that night.  "Jya, 6:00, in front of Mobieus Disco."  She
is so surprised by Kyosuke's new image that she can't refuse.
     They go on their date, Kyosuke still acting like an asshole. 
"What happened?  Your new style..." Madoka asks.  "If you see
that in me, it must be your fault," he replies.  Madoka blushes
and excuses herself to the ladies room, returning to find her
Kyosuke feeding the same line to other girls.
     She drags him outside and dunks his head in the water,
saying, "I like you better as yu-jyu-fu-dan(a weenie, I guess)." 
These words echo as Kyosuke looks into the water and returns to
his normal nice-guys-finish-last state. 
     The next morning, Kyosuke is embarrassed to hear what a jerk
he was in front of everyone at school.  At school, an army of new
female admirers along with Komatsu and Yuusaku all await him for
a payback. 


EPISODE 26:  Kodomoni natta Kyosuke!  Madoka ni sekkin
     Kyosuke is tricked by Kazuya into changing bodies, and
     Kazuya proceeds to mess up Kyosuke relationships with Hikaru
     and Ayukawa.

     Madoka is angry at Kyosuke for tearing a notebook she had
leant to him, and shows it by throwing him against a wall of shoe
lockers. 
     At the Kasuga home, Komatsu and Hatta meet Kazuya for the
first time, and tease him about how much he looks like Kyosuke. 
Kazuya retaliates by reading their intentions(to be alone with
Kurumi and Manami)and calling in their father into the room to
spoil their fun.
     Kyosuke meet Kazuya at a playground, and listens to Kazuya's
complaints about how confusing women are.  When Kazuya tells him
that, if they change bodies using Kazuya's power, Kyosuke can use
Kazuya's telepathy ability to read Madoka's true feelings.  This
makes up Kyosuke's mind and they smash heads.
     When he comes to, Kyosuke(really Kazuya now)is walking off
with Hikaru-chan to see a movie, and he's become Kazuya.  Kazuya
has become an instant jerk as he walks away with Hikaru.
     Later, Kyosuke(in Kazuya's body)follows Ayukawa, trying to
position himself to read her thoughts with his "new" powers.  He
tries the power but can't read anything.  Kazuya had been lying;
he can't use Kazuya's powers of telepathy.  So Kyosuke decides to
make use of his new body and to be cute and ask what Madoka's
feelings are as Kazuya.
     Elsewhere, Kazuya, on his date with Hikaru, wishes aloud
that they had seen the Godzilla 3-d movie rather than the film
they're seeing.
     Kyosuke as Kazuya, back on the street, gets into some
trouble with some tough guys from the Hokuto no Ken universe, but
Ayukawa comes to his rescue, getting Orange Calpis on her blouse
in the process.  She takes him home with her to clean up.
     Ayukawa dresses in front of Kyosuke then prepares to go back
to Abcb.  Kyosuke looks at a picture of her and Kyosuke, taken at
the beach back in episode 8, then suddenly has to go to the
playground and think about what this means-- Ayukawa keeps a
picture of him on her desk-- and to find Kazuya.
     At the playground, he meets Kazuya in his body and wants to
change back, but Kazuya isn't finished yet experimenting with
girls and stops Kyosuke from bumping heads just yet.  He ties up
Kyosuke, who cries, "What are you going to do to Ayukawa...?!"
    Kazuya in Kyosuke's body shows up at Abcb, preparing to act
out everything out with Madoka just as he saw in the movie with
Hikaru-chan, but Kyosuke(again, in Kazuya's body)shows up,
remembering at the last moment that he can still use his own
powers and save the day.


EPISODE 27:  Nerawareta Madoka!  Kyosuke otokono shoumei
     A tough gang of girls is out to get Madoka, partially
     incapacitate with a cast on one arm and leg, and Kyosuke
     tries to defend her.

     Starting out, we see Madoka getting narrowly hit by a truck
and injured.  Hearing the news the next day, Kyosuke is alarmed
and wants to go see how she is.  Kyosuke's father says, why don't
you also take Kurumi and Manami, but Kyosuke doesn't want to,
because he wants to be alone with Ayukawa to take care
of her(it's his "futari-kiri chance").  Kazuya reads his mind and
relays it to the others, and they all say, "Of course!" at the
same time.
     At Madoka's house, Kyosuke has brought flowers, but Hikaru
is there and thinks they're for her.  Kyosuke asks Madoka how she
got injured and she gives him an evasive response.  "I fell down
the stairs," she says.  Yeah, that's the ticket.
     Later, Kyosuke is accosted by some ugly broads who inquire
as to Ayukawa's whereabouts-- Kyosuke gets an idea that Madoka
has gotten into trouble with these tough girls by fighting and
that's how she really got hurt.
     That night he has a "prophetic dream" about Ayukawa, still
with her broken arm and leg, fighting these girls and losing. 
Kyosuke, wanting to defend his true love, decides to do push-ups
to get strong, but he can only do three(he's such a wimp).       Kyosuke goes to school, dressed like a catcher in a Baseball
game, and attracts lots of attention.  At Abcb, Hikaru-chan's
going to take Madoka's place and help out.  When Madoka has to go
to the hospital for a check-up, Kyosuke has Yuusaku(his rival)
go with her in case there's any trouble.

     Later, the girls show up outside Ayukawa's house, marching
like an army.  Kyosuke sees them but doesn't tell Madoka, and
goes back to practicing his Kendo(sword-fighting).
     At Abcb, Madoka gets tired of Hikaru's constant babying and
knocks over her creamy jello in anger, upsetting Hikaru, who was
only trying to help.  She goes out to think and Kyosuke follows
her to talk to her.  He tries to tell her about the thugs but
decides not to. 
     The bad girls show up at Abcb and Hikaru tells them she's
Madoka, getting herself and Yuusaku beaten up.  Going back from
the canal, Kyosuke and Madoka meet Komatsu and Hatta, beaten up
also, who tell them about the fight at Abcb.
Ayukawa returns to Abcb and, apologizing to Hikaru(who says,
"Will you eat my cloudy lemon jello now, Madoka-san?" pitifully),
then fights all the girls, fulfilling Kyosuke's prophetic dream,
although she doesn't lose.
     Suddenly a tough chick named Yoko-san shows up, stopping the
fight.  Her little sister points Madoka out as the one who had
saved her dog that time on the street.  Yoko slaps around the
younger girls who were trying to beat up Madoka(they thought she
had actually stolen the dog), and all is well in the end.  Madoka
admits that she really got hurt rescuing the dog from in front of
a truck, but hadn't said so because it was embarrassing.


EPISODE 28:  Kikenna kesshin!  Manami-chan no daibouken
     Manami, searching for a man, puts away her glasses and
     dresses up, only to go out on a date with Kyosuke.

    Manami-chan, transformed with a wig and contact lenses, is
walking around, thrilled at how she looks and searching for a
boyfriend.  Meanwhile, Kurumi has cooked dinner, prompting
Kyosuke and Takashi to wish, wondering about their life insurance
premiums.  When Kyosuke doesn't want to eat what Kurumi has made,
she gets upset, so Kyosuke eats every bite like the considerate
brother he is.
     Manami tries to meet a boy, coming on very strong, but no
one seems to want to talk to her.  She feels sad, but keeps
looking.  Three female waru(which means "bad people" and comes
from the word "warui" which means bad)show up, sickened by the
dress and attitudes of the new girl in the neighborhood, and ask
her what she's doing around here.  Manami gets them mad at her
then runs away with the three girls in chase, crying "Help me!" 
She falls, losing both of her contact lenses, and the girls are
standing above her.
     Suddeny Kyosuke shows up, with cool new glasses and a new
shirt, and tries to talk the girls
out of beating up this other new girl he's never seen before(it's
really his sister, of course, but he doesn't recognize her
because she looks so different).  To avoid a fight, Kyosuke runs
away with Manami, who can't see any of this, and a chase scene
ensues.
     As they run by Abcb, Madoka and Hikaru see Kyosuke and
wonder what he's doing, running with some pretty new girl and
being chased by three ugly chicks.
     Kyosuke and Manami finally manage to lose the girls, then go
for for a nice walk.  Kyosuke notices that the girl looks a lot
like his sister, Manami, but it couldn't possibly be her. 
Kyosuke brings her ice cream.  He's dressed so cool, that she
can't even tell she's with her own brother, especially without
her contact lenses.
     Manami thanks him for saving her.  As they talk, Manami
tells Kyosuke about her brother at home.  Next, Kyosuke takes
this neat new girl on a date at the fair.  Manami thinks she's
found a really nice boyfriend.  "It was really neat that I met
you," she tells him, going to his side.  Now that she's so close,
he realizes she IS his sister after all.  She thinks she's done
something wrong when he moves away, but he says, "I'm going to
buy some juice, wait here."
Kyosuke goes to a fountain and dunks his head.  Ayukawa and
Hikaru show up then, angry and wanting to know what he's doing
with that pretty new girl.  "Take a good look," he tells them,
and they see that it's Manami, and thus everything is okay.
    So now Kyosuke and Manami can finish their date without
Madoka and Hikaru's wrath.  Kyosuke and Manami go rowing(another
"rowing first date")then sit on a park bench and talk some more. 
She thinks he wants to kiss her and puckers
up.  But he says, let's bring it to an end now.  "If I'm not back
soon, my family will worry," he says.  "It was nice that we could
fly together."  She thanks him again, and he yells something down
to her, but his words are drowned out by a passing truck.
     The three bad girls show up once again, now that Kyosuke is
gone, but Madoka is there to saves Manami-chan.  She takes
Manami's glasses out of her purse and puts them on Manami's face. 
"They look really good on you," she says.
     When Manami(now returned to her normal self)returns home,
Kurumi is all excited and says, "Come look!"  Kyosuke has made
dinner, drawn a bath, and folded the laundry, all for Manami. 
"Oniichan did all this by himself," Kurumi
tells Manami.  Kyosuke has fallen asleep at his desk, glasses and
shirt tucked safely under his bed.


EPISODE 29:  Nakuna Jingoro aito seishun no hatsujouki
     Jingoro(Jingle)acts strange and everyone thinks he's got
     spring fever, but in truth he's lonely for his mommy

The episode begins with a dream sequence of a child getting
seperated with his mother, with the child yelling, "Okaasan! 
Okaasan!"(mother).  It turns out to be Kyosuke, practicing for a
role in an upcoming play.
     Jingle the cat is acting very strange, and everyone wonders
if he hasn't come down with "spring fever."  Kazuya(whose mother
is away, which is why he is at Kyosuke's house)wakes up from his
nap despite Kyosuke's efforts to quiet everyone's talking and
makes his "Kyosuke-oniichan" play an all-night marathon of a
Nintendo game with him.
     The next morning, Kyosuke's got shadows under his eyes. 
Hikaru, who has heard about Jingle-chan from Manami and Kurumi,
suggests that, well, he is a boy cat, and, well, it is
springtime.  Maybe he wants to...This line of reasoning causes
both Kyosuke and Hikaru to blush red, and they both are unable to
keep from staring at a bed which is in the room.  To blow off
some steam, Hikaru goes outside to gargle some cold water and has
a fantasy about she and her "senpai" engaging in that ages-old
custom.  She unfortunately narrates it all verbally, and Yusaku,
nearby, hears it all and feels bad.  She can't picture her
Darling on a bed, somehow-- "It's an image problem," she adds.
Hikaru returns to where Kyosuke is(the nurse's office), but her
Darling is all beaten up because Yusaku got to him first.
    The gang goes to Abcb, nursing Kyosuke's wounds.  Another cat
is there, a female one.  When Ayukawa suggests that the new cat
might be able to relieve some of the pressure Jingle is under,
Kyosuke gets embarassed and tells her not to say such things.
     Meanwhile, at home, Jingle is watching T.V., a commercial
for catfood.  When he sees the spokes-cat, he freaks out, and
tries to get inside the television.
     Meanwhile, in an irrevelant side-story, Komatsu and Hatta
poke their faces through a window in the girl's locker room,
getting Kyosuke, who was just standing there, in trouble.
    Later, Kyosuke and the twins are taking the cat to meet with
other cats and see if he can't hit it off with one of them. 
"Don't be so rough with him," Kurumi says, but Kyosuke tells her,
"It's okay!  It's for his own good." 
     At Ayukawa's house, Hikaru and Madoka are taking care of
Madoka's cat.  Hikaru suggests a good name for the creature --
"Kyosuke!"  But Ayukawa says, that won't do, it's a girl kitty.
     Kyosuke and the geeks draw quite a crowd with their cats,
but each time a cat is placed in front of Jingle-chan, nothing
happens.  Jingle seems totally uninterested.  In order to try to
find out what's wrong with Jingle, Kyosuke asks Kazuya to use his
power to change bodies with the cat.  "Jingle's lonely," Kazuya
says, poking his head out and using his telepathy power.  Kyosuke
diverts the attention of the crowd then takes Jingle back to bump
heads with Kazuya.  After the deed is done, Kazuya(in Jingle's
body)dances, flips up skirts, and does other similarly amazing
things.  Kyosuke is distracted and, before he knows it, Jingle(in
Kazuya's body)has disappeared.
     Jingle/Kazuya is really running down the street, yelling,
"Okaachan! Okaachan!"  He goes to Abcb and asks of the Master,
where is the cat that he had seen Ayukawa with.  the Master isn't
sure what the child is talking about, but Kazuya says, "I know
I'm not wrong!"
     Kyosuke shows up and calls Kazuya by Jingle's name in front
of the Master, embarassing himself.  He learns from the Master
that Hikaru is with Ayukawa and knows that they must have gotten
into trouble.
     Meanwhile, Hikaru and Ayukawa have met up with two
nondescript anime jerks who tell them that they know where the
cat(meaning Ayukawa's cat that she is carrying around now)lives. 
The two men take them to a junkyard filled with
characters out of Hokuto no Ken.
     As Kyosuke, Kazuya and Jingle are running to try to find
Hikaru and Madoka, we see Jingle flashing back to when he was a
kitten, and the other kittens would push him away from the milk
because he was weak.  His mother licked and cared for him then,
however, and made him feel better.  Jingle(still in Kazuya's
body)yells, "Okaachan!" once more, and Kyosuke realizes what's
been going on.
     Back to the junkyard.  Ayukawa has just beaten most of her
opponents and must face their leader, a giant hulking man whose
name must be Lao.  She kicks him in the family jewels, defeating
him, just as Kyosuke, Kazuya and Jingle show up.
     The fight over, Jingle(still in Kazuya's body)yells
"Okaachan!" and throws himself at Madoka's cat, getting himself a
good set of scratches on the face.  Kyosuke throws Kazuya(the
cat)up into the air, causing the two to crash heads again,
returning to their normal bodies.  Now Jingle, in his normal
body, dives at his mother, but his mother either doesn't
recognize him or isn't his mother, because she just walks away.
    As the sun sets in the junkyard, everyone lets Jingle be
alone with his thoughts.  Ayukawa eventually goes to him and
says, "I'll be your mother," picking Jingle up.  Hikaru comes
too, but Jingle doesn't want either of them and jumps down.


EPISODE 30:  Kinoha monogatari!  Kurumi no hatsukoi jigokuhen
     Confusion strikes as Kurumi falls in love with Hayami-san, a
     cute soccer player, and Kyosuke and Manami try to keep
     her(and Madoka)from being hurt.

     When Kyosuke finds Kurumi staring out into the sky at night,
he knows something must be wrong.  At school, Hikaru and Madoka
know what the problem must be-- Kurumi's in love.  Kyosuke thinks
it's funny.  Hikaru then says, "Now that you mention it, hasn't
Madoka been acting strange lately?  Maybe she's in love or
something too."  "Hikaru!" Madoka says at Hikaru's teasing.  But
Kyosuke isn't so sure.  Could Madoka be in love with someone?     
Kyosuke is filled with thoughts of who Kurumi might be in love
with?  Komatsu or Hatta?  No, no perverts like that.  Yusaku? 
No, he's so dedicated to Hikaru-chan that he'll defy his Senpai
to bring her juice, even though she abuses him constantly.
    Then he finds out-- she's in love with Hayami-san, the cute
soccer player.  She's not alone, either -- everyone seems to be
in love with Hayami.
     At Abcb, Madoka is surprised to hear who Kurumi's in love
with.  Hayami and she had been studying together.  Later, Kyosuke
is surprised to see the two of them together, with Ayukawa acting
like a girl in love.  He gets the idea that Madoka is in love
with Hayami-san!  He even thinks he sees them kiss from far away. 
Hearing Madoka talk about how nice Hayami is doesn't help either.
     When Kurumi goes off on a date with Hayami-kun, Kyosuke
worries-- anyone who could like both Madoka and his sister at the
same time isn't worthy of either one of them.  So he convinces
Manami-chan to dress herself up like Kurumi(using makeup)so they
can save Kurumi's feelings.
     In a Mods Burgers, Kurumi remarks that she isn't making very
good conversation.  Hayami disagrees, and when a man with two
women on each arm walk by, the conversation starts to hum. 
Meanwhile, outside, Manami and Kyosuke practice their plan, with
Manami telling Hiyami to stop because "there's someone else you
like, isn't there?"
     When Kurumi gets up to go to the bathroom, Manami puts the
plan in action.  Unfortunately, when she sees Hayami's clear
brown eyes, she chokes, and says, "Do you like Sukiyaki?!"
instead of what she was planning to say.  She rips his sleeve
then stabs him trying to sew it, and makes a fool of herself. 
Meanwhile, Kyosuke is trying to keep Kurumi occupied by buying
her a really really really really really big sandwich.
     While Madoka and Hikaru say unimportant things in a movie
theatre, Kurumi reveals that she has made Hayami a present -- a
towel with his initials on it.  Hayami then sits down and tells
her, "There's something I have to tell you."
     Meanwhile, Kyosuke is watching the two from the other side
of the fountain while Hikaru and Madoka show up.  Kurumi is
crying -- supposedly, Hayami has told her that he really loves
Madoka, but in fact he told her that he's moving.  Kyosuke
misunderstands and tries to take Hayami to task, but Hayami
dodges Kyosuke's attacks easily.  Madoka stops him and reveals
that, because Hayami was leaving their city, and because Kurumi
liked Hayami, Madoka had asked Hayami to go on a date with
Kurumi, to make her feel better.  Kurumi hears this, however, and
shouts, "I hate you, I hate you all!"
     As the ship is leaving, Madoka apologizes to Hayami for all
the trouble she caused.  Hayami tells her to "keep her own true
love important," which surprises Hikaru-chan since Hikaru knows
nothing of any true love of Madoka's.  Hikaru wants to know who
Madoka loves, but Madoka ignores her.  Meanwhile, Kyosuke, Kurumi
and Manami(who is still dressed up like Kurumi)show up and
apologize for their own parts in the craziness.  In the end,
Hayami departs and everyone waves and holds those little
streamers you see on the Love Boat every week.


EPISODE 31:  Madoka to Yuusaku!  Seishun kakeochi koushinkyoku
     When Ayukawa helps out Yusaku by training with him, Kyosuke
     gets the(stupid)idea that the two are planning a
     double-suicide, but it's only Yusaku trying to win Hikaru
     once again.

     We first see Yuusaku with flowers.  He surprises Kyosuke by
yelling, "I love Madoka-san!" in a loud voice.  Komatsu comes
spreading the newest gossip of what happened, but Kyosuke doesn't
want to hear it.  The girls of the school, too, are gossipping,
but Hikaru-chan denies that such a thing is possible.
     Near her locker, Kyosuke hears Madoka telling off some
busybodies:  "Instead of worring about me, worry about your own
true love," she says with a tough voice.
     While walking, Hikaru and Kyosuke are surprised to see
Yusaku come at them and fly around them, with his arms spread
like an airplane.  He runs off to walk home with Madoka, causing
Kyosuke to worry.  Later, the two peek into Abcb and see Ayukawa
and Yusaku, holding hands with domesticated expressions on their
faces.  Kyosuke is really upset but Hikaru, in a nearby place
called "Spquac," says that, well, Yusaku and Madoka are
long-standing friends, and stranger things have been known to
happen.  Kyosuke asks if anything happened recently with Yusaku
that would bring on the change, and she flashes back to a few
weeks ago, when Yusaku had scared away a kitten she was watching 
with a karate punch while trying to show off.  Hikaru-chan had
told Yuusaku that she hated him then and run off.  Hikaru feels
bad for what she did to Yusaku.
     Kyosuke learns later that Komatsu and Hatta had happened
upon Yusaku right after Hikaru told him to get lost with a lot of
advice on how to make a girl like him.  They imply that they were
surprised that Yusaku could get such a pretty girl as Ayukawa.
     Kyosuke now goes to see Madoka, and confronts her with the
problem.  Before she can answer, he notices an extra pair of
shoes on the doorstep -- Yusaku is inside!  "I'm sorry, but
please go home," Madoka tells him, and closes the door.
     Hikaru calls Kyosuke, upset.  Yusaku is acting like a
"defeated person" and worrying everyone.  Kyosuke thinks that he
might be acting suicidal.  The two geeks show up, fearing that
Yusaku is going to commit suicide.  Kyosuke sets off to find him,
realizing the possibility that Madoka is planning suicide, too. 
"Ayukawa, you can't die!" he cries on the train.
     At the waterfall, he shows up seems to see Yusaku and Madoka
go off the waterfall together, but it is a trick of his angle. 
He finds them, in gi, practicing martial arts.  "Wait a minute!"
Kyosuke says.  "What the hell is going on here?"  Ayukawa tries
to tell him not to obstruct them(she means their training), but
Kyosuke, who thinks they're planning to die together, refuses.
     Suddenly the scene changes and we're at a Karate Kid-style
martial arts tournament.  Yusaku has been having Ayukawa help him
train and psyching himself up.
     Yusaku does really good, and Kyosuke tells Hikaru to cheer a
little louder, as she would do more good than any of them. 
Kyosuke uses his powers to steal the announcer's mike, allowing
her to cheer even louder.  Yusaku nearly wins the tournament, but
at the last moment sees Hikaru-chan with her "darling" and loses
the fight.


EPISODE 32:  Tanjoubi ha nidokuru!?  Tokino kakeru Kyosuke
     Kyosuke first creates problems by accidentally hypnotizing
     himself into an abrasive jerk, then by doing a timeslip to
     several hours before, so that there are two Kyosukes at the
     same time.

     At 4:02, Kyosuke is sitting on the bed, full of anger,
transformed into "jerk Kyosuke."  Going back to 8:30, however,
Kyosuke is happy, hinting to everyone that it is a special day. 
It is November 15th and Kyosuke's birthday, but no one seems to
know this(side note: Madoka's birthday is April 25th, 1969).
    Back at 4:03 we see pissed-off Kyosuke again, bringing
himself some milk with his powers.  Going back to tomorrow,
however, the non-pissed off Kyosuke is talking to Ayukawa.  He
tells her, tomorrow is my birthday, but she apologizes, saying
that she has something important she has to do.  Kyosuke is
upset, but thinks that surely Hikaru-chan will care.  She's busy
too, however.
     So back to today, at around 4:00, Kyosuke, who is upset by
everyone's forgetting his birthday or not caring, accidentally
self-hypnotizes himself into a jerk alter-personality(as he did
back in episode 25), with old Star Trek special effects in his
eyes.  He looks at Jingoro and says, "What are you? A dog?  A
pig?  A racoon?"
    Ayukawa shows up, entering even though Kyosuke was trying to
ignore her.  He attacks her, apparently intent upon rape.  "Why
are you dressed up so sexy?" he says.  She deals an Ayukawa Slap
to him and Kyosuke returns to his normal self(one of the many
healing powers of the Ayukawa Slap), but not before Hikaru, with
Pipi Longstockings-style pig tails, can see Kyosuke perched atop
Ayukawa.  She runs away, screaming, and he chases her down the
99.5 stairs where he and Ayukawa first met.  She slaps him,
causing him to lose his balance, and he falls, hitting his head. 
Because of the nature of his powers and of stairs in the Orange
Road universe, this of course sends him back in time!
    He wakes up on the stairs earlier that day.  Komatsu and
Hatta are walking up with presents and they hide them behind
their backs.  Kyosuke sisters tell him where Hikaru-chan is --
over by where Madoka-san is standing, Hikaru'd said that she
wanted to tell Ayukawa something.  Kyosuke pictures death combat
between the two as a result of what Hikaru just saw, but of
course he doesn't know that it's about 4:00 now, and none of what
happened earlier happened at all.
    Kyosuke goes up to Hikaru and apologizes for what he thinks
Hikaru-chan saw-- Kyosuke on top of Ayukawa.  Hikaru, who has no
clues anyway, doesn't know what he's talking about.  She tells
him about the surprise party for Kyosuke that everyone was trying
to organize, but part of the surprise is that Hikaru has the same
birthday at Kyosuke, and the party is for both of them.  He asks
Hikaru what time it is, and she answers, 4:00.  He finally
realizes what has happened, and is pleased to have been able to
get out of such a sticky situation so easily.  He then realizes
there might be two of him around, and goes home just as he
hypnotizes himself into being a jerk.
     Bad Kyosuke wants to know who this new guy who looks like
him is, and is very threatening about the whole thing.  When
Ayukawa shows up to collect him for the party, Good Kyosuke kicks
Bad Kyosuke where it doesn't count in American animation shows to
get rid of him, then leaves with Madoka.  On the way there Good
Kyosuke remembers that Hikaru-chan went to his house a few
minutes after Madoka showed up, and goes back.  Hikaru-chan is
there, with Bad Kyosuke, who gets violent and tries to rape
Hikaru-chan.  Good Kyosuke gets rid of Bad Kyosuke by dumping him
in a bathtub, then goes and pretends to Hikaru
that he was just joking.  "You wanted to surprise me, so I wanted
to surprise you, too," he says.  Hikaru, who hasn't noticed the
different color shirts, says that he was unfair, but that it was
also "just a little bit of a bummer" that Kyosuke wouldn't really
consider doing something like that to her. 
     On the way to the party with Hikaru, Kyosuke remembers Bad
Kyosuke, and goes back home, telling Hikaru-chan that he has to
go buy her a present.  At home, the two Kyosukes talk about their
problem and what to do about it.  Bad Kyosuke(who isn't bad
anymore, cured by hitting his head in the bathtub)says that,
there's two of them, so one can have Kyosuke and one can have
Madoka, but they both know that's not possible.
     They go back to the stairs and fight about which one will go
and which will stay.  In the end they both fall, but only
Kyosuke(the one who shouldn't be there)goes back in time. 
Regular Kyosuke wakes up on the stairs, his shirt somehow tucked
in by itself, and goes to the birthday party for himself and
Hikaru-chan.  In the middle, however, the other Kyosuke shows up,
ready to party, causing much confusion among everyone.


EPISODE 33:  Ayashino Madoka!  Kinoko de honne %
     The gang goes on a camping trip, having been warned by the
     Master to avoid eating mushrooms, which removes inhibitions.
     When Kurumi makes some placebo mushrooms of the same color,
     everyone's lives are mixed up.

     We begin with Hikaru having a fantasy of her Darling
disappearing when she runs to him, then Kyosuke and Madoka
getting married and saying, "Thanks, Hikaru, we'll be really
happy together."
     The group is planning a camping trip, and the Master is
explaining the various types of mushroom on the mountain that
they should avoid eating.  One, a blue type, removes inhibitions
and acts as an aphrodisiac.  Needless to say, this is the one
they're all interested in. 
     Everyone draws straws to see who will walk with whom. 
Ayukawa thinks she'll probably get Kyosuke, but she has the luck
to get Komatsu(which rhymes with "yatsu")instead.  Hikaru,
however, is happy that she gets to go with Kyosuke.
     On the way up, Hikaru suggests that, if they find some of
those mushrooms, why don't they try them and see what
happens(yes, she wants to Sardinac with him).  Hatta, with
Kurumi, and Komatsu, with Ayukawa, both bother their perspective
partners.  Kurumi, finding some regular orange mushrooms, decides
to have some fun and, using her powers, converts the mushrooms
from orange to blue, just like the aphrodisiac mushrooms.  She
uses a little too much power, however, and turns all the
mushrooms on the mountain blue.
     Meanwhile, Jingle, the Master and Kazuya attempt to cross an
old and hazardous bridge, and nearly fall.  This is
foreshadowing, boys and girls.  They have to try a different
route to meet with the others. 
    Hikaru-chan, meanwhile, is totally happy because she has just
found some of the blue mushrooms.  To escape a sticky situation,
Kyosuke teleports from behind a tree.  He appears right behind
Madoka, who has bent to see some of the blue mushrooms herself,
and crashes into her.  On her way down she takes a bite, so thus
Kyosuke is shocked to see Horny Ayukawa.  "Ka...su...ga...kun,"
she says, and puts her arms around him.  Suddenly, a snake bites
Kyosuke, and she goes down.  Kyosuke gets rid of the snake with
his powers and sucks the poison out of Madoka's leg, and she
tells him thank you an goes to kiss him.
     Hikaru-chan is standing there watching it all, of course, as
these things tend to happen.  She runs away crying.  On her way
past Komatsu, Hikaru pushes him, making him bite a mushroom he
was holding.  Yusaku, hearing her voice, tries to catch Hikaru
and tell her his true feelings.  "I just ate a mushroom," he
tells her, but she doesn't want to hear it.  She slaps him and
runs off, even more upset, leaving Yusaku quite mad.  Kyosuke
runs past after Hikaru.
     Meanwhile, Kazuya is watching everyone from the cabin, and
he sees that Hikaru is going to the dangerous bridge.  Ayukawa
takes off and, with no money down, borrows a horse from Ushiko
and Umao-san.
     Kyosuke shows up and sees Hikaru clinging to the bridge,
full of fear.  "I hate you, don't come near me," she cries, but
Kyosuke goes out to her anyway. He offers her his hand but she
hands him a mushroom and says, "Try this."  "If I eat it, will
you go back with me?"  Suddenly the rope breaks and they both
almost fall.

    Clinging to the bridge, Kyosuke ponders whether or not he
should use his powers even though it would mean giving away the
secret to Hikaru-chan.  "Duke" Madoka shows up, though, on her
horse, and lassos Kyosuke and Hikaru.  The bridge collapses
completely, however, and Kyosuke and Hikaru fall.  Fortunately,
the horse catches the rope in his teeth.
    Now the three sit in a triangle shape, and Kyosuke starts to
explain.  "It's okay," Hikaru says.  Kyosuke has proven his
feelings for Hikaru by attempting to save her and nothing more
needs to be said.
    Then Kyosuke finds the mushroom Ayukawa had eaten before she
tried to kiss him, and she gets embarassed.  Komatsu, meanwhile,
has eaten a lot of mushrooms, and falls in love with Kyosuke.  At
this point all the mushrooms turn back to orange, and Kurumi
admits that she was the one who made the mushrooms.  Kyosuke
knows now that there were no Sardinac mushrooms at all, only
placebos.  He turns to question Madoka about this, but she runs
away laughing.


EPISODE 34: Roots panic fushigino hoshi no Madoka
     After hiking to Kyosuke's grandfather's house, they learn of
     the story of how Kyosuke parents met.

     The hikers are near Ojiichan's house, looking at the
mountains.  Kyosuke notices a log being levitated and decides to
go to his grandparents' house to remind them that no one is
supposed to know about their family's powers.  Getting back to
the group, he finds that Ojiichan is levitating Jingle to the
great delight of everyone.
     Up at the house, Kyosuke reminds his grandfather not to use
his powers. Ojiichan can't see why, but he says he will try.  The
trouble is, Obachan and Ojiichan both use their powers without
even knowing they are doing so.  On Kyosuke's way out, Ojiichan
says, "There's something I forgot to ask.  Between Hikaru and
Madoka, which do you like the best?"  Kyosuke is surpsied and
lets out a yell.
     Because powers can't be used in front of everyone, Kyosuke
must split the wood for the fireplace himself.  Kyosuke,
unfortunately, is a wimp.
     Inside, Hikaru remarks that Ojiichan is putting snow in his
whisky instead of ice.  Ojiichhan explains that the snow comes
from the neighboring mountain.  "But there's no snow around this
time of year," says Ayukawa.  "This snow is 10,000 year snow,"
replies Ojiichan.
     Now Ojiichan is going to tell a story of 20 years ago, when
a young "cameraman"(photographer)named Takashi(Kyosuke's pop)came
to the mountain.  He helped a bird with a hurt leg and let it go. 
The bird was a friend of Akemi, the daughter of Ojiichan, and
Takashi's kindness touched her.  Akemi and Takashi walked around
together and finally fell in love.  But Ojiichan, then a
younger man, was opposed to the union.
     To prove himself, Takashi has to climb the neighboring
mountain and bring back a pack full of "mahn nen yuki," the
10,000 year snow.  With the help of the bird he saved, Takashi is
able to accomplish the feat and prove his love of Akemi. 
     Meanwhile, Jingoro falls into the stream, and everyone runs
off to save him.  Ayukawa, too, falls in, but Kyosuke manages to
save her.  In a woodshed, he wants to take Ayukawa's clothes off
in order to dry them, and undoes one button.  But Ojiichan shows
up with Jingle and his shovel and stops him.  Ayukawa wakes up
and wonders what was going on...
     At a bonfire down at the village, Kyosuke is trying to hit
objects with a cork gun.  Ayukawa is there and gives him some
pointers.  She asks him about the story Ojiichan told.  "It was
your mom and your dad, right?"  She sees a doll that she would
like, and with the last cork, he hits it and wins it for her.


EPISODE 35 Camera de H! Robot Kyo-chan
     When Kurumi uses her powers of hypnosis to put Kyosuke into
     a state where he does anything anyone tells him, Komatsu and
     Hatta take advantage of this.

     We first see "Mr. Lingerie Kyosuke" -- a phantom demon who
swoops down and steals panties off girl's bodies and disappearing
like a ninja.  Kyosuke, who seems somehow out of it, with
drooping eyes, has an armful of panties and bras which he
delivers to Komatsu and Hatta, the Orange Road universe's
resident sex offenders.  The two put their heads together to come
up with more for their mysterious Robot Kyosuke to do for them. 
In the end they have him steal the panties off three famous
singers who are nearby, which he accomplishes with his
teleportation powers.  "They're still warm!" Komatsu cries.  The
two consider asking for Hikaru-chan's panties but decide to have
Kyosuke bring them a picture of Ayukawa in the nude instead. 
Unfortunately, Kyosuke has already gone to get Hikaru's panties.
     Next we learn what has happened.  Kurumi has zapped Kyosuke
with her hypnosis powers and turned him into a mindless robot who
does what anyone tells him.
     In front of Abcb, Ayukawa sees him, and tells him that,
since Hikaru-chan is moving today, he should go and help her move
boxes.  She can't, she's busy at Abcb.  Interpreting Ayukawa's
words as a command, Kyosuke immediately disappears just as
Ayukawa turns away.  Kyosuke shows up at Hikaru's house, to the
shagrin of Yusaku.  Hikaru is happy to see him nevertheless. 
Yusaku says, "Go home!" and Kyosuke turns to
obey, but Hikaru cancels the command.
  Kyosuke takes some of Hikaru's panties out of a drawer, obeying
the previous command by Komatsu and Hatta, still in a strange
mood, and when Hikaru sees him, she thinks he is taking her
panties because he is sexually frustrated, and this is how he
gets his jollies.  "Darling, I'll try to be more open-minded,"
she tells him.
     The twins are at Abcb, still looking for Kyosuke.  They
picture Hikaru ordering Kyosuke to do "e-chi"("H" which stands
for "hentai" and means pervert)things to her -- "Get in the
bath!" -- and immediately go to Hikaru's house, using
teleportation powers which they don't really have.  They're able
to foil Hikaru's plans to get Kyosuke to kiss her with their
powers.  Yusaku says, "If you're not going to help, go back to
Abcb!" and Kyosuke obeys, teleporting in front of Yuusaku.
    The geeks now show up and carry Kyosuke off, telling him,
"Take Ayukawa's picture nude and bring it here!"  Kyosuke goes to
obey, but is waylaid with requests by his father to bring him
some cigarettes, and also by Kazuya, who wants Kyosuke to bring
him some Ice Jyuko.  Confused, he brings all those things to
Ayukawa at Abcb.  
     He then pulls the blinds and locks the door and prepares to
take her picture.  "Take it off, please," he says.  Ayukawa,
thinking it's all a joke, decides to go along for a while, but
she has soon changed her mind, and he chases her around the room. 
Meanwhile, everyone's at the door, wanting to come in.
     In the end Kurumi admits that she hypnotized him(although
she doesn't talk about her powers), and that's why he was acting
like that.  Kyosuke, now back to normal, tries to sneak off, but
Ayukawa catches him.  Kyosuke closes his eyes, preparing for one
of Madoka's patented Ayukawa Slaps, but she just pinches his nose
playfully, saying, "I'll never forgive you!"


EPISODE 36 Saraba Kyosuke video ni utsutta chounouryoku
     When Komatsu and Hatta witness Kyosuke's esper abilities,
     they set out to capture proof on their video camera.  If
     they succeed, Kyosuke's family will have to move again.

    We start out with a scene from a movie Komatsu and Hatta are
shooting with a video camera.  "Katto!" cries Komatsu, the
director.  We are shown in a flashback Hikaru trying to get
Ayukawa to be in the movie too.  Ayukawa doesn't want to, but she
is convinced in the end.  When Kyosuke accidentally falls down a
staircase, using his teleportation power to save himself, Komatsu
and Hatta see it all.  They'e excited, and accuse him of being an
esper, but Kyosuke denies it.  Komatsu wants to do a Superman
type movie starring Kyosuke using his powers, but Kyosuke wants
no part of it.  Of course, the reason is that if people know of
the Kasuga family's powers, the family will have to move again.
     The two begin a long campaign of trying to get Kyosuke to
use his super-powers on camera so they will have proof.  But
Yusaku, wearing a Terminator mask, can't do it.  Dropping prop
rocks on him doesn't work.  What will they do?
     The geeks try going to Hikaru-chan for help.  They want her
to help expose Kyosuke as an esper, and to this she agrees.  When
she starts changing lines during the filming, saying, "You're an
esper, I'm right, aren't I, aren't I?"
     Kyosuke figures out that Komatsu and Hatta have told her
what they saw.  He nervously looks over at Ayukawa, watching on
the side.  Kyosuke happens upon Ayukawa practicing her lines in
class.  "I could hear your voice," he tells her.  Kyosuke tells
Madoka that this kind of role becomes her, and when she drops her
script, they touch accidentally.  "Ayukawa..." Kyosuke says,
seemingly on the verge of telling her his feelings.  "Wait,
Kasuga-kun," she says.  She turns the pages of the script, and
says, "I want to make the memories one by one."
    The climactic last scene is ready to be filmed now.  The plan
is for Hikaru to push Kyosuke off the roof of the school(several
floors up)and have Komatsu get Kyosuke's teleportation on the
camera.  But when she goes to push him, she loses her balance,
and both go over the edge.  "Use your powers!" she cries, holding
on to him, but he says, "I told you, I'm not an esper!"  Hikaru,
thinking that she is going to die, apologizes for trying to trick
Kyosuke.
     Meanwhile, the twins are levitating their bed from home on
which to catch Kyosuke.  Kyosuke decides to use a power other
than teleportation-- such as
telekinesis -- and begins to lift himself and Hikaru up towards
the roof of the school.  But the cheap, American-imported
concrete breaks, and they both fall!  They teleport over Hatta's
trampoline, and Komatsu gets it all on tape.
     So the Kasugas must move from "this town" immediately before
anyone can know about their powers.  At the premier of Komatsu's
movie, Kyosuke has shown up with Manami to say goodbye forever to
Ayukawa.  When the scene where he used his teleportation draws
near, the video fuzzes out.  It was Manami using her own powers
to blot out the video.  The crowd gets angry at Komatsu for
showing them an incomplete film and Kyosuke is safe(although
apparently from this point on Komatsu and Hatta know about the
family's "cho-no-ryok" powers).
     Ayukawa tells Kyosuke that, if he had been a superman, it
would have been really cool.


EPISODE 37  Orange ninkyouden!  Madoka fubuki no taiketsu
     Madoka saves a member of skateboarding gang and then feels
     obligated to fight a duel for her, much to the dismay of
     Kyosuke.

     It is snowing and Kyosuke is running up to a bridge where
Ayukawa is holding a bamboo umbrella.  She is off to a critical
fight and Kyosuke is trying to stop her.  She is knocked to the
ground by a shadowy opponent as she fights.  Kyosuke wants to
step in but he falls off the bridge.  He falls off his stool at
the ABCB cafe.  It was just a dream but is that good or bad? 
Kyosuke is known to have premonition dreams.
     After working at the ABCB, Kyosuke walks Ayukawa home.  One
of Ayukawa's older gang members, Odew, walks out of an alley. 
She has been wounded in the left shoulder.  A female gang pops
out but Ayukawa stops them.  Notice that the leader is a
skateboarder.
     Ayukawa brings Odew over to her house to bandage her cut. 
As she leaves, Madoka feels obligated to help her out.  It is a
dilemma between bringing back her past image or leaving the past
behind.
     At school the next day, a couple tells their friends how
they got harrassed by this girl gang.  Ayukawa remains hidden
while she listens to this information.  Kyosuke is also hiding
behind a tree watching Ayukawa.  He senses that she might take
matters into her own hands.
     Komatsu and Hatta are pretending to be injured to Kyosuke's
sisters in order to get "loving attention".  However, they both
break out into a fight and the girls leave.  The two guys are all
tangled up with Hatta's bandages.
     Hikaru talks with Kyosuke.  She fears that Ayukawa will go
and duel with the gang members.  She does not want to see Madoka
get hurt.
     Other members of the old group come to the ABCB cafe to tell
Ayukawa what the girls' gang is doing.  They also tell her that
Odew has been taken "hostage" by them.  Ayukawa sees that the
gang wants to bait her to go to their hideout.
     At home, Ayukawa thinks back to the old days.  She was in an
alley calmly flipping her guitar pick.  She is surrounded by a
bunch of gang members.  Suddenly, a shadowy figure jumps in and
helps Madoka.  She has a kendama toy which she wields like a pair
of nunchucks.  She quickly knocks out the other gang members and
leaves.  Ayukawa snaps out of her memory sequence and flips 
open her "Pupu-house" box, which is filled with her razor blades. 
She straps a pick carrier on her leg and loads up.  Hikaru steps
into the room.
     Kyosuke is running over to Ayukawa's when it begins to rain. 
He hears a cop car pass by with an APB for gang activity.
     Hikaru tries to talk Madoka into not going to fight.  After
words fail, she tries to hold the door, however, Yusaku opens the
door on Hikaru.  He tries to talk to Madoka but he fails to stop
her.  He gives her a bamboo umbrella and tells her good luck
while restraining Hikaru.
      Ayukawa runs in the snow while remembering several
memories.  Just for fun, I sat down and tried to remember where
all the photographs came from throughout the series.  This is
what I managed to do in one sitting.  You may want to note that
several episodes contain several photographs.  This ought to 
tell you the episodes in which you should pay more attention. 
The photograph and the episode are listed as follows hat
catch(1), cigarette blow up(1), Hikaru+Kyosuke(24), Kyosuke and
mirror(25), Kyosuke in bed(4?), Kyosuke asks Ayukawa out(25),
Hikaru sees Kyosuke+Ayukawa play tennis(20), Ayukawa with arm
bandage(27), Ayukawa blows in Kyosuke's ear(33), Kyosuke falls
asleep(6), Kyosuke in boathouse cap(9), Kasuga watches Ayukawa
change clothes(26), Hikaru+Kyosuke (9), Kyosuke+girls(25),
Kyosuke+Oradumko(21), Kyosuke+Hikaru(10), Kyosuke+Hikaru in
water(20), Kyosuke+Oradumko(21), Kyosuke+Youcari(22), Ayukawa
slaps Kyosuke(too many!)Kyosuke(?), Kyosuke carries Ayukawa(18),
Kyosuke in phone booth looking at Ayukawa(15), Kyosuke+Ayukawa at
disco(25), Kyosuke+Ayukawa on swings(12), Ayukawa swings(12),
Kyosuke behind Ayukawa on subway(26), Kyosuke+Ayukawa by a
tree(14), Kyosuke+Ayukawa close(19), Ayukawa+Kyosuke in
backscape(23), Kyosuke+Ayukawa holding hands(25), Kyosuke+Ayukawa
asleep in his arms(5), Kyosuke holds Ayukawa hand(26), Kyosuke
stares at Ayukawa in disco(25), Kyosuke+Ayukawa almost kiss(33),
Kyosuke+Ayukawa in light(16), Kyosuke+Ayukawa underwater(19),
Kyosuke+Ayukawa running(23), Kyosuke holds Ayukawa(18?), Kyosuke
holds Ayukawa's hand on beach(9), saxaphone(20), ABCB sign(many),
room 3-A sign(many), Kyosuke pleads to Ayukawa(?), Kyosuke sticks
tongue out at Ayukawa(23), Kyosuke+Ayukawa close dance(25),
Kyosuke thrown by Ayukawa(25), Ayukawa+Kyosuke by school(?),
Kyosuke knocked by Ayukawa(?), Ayukawa playing sax by board(12?),
Ayukawa sticks tongue out at Kyosuke(26), and finally the hat
catch(1). 
     Kyosuke catches up to her.  She knows what he wants her to
do but she says "Sorry, I must."  Kyosuke wants to follow but he
slips and falls into the river.
     Umaosan and Ushikosan are setting a scene similar to Kyosuke
and Ayukawa; the guy is begging the woman not to do something.
      Odew is tied up by the female gang.  She tries to make a
break for it but she is knocked down by a skateboard.  Meanwhile,
Ayukawa attacks the two guards standing in the snow by a oil
barrel fire.  She easily gets by them.   Back inside, Odew is
refusing to give up.  The leader is about to fling a board at 
her but the board is mysteriously cut in half.  "It must be
Ayukawa!" she thinks.  Madoka then reveals herself.  The gang
attacks her but she easily knocks down all the members except the
leader, who flies over her swing.  Ayukawa acts fast as she whips
up a pick and it sticks in the leader's hand.
     Kyosuke sneaks into the hideout.  He sticks his head around
a corner straight into Yusaku's ass.  He is told that Ayukawa is
in the warehouse going against the head leader on skateboards. 
Kyosuke calls to her.
     The two boarders start up.  They ride along the support
beams of the skeleton building.  At this time, the rest of the
gang members release Odew to Kyosuke and the group on the ground.
     Ayukawa follows her opponent on her board.  She manages to
avoid getting knocked off by falling pipes.  Ayukawa catches up
to her opponent and parrys with her until they reach a dead end
gurder.  The two girls try to stop but only Ayukawa manages to
grab a support.  The leader falls down screaming with the pipe
still in her hands.  Kyosuke uses his power to "make" her stop by
having her pipe get caught between some beams.  The other gang
members on the ground faint.  Ayukawa rides down on her board and
crashes into Kyosuke.  They hug each other and Kyosuke smiles.
     Odew recovers in the hospital.  Ayukawa is paying her a
visit.  Kyosuke is at the door with a bouquet of roses.  He stops
and peeks in to listen to the conversation.  Odew offers Madoka
some cigarettes but she declines since she does not smoke
anymore.
     At this point, Kyosuke drops his roses.  Ayukawa blushes 
and Odew looks at her slyly.  She knows that the two have
something heavy going.  This embarasses Ayukawa.  It just goes to
show how well the relationship has progressed for two seasons. 
Now, this show starts off the third season and will include some
more serious situations that will affect their lives.  


EPISODE 38  Kyosuke jikanryokou!   do me no Christmas
     Kyosuke has multiple time-slips in order to get the result
     he wants, but all it does is end up making matters worse,
     especially for poor Yuusaku

     Kyosuke is helping set up for a Christmas bash.  He puts the
final touch on a Christmas tree by mounting the star on top of
the tree.  He loses his balance and falls off the ladder.  He
grabs the tree and hauls that down with him.  As soon as he
crawls from underneath the tree, Komatsu opens up a confetti bomb
on him.  "Merry Christmas, Kasuga!"  Hatta pops another, "Merry
Christmas, Mr. Who-jean-who-dan(means Wishy-washy guy)"  The pull
open the curtain where they show Kazuya dressed up in a Santa
suit sitting in a red wagon pulled by Jingoro the cat.  The poor
cat gets whipped like a horse as it pulls the kid around.  Hatta
blows up a balloon and lets it go.  It lands on Jingoro's nose
where it gets popped by the cat.
     At school, everyone is doing their part to clean up the
school.  Komatsu and Hatta are asking Kyosuke's sisters to escort
them to the dance.  When Kyosuke arrives to give his objections,
they ask him who he is going to take.  While he thinks of the
possiblilities, the two perverts take off with his sisters.
     Kyosuke finds Ayukawa and tries to ask her to the Christmas
bash.  However, Hikaru comes flying along and jumps all over
Kyosuke.  She "forces" herself on Kyosuke so he has to take her
out to the bash.  Ayukawa is not impressed as she throws a broom
at him and walks away.  Madoka tears her ticket up as soon as she
gets outside.
     At home, Kurumi and Manami fight over the same dress to wear
to the Christmas bash.  They tug at it until finally they rip the
dress in half.  They get mad at each other and start using powers
on each other.  Manami gets the upper hand for the moment as she
levitates Kurumi above the door.  Kyosuke walks in and tells them
to cut it out!  Kurumi lands on Kyosuke's shoulders and squashes
him into the ground.
     Yusaku is really mad at Kyosuke for taking Hikaru to the
Christmas bash.  He is about to pound him when a pizza truck
comes and almost runs into them.  Kyosuke walks away uninjured
but Yusaku ends up breaking his arm. 
     Kyosuke meets Hikaru in a stunning black suit like dress. 
They walk down to the hall.  On the way, they meet an old lady
who asks for directions.  Kyosuke gives a rather long and
complicated route which baffles the lady.
     Kazuya comes to the ball with a young date.  Komatsu and
Hatta make fun at him and say that he is some playboy stud. 
     Yusaku comes to the dance in an arm cast carrying a parrot
on his shoulder.  The guys ask him what is it for and he replies
it is a good luck charm that matches his injury.
     When the party starts, there is food, music and dance.  The
two sisters are eating away at the buffet table but they still
are mad at each other.  Hikaru and Kyosuke drink a toast but his
mind wonders what is Ayukawa doing.  He runs upstairs to make a
phone call to Ayukawa.  She is wandering around downtown seeing
all the happy things of Christmas.  She is missing the fun,
merriment, and most of all company.  She appears on TV as she is
stopped by a roving reporter.  She doesn't say anything and walks
away.  Kyosuke sees that Ayukawa is having a miserable holiday. 
When he returns back to the party room, he falls down the stairs.
     Kyosuke lands on the ground followed by a Christmas tree on
top of him.  Komatsu and Hatta wish him a Merry Christmas. 
"Huh??" he thinks.  Soon, he realizes that he just did a time
slip back to the day of initial set up.  Now, with the knowledge
of events, he can produce an outcome he likes.
     Kyosuke finds Ayukawa and tries to ask her out to the
Christmas bash.  This time, he pulls her inside a storeroom so
Hikaru won't find them.  He gets down on his knees and asks
Madoka if she will take him to the dance.  Of course, she does.
     In this second attempt of events, Kurumi still lands on him
from the split dress fight between his sisters.  This time, he
"gives" Yusaku Hikaru for the Christmas dance.  He is left
stunned at Kyosuke's generosity.  However, the pizza truck comes
and almost injures them.  Kyosuke saves Yusaku from getting hurt
which makes him more grateful.  A yell from the sky reveals that
a telephone repairman working on the pole falls on Yusaku
breaking his arm.  Oh well, that can't be helped.
     Kyosuke meets Ayukawa in a stunning blue dress.  This time,
on the way to the dance hall, they run into the old lady asking
for directions.  Kyosuke's explaination is a lot shorter.  Yusaku
arrives to the dance with various casts and carrying a goldfish. 
Hikaru waits at the top of the stairs for Kyosuke.  She begins to
cry as she sees Ayukawa and Kyosuke walking together.  She runs
away sobbing as Ayukawa apologizes to Kyosuke and she pursues her
good friend.  Oh well, that wasn't an outcome he likes either. 
He jumps off the stairs leading to the hall.
     He lands on the floor followed by a crashing tree.  Komatsu
and Hatta wishs him a Merry Christmas.  He cheers because of his
successful return to the past.  The two perverts think that
Kyosuke is strange.
     This time, Kyosuke plans to ask neither of the girls
directly to the dance but he will "escort" them both to the ball. 
Yusaku is still angry at Kyosuke and gets ready to pound him. 
Kyosuke is calm as he sees the pizza truck coming.  However, the
truck misses him.  He continues to back away until the telephone 
repairman falls.  But this accident fails to stop Yusaku as the
bully still comes at Kyosuke.  He decides to run since he doesn't
know what the outcome is now.
     Suddenly, a huge Christmas tree lands on Yusaku.  Notice
Ushiko as the ball and Umau as the star, doing their usual thing.
     Kyosuke meets up with the old lady but this time since he
has no escort he decides to help walk the lady there.
     Yusaku arrives at the dance hall in virtually a body cast. 
The pet he has with him this time is a small turtle.  Kyosuke
arrives at the hall with both of his girls at his side.
     The gang is having a great time as they toast to Christmas. 
Suddenly, the lights go out.  Food and decorations float about in
the room in mid-air.  They see outside a sled pulled by a
reindeer with two Santa Clauses in it.  Two Santas?!?!  We see
that is Kyosuke's grand father and grand mother in costumes. 
They bring a huge Christmas tree to the dance hall and light it
up.  Then they cause it to snow.  "A white Christmas" Ayukawa
says.  The sled leaves a message in the sky, "Merry Xmas '87". 
Kyosuke runs outside to thank his uncle but the reindeer knocks
him off the landing and down the stairs.
     Kyosuke lands on the ground followed by a huge Christmas
tree.  Komatsu and Hatta wish him a Merry Christmas.  He is
fustrated that finally he gets an outcome he likes but accidently
falls out of it.  "Merry Christmas!"  he says in a grouchy way. 
His friends think that this grinch has gone wierd on them.


Episode 39  Madoka ni saiminjitsu!  Kyosuke abunai shougatsu
     Kyosuke starts of his New Year in traditional Orange Road
     style, with him seeing Madoka in a bunny suit.

     It is Friday, January 1st 1988 at 7:00 am and Kyosuke is
just getting out of bed.  He has a comic in his face from the
previous day's reading.  His stomach growls as he gets ready to
go downstairs for breakfast.  He brushes his teeth and heads down
the steps   When he enters the kitchen he is shocked to see
Ayukawa wearing a playboy bunny outfit making him some soup.  She
is wearing a low cut strapless top with tight suit and long
stockings.  Kyosuke unfortunately wakes up from his dream with
the cat staring him in the face.  He decides to wake it up by
pulling on Jingoro's ear.  The date is Thursday, December 31,
1987.
     At breakfast Kyosuke is poked in the head by Kurumi.  She is
trying to see if she can hypnotize her brother.  She succeeds and
commands her brother to run around like a dog.  Manami tells her
to stop kidding around and wake him up.  She claps her hands and
he wakes up wondering what he is doing on the ground.  As soon as
she tells him that she had him hypnotised, he chases after her
but his dad stops him from beating up his sister.  Kyosuke goes
into daydream land as he thinks of what this hypnosis and his
dream might have to do with each other.  Kurumi hits him again
and he falls asleep.
     At the ABCB Cafe, they tell Kyosuke that Ayukawa plans to
spend the New Years with her parents in America.  Kyosuke of
course doesn't like this idea so he runs over to Ayukawa's house.

     He rings the doorbell but oddly there is no answer.  He
tries the door and notices that it opens.  To his surprise, he
sees Ayukawa fallen on the ground.  He runs in and awakens her. 
She sees that it is Kyosuke and she falls back asleep again. 
Kyosuke picks her up and runs her up to her bedroom.  Kyosuke
picks up the phone and tries to call Hikaru but he lets it ring
and ring.  He stares at Ayukawa's breasts and then her legs. 
Unfortunately, she shifts her legs so he can't see the important
parts under the dress.  She curls up and starts to shiver so
Kyosuke grabs her fur coat(the one that she was wearing last
episode)and puts it on her.  He stalls for a second as he has to
cover up her breasts.  Oh well.  He notices her plane ticket and
passport to New York.
     Hikaru calls Ayukawa and she answers it.  Kyosuke steps into
the room as she is hanging up.  He is surprised that she is up
and running.  She comes up to him and gives him a hug.
     They make some noodles to eat as they talk.  Ayukawa
mentions America and this worries Kyosuke.  He tries to lighten
the mood by telling her a joke that Kurumi told him that morning. 
He begins the joke and stops midway where the punch line comes
in.  Madoka is hanging on his words and looks over to hear the 
rest of the joke.  At this point, Kyosuke taps her on the
forehead and gives her the punch line.  As he laughs, he notices
that she isn't.  She seems to be giving a blank stare.  He tries
to revive her but she tells him she is ready to take his
commands.  She tells him not to call her "Ayukawa" but "Madoka". 
He falls back and knocks the chopsticks off the table to land
near her hands but this doesn't phase her.  He realizes that he
has hypnotised her.
     Ayukawa and Kyosuke walk out to the evening New Year's
activities.  Notice Umau and Ushiko doing some shopping in the
mall.
     A flashback, Kyosuke and Madoka are at back home.again. 
Kyosuke laughs and ask Ayukawa to get some tea.  He imagines
going behind her and grabbing her breasts.  He wakes up from this
fantasy and burns himself with his hot tea.  She bandages his arm
up with a cloth.  Kyosuke begins to laugh and asks her to 
give him a shoulder massage.  He laughs louder and asks her to
clean the junk out of his ear.  He continues to laugh hard and he
says that it is his turn to give her a massage.  She gets up and
begins to unzip her dress top but Kyosuke jams out and tells her
to stop.
     We go back to the scene where Kyosuke and Ayukawa are out on
the town.  They avoid Komatsu and Hatta but they fail to dodge
their teachers.  They are chased but Kyosuke manages to ditch
him.  However, after escaping him, he runs into Yusaku.  He
stands stunned at the sight that Kyosuke and Ayukawa are
together.  So stunned that he almost drops his serving tray but a
local cop stops him.  He can't stand the sight and he runs away
leaving the cop with the glass.  Yusaku runs into the ABCB cafe
just as Hikaru comes out in her kimono all smiles.  He is unable
to tell her the bad news since he can't think of hurting her.
     Ayukawa draws up a bath and she is about to take off
Kyosuke's shirt.  He stop her but he imagines what it would be
like if Ayukawa joined him for the bath.  He wakes up from his
day dream when Ayukawa gives him some towels to take a bath with.
     Yusaku is practicing hitting Kyosuke's face drawn on a 
fence.  Kyosuke is in the bath and imagines Ayukawa taking off
her clothes to come into the tub with him.  However, when the
door bell rings, he panics as he hears Hikaru's voice.  "Oh no!! 
She can't see me here.  I have to get my clothes on!"  He tries
to get on his underwear on but she bursts into the 
bathroom to see him naked.  She begins to cry as she finds out
that he has been seeing Ayukawa behind her back.  Well, that is
all in his imagination and he manages to greet Hikaru as she runs
towards the bathroom door.  Ayukawa appears behind her all
dressed up in her kimono.  Kyosuke wonders when she became
unhypnotised or was she at??  She also signals to Kyosuke that he
is wearing his pants backwards.
     Kyosuke chases after Ayukawa down the street with Hikaru
running behind them.  They stop when they see Yusaku challenging
Kyosuke to a fight.  Ayukawa finds it funny.  The screen is
cleared like a curtain by Kazuya and the gang bows to say "Happy
New Year".


Episode 40  Hatsuyumedayo!  Daikaijuu Jingoro no gyakushuu
     Komatsu and the gang make a movie parody of all Japanese
     monster movies and the recent American hit, Top Gun, with
     rather humorous results

     On September 23, 1964, the United Wales Air force
established an elete team for top one percent of pilots.  It's
purpose was to execute the art of air "keijia" combat and to
insure that the handful of graduates were the best fighter pilots
in the war.  They succeeded.  Today, the air force call it Team 
of Anti-Perdition.  The fighters call it TAP Gun (Team of
Anti-Perdition).  As an aside from the dictionary,
perdition(per-dish'en)n.  1. Eternal damnation; the utter loss of
soul.  2. The place of eternal damnation; hell.
     It is 196X and a few jump planes are scrambled off of a
carrier.  There are four planes on this mission.  Ayukawa is the
main fighter leader, Hatta is #2 wearing the ABCD helmet, Komatsu
is #3 wearing the male/female symbols on his helmet and Yusaku as
the fourth.  They fly over the ocean to a sight where they see a
sea monster rising out of the water.  They launch missiles at it
without much effect.  An unknown blip shows up on the radar and
approaches quickly.  A comet comes rushing past Ay