# 8 - Me, Japan, and Unknown Words!
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**[00:50] ---**
"Minami, do you wanna stay in Germany?"
**[00:56] ---**
"If you wanna stay at any cost,
I'll make arrangements for you, but..."
**[01:01] ---**
"Big Sis..."
**[01:03] ---**
"You're not coming with us?"
**[01:08] ---**
"I am."
**[01:10] ---**
"I'm coming with you, Hazuki."
**[01:13] ---**
*I'm going, too... to Japan.*
**[01:20] ---**
*Hi!! Question: Alone or together,
which one is wonderful?*
**[01:40] ---**
*My future starts spinning colorfully*
**[01:46] ---**
*How much should I tell him?
Should I pretend I didn't see?*
**[01:51] ---**
*I see, this vast world
grows based on my mood*
**[01:57] ---**
*I love you today, I really love you*
**[02:03] ---**
*I'm so stupid... My stupidity is greater
than the number of the stars in the sky*
**[02:08] ---**
*I couldn't admit my feelings for you,
but I had a dream of walking with you*
**[02:14] ---**
*I'm sorry... It's just,
I didn't know it was love*
**[02:19] ---**
*The answer is, you and mystery
plus me equals infinite jump!!*
***SIGN*** "BAKA and TEST - Summon the Beasts 2-"
**[02:48] ---**
"Episode 8
Me, Japan, and Unknown Words!"
**[02:52] ---**
*It was on the day of the
entrance ceremony a year ago.*
**[02:58] ---**
*It was right after I came to Japan
so I couldn't understand Japanese well.*
**[03:03] ---**
Nice to meet you.
**[03:08] ---**
*"Whether I can fit in at
a Japanese school or not*
**[03:10] ---**
*all depends on the first impression I make.*
**[03:16] ---**
*I have to be careful not to do weird stuff."*
**[03:19] ---**
*That's what was going through my mind*
**[03:22] ---**
*while I nervously awaited my
turn to introduce myself to the class.*
**[03:27] ---**
Next... Minami Shimada.
**[03:37] ---**
"Shima"
**[03:39] ---**
"da"
**[03:44] ---**
I'm Minami Shimada.
**[03:47] ---**
Pleased to meet you.
**[03:52] ---**
*Hm? Did I do something weird?*
**[03:58] ---**
Well, I heard that Shimada is a
returnee student from Germany.
**[04:02] ---**
Since she came back to Japan recently,
**[04:04] ---**
there are a lot of things she doesn't know.
**[04:06] ---**
Everyone, please help her out.
**[04:11] ---**
Don't worry, Shimada.
**[04:13] ---**
You can learn *kanji
*characters little by little.
**[04:16] ---**
*Kanji* characters?
**[04:18] ---**
"Shimada"
**[04:19] ---**
"Mikare"
**[04:21] ---**
"kare"
**[04:21] ---**
Ah!
**[04:28] ---**
Pleased to meet you.
**[04:32] ---**
*I wish they had told
me that I made a mistake.*
**[04:34] ---**
*How underhanded of them to
not tell me about it and then laugh.*
**[04:38] ---**
*Dad told me that Japanese
people are all kind,*
**[04:42] ---**
*but I was starting to
feel uneasy about this class.*
**[04:53] ---**
I'm Yuuji Sakamoto
from Kannaduki Junior High.
**[04:56] ---**
So that's the guy who's rumored to
be the demon of Kannaduki Junior High...
**[05:00] ---**
Oh shoot... I'm in the same class...
**[05:02] ---**
"Yuuji Sakamoto"
**[05:05] ---**
*Is someone like that common in Japan?*
**[05:08] ---**
*No... Dad said that Japan is
an exceptionally safe country.*
**[05:13] ---**
*So it must just be his appearance.*
**[05:22] ---**
I'm Hideyoshi Kinoshita.
Nice to meet you.
**[05:25] ---**
*I wonder why that girl's
wearing a guy's uniform.*
**[05:29] ---**
*It's just that she isn't
used to wearing a skirt, right?*
**[05:33] ---**
*This is nothing strange, right?*
**[05:35] ---**
*Dad said that there are no scary
or strange things in Japan, so...*
**[05:46] ---**
I'm Kouta Tsuchiya. My hobby is taking
secret pho-- I mean, I have no hobbies.
**[05:49] ---**
My special skill is wireta--
I mean, I have none.
**[05:56] ---**
Ah... You dropped this.
**[06:01] ---**
Forget what you just saw.
**[06:05] ---**
*Th-That's normal, right?
He uses it to record classes, right?*
**[06:09] ---**
*It's okay to believe what Dad told me, right?*
**[06:20] ---**
I'm Akihisa Yoshii from
Nagatsuki Junior High.
**[06:24] ---**
Nice to meet you all!
**[06:26] ---**
"Akihisa Yoshii"
**[06:28] ---**
*He lied...*
**[06:29] ---**
*Dad lied to me!*
**[06:36] ---**
So you're a returnee student, Shimada?
**[06:38] ---**
When did you come to Japan?
**[06:39] ---**
Were you born abroad?
**[06:41] ---**
*It seemed that they weren't
used to seeing a returnee student,*
**[06:43] ---**
*so they all looked at me with prying eyes.*
**[06:47] ---**
Are you good at English?
**[06:49] ---**
Aren't you gonna join a club?
**[06:51] ---**
Do you have a boyfriend
where you came from?
**[06:53] ---**
*What am I gonna do?*
**[06:55] ---**
*If they talk to me all at once when
I don't even understand Japanese well...*
**[07:00] ---**
*How do I say "please be quiet" in Japanese?*
**[07:02] ---**
What's your hobby?
**[07:04] ---**
What's your favorite food?
**[07:05] ---**
What's your breast size?
**[07:08] ---**
Oh yeah...
**[07:10] ---**
*The girl I saw this morning shut
everyone up by just saying a phrase.*
**[07:15] ---**
*So I just have to use those words.*
**[07:18] ---**
Da...
**[07:19] ---**
Da...?
**[07:20] ---**
Damn pigs, shut your traps!
**[07:26] ---**
H-Huh?
**[07:32] ---**
*I already made a mistake on my first day.*
**[07:39] ---**
*I asked Dad about it later.*
**[07:41] ---**
*He told me that was really abusive language.*
**[07:44] ---**
*Since then, no one
tried to get closer to me...*
**[07:50] ---**
*...except for one person.*
**[07:52] ---**
Uhm, Shimada, was it?
**[07:56] ---**
Yes!
**[08:01] ---**
Sigh...
**[08:02] ---**
Huh? What?
**[08:04] ---**
Why are your clothes...
**[08:07] ---**
Oh, these? This is because... uhm...
**[08:10] ---**
...I overslept this
morning... and rushed out.
**[08:14] ---**
*Do Japanese students wear a sailor
school uniform when they're in a rush?*
**[08:18] ---**
*I somehow feel like you'd
need a Ph.D. to figure this out.*
**[08:22] ---**
Hey, stupid.
**[08:24] ---**
Don't block the exit while
you're making mindless chatter.
**[08:27] ---**
Stop it, Sakamoto.
**[08:29] ---**
Shimada isn't used to Japan yet,
that's all. Don't call her stupid.
**[08:33] ---**
I meant you, Yoshii!
**[08:35] ---**
Which part of me are you calling stupid?!
**[08:37] ---**
Your getup, words, and actions!
**[08:39] ---**
What?! Don't judge people just
from their outsides and their insides!
**[08:42] ---**
What more do we need to judge people?!
**[08:45] ---**
You say that, but *you
*are stupid, too, Sakamoto!
**[08:48] ---**
To think that you ignored such a pretty girl
**[08:51] ---**
when she talked to you this morning!
**[08:52] ---**
She has nothing to do with you!
**[08:55] ---**
I didn't like your stupid look
from the first time I met you!
**[08:59] ---**
That's my line!
**[09:00] ---**
To think you called someone you met
for the first time stupid...! How rude!
**[09:04] ---**
I don't wanna get
lectured on manners by a guy
**[09:06] ---**
who attended his entrance
ceremony in a sailor school uniform!
**[09:08] ---**
--You have no idea how I feel!
**[09:09] ---**
--W-Well then, good-bye.
**[09:14] ---**
*I didn't know what they were saying,*
**[09:17] ---**
*but I realized intuitively then
that I'd better stay clear of them*
**[09:21] ---**
*or I'd never be able to go
back to an ordinary school life.*
**[09:25] ---**
*I wonder if I can get
along okay at this school...*
**[09:29] ---**
*I wanted to be with my
little sister, Hazuki, for her sake*
**[09:32] ---**
*so I came to Japan when
Dad got his job transfer...*
**[09:35] ---**
*I was feeling really uneasy.*
**[09:40] ---**
*So the ladies' room is blue and
the men's room is pink in Japan, huh?*
**[09:44] ---**
*I'd better be careful.
I almost embarrassed myself.*
**[09:50] ---**
What the hell are two girls doing in here?!
**[09:52] ---**
Wait! I'm not a girl!
**[09:54] ---**
*Gehen mal hier*, Kinoshita!
**[09:57] ---**
You're getting it wrong!
**[10:00] ---**
Why do I have to run away?
**[10:03] ---**
*Wie dumm*! *Was machst du*?
**[10:05] ---**
*Hier ist die toilette für die männer*!
**[10:08] ---**
What?! Why are you upset?!
**[10:10] ---**
I am a guy and I did
nothing wro-- Hey, Shimada!
**[10:15] ---**
"Shimada"
**[10:18] ---**
*I still don't get Japan well.*
**[10:21] ---**
*But this was just the first
day. As time goes on,*
**[10:24] ---**
*I'll probably come to understand
many things little by little.*
**[10:28] ---**
*Until then, I won't get hasty
and will live here with my fami--*
**[10:31] ---**
A-Almost...
**[10:34] ---**
*Yeah, I really don't get Japan.*
**[10:43] ---**
"How was the Japanese school?"
**[10:48] ---**
"Did something happen?"
**[10:50] ---**
"No, nothing happened."
**[10:52] ---**
"There are many distinctive, strange people."
**[10:53] ---**
*There were only strange people.*
**[10:55] ---**
"I see. It sounds like
you had fun. I'm glad."
**[10:58] ---**
"I hope you'll make lots
of friends, Big Sis."
**[11:02] ---**
"Y-Yeah."
**[11:05] ---**
*Friends... huh?*
**[11:16] ---**
*Idiot Test.*
**[11:23] ---**
*About a week later...*
**[11:26] ---**
*...the classes had already
started in full swing.*
**[11:30] ---**
*I wasn't used to Japanese yet,*
**[11:32] ---**
*so I couldn't understand the
modern Japanese class at all.*
**[11:36] ---**
*And when it came to the
classics, it was just gibberish.*
**[11:39] ---**
Well then, Yoshii. In this case,
what's the conjugation of "*haberi*"?
**[11:45] ---**
Yes. It's "*hannari*."
**[11:47] ---**
To think that you answered
a word in the Kyoto dialect
**[11:49] ---**
when I asked you the conjugation
of a classic Japanese word...
**[11:52] ---**
It's so irrelevant that it's even refreshing.
**[11:56] ---**
What? H-Huh?
**[12:10] ---**
Well then, please review what
you learned today for the next class.
**[12:15] ---**
*It's finally over.*
**[12:18] ---**
*Just when I thought I'd finally
be free of this tortuous boredom...*
**[12:22] ---**
Ah, Shimada, where're you going?
**[12:26] ---**
What is it?
**[12:27] ---**
W-Well...
**[12:28] ---**
*Watashi wa kaerimasu.
*
**[12:30] ---**
Huh? "What a sea"?
**[12:33] ---**
*Wa-ta-shi*!
**[12:35] ---**
Oh, I see. You said, "I'm going home."
**[12:39] ---**
I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you well.
Since you came from abroad recently,
**[12:44] ---**
I just assumed that you were
speaking in a foreign language.
**[12:46] ---**
What?
**[12:54] ---**
*Since I wasn't used to Japanese,*
**[12:56] ---**
*I couldn't follow his rapid talking.*
**[12:59] ---**
*I tried hard to understand him,*
**[13:02] ---**
*but my head couldn't follow it.
I felt like it was going to burst.*
**[13:05] ---**
It's a pain and I wanna go home,
too, but you can't go home yet
**[13:09] ---**
because we have homeroom after this.
**[13:11] ---**
What? Er...
**[13:13] ---**
So don't go home yet. Wait a little longer.
**[13:17] ---**
--And after the homeroom,
**[13:19] ---**
--we'll all get together after school and...
**[13:19] ---**
*- -What is he smiling about?
*
**[13:21] ---**
*- -Is it that funny that I can't speak Japanese?
*
**[13:26] ---**
*Tu ne voudrais pas devenir mon amie*?
**[13:29] ---**
Huh?
**[13:32] ---**
*Tu ne voudrais pas devenir mon amie*?
**[13:36] ---**
*Uhm... Is he saying, "What club did
you belong to in junior high, Minami?"*
**[13:42] ---**
*Well, this isn't the right
time for that question, right?*
**[13:44] ---**
*To start with, is his
Japanese grammatically correct?*
**[13:47] ---**
*Tu ne voudrais pas devenir mon amie*?
**[13:53] ---**
Uhm, *tu ne voudrais*...
**[13:58] ---**
I don't understand!
**[14:00] ---**
Ah...
**[14:08] ---**
*What can I do?*
**[14:11] ---**
*Why doesn't anyone understand me?*
**[14:16] ---**
*I'm trying this hard and yet...*
**[14:18] ---**
"Ah..."
**[14:19] ---**
"Welcome home, Big Sis!"
**[14:20] ---**
*Could it be that everyone hates me?*
**[14:21] ---**
"How was your day at school?"
**[14:25] ---**
"It was a lot of fun!"
**[14:26] ---**
*In fact, I wonder if I shouldn't be here...*
**[14:28] ---**
"Did you make friends?"
**[14:30] ---**
"Yep! I made lots of very nice friends."
**[14:33] ---**
"Really?"
**[14:34] ---**
*I...*
**[14:34] ---**
"Yep! Japan is a nice place."
**[14:37] ---**
"I'm happy for you!"
**[14:53] ---**
*I still couldn't get along in the class.*
**[14:58] ---**
*Since I couldn't understand
Japanese, I couldn't make friends*
**[15:01] ---**
*and so I didn't have anyone to talk to.*
**[15:03] ---**
*It was a bad cycle.*
**[15:07] ---**
*It was because my first
impression on the first day was bad.*
**[15:11] ---**
*From the time I made a mistake
in writing my name on that day...*
**[15:16] ---**
"kare"
**[15:18] ---**
"Minami Shimada"
**[15:19] ---**
Ah...
**[15:19] ---**
"Minami Shimada"
**[15:20] ---**
Huh?
**[15:22] ---**
*I'm sure I didn't correct it...*
**[15:25] ---**
*Why?*
**[15:29] ---**
Hey, Akihisa. The guys from
Akebono Junior High suggested that
**[15:33] ---**
we play basketball for bread from
the school store. What do you wanna do?
**[15:36] ---**
I'll do it! I'll do it! My food
budget for this month is tight, so...
**[15:39] ---**
I'll help you.
**[15:40] ---**
Let me join you guys, too. It looks fun.
**[15:44] ---**
--Okay. Now we're four.
**[15:44] ---**
*- -I wonder when they became close.
*
**[15:46] ---**
--Do you know one more
person who might join us?
**[15:48] ---**
Let's see...
**[15:49] ---**
Leave it to me.
**[15:51] ---**
*Tu ne voudrais pas devenir mon amie*?
**[15:54] ---**
Ah...
**[15:55] ---**
*Tu ne voudrais pas devenir mon amie*?
**[16:00] ---**
*What's with him?
He's talking gibberish again.*
**[16:04] ---**
*I don't understand Japanese!*
**[16:07] ---**
*To start with, what's "Monamie"?
I'm "Minami," not "Monamie."*
**[16:12] ---**
*Don't get fresh with me when you
can't even remember my name correctly!*
**[16:16] ---**
*Tu ne voudrais pas devenir mon amie*?
**[16:23] ---**
*Tu ne*...
**[16:23] ---**
*Hanashi kakeruna baka*!
**[16:25] ---**
What? "*Nashi o keruna*"?
**[16:29] ---**
What a shit man you are!
**[16:31] ---**
"*Watashi wa* man, you *wa*"?
**[16:34] ---**
I'm a man, too, but...
**[16:36] ---**
What? Then you're a man?!
**[16:39] ---**
He doesn't even understand English?
**[16:41] ---**
"What a shit man you are."
**[16:43] ---**
It means "you piss me off."
**[16:45] ---**
What? Is that right?
**[16:47] ---**
To see you called an upset girl a guy...
**[16:49] ---**
What guts you have, Akihisa.
**[16:51] ---**
D-Don't get me wrong, Shimada!
**[16:53] ---**
It's not that I thought you were a
guy because you have small breasts,
**[16:56] ---**
but my elbow joint hurts
as if it's being smashed!
**[17:00] ---**
*Although I don't understand Japanese,*
**[17:02] ---**
*for some reason, I clearly heard
just the "You have small breasts" part.*
**[17:07] ---**
What a shit man you are!
**[17:12] ---**
*Terrible... This is really terrible...*
**[17:15] ---**
*I shouldn't have come to Japan.*
**[17:17] ---**
Hey, Shimada.
**[17:20] ---**
Since I came to know him just
recently, I don't know him well,
**[17:24] ---**
but that *baka* may
be quite an interesting guy.
**[17:27] ---**
*Baka*?
**[17:31] ---**
Check what he said.
**[17:56] ---**
"Idiot"
**[17:57] ---**
*Oh, it means "idiot," huh?
I already knew he was.*
**[18:00] ---**
"Idiot"
**[18:02] ---**
*"Tu ne voudrais pas devenir mon amie"...*
**[18:06] ---**
*What on earth does it mean?*
**[18:08] ---**
*Well, whatever it is,
I bet he's making fun of me.*
**[18:13] ---**
*I'm gonna look up what it means
and make fun of him in return.*
**[18:20] ---**
*Tu ne voudrais pas... Tu ne voudrais pas...*
**[18:23] ---**
*Tu ne voudrais pas...*
**[18:25] ---**
*I can't find those words.*
**[18:29] ---**
*I wonder what he said...*
**[18:32] ---**
*Is that even correct Japanese?*
**[18:34] ---**
*He didn't even say my name correctly.*
**[18:36] ---**
*My name is "Minami," not "Monamie."*
**[18:39] ---**
*"Monamie"?*
**[18:47] ---**
"*Mon amie*"
**[18:48] ---**
"*Mon amie*"
**[18:49] ---**
"Why are they calling my name?"
**[18:51] ---**
"It's not your name."
**[18:52] ---**
"They're not saying 'Minami,
' but '*mon amie*.'"
**[18:59] ---**
*Here it is.*
**[19:04] ---**
*France...*
**[19:32] ---**
*"Tu ne voudrais pas devenir mon amie"...*
**[19:35] ---**
*So it's not Japanese.*
**[19:37] ---**
*Not to mention, it's not German, either.*
**[19:39] ---**
*He checked French by mistake.*
**[19:42] ---**
*He really is stupid.*
**[19:46] ---**
*There was no French-German
dictionary in the library.*
**[19:52] ---**
*I had to translate it into
English first and then into German.*
**[19:56] ---**
*I didn't know the spellings or
if the pronunciation was correct.*
**[20:07] ---**
*But...*
**[20:11] ---**
*"Tu ne voudrais pas" is
second-person, like "could you" in English.*
**[20:17] ---**
*"Devenir" is equivalent to "become."*
**[20:21] ---**
*"Mon amie" isn't "Minami."*
**[20:23] ---**
*It's "mon amie" and it
means "my friend" in English.*
**[20:30] ---**
*If I translate the whole thing together...*
**[20:32] ---**
"Could you become my friend?"
**[20:33] ---**
it means "Could you become my friend?"
**[20:38] ---**
*Tu ne voudrais pas devenir mon amie*?
**[20:41] ---**
*Tu ne voudrais pas devenir mon amie*?
**[20:53] ---**
*He must've looked it up like this, too...*
**[20:57] ---**
*...even though it was unknown
words from an unknown country...*
**[21:00] ---**
*...even when he's having a hard time in
the classics class of his own country...*
**[21:06] ---**
"Akihisa Yoshii"
**[21:06] ---**
*...when he's stupid...*
**[21:09] ---**
*...even when he's stupid...*
**[21:10] ---**
"Idiot"
**[21:11] ---**
*...when he's stupid...*
**[21:17] ---**
Could you... become... my friend?
**[21:23] ---**
"Could you..."
**[21:25] ---**
Could you...
**[21:40] ---**
"Minami"
"Shimada - Older Sister"
**[21:41] ---**
Good morning, Yoshii!
**[21:43] ---**
Ah, yeah... good morning, Shimada.
**[21:48] ---**
Huh? Wh-What is it, Shimada?
**[21:51] ---**
Say, Yoshii...
**[21:53] ---**
Y-Yeah...
**[21:54] ---**
*Watashi*...
**[21:57] ---**
"What a shit"?
**[21:59] ---**
I'm sorry. Did I do something
to upset you again?
**[22:02] ---**
No... *Watashi wa*... Ah...
**[22:15] ---**
Say, Yoshii...
**[22:18] ---**
"*Uchi wa*..."
**[22:18] ---**
*...uchi wa*...
**[22:24] ---**
*Flash! Shine! Light bulb, shiny flash!*
**[22:40] ---**
*I'm not making progress.
Someone's interfering... No, no!*
**[22:45] ---**
*The issue is, I don't have
enough common multiples*
**[22:51] ---**
*Okay, I basically get it.
What is the truth... Baby?*
**[22:55] ---**
*If you see this, draw a
diagram and explain it, Baby!*
**[23:01] ---**
*No word or number can describe you*
**[23:07] ---**
*My heart is being shocked by
the magnetic force between S and N*
**[23:15] ---**
*(S! S! Super! Sticking together,
Number! I say No.1 boy!)*
**[23:20] ---**
*Congratulations! From here on
out you're My, ma-my "treasure"*
**[23:25] ---**
*You're special to me,
no matter what happens*
**[23:28] ---**
*I'll hold you ever so
tight and never let you go*
**[23:30] ---**
*I want to be in love, in a
dream you can forget about limits*
**[23:36] ---**
*It's special, right? After all,
we came to know each other*
**[23:39] ---**
*Forgive me for being like this*
**[23:42] ---**
*Flashed! Shined! Right answer, perfect match!*
**[23:51] ---**
*Question 9.*
**[23:53] ---**
*What do you call the actions by
groups that reach out to politicians*
**[23:57] ---**
*in order to influence policies?*
**[23:59] ---**
*Matchmaking party?*
**[24:00] ---**
*Who's the king?*
**[24:01] ---**
*Next episode!
"Me, Romance, and Negotiation Skills!"*
**[24:03] ---**
*This will be on the test.*
**[24:06] ---**
"Please join us again next week!
Illustration: Mako Aboshi"