01x04 - Kyôkasho Tsukiyaburishi Zeus

[bunniefuu]

I went and became an adult

We're two sides of the same coin,

with you still a kid

I went and blurted out the words

I'll never be able to take them back

There's nothing righteous

about unrequited feelings,

so let things stay as is

In the gaps between the seasons

that whiz by,

I was crying,

and I bet I always will

You don't believe, do you?

In despair? Being moved?

Unable to take it anymore, the night

that had turned white now turns black

Nothing's going to change

ever again? I just don't know!

I've been clinging to this moment

no matter what,

and I pray that today

my wish will come true

DON'T STOP

I won't forget the adultish heart

I stole from you ever again

Because neither the me that grew up

nor you will ever change

It's okay

Because I still haven't forgotten

the adultish heart I stole

Because even though I've changed,

I'm still me

Regrets, hopes and prayers,

Children, me,

I don't understand any of it

You can believe in wishes coming true,

but who I am will never end

EPISODE 4:

ZEUS, SMASHER OF TEXTBOOKS

S-Sanda!

Wow, who'd have thought that the latest

Santa would turn out to be a kid?

Even at my age,

life is one surprise after another.

Will this earn me a pay raise

or a promotion to management?

Either way, I'm looking

at a better class of booze.

You've got some nerve, sh**ting somebody

just as they're making

a cool statement of intent!

Talk, Pops!

Who the heck are you?

Whoa!

S-Sorry!

I still don't know my own strength!

Hey! Mister! Are you okay?

H-Hey now

Please tell me you're not dead.

Does this mark ring any bells for you?

Holly leaves?

Sorry, never seen them before.

First, let's just calm down, okay?

Take a breather.

I said chill out!

Crap! I didn't hold back again!

That's dirty pool!

You may be Santa,

but you've got all the parts, I see.

A horrible memory just resurfaced!

The day I became Santa, the very first

thing I did was check my crotch.

It's there.

I have

an adult you-know-what!

Let's pretend I never saw that.

Am I

I can't go back unless I capture you!

Tell me! Am I a danger to everyone?

I don't know my own strength, so I end up

punching people and smashing walls!

And I have a ton

of other dangerous powers!

And I have an adult wiener!

Is Santa really just a danger to society?

Is that why you're here to capture me?

Tell me! I'm seriously freaking out here!

You're not a danger to society

or anything else!

Don't get so full of yourself,

you old fart!

You're Santa Claus.

That's the main problem!

I'm beat.

I should have introduced myself.

I'm Yagiuda from St. Nick Pursuit Unit.

And here's a bonus tip

to go with the introduction.

A being that gives kids

hopes and dreams

ain't got no place

in this country anymore.

Preordained education.

Preordained marriages.

What it needs

is children who will lose hope in

this country that's marching to the grave

and do as they're told

as they live out their preordained lives.

If a supposedly legendary being

like Santa Claus were to show up

they say it'd have an effect

on the children

they've so carefully coddled and managed.

You're something that can't be allowed

to exist in this era.

They stopped talking.

I wonder if he's okay.

What a relief!

I figured that a past Santa

had k*lled a dude or something

but that's what this is about?

This whole time, I hated how I looked.

I'm supposed to be Santa Claus,

but I'm fully packing downstairs,

I've got superhuman strength,

and I look like I'll k*ll you

if you look at me funny.

My own appearance made me

doubt myself to the point

I would avoid looking at myself

in the mirror when I'm in this form.

But

now you tell me that Santa's whole deal

is that he brings dreams and hope

and it always has been?

That's what you're telling me?

Because if that's the case

that means I can fight for the children

with my head held high

using nothing but my body

and not have to hold back!

Dammit! I went and monologued,

and now I made more work for myself.

What's going on in there?

Should we help?

No, I think we should stay clear of

Was that a g*nsh*t?

Come on, no way.

The funeral is about to begin.

Gosh, my heart started pounding there!

I won't tell anyone.

You'll get on everyone's bad side if your

eyes are twinkling. Dead eyes, dead eyes!

Hey, Fuyumura

do you think this is

what a boy's naked body is really like?

Ew! I'm amazed that you found this book.

When you're told not to do something,

it makes you want to do it all the more.

The adults are too strict with us.

It's the same with banning

kissing before marriage,

that stuff

about how you'll catch cavities.

In the old days, it was okay for

young people to kiss someone they liked.

Ono, you want to kiss someone?

Do you, Fuyumura?

Don't you want to see what it's like?

Well wanting to try is the problem.

I've never even thought about it.

My molars hurt when I clench my teeth

so if we both already have

cavities, then

That's what was running through my head

but all we kids really have

is myths.

They were supposed to be myths.

Santa Claus

Adult nude bodies

The warmth

of a human touch.

And the things that feel like pounding

waves that sometimes stir up in my heart.

I had always thought that all

these things didn't really exist.

For Fuyumura's smile!

Huh?

For the children!

Ow

"Ow"?

N-No way am I gonna

let myself

be captured here!

Ever since I met Sanda

the myths inside me

have been coming true almost instantly.

All students, stand.

Sing the school anthem.

Oh, crap!

Ono's funeral is starting!

Come back here!

Are you kidding me? Nobody said anything

about this guy being basically unkillable!

Anyway, with that guy's muscle and size,

I am way outclassed

in a fair fight on the ground!

You've seen me

in my

kid form

so I can't let you get away!

This has totally gone sideways!

I'm gonna miss Ono's funeral!

Oh, so you're fighting for children

who believe in some dumbass

fairy tale, Mr. Santa?

Well, in that case

I'm doing it for the money!

I'm doing it for the glory!

In this funeral, we mustn't perform the

motion of putting our hands together.

Let's call it what it is, "praying."

When we are young, we want to believe

in the existence of God and of Heaven

but it is a waste of time.

Children can believe in

whatever they damn well want!

At least let them decide for themselves

what they believe i

It is because we have believed in such

things over the course of our long history

that humanity has been reduced

to its current sorry state.

In order to survive this ultra-declining

birth rate ultra-aging society,

we must dispense

with all such frivolities

and with this funeral,

let us send her off with a smile.

Here's a truth b*mb from a former child!

When you grow up

everything you believed in as a kid

is pointless!

But you mustn't look

at the dark side of things.

Ichie Ono will never grow old.

She will live in all your memories

as her young self

for as long as you all shall live.

And that, I believe,

is a far more noble end.

You all should savor

your current value to society

and live out your precious

student years rationally.

Shove it!

None of that matters right now!

At a funeral, praying to God

is expressly forbidde

Oh, crap!

Dumbass.

Tell me, Fuyumura.

We might not be allowed

to look at the real thing

but looking at these, don't you think

the adult nude body is kinda beautiful?

No. If a bare crotch like this

appeared in front of me in real life

I'd be struck speechless.

I think they're people

straight out of mythology.

Is

Is that God?

It's a naked old guy?

How dare he parade around

in front of the children!

Still

if the St. Nick Pursuit Unit

got into a tussle with him here,

it would be sure to inflict terrible

mental trauma on the students!

Is he telling us to stand down?

Hang on!

Now that I got a good look at him, isn't

that the t*rror1st from the other day?

But he seems different somehow.

S-Since I'm here and all,

I guess I'll say what I came to say.

Ono

I don't really know you.

I don't know what you're thinking.

I don't know where you are

or what you're up to.

But wherever you are, I hope you're well.

If you aren't, I couldn't take it.

I'll find you, I promise.

Wh-What kind of crazy circus

is this funeral turning into?

God is attending it!

TRAUMA-FREE CURRICULUM

Hey! Did you see God-pa?

I did! God-pa!

Sanda! Did you see the God-pa?

Gosh, no!

I wasn't there yesterday. What a shame.

I've heard it 100 times today already.

The whole "God-pa" thing.

They probably

No, they absolutely

mean me.

It was incredible! Totally supernatural!

He crashed through the ceiling

without warning at Ono's funeral!

Everybody who was there

was stunned speechless!

Yeah! Totally stunned speechless!

Even Headmaster Oshibu

looked like he was gonna die of rage!

And that's when

he vanished into thin air!

With a mighty expl*si*n!

Oh Really?

-That's amazing.

-Fuyu, did you

Don't care.

Oh, okay.

-Isn't the God-pa amazing?

-Totally!

Thanks for the save yesterday, Fuyumura.

I was able to slip out of the gym

thanks to you.

I had no idea it would blow up like this.

What did you expect?

In a time when bathrooms are separated

by young and old, not boys and girls

RESTROOM

a buck-naked old guy appearing out

of the blue in front of kids is gonna

I know! I know, okay?

I'm about to die of shame over that, too!

-Sanda

-Huh?

I wanted to say thank you.

Fuyumura

has this surprising side to her.

Like she's the type who totally opens up

once she trusts someone.

Hey!

Crazy stuff is happening

all over the campus.

Look, it's like I wrote in my report!

He was inside the gymnasium!

Do you realize what you've done?

You let Santa escape!

-Yagiuda! Send your report

-Huh?

-to Daikoku Welfare Academy!

-Hello? I think our connection is bad!

-Hey! Yagiuda! It's not funny!

-That's funny! I can't hear you!

-Are you listening? Say something! Yagi

-Hello? Hello?

TOBACCO

Damn it all.

I know better than anybody.

That Santa Claus that got away

was just too damn big.

GOD-PA

Get your God-pa merch!

Plushies are 700 yen!

God-pa superhero landing!

You look just like him!

I still say the God-pa

is the god of explosions.

Come on, no way!

Let's all write messages to the God-pa

asking him to come down

and visit us again!

I'm scared!

I heard the God-pa is

The God-pa is

-The God-pa is

-The God-pa

The God-pa

The God-pa

I'm scared!

Every student in this school

believes to their core that I'm a god!

Maybe it's the price you're paying

for showing everyone your crotch.

That's how big an impact that Sand-pa had.

This is all too scary!

Uh-oh.

I did something unbelievably bad!

It's something that I did.

So, I have to step up

and make things right!

Sanda's a straight arrow to a fault.

This isn't about Santa Claus's nature.

This has to be coming

from Sanda's own personality.

Is he gonna be okay?

What's he so afraid of?

GOD-PA, PLEASE COME DOWN

AND VISIT US AGAIN

Oh

Fuyumura?

Are you okay?

I-I-I'm fine! Totally fine!

Why do you ask?

You couldn't erase this

because you're too short, right?

Wha Stop teasing me about my height!

I'll get it for you.

I can reach it just fine!

Whew, that actually helped.

I feel like it's

only when I'm around Fuyumura

Sanda

that I'm allowed to be

a 14-year-old boy.

Fuyumura?

I mean it, thank you, Sanda.

You literally crashed

Ono's funeral for me.

Huh? D-Don't mention it! It was nothi

Wh-Wh-What's the matter?

You're really slender, you know that?

Well, look who's talking!

You're right.

We're still 14.

Still children, inside and out.

Right?

I-I-It's kind of a relief.

We really are still kids, aren't we?

We are.

That's why I have to

do this.

I like you this way, Sanda.

What I was really afraid of

was this.

Well, well, well!

When did you have a red track jacket

hidden on you?

You're feeling a little better, right?

I'll be your emotional support

Santa anytime!

Why am I on the verge of tears?

You're Santa Claus, dammit!

I miss Ono so much, Sanda.

Yep yep

I bet.

Being relied on by children

Living up to an adult's obligations

I can't believe how hard that is

when I'm in front of Fuyumura!

No! I can't

think those thoughts!

Sorry!

What am I doing?

I'm being stupid.

And it's rude to you.

I locked the door, so we're good.

Sorry. But I wish for another bear hug.

Don't laugh.

I'm not laughing.

This 14-year-old Fuyumura

How many times a day does she switch

between being a child and being an adult?

Same goes with me.

Thanks. And now, it's your turn.

Be honest, the pressure

must be k*lling you.

You can tell me.

S-Sure.

How many more times going back and forth

before I'm Santa inside and out?

I think we both still have

a long way to go.

Oh, you've got some chalk dust on you.

Wipe it off.

Aren't they so gross they're adorable?

Oh, Kazao!

Look at these!

It's God-pa!

God?

As if!

It's just an old guy.

Gotta admit, though, that was pretty fun.

I wish this was as stimulating

as the real one was!

Same goes for my crappy fiancé.

When I'm feeling antsy,

full of muddled emotions,

I sometimes just stand there,

or sometimes I shout

at the top of my lungs

When I'm feeling indecisive,

full of emotions that ebb and flow,

the diary I grumble and complain to

is tucked away in a closed drawer

How's it gonna turn out?

Not knowing, I just cry

I bet that's how it is, right?

Out of desperation, a lie

Really, how's it gonna turn out?

I wish I could stay in my dreams

I wish I could stay,

could stay, could stay

When I'm feeling antsy,

full of muddled emotions,

I sometimes just stand there,

or sometimes I shout

at the top of my lungs

It's ironic that it's only once

you've grown up

that you realize

you can't stay a kid forever

There are even times

that I get depressed

thinking about these days

I find myself in,

but once they've passed me by,

will I look back and miss them?

How's it gonna turn out every day

I'm shouting every day