4. Saeko and Miwa open up to each other and say "I like girls!" on the night of their band club's welcome party for new students, and then ride that wave right into dating. It's a total romance, interwoven with the tales of the lives of their light music club friends!
7. She's really popular, but she's never fallen in love with someone who likes her back. Saeko is her first girlfriend.
9. She has an assertive presence in the club and a bad habit of getting jealous over Miwa.
2. Fell in love with Miwa at first sight, and immediately confessed. He's got no chill when it comes to girls.
4. A refreshing and lovable character with an outsized body. He came from an all-boys' high school.
6. A pessimist to the bone. He's cheerful, though, and good at singing.
8. Just a little bit annoying. He's interested in Miwa.
10. The one with the most common sense. She has anxieties about her lack of romantic experience.
12. The crazy girl of the club. She's uninhibited when it comes to sex and is occasionally an airhead.
13. The lovely upperclassmen
1. Chapter 19: Everyone Has Their Reasons
3. "Whoa, this is saeko?! Wow..."
4. "Doesn't she? Everyone said so!"
5. "She looks like a little boy."
6. ""The sawataris have two sons, don't they?" they'd say."
7. "It's an invasion of my privacy."
8. "Um, could you not tell her everything about me, mom?"
9. "Ohh..."
10. "She never played with little girls, only little boys."
11. "Oh, don't over-react!"
12. "Well..."
13. "Ah..."
14. "... Don't you?"
15. "You always want to know everything you can about the person you're dating..."
3. "Always saying "Mama, I love you!" and stuff."
4. "You were such a cute, open little girl back then."
5. "Oh, c'mon. Don't go."
6. "Let's go out for lunch somewhere!"
7. "Miwa, don't listen to anything this woman says."
8. They really get along...
9. "I did nooot!!"
10. "Yeah, you did."
11. "I've never said that in my entire life!!"
12. "Also, don't say things like that..."
13. "...when shin and dad are here, please!"
14. "Argh, shut up!"
15. "You're just trying to act cool in front of miwa."
1. "Your dad and shintaro will..."
2. "But I think it'd be okay if I did, you know."
3. "I won't."
4. "Why would you think that?"
5. "...just be happy for you..."
6. "...even if you're dating a woman."
7. "I mean..."
8. "...you seem so happy right now."
9. "She's actually pretty fun."
10. "Oh, she's not annoying at all."
11. "Ugh, sorry my mom is so annoying."
1. "...so please stay as long as you want and have fun!"
2. "I'll be in the other room..."
3. "My mom's shy like me, so even if you come over..."
4. "Hide?!"
5. "You think that's less fun?!"
6. "...she'll probably just hide somewhere."
7. "Anyway, my mom's making sukiyaki for dinner, even though it's stupid hot today."
8. "She's way too fired up because you're staying over tonight."
9. "It feels kind of weird."
10. "What feels weird?"
11. "It's just weird to think about you being so small..."
12. "Like, you wore diapers, too?"
13. "Hmm... How do I put this?"
14. "I mean, you wore them when you were a baby, right...?"
15. "It's just... Families... Lives... Life-styles..."
16. "Everyone's are so different, I guess."
1. "Oh yeah?"
2. "There's one more thing that I'm wondering about..."
3. "Your middle school graduation album was the only missing book."
4. "Why?"
5. "..."
6. "There are elementary school pictures and high school ones, but none from middle school."
7. "...there weren't any pictures of you at that age outside of school either."
8. "Really? But..."
9. "Huh? No reason."
10. "Mom just didn't grab that one..."
1. "Awww, you got me! Heh heh heh!"
2. "It's just my dark secret past, that's all!"
3. "My worldview was pretty incomprehensible..."
4. "I didn't have a single friend..."
5. "...and everybody avoided me."
6. "No way!"
7. "Like this!"
8. "I was really into this emo band back then..."
9. "...and my hairstyle was super weird and artistic!"
10. "Anyway, I'm hungry. Let's go eat over there!"
11. "My past is so dark, I destroyed all photographic evidence. Ha ha ha!"
12. "Doubt"
13. "No, no, no, no, no..."
2. "I absolutely can't believe that you, of all people, had no friends."
3. "I feel like you just sidestepped my question, before."
4. "No..."
5. "Are you sulking or something?"
6. "..."
7. "For really real!"
8. "Seriously! I didn't have any!"
9. "A secret or two in your past?"
10. "Don't you have one, miwa?"
1. "Uhh..."
2. "When? Middle school? High school?"
3. "It was with a girl, right? Right?"
4. "Well..."
5. "..."
6. "Your heart-break or whatever!"
7. "Look, like that thing we talked about on the bus that time?"
8. "...no comment."
9. "...uh..."
10. "I guess..."
11. "Uh!"
12. "I mean..."
13. "Hmmm..."
14. "You must have really loved that girl, then."
15. "...I'd rather not remember it if at all possible."
16. "It's just..."
17. "What? That's no fun."
1. "I don't have any feelings for her now."
2. "Really, none."
3. "It's just, there's a high school reunion in two weeks, and she's gonna be there."
4. "I'm not sure if I should go."
5. "Whaaa? Sae?!"
6. "Oh my god, it's really sae!"
7. "Whoa, it's been forever!!"
8. "Ah... Hey..."
9. "I've been... Busy..."
10. "You seriously never get in touch, ever!"
11. "Haven't seen you since graduation, right?"
1. "For a second, I didn't even recognize you."
2. "Your hair's so long!"
3. "Ah, hey. We're sae's friends from middle school..."
4. "Your roots are wack!"
5. "Dye it, girl!"
6. "Pff, shut up!"
7. "I'll get to it!"
8. "I liked it better short, though."
9. "What'd we say...?"
1. "Guy sae!"
2. "Whoa, that brings me back!"
3. "Seriously, cut it out."
4. "That's my dark secret past!"
5. "Ah-ha."
6. "So mean!"
7. "Ha ha ha"
8. She really did have friends, then.
9. "Don't call it a dark secret!"
10. "I totally had a crush on guy sae, you know?"
11. "Huh? Stop being weird!!"
12. "You should get together with us when the basketball club meets up!"
13. "Laters!"
14. But, something's...
15. "You liar. You had good friends after a-"
16. "Sorry, can we not?"
17. "Saeko..."
18. "Are you done already?"
1. "I'm not hungry anymore."
2. "I feel sick."
1. It's so unfair, just acting like nothing has happened...
2. ...after all that.
3. I really want to know...
4. I want her to stop side-stepping my important questions.
5. I want her to stop telling such obvious lies.
6. ...but I can't press saeko like that.
7. After all, there are things I don't want to say...
8. ...and don't want to remember.
1. "I mean, the second you wash off the sweat, you just get sweaty again."
2. "What do you mean?"
3. "Waugh, it's so hot!"
4. "What's the point of a bath on a day like this?!"
5. "And drying my hair..."
6. "I just can't."
7. "Ahh, you're getting the futon wet!"
8. "..."
9. "It's fine! Let me do it for you as thanks for letting me stay!"
10. "Are you sure? It's a lot."
11. "Huh?"
12. "Hey, why don't I dry your hair for you?"
1. "If you keep that up, I won't do it!"
2. "Sorry, please do..."
3. "What's with this weird generosity? I'm kinda scared."
4. "You were just so cute when you were a kid."
5. "Really? You think that's cute?!"
6. "Oh, yeah..."
7. "Hey, were you..."
8. "...looking at these again?"
9. "Hot hot hot hot!"
10. "But it wasn't!"
11. "You're cute, you are."
12. "And the way you said it makes it sound like I'm not cute anymore..."
13. "That sounds like a pickup line."
1. "It feels like I've managed to get into your memories a little myself."
2. "...makes me happy because you're just smiling all the time."
3. "I guess looking at these pictures of you ..."
4. "Huh?"
5. "Well, photos are basically the tangible record of your memories."
6. "Yeah, obviously."
7. "But they only show the happy moments, don't they?"
1. "There, it's dry now."
2. "Oh, no..."
3. "Not really..."
4. "Hm? Did you say some- thing?"
5. "Ah, I'd like to, you know..."
6. "...but I can't."
7. "Thank you! Ahh, that was easy."
8. "I've got my reasons..."
9. "You must get tired of drying your hair every day when it's so long."
10. "Why not cut it short?"
11. "I see."
1. "Se-cret."
2. "Why? How come?"
3. "Huh?! Really?!"
4. "I prefer girls with long hair..."
5. "Well, person-ally, I like it like this."
6. "I've got my reasons!"
7. "Argh! That's so not fair!!"
8. "That's the first I've heard of it!!"
9. "You're the one who's not fair."
10. "Jerk."
1. "Saeko..."
2. "Miwa, you're hurting me..."
3. "...I wanna do it today."
4. "Wh-"
5. "Hm? Do what?"
6. "W-well, you know..."
7. "..."
8. "I want to have s-"
9. "..."
10. "Make love to you."
11. "I want to make love to you."
12. "Can I...?"