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Kinpachi Sakamoto, the homeroom teacher of Class 3-B at
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Transfer student Mika Morizuki refuses to wear a uniform, which causes the principal and vice-principal to fear her influence upon the other students. A rumor that Takashi Hasegawa’s parents are trying to make art teacher Tachibana quit enrages several of the students.
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Kinpachi begins a lesson regarding rules when a number of students, influenced by transfer student Mika, begin coming to school in plainclothes. Meanwhile, there’s a big shake-up in the soccer club when the principal brings in former J-League player Sekiguchi as the new coach.
Satoken shuts himself in his room and doesn’t go to school for a week from the shock of having his beloved baseball taken away from him by his father who has firmly told him to focus on his exam studies. Meanwhile, Kinpachi learns that Otome is seeing someone who works at the same school as her and is ten years her senior and once divorced.
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After Boss, his mother, and his younger siblings leave, his father promises to stop drinking. However, no sooner are the words out of his father’s mouth that he begins drinking again because he can’t find employment. Tomoharu becomes a victim of blackmail after he is falsely accused of raping a girl he had met on the street. He seeks out Boss’ help, who ends up owing the blackmailers in Tomoharu’s place.
Kinpachi, unable to stand by and watch Boss live with his alcoholic father, seeks advice from the Welfare Office, while classmates Mika, Hiromi, and Tomoharu, aware of Boss’ family circumstances worry about him. Meanwhile, Sakura Junior High’s principal and vice-principal begin holding practice interviews for the 3rd year students. Taisho begins working part-time at Hiromi’s father’s shop, but...
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Rina, who has preferred eating to the opposite sex, is thrilled when Yuji tells her that he has something important to talk to her about after school. Lacking the courage to confess her feelings to him, Rina had anonymously given Yuji chocolate on Valentine’s Day. With a mixture of anticipation and apprehension, Rina goes to the soccer field where Yuji is having practice. Kinpachi gives a lesson about the delicacy of a student preparing for entrance exams and love during any era.
The high school entrance exam is finally over and, other than Mika and Nicholas, everyone has passed. Although set to go to
News that Kinpachi allowed Mika to stay over at his house travels amongst the teachers and students, drawing the interest of the tabloids. While Kinpachi reflects on the rashness of his actions, he is also shocked to learn that the rumor was spread by Kanawa on Class 3-B’s secret site. The students’ parents become vocal about the issue and Kinpachi decides to remove himself as Class 3-B’s homeroom teacher.
The problem of Mika’s overnight stay remaining, Ujiie of the Board of Education comes to Sakura Junior High to advise him not to have Kinpachi attend the graduation ceremony since it appears that the tabloids are sniffing around for new information. Upon learning that Kinpachi is not allowed to attend the ceremony, the students of 3-B fiercely object and do the unexpected!
Swayed by his students’ feelings, Kinpachi decides to fight. Demanding to have him reinstated as their homeroom teacher, they shut themselves up in the gymnasium. Will Kinpachi and his students safely go through graduation together?