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This gag manga centers on the events surrounding its fourth-grade protagonist, Asari Hamano. Its distinctive style encompasses a wide range of themes, blending everyday occurrences with elements of otherworldly fantasy and science fiction.
00:00Hello. Thank you for watching today. Today's topic is Asari-chan.
00:20Asari-chan depicts the daily life of an elementary school student growing up in an ordinary family, through the eyes of a child, along with the everyday happenings that involve family and friends.
00:41Asari-chan was originally written by Mayumi Muroyama and aired for a total of 54 episodes between 1982 and 1983.
00:56The story begins with Asari looking at a poster advertising a New Year's lottery and dreaming of a trip to Hawaii.
01:05Afterwards, in order to get the lottery tickets, her mother, her sister Tatami, and Asari go shopping with great enthusiasm and finally show up at the lottery venue.
01:18However, both her mother and sister became regular tissue paper, and when it was Asari's turn, she took a long time to turn the lottery machine, so she got into a fight with the tatami mat, and in the process, Asari got kicked, and she staggered, crashing into the lottery machine.
01:34Then, a ball came out of the lottery machine, and lo and behold, that ball was the winning jackpot: a trip to Hawaii.
01:43When Asari finds out, she goes crazy, but then she finds out that only one person was invited to the Hawaii trip, and a fight soon ensues for the trip to Hawaii.
01:54The fight for the Hawaii trip continues after they return home, and the father, who has just returned from work, gets involved, turning it into a family battle, but in the end, the clams that were won in the lottery machine become the property of the family.
02:08After that, her mother and sister continued to persistently try to get the right to go to Hawaii, but Asari, who had a hunch about this, visited a travel agency that accepted reservations for Hawaii trips the next day.
02:20There, we were told that there was an additional registration fee for elementary school students traveling alone to Hawaii.
02:28Shocked by this fact, Asari protests vehemently to the travel agency, but they refuse to allow an elementary school student to travel alone, so she has no choice but to return home.
02:38After returning home, Asari was roasting sweet potatoes over a bonfire using fallen leaves for some reason, so her mother and sister approached her, wondering what was going on.
02:47Asari tells her mother that her child was denied permission to travel alone, and she becomes happy when she says that she can go on a trip to Hawaii.
02:56Asari then explains that she has already burned the application form in the bonfire, but then the person in charge of the blowing machine appears and says,
03:06If you don't go to Hawaii, let them know that you can receive half the cost of your trip to Hawaii in cash.
03:12Asari heard the story, but the application form had turned to ashes.
03:18Asari blames herself for acting too quickly, while her mother and sisters chuckle at her clumsy behavior.
03:24After this, various storylines will unfold.
03:31Now, let me introduce the characters who will be appearing at the start of the story.
03:37Hamano Asari is the main character of this work and a fourth-grade elementary school student.
03:42Although she is not good at studying, she is a cheerful and innocent girl who doesn't overthink things, but she also has a slightly self-centered side.
03:53Although she competes with her older sister Tatami on a daily basis and gets into fights that end up causing trouble, it doesn't seem like they are particularly on bad terms.
04:02He can be messy and mischievous, and there are many scenes in the play where he is given food by his mother.
04:11I also like buying snacks, but because my allowance is only 1,000 yen, I end up anemic most of the time.
04:18Hamano Tatami is Asari's older sister and a sixth grader.
04:25Unlike Asari, he was the most brilliant student since the school was founded, but he also declared to Asari that he was a narcissist and a fraud.
04:35At home, he is always competing with Asari, but he is not good at physical education, especially swimming, and seems to get depressed when summer comes.
04:45His hobbies are reading and saving money, and unlike the wasteful Asari, he is a wealthy elementary school student who has already saved up 500,000 yen.
04:56Hamano Sango is Asari and Tatami's mother, a clumsy but energetic housewife who is willing to try anything.
05:05As Asari's grades were not good, she struggled as an educational mother to provide him with a Spartan cram school, private tutoring, and Daitensan training casts, but there were some shocking moments when she realized that nothing was working for Asari.
05:24Hamano Iwashi is Asari and Tatami's father and an office worker at a pharmaceutical company.
05:30Not only is he steadily progressing in his career, but he is also a parent who is well-liked by Asari and Tatami due to his gentle and kind personality.
05:40However, like his daughter Tatami, he is not good at sports, and although he loves baseball, he seems to have no talent for it.
05:47Kanda Hachiro, nicknamed Mr. Kanbachi, is a teacher at Sakuragai Elementary School, where Asari and Tatami attend, and is Asari's homeroom teacher.
05:58He is a passionate teacher, and while he is always troubled by Asari's out-of-control behavior and negligence, he also accurately evaluates her words and actions.
06:09In fact, after first appearing in the anime, he also appears in the original manga.
06:15Kojibara Yabu was the daughter of a wealthy family and looked down on Asari, considering them vulgar.
06:26He is arrogant, shows off his celebrity status and wealth, is nasty, and is quite stingy.
06:34It turns out that he failed the entrance exam for a private school and was forced to attend Sakuragai Elementary School.
06:45Ayako Nishikori is Tatami's best friend and an astounding vegetarian who eats all kinds of vegetables, including carrots, as if they were salad.
06:55She was a rich and beautiful young lady who was very generous and gave Tatami expensive school supplies and accessories.
07:06Oizumi Kantaro is a boy in the class next to Asari, whose parents run a sushi restaurant.
07:13Although he is a bit rough and foul-mouthed, he also has a manly personality, such as lending his umbrella to Asari on a rainy day and going home soaking wet himself.
07:24Mori no Jiro lives across from Hama's house and is a student studying eloquence, aiming to become a lighthouse teacher. The loud noises from the fights between clams and tatami mats disturb his studies, and he is the victim, constantly complaining.
07:41On the other hand, her younger brother, Kakesu, who is a kindergartener, is always interested in Asari and behaves in a very precocious manner, which makes Asari uncomfortable around him.
07:56Asari is a dog who looks and acts just like Asari, and although he is the Mori House's pet dog, he adores Asari very much.
08:09However, he would sometimes take shoes from other people's houses without permission, and his owner would get angry with him every time.
08:16The traveling glass is a glass that appears suddenly, regardless of the content of the episode, and spends its days traveling freely from east to west while shouting something, making it a slightly unusual mascot-like character.
08:37Other striking guest characters include Chikara Mariko, president of the All Japan Fujoshi Physical Fitness Promotion Dojo, Moui-kai.
08:46A teacher at a Spartan English school deep in the mountains who drills English into his students.
08:52The Grim Reaper descended into the illusionary world and appeared before Asari.
08:56Also appearing was Sayuri Asaoka, an old lady who occasionally meets Asari and her friends on the road.
09:02As an aside, this work was first serialized in Shogakukan's Shogaku Ni-nensei magazine in the August 1978 issue, and was serialized for a long period of 36 years until 2014, including serialization in other publications such as Monthly CoroCoro Comic.
09:25In this series, we will be introducing Tatami-chan, a second-grader in elementary school, and Asari, a kindergartener. Also appearing are Asari, a scholarship student at the prestigious Kaibashira High School who has received tuition and academic exemptions and is a successful track and field sprinter.
09:41The magazine also includes extra stories such as High School Asari-chan and Charismatic Nursery Teacher Asari-chan, which depicts Asari's success as a nursery teacher.
09:53Also in 1982, a new theatrical release, Asari-chan: The Fairy Tale Girl of Love, was released at the Toei Manga Festival.
10:02On the other hand, while the anime is full of original characters and two unrelated stories from the original manga are stitched together and aired as one episode,
10:13Due to discrimination against the Kumamoto dialect spoken by the original author, the anime adaptation seems to have been a negative experience for the author.
10:21However, even after the anime broadcast and regular serialization ended, new works have been released irregularly.
10:30In 2016, a book called Asari-chan, Year 5, Class 2, was published, depicting Asari now in the fifth grade of elementary school.
10:38And in 2023, a new book, Asari-chan Revenge, was published.
10:44New works are expected in the future.
10:47Now, it's finally the final episode.
10:55One morning, Asari's father and Asari climbed onto the roof and were looking at Mt. Fuji together.
11:01Asari is surprised when her father suddenly mentions that he is being transferred to the United States.
11:09The next day, in class, while the teacher was talking about Asari's trip to America,
11:14Asari felt happy as her friends looked at her with admiration.
11:21However, seeing Asari being pampered, Ibara remained silent and thoughtful.
11:26Friends sent Asari gifts of memories,
11:30Asari gives him a gift in return.
11:34He proposes and holds a spiteful farewell party.
11:37After returning home, Asari asks her mother for money to return the gift,
11:44Naturally, his mother rejected it.
11:48Disappointed by the answer, Asari burst into tears.
11:52Tatami appears and shows a book that summons demons.
11:55If you could actually summon a demon,
11:58He tells them that they can become very rich by obtaining treasure from the devil.
12:02Asari, who believed the story,
12:07He draws a magic circle with the tatami mat and successfully summons the demon.
12:13After being summoned, clams and tatami mats
12:16As they argued about what they wanted, they got into a fight.
12:19The astonished demon turned to leave,
12:21The clams and tatami mats forcefully hold you back.
12:25The demon, understanding the situation,
12:27The two of them had no choice but to enroll in a witch training school,
12:31She realized that by becoming a witch she could make her wishes come true herself.
12:38And when you accept the story,
12:40He was immediately sent to school,
12:43In addition to conducting regular classes and magical experiments,
12:47After collecting and eating the Mandragora,
12:50They also practiced flying in the sky using the treasured weapon.
12:55In such a situation, when she becomes a witch,
12:58That I want to get the treasure,
13:00When they told the teacher,
13:02To do this, you will first need to obtain a magic stone from Mr. Brocken.
13:10Asari and Tatami heard the story.
13:13I will head to Brocken immediately.
13:16Near the foot of the mountain, the tatami treasure broke.
13:19Because it crashed,
13:20The goal is to reach the summit by mountain climbing.
13:23Then, finally, we reach the summit,
13:28At the top of the mountain, they find many monsters swimming in the lake,
13:32While the two were surprised,
13:34Among the monsters, you will find a shining magical stone.
13:38Then, Tatami uses a textbook from the witch school,
13:43After arming the clams with magic,
13:46Without any hesitation,
13:47The clams were thrown into the lake.
13:51The clams that were thrown in
13:52I became desperate,
13:53After fighting the monsters,
13:55Finally, I got the magic stone,
13:58At that time,
13:59A big earthquake occurred,
14:01Brocken will collapse.
14:05after a while,
14:06Asari and Tatami noticed,
14:08We're back in our own world,
14:11right away,
14:12I'm going to use the magic stone I got.
14:16but,
14:17The instructions on the box read,
14:18When you come into contact with the air of the human world,
14:21It says that the magic stone will disappear.
14:24in the end,
14:25He realized that he could not get the treasure.
14:30The scene changes,
14:32On the day of the farewell party,
14:34While talking about witch training schools and magic stones,
14:37Even though he was receiving Ibara's cold gaze,
14:40As I was apologizing for not being able to return the gifts to my friends,
14:45Kantaro brings in some sushi.
14:50and,
14:51The day of departure to America
14:53As we were about to take our final commemorative photo in front of our house,
14:57Chiro and Jay rushed over,
14:59He asked her to take Asari with him to America.
15:03The clams are enjoying themselves,
15:05In the scene that makes everyone smile,
15:06The program ends.
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17:11But still, in the morning, I'll go again today
17:17A little whiny, spilling over here
17:23Hitotsutehikakeri punch and pinter
17:27Stopping is a hinari, folding is a hibari
17:31But still, in the morning, I'll go again today
17:41What did you think?
17:56When the show was first aired, I wondered why the sister's name was Tatami and not Shijimi.
18:01After that, because Shijimi clams are smaller than clams, I couldn't use my sister's name.
18:07I learned that tatami mats originating from stone tatami mats were used.
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