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Yoshio and Natsu trick Machi into working at a supermarket to sell nameko, one of Kumade Village’s specialties. Having difficulty selling it, she longs to abandon the job and go home.

When one of the old guys in the village stops by at the shrine, Machi, Natsu, and Yoshio realize that some sort of a ritual is supposed to be held today. Since Fuchi is out of town, they try to figure it out on their own.

As part of the Kumade Village revitalization plan, Machi is asked to go check out a bookstore that is said to be very popular among young people.

One of the kids in the village is put in a cell with Natsu as punishment for being naughty. Later, Natsu tells Machi how important it is to sense the mood in order to maintain a good relationship with others.

Yoshio asks Machi if she can survive without Natsu. Offended by Yoshio’s question, she starts listing the things she can do by herself. On a different occasion, she is harassed by a punk and cries to Natsu for help.

Machi is already losing her enthusiasm to work on her assignments to prepare herself to go to school in the city, so she suggests that they perform the kagura ritual for a change of pace.

While it was previously decided that Machi should go to a local high school, she still cannot give up on going to school in the city. After her begging, Natsu is persuaded and gives her homework to prepare her.

Machi has gone missing after making a blunder during the idol contest rehearsal. Yoshio and Hibiki look all over for her, but she’s nowhere to be found, and the time for her to appear on the stage is fast approaching.

Yoshio doesn’t seem to know when to give up on Machi becoming an idol. He went ahead and sent in an application for Machi to be in the Tohoku idol contest. Now, the results of the initial screening are in.

Machi becomes envious of Shota and Kaori when she realizes that they have their own cell phones even though they are only elementary school students. Yoshio tries again to turn Machi into the village idol.

Fourteen-year-old Machi Amayadori is sick and tired of life in her "boring" mountain village, but can a girl raised by a bear make it in the big city?

The entire Gokoh Academy is excited and in chaos for preparing the school event called “Three Lights Festival.”

The entire Gokoh Academy is excited and in chaos for preparing the school event called “Three Lights Festival.”

The entire Gokoh Academy is excited and in chaos for preparing the school event called “Three Lights Festival.”

An animation program that the girls are making for the school festival is selected as one of the invited products for an International Animation Event. OK! Girls! Let's work together for the Cannes Film Festival or Venice Film Festival!

All of a sudden, a gigantic elevator soars up in the sky of new frontier coast. And on the top of this towering elevator, Queen Miya Higashikazuno is laughing loudly in the center of swarming girls in extra-tight bikini-suits.

On a rainy day, Tetsuro goes out to meet Otome as he is told strictly not to let her get wet.

Gokoh Academy is primarily a peaceful women’s paradise.

Miya Towano (called Miya-sama) is the reigning chairman of the student council at Gokoh Academy.

After an usual combats between Koi Koi Seven, Miya the Queen declares that she is the owner of this island and it is true. Miya demands Koi Koi Seven to get out immediately.