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- As summer vacation begins, Aya goes over to Yoko's house to help get her homework sorted ahead of schedule, leading to various mishaps. Meanwhile, Shinobu goes to the salon to get her hair cut while Karen and Alice invite Honoka to hang out with them. Afterwards, Karen gives Honoka some motivation for her tennis match, which takes place while the others visit the beach. (en)
- As summer vacation rolls in, the girls go on a trip to the mountains where they do some fishing and play about in the stream. Later, the girls attend a local summer festival, where they play at the stands. Whilst the others play with some fireworks, Yoko treats Aya's foot that had gotten sore from her sandals. (en)
- As the school festival approaches, Shinobu's class decides to do a Japanese/Western maid café whilst Karen's class is putting on a play. On the day of the festival, Alice reminds Shinobu that it is also the anniversary of the day she came to England, but can't find the opportunity to give her a present for the occasion. After serving various guests, including Isami, Shinobu's group go to see Karen's class' unique take on Snow White. After the festival comes to an end, Alice eventually manages to give Shinobu her present, a ribbon, as thanks for the hairpin she received from her. (en)
- Yoko's younger siblings Kota and Mitsuki show up at school, inadvertently upsetting Yoko with a lie. Aya helps them be more honest and apologise, but has trouble putting her own advice into practise. Later, Alice starts to miss her pet dog back home, so the girls try to help her find a substitute. (en)
- With her parents away for the night, Aya invites the other girls over for a sleepover, during which she ends up smacking away Yoko when she tries to touch her hair. Lacking the confidence to apologise to Yoko, Aya asks Karen to let her become her pupil so she can learn her energetic traits, but these don't suit her at all. After working up the courage to apologise, Yoko states she didn't think anything of the incident and buys some matching notebooks. Later, the girls play hide-and-seek in the school. (en)
- Shinobu invites everyone over for a Christmas party, with Alice happy to spend Christmas with Shinobu. After having a nightmare on New Year's Day, Alice comes to school speaking nothing but nonsensical English, worrying Shinobu. Alice eventually confesses that she was anxious about Shinobu losing interest in her because she was growing too accustomed to Japanese. (en)
- Upon the start of a new school year, both Alice and Aya become downhearted when they are put in separate classes from Shinobu and Yoko. However, Shinobu reassures her that the distance between them isn't any longer. After the credits, back to when the group were first year students, Karen starts to imitate a manga protagonist, prompting Shinobu to come up with her own story, in which she and Alice are princesses, Karen is a pirate, Aya is a mermaid and Yoko is a prince. (en)
- The girls arrive at the beach, where Sakura and Akira are also paying a visit. After a day of swimming, misunderstandings, and embarrassments, the girls check out an undersea park before making their way home. (en)
- Alice has an exhausting P.E. lesson, not helped by her forgetting her tracksuit. Noticing Karen has gained weight since coming to Japan, the others suggest she go on a diet, only for Aya to get upset when she finds she weighs more than Karen. Later as tests come up, Shinobu gets Alice to help her study English and she manages to get an uncharacteristically good grade. (en)
- Alice and Aya try their hand at being delinquents in order to appear more grown up, but this leads to Shinobu and Alice getting into a small fight, though they soon manage to make up. Later, Aya ends up trimming her bangs too short, becoming ashamed of her exposed forehead, while Alice worries about some flowers she planted a few months ago. (en)
- After Shinobu embarrasses herself a little, Yoko explains how she often had to look after Shinobu in elementary school during times she was apart from Isami. Later, everyone gathers at Shinobu's home for a study session, before heading to the park so Isami can take pictures of everyone. The next day, Yoko gets relied on a lot and ponders if she is just a tsukkomi character, whilst also pondering how she views Shinobu as something of a little sister. (en)
- Akari continues to struggle with getting her students to like her. Meanwhile, the girls get together at Shino's house to make sweets for an afternoon tea party, though all manner of problems put them off their 'afternoon' schedule. Later, as Shinobu's class work on making some happis, Akari receives encouragement from the friendly Karen, managing to give off a sincere smile. (en)
- Karen gets into a fight with her father and runs away from home, deciding to spend the night at Shinobu's house while she calms down. The next day, after Alice helps her make up with her father, Karen tells the others about how Alice was like following Shinobu's homestay. One day, as Karen tried to find some way to catch the attention of Alice, who was too focused on learning Japanese, she ended up falling off a bridge and twisting her ankle. Just as she was losing hope, Karen noticed Alice, who had been searching for her all evening, and managed to use some Japanese she taught her to get her attention. Ever since, Karen has regarded Alice as her hero. (en)
- With summer vacation approaching, the girls make plans to go to the beach, but have to prepare for their final exams first. As the girls stop by a fast food restaurant, Shinobu suggests that Alice join Karen on her vacation to England to visit her parents. Later, after the students tidy up the classrooms for the end of term, Shinobu, Alice, and Aya go shopping for swimsuits together. (en)
- Alice spends the day at school lamenting her short height whilst also developing a one-sided rivalry with their English teacher, Sakura Karasuma. Later, Alice goes on an outing with Shinobu and her friends Aya Komichi and Yoko Inokuma, before they try to figure out what to do for their future careers. Some awkwardness follows as Shinobu and the others assume Alice is homesick and try to help her out. (en)
- The girls pay a visit to a restaurant, run by the family of Karen's classmate Honoka Matsubara, so that Yoko can attempt a giant parfait challenge. Later, after Shinobu and Honoka bond over their love of blonde hair, Honoka tries to work up the courage to ask Karen for her e-mail address. The next day, Akari reminisces about her high school days, when she first met an airheaded upperclassman that she eventually realises was Sakura. (en)
- Whilst looking through an old photo album, Alice tells the others about her half-Japanese friend from England, Karen Kujo, who helped teach her Japanese. The next day, they actually come face to face with Karen herself, who had moved to Japan so she could study at Shinobu and Alice's school in the neighbouring class. As Karen gets along with the others, Alice feels a little jealous as Shinobu takes more interest in her. Whilst easily fitting into Shinobu's group, Karen has trouble making friends in her own class as they are intimidated by her foreign appearance. Asking the others for advice, Karen hears from the others about how Aya became friends with Shinobu and Yoko after transferring into middle school. Thanks to everyone's advice, Karen manages to speak clearly with her classmates and make lots of friends. (en)
- Following the beach trip, Karen spends the day together with Honoka. Later, Shinobu starts feeling lonely after Alice and Karen go off on their trip to England, so Aya and Yoko spend the night together with her. (en)
- As Alice and Karen approach the end of their time in England, Alice and Shinobu get to have a long awaited phone conversation with each other. The pair soon arrive back in Japan with some souvenirs and video memories. When the new term begins, Shinobu discovers a talent she is good at but wants to focus more on her dream of becoming an interpreter, so the others give her their support. (en)
- Sakura grows concerned over Alice's jealously towards her over Shinobu. Later, as Alice gets hung up over horoscopes, the girls play some baseball and visit a bookstore. On the weekend, everyone gets up to their own thing, coincidentally meeting up along the way. (en)
- Despite it being her birthday, Shinobu feels a little downhearted following a remark from her sister, Isami. Later, Alice gets irritated when people see her more as Karen's little sister as opposed to a big sister. Whilst initially having some jealousy when Shinobu shows favoritism toward's Karen's present for her, Alice comes to realise that she loves Shinobu and Karen equally. Later, as Shinobu is off sick with a cold, Aya becomes anxious when Yoko receives an alleged 'love letter' in her locker, though Yoko assures her she would've turned down any admirers anyway. The letter turns out to be a letter Shinobu wrote for Alice's parents that she wanted Alice to translate. (en)
- Noticing that Isami appears to be more spaced out than usual, the girls invite her to hang out with them on a photo-snapping day out to try and cheer her up. While depressed for most of the day, Isami soon returns to her usual self after saving Shinobu from getting hurt. Later, Alice, inspired by the tale of the Straw Millionaire, goes on a trading quest, eventually receiving a valuable ring from Karen, which she ends up trading with Isami for the one thing she considers more valuable, Shinobu. (en)
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