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- Shigeyasu Yamauchi (en)
- Shingo Kaneko (en)
- Shōko Nakamura (en)
- Katsunori Shibata (en)
- Nobuyuki Takeuchi (en)
- Jun Matsumoto (en)
- Mitsue Yamazaki (en)
- Akemi Hayashi (en)
- Keiji Gotoh (en)
- Kunihiko Ikuhara (en)
- Kunihiko Ikuhara, Mitsue Yamazaki, Shōko Nakamura, Tomohiro Furukawa (en)
- Kunihiko Ikuhara, Tomohiro Furukawa, Mitsue Yamazaki (en)
- Kunihiko Ikuhara, Tomohiro Furukawa, Mitsue Yamazaki, Shōko Nakamura (en)
- Kunihiko Ikuhara, Masahiro Aizawa, Shōko Nakamura, Tomohiro Furukawa, Katsunori Shibata (en)
- Aiko Sonobe, Takahiro Kagami (en)
- Akemi Hayashi, Ikuo Kuwana, Yūko Kusumoto (en)
- Keiji Gotoh, Kumi Ishii (en)
- Kumi Ishii, Miyuki Nakamura (en)
- Kunihiko Ikuhara, Katsunori Shibata (en)
- Kunihiko Ikuhara, Mitsue Yamazaki (en)
- Kunihiko Ikuhara, Shingo Kaneko, Mitsue Yamazaki (en)
- Kunihiko Ikuhara, Shingo Kaneko, Tomohiro Furukawa (en)
- Kunihiko Ikuhara, Shōko Nakamura, Masahiro Aizawa (en)
- Kunihiko Ikuhara, Tomohiro Furukawa (en)
- Masafumi Tamura, Yū Shindō (en)
- Mitsuko Baba, Takahiro Kagami, Shōko Nakamura (en)
- Mitsuko Baba, Terumi Nishii (en)
- Miyuki Nakamura (en)
- Miyuki Nakamura, Terumi Nishii (en)
- Miyuki Nakamura, Yū Shindō (en)
- Shōko Nakamura, Masahiro Aizawa (en)
- Takahiro Kagami, Haruka Kamohara (en)
- Terumi Nishii (en)
- Terumi Nishii, Yū Shindō, Shōko Nakamura, Katsunori Shibata and Keiji Gotoh (en)
- Tomomi Ishikawa (en)
- Tomomi Ishikawa, Takahiro Kagami (en)
- Yūko Kusumoto, Yū Shindō (en)
- Masahiro Aizawa, Kumi Ishii, Terumi Nishii, Mitsuko Baba, Katsunori Shibata (en)
- Takahiro Kagami, Tomomi Ishikawa, Shōko Nakamura, Miyuki Nakamura (en)
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- Masako decides to leave the Takakuras alone, still not accepting the 'family' they have. As Himari has another conversation with Sanetoshi, Shouma confesses to Ringo that Himari is not actually his blood sister. Years ago, whilst his parents were organising to change the world with their organization, Shouma met the orphaned Himari whilst exploring his condo. Whilst she is initially passive of him, the two grew a friendship over an abandoned kitten they find, up until it ended up being taken away. When Shouma discovered that Himari had headed over to the 'Child Broiler', where unneeded children go to disappear from the world, he rushed over there to rescue her and chose her to become a part of her family . Back in the present, Kanba continues to converse with his parents about what needs to be done to change the world. (en)
- After realizing that she was tricked by Yuri, Masako reminisces about her grandfather, a powerful business tycoon who expelled her father claiming that he was not strong enough to be allowed a place in the Natsume family. After dreaming countless times about having him killed, Masako rejoiced when her grandfather inadvertedly poisoned himself to death by eating ill prepared Fugu. Masako since then assumed control of her family's corporation but was sad that her father had never returned home, until somehow her grandfather's spirit possessed Mario's body and forced her to eat the same poison that killed him to protect her brother, but Sanetoshi appears to save her life. Later, Masako sees Kanba hanging out with the same elusive men who took her father away and Sanetoshi asks Masako to join them in his plan to "put the world back on track" but she promptly refuses. (en)
- The Takakura siblings are enjoying Takoyaki together and happy with the news that Himari will soon be released from hospital when the magic hat possesses Himari again for another Survival Strategy meeting with her brothers and insists that their ordeal will not be over until the Penguin-Drum is retrieved. Meanwhile, Yuri and Tabuki reminisces about their childhood days with Momoka and while Yuri is unable to forgive the siblings for their parents' crime, Tabuki tries to dissuade her. In the next day, Himari leaves by herself with Ringo for shopping much to Kanba and Shouma's despair as they are informed that she must take another dose of her medicine before sunset. While the brothers look for Himari, Ringo receives a call from Yuri who invites her and Himari for a meeting. Yuri waits for Himari, but is intercepted by Masako instead, and the two start fighting for the two halves of the diary, while Himari and Ringo are approached by Tabuki, who invites them to a construction site where he claims he will finally bring punishment to the Takakura family. (en)
- As Ringo contemplates making a special curry for Tabuki, Shōma and Kanba, having been reminded about Himari's fate if they don't cooperate, break into Ringo's house to search for the Penguindrum. After just managing to hide from her when she comes back home to prepare her curry, the brothers follow Ringo to Tabuki's house, where she finds another woman living with him. Ringo swaps the curry she was preparing with her own and runs off, where she runs into Himari who invites her to her house, much to the brothers' surprise. After eating together, Ringo returns home and confirms the events laid out in her diary. (en)
- The Penguin Spirit appears again and tells Shōma and Kanba to board a train and find a girl named Ringo Oginome who may possess the Penguindrum. With Ringo attending a girls' school, Shōma and Kanba send in their penguins to follow her. The brothers end up following her to a lingerie store, where they spot her maneuvering round the outside of a building in order to take a photo of something, which she shows to the brother's teacher, Keiju Tabuki. She then follows him home and hides out under his house, where the brothers conclude that she is a stalker, and pulls out a diary which allegedly foretells destined events. (en)
- Kanba goes to see Asami only to find she has forgotten all about him. He tries getting some information out of two other girls, but they are attacked by Natsume's red balls, causing them to lose their memories. Meanwhile, Shoma reluctantly follows Ringo's orders in order to let her have her diary, having him move a lot of stuff over to Tabuki's apartment, but she ends up coming down with a fever. It is revealed that Ringo's late sister, Momoka, used to date Tabuki and Ringo felt that, in order to be accepted by her family, she would have to become Momoka by fulfilling what was written in her diary. Despite her fever, Ringo sneaks off to under Tabuki's house to spend her 'first night' with him, while Natsume is shown to have her own penguin, discussing 'Project M' with someone. (en)
- Sanetoshi offers Kanba a special medicine to revive Himari, though mentions there will be a steep price in return. Kanba recalls three years ago when he and Shoma learned about their parents being criminals. Later, Sanetoshi contacts Natsume, who had also made a contract with him to save Mario, telling her who has the other half of Ringo's Diary. Meanwhile, Ringo talks to Tabuki, who helps put her worries to rest. (en)
- Tabuki invites Ringo to see one of Yuri's plays with him, followed by dinner, where Yuri invites her and Shoma to a party. At the party, Yuri announces that she and Tabuki are engaged, but Ringo remains determined, dragging Shoma to her school to help her make a love potion, which is foiled by Shoma's penguin. Determined to complete her mission, Ringo sneaks into Tabuki's room one night with the intention of getting impregnated by him. (en)
- As Ringo gets help from Himari preparing lunch for a 'date' with Tabuki at the park, Kanba tasks Shōma to go with her and look through her bag for her diary, believing it may be related to the Penguindrum. When they reach the park, they encounter a runaway skunk who runs off after squirting Ringo in stink. After changing clothes, Ringo and Shōma meet up with Tabuki, who brings along the woman Ringo saw him with, an actress named Yuri Tokikago. Come lunchtime, Ringo's prepared lunch gets eaten by crows, leaving her in the shadow of Yuri's picnic. In order to fulfil a 'first kiss' note in her diary, Ringo plans to jump into the pond and have Tabuki save her. However, the skunk appears again and knocks her in, forcing Shōma to save her instead and perform CPR on her, though Ringo believes Tabuki to be the one who did it. Later that evening, a girl that Kanba met up with earlier is pushed down the escalator of a train station, completing the description in Ringo's diary. (en)
- Shoma wakes up in hospital with supposedly minor injuries, keeping quiet about what happened between him and Ringo from his siblings. As Ringo explains what happened to her diary to him, Natsume disguises herself as a nurse and kidnaps Shoma, demanding the other half of the diary from Kanba and Ringo in exchange for his life. Deciding to leave the diary half with Ringo, Kanba goes to find Shoma, while Ringo is told to surrender the diary herself. After luring Kanba into a trap and kissing him, Natsume escapes but is confronted by another person in a penguin hat, whom Natsume identifies as Mario. (en)
- Yuri holds Ringo into her room that coincidentally is next to a room Shoma is staying with a classmate on a field trip. Shoma rushes to rescue her after figuring this but he trips and falls unconscious after bumping his head. Meanwhile, Yuri reminisces about her father, a famous artist who used to tell her she was ugly and convinced her to let him use his chisel on her as he claimed that by only making her "beautiful" he would be able to love her. Yuri started getting seriously injured by her father and she makes friends with her classmate Momoka who claims that her diary has the power of transferring fates in exchange for a price. Back to the present, Natsume appears before Yuri to steal the half of the diary in her possession and despite seemingly successful, it is revealed that she was tricked by Yuri and left with a forgery. After Shoma awakes, Yuri reveals to him that she has half of the diary and just like Momoka saved her from her abusing father with the power of the diary, Yuri is determined to use it to bring her back to life. (en)
- Ringo attempts to make a move on Tabuki only to find he is not there as his roof had a leak. The next day, Tabuki tells Shoma that he is moving in with Yuri, which does not settle well with Ringo, who later discovers her father consorting with another family. Undeterred, she visits Tabuki's new apartment while Yuri is on tour, using a special cake to drug Tabuki while she pretends to be Yuri in order to have sex with him. However, Shoma manages to regain his consciousness and delay Ringo enough before Yuri returns home. As Shoma tries to stop Ringo from taking things any further, her diary is knocked off and is later ripped in half by a passing motorcyclist when she tries to retrieve it. As the shock leads Ringo to walk into the path of an oncoming car, Shoma manages to push her out of the way but is hit himself. (en)
- Ringo stumbles on two girls dressed suspiciously standing before the Takakuras' house and finds that they are actually Himari's childhood friends Hibari and Hikari from the Double-H idol duo. They ask her to give Himari a present in return for the scarves she knit for them before leaving. Kanba learned from Sanetoshi that his medicine will not work on Himari anymore , and that according to him, she can only be saved after he fulfills his group's objective. Himari tries to dissuade him with no success and discovers that his hideout is situated under the aquarium where she first died. She prays for God to have Kanba saved in exchange for her life and falls lifeless on the ground. Yuri calls Ringo and returns her the half of the diary in her possession and stays beside an unconscious Tabuki at the hospital, who was stabbed by the attacker who was revealed to be Yuri's former lover and co-worker. Masako tries to convince Kanba to give up as the police are already aware of his plans and have a warrant on him, but he moves forward ignoring her pleas until they are surrounded, and he puts himself in harm's way to protect her. Injured and unconscious, Kanba is carried away by his comrades while Masako decides to confront the police by herself to cover his escape. (en)
- Tabuki reminisces about how he injured his own hands in despair of being relinquished by his mother as she only cared about his younger brother who was a much better pianist than him. After Tabuki traps Ringo at an elevator and holds Himari hostage, he phones Kanba demanding to bring his father to him. Kanba arrives alone to meet them, claiming he has no idea where his father is and finds Himari hung over into a construction bucket. Tabuki does not believe him and Ringo decides to call the police, but Kanba asks her to not do it and she calls Shouma instead. Tabuki reveals that Himari's brother is receiving money from his father's organization to pay for her treatment, and remembering about how Momoka had her hand severely injured to save him, Tabuki starts severing the wires holding the bucket one by one, claiming that the only way for Kanba to prevent Himari from falling to her death is by sacrificing his own hand to hold the final wire together when it snaps. Kanba does so and despite his pain, he claims he would never have his sister die. Himari than decides to jump by herself to spare Kanba's life, but Tabuki saves her from the fall after seeing in Kanba the same determination to protect his sister he saw in Momoka when she saved him. Shoma arrives soon later and the siblings reunite in tears while Tabuki makes his leave, meeting Yuri on the way who reprimands him. It is also shown that Yuri's showdown with Masako ended in a draw, as each one still holds a half of the diary. (en)
- Yuri, after breaking off an affair with one of her co-stars, feels a longing for a certain someone. Meanwhile, Shoma is ignoring Ringo, feeling she will never be able to forgive him for what his parents did, and tells her they shouldn't see each other again. As Kanba tries to raise more money to pay for Himari's medicine, he is confronted by Natsume, who questions his feelings for Himari. As Ringo becomes depressed over what happened with Shoma, she is picked up by Yuri, who takes her to a hot spring inn. It is revealed that Yuri was close to Momoka, and even attracted to her, because she was the only person who would call her beautiful, leading to her drugging and raping Ringo in an attempt to make her into Momoka. It is also revealed that Yuri was the motorcyclist who stole half of Ringo's diary some time ago. (en)
- Ringo activates the fate-altering spell from the destroyed diary, having learned it from the present from Double-H. Shouma takes the burden of Ringo's sacrifice for himself, telling Ringo he loves her before vanishing, while Kanba sacrifices himself to resurrect Masako and Himari. The terrorist attack is stopped, and Himari, Ringo, and Masako awaken with no memory of the events or of Kanba and Shouma having ever existed. At home, Himari finds an old letter from Kanba and Shouma; she does not recognize it, and she is confused when the sight of it causes her to cry. Outside, Shouma and Kanba walk past as young children, accompanied by the four penguins. (en)
- After the incident at the construction site, Tabuki quit his job and leaves Yuri, while Kanba is praised by his parents for protecting Himari, claiming that once their true objective is reached, they will become together again. Kanba makes use of some money he got from them to throw a party for Himari with Shouma and Ringo to celebrate her return home, while Himari wonders about her conversation with Sanetoshi as she doubts that she will eventually be cured. He also has a conversation with Masako, who reaffirms her intentions to stop his plans. Masako then pays a visit to Himari and demands her to remember about her true past, as she claims Himari is not Kanba's real sister. She approaches her with a modified slingshot designed to restore forgotten memories, but is stopped by Kanba and Shouma who had just returned home. However, Himari manages to remember her past and realize that she indeed is not Kanba and Shouma's sister and it was her soulmate, who is actually Shouma that saved her. (en)
- Ringo is approached by a journalist asking about the Takakura siblings, but she avoids him and warns Himari about him. Later that night, Himari, who was told by the same journalist about how Kanba have been collecting money for her treatment, trails him to the shop where he supposedly meet his parents just to find the place torn down and have a shocking revelation. Shouma is informed by the journalist about Kanba's involvement with the Kiga Group and tries to stop him by force with no success. Meanwhile, Tabuki and Yuri also reach the shop and just like Himari, find the skeletons of the Takakura couple before being attacked by an unknown assailant. Shouma, who finds that Kanba ordered the journalist to be killed in a car accident, and was informed by Sanetoshi that the medicine will not prolong Himari's life for long, informs her that they can't live as a family anymore and sends her to live with his uncle. Later the Kiga group, whose true leader is actually Kanba prepares themselves to make a large scale operation, and Himari, seen standing next to him, claims that she is determined to stop him at the cost of her life. (en)
- Himari has a strange dream in which she meets a man named Sanetoshi, who shows her various books containing her memories. In elementary school, she formed a group called Triple-H with her best friends, Hibari and Hikari. When she argued with her mother over buying a wrong ribbon, her mother became scarred from a falling mirror, she and her friends tried to kill a koi for its blood to heal her mother. She left elementary school due to her illness while her friends went on to become idols. Upon waking up after vaguely recollecting a soulmate she once had, Himari hears from Ringo about Shoma's accident. (en)
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