His name is Iwase Ken.
The pitiful man who showed up at the wedding hall.
I've seen hundreds of weddings before...
but I've rarely seen a man regret so many things about the bride.
Because she was his childhood friend
he never thought that the result of not being able to confess his feelings to her
would ironically end up like this.
While watching the slideshow, he had a strong wish to change the past.
As I couldn't leave it at that, I permitted him to return to the time the photo was taken.
I, of course, am the fairy who lives in this church.
The groom and the bride's first encounter was one of the worst.
The probability of a marriage could have been nipped in the bud if he just left it at that.
But he couldn't just disregard it...
and in the end he was the one who helped them reconcile.
He cannot handle things too well, but he is a man you cannot hate.
I really wonder...
How will this man end up?
The second button of my uniform was gone.
The only thing that was certain..
was that the person who received that button was not Rei.
Hey Ken... That day,
whom did you give your second button to?
Who was it...?
Ken! Ken! Ken!...
Is mine really okay?
YES!!!
Here.
Thank you very much!
Umm... During your senior year,
did you receive a second button from anyone?
Hm?
I didn't receive any.
Hmm...
Didn't you want to get one?
A little... But...
there was a previous arrangement.
That's too bad.
Now it's a good memory, though.
Kenzo, write me something!
Sure.
So there was someone who got your button...
It's not just that there was someone...
It was awful, there were a bunch of wild fans of mine gathered!
That's... great.
That time, Rei..
I think maybe she wanted to get your button, don't you think?
Well, it's who you are, Ken...
You didn't understand Rei's heart of a young girl.
Even though we've always been together like this...
...still you don't understand anything.
You've never understood anything.
Maybe if I would have given her the button...
I wonder if we would have been different..
If I would have given it to her...
I wonder if I wouldn't feel this much regret...
Why didn't I give it to Rei?
Aah, I really wanna go back!
I wanna go back and give it to her!
I want to hand the second button to her!
There is one thing that really bothers me.
Isn't your reaction towards me getting weaker?
No! No such thing!
I can see it on your face that you think it normal that I appear.
It's just your imagination!
The fact that you showed up this time as well,
I am so thankful, I cannot express it in words.
If you can't put it in words
that is just like not being thankful!
Well, I'm really umm...
I'm really thankful that you let me have this valuable experience...
Oh, graduation...
Do you know the movie "The Graduate" with Dustin Hoffman?
Is it the one where he steals the bride in the middle of the ceremony?
Truth is that I've lived in that church for a while.
For real?!
It's a joke, obviously!
You should be careful or you might end up being cheated by a swindler.
Shirosagi?!
Shirosagi - White Swindler
There are some who look at graduation as parting,
there are some who think of it as the start of a journey.
There are some who are sad that they won't see someone anymore,
there are also some who are relieved they won't have to see someone anymore.
People's feelings on the day of graduation
are as many as there are diplomas.
Are you really ready to hand over that second button?
Yes!
No matter how difficult it might be?
Of course!
I'll have prawn, thank you.
Ah!
Are you perhaps...
hinting to the button with that botan ebi?
Its a play on words between Botan ebi (a kind of prawn) and Botan (Button).
Ask, and it will be given to you.
Hallelujah... Chance!
Ken! Ken! Ken!...
Oh... Crap!
Surprise!
Eh?
That was close!
Safe!
What are you being shy about now! Come on!
Sorry, he's being a...
Have pity on her!
I'm the pitiful one here!
Thank you very much!
NOOOOOO!!!
Proposal Daisakusen ~ Operation Love ~ Episode 4
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The graduation ceremony was kind of disappointing...
It's because the principal has been holding the same speech for three years.
Maybe I was expecting too much...
Did you expect to cry?
I just think it could have been a little more touching.
Nothing we can do. That's the fate of the attached school.
? Miss Risshuu ?
It's finished!
Here you go.
Thanks a lot!
Next person!
Kou
First kanji of koukou, meaning highschool.
Well, you didn't look like you were going to come for it, so...
I came to give it to you!
I don't think I ever said I wanted it.
Don't say that, just take it!
I REALLY don't need it!
I can't do anything with this one button!
Oi!
Bye bye!
I just came and my dream has already been shattered to pieces!
Geez... this is a disaster!
Kenzou!
Kenzo, write me something!
Sure.
Furuhata Ninzaburo is a police detective drama shown on Fuji Television from 1994 to 2006, starring Masakazu Tamura as Ninzaburo Furuhata.
Mmm...
... I shall write on it at a later time.
Please leave it behind.
What are you doing?!
This was Furuhata Ninzaburo.
Anyway, it's not like anyone will take your button, right?
Huh?
It was the same thing at the junior high school graduation too, right?
Nobody wanted to take it, so I took it out of mercy for you.
What is that?
I feel sorry for you, so I'm don't mind taking it today too.
What am I gonna do?
I'm begging you, help me!
Taking back the second button makes no sense.
Geez, and you were so excited when she asked for your button...
It's your fault in the first place!
What are you getting pissed about!
It's a line that got famous due to Choshu Koriki, a comedian.
I'm not pissed!
Oh, right...
Oh yeah, this was still before Choshu Koriki got famous...
Anyway!
I really have to get back that button.
Ken, you really get tired easily of people, don't you?
When you got that chocolate from Kaoru-chan from class B, your high spirits lasted only for a day, didn't they?
Which year are you talking about?
It was on Valentine's last month, man...
Yeah. Last month...
Is it really that important to get back that button?
That button is really special...
I've got it!
Baseball Club
Lupin III is an anime and manga about a gang of thieves led by Arsène Lupin III. It was created in 1967 by Kazuhiko Kato.
There is a sapphire embedded in that second button, right?
You've watched too many reruns of Lupin.
Rescue Operation
Second button
First he will enter on the veranda in front of class 2G, then will contact the girl,
for his flight he will use this emergency stairway.
As soon as he has the object in his hands, he will rush to the roof.
And then Goemon will be waiting in the helicopter.
Goemon, Jigen and Fujiko are Lupin's allies. Jigen is the marksman of the group, Goemon is a renegade samurai, and Fujiko is Lupin's love interest.
It's Jigen who will come to meet him!
It's Goemon!
Nope, it's Jigen.
It's Goemon!
It's Jigen.
Goemon!
Jigen.
FUUUJIKO CHAAAN!
Listen seriously!
Ow...
Leave Fujiko-chan alone.
Well, then there's nothing else but to use plan B.
Hmm?
Do getto zea?
Do getto zea - is the katakana pronounciation of "Do get there"
No, no, no, no, no...
Do
Ge
Za
Dogeza - to kneel on the ground and bow; the most humble form of bow
Dogeza!
You could have just said "Dogeza"!
Yeah!
When you don't have any more special throws,
the last thing you could do is throw it straight!
That's the hard-and-fast rule of men!
Here.
Thank you.
I wonder why girls are all after the second button?
You might never understand, Eri.
But why the second one?
If you want a button, should't it be the first one?
It's the one closeset to the heart, that's why.
Heart?
The uniform...
is something you're wearing all through high school, isn't it?
So that's why...
the second button is full with that person's feelings.
Oh...
So, you asked for someone's second button.
Eh?
You did, didn't you?
Just to make sure, you know.
Who? Who, who?
I might not receive it, so I can't really say.
Why?
I'm sure that the closer the other person is to you,
the further the distance to that second button.
What is that?
It's like a physics law.
Although he's always near me,
still he's so far away...
It's so plain!You should make it more flashy!
Yours is too flashy!
No such thing!
Ah...
What are you doing?
Ah!
Hello!
We're really sorry!
Why are we also bowing?
More fastballs are more effective.
Ken, hurry up and say it already!
Ummm...
I'm really...
sorry, but...
You see...
I'm the one who's sorry!
Huh?!
I made a bet with my friends...
about who gathered the most within an hour.
There was a scratch on it so probably...
it's this one.
Oi, Tsuru!
This... You don't even know whose it is!
Don't underestimate a man's pure heart!
There's no need for such a second button...
Fly!
NOOOOO!!!
I'm happy that you came to congratulate us...
But you should have come sooner!
Ah, uh...
I'm sorry...
Ah.. Here you are!
Look, here!
Ah!
This was before we became friends.
I have an awful face there!
You looked like you're very stressed.
Teacher, did you cry on your graduation day?
No, I didn't.
See, you have to accept it, that's how it goes.
Hmm...
But if we leave it this way...
I just thought that it'll end without anything we can remember in the future.
Now that you mention it,
I don't remember almost anything about my graduation day too.
Oh, I just remembered, there is one memory I have from graduation day.
I think it's still there.
Chemistry Lab
It's not here...
It's supposed to be this desk...
Ah!
I found it!
It's here, it's here, it's here!
Ah, it's this one!
March 3, 1996. Tada Tetsuya!
Tada Tetsuya
You did something that's very typical for a graduation.
I'm sure I was having the same feelings as you guys are now.
"Is it really okay to graduate like this?"
Maybe...
I wanted to decide the end of high-school by my own hands.
Even if it was just a tiny thing like this.
I never thought you would become a university lecturer.
Are you really gonna be okay?
No... I don't think I'll be okay.
Oh, but when I was doing my teaching practice...
The words you said, Miss Yoshida, were an eye-opener.
What I said?
I decided to face the students.
Even if I'm bad at it or don't like it, I decided to try.
I'm looking forward to seeing you again at university.
See you then!
See you again.
See you!
Bye bye!
Where the heck is that button?!
Enough with the coffee milk already!
Ah, what a splendid student!
A student role model.
Ken...
Enough, just help me out, will you?
Come on, give up already!
It's because I can't give up that I came back to the pas...
Past?
Again with that.
It's nothing...
I don't know who you wanted to give it to, but
A button that you already gave away..
giving that to someone...
it's really, you know...
not the real thing, you know.
Mikio's words struck me painfully in the heart.
What is really sad,
is not the me from the past who couldn't give the button to Rei.
It's the present me, who..
was trying to make useless efforts even while knowing it's not the real thing.
The second button that you already gave to someone else...
doesn't come back...
Senpai!
Senpai- a way to adress people older than you in school, in a club or at a worplace; may also be translated as senior.
It's beginning.
It's here finally...
Ahhh! What a pain in the butt... Geez!
Everyone, line up!
Yes sir!!!
Mikio!
What was your batting average in high school?
They calculate batting average with 1.000 as the highest (100%).
About .250 ...
Listen!
Starting now, everyone...
will reach 1.000
1.000?
I won't be satisfied with .700 or .800...
If you reach perfect 1.000 then..
you truly graduate!
Yes Sir!
Koshien Baseball Game Finals
The Champion cup which holds the noodles within,
is the ultimate cup of noodles!
Juwari soba...
Juwari soba - also called Towari soba, it is made of 100% buckwheat soba
What sort of a send-off party is this?
Playball!
West Tokyo Conference
Is this the taste of youth?
Koshien First Time Participants
Koshien Semi-Finals
The final test! The final test! The final test!
They look so stupid!
Anyway, why do they do these stupid things?
Maybe they never grew up?
But,
it feels so youthful.
Koshien Baseball Game Finals
Ate it all!
One, Two! One, Two!
Ahhh...
What the heck am I doing?
Traditions are really worthless, right?
Despite that, you thoroughly enjoyed it.
Hey, Eri!
More than that, here! My button!
Like I said, not even a single button...
Ah, no... it's different. See? It's all of the buttons!
Huh?! Uwah!...
What the heck is this?!
Wait!
I don't need this! Oi!
I gotta go too, okay?
Ah, okay.
Wait!
So there's already someone who received your button.
That's just great.
I was worried that no one would want to receive it.
You should be thankful the person who took your button.
Or maybe, do you want me to go thank her?
I'll say "Though he may not become a big shot,
please take care of him."
Enough already...
On the last day you put your uniform on,
that person appeared.
I'm really happy about that.
Being your manager, I kinda,
feel like a weight was taken off my shoulders.
So, to have to go home still having your second button, how is it?
Depressing, right?
Hey, what's so funny?
Are you mortified?
Why're you laughing?
Is a button that important?
Ah.. you...
Ah!
I left behind the necklace I got from Tsuru...
Hey!
Oh well... Let's go!
Hey, are we really going home?
Aren't we going back?
Huh?
You're ignoring me again...
Amazing!
Oooww...
Who is that?
I told you not to come!
I was thinking of picking you up around the day of your graduation.
I going with them today. Go home.
"Go home," you say...
Could she be the one we heard about...?
It's okay even if you come late,
'cause I'll be waiting.
Uwah... this is awesome!
This is my first time to see a master key like this!
Don't get that excited!
Master!
How'd you get your hands on this master key?!
When did he become your master?
Oh, stop being so silent! Please say something!
Ka-chatta!
Ka-chatta - Onomatopoeia for the clinking sound made by the key.
Looks are something I can't teach you.
Ugh...
You're kinda pompous!
Hey, you! Watch your mouth when facing the master!
If Tsuru suddenly got cool,
ah, well then I think he'd be impatient.
Risshu University High School Department
Graduation Ceremony
Impatient? What's that?
I wanna be cool!
This second graduation ceremony, ends disappointingly like this as well.
How'd you know her?
I forgot!
Aw, come on... Tell me, please?
What now?
What should I do?
It ended, huh?
Yeah.
It really has.
Don't say it has!
Well, graduation ceremonies are like that.
Ah, just as Master said!
You're ok with it!
Cause your juniors came to see you off!
And for us, we're just gonna get certificates, right?
What's with everybody?
In the end, with regards to your graduation ceremony,
why do you guys have such long faces?
Oh no, I guess this is the end, to be told that by Tamotsu who's born with a long face!
What are you saying?
I guess I don't have a choice.
Ok!
For you pitiful bunch,
I'll make a special graduation burger as a present!
We're in real danger now.
If we eat it, our lives will graduate!
I guess I don't want it to end this way!
I'm really worried too about still not leaving a mark!
So, let's go back?!
For example, we have to get that!
Let's do the things we weren't able to do?!
Right!
Let's go!
Oi! Mikio!
I'm ok with not going.
Sorry! We'll come back later!
Hey, Ken! Let's go!
Ready!
Hey, you! Hey, wait up!
Graduation burger!
Risshu University High School Department Graduation Ceremony
I'm fine!
Come on!
Enough!
So not cool!
You're next!
When the five of us are together,
the usual laughter never ends.
Cheers!
Us five being here is natural,
and commonplace.
If even just one is missing, we begin to feel like something is wrong.
Thank you
for the tea
Okay!
If we weren't enjoying more than everyone else,
we'd feel like we were losing.
We did a lot of stupid things.
Okay, let's bury it.
Oi!
Aaahh... why you...!
Don't just "Oi"!
It's fine, it is MINE after all. Put it in!
Yeah, but...
Hey, hey, hey. Don't get mad like that.
Ah... uh... but... but...!
Isn't that an important memory too?
Ah, the button's an important memory, huh?
Exactly.
Wait... you mean...? Ah, I see!
I guess guys must do the straight ball!
Okay.
No matter how many fights we have,
or how angry we become,
if we five are together,
in the end, we'll still decide to smile.
But, this me right now,
though there is happiness inside my heart,
I can't give an honest smile.
This graduation ceremony of no depth,
is far more painful than the first time,
and bittersweet.
Nice!
Hey!
By the way, we've never came here on the roof before, right?
I've been here though.
What were you doing here?
Taking a breather.
Other than that,
were you doing something serious here?
What?
Of course I wasn't doing anything serious!
This guy's saying crude words again.
I wonder what his girlfriend sees in him, right?
E R I I S A W O M A N
You're messing around! You!
Tsuru left out one Kanji, so instead of the message reading "Eri ga daisuki" (I love Eri), the reading became "Eri ga joshi" (Eri is a woman).
Eri is a woman!
I know that already!
Normal people won't do things to that extent!
That's impossible for me.
So that's why he does a homerun sometimes.
That one in a hundred,
can touch a person's heart GREATLY.
You can't catch my heart with just that!
While I'm laughing and thinking of how stupid he is,
his purity glared at me too much.
My heart is hurting.
Hey, hey! Did you see me?
Oh, I'm so hungry...
Then, let's go to Tamo-chan's?
Okay.
Hey you guys, the white line...
So as commemoration to this graduation, let's eat the graduation burgers!
Those are the only things I'll never eat.
I feel like they're not gonna be yummy...
Sorry!
There's one thing...
left for me to do.
There's one thing...
What is it that only guys can do?
Maybe they want to enter the girls' changing room.
Then why is it that we can't leave with them?
Well, they can't concentrate if we're too close, right?
What are you up to?
Ken wants his last high school memory to be a homerun.
Well, I think he won't be able to hit what I pitch.
Yay.
Is it not ok to give some sort of support?
This homerun now's too late!
Don't say that!
Kenzo! Do a homerun!
Don't mock me!
You know that I'm imitating you?
I can't see the similarity!
Tsuru, throw a straight!
Okay! Here it goes!
I'm a genius.
BACK HOME!
SAFE!
Yes!
All right!
Yay!
Annyunghase... YO!
Yeah!
Really, these boys,
from the beginning 'till the end, they'll always continue to be foolish!
I guess we can't do anything about that.
Line up, everyone!
What's this?
I don't get it though.
From now on,
Risshu University High School Department's
graduation ceremony for the baseball club managers is going to start.
Graduation ceremony?
Wait a second, what is this?
Presentation of flowers,
by the baseball club's number 7.
Even in practices,
even in games,
even 'till the end, motivation was not shown,
by Enokido Mikio, who is now handing the flowers.
Let's go!
That's the bouquet?
It's better if you do it properly!
Don't expect something luxurious!
Thanks for the hard work.
Thank you.
Thanks for the hard work.
Thank you.
Next,
There's still something else?
Please be quiet.
Next, the conferment of the diploma.
Third Year Manager,
Oku Eri.
Yes.
You,
Isn't that blank?
Please be quiet.
You,
though you have completely no interest in anything baseball related,
just for the reason that there were hot seniors in the team,
you became a baseball manager.
You own a very brave heart.
Though you put aside the important work,
and always show that you're doing mundane stuff,
your shining naivete,
and that smile, always rescued us to heights we never even realized.
We wouldn't have thought it strange for you to stop,
but up 'till the end of these three years,
you stayed and accomplished a lot with us.
I am deeply thankful.
March 9th of 2002
Representative player,
Iwase Ken.
That was really nice, right, Eri?
Yeah.
Third year manager...
Yoshida Rei.
Yes.
You...
Upon entering highschool, you wanted to enter the volleyball team.
but due to our coercions, you submitted,
and became baseball manager though you didn't want to.
Yes. Exactly like that.
Though at times, you use stern words to psych us up,
and storming off when disagreeing with the passed judgement,
we could always rely on you to supervise us.
You don't have to say that, ok?
On the other hand,
you never once said anything about your job.
No matter how hot or cold the day was,
you always were with us players on the field.
From the preparation of our drinks, to the washing of our uniforms,
you handled them perfectly.
More than the school uniform,
you sincerely cared for these uniforms.
This uniform too,
is proof of my years in high school.
We were always losing in our games,
so we haven't given you any happy memories.
But up 'till the end of these three years,
you fought together with this baseball team.
Truly, thank you so much.
Congratulations on your graduation.
March 9th of 2002.
Representative player, Iwase Ken.
Rei-san
Thank you for these three years.
From: Baseball Team players
2002, March 9th
Thank you for the hard work these three years
You truly are a good manager!
Enokido Mikio
Tsurumi Hisashi
These three years, you worked really hard! Thanks for the great work!
Sorry I wasn't able to bring you to the Koushien.
Thank you so much for these three years.
Iwase Ken
Otsukare-sama deshita!
OTSUKARE-SAMA DESHITA!
Hey, hey...
You two wanna cry?
Want to cry?
What?
They certainly want to cry.
What's with that?
This was the one thing left that he didn't do.
If you two aren't touched, then he can't graduate, he said.
What a strange thing to say.
What is that?
Yay.
Somewhat,
I'm REALLY vexed.
And with Ken having done this, I'm even more vexed.
Dork.
I'm really touched.
Oi! You boys!
Until when are you gonna stay here?!
Ah, Teacher! You came just in time!
Take our picture!
Picture?
Come on... Please?
Eh...?
Let's take it by the school gate?
Ok then.
It's ok! Let's go! Let's go!
I don't have a choice now I guess...
Hey, Ken! Hurry, and let's go!
I'll take the picture now!
Okay.
Hurry, hurry!
Compress! Compress!
I...
with Rei...
I l-lo...
Rei...
Say cheese!
NOOOOO!!!
It didn't work again.
After that should've been the most important part!
When you were in high school,
did you receive a second button from anybody?
Well...
You can say that.
Oh, is that so?
But it was a weird second button, you know.
Weird?
Aahh...
I should have said that I like her right away!
It looked like a comic dialogue where you built up the tension only to end before you could even see the punch line.
That was quite an elaborate production.
It was, huh?
But too many things were going on that you didn't have time to confess, and thus nothing resulted from it.
I'm reflecting on it now...
Uhm...
Is it ok if you listen once to what I say?
What?
Does it really not change much like this?
Not changing?
I've told her things I've never said in the past,
and gave her things.
But this current situation, no matter what I say, seems to show no effect whatsoever.
At the most, you only went back for how many hours, right?
If you went back and broke something,
the fact that you broke that thing remains.
But a person's heart is not as simple as that.
Unless the limit is greatly exceeded, I know it will not change.
I understand.
Safely,
you were able to change your high school graduation.
Maybe you should graduate from these time slips, huh?
No!
There's still something left for me to do.
Spring of First year in university.
I tried to playfully kiss Rei,
for that, she slapped me with all her might.
That's because I really am the worst.