残暑見舞い! Zansho Mimai! | |
Season | 2 |
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Episode | 13 |
Japanese air date | June 29, 2010 |
Previous | Summer Festival! |
Next | Summer Classes! |
K-ON!! Season 2 episode #13
Summary
Azusa tries to have some summer fun, but she keeps falling asleep and having odd dreams about her friends.
Plot
Azusa is lounging about at her home, tired from having stayed up late watching TV the night before and still tanned from the Summer Fest. She attempts to write a text message to her upperclassmen, who are currently studying for their entrance exams. Before she finishes her message, she receives one from Yui, reassuring her that they are all actually studying. Rather than sit around and be bored, Azusa decides to make her own fun, only to fall asleep on the couch.
In her first dream, Azusa brings a watermelon over to the Hirasawa household. Yui, having just eaten soba and tempura for lunch, is practicing guitar in her room as a break before resuming her studying. Ui cleaves the watermelon in half and brings it to Yui as is, explaining that it's always been Yui's dream to scoop out the watermelon flesh that way, and Yui's guitar melody changes to match her elated mood. However, Azusa remembers that watermelon and tempura can cause stomachaches and she rushes to warn Yui. Her warning is seconds too late, and Yui's tone becomes distinctly somber.
Azusa is woken up by Ui at the door, though Ui doesn't recognize a tanned Azusa at all when welcomed inside. They decide to bring treats and visit Jun, who is practicing with her Jazz Club at school. However, with the Jazz Club taking the day off for Obon, they ask Sawako for the club room key so they can have their fruit jellies there. After finishing, Ui proposes they watch a movie, to which Azusa suggests she'd like to watch a scary one. However, Azusa and Ui end up nodding off again in the clubroom before they can leave.
In this dream, Azusa and Ui are at the cinema, in the middle of a horror movie. Azusa notices Mio taking the seat in front of her, and presumes that she wants to conquer her fear of horror movies. However, even after two terrifying moments, Mio doesn't flinch. Azusa checks on Mio and realizes that she had fainted long ago. Azusa hears Mio's phone go off and starts fretting about what to do until she wakes up to realize that the ring tone actually came from Ui's phone. While they slept, Jun sent them a photo of her acting bored at her grandma's in the countryside for Obon.
Azusa and Ui then actually go to the cinema. Azusa decides against the horror movie, opting instead for a tearjerker. Since there's some time until the next showing, they go visit the nearby stores. Azusa realizes she still hasn't written a post-summer greeting card yet. She also notices that she lacks the money to cover postcards and potentially going out with Jun later, having spent most of her money at the Summer Fest. She considers getting a part time job, with Ui pointing out an advert for a position as a lottery assistant, and the two instantly start work in yet another one of Azusa's dreams.
There are only two prizes left in the lottery - a tissue pack, and the grand prize, a trip to Finland. Funnily enough, Tsumugi has returned a day early from her own trip to Finland specifically to play the lottery in hopes of winning the last tissue pack. After Azusa prays for her success, Tsumugi wins the tissue pack and is overjoyed. Since the trip to Finland is the only prize left, Azusa wins the grand prize when she's asked by her friends to play the lottery next. In doing so, she realizes that she's dreaming again. Waking up, Azusa laments that she fell asleep during the movie and missed most of it.
Later, Azusa meets up with Ui and Jun to go to the pool together. Jun, like most other people, doesn't recognize a sunburnt Azusa. On the way, Jun gets jealous of Azusa over all of the Light Music Club's recent activities and outings, like the Summer Fest and Tsumugi's beachside villas over the last two years. Of course, Jun vehemently denies being envious and refuses Azusa's invitation to join the club. At the pool, the girls change into swimwear, leaving Azusa embarrassed over her obvious tan lines. While Ui and Jun play in the pool, Azusa tries to even out her tan, leading her to fall asleep again.
Ui and Jun encourage Azusa to go down an incredibly dizzying waterslide. Suddenly, Ritsu, working as a pool attendant, gives Azusa a plate of yakisoba to slide down the slide with, calling it the latest hip trend of the summer. After watching Yui, Tsumugi, and Mio slide with yakisoba, Azusa is thrust down the slide with her own plate. Launched in the air and about to land on the three girls in the pool, Azusa wakes up, her tan having evened out.
When her friends buy yakisoba for lunch, Azusa is reminded of the Summer Fest and how Tsumugi was so desperately looking forward to having some. Fed up with all of the talk about Azusa's club activities, Jun finally admits she's jealous of the Light Music Club and demands to know why the club goes on so many luxurious training camps. Azusa knows that the truth is they were all free and attributed to luck and circumstance, but makes the excuse that since they don't have many members, they could afford to do things more often. On their way home, they run into the upperclassmen of the Light Music Club, who had just left the library. Yui is elated to see Azusa and quickly glomps her lovingly.
Together, the seniors and Azusa's group visit a summer festival. While there, Tsumugi, who returned from Finland early just for the festival, finally finds a yakisoba stall. They then enjoy the festival and each other's company, eating shaved ice together. As they prepare to visit a goldfish scooping stand, some fireworks going off in the distance catch their attention. Yui offers Azusa her hand, which the younger girl takes before she's dragged off to watch the fireworks with everyone. The surreal sight of her jovial closest friends with the backdrop of the fireworks cause Azusa to wonder if she's dreaming again. As the crowd becomes too thick, Azusa loses her grip on Yui's hand, and her senpais vanish. Unable to reach her senpais, Azusa ends up walking home with Ui and Jun, Jun agreeing to join the Light Music Club next year if they can't recruit any new members.
Taking a bath at home, Azusa reflects on the day, making certain that it wasn't entirely a dream, that she really did have fun with everyone at the festival. She realizes that graduation for her senpais is fast approaching and that she'll be alone soon, depressing her. Chiding herself not to think such dour thoughts, Azusa decides to focus on making the upcoming school festival performance a success.
Yui gets home before Ui does and helps herself to some leftover tempura from lunch. She gets a call from Azusa asking if she received her greeting card, which Yui finds just as Azusa mentions it. The greeting card warns Yui too late about not eating tempura after shaved ice, but it's too late. Tearing up, Yui asks Azusa what she should do as she realizes her mistake.
Trivia
- In her first three dreams, Azusa is completely untanned.
- Azusa's warning about tempura and watermelon giving stomach aches is based off of an east Asian medical philosophy called kuiawase (
食い合わせ ), which claims that some foods should never be eaten together.
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