Flying Colors (Birigyaru / 映画　ビリギャル) (ビリギャル)

Sayaka's grade school dream was to make friends.

Sayaka's father's dream

was for his son Ryuta to become a baseball pro.

He became so obsessed, he bought a team bus,

and left Sayaka and her sister Mayumi

in the care of their mother, Akari.

How about some strawberries?

Akari was always Sayaka's ally.

See? The world can change in just one night.

Kudo! Pass!

She's hurting on the inside more than the outside.

Mrs. Kudo. Even if she is actually being bullied,

it happens at every school.

She says she won't go to school. She can't take anymore.

I can't just stand by and do nothing.

Children grow through experience.

She needs to go through this.

That's this school's approach to education?

Saya. Let's find a new school.

However, even at her new school, she couldn't make good friends.

What's up?

That uniform's cute.

Hey. Want to try applying?

Meiran Girls Junior High will be a whole new world.

If you get in, you'll automatically go to their high school and university.

All you have to do is have fun.

And so, Sayaka

enrolled at Meiran Girls Junior High.

Hi.

Shorter is cuter, right?

And, just as Akari told her,

Sayaka only had fun, and never studied...

...and was placed in the lowest class at high school.

SVOC. When something is doing something...

Listen up. You better pay attention.

Got it?

Yes sir!

Losers.

Nishimura!

Huh?

Nishimura!

Excuse me! Let me through!

Oh crap!

Those days were filled with fun and excitement.

3, 4, 5!

Where the hell were you?

Shut up, deadbeat.

Watch your damn mouth! Moron.

Saya? Your skirt's gotten shorter again.

Yeah? It's normal.

You've got too much makeup on.

True. You look cuter without it.

I'm way cuter like this.

Oh crap.

See ya!

Your breakfast! Hey, bread!

I'm dieting!

Come on, have a bite!

Then in the first semester of Sayaka's second year,

fate caught up with her.

Kudo. Explain this to me.

You and your friends are losers.

A bad influence on this school.

They smoked with you, didn't they?

Don't protect them. Get away from those losers.

If they're losers, then I'm a loser too.

You'll be expelled.

If you tell me who else smoked, I'll exempt you from expulsion.

It was wrong of her to smoke.

I'll make her atone for it severely.

But Mr. Principal,

is making her betray her friends your school's approach to education?

If you believe that's a good education, I'd rather she was expelled.

I'm proud of my daughter for not telling you.

She really has a good heart.

Ultimately, only Sayaka was suspended indefinitely.

What'll you do? If you're suspended, university's out.

I'll be alright.

I've got no prospects anyway. I guess I never had any.

Never.

Saya?

You can sit exams for another university.

Just hear them out.

Everything I've told you so far is what Akari told me.

Mr. Tsubota? She's here.

Then, during her school's summer holidays...

...Sayaka came to my cram school.

Don't stare so much.

Sorry! You just look so cool. Please teach me the latest fashion.

Not with that face of yours.

No crop-tops with this gut either.

Guys don't wear crop-tops, normally.

Oh. You're right.

How do you do? I'm Tsubota. Pleased to meet you.

I'm Sayaka Kudo. Pleased to meet you.

She had a standard score of 30, and was bottom of her year.

A teenage academic failure.

FLYING COLORS

First of all, let's do a simple test of your knowledge.

Oh man, I hate tests. I get my score, then it's over.

No, the score's only the beginning.

Find your weaknesses, then get stronger.

You're such an optimist.

Wow. I've never seen answers this baffling before.

First, why do you think strong means talks too long?

Isn't it short for story's long?

Aha.

Hey, I feel so sorry for this person.

Why's that?

She's called this 'cause she's fat, right? 'Princess Octopus.' That sucks!

'Prince Shotoku.' It's a guy.

Your imagination is genius-level.

Genius? You're too kind.

Also, you answered all wrong, but you answered everything.

I might've got lucky.

That's it! Your positive attitude's great.

I like getting compliments for a change.

But hey, isn't it weird you know so little?

I go to an escalator school, so I don't need to study.

OK, let's pick a university.

I can't pass exams.

If you achieve the impossible, you can do anything.

I never thought about it.

Tokyo U then?

Tokyo U?! It's full of gross nerds, right?

Then how about Keio? Ever heard of Keio boys?

They sound hot.

Keio it is then.

Wait up, wait up. Hey, are you serious?

Yes. My job's to get you into your chosen school.

It's like a Star Festival wish. You've got to write it down.

Also, you've got to say you're going to Keio.

The more you say it, the more real it becomes.

Like a magic spell?

You really are an optimist. Me going there? That's so funny.

K.O.?

I'm home!

Hi!

How did it go?

So Mom, I decided to go to K.O.

What kind of K.O.?

You going for Keio?! That's so funny!

You can't study!

No way, no way.

These are grade school drills!

Yeah. I'm Year 4 level.

For real?!

It looks hard.

Fractions suck.

I can't do them.

We do individual tutoring here.

You supplement that with self-study, and overcome new challenges.

You come three days a week, so self-study's vital.

Yup.

Yup. OK, you sit here.

Scuse me.

Right, this is today's test. You've got 20 minutes.

Another test?

Tetsuo?

Don't give up.

Like Mourinho said.

The only force stronger than electricity or atomic energy is?

Human will.

90 points is miraculously better!

Like Kuwabara's powers suddenly awakening in 'Yu Yu Hakusho'!

It was like the Dark Tournament!

No kidding!

Impressive, Sayaka! You got one right today.

But when it comes to social studies, you're queen of the ignoramuses.

Queen of the ignoramuses? Is that an S&M thing?

Don't tell me you can't draw a map of Japan.

That's impossible.

Don't say that. Just try drawing what you know.

A map of Japan?

Well, I guess it's kinda like this shape?

Hey, why's there only one circle?

There's one Japan.

There are islands from north to south.

North? South?

Don't tell me you don't know that.

If north is up, where's south?

I really suck at problems like this.

No, this is basic human knowledge.

You can say that, but my friends don't know either.

I made them laugh.

If north is up, south's gotta be down.

No way! You knew that?

How do you survive with that brain?

You're awesome.

An air-headed bimbo like you ain't gettin' in to Keio.

They tricked you. It's a scam. I ain't payin' for it.

My part-time job will pay for it.

Sayaka wants to do it. I trust Mr. Tsubota.

Are you...

You left the girls to me.

This family's a failure. Ryuta's our only hope.

Says who, deadbeat?!

Watch your damn mouth! Moron.

Oh, hi Ryuta. Dinner's almost ready.

Forget it. He needs beef for the big tournament.