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SKET Dance
77 Episodes
24 min each
SPRING 2011
Synopsis
At Kaimei High School, the Living Assistance Club (aka the Sket Brigade) was organized to help students with problems big or small. Most of the time, though, they hang out in their club room, bored, with only a few trivial problems floating in every once in a while. In spite of this, they still throw all their energy into solving these worries.
Comedy
Drama
Slice of Life
Format
Unknown
Episodes
77
Per Episode
24 min
Source
Unknown
Episodes
77 / 77 Episodes
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Episode 1
The Academy SKETs
A transfer student arrives on campus, and the three members of the SKET-dan introduce themselves, hoping the new student will join, but he politely declines. He returns soon after, covered in red paint as the apparent victim of bullying, asking the group for help. After investigating, they discover the culprit is actually the transfer student himself, who was operating under duress from the school bully and childhood acquaintance. After setting things straight, the new student is able to fit in comfortably at the school, and the members of SKET-dan look forward to their next task.
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Episode 2
Peppermint Samurai
The next person to request the aid of the Sket Brigade is a "self-proclaimed" samurai of the Kendo Club. In the end, the sket dan helps him win the tournament. The client in this episode is viewed like an idiot who claims that he is a samurai.
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Episode 3
The Legendary Onihime
Himeko was once a delinquent feared far and wide, the legendary yankee Onihime. She's totally reformed now, but starts to hear odd rumors that "the Onihime has started going on a rampage again.
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Episode 4
Romantic! Finding the Hilltop Pelolin!
Saotome Roman, member of the Manga Club, runs into her "prince" on a hill road on her way back from school in the rain. In order to meet her prince once again, Roman comes to the Sket-dan to ask their help, but...
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Episode 5
The Ghost of the Incinerator
Yuuki Reiko, member of the Occult Club, barges into the Sket-dan's room holding a picture of one of Kaimei Academy's seven mysteries, the "Ghost of the Incinerator". The Sket-dan are on the case (mainly Switch), trying to find out the truth behind the picture, and getting Shimada Takako from the Newspaper Club mixed up in it, too...
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Episode 6
Even Onihime Has Tears in Her Eyes
Tsubaki from the Student Council tells the Sket-dan they're going to be disbanded. In order to prove the Sket-dan's effectiveness, Bossun takes on a request to put on a play for a local preschool. But the Student Council also takes on the same request, and the battle is on!
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Episode 7
Summer Sakura
Tetsu comes and asks the Sket-dan to meet with someone in his place. It seems like a sickly girl who he was exchanging messages with under a false persona wants to come see him...
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Episode 8
Nervous & Genesis
Momoka has come to the Sket-dan for help. It turns out that she's been asked to audition for a voice role in an anime after being discovered during her performance at the preschool puppet show. Switch leaps at the opportunity to start her harsh training in the way of anime!
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Episode 9
Enta'll Do It!
Manga artist Hinohara Enta has come to interview students at Kaimei Academy. Bossun thinks he can get popular if he becomes the model for the main character of a manga, but everything he says ends up being way too "boring" and "plain". Then, something completely out-of-the-blue happens!
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Episode 10
You Mustn't Watch
The Sket-dan is having fun trying to take their minds off the upcoming midterms, when they hear rumors of a mysterious DVD that will curse you with bad luck if you watch it. Just then, Kuramoto Ayumi comes in with a simple request, to help cheer up her friend who has been acting strange lately. But there's more to this than meets the eye, as the stoic Yagi is acting like someone who has seen something they shouldn't have...
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Episode 11
Real-deal Bibage Battle
Yabasawa-san really wants a certain part for her avatar, and asks the Sket-dan to join a game tournament put on by a cellphone game site. The Sket-dan isn't particularly enthused about the prospect, but when they find out that the Student Council will also be participating...
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Episode 12
Shooting Gang Star Etc...
The second game of the Bibage Battle is a real show between Shinzou and Tsubaki, coming to a truly cinematic finish! Then the curtain rises on a sharp-shooting (or is it, sharp-tongued) battle between Switch and Daisey!
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Episode 13
Pixie's Garden
It's the second to last round, and it's a battle of love between the pitch perfect rich girl and the klutzy, head-in-the-clouds Roman-tic! Which one of the will break their team's hearts?
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Episode 14
Producing Uchida
Uchida Takaaki comes to the Sket Dance with a simple request: make him popular! Bossun and company immediately set their sights on getting Uchida to win a Mr. Popularity contest in their class, but Uchida's shy personality makes it difficult for him to stand out. Can Sket-dan Productions mold him into a star in just one week?!
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Episode 15
Mistaken Angel the 13th
Bossun may have a way with words, but these clients were born with their feet in their mouths! First is J-son-sensei, the shop teacher with the glass heart and looks straight out of some horror movie! Can the Sket-dan help him find love? A man of few words and many offstandish poses, "Dante" perhaps poses the greatest riddle of all... Can the Sket-dan help this Fallen Angel find his Wings
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Episode 16
Kaimei Rock Festival
Kaimei Academy's music festival is coming up! Bossun is bummed that Himeko and Switch each have joined up with bands to participate. But before long Bossun is invited to join a band and the three are set to compete against each other!
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Episode 17
Sketchbook
Bossun makes friends with a violinist while practicing for the upcoming Rock Festival, Sugisaki Ayano. He learns from her how fun music is, and in no time the curtain rises on the Kaimei Rock Festival!
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Episode 18
This is How a Man Plays Hyperion
Yamanobe-sensei is back, and now he's trying to get everyone in the Sket-dan to play a nutty board game called Hyperion. Everyone except for Himeko, as only men can appreciate this game, supposedly. But the epicness gets Bossun and Switch very enthused about the game, and soon they find themselves heading to the world tournament...
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Episode 19
Panic and 100 Haircuts In the Principal's Office and Clubroom.
A writer for a local newspaper is coming to interview and take a photo of the Sket-dan, and Himeko demands that Bossun get his hair cut. But when Bossun refuses, Himeko takes things into her own hands... What could possibly go wrong? Afterwards, it's the principal's birthday, and the Student Council is planning a surprise party for him. But when the President makes a mess of his prized bronze bust, the principal will be in for a whole different kind of surprise...
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Episode 20
Stick it in the Mixer
Bossun and Himeko get into a little fight, and things are made worse when Bossun and Switch are invited to a mixer with Seiji and three other girls. Bossun is rarin' to impress with his comedic flair, but he's in for a tough crowd. Without Himeko's fiery comebacks, Bossun's humor falls flat...
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Episode 21
Otaku & Occult
Bossun bumps into Himeko outside on the weekend, and they happen to spot Switch and Yuuki meeting up nearby as well. Their curiosity piqued, they decide to trail the 'odd couple' into a shopping mall. Turns out Switch is helping Yuuki with a request- to choose and purchase a laptop, so she can create a website dedicated to her passion of all things occult. Hijinks ensue, with the embodiment of 'Otaku' and 'Occult' clashing their interests and respective positions(supernatural vs science) against each other all the way(in their usual fashion). Nonetheless, they seem to be getting along well(again, in their own way), and even Bossun and Himeko note how unusual it is for Switch to be going out of his way to help his 'archrival', Yuuki. Switch and Yuuki then bump into her old crush from middle school, Kobayashi, who was there with another girl. He talks down to Yuuki, which seems to rub Switch the wrong way. After he leaves, Yuuki confides to Switch her past in her middle school: she was melancholic and had few friends, but wanted to try falling in love. She started having feelings for Kobayashi who was rather popular with the girls, but he turned her down citing her scary appearance. After hearing the story, Switch decides to bring her around the mall to do a total makeover for her. Later, after being abandoned by the girl he was with, Kobayashi spots a beautiful girl standing alone by a fountain outside, and hits on her. This turns out to be post-makeover Yuuki, however, and together with Switch, she finally turns the tables on him. On the way home, they bond over the incident, with Switch still denying any romantic interest in her. However, she notes, he will go with her again the next day to shop for the laptop. At the end of the episode is an omake bit, "Resort Dance", which has the girls at the beach playing the Japanese word game Shiritori.
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Episode 22
In the Park Homerun (Revised)
The principal adores his grandson very much and asks the Sket-dan to prepare a picture play to entertain him. They decide to base the story off of Momotaro, but change things up from the usual... Afterwards, he asks them to play with his grandson for an afternoon, but the kid doesn't seem interested in having fun at all.
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Episode 23
It feels great to be a little princess!
Momoka comes to the Sket-dan to ask for help in her voice acting job. In an upcoming episode, she needs to play Liberty Maji back when she was little, and Momoka is having a hard time grasping the mindset of a child for her acting. The Sket-dan try to help by playing children's games with her, but it isn't until she and Himeko accidentally drink one of Chuu-san's drugs that they can really experience their childhood all over again!
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Episode 24
Older Brother, Younger Brother
After helping Yosshi arrange a date, the Sket-dan run into Shinzou arguing with his younger brother. Unlike the proper samurai, his younger brother is rebellious and they don't seem to get along... The two's relationship reminds Switch of his own brother and the events of the past...
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Episode 25
Switch Off
In the second Arc finale, Switch's "origin story" continues as Sawa-chan goes to young Switch and his older brother for help from a stalker. In a moment of spite stemming from jealousy, though, Kazuyoshi sends Switch and Sawa off on their own to buy personal protection items. While they're gone, Sawa's friend Yukino warns Kazuyoshi that the stalker is also a slasher. Kazuyoshi means to go out after his little brother and the girl he loves, but fate intervenes...
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Episode 26
Spirit Dance
Bossun, Himeko and Switch are having a normal day. But, suddenly, Gintama's main characters (Gintoki, Kagura and Shinpachi) appear!
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Episode 27
Together With Onee-san and Bad Scientist
The Sket-dan get a new assistant homeroom teacher (who wants everyone to call her, Onee-san), but she's a klutz and is upset she can't be a good role model for the students, so the Sket-dan ask Chuu-san to help with some of his strange drugs. Later, Switch goes through some old inventions of his that didn't work out as intended...
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Episode 28
Shinba Michiru's Elegant Cooking
When the broadcasting club begins a weekly television talk show, their first guest is charismatic Student Council Shinba Michiru. The idea is for him to lead a cooking segment, but the show becomes chaotic due to Shinba's less-than-helpful assistants, the manipulative Agata and moody Daisey.
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Episode 29
The Second Coming of the Mistaken Angel
Dante is back, and this time he's missing something from his pencil... But could he have a crush on someone? Plus Bossun and the gang discover another of captain's amazing talents, and try and put it to good use, but...
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Episode 30
Turn the Crank-nyora!
The Sket-dan get obsessed with collecting a full set of "Super Slim-Figured Slenders" gatcha figures... Next Momoka's seem to have fame and moe get her head. Can her friends get back the real Momoka?
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Episode 31
Samurai and Clothes
Shinzou asks the Sket-dan for help with a makeover to make a good impression when he meets Megumi-dono, a friend he made online, in person. But is shinzou in modern clothes even him anymore? Can Shinzou somehow rectify his samurai beliefs with modern garb? Later, Himeko tries a new workout video, but it doesn't "work out"....
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Episode 32
Thief Dance, Plus
The Ninja squad Thief-dan is sent on a mission to go rescue Chuu-san's captured daughter! Then Rocket Dance blasts off into outer-space! Is there anywhere the Sket-dan can't go?!
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Episode 33
The Glass Man
The Sket-dan is getting filmed for an in depth story by the AV Club, and their task is to unravel the mystery of the glass man, a case of serial window breaking's around the school. As the Sket-dan narrows down the suspects, the culprit becomes clear, but could this case be a little bit too easy?
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Episode 34
Onee-san Romantic Laboratory
Roman's got a new club member, and she's gotta show her the basics of shoujo manga! So she decides to draw her own "how to draw manga" guide, with hilarious results! Next, Onee-san is back and clumsier than ever! is there anything she's actually good at?
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Episode 35
Quiz Warrior Enigman
The Sket-dan is challenged to a battle of wits by Enigman, the masked president of the Quiz club (and his lovely assistant Quettion). Later, a drop dead gorgeous second year comes to the Sket-dan to ask for advice... about love? Can the Sket-dan unravel the enigma of love?
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Episode 36
OGRESS
Himeko breaks her Cyclone while helping a client who was being shaken down for cash from a bully... But when buying a new field hockey stick, she's reminded of her past...
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Episode 37
Kunpuu, Pleasant Breeze
In the third Arc finale, Hime goes to a high school far away to escape her violent past, but the rumors of "Onihime" have spread like wildfire. When a newfound friend gets into trouble with small-time Yakuza hoods, will Hime step in at the risk of exposing her old identity? Also: the secret origin of Sket Dance!
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Episode 38
Kigurumi Break
The Sket-dan is roped into helping with Onee-san's ex-kid's show's stage performance, but they never would have thought it'd turn into a race against time to bring smiles to children's faces and prevent severe bodily harm to themselves!
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Episode 39
One Broken, Special... New Year's
Yamanobe-sensei is back, and this time he's brought a vintage game console for Switch to repair. The Sket-dan ends up getting hooked on the one game he owns for it, but something smells fishy about it...
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Episode 40
Stakeout Blues
Kids are getting shaken down around school, and there's only one group to call! The Sket-dan! The Student Council! Wait, both?! Can Bossun and Tsubaki stop hating each other's guts for long enough to catch the bad guy?
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Episode 41
Vs. Student Council! The Rare Man who Needlessly Fears the Battle Q!
Enigman and Quettion are back, and their next victims are the Student Council! With the super-genius Agata stuck in a staff meeting, can the others make it through and win to get an embarrassing photo back? Later, Enigman is back to ask the Sket dance for advice on his date with Quettion!
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Episode 42
Momoka's Sudden Road to Stage Actress
Momoka is the lead actress of a stage play, but she's having trouble with the bland script. Can the Sket-dan teach her how to spice it up?! And then another Sket friend has a success story: Roman, who's just made her manga debut! She shows her story to the Sket members, but will Himeko be able to keep from trashing it?!
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Episode 43
Bashful Girl
Himeko saves a first-year student, Jin, from some punks, and he falls head over heels for her. In order to get him to stop hounding her, Himeko tells Jin that she's already got a boyfriend... Bossun! Now all she has to do is prove it to him...
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Episode 44
Drops
The Sket Dance help Captain rekindle a broken friendship by helping her find a lost tin of candy drops after she gave one to the boy Akina likes!
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Episode 45
Whispering Onee-san's Instruct-son
J-son-sensei has another meeting with a prospective marriage partner, but this time the Sket-dan has a plan! Meanwhile, Onee-san is also asked out on a date!
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Episode 46
Happy Birthday Part 1
One day, Bossun, at age 14, discovers a box of video tapes in his mother's room. The videos show his young mother, a pretty women named Haru, and a man who looks just like him...
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Episode 47
Happy Birthday Part 2
On Bossun's 15 birthday, he finds out the truth about his parents. Unable to cope with the tragedy, he lashes out, only to meet the child his father once saved when he was a kid, all grown up, who gives him a mysterious letter his father wrote addressed to his real mother, and one addressed to him...
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Episode 48
Happy Rebirthday
It's the kaimei festival, and Bossun's class is doing a maid cafe. Everybody's parents show up, and Bossun is approached by a man who claims to be the doctor who delivered him. He has finally decided to tell Bossun the truth of what happened that day, which he has kept secret for 17 years...
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Episode 49
Genesis World Grand Prix
Countries from around the world gather together once every four years to celebrate the most ancient of traditions, the pinnacle of sports! Testing their own passion and training against the best the world has to offer, the Sket-dan goes forth, with the pride of their country on the line! Will the goddess of victory shine down on our heroes? Will they be able to claim that yes, they are the winners of the Genesis World Grand Prix?
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Episode 50
I'll Do Anything, Master
After a bit of horsing around, Himeko accidentally breaks Bossun's fingers and wrist. To pay him back Bossun makes Himeko sign a contract making her his servant! But having Himeko as a maid isn't all it's cracked up to be. Meanwhile, Jin is back trying to woo Himeko, but when he comes to observe the Sket-dan's activities, all he can see is a loving, bickering couple.
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Episode 51
Happy to Meet You
In the Season finale, Bossun and Tsubaki partner up for the first time to work on a project, but together, this brother duo is highly combustible! Later on, Tsubaki meets Bossun's family and has the chance to see his real parents for the first time... but does he want to?
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Episode 52
Twin Tail Tsundere Girl
The Sket-dan meets Saaya, a first-year student who`s got tsundere troubles. She wants the Sket-dan to help her stop being so snotty around boys and Bossun becomes the test subject! Then, it`s a real hoot as the Sket-dan and Saaya try raising an owl in the clubroom!
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Episode 53
A Graceful Melody for Koma-chan
The Sket-dan try to help Koma-chan, a huge girl with a tiny voice. Koma-chan wants to find love, but every time she gets nervous, her near-superhuman strength is unleashed, as Bossun learns firsthand!
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Episode 54
Get the Fortune Teller!
When Yuuki falls under the influence of a seemingly scamming celebrity psychic, it`s the Sket-dan to the rescue! But to take down the fraudulent fortune teller, they`ll have to head to her home turf, at a seminar in front of hundreds of true believers!
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Episode 55
The Man Who Was Called Laughing on the Outside, but Origami on the Inside
After Bossun drinks another one of Chuu-sensei`s concoctions, his feelings and expressions become mismatched! And then, Bossun becomes an origami master, but can he overcome nervous jitters to win a major contest?
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Episode 56
May I Come Backstage?
When Switch`s laptop is on the fritz, he`s left speechless. Can Switch finagle a backstage pass to Momoka`s concert and be his usually suave self when he`s only got a sketchbook to work with?
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Episode 57
You Got Mail
Bossun has a new e-mail friend, as does Himeko... In fact, they both start to fall for their respective pseudonymous pal, unaware of the person`s true identity!
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Episode 58
Stop! Invisible Man-kun
It`s Mad Scientist Week as another faux-cola potion turns Bossun invisible and then later, Bossun puts on an artificially intelligent "power suit" created by Switch... But the suit soon develops a will of its own!
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Episode 59
Tsubaki and Daisey
When Daisey runs afoul of the leader of a group of delinquents who threatens to trash Kaimei High unless she becomes his woman, Tsubaki takes it upon himself to avenge her honor and set things to rights!
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Episode 60
Go Forth! Everyone Concentrate and Cooperate at the Pelocan Girl Study Group
Himeko becomes the new Pelocan campaign girl for a TV commercial, but her sudden stage fright threatens to derail the whole thing! Then, when the Sket-dan is unprepared for the following day`s practice exams, they go to Himeko`s house to study. Featuring Himeko`s mom, the Legendary Oniyome!
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Episode 61
The Manga Girl Aims for the Wilderness and Has a Meeting
Fumi-chan is a great artist, but what will happen when she tries to emulate Roman`s style of manga?! And speaking of emulate, when Tsubaki temporarily loses his vision, the Sket-dan plays a prank on him by pretending to be the other members of Student Council... but then they`re stuck in the situation!
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Episode 62
Skip!
The students of Kaimei High are going on a class trip, but first, they have to participate in a rope skipping competition to see which class gets the best rooms. Saaya doesn`t have an athletic bone in her body, so is worried she`s going to doom her class to the worst rooms of all, until the Sket-dan tries teaching her how to skip! Then, the students are on their way, but in the back of one bus, Chuu-sensei is playing mad scientist again, and this time his victims are Bossun, Himeko, and Tsubaki!
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Episode 63
School Rhapsody, Part 1
Bossun and Himeko`s personalities are still switched on the school ski trip, so imagine the complications when it`s time to change clothes or take a bath! And complicating matters is Saaya, who has a crush on Bossun but doesn`t know that he`s effectively Himeko right now!
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Episode 64
School Rhapsody, Part 2
In the conclusion of the mind-switching school trip arc, will Saaya get answers at last about Bossun and Himeko? Will Bossun and Himeko get their own minds back? And in a bonus story, Bossun and company are recast as loser adventurers in the fantasy game world of... Quest Dance!
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Episode 65
He's Interested in the Sister and the Brother's Interested in Him
Agata is normally protective of his younger sister, but his genius IQ goes out the window when he becomes convinced that Saaya and Tsubaki are in love with each other!
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Episode 66
Seeking Out Tsukkomi
When Switch brings out an invention that can read the minds of animals, he and the other members quickly find out that it can also read human minds! Then, Himeko has been recruited by Momoka to go on a TV show, where she has to battle a professional comedian in a war of zingers!
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Episode 67
Tsubaki's Lame T-Deep Meaning
Tsubaki`s hobby is making original T-shirt designs, but when his fellow Student Council members proclaim them "lame", he goes to his twin brother Bossun for a shot of creative advice. Then, Bossun`s love for a robot anime leads him to an otaku meet-up. Will he be able to fit in?
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Episode 68
Operation Love Potion
The club is asked by Suzu to help use a love potion on her father, with complicated instructions this might be a hard one for the team to pull off.
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Episode 69
Poop's in Heaven, So Come, Student Council
Bossun tries to answer when nature calls, but it seems the world is bent on keeping him away from a toilet. Then, Tsubaki comes to the Sket-dan for help on yet another art project, this time a Student Council recruitment manga!
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Episode 70
The Last Day of the President
Tsubaki is going to be the new Student Council president, but will his campus crackdown lead to rebellion before he even takes up the post? Then, Agata is made to jump through hoops in order to get his kidnapped sister back on his last day as Student Council president!
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Episode 71
Genius Poopman Yearning
First, a Sket fractured fairy tail pits crab (Himeko) versus devious monkey (Switch), with Bossun thrown in as a piece of crap. Meanwhile, in continuity, when Date becomes an enka singer overnight, can the Sket-dan bring him back to his normal visual-kei self?!
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Episode 72
Chase Kagerous!
Kagerou, a ninja-like purse and wallet-snatching thief, plagues the students of Kaimei Academy. Can the Sket-dan stop him or will it take a ninja to catch a ninja? Over at the Student Council, President Tsubaki is trying to get used to his position, a task made harder when it appears the new treasurer is off her rocker.
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Episode 73
The Time I Fully Came to Know Peeping
A Peeping Tom is the latest miscreant to plague the students of Kaimei Academy. After that business is resolved, it`s Roman and Bossun versus the president and vice president of the Boys` Manga Club in a manga artist free-for-all!
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Episode 74
Food Fighter Home Visit!
Bossun, Himeko, and Tsubaki get a huge surprise when they visit Mimorin`s house. Then, the old ramen guy from episode 29 is back for revenge! This time, his Food Fight uses Western-style food and Bossun feels obliged to participate!
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Episode 75
Solitude
When a bullying teacher from Katou Kiri`s past comes to Kaimei Academy, he harasses the Sket-dan. But will the bully`s actions push Student Council member/trained ninja Katou over the edge?
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Episode 76
To Build a Better Academy
Katou Kiri has become Tsubaki`s loyal retainer, but will the young ninja learn to work together with his other Student Council colleagues in order to build a better academy? Then, the Sket-dan teams up with the Student Council to cure Usami of her hatred for all men... and it involves more than one kind of cross-dressing...
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Episode 77
The Academy's Helpers (After That)
In this final episode, the Sket-dan does what it does best... help the students of Kaimei Academy! But there`s also time for potential romance, as Saaya sets her mind on declaring her true feelings...
Characters
Voice Actors
Hiroyuki Yoshino (japanese)
Yuusuke Fujisaki
Main
Voice Actors
Ryouko Shiraishi (japanese)
Hime Onizuka
Main
Voice Actors
Tomokazu Sugita (japanese)
Kazuyoshi Usui
Main
Voice Actors
Hiro Shimono (japanese)
Sasuke Tsubaki
Supporting
Voice Actors
Tomokazu Seki (japanese)
Soujirou Agata
Supporting
Voice Actors
Kenji Nojima (japanese)
Shinba Michiru
Supporting
Staff
Kenta Shinohara
Original Creator
Keiichirou Kawaguchi
Director
Shinichi Inozume
Series Composition
Manabu Nakatake
Character Design
Yasumasa Koyama
Sound Effects
Hiro Shimono
Theme Song Performance
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Information
Aired
Apr 06, 2011
to Sep 26, 2012
Season
SPRING 2011
Source
Unknown
Format
Unknown
Studios
Tatsunoko Production
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