Kira Vincent-Davis: Ayumu Kasuga, Additional Voices
Quotes
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[Osaka is looking around the classroom, turning her head, eyes wandering in a crazy pattern, unfocused]
Kaorin : Osaka? What are you doing?
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : [still moving her eyes and head about] You know those tiny bubbles inside your eyes you sometimes catch? Yeah, I'm trackin' 'em down as we speak.
Kaorin : [dumbfounded] ... I see. Goooood luck with that.
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : [distantly, carrying on] Uh-huh. Uh, thank you...
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[Osaka waits at a crosswalk with other townsfolk]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : [voiceover] I am Ayumu Kasuga. I just transferred here from Osaka the other day. Tokyo folks do the right thing and stop when the light's red. Osaka folks keep crossin' no matter what, so it can get pretty ugly.
[Time passes; the people move off as Osaka is thinking - she snaps back to reality]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : Uh?
[voiceover]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : I better cross too!
[the walk signal turns to don't walk]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : Shoot! The light changed.
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[Yukari is playing basketball with her students. She has proclaimed herself, Yomi, and Tomo as 'Team Yukari'. Osaka, Kaorin, and Chiyo are on the other side]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : [raises hand in the air] We're Team Sea Slug!
Chiyo Mihama , Kaorin : Huuuh?
Chiyo Mihama : But why?
Kaorin : Sea slugs are so...
[pause. Osaka still has her hand raised in the air]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : Go Team Sea Slug!
Chiyo Mihama , Kaorin : [unenthusiastically] Yaaay.
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Tomo Takino : Hey, we just heard you and Miss Yukari were classmates back in high school.
Minamo Kurosawa : Mm-hmm. We were.
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : Can you tell us what kind of student Miss Yukari was back then?
Minamo Kurosawa : [laughs] Let's see...
[giggles]
Minamo Kurosawa : There's a lot of stories for me to choose from.
Yukari Tanizaki : [walking past, as Nyamo suddenly seems profoundly embarrassed] Love letter! Love letter, la-la-lovey, lovey letter, Love letter! Love letter, lovey-dovey-dovey-dovey-dovey love letter! La-la-la-la-la-la-la, love-love-love letter...
Minamo Kurosawa : [turns back to the girls from scowling at Yukari's back as she went past; now with a laugh and a blush] But most of them are pretty boring. N-not much to say...
[turns and scowls at Yukari again]
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[Osaka has hiccups that won't go away]
Koyomi Mizuhara : From what I seem to recall, hiccups happen because something is convulsing.
Chiyo Mihama : Yeah, that's it! Spasms in the diaphragm.
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : Where's the diaphragm?
Chiyo Mihama : It's right underneath your lungs.
Tomo Takino : [Figuring she can help out] Riiiiiiiiight... here!
[punches Osaka in the gut]
Chiyo Mihama : Hey! Th-that's the solar plexus!
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[Osaka is telling a horror story]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : Sometime last night...
[Yomi, Tomo, and Chiyo each give a quavering, worried sound]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : I was all alone in my room... when suddenly, outta nowhere...
[Tomo gulps nervously]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : The smell of a fart that wasn't mine wafted into my nose.
[the other three girls stand in dumbfounded shock for a moment]
Tomo Takino : [trembling voice] Spooky!
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : Isn't it?
Koyomi Mizuhara : [dryly] Really.
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[Studying for the English Mid-term]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : Say... like, for "Blue Three
[Bruce Lee]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : ", would that mean that "Blue" is his last name?
Kagura : That was random.
Tomo Takino : HaHaHa! Osaka, thats so dumb. "Blue Three
[Bruce Lee]
Tomo Takino : " is a foreigner, isn't he?
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : Mmm-hmm.
Tomo Takino : That means, his last name has got to be "Three".
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga , Kagura : ...oh!
Kagura : I never knew that! You're awsome, Tomo.
Tomo Takino : Yeah, I know.
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : Ok... but I wonder what happened to "One" and "Two"?
[Blue Three is imagined beating up One and Two a'la Bruce Lee]
Ayumu 'Osaka' Kasuga : You know, I guess that means "Blue Five" or there about woul be Jackie Chan, huh?
Tomo Takino , Kagura : ...oh!
[a bird lands on Osaka's head, then flies away]
