The essential episodes of Skip and Loafer
Watch these 12 in order and you've got Skip and Loafer — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Mitsumi heads out for her entrance ceremony, confident that her day will be perfect, only to get lost. When she's panicking at the station, a boy wearing her school's uniform talks to her.
- 02
Heading into self-intros, Mitsumi is a nervous wreck. Nao-chan tries to ease her fears, but she makes a choice that she will end up regretting.
- 03
Mitsumi heads to the student council office after school, where she finds Makoto standing frozen by the door.
- 04
Kanechika enlists Mitsumi’s help in getting Shima to join the drama club. He shows her a recording of an old TV show…
- 05
Mitsumi finds herself in the volleyball event for the class matches. Unathletic as she is, she asks Mika, who used to be on her school’s volleyball team, to help her practice.
- 06
Fumi’s in love, but Mitsumi doesn’t have time to internalize it as exams are right around the corner!
- 07
There's good news and bad news as Mitsumi and Narumi wonder how to cheer up a friend and Narumi's past is revealed.
- 08
Mitsumi and Sousuke head to the zoo, where they are shadowed by a couple of worrywarts.
- 09
Summer break enters its latter half, and Mitsumi heads home to Ikajima. How does returning to her old stomping grounds affect her?
- 10
Class 1-3 is putting on a play for the upcoming school festival, but Mitsumi is torn between helping out and her student council duties.
- 11
The Tsubame West School Festival gets underway, and Mitsumi—surrounded by classmates being visited by friends and family—remembers that she’s a long way from home.
- 12
It’s the second and final day of the school festival, and Mitsumi’s class gets some surprise visits from Sousuke’s family and friends.
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