Episode 24

## Girlfriend and Me

**"Girlfriend and Me"** (彼女と俺, *Kanojo to Ore*?) is the twelfth and final episode of the second season of the *Kanojo, Okarishimasu* anime adaptation.

## Plot

Chizuru spends her day at the acting school, rehearsing as much as possible, going to auditions and visiting her grandpa twice a day. Seeing her grandma starting to eat less, Chizuru knows that she won't be able to star in a film before her grandma passes away. She at least hopes to be able to tell her she passed the audition, even if Sayuri won't be able to make it to the release, however, she fails to pass another audition. She looks at her grandpa's picture and wonders what else she can do.

Seven years ago, when Chizuru was in seventh grade, she got in a fight with some boys who teased her that she doesn't have parents. Her grandpa, Katsuhito tells her to tell them that she got a grandpa who will run circles around their dads and that her feelings will get through, but she just ignores him. At that time, Chizuru believes that all men are idiots, that they have their heads in the clouds and are too optimistic. She often spend her days off in the library reading books, and saved her pocket money to see movies. She knows her grandma used to be an actress. At one point, she started to want to be like the people on the screen and finally decided to be an actress in ninth grade. While searching for a movie at a DVD store, she finds an old movie with the rising star Sayuri. Showing it to Sayuri, she feels embarrassed, but offers to watch it together, and Chizuru ended up impressed by Sayuri's performance.

One day, she tells Sayuri and Katsuhito that she wants to be an actress. Sayuri states its a hard world, but Katsuhito immediately supports her and is sure of her success, which fires up Chizuru. Katsuhito tells her she still should go to college as the world changes fast and no one knows the future. Katsuhito continues to explain that he will support her and promises to see her on the big screen. Chizuru starts to work hard to become an actress and achieve the promise with Katsuhito. One day, a distracted truck driver went on a red light and crashed into Katsuhito's car. Chizuru runs to the hospital, but Sayuri tells her that they are still operating Katsuhito and its unknown if he will be okay. Chizuru then runs to a shrine Katsuhito told her he run 100 times up and down, praying at the top and the next day, Sayuri accepted his proposal. She starts running up and down the shrine, while praying at the top. The operation is a success, but Katsuhito suffered a brain trauma and this night will tell if he will live or not. Chizuru returns to the hospital and tells Katsuhito that he told her that if she keeps wishing for it, you can make any dream come true. Katsuhito manages to move his arm and barely speaking, he tells her that the same thing and then passes away.

Back at the present, Chizuru looks at Katsuhito's picture and wonders if he lied to her when he told her that dreams come true. She is fine if he lied, and knows that dreams don't come true, but wants him to stop telling her they do. As she cries, the door bell rings and Kazuya asks her to open. As she do, Kazuya pushes his way in and shows her on his laptop a crowdfunding website, where he wants to start a crowdfunding project on a movie starring Chizuru. He tells her that many people had done it and raised one-two million yen for their projects and it takes only a month to shoot. He even shows her a site where you can rent a screen at a movie theater and they can show the movie to Sayuri there. Kazuya wants to make a movie with her, but Chizuru tells him she needs to think about it.

Back at his place, Kazuya wonders what is Chizuru thinking. He had done his research and on that crowdfunding site hosts over 200 similar projects each year and about 70% reach their goal. Kazuya then calculates that it will take a month and a half for the crowdfunding and a month for filming and editing. That may not be enough time for Sayuri, but they have to do it. A bit later, Chizuru comes to his door. She asks him if he can do it and if he won't give up halfway as she doesn't want to waste this time. Kazuya is sure he will do it. Chizuru notes to herself that men are idiots and have their heads in the clouds. She accepts and asks Kazuya to do it, so that Sayuri can see it. Kazuya promises he will do it, no matter what happens. Kazuya then starts spending all his time working on the project and reading on how to make a movie.

## Characters

* Chizuru Ichinose
* Sayuri Ichinose
* Katsuhito Ichinose
* Kazuya Kinoshita
* Yoshiaki Kibe
* Shun Kuribayashi
* Ruka Sarashina
* Sumi Sakurasawa
* Mami Nanami
* Nagomi Kinoshita