Yoshioka, Kotsun

## Yoshioka, knock on the head

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**Yoshioka, knock on the head** or Yoshioka, Kotsun (吉岡、こつン) in Japanese is the sixteenth story of Atashin'chi and it's in Episode 008b. It aired together with Haha, Ajain Rizooto on June 7, 2002. A 1080p upscaled version of the episode was uploaded onto the official Atashin'chi Youtube Channel on January 23, 2023.

## **Synopsis**

Mikan is short on allowance and tries everything she can to not spend money until she receives it again, but still spends a large amount of it in the end.

## **Plot**

After failing to convince Okaa-san to give her more money, Mikan decides that until she gets her allowance again in four days, she won't make any purchases. Later at school that day, Shimi-chan invites Mikan over to go with Yukarin, Mie and Nobara to a family restaurant.

In the restaurant everyone except for Mikan and Mie order themselves food. Mikan and Mie order a coffee instead. Mikan tries desperately to make an excuse and says she didn't order anything cause she's on a diet, which Yukarin finds a bit suspicious. On the other hand, Mie straight up tells them that she doesn't have money and that's why she ordered coffee. Quickly, Mikan regrets her decision to lie since they're all sharing foods with each other except with Mikan because she's on a diet.

The day ends with Mikan calculating how much money she lost and currently has.

The next day, Mikan's waiting at a train station but she's scorching in the hot summer day. She decides to buy herself a cold drink from a vending machine but her 500 Yen falls underneath it as she tries to put the coin in the slot. Walking by noticing this, Yoshioka goes over to Mikan and asks what's wrong. Mikan lies yet again saying it was just a 10 Yen coin. Yoshioka's surprised as to how much of a panic Mikan has made over a 10 yen coin and knocks her on the hand softly, but helps her out anyway. He finds the 500 Yen coin and orders her and himself a cold drink and gives Mikan half of the 500 Yen change and keeps the rest to himself.

The day ends with Mikan calculating how much money she lost and currently has. However, whilst calculating about that, Mikan thinks back to Yoshioka "knocking" her on the head, which makes her blush a bit. But she quickly tries to get it off of her mind, because she doesn't have romantic feelings to Yoshioka.

## **Cast**

* Okaa-san Tachibana
* Mikan Tachibana
* Shimizu

**Debuts**

* Yoshioka
* Yukarin
* Nobara
* Mie

## **Songs**

* Saraba (OP, Insert in family restaurant)
* Kite Kite Atashinchi (ED)

## **Did you know?**

* コツン (Kotsun, but spelled here as こつン; due to the "ン" in あたし"ン"ち) is a sound made when someone knocks on their own head. The reason they chose this as the title is probably due to Yoshioka knocking on Mikan's head at the end of the episode.
* This episode starts off with Okaa-san shouting.
* This episode has four debuts of new characters.

## **Quotes**

* *"There's no good in giving a lot of money to a kid!"* - Okaa-san Tachibana
* *"I'm too weak."* - Mikan Tachibana
* *"It's because I'm broke.*" - Mie
* *"If only my eyes were closer to the edges of my face."* - Mikan Tachibana
* *"A girl had her face on the ground cause of a 10 Yen coin!?"* - Mikan Tachibana
* *"Listen here!"* - Yoshioka.