April 11: The High-Tech Physical Exam

**April 11: The High-Tech Physical Exam** (4月11日 ハイテクな身体測定,, *Shigatsu Jū-ichi-nichi: Haiteku na Shintai Sokutei*?) is the second episode of Anne Happy♪. The episode premiered on April 14, 2016.

## Synopsis

*The girls get a tour from Timothy as they prepare for their upcoming physicals. Afterwards they attempt to find a club activity they can do together; with one finding out that it's a lot harder than it sounds after she is left to make a tough decision...*

## Summary

One by one the girls step into class for their one-on-one interviews with Ms. Kodaira to gather information about them. Ruri goes in first and attempts to speak and get answers after Ms. Kodaira informs her that they already know about her *problem*. She is followed by Botan, but when asked what skills she has all she can think of is to bring up her medical knowledge- although she can't heal anyone but herself, so she's useless. Kodaira goes on to ask if she is alright after noticing her head is bandaged and sends her to the nurses office once they finish.

Anne takes her turn and discusses her interest with little problem, but as she leaves Kodaira spots that her four leaf clover is pointed in the wrong direction. She deems this strange and recalls that Anne was the only one capable of keeping her egg safe, and hatching despite being expired. She would like to keep a closer eye on Anne.

In the locker room the girls discuss their interviews and Anne returns the cloth Ruri lent her. As a pair of classmates leave it occurs to them that their physical's are being held and they begin to worry over their weight. Botan compliments Anne for her cute, small body, and how Ruri is developing healthily, while she herself is overweight. Anne goes on to bring up Ruri's crush and asks if she's worried over her weight for "*him*", which leads Botan to ask Ruri why she likes her crush. Ruri recalls meeting "*him*" when she was in elementary school. She passed by him every day after school ended and never thought anything of it, but after seeing his sincerity for so long she began to realize she fell in love with it. She rushed to the sign every day, through rain and snow to see him.

Suddenly embarrassed Ruri gets upset until they noticing something strange nearby. She suggests they head into a new hallway but the creature stops them, revealing itself as a cute rabbit wearing a butler uniform. Ruri notes that it sounds mechanical, and Botan is able to deduce he isn't a real rabbit, which earns them a compliment. The rabbit robot introduces himself as Timothy, going out of his way to avoid letting Anne touch him as he explains that he was tasked to find them because they're late.

He leads them to the gym, where the girls start their exams with measurements, using very new, accurate equipment. The girls see Botan struggle until hurting her back; she's very upset over her weight gain, while Ruri, Anne, and Timothy point out that she isn't fat like she thinks she is, her chest is really big. Anne grows overwhelmed realizing she has a flat chest in comparison to her friends, but she is unable to linger on it as they move onto the next task, measuring each girls height. Once again Anne and Botan cause issues, with Ann being smacked by her machine and Botan falling off after the device. During their hearing exam, Botan can't hear despite how loud her volume is, while Anne believes she is hearing something; but Timothy shows her that he didn't start hers yet. She claims she heard a woman's voice though, and while trying to get Botan and Ruri to listen she ends up scaring them. The trio fall to the floor in exhaustion and Kodaira is shown to be observing them, until Ruri spots her.

With lunch approaching, Ruri helps Botan back to the lockers while she apologizes for being such a cow. Anne asks if she will be okay and Ruri offers to continue helping her back, asking Anne to grab some drinks and handing her change. They make their requests and she leaves, although she seems hesitant.

As Botan and Ruri make their way to class they notice Anne hasn't shown up yet, until that moment. She asks what they want to drink, leaving them puzzled until revealing some Takoyaki Soda, Red Adder Drink, and Curry Milk. Botan and Ruri are bewildered by such strange objects and her cheeks are pinched as she explains praying very hard to the machine to get black tea and vegetable juice, but this was what she got. She never knows what will come out of the vending machine, and she prayed to get strawberry milk, although cafe au lait would have been fine too. Ruri doesn't understand how this happened, but seeing how hard Anne tried she decides to shrug it off as it dons on them Botan looks very sickly.

They hurry to push their desks together and sit down to eat lunch. While doing on the girls chat about cellphones after noticing Botan has one on hand. They are forbidden on school grounds, but Botan explains that she has special permission to carry hers in case of emergency. Anne admits that she breaks hers often, and Ruri claims she doesn't need one. She keeps to herself while happily observing Botan and Anne sharing food.

Meanwhile, Kodaira enjoys her own lunch in another room while Timothy is re-fueling with an electrical cord. She asks him to keep an eye on the girls.

With that, Botan and Anne have decided to spend some time observing the school clubs. They are joined by Timothy, who offers to show them around since he knows a lot about the school. While Ruri is bothered by him and admits she doesn't care much about school clubs, she tags along and winds up providing herself to be a very talented baker, preparing animal themed cookies and wowing everyone. She claims this is normal as they go on to Track, which was chosen by Botan- who can't even make it five meters before she gets exhausted. Next is Archery, where she passes out due to her back hurting, followed by softball, where she hurts her wrist.

The girls sit for a rest and Timothy brings up that they still got some time, so Anne requests something cute, like Animal Cuddling club. Timothy decides to lead the girls to the Pet Society, a club for the members to bring in their pets and cuddle each others. Ruri finds it strange, but before the girls can head inside the pets suddenly burst out of the room and chase them. They manage to deem that the pets must be after Anne and Botan finds herself worn down. After returning to grab her hand, Ruri yanks the two girls behind her and makes a run for it as two of their classmates watch from the shoe lockers. They continue to run from the school grounds until Ruri asks Timothy for help. He agrees and runs towards the animals, but he gets thrown up in the air by the group of frenzied animals.

Eventually the girls have lost the animals. As Ruri contemplates this happening, Timothy joins them yet again and earns himself a scolding from her. She asks if he will be reporting everything that happened to Kodaira as the girls rejoin her, having come to the decision that they probably won't be joining any clubs now. They expect her to join cooking since she was so good at it, but Ruri sees how sad they are and she doesn't answer, instead she decides to get a drink. She heads out to the vending machines while wondering if it would really carry Curry Milk, and she spots two workers come by to open a machine. Someone loaded the items wrongly and they came to fix them.

As Ruri makes her way back with three drinks, she is distracted upon spotting her beloved sign. She stops, curious as to why he is there, but before she can leave Botan and Anne show up. She hands them their drinks when Botan spots the sign and brings it up, causing her to become embarrassed. They promise to wait for her while she looks at it since he is special to her, and Ruri comes to her decision as Timothy returns. She declines joining a club, since it'd just get in the way of her time with "*him*" and walking home with Anne and Botan. Anne suggests that they walk home together the next day as well, with Botan and Ruri agreeing.

Meanwhile, all of the animals seem to have found a new target and fawn over the boyish-looking Ren. Her shorter friend, Hibiki, expresses concern. Both girls unaware of Kodaira watching them.

## Characters

*By order of appearances:*

* Ruri Hibarigaoka
* Ms. Kodaira
* Botan Kumegawa
* Anne Hanakoizumi
* Timothy
* Ren Ekoda
* Hibiki Hagyu

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