April 28: My First Happiness Training

**April 28: My First Happiness Training** (4月28日 はじめての幸福実技,, *Shigatsu Ni-jū-hachi-nichi: Hajimete no Kōfuku Jitsugi*?) is the third episode of Anne Happy♪. The episode premiered on April 21,2016.

## Synopsis

*Class 7 is tasked with partaking in an overly elaborate life-sized board game and the girls find themselves competing against a pair of childhood friends, Hibiki Hagyu and Ren Ekoda. After the two teams find themselves equally matched they settle it with one last battle to determine who will come in last place.*

## Summary

Ruri waits for Anne and Botan before heading to school when she spots one of her classmates stumble into a nearby pole. She goes to check on her and after the girl recalls Ruri having helped her before, she gets up and proceeds to storm off; running into the pole again, a bush, and fencing as Ruri tries to tell her that she's going the wrong way. Botan and Anne show up just then and she starts to tell them about what happened, only to silence herself as a girl covered in animals walks past them.

In class, Ms. Kodaira explains that for today the class will be playing a dice game in the training facility. As murmurs spread throughout the classroom, Ruri takes notice that the classmate she ran into that morning has yet to arrive. The class heads over to the facility and Kodaira pushes a button that causes an elevator to form in the floor, just as the two girls -Hibiki and Ren- missing from class arrive late. Hibiki flashes Ruri a frustrated expression which confuses her and everyone boards the elevator, with Botan getting motion sickness as they travel underground.

The class arrives at *Timothy Land*, a life-sized board game setup they will be participating in. Kodaira explains how one's fortune may improve with a dice game, then threatens those unwilling to play with a game of *Russian Roulette* after Ruri points out that this doesn't make sense. She leaves for an upper platform with Timothy and everyone is told to split into groups of two or three. Ruri, Botan, and Anne form one group and Kodaira adds how everyone's playing with affect their overall grades. Hibiki begins to brag that she'll take home the win until Ren hits her on the head using her elbow to quiet her down to let Kodaira continue on with the explanation.

The game starts, and when Ruri's team take their turn Anne manages to roll them a one. They move one space and automatically lose their next turn, much to their grief. Hibiki rubs it in their faces and becomes frustrated as Anne tries to make her acquaintance, and when she catches Ren casually exchanging hands with the other girls she tries to get her to stop by saying they don't need them as friends- only for Ren to bop her on the head with the dice. She rolls it for Hibiki and they get a six, but when Hibiki eagerly runs the wrong direction, it occurs to the trio that she has poor directional skills.

She returns and Ren grabs her hand to take her in the right direction, where Timothy reveals that as the first team to get a six they earned something special; if they complete the task then they can go directly to the goal. Timothy says that they must shout the name of someone they love, but Ren says she loves nobody right now, much to Hibiki's displeasure. But when it becomes her turn, she's too flustered to say anything so she lies by saying she also doesn't like anyway. Kodaira pushes a button that makes the floor open beneath them, and they reveal that naughty students will be penalized, so lying and failure to succeed results in this. The girls begin to worry again as Botan is given her turn to roll the dice. But in the process, it gets dropped and fractures her toe bones. As she writhes in pain, the dice lands with the six side up.

The girls help Botan and come to the *Thrilling Cosplay Roulette* challenge, where they must dress up as whatever animal the roulette lands on and remain that way. Ruri is very upset when she gets the revealing bunny girl outfit, while Botan is completely overtaken with depression over having to wear a full on squid costume. Anne is sad because she didn't get anything, so to make her feel better Ruri gives her the bunny ears from her outfit. With that they play *Hippity Hoppity Jump Rope*, where Botan immediately gets hurt and Anne gets tied up, forcing Ruri to jump all 500 jumps on her own. She's very tired as she rolls the dice and they move onto the next game, an area known as the *Infinite Loop*, where they will be stuck at until they land on a specific space.

Meanwhile, Hibiki and Ren had to swim through a swamp while being chased by alligators and they move on to roll a 1. At the cosplay roulette, Hibiki eagerly wants to get the sexy bunny girl outfit, because Ren loves bunnies. She used to take care of those the school owned, and she has three pet bunnies at home. She eagerly hits the button.

As this is going on the trio are now playing the *Heaven or Hell* game, where they must choose one rope dangling above Anne. One will release a wash basin, while the other drops something Anne likes. She assures Ruri it'll be fine, and to their surprise she manages to pick the right rope, raining down several floofy animals. Unfortunately they immediately attack Anne until Botan and Ruri can pull her out. Ruri notes how they can't seem to land on the proper space to get out of this loop, and Hibiki and Ren -dressed up in a large bear costume and sexy tiger outfit- show up again. Hibiki tosses the dice to draw a four, and as usual proceeds to go the wrong way until Anne comes by, fawning over her cute costume that causes her to give chase in frustration.

By now Ruri worries that they'll come in last place when Hibiki and Ren show up again. As it turns out, they completely looped, which Ruri points out is strange because with the four, they should have gotten out of the loop. Ren reveals that because Hibiki kept speaking to the girls she was under the assumption Hibiki wanted to stay with them, so she didn't say anything. Just then, Timothy and Kodaira come by to tell the girls that they are taking too long, everyone else finished. So rather then use the board game, they will be holding a competition between the two teams so that they finish before class ends.

They are grabbed by machinery that drops them down to another floor -with Botan scared half to death and everyone taken by how cute Hibiki looks hanging from the claw- and with Timothy, Kodaira explains that the two groups will play three games of luck with Timothy to determine who the most unluckiest in class is. Before they start, she asks Ruri how she enjoyed the game, and as Ruri tries to express relief in not landing on anything personal, Kodaira decides to in-cooperate that into this competition, and the losing team will have a special assignment to complete. Hibiki is determined not to come in second-to-last place meanwhile, she'd rather take last place instead.

The games begin in the form of a race to run up to the dangling bread and grab it. Anne quickly takes first after asking Ruri if she can have the melon bread while Hibiki doesn't try at all, and as she starts eating Timothy reveals that one of the bread's were laced with wasabi. Which ends up being the one Anne chose. Hibiki finally starts and she runs with Botan, who ends up hurting her teeth. At this moment, Ren is in first, Ruri second, and Hibiki third. Hibiki is greatly displeased to learn that she's still in the game while Anne and Botan have been eliminated.

They move onto the next, shameless game, where they must eat a chocolate stick with another teammate until time runs out and whoever has the shortest stick wins. But they cannot break it or else they lose, and one team will have a shorter stick; which Ruri proceeds to draw. Because of her sore teeth Botan sits this one out, but Ruri is so flustered that she can't take the other end in her mouth, while Anne happily munches on it. As this is going on Hibiki is convinced they will lose, but Ren holds her in place and sticks it into her mouth, flustering her as well until she accidentally snaps it in half. Ruri tries to force herself to grab hers from Anne, but by now Anne's eaten the whole stick, so they come to a tie.

At the last game, they decide to only ask one trivia question since class is almost over. Kodaira reveals that if Ruri's team gets the point they'll tie with Hibiki's team, otherwise her team will win. Ruri isn't very confident as she recalls what Kodaira said earlier, and she's asked to shout the name of her most beloved person- in front of them all. Hibiki is sure they'll lose at this rate because of how hard such a task is, and Ruri accesses that lying isn't possible because Kodaira already knows about *him*. She tries to work up the courage, and when Anne sees her struggle she suddenly shouts out that she loves *iriomote cats*. This earns them last place though, as they were supposed to name a person. As she goes on to reveal what their penalty work will be, Ruri happily acknowledges what Anne did for her.

## Characters

*By order of appearances*

* Ruri Hibarigaoka
* Hibiki Hagyū
* Anne Hanakoizumi
* Botan Kumegawa
* Ren Ekoda

## Gallery

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