Brush Up Life (ブラッシュアップライフ)

The story so far..

In order to be reborn as a human being,

Kondo Asami was reliving her second round of life.

Because she became a pharmacist...

Will you stop taking them for now?

she saved her grandfather's life, and

she became aware that her classmate, Rena-chan, was having an affair...

He's married.

You're married, damn it.

...and put a stop to it.

Then one day...

I let my guard down~!

There, she was informed of her next life as...

An Indo-Pacific double-lined mackerel.

- There's no way I could start all over again, is there? - You can.

That was the start of the improbable third round of her life.

She started working for a TV station, and while producing dramas,

she's in the midst of struggling to acquire more points for good deeds.

You the man.

Five years have passed since I joined the TV station.

There's no set time that we have to come to work, but

generally, everyone comes in before noon.

As for me, my boss comes in around 12:00,

so I'm usually here by around 11:00.

As a side note...

- Morning. - Good morning.

In front of my boss, I pretend to look like I've been here since around 10:00.

This is my I've-been-here-since-around-10:00 look.

- The final script is here. - Thanks.

- Did you check it? - Yes.

Hello~. You're here?

Okay, I'm on my way.

After arriving at work and finishing a job or two,

each person starts taking lunch break from around 13:00.

Brush Up Life 5

With foods like pasta, beef tongue, Asian cuisine, Indian curry,

choices are abundant in Tokyo.

It's Asian cuisine today with Gon-chan.

Isn't there any place to eat at work?

- We do have a company cafeteria. - I see.

- When the viewership rating's good, it's free. - That's great!

- I hardly ever go there though. - How come?

Cuz you know, don't you think it's hard to complain about work at a company cafeteria?

That's true.

Say, have you been seeing anyone from middle school?

Pe-tan's about the only one for me.

Oh, Pe-tan. What's she doing now?

- She's working at IKEA in Shinmisato. - Oh, yeah? I'll try going there sometime.

When we say "Pe-tan", it's about...

Kanappe, Kanappe!

our classmate from elementary and middle school, Shimamoto Kanako-chan.

At first, she was called "Kanappe"

Hey, Pe-Kana.

which soon became "Pe-Kana",

and after that, only "Pe" remained,

which led her to being called "Pe-tan".

As a side note, "Gon-chan" and "Pe-tan"

are the two nicknames from our class that deviated the most from their original form.

Incidentally, we are right in the midst of preparing for

our drama starting in July, "Ie Uru Onna".

"Ie Uru Onna" starring Kitagawa Keiko (2016)

- What time was the costume coordination today? - 15:00.

- You know, there's something I always wonder. - What?

You know how before the costume coordination begins.

there's a custom where the whole staff gathers around the actors every time

and take turns introducing themselves, right?

- I don't know what the point of that is. - I know!

- Right? - That's one thing that's always been a mystery.

There's no way you can remember when they give their name in an assembly line like that.

Plus, you don't have an occasion to give your name after that, right?

- That's right. - Yeah, but you know,

no matter how big a star they are,

- that's one thing they do without complaining. - I know, right?

It's a strange custom, isn't it?

We can't have conversations like this at the company cafeteria.

Speaking of which...

Shall we say "okaerinasai" too?

even in my city halls days, I never ate at their cafeteria.

Well then, allow me to introduce to you!

Starring as Chief Yashiro, here's Nakamura Toru-san!

- Looking forward to working with you! - Looking forward to working with you.

Let me introduce you to the staff.

The chief producer.

I'm Ito.

- The director. - I'm Inomata.

The producer.

I'm Oda.

- Then in order from there. - I'm the AP, Kondo.

This is the costume coordination we've been talking about.

I'm the assistant director, Haruki.

I'm the record keeper, Shiokawa.

Every time I see this scene...

I do hair and makeup, Maruyama.

I'm the makeup assistant, Arigachi.

Well, now that everyone has introduced themselves,

let's get going. We'll start with this person.

Please give us this person's department and name.

From Audio... Yoshida-san.

Yoshida-san from Audio. Let's see if he is.

Too bad!

The correct answer is... Kanamori from Lighting.

It was Kanamori-san from Lighting!

I think this color is better.

- How's this? - Looks good.

...something like that comes to mind.

Since our job starts late in the morning,

we work that much later at night.

I don't know if that's good or bad.

It's probably bad for the skin.

What's up?

I'm at home now.

By myself.

Now? I was folding laundry. Yeah, yeah, yeah...

Yeah. Tomorrow is from noon.

Huh? Window?

Huh? What? What, what? You're scaring me.

What's going on?

Eh?

Hey~! Ah-chin!

- Why? - We're here~.

Oh my god!

I know, right?

What, what, what... out of the blue.

- Were you surprised! - You bet I was surprised.

We had dinner today for the first time in a while, and

since we both had a day off tomorrow,

we were like, "Shall we go have fun in Tokyo?"

Then Nacchi suddenly said, "Then why don't we go to

Ah-chin's place?" and we came on the spur of the moment.

- It was far, wasn't it? - No, we took the expressway, so

- it didn't even take 2 hours, did it? - No. It was surprisingly fast.

If you had told me, I would've made some preparation,

- We wanted to surprise you. - Right?

I'm happy you guys came, but

- I don't have any extra bedding. - That's okay.

- We'll just find a spot to sleep somewhere. Right? - Yeah.

- Really? Are you sure? - We're fine, we're fine.

- Let's all 3 of us sleep on the floor. - Yeah.

What? I'm sleeping on the bed.

What? Let's all sleep on the floor together.

Why? There's a bed here, so I'm sleeping on the bed.

- Wah, you've changed after coming to Tokyo. - You turned into a party pooper.

This has nothing to do with Tokyo or party pooper.

Oh, then let's decide with janken (rock, paper, scissors).

- Janken? - Yeah. It's not that

I don't want to sleep on the floor. I just don't understand

why no one would sleep on the bed when we have one.

So what do you think about the winner of janken using the bed?

Ah, I see. What do you think?

I mean, it's not like we want to sleep on the bed.

- We want the 3 of us to sleep on the floor. - What's with that desire.

By the way, do you have something we can put over us?

- I have blankets and cotton blankets. - You do? I guess that'll do.

So Ah-chin, what are you doing for your meals? Do you cook?

I did in the beginning.

- But not at all these days. - Then it's mainly conbini.

Either that or I eat out.

Well, I can understand.

- There are lots of restaurants over here. - Yes, there are.

Thanks.

By the way, aren't any of our classmates over here?

Oh, that's right. You know...

Actually, sorry Nacchi. Before that,

isn't it about time for you to introduce that bag of snacks?

- Huh? Oh, this? - Yeah.

This is that, right? You bought them

- for the 3 of us to eat together, right? - Yeah.

- I bought them at the conbini earlier. - I'm glad.

Thanks.

- You wanna eat them now? - No, we can eat later.

But generally, with things like this, you'd introduce them

as soon as you get here, saying "I bought some snacks".

- Well, normally you would. - Yeah.

It's been sitting there all this time where it can be seen, but

you hadn't mentioned anything at all, so it was bugging me.

Yeah, me too.

- I thought, Nacchi hasn't said anything, - Oh, really?

What's more, I can't mention it first, right?

- Although you did end up mentioning it. - I did. I couldn't hold it anymore.

Oh, sorry, sorry. I forgot about it. Then here they come~!

Thanks!

We have a large assortment from sweet to salty~!

- Yay~. - You bought a bunch of stuff.

- Yeah, we bought a lot. - Wow, awesome.

Nice~. I knew I could trust your taste for snacks.

Oh, really? I'm glad.

- Let's eat, let's eat, let's eat. - Speaking of which,

we've had Nacchi's problem of not introducing back in the days too.

- Oh, when? - Remember? When we were in middle school,

when the 3 of us were playing at Round 1,

we ran into Nacchi's friend from cram school.

- Friend from cram school? - We did.

- We did, right? - Then Nacchi

started talking up a storm in front of us

- without introducing her to us. - What? Did that really happen?

- It did. - It did, it did.

What's more, since that girl wasn't introduced either,

she looked somewhat apologetically at us.

Now that you mentioned it, that may have happened.

- Right? - Ah~ Also... don't you remember?