Cheer Boys!! (チア男子!!)

"Bando Dojo" Haruko Bando!

"Bando Dojo" Yes!

Hajime!

Come on, Sis!

Go for it!

Ippon!

Soremade!

Next!

Haru, you're next!

Yes.

Good luck, Haruki.

Nice one, Haruko.

Hajime!

Move forward, Haruki!

Pull hard!

Waza-ari!

Mate!

- Are you OK? - Haruki?

- Are you OK? - Haruki!

Haruki! Someone get some ice!

- Are you OK? - Ice! Ice!

Haruki!

"Meishiin University"

Do your best, Ton-chan!

You're so generous!

Ow!

Sorry!

Watch out.

Look where you're going!

Sorry.

Hurry up, Ton-chan!

OK, let's start.

Look! Girls!

Cheerleaders!

Go for it!

- Shall I? - Chat 'em up!

Running with 'em? For real?

For real?

One, two! One, two!

Forget it!

Keep it up, girls!

Do your best!

Tsunomori!

Sorry I'm late!

Hi, lacrosse team.

Hi.

We'll take the photos now.

Someone gave me this. It's about a new club.

"Male cheerleading"?

Cheerleading's for girls!

"Recruiting Male Cheerleaders"

"Male..."

"cheerleading"?

Gran.

Like them?

Oh, this?

I found it clearing out Mom and Dad's closet.

How's it look?

Wanna eat something?

Your range of motion has increased.

You just need follow-up examinations.

I see.

Thank you.

Haru!

I knew you by your walk!

Kazu. Been to see your grandma?

Yeah.

Maybe I'll say hello.

It's fine. Do it next time.

Get on. Let's go to the dojo.

Come on!

How's your shoulder?

Getting better.

So you'll be back doing judo soon.

Haru.

You know,

when I got injured in April, it was a relief.

I didn't have to do judo,

so I was free at last.

I don't have skills like my big sister.

Why was I born into a judo family?

Haru.

I'm gonna quit judo.

What!?

Be careful!

But why?

I wanna do something.

Do something?

That's...

It's my club.

I don't get what you're saying.

The thing is,

I wanna quit judo and start something new.

- You can't quit! - Why not?

Why not?

We've always done it together.

I'm gonna do this.

Together with you!

With me?

Haru.

Let's start something fun together!

Kazu's gonna regret it, for sure.

You can't be sure about that.

It's a waste. He's done judo since he was a kid.

Well, it's Kazu's decision, so we have to respect it.

The thing is...

Come on, eat up!

For your shoulder.

This was in my mom's room. One of her treasures.

A bit of nostalgia.

What is it?

Is that your mom?

Yeah.

A cheerleader from high school

until after graduating university.

My dad used to be her coach.

For real?

Her cheerleading notebook.

Her notebook?

Here.

"Let's go for it!"

"Cheerleading"?

"Stunting"?

That's stunting.

Wow!

This is their first performance.

Until her freshman year at university,

her club had only 7 members.

But my mom...

always looked so happy when talking about those times.

That's why I wanna do it.

Male cheerleading!

I want a 7-man team, but it's

hard to get people to join.

Oh.

I need 5 more.

You're counting me in?

Why not?

I can't just up and quit judo like you can!

You know that.

Haru. We aren't children anymore.

We're free to choose what we wanna do.

And...

I think you'd be good at it.

Me?

Doing that?

When we did judo,

you always cheered me on.

Yeah, but...

it was just to feel useful. I never won bouts.

Even so,

feeling you were with me,

like I wasn't alone.

You always made me feel that.

In fact,

I owe a lot of my victories

to you cheering me on.

You have a talent for supporting others.

Right now,

I need your support.

Male cheerleading!

Wanna join the club?

- Male cheerleading? - Yeah.

Interested?

Not really.

But it's so cool!

We aren't interested.

Haru! Pass out more flyers.

You haven't passed out any.

Just getting warmed up!

You do over there.

The male cheerleading club.

Male cheerleading?

We've already joined the karate club. Sorry.

I see.

"Bando Dojo"

"Haruki Bando"

Hi.

Hi.

Wanna go running?

No, I'm fine.

You'll be weak when you start judo again.

You know...

Kazu's started a new club.

I'm helping him out. Like...

Kazu's wasting his life.

So many students give up...

what they've worked so hard on, and start something new.

They end up never achieving anything.

It'll amount to nothing.

Cheer me at my bout, OK?

OK.

Male cheerleading.

Hey! Wanna attempt something new?

Thank you.

Kazu!

Look.

Hey!

I'm Kazuma Hashimoto, a freshman.

Koji Tono, also a freshman.