Episodes

When Kana's late grandmothers possessions are taken, Kana runs away from home. She searches for a place to stay and get a job, and finds Fuhshin Shinbun with a "help wanted" ad. After witnessing the other workers' bizarre habits, she sets off to find another possible venue. After spending a day being unable to find one, Yume crashes into her with her bike. When Kana is nursed back to health, she accepts her desperation and asks for the job. || Kana`s grandmother passed away so she is left by herself. In order to survive, she has to look for a part-time job. However, she`s just a Jr. High School student with no guardian so finding a job proved to be difficult. It was getting late as she was walking back when she suddenly collided into a newspaper delivery person. She sees an advertisement hiring people to deliver newspapers where housing is provided. Source: crunchyroll

Kana begins her career at Fuhshin Shinbun by going on her first paper run. However, this is marred by the fact that she does not know how to ride a bike. Later, after Saki allows her to do her run on foot, she gets stuck in the rain, and seeks shelter. While there, she meets Mika, a delivery girl from another newspaper, who has become lost during the rain. On returning to the store, she is congratulated on a successful first run. || Kana has officially become part of the newspaper staff. Saki begins to train her on delivering newspapers. Kana writes down the paper route and pictures the streets in her mind as Saki is telling her. After breakfast, Saki suggested that Kana try the evening route when she confesses to not knowing how to ride a bike. All the bundled up newspapers weigh about the same as a small child so knowing how to ride a bike is quite important. So, Kana had one of the other members help her out. Source: crunchyroll

Kana starts going to summer classes and finds that Mika has joined the class. Saki explains to Kana about how her smile helps get subscribers, but when Kana tries to smile, the results are horrifying. She later introduces Mika to Saki, who is not too impressed that she is from a rival newspaper. She decides to have Kana tag along Mika's subscriber hunt, using her smile to scare off potential subscribers. After a string of failures, Mika decides to help Kana practice her smile. After getting a satisfactory one, they still end up not getting any subscribers but manage to become friends on a first name basis. Kana shows her new smile to her co-workers, who find it hilarious. || Summer School - Kana who has just joined Fushin Newspaper Company is appearing to be filled with emotions on her first day of school. When it seemed like she is getting used to her new life, a transfer student appears. That transfer student is the same person Kana meet on her first paper delivery, Mika. After school, she couldn`t understand why Mika was waiting in front of Fushin newspaper when she works at a competing newspaper company. In order to save the company Mika works for, Kana encourages her to get new customers. Source: crunchyroll

A musical episode. Inspired by coupons for a water park that Saki confiscates, the gang decide to shop for swimsuits. Yume buys one for Kana so they could all go together. However, their hopes are dashed when they are reminded by Saki that they have different days off. As a compromise, Yume suggests that they do their work in their swimsuits to keep the spirit. Whilst Kana deals with embarrassment, the others use their assets to gain subscribers. Mika decides to follow suit to catch up with the competition and inspires Kana to conquer her embarrassment. As a thanks for getting many subscribers, Saki finds a garden pool for the girls to swim in. || Saki is distributing newspapers that contain a special promotion which contains a free admission ticket to “Waterland”. The ladies find this ticket and get all excited about going to Waterland. Haruka just wants her and her friends to go so she takes Saki’s ticket. Everyone still wants to go and is willing to pay their own way. Kana is taken to the department store to buy a bathing suit. Source: crunchyroll

As a typhoon hits the city, the gang make a bunch of teru teru bozus to ward off the weather, even making a big one. During the eye of the storm, they decide go to a public bath house, along with Mika, it being her first time. Despite occassional harrassment from Haruka, Kana and Mika enjoy their stay. However, by the end, the eye has passed and they end up being shut in. || There was a huge typhoon coming which would bring extremely strong winds. According to the weather report, it is expected to hit the Kanto region. So everyone at Fushin Newspaper began to prepare for this typhoon by tying up the bikes so they wouldn`t fly away and bringing buckets into the house. In the evening, Saki seemed to be getting better and suggested that everyone go to the bathhouse. Despite the strong winds, Mika showed up and went with the gang to the bathhouse. Source: crunchyroll

The episode picks off where the previous one ended, with everyone trying to get back to the shop through the typhoon. On the way back, they pick up Mika, who has been stranded in the storm. While they are trying to board up the shop to last through the storm, however, the power goes out. Everyone ends up huddled around a table with several candles on it. They then alternate telling ghost stories until Kana desperately shouts she needs to go to the bathroom. Afterwords, she gets everyone to accompany her to her room, where they are all touched on the legs by an unknown presence. When the power comes back on, it turns out to be one of many cats that have taken shelter in Kana's room. The episode ends with Kana feeling she is truly happy working at Fuhshin Shinbun. || After enjoying themselves in the bathhouse, the rain was coming down quite hard and it was extremely windy. It seemed like the typhoon was getting closer and closer. Everyone hurried home and on the way back, Kana ran into some friends she knew from the cooking club she belonged to. Kana noticed that they were wearing their school uniforms even though school was out and found out that they were going to school to make a cake for one of their teachers. Kana was a bit sad that she was not invited. As she tried to get rid of that feeling, there was a power outage at Fushin Newspaper! Source: crunchyroll

On the day of the Obon, the newspapers have a holiday. Everyone at Fuhshin Shinbun decides to celebrate the Obon by holding a ceremony honoring Kana's grandmother, who died just prior to the events of the series. After the ritual, Saki lent Kana a kimono, and the group went to the Obon festival, where they were each given a 1000 yen spending limit. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed themselves - Kana demonstrated her prowess to Haruka and Saki at the goldfish scoop, and Yuuki and Yume had a romantic night. Later, Kana tripped over a small child, then, as repayment, she gave the child treats and accompanied her around the festival. After separating from the child, Kana then tripped over Saki, then woke up to find everyone staring at her on the ground. It is unclear as to whether or not the child was real or a dream. || Today is the Obon holiday. It`s a newspaper holiday for some companies. So the girls at Fushin Newspaper Company are taking it easy and spending their day as they please. For Kana, this was the first Obon without her grandmother so she asked Saki if she could light a welcoming fire which is believed to bring back ancestral spirits. Saki thought it would be a great to make this an important event so everyone began to prepare to build the fire and make an offering to welcome the ancestors. So, on the night of the welcoming, who was the one waiting? Source: crunchyroll

The gang recall about a girl named Marimo who worked at Fuhshin Shinbun until a year ago. Despite being the worst employee ever in Saki's eyes, the others had the feeling Saki was pretty attached to her. A while back going a snowy day, Hinata searches for Marimo only to find her bike crashed and a pile of newspapers leading to the river. Hearing the news, Saki goes out in search for her, and she is eventually found by Marimo. Embarrassed by the story, Saki gives everyone a pay cut. When Kana hears that Marimo left after that day, she beomces concerned about when she'll have to leave too. Meanwhile, Saki still has fond memories of Marimo. || One morning, Miss Marimo told the story of “The first bad employee at Fushin” to the girls. However, for some reason, Saki was in a bad mood during this time. Finally, she got up and went to her room. Kana was concerned for her so she asked one of the girls what happened and they all seemed to know. It seemed to be related to an incident that happened a year before Kana arrived during the wintertime. Source: crunchyroll

Kana returns from her morning run to find Yume going off in a limo, leaving behind some salty cookies. She is told by the others that Yume is from a noble family and went home. Yuki appears to be taking it pretty hard, and Kana can't help but make assumptions about what's really happening. This leads her to become paranoid around anything that might upset Yuki. However, she soon finds out that Yuki had been crying because she had kept putting off going to a dentist and Yume had just gone to a memorial service. However, the whole ordeal has made Kana feel a bit lonely herself. The next morning, though, she encounters Mika and after buying some soup, she feels better. || One morning, Yume’s treasured sweets were presented to Kana as she took off in a Rolls Royce. The unexpected event caused Kana to be in a bit of a confused state. As Saki asked about what happened, Yume was on her way to her parents’ home. Will she be returning? Source: crunchyroll

As rainy weather settles in, Yuki ends up catching a fever. When Yume takes over her shift, she ends up overworking herself and getting sick as well, though they both soon get better after 'sweating it off' together. The next day, however, Saki catches a fever instead, so Kana decides to look after her, although not all of her help is appreciated. Soon afterward though, Kana catches a cold as well and is forced by the others to rest. As Kana has nightmares about the others leaving her behind, she wakes up to find Saki sleeping next to her. As Saki tells her that she still has a role in the Fuhshin Shinbun, Kana wonders if she is simply being protected by the others. || Unfortunately, it looks like today is going to rain too. Because of the drastic change in temperature, Saki warns everyone to take care of themselves. The topic of discussion is the members who are caught a cold. Yuuki has a fever. Yume who was taking care of them and is in high spirits is overworked and also breaks down physically. Kana, who is worried about these two, are told by Hinata and Saki that they will be okay. And what do you know, the next day, Yuuki is completely recovered while Yume also seems much better. However, when Kana returns home that day, this time, it’s Saki who is sick in bed. Source: crunchyroll

As the gang participate in a flea market in order to raise money for an air conditioner. Kana is still feeling a bit lonely when tales about Marimo spring up. When Kana is asked to get change during the lunch break, Mika offers to help out at her booth. Just then, Kana bumps into Marimo, and ends up having to help her sell vegetables. After selling all the goods at a cheap price, Marimo leads Kana to a special viewing point under an olive tree, where Marimo alleviates some of Kana's fears. Despite not getting Marimo's name, Kana returns with a smile on her face, albeit facing several paycuts for skipping work. || Under the autumn sky, there’s a flea market in the downtown area. Of course they’re selling newspapers at Fushin Newspaper! In addition, Yume made home-made sweets, Haruka has some feng shui goods, and Saki got various other items from a classmate. This time, the profits will go to something they want, a new air conditioner. In the afternoon, Kana goes to pick up lunch and to get some change at the bank. On her way, she bumps into Mika. Source: crunchyroll

As the Fushin Shinbun prepares to interview newcomers, Kana attempts to learn how to ride a bike so she can be a good senpai. As Kana runs into Mika in the park, they decide to have an imaginary bike race that soon ends in imaginary tragedy. Noticing she has almost filled her diary, Kana finds a cute pink one, only to find it is too expensive. As Kana rejects Yume's offer of buying it for her without reason, the gang devise a plan involving making her do menial chores as an excuse to give her the amount required as a bonus. Accepting this bonus pay, Kana buys her new diary and awaits the new employees. || A new person entered Fushin Newspaper. Kana is now a senpai and since she’s a bit embarrassed because she can’t ride a bike, she’s been taking some special training all day and night. Since she was really concentrating on this training, it caused her to be late for school. In order to continue her training, she no longer walked with her friends but instead went directly home. Since this was not like Kana, her classmates suspected that she has a boyfriend. Source: crunchyroll