Title: ドラゴン桜 Doragon Zakura (Dragon Zakura)
English Title: Cherry Blossoms Dragon
Episode 01: バカとブスこそ！東大へ行け！ Baka to busu koso! Tōdai e ike! (Fools, go to Tōdai or Tokyo University!)
Sakuragi Kenji: Losers always speak the same way... "I could have handled it by myself." But you weren't able to do anything.
Sakuragi Kenji: To pass the college entrance exam, intelligence is not necessary. Necessary things are techniques, perseverance, and a meticulous strategy. With practice, anyone can pass the college entrance exam.
Sakuragi Kenji: You won't go to Tōdai (Tokyo University)?
Mizuno Naomi: Ah, you're still saying that... You know I won't succeed.
Sakuragi Kenji: Then I change my question. Don't you want to go to Tōdai (Tokyo University)?
Mizuno Naomi: No. Why should I go to Tōdai (Tokyo University)?
Sakuragi Kenji: Ah, okay. So you're really stupid.
Sakuragi Kenji: Figures are a proof of competitiveness.
Sakuragi Kenji: Our society has rules and you must follow these rules. And all these rules are written by intelligent people. What does that mean? These rules are written by the most intelligent people and they make use of these rules. Since stupid people aren't able to understand these rules, they will be at a disadvantage. These societal rules will continue to serve the intelligent people. For example, taxes, salaries, insurance, allocations; the intelligent people will continue to make these things incomprehensible, and stupid people can only try to understand their meaning. You may all think that thinking is a bother and so, all your life, you'll be cheated and you'll pay for a lot... Intelligent people will take advantage of the current situation, and stupid people will be at a disadvantage and lose. That's how the society works. So if you don't want to be cheated, if you don't want to lose, you have to study!
Episode 02: 自分の弱さを知れ！ Jibun no yowa-sa o shire! (Know your own weaknesses!)
Sakuragi Kenji: When you buy, you are cheated. When you sell, you are cheated. Weak people are always deceived.
Sakuragi Kenji: Unlike you, I don't have a debt to pay back so I can leave whenever I want.
Sakuragi Kenji: Those who wait too much before making a decision will lose their chances.
Sakuragi Kenji: You feel frustrated, Yajima Yūsuke. You feel miserable, Yajima Yūsuke. But it's the reality of your life, Yajima Yūsuke!
Sakuragi Kenji: Do you know how to become strong? First, you have to know your own weaknesses.
Sakuragi Kenji: I'll explain you the schedule for the next days. From now, and for ten days, you'll sleep here... During this period, you'll change your habits.
Sakuragi Kenji: By the way, the daily schedule will be this one. It's the most effective schedule for good assimilation of knowledge. It's said to be optimal for the brain.
Episode 03: 遊べ！受験はスポーツだ！ Asobe! Juken wa supōtsuda! (Play! Taking an exam is like a sport!)
Sakuragi Kenji: In the morning, we think better than we memorize, because our brains are in their best state... So what will we do in the morning? Mathematics. You'll find it easier to solve calculations because your mind is clear.
Sakuragi Kenji: In a 100-question test, if you don't get 100 questions correct, it's nothing. Failure is intolerable. Be ashamed of failure.
Sakuragi Kenji: Mathematics are a game. If you think it's studying, it'll be difficult. Here's the solution: success in mathematics look like success in a game. It's the same with video games; when you win, you're happy, so it's fun. It's the same with mathematics; if you're capable of calculating correctly, you'll enjoy success.
Sakuragi Kenji: Hideki, if you want to improve in video games, what do you do?
Ogata Hideki: Er... I try again.
Sakuragi Kenji: So, it's the same. You may start to become familiar with mathematics. For example... When we subtract something to a negative number, why could it become positive? If you ask yourselves to many questions, you'll be blocked. So, don't think! Mathematics are a sport.
Yajima Yūsuke: What are you doing?
Sakuragi Kenji: It's image training. You must have feelings.
Sakuragi Kenji: In English and in literature, the answer is in the questions. But in mathematics, your brain must work.
Mizuno Naomi: Making effort, is it really a good thing?
Sakuraji Kenji: Hmm?
Mizuno Naomi: If I made effort, it wouldn't be better than if I didn't make any, right? So, isn't it better not to make any?
Sakuraji Kenji: Is that really what you think?
Sakuragi Kenji: Instantly, automatically, mechanically... mathematics is like that.
Sakuragi Kenji: If you want to leave this place, you only have two options. One, you do the best you can to climb up the social ladder. Or you will be a social outcast and you'll have a miserable life. So, which one do you choose?
Sakuragi Kenji: If you think it's impossible, then it will be impossible. But if you are trying your best, miracles can happen.
Sakuragi Kenji: Getting perfect results is a goal clearly defined in front of you.
Sakuragi Kenji: It's not 'there are only five days left'. It's 'there are still five days left'.
Yajima Yūsuke: When I say I'll do something, I do it. Since I decided to do it, I'll do my best and try to succeed.
Mizuno Naomi: Working hard and doing our best seems to be stupid, but it seems to be essential.
Yajima Yūsuke: Since you're responsible of everything, don't fail.
Sakuraji Kenji: Today, you'll read it (mathematics formulas) loudly while walking.
Sakuragi Kenji: You'll study in teams. From now on, we'll do math tests with 100 questions in 20 minutes, so (you'll spend around) 12 seconds per question. In the end, you'll check your partner's papers and explain his mistakes. Then, we'll repeat the process.
Ogata Hideki: Explain our partner's mistakes? It's really not cool.
Sakuragi Kenji: It's not enough to solve problems. You must also understand your mistakes.
Sakuragi Kenji: You must remain objective. Being objective is really important while studying. That's why you must be strict with yourselves and stay objective.
Sakuragi Kenji: For an exam, it is only the result that matters. The fact that you did your best or not has no value.
Sakuragi Kenji: Do you know what's the most important for the Tōdai (Tokyo University) entrance exam?
Ino Mamako: Er... Is it English?
Sakuragi Kenji: Not at all. What's the most important for the Tōdai (Tokyo University) entrance exam is that feeling of frustration when they cannot study. Knowing that, getting into Tōdai (Tokyo University) becomes easy.
Episode 04: 壁にぶつかるまで、我慢しろ！ Kabe ni butsukaru made, gaman shiro! (Keep persevering until you hit the wall!) (Don't stop until you hit the wall!)
Sakuragi Kenji: Breakfast is not optional.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: Memorizing by heart is the only real method. Therefore, have some respect for this principle.
Sakuragi Kenji: I understand. Are there other methods besides memorization?
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: By wearing a headband with idiot written on it, you'll be humble. That way, the next time you'll have to do better. To pass these exams, it is important to recognize being humble.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: 99% or 0%, it's the same thing. If it's not 100%, it means nothing!
Sakuragi Kenji: I don't need those who need to be brought back forcefully.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: This time around, your training will be this!
Sakuragi Kenji: Cards. This should be interesting.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: There are a total of 52 cards in one deck. If we add up all the numbers in the cards, what do we get? 364!
Sakuragi Kenji: I guess we could say that you've played cards before. 364, it's close to 365, the number of days in a year.
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Yanagi Tetsunosuke: The rules of the game is simple. You play against one another, each one with his own deck of cards. After the first card is down, you turn over the cards one by one, and you'll add the numbers in the cards as as each card comes along. The first one to reach the end and gets the total 364 is the winner.
Ogata Hideki: Ah, super easy!
Kobayashi Maki: So it's not easy?
Sakuragi Kenji: Try it and see. Listen, numbers go up to thirteen so you think it will be simple, but you have to get all the way to 364 without screwing up. The numbers will become triple-digits, and this game will make you work your brain. Compared to a standard exercise, this one will be more useful.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: It's the Yanagi Tetsunosuke question and answer method. (There is one sheet for questions, and one sheet for answers.) Put both sheets on your desk, and turn them over.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: The math exam for Tōdai (Tokyo University) lasts for 150 minutes, in which you need to complete six questions. That gives you 25 minutes per question. Take away 15 minutes for time to write down your calculations. Therefore, you only have 10 minutes to read and understand each question. Then you must decide how to divide your time amongst the questions.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: What's important during an exam, is how to start the calculations. It's while attacking the problem that everything comes into play.
Ogata Hideki: But when we don't understand, we don't understand.
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Yanagi Tetsunosuke: You will understand all by doing these sheets. Once you have read the question, for three minutes, imagine the beginning. And then, for three minutes, look at the answer. Next, start the calculations. And once you're finished, continue to the next question. If you don't understand it, read the answer attentively.
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Kobayashi Maki: But if we look at the answer, it doesn't mean anything.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: You didn't understand anything! You still have to do the calculations. So you have to do a lot of exercises.
Sakuragi Kenji: Then, you have to do lots of exercises. That way you're ready for any situation.
Sakuragi Kenji: Don't worry about it, they are just taking risks. Wasn't it you who always said that those who only do what they're told are useless?
Episode 05: 泣くな！お前の人生だ！ Nakuna! Omae no jinseida! (Don't cry! It's your life!)
Ain Shutaro: When one moves away from reality to such abstract concepts in mathematics and physics, it won't stay in your head. But thanks to these drawings and mnemonics, you'll be able to remember all of these concepts.
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: To learn classical literature, you'll use this.
Mizuno Naomi: Again?
Yajima Yūsuke: A manga?
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: Do you know why you find literature so repugnant? It's because you don't understand it in the context of that era.
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Akutayama Ryūzaburō: In fact, people of that era had lots of free time, so they made love. Since they made love, all day, they thought of erotic things. So, this book tells, in the form of literature, of erotic lives in that era. Then, don't you want to ask what's in this book?
Sakuragi Kenji: The first line is sufficient to know. That is to say that your subjects were not good... If the subject is not good, listen carefully, then the essay will also be poor.
Sakuragi Kenji: Yajima Yūsuke! In life, the first to raise a hand loses. Even if you are right, nowadays, the first to hit someone loses. So, whatever happens, don't hit people.
Ino Mamako: Sakuragi Kenji has prepared something for you, 'What to do during the days preceding the exams'... First, the most important thing, is not to do an all-nighter. While you sleep, everything you've retained passes from short-term memory to long-term memory. So, in order not to forget what you've studied, you must sleep the necessary amount during the night. Before sleeping, concentrate on what you've learned...
Sakuragi Kenji: A person who can't even fight to fulfill his own life can't help take care of other people's problems!
Sakuragi Kenji: Okuno Ichirō! Life is filled with moments like this. Reality is completely opposite of what you think. In school, at work, in love, everyone imagines reality is as they would like to think of it. And one day, suddenly you realize that you were mistaken. The strength of a man is put to the test in moments like this, Okuno Ichirō.
Sakuragi Kenji: Now, two paths are in front of you. One, continue to create your own illusions and forget... Second, accept the reality even if it is tough to take and while keeping your head held high, start again from the beginning. Okuno Ichirō, it's your life. You decide.
Sakuragi Kenji: The concentration ability of a human can't last for more than an hour, so it's true that a break is important. But if you break for too long, you'll get the opposite effect.
Episode 06: 英語対決！勝負だバカ6人 Eigo taiketsu! Shōbuda baka 6-ri (English Showdown! Hey, you six idiots, it's a challenge)
Kawaguchi Hiroshi: There's no more than two things you have to do to improve your English. First, speak English without being ashamed. Next, speak of love.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: Moving your bodies allows you to assimilate knowledge faster.
Kawaguchi Hiroshi: When it comes to sports, you say you know how to do it like its nothing. Then how come you don't say the same for English?
Kawaguchi Hiroshi: For the Japanese, this is a curious thing. When it comes to languages, we have to be perfectionists...
Kawaguchi Hiroshi: In this case, if you speak it often with regular English speakers, you will be convinced you know how to speak English...
Ogata Hideki: I understand. So, what's important, is that you convince yourself?
Kawaguchi Hiroshi: Right! All you need is to convince yourselves and be confident... Say it, rapidly, steadily! Use English. The more you speak, the more you'll know the words.
Yajima Yūsuke: So it's like the power of persuasion.
Sakuragi Kenji: First start thinking about what is best for you.
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Yajima Yūsuke: Stop always talking about interests and profit. There are more important stuff than that.
Sakuragi Kenji: Oh, like what, for example? You want to talk about kindness and sympathy perhaps?
Yajima Yūsuke: Yes, those are some examples.
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Sakuragi Kenji: Is it kindness to let Ino Mamako win? If you let her win, then you suppress her chances of maturing.
Sakuragi Kenji: Information is power. There is a difference if there is information that you know or you do not know. Those who know that the English test is marked in the imperative can have a large advantage over those who do not know. It is the fact of not knowing which is the problem, and this occurs everyday in life.
Sakuragi Kenji: Fight knowing you have the advantage of knowing some information.
Sakuragi Kenji: In fact, you made a bigger mistake when you decided to rely only on Kuriyama Shōta. He doesn't have any rivals or friends.
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: For example, in sports, it is better to have rivals.
Ain Shutaro: And this is the proof.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: It is similar for exams. When you work with your friends, you win.
Sakuragi Kenji: Kawaguchi Hiroshi noticed the friendship between the students. The six of them worked together as one. Union gives them strength.
Sakuragi Kenji: In life, there are winners and there are losers. It's the same for the college entrance exam, there are those who pass and there are those who fail. The winners will always walk on the losers.
Yajima Yūsuke: One should help those who help themselves. One will preach only to those who have possibilities.
Episode 07: 見返してやる！東大模試！ Mikaeshite yaru! Tōdai moshi! (Go triumph! The Tōdai or Tokyo University mock test!
Sakuragi Kenji: So, if you study together, and you progress together, it will be mixed work.
Ogata Hideki: Mixed teamwork?
Mizuno Naomi: I don't understand.
Sakuragi Kenji: I'll explain it more clearly. Listen, this history book is divided into 18 parts, and into 60 chapters... If it's necessary to learn 60 history chapters by heart, you'll definitely be overwhelmed. Even for one person, 10 chapters is already too much. So all of you will divide the chapters among yourselves... Each of you will do 8 chapters, and the rest will be done by Ino Mamako. By using these history books, you will each construct a 'memory tree' for your part.
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Kawaguchi Hiroshi: By using 'memory trees', they'll be able to share their knowledge.
Kawaguchi Hiroshi: When you want to memorize something, it's difficult to remember it by force. Same with English words, if you connect them together, it's much easier to remember them bit by bit.
Sakuragi Kenji: And thus, we have something called a 'memory tree'. We first have a tree. The important stuff we place on the trunk of the tree. Then, you gradually add things on the branches. To do this, you must make drawings and use colors.
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Sakuragi Kenji: By using words and drawings, you will use the two sides of your brain.
Sakuragi Kenji: When working alone, one becomes negligent. But when you know someone else is going to read it, don't you want to do the best you can so your notes are best ones? Then as you take on the responsibility for the success of the others, you will do your best.
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: For the entrance exam on literature, we will not be doing modern literature, but ancient and classical literature instead... It is because that will be good for distributing your time. Compared to the long subjects of modern literature, the subjects of ancient and classical literature are basic. Finish them first, so that you don't run out of time on these easy questions. Finish the easy questions first, and it will be mentally reassuring.
Sakuragi Kenji: In the exam, the others are not your enemy. The exam, it's an internal battle. Keep this firmly in your mind.
Sakuragi Kenji: The subject of the exam is not something that fell out of the sky. It is something that people have written for people to answer. By looking at the subject, you will understand what sort of people they are looking for.
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Akutayama Ryūzaburō: ... In fact, even those who follow the rules have a unique personality.
Ain Shutaro: That's it. In the current scientific world, in my opinion, we're not looking anymore at making huge discoveries.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: By looking at and understanding basic research, if you follow the rules, you can continue the research.
Kawaguchi Hiroshi: If you don't have the spirit to follow rules, it would be unthinkable of even making any discoveries.
Sakuragi Kenji: That's right. Tōdai (Tokyo University) is looking for a certain type of person. So the examination checks to see if you are that type of person.
Sakuragi Kenji: Listen carefully. The exam is a dialogue. First, a dialogue with someone else. Then, a dialogue with ourselves.
Kōsaka Yoshino: Don't look at your notes before starting the exam. Don't start right away after getting the exam. Breathe calmly.
Episode 08: バカの涙・・・夏休み課外授業 Baka no namida... natsuyasumi kagai jugyō (Tears of fools... Extracurricular activities for summer vacation)
Sakuragi Kenji: There's one more thing to do, "strike the iron while it's still hot".
Ogata Hideki: The iron?
Akutayama Ryuzaburo: We'll correct your tests. Have you already forgotten why you've taken the practice test? It is so that we'll find your weak points right now, and strengthen them.
Sakuragi Kenji: A good teacher, even if his students are not able to do something, will help them learn and will trust them. And then, he'll give them their independence. Instead of pampering them, he does whatever he can so that they can overcome difficulties by themselves. Then, they'll think by themselves, decide by themselves, and move forward by themselves.
Sakuragi Kenji: Do you know what's the greatest obstacle to success?
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Sakuragi Kenji: Human feelings! Our stubbornness, our jealousy, our inferiority complexes, our negative thoughts; all of these make us fail.
Sakuragi Kenji: In sports, power and stamina are necessary. Power is necessary in studies, too.
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: For modern literature, underline the most important concepts.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: If you insist too much on a question you don't understand, you might not remain calm. If you don't understand something, go to the next question with dignity.
Kawaguchi Hiroshi: Avoid using the dictionary as much as possible. If there's a word you don't understand, use the context to find the meaning.
Ain Shutaro: In physics, begin by circling the units.
Ino Mamako: Instead of using words from the textbook, which are difficult to remember, try to find your own method to remember facts.
Sakuragi Kenji: Results are results, reality is reality. Look properly at your results.
Episode 09: 信じろ！成績は必ず上がる Shinjiro! Seiseki wa kanarazu agaru (Believe! Your results will surely improve)
Sakuragi Kenji: What is the most important thing necessary to pass the examinations?
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Akutayama Ryūzaburō: The ability to use all your strength to read correctly. Read the question correctly, and understand what the person who made the exam wants you to answer.
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Akutayama Ryūzaburō: It is very difficult to understand just from reading something as it is. If you simply take it as it is, you could make a lot of mistakes. So, to understand correctly, read between the lines. That is what it means to know how to read correctly.
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: In literature, if the questions are in Japanese, the answers are also in Japanese.
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: If she said that she was making nothing of it, it means that she doesn't want to reflect on it any further.
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: If you don't have the curiosity to understand what is going on around you, there is nothing you'll be able to understand.
Sakuragi Kenji: Now, do some reflection. Look carefully around you... Build up your own reasoning skills.
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: One can guess many things by simply reading this panel. So, if you read it correctly, you'll be able to extract some hidden information.
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: Why is it like this? Why is it like that? By constantly asking these types of questions, you'll become able to read correctly.
Sakuragi Kenji: Those who don't have an objective and spend their time having fun are those who have the most regrets in their lives.
Sakuragi Kenji: When you're young, you're never satisfied. When you grow up, if you don't have confidence in yourself, whatever you do, you'll find it boring.
Sakuragi Kenji: Every so often, it is necessary to lack something. To fill this void, you wonder what to do but there's nothing you can do except to continue to reflect. Moments like this are necessary, even for kids
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: The concentration of a human being does not exceed an hour and a half.
Sakuragi Kenji: When parents treat their children as idiots, they're also acknowledging at the same time that they're also idiots.
Sakuragi Kenji: Perhaps you know it, but a child up until 7 years old thinks in an intuitive manner. It is between 7 and 11 that he thinks in a logical manner.
Sakuragi Kenji: Do a small experiment... In these two identical glasses, we pour the same quantity of milk. In front of children, we'll pour the contents of one into a glass of a difference size, then ask them which of the two has more milk. Those who can think in the logical manner can respond correctly, and those who think in the intuitive manner cannot. What is important, is that they responded to the question. And intelligence has nothing to do with it.
Sakuragi Kenji: As parents, you must see clearly which stage of development your child is in.
Sakuragi Kenji: If your child is still in an intuitive stage, that's when he'll listen to you.
Sakuragi Kenji: Listen attentively to what your children say, and then repeat their words. By repeating their words, children will listen to their parents more, and they will feel reassured that their parents accept them.
Mizuno Naomi: They are not taking their lives seriously... Perhaps they do not realize it yet... The moment when their parents won't be there to look after them anymore...
Mizuno Naomi: When parents think of things for you, there's no need to think for yourself. If something happens, and the parents are there to help, they don't have to be concerned about what to do. Is it because they're spoiled that they think like that?
Sakuragi Kenji: All those who practice something with enthusiasm have the ability to expend a great deal of effort. So when they concentrate, they will show a lot of ability and force.
Yajima Yūsuke: But me, I'm at the bottom of the class.
Sakuragi Kenji: That isn't because you're stupid. It's just that you do not have enough experience. It's like playing the trumpet, is it not? You weren't able to play the trumpet on your first try either, right? If you continue to train without reservation, you will begin to see that you're progressing.
Sakuragi Kenji: It is like the hare and the tortoise. The fact that you didn't begin well doesn't mean that you'll inevitably lose the match.
Sakuragi Kenji: The old man Yanagi Tetsunosuke said that with exams, those who know many hard things finish by winning.
Episode 10: 友情か受験か？最後の決断 Yūjō ka juken ka? Saigo no ketsudan (Friendship or the exam? Final decision)
Sakuragi Kenji: To carry the weight of someone else's life on your shoulders is not an easy thing to do. It's the most difficult way of living.
Sakuragi Kenji: For a mountain, there are 100 paths to get to the summit.
Sakuragi Kenji: With a good teacher, you can study correctly. Most people think that this is the best method.
Sakuragi Kenji: But there is one thing that you can regulate when you work all alone. That's density, the density of the work during your work time. You isolate yourself to work more effectively, and you'll become even stronger.
Kawaguchi Hiroshi: Train your ears, and repeat immediately everything that you hear. That's the best method of working out your brain.
Sakuragi Kenji: For the subjects that you are weak at, it is important not to seek perfection. Get the points that you can, and get the average. Train yourselves to do that. Then, take as many points as you can in your strongest areas.
Sakuragi Kenji: To prepare for the college entrance exam, you most definitely must do the tests from the previous years. You must do one subject per day, and so you will do five subjects in a week.
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: The mathematics test is a fight against time. After getting the test paper, read all the statements and find questions that look the easiest, then decide on the order in which to do them.
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: The way to succeed on the literature test is to proceed by elimination. Eliminate everything that is incorrect. When your instincts refute something, then it must be false.
Sakuragi Kenji: All the questions that are put in the exam are based on the same structure. Start by analyzing the type of questions.
Ogata Hideki: Divide up the time well. Divide up the time well.
Yajima Yūsuke: Calm down, don't push yourself. Start first with what you can do.
Episode 11: お前らはもうバカじゃない！運命の合格発表" Omaera wa mō baka janai! Unmei no gōkakuhahhyō (You're not fools anymore! The fateful admission results)
Yanagi Tetsunosuke: For the mathematics test, it's not a good idea to give only the answer to a question. It's important to show the writer of the question that you've understood the question. For that reason, you write on your answer sheet a short explanation of the calculation that you will do.
Ain Shutaro: After having checked that the units are homogeneous, and having checked that the numerical values are not absurd, you'll be sure that there won't be any mistake.
Akutayama Ryūzaburō: While reading classic and ancient literature, underline the key words. Then, don't read silently. A good text always has a good rhythm. If you read in rhythm by imagining the reading in your head, you'll surprisingly notice that you'll read and understand quickly.
Mizuno Naomi: If they study hard enough, I'm sure anyone can become intelligent.
Sakuragi Kenji: It's because most of the Japanese think that Tōdai (Tokyo University) is an impassable wall. They exaggerate, they give up, and they hang up. They say success is innate, and that they're too stupid to succeed, even if they do their best. During a lifetime, how many times will someone have such a narrow thought?
Sakuragi Kenji: In this world, there's no such thing as an impassable obstacle! So, no matter what happens, don't start with this kind of prejudice.
Kōsaka Yoshino: An exam is a dialogue. First, a dialogue with someone else. Then, a dialogue with myself.
Yajima Yūsuke: Begin with the easy part, classic and ancient literature.
Kōsaka Yoshino: I should read keeping the theme in mind.
Yajima Yūsuke: For ancient literature, let's start by circling concepts.
Mizuno Naomi: First, eliminate in a logical way so I can understand the words I can't read.
Kōsaka Yoshino: Okay, I should find the questions for which I can get some points.
Kobayashi Maki: These questions are hard, and I don't know about the calculations... Skip this immediately.
Mizuno Naomi: "You don't even know what you don't know?" That's what Sakuragi Kenji told me.
Sakuragi Kenji: For an examination question, there is always only one good answer. If you don't find that single good answer, you fail. It's a very difficult problem. But for life, it's different. In life, there are many correct answers.
Sakuragi Kenji: ... Do not diminish your possibilities! Those who have succeeded, and even those who have failed, do your best to have a magnificent life!
