Kodocha

Sana Kurata is a sixth grader at Jinbo School, and the star of a variety show. Her class is a mess because of a troublemaker named Akito Hayama.

Sana continues to confront Akito, and the girls in the class join her. Akito's reaction surprises and angers Sana even more. He hurts one of her friends and she slaps him. They confront each other privately and exchange threats.

Sana learns about Akito's weakness, a fear of heights, and tries to exploit it, but fails to think it through. She challenges Akito to a contest, and ends up losing herself. However, Rei gives her an even better idea: to take an embarrassing picture of Akito as blackmail.

Akito has stopped acting up because of the picture, and another boy vies for the boss monkey title. They start to brawl, but Sana threatens to release the picture of Akito if he fights back because Sana insists violence is not the answer.

Sana gets a glimpse of a family very different from her own, Akito's family. She learns that Akito's mom died giving birth to him and his sister blames him for her death.

Sana is determined to make an impression with her next job on a TV drama, which is about a family with problems similar to Akito's. She even drags Akito's father home to watch it, only to fail to get the whole family to watch it together when Akito disappears.

Whenever Sana meets her drama co-star Asako, her manager Rei always disappears. Then, Asako asks Sana to do a chat with her, and Sana agrees. Rei tries to get out of driving her by pretending to have a stomach ache, but is found out. During the chat, Sana reveals that she found Rei as a homeless bum before he became her manager, and Asako realizes that Rei was her ex-boyfriend.

Sana learns why Rei has been acting so weird. So, she thinks that the field trip will help her forget. Up on the top floors, Akito starts feeling sick. Sana overhearing, how juice helped this girl, who was feeling sick.

Sana copes with her surprising first kiss; Asako visits Rei, and Misako summons Akito.

Sana meets Aono, Tsuyoshi's younger sister. She decides to give Aono a pleasant surprise, to Akito's objections. She finds out Rei is not truly in love with her.

Sana becomes a little more grown-up about Asako and Rei. The Hayama family has a family emergency. Sana gives Akito a Burutcha buzzer.

After working too hard because her manager, Rei signed her up for many commercials, Sana forgets a promise she made with her friends. Her friends get very mad, and create an outcast of her. Akito and Tsuyoshi stand up for her though, and in the end, Sana is forgiven by her friends.

Tsuyoshi misses school one day, and Akito and Sana get together to help their friend. Tsuoyishi's parents have divorce, and Tsuyoshi's mother needed help moving. Akito does something to bug Sana, when they got close again. also Tsuoyishi says something to Sana and Akito gets jealous.

Everyone is excited about a class camping trip. While Sana looks cheerful as usual, Akito notices that she is worried. Sana is worried about the promise she made with her mother, which if fulfilled, might ruin the happy life they had. Sumirei Ando discovers the joys of limbo dancing.

Sana returns from the class trip, and learns that her next job will be a commercial with popular actor, Naozumi Kamura.

Sana performs in a play and invites her classmates, teachers, and Naozumi. Akito gets jealous after Naozumi gives her flower on stage and makes a big decision about his life.

Misako's essay My Daughter and I is released. The book reveals that Sana was found abandoned. Both Akito and Naozumi vie to help Sana through the pressures of intense media attention.

After hearing about Sana's childhood, Akito rushes over there. He barges in and grabs her, heading towards his house. Where, Sana stays the night.

Sana meets her biological mother and her half-sister. Sana has fun with her little sister at the amusement park, but when her biological mother asks her to come live with her, Sana turns her down, and tells her she will never see her again. Afterward, Misako and Sana have a heart-to-heart talk.

This episode is set up as Quiz Show, recapping from the start of the story to now. During the Quiz Show, Babbit is having fun at Sana's expense.

Sana visits Kamura Academy with Naozumi. She meets a small boy, who seems to be like Akito, and she goes through a chain of events to defeat him.

Akito begins studying karate, but isn't happy with his first lessons. Sana considers dropping out of show business.

Sana helps find Mariko.

Principal Narunaru goes on a business trip, and Ms. Ando takes this opportunity to threaten Class 3 of not advancing to junior high school! Sana freaks out over her mathematics skills, and Akito becomes Hard-Boiled Hayama once again.