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His and Her Circumstances : Season 1
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Air date: 02 Oct '98 - 26 episodesIn His and Her Circumstances, like a drug, Yukino Miyazawa was addicted to admiration and praise from those around her. She worked hard to become the perfect student, the perfect girl. But that was before… him. Souichirou Arima. The instant she met him, she hated him. Without even trying, he snatched the very glory from her hands by easily acing the high school entrance exam that should have made her the class representative. To take back what is rightfully hers, Yukino is putting all her efforts into plotting her revenge – but was love part of the plan?
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List of Episodes (26)
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His and Her Circumstances (1998)
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1. Her Circumstances
02 Oct '98It is Spring, and Miyazawa Yukino has entered Hokuei Prefectural High School. With her looks, good grades, excellent athletic ability, and winning personality, she soon becomes the darling of her class. The truth, though, is that this is all a facade. Yukino is deathly concerned about how other people see her. Arima Souichiroo, a boy in her class, threatens her very existence as a result. A handsome boy who entered the school at the top of the entrance exams, he steals Yukino's place as class re
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2. Their Secret
09 Oct '98Due to her own serious foul-up, Yukino finds herself in a heap of trouble. She spends days terrified of Arima's reaction. When days have passed as if nothing has happened, and Yukino lets down her guard, Arima's unthinkable retaliation begins. In exchange for not revealing the truth about her, Yukino must help Arima with all the different committee work he gets, in effect reducing her to his slave. After-school sessions go on and on, with the two of them wading through a mountain of work.
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3. His Circumstances
16 Oct '98Yukino and Arima rapidly get closer now that they share one another's secrets, even to the point that they study together at one another's houses. One day, however, Arima's attitude toward Yukino undergoes a sudden and drastic change. He turns so cold toward her that she actually feels like he is rejecting her, and with no experience in these matters, she can't tell what's really going on with him. Bewildered, Yukino nonetheless closes in. At which point, Arima...
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4. Her Difficult Problem
23 Oct '98The more Yukino learns about Arima, the more attracted she is to him. When he comes on to her again, though, she suddenly becomes so tense that she cannot respond. Thus, they are once again more than friends, but less than lovers. Upset at her own failure, Yukino decides that she will make the next move herself. She creates a number of plots and schemes, and tries to make an opportunity to use them...
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5. Day of Labyrinth
30 Oct '98Arima and Yukino finally become ""boyfriend and girlfriend"". But preparations are underway for the school Field Day. resulting in a state of controlled chaos. As both of them have the trust of students and faculty alike, they are given positions of leadership, which cause them to pass one another by in school for days on end. This situation causes them serious agitation. And when the Field Day is over, another boy starts to cramp Arima's style in a big way: Asaba Hideaki, the handsome, popular
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His and Her Circumstances (1998)
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6. Your Voice That Changes Me
06 Nov '98With Summer Vacation close at hand, Arima and Yukino date one another constantly, to make up for all the time they've lost due to the troubles they've had. But the more he dates her, and learns what she is really like, the greater Arima's complex about Yukino's nature becomes. His worries build, until one evening, they meet under a blazing sunset.
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7. Their Estrangement
13 Nov '98The relationship between Yukino, Arima, and new friend Asaba gets deeper and deeper. Yukino and Arima don't care in the slightest that their final exam results were not very good. The school authorities, however, present these scores to them as being a serious problem. In the face of this teacher response, Yukino persists in putting forth her intent to be her real self, but events progress to the point that their parents are called in.
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His and Her Circumstances (1998)
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8. Her Day
20 Nov '98One day not long before Summer Vacation, Yukino goes to play at Arima's house. It's the first time they've been alone there. As a test of the distance between them, they have their second kiss, and Yukino feels even more strongly for him than she did before.
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9. Atonement for Postponed Debts
27 Nov '98Yukino makes the decision to be her real self, but her classmates still treat her as a visitor from outside. The other girls mistrust her and spread rumors in the wake of her parents being called in on account of her falling grades, as well as her getting close not only with Arima, but also with Asaba. In the midst of all this, Isawa Maho, who had detected a change in Yukino some time back, takes advantage of the girls' antagonism toward Yukino to take control of them. And what will Yukino do wh
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10. Everything Starts Now
04 Dec '98What with the girls in her class despising her, and yet another old friend of Arima's, Shibahime Tsubasa, giving her the evil eye as well, Yukino is hemmed in on all sides. With no intention of giving into these assaults, however, she instead spends carefree days with Arima and Asaba. She even turns aside Shibaki's escalating attacks as if they were mere jokes. Hearing all of this, Tsubaki, a friend of Shibahime's, joins Aya and Rika in declaring their friendship for Yukino, thus abruptly drawin
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11. At the End of the First Semester
11 Dec '98All sorts of things have happened in the currently ending school term. Arima tells Yukino that he won't be able to see her for a while because he'll be taking part in the upcoming Kendo tournament. Without Arima, Yukino finds herself spending Summer Vacation with female friends for the first time in her life. She puts a bold face on it, but Tsubasa acts very strangely...
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12. The Location of Happiness
18 Dec '98Tsubasa, opposed to her father's remarriage, declares that she will stay at Yukino's house instead of going home. Yukino is confused, but finally Tsubasa and Maho end up staying at the Miyazawa house. A phone call from Tsubaki brings Tsubasa's father and his new fiancee.
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13. The Subjectivity of Happiness
25 Dec '98Tsubasa is opposed to her father's remarriage, but realizing that her opinions carry no weight, she gives in and agrees to meet her stepbrother-to-be, who turns out to be a blond punk rocker named Kazuma. His remarks burn Tsubasa, and everything goes right to hell. Later, they meet by chance in the street, with very different results.
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14. The Story So Far
30 Dec '98A recap episode, summarizing the events of episodes 1 through 6.
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15. The Story So Far (Part 2)
08 Jan '98Arima and Yukino are separated from one another by training camp over Summer Vacation. An unexpected phone call from Arima makes Yukino's heart beat faster. Asaba, meanwhile, bored because Arima isn't around, shows up at Yukino's house, where Tsukino and Kano make him welcome. Hiroyuki, their father, is not at all happy with this development, however.
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16. Eternal Interspersion
15 Jan '98The Miyazawa Family assembles for a trip to Grandfather's house. There they find an old photograph of Yukino's mother Miyaka, who looked just like Yukino at the same age. Yukino's parents grew up together, and fell in love when Miyaka was a high-school freshman, the same age Yukino is now. Hiroyuki lived alone with his grandfather when he was little.
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17. His Return
22 Jan '99Yukino receives a letter from Arima, away at the Kendo tournament, that makes her think of him all the more. Then the moment she's waited for comes: Arima returns to her, looking taller than before. This leads her to feel differently about him than she did before.
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18. Progress
29 Jan '99Arima has suffered grievously at the hands of his relatives over the disappearance of his father. Before he met Yukino, his foster parents were the only positive influence in his life. Now, however, he has come to depend on her greatly for emotional support. Now, however...
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19. 14 Days/1
05 Feb '99It's the first day of planning for the Culture Fair. Yukino's class tries to decide what they want to do while Asaba informs them of what his class is doing: a Asaba Hideki Dinner Show. A new transfer student arrives named Tonami Takefumi. When Rika hears the name she remembers a boy with the same name from 7th grade but figures it's just a coincidence that they have the exact same name. Aya finally finishes whatever she was writing from the day before saying that it was a screenplay. She wrote
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20. 14 Days/2
12 Feb '99Tonami is a transfer student who was teased by Tsubaki for being overweight all through grade school and intermediate school. Determined to change himself, he returns in a very handsome form, practically a different person. Aya, meanwhile, tells Yukino and company that she wants them to act out a play she's written for the school festival.
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21. 14 Days/3
19 Feb '99Tonami asks Yukino not to tell Tsubaki and company that he went to school with Tsubaki. Yukino and Maho turn up their noses at Aya's suggestion that they do a play for the school festival, but read the script anyway. Yukino's reaction is something else.
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22. 14 Days/4
26 Feb '99When Yukino says that they should do the play for the school festival, Maho, who really dislikes the idea, is reluctantly persuaded to go along. Yukino puts her negotiating skills to work to get the preparations made, including getting class director Kawashima to be their advisor. Arima, meanwhile, is...
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23. 14 Days/5
05 Mar '99The school festival is approaching, and Yukino is busy with both meetings and rehearsals for the play. Tonami, who has sworn revenge on Tsubaki, tells her that he hates her. Yukino and company get together on Sunday for a meeting, but before they know it, they get off on tangents. Maho, who cannot bear the sight of this, scolds them all.
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24. A Different Story From So Far
12 Mar '99The first part of the episode has Arima and Yukino thinking about their insecurities. Arima still can't move beyond his troubled past and Yukino feels gyped by her changed ways. Arima makes Asaba cry because he didn't tell him that he and Yukino slept together. Part 2 of the episode is just a very brief recap of the series.
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25. A Different Story From Up to Now
19 Mar '99Yukino's youngest sister believes she is being stalked by a girl from her school. Kano confronts the girl and they both realize that it was a mere coincidence that they kept running into each other. They become friends and Kano's older sister, Tsukino has an admirer in Kano's friend who wants her (Tsukino) to her big sister.
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