Somewhere in Tokyo: Kunugigaoka Junior High, Class 3-E.

Not at all! You're a third-year junior high student, and a fine one at that!

When I was in the ninth grade, I fought with my dad and injured my right shoulder. My arm won't go up above my shoulder.

When I was in ninth grade... I fell in love.

You went until second year of middle school?! Seriously?

If you count middle school, that makes it, what, five years in a row now?

You were pretty spoiled... I think Mom clung onto you until sometime around middle school.

He's a third-year junior high student, so one year younger than us.

Hatsuharu-san is polite, and he seems much more grown-up than his age.

I thought I'd heard of Yagami Light somewhere, so I looked him up. It seems he was the Junior High Champion in 2002 and 2003.

We can lie about my age. Tell them we're a middle schooler or something.

She faked her resume for her job. I guess she had to make a living.

This is Haruhi Suzumiya, currently a first-year junior high school student.

I know her well since we were classmates in junior high for three years.

a beautiful, smart, and athletic magazine model in her third year of middle school.