[Japanese Edition] Love at First Kiss] Female Supporting Struggle

"Are you still participating in the college competition this year?" Noda Momoko lifted the clothes from the hem up - the sweaty black tights stuck to her body like a second skin, and then put it together with pants and underwear It was messed up into a ball, and stuffed into the sports bag.Then I didn't take a shower, just wiped it with a towel and changed into clean clothes.

Noda Momoko is a not very particular person, and acts carefreely.Sometimes when she gets lazy, she will leave the finished sportswear in the closet to ferment, and she will slowly take it out and take it back for cleaning until someone else smells it and reminds them.But she didn't feel embarrassed by it at all. On the contrary, she said it was the boldness of Osaka people.

She is from Kobe, and she usually corrects people who guess her accent as Osaka, but she does not hesitate to say that she is from Osaka when she does something bad.

"Of course I will participate. I can't go to the World Championships. I have to participate in some competitions to maintain my fitness." Matsumoto Reiko has a completely different personality from Noda Momoko. Pack the inside and outside in different bags.

Unlike the rhythmic gymnastics competitions with various names in the future, there were very few international-level rhythmic gymnastics competitions in 1994.Although the viewing of this sport is really good, its complicated scoring standard obviously raises the entry threshold for the audience.With fewer spectators, the related sponsorship will naturally decrease. The only competitions hosted by the International Gymnastics Federation are the annual World Championships and the rhythmic gymnastics competitions in the Olympic Games.There was originally a four-year World Cup, but it was canceled for various reasons after 1990.

Therefore, the most important inter-country competitions that Asians can participate in this year are only the World Championships at the international level and the Asian Games at the intercontinental level.

Reiko Matsumoto has already missed the World Championships, and the right to participate in the Asian Games will be decided at the trials in June.

In addition, the only competitions she can participate in are domestic competitions in Japan.

The National High School New Gymnastics Conference for college students, the National Sports Conference in October, the All Japan New Gymnasts Championship in November, and the National High School New Gymnastics Selection Competition in March next year.

"Then my all-around champion in this year's national competition will be lost," Noda Momoko lamented.Since middle school, the two of them have often met on the court, and Noda Momoko has no wins so far.

Although it is said that as an athlete, you must have the spirit of not admitting defeat, but as a human being, it is wise to be able to judge what can be done and what cannot be done.

"Come on, there will always be hope if you work hard." Reiko Matsumoto clenched her fists to show her encouragement.

Indeed, people always have to have hope.Noda Momoko just wanted to say, maybe one day you will be hit by someone again, then the champion will be mine.But she was still clear-headed, knowing that it would be too much if she really said it, she swirled her tongue in her mouth, and said, "Otherwise, I'd better practice a group instead."

"Group?" Reiko Matsumoto was a little surprised.

In rhythmic gymnastics, apart from individual competitions, there are also team competitions in which five people participate together.Compared with individual competitions, team competitions require fewer types of equipment to master, but considering teamwork, the difficulty is not lower than that of individuals.Noda Momoko has a carefree personality, and she has always been self-centered, asking her to cooperate with others, which Matsumoto Reiko couldn't imagine.

"Yeah," Noda Momoko nodded, "Just now the supervisor chatted with me for a while, saying that I have a good foundation, and suggested that I try to be part of a group. Our school's group level is good. At my level, if I join, It’s definitely no problem to win a national championship, and maybe I can participate in the World Championships in [-].”

"Hmm..." Reiko Matsumoto thought about it, and felt that this idea was really good.Although she has no interest in the team, it is impossible to practice the team, and it is impossible in this life, but if she can't get ahead in the individual competition, switching to the team is indeed a way of thinking. "I think you can try it, but"

The two were chatting, and when they passed the basketball hall of the senior department, they heard high-pitched cheers coming from inside.

"Why are you still training?" Matsumoto Reiko raised her hand and looked at her watch, "It's past six o'clock."

Watanabe Junichi joined the school's basketball club, and the end of the day's work was the same as the end of Matsumoto Reiko's training. The two of them happened to go to the ISK private school together.

The senior department of Shengdunan Academy ends at 02:30 in the afternoon, and it is department activities until six o'clock, which is the time for club activities.

After being reborn in Japan, Reiko Matsumoto discovered that, as described in the anime, Japan does pay special attention to club activities, especially sports club activities.The Ministry of Education, that is, China's Ministry of Education, even stipulates that all primary and secondary schools have two and a half hours of club activities after school every day, and there is also training on Saturdays, and some schools even have half a day of training on Sundays.

Of course, this system of club activities is extremely interesting for outsiders who have never experienced it, especially for Chinese students.But actually being in it, as part of having to do it every day, is less enjoyable.Studying and training are hard things, and the onlookers look interesting and envious, but as the parties involved, most of them still try their best to catch fish.Therefore, after entering colleges and universities, if the school has no requirements for club activities, many students simply will not participate.

After all, having fun is always more important to students from any country.

This is the case with Sundance University, because there are no requirements for club activities, most students do not participate in clubs, or simply become ghost club members.

But Junichi Watanabe is different. To be more precise, most students who have a clear plan for their careers will not be perfunctory about club activities.

Japan is a country that pays great attention to team spirit. It likes to hold a group and also likes to pay attention to the sequence of seniority.Although with the popularization of American culture after the war, the younger generation now pays more and more attention to democratization and individualism, but these traditional customs and societies have been completely preserved.Members are together on weekdays and on weekends, and it is easy to develop a team spirit that is greater than a family. In this environment, it is natural for the senior grades to take care of the junior grades, and the junior grades to serve the senior grades.

Therefore, when Japanese clubs recruit employees, they will prefer employees who have experience in club activities, because this usually symbolizes better obedience and compliance with the rules of the Japanese seniority sequence.The larger the club, the more so.

Therefore, Junichi Watanabe never relaxes in club activities.Although his grades in clubs have always been mediocre, and he spent most of his time sitting on the bench from elementary school to high school, but in terms of seriousness, he really does not lose to others.

Junichi Watanabe is a person who has a very clear plan for his life.

"Now, of course, we have to study hard, with the goal of being admitted to a first-class university. After graduation, I will enter the assembly club, and then hang my life on the line. No matter which group I am in, I will become a trustworthy person." Junichi Watanabe said seriously.

"But it's more important to find what you want to do than to study hard and get into a university." Naoki Irie agreed with Junichi Watanabe rationally, but he said what his mother instilled in him. come out.

Watanabe Jun turned his head and stared at Irie Naoki for a moment, as if he was looking at some monster.

"All the students in Class F think like this." Irie Naoki added.

"Those are inferior students who only know how to envy the elite, who are uneducated, vulgar, and brainless." Junichi Watanabe looked disdainful. They have a misunderstanding that "everyone is similar" in this society, as if ordinary restaurant chefs can live the same life as the president of the assembly club.

Talking about [-] million people in the middle class is just because the country's economy is in a period of rapid development, and the general income of the people after the war is relatively low, so everyone has such a misunderstanding.However, such rapid growth cannot be sustained.You see, the economy has not grown for three consecutive years, and class solidification is taking shape. After all, this country is still in the hands of elite university graduates.Those guys, whose parents are not capitalists, and they don't seize the last chance to surpass their own class, will end up living in shabby apartments for the rest of their lives. "

Watanabe Junichi was carrying his schoolbag, and complained to Naoki Irie next to him.

Watanabe Junichi was born in a traditional elite class. The environment he lived in since he was a child and what he learned from his parents made him different from ordinary people who are still immersed in the fantasy of "[-] million people in the middle class". He clearly knows How cruelly this society is divided into different classes.

Irie Naoki nodded, but did not speak.His father runs a small business. Affected by the economic situation in recent years, business has become more and more difficult. He has a personal experience of this.

"I, I hope that when I go on vacation in the future, I will go to Europe, at least Karuizawa, instead of going to some messy countryside. When I have dinner, I will go to a high-end French restaurant or Chinese restaurant instead of fast food like McDonald's to live in high-end houses in the port area, not shabby small apartments; children should go to the best private schools, not public schools crowded with dirty children in civilian neighborhoods. I know some teachers from third-rate schools talk about nonsense."

Watanabe Junichi's statement was mature and juvenile, but Irie Naoki listened very carefully.In his family, no one seriously discussed with him what kind of life he wanted to live in the future, and what kind of life would be better.

His mother has been living in her own world. She tried to realize the happiness of ordinary people she fantasized about in Naoki Irie. Although his father graduated from Tokyo University, he was simple and loving and never let his son feel pressure.

Naoki Irie has spent 16 years aimlessly in this way.

However, when he saw Reiko Matsumoto standing not far away, a simple and simple sense of male responsibility sprouted in his heart.

He hopes to bring her a happy life.

Perhaps the ordinary family life his mother imagined was also a kind of happiness, but he still wanted to bring her the exquisite life described by Junichi Watanabe.

Irie Naoki couldn't imagine her doing laundry and cooking, and he felt uncomfortable at the thought of her being squeezed into a cramped apartment.She should live in the most beautiful house and wear the most beautiful clothes, and their children - thinking of this, Irie Naoki couldn't help but pursed his lips, their children should also live in the best environment.

The author has something to say:

Again, this article is written against the background of "Love at First Kiss" published by Takashi Kashiwahara in 1996.

I also watched the 2014 Furukawa Yuki version.In my opinion, the difference between the two versions is still very large.

The 14th version of Naoki Irie is more independent, more self-disciplined, and more mature, and Irie's mother does not have such a strong desire to control.Irie Naoki's choice of Aihara Kotoko was also more out of his own will, and less affected by his mother's interference.