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Gakuen Utopia Manabi Straight! |
Storyline
Manabi Straight! follows the lives of a group
of young high school girls living in the year 2035 while they attend the
all-girl Seioh Private High School (私立聖桜学園, Shiritsu Seiō Gakuen?). Due to
the fact that birth rate has dropped dramatically, schools are being closed
down due to the sheer lack of students available to teach. Morale in schools
has dropped dramatically, and Seioh is no exception.
The
story begins when the main heroine, Manami Amamiya, transfers to Seioh High
School. Manami is an active girl with a positive personality, often shouting
her personal motto Massugu Go! (まっすぐ Go!, Massugu Go!? meaning "Go straight
ahead!"). Despite it being the day before her first day, Manami decides to
go to Seioh to witness the forty-fifth swim meet where four members from six
classes participate in a relay race against each other. On the way to
school, Manami, or Manabi as she wants to be called, meets Mika Inamori, a
shy student of Seioh who was to participate in the swim meet, despite her
not knowing how to swim. After an intense ride together on Manami's
futuristic scooter, they end up literally crashing the meet over the fence
and into the pool. Due to Mika's inability to swim, Manami stands in for
her, though is not very helpful. The next day during a meeting led by the
student council in front of the entire school, Mika, the lone student
council member and secretary, tries to rally students to join the council,
but is initially met with an apathetic audience. Suddenly, Manami bursts
through the doors of the auditorium on her scooter only to be summarily
punished for the disruption. Manami shows interest in becoming the student
council president, but since she is a new student and has already caused
trouble for the school twice, the principal is reluctant to allow Manami to
become the president. To show the school how much she wants to lead the
student body, Manami begins to sing the school song of Seioh after hearing
it for the first time the day before. At the conclusion of the song, Manami
is inducted as the student council president and received well from the
entire school.
The story that follows pertains to Manami working with Mika, and three other
classmates named Mutsuki Uehara, Mei Etoh, and Momoha Odori, in student
council matters, despite Manami and Mika initially being the only official
members. After some remodeling of the student council room, Manami and her
friends set forth to plan for the upcoming student festival.
