I Want to Know

Translated by: Dylan Acres
Thanks to Mitchell for scans and transcriptions.

• All Quiet at the Library! (6/16) ^[1]
  Ataru and friends are quietly reading at the library, but the book they are reading is a newly published magazine featuring women's swimsuits. Mendou notices it and they argue, saying, "How inappropriate!" and "Oh, you really want to see it, don't you?". Then suddenly, a beautiful foreign woman wearing a "library" armband appears in front of Ataru and friends. In fact, this beauty has come out of the book to organize the books in the library.
• Teacher Hanawa's Arrival! Such is Youth! (6/23)
• Yearning for the Sad Monster (6/30)
• Darling's Had it This Time! (7/14)

I Want to Know.

Q. I love the theme song. Can you tell me the profile of Izumi Kobayashi, who wrote and arranged it? Nobuko Okamoto, Nagasaki City, (Age 14)

A. Born in Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture. She started playing piano at age 10, and became a professional musician while still in high school, participating in various sessions. She formed the Flying Mimi Band in 1977, and released her first album "Orange Sky" from Phonogram in March of the following year, 1978. She has also been active as a composer, participating in albums by Takanaka Masayoshi, Kuwae Tomoko, Nakahara Rie, Silk Road, and others, as well as composing the music for the film Africa Story. She has also been involved in the production of commercials, and is very active in many fields. Her nickname is "Mimi." (Kitty Film) ^[2]

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Footnotes

• [1] After months of using a certain episode number count that divided a single episode into two separate ones, the production staff seems to have stopped numbering the episodes altogether, which will lead to the more unified episode listings that counted two fifteen minute episodes as a single episode.
• [2] Izumi Kobayashi was performing the theme song "Dancing Star" for Urusei Yatsura at this time. She would also contribute "Ai, Ai, You and I" and "Yume wa Love Me More" for the series.

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