We Never Learn: BOKUBEN — Season 1, Episode 2: A Fish is to Water as a Genius is to X

Episode synopsis

Uruka Takemoto has been a friend of Nariyuki's since middle school and is a swimming prodigy who should have a brilliant future ahead of her, but her academic grades are so bad that she's in danger of losing the college scholarship she's counting on. The academy's headmaster orders Nariyuki to tutor her, too. Uruka hates studying but suddenly becomes eager when she hears that Nariyuki is going to be her tutor. Actually, she's been in love with Nariyuki since middle school which is when he started helping her. Aware of her fellow mentees, Fumino and Rizu, Uruka secretly gets fired up.

About We Never Learn: BOKUBEN

Nariyuki Yuiga is in his last and most painful year of high school. In order to gain the “special VIP recommendation” which would grant him a full scholarship to college, he must now tutor his classmates as they struggle to prepare for entrance exams. Among his pupils are “the sleeping beauty of the literary forest,” Fumino Furuhashi, and "the Thumbelina supercomputer," Rizu Ogata–two of the most beautiful super-geniuses at the school! While these two were thought to be academically flawless, it turns out that they’re completely clueless outside of their pet subjects…!?

More episodes from Season 1

• E1Genius and X Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
• E3A Genius Resonates Emotionally with X
• E4What She Wants from a Genius Is X
• E5A Genius in the Forest Strays for X
• E6Thus, X Geniuses Never Learn
• E7A Former Tutor's Secret Spot Is X
• E8Sometimes a Genius's Every Action Is at the Mercy of X
• E9He Struggles with X in a Forbidden Zone
• E10A Lost Lamb in New Territory Encounters X
• E11An Illustrious Veteran Sometimes Serves X
• E12Sometimes a Genius Travels Down Memory Lane With X
• E13The Light in a Genius's Eye is All X