Hiroshi Kamiya: Nozomu Itoshiki

Quotes 

• [the female escort Mr Itoshiki spent the night with comes to class and leaves him with a bill of 2000 yen] 

  Nozomu Itoshiki : It costs this much to die?

  Chiri Kitsu : [draws a knife]  It doesn't cost a penny...

• [Mr. Itoshiki finds himself in the same spa as his schoolgirls] 

  Kafuka Fura P.N. : Wow, the steam is so thin! And now...

  Nozomu Itoshiki : [covers himself]  NOOO!

  Harumi Fujiyoshi : That should be our reaction.

  Nozomu Itoshiki : Don't you girls have any shame?

  Nami Hito : More or less. But I don't particularly mind being looked at by Teacher.

  Chiri Kitsu : In fact, please look!

• Nozomu Itoshiki : Living according to your status can be a terrifying thing. You can't be comfortable whether asleep or awake... In that case, I no longer care. I'll live beyond my status... I'll die beyond my status, a celebrity death! Get hit by a celebrity's car, cut with a celebrity's tool, slip on a celebrity's banana peel, hanging with a celebrity sash... and finally, getting buried with a Buddhist name above my status!

  [a tombstone appears that says "Reckless Inferior Depraved Repentant Ruinous Foul-Mouthed Revered Mr. Despair the Great"] 

  Kafuka Fura P.N. : Speaking of extreme celebrities, wouldn't that be it?

  Nozomu Itoshiki : Eh?... Wouldn't that be it?

  [cue a black-and-white sequence] 

  Nozomu Itoshiki : Those words from my student changed the rest of my life. I wondered what all those days of despair had been for. My muddy soul rose from the depths of the mire, came in contact with clean air and light, and for the first time I knew what it meant to live... But at the same time, I learnt how hollow life feels when you have everything. Once again, I was in despair. The whole world had left me in despair. An exorbitant life, the finest wine, the finest woman... I drowned myself in everything I could, and decided to leave this world. I drowned myself in a pool of Dom Perignon, and died.

  Chie Arai : ...You're still alive.

  Nozomu Itoshiki : I skimped on the Dom Perignon, so there wasn't enough to kill me.

  Kafuka Fura P.N. : So you were saved by your cheap nature.