35 sai no koukousei

On the first day of the new school term at Kunikida High School, a flamboyantly dressed new student arrives in a luxury foreign car. Her name is Baba Ayako and she is 35. Ayako, who wants to redo high school at 35 because she dropped out, has been accepted by Kunikida High School through a request from the Board of Education. Other than her name and age, Ayako’s background is a complete mystery. Both the teachers and students regard her with curiosity. Ayako is admitted to Class 3A which the newly assigned Japanese language teacher Koizumi Junichi is in charge of. Koizumi does not know how to treat Ayako who is older than him and unwittingly uses honorific speech. The students of Class 3A mock Ayako by calling her “Babaa”, but Ayako declares that she looks forward to making 100 friends. During lunch break, Ayako sees her classmate Hasegawa Rina eating a lunch box in one of the toilet cubicles. In fact, Rina, who has no friends, has been having her meals in the toilet so that she will not be see alone. Ayako who does not understand why Rina is eating in the toilet, asks her, “Is it delicious to eat alone in the toilet?” Because of that, Rina’s lunch habit is made known to the class and she stops coming to school from the next day onwards. Learning that Rina may be unwilling to come to school, Ayako heads to her house … (Source: ntv)