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    Episode 1: Computer Studies 
On his way to an interview for a new job, Kintaro Oe nearly has a vehicular accident with a buxom blonde driving a yellow sports car. She is rather brusque with him, but offers him a large sum of money for cleaning and any injuries he sustained.

After having his bike looked at by a local mechanic and seeing him being shaken down by yakuza, Kintaro goes to his job interview at a computer software company, in spite of the fact that his prior experience with computers amounted to a keyboard he drew on a sheet of paper. To his simultaneous delight and horror, the CEO of the company is the blonde bombshell from earlier. He manages to convince her to hire him as a janitor.

After a series of faux pas ranging from getting caught messing around with the CEO's private toilet and his lack of skills with a computer coming to light, Kintaro ends up getting fired when, in a misguided attempt to conserve electricity, he unplugs a file server, inadvertently destroying all the work the company had done developing a new program. After a week of vainly trying to rebuild the program from scratch, one of the workers receives a disk from Kintaro that has a copy of the program they had been working on. Kintaro's version actually proves to be more user-friendly and aesthetically pleasing. In the short time that Kintaro had been employed with the company, he had learned about computer programming, taking notes all the while and using them to rebuild the program by himself. When the CEO tries to find Kintaro, she finds the bike shop owner, who also wants to thank Kintaro for giving him the money the CEO gave him earlier to pay off his debt. Alas, Kintaro had already moved on by this point.

    Episode 2: The Temptation of the Maiden 
Kintaro has taken up work for Juzo Katsuda, an incumbent mayor with ties to the yakuza running for re-election. During his tenure aiding in the mayor's campaign, he becomes smitten with Katsuda's daughter Naoko. When he volunteers to cover for a housekeeper in order to get close to her, Naoko begins to tantalize him: beneath her visage as a sweet girl, she is actually a manipulative schemer who strings Kintaro along for her own amusement.

During a tutoring session one evening, Naoko steals Kintaro's notebook. She reads it out of curiosity, only to find that he had seen through her ruse all along and even speculated she was a "sad girl" suffering from a "father complex". Out of revenge, when Kintaro returns to find his notebook, Naoko cuts up her clothes with scissors, hand the scissors to Kintaro, then screams for help, telling her father that Kintaro snuck into her room and attacked her.

Naoko hopes to see Kintaro beg for his life after being confronted by her father and his yakuza goons. Instead, Kintaro suddenly kisses her and declares that he loves her. Outraged, her father sends his thugs to beat Kintaro to a bloody pulp. Moved by Kintaro's gestures to protect her, Naoko makes the yakuza stop attacking him and begs his forgiveness.

With Katsuda re-elected, Kintaro moves on to his next job. Naoko meets with him one last time before he leaves and thanks him for all he had done, as well as promising her virginity to him when next they meet.

    Episode 3: Danger! The Virgin's First Love! 
Kintaro takes up work as a cook at a noodle restaurant, where the owner and head cook has been rendered unable to work due to a car accident breaking his arm. Kintaro befriends the head chef's daughter, Noriko, a kind-hearted young woman with a love for flower arrangement.

Kogure, a local businessman, pays the restaurant a visit. He appears to have affections for the virginal Noriko, and proposes to her one day on a date. In truth, as Kintaro would soon learn, he's a notorious gangster who plans to marry Noriko, buy out her father's business, then divorce her (in addition to being responsible for her father's injury).

After thwarting Kogure's attempts to take Noriko's virginity while they were at a horse race, Kintaro tries to convince Noriko that she shouldn't marry Kogure, but only upsets her in trying.

Kogure asks for Noriko to visit him by his ship one evening, but Kintaro arrives ahead of her, begging him to not break her heart. Noriko ends up hearing Kogure say some very disparaging remarks about her. Angry that Kintaro thwarted his scheme, Kogure lashes out, but Kintaro manages to use the Kenpo he learned to subdue the vile villain.

With her father's broken arm healed and able to cook again, Kintaro moves on to the next job. Noriko crafts a wedding bouquet of flowers, placing a note inside addressing the bouquet to Kintaro.

    Episode 4: Swimming in the Sea of Love 
Kintaro applies for work at an indoor swimming pool as a coach, but leaves a poor first impression on the pool's manager, Ayuko Hayamizu, due to his inability to swim properly. He foolhardedly challenges the Olympian swimmer to a race in one month's time: if Kintaro wins, Ayuko would hire him as a full-time coach; but if Ayuko beats him, she would have free reign over him.

Over the course of the month, Kintaro volunteers as a swimming instructor for children, training to swim during his off time. His methodology is chastised by Ayuko for being infantile and not pushing the young students hard enough to advance.

One evening, during their off hours, Ayuko challenges Kintaro to keep up with her. Kintaro manages to catch up to her, getting his face stuffed up her crotch in the process. When the two emerge from the pool, Ayuko finds that Kintaro is sporting a raging stiffy. Incredibly livid, she punches him out and fires him on the spot.

In the days since, the other children's instructors adopt a new teaching curriculum that incorporates games to teach the kids to hold their breath underwater, in addition to new techniques to help them float on their backs. The new regimen proves highly successful, and to Ayuko's surprise, was created by Kintaro, who had also become a favorite teacher among the children. Alas, Kintaro had long since gone on to his next job.

    Episode 5: B@lls to the Wall! 
While stopping to catch his breath at a gas station, Kintaro encounters a female motorcyclist who, while he's obviously watching, uses the vibrations from her motorcycle to masturbate. When the woman takes off just as she hits orgasm, Kintaro gives chase.

Afterwards, Kintaro takes up work as a scullery worker at an old-fashioned Japanese estate. He becomes smitten with Reiko Terayama, the daughter of the estate's owner and an old-fashioned Yamato Nadeshiko. After being caught oggling her toilet one day, however, he ends up getting fired.

After camping out near the estate's entrance for several days, he sees Reiko take a taxi to an abandoned building. He follows and discovers that Reiko is actually the sultry motorcyclist he met earlier. Reiko, knowing no one would believe Kintaro if he told anyway, explains that there is no man alive who could satisfy her, and the only one that could help her reach ecstasy was her high-performance motorcycle. Reiko tells Kintaro that if he wants her, he'd have to catch up with her bike, a challenge that Kintaro readily accepts.

Kintaro races against Reiko, and seems to be clearly disadvantaged as a result of his racing her on a normal bicycle. Against all odds, however, the crafty Kintaro manages to keep up with her.

The two hit a steep downward incline ending in a sharp 90-degree turn, with a bridge at the corner out. The breaks on Kintaro's bike fail, and he manages to pass by Reiko and goes soaring off the road and the mountain. Amazingly, he survives. Surprised that Kintaro could beat her, Reiko gives chase, all the while begging Kintaro to ravish her.

    Episode 6: Animation is Fun! 
Kintaro takes up work at an animation studio as a production administrator, delivering animation cells and picking up food and supplies for his co-workers, including Chie, a cell painter that he befriends. The studio is working on a movie adaptation of the work of Tatsuya Egawa, and has fallen behind schedule.

After a particularly disastrous visit by the Producer, the crew learns that the movie's director has been injured in a car accident, causing everyone to fall into despair. When one animator mentions that they'd need help from a company specializing in computer animation, however, Kintaro knows just who to call: the computer company he had worked for in the first episode. With their help, work on the movie picks back up. The other women Kintaro worked with throughout the series also lend their aid: Naoko, the daughter of the mayor Kintaro helped to win re-election, fills in for a voice actress; Noriko, the kindly daughter of a noodle cook, brings meals for the team; Ayuko, the swim instructor, provides filmed footage of herself swimming to use as reference; and Reiko, the motorcyclist, helps run deliveries.

All the while, Chie begins to wonder if she's being any help at all. Kintaro tells her that she is, because everyone on the animation team helps to bring the movie together, and that animation is an amazing medium and one that is fun to work in. Spurred by Kintaro's words, Chie also gives the movie her all.

The movie is finally ready for a test screening, just in time for the deadline. To everyone's surprise, the movie meets with Tatsuya Egawa's approval. Chie wishes to thank Kintaro, but he had already moved on. The other women immediately give chase, and Chie vows to follow him, but first, she has a job to do. As she works on clean-up animation, she thanks Kintaro for helping her learn to love animation again.

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