Seitokai ni mo Ana wa Aru! Episode 4 Recap & Characters (Spoiler-Free)

Episode Summary

Komaro and Her Suggestion Box / Terui-senpai’s Secret / Koki-chan and the Light Music Club / Rendezvous in the Gym Storage Room!!

The student council checked its suggestion box, which held only complaints and a receipt, and debated how to publicize it. After a ball struck Michinoku, the baseball club helped promote the box, and Hisako treated two council members to lunch in the cafeteria. Mizunoe investigated noise from the light music club, and he and Michinoku were then trapped behind a door that would not open until Michinoku barely reached the toilet.

• Suggestion box and publicity

  The council found few useful contents in its suggestion box and discussed publicity, and the baseball club's request to enlarge the field led to a promotion that made the box popular.

• Cafeteria lunch with Hisako

  Hisako thanked two council members for their urgent help with a lunch in the cafeteria, and the group discussed Arisu's absence while eating.

• Light music club and locked door

  Mizunoe investigated the light music club's noise and met a singing performer, then he and Michinoku were trapped in a door that would not open until Michinoku barely reached the toilet while a rumor spread.

Character Graph

Hiratsuka

teacher

Teacher who recommends Mizunoe to the student council, praising his perfect Japanese scores while warning about his science grades.

Member of the student council who may have deliberately placed Mizunoe there for academic support.

• Recommendation

  Pushes Mizunoe to join the council, citing a recent vacancy and his school record.

• Perception

  Mizunoe suspects that he was deliberately placed on the student council; Arisu suggests she is more observant than she appears.

• Mizunoe (Mentor, Colleague, Neutral)

  He is the student she recruited, and whose speech assignment she gave him the previous day.

  Suspected by Mizunoe of placing him on the student council for academic support.

Otori

student council · publicity

Council member in charge of publicity; a male who is known for habitually trapping men, and who makes obscene remarks and plays pranks.

Late-arriving member of the group who lives alone; teases Mizunoe and has computing and physics skills at the university level.

• Publicity work

  Claims publicity raised cultural-festival attendance and ran a viral official-account post about hair dye.

• Home situation

  Lives alone; his father has been absent for as long as he can remember, and his mother rarely returns home.

• Skills

  Computing and physics skills at university level, per Arisu.

• Mizunoe (Colleague, Friend, Mixed)

  A council member who approaches him with compliments and accusations, teasing him over the post. Keeps teasing Mizunoe even while ill; briefly thanks him for visiting before retreating into bravado.

• Arisu (Colleague, Neutral)

  A fellow council member who explains Otori's habits to newcomers.

Arisu

student council

Council member who gives polite introductions but has an unsettling, frightening side; explains council matters.

Athletic student who loves exercise and formerly belonged to the track team; holds an IBO award and offers to tutor biology and chemistry.

• Council role

  Explains accounting software, budgets, and the school-rule inspection plan.

• Academic record

  Revealed to have won an IBO award; offered to handle biology and chemistry during the study session.

• Attitude toward Mizunoe

  Playfully calls herself an affectionate senior; proposed sending Mizunoe to visit Otori, and agreed that Mizunoe often watches the door sadly when alone.

• Otori (Colleague, Friend, Mixed)

  Fellow council member who handles publicity; Terui explains Otori's habits to Mizunoe.

  Made Otori wear the swimsuit from a photograph and sent Mizunoe to check on him; the two were peers who liked to tease each other.

• Mizunoe (Colleague, Friend, Affinity)

  A newcomer on the council whom Terui initially charms and later unsettles.

  An affectionate senior who teases him and gets involved in his personal matters.

Hisako

student council · council president

Council president who is academically and athletically able and popular; organized and composed.

Thanked two council members for helping with urgent work and treated them to lunch in the cafeteria; she enjoyed Mizunoe's homemade pickles.

• Leadership

  Gives organizational materials, appoints the secretary, and coaches others to project their voice.

• Academic standing

  Ranked first overall while placing around fifth in individual subjects; taught the study sessions despite initially being sidelined.

• Mizunoe (Hierarchy, Colleague, Friend, Affinity)

  Newly appointed secretary whom she treats as a fellow student representative.

  Offered to study with him to make the coursework less unpleasant and taught him the material during their study sessions.

• Arisu (Colleague, Neutral)

  Fellow council member who introduced her and teases her.

Michinoku

student council · General Affairs Member · classmate

A student who returned to the student council's general-affairs post after about a month away from an injury caused by being hit by a car. She is a classmate of Mizunoe and was assigned the seat behind him.

She was trapped with Mizunoe behind a door that cannot be opened from inside, had been trapped that way before, and reached the toilet in time.

• Injury and return

  She had a nosebleed after being hit by a car, and she returned after roughly a month away.

• Relation to Hiratsuka

  She first met Hiratsuka in middle school after watching the teacher catch insects in a park.

• Academic status

  A mathematics scholarship student whose tuition is waived, who offers to help others with mathematics.

• Feelings toward Mizunoe

  She directly expressed her fondness for Mizunoe and offered him a cake she had made in home economics class.

• Mizunoe (Colleague, Friend, Affinity)

  Quickly became friendly with Mizunoe; they are classmates and were paired for overlapping council duties. A fellow council member, she once tried to open the door together with Mizunoe.

• Hiratsuka (Mentor, Affinity)

  Her former middle-school teacher, Hiratsuka, recommended her for the council.

• Arisu (Colleague, Mixed)

  Arisu treats her like a protected pet and repeatedly touches her affectionately, while Michinoku does not mind the contact.

Mizunoe

student council

A student who joins the student council on Hiratsuka's recommendation to improve his school record; strong in Japanese, weak in science.

Went alone to investigate the light music club, was captivated by a member's singing, and agreed to visit occasionally for guitar lessons.

• Role on council

  Appointed secretary by Kotobuki; often ends up cleaning up after the others.

• Living situation

  Lives alone near school; his older sister returned to Japan for work and visited unexpectedly.

• Academics

  Has very low previous scores and dislikes science subjects; has received tutoring from classmates.

• Hisako (Hierarchy, Colleague, Friend, Affinity)

  Council president who appointed him secretary; she reassures him and treats him as a teammate.

  Tutors him and offers to study together.

• Hiratsuka (Mentor, Mixed)

  Teacher who praised his grades, proposed he join the council, and assigned him the speech.

• Arisu (Colleague, Friend, Affinity)

  Council member who welcomed him politely, but whose unsettling side left him uneasy.

  Affectionate senior who sees through his loneliness and banters with him.

• Otori (Colleague, Friend, Mixed)

  A council member who teases him and pushes obscene pranks.

  A teasing peer who frequently needles him; Mizunoe cared for him while he was ill.

• Michinoku (Friend, Colleague, Affinity)

  Openly fond of him and visits with a homemade cake.

  Was trapped together with her behind a door that would not open, and they tried to open it together.

Season Summary

Season 1 — Season 1

Episodes 1–4

Hiratsuka's council keeps settling into its routine, with its suggestion box yielding mostly complaints until the baseball club's field request brings it new attention. Hisako treats two council members to lunch as thanks for their help, while Mizunoe and Michinoku, who has returned as his classmate, are caught behind a locked door during an investigation of light music club noise. The episode tests the council's shaky order and the growing ties between its members.

Recent Timeline

• Mizunoe joins the student council (Episode 1)

  Hiratsuka urged Mizunoe to join the student council to repair his school record and fill a recent vacancy. After initial misgivings, he joined. Made vigilant by the council's rule inspections, he searched light-music club members' belongings he suspected would cause trouble and confiscated an item over its owner's tears, and the club lost ten thousand yen from its budget.

• Swimsuit sales plan and night patrol prank (Episode 2)

  While Mizunoe finished remaining booklet work, Otori revealed a plan to sell the swimming club's swimsuit photographs through his fan site, and the resulting donations were credited to the swimming club's budget.

  During a night patrol, Otori planned to hang his jacket outside a window so the others would mistake it for a hanging body. A scream and a falling sound startled the group, and Otori was rescued by the tall student who had requested the patrol help. Michinoku returned to general affairs after about a month away due to an injury from being hit by a car, and discovered she was Mizunoe's classmate.

• Pool cleaning, cold, study session, and sister's visit (Episode 3)

  During pool cleaning, a stubborn-dirt detergent cleanup wiped out Arisu's collected dragonfly larvae, and a faulty tap's excessive water force was only belatedly recognized, so Mizunoe had to stop it himself. Otori was punished with a water-wheel task that left him with a cold.

  Mizunoe visited the cold-stricken Otori and insisted on treating him with a suppository himself, which went wrong and caused discomfort; Mizunoe caught a cold the next day. He also studied for exams with Kotobuki, Arisu, and Michinoku, where Kotobuki ended up teaching despite the strain. His older sister, back from work, unexpectedly visited, hacked his LONE account to block girls, invited him to America, and by day's end all his underwear had disappeared.

• Suggestion box publicity and light-music noise check (Episode 4)

  After a ball struck Michinoku in the stomach, the council set aside the request to enlarge the playing field and helped the baseball club instead; the baseball club's promotion made the suggestion box popular.

  Mizunoe investigated a complaint about screams from the neighboring light music club and was captivated by a member's singing. The club denied the bullying allegation, and they agreed he would visit occasionally to check on the club and take guitar lessons.

• Locked in the cleanup room (Episode 4)

  Mizunoe and Michinoku were locked in after finishing cleanup, because the door cannot be opened from inside once fully shut. Their combined attempts failed, a self-promoting student revealed a hidden camera, and a misunderstanding spread as a rumor, though Michinoku reached the toilet in time.