ตอนที่ 1: ชินปาจิอาศัยอยู่ในเมืองที่เต็มไปด้วยมลพิษและต้องส่งซูชิที่ไม่น่าไว้วางใจให้กับแก๊งยาคูซ่า จนกระทั่งฮารุโกะปรากฏตัว

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Shinpachi doesn't see much of a future, and neither does anyone else in his town. Everyone knows the steam emitted from the giant iron-shaped factory on the hill is bad for them, but nobody can do anything about it, so they don't try. The kids don't bother to go to school, and the adults don't bother to make him. He just works in his dad's sushi restaurant delivering questionably edible fish to the yakuza, and occasionally hangs out with his classmates Orinoko and the rock-skinned alien Shonori. But then a beautiful woman in a red dress walks into the restaurant on the arm of the mayor, who calls her Haruko… (Source: ANN)