We Never Learn: BOKUBEN
(2019)Streaming Episode Guide
Season 2
Under Nariyuki Yuiga's devoted tutelage, his classmates Rizu Ogata, Fumino Furuhashi, and Uruka Takemoto are finally pulling average test scores on their worst subjects. But time is ticking, and there is still a long way to go before the three geniuses of Ichinose Academy are ready for their upcoming university exams. Meanwhile, the girls still struggle to balance the pursuit of their dreams with their growing affections for their unsuspecting tutor. Joining them are Mafuyu Kirisu, a teacher with strong views about education and talent because of her past as a rising figure skater, and Asumi Kominami, a graduate from their school aiming to attend a national medical university. With these two additions, the group of six is livelier than ever before. Completely caught up in hilarious antics with his new friends, Yuiga finds that his last year of high school now includes a lot more than just going to class and studying.A Post-Festival Celebration of X, Both Dazzling And Lonely
Episode 13 - 12-29-2019
The animal-costumed Nariyuki's intrusion onto the stage brings Fumino's play to an ending that has the crowd on its feet. Meanwhile, business is booming at Rizu's class's udon shop.
6.9/10Where to watch
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X Treads a Thorny Path as the Festivities Continue…
Episode 12 - 12-22-2019
The school festival is a roaring success! At the swim team's live stage show, Umihara and Kawase perform with Mafuyu in a Full Pure costume for some reason.
7.2/10Where to watch
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X Descends Like Wildfire at the Festival's Beginning
Episode 11 - 12-15-2019
While Fumino, Rizu, and Uruka all know what their major in college is going to be, Nariyuki still can't decide what he wants to do. Meanwhile, everyone is busy getting ready for Ichinose Academy's school festival.
7.5/10Where to watch
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The Star of Ultimate Love and the Name of X, Part 2
Episode 10 - 12-08-2019
Fumino continues to live with the Yuiga family. One day, his family needs to go out, leaving Nariyuki and Fumino alone. In gratitude for letting her stay over, Fumino attempts to cook and clean, but fails miserably at every turn!
8.7/10Where to watch
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The Star of Ultimate Love and the Name of X, Part 1
Episode 9 - 12-01-2019
Parent-teacher conferences are being held at Ichinose Academy. Nariyuki intends to decide his major based on what would be best for his family. Meanwhile, that math professor appears at the Academy.
7.6/10Where to watch
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The Flow of X Never Ends...
Episode 8 - 11-24-2019
24m
Nariyuki is on the verge of failing Physical Education! Uruka tries teaching him how to swim, but she's so bad at teaching that it doesn't do any good.
7.1/10Where to watch
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A Genius Secretly Responds with X to Their Conjectures
Episode 7 - 11-17-2019
Nariyuki, Rizu, and Sawako go to an open campus event. Nariyuki and Sawako both want the other to become closer to Rizu, so they use every excuse in the book to get away so they can leave the other with Rizu.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Wherefore Might They Fathom the Aspirations of the Immediate X
Episode 6 - 11-10-2019
When Mafuyu can't use the bathtub in her apartment, she goes to a neighborhood bathhouse. On the way, she encounters Asumi and Nariyuki, and ends up in the sauna with Asumi. It's so hot that the two get punchy.
7.7/10Where to watch
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A Heartfelt Gift Sometimes Becomes a Complicated X
Episode 5 - 11-03-2019
At Nariyuki's house, Fumino is on her way out after a study session when he gives her a birthday present. However, when Fumino opens it, she's startled to find a bra. What was Nariyuki thinking?!
7.5/10Where to watch
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Sometimes a Genius Struggles With a Limited X
Episode 4 - 10-27-2019
At the library, a beautiful girl Nariyuki has never seen before sits next to him when he's studying. He's nervous that he's getting hit on, not realizing the girl is actually Rizu, who has changed her hairstyle at a salon.
7.5/10Where to watch
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With the Changing Seasons, a Genius Experiences the Sorrow of X
Episode 3 - 10-20-2019
Thanks to her dad, Rizu accidentally cuts her bangs way too short. At first she doesn't care, but gets more embarrassed until she hides her face from Nariyuki and dons a mask.
7.4/10Where to watch
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At Times, an Elder's Pride Is in Direct Opposition to X's Circumstances
Episode 2 - 10-13-2019
The maid cafe where Asumi works is starting a housekeeping service. Nariyuki and Asumi go together to their first clients, who turn out to be people they know, like Mafuyu and Uruka.
7.3/10Where to watch
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He and a Genius Each Consider a Decision Pertaining to X
Episode 1 - 10-06-2019
Even during summer vacation, Nariyuki and the girls have to study hard at cram school. One day, Rizu gets an abysmal "E" on one of her tests. Depressed, she shares her grade with the other girls, which causes an uproar. That's because they mistakenly think she's telling them her bra size.
7.5/10Where to watch
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Season 1
Nariyuki Yuiga, an impoverished third-year high school student, works tirelessly to receive the VIP nomination, a scholarship that would cover all of his college tuition fees. In recognition of his hard work, the headmaster awards him the renowned scholarship. However, this scholarship is given under one condition: he must tutor the school's geniuses in their weakest subjects! Joining his new brigade of pupils are the math maestro Rizu Ogata, who wants to study humanities; the literature legend Fumino Furuhashi, who wants to study science; and Yuiga's sports-savvy childhood friend, Uruka Takemoto, who is hopeless at everything else. This anime follows Yuiga as he tries to teach his three eccentric tutees in a series of strange and comedic antics. But as Ogata's and Furuhashi's ambitions conflict with their talents, will Yuiga be able to help his students achieve their dreams?The Light in a Genius's Eye is All X
Episode 13 - 6-30-2019
When Nariyuki goes to a festival, he runs into Uruka and strolls with her past the food stalls, helps Rizu deliver food, and takes an injured Mafuyu to Asumi's father's first-aid tent. In other words, as ever, he's a busy do-gooder.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Sometimes a Genius Travels Down Memory Lane With X
Episode 12 - 6-23-2019
23m
Nariyuki consults Fumino about how his relationship with Uruka has become awkward, but he claims he's asking "for a friend." Right after that, Uruka comes to Fumino to discuss the same issue.
7.1/10Where to watch
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An Illustrious Veteran Sometimes Serves X
Episode 11 - 6-16-2019
23m
Downtown at night, Ms. Kirisu finds Nariyuki as he's about to enter a suspicious café and calls him to a halt. It's the maid café where Ms. Kirisu's former student, Asumi, works part-time.
7.1/10Where to watch
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A Lost Lamb in New Territory Encounters X
Episode 10 - 6-09-2019
23m
As a reward for being a tutor, Nariyuki gets to take a short summer course at an entrance exam prep school. He's eager to take the course in order to improve his results, but he meets Asumi Kominami, an academy alumni who is still studying to get into a university.
7.3/10Where to watch
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He Struggles with X in a Forbidden Zone
Episode 9 - 6-02-2019
When Nariyuki is walking by Mafuyu's apartment one day, she invites him in because she apparently had seen a cockroach. He goes inside and finds the place just as messy as it was during his last visit.
7.5/10Where to watch
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Sometimes a Genius's Every Action Is at the Mercy of X
Episode 8 - 5-26-2019
23m
After Nariyuki wins a smartphone in a lottery, he can't wait to use it for apps like the dictionary, schedule managing, and the like. He also learns that studying in the bathtub is effective and quickly puts the method into practice.
7.1/10Where to watch
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A Former Tutor's Secret Spot Is X
Episode 7 - 5-19-2019
While Nariyuki and Fumino are talking to each other behind the school, she loses her balance and falls into Nariyuki’s arms. Rizu apparently sees the "hugging" part and looks furious.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Thus, X Geniuses Never Learn
Episode 6 - 5-12-2019
Nariyuki is summoned by Mafuyu Kirisu, the girls’ former tutor, who interrogates him about the camp incidents. A worried Fumino, waiting outside the student guidance counselor's door, hears snatches of the conversation, including the expression "illicit sexual conduct."
7.2/10Where to watch
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A Genius in the Forest Strays for X
Episode 5 - 5-05-2019
Ichinose Academy’s famous three-day, two-night study training camp has begun. Nariyuki and the students study hard at the boarding house in the mountains, but Rizu can’t stop thinking about her tutor.
7.2/10Where to watch
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What She Wants from a Genius Is X
Episode 4 - 4-28-2019
Fumino is determined to go on a diet after a sudden weight gain. Rizu's self-proclaimed rival, Sawako Sekijo, has the wrong idea that the reason Rizu has set her sights on humanities is because she's in love with Nariyuki, and she tries to test Rizu's "love."
7.2/10Where to watch
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A Genius Resonates Emotionally with X
Episode 3 - 4-21-2019
23m
The results of Nariyuki’s tutoring are about to be put to the test with the midterm exams. If the girls don’t raise their grades, they’ll get a new tutor. The three of them want to keep Nariyuki, though, so they become even more resolved to study hard for the exams.
7.1/10Where to watch
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A Fish is to Water as a Genius is to X
Episode 2 - 4-14-2019
Uruka Takemoto has been a friend of Nariyuki's since middle school and is a swimming prodigy who should have a brilliant future ahead of her, but her academic grades are so bad that she's in danger of losing the college scholarship she's counting on. The academy's headmaster orders Nariyuki to tutor her, too. Uruka hates studying but suddenly becomes eager when she hears that Nariyuki is going to be her tutor. Actually, she's been in love with Nariyuki since middle school which is when he started helping her. Aware of her fellow mentees, Fumino and Rizu, Uruka secretly gets fired up.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Genius and X Are Two Sides of the Same Coin
Episode 1 - 4-07-2019
There are two geniuses at Ichinose Academy: Fumino Furuhashi, a liberal arts prodigy, and Rizu Ogata, a scientific whiz. Nariyuki Yuiga is a talented student who has contempt for them, especially as he’s aiming to get a "special VIP recommendation.” But then, as a condition for receiving it, Nariyuki is ordered to tutor Fumino and Rizu so that they’re accepted at their first-choice university. Nariyuki rolls up his sleeves but is dismayed to find that Fumino wants to be a science major and Rizu a liberal arts major, the exact opposite of where their talents lie. Moreover, they seem to have no aptitude whatsoever for the subjects they’re interested in. Nariyuki advises the geniuses to change their minds, but...
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The Star of Ultimate Love and the Name of X, Part 2
Episode 10 - 12-08-2019
Fumino continues to live with the Yuiga family. One day, his family needs to go out, leaving Nariyuki and Fumino alone. In gratitude for letting her stay over, Fumino attempts to cook and clean, but fails miserably at every turn!
8.7/10Where to watch
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The Light in a Genius's Eye is All X
Episode 13 - 6-30-2019
When Nariyuki goes to a festival, he runs into Uruka and strolls with her past the food stalls, helps Rizu deliver food, and takes an injured Mafuyu to Asumi's father's first-aid tent. In other words, as ever, he's a busy do-gooder.
7.9/10Where to watch
Haven't Seen
Wherefore Might They Fathom the Aspirations of the Immediate X
Episode 6 - 11-10-2019
When Mafuyu can't use the bathtub in her apartment, she goes to a neighborhood bathhouse. On the way, she encounters Asumi and Nariyuki, and ends up in the sauna with Asumi. It's so hot that the two get punchy.
7.7/10Where to watch
Haven't Seen
The Star of Ultimate Love and the Name of X, Part 1
Episode 9 - 12-01-2019
Parent-teacher conferences are being held at Ichinose Academy. Nariyuki intends to decide his major based on what would be best for his family. Meanwhile, that math professor appears at the Academy.
7.6/10Where to watch
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He Struggles with X in a Forbidden Zone
Episode 9 - 6-02-2019
When Nariyuki is walking by Mafuyu's apartment one day, she invites him in because she apparently had seen a cockroach. He goes inside and finds the place just as messy as it was during his last visit.
7.5/10Where to watch
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