Wait For Me

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OVA Wait For Me
Information
Title:	Wait For Me
Japanese Title:	ちょっとまってて (Chotto mattete)
Case
Cast:	Yutaka Takai Mamiko Abe Shiozawa
Staff
Voice cast: Kappei Yamaguchi as Yutaka Takai Minami Takayama as Mamiko Abe Yukiko Iwai as Shiozawa Chafurin as Wakabayashi-sensei Daiki Nakamura as Kanzaki Mitsuki Saiga as Misako Abe Toshihiko Nakajima as Principal Keiichi Nanba as Reporter Takehiro Murozono as Cameraman Mikiko Enomoto as Female Student Kae Araki as Female Student Yumi Hikita as Female Student Naoki Makishima as Male Student Rin Mizuhara as Grandmother

Cast

Yutaka Takai
	1st year high school student (3rd at end of story) Genius Inventor

Mamiko Abe
	3rd year high school student Yutaka's girlfriend

Shiozawa
	High school student Has a crush on Yutaka

Plot

Yutaka Takai is a brilliant 15 year old high school inventor who is tired of being referred to as young and small. His older girlfriend, Mamiko Abe, attempts to cheer him up but with no luck. Yutaka requests for Mamiko to meet him on top of the school one night and shows off a jet pack he had demonstrated earlier at school that day. Yutaka explains that it is not just a jet pack, but a time machine as well. Yutaka wants to travel in time to where he's better suited for Mamiko and not young or small. While Yutaka isn't paying attention, Mamiko takes the time machine and uses it on herself, jumping off the school building and telling Yutaka to "Wait for me". Yutaka is dismayed by Mamiko's disappearance and frightened when he discovers everyone in town is beginning to forget Mamiko ever existed.

Resolution

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Yutaka does calculations in his bedroom and discovers the precise time Mamiko will show up again at the school. Fearing for Mamiko's safety when she finally arrives, Yutaka makes notes all over his bedroom in order to keep his memory of Mamiko. After two years however, Yutaka has completely forgotten about Mamiko, given up his inventions, and has an underclassman named Shiozawa clinging to him. There's something nagging at the back of Yutaka's mind however and he slowly remembers Mamiko. Yutaka successfully saves Mamiko and they get back together again.

Trivia

Ran's cameo

• A girl who looks suspiciously like Ran makes a cameo appearance in Yutaka's class.

Agasa´s cameo

• A guy who looks a lot like Agasa, appearing among the teachers looking out of the window. There is also a Sonoko look-alike and a Kogoro look-alike, if he didn't have a mustache.

Genta's cameo

• A guy student who looks a lot like an older Genta appears carrying the mat with Yutaka.
• In the original manga story, Yutaka tells Shiozawa she reminds him of somebody, prompting Shiozawa to suggest she reminds him of Mamiko Takai. Mamiko Takai was a popular Japanese idol in the 1980s. The animated version was made in the 1990s, so it is assumed the animators replaced the reference with the scene with the little girl since the reference would be lost on more modern audiences.

See also

• OVAs