With the catchy keywords "father's economic power and mother's madness," I hear that both the comic and the drama are doing well -- because I haven't seen them.

Oh, by the way, "Dragon Cherry Blossom" was also popular.

However, I don't know of any case where a student with hopeless grades was able to pass the entrance exam to Tokyo University after reading the Dragon Cherry Blossom drama or comics.

If you know of such a person, please let us know. I would love to interview them.

But that's beside the point.

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Our senior and junior daughters were both "February Winners".

This was the result of their own efforts and talent.

Of course, I think there was "father's economic power and mother's madness" in the back end, but there was other 'madness' as well.

Looking back, my daughters and wife were able to memorize the names of all the prefectural specialties, rivers, mountains and streams in Japan.

I had created my own content for text-to-speech software, and completed read-aloud audio content on politics, history, and science to get it into my daughters' heads.

We also introduced a profit-driven education system, in which my daughter was asked to memorize more than 500 historical timelines without looking at anything, and were given 50 yen for each day that she read out the entire timeline (the Ebata family called it "air").

We also had a plan to transport her to the entrance exam venue on the day of the exam.

"Father's financial strength and mother's madness" + "mother's running together" + "father's full operation of IT x OT technology"

And, well, I think that I could say that the Ebata family put in "all the madness" that they had at that time.

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However, thinking back, (I don't know about my wife) I don't think I was that enthusiastic about the exam.

To be honest, I even thought, 'Their (my daughters') school fees are an exploitation of my retirement funds.

Still, if you ask me why my husband and I are committed to the back end of our daughters' lives -- it's hard to put this into words.

"Because the exam is here"

I think this is the most accurate phrase.