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Goldenboy Lesson 4:  Swimming in a Sea of Love, is Kintaro's fourth OAV in this six episode series.  This episode goes back to the usual Kintaro hijinx as he goes head to head with an olympic swimming instructor as he tries, yet again, to prove himself in the face of adversity. This episode begins with Kintaro riding into town in the freezing cold weather.  He stops at a nearby building and observes that it has a swimming pool inside.  As he wonders why the hell anyone would go swimming in this weather...she appeared.  A woman, clad in leather, walking into the swimming pool.  This woman strikes something deep inside of Kintaro...like there's something primal about her.  As she goes into the building, Kintaro follows to see just exactly what she is all about.  He follows a little too close for comfort and the woman asks what does he want.  Kintaro, thinking quick, said that he was wondering if he could work at the pool.  A bit later on, Kintaro watches the woman swim.  Which for, lack of a better term, is beautiful.  Kintaro, of course, check out her other " features ". She then tells Kintaro to go next and what happens next will truly have you rolling on the floor.  To make a long story short, Kintaro can NOT swim a lick.  After for what seems like forever for him ( and after almost drowning...twice ), he reaches the other side and with a serious look on his face he asks " So?  How's my swimming? "  The other instructors there say that Kintaro should be -taking- their lessons, not teaching them.  Kintaro begs them to let him swim but stops and demands to see the chief instructor.  The woman he followed into the pool, speaks up saying that she is the chief instructor.  She then goes on to say that he is not qualified to teach at her school.  Kintaro pleads his case, even resorting to busting out some Kintaro-like logic on her ( this is also quite funny ) but even THAT doesn't work.  Kintaro gets serious, and challeges the chief instructor to a race one month from that date.  If he wins, she has to hire him on as a coach, if she wins, he will do anything she wants for one full year ( Question:  Where's the bad part in this deal? Doing things for a geat looking woman...where's the downside? ^_^ ).  She gladly accepts and walks off leaving Kintaro in awe, but soon Kintaro finds out that the chief intructor is Ayuko Hayamizu.  An olympic gold medalist in the 200 meter medley...( DOH!!! ) So, Kintaro starts his new job at the swimming school.  He's been assigned to teach a group of beginning class kids.  As he teaches the kids, he also gets tought by the other beautiful instructors how to swim.  Kintaro has a fun time teaching and dealing with his group of kids ( on a personal note here, I worked with kids this past summer and I went through this exact same stuff.  It was fun work, but also hard work ) but he is observed by Ayuko when he is fooling around with the kids.  When classes are over, she approaches Kintaro and tells him that he needs to get serious with his kids and deliver results.  Kintaro, somehow, turns this againist her and says that she would look like a complete loser if she lose to him one month from now.  She walks off frustrated with him ( Hehehehe...way to go Kintaro ).  So, classes resume again and we see another instructor helping Kintaro out with the kids.  She says that he should hold their heads under the water for a full 10 count to get them used to the water and then performs this on a kid.  Kintaro is quite surprised and wonders if it is really ok to do that. Later on ( You know, there's really no time frame to follow in this series.  At least we know this all happens within a month's time ), Kintaro observes Ayuko's class of advanced swimmers and soon begs to join them. She lets him, thinking he is just sucking up to her because the race is close to happening, but is surprised that he is just as good as some of her other great swimmers! After she excuses her class she asks him if he's had enough.  " It's a tough workout, but I find swimming to be truly captivating. " responded Kintaro.  This answer sparked something inside of Ayuko as she then dives into the pool ahead of Kintaro.  She comes up saying " If you can keep up with me, I'll admit you got guts! "  Kintaro gets excited and gives pursuit.  Under the water, Kintaro sees a VERY nice view of the chief's crotch and gives even MORE excited ( this is one of funniest sneces in the series )!!!  He starts to gain quickly on Ayuko getting closer and closer to her       < ahem > underside.  She thinks she is just pacing herself to match his speed, but he proves her wrong as he finally " catches " up to her and she gets more than she bargained for.  After a very... uncomfortable moment, Ayuko and Kintaro get out of the water and she admits that he has guts.  As she's about to explain to him that she wasn't going full speed, she sees something...wrong with Kintaro.  She backs off of him.  He sees this and looks down to see that he has " risen " out of his speedos. Ayuko gets pissed for him thinking about such thing ( we all KNOW what he was thinking about ) and Kintaro feels the beast with her affecting him.  Her eyes pierce his heart and he breaks from the stare down and promptly gets punched in the face...hard.  Kintaro finally woke up that night, buttnaked with his speedos on his head.  Of course, he had been fired so he left on his way out of town.  Back at the swimming pool, Ayuko noticed that the kids in the lower classes have been quickly learning and coming out of those classes.  One of her instructors tells her that they have been using new methods for teaching the children.  She shows Ayuko several new techniques they had come up with to help the children.  Letting kids pick up rings in the water as a game and teching them out to relax when floating on their backs were some of the tricks that they had came up with.  Ayuko observes that the kids were truly having fun and has a flashback of her earlier days when she was first in the water with her father.  She remembers that she become captivated with the water and decides that her training methods were too rigid, she also wonders who came up with all of these new techniques.  The instructor tells her the Kintaro came up with the new styles and they had just begun to copy him.  She is surprised by this.  A worker interrupts them and tells her a parent of one of the kids is here to thank her.  The parent thanks Ayuko for giving her child the drive to be a devoted swimmer.  When Ayuko asks if the child is happy, the kid asks " Where's Coachie Kintaroo? " Ayuko is very surprised to hear this from the child.  She comtemplates everything in her office later on.  She knows that she lost.  She lost to Kintaro.  She would gladly hire him on as a coach, in fact, she would invite him back.  But it was too late and Kintaro has left...Ayuko is saddened by this as she leaves the episode teary-eyed.  She, like the other Goldengirls, has fallen in love with Kintaro. * Review * This is the episode ( granted if they see all 6 ) that people will remember the most.  It's is drop dead funny.  This one strikes me personally because, like I said earlier in the summary, I worked with kids this past summer and it was a ball seeing Kintaro go through what I went through.  As usual, both the subbed and the dubbed version of this episode is great and I would recommend them both.  I applaud ADVs effort on the dubbed version of this episode as Doug Smith ( Kintaro ) and Sue Elu ( Ayuko ) both do a great job.  While Sue's voice was a bit deep for my tastes for Ayuko, she did a great job and I commend her.  Out of all the episodes I like this one the best.  I rank this one #1 out of the six OAVs.  Watch it, live it, experience it.  ^_^