Nozomu Itoshiki hands out an application for his pension in a government office, but an employee makes fun of Nozomu's name. Nozomu is sick of hearing the same thing about himself over a million times and he sympathizes with other people, who have experienced a similar situation for countless times in their life. Meanwhile, Harumi Fujiyoshi realizes that she is an extreme minority as no one seems to agree with her view. The second part of the episode shows a Zetsubō channel featuring a number of television programs such as audience survey, music show, magical girl anime, cooking show, etc. In the third part of the episode, Nozomu is kicked out of a café, because a Jyuken student is constantly irritated by him. The café manager kindly asks Nozomu to forgive him, because it is generally believed that exam-preparing students should be treated with the utmost care. Though Nozomu can't quite understand this kind of expectation in the Japanese society, he nevertheless tries to take advantage of this trend by becoming an exam-preparing student himself. Eventually, he happens to pass every certificate exams in the world except for one: an exam that tests whether a person is ready enough to commit suicide. However, he fails the exam and thus becomes not worthy enough to live nor worthy enough to die. The third part of the episode is shown using various animation techniques.
Nozomu Itoshiki reparte una solicitud de su pensión en una oficina del gobierno, pero un empleado se burla del nombre de nozomu. Nozomu está harto de escuchar lo mismo acerca de sí mismo más de un millón de veces y se solidariza con otras personas, que han experimentado una situación similar para un sinnúmero de veces en su vida. Mientras tanto, Harumi Fujiyoshi da cuenta de que es una minoría extrema ya que nadie parece estar de acuerdo con su punto de vista.
