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Translation: Change H Yellow Oneshot : Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Boy Oneshot

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:50:07 +0000

[second part of a two part story. first part is in Change H - Pink]

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

[ver 1.0]

Page 1 Panel 1

Um
As you know
Okashita's body is undergoing changes

So he'll be wearing a different swimsuit

1-2 Ehm
Thats why I'm telling you not to get chilled, ok!

sfx: squeeze

1-3 Right!!

Ok, so today we're doing water polo

1-4 As soon as you split into teams, start the match!!

sfx: yank

1-5 I can't believe I'm wearing my sister's

sfx: fidget fidget

To have to swim in someone's old swimsuit
It's...

2-1 Ok, start the match!

Go! [in pink]

Dwaah!!?

2-2 Hey!?
What the!?

You're being weird, ok

The ball's over there!!

Don't touch my boobs!!

sfx: Yeah Yeah Yeah

2-3 D-don't sweat it Okushita!

Yeah! Yeah! We're all guys, ok?

That's not how it works!!

It's not, I'm telling you!!

sfx: yeah yeah yeah

3-1 Hey you there!! Start playing!!

Whoa

So soft

Ah-ah

He's given up already [no balloon with arrow]

sfx: yeah yeah

sfx: squeeze squeeze

3-2 clench

3-3 Oh, c'mon Yuu!

You're pissing me off!!
You're just gonna let them do that to you

Junko, they're taking role!

I know!

5-1 I'm Koide Junko

Hey Junko, your hair's getting long

Ah, yeah

I'm a junior high 3rd grade girl

I was surprised at first

You really whacked it off, huh?

A girl, but...

5-2 I have something [box]

I'm keeping secret [box]
from them

Don't tell me - you confessed to someone and got shot down?

No!!

Yeah, the boys should be the one's confessing [left bubble]

Yeah, Junko's not the confessing type, she wants someone to confess to her

My body... [box]
My own body...

5-3 Is becoming a boy's

There's some like that, right? No courage to confess, the type to just wait...

5-4 It's post-pubertal sex change disorder
My penis is starting to grow...

Those kind are no good
Make me wonder if they've got a dick or something

5-5 Ah

Hey, Okushita!!

6-1 Here! Popsicle
Just as I promised! I rushed out to get it
Eat up

Uh...
Thanks

sfx: Yeah yeah yeah

sfx: hah hah hah hah

6-2 Ah, Yuko!
They're doing it again

sfx: grr

6-3 H-hey
Okushita!
Eat it with your tongue out
Do it, ok?

Huh?

6-4 L-like this?

And this is Okushita Yuu. He's a guy. Kinda. [box]

sfx: slurp slurp

A guy turning into a girl [box]

Same as me, but...
Everyone knows about his change

6-5 Lick lick

Or should I say...

7-1 N-next!!
Suck it Okushita
Do it, ok?

Mm?

sfx: slurp slurp

7-2 Whoaa

sfx: lick lick

7-3 sfx: slurp slurp

7-4 Sluuurp

7-5 Mm?

Mhpa

sfx: drip

7-6 It dripped

sfx; drip drip

sfx: [in background] whoaaaaa

7-7 stomp

Ah

8-1 Get a grip you guys!!

W-what's with you Koide?

It's ok, we're all guys here!!

It's not ok!! It's disgusting!!

That's right! You guys are thinking dirty thoughts!

Shaddup you ugly bitch
You girls can just go away

What!!

8-2 What's with you!

Why can't you say no, Yuu?

Um, well
It's not that big of a deal...

They've always picked on me, so

8-3 Yuu and I [box]
We're the same
We have the same problem with our bodies

And I guess I get
those guy's feelings...

W-what!? "You get it?" Are you stupid?
They're just messing with you!!

Y-yeah

The worries we absolutely can't tell to others [box]
We can talk about
We accept in each other

9-2 Thank you, Koide...

It makes me happy that you care

sfx: smile

9-3 Th-thump

9-4 Listen Yuu, you're too defenseless!

Eh?

You alway end up like that

9-5 It's not that I care...

Look, you're a guy

It' pisses me off

9-6 And how many times do I have to tell your your bra shows through...

Eh?

I'm wearing a t-shirt

9-7 The material's too thin...
Geez!
Don't wear hand me downs! We'll go shopping for new, ok!?

Pisses me off?

10-1 Pisses me off...

I mean, look!
Yuu has been changing...
Quickly

Into a girl

Don't...

10-2 No... not into a "girl"
He's a natural flirt, or something

Normally, even if girls attract guys like that, they won't do those things. The guy wouldn't try to make her

He's becoming a "girl who attracts guys"
I guess...

10-3 He's always surrounded by guys

Maybe because he's always around guys
he's like that?

And to top it off, he's just starting as a girl

10-4 He's totally defenseless
Against getting leered at... at getting touched

10-5 Furthermore, his personality is like that...
Well

It's thank to Yuu's "can't say no" personality
That I've gotten to know him too

11-1 He's so indecisive and gets pushed into things
I guess you could say that's a strength
It makes him gentle

B-but at this rate
At this rate, sooner or later
It's not going to stop with ice cream!!

11-2 F-for instance
L-like

Eh!?
No way...
No that...

Wah

sfx: twitch

11-3 Mm?

11-4 Ahh!!

11-5 No!

No... I've...

sfx; bluush

11-6 Got a boner...!

12-3 H-how do I look?

sfx; th-thump th-thump

12-4 Wh-what's with that get-up!?

B-but my sisters said!!

If I'm going shopping for women's clothes... they said... Even mom said!!

12-5 His sisters, huh?

You look good though

13-1 At home [box]

Eh?

Really?

At school [box]

Let's go, idiot!

Everyone accepts him as a girl

13-2 That's why he's got no trouble becoming a girl [box]

It's not something to be happy about

Yuu, you asshole...

Unlike me [box]

13-3 How can a girl be fun?

No trouble [box]

13-4 Hey, hey! Waiting for someone?

They're not coming, right?

Cuuute clothes

Ah

Gaaaaaah [box]

No...

sfx: fidget fidget

You're hot

13-5 I haven't even been hit on [bold "I"]

Well, I'm avoiding it, but Yuu...

Um, 'scuse me

13-6 But he's
A guy (kinda)
He's got a dick

Eh!?

sfx: squeenk

14-1 That's a guy...?
We live in a scary world

A girl I was into once, she turned into a guy

Ah, thank you, Koide
I was nervous

I'm the one who was nervous [italicize "I'm"]

14-2 It's
It's cause you don't speak up for yourself!

Just do it! You're a guy!

14-3 Yuu's...

Cute

14-4 I guess Yuu will just become a girl [box]

How 'bout this?

I-it's see through...

Just like everyone expects
But... what about me?

14-5 What will I become?
Will I become a man?

One used to being a girl?

15-1 Being with Yuu is fun

Really fun...
I can talk to him, we're alike...

15-2 But I...

15-3 When Yuu finally becomes

A girl...

15-4 Will I have a place near him?

16-1 Hey! Hey! Big news!

16-2 Hunh?
What up?

U-um-um
I heard something mindblowing!!
You know Yamaguchi in class one?

Yeah
He's that plain guy, right?

16-3 Yeah, that Yamaguchi!

They say he confessed to Okushita!!

What the

hell, Yuu!?

17-1 "What the hell?"
Yamaguchi suddenly asked to talk to me
And then

I'm asking just what the hell is a guy doing confessing to you!!

I-is that my fault?

Hell yes! You never speak up for yourself!
Man up!!

17-2 "Speak

Up?"

"Man up"...?

sfx: sniff

17-3 Ah... I...

I'm starting to argue...

I'm getting carried away...

That's right!!
That expression is exactly what I'm talking about!

17-4 What's with you!!
Becoming a girl just like all the guys and your family want!
Because of all that

I'm getting worked up [box]

Ahh
I'm...

sfx: clench

17-5 Just like a girl [box]

You piss me off!
You sh-should man up, see

18-1 Y-you too, Koide

You never...
Speak up...
right?

18-2 Why am I

Getting so pissed?

18-3 What.Ever!
Do whatever you want
I'm just saying this because we're have the same problem!!

I don't get myself [box]

K-koide! Wait!
What are you so pissed about!?
I...

I said forget it!
Why don't you just go out with Yamaguchi?

18-4 It's not [bold "not"]

Ok!!

...mmm

18-1 Actually, I do know...

The reason I'm pissed

19-1 Whump

19-3 sfx: squeeze

sfx: th-thump

Y-you

where the one

19-4 Who was happy for me

The first time

I was a girl
So...

20-1 I didn't know

sfx: th-thump th-thump th-thump

And? So?

Are you saying it's my fault?

20-2 Yuu's pretty
Strong...

sfx: th-thump th-thump th-thump

No!
Look, Koide

Just what do you want?
What do you want me to
Do

20-3 How would I know?

sfx; th-thump th-thump th-thump

Do whatever you want!!

20-4 Ok

I will

20-5 TH-THUMP

22-1 Mm

Hm

22-4 th-thump th-thump th-thump

22-5 My first kiss...

I was kis...

I...
I can't speak up

22-6 Boy? Girl? Doesn't matter
This is my personality

B-but...

23-1 I was kissed [italicize "I"]

I wanted to be kissed [box]

Boy...?
Girl...?

Doesn't matter
K-koide... MmMn

Ju-Junko... I wanted to

I didn't have the courage myself [box]

23-2 I'm a coward...

Kiss...
you

23-3 Boy? Girl?

Doesn't matter?

S...

23-4 Sorry, um...

I'm sorry I
kis...

23-5 sfx: yank

24-1 Mm...

24-2 Back at'cha!

24-3 If you don't return it...
It's not like a boy...
or a girl, right?

25-2 H-hey...

Everyone's
Looking

sfx: whisper whisper

25-3 Who cares if they look?

sfx: whisper whisper

25-4 Aren't we standing out?

Geez! Get a grip!
After you just kissed me

H-hey!
Everyone will hear!

Translation: Manga no Tsukurikata 26

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 08:01:17 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0]

Page 1 Panel 1

New style "yuri" manga artist story

I've got to tell you...

I'm here to visit in the rain

Volume 3 will include an
entry to win 10 signed color drawings by Hirao Auri

Hirao Auri

2-2 Sorry, Morishita's here today

2-3 Look, she's always here

2-4 You don't like Morishita, so I thought I'd warn you

Is that so!?

2-5 But too bad! Sempai loves me!

3-1 Is that so

It is so [put "is" in italics]

3-2 It's not that I don't like you, Morishita-san

3-3 It's just...
you're in the way...

3-4 Morishita's Fantasy [big letters]

If Morishita-san's not here, then I get to be alone with Kawaguchi-san...

I hate her... I hate Morishita's very existance...

I hope Morishita's house gets all humid and that her pages get soggy and her pen tips rust

3-5 I have news that you'll like, Takeda-san

4-1 I'm going to Tokyo for a while tomorrow...

4-2 Is that so

Eh? What? I didn't know that!?

4-3 To tell the truth, I have five meetings stacked up

Five!?

I want to get them all over with

4-4 Five!?

Does that mean you have five editors? [in other words five magazines are interested in her work]

Ehehe

Morishita's better than you think!

4-5 If she has five editors, but she hasn't had her debut, can you really say that?

But five editors...

5-1 You seem busy

Must be nice...

5-2 Eh...!

5-3 You're giving me the evil eye... The evil eye, Takeda-san...

Eh... no more than normal

5-4 If you're so busy,
Then you should live in Tokyo, hm?

6-1 I won't! Not as long as you are Sempai's assistant!

Oh. Really.

6-2 You really couldn't care less about Morishita, huh Takeda-san?

Is that true!?

6-3 Just what is all this unproductive talk about?

6-5 I can't finish!

7-1 Can I spend the night?

Spend the night?

7-2 We're not going to finish at this rate, right?

That mean we'll have to pull an all-nighter, huh

Do so!

7-3 Then I'm staying too!

7-5 Were you eavesdropping?

No, I was just passing by on the way to the bathroom

But I was there for a long time...

That's called eavesdropping

8-1 But you're going to Tokyo tomorrow, right?

I'll leave from here

8-2 It's fine with me, but you don't have anything to do, right?
And Takeda-san doesn't like you, so...

8-3 Look, I didn't say that

As long as she isn't in the same room when we're working

Waaah

9-2 I had no idea she hated me that much

9-3 And you jumped right in the bath..
The temperature's just right

9-4 What about you, Takeda-san?

Yeah, I'll take a bath

11-3 This is a surprise

Weren't you waiting upstairs?

11-4 Yeah, um

Takeda-san... I...

11-5 Want to ask you something...

12-1 Yeah, I have more meetings now

12-2 And it'd be more convenient to be in Tokyo, it seems

12-4 And I'm getting asked if I plan to move

12-5 Shouldn't you be talking to Kawaguchi-san about this?

13-1 I can't!

13-2 Look,
She'd just say "why don't you go ahead?", right?

13-3 I don't want to hear that

13-4 I don't get this at all

So even though she's supporting you, you can't get over it?

13-5 This is a complicated circuit for a young woman!

14-1 It's hard for me too!

It hard for me to watch the two of you succeed
then make me listen to this - just what the hell do you want me to say?

14-4 That's not what I...

14-5 People have hopes for you and you're still worried about this?

15-1 The only thing I can say is...

You'd be better off moving

15-2 If your editors are saying that, don't you think you should consider their advice?
In any case, more that mine

15-4 Yeah...

16-1 I'm off

16-2 So carefree

I'll go shopping in Tokyo for my materials
I have a lot to do, so I don't know when I'll be back

16-4 Eh
I-I see...

17-1 Have a good trip
Take care

18-1 Ok, so just continue like this

18-2 Ok, thank you very much

18-3 By the way, Morishita-san

18-4 Have you decided to move Tokyo?

18-5 Um...
Not yet...

19-1 I want to think about it a bit more...

19-3 What's troubling you about it?

19-4 You have a lot of work now

19-5 If you come to Tokyo, there's no downside, right?

20-1 But...

20-2 Sempai, she's...

20-3 And what's more

20-4 I want to have cute little Morishita-san close at hand

Translation: Prunus Girl 12

Sun, 13 Jun 2010 20:47:45 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0]

Page 1 Panel 1 Hey, Maki...

1-2 You're the only one I can trust with this

1-3 sfx: gulp

You understand, right?

We can't afford to lose this battle

2-1 This is...

sfx: clunk

2-2 War!

Chapter 12 - The Miniature Garden War: Part One

3-1 The rules are to use every available water gun, and storm the enemy base where the flag is
In other words, capture the flag!

If you get shot by a water gun, you return to your own flag and sit out ten minutes!

3-2 The key is whether you can attack the enemy without getting hit yourself!

Starting at 10:30, we battle for an hour and a half!

3-3 And losers buy the winners ice cream!

Those are the main points! [handwritten]

4-1 In these waning days of our summer vacation, which club will win the ice cream!?

Tennis club

4-2 Volleyball club

sfx: Whooosh

4-3 Of course, it'll be us!

Hey! We don't have enough people....

Basketball club + Going home club

sfx: Beeeeeeeee

4-4 All the other basketball club members had things to do today, it seems

You just don't have many friends, right?

That's why I'm asking you, Maki [handwritten]

4-5 It's hot, and it's a pain...

Hm?

5-1 sfx: tromp tromp

So hot...

5-2 Aikawa... what are you doing at school?

Ugh...
I've got remedial studies again today...

Ah, Aikawa! [handwritten}

5-3 It's summer vacation! Why do I have so much make up work!!!

I haven't been able to play enough!

sfx: flap flap

6-1 So you see

I'll play too!

6-2 Hey, what about your studies!?

There's still time. It's fine, it's fine!

6-3 Aikawa sure is great, huh?

Well, the girls won't play with us

6-5 If Aikawa's playing, I'm on her side

6-4 Hey...!

7-1 Looking at the numbers, it's the Going Home club now

So how about it? Join the Going Home club's side instead?

Ice cream! Ice cream!

7-2 Sorry, Maki...

7-3 I can't join your team...

Good luck [hand written]

7-4 Kadoyama... Just what the hell is he up to?

7-5 Kadoyama...

You called in someone else besides Maki?

8-1 Let me cut to the chase
You guys need to join me

8-2 I could care less about the ice cream right now

8-3 What are you saying...

Think about it

8-4 Aikawa...

Isn't wearing a vest today

8-5 You get it, right?

What happens when the water hits?

9-1 N-no way

See through

sfx: bam!

This is a little embarrassing... [handwritten]

9-2 So that means... we would be able to see Aikawa's bra...

No, a little bird told me...

9-3 That Aikawa...

Doesn't wear anything up top

Nothing... [handwritten]

10-1 Total see through action!

Aikawa-san...!?

Oh no! You can see through [hand written]

10-2 The stakes of war just went up boys!

10-3 But, hey Kadoyama
Just where did you hear that info?

11-1 Ah, when Maki touched Aikawa there, he said that's how it felt...

11-2 Just you wait Maki

Well pull one over on you this time!

sfx: heh heh heh

11-3 You can talk about getting Aikawa wet, but

Aikawa's a dude, right?

11-4 You think we don't know that!

What's important here is not whether he's a guy or not!

11-5 It's whether you want to see Aikawa all wet like that!

Am I right, Danjima...!!

12-1 When it comes down to that

I wanna see it!

sfx: fwooosh

12-2 Whap

12-3 The combined sports clubs

Now begin mission See Through...!!

sfx: Whooosh

13-1 See through!

See through!

sfx: whooosh

13-3 Got it...

Thanks [handwritten]

13-4 I knew it...

What?

The sports clubs are all gunning for you, Aikawa

13-5 Whaa?

Why? Why?

14-1 Uh, "why"?
They're all "see through", I guess...

"See through"?

14-2 Geez!
Guys are all pervs!

14-3 So that means you're a perv too, since you're a guy

14-4 Uh....!

14-5 Uh?

15-2 I-I...
I'm not that much of a perv

sfx: fidget

H-hey
Don't look at me like that...!

15-3 Sfx: sweat sweat

A-anyway! We gotta plan..!

Yeah...

15-4 They won't bother to go for our flag

Since that would end the game [handwritten]

So we don't need to defend it

15-5 But we're facing a lot of foes

We've got to be careful with our ammo

16-1 Then shouldn't we ambush them somewhere near a water supply?

We'd have to give up on the ice cream though

We can't go for their flag
We can't win, but we can avoid losing

16-2 Hehe
If I'm with you, Maki

I don't feel we can lose!

6-3 Ugh...

It's easy to say that...

6-4 Unlike when we faced all the sports clubs
This one's really tough

There's no way
There's too many of them

Let's play! [handwritten]

Translation: Manga no Tsukurikata 25

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:05:53 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0]

Page 2 Panel 1

New style "yuri" manga artist story

A side story this time...
Younger brother Masato is the lead!

Hirao Auri

Volume 3 will be on sale now

3-2 That's an awesome smash!

3-3 Nagai-kun

3-4 Aw, I'm still working on it...

4-1 Kawaguchi Masato. 18 Years old.
Got into a local college without a sweat
Now enjoying the full swing of college life!

4-2 Whew, I really worked hard today too
(on my backhand)

Kawaguchi-kun, good job!

4-3 You're working hard, huh? Not getting much better, though...

Eh!
Um, yeah...

4-4 She's the same circle as me [circle here means a club or activity group]
Nomura-sempai. One year older than me.

Is it ok if I go partway home with you again today?

5-1 Smile

5-2 Blinding! Her smile is just like Morishita's!

5-3 Morishita? She's my sister's girlfriend, but let's set that aside for a sec

Nomura-sempai is so kind to me. But part of her appeal is in the way she's kind to everyone

5-4 She's just like Morishita in that way too

Stop!

[above panel] see volume 1

6-1 Naw, Morishita was never that nice to me...

6-5 Mm?

6-6 Ah
Nothing

6-7 You have a cute bag, huh...

Wha? Thank you

7-1 Wha? Thank you

7-2 Yeah, it's good! Really delish!

Yeah, it's good

7-3 I made it for you, sempai

7-4 If you say it's good, it's all good [put the first "you" in italics]

8-1 There's no hope with Morishita anymore

8-2 So then

8-3 So then...

8-4 Hey, Kawaguchi-kun, what kind of manga do you read?

8-6 Manga...?

8-7 Recently all I've read is Sis's and Morishita's...

I don't really read it much...

9-1 Right now... I'm so into manga [italicize "so"]

9-2 ...hmm

9-3 Maybe you've heard of this? It might not be very well known yet, but...

9-4 This manga by Kawaguchi Asuka is so interesting!

Kawaguchi Asuka [manga]

9-5 Wanna read it?

Wha? It's that interesting?

9-6 You know Kawaguchi-san? Really!?

Um, "do I know her"?

10-1 Come to think of it, your last name's the same. Might be a relative?

Ah... my sister

10-2 Eh? No way!

Really!?

10-3 Can I go to your house?

Wha? My house?

10-4 No?
I want to meet Kawaguchi-san

10-5 It's ok, right?

10-6 Not even Morishita smiled at me like that!

11-2 So this is my house...

11-3 Now don't go getting disillusioned after you meet her, ok?

I'm the one who asked to come, so I won't, I won't.

11-4 Welcome home...

Kya! Kawaguchi-san!?

12-1 You have a guest?

12-2 A sempai from my circle

I'm his sister, Kawaguchi...

Ohmygod...

12-3 I've always admired you!

12-4 You're so cool...

13-1 This is a total replay of Morishita

13-2 It's not just her face and manner, why does she have to be the same this way too? Can I pick 'em or what?

Have we met somewhere?

I loooove your manga, Kawaguchi-san!

13-3 So I have fans! Who read that! [put "that" in italics]

13-4 I, um, really loved your debut work!

13-5 There's this scene where Akiko totally pushes away Yumeji, right?
I was so moved by that!

14-1 I was so hoping that story would be serialized that I was always checking that manga!

14-3 Wow, thank you so much!

Come on and have a seat, and let's talk...

14-4 And that Yorkshire Terrier...

Eh? Even that?

15-2 Wah!

15-3 Masato-kun, welcome home

Morishita! You're here!

15-4 I heard a girl's voice. So you made a girlfriend at college, huh? That's great! Congrats!

15-5 She's not my girlfriend...

16-1 I knew it, when I take a close look, you're the cutest in the whole world

16-2 Wha? That's creepy, Masato-kun!

16-3 Why does everyone love my sister!?

Everyone...?

17-1 What the hell! What's your girlfriend up to!?

17-2 I told you she's not my girlfriend!
She came to see my sister!

17-5 You didn't have to bring her!
You're an idiot, Masato-kun!

17-6 You sure got that right!

Translation: Prunus Girl Special : Special March 2010

Fri, 14 May 2010 08:30:07 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

[Ver 1.0]

Page 1 Panel 1

Puranas Girl

Just where are you looking? [italicize "you"]

Matsumoto Tomoki

2-1 Ok, we'll end here for today

Hmph, we still have a few minutes

sfx: scratch scratch

2-2 Sennin-sensei! Do a cool experiment!

2-3 I'll grant your wish!

sfx: fierce concentration

Behold! The mysterious power

Of my Sennin ball!

2-4 Secret technique

Veil of mist!

2-5 Whoaaaa!
That rocks, sensei!

It's just dry ice...

This class gets too excited... [handwritten]

3-1 Aikawa's hair is long, huh

3-2 Isn't it hot during this season?

Sfx: reach

3-3 Wh-wha!?

sfx: caress

3-4 Is this really a guy's hair!?

It's so thin and silky! So vibrant and fresh, it almost feels cold!

sfx: stroke stroke

3-5 stroke stroke

3-6 M-Maki-kun...
That makes me a little embarrassed...

sfx: bluuush

S-sorry!!

3-7 Bluuush

4-1 Hey, Aikawa...

I've been wondering
Just what are you doing here!?

MY ROOM! [handwritten]

4-2 Mm?

4-3 I can't forget the taste of you...

The taste of my cooking!!

People might get funny ideas! [handwritten]

4-4 Anyway, it's really relaxing here

4-5 And this dorm

Allows roommates... hm?

sfx: press

5-1 So we should just

Start living together

5-2 You want a roommate, right?

Normally, people don't want same sex roommates!

5-3 Anyway, you can't do housecleaning, so you're out
(Excuse)

That's a basic requirement [handwritten]

5-4 Well, I can't do housework, but...
I'm sure I could do something for you... [put "something" in italics]

sfx: blush

I don't need anything that would make you blush!

6-1 First contact

sfx: clench

6-2 I'll definitely be a vendor next time!

Ufu
Ufufu...

Translation: Manga no Tsukurikata 24

Tue, 04 May 2010 06:14:58 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0]

Page 1 Panel 1

A manga artist...

and a manga artist

make it "Yuri"...
Doesn't it look that way...?

Manga no Tsukurikata

2-1

New style "yuri" manga artist story

The season to be dazzled by sunlight...

Hirao Auri

Volume 3 will be on sale May 13...

5-1 I'm in Tokyo!

5-2 Why, pray tell?

5-3 For a meeting!

5-4 What kind of...

Let's do something!

5-5 Uh...

Hey, wait a second, how did you get my cell number...?

Was it Kawaguchi-san?

That's right!

5-6 It's always "deadlines deadlines", so we've never gotten the chance to do anything, right?

6-1 Of course. I go there to help out with the manuscript

So that's why I'm waiting by Hachiko, see? [A statue of a dog that faithfully waited for his deceased owner. Well known landmark in Shibuya]

6-5 You didn't have to wait for me in such a crowded spot

7-1 You country people sure seem to love Hachiko

That's right!

7-2 Where do you want to go? We'll go wherever you want!

7-3 I don't have anywhere I want to go. Nothing I want to see.

What if I force you?

Look, that's why I said...

7-4 I don't have any tone...

7-5 Ok, let's go buy tone!

It's ok. You don't know anything about it, after all

7-6 Yeah, there's a lot I don't understand

Like how to avoid moire patterns and stuff

Yeah, I bet

Of course someone who isn't in the biz wouldn't know

8-1 Look, you and I aren't connected, so we don't have to go out of our way to meet...

8-2 Connected? Does she mean where we were born...?

8-3 I want to be a manga artist. You just work part time

8-4 In any case, let's go eat

What do you like, Takeda-san?
I like seafood!

8-6 She gets under my skin

9-1 Takeda-san, do you have food preferences?

No

9-2 What about Macdon...

I hate fast food

9-3 A family restaurant?

I can't relax there

9-4 Mmmm...

Morishita-san, you don't usually eat very well, I bet

9-5 I don't eat out much...
I don't have much time (when working on a manuscript)...

9-6 You must be busy (at the bookstore)

9-7 Well, I'll take you to my usual restaurant

Usual!
Tokyo slang! [handwritten]

10-3 Takeda-san, there's something I want to tell you...

10-4 I don't want to hear sweet talk about your honey

Eh!

10-5 What if it's not sweet talk and just an observation...?

I pretty much know already

How!?

11-1 You should break up with Morishita-san for now

When your pages are done this month, then you can date her again

11-3 Let me say this

I still don't approve of the two of you

11-5 However

12-1 If it helps Kawaguchi-san to write love stories
Well, I guess it's ok

12-2 Love stories are an easy way to arouse the reader's empathy, see?

13-2 Hmm...

13-6 I think it's good to have a love story component, however...

14-1 But yours is a little feeble and distracts from the story

14-2 But I fixed it just the way you said to

14-3 It's hardly different from the one before

14-4 Can you re-work this again?

15-1 For those predisposed to love, it must be so easy to write love stories, huh!

15-2 It's not easy to force everything to connect in your head

15-3 It's been a week for me...

I finished in a week!

Yeah, I bet...

15-4 Morishita-san, what are you talking about?

15-6 Ah, my phone...

16-1 Ah, Sempai...

16-5 What's going on with Kawaguchi-san?

16-6 She's in trouble with her deadline, so I promised to come over tomorrow!

16-7 Is that so...
So nothing's changed, hm?

17-1 Wha?

In your relationship

17-2 Ah...

17-3 But I'm happier than before

17-5 I think I love sempai more than I did before

We're just working on her manuscript and going for supplies like always, but I'm happy

18-1 It's hard to have a climax in a love story without trouble, huh

18-2 That's right... it's hard to have a climax!

18-4 Ok, shall we go buy tone?

I said it's ok

I want to look too

18-5 For Kawaguchi-san?

18-6 No, no. Sempai buys her own. I need some.

Morishita-san, you don't use it, right?

19-1 I use it to draw manga!

19-2 Wha!? You draw manga?

19-3 But recently I haven't been able to draw the same amount of pages

So we're rivals (as manga artist aspirants)

19-4 Rivals!?

(in love?)

Are you in love with sempai?

19-5 Hm? No, I don't care for her manga that much...

19-6 Her
Manga!! [italicize "manga"]

20-1 So that means she must love sempai herself!

20-2 So that's why she's not accepting of the two of us...

20-3 I see... so we're rivals...

I never would have thought the day would come when we'd be rivals...

20-4 Did you think I was going to help out Kawaguchi-san just to waste my time?

20-5 But that didn't seem to be on your mind when...
Well, it's too bad, but I can see the outcome already

21-1 The outcome?
Of the next manga contest?

21-2 What are you talking about?

21-3 I'm not the one who is going to lose!

21-5 I'm looking forward to it (the next time you come to help sempai)

21-6 That's for sure

21-7 That will be 3270 yen
Your change is 500 yen...

Translation: Manga no Tsukurikata 23

Sat, 24 Apr 2010 19:37:13 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.1]

Page 1 Panel 1

New style "yuri" manga artist story

Hirao Auri

Volume 3 will be on sale in May...

2-1 I'll help you!

2-2 No

2-3 How long are you going to be all "tsun tsun" [referring to tsundere. See last chapter]

I'm not

2-4 Ok, fine! You just go ahead and blow your deadline!

3-2 Next month it'll be two years, yeah...

3-3- And I don't know what to get her, and so...

3-4 You didn't get enough done?

That's right

3-5 Hmm...

4-1 Let me say this: your readers couldn't care less about that

4-2 As far as your personal life goes, your readers only care about how you do manga

That your personal life make you sloppy or miss deadlines?

4-4 They don't want to know

4-5 I get it

You don't get it! That's why it's affecting your work!

4-6 Kawaguchi-san

5-1 You should break up with Morishita-san for now

5-2 When your pages are done this month, then you can date her again

5-3 It's not that casual!

5-4 Takeda-san, you've never dated someone, right?

I haven't, that's why I don't have these issues!

5-5 As a manga artist, I'm the superior one here!

5-6 You win

6-1 Morishita-san's here right? Not doing anything

6-3 You go break up with her right now

6-4 If you don't I don't feel like helping

6-5 Hurry up!!

7-1 Oooo

7-2 Let's break up

What!

I'm done!

Sorry, I lied. Thanks for two years

Yaaaay
I believed in you

7-3 Yeah,
I can do it
It's ok
Morishita's loyal...

7-4 Masato, get out!

8-3 I want to talk with Morishita. The two of us

9-1 Morishita
Let's break up

9-2 Fine

9-3 Whaa!!

9-4 You're ok with that?

9-5 Look, you never have time for me, right?

10-1 You don't need me here, right?

10-3 Ok, I'm leaving!

10-5 You can cuddle up to Takeda-san!

11-4 Slam

11-5 Morishita-san went home, it seems

12-1 Ok, let's get to work

12-2 I don't think she'll come back for a while

12-3 Really

12-4 Look, right now you can't make it in time without me

12-5 It's not that I can't make it, I just got a slow start!

Don't get stubborn

13-1 Sigh...

13-2 I think I might lose my will to draw

13-3 (whatever) [put "ever" in italics]
Hurry up and start drawing, please

13-4 It's no use

Pissed [handwritten]

14-1 Ok, then you should chase after her and make up

That would make this meaningless

14-2 If you don't get to work, it's even more meaningless

14-3 Hurry up and get it finished. Then go buy her a present.
If you celebrate your 2nd anniversary, everything will be fine, right?

After all, Morishita-san is loyal, right? [handwritten]

15-1 Miyamoto Bookstore

15-3 Farming Democracy
By Kawaguchi Asuka
This is cool!
Store recommendation!

15-5 Let's break up

16-2 She should be finished with her pages about now

16-3 Good job today...

17-3 What? We're through, ok!

17-4 That's right
This must be a pain, huh?

Right!

18-2 I'm lying...

18-3 But if you say so, there's nothing to do but break up

Ok, then!

18-6 Wait!
Today, it's...

19-1 It should have been our second anniversary

19-2 Yeah...

19-3 And I gave you pen tips last year, right?

19-4 So this year, I did this

19-5 A pen holder!

19-6 And...

20-1 Please go out with me

20- 5 Yes

Translation: Manga no Tsukurikata 22

Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:43:51 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0]

Page 1 Panel 1

New style "yuri" manga artist story

Hirao Auri's new collection
"April 1st"

On Sale now

Hirao Auri

2-1 Sempai, you love me, right?

2-2 Yeah

2-3 AAAAAH

2-4 Um, Sempai

2-5 Do you want to go and get something to eat?

3-1 No, I'm good

3-2 Sorry, but I'm in the middle of concentrating here

3-4 That's right.
I'm sorry

3-6 What should I do? Maybe she doesn't like me now...

What is it? Did she see something in me she doesn't like...?

4-1 What do you think I should do?

Why are you asking me?

4-2 You love me, right, Masato-kun?

So you should stand by me in my love for Sempai!

No way!!
That ignores my feelings in all this!

4-4 Why did I act like that?

4-5 It's not like I'm concentrating, right?

4-6 Sempai, you love me, right?

Yeah

4-7 I agreed without thinking, but...

5-1 I care enough about Morishita to say without thinking that...
I lo...

5-2 I've got to tell her

5-3 I've got to say it to her [italicize "to"]

5-4 She probably didn't notice I've got to say it
But I can accept that

5-5 I've got to
make her understand

6-3 Sempai!

6-4 If you're going to insist, I'll allow you to take me out to get something to eat

6-6 It's not like I want to go with you, I'm just normally hungry, ok?

7-1 What's the matter, sis?

There's nothing wrong! I'm so hungry I cant stand it! Hungry!

Enough to eat rocks!

7-2 Sempai... what's wrong?

7-3 Nothing's...
wrong...

7-4 Are you being Tsundere? [a comic stereotype where a girl is cold and distant to cover up a tender heart. "Tsun" has the meaning "gruff". "Dere" has the meaning "to melt over"]

7-5 Is this Tsundere?

8-1 I can accept that, sempai!

8-2 As long as you are still you, even if you are Tsundere!

8-4 You can be even more Tsun Tsun! You can even stab me!
Here!

If she stabs you, she's Yandere [Yandere is a stereotype of the bad girl gang member with a tender heart]

8-5 That's a little...

Ok! Then bring on the dere!

That's even worse

9-2 Ahaha, I knew you were going to order au gratin

9-3 You should have ordered it too, Sempai

Nah, it's not Iike I wanted it

9-4 Sempai, is that enough?

Mmm, well, I'm not that hungry

9-5 Do you want a shrimp? It's payback for that time earlier.

10-1 Here
Say "ah"

Ah...

10-2 No...
It's ok

10-4 That's right. It's not like you like shrimp, right sempai?

10-5 Mm...
Yeah...
It's ok if I do my roughs?

10-6 Of course!

10-7 You couldn't do it when we went to Tokyo and ended up running around like crazy

Get a grip, Asuka!
Get. A. Grip!!

11-4 Ah
Sempai

11-5 Your cuff...

11-6 Wah

12-1 Waaah

12-2 Are you ok?

12-4 If something's going on, please tell me!
Whatever's troubling you... Anything!

13-1 If it's for you, I'm prepared to throw away my life!

13-2 No
Um

13-2 I want to do whatever I can for you
I'll do anything!

13-4 Hey, you haven't done any work on your roughs

13-5 Yeah...

14-1 It's hard to draw manga, huh?

14-2 You always end up putting a little of yourself into your characters

14-3 Yeah...

14-4 I think I'm going to try a girl's love story

15-1 I feel I can write one now

15-3 So is it ok if I'm with you in order to draw manga?

15-4 You said the same thing before! Right here!

15-5 Yeah, I did

But it's different from that time, right?

16-3 Why are you crying!?

My heart's overflowing! I love you too much!

16-4 I love you so much!

17-2 Eh...?
What was that...
Just...
now...

I can't do it. Too self conscious

17-3 Give it your best to not be self conscious, please

17-4 Why are you telling me that?

When it comes to Yuri, I'm the sempai

17-5 And so

18-1 What's with this awkward distance?

18-2 I miss the old days...

"The old days"?

18-4 C'mon, you used to hold my hand normally back then, right!?

That's because it was normal back then [italicize "was"]

19-1 Gimme

Wah

19-2 Don't dodge me!

I told you I can't!

19-3 This is just the same as if you didn't like me!
To think you don't like me anymore! I want to go back to when I was just uneasy

One hour ago [handwritten]

I don't have any ill will

19-4 Ok then, at least say you love m...

19-5 I can't!!!

20-3 Morishita, hurry up and go home!

Hey, you two still at it? Are you playing? Fighting?

She's Tsundere

20-4 Masato-kun, you love me, right?

I can't feel her love for me...
Tell me the definition of love

Why do you keep asking me!?

20-5 Sempai, hurry up and give me the dere!
Dere, please!
I'm being crushed here

Shaddup! Go home!

20-6 Both of you go to bed already!

Translation: Manga no Tsukurikata 21

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:36:55 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0]

Page 1 Panel 1

New style "yuri" manga artist story

What a (this has nothing to do with the story contents...) charming figure

Hirao Auri's new collection
"April 1st"
On Sale now

Hirao Auri

3-4 Morishita

Morishita!

...yeah?

3-5 Let's get up, huh?

...yeah

4-1 What time is it?

4-2 Wah!

4-3 Crap! Gotta hurry up and take a bath, get ready...

4-4 If we don't go see the deer, it'll be...!!

4-5 Ah

4-6 Who gets the bath first?

Rock paper scissors!

4-7 One...
Two...

5-2 Nara, huh? [Nara is a city near Kyoto, famous for it's temples and deer park]

5-3 What should we do? I forgot to buy a guidebook

6-1 Ah, that's right. It's been off since yesterday

6-2 Sempai, can you grab a towel for me?

6-3 Oh, sorry, I should have noticed

6-4 No, it's not your fault

6-5 Buzz buzz buzz

7-1 Masato...!

7-2 ...no, it's not

7-3 Message Log

[All messages are from Tochihara Publishing]

7-5 Hello? It's Kawaguchi!

Kawaguchi-san!

7-6 What happened? I couldn't get a hold of you...

Nothing...
What's going on? There are all these calls confirming you got my pages

Yes! There's a big problem, Kawaguchi-san!

8-1 One of the pages is missing!

Eh..!!

8-3 Did I forget to put it in!?

8-5 I'll have Masato send it for me...

8-6 Message: Big Sis

8-7 Ignoring it

8-8 C'mon and answer the phone!

9-1 Tochihara Publishing

9-2 I'm sorry, but today's the deadline

Can I have you deliver the page?

9-3 I haven't met the deer yet!

Todaiji [Todaiji temple in Nara has the largest buddha image in Japan]

Nara Park [Where the deer are]

9-4 Fuck off, Masato!

What? Why? Why are you here?

Nara [on map, from left to right]
Shizuoka
Tokyo

Mt. Fuji [mountain]

10-3 Sorry

It's ok...

10-4 Sorry for all the trouble

11-2 Look! It's Sento-kun!! [Sento-kun is Nara city's mascot. However, Kawaguchi is playing around, pointing out a random figure in Tokyo]

Wow, you're right!

11-3 It's Todaiji [Kawaguchi is pointing out Kaminari-mon, a famous wooden gate in Tokyo]

It is!!

11-4 Get mad already!!

Eh?

11-5 Because of having to do roughs and forgetting my page, we couldn't see the deer, right?
You should be pissed off

11-6 Whaaa?

12-1 Tokyo's fun!

12-2 But you come all the time for meetings and stuff

12-3 I do, but we couldn't help it this time

12-4 It's not your fault, okay Sempai?

12-5 It's 100% my fault

12-6 Rabbit Petting Area [They've likely come to Ueno zoo in Tokyo]

13-4 Morishita, you're too nice to me

13-5 Why?

13-6 It's because I love you Sempai

14-2 I can't be nice to you, Morishita

14-4 I said I want to see the deer
And you took me all the way to Nara, right?

15-1 That's nice enough

15-2 [left side] Elephant
Deer
Horses
[right side] Waterside creatures
Restroom
Store

15-4 Sempai, you love me, right?

15-7 Yeah

Translation: Prunus Girl 11

Sat, 13 Feb 2010 06:20:01 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like these]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[Ver 1.0]

Page 1 Panel 2

Ooh...
There not much summer vacation left and it feels like I haven't gotten any closer to Maki-kun...

What should I do?

1-3 Asami... When we had the Test of Courage? You can't get closer to him like that

Scaredy cat [handwritten]

1-4 B-but...

I was really scared!

1-5 With topics like this, we should ask Kizuna-chan for advice like always...

sfx: glance

2-1 Puranus Girl

Chapter 11: Young Maidens' Love*Stories

Let's all stay friends, ok?

1-A Tachibana Non

Matsumoto Tomoki

3-2 Aikawa... What're you reading?

3-3 Mm, Summer's almost over, so I bet summer clothes are going on sale

3-4 Mm, you sure have a lot of clothes

3-5 I bet... he's got an actual women's swimsuit...
Maki [in box]

4-1 Oho?

Don't tell me
That when we went to the ocean, you wanted me to wear something like this?

4-2 Bewitching.

Skimpy [handwritten]

Wh-wha-what? Why!?

4-3 Oh, Maki-kun
You're. So. Nasty.

sfx: whisper

5-1 Hey, gimme a break!

But they're all into each other...

5-2 Our advisor, Kizuna-chan, is also Asami's #1 rival...

5-3 Sniiff

Oooh...

5-4 You all must have noticed by now, right...?

5-5 Wh-who!?

6-1 That those two

Have something going on!

6-2 S-Satou-san...

6-3 Behold!

The way they're so casual with each other, even in the classroom (?) !!!

Ah, this is cute [handwritten]

Mm? [handwritten]

7-1 And there!
The way they're physical with each other!

So hot... [handwritten]

If yer hot, get off me... [handwritten]

sfx; slump

7-2 A-a-and look!
The bold way he exposes his flesh!

Make no mistake, he's tempting him!

Aaaah [handwritten]

sfx: flap flap

7-3 And even though he thinks Aikawa shouldn't be doing that

Maki-kun can't suppress his excitement!

7-4 His reason is on the verge of caving in!

sfx: Hah hah [by head]

sfx: bam! [by mouth]

It's super excitement city! [by elbows]

The one getting excited is you, Satou-san

7-5 Mmm, even though I'm "fu" to the core, I actually think relations between guys are forbidden, but... [Fu refers to "fujoshi", or girls who are into yaoi]

sfx: mutter mutter

8-1 But when you get down to brass tacks, this visual! Mmm, so delicious! Like getting a reward...

Not quite following her

sfx: mutter mutter

8-2 Mmm! I saw something yummy today. I'm totally inspired now!

sfx: stride stride

...Satou-san sure has changed since school started, huh?

And just why is she in A class?

8-3 Come to think of it, I've wanted to ask you for a while

Mm?

8-4 Non-chan, do you have anyone

you like?

8-5 M-mm

Me!?

sfx: bluuush

9-1 I-I like talking about love n' stuff, but it's not like I have someone I'm into...!

She can't take it when the questions are about her

sfx: whoosh whoosh

9-2 Ok, then tell us what's your type, ok?

9-3 T-type, huh?

Um...

9-4 Someone eloquent
Who's really nice to girls
But who really knows their own mind

9-5 Tah-dah!

10-1 Whaaaaat!!!
Wh-wh-wh-why is Shion-chan's face coming up!!

N-no way!?
I'm....!!

Non-chan? What's the matter?

10-2 Hey! Non!

sfx: Erk

Hyaai

10-3 I-i-i-i-it's not...

Like I like Shion-chan or anything....!

sfx: sweat sweat

12-1 ....eh?

12-2 Gyaaaa!!

What the hell am I saying!!

12-3 W-well, Shion-chan's beautiful, and really nice, so I can understand how you feel

Non, you're pretty bold...

12-4 So I'll root for you, Non-chan!

If you're serious, so will I

12-5 Auuuu....

13-1 Looks like you're having fun

What are ya talking about?

13-3 N

N-n-n-n

Nn-n

You ok?

sfx: flipped out

13-4 Nothing!

It's nothing I tell you!!?

13-5 But Non-chan, your face is really red?

14-1 You might have fever, right?

sfx: touch

14-2 Beeeeeee

14-3 Ehe...

14-4 Bluuuush

14-5 Aaaaaa!!!!

Non-chan!?

sfx: whoooosh

15-1 C'mon, Non
You didn't have to run away

No way! No way! No way!
My heart's pounding so much, I'm gonna die!

15-2 C'mon, if you realize you're in love, why not just face up to it?

15-3 That you love Shion-chan

Oooo...

15-4 B-but Shion-chan is a girl!

Shion-chan herself lets it be known far and wide she likes girls, hm?

16-1 S-so, do you have someone you like, Kei? [italicize "you"]

sfx: stab

16-2 Me?

Sure I do.

sfx: blunt

16-4 But it's a secret

Th-that is so unfair! [bold "so"]

16-5 You know mine and Asami's!

You were the one who told me, right?

W-what about my problems...?

Well, I guess it's ok....

17-2 Mmm...?

17-3 Hey there

17-4 Whaaat? You waited for me?

I just felt like going home together today

17-5 You're weird, Kei

That's so not true [bold "so"]

Translation: Manga no Tsukurikata 20

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:35:44 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.1]

Page 1 Panel 1

New style "yuri" manga artist story

The splash page is... Takeda-san out of her uniform

Hirao Auri's volume of new work "April 1st" will be on sale January 13
[ignore small text]

Volume 1 and 2
Are flying off the shelves

Hirao Auri

2-1 I'm going to send off the manuscript!

2-2 How does it feel to have the girl you like come to your home every day and totally be into someone else?

2-3 Wha!?

I don't get that at all

2-4 Don't you have someone you like?

I don't... or I should say I don't have the time

2-5 Even if the person you like doesn't like you back
It's fun to have someone you like

3-1 Really?

3-2 Um...

3-3 Do you really think that's enough?

3-4 Isn't that like it has no meaning?
To put it bluntly, it's a waste of time

If you don't get it, that's a pretty harsh way of saying it

4-3 We're going to go see deer now

4-5 It was deer

Or Glico [A Japanese confectionary company]

And we ended up deciding on deer

5-1 Morishita, you just went to Kyoto, right?
You should get out of Kinki. Go to Fukushima or Ishikawa! [Kinki is the region Kyoto is in. Nara, also in the Kinki region, is famous for deer]

If you made it Tokyo, you could stop by the office and drop off your manuscript, right?

I go to Tokyo every time I'm over deadline
I'm sick of it!

You're not there enough to get sick of...

5-2 Waitaminute! Now!?

5-3 If we fart around like this, our next deadline will sneak up on us

5-4 Morishita works at the bookstore the day after tomorrow
We'll have two nights! Barely!

6-1 I'm going home to get ready

Yeah. We'll meet at the station, ok?

6-3 You're not going to stop them?

Eh? Why?

6-4 They're going on a trip

So? It's just a trip...

6-5 If something happens that can't be undone, don't say I didn't warn you

6-6 What the...? Just what are you saying can happen on a trip...?

7-1 Where's my overnight bag?

7-3 Takeda-san, you want the two of them to split?

7-4 Of course. Morishita-san is in the way!

7-5 Wah

Kawaguchi-san can't get her work done, right?

Even under the best of circumstances, she's barely on time, and Morishita-san's always here, right?
You can't believe what I have to put up with...

Oohoho man...

7-6 Ah, sorry. You like Morishita-san, right?

7-7 It's ok, he likes Morishita, so...

7-8 Onee-san's been running her mouth off again

8-1 If you fall in love, it takes over everything. Everything else gets neglected

8-2 And Morishita-san can't keep her cool. She's wrapped up in herself and has love on the brain.
What's so great about that?

8-3 That's what's great about it!

8-5 ...ah...

9-1 Here it is!

9-2 I'm heading out as soon as I'm ready. Takeda-san, you're leaving with me, right?

9-3 I can't believe you'd want to stay with Masato, right?

9-4 That's right. I'm going home.

9-5 But I don't want to hear that it's dangerous for a boy and girl to be alone together. Not from you.
Well then.

9-6 Well, I can see her point

10-2 Hey, Onee-chan!

Mm?

10-3 Don't go on this trip!

10-4 Why?

"Why"...?

Is it going to be some hardship on you, or something?

No, it's not like that, but...

10-6 Ok, then postpone it!

You're making no sense

This is stupid

11-5 When are those roughs due?

Today. Once we get off the bullet train, is it ok to fax them from a convenience store?

12-3 There's no conversation...!

12-5 We're on a trip...
But if I say the wrong thing, her concentration might be shot

12-6 Once we arrive

13-1 Mm?

We'll go straight to the hotel, right?

13-2 Yeah. It's a weekday, so it was easy to get a reservation

13-3 Two nights!
We haven't had much time to hang out recently. I'm sooo happy!

13-4 Yeah, that's right

13-6 We don't have the chance to go out much. We're always drawing manga at home, huh?

14-1 I can't wait to see the deer!

14-2 The deer, huh?

The deer!

14-3 Let's write ten things we want to do when we see the deer!

I'm not sure there's ten...

14-4 Well, ride them, to start

I don't think you can do that in the park

* Ride them [this is the list]
* Eat them
* Scold them [only the deer]

14-5 Ok, the wild ones then

14-7 15 Messages

14-8 Voicemail
Masato [all the messages are from Masato]

15-3 The subscriber you are trying to reach is not in a service area

What?

15-4 And while we were talking, we're here!

15-5 1300th anniversary of the moving of the Capital [Nara used to be the capital of Japan]

16-1 Hey, you didn't finish your roughs

Ah, I got carried by the deer...

16-2 Anyway, let's quickly find someplace where you can finish up

16-3 We ended up in a MacDonalds...

16-4 It's totally unlike Nara in here

17-1 Finished!

17-2 Sempai, you haven't got much done

Yeah, I just finished this month's, so my will hasn't come back yet

17-3 But sempai, your deadline is earlier this month than usual, right?

Yeah!

17-4 My comic is coming out, so they want more pages for the next chapter when it launches [comic here is the collected volume of her monthly chapters]

Twice the pages!

17-5 Twice!

17-6 chomp chomp

17-7 That's rough!

18-1 Chomp Chomp

18-2 She's got nothing to do

18-3 Morishita, once you fax that, why don't you go on ahead to the hotel?
It's a little bit of a walk from here. Here's a map.

18-4 Its ok, I'll wait. It seems you're almost done

19-2 Well, I guess that's it

I'll fix it up later...

19-3 Whaa...

19-4 Morishita, you're asleep?

19-5 Morishita!

19-6 Hurry up and fax your stuff, then you can sleep as much as you want at the hotel!

20-1 Ah, I wonder if the editor's gone home already!?

20-2 I don't know where a convenience store is

Won't there be a fax in the hotel?

Yeah, that's right!

20-5 Out of two nights, one is already wasted...

Translation: Prunus Girl 10

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:28:34 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[Ver 1.0]

Page 1 Panel 1

The piano that plays itself!

Look, just a student staying behind to practice

1-2 The skeleton that walks at night!

Somebody moved it.

1-3 Countless hands growing up from the ground!

A phantasm of the mist

1-4 Ball noises coming from the empty gym!

One caught in the ceiling just came loose and fell.

2-1 But, anyhow!
But, anyhow!
Even this school has seven strange ghost stories!

If you're scared, I said to wait...

That's more scary!! [Bold "more"]

Chapter 10: This is our school's ghost story? (Part Two)

Matsumoto Tomoki

sfx: whish whish

3-1 But, look, it seems you made a mistake, there wasn't seven...?

You're missing some... [handwritten]

I-I know for sure that there's more! If you know them all, it's unlucky!

3-2 And we just encountered a new one, right!?

3-3 Ah, that's gotta be
Plasma!

Geez! You sound just like some teacher!

3-4 But to check it out, we've come to the teacher's wing

3-5 If I'm not mistaken,
something should be up ahead...

S-so we're going to go...?

4-1 Where do you get off saying crap to hurt people's feelings like that?

4-2 What the hell are you talking about?
I didn't!

You did!

4-3 So what did I say already!?

4-4 Huh? We're reached the goal already!

Pair 1 [box]

sfx: Ta-dah!

5-1 Just what the hell are Maki and Kizuna-chan doing!?

Where the hell did they go? [handwritten]

Maybe he thought it was a hassle and headed off, mm?

5-2 Aahh...yeah

That might be it...

5-3 Just you wait, Maki...

Eh heh heh [handwritten]

sfx: wobble wobble

Hey! Hanasaka!

5-4 Don't leave me alone! It's scary, right!?

Don't tell me you're scared!

Don't leave me in a place like this [handwritten]

sfx: Uuuuuuuh

6-1 sfx: trod trod

6-2 But, dude...

To be paired up with your sister for a test of courage?

6-3 It's pretty fun for me

It's been a while since we've been all together

6-4 Yeah, it has for those of us who went to junior high together

6-5 But it's kinda weird to talk about a "reunion" when three weren't part of the group

Not in the group [box]

7-1 We often hung out, the five of us, back then, huh?

7-2 Kei...

You lonely?

Eh!?

7-3 No, it's not like that! It's just that I don't get to see you much at school, Ken

7-4 We're in the same class. We live together. Right?

Yeah... yeah, but...

7-5 Kei, you're still a little kid

Hey! I-I'm you're older sister!?

Well, we're twins... [handwritten]

8-1 Click

8-3 Looks like there's nothing there

8-4 Rummmmble

8-5 Rummmmmble

9-1 Even the clouds look menacing...

Ah wah wah... [handwritten]

9-2 Hey, did you hear something?

9-3 Nooooooooooooooo

9-5 Noo!

10-1 I can't take it anymore!

Hey, Asami...

sfx: squeeeeze

Pair 3 [box]

10-2 if you're that scared, you should have said something at the start...

You didn't have to come [handwritten]

But, I heard Maki-kun was going to be here...

10-3 But even if you got paired up with him, if you're like this....

sfx; shiver shiver

10-4 Huh? What?

11-1 Whoosh

Huh? Non-chan and Asami-chan?

11-2 sfx: shiver shiver shiver

Shoot. I should've scared 'em before they noticed me

I bet I coulda got 'em good [handwritten]

11-3 S-Shion-chan!? What are you doing here!?

Don't scare us like that! [handwritten]

Ah, well...

12-1 sfx: shudder shudder

A-asami!?

Whoopsie

12-2 Sorry

I didn't think you would be this scared

The ghost stories must have been scary for you [handwritten]

12-3 Ok, I'll go to the goal with you, ok?

If it's the three of us, you won't be scared, right?

sfx: sniff

12-4 Shion-chan, you're so nice...

Hehe, I should think so!

13-1 But

Only to girls, ok?

13-2 Rummble

13-3 KaBooom

13-4 Hyaa!

sfx: glomp

14-1 Crack

14-2 What's that!?

14-3 sfx: crack crack crack crack

Sound of bubblewrap being popped...!?

15-1 From where!?

sfx: whish

15-2 This way?

sfx: whish

15-3 Slap plap slap plap...

15-4 Huh!?

16-1 W-wait!

16-2 I just remembered another of the ghost stories...

16-3 There was a girl who died in an accident long ago,
and she still haunts the school as a ghost

16-4 At night, if you look out the 3rd floor windows...
You'll see her beckoning to you...

17-1 And if you happen to see that...
You'll die soon

17-2 Gulp

17-3 This is the second floor...

No problem

sfx: Ruuuummble

17-4 B-but the person who saw it just happened to be on the 3rd floor!

What if she appears on the 2nd as well...

sfx: Ruuuuumble

20-1 She
She
She

Ka-hah

She's heeere!!!

sfx: Whud

20-2 Ow...

20-3 Not there...!

20-4 What was that

Just now...?

20-5 Aikawa...?

21-1 If you don't move, I can't get up...

sfx: shiver shiver

21-2 It might still be there!

21-3 I don't know what it was, but it's not there now!

I had no idea that Aikawa was this much of a scaredy cat

22-1 sfx: shhhff

Really...?

22-2 .....ulk!

22-3 C-c-calm down here!

What am I getting worked up over here?

I'm just getting hugged by Aikawa... who's a guy...

23-1 Stop being stupid! I'm not getting worked up! I'm not!

23-2 Look, nothing to be scared of anymore...

But this is the first time I've seen Aikawa so meek...

23-3 Ok...

sxf: Thump

sfx: grip

You're here, Maki-kun

23-4 But if someone were to see us like this...

23-5 I don't know what they would say...

sfx: blush

24-1 OOooooh

sfx: Grrrrrrr

24-2 Whoooo is it?
Whooooo bailed out on being ghosts and are cuddling here...?

sfx: Grrrrrrr

Seriously holding a grudge [handwritten]

24-3 NYoo...!?
Hanasaka!?

sfx: Erk

24-4 You wanted to get into each other so much you bailed!

We can't have a Test of Courage, right!? [handwritten]

W-wait...!

24-5 Shion-chan...

25-1 W-what a relief!

It not a real ghost, it's just Shion-chan!

25-2 Geez, look now it's turned into a big mess!

I got worked up over nothing [handwritten]

25-3 Uh, no...

I just got here...

Just what's going on...!? [handwritten]

25-4 So the ghost didn't come out after all

25-5 Click

sfx: beep beep

25-6 But, uh, why was Kadoyama crying?

He was left by Hanasaka, it seems

What's with that?

Ahaha [handwritten]

26-1 This key... borrowed from the Acting Director

26-2 Huh!?

26-3 sfx: sneak sneak

26-4 So the ghost was the Acting Director!?

I saw you! Hey! [handwritten]

What up?

sfx: Oh man [by head]

sfx: Bam

Translation: Prunus Girl 9

Tue, 29 Dec 2009 02:31:23 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[Ver 1.0, Dec 22 2009]

Page 1 Panel 1 No matter if there's a lot or just a few, if they're big or small
Ghost stories exist at each school

In truth, some are unfounded rumors
and there are some that have been experienced by many people...

sfx: rummble

1-2 This very evening, you too
might experience

Evidence for their existence

sfx: click

2-1 And so!

It's time for the Big Test of Courage!

Ch 9: This is our school's ghost story? (Part One)

Matsumoto Tomoki

3-1 Tell me why?

Yes! Excellent question, Maki!

sfx: whip

3-2 Actually, I had been planning to ask someone to show me around the school

But merely asking someone lacked a certain excitement, so...

3-3 So when I consulted with the acting chairman of the board (whom I'm buddies with), I was lent the school's master key

He said I should hold a Test of Courage or something [handwritten]

Hey now, chairman, it's this really ok...?

It's a security hole! [handwritten]

3-4 Ease up, Maki! It's all ok

We get to do something fun like a Test of Courage, right?

4-1 Look, I didn't invite you

4-2 You suddenly gonna ban me?

4-3 I think it'll be more fun even with Kadoyama

Maybe [handwritten]

Isn't that being damned by faint praise? [handwritten]

See! See! Tachibani is backing me up!

4-4 Well, if Non-chan says so
I guess I've got no choice

H-hey, Shion-chan...!

So close...!

sfx: squeeze

4-5 sfx: Stunned

Hm Hm, no need to be embarrassed now

4-6 sfx: bop

Owie

That's enough, right?

sfx: th-thump th-thump

5-1 Ok, for a quick and dirty explanation
Simply start from the entrance here and pass through the wing where the special purpose rooms are

Through the 3rd year's wing, then the 1st & 2nd year's wing, and the goal is in front of our room, class A

5-2 Hanasaka, it's nice that you're explaining and all, but...

5-3 It seems you don't really need to be shown around, huh?

And so the Test of Courage isn't really... [handwritten]

Don't sweat the details!

sfx: whap whap

5-4 Since there are 4 guys and 4 girls

It'll make pairing up easy, huh?

A Test of Courage needs pairs, right?

6-1 I-I'm not getting paired with some guy! Seriously!

Eh? Ok, so we all go separately...?

So her goal was to have 3 guys, 5 girls...

If I'm not paired with a girl, this is pointless! [handwritten]

6-2 And of course for a Test of Courage

We pull straws and let destiny decide!

6-3 A girl! Well, Kizuna-chan would be ok too

6-4 A girl! Any girl would be ok!

Even Aikawa!

6-5 Please let me be paired with Maki-kun...

6-6 I wanna to talk to Shion-chan a bit more

6-7 It's been a while since everyone's gotten together like this

6-8 So sleepy!

7-1 Yay! Yay!

If you guys aren't going, we will

Whoa, no hesitation

7-2 sfx: Nab
sfx: Nab

7-3 Um...

Just what...

7-4 the hell is this?

"Ghost"? [handwritten]

Ghost [on sticks]

8-1 Ok! So Maki and Kizuna-chan are the ghosts!

Ghosts?

sfx: Whip

8-2 Well, we need someone to scare us [italicize "someone"]

Ehhhh....
Well, that's true, but...

8-3 Geez, this is a pain [handwritten]

But it'll be fun [handwritten]

But really...

8-4 Those two got paired up?
Is this destiny, or what?

9-1 Well, Kizuna-chan's a nice girl
I guess I'll just watch over her

9-2 It's just you left, Shion-chan

Mm? Ok, ok

9-3 Don't look so disappointed

sfx: Bam

Pair 3

Pair 1

Pair 2

10-1 What's the point if I'm paired with a guy?

sfx: wah

Uh, you do realize that's normal, right?

10-2 That's right, and you're quite the beauty, Hanasaka

So how about me? [handwritten]

sfx: Tah-dah!

You're losing out by not dating guys!

10-3 twitch

10-4 I really hate guys like you

Not sensitive at all [handwritten]

sfx; hmph

Hey...!

11-1 That's a little harsh after I just praised you, don't you think!?

These two'll never get along....

sfx: blah blah blah

I hate what I hate! What's wrong with that!?

11-2 Ok, we, the ghosts, are going on ahead

Ah, they're running away!

sfx: sneak sneak

11-3 It's not even 2nd semester

And Hanasaka's jerking me around already...

11-4 But it's great that everyone can have fun so soon

I think Shion-chan's pretty amazing, don't you?

12-1 So, what's that?

Ah, this?

12-2 Shion-chan gave it to me for when we play ghosts...

12-3 This may be harder than it looks, huh?

Whoa, yeah you have a point
Maki [box]

sfx: blaaaah

13-1 Booooo...!

13-2 Uh, is that supposed to be scary, Aikawa-san...?

sfx: bop bop

13-3 But seriously, I can't see ahead of me

sfx: flutter flutter

Hey, be careful!

It's dark here [handwritten]

13-4 Wham

Wah

13-5 I just said to be...
Are you ok? [handwritten]

sfx: Umph

14-1 Ow...

sfx: flip

sfx: spt

14-2 Wah Wah

14-3 Did you see?

sfx: Whish

15-1 I did, but...

But, um

15-2 I kinda had a feeling

15-3 About what your taste was in... um...

That is, to say...

15-4 No, forget it

I'm used to it after all this time

15-5 What? You want to take a nice long look?

If that's what you really want, then... [handwritten]

Daah!!
No, thanks!!

16-1 ...It's night... at school

sfx: fidget

I get that the mood is right, but...

16- 2 Wha...?

16-3 But
We can't, ok?

16-4 Even if the rules don't prohibit same sex relations, it's... [bold "same sex relations"]

No, no, no! We can't, and the "same sex" part doesn't even come into play here!!

Use your common sense!

17-1 Enough of that, help me out already!

With getting props to scare people and stuff!

We can't just rely on what Hanasaka has prepared [handwritten]

17-2 We're lucky it's our own class, we might find something in our lockers...

sfx; rummage

17-3 Hey...

You ok with ghosts and stuff?

Mm?

17-4 I think I'm more on the scaredy-cat side

But I'm fine with getting excited like this with everyone

17-5 And

18-1 And if a ghost were to appear

You'd protect me, right?

18-3 If a ghost really did appear, I couldn't beat it up

You don't have to beat it up [handwritten]

sfx: whish whish

18-4 ...mmOh?

19-1 What?

19-2 No, I just thought...

Beyond the window

19-1 A light...

sfx: Shhhhhhhh

20-2 Must be one of the group, right?

No, that doesn't make sense

20-3 One, it's on the other side of Class A, and it's the teacher's wing. That's not in the route.

20-4 And in the teacher's wing
There was nobody left, so...

21-2 The reality is that Hanasaka's got the master key
So that might mean

21-3 There might be "something else"

in this school besides us

21-4 Ah wahwahwah...
I-I'm getting scared...!

sfx: shiver shiver

22-1 Well, It's not like I really believe in ghosts, but

Ah wahwah [handwritten]

But since Aikawa saw that as well as me, it's not like it's nothing

22-2 Luckily the teacher's wing is there
If it's a thief or something, then there's something that could be done...

22-3 ...Aikawa, I'm going to go check it out

22-4 So, you stay here...

No way! No way, no way!

23-1 Don't leave me alone heeeere

You're getting too worked up over this

What's with you? [handwritten]

23-1 Geez, so we'll go together?

It might be a real ghost, you know?

23-3 Let's go exterminate a ghost. What a pain.

Ah wahwah
W-wait! Wait!

23-4 Who would want to be with a girl like you!!

Like anyone would choose you!!

Meanwhile [box]

Translation: Manga no Tsukurikata 19

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:44:25 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0 Dec 19, 2009]

Page 1 Panel 1

New style "yuri" manga artist story

The Duck Waltz

Hirao Auri

Volume 1 and 2
once again have new printings!

It's rumored that the
Hirao Auri Workbook will be on sale this winter

2-1 It's eating into the schedule after all! Well, I predicted that would happen

[schedule]

...th - Finish cover [date is obscured]
9th - Finish corrections
11th - Complete afterward
11th on - Trip
15th - Battle to finish manuscript

2-2 I didn't predict that!

2-3 When can we goooo on the trip?

When I'm finished with this month's manuscript

When will you be doooone?

She's here

2-4 Who?

2-5 Um...
What's her name...

3-1 It's Takeda, I'll have you know

3-2 Ugh

3-3 No! We're taking a break right now, I mean...

Forget the excuses - let's head back to your room

3-4 Uh

3-5 Ok!

4-1 Not again!

4-2 Ah
Deja vu, huh...?

4-3 It's not like I hate Takeda-san... I do want to get to know her better
But, it's... so frustrating!

4-4 Mori...

Takeda-san works faster, and her work's neater

4-5 I know she's can help out way more than me, but...!

Morishita!

5-1 Wait a sec, Morishita!
I know Onee-san is like that with Takeda concerning work, but

But she only hangs out with you, right?

5-3 Whaat? Really!?

5-4 Ah, I get it. So that's why you're so frustrated!

Eeeh!?

5-5 So you still haven't...?

It's like we're there, but...

6-2 We just need the right circumstances!

6-5 What's up?

6-6 Nothing...
to do

7-1 Bored, huh?

7-3 Ok, do roughs with us

Your own roughs...

7-4 Ah

7-5 The Law

Sachi

8-1 Takeda-san, it's Sachi!

What are you talking about?

8-2 Morishita is Sachi!

Y'know, the one you like!

8-4 Ah

8-5 It's like she almost lives in my home...

8-6 I see, so Morishita is Sachi...

9-2 So crappy!

9-3 There's no way

Hey!

9-4 Ok, so if she draws something in front of your eyes, you'll believe her?

9-5 Impossible

10-1 Anyone could imitate that art style
If they wanted to

10-3 Now you've said it!

10-4 But Sachi is not about the art
It's the story

11-1 It overflows like water

Runs downstream

And evaporates

It becomes the sky's tears

11-2 The art? It's not like it's important

11-4 Mo...
Morishita...
Don't let it get to you...

12-1 She's right...
It doesn't matter if it's me, huh...

12-2 It doesn't matter that it's me that helps you, huh, sempai?

12-3 Everything's ok if only Takeda-san's here, huh!

12-4 (That's true, but) That's not what I...

12-5 Kawaguchi-san! Let's finish up!

12-6 Whaaat?

13-1 You seem in a rush, huh?

You're running around [handwritten]

13-2 Nothin' to do

13-3 All you had to do was console me just a little! Geez, Sempai!

You don't have to rub how close you two are in my face!

Wh-what? You're talking like there's some sort of triangle...!?

13-4 Masato-kun, you'll do.
Say something to comfort me

13-5 Instead of Onee-san?

13-6 Yeah, instead of her

14-1 It won't have any meaning if she's not the one to say it

Mm... Yeah... That's true...

14-3 For me...
It's got to be her

14-5 Even if it's not that way for her
For me, it's got to be her

15-1 Am I being selfish?

15-2 I think... that's what love is all about, right?

15-3 Ah, so embarrassed!

15-4 Yeah

15-5 Yeah. That's right,
Masato-kun

16-2 Morishita...

16-3 Hah?

16-4 You finished!

While I was working on this, you didn't do your roughs and slept instead?

16-5 I wasn't sleeping!

16-6 I finished

I'm going to mail this. Wanna come with me?

17-1 Yeah!

For this, I'll go
Kawaguchi-san, shouldn't you take a break?

17-4 It's ok.
Takeda-san, watch the place with Masato

17-5 Eh? With someone I don't know...?

It's ok. He likes Morisato

No, I don't care about that, it's...

18-2 Um, I'm sorry

18-3 Eh?

18-4 We couldn't go on our trip
And you had to cool your heels all day

18-6 Me too. Sorry I wasn't more adult about it

19-1 For me, when it comes to your manga
It's good because it's that story with that art [italicize both occurances of "that"]

19-3 It's not your manga if you don't draw it
It's got to be you

20-1 Got it?

20-3 Yes!

Translation: Strange Mansion 7

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:28:24 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0 Nov 27, 2009]

Page 75 Panel 1

Room7: Terror! The Curse of the Trumpet

75-2 When I came home from campus

There was someone collapsed in front of the apartment

75-3 sneak sneak

75-4 sfx: Erk

sfx: crawl

75-5 ...gimme... something to eat...

Hyaaaa

76-1 Snorf Gulp

76-2 Huh? You're starting without waiting for me!? Geez!

But I was about to die from hunger!

76-3 I... I'll feed you once, ok? But...

But?

76-4 Don't fall in love with me!

76-5 Ah, no problem!

I'm not interested in girls with flat chests!

Seconds? [under panel]

77-1 Whap bop

Kya

77-2 Sorry about the delay...

My name is Tokuraji Ayame

Nice to meet you

77-3 A woman. Named Ayame. [This is a pun. Ayame can me both "beautiful" but also "suspicious"]

They often say "the name reflects a person's character", but, dude...

Heh heh ... mine says a "voluptuous beauty", mmm?

77-4 Geez! I can't believe you actually collapsed out in the open like that!

Don't you work!?

Work?

78-1 I write erotic novels

Whaaat?
You're a novelist?
That's cool! Even if it is Ero stuff [handwritten]

78-2 But since I only write same sex stories, I'm only published in specialty magazines...

sfx: sip

Both the Neko and the Tachi both have hot bodies... [Tachi is the dominant female, Neko the subordinate. Similar to the Seme/Uke dynamic]

You could just write normal stuff, you know... [italicize "could"]

78-3 So every day I go out to check out women's bodies to gather material

Molesting women on the train

That's how I have raised my knowledge of women to such a high level

79-1 To put it plainly, it's not for research...

You write erotic novels because you're into women's bodies! [italicize "because"]

Maybe there's some material in here, hm?

Ah, not that!

79-2 I just fed you! You owe me! So don't just go rummaging through people's photos, you bitch!

Kya! Oh, my!

Don't you make it sound like that!

79-3 Whumph

79-4 Ah

80-1 Ah...
This is that guy from the queer couple, huh?

Wah Wah Wah

80-2 So you know him from before?
Why?

Uuugh

How do you know him?

80-3 How do I...

We just were in the same club in high school

81-1 Three years ago

Is there a first year named Sadojima here!?

sfx: slam

81-2 Wh-what!?

sfx: Eeee

Sado-chi, what did you do!?

I-I don't know this person!

sfx: stomp stomp

You...

81-3 I heard you played trumpet in Junior High, right?

sfx: clamp

Haaahh?

82-1 I wanna use yer skills

Kyaaa

Sado-chaan!

82-2 tadah...

82-3 Kyaa! It's dirty!

No one's taken care of it [handwritten]

...we haven't had anyone to take care of the Shizu High School Oen Dan instruments for years [Oen dan is a male cheerleading squad]

82-4 That's because the school band doesn't put any effort into their performing skill...

I noticed that too once I started school here

82-5 A Oen Dan without instruments is like miso soup without tofu!

82-6 So you're here to be our salvation!

Join us!

Iyaaaaaa

I was forced to join the Oen Dan [box]

83-1 And so...

I was forced to practice with them everyday

Sit-ups [hand written]

Lonely, single trumpet [handwritten]

83-2 And when I went to cheer on the sports teams

The opponent brought their whole band!?

83-3 I can't face them with only one feeble trumpet!

I can't stand this! [in mouth]

Guts, Sadojima!

With guts and willpower, we'll find a way!

Shizu High School Oen Dan [banner]

84-1 Like that could happen

Toot toot

Ta-ta-taa-taaaah

84-2 Th-there's no way...

Lip bleeding because she was blowing so hard [handwritten]

This Oen Dan can't make it...

84-3 And we lost in the first round

84-4 If this is how it's going to be, here's my curse!

That each and every team loses in the first round!

sfx: Whooosh!

85-2 I see.
A curse, was it?

Hmmm [handwritten]

Yeah...
At each game, I fed the sound of my trumpet with "lose, lose!"

85-3 And just at that time...

85-4 Shirahai-sempai joined the club

Excuse me, I'd like to join

86-1 It was love at first sight

86-2 Wow, so hunky!
If he's in the Oen Dan

Then I guess it's ok if I continue

86-3 But that's when the curse took effect

After that, Shizu High's sports teams kept losing

And the Oen Dan had fewer chances to perform...

86-4 And now, the Oen Dan doesn't even exist, I hear

If it hadn't been for the curse, I might have had a destiny that was closer to Shirahai-sempai...

sfx: sigh...

I'm not one to talk, but, you're pretty damn weird, huh [bold "weird"]

Room7: The End

Translation: Change H Pink Oneshot : Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Boy

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:27:10 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for the proofread]

[ver 1.1 Nov 21, 2009]

Page 1 Panel 1

Ah..!?

Cu...
Cute...

This could be bad...

1-2 Junko's... [box]

Eyes... are scary... [box]

Ah, mm
Yer damn cute!

I like it...

1-3 Ok, next
let's have you lift your skirt!

Eh!?

Hurry it up!

1-4 Shit!!

Lift. It. Up!!

Lift. It. Up!!

Lift. It. Up!!

Shit!!
Shit...

1-5 sfx: th-thump
th-thump

2-1 Shit!!

...shit.

hah hah hah

2-2 Koide Junko, you bitch!

Ooooh

For a goddamned girl...

hah hah hah hah

2-3 And I'm...
A guy... and I'm....

2-5 Gulp

2-6 shhff

3-2 Touch

3-3 Wha!? Wh-what the hell!!?

M-my bad

You look so good, I couldn't help myself

3-4 Ah, but...

It's not yet...
Perfect...

3-5 Sit yer ass right there
I'll get you ready, 'kay?

4-1 Ahh...

What the hell...

Am I doing...?

5-1 Let me alone!

5-2 I'm Okashita Yu

It's ok, Yuko! [Yuko is a girl's name]

I said lemme go!

Stop!

Just a little!
Just a little bit!
It's not like I'm gonna use 'em up!

I'm a junior high 3rd year
I'm... a boy...
They call me "Yuko"

5-3 Nnn!!?

Ah!!

I have a post-pubertal sex change disorder
And...

sfx: squeeze

5-4 Ah...
Goddammit...

Super soft!

And ever since 2nd year, my body has
Gradually been changing into a girl

sfx: squeeze squeeze

Really?

5-5 Just like a girl's!

Goddammit

You've never touched a girl's, asshole

I'm next! Me!

sfx: excitement

6-1 My father's doesn't live at home and what's more, I have two older sisters, so I...

Stop that!!

You're both guys! What are you doing!?

That's disgusting! [upper left of page]

6-2 So when I played as a kid, it was "house" or with dolls

Sh-
Shaddup, Koide!

OK, so let us squeeze your boobs, Koide! [italicize "your"]

I got female hand-me-down clothes [italicize "female"]

6-3 Guys are all so dumb, huh!?

Junko's right! You suck!

Perverts! Fuck off!

When...
My chest started to swell

6-4 Th...
Thank...

I thought "well, no surprise"

6-5 Okushita, act like a man!
Just say "no" already!

6-6 It was like I had already given up

Ah, well, maybe it's impossible. Yuko's a girly boy, after all!

7-1 I go to the hospital once a week

There's about 1 in 10,000 people with post-pubertal sex change disorder

7-2 There's not a doctor that can see me locally. I have to ride the train.

Ok, let's take a look, Okushita-kun

7-3 Mm...
They've gotten
A little larger, I think

Does it hurt, Okushita-kun?

Ah, well...
Um...

7-4 But

Um...
Sometimes

My n...
nipples...

7-5 twitch

7-6 Ah, yeah, it's about that time
They're getting sensitive

That's right...
I guess...

8-1 It's about time for a bra, right?

That's a little...
They'd just make fun of me

8-2 I understand how you feel,
So just put up with like always then

8-3 Ah...

Ok

Every time

8-4 She says the same thing

My disorder is still progressing

My body is not stable, so surgery or drugs are not yet advised

8-5 When I graduate from high school...

I'll have to decide: boy or girl...

8-6 But in truth...

9-1 My chest keeps getting bigger

and...

sfx: zip zip

9-2 It feels like my d-dick and my balls
are getting smaller

9-3 It's not like they were all that big to begin with

9-4 Am I scared, or am I...

sfx: pshhhhhh

9-5 shhhhh

9-6 If things keep going like this, I'll...

Pshhhhhh

9-7 Pshhhhh

Pshhhhhh

10-1 Ehh!?

10-2 Why...?

shhhhh

Huh? Why is Koide Junko here?

10-3 At this hospital!?

Shhhhh

10-4 Waitasec! This is the men's room!

10-5 So... Eh?

10-6 Sshhhh

Eh!?

10-7 Eh!?

Gulp

10-8 Huh?
Ah...

10-9 Ah

Huh!?
Huh!?

11-1 What should I do now?

You saw my secret

So...

Eh?
Koide Junko is...

What should I do?

11-2 Okashita! You're gonna take responsibility for this, right?

That's right...
I wanna talk with you a little

The leader of the girls at school, Koide Junko [lower right box]

goes to

sfx: shff

11-3 the same

Hospital as me?

I got a change of clothes, so
It's ok, huh, Okashita!

A change of clothes?

11-4 Eeeeeeh!!?

Come on over to my house!

12-1 What the hell...

am I doing?

Dressed like this...

12-2 That looks good on you, Okashita...
No, that's not it
Ya look hot, Yuko!

Why are you dressed like that too?

12-3 Ah, this?
Do I look hot in this Gakuran? [Gakuran is the male uniform]

Ehehehe

12-4 sfx: th-thump th-thump

sfx: glance

12-5 I bought it in secret! Mom and Dad don't know.
Didn't have enough to get the pants though

sfx: squish

12-6 I'm Koide Jun!
If ya call me Junko, I'm gonna knock yer head off!
Yeah, like that

13-1 O-ok! Look, Yuko!

Time ta get down to brass tacks!

What!?

13-2 I-I-I-I want ya to tell me [small panel]

all sorts... of stuff
Like

13-3 [small panel]
As a male sempai [sempai = someone with prior experience in this case]

Um...

13-4 Eh?
As a male sempai?

What is Jun talking about...?

Eh?
Jun?
What kind of stuff?

L-look, Yuko
Like about a guy's...

sfx: th-thump th-thump th-thump

13-5 About a guy's dick n' stuff

Ok!?

14-1 Koide want me to...

14-2 There's stuff... I cant' figure out myself

We have the same condition...
We're in the same boat...

Junko of all people [box]
Wants me to...

14-3 Thinks of me as...

14-4 I've never had

anyone to

confide in

14-5 This thing!

So when you go pee,
You don't wipe it with tissue?

14-6 You can't flush paper down the urinal, right?
So what do you do?

After the stream stops, you just put it away

14-7 Serious!?
You'll get your panties dirty!

Guys are so disgusting!
You gotta wipe the tip! I'm gonna wipe the tip!

15-1 Ah,
And this!

It's suddenly gets bigger, huh?

Yeah

Right! [by her head]

15-2 R-really!!
B-but why!?
The sex ed book said it gets bigger when you think about sex
But it happens even when I don't think of sex

Ah, it's got nothing to do with that

15-3 I just gets hard sometimes with no connection to what you're thinking
That's just how it is

15-4 Ah...

Ah?

R-really

15-5 I get it!
So it has nothing to do with what you're thinking?
Like in the middle of class?

It happens like that

Every guy's gotta deal with that

16-1 But...

I see, I see...
Hmm, so that's how it is, huh?

sfx: yank [at shorts]

So that's what's normal [italicize "that's"]
I can't believe it. And it's my own body...

This is kinda disgusting [bottom of panel]

J-just where is she looking!? [right of Yu's head]
Er, well

Her's is bigger than mine...
I saw it
Crap!!

I had no idea that Koide was... [box]

16-2 Like this

But I feel better now

16-3 A while ago, it suddenly got hard
I wondered if I was a big perv or something

Her expressions... [box]

16-4 Change all the time

It's the first time...

16-5 We're the same... I guess

Hey! Back when the guys

Were squeezing your boobs, suddenly...

I got a woody! I couldn't figure out why

17-1 Mm...?

17-2 So that's also

Not related to thinkin' about sex... right?

Eh? That time?

17-3 Jun

Huuuh?

Under her skirt...?

17-4 Eh?

17-5 Eh!?

17-6 Aaand... how to...
...bate

Tell me how to do it...

Wha?

17-7 Eh!?
Whaa!?

Look, when you masturbate, it gets smaller, I heard [put "masturbate" in small text]

I-it does, b-but...

So I had better know how, right?

18-1 M-my way?
Eh? But...

It's ok, already! Guys talk about this stuff
Like about how, right?
It said so in the book

18-2 So just do it like it says in the book!!

18-3 I...

Tried
it...
but

it was...

She... [box]

18-4 tried it... [box]

The way in the book
When I gripped it...

I-it hurt...
I don't get how you do it

Jun tried it... [box]

18-5 Smiling [box]

I-I don't have anyone

Sulking [box]

I-I-I'm a boy-girl, so...
That's why
...I can't

18-6 Girly boy? Boy girl?

Maybe...

18-7 Geez

T-the way I do it?

You'll teach me!?

We're the same, I guess

19-1 F-first put a little spit in the palm of your hand...

Mm-hm!

Then... you take the head like this
And wrap around it

L-like this?

Yeah
...and then you pump your hand like this

Ooooh!! Ah, I get it
Like this, huh?
Y-Y-Yuko,
I'm going to the bathroom, ok?

sfx: thumpa thumpa

19-2 sfx: slam

The bathroom...

Jun...

19-3 In any case

What a big room, hm...

19-4 First time I've been to her house

19-5 Her whole house is big, I guess
I heard her father is a politician or something?

Mm?

20-1 I look...
good

I guess
As a girl [bold this]
I'm a little embarrassed tho-

20-2 Koide Junko...

I wonder if she wants to be a boy

sfx: spin

I bet she does
Sure seems like it

20-3 If so...
Then as a girl
It might work out perfectly

20-4 Hm?

20-5 What the hell am I thinking?

Huh? Huh? Get a grip, dude!

sfx: click

21-1 Creeak

21-2 The way you said

I got it
Thanks

21-3 She tried it? Wha?

Y-your welcome

sfx: Honk honk

21-4 A car!?

Ah, that's Mom and Dad!?

sfx: thumpa thumpa thumpa

21-5 Why!?
There were supposed to stay over...

Ah, but there they are
Shit!

21-6 Yuko, stay here!
I'm going to go deal with my folks

Don't peek while I change!

Yeah, yeah

Why all the sudden...?

22-1 Welcome home, Mom and Dad

22-2 You're early, huh? I heard you had a party today.
I thought you'd...

22-3 Junko, has Masaya come home?

22-4 He hasn't...

Well, then where is he?

22-5 I don't know...

Why don't you!?
He's your younger brother, right?

22-6 He's not in his room either...

Masaya's not here?

23-1 What are you going to do now?
That party is Masaya's formal debut, right?

Whoa...
Seems to be heavy

I know that!!
Don't get so pissed off!

23-2 2Junko, do you know when Masaya might have gone off to?

23-3 This is your fault!!

You're so soft on Masaya that he...

23-4 It's fine for guys to be like that!
Especially if he's going to be a politician, he should play around while he can

Oh, really. I thought you were useless because all you did was study
But you were actually born that way

23-5 Hmph!
The men of this family!

Really, Junko dear
It would have been better if you were a boy

24-1 I'm sorry, Mom

24-2 Click

24-3 You heard?

24-4 ...sorry

24-5 Aahh!
You heard the

Dirty laundry, huh?

25-1 Don't

Tell anyone... please

25-3 Like I'd do that
But

25-4 Don't Worry

After all...
We're the same
right?

26-1 Hey, Okushita
Were you scared? When you found out about your disorder?

Eh? Ah...
I don't really know
I guess I already thought of myself as girly, so...
But when I saw my chest started growing I guess I was a little...
scared...

I see

What about you, Jun?

26-2 Jun

I bet you always wanted to be a boy, right?

26-3 ...I don't know

But

26-4 I have thought about what it would have been like if I was born a boy

Especially when I look at my little brother
Um...

If...

27-1 I was a boy

Maybe...

Mom and Dad

would love me more...

27-3 But!
It pisses me off!

What's so bad about me being a girl, huh!
That's what I think

27-5 When my penis came out...

Scared?
Happy...
Pained?

Ah, I just don't get it...
What is it...?

28-1 Hm-hm

Ah...

28-2 H-how was it? Being a girl today?

Ah... um, nothing special

28-3 Well, then, um...
Um!

H-how was I

As a guy...?

28-4 Mm?

Ah...

So Koide wanted...?

28-5 Jun...

Wanted me to see her as a guy...

28-6 I dunno

And I also...

Ah, come on!!

28-7 J-just come out and say it already!
That's why the guys as school are always messing with you!

It pisses me off

Asshole!

C'mon, Jun, you're confused too [box]

28-8 Well, whatever...

I've figured one thing out
It's...

just like I thought

29-1 You and I

We make a good pair
Absolutely!

30-1 The next day at school Koide Jun

Oh, right, Yu!
Bras!

Eh?

Surprised everyone by cutting her hair short

30-2 Koide looked totally boyish [box]

She told all the girls it was 'cause "she felt like it" [box]
As for me

I'm wonder about what to do...

next Sunday

Yu, you definitely need a bra

Ah... yeah
I guess

I've got some of my sister's

No way!
You've got to have one that fits you
Ah, that's it
Yu, about this Sunday...

Translation: Swing Girl 1

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:14:28 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0 Nov 12, 2009]

[NOTE!!! The name of this series is SWING GIRL not Bra Girl]

Page 00 Panel 1

[in the pink hearts] New Serialization

This time the girl is spunky and cute BUT
just a little...
STRANGE maybe!?

I have a pe... [at bottom by "day "]

1-1 Haruka

I love you!

1-2 I...

I do too...

Person whose name I do not know...

1-3 quiver

1-4 Ah...hhh

2-1 Nn

Wha..!?

2-2 Hwya!?

Hah hah

Lick

Slurp

K-kisses [box]

2-3 Mm

Nn

Kisses are...

This...
Ah...

2-4 Slup

hah hah hah

Oh!!

They're this... oh god...

2-5 ...I'm scared

I'm scared...
I've never done this

Nn!!

Fwa

Hah hah hah hah

2-6 No...
It's embarrassing...

Stop

Fuu

Nn...

sfx: quiver quiver quiver

2-7 So gentle
Ah...

Wah...

Nn

Siigh....

...hya

Slide [by hand]

sfx: quiver quiver

3-1 He's...
He's squeezing my

My...

Ahh...

sfx: quiver quiver

sfx: shlick

3-2 Brrring

3-3 Briiiing

Briiiing

4-1 Aaaah

I had that dream again

sfx: blush

I'm...
sniff

4-2 That was a really dirty dream
Phooo

Why?

4-3 Maybe 'cause I read dirty manga on my cell phone before bed?
Geez
I should have gone right to sleep
It was the same the day before too

4-4 Haruka-chaaan

It's morning

4-5 If you don't get up now...

Breakfast will get cold
...Oof

5-1 Haaaah!

Not today too!?

5-2 O-ok then

Hurry up and get changed, ok?

5-3 Click

5-4 Ah
I guess that

5-5 I've got a...
strong sex drive
Sniff

6-1 I'm Ooi Haruka

Crap!
I'm gonna be late for that train [italicize "that"]

16 years old. High school first year.

Just a regular girl like you can find anywhere.
...well

6-2 I'm a little

Short

sfx: ding ding ding

6-3 Boing

6-4 And...
A little flat chested

Kinda like my development's stalled

6-5 And...
And... even though I'm a girl...

sfx: ding ding ding

7-1 I have

Wah!!?

A penis
OMG. I said it.

sfx: whoosh

7-2 In this world we live in
Occasionally there are people who develop into a third sex
...like me
Even though we're girls, one day, suddenly something like... a p-penis...

It seems that it was kept a secret in the old days, but

Recently certain performing artists have come out, and have gotten popular

7-3 Appearing in magazines...

We learn about them in class and stuff

sfx: shove shove

7-4 Compared to before, there more acceptance...

It seems

sfx: Pshhh

8-1 But not me
There's no way I can tell other people

A common rumor says that girls who "have one" have... higher sex drives

That it makes the boys not like them

8-2 Is he

Here today too?

I bet guys...

8-3 Will be freaked out by girls who "have one"

Well...

8-4 Ah?

By girls who have a kid's body like me

8-5 But before I can even worry about that...

Oh my

He's
Here!!

9-1 Yay!
What a great day!

So sleepy [guy]

Yaay
I'm breathing the same air!
This rocks!

Guy whose name I don't know...

Ever since you unwittingly helped me out I've always...

9-2 Been interested

That was 6 months ago...

It's been 3 months since I found out you ride this train

9-3 Ah, geez
My legs are tired

I wanna be taller

sfx: clomp

9-4 Nnnn

...Of course
I'm just watching from afar

Wah

sfx: th-thump th-thump

10-1 The back of his neck...
Is tanned

I wonder if he does club?

Hah hah hah hah

10-2 Ah!!
His hand grabbing the ring

I can see the veins

hah hah hah hah

10-3 What school does he go to?

Same year as me?
I always...

hah hah hah

sfx: jump jump

sfx: clench

10-4 Cough

Whaa!?

10-5 Oh!

10-6 Bulge

Hyyaaaaa!?

11-1 It's always doing that [italicize "always"]

My penis

11-2 Whenever I get excited, it gets all hard
Why?
Is it just me?

D-do guys all get hard in the same way?

What do they do about it?

11-3 But, even so

I've got no friends

11-4 to talk to

Tadah!

So it's decided that we're going!

I'm on board!

Ah

11-5 Ooi-san
Do you want to go the pool too?

about this [box]

The more people we have, the bigger the discount
Guys are coming too, hmmm?

11-6 Eh
Really

Ah!!

11-7 Ah...

Pool... swimsuit...
and me...

12-1 I've got something to do that day... sorry
Thanks, though

What about Meiko from class 2?

Yeah...
I've been in this school since kindergarden

My classmates are almost all old friends, but
I... ever since high school...

Meiko'll come!
I mean, she's...

12-2 Normally, I'm pretty chatty, but

I can't tell

Ahh
This again...

12-3 If only I had some friends to talk about over with...

12-4 But even as I stress over it

I'm home, and I'm hungry!

Night comes around again

12-5 I'm going!

and morning comes too

13-1 Hyaa!?
Isn't today...

more c-crowded than usual?

sfx: crammed crammed crammed

13-2 B-but
I've gotta get on this train

The train is departing

Or I can't
See him!

13-3 Umph!

sfx: whump

13-4 Uwah

Whoa
Totally squished

sfx: click clack

13-5 sfx: glance

Guy whose name I don't know...
You here today...?
Ummm...

13-6 sfx: shove

Hyaan!!

13-7 Are you ok?

14-2 Whaa

Whaa

sfx: squish

14-3 Uwah...

Ehh!?

Eh!?
Eh?

14-4 No way...

No way!!!

Th-th-th-th

this is tooooo close!!!

sfx: click clack

15-1 Fwaa...
I'm glad I washed my hair this morning...

Wow... [guy]

Smells so nice [guy]

I'm really sweating
I-I wanna put on deodorant

And put on lipgloss
Ahhhh

sfx: th-thump th-thump

15-2 Ah?
This is...?

This is guy whose name I don't know's...

His heartbeat?
Huh?
Mine?

sfx: th-thump th-thump

15-3 This...?

This is guy whose name I don't know's... [bottom right]

Smell...?

Body heat...?

sfx: th-thump th-thump

15-4 N-n!? N-n-no!!

My mind's going blank

No

I'm gonna get a nosebleed...

sfx: th-thump th-thump

16-1 I-I'm...

Getting hard!

16-2 Shit!

No!

sfx: whump

16-3 Geez...

16-4 sfx: Shove

sfx: squish

17-1 Haaaah!!!

sfx: squish squish

17-2 M-m-my
My...

It's pressed up against him...

17-3 sfx: push

No...
No!!

I can't

17-4 sfx: shove

sfx: squish

Nooooo

17-5 sfx: screeech

Ah!!

sfx: wobble

Hyaa!?

Wah!! [guy]

sfx: slump [upper left]

sfx: squish

17-6 sfx squish

sfx: squish

Aaaaahn

18-1 No
Nooo
Sniff

sfx; rub

sfx: squish

18-2 N-no...
It's..!!

sfx: ruub

sfx: slide

18-3 Pressed against...
Sniff

sfx: rub

sfx: throb [lower right]

sfx: rub

I-i-i-i-it's...

18-4 It's rubbing!!

Waaah
I'm...!!

Mm? Something's poking...

me?

hah hah hah

18-5 Wha...

Mm?

Hah hah

I'm...

18-6 My heart's
gonna burst!!

18-7 I'm gonna die!!
I'm gonnaaa die...

sfx: rub rub

18-8 N-no...

No...

hah hah hah

18-9 I-I've never even...

hah hah hah

sfx: rub rub

18-10 been kissed yet...

hah hah hah

sfx: rub

18-11 sfx: Rub

Not even

sfx: rub rub

18-12 Not yet!!

Not...!!

hah hah hah

19-1 sfx: Twitch

sfx: Twitch

sfx: quiver quiver

19-2 Ah...

Eh?

What... was that...?

Hah hah hah

sfx: quiver quiver

19-3 Ah...

Felt so good...

Ah...

Hah hah hah

sfx: quiver quiver

Phew [with heart]

19-4 sfx: slump

It's the first time

I've felt like this...

19-5 Nn?

I can't stand...

20-1 Eh?

sfx: slide slide

Ah!?

What?

sfx: slide

Just... what?

20-2 Pheeew

Hey!?
Hey!
Ah!?

What is...

my body?

20-3 Hey! You!

Are you ok!? Hey!

No good...

No good...

I don't get it...
But this...

20-4 This sweet...

Tingling...

hah hah hah

20-5 What...?

21-2 Mm...?

Huuh?

Where am I?

21-3 Eh?

School?
Nurse's office?

Eh?

21-4 sfx: clap

Huh?
Eh!?

I...?
I...?

21-5 Waking up, huh?
That's great

22-1 That's great. It's nice to meet you...

Ta-daah!

Welcome!
Welcome to the Swing Girls club!

Hahwah!?

23-1 Nhuh?

Hey now

Manaka!
Don't just draft her into the club

24-1 But it's great

That you're ok

24-2 Um...

Ooi-san, was it?
First year, second class

Y-yes!

24-3 Well then
to get right to the point

Ooi-san, you have

24-4 A penis

Right?

Translation: Strange Mansion 6

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:10:28 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0 Nov 4, 2009]

Page 63 Panel 1

Room 6: The Circumstances Surrounding Shirahai-Sempai

63-3 Yaaawn

64-1Harutaka-san
Goood Mooorning

It's nice out today

Nmmgh

64-2 Hey...
You're going to be late for work

Uuuuugh
Yeah, yeah

64-3 Yuko and Harutaka

are a couple of part time employees living together

65-1 Ok sweetie, I'm going to work

Yeah

...oh yeah
I'm gonna be a little late, so I'm gonna grab dinner there

65-2 That so?
That's too bad [handwritten]

Ok, I'll grab a bento from the corner store and make do with that

See you later [bottom]

sfx: Thump

65-3 Kyaa

Dojima!?

65-4 sfx: sulk

I saw that... [handwritten]

65-5 ...Dojima-chan, you're leaving late today
Ahaha

I just have a meeting in the afternoon

66-1 Oh yeah, you can choose the things you want to do at college

That's nice. My father was really strict, and
I never was allowed to do what I wanted

66-2 This is the first time...

That Shirahai-sempai's talked about his family...

66-3 My dad was always
"A guy's gotta be manly"

"Yuuji, you mustn't be weak!" and stuff.
He made me take martial arts

66-4 So if he was to find out I had a sex change and am a woman now

Commit Harakiri!
...yeah, he'd definitely say that

sfx: Shiver

67-1 So that's why if you go back on vacation or something, please keep my whereabouts a secret... ok?

Same hometown [box]

O-ok...

sfx: slump

sfx: tug

So the only reason you're telling me this is because you're worried...

67-3 It's so nice when you only have school in the afternoon

Really

67-4 Manager, last order for the B lunch

Ok

67-5 Safety First [sign]

67-6 Ah, Shirahai-san

68-1 There was a customer who cancelled an order of the A lunch set

You can have it if you'd like

Yay!
That's great! [handwritten]

68-2 Thank you!

68-3 One hour later

sfx: guurgle

68-4 Manager...
If you leave it out in this heat for an hour, this is going to happen!

Sorry...

sfx: Guurrgle

68-5 ...I can't hold it...
I have to use the restroom!

Ah, that's...

69-1 Being used by a customer

Occupied [door]

Hyaa

69-2 I'll use the one in the park behind the shop

sfx: slam

69-4 sfx: Thump thumpa thumpa

sfx: spit

69-5 Slam

69-6 Whew

I made it in time

69-6 H-hey
What was that?

Wow, a girl using the guy's toilet...

70-1 Sh-shoot!

Gotta be a slut
Hahaha

I blew it and went in the guy's toilet!!

70-2 It's only been a bit longer than a year since I've been a woman...

70-4 SHhhhh

70-5 They finally left...

I've gotta get outta here fast!

70-6 sfx: dash

71-1 Oh
She came out

Hey, there

You were just in the guy's bathroom, huh?

sfx: smirk smirk smirk

They were waiting for me!

71-2 I was in a hurry and made a mistake!
Excuse me!

Oh god [handwritten]

Gimme a break
You're just sayin' that. You were in there to take a peek, huh?

71-3 Ah

You were there to get guys, huh?

71-5 Don't touch me... [she uses a masculine word for "me" here]

72-1 Wha

sfx: whish

72-2 Wham

72-3 Gyaa

sfx: whud

Wha

What!?

73-2 Crunch

Gwaaah

73-3 Too... strong...

sfx: spurt

73-4 Huff

sfx: whump

Instant Kill

73-5 Hah?

73-6 Aaaah...

Well, the stuff Dad made me learn came in handy

74-1 It was like the "guy" switch was turned on back there

sfx: squeek squeek

You ok?
Your tummy...

74-2 But...

74-3 I just want to be,

Ah
You waited up?

Yeah

Harutaka's cute little girl

74-4 I'm definitely going to keep today a secret

sniff...

sfx: snoooore

Room6: The End

Translation: Kanransha Oneshot : Ferris Wheel

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:58:34 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

[ver 1.0 Oct 29, 2009]

Page 1 Panel 1

Sudden long distance love

Kanransha [ferris wheel]

So I got this confession suddenly dumped in my lap

Sudo-san

1-2 I love you! So...

Takahata-kun. 2 years younger.

Goodies

1-3 Sudo-san

Midnight snack

1-4 Oh?

Do you love cute, younger guys? [vertical on left]

2-1 Mm?

What's with the "so"...

And, um

So
I just found out I'm being transferred

2-2 Ah, I know about that!

Going to the Kyushu office, right?

2-3 We work in the same office, after all

I heard about that [handwritten]

Um

Um, well
Look

2-4 What are we gonna do?

3-1 "What are we gonna do"?

Hey now...

3-2 Is that something to ask me?

There's nothing to do, right?

Well, in the first place
What are you asking?
Are you asking me what to do?

3-3 So I'm the one who has to decide!?

So it's ok that I decide this, right?

sfx: droop

4-1 That was fast!

5-1 Ok, so now it's over

So what to do with the remaining 10 pages?

5-2 Hey.
How much ya gonna give me?

Pheeew

Like this? [box]

[Put a dollar symbol in the back, replacing the yen symbol]

5-3 You can go home now

Fwaah

Thanks for the ride

Like this? [box]

5-4 That's what I could say

Like I could say that... [handwritten]

sfx: hahaha

Ooo...

5-5 Whoosh

5-6 Sh-shoot...

I...

I fell asleep

You were only out for 5 minutes
It's ok

sfx: search search search

sfx: my glasses

6-1 You're not spending the night?

6-2 No

6-3 I have to pack
and stuff like that

I have to go home

6-4 Ok, so what now...?

Ah, that's right
He's moving...

7-1 I don't get it

Well,
Whatever

And I don't even smoke [handwritten]

7-2 Is that ok with you!?

Goto-san: co-worker

Shochu [a japanese liquor like vodka]

7-3 You think it's wrong?

It's not that it's wrong or anything

Hey, settle down [handwritten]

I don't get it!
How can you suddenly do something like that?

7-4 How can I...

7-5 Cause the opportunity was there?

Noooo

Cause it'd be a waste to say no?

I don't get iiiiit!

8-1 So. What should I do about this?

Beep beep beep beep

phone [handwritten]

8-2 For things like this there's an etiquette, a process
And everyone seems to adhere to it

Hello

Sudo-san?

8-3 Oh...

Sorry to call so late

8-4 I tried calling any number of times, but...

Ah

I was drinking in a underground restaurant [many restaurants and bars in Japan are on basement floors]
I guess there was no signal

Ah... Oh...
Well then...

8-5 You've already eaten...

I stuffed myself

Hey...
Don't be so persistent

8-6 Should I head over to your place?

9-1 Whoa

9-2 Look at this! You've already packed everything

Ah, yeah. I'm moving tomorrow

Oh? Was it tomorrow?

9-3 The only thing left is your bed

Yeah...

That's got to be the last thing, of course...

sfx: ahahaha

9-4 The last thing you use...

Ah

Oh [handwritten]

10-1 I'm sorry, Sudo-san

I really...

10-2 Don't make that face

11-1 Really
I wanted to go out to eat more
go out to drink more

Yeah

Picnics and stuff

Yeah

Movies...

11-2 Going on drives...
Even though I don't have a car [handwritten]

Yeah

Yeah, but

11-3 Right now

We don't have the time

11-4 We're here

The two of us...

11-5 Ding dong

12-1 Takahata-saaan
We're from the moving company

sfx: knock knock knock

sfx: ding dong ding dong ding dong

12-2 Wait!
Wait just a second!

sfx: Gyaaaaa

And then

12-3 The boxes went in the truck

He went to the airport

12-4 sfx: slump

I'm sorry I'm so tired...

It's ok

12-5 Sudo-san
Look at that

A ferris wheel

We can see if from inside the train

12-6 click clack

13-2 Next time

Let ride that

13-3 Let's go on a real date

sfx: click clack

13-4 I'll come to see you

Ok, then...

14-1 To tell you how things went from there

beep beep beep

text message [handwritten]

14-2 Takahata
Seems like I can get on the 6:45 flight as planned

14-3 Hmmm

So you're still seeing him, no matter what you say

sfx: snap

14-4 Hey

Don't peep [handwritten]

You gotta complaint?

14-5 sfx: smirk

What a girl

14-6 Ugh

He comes to see me

14-7 I meet him at the airport

14-8 And our dates...?

15-1 Dates...?

We don't.

15-2 We fuck

15-3 and fuck

15-4 and keep fucking

15-5 Until we are completely, absolutely wiped out

He goes home [box]

N-next time

Let's go on a date, ok?

The ferris wheel

sfx: Exhausted

15-6 Let's ride the ferris wheel

Ahh...

16-1 I'm happy

Bedhead [handwritten]

16-2 I'm gonna die at this rate

Yeah

If we ever manage to ride that ferris wheel

16-3 I'm gonna be too happy and I'll die. I'm certain of it.

Translation: Prunus Girl 8

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:57:02 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

[ver 1.1 Oct 30, 2009]

Page 1 Panel 1

Okay, we're all here today, so...

I'd like to introduce a new classmate who's joining us 2nd semester

1-2 First day of the new semester
This slow pace is so nice

sfx: spaced out

1-3 Transfer student?

1-4 Hanasaka

1-5 flutter

2-1 I'm Hanasaka Shion!

Hanasaka Shion [blackboard]

Puranas Girl

Chapter 8: Deja Vue Transfer Student?

Matsumoto Tomoki

2-2 First, let me get this out of the way
I'm a girl!

3-1 This pattern

3-2 Is familiar...!

3-4 But I love girls!

sfx: Bam!

4-1 ....eh

EEeeeeh...!?

That's how it is, so nice ta meetcha!

4-2 Hanasaka...!?

4-4 Eh?
Maki...!?

5-1 Well, this is a surprise
I never would have thought you'd be in this school

5-2 Well, I'm surprised too

Ahaha
Well, I did hear you were going to a top academy, but...

5-3 In any case...

You haven't changed a bit

5-4 Oh? Like what?

It's only been 6 months [handwritten]

5-5 Did you think

that I'd get over my interest in girls?

5-6 Well...

sfx; reach

6-1 If all guys were like you
they might actually be prospects

sfx; yoink

6-2 Maki-kun, do you know her?

Mm?
Ah, she's a junior high classmate

sfx; lean

6-4 Waah!!

Wah!

sfx: grab

7-1 O-o-o-oh

What a cutie!

Awahwah

sfx: glomp

7-2 What's your name!?

Ah
Aikawa Kizuna

7-3 Kizuna-chan

I transfer in, and bang! A chance encounter!

sfx: siiiiigh

7-4 Hanasaka-san's kinda weird, huh?

You're one to talk [italicize "you're"]

sfx: siiigh

8-1 Huh?

What?

8-3 Oho! So that's how it is [italicize "that's"]

8-4 So Maki's Mr. Popular now that he's in high school

Typical. How nasty.

8-5 Hanasaka...
You might confess your love, but...

9-1 Dude, here

he's a guy

sfx: poke

9-3 Oh, c'mon, Maki, what are you trying to...

You have heat stroke or something?

9-4 Sorry

But it's true!

sfx: grin

10-2 Hanasaka-san's a lot like Maki-kun...

10-3 No way, no way!

No way, no way!

10-4 Tell me it's a liiiiee!

S-sorry...

sfx: wah

11-1 You're amazing. I've never seen Hanasaki like this...

sfx: Dead

11-2 W-well, um
uh, what?

11-3 If that's true, well then nothing you can do
Yeah, nothing you can do

sfx; crying

sfx; shake shake

She's seems really upset

11-4 Hanasaka-san, you really love girls, huh?

Yep! Love 'em!

11-5 Whish

12-1 I love the beauty of girls! Their cuteness! Their elegance!

I love their voices! Their fragrance! The feel of them!

sfx: sigh

12-2 I especially love maidens who are in love themselves. Too cute!

Just seeing them makes me want to hug them!

sfx: bam

12-3 On the other hand, just what are guys!?

How do you even begin to compare them!?

Uh, Maki-chan's super-ok, though

12-4 Ah... crap!

Anyway...
Anyway!

sfx: shake shake

13-1 I love

Girls!!!

sfx: clench

13-2 Hey! Tone it down!

You're in the middle of the hallway! [handwritten]

sfx: whisper whisper

13-3 ...so that mean's you've had nothing going on since your first love, huh Maki?

Hey...!

14-1 Maki-kun's first love!?
I gotta hear this!

sfx: excited

14-2 Whoa!
I love how you're so excited

14-3 Well, Maki's first love, huh?

14-4 The girl he was interested in?

I stole her from him

Give. Me. A. Break.

sfx: bam!

15-1 Back in Junior high, Maki could do anything

He was even more shy than now, so man, was he popular

15-2 It's the time girls start to fall in love, right?

And I was really popular too

15-3 We often were compared to each other, so

Maki was sort of a rival, see?

15-4 But back then, no matter who would confess their love to him, he never said yes

I'm sorry...

But even Maki had someone he liked. And I noticed that little fact.

16-1 I'm going out with Shion-chan, ok?

Ahaha
Sorry 'bout that, Maki!

So I went out with her first!

16-1 To tell you the truth, I totally felt like "I won!"

sfx: glooom

What a crazy story

I wanna die...

sfx: clench

16-2 Well, I can't imagine you're still bothered by that

16-3 It's old news...

With how crazy things are now
I totally forgot about it.

sfx: glance

17-1 But, hey, Hanasaka, didn't you go to the same high school as your girlfriend?

Eh?

sfx: Erk

17-2 Um

Yeah, we went to an all-girl's school, but...

sfx: sweat sweat

17-3 I got distracted by another girl and she dumped me!
Ahaha

T-this is the person I lost my first love to...!?

So that means she ran away here? [handwritten]

17-4 But anyway...

sfx: smirk

17-5 Wah

sfx: yank

18-1 Wha-what!?

sfx: squeeze

18-2 Just what are you up to...?

18-3 We're now in the same school, after all, so

I'm gonna start messing with you again!

18-4 To start with, I'm going to steal Kizuna-chan from you!

Wah wah

sfx: dash

19-1 A girl who's into girls stealing a guy from a guy? What the hell?

What's with all this chaos... [handwritten]

19-2 Mmm!
This school's nice!

sfx: stretch

The only hard thing was the entrance exam [handwritten]

I met you, Kizuna-chan
and had a memorable reunion

19-3 Maki's been so hard headed since the old days, see?

19-4 When it comes to love, he's a complete klutz

20-1 And, when it comes to love, he's just too serious, right?
For better or worse

20-2 Um, Hanasaka-san...

20-3 Shion!

Um, ok, Shion-chan

sfx: whish

20-4 You really notice things

about Maki

20-5 Mm...

That's right

21-1 I think
maybe

that I love Maki

21-2 Ah

21-3 Not as a romantic interest!

Look, I only can love girls

And that's that [handwritten]

Yeah. I totally get it.

You said that... [handwritten]

21-4 But...

22-1 Maki's a good guy

I can guarantee that!

22-2 So that's why I want you

to be nice to him. And to me too!

22-3 Yeah

This semester's gonna be fun!

22-4 Heartstruck

23-1 You're so cute!

Even if you are a guy, you'd be wasted on Maki!

Awahwah

sfx: glomp

23-2 Hanasaka on Aikawa...

sfx: Kya Kya

23-3 This definitely means I can kiss my peaceful days goodbye...

sfx: sniff

sfx: shake

Translation: Manga no Tsukurikata 18

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:34:40 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0 Oct 29, 2009]

Page 1 Panel 1

New style "yuri" manga artist story

The cry of my soul...
Comes through my guitar...

Note: Manga Artist

Hirao Auri

Volume 1 and 2 on sale

3-3 Congratulations on your graduation

3-4 Graduation ceremony [sign]

4-1 Thank you!

Me too! I graduated too!

Hm? That so?
You were a first year just a little while ago

4-2 Time flies, huh?

Yep! Thanks to you!

4-3 Morishitaaa!
Let's go!

4-4 Are you going somewhere now?

Yeah. It's the last time we'll wear this uniform, so we're going to take photo booth pictures
Sorry, and after you came out to see me too

5-1 It's ok, it's ok.
I came without letting you know first, so go have fun

5-2 You were thinking "you were a first year just a little while ago" about me too

Sure

And I'm a graduate now!

Congrats

5-3 Buy me a treat on the way home for my graduation

5-4 No way!

[there's a calendar in the background]

3rd: Submit cover
5th: Cover finalized
6th: Submit corrections
11th: Afterword due
15th: Monthly chapter due

6-1 Look, the only things celebrating are the butterflies

6-3 Masato, what were you planning to do again? College?

6-4 I'm going to aim for the world with my ping pong club!

[I cant' read the handwritten text - too blurry]

6-6 Huh?

6-7 Listen to me, already! I've got nobody but the butterflies here!

7-1 Come on, I'm busy! I'm going home.

Eh? So why did you come?

7-3 ...ah, it was all for Morishita, huh?

7-4 Now that you're graduated, it's too bad you won't get to see her, mm?

What are you talking about? She comes to our house everyday

7-5 That's right... [handwritten]

8-1 While Morishita's not here

I'm gonna try to finish the cover!

8-2 [the stuff in the back ground is a combination of her name and the date the comic volume is on sale]

Kawaguchi Asuka

April 30th

8-5 So much pressure...

9-1 You should think of the cover as the face of the comic

9-3 Please think about it and give it your best

9-4 Kawaguchi Asuka [on the blank comic]

9-5 Morishita's used to this, I guess

10-1 Well, how's this to start?
Yeah! My style!

10-2 Title [in pencil on the cover]

10-3 He said to turn in three, so now what...? [handwritten]

10-4 Mmm

10-6 A little more fashionable... something like this?

10-6 This one... it's like it would fly with everyone...

11-1 I think "B" is the best

I see

11-2 I really think so. It's cute.
You don't think so?

11-3 Mm-nn. I was just asking.
I think "A" is good

11-5 How about "C"?

12-1 Wha?

12-3 What's wrong?

12-4 N-nothing, but...

When looking at what would stand out when on display in a bookstore, I think it's C
What about you Kawaguchi-san

12-5 Um...

13-1 This one... "A" here...

13-2 Since this is my first volume, and since this one is most like me

13-3 I thought it'd be this one. To make it more a complete product

13-4 I see... So what should we do...

13-5 Um! I know it's important for people to want to grab it
So, then...

13-6 I...

14-1 I'll take your advice!

14-2 Aaaah....

Ok, then. So about the schedule... Is it ok?
If possible, we'd like you to send it in with your monthly pages...

14-4 Wha? It's going to be "C"?

14-5 But "B" was so cute!

I couldn't go against him. Especially like that...

14-6 Have you ever argued against a cover, Morishita?

Sometimes, but..

15-1 But when that happens, if I'm the only one who likes it, I figure it won't work out
I do get pissed off sometimes, though

15-2 Did it sell that way?

15-2 That's a secret! I don't want you to get depressed

15-3 But even if the composition isn't what you want, won't if be enough if the coloration is how you want it?

15-5 That's right

16-1 But I just remembered, I've never done color work

Really!?

16-2 Even your first volume? [italicize "your"]

16-4 You're not expecting quality work, are you!

After all, my work floats between the middle and end of the manga! [popular series are in the front, series at the end are in danger of being dropped]

Ahaha

16-5 What are you laughing about!

17-1 What do you have left to do?

17-2 What's left? Corrections... and the afterword... everything.

When you're you're all done, do you want to go on a trip somewhere?

17-3 A trip!? That's great!

17-4 It'll be a celebration for your first publication!

18-1 Welcome back

18-2 I'm home

And it'll be a celebration of your graduation too, Morishita

18-3 It works out perfectly!

18-4 Huh? If you're gonna celebrate her graduation, celebrate mine too!

18-5 No way!

[calendar again]

5th: Cover finalized
9th: Submit corrections
11th: Afterword due
11-14: Trip
15th: Monthly chapter due

Translation: Kabu No Isaki 6

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:20:04 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

139-1 Ok, I'm leaving

139-2 I'm going too
School

139-3 So...
Where are you going?

139-4 Worried?

Just though I should ask
Just to be safe

140-2 Today I thought Isaki and I would go ride some waves

Over at Shichiri ga hama

140-3 Ah
So that's what you are doing

140-4 What did Isaki say?

I haven't told him
Just the time to meet me

140-5 But he had this really hang dog expression on him

Heh

140-6 Ahahaha

141-2 Brraaaaa

141-3 What are you so quiet for?
Liven things up, will you?

So just

141-4 Where are we going!?

Don't get your feathers ruffled

Ahahaha

sfx: Brrrrrr

142-1 Today you and I are going to explore the world of pleasure

What're you talking about?

142-2 Also,
What about the hook above the wings?
You just had it put on

Ah, that? You can easily take it off

142-3 Don't need it today!

Hmm...

143-1 We're going over Oogusa mountain...

143-2 Once we're over the top, the plane suddenly drops, huh?

Yeah, it does

143-4 Vmmmmmm

144-1 Bwaaaaa

144-2 Whooosh

144-4 Wobble wobble

144-5 Whew...

I was a little freaked out there
The controls always stop responding for a second

145-2 Hmmm

"Hmmm"? That all you got to say?

sfx: Bmmmmmm

145-3 Vmmmmm

145-4 Are we going all the way to Tokyo or something?

145-5 Nope
Ok, head West from here.

West. Right.

sfx: Pwaaaa

146-1 Whoa
The ocean

Yeah. Kamakura.

146-2 Bring us down to 300 meters

'kay

146-3 Are we going to land on the beach or something?

Ahaha
No way

147-1 Inamura ga saki

Beyond that is Shichiri ga hama

147-2 The crosswind has really picked up

sfx: rattle rattle

147-3 Whoa
It's really shaking us around

sfx: rattle rattle

148-1 Oooo
Crap! Crap!

sfx: yank yank

sfx: rattle rattle

148-2 rattle rattle

148-3 Uwaaa

The crosswind coming from the left is blowing us around!

sfx: flutter

148-4 I'm under 300 meters!

sfx: VMMMM

149-1 Gaaa

sfx: whooosh

149-2 Daaaa

The rudder!

149-3 Daaaa

It's not responding at all!

150-1 Isaki
Let me have the controls

150-2 Ooo...
Ok, they're yours!

150-3 Mm

151-1 Bink [or some other sound indicating sudden stopping]

152-1 The cub is as still as if nothing happened

What's more, it's just gently rocking as it slides perfectly sideways

152-2 Shiro-san is just lightly holding the stick with her fingers

153-1 Isaki, when you're in a light plane like the cub
You have to go with the winds

153-2 The rudder isn't all-powerful

Think of it as something that creates posture

153-3 I get it

153-4 Really to get shaken up again?

154-1 Yeah

sfx: grip

154-2 Uwaaaa

sfx: Whooosh

154-3 Uwaa

155-2 Vvvmmmm

155-3 VVVMMMM

156-2 Cool!
There's an angle that let's you float along the wind!

156-3 Yeah

156-4 So when the wind's weak
It's something you can also utilize, see?

sfx: Bwaaaa

157-1 Planes have an image of cutting straight though the sky, right?

But the Cub walks a crooked path

157-2 Aaah

I get it!

Oogusa yama's sudden drop is actually the road down!

Yes!
It's not always like that, however

158-1 Just when I start getting used to the airflow over the hills

I see some strange aircraft, just hanging there

158-2 Ah, hill surfers

Ah!
Those guys!

It's the first time I've seen them

159-1 Bmmmmm

159-2 So they have special planes just for this

For playing around with the currents

159-4 Isaki
Let me have the controls

Ah?
Ok

160-1 Guwhaaa

sfx: yank

160-2 Owaaa

sfx: drop

160-3 BVVVVVMMMM

Uuu

161-1 Bvvvvmmmmm

162-1 Bink

Whoa

162-2 You're amazing,
Shiro-san

162-3 I'm playing

162-4 Isaki

When you fly my Cub
The destination and such...
Are really secondary, see?

163-1 Yeah

Got it

Translation: Kabu No Isaki 5

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:16:59 +0000

[boke's comment's in brackets like this]

Page 11 Panel 1
Spring Cabbage

122-1 Welcome back
You're early today

Today we were inspecting all the machinery
What are you doin' out in front of the shop?

122-2 Isaki, how about it?
Want a glass of something cold too?

Ah, sure
Thank you

123-1 Still drinking that ginger ale?

Mm-hm

123-2 I had another six cases shipped over

Whoa

123-3 This is all you're drinking, huh?

Yeah, I like it

Here [handwritten]

123-4 Thanks

Drink up!

124-3 Her bag's here, huh?
Is she home today?

125-1 Yeah. She's been sleeping off a cold since yesterday

Her fever's already come down, so she's faking it today, I'm sure.

125-2 Hmmmm

126-1 What's with all the cabbage?
Planning a yaki-soba cook-off?

Ah, no
I got it free

126-2 I'm gonna do hot pot
With just cabbage and pork, I heard you can make a nice hot pot

I asked the foreman about it

126-3 Hmmmmm
So you're cooking your own meals, huh?

I'm not sure you can say that
This is a hot pot for the lazy, it seems

127-2 Getting used to the cub?

Nah
I'm still nervous. Still not to the level where I can enjoy things

127-2 I'm happy to be able to fly
But just going and coming back is about all I can do

Oh my

127-4 Just doing my best to hang in there and
not get carried along by the wind

127-5 ...hmmm

128-1 Isaki

128-2 Why don't we go out someplace together

128-3 Eh?

128-4 The two of us? Where?

Anywhere

128-5 You don't want to?

129-1 It's not that...
What about Kajika

129-2 We'll leave her behind

Isn't that mean?

129-4 Zzz

129-6 Since you're always flying with Kajika
Every once in a while should be ok, hm?

Uh...
I guess

130-2 Want some hari hari pickles? [thin, dried strips of daikon soaked in vinegar and other flavorings]

Wow

130-3 What do want to drink?

Ah, Um... Hoji tea

130-4 Ok, I'm having this

130-5 What's that?

Heheheh
I'm not sure if this goes with the pickles or not

sfx: glug glug glug

131-1 Mmm
What is it?

Tequila?

131-2 Try some

I'm underaged, you know...

131-3 I see
Well then, my own personal cocktail hour is starting

It's still three o'clock...

132-2 I had better get going home.
Thanks for the everything

132-3 Eh? You're going home?

Yeah, I was on my way home

133-3 You're not making dinner?

This is for my dinner!

133-4 Ok, I'll leave this here for you

I got too much and it's heavy

Oooo! Thanks!

134-5 Lookin' forward to that yaki sobaaaa

I'm having hot pot!

134-4 Slide

135-2 Let's go someplace, just the two of us!

135-5 Ah ha ha

136-1 Nnnn

135-2 Slide

136-3 Oh? Back on your feet?

Yeah. I think I'm mostly better

136-5 Sis?
You going someplace with Isaki?

Ah, you heard that?

137-1 It's a date

137-3 Hmmm
Good for you

137-4 I'm going back to sleep

Okaaay

138-3 Sizzle

138-4 Ah
I was going to make hot pot!

sfx: sizzle

Translation: Kabu No Isaki 4

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:15:41 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

Page 1 Panel 1 [note, there is no page 2 - scanning error]

Kabu No Isaki

#4 Prismatic Valley

This flight includes overnight stays

3-1 Isaki and Kajika are in the middle of running an errand, and are at an inn...

4-1 Sploosh

4-2 Haaah

4-4 Sigh

5-1 sfx: slide

Whoo

Erk

5-2 Sorry to make you wait

Go get in the bath

5-3 ...I'm fine

Wha? Why?!

It's a hot spring!

6-1 At least let's rent two rooms!

Wha? And spend all that money?

6-2 Oh, I'm going to sleep already! Good night!

Tomorrow's early, right?

Flumph

It's still only 8 o'clock
You're not gonna take a bath?

7-1 Thanks for everything

Mm. Take this fer breakfast

7-2 Thank you very much!

Mm.

7-3 Bwaaaa

8-1 Bwaaaa

It's probably kombu onigiri, huh?[seaweed rice balls]

Yeah, probably

8-2 Still go straight?

For a bit more

8-3 Ah, bank left after crossing the ridge

9-1 Since the wing hook's so handy, it's ended up that the cub's getting a better quality one

9-2 There's a town with good parts way back in this valley

It's a town Kajika knows about

10-1 This valley is known by another name

"Prismatic Valley"

10-2 Whether is the wind or heat or the conditions, it seems sometime mirage-like things can be seen.

Vrrrrrr

Today, there's nothing out of the ordinary

11-1 Bwaaaa

11-2 Parts city

We're the first today

11-3 It's kinda amazing place, huh?

Yeah

12-3 Kagiya's Sheet Metal * Cowling

Um, we're here for the order for "Shiro's cub"

Oh. You're early.
Thanks for coming. The hook's ready.

13-1 ...this is it?

It doesn't look much like a hook

Well...

13-2 You'll see when it's attached

I can put it on in a day or so

13-3 Thank you!

Yup

13-4 Well, you can stay in the place up there. [Kagiya's Inn]

You'll get some sort of dinner, so just wander around until then.

14-1 This town is amazing. All these parts...

Yeah, well. Recently folks have been coming without knowing the situation

14-2 They often end up crashing

14-3 ...hah?

15-1 Kagiya's Inn

15-2 Pshhhhh

15-3 Pshhhhh

15-4 Whoo

Sorry to make you wait for the shower

But you were just twiddling your thumbs, so I hopped in

Sfx: Whssh

16-1 I'm fine...

Whaaat? You passed yesterday too.
That's nasty.

16-2 I'll take one later

Oh?

There's no changing room, though

17-2 Hey. Sorry, eh?
Took a bit of time

It's fine.

17-3 So this trigger, see?

Twang

17-4 Whoa

17-5 Then, crank this handle 24 times

and it'll go back down

While you're flying, be sure to return it to it's original position

Crank Crank Crank

Ohhh

18-1 Tell Shiro-san hi

Ok

18-2 Hey,
Take these onigiri with you

Ah, thank you very much!

18-3 BWWWAAAA

18-4 Bwaaaa

19-1 Vmmmmm

19-2 Ah, it's kombu again

Yeah, kombu.

20-1 Hm?

Vmmm

20-2 Isaki, the mirages...

They're here!

20-3 Anyway, let me fly it here

They'll be less distracting than up in the front seat

Ah, I see.
Ok, please.

20-4 Hmm
So these are...

Cool!

20-5 Uh?

21-2 Wah! What the!!

Calm down! Don't stare at them!

21-3 ...it's the first time for me too

24-1 Ooo... Is that a mirage too?

I don't know...

But I'm gonna fly straight

25-2 Oh

Bwwaaaa

26-1 Hey...

They've mostly gone away

26-2 Nn..!?

You hung in there

26-3 Oh... yeah, you too!

26-4 Ah, Isaki, we're leaving the valley

Whew

Bmmmmm

27-1 The story of Parts city

Those mirages cause pilots to lose their way and crash, so they started that city there

27-2 Ok, switch!

Ok!

27-3 The abundant parts and the skilled craftsmen attract lots of planes

Those that can't see through the mirages or those without luck end up making emergency landings

28-1 Wow
It doesn't feel like there is anything on the wings

That's mark of great craftsmanship!

The customers sometimes end up being the prey as well

28-2 Isn't getting towards evening?

We're gonna have to spend another night before we get back

Vmmmm

28-3 Let's stay at the same place as the day before yesterday

Whaat?
Just flying in, we don't know if they'll have a room!

29-1 Kajika, you haven't had a bath in two days

Ulp

29-2 That's nasty

Ah, shaddup

Vmmmm

Translation: Kabu No Isaki 3

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:12:28 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

Page 1 Panel 1

Kajika and Isaki's Small Adventures [pink letters at top]

Chapter 3 The Ginger Shop

Even if the surface of the Earth is 10x as big

The fact that we're living

Doesn't change at all [these lines are the vertical white text in the middle]

The story continues for the time being!

2-1

Far past the horizon, the road continues on forever!

3-1 Ginger shop [sign]

3-2 What they call the "Navy Road" runs North-South though the central portion of the country

The "Ginger Shop" is on the side of the road there

4-1 Mister

Is ginger ale the only thing you got here?

Mm

4-2 Don't you have tea or cola?

I don't carry that weak stuff

4-3 Hunh...

Ok, I'll have one

5-1 Gulp Gulp

5-2 S... Strong!

5-3 I've brought some of the famous "Choujyuro" Japanese pears from Kawasaki

Today's job is to deliver them to a overseas tour that is supposed to "pass though" here.

5-4 ...on Shiro-san's orders

6-2 Hey, mister

Are they really gonna show up?

6-3 Ayup

They're gunna call when they get near

6-4 This place makes a good landmark

You're right about that

7-1 That cub

Yer from Shiro-san's place, eh?

Huh?
Well...

7-2 Ya got yer work cut out fer ya

7-3 ...does she have a reputation or something?

8-2 ring

8-3 Snatch

9-1 Hi, Ginger Shop
Ah

Ah, the pear guy
Hold on

Me?

9-2 Ah, hello

Umm I have 40 kilos of Japanese pears ready...

Eh, come right now?

9-4 No one's arrived yet, right?

Up

11-1 Take them to that?

Yup.
Got yer work cut out fer ya.

11-2 How!?

Ya got a hook on the wings of yer cub?

11-3 If so, no prob

Oh maaan

I've got a bad feeling about this

11-4 Ah, yes

I'll bring them right up

Ok then

11-4 Mister

Two cases of ginger ale

Ayup

12-1 I thought there'd be a bus or something...

VMMMMM

12-2 Ok, I'm gonna give it a shot

'kay

12-3 Bwwwaaaa

13-1 The huge ship shines white against the blue black sky

14-1 When you close in, the catch hook under the gondola comes into view

14-2 Aaahh
Not good

14-3 Ummmmm
I'm not good enough to get that close

14-4 What am I gonna do?

15-1 Clang

15-3 Please stop your engine

Vrr Vrr Vrr Vrr

15-4 I'm captured!

Vrr Vrr Vrr Vrr

16-1 Welcome to the Macon II

Vrr Vrr Vrr

16-2 Hey!
Go good job!

16-3 Wha?
You're not Shiro-san...

Eh

Ah, I'm working for her...

17-1 Ah,
Is that so...

Eh
Am I disappointing you somehow?

17-2 B-by no means!

Welcome to the Macon II

17-3 Ok, to business

Japanese pears, 40 kilos and ginger ale, 2 cases, right?

Yes

17-4 Ah, we'll get the cargo...

17-5 Excuse me, but...
But would you mind taking a picture with me?

It's been a while since we've seen a civilian

Wha?

17-6 Sure, but
Wha?

Me too!

Me too!

Eh?

Flash Flash

18-1 Say cheese!

Flash

18-2 Um, I'd like to use the restroom

18-3 Ah, over there

Sorry about all that

No problem

18-4 This is really an "open air" toilet

Wheeeooo

18-5 Um...
Can we get a picture with you too?

Eh?
Just a moment!

19-1 We've wired the funds for the Japanese pears

This is payment for the drinks

Ah, thanks

19-2 Come again!

Good bye!

Vrr Vrr Vrr

19-3 Please start your engine

Eh?

20-1 Thanks for everything

Clang!

20-2 You're just spitting me out!?

21-1 Brrmm

21-2 I only heard later

That airship, the Macon II,

21-3 Is a ship constructed to study the surface of the earth

And is in the middle of a four year long term cruise, it seems

22-1 They have almost no opportunity to have contact with people from the outside

22-2 vm vm vm

23-1 Bwaaaaa

23-3 That wuz fast

Really?

24-1 Here, the money for the ginger air
These bill's are like toy money

Yup. That's their money

24-2 Delivery fee.
This's fer you

Ah, thank you

24-3 Ok, can I buy ginger ale with this?
How many bottles?

Mm

24-4 So ya like my stuff after all, eh?

It's too strong!

25-1 Bwaaaaa

25-3 Bwaaa

26-2 Bwaaa

27-1 Brmmrmmrmm

27-2 Thanks for your hard work

You had better believe it!

27-3 Ah
The Ginger shop's ginger ale!

I like this stuff

...That's great

28-1 I wanted to go see it
The airship

28-2 The next time it comes around, go see it!

...yeah

29-2 Isaki

Yeah?

29-3 They were all over you, right?

29-4 Yeah, something like that

Eh?
What?

20-1 Hey, tell me!

Chapter 3. The End.
We are working towards a monthly schedule in 2008!

Translation: Kabu No Isaki 2

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:11:12 +0000

[boke's comment's in brackets like this]

Page 1 Panel 1

Kabu No Isaki is now a series!

Ashinano Hitoshi

Chapter 2 Oyama [you may want to put an asterisk with the translation "Big Mountain"

The world is so big...

so wide...

Kajika and Isaki's small adventures

Kabu No Isaki

2-1 I borrow this Piper Super-cub from my neighbor Shiro-san

sfx: Brrrrm

2-2 Out in the country like this, if you don't have "wheels", you can't do anything.

sfx: Vmmm

3-1 Shiro-san pretty much lets me use the Cub freely, however...

Well, um...

Hm? What's on your mind?

3-2 I can't pay for gas or maintenance right now, but...

Oh my, it that so?

3-3 Mmm, well...

In that case... I think I'll have you pay with your body

4-1 Well, she meant running errands

4-2 Hey, Kajika
Do we just follow these valleys to the sea?

Yup

4-3 I've gone there with my sister a lot
Don't worry

Kajika is Shiro-san's younger sister. She's navigating today

She's sitting up front for some reason

5-1 Hey, Kajika

What's that thing you attached to the wings earlier?

Eh?

5-2 Ah...
That's uh...

sfx: brrrrrr

5-3 heheheh

It's a secret

5-4 Vmmmm

7-1 Vmmmm

We follow the coast

[sign on tram] Kamakura

7-2 And cross Enoshima

sfx: Rrrrrrr

8-1Once we fly up the Sagami river

Oyama finally starts getting closer

8-2 Oyama is so big, I can't see the top

9-3 Hey, Kajika
Is there a place to land up there?

Hm?

10-1 Heheheh

I'm flying it from here

10-2 Eh?

10-3 So...
You can fly now?

10-4 Sorta
I'm not tall enough - so I can't take off or land, but

10-5 This is fine!

Anyway, leave it to me

What are you talking about?

11-2 Whoa

12-2 Fuki? [Fuki no tou is an edible plant]

12-3 ...hey

sfx: mmmm

13-1 Kajika! Hey! We're gonna crash!

Pull up!

13-2 Whaaaa!!

13-3 sfx: Sput!

Waaaaa

14-1 sfx: Flumph

14-2 Sproing

15-1 Creak creak creak creak

15-2 Ka-chack

15-3 Creak creak creak

15-4 Thanks!

16-1 Creak creak creak

16-2 Wow

Well you hung in there

creak creak creak

16-3 ...yeah, well, barely
Does every one land like that?

Yup

[sign] Welcome. Main street

17-2 We buy oyama tofu

17-3 We can buy tofu locally, but

Shiro-san says it's better here

18-4 Um...
What do we do here?

"What"?
We gun it!

19-1 I'll do it, so no problem.

...are you sure?

19-2 We'll have to land it normally at home
So you're up front this time

Eh?

Ah, ok

19-3 Whoa! This angle!

19-4 Scary!

20-1 VMMMMM

20-2 VMMMM

20-3 Whoa!

Ka-chack

VMMMM

20-4 Whoooooa

VMMMMMM

21-1 VMMMMmm

21-2 vmmm

21-3 That's intense

Yup

21-4 That slope?

There used to be a cable car station up there

Oh?

...it's more like a bungie jump

vmmm

23-1 Since it's your sister

She's probably gonna sell this tofu for good money someplace, huh?

Probably

23-2 ...she's giving me some flying time here

23-3 Ah, full moon

Whoa

24-4 Ah
The tofu's here

It's about time

mmmm

Kabu no Isaki
Chapter 2 The End

The next chapter will be on sale in December in the Feb 08 issue.

Translation: Kabu No Isaki 1

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:09:27 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]

Page 1 panel 1

On the other side of this sky lies... [right border]

[top block text] At long last, the highly anticipated new work has arrived!

[small text by isaki's head] It's been a year since the end of Yokohama Kaidaishi Kikou. A new 32 page short story by Ashinano Hitoshi!

[black letters] Ashinano Hitoshi

[big title on left] Kabu no Isaki [Isaki of the Cub]

[floaty letters in lower-mid page]

A boy and A girl

A small adventure

In a big world

Page 2 Panel 1

This place's been out in the boonies since before I was born

2-2 Even the nearest city

Is easily 100km away

2-3 If you don't have a way to get around, you can't do anything

2-4 When you turn 16

Everyone starts working on how they're gonna get around

3-1 This is how I get around

It's a Piper Super Cub

3-2 My neighbor, Shiro-san lets me use it

It's old and beat up, but the Cub's a famous plane

4-2 Whew

4-3 How far did you go?

Jyou Ga Shima.
About 120km round trip, I guess.

4-4 Whoa
You flew quite a ways

4-5 Um, Isaki

There's only a bit of fuel left!

4-6 Use your brain while flying!

I do!

5-2 Shiro-san, I wonder if you'll let me use the Cub whenever I want now

Just don't crash it

5-3 And be sure to pay for the gas yourself

Aaaaw
Ok

5-4 ...Isaki, the way you fly is scary
You don't leave any room for error. You're always pushing it...

5-5 Look, It's not like I'm asking you to fly with me

I wouldn't. Too scary.

6-1 Ah,
Guess I'm goin' over Mt. Ogusa next

Hmm?
What's this, all the sudden?

6-2 The air is turbulent over there, so be careful

Yeah

6-3 Stretching out in the north is the 2000m Ogusa mountain range.

Beyond it, a huge expanse of land opens up

6-4 Over there, Isaki, the land just goes on and on

Starting there, the land is the real deal

Yeah,
I heard...

7-1 And way out there, there's a big city

And the thing that's amazing... is the tower!

I've seen it. Just once.

7-2 Yeah, I heard.

7-3 We've heard it over and over!

Sis, Isaki got into flying the Cub because that's all you talk about

7-4 Oh?

7-5 Later

Thanks

8-1 One month later

8-3 Good job
We're heading home

[sign] Kame Marine Food Products

8-4 Oh? Kajika-chan.
Isaki?

Ah
Yeah

8-5 He left already. Like a shot.

Eh

8-6 He mentioned he earned enough for gas

8-7 Thanks

sfx: bow

9-2 Huh?
Sis, where's my bike?

Eh?

9-3 Ah
Isaki took it. Like a shot.

Eh

9-4 Airport.

9-5 Tch

10-2 Whoa!
You scared me!

Don't just stand there without saying anything!

10-3 You saved enough for gas?

10-4 Huh? Oh, yeah.

10-5 You're goin' to the city with the tower

10-7 Yeah.
You wanna come?

No way.
Too scary.

11-1 Hey, look
Make sure you take your cell phone

Hah?

11-2 Where you're flying...
What you're seeing...
I'm gonna ask, 'kay?

Ah,
Yeah, of course I'll take my phone

11-3 Gimme my bike back

Ah, meanie

11-4 When you going?

Huh?
Day after tomorrow, if it's clear.

11-5 What time?

Huh? Dunno. After I eat lunch.

11-6 Eh? Why so late?

What? It'll be fine!

Don't look back while riding!

12-2 I'm going now, Shiro-san

Yep

12-3 Where's Kajika?

Who knows?

12-4 But she's watching from over there.
Maybe.

12-5 Even with a full tank, there's not much room for error

Yeah...
I'll land at the airport in Choufu today.
I'll come back tomorrow

12-6 It's about... 7-800km I guess

You'll just make it

12-7 Yeah

13-1 Mmmmmmm

Bwaaaaa

Bwaaaaa

13-4 Whoa...
All that gas is heavy!

13-5 mmm

13-6 Whoa
He finally got it in the air

14-1 Bwaaa

14-2 Whew

14-3 Beep be be

14-4 Beep

14-5 Kajika?

Did you see?

I saw

14-6 I'll be back

Mm

15-1 When you approach Mt. Ogusa
You have to increase altitude

15-2 Oh man
The plane's heavy!

sfx: Bwaaa

15-3 Beep be be

15-4 Where are you now?

Mt. Ogusa...

15-5 I'm crossing over it now
It's into the unknown from here

I'm over it

16-1 sfx: Whoosh

16-2 Wah!

sfx: whump

16-3 What happened?

The plane shook for a second
Whoa
A sea of clouds...

17-1 If it's like this...
Can I land when I get there?

17-2 It's now or never to turn back

I'm not goin' back

17-3 The gentle Northeast winds push the distant sea fog deep inland

The great Kanto plains before me are almost entirely clouded over

17-4 I can't tell if I'm moving forward or standing still

18-1 The sun is already sinking in the West

18-3 Hey Kajika
I'm over Yokohama right now

I'm half way there

18-4 Aren't you running behind?

There's a headwind
That's burned up a lot of gas

19-1 Hmm.

19-2 The sun goes down
The colors deepen

19-3 Amazing

Kajika, you need to come next time

19-4 'kay

21-2 Tokyo Tower. 3333 meters tall

It shines like a mountain of flame.
It makes you think there's no possible way it belongs of the world of humans

22-2 It's as if the natural world

Has taken it as it's very own. That's the feeling I get somehow

23-1 Kajika
The tower's amazing

I see...

24-2 Hey, Kajika

Hm?

24-3 The tower... I wanna show it to you

I see...

24-4 A building that big...

It's just... you know?

Wow

24-5 Hey, Kajika

Mm?

25-1 I don't have enough fuel

Whaa?

25-2 It's 'cause of the headwind and goin' round the tower too many times.

I should have had enough fuel, but it's hitting the bottom of the tank

25-3 Are there any roads you can land on?

Yeah, and there's fields, but...
Aww, But y'know

26-1 The airport's so close!

Whaaat?

26-3 Spt

26-4 Oh man

26-5 Whishhh

27-1 Hey, Kajika...
I'm not gonna make the runway

27-2 I hope they've trimmed the trees and stuff up ahead...

...Isaki

27-4 Wha pish baam crshhh

28-1 Whump

28-2 Thump

29-1 S-so is this a good landing under the circumstances?

Well...
It just hit some bushes, so...

29-2 But if the plane was lighter, I could have come in a little more normally

29-3 You could've just asked me to begin with, huh?!

No, I couldn't

30-1 But I'm glad I could see the tower

30-3 I see. You poked a hole in the side [This is a fabric covered airplane]

Ah,
Like this. Really.

30-4 S-so are the airport buildings or stuff this way?

Yeah

31-1 We'll have them put us up, rest till dawn, then come fix the plane

Well, yeah, but...
We're not gonna get any rest

31-2 Whaaat?
It won't hurt nothin'

After we've come all this way

31-3 Listen, you...

We've on the edge of the airport, right?

Yeah

32-4 We've still got about 10km until the airport buildings

There's no roads or anything

Ah

32-2 I've heard that the surface of the earth has gotten ten times bigger. [This is literal, but doesn't make sense to me. I want to use "I've heard that the surface of the earth is ten times bigger that you think". What do you think?]

sfx: slump

Don't sit

But for some reason

32-3 The whole world seems to be out in the boonies

Ok, start walkin'

Awww

Isaki No Kabu. The End.

We're awaiting your impressions!
Ashinano-san is close to beginning his real work. Please look forward to it!

Translation: Fudanshism 11

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:04:39 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0 Oct 21 2009]

Page 1 Panel 1

Industry Uproar!! Dojin Style "Metamorphosis" Love Comedy

Fudanshism
ism.11 The love pad lets you just be it![shout out to Rocky Horror]

Amane gets in some studying
It's a secret, ok?

Presented by Morishige

2-1 [ignore box]

2-3 Wooow! From every angle it looks just like a girl's crotch!

Thanks to this pad you bought for me

2-4 Let me take a closer look

Hey! Onee-san!

3-1 Stare

3-2 poke poke

3-3 It's pretty soft, hm?

I don't want you touching!

3-4 But with this, you can cosplay as Uzume-chan, right?

Yeah... all thanks to you

3-5 Ok! I'm emailing Nozomin, ok?

Somehow...

sfx: taka taka

4-1 It feels

Like I'm getting in deeper

Kentei Junior High Private Acadamy

4-2 But this is all

For just one person, Konishi Nozomi...!

4-3 Yusa, TenTen TenTen Yusa [Lyrics from the opening theme, I think]

Yusa Yusa

Huh? That's Konishi Nozomi!

It's Konishi Nozomi!

5-1 The sun smiles

And I'm perfectly ignored

5-2 Ignored!

Ignored!

Ignored!

sfx: grr

5-3 I get to see Amane-san's Uzume-chan cosplay!

Ahaha

Ufufu

I want the event to come!!

6-2 As Amane, I'm getting closer to her, but

As Amata, I feel I'm getting ignored even more

6-3 Am I imagining it? No, I'm not.

6-5 Yeah, Miyano-kun is cool

Compared to me, he totally focusses on class

sfx: Wow

7-1 But I can't stop doodling in class!

sfx: Aha

The more boring the class, the more I draw dirty pictures

7-2 I'm really pathetic...

Huh? Miyano-kun?

7-3 Ok

7-4 Flip flip

7-5 That hand motion.... No way! Not a flip book!?

Miyano-kun? There's no way...

8-2 Just what should I do...?

M-Miyano-kun? Do you want to stop by a bookstore?

sfx: sigh

8-3 I don't have a problem with that

8-4 Matsumoto-bucho, how about you too? [bucho is club president]

Of course I'm going. Today "Cat Girl Monthly" goes on sale.

9-1 Now that it's been decided, let's get moving

You're fired up, Matsumoto-bucho

9-3 Nozomin World Vision

9-4 sfx: th-thump th-thump th-thump

Oh my god, Matsumoto and Kiyokawa-kun are so lovey-dovey!

I wanna watch! [ignore the bottom right text - it explains a contraction that doesn't work in English]

10-1 I never would have thought that

there'd be any other reason I'd come here

10-2 I mean

it's special place

10-3 For Nozomin

And me

OOI Bookstore [sign]

11-1 Comics [sign]

11-2 This bookstore really organizes thing well

As for me, I like the completeness of their anime book selection

Our special place...

sfx: wobble wobble

11-3 P.Prince! Don't go that waaaaay!

Eh?

12-1 That's

Toxic!!

[ignore sfx]

12-2 Whaaat? That's just the BL corner, right? You're over-reacting Matsumoto-bucho [BL = boy's love]

sfx: Aha

It's toxic, because it's the BL corner!

12-3 BL?

BL= Bacon and lettuce?

13-1 Miyano-kun, BL is "boy's love". It's a genre of heartthrob romance stories between guys. With pretty art and detailed storylines, I feel it's not too much to say that it's a new world of shojo manga. BL novels are also cool. It's like each word glitters! [spans both bubbles]

13-2 For fujyoshi, it's like they are erotic holy books [fujyoshi = girls who are into BL]

13-3 Matsumoto-bucho, that's a little harsh! The roots of BL are in classic shojo manga! One king once went as far as to say "BL is true heart" - the mental aspect is important, right? [what king? who knows...]

Kiyokawa, how can you say that? You know how the fujoshi look at us!

13-4 MatsuKiyo!

13-5 Hey, P.Prince!

14-1 Anyway! How do you feel looking at this?

Complaints of a Treasure [book]
I'll play with every bit of you

14-2 Seriously, it's dangerous, this area...

That's what people enjoy about it! This area is like a festival!

14-3 P.Prince! It creeps you out, right?

People are free to enjoy whatever media they want! People rejoice in their fantasies!

14-4 Those students, those three guys

I bet the long haired one's a queen uke [uke = bottom]

14-5 The long haired one's an uke... no, maybe a switch hitter

The short one's gotta be a total uke...

14-6 Moe overload!

sfx: [across all three bottom panels] Excited

15-1 What the...!

sfx: thumpa thumpa

15-2 Uniforms! Glasses! Three of them holding BL books...!

sfx: quiver quiver

How can I use this? How? How can I use this?

15-3 I'm getting the chills

Yeah, I've had them for a while

15-4 Let's get on out of here

Maid Boy [book]
I'll work for you

16-1 If I don't buy something anime-related, the chills won't go away

Anime-related...

He was going to buy it anyway

16-2 Matsumoto-bucho, I know you just bought it, but you don't have to read it now

There's info I need in here

16-3 You're seriously going to read it here?

You two. Go play over there.

sfx: go. scoot.

16-4 Miyano-kun's gotta be feeling awkward

sfx: geez

17-1 sfx: turn

So we should play, Kiyokawa-kun?

Whaaaaaaat?

17-2 We should listen to our friend

I knew it!

Miyano-kun, are you serious? If we play or something, it's gonna hurt...

17-3 Hurt?

It seems that there are no objects that could cause injury in this park

17-4 Oh, come on... [put "on" in bold]

sfx; wah

What should I do here

17-5 I knew it! You're not perfect

You're a putz, P.Prince!

18-1 Ah, c'mon...
Just guys in a park...

What's wrong with being guys in a park

18-2 It's wrong! Wrong!

What's wrong with it, Kiyokawa-kun?

18-3 Look, a park is a "special" place where you "go out" with your girl

It's a place where a certain magical "air" is drifting about

18-4 if you bring a girl to a park

You can go out!?

19-1 Don't believe Kiyokawa's bullshit, P.Prince

The point of wait he's saying is, y'know, it's a trysting spot

sfx: byoing

19-2 Trysting...?

Miyamoto-bucho, that looks like fun!

Yeah

19-3 Hey, Konishi Nozomi...?

That's Konishi Nozomi!

19-4 Why

is she here...?

19-5 Wow! What Kiyokawa said was true!

If you bring a girl to a park, you can go out with her!!

20-1 sfx: byoing boing byoing

Nozomi world vision

20-2 Ah...!

sfx: spin

I've got to get home and draw that!

20-3 And again

Perfectly ignored

P.Prince at a dead end...

21-1 Lessons by Onee-chan

Sync with Tamatan

Episode 9 - "BL"

21-2 It's Tamatan! How are you, boys and girls?

BL
Boy's Love

This month we'll be talking about Boy's Love, ok?

21-4 First of all, take a look at this

22-1 Manga. Novel. And this is a drama CD.

Recently there are anime, games and even live action!

22-2 Media that records love stories between guys that go just a bit too far

That's "Boy's Love" - abbreviated to BL

22-3 2-d dojinshi productions... it's a little different from "Yaoi", huh?

But this obi... [obi is the band around the lower half of the cover]

22-4 If you talk about the obi, it's about testing your courage, kinda like fumi-e [fumi-e were Christian images that the feudal authority forced people to step on to degrade them. To refuse was death.]

Be my living slave!
Give me the kokeshi [kokeshi are cylindrical wooden dolls sometimes used as dildos]
Adios!
Big Brother is my Wife
Friend + Sex = Sex Buddy
You're a delicious pole

You buy this in stores...? [italicize "this"]

22-5 Well, actually... I...

Buy them all over the net

22-6 Then there's no meaning

23-1 Tsudere. Youth seduces Age. Good for nothing. Middle aged. Working man. Queen. Chivalry. Historical. Fantasy!
SF. School. Military. Government... Recently there's been a flood of Maiden Seme stories too!

Which do you want to start from?

Give me something easy

"Maiden seme"? So a girl is the seme? You can't call that BL, right?

23-2 When the one that's obviously the uke mounts the obvious seme, that's called "maiden seme"

When the one that's obviously the uke mounts...

23-3 Older seme

Big brother...!

Ahhh

23-4 Maiden seme

Darling!

Ah

23-5 What's the difference!?

34-1 Glasses wearing brute seme

Hey, hey, student president

Ah

24-2 Clumsy guy seme

Mikoto-bucho

Ah

24-3 Master and servant seme

Master...

Ah

24-4 I'm starting to understand the differences! In BL, the disposition of the seme is of critical importance...

sfx: Ding

Sfx: I get it!

24-5 Boy's Love [box on right]
A genre aimed at girls that features love stories about male couples. In the 70's it was "shonen ai". In the 80's, "Tanbi" and "JUNE" gained fame in the genre. In the 90's specialty magazines were published and it can be said that the term "Boy's Love" started gaining prevalence.

As far as I'm concerned, "Wanna Do It?" is the first indicator of a maiden seme boom!

It's a famous title!

But my sister is a step or two ahead of me...!!

With BL, the character of the uke is of similar importance. Among the variety are: absolute uke, tempter uke, predatory uke, queen uke. The Girl's Love genre (GL) deals with love between girls. Teens Love (TL) depicts sexual relations between males and females, and is aimed at teen girls, so caution can be needed.

Translation: Sakura no Sono 4

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:57:48 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0, Oct 19, 2009]

Page 133 panel 1 Flower Storm

135-1 I don't know when it started, but I always find myself unconsciously slouching in photos with my friends

136-1 Huh?

136-2 What? What's wrong?

Eh? Ah... nothing. Just wait a sec.

136-3 Something's written on my desk...

136-4 Blown by the wind, the flower petals land on my sleeve. Reminding me of traces of you.

137-1 Ah... I bet this is from

The Manyoshu [An ancient collection of poems. Italicize "manyoshu"]

Yeah, this poem was in there

137-2 I didn't notice...

And it's my own desk

Blown by the wind, the flower petals land on my sleeve. Reminding me of traces of you. [on desk]

137-3 I wonder who wrote it.

A poem about secretly loving from afar

I wonder how long it's been here. The pencil lines are thin and have almost vanished

137-4 Cho!
I'm going, ok?

Ah, Wait, wait! I'm coming now!

sfx: skrrrch [chair being shoved in]

138-1 I wonder who they were thinking of when they wrote it

138-2 Morning

Morning

Secret love

138-3 [Going across R to L, then the bottom]

Whoa, this is still tight

Come here for a sec

Must be nice

Whoever wrote this

Must be wonderful, I bet

Ah, someone zip me up, please

Huh? Where's my ribbon?

Oh no, the thread's fraying

139-1 Sensei...

139-2 Um, this is still pretty tight across the chest...

Oh, really?

Well, we've already let it out a lot

139-3 But we don't have time to fix it
Can you tolerate it somehow?

Y-yeah

sfx: press

139-4 But you girls nowadays sure have nice bodies

In the old days it would have been really baggy

hahaha

139-5 Whoa, Cho, you're pretty stacked

Wh-what are you talking about?

139-6 Okay, let's start from scene one

This is icky
My bust seems to be too obvious...

140-1 Kurata-san! Come on already, you're slouching!

Straighten up already!

140-2 Five more days left, huh...

140-3 I'm starting to get nervous

Hey Atsuko, is Shin-chan coming?

Mm, it seems that way

140-5 He said he's bringing a friend

Ooh? If he's cute, introduce us

141-1 Ah, that's right. My sister said she's coming. With Yamamoto-san too.

Ah, her fiancé?

Yeah

141-2 I'm afraid to stand on tiptoes

141-3 When I see "him" my body always shrinks, and I slouch without realizing it

141-4 sfx: slide

I'm home

141-5 Huh? Dad's home?

142-1 Oh geez, look at this!

142-2 C'mon Dad! Don't just leave the window open!

Ah, flower petals all over the place

142-3 Aah, clean up's gonna be a pain...

Mom's gonna get mad at him again...

142-5 But it's beautiful...

143-1 Hey, did you hear about Shimizu-san?

Sakura no Sono [paper. Sakura no Sono is "the cherry orchard", a play by chekov]
Cast List

Ranevskaya - Kurata Chiyoko

Anya - Nakano Kyoko

Vanya - Inoue Mi

Duniasha - Shimizu

Yasha - Sugi

...efa Ta...

143-2 Mm?

143-3 Shimizu-san was called in for disciplinary action

143-4 Wha?
No way!

Shimizu-san!? What for!? [bottom right]

Mm, I only heard a little from Chika-chan

I don't know the details

143-5 Something about coming to school with a perm

And that it was completely obvious [perms are not allowed in many school dress codes]

Shh

143-6 sfx: shut

144-1 It's true...!

Yeah, no way to hide that one!

144-2 Whoa! What happened? You look great!

144-3 That's nice! It really suits you

144-4 Recently those two have been close

144-6 But somehow, Shimizu-san's gotten prettier

145-2 Huh? She's looking at me again

145-3 I saw him. That despicable fellow.

So it's not my imagination

Recently, she's only been looking at me

Why? Did Keiko pay?

The Cherry Orchard. Vanya and Anya's conversation. [under frame]

145-4 Oh geez, what's going on?

It makes it kinda hard to perform

Makes me self conscious

145-5 Good day

Good day

146-1 That costume

146-2 Eh?

146-3 It looks tight in the chest

146-4 Ahaha...
Despite how I look, I have pretty large boobs

146-5 Lemme see

sfx: squeeze

146-6 Oh, you're right

Shi-Shi-Shimizu-saaaann!!

146-7 About the same as me

I'm relieved

147-1 Eh?

147-2 Kurata-san

I thought you were like a guy

147-3 But you're really feminine

147-4 Oh, what's wrong?

147-5 Nothing...

148-2 Listen, I...

148-4 I think I may quit the drama club

148-5 Eeh!?

148-6 I might... ok? [italicize "might"]

149-1 No way...

149-2 If you quit, Shimizu-san

Who is going to be bucho? [club president]

149-3 What about you?

149-4 Why don't you do it?

Wha? I can't! No way!

149-5 I don't have it together like you, Shimizu-san

I'm pretty sloppy...

I couldn't get people to follow me...

150-1 I...

I don't have it together

150-2 Really

150-4 I don't have it together at all

Even if you think so, it's just appearances

150-5 Good bye

150-6 click

151-1 "Really"

She said that like she was singing

151-2 But appearances are important

151-3 After all, I fell in love with a guy who's like an idol. Like a star.

152-2 People have said I was like a boy since I was young

Before I knew it, I started to believe it too

152-3 God is so cruel

152-4 Before I knew it, I developed really nice boobs, but I don't think they don't fit with this body... with this face

I can't stand it. It's like I'm a scrawny little tree with one nice big apple.

153-1 Aa-ah

It would have been better if I was a boy

153-2 I wanna get married... to someone I love...

153-3 Morning

Morning

154-1 Hey, did you hear?

Shimizu-san told sensei she didn't want to be bucho anymore

No way!

154-2 So she was serious

154-3 So what are we going to do about the bucho position?

She'll still participate in the play, right?

Look, sensei probably said something to her about her perm

But, I can't believe it

154-4 Shimizu-san

154-5 Hey, you really gonna quit?

No way, right? You've done it all this time!

155-1 Finally. You stopped using polite Japanese.

155-2 Hey, c'mon already! I'm asking you seriously here!

Come with me!

155-3 Mmm, as far as I'm concerned, I'd continue, but...

Sensei said...

155-4 Sensei said something?

155-5 Look

My hair

155-6 "As bucho, you need to be blah blah blah"

That's total nonsense!

155-7 Who cares about a perm nowadays!

Is he stupid, or what!?

156-1 I really think you should consider being bucho

156-2 Eh... me?

Naw, it wouldn't work... I...

156-3 'cause it's a pain?

Mm-mn. More than that, it's...

156-4 It's like it's too much of a fit

156-5 I'm not trying to be conceited...
We go to a girl's school, right?

There's only a couple people who can pull off boy's roles

And the underclassmen get all crazy...
I don't particularly want to be in the Takarazuka or anything [an all girl's drama troop, where even the male roles are played by women]

157-1 I see...

157-2 So you're a girl after all, Kurata-san

That'd be a pain, alright

157-3 Ok, then

That's how it is

So what should I do...

I used to get some pleasure out of it back then

157-4 I'd get a attitute and act like a boy

157-6 "Kurata-sempai, I'm a huge fan!"

"Please accept this chocolate"

158-1 "I love you"

Ambiguous words that can be offered up both to girls and to boys

158-2 "Reminding me of traces of you." [this is the ending of the poem]

158-3 Those girls, thinking of someone like that, might have ended up crying

And then...

159-1 God is cruel after all

159-2 Huh? That guy...

Let's take the road over there

Eh?

Come on already, let's go that way

159-3 Ah...

159-4 That guy...

Hey, don't stare like that

Aaah, that's...

159-5 Don't worry, that's gotta just be his friend!

Or maybe it's his sister

Shh

159-3 Please. Don't notice me.

Please. Just continue on your way.

160-1 I don't want to see what kind of girl she is

Just seeing the back of her head is more than enough

160-2 I'm going to get a look at her face!

Stop it!

160-4 Ah...

160-5 I don't want to see
I don't want to see

Sorry

I don't want to see her face

Sorry, it's nothing

161-1 If I see her, I'll end up hating her

161-2 A short girl better suited to you

161-4 Compared to when all the feelings were piling up

Snuffing them out is simple

162-1 Ah, great. You haven't gone home yet.

Hey, Kurata-san...

162-3 Mn

Ah, what?

My eyes are hurting a little...

162-4 Hey, won't you join me on the roof for a bit?

I brought something nice

Something nice?

What?

162-5 It's a secret

Bring your costume

162-6 Hey, what's the "something nice"?

162-7 Here, look

Wow, that's cute

163-1 If you wear this as an accessory, your bust won't be as noticeable

163-2 Let me have that

I'll sew it on for you. I brought needle and thread

163-4 My breasts are pretty big too, so...

It's been a pain in my ass since I was little

163-5 They say "she's developed for her age"...
And guys I didn't even know started pawing my breasts

163-6 I thought it was nothing but
Trouble

164-1 Slumping when I walked, and stuff

164-3 Well...

I have my height to deal with as well...

164-4 When I'm with everyone, I feel I stick out even more

164-5 As for me
I'm jealous of you, Kurata-san

164-6 Whaa?

Look, you're cool like a guy...
And that makes you look all indifferent, I think

165-2 I...

Wish...

165-3 I had been born a little more feminine...

Like Atsuko, or you, Shimizu-san

165-4 Me?

165-5 I've never been called feminine or girly even once.

I'm always being told "you've got it together"

I've never wanted to be called that. Not even once.

166-1 Ok, it's done!

This will make it less...

166-3 If I was smaller and more feminine

Then maybe someone would love me

166-4 ...does it have to be a guy?

166-5 I love you, Kurata-san

166-6 Maybe I'm not good enough

167-1 Mm-nn. That's not true.

167-2 I love you, Kurata-san

Yeah

167-3 I really love you

That makes me happy. Say it more.

167-4 I love you

I really love you

Really

Yeah...

168-1 I loved you.
Really.
Even though it never worked out, but
I'm happy now

169-1 Wow, Cho, You look great!

169-2 Really! Since you're tall, that looks great on you

I'm jealous. Must be nice.

169-4 Anya, Duniasha, how do you do?

That dress is sooo nice. I have the only guy role...

How do you do, mother?

How do you do, mistress?

170-1 Everyone! Hurry! 10 minutes till curtain!

Okay

170-2 I wonder if Shin-chan came

Ah, him

Hurry up and clean up that cord!

People at stage front, all ready?

170-3 Almost time

Yeah

170-4 Let's do it

Waaah, lot's of people! [bottom right]

Yeah...

Whoa... What am I gonna do? [bottom left]

171-1 Ladies and Gentlemen. Thank you for waiting.

The High School division of Oka Academy is proud to present Chekov's "The Cherry Orchard" on this anniversary of our school's founding.

171-2 Briiiiing

172-1 Briiing

Ah

172-2 Oh, no

I knew I was off by 30 minutes

Ah, Atsuko is going to flatten me

172-3 Can we get in?

Yeah. Once they start, the main doors are locked

172-4 But, don't worry

There's a door in the back

I did go here for 6 years, after all

172-5 Amazing cherry trees, huh?

Yeah, right?

Each year the graduating class adds one

173-1 And it's a tradition for each year's Founder's Day to put on the play "The Cherry Orchard"

Whoa...

173-2 Actually, I was in the drama club too

I joined as soon as I got into high school

173-3 Taking the hem of that dress

Bending my knees into a curtsey

When the wind starts to scatter the last of the cherry blossoms [I think these are lines from the play]

173-5 Gazing at the dancing petals in each other's hair with a bittersweet feeling

Saying "I love you", "I hate you"... ten times, a hundred times

It's strange

All I remember is the unimportant stuff like that

174-1 It's a place where only feelings rule

A country ruled by unmarried queens

These cherry blossoms

174-2 Are decorating our crowns overhead

Translation: Otome Kakumei Ayameno! Gaiden Oneshot : Otome Kakumei Ayameno! Gaiden

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:09:02 +0000

[boke's comments in brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0 Oct 20, 2009]

Page 1 Panel 1

Himeko!
You're being haunted by a devil!

Guardian Miko of the Academy! You've seen through me!

sfx: roaaaaar

1-2 Demon Exorcism!!!

1-3 Whoosh

1-4 Huff Huff

Slump

2-2 Himeko, hang in there!

2-3 sfx: dash

Juria-san... [could also be Julia]
Sorry...
I...

2-4 Don't

2-5 Say anything more...

3-1 Popular girl's school re-incarnation comedy - boys forbidden!

Otome Kakumei Ayame No!
(Media Factory publication)

Now on Gan Gan Online!!

Oto Me Kaku Mei [in circles]
Ayame No!

~The magic when you and I kiss~

Sega Yukari

[ignore the rest]

4-1 Hanashigure Academy. Afternoon.

Waah!!?

sfx: Kthud

4-3 sfx: silence

4-4 Did you have a scary dream, Harasuma Juria?

Pay attention in class, ok?

5-1 I'll help you right your desk

sfx: commotion

5-3 Ah, geez
I can't forgive myself for having a dream like that...!

sfx: creak creak

6-1 I hate hate hate Kayo Himeko!

I haaaaate her!!

6-3 Himeko's great at sports

6-4 Her grades are excellent too

6-5 And to top it off, she the cutest girl in the academy. She's calm and doesn't make enemies.

7-2 But it pisses me off how she's so friendly to everyone

7-3 glitter glitter

7-4 What's this...

sfx; glitter glitter

7-6 It's like a magic wand...

It's like the one I saw in my dream...

8-1 Demon Exorcism!! [top]

sfx: Whoosh

Himeko!
You're being haunted by a devil!

8-2 ...or something. Gotta say, pretty cool, even for me.
What happened after bothers me, though...

Oh, man... [handwritten - this it for both sets]

8-3 Oh, right
Lunch is almost over...

I don't have time for this...

8-4 I've been possessed by a devil?

sfx: blank stare

9-1 She saw me!?

9-2 I didn't know!!!

Harasuma-san...
What should I do!?

Himeko believes that bull? [black circle]

sfx: whoosh [top]

sfx: glomp

9-3 I-I... didn't expect this! I thought she was perfect, not scared like this...

9-4 There's no way I'm not going to exploit this!

9-5 Just you wait, Kayo Himeko!!

9-6 I'm gonna totally exploit your weakness!

sfx: booong

10-1 Five story pagoda of the Hanashigure Academy.

10-2 creak creak

10-3 It's a secret, but I'm really a Miko that protects the school [a Miko is a shinto priestess/shrine assistant]

sfx: creak creak

10-4 But Harasuma-san
They'll get mad at us for being in here

Huff

10-5 It's ok. They say ghosts and monsters often appear in this pagoda, right?

It's just a rumor, though [black circle]

The devil that's haunting you, their real body is here

10-6 And then

11-1 If we don't defeat it, it will continue to haunt you!

11-2 Hehehe... She's scared! She's scared!
I've never seen Himeko look like this

11-3 Ha ha ha... I'm gonna scare you shitless!
Get ready!

12-1 Boooom

13-1 Kyaaaa!!

13-2 Miko from Kakitsubata!!

I'll take that body!!

sfx: Roaaaar

13-3 Roaaaar

14-1 So you've finally appeared

14-2 Flash

15-1 Himeko!!? [black circle]

This demon creeps into people's dreams!

This demon's been haunting you to try to get to me!

15-2 Dream...!?

It made me have that weird dream!?

sfx: blush

15-3 shhf

15-4 I'll take this back

16-1 As Miko of Kakitsubata

I won't let you defile this flower [this is more complex pun I'm not really grasping]

17-1 Shinnng

17-2 Princess Miko of Kakitsubata

Become my vessel!

If you do, I can dominate this world!!!

17-3 What's going on, Himeko!?
Just what are you?

I'm here to protect you

18-1 Although it was coincidence that this dropped, I'm glad it was you that picked it up

18-2 Does that mean I'm the one that got fooled?

sfx: blush

18-3 Go back to the land of darkness!!

sfx: Shing

18-4 Ba-booom

20-1 So you were really a miko, huh?

sfx: sniff sniff

20-2 I'm sorry
I tried to scare you

sfx: sniff

20-3 And you saved me too...

20-4 Clench

20-5 To tell the truth, I always wanted to be your friend...
I've always been watching you...

But I couldn't be honest with myself...

21-1 Harasuma-san

21-2 Don't say anything more...

21-3 Eh

Eeeh...!?

Is this...
A dream?

21-4 Ok?

sfx: grip

23-1 Whhhish

24-3 Eh

Where am I...

sfx: Huh

sfx: Huh Huh

24-4 Shine

24-5 sfx: Whump

Ah...

25-1 Did I have another dream...?

25-2 Where does the dream start...?

25-4 Even though it should have been a dream, my chest is burning...

26-1 Harasuma-san

26-2 See you in class tomorrow too

The continuation is in MF Bunko J - Otome Kakumei Ayame No #1 & 2.
(Media Factory Publishing)