Kyoukai no Rinne 1

[TN: Yeah, I know it's getting official English translations right after the Japanese release. I don't care. I'm not missing out on doing Rumiko Takahashi's new series >_< I may not have read any of her series to completion, but Rumiko Takahashi was like the one who introduced me to manga, for godssakes.]

Guidelines For Using My Translations

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[Insert text: Takahashi Rumiko's new series begins!]
Sakura: Aahhh! / What is that?!

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Kyoukai no Rinne
Chapter 1: Mystery Classmate
[TN: The title literally means "Boundary Rinne". "Rinne" is a word referring to the cycle of death and resurrection.]
[Circle (by title): A forty-page chapter with colour pages!!]
[Circle (top-right): The curtain opens on the new Rumic World you've all been waiting for!!]
[Top: TAKAHASHI RUMIKO'S NEW SERIES!]
[Insert text: When, surpassing an impassable boundary... // ...this boy and Sakura meet... / The wheels of Destiny begin to turn... // ...and a new story begins...!!]

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Sakura: Look! It's turning up in the sky! / Is it a Ferris wheel?! // Can I go on it?! / Well, Oba-chan?!
Woman: If you got on there, you could never come back. // Now, I think you can find your own way home from here. // Just follow the path straight.
Sakura: Oba-chan...? // Oba-chan, where are you~?! // Oba-cha~n!

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Sakura: Ah! / Oba-cha...
Woman: I - think - you - mean... / "Onee-chan", yes?
Sakura: Owowowowow...
Woman: By the way, / you should forget everything you've seen here. / Or should I say, you will.
Sakura: Owowowowow...
[Box: Somehow I thought when I entered high school...]
Sakura: *sigh*...
[Box: ...something would finally change.]

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[Box: But in the end...]
Ghost: Hey there~~! // G'morning~~~! // Mamiya Sakura-sa~~n!
Sakura: He's still here... // Hup...!
Ghost: G'morning~~!
Sakura: Could you please stop talking to me?

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[Box: When I was little... // There was an incident where I was "spirited away". // Not that I remember any of it. // I wandered into the mountains behind my grandmother's house in the country...]
Flashback!Men: Are you all right?! / You're not hurt, are you?!
Flashback!Sakura: My head hurts for some reason...
[Box: ...and I was missing for a whole week.]
Sakura: (And that was the start of it all... // I've been able to see ghosts and stuff ever since...)
Teacher: I'll take attendance now~!

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Friend: Hey - Mamiya-san.
Sakura: Hm?
Friend: He's still not here, huh? The guy next to you.
Sakura: You're right...
Friend: What do you think's up with him? // It's May already, and he still hasn't shown...
Sakura: (I've never even seen the guy in the seat next to me.)
Teacher: Rokudou... / Rokudou Rinne!
[TN: Well, that's a meaningful name if ever I've heard one. ~~ "Rinne", of course, is the cycle of resurrection in Buddhism, and "Rokudou" refers to the "six paths of resurrection" that comprise it. I daresay most manga readers are familiar with them at this point, through the likes of Naruto or Reborn, but for anyone who isn't, Wikipedia has the info.]
Sakura: Ah...

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Sakura: ...Looks like he's finally arrived.
Friend: Huh?
Sakura: (Huh... So this is Rokudou-kun. // ...I wonder what's up with that weird outfit of his...? // And his hair... it's bright red...)

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Teacher: Rokudou's still absent, I see... // Ah well, then...
Sakura: (Huh?!)
Classmates: He's probably just refusing to come to school, right? // I doubt he'll ever show.
Friend: Mamiya-san... / What was that about him arriving...?
Sakura: Ahh...? // (I see... // If nobody else can se him, then... // This must be...)

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Sakura: (A ghost... // Wait... // What's he doing...? // Crap... he spotted me looking...)
Rinne: ......
Sakura: (Gah... // What's all this? // ...Dog food...?)

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Teacher: Well then, everybody open your textbooks...
Sakura: (Whoa... // What's this thing...? // Let's see... // A quivery thing with big eyes... // Of course! A Chihuahua!)

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Rinne: Dog known as Chihuatarou. / Don't you think that's enough for your walk?
Sakura: (He spoke...)
Rinne: It's time to abandon your regrets in this world... // ...and hop nicely into the flow of the Wheel like a good boy. // Come on.
[SFX: MUNCH]
Rinne: ......... // Don't worry... there's nothing to be afraid of.

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Sakura: (He... // He got eaten...)
[SFX: ding-do~~ng]
Friend: Hey, just something I noticed, Mamiya-san...
Sakura: Just "Sakura" is fine...
Friend: Sakura-chan, then... you get this look like you're staring off at something sometimes. What's with that? / A habit?
Sakura: Uh-huh... / I think it's incurable...

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Sakura: Anyway, see you.
Friend: See you tomorrow!
[Box: I thought something would change once I entered high school. // Like somehow as I grew up... // ...I'd stop seeing all these weird things...]
Sakura: But... // I don't think I've seen anything quite like that before.
Ghost: Mamiya Sakura-sa~n! // He~y!
Sakura: Not again... // Hup!
Ghost: Let's walk together~!
Sakura: Persistent, aren't you...?

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Rinne: Ah...
Sakura: Ah! // (That ghost from the classroom... // ...and the Chihuahua... // It's smaller now... // They don't look much like ghosts, but...)
Sakura: Hup!

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Rinne: Wahh!
Sakura: (Huh...?! / A human?) // I - I'm very sorry. / I thought you were someone else.
Rinne: Hey. // Back there... // You were watching, right?
Sakura: Huh...?! // You mean...

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Sakura: You really are... // ...that guy who was in the classroom...
Rinne: Who... // ...exactly are you?
Sakura: Well...... // I kind of feel like that should be my line...
Ghost: Yeah, what exactly is your relationship with Sakura-san?
Sakura: Oh... / You're still here.

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Rinne: A suicide ghost... / You ought to cut your ties to this world soon as well, or your spirit will be corrupted. // If you feel like passing on, I'd be happy to help you out.
Sakura: (This guy can see ghosts as well...)
Ghost: Whaaaat~? Corrupted~? / That doesn't sound good...
Rinne: Do you have any money on you?
Sakura: Huh?
Rinne: Well, the fare for this guy is separate... / But this time I'm going to be sending little Chihuatarou along with him, so I could do with, say... // 50 yen.
Sakura: Not that I get what's going on or anything, but... wow. / That's cheap.

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Ghost: I see... so you have lingering ties to this world as well... // I guess we're pals! // (Back when I was alive, I spent every waking hour studying for exams... // ...and I'd never even had a conversation with a girl. // That's why I wanted to make friends with a girl more than anything...)
Flashback!Ghost: G'morning! // G'morning!
Ghost: (...so I kept trying to talk to them. // But not one of them gave a single response. // Until one day, my luck finally changed.)
Flashback!Ghost: G'morning!
Flashback!Sakura: Good morning!

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Ghost: Mamiya Sakura-san... / You're the only one who was ever nice enough to talk to me! // It was just a mistake... I thought you were a normal person...
Ghost: You're the only one who ever understood me! / Maybe if I ask, you'd even go out with me...? // No, you're interested in me. I know you are. // [aside]one day "good morning", the next "I love you"![/aside]
Rinne: ...What do we do with him?
Sakura: Hmmmmmm... // You were saying something about sending this guy on for 50 yen before, right? // Then please, take it.
Ghost: No, no... / That's fine...
Sakura: Huh...?

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Ghost: I think I might be okay just the way I am. // If I passed on, I wouldn't be able to see you any more...
Sakura: Um... // They mixed together.
Rinne: That's not good... he's become corrupted.
Sakura: Right...
Ghost: Would you go out with me, please?
Sakura: Sorry, but no.
Rinne: Just give up and pass on, okay? // Don't worry. // There's nothing to be afraid of.

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Ghost: I... // I WAS REJECTED~~~~~!!
Sakura: Aaaahhhh~!

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Sakura: !
Rinne: Sorry, but could you come with me?!
[TN: Incidentally, the phrasing he uses could just as easily mean "could you go out with me?". I doubt that's helping matters ~~]
Sakura: Huh...?

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Sakura: !

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Sakura: (Wh... what's that thing?! // A red wheel... // ...turning in the sky?!)

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Sakura: I - / I'm flying?! // Where is this place?! // What are you?!
Ghost: WAAAAAAIIIIT!
Sakura: Aaaaahhhhh~! It's following us~~~~!

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Rinne: The thing that was tying him down to the real world was his attachment to you. // Bringing you over to this side was the only way to lure him away. // Anyway... // I'm not sure how to say this, but... // Could you please lend me 500 yen?! // For this guy's fare.
Sakura: Huh...? // (Wasn't it 50 yen before...?) // Why the rise?
Rinne: It's the price for a corrupted soul. // They cost ten times the fare they were originally worth.

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Rinne: But I guess that's not possible... / It's a large sum, after all!
Sakura: No... / No, no, no... // I'll pay up, I'll pay up! // Here, just take this!
Shop: Thank you, come again~!

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[Label: Five Hundred Yen]
[TN: It's probably worth noting that "yen" can also mean "circle", so that could be read as "Five Hundred Circle". Oh, and "yen" is written with an old-fashioned kanji.]

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Rinne: Dog known as Chihuatarou, and boy tied down by love. // I hereby sever both of your ties from your former lives.
Ghost: "Boy tied down by love"?! // Don't call me weird names~~!!

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Rinne: Kasha Retsudan!
[TN: "Flaming Chariot Enforced Severing". According to Buddhist teaching, a flaming chariot ("Kasha") carries the souls of sinners to Hell.]

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Ghost: Aaahhhh~
Dog: [aside]Ruahh~[/aside]
Sakura: Ahh... // That was kind of underwhelming.
Rinne: Now then, off the two of you go. Just hop onto the Wheel of Samsara.
[TN: "Samsara" being a translation of "Rinne"]
Ghost: Ahhh...
Sakura: (Samsara...)
Ghost: Seems kind of... // ...lonely...

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Rinne: There are girls on there too.
Ghost: Oh. / Ah. / Really? // Bye~!
Sakura: (I... // I've been here before. // I'm sure I have.)
Rinne: This is a place forbidden to the living. // It may have been an emergency... / But still, I must apologise for getting you involved.
Sakura: Just who... / ...are you...?

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Rinne: Me...? / I take those who have regrets tying them to the material world... // ...and lead them to the Wheel of Samsara so that they can pass on. // I guess you'd call me... // ...something like a Shinigami...
[TN: This really is Rumiko Takahashi-style reverse-Bleach, isn't it?]

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Sakura: ("Something like"...?)
Rinne: You must forget. // Everything that you have seen here... / Or should I say, you will.
Sakura: (After that, everything went kind of blank... // And next thing I knew, I was eating dinner at my house.) // Mmmm, I love tonkatsu~!

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Sakura: (But as for that mysterious world...) // Morning~! // (I remember it all. // And that boy had disappeared, leaving many mysteries behind him.)
Friend: Sakura-chan! He showed up! / Rokudou-kun, the boy who sits next to you!
Sakura: Huh...?
Classmates: Red hair, huh...? / Really deep red, too...
Sakura: Ah! The Shinigami!
Rine: The hypnosis failed?!
Classmate: Why's he in a tracksuit...?
[Side text: The mystery boy turned out be be her next-door classmate. Is Sakura's high-school life about to get a lot more complicated?! More colour pages next week!!]
[Bottom text: To be continued in Issue 23, on sale Saturday 2nd May]