Baka and Boing 1

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001:
BOX1: Have you ever fallen for someone?
BOX2: So much that you wouldn't mind dying for that person?

TEXT1: A boy's long-cherished desire. That is...
BUBBLE1: Excuse me... My name's Shiina Kokoro, and I'm showing off my latest DVD.
BUBBLE2: Please come and take a look!

BOX3: What...? You haven't?
TEXT2: Kobayashi Hiyoko's long-awaited NEW SERIALIZATION
TEXT3: Baka and Boing

002:
BUBBLE1: Well, I HAVE!
TEXT1: I won't let you go, my angel!

003:
TEXT1: Kobayashi Hiyoko, author of "My Wife is a High School Girl", has a new manga!
TEXT2: New Serialization!
TITLE1: Baka and Boing
TEXT3: Chapter 1 - The Fool and The Angel

004:
BUBBLE1: No, I'm not related to her.
BUBBLE2: I'm a fan!

BUBBLE3: That makes it even worse...
BUBBLE4: There's a handshake session with gravure idol Shiina Kokoro-chan!

BUBBLE5: I just want to set up this panel to encourage her!
PANEL: I'm Kokoro! Please come and see me!
BOX1: Hand-made

BUBBLE6: Look at this! I get to have a HANDSHAKE with this person!

005:
BUBBLE1: She's my angel!
sfx: kuwa (growl)

TEXT1: Thrown out.
BUBBLE2: S... Sorry.

BUBBLE2: ...

006:
BOX1: I'm Yamada Taichi...
BUBBLE1: Are you okay, Kokoro-chan?
BOX2: All my life, I've been disinterested in everything, no matter what I tried.
BOX3: I felt lost...

BOX4: I was often told that people didn't even know if I existed.
BUBBLE2: ...
BOX5: Even I... I felt like that I wasn't really alive, and I spent every day in a daze.

BOX6: But, everything changed in that one moment.

007:
BOX1: The moment
BOX2: I saw gravure idol Shiina Kokoro-chan...
TEXT1: National High School Girls' Uniform Collection Grand Prix Winner, Shiina Kokoro
[NOTE: That's the name of Young Jump's gravure idol competition]
BOX3: That gloomy something in my head

BUBBLE1: finally became happy!

TEXT1: Whenever I looked at her, I truly felt alive.
TEXT2: It's so good to be alive!
BUBBLE1: Kokoro-chan's a guest on that radio show tonight!
BUBBLE2: I won't make it!
sfx: dasshu (dash!)

008:
BUBBLE1: Before I knew it, people were treating me like some weirdo,
BUBBLE2: so I sort of ran away to Tokyo...

TEXT1: This...
TEXT2: is my home now.

009:
BUBBLE1: There's an event tomorrow for her latest DVD, "Angelic Kokoro"...!
BUBBLE2: In spite of my shyness, I'm going too... If I can excite the feelings I have right now, it'll go well!

BUBBLE3: I'm so glad I came to Tokyo!

BUBBLE4: Tomorrow...
BUBBLE5: Thank you very much.
BUBBLE6: Where did you travel from, sir?
BUBBLE7: is my dream handshake session!

BUBBLE8: Waaah!
BUBBLE9: Just relax... Relax!!
sfx: gaba (muffled thump)
BUBBLE10: Anyway... I need to cool my head for tomorrow.

010:
TEXT1: Akihabara!

BUBBLE1: Whoa... There' a variety of people here...
SMALLTEXT1: I've only seen this on TV.

BUBBLE2: Let's see, the event is...
BUBBLE3: The free space on the roof at the Hanamaru Soft One!
BUBBLE4: It already started, so I better hurry!

BUBBLE5: Here we are, "Hanamaru Electric."

BUBBLE6: ...Huh?

011:
TEXT1: What's going on?
TEXT2: Did something happen?

TEXT3: This is the place, right?

BUBBLE1: What...?

TEXT4: Someone's there...!?

012:
TEXT1: Wha...

TEXT2: An angel...!?

013:
TEXT1: Shiina Kokoro!!

014:

015:
sfx: doka (thump!)

016:
BUBBLE1: Where am I...?
BUBBLE2: Huh...?

BUBBLE3: Thank you for coming to my handshake session.
BUBBLE4: I believe your next, sir. Let's shake!

BUBBLE5: Handshake!?

017:
BUBBLE1: What?

BUBBLE2: Where...?
BUBBLE3: Oh... you're awake now?

BUBBLE4: I'll go get the doctor.

018:
BUBBLE1: Wait, is this a hospital!?
BUBBLE2: That's right...

TEXT1: Ah... I remember now...

TEXT2: Kokoro-chan fellow off of that building...

BUBBLE3: Huh...What...!! Th-Then...
BUBBLE4: There was a girl that was brought in with me...!!

BUBBLE5: Ah, that emergency case...
BUBBLE6: Let's see...

019:
BUBBLE1: She should still be in surgery right now...?

BUBBLE2: Kokoro-chan's in surgery...!!

BUBBLE3: Well... What's her condition?
BUBBLE4: I'm sorry, but I don't know.

BUBBLE5: What did things turn out this way!?

020:
BUBBLE1: I get it!!
BUBBLE2: If only I was a better cushion for her! I'm so stupid!!
sfx: aaaaaaah!

BUBBLE3: Just in case, we're going to examine you once more, but...
BUBBLE4: I think you'll be all right.
BUBBLE5: Okay.

BUBBLE6: It's a miracle.
BUBBLE7: Kokoro-chan's in surgery...

BUBBLE8: ...

021:
BUBBLE1: Kokoro-chan!?

BUBBLE2: Why's Kokoro-chan...
BUBBLE3: What?

BUBBLE4: Look... she's right in front of you.
BUBBLE5: As I said, Yamada-san, she's still in surgery.

022:
BUBBLE1: Kokoro...
BUBBLE2: -chan?
sfx: suuu (swish)

BUBBLE3: She passed right through it!?

BUBBLE4: D-Doctor...!?
BUBBLE5: Kokoro-chan's right in front of me...!?
BUBBLE6: Um, Doctor!?
BUBBLE7: Take care...

BUBBLE8: ...
BUBBLE9: Examine him again.
BUBBLE10: Yes, sir...

023:
BUBBLE1: Thank goodness!
BUBBLE2: I finally found someone who can see me.

BUBBLE3: Hey, wait...
BUBBLE4: Are you the person I fell on when...

BUBBLE5: That's... right...

sfx: jiwa (sorrow)

024:
BUBBLE1: I'm really, really sorry!!
BUBBLE2: It's becuase of my clumsiness that I got you involved in all this!

BUBBLE3: I-I don't really know what's going on,
BUBBLE4: but... You're... Shiina Kokoro-chan, right...?

BUBBLE5: You know who I am?

BUBBLE6: Of course I do!!

025:
BUBBLE1: I'm a huge fan of yours!
BUBBLE2: Ple... Please shake my hand!!
sfx: nurun (the slipperiness of his hand)

BUBBLE3: Ugh... they're drenched in sweat!
sfx: kaaa (blushing)
sfx: jiiin (gazing)
BUBBLE4: ...

BUBBLE5: Thank you very much!
sfx: aah!
sfx: gashu (a moist grip)
BUBBLE6: Um... Please buy my DVD!

026:
BUBBLE1: I already bought it!
BUBBLE2: I own everything you've ever released!!
TEXT1: Touched!

BUBBLE3: I'm so happy.
BUBBLE4: I hope you me support from now on as well...

BUBBLE5: By the way...

BUBBLE6: What happened to me?

027:
BUBBLE1: I fell off of the building...
BUBBLE2: and when I came to,

BUBBLE3: I was floating in midair, watching my own surgery!

BUBBLE4: No one would answer me when I tried to speak with them.
BUBBLE5: Uh.. Um, E-Excuse me...
BUBBLE6: Being all alone like that made me feel like a ghost.

BUBBLE7: A ghost!?
sfx: gaaan (shocked)
BUBBLE8: Like this.

BUBBLE9: A-Anyway, let's go to the operating room.
BUBBLE10: Okay.
SMALLTEXT: Sob.

028:
BUBBLE1: I guess the operating room is this way.
BUBBLE2: Ye... yeah...
SMALLTEXT: Aauuu...

BUBBLE3: !?
BUBBLE4: That's right, I said it's a cerebral contusion,
BUBBLE5: but it's looks like she'll be okay.

BUBBLE6: Jeez, there's already rumors flying around that it may have been suicide!
BUBBLE7: I'm letting you know right now, none of it was my fault.
BUBBLE8: See? This is why I wanted to be drop from Kokoro!

BUBBLE9: You bastard!!
sfx: da (starting to run)

BUBBLE10: ...!
sfx: ga (grip!)
sfx: furu furu furu (shaking her head)

029:
BUBBLE1: So I wasn't a ghost.
BUBBLE2: I'm going to be okay!
sfx: fuwa (her fluttering wings)

BUBBLE3: That person just now was my manager.

BUBBLE4: It's no surprise he would say that, though...
BUBBLE5: I'm considered excess baggage at the office.

BUBBLE6: I won that magazine's idol grand prix audition...
BUBBLE7: but, after being a hot topic for a little while, my popularity drop quite a bit.
TEXT1: Milk-colored Pudding-chan
TEXT2: Still Growing!

030:
BUBBLE1: H-Hello, everyone... My name is Shiina Kokoro.

BUBBLE2: In celebration of my latest DVD, I'm havinf a handshake session.
BUBBLE3: I'm Shiina Kokoro.
BUBBLE4: Um...

BUBBLE5: Louder!
BUBBLE6: No one's coming to see you!
BUBBLE7: I-I-I'M SHIINA KOKORO!
BUBBLE8: I've only been saying my name...

BUBBLE9: Aww, come on! You woke my baby up!
BUBBLE10: I-I'm sorry.

BUBBLE11: Your balloon...
sfx: suuu (slow gliding)

031:
BUBBLE1: It's all my fault...
sfx: furufuru (shaking in sorrow)

BUBBLE2: I'm really sorry!
sfx: dasshu (dash!)
BUBBLE3: Please, let me give you my DVD in return!
BUBBLE4: Dowa!

BUBBLE5: ...
BUBBLE6: You're still holding your mic...
sfx: dasshu (dash!)
BUBBLE7: W-Waaait!

BUBBLE8: Look, it's stuck in that tree.
BUBBLE9: I'll go and get it for you.

BUBBLE1: Whatever, I don't need that thing anyway!
BUBBLE2: The same goes for your DVD!

032:
BUBBLE1: But...
BUBBLE2: I'll get it anyway.

BUBBLE3: Whoa, whoa!
BUBBLE4: What the hell! What about your job!? Your announcement!?
BUBBLE5: I'll be right back.
sfx: gasha gasha (rattling of the gate)

BUBBLE6: Abandoning it because you don't need it...

BUBBLE7: I don't like that...

BUBBLE8: Got it!

033:
BUBBLE1 I...
BUBBLE2: I ruined an important event
BUBBLE3: and couldn't even save that balloon.

BUBBLE4: I fell off of a building and got you hurt.

BUBBLE5: Hah... I'm a pretty worthless girl, aren't I...?

034:
BUBBLE1: That's not true!!
sfx: ga (grip!)

BUBBLE2: I'm Kokoro-chan's fan,
BUBBLE3: and that's why... that's why you're wrong!

035:
BUBBLE1: ...S-Sorry
BUBBLE2: I just... got really heated all of a sudden.

BUBBLE3: But... You've really made me happy, Kokoro-chan.
BUBBLE4: And, that's an amazing thing! You're a very worthwhile person!

BUBBLE5: Is that true...?
BUBBLE6: It's true! I'm very happy right now!!

036:
BUBBLE1: I see.
BUBBLE2: Thank you very much!

BUBBLE3: What an innocent girl! She's too cute!

BUBBLE4: Now I'm even more of a fan!
sfx: guoooo (a spirited yell)

037:
BUBBLE1: I guess it's time I return to the operating room...

TEXT1: She's an angel...
TEXT2: Almost as if...
TEXT3: she's going to disappear right now...
TEXT4: Kokoro-san...

038:
BUBBLE1: Ah, here ya are!
BUBBLE2: I was looking all over!

BUBBLE3: ...?

BUBBLE4: Huh?
BUBBLE5: I could've sworn there was no one there until now...

BUBBLE6: Let's see, according to the schedule... Dang!
sfx: Aww!
BUBBLE7: No time left until death... My boss is gonna chew me out again.
BUBBLE8: Who is she...?
BUBBLE9: A middle-schooler?

BUBBLE10: I-I'm not in middle school!
sfx: da (running start)

039:
BUBBLE1: I'm a shinigami!
BUBBLE2: That should be obvious!

BUBBLE3: And on that note,
BUBBLE4: What's up?
BUBBLE5: Wh...What's up.
TEXT1: Shinigami?

040:
TEXT1: Shinigami!?

BUBBLE1: No way! Are you here to take me from this world!?
BUBBLE2: I don't want to die! I don't want to die! I don't want to diiiiee!

BUBBLE3: Shut up!
sfx: gain (pow!)
BUBBLE4: Fugoooohh!

BUBBLE5: You ain't the one I came here to get.
BUBBLE6: Jeez.
BUBBLE7: Uuughh.

BUBBLE8: The one I came for
BUBBLE9: is her...

041:
BUBBLE1: This girl's dead...

BUBBLE2: Wh-What're you saying? She's going to be--

BUBBLE3: Her surgery...
BUBBLE4: just failed.

TEXT1: A tragic sentence...

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