Rin 25
Reserved for RyColaa Scanlations
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[vertical text]: Put to pen the feelings / you can’t put to words
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<no text>
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[sfx]: Clickety clack
[sfx]: Rustle
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<no text>
p5: =======================================
[sfx]: Spacing out
[sfx]: Tip!
[sfx]: Kabam!
!!
[sfx]: Roll
Ouch…
That’s the second time today…
*Rumble*
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*Rumble*
*Rumble*
[phone]: Mutou-san
*Rumble*
Sh—Shoot!!
I haven’t even finished one page of the storyboard!!
[sfx]: Panicking
Heck, I don’t even have any ideas!!
*Rumble*
*Rumble*
p7: =======================================
[sfx]: Slide
[sfx]: Wind blowing
I haven’t been able to get in the mood to work,
not since getting back from the Kou-no-Mori Festival.
Kssshh!!
Ooh, brr.
[sfx]: Slam!
I’ve been too busy worrying about…
p8: =======================================
Ishidou-san, I’ve just gotten home safe. Thank you for everything, truly!
It’s been four days and she hasn’t even read it, let alone responded.
Did her health worsen?
[sfx]: Boing
Or else, does she hate me?
p9: =======================================
[sfx]: Wind blowing
[signs]: Morishige High School
Umm, so now you understand…
why the Oakland Athletics have so many tenacious batters with a good eye for the ball.
[sfx]: Ding dong dang dong
So then, next class, we’ll talk about the quality start sought from starting pitchers and how…
p10: =======================================
I heard that Yamamoto Masa got his awesome screwball not from Valenzuela, but rather from some nobody on a 1-A team.
[sfx]: *People talking*
Seriously?
Okay.
Goal: The Young Blue Cup!
Today’s Plans:
4 p.m.: Get home
{ Nap / Dinner / Bath }
8-3: Storyboard!!
I can’t make anything,
so I at least made up a plan.
You’re amazing, Fushimi-kun!
p11: =======================================
It really must be hard, drawing manga!
Oh, no, this is, um…
Hey, hey, what’s the Young Blue Cup?
W—Well, it’s a competition where newbies get a work published in Taurus’s magazine,
and then whichever proves most popular in a survey gets a chance at serialization.
p12: =======================================
Serialization?!
[sfx]: Thud!
Awesome! Then you’re a pro!!
N—Not really; just getting an entry accepted is a tall hill to climb.
And you’re working hard to do just that?
Yeah, I guess.
I do have to give it my all…
You know, I’d kind of like to watch you draw sometime.
Huh?
p13: =======================================
I’d love to see you draw on manuscript paper with a dip pen!
Well… If you want to, I guess...
Really? I can go?
Huh?
Go… to my house?!
No good?
I—I didn’t say that…
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But I won’t be inking for a while yet.
[inset]: Ahahaha
I haven’t even finished the storyboard.
What sort of manga are you working on this time?
Th—This time, I’m…
[paper, upside-down]: Young
Oh, that’s a sketch I drew earlier.
It was from when I was trying to draw “Private Teacher Narumi-sensei.”
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It’s a story full of girls?
[inset]: He has absolutely no physical talent, but still talks a big game.
[box]: Protagonist
Huh?
And the main character seems to have nothing going for him, but for some reason, the girls are all over him? Something like that?!
[inset]: He has absolutely no physical talent, but still talks a big game.
[box]: Protagonist
Well…
I only drew all those girls because I was trying to find the right one through trial and error…
But I love stories like that!
Clichéd ones that try to fulfill the reader’s fantasies!
There’s common in girls’ manga, too.
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I—Is that how you see it?
Y—Yeah.
So, hey, what’s the title?
Th—The title?
[box]: Protagonist
I—It’s “Old Boy,”
I guess.
But that sounds familiar.
[sfx]: Ding dong dang dong
Sounds interesting!
And that’s a promise! Don’t forget!
[sfx]: Shouting
p17: =======================================
I’m pantomiming a cradle.
What, did’ya just have a kid?
“The Alumnus”… That just might work!!
[sfx]: Grind!
p18: =======================================
Title: “Old Boy” (temp)
The protagonist, Shirou, is a 17-year-old who’s never leaves his room. Then one day, he received a secret offer from someone affiliated with a women’s pro soccer team. The request: to work as a body double for team’s manager while the team’s in the middle of a three-game struggle for the championship.
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[box]: Shirou
[next to box]: Protagonist
[below that]: Looks over two decades older than he is. Spends his days absorbed in surfing the net, reading manga, watching anime, and playing online games.
[left, top]: PR manager for the women’s pro soccer team, the Mie Hotspurs.
[box]: Misaki
[below]: Loves to drink. Is also somewhat loose; rumor has she wakes up in the morning sharing her bed with a guy she doesn’t know.
[Right page]: {
Dammit. My computer broke.
[sfx]: Wind howling
I guess I’ll visit the electronics emporium for the first time in forever.
Oh, that you, Shirou?
That kid who got bullied in middle school?
Doesn’t he look super old to you?
I heard he never leaves his room.
Tch. My life’s already over…
}
[left page] {
The Electronics Emporium
Ohhhh! A breakaway chance, but he missed the shot!!
Even I could’ve finished that play.
Excuse me…
Y--You look just like him!!
Finally, I’ve found my answer!!
Huh?
}
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WHAAAT?! You want me to act as the body double for the great Coach Mouri, who was the manager for Japan’s national team?!
No one knows this yet—not the media, nor anyone with the team, no one—
but Coach Mouri is currently being detained in Thailand for hiring a prostitute.
!!
The owner’s using every method he can to hush things up,
but that’ll take some time…
Coach Mouri is a 42-year-old man who last year won the Father of the Year Award.
B—But me, I’m only 17.
That doesn’t seem very problematic to me!
The ladies of the Mie Hotspurs
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Shirou-kun, you can just sit quietly on the bench and watch.
The assistant coaches will handle everything.
In the Locker Room
I’m the Special One who led Japan at the World Cup.
Play on the pitch like you’re starving lions!
You’re changing their strategy?!!
[box] Semanaka Tina
Half-Japanese, half-Brazilian, raised in Brazil. Has a Latin feel to her.
GOOAAAALLLL! It’s 2 to 1!!
[sfx]: Swoosh!
Semanaka Tina, who came onto the pitch in the second half, scores in stoppage time!!
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WE WON!!
[sfx]: Cheers
She rushes over to Coach Mouri and hugs him in joy!!
[sfx]: Glomp
Awah
I can still feel the touch of her breasts…
[sfx]: Grin
Don’t get full of yourself just because got lucky and won one match.
That wasn’t luck.
I fully researched our opponent, just like I always do when playing online games.
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She’s the most accurate passer and best ball handler on the team:
the midfielder who views the whole pitch as if via a GPS, Imai Kasumi
[sfx]: Charge!
[sfx]: Kick!
[box]: Imai Kasumi
She has the brains to enter either the University of Tokyo or Ochanomizu University
[box] Motoyama Hana
An airhead who spent her childhood running across the countryside. 146cm tall.
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The Oxygen Tank, sideback Motoyama Hana, evades one player and crosses the ball!!
[sfx]: Pass!
[sfx]: Kick!
And finishing the play is Semanaka Tina!!
[sfx]: Swoosh!
Mouri’s handpicked players, his “Children,” have had another passionate performance today!!
“Children”? I’m still only 17, but…
[sfx]: Cheering
That makes two straight wins, bringing us closer to the championship!!
Coach!!
[sfx]: Glomp!
Mwh. Again no bra.
[sfx]: Drop
Ahh… It’s finally starting to take shape.
[sfx]: Flop
Later, I’ll have to incorporate some more erotic material.
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[sfx]: Ring
[phone]: Sorry, Fushimi-kun.
[bottom left]: Close
[bottom right]: Display
Sorry, Fushimi-kun.
I was hospitalized not long after you left… I’ve been discharged, but I’m still running a fever, and it’s hard to keep down food.
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I had no idea…
Are you all alright? I’m really worried.
……
[sfx]: Pacing
[sfx]: Ring
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Wow. I had no idea she’d been hospitalized.
And I haven’t heard anything from her since she sent that Nishigaitsu clipart.
Hmmmm.
[sfx]: Tap tap
But there’s no point worrying; it’s not like there’s anything we can do.
[sfx]: Crack
Huh?
She said she’d long been frail,
thanks to that ability of hers, or something.
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I—I guess.
That was cold…
I’m sure she’ll recover in time.
[sfx]: Huff
Or rather, she has to.
There’s still so many things I want to ask her.
[sfx]: Slurp
I imagine Nishigaitsu-sensei and Nishiguchi-san are the same way.
Taki-kun, what are you eating?
A midnight snack.
[sfx]: Slurp
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Two days ago, I got a thumbs-up for the storyboard for my Young Blue Cup submission.
I’m staying up till dawn today drafting it.
What about you?
I’ve finally started working on my storyboard.
Hmmmm.
[sfx]: Slurp
That man is always one step in front of me…
I bet he’s drawing something fantastic…
Why don’t I have some Sugakiya ramen?
p30: =======================================
*Rumble*
*Rumble*
!!
Taurus Editing Department
Hey. It’s been so hard to get a hold of you, I was getting worried.
[sfx]: Screech
H—Hello.
p31: =======================================
“Old Boy” (temp)? I like it.
Made me laugh!
Th—Thank you.
I’m really interested in your protagonist, Shirou.
WHAT?! You want me to act as a body double, even at home?!
The wife is aware, but it’s being kept a secret from the daughter, who’s at a sensitive age.
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Welcome home, Daddy!
I—I’m home.
Let’s have a bath together!!
WHAT?!
You think Coach Mouri’s having a bath with his daughter right about now?
That’s the Father of the Year for you!
Heck, aren’t you 17, the same age as me?!
Daddy, want me to scrub your back?
The guy’s a deadbeat, then suddenly becomes the “Special One.”
[sfx]: Cackle
I love stuff like this.
The flames of his ambition are lit, and he starts climbing the staircase of success,
Now’s the season to give Kobe, the queens of the league for four years straight, their first loss in the finals.
Awaken! Be the Davids to their Goliaths!
It’s just like Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Richard III.
I—I wouldn’t put it up with the ranks of those…
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It’s just, winning the Young Blue Cup popularity poll is gonna be hard.
You gotta overload your work with sexy scenes!
Y—Yes, sir.
Mind if I give you my thoughts?
So, did your storyboard pass?
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Haha. Yeah, somehow.
I’m incorporating all of Mutou-san’s opinions.
That’s fine. Nothing Mutou-san says is ever wrong!
Rumor has it he’s going to be chief editor someday soon.
Some of his thoughts still make me go “Hmm,’
[sfx]: Hahaha
But they brought me victory last time.
My storyboard’s almost made it through the ringer, too.
Today, I’m taking it easy!
It’ll be a three-way battle between you, me, and Taki-kun!
A battle, huh?
[sfx]: Gulp
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[sfx]: Click!
Eeek!
Ahhh!!
[sfx]: Gush!
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Mmmm… Sexy scenes are so hard.
[sfx]: Tap
I always wind up agonizing over them.
But I have to push through…
Whoa?!
Oh, Coach.
I was just checking out my outfit for Rio’s Carnival.
This is my way of life.
[sfx]: Whip!
Ow!
Wha d’you know, boy? Yer on’ly 17 years old.
Misaki-san, you’re an awful drunk…
I’ll start my winter break early, skip school, and focus on my manuscript!!
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[sfx]: Scratch
It took me a string of sleepless nights, but I’ve managed to figure out a strategy for tomorrow’s match against Kobe.
[sfx]: Sigh
Come to think of it, this is the hardest I’ve ever worked in my life.
I want to thank all my players.
[sfx]: Ding-dong!
Shirou-kun, sorry to be so sudden…
But we’ve gotten Coach Mouri back, safe and sound!
Hey, thanks for covering for me till now.
You really are the spitting image of me.
Huh? Then you’re saying…
Thanks for everything.
The real Coach Mouri will be in command during tomorrow’s game against Kobe.
[sfx]: Ring!
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Fushimi-kun, you’ve been out of school for two days. Did you catch a cold?
No, just drawing manga.
[sfx]: Ring
Seriously?! Can I come watch you draw?!
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I’m at the station right now.
I’ll have Ii-san show me the way, so I can b there soon!
Y—You’re coming now?!
You promised, right?!
I’ll bring some refreshments!
*Click*
[sfx]: Turn / Turn
…….
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[sfx]: Dash!
[sfx]: Dash!
[sfx]: Bang!
[sfx]: Slam!
[sfx]: Hummmm x2
*Ring*
I’m here!
*Huff*
*Huff*
[sfx]: Open!
Thanks!
Then I’ll be off.
p41: =======================================
So this is where you live, Fushimi-kun!
Thanks for letting me come!
I—I can’t believe it. Honda-san’s in my house!!
p42: =======================================
I—I’m sorry it’s not that clean.
[sfx]: Bathump bathump
[sfx]: Rustle
This is the first time a girl who’s not related to me has been in my room.
Oh, it’s so clean!
Your room might be even cleaner than mine.
So this is where you live!
[sfx]: Turn x2
[sfx]: Bathump bathump
p43: =======================================
[sfx]: Crumble!
[books]: {
[top right]: This manga’s erotic!
: Erotic Pose Book
[bottom-right]: Poses so you can draw unbelievably sexy girls!
[bottom-left]: A Directory of Giant Boobs
[sfx]: Panick!
P—Put your bags down and take a seat wherever.
Of course you’d have a lot of manga.
[sfx]: Quietly
She sat on my bed!!
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Hey, hey, let me see your manuscript!
Oh, sure.
[sfx]: Kick kick
[sfx]: Thud!
[sfx]: Swoosh!
The keeper can’t react in time!!
[sfx]: Cheering
Kobe seeks no splendor in dribbling or passing, only goals.
Their masterful, thoroughly realistic play has dominated Mie from the first whistle!!
p45: =======================================
Wow! The raw manuscript really packs a punch!
I—I wouldn’t say that… I mean, I’m no pro.
The first half is over. The score’s 3-0!!
Kobe’s victory is practically in the books!!
[sfx]: Cheers
Mie’s players are all hanging their heads as they withdraw to the locker room!!
Ladies!!
I cannot believe the play I saw out there!!
[sfx]: Screaming
I didn’t think players as excellent as you could play so poorly!!
Did you have your sisters come take your places?!
What’s with him?
Yuck.
[sfx]: Murmurs
Believe in your soccer philosophy!!
I—it couldn’t be…
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[sfx]: Scratch
[the box here is the upper right corner of the first box in the next panel]
It’s Semanaka Tina with a bicycle kick!!
A miraculous goal!!
[sfx]: Kick!
It’s Semanaka Tina with a bicycle kick!!
I’m close, so close!!
Wow, you’re drawing so quickly and smoothly!
And she smells so nice…
Really, I’m impressed.
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[sfx, right side]: Scratch x3
Imai’s got a breakaway chance!!
[sfx just to the left of Fushimi’s hand]: Kick!
[sfx by the goal]: Swoosh!
That was MF Imai Kasumi, the only player on the team allowed to change her position at will, with the score!
She finishes the chance for her team’s second point!!
Hey, hey, what do you do when you have writer’s block?
Wh—What do I do?
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You know. How do you get a change of pace?
A change of pace?
I don’t know if I’d call it that, but…
I often climb out on the roof.
?
[sfx]: Slide
You put sandals out there.
Can I use them?
[sfx]: Jump
Of course!
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Wow! The view out here is totally amazing!
It’s my favorite spot.
I’ve been out here who knows how many hundreds of times
when I’m happy, when I’m sad, when I want to immerse myself in a feeling…
No, maybe thousands of times.
The first time I can remember…
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was probably back when I swore I’d become a manga artist.
[sfx]: Smile
I see. So this place is sacred to you.
At night, when I was little, I’d also go out when I couldn’t be bothered to go to the first floor bathroom.
!!
[sfx]: Wind howling
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!!
[sfx]: Whoosh!
[sfx]: Tumble
Fushimi-kun, did you see?
[sfx]: Caw caw
Well… The shock of falling scattered my memories, so…
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Oh yeah. What about that hat I gave you?
Oh, uh…
I left it at a friend’s house earlier.
I see. Then that’s fine.
I was just curious, since I didn’t see it.
Take care.
She’s making sure to hold down her skirt…
[sfx]: Clickety clack
aCHOO!
[sfx]: Wind howling
Brr…
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[bubbles]: Cough / Cough
[right page]: {
[sfx]: Thud!
[sfx]: Cheers!
Sideback Motoyama moves up from her position back deep to fire off a low cross!!
Oh! It turned into an own goal by Kobe!!!
[sfx]: Thud!
!!
}
[left page] {
The game’s tied up at 3 all!!
But a tie won’t do it—Mie has to win the match for the championship!
And we’re already in stoppage time!!
I’m sorry to say this, Shirou-kun, but… You’re nothing now.
I’m going home…
to the dark, cramped world of mine.
}
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[sfx]: *Cough* x2
Ooh… Huh?
Dammit… Why now, of all times?
The deadline’s the middle of January…
I have to finish forty pages by then…
p55: =======================================
Looks like you’ve pushed yourself a little too hard.
Yassan…
p56: =======================================
[sfx]: Sit up
Is Ishidou-san all right?
She’s on your mind?
I mean…
p57: =======================================
……
It’s because she used a considerably great Power.
You mean, when she broke the boulder?
That was a Purification.
Countless years of Degradation had corrupted that boulder.
……
So it wasn’t just my imagination…
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And before that, she raised the lost the souls that wandered the Inner Shrine.
That must have exhausted her considerably.
Had it not, those brothers would have been nothing before her.
Huh?!
However, I admired your courage.
Especially considering how low your potential is.
Should I take that as praise, or an insult?
……
So right now, Ishidou-san’s…
p59: =======================================
[sfx]: Standing
It would be wiser to worry more about yourself than about others.
You cannot happily draw manga in your present state.
[sfx]: Slide
Wait, Yassan!
There’s more I want to ask!
Have a happy New Years!
Huh…? Does that mean he won’t appear again this year?
[insert]: Mmmmm.
p60: =======================================
[sfx]: Howling wind
[sign]: Kumano Shrine
[wooden post]: Kumano Shrine
p61: =======================================
[sfx]: Clap x2
I’m sorry to once again come for my New Year’s shrine visit before New Year’s.
[sfx]: Wind howling
Brr...
It’s really biting into my ears.
You’re not going to college or entering the workforce, right?
Then Old Boy (temp), which you’re writing for the Young Blue Cup…
p62: =======================================
Is how you’re going to put bread on your table!
[sfx]: Dash!
Now then… There’s only a little bit of time left in the year!!
We’ll bring it to an end starting with this!!
p63: =======================================
[sfx]: Slurp!
[sfx]: Slurp…
[sfx]: Gong!
[sfx]: Gong!
p64: =======================================
[sfx]: Scratch x3
Several days later…
[magazine]: Soccer Weekly / Kobe’s unprecedented fourth-straight championship
“Though they couldn’t emerge victorious, Mie’s players fought like lions,” huh?
Okay. I gotta keep my chin up, too.
Time to find me a job.
So far, I’ve failed nine straight interviews.
Shirou-kun!
!!
This here’s a gift for you,
a message from all the players!
[middle of the art]: To our Special One
…
Our lower branch’s U-10 team has an opening for an assistant coach.
That is, if you’re interested.
But the job is a hard one.
p65: =======================================
Happy New Year’s.
We’ll be broadcasting live until morning!
Listen. I’m the Special One!
Dammit. He’s started already.
And…
You’re all Special Ones, too!
That’s right. Everyone’s a Special One…
It’s okay to be different.
If you start out on the wrong foot, you can try again.
[bubble]: Empty
I’m going to show all of them that.
[sfx]: Shouting
Listen up. Anyone who can’t understand my style of soccer won’t get to play in any matches.
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You managed to move me, Shirou-kun.
You might not have a track record as a player,
but you have the potential to be the next Mourinho or Villas-Boas.
I am no one’s clone!
[sfx]: Scratch x2
Where does he get that confidence?
Now, time to hurry home and check the anime I recorded.
p67: =======================================
[sfx]: Pooped
[sfx]: Flop
[box]: To be continued in the February issue / on sale / Jan. 6th.
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