Bakuman 9

[Bakuman 9 Translation by Kewl0210]
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Saikou: I'm gonna make another story done by the end of this year. And it won't be one you could say should be a light novel.
[The business card is the same as last chapter.]
Saikou: And I'll fix the things he pointed out and show you some awesome drawings.
Thinking about it now, the "We've seen the ugliness of humanity and how they kill each other, so the real world's humans won't resist" idea in "Futatsu no Chikyuu" was really like a novel. I guess Shonen manga really does have to have battles.
Saikou: So you figured it out? I thought so, too.
Title: Page 9 Condition and Moving to Tokyo
Shuujin: You thought that? Then say something earlier!
Saikou: I said I wasn't butting-in with the name, right?
Shuujin: Then this time, it's fine if you butt-in, so let's take our time and work it over until we have something we both approve of.
Saikou: If it's fine with you, then all right.

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Shuujin: So are you used to being in the seat next to Azuki?
Saikou: "Used to?" It's just been since yesterday.
I'm not so nervous that I feel sick inside anymore.
I'm actually happy about it.
Though basically all we can do is sit there.
Shuujin: Well, if you're happy, that's enough, right?
Saikou: If I'm happy, that's enough.
That's what I thought.
Teacher: Here, here, the point is here.
Saikou: !
SFX: KOH KOH
SFX: SAH SAH
Doodles: Koko
Koko
Kokekokko---
TL Note: The word "here" is "koko". Which Saikou likens to chicken sounds.

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SFX: KUSU... (smile)
Saikou: Azuki laughed.
Wah... I've made contact with Azuki.
Maybe we can do it like this even without email addresses!?
Paper: What is your favorite season, Azuki-san?
1 Spring
2 Summer
3 Fall
4 Winter
Saikou: Ooh! Fall!!
I got incredibly happy. And I kept drawing doodles and writing questions so Azuki could see them.

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Sign: Shuueisha
Sasaki: Let's go, Yuujirou.
Yuujirou: Okay.
Hattori: Does the editor-in-chief really intend to have Niizuma Eiji debut in high school?
Guy: I guess it's because his semi-finalist work for the Tezuka Award took 2nd place in the readers questionnaires...... A 15 year old getting 2nd place is unprecedented.
Even now, he's been submitting things for the Tezuka Award every month, and they've all been interesting.
If it keeps up, they're saying he's gonna take every place, from the prize-winners to the honorable mentions.
Hattori: .........Sure is amazing.
Guy: Yeah, it is.

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Hattori: If he can keep up submitting things every month while going to school, then it'll be possible for him to do a weekly series with assistants.
Plus we can use the hook of "genius high school student" on it.
And the boy himself said he wants to move to Tokyo.
Hattori: So the editor-in-chief is going in person to convince his parents?
Amazing...........
Aida: Hey, Hattori, Kimu, my group is doing the selection for the August monthly award, so let's get it done.
Hattori, you said you were submitting that third year middle schooer manuscript, so hurry up and get it out here.
Hattori: Eh... Yes, sir...
SFX: GATAH GASA
Narration Box: "Jump"'s editorial department is divided into three groups.
Top Box: Editor-in-Chief
3 Middle Boxes: Assistant Editor-in-Chief
3 Lower Boxes: Group 1
Group 2
Group 3 [I think it's obvious, but the 3 is on the right, 1 is on the left.]
Narration Box: And each group has someone called a captain.

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Box: Each editor, including the captains, compete with each other to encourage diligence, but
even fellow groups compete with each other in order to create a better "Jump".
For the selection of the monthly award, first the group put in charge of it narrows all of the entries down to 10 works. And the group doing it rotates every month.
Those 10 works are exchanged with the judge sensei and the prize is decided at the final judging meeting.
Hattori: I don't want those two to have a prize or something that'll have their names printed yet~~~
If they get any kind of prize they'd end up unreservedly overjoyed.
Even if they do get it, it's not a very special kind of prize...
But if they get a prize I can't just say "This prize has no value".
I took this manuscript because I didn't want them to take it to another magazine.
If I say that I didn't submit it because I want to be cafreful about how I raise them
the captain will give me the boot-----
And if I am to submit it, not getting remotely close to a prize would be really frustrating.
This is complicated.

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Saikou: It was the third day of sitting in the seat next to Azuki. Being able to have one-way conversations using my notebook made me so happy I couldn't help myself.
SFX: SAH SAH
At the same time as I thought I always wanted to be next to Azuki,
thinking about how that once we graduated, not only wouldn't I be next to her I wouldn't even be able to see her face felt painful. And so I finally ended up writing this in the notebook.
Intercom: But only once our dreams come true. Until then we can't meat each other.
Paper: Why not until our dreams come true?
Azuki: !

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SFX: JYU
Saikou: Eh...
Azuki's crying!
Why!?
SFX: PORO...
Saikou: Ah..
I get it...
Teacher: Hm? Azuki-san, what's wrong?
Azuki: ......

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Shuujin: ......?
People: Azuki-san?
She's crying.
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA (people talking)
Azuki: I-I'm sorry. It's just that my pet died yesterday.
Teacher: I understand if you're sad, but we're in the middle of a lesson.
Azuki: Yes, ma'am.
Saikou: I guess because she didn't want anyone to look at her, Azuki put her head down on the desk.
And with me not having any idea what to do, time slowly crept by.
[What's written there is the same as on the last page]
"Not until our dreams come true," I trampled over Azuki's feelings.
And I actually thought of myself as romantic......
When class ended and Azuki picked herself up
!
SFX: KIIIHN KOOOHN KAAHN

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Saikou: Her email address!
The first thing Azuki had ever written to me was her email address. But rather than feeling happy, my emotions were kind of complicated.
I firmly memorized it.
Shuujin: Seriously? You made her cry?
Saikou: Yeah, but I don't understand.
Shuujin: About what?
Saikou: Why she gave me her email address.
Shuujin: So even though you're on the exact same wavelength, you don't know?
Saikou: We got too close, and our lines crossed.
I don't really understand girl feelings much either, but...

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Shuujin: Azuki likes you, so she must've been happy about being with you and you talking to her, right?
Her giving you her email address is proof of that.
Saikou: .........
I don't feel like that's it.
I think Azuki cried because I tried to break what she had said about, "Not until our dreams come true."
Phone: Compose Mail [OKB] [This si what's on top in the white bar]
Addressee mihomiho-azua
Subject
Attachments [These are the two boxes]
[Enter Main Message] [This is what's in the field on the bottom]
Shuujin: Well anyway, she told you her email address, so I guess it means, "Now we'll talk through email," right?
Saikou: .........
Like Shuujin said, it would be fine to just ask her how she felt by email...
..........But is that really what Azuki wants? .............

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Saikou: And before I knew it, I was in front of Azuki's house with my phone in my hand.
There was only one room with the lights on. I thought Azuki was awake, too.
In the end I didn't send an email, though.

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Saikou: The next day when she was sitting in the seat next to me, I wrote this message.
Note: Maybe after we change seats, we can
email each other.
We'll always be together
once I become a mangaka,
even if at that point,
you're not a seiyuu, Azuki-san!
Saikou: I thought those last two lines might be hurtful, but they were my absolute honest feelings.
Azuki cried a little, not so much that everyone would notice, but I could see that her mouth was in the shape of a smile.
I'm okay with this... But for now, I don't want to see Azuki's tears again. That's what I thought.
Shuujin: Eeeeh!?
Saikou: Like I said, the deadline for the Tezuka Award is September 30th, let's get one work done by then!
Shuujin: That's totally different from what you said before, ain't it?

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Shuujin: But it's already September 5th. Even if I already had a name done, you wouldn't make it in time, Saikou.
Saikou: If you write it in your notebook, I'll also draw one panel at a time during class and I'll trace it when I get here and make it into a manuscript.
And if it really comes down to it, we can trick our parents and teachers and take off from school to draw it.
On a given school day, I can do one or two pages. On a day off, I can draw three or four.
And September has two national holidays, I can do it! If I can get the first half done by the 13th!!
Shuujin: ..........
But we can have Hattori-san look at our manuscripts, now. We shouldn't fuss over the Tezuka Award. We should be thinking about quality before prizes.
Saikou: Of course we'll have him look at it. We'll have him look at it before September 30th and have him send it in for the Tezuka Award.
Shuujin: Even if you want to get the Tezuka Award, we should be more worried about making sure the next thing we send in is interesting rather than drawing something fast. What're you in such a hurry for?
SFX: KAN
Saikou: Yeah, I guess you're right. Sorry.
Shuujin: ........There's nothing wrong with wanting to be able to do it as fast as possible, but it has to be interesting.

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Saikou: I'm going to say something really selfish.
Shuujin: Eh? Okay.
Saikou: By graduation, like the time when we said that we were going to try to become mangakas, I really want to see Azuki smile one more time.
The smile from when we promised we'll get married when our dreams come true.
Shuujin: By graduation he wants to win the Tezuka Award and make Azuki happy...?
Well, it is a good stepping stone to success. It'd be amazing if we won, but...
Phone: *Bubububu...*
Shuujin: This, number is Shuueisha!
Saikou: !
SFX: BUBUBU
Hattori: It's Hattori from Weekly Shounen Jack. Is this Takagi-kun?
Shuujin:Yes.
Hattori: Are you guys drawing?
Shuujin: Y-Yes.
SFX: PIH

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Hattori: The work you left with me before for the Treasure Newcomer Prize... unfortunately it just missed getting to be a final candidate... I thought I should report in and let you know.
Shuujin: I-I understand. Could you hold on a minute...
He said we didn't make it to the final candidates for the monthly award.
Saikou: ......
Even though the feeling that we got when we brought it in was that it wasn't good enough, it's still a shock.
Hattori: But really, as a future prospect-
Shuujin: I'm glad!
Hattori: Glad?
Shuujin: Yes. To only get to the final selection, with our names in small writing somewhere,
it would be uncool, and we couldn't show our girlfriends!
We're definitely going to get something in for the next Tezuka Award!
Hattori: I-I'm glad to hear it. That's the spirit.
SFX: PUH
Shuujin: Let's make Azuki with the next Tezuka Award, dammit!
Saikou: O... Okay...
Thanks...
SFX: PACHIH

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Box: Aomori
Sign: Niizuma
Sasaki: ......So then, Eiji-kun's moving to Tokyo has been approved by you, his parents, then?
Parents: Yes.
Yuujirou: You must be glad, Editor-in-Chief.
Sasaki: Yes.
Mom: Hey, Eiji, please give our guests a proper greeting.
SFX: SHAH SHAH (drawing)
Eiji: Ah!
About moving to Tokyo, I actually have one condition...
Sasaki: Condition?

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Eiji: If I become the number one most popular author in Jack,
please give me the power to end one manga that I hate.
Sasaki: Wha...
What's this kid saying......?
Yuujirou: I... I told you there's no way we could do something like that.
You mustn't say things like that, Eiji-kun.
Eiji: SHUPIIIIIIIN

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Eiji: ZUBYUH
I want that to be my motivation, though.
BUSHAAAH
DOBABABAAAAAAH
Sasaki: .............
Once you've known firsthand the harshness of being a pro and you've risen to the true forefront of Jump, if you still think that,
then at that time, ask me again.
Eiji: I see. I understand. I'll go to Tokyo.
SFX: SHAH SHAH
Eiji: DOBYAAAAAAH
SFX: SHAH SHAH
Sasaki: That he backed off so easily means he's still a kid... No, could it be that he's testing me......?

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Ooba Name
Obata Name
Complete!
Bakuman。vol. 2
"Until it Becomes a Manuscript"
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