Kokou no Hito 153

153 Scan:
http://www.apiljuce.com/Kokou_no_Hito_Ch153.rar

At home, I'm missed. And my loved ones hope I return alive.

[Kokou no Hito Volume 16 Opening]
Title: Solo Climber

Author Flap: At some point, I lost faith in sound effects.

If manga is the art of panels, then just the artwork and tempo should guide the realistic sounds to the reader's mind.

If this is successful, I believe manga may have the potential to become a global language.

Sakamoto Shinichi

Contents Page:
Title: Solo Climber
Contents:
153rd Climb At Home
154th Climb Solo Climber
155th Climb Ecstasy
156th Climb Immorality
157th Climb Enjoying Pleasure Together
158th Climb Inhuman
159th Climb Conflict
160th Climb Alder King
161st Climb Rivalry
162nd Climb Information
Special Compilation Reinhold Messner Interview
Climbing Glossary

[Kokou no Hito 153 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Side: To the partner to which news has stopped coming, they get filled with terrible ideas. And with every day that comes, she must silently accept everything in her life.

Page 2:
Letter:
Top Row: Day
Home Life
Temperature
36.7
Body: Her temperature went up, so I stayed home with her.
Work came suddenly so only in the morning I asked the nursery to take care of her. [cut off]
She was sound asleep all night, and ate all her breakfast as usual, [cut off]
Her mood has been good. And (even though it was late) I brought her to see [cut off]
and asked them to take care of her.
I asked if anything goes wrong to call my cell phone[cuts off under the pen]
Bottom: Visitors
Time
Nursery Life
Temperature

Page 3:
Title 153rd Climb At Home

Page 4:
[Ain't that nice?]

Page 5:
[She has normal shoes now.]

Page 6:
[She's still not too happy.]

Page 7:
Sign: Summer Courses
[The rest is small and unimportant]
Big Sign: Building #1
Research Section

Page 8:
[She misses him, I'm guessing.]

Page 9:
Sign: Laboratory 3 [Top]
Adachi Isao [Right Panel]
In [In the circle below that]
Satou Shinichi [Center Panel]
Hino Keiko [Left Panel]
Adachi: Hana-kun...!!
...This one
must've been tough on you...

Page 10:
[Well don't tell her that according to history and the original novel, Katou Buntarou dies on the mountain he climbs with a partner.]

Page 11:
Headline: Two Japanese alpinists missing?
Adachi: ...It's okay. There's nothing to be worried about.
[Way too much of this newspaper is cut off to accurately translate anything]

Page 12:
Adachi: He went to investigate the Thulagi Glacier in Nepal and also went to Manasulu.
And did a traversal climb to Peak 29, too, so he's late getting home, don't you think?
He was probably in a hurry to join the search for bodies on Dhaulagiri where there was an accident,
so he extended the time of his stay there without calling.
Hey, come on. Even at your own wedding
he was late because he missed his plane, wasn't he?!!

Page 13:
Adachi: He's the immortal Katou Buntarou.
Don't focus on worrying, right now he might actually be on his way home.

Page 14:
Adachi: His camera probably just broke from the cold or the battery ran out, so the video has stopped being relayed.
If I get any word from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, I'll give you a call immediately, so please go home for today.
..........
Hana: !!

Page 15:
Adachi: Try not to think about that.
If her mom is too tense, I'd feel bad for Rokka-chan.
Hana: Okay...

Page 16:
[He's okay folks.]

Page 17:
[I mean, his partner died, but he's fine.]

Page 18:
[That stuff still looks like a photo.]

Page 19:
Side: Divided by thousands of miles, the prayers are made under the same sky, filled with limitless gentleness, to the one she loves. Now melt in the ice and snow.
Bottom: Kokou no Hito
153rd Climb
END
Next issue, the man that survived...!?