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Translation: Ao no Exorcist 31

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:48:48 +0000

Sleepy Salad is Sleepy. Will proofread ~~tomorrow~~ later today. Meanwhile, enjoy~

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01
a1: The pure power of his flames flare up...!
a2: Thanks for making us a mega hit! Center color and 32 pages!!
a3: Volumes 1~7 of the comics are selling well! More info on the movie and game on page 308!
a4: Chapter 31 Entering Nirvana
a5: Katou Kazue
a6: Ao no Exorcist

02
b1: Uwaaaaaa
a1: The miasma spreads!
b2a: Eek...
b2b: Doctor!!
b3: *cough* *cough* *cough*
b4: The miasma is too thick...!!
b5: At this rate...!
b6a: Branch Chief Shima!!
b6b: The miasma is being held back by that flame kekkai
b6c: We'd best get outside it and rework our strategy!
b7a: Kuh...~ We don't have a choice, do we...!!
b7b: Retreat!!!!
b7c: Everyone, retreat outside the kekkai!!
b8: !?

03-04
b1a: The hell is that...
b1b: It couldn't be
b2: The true form of the Impure King...!?

06
b1a: ... Hmm, finally showing your face now, are you...!!
b1b: You damn pizza bun! (TN: A pizza bun is a kind of variation of the pork bun, with the filling inside the dough - I guess that's why Kinzou used it)
b2: I, Shima Kinzou, am gonna getcha even if it means the death of-
b3: You fool!!! Do you really wanna die!? Get the hell outta here!
b4: Buu bupuaa
b5: Guwah (small text: it stinks!!)
b6: Th... That's...

07
b1: The heart of the Impure King...!!
b2: Guh...!?
b3: ?
b4a~b4c: *cough*
b4d: ...!!?
b5: Suguro??
b6a~b6c: *wheeze*
b7: *cough*
b8a: Oi!!
b8b: You okay...

08
b1: Wha...
b2a: Kuh
b2b: Hehehe

09
b1: Whaddaya think? Isn't this the most dramatic turn of events?
b2: Your enemy has been completely revived...!
b3: Your loved ones are in peril!
b4: Now, whatever will you do?
b5: My little, youngest brother

10
b1: And yet another scenario has been set into motion
b2a: It seems I'm not the only audience this show has
b2b: Kukuku...
b3: Hahahahaha!!
b4: I see

11
b1a: You
b1b: Are under the divine protection of Ucchuṣma...!
b2: Hmm
b3: That's interesting!
b4: Agni and Karura
b5a: Which one is stronger?
b5b: Shall we pit them against each other and see, Shima-kun?
b6: Fuck off
b7a: Hey, you
b7b: Are you okay?
b7c: You'd better retire!
b8: No, I can still fight!
a1: What do my eyes look like
a2: To everyone else...? Do they look normal?

12
ba1: What on earth happened just now...
s1~s3: Doh
b2: Nii-san...
b3: Ucchuṣma Funnu Youketsu... (TN: 忿怒要訣 lit. main point of anger)
b4: !? Captain!?
b5: Kasharinzan!!!! (TN: 火車輪斬 lit. killing fire wheels)

13
b1: !!!?
b2: He absorbed it...!
b3: Over here!!

14
b1a: According to the "Diagram of Magical Element Formation"...
b1b: When the same magical elements are being used, the weaker one will get absorbed by the stronger one
b2: Karura...!! Is he a phoenix that fell from grace and became a demon...!?
b3: Looks like I win this battle of flames, huh...?

15
b1: You guys are useless to me now
b2: I'm bored... Guess I'll just get rid of you all
b3: !!!
b4: Kuh...!
b5a: Juuzou-sama!
b5b: He's a highly skilled demon who's absorbing our flames and thereby strengthening his own
b5c: We'd better retreat for now
b5d: We're at a great disadvantage!!

16
b1: Excuse my impudence, but would you hear me out?
b2: ...!? What is it? Just spit it out already
b3: My, my, a strategy meeting, under these circumstances?
b4a: ...!!
b4b: This plan of yours... We can't just go with it just like that!
b5: But if we don't do anything...
b6: *cough*
b7: Minami!!
b8: How impertinent
b9a: Whatever the case, we can't just stand idly by!
b9b: We'll go with your plan!!
b10: Ye... Yes!!
below b10: Indeed
b11: Yes, we don't have a choice...!

17
b1: Narumi, Shishamo, you two are up first!
b2a: Ucchuṣma Funnu Youketsu
b2b: Katou Kongousou!! (TN: 火頭金剛槍 lit. fire-tipped vajra lance)
b3: Kumagai, Chigusa, focus on strengthening my flames!
b4: Got it!
b5a: On
b5b: Shuri-shuri mamari
b6: Marishushuri sowaka
b7: Shuri-shuri mamari...
b8: Anyone?
b9: Anyone willing to be my guinea pig?

18
b1: Hahaha
b2: Like I said, attacking me with flames...
b3: Is akin to serving me dessert

19
b1: Damned fox!
b2: !!
b3: On!
b4a: Kurodanou
b4b: Unjaku!!!
a1: Kashouzanmai!!!! (TN: 火生三昧 lit. fire-birthing samadhi)

20
b1: Guwah
b2: Geez...
b3: !?

21
b1: How many times do I have to repeat myself before you get it?
b2: You've gotta think hard before you act...!

22
b1a: You were always a hasty one, ever since you were a student
b1b: You'd better work on that
b2: ... Oh, no
s1: Hah
s2: Zei
b3: The one who thought all this up was Mr. Spectacles over there
b4: What...?
a1: Demons have to keep the physical body they're possessing at a certain degree of homeostasis
a2: If he keeps absorbing the flames
b5: !!
a3: Sooner or later, Toudou's physical body will reach its limits, just as any other body would
b6: What's happening...
a4: We've got to make him overstep his limits

23-24
b1: Guhah
b2: Uwaaaah!!
a1: And then
a2: Since the demon that Toudou took over is Karura... And Karura's a phoenix...
a3: His injured physical body will turn to ashes
b3a: I see
b3b: You're aiming to make me overheat...!
b4a: That means it's no good to over-eat, huh?
b4b: I've learnt something new
b5: But you really shouldn't underestimate the phoenix, Karura's, regenerative ability

25
b1: !?
b2a: ...!!
b2b: I see, rain
b3: As long as this immortal body of mine becomes ashes and dissolved in the rainwater
b4: I won't be able to regenerate so easily
b5a: I've been had
b5b: To think
b6a: That you could...
b6b~b6c: Ohhhhh?

26
b1a: Did we...
b1b: Get him?
b2: This should buy us some time, but...
b3a: We've got to separate his body parts and restrain them as soon as we can
b3b: Or else he'll just regenerate sooner or later
b4: Got it
b5: -- Understood... Chigusa, Kumagai! Call for reinforcements
b6: Are you alright?
b7: I'm fine!
b8: Please check on the rest...!
a1: I've got a bad feeling about all this. I wonder why...?
a2: Once we've got Toudou restrained, we could get some answers out of him about the Impure King, but...

27
b1a: Ooku
b1b: Muura
b1c: -kun
b2: !!
b3a: Ughh
b4a, 4b: Hah
b4c: *cough*
b4d: *cough* *cough*
b5: Is everyone accounted for!?
b6: Yes! Without a doubt...!
b7: *cough* *cough*

28
b1a: The miasma within the flame barrier is most likely thicker than what a human could stand
b1b: We've managed to escape the worst thanks to this barrier, but...
b2: ... Just who coulda put up such a high-level kekkai?
b3: Most likely the Most High Priest...
b4: No!!
b5a: !!?
b5b: Konekomaru...!
b5c: Renzou!!
b6a: You're mistaken, Yaozou-sama
b6b: It was Bon who put up that kekkai!!
b6c: Bon's still inside there even as we speak!
b7: !!!!
b8: What did you...!!

29
b1: The Most High Priest is being watched by Kamiki-san and Murayama-san somewhere near the eastern mountain trail
b2a: We beg of you...!!
b2b: Save everyone!!!
b3: ... Got it
b4: Captain Kirigakure...!?
b5: I'll go ahead and back Suguro and Okumura up
b6a: Alright...
b6b: I'll get the details from these two, then I'll form a team to go back you up
b7: Please do
b8a: Miwa
b8b: Shima (TN: b8b is the left Mickey mouse ear)
b8c: You did well...!

30
b1a: ... That ain't gonna make me happy...
b1b: At least let me bury my head in your chest a lil...
b2: You seem in high spirits...
a1: Rin...
a2: I'm begging you...
a3: Break free...!!
b3: Ugh... gh...
b4: Ferns and mosses are supposedly strong against bacterial demons...!!
a4: Kamiki-san...!! You've got to hurry...
b5a: Nii-chan!
b5b: First up...
b5c: Yup yup yup
b6: We'll cover the infected area with liverworts and hornworts!!
b7: Nio~!!

31
b1a: Next up, whisk ferns! Common horsetails!!
b1b: Adder's tongues!!!
b2: Nio~~~!!
b3: ugh...
a1: That girl...!! To use a demon in such a way...
b4: Hah
a2: Was that good enough...!?
b5: Hah
b6: Suguro!!!!
b7a: Karura!!
b7b: Protect me!!
b8: ... Understood

32
b1: Puaa
b2: Bupuu
a1: Hot winds raging!!
b3: Pubaa

Translation: Examurai 8

Fri, 30 Dec 2011 05:40:07 +0000

Surprise! I'm back o/ Don't expect many translations from me, but I will do what I can. Academics still comes first ^^; I will probably be focusing more of my online time on modding rather than translating.

This has not been proofread because it's long and I'm lazy :|

But with this, EXAMURAI IS DONE! \o/ My first completed series which I did all the way from the pre-serialization one-shot ~~who cares if it only lasted 8 chapters~~!

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01
a1: All hope is crushed...
b1: Hiro!!!
b2: Hiroooo
b3a: Your cries are futile, Kaguya...!
b3b: I will clean up the remaining six shortly
b4a: This game you have set up has ended in my "victory"
b4b: Won't you join me to watch this planet meet its end?

02
a1: Final Act The XILE Tribe
a2: The final volume of JC "EXAMURAI," volume 2, goes on sale on 4th August (Thurs)!! The new special issue "SQ. LaB" has a new one-shot from Amano Youichi! More details on page 11!
a3: A conclusion to the fated battle between the XILE Tribe and the Majinki...!!

03
b1a: Did I... Get beaten...!?
b1b: I can't even... Feel pain anymore...
b2a: ... Dammit...
b2b: This ain't a joke...!!!
b3: There's no way I can die... In a place like this!!!
b4a: Everyone... There's still fighting out there, you know!!?
b4b: In a place like this...
s1: Gueh
s2: Eguh

04
b1: Matsu... Somehow or another, I'm seeing some really pretty scenery now...
b2a: Well, yeah...
b2b: With the amount of blood we've lost, we've gotta be half dead by now, ya know...
b3: Say... Matsu
b4: What, Usa...?

05
b1: The reason why your blood appears red is 'cause there's "iron" in it...
b2: You talkin' about a "blood red," no, a red rose burning red with passion?
b3: With our dying breaths... We'll make that "single flower" bloom!!!
b4: !!?

06
a1: Iron Rose!!! (TN: the kanji reads 鋼鉄の荊, which means "steel thorn")
b1: Hiro-san...
b2: We'll leave the rest...

07
b1: To you...
s1: Gopopo...
b2: Hmmmm, I see <3
b3a: By freezing the water around your wounds...
b3b: You're trying to slow down the spread of the poison, yes? ... I see
b4a: Honestly, I'm sooo disappointed <3
b4b: To use such a emergency stopgap measure... You mean you don't have any moves left?
b5: Either way, your cells are gonna necrose and you're not gonna be able to fight anymore~!!
b6: We'll see about that...!

08
s1: paki
b1: --- Ice!!?
b2a: No
b2b: No way
b3: Are you fricking serious!!?
b4: My aim was never to deal with the poison
b5: It was to turn all the water in this room... Into ice!!?
s2a: paki paki
s2b: pakikikiki...
s3: pakiki

09
b1: ... Don't you get it?
b2: You're gonna die too
b3a: -- Well, it's always been my dream to die a lovers' death with a beautiful lady in a bed of ice
b3b: I'm sure that idiot will take care of the rest, somehow or another
b4a: ... My condolences <3 Your leader's opponent is Byakuya-sama... Things have changed from our period of weakness 500 years ago...!
b4b: He may not even be alive anymore
b5a: It's him
b5b: He'll manage somehow, won't he?
b6a: WHY!!?
b6b: What is the basis of this immense faith you have!?
b7: There is no way you can win!!!
b8: Well, as for that...

10
b1: How would you know?
b2: ...
b3: ... A cold person... Right to the very end <3
a1: Ice Box!!! (TN: kanji reads 永久凍土 which means "permafrost". Why couldn't they use that as the technique name? Permafrost > Ice box, yes!?)

11
b1a: Zeh
b1b: I... Can't lose!!!
b2: Zeh
b3a: I've gotta win here... And give Hiro-san some hope
b3b: Zeh
b4: Zeh
s1: Gasha gasha
a1: --- But I can't win like this... My only option is to go "berserk" in beast mode...
b5a: Like I said, he's dead meat already
b5b: Let us fool have fun fighting each other simplemindedly
b6: There's no way Hiro-san would ever lose!
a2: But we're already past the full moon tonight...
b7: --- Dammit

12
a1: I can only do that!!!
s1: Buchii
b1a: Ohhh Ohhh
b1b: Brother
b2a: You can't go "berserk" without a full moon, can you!?
b2b: That ain't just "foolish", it's "super foolish"!!!
b3: Shut up with all this "fool" stuff
s2a: go
s2b: go
b4: An fool, just like any other fool...
b5: Always has a "trump card"!!!
b6: !!
b7: Glasses!!?
b8a: My eyesight...
b8b: Has always been bad

13
b1a: This way, even without a full moon, I can go "berserk"...!!!
b1b: ... But because it involves an overdose of moonlight
b2: This is a super beast transformation that I can only perform once, at the expense of my life
a1: "Ichigeki Hissatsu" (TN: One-hit KO)
a2: Super Berserker!!!
b3: !!
b4: Ohhhh

14
b1a: ... Guh...
b1b: Uoooohhhhh
s1: Gapa

15
b1a: Why do you... Have such faith in a single man, that you would put your life on the line?
b1b: There is no basis
b2: Just as I thought, you are a "fool," after all...
b3: ... Told you so, you fool...
a1: Oh, winds

16
a1: Homing!!!
a2: Crash Wave!!!
b1: I'm tellin' ya, this seriously ain't workin'
b2: Get a brain, rugrat
b4: Hyahhya
b5: Guah
b6: Kuh
a3: Homing!!!
b7: Oops
b8: Guin

17
b1a: Just how many thousand times are you gonna have arrow diarrhoea!?
b1b: Are you really an idiot!? I'm tellin' ya it ain't gonna work...
b2: Five times
b3: ... Huh?
b4: That was my fifth time
b5: And my last
b6: Huh!? What are you...
s1: Pishi...
b7: !!!
b8: Out of all of them, only one of them was aimed at you
b9a: ... You... You bastard... You pretended to be aiming at me...
b9b: But all along you were...
b10: The ceiling...!!

18
b1: That ceiling's rather fragile, you know
b2a: With targets for sighting, I can focus a huge gale of wind on a single spot
b2b: I can break through the wall of sound
b3: ...
b4: You... Do you want to die!?
b5a: It is my duty to defeat you
b5b: Hiro-san will save the world thereafter
a1: Tornado!!!

19
b1a: Ka... Hah...
b1b: Nothing... Is gonna change... Even if you kill me
b1c: This planet is over...
b2a:You're gonna die... Believing in some piece of shit like that! What a foolish, shitty death...
b2b: Hyahhyah
b3a: Hmm... Everyone... Is probably in the same situation as me right now
b3b: And that's probably... The "reverse"...
b4a: The "REVERSE"!?
b4b: What do you mean, reverse!?
b5a: I'm not gonna tell anything to a bad kid
b5b: Sorry
s1: meki meki meki meki meki meki
b6: Guaaah
b7a: Hmm... This is strange
b7b: The ants should be just about done sucking him dry of his "lightning"
b7c: !!?

20
b1: Ohhhhh
s1: Uhyoooo
b2a: No way...!
b2b: There's no way they couldn't suck just one of you dry of lightning
b3: ... Fuuu. Quite simply...

21
b1: ... There was more than just one of me, perhaps?
s1: Pariri...
b2: Raigou!!!
b3a: Indeed
b3b: ... To think you had tamed Raigou himself
b4a: ...
b4b: He just decided to follow me on his own, dammit!
s2: Goaaa
b5: -- But thanks to him, my victory is certain
b6a: I may not have any lightning left
s3: Gah
b6b: But if I use this little guy and turn all its remaining life into lightning...
s4: Gasha gaji gashan

22
b1: That'll be more than enough to kill you!
a1: "Raigou Railgun Mode"!!!
b2a: Eee... eek
b2b: Wh- wh- whyyy!?
b3: I don't... Get it at all
b4: ?
b5a: With brains like yours... Or rather, despite possessing such intelligence
b5b: ... Why do you place such baseless faith in this guy called "Hiro"?

23
b1: Your comrades too, all seem to have that same thorough faith in that man...
b2: ...
b3: I just can't make myself think that this guy could be such an outstanding talent that he could defeat Byakuya-sama
b4: ... You've got that backwards
b5: Backwards?
b6a: We're the black sheep of society
b6b: We don't need a reason
b7: The only person who would have such foolish faith in us
b8: Is that man!!!
b9a: ...
b9b: Is that so... Then...

24
a1: Hiro-san...

25
b1a: Hm
b1b: The battles below are over, are they?
b2a: !
b2b: A draw!!?
b3a: ... Impossible. To think all the Shiten Majin were lacking...
b3b: ... Well, whatever, the hindrances have been removed. No one can stop my invasion of this planet
b4: ...
b5: No way... Everyone was...!!!
b6a: Don't make such a face, Kaguya...
b6b: Destruction and Invasion are precisely the duties of our bloodline
s1: bobo
s2: Mero...
b7: Flames!!?
b8: Don't tell me...

26
b1: !!!
b2: Ah...
b3: What kind of trickery is this?
b4a: You didn't have this kind of power left in you just a moment ago
b4b: No, in fact
b5a,5b: hah

27
b1a: I feel a power greater than I've never felt before
b1b: Hiro of the "blue flames"
b2a: Everyone...
b2b: Gave me power...!!!
b3a: Everyone... You say?
b3b: ... So it seems those things shining on your hands since a while ago...
b3c: Isn't an "illusion" after all
b4: One person with all seven XILE rings
b5a: Everyone's hearts live on in the rings and are giving Hiro power...
b5b: It's a miracle!!
b6: ?
b7: Gu...h
b8: uuuuh

28
b1: Ohhhh
b2: Ohhhhh
b3: Hiro!!?
b4: Hiro... Is in pain!!?

29
b1a: Kuhahahaha!
b1b: Just as I thought, it's impossible for a mere human to contain the power of wearing all seven XILE rings!
b2: The power is going "berserk"... I can't even bear to look!
b3: I don't even have to do anything... Just be consumed by your own flames and die already!!
b4a: No way...
b4b: We didn't come this far for this to happen!!
b4c: We worked so hard for this chance
b4d: So hard...
b5: WHAT SHOULD I DOOOO!!!
a1: Please do not cry, Hime-sama...
b6: This rejection is happening because Hiro is but a human!!
b7: !!!

30
b1: Ogre!!!
b2: This is farewell, Hime-sama
b3: Eh!?
b4: There is but one way to break the status quo... That is for me to merge with "Hiro" such that he becomes a "half majinki"
b5: That way, the rejection will be suppressed even a little!!!
b6: Ogreee
s1: Gashun

31
b1: Here we go
b2: Hirooo!!!

32-33
b1: Ohhhhh
a1: "Majin Gattai" (TN: Majinki Union)
a2: "Enshin Mode"!!! (TN: Enshin means "flame god")
a3: --- What is... This amazing power...
a4: I'm...
b2: Afraid
b3: Shall we dance?
b4: Byakuya

34
a1: Gravition Field
b1: Weight x 1000!!!
b2: !
s1: Ohhhh
a2: He shot a gravition field and jumped!?
b3: Impossible!!!

35
b1: !!!
b2: It's rejecting him!!! His body's still...
b3: Hiroo
b4: Damn... In a place like... this....
a1: I'm can't die in a place like this
b5: !!
a2: You're gonna save the world, aren't you?
a3: We'll follow you!!
a4: I believe in you
a5: You owe me even more now, okay?
a6: He'll be fine! He's Hiro-san after all
b6: I can hear... I can hear everyone's voices
a7: Knock 'em out, Hiro-san!!!
a8: That's right... I'm not alone! I...

36-37
a1: I have my comrades!!!
b1: Guooooohhhhh

38-39
a1: "Shin
a2: "Souten Enbu" (TN: True Dancing Flames in an Azure Blue Sky)

40
a1: No... Way... To think that things would end... Like this....
a2: Well... Whatever... These 500 years
a3: Were a lot more fun... Than I'd ever expected
a4: XILE Tribe...
x1: That day, the sky above ZIPANG was covered with a blue flame
x2: And people called it
b1: This is...
b2: Amazing...
x3: The Midnight Azure Blue Sky
b3: Hey... Sora

41
b1: Did I...
b2: Do it...?
b3a: Yup...!
b3b: You saved the world
b4: Thank... Goodness
b5: Now I can face the rest of them when I see them... In heaven
b6a: !
b6b: What are you talking about! You can't die
b7: You can't!!!
b8: ... Thank you, Sora
b9: ...
b10: Just look at that

42
b1: What a beautiful blue sky
b2a: ... Yeah
b2b: It's the dawn that Hiro... That all of you brought about...!
b3: That of hope after shaking off a long darkness
s1: Pota
s2a, 2b: koro

43
s1: Su...
b1: ... With this, all of you...
b2: Are freed of the curse of the XILE Tribe
b3: I can't let it end like this!!!
b4a: Everyone... Saved the earth at the expense of their lives...
b4b: This time it's my turn--

44
b1: If I pour all my life force into this...
b2: I might be able to get back the time I took from everyone
b3: You can call this an act of gratitude... And this may be kinda weird, but...
b4: The 500 years I spent with all of you...
b5: ... Were really a whole lot of fun...
b6: Thank you...
a1: I love you all--
x1: One year later
s1: do do do do

45
b1a: I've had enough of being a Suizoku!!! (TN: Suizoku and Kurotengu appeared in the prologue and chapter 2)
b1b: From now on, I'm stayin' on dry land! Gyahaha
b2a: The land belongs to us, the "Kurotengu Group," now that the majinki are gone!!!
b2b: Now, gimme all yer cash and all yer women, you commoners!!!
b3: My, my, I didn't even get to catch my breath after saving the world
b4: !!?
b5: Oh, what's this? A familiar face!
b6: Geh
b7: This a class reunion or something?
b8: Don't you be doin' all these lame things here on earth, a'ight?
a1: Thank you for all your support! Please look forward to Amano Youichi-sensei's next work!

Translation: Ao no Exorcist 27

Sun, 07 Aug 2011 16:43:26 +0000

Exhausted after another week of early-morning-till-late-night school, but the "end" is in sight! :D Though in reality, that "end" is but the REAL beginning... D:

Also, is it my imagination or was this chapter much wordier than usual? o.O Or have I been away from translating for too long? Especially wordy series like Bakuman...?

Anyway, without further ado.

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01
b1: Ugyaaaaaah! What the hell is that!!?
a1: The Impure King... Revived...!!
b2: How the hell're we supposed to defeat something that huge!!?
b3: Is this the apocalypse!?
b4: That's the Impure King...
b5: It's practically a fortress on its own...

02
b1 *cough*
b2: (all coughing sfx)
b3: Caught the summer cold?
b4: (more coughing)
b5: (zomg more coughing)
b6: Oh dear, are you alright?
b7: (whaddaya know! more coughing!)
b8: ...!
b9a: Would you please distribute these amulet masks to everyone?
b9b: The miasma may come flowing down the mountain
b10a: !
b10b: Right
b10c: Right away!

03
b1a: Also, I can't seem to find the exwire kids
b1b: Could you look for them?
b2: Understood
b3: Tatsuma-san...
b4: Alright! We'll start searching here
b5: Got it
b6: 'aiiiight
b7: Roger!!
b8: Don't venture too deep into the thicket
b9a: So you've gotten Rin out, have you?
b9b: Thank you
b10: For the time being, would you guys search for Most High Priest Tatsuma?
b11a: !?
b11b: Did something happen to Pops!?
b12: He isn't where Houjou Mamushi and the rest last saw him...

04
b1: Pops...!!
b2a: First, find the Most High Priest and ask him about what he wrote in that letter
b2b: However, stay away from the Impure King!
b2c: Don't be reckless, and deliver a situation report thereafter
b3: Yuppp
a1: Should I let Yukio know
b4: Now, then
a2: That I've let Rin out and am letting him act behind the scenes?
a3 ... Yeah
a4: I better not give the poor guy any more stress
b5a: Yukio, I'm offering my apologies in advance
b5b: I'm sorry~ <3
b6: Huh?

05
b1a: It makes no difference even if you apologize now...
b1b: I've long discarded any and all expectations I had of you...
b2: Yukioo
b3a: I don't really care
b3b: But at the very least, be true to yourself
b4: ... What do you...?
b5: Captain Kirigakure!
b6: The Branch Chief is calling
b7a: Hey, hey
b7b: Show me the way, won't ya~
b8a: Everyone is truly terrified
b8b: This is the first time they've fought against so huge a demon...
b9: Well, size and all that's all about experience, ya know?
b10a: Ju- Just what you'd expect from an upper first class exorcist from the Vatican headquarters!
b10b: How heartening!!

06-07
b1: Gee, but ya know, this is the first time I've seen a monster this huge!
b2: Eh?
a1: Chapter 27 The Decider on Kongou Shinzan!
b3: What draws near is overwhelming decay...!

08
b1: So
b2: What are you planning?
b3: I'm going to summon Ucchuṣma, the Impure Contract Vajra
b4: It takes the combined chanting of more than ten upper class Tamers to summon Ucchuṣma
b5: I would like to ask for Captain Kirigakure's assistance as well
a1: The Impure King is of the "family of the King of Decay"
kanji in circles, clockwise starting with the one below "ignis": fire | decay | air | earth | water
for each pair of arrows, the top kanji is "strong against" and the bottom kanji is "weak against"
a2: In other words, according to the "Demonic Elements Chart," it should be weak against fire

09
b1: However... Just the attacking power of a flamethrower or mid-class flame demon would be insufficient
b2: The best card we have is Ucchuṣma, the strongest of the flame demons we can summon
b3a: Agni, huh? (TN: Agni is the Vedic god of fire)
b3b: Ucchuṣma
b4: It would indeed be reassuring to have him as an ally...
b5a: On!
b5b: Shurimari mamari
b5c: Mari shushuri
b6a: Shurimari mamari
b6b: Mari shushuri sowaka...!!

10
b1: My name is Ucchuṣma, contracted to the ten high priests of Myouou Dharani
b2: Ohhh...
b3: If you wish to attain my flames, show me proof of your lineage

11
b1: In these 150 years, the families of the high priests have shrunk
b2a: Now, only five high priests remain here
b2b: We wish to borrow your flames!
b3: Five is too measly!
b4: However, it wouldn't be very interesting to let the Impure King do as he please, putrefying the whole earth
b5: !?
b6: I will bequeath you the divine protection of flames befitting the blood of five persons
b7: !!
b8: Our khakkara...!!

12
b1a: This is more than enough!! Be they the Impure King or some pieces of shit
b1b: I, Kinzou-sama, won't let any of them get away without some heat sterilization!!
b2: First division... Follow me!
b3a: All dragoons
b3b: Grab a flamethrower and head to your respective positions!
b4a: Magnus Ignis Pneuma... (TN: Greek for Great Fire Breath/Soul/Spirit)
b4b: Come forth, Salamander!!
b5: Those with Doctor qualifications, you may join the first aid squad if you prefer!
b6a: The enemy may not be moving about, but it's getting even bigger even as we speak!
b6b: We must first incinerate the giant kinkai and slowly advance inwards! (TN: kinkai [菌魁] literally fungus harbingers)
b7: YEAH!!!!

13
b1: Charge!!!!
b2: !
b3a: Wait a sec, isn't that...
b3b: The Most High Priest!?
b4: Pops!
b5a: No
b5b: No way...
b6: I- I'll contact Kirigakure-sensei

14
b1: !?
b2: Wha...
b3: I am Karura, servant of the head priest of Myouou Dharani
b4: Karura...!? P... Pops' familiar!?
b5: ... Formerly so. But now that the "secret" is no longer such, the contract has been annulled
b6: I am now fulfilling the private, individual contract I have with Suguro Tatsuma
b7: *cough*
b8: Ugh... I...
b9: Pops!!

15
b1a: Ryuuji...!
b1b: Why are all you children here...
b2: We came to help you
b3a: How reckless...
b3b: Guh
b4a: Your wounds may be closed
b4b: But you can't move just yet, Tatsuma
b5a: Is that you, Karura? ... You sure have gotten small...
b5b: I thought we were both dead
b6a: I also bear the name of the phoenix. I would merely reincarnate every time I died
b6b: Besides, I still have the "Gouhaen" contract left with you
b6c: I couldn't let you die just like that
b7: !
b8: Okumura-kun...!

16
b1: Did you come here... After reading my letter?
b2: I read it too
b3: Wha!?
b4: All of us here came here with a rough understanding of the situation
b5: I'll have you tell us everything without keeping any secrets to yourself
b6: ... I understand
b7: I will tell you how to defeat the Impure King

17
b1: According to the "Truth of the Impure King" passed only to the head priests
b2a: The Impure King will grow bigger and bigger... As big as a city...
b2b: Shortly after, a great sporangium will form within it
b3: And that's the sporangium?
b4: That round thing at the very top of it!?
b5: Most likely
b6a: When that sporangium matures and ruptures
b6b: It will release toxic spores... A thick "miasma"
a1: It was also the rupture of this same sporangium that killed those 40,000 people 150 years ago
a2: This time, the death toll in Kyoto probably won't just be 40,000

18
b1: We have to prevent that no matter what...!
b2: That means we have to defeat it before the sporangium ruptures, right?
b3: Things aren't that simple
b4: The Impure King's only known vital spot, its "heart"
b5: Lies within the sporangium itself
b6: Fukaku, who fought the Impure King 150 years ago
b7: Having fought a tough battle against an unknown monster, had no choice but to split that heart into two and seal it away
b8: And those were its Left and Right Eyes... Correct?
b9: In- In other words...

19
b1a: If the sporangium ruptures
b1b: We can no longer get at the "heart", right!?
b2: Yes
b3: How troublesome...
b4: Fifteen years ago, I...
b5: Made a contract with Karura over here to borrow "Gouhaen"
b6a: Gouhaen is a technique that takes the years the person has lived and turns it into flames
b6b: A great blaze to be let forth at the end of one's life, incinerating everything
b7: I thought that would be my trump card in defeating the Impure King
b8a: However, I used that flame of fifteen years
b8b: Just on stopping the Impure King in its tracks
b9: I don't have much left...

20
b1: I'm going to use the remaining Gouhaen
b2: I'll set up a kekkai so that the miasma won't escape even if the sporangium ruptures
b3: Okumura-kun, I want you
b4: To use that Koumaken to reduce its heart to ashes

21
b1: ... I'm sorry, I...
b2: ... No
b3: It's only natural. I'm asking you to put your life on the line here...
b4: Eh? Oh no... Right now, I can't unsheathe the sword...
b5: Eh?
b6: I've been trying to unsheathe it since just now, but I just can't
b7a: HUH!?
b7b: The hell!?
b8: I don't get it myself either, but apparently it's a psychological problem
b9: For real!?

22
b1: I'm as worried as you are!! ... But that's why I can't be of any help right now
b2: I'm sorry, Suguro's dad!
b3: I see... That's a worry in itself
b4a: However! If that's the case...
b4b: At the very least, I'll do what I can and put up that kekkai...!!
b5a: It's impossible, Tatsuma
b5b: You've lost too much blood
b6: What...
b7: Ugh...
b8: Most High Priest!!
b9: Your wounds may have healed but you're a hair's breadth away from exsanguination

23
b1a: If you chant the "Kekkai Spell" with that body of yours
b1b: You will surely die
b2: I just need to hold out for a short while
b3: My life isn't the only one hanging in the balance...!
b4: Konekomaru, you still haven't gotten through to Kirigakure-sensei?
b5: All I could get was static noises...
b6: Pops, isn't there anything we can do?
b7: ...
b8a: Hm?
b8b: Now that you mention it, you're Tastuma's son, aren't you?
b8c: That's just perfect
b9: Gouhaen can be transferred between persons related by blood
b10: !

24
b1: No!!
b2: !!!
b3: That absolutely will not do...!!
b4a: He's still a child!
b4b: I definitely will not allow Ryuuji to get dragged into this!!
b5: I'll cut these ties of obligations in my generation
b6a: I swore that with my very life!!
b6b: That alone...
a1: Ahh... I see

25
a1: That's it...
a2: The reason why Pops always kept his distance from those around him...
a3: And always, all on his own

26
b1: Up until now... Bearing that cross upon your back, all alone...
b2, b3: (wheezing)
b4: Haah... What are you talking about...?
b5: I did all that of my own accord
b6: I won't let you...!!
b7: !!

27
b1: I'll bear that cross, too!!!!
b2: I won't let you utter any objections when you're in that state...!!!
b3: Tatsuma... Your son is smarter than you are
b4: ...!!
b5: ... That's the kind of child he is...
b6: And that's precisely why I didn't want to involve him...

28
b1: Well then, I will now commence the succession of the Gouhaen
b2a: He who is of the blood of the current owner, Suguro Tatsuma
b2b: Show proof of your blood
b3a: Indeed
b3b: You are of the blood of Suguro Tatsuma
b4: !

29
b1: Suguro Ryuuji
b2: You have now become the owner of Gouhaen
b3: Red flames...!
b4a: Ryuuji
b4b: I will teach you the strongest kekkai spell
b5a: One that is only passed to the head priests
b5b: Come here

30
b1: There is even a seal that you have yet to see
b2: Watch closely how I form the seal
b3: Got it? I can only do it once
b4: You only have once to watch and remember it all
b5a: First
b5b: Tie the seal with chiketsu (TN: chiketsu 地結 literally "earth contract")
b5c: "On kirikiri basarabajiri"
b6a: "Homaranda manda"
b6b: "Hatta"
b7: And then the shihouketsu (TN: shihouketsu 四方結 literally "four directions contract")
b8: Ryuuji

31
b1: ... Didn't I tell you not to come in here?
b2: ... Guess I can't say no, can I?
b3: Come here

32
b1: And finally, with the "shokuchi-in," touch the ground (TN: shokuchi-in 触地印 literally "touch earth seal")
b2: And with that, the kekkai will...
b3: Pops...!
b4, b5: *heave*
b6a: Moriyama-san, and Kamiki
b6b: Will you stay here with Pops?
b7a: O-
b7b: Okay!
b8: ... Got it
b9a: Shima, Konekomaru
b9b: Please go inform Kirigakure-sensei and everyone in Myou Dha
b10: About what transpired just now

33
b1: What about you, Bon?
b2: I'll go set up the kekkai
b3: This kekkai forms with the point of the shokuchi-in as its center
b4: So I have to set it up as close to the sporangium as possible
b5: !?
b6: Y- You're saying that you're gonna go in there!?
b7: That's too reckless!!
b8: Bon!
b9: I've always kept my mouth shut and listened to you since my parents were a pain in the neck
b10: But this time's different, and I just have to say this
b11: You're really gonna get yourself killed, ya know?
b12: It's okay

34
b1: I'll protect Suguro!
b2: HUH!?
b3a: It's fine, isn't it!?
b3b: I can't unsheathe the sword but I can use a little of the flames!
b4: More importantly, I'm strong!!
b5a: Leave it to me, alright?
b5b: Konekomaru
b6: ...!
b7: Eh? And what about me?
b8: ...!? Hold on, Koneko-san!?
b9: Dah! I ain't gonna give a damn if you end up regretting this later!!

35
b1: ... I'll leave Pops to the two of you
b2a: Le-
b2b: Leave it to us!
b3a: ... Tch
b3b: We're off, too
b4: !
b5: Yeah!
b6: Be careful...
b7: I'm truly sorry
b8: ... Ryuuji, please forgive... This worthless father of yours

36
b1: I... Truly liked hearing Pops chant the sutra
b2: So no matter what, please don't die

37
b1: Uwah
b2: Uwah uwaaaaaah

38
b1: !!
b2: Are you alright?
b3: Th... Thanks!!
a1: What is this?
a2: It's strange
a3: It's as if the noises around me are reverberating from far, far away

39
a1: As if this isn't even real
b1: Yukio
b2: At the very least, be true to yourself
b3: ?
a2: A red light...
a3: Just where could it be coming from...?
b4: ...
b5: !

40
b1: Haah
b2: Haah
a1: Toudou Saburouta...!?
a2: No, he looks even younger...!?
a3: What's with those flames...
a4: What should I do? Call for back-up?
a5: Or...
b3: Why, hello there

41
b1a: You're there, aren't you?
b1b: Right over there
b2a: ... hah
b2b: Hah
b3: It's no use hiding
b4: Now then, come on out, Okumura Yukio-kun
a1: A chance meeting of fate!

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 160

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 11:17:18 +0000

Yes, I know this is horribly late. I was at a camp and otherwise quite busy the past week ^^;

Also, a reminder that this is my last chapter of Mago... Sorry, but I blame real life and my need for some semblance of sanity >< It's been fun, so thanks for the support o/

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01
a1: ☆Thank you for your support! The series has sold over 9 million copies in total! The latest volume, #17, goes on sale today!!
a2: ☆The TV anime has begun! A center color to commemorate the event!!
a3: Act 160 Prognostication
a4: Led by the Third Supreme Commander of the Nura Clan, Rikuo! Chibi Hyakki Yakou!
a5: The anime info you're dying to know can be found on the back of this page!!

02
b1: Ehehe classes are oveeeeer!
b2: And now it's time to pick Rikuo-sama up~
a1: Not that I take any classes though~
a2: Ah, that's the rare girl
a3: She's here today
b3: Ah! Kiyotsugu-kun!
a4: Where's Riku... Nura-kuuuun?
a5: Rikuo's aide, Tsurara, is here to pick him up today, too!

03
b1: Eh... What? Who are you talking about...?
b2: I... Don't know anything...
b3: ?
b4: ... That's pretty unusual, huh? Kiyotusgu-kun rarely goes home that soon after class ends
b5: Hmm...? That's worrisome...
b6: But that gives us more time to check up on Hyaku Monogatari...!
b7: Yes
b8: I'll help you to the best of my abilities as soon as we get back!
b9: Let's hurry
b10: Alright!

04
b1: !? Ri... Rikuo-sama!? Please wait
b2: Was there always an ice-cream shop there!?
b3: Tsurara!!
b4: And I just said to hurry, too!!
b5: We've got some time today... And it's still early...
b6: Besides, if you get too busy, you know... It's bad for your body
b7: You're singing a totally different tune from just now!?
b8: Geeeeez (small: and we finally got an early day, too...)
b9: Ah, this is delicious!
b10: What the... You didn't even buy one for me?
b11: Eh!? Did you want one too, Rikuo-sama!?
b12: Well, whatever... It's not like there'd be any ghost stories so early in the day, anyway...
b13: Ri... Rikuo-sama, that's!?
b14: Eh
b15: An... An indirect kiss!!
b16: ... Huh?
b17: Umm...
b18: Nura... Rikuo-kun?
a1: Hawawa...
a2: The line between master and servant has...
b19: Yes?

05
b1: !!
b2: ...
b3: What!?
b4: I... I did it

06
a1: Got a shot
a2: Of Nura Rikuo's face
a3: It's finally here // So Ukiyoe Town was for real, huh? // Hold on, I'm on my way, too // Is someone there? I'm almost there, too // I'm gonna kill Nura Rikuo, for real

07
b1: What was that, just now?
b2: ... Who knows?
b3: So it was him after all...
b4: ?

08
b1: Excuse me
b2: Which way to Fujigaya Station?
b3: Ah... Just go straight down this main road...
b4: Umm... I don't really get it...?
b5: Could you point it out to me on a map?
b6: Eh
b7: But it's just walking straight down the road...
b8: The station is over here, so...
b9: Eh? Eh? Where?
b10: Umm... Like I said-

09
b1: ...
b2: What the hell?
b3: Rikuo-sama!?
b4: Oww...
b5: Hold it right there...! Who are you people!?

10
b1: Hey, if we kill this kid, that'd make us murderers, right?
b2: No? He's a monster so it's OK, isn't it?
b3: On the contrary, that'd make us heroes, no?
b4: Hold it...
a1: These guys... Are they youkai?
a2: No...
b5: Please stand back
b6: !? Tsurara, wait! These people are...

11
b1: I know
b2: You'd better thank me for going easy on you guys!
b3: Eek
b4: Eeeek
b5: These guys... They're really monsteeers!
b6: It- It's just like the rumors said! Eek...
b7: ...
b8: !?

12
b1: Is this for real?
b2: Fueeeeh
b3: She froze them...
b4: Those guys are really...
b5: Youkai after all...
b6: ...
b7: Wh... What's up with these guys...
b8: Let's get away from here, Tsurara!!

13
b1: !!
b2: There you are!! You damned child of both a human and an ayakashi!!
b3: I've waited for this moment for 25 years!! The hero of mother nature has arrived!!
a1: Kurae Rideeeeer~ (TN: Kurae [くらえ] means something like "eat this")
b4: Gagabeh
a2: Uwaaaaaaah

14
b1: Rikuo-sama, please get on!
b2: !? Tsurara!?
b3: !!
b4: ...
b5a: Rikuo-sama, just who were those people!?
b5b: Do you remember them from anywhere!?
b6: No... I have no idea!

15
b1: But... They knew about me...
b2: They said, "child of both a human and an ayakashi"
b3: ...
b4: Ugh... Dammit! I might have broke something... It's getting even more and more painful...
b5a: !!
b5b: Rikuo-sama, hang in there!!
a1: What should I do!? I've got to get him back to the main house as soon as possible...
b6: That building... Once I get past it, the station is just a short distance away!!
b7: Rikuo-sama, I'll get you to the station in a jiffy!!

16
b1: !!
b2: Ah
b3: Hyaa...
b4: Bingo <3

17
b1: Partner...! You were spot on that they'd take this route...
b2: ...
b3: I know, right...? I just knew they'd try to take a short cut to the station, and this building had to be the one
b4: The things a cornered rat would think
b5: I know them like the back of my hand!
b6: Nura Rikuo
b7: We sentence you to death for the sake of this country!!
b8: Country...!?
b9: Huh...?

18
b1: This is as per the prognostication of <Kudan>
b2: Don't take it personally
b3: Kudan...?
b4: !?
b5: We caught up
b6: So he still isn't dead, huh?
b7: I don't mind taking care of him
b8: Rikuo-sama...

19
b1: Geez
b2: This country is full of nothing but useless men
a1: ☆Rikuo is being targeted...!! And just who is this lady!?
b3: I wonder if you might have even a little backbone to you, hmm...? Nura Rikuo-kun...

Translation: Ao no Exorcist 26

Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:04:59 +0000

Yes, I know I was slow and that I still haven't done Mago 160. I will, eventually ^^; Been pretty busy and will continue to be busy with university orientation and the like even before university even starts, but I'll try my best o/

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01
b1a: Rin
b1b: You've completely lost confidence in yourself
b2: ...!!
a1: The imprisoned Rin... Unable to unsheathe Kurikara...
b3a: Wai...
b3b: Wait a second
b4: It's not like something like that could prevent someone from unsheathing a sword
b5a: Nii-san...
b5b: That's enough. Please return the sword
b6: Uh...
b7: !?
b8: My, my

02
b1a: There we go ☆
b1b: Good evening, you three
b2: !?
b3: Sir Pheles!!
b4: What are you doing here, Mephisto!
b5a: What am I doing here? That's quite the remark!
b5b: In fact, I'm rather depressed that my first appearance after so long would be in a solitary cell
b6: Geez, and all I'm here to do is clean up after you guys

03
b1: Eh!?
b2a: Eins
b2b: Zwei
b3: Drei ☆　(TN: that's 1, 2, 3 in German)
a1: Das stärkste gefängnis (TN: German for "The Strongest Prison" but the Japanese says "The Prison with the Strongest Defense")
b4: Wah
b5: Geeeeeh!
b6: A little while ago, I received a message from the Vatican Headquarters

04
b1a: Due to the chanting of an imprisonment spell
b1b: And a majority vote by the court of inquiry under Gregory
b2: Okumura Rin has been sentenced to be executed
b3: !!!
b4: Wa-
b5: Ho... Hold o...

05
b1a: Th... That's rather fast
b1b: Was that really the truth!?
b2a: I don't have that much time
b2b: To lie to you under the circumstances
b3: Yukio, you okay...?
b4a: More importantly
b4b: Right now, the subjugation of the Impure King is our priority
b5a: Ahchoooo ☆
b5b: Ah, excuse me. Would you hold this sword for me?
b6: You... How did you know!?

06
b1: If you already know that much, then give us a hand!
b2a: Who? Me?
b2b: That's impossible. I'm no good with dirty things...
b2c: I've got allergies, so as it is, my nose is already...
b3: Huh!?
b4: If the Impure King is revived, it'll develop in the blink of an eye...
b5: And once it's matured... Kyoto will turn into a city of death
b6a: I've got Mamushi! We'll be back at the Branch Office in a jiffy!
b6b: Please gather as many people as you can at the entrance
b7: Can you see it from over there?
b8: Can you see it, Uwabami!?
b9: ...!!

07
b1: That's
a1: ◯JC Volumes 1-6 have sold over 4 million copies!
a2: ◯ Details of the well-received anime on page 10!!
a3: Chapter 26 Flames of the Heart
a4: Overwhelming amounts of miasma, engulfing everything...!!
b2: The Impure King...!

08
b1: You're in quite some need for an extra pair of hands, yes?
b2: It's nothing much, but let me present you with some equipment
b3: I'd be elated if it could assist you in any way at all
b4: !?
b5: Well then, I wish you the very best ☆
b6a: O-
b6b: Oi... Wait!!
b7: That bastard...
b8: For the time being, let's do what we can
b9: You...?
b10: We, too, are likely to be dispatched to help in the subjugation of the Impure King
b11: ...

09
b1: An emergency meeting has been called at the Branch Office!
b2: Everyone who can still move, please head to the Branch Office
b3: Got it!
b4: Sure is noisy out there
b5: Something musta happened, huh?
b6: Is it true that Mamushi-san was captured?
b7a: Yeah
b7b: Apparently Juuzou-san returned with her in tow
b8: Mamushi...!
b9: !?
b10a: Bon!
b10b: Where are you going?

10
b1: Juuzou-san has returned...!!
b2a: Mamushi!
b2b: Juuzou
b3a: Thank... You...
b3b: *cough* *cough*
b3c: For gathering... Everyone...
b4a: Everyone
b4b, b4c: *cough*
b5a: I am a traitor
b5b: ... However, I want you to listen to what I am about to say
b6: Earlier... Toudou Saburouta and I
b7: Used the "Right Eye" and "Left Eye" we had stolen...
b8: !

11
b1: To revive the Impure King
b2: !?
b3a: Impure King!?
b3b: What's that...
b4: Isn't the Impure King that demon that was defeated in the Edo period?
b5: Wasn't it sealed in an asphyxiated state... Under Kongou Shinzan...?
b6: Silence!
b7a: We left the head priest of the Myou Dha Sect, Suguro Tatsuma, behind...
b7b: He's fighting alone back there right now...!

12
b1: Please... Send backup
b2: Please defeat the Impure King!!
b3: ... How... How impudent!
b4: You were the one that revived it, too...
b5a: In the first place, what is this Impure King!?
b5b: How are we supposed to defeat it!?
b6a: This isn't the time to be arguing about things like that!
b6b: All exorcists
b6c: First and Second Patrol Divisions
b6d: Right up to the Shinbu First Division
b6e: Head out to subjugate the Impure King!!!!
b7a: Don't forget to deal with the miasma!!
b7b: The Impure King is of the family of the King of Decay

13
b1: *cough*
b2: !!
b3: Mamushi!!
b4a: Ryu-
b4b: Ryuuji-sama!
b5a: !?
b5b: Your right eye...!
b6: I
b7a: I'm...
b7b: Sorry...
b8: Save...
b9: Save the Most High Priest...
b10a: Bon
b10b: I'll bring her to the medical office
b11a: ...
b11b: Juuzou, what about you?

14
b1a: I'll meet up with the First Division later
b1b: Bon, you've got to go with everyone from the cram school to the ryokan
b2a: Renzou! Koneko!
b2b: Make sure you keep Bon safe!! If anything happens, to him, I'll expose you two! Rah!
b3: Ah, yes, yes, leave it to us
b4a: Leave me be...
b4b: *cough*
b4c: Hurry... To the most high priest...
b5: Fool
b6: ... She's only a girl, Toudou!
b7: Bon...
b8a: We don't have much of a choice
b8b: Ya heard what Juu-nii said. We'd better head back to the ryokan...
b9a: Oh
b9b: There you guys are!
b10: Get over here for a moment!

15
b1: Kirigakure-sensei...
b2: Rin's been sentenced to execution for letting out his flames like he did just now
b3: !!!!
b4a: It's by order of the Vatican
b4b: There's no way it can be overruled
b5: ...!!
b6: And that's the thing

16
b1: Suguro-kun, I'm entrusting this into your care!
b2: Kurikara...!
b3: And the letter your father left to Rin
b4: !!
b5: According to its contents, Rin's power is necessary to defeat the Impure King
b6: He wanted to cooperate
b7: Will you guys help Rin?

17
b1: Rin's execution is inevitable unless he does something meritorious
b2a: Take these Camouflage Ponchos
b2b: They should work well to camouflage you
b2c: So you can get into the solitary cell without getting caught by the guards
b3: Captain Kirigakure!! Hurry up!
b4: Fuuuuai
b5: That's how it's gonna roll. I'm still a dog of the order first and foremost
b6: So I've gotta go put up a front
b7: I'm counting on you!
b8: I'll leave everything to your discretion!
letter: If you can find in yourself even so tiny a heart of compassion like your father's, I want to depend on that. Thank you for reading this far.

18
b1: Le...
b2: Let's all go save Rin!
b3: ... Oh, I do really wanna help him, but...
b4: But doing so would be waging war on the Vatican
b5: ...!!
b6a: B-
b6b: But if we never get to see Rin again
b6c: All of you are sure to regret it...!
b7: ...
b8: !

19
b1: The solitary cells are this way
b2: Suguro-kun!
b3: Bon!
b4: Thank you...!
b5: !!
b6a: Koneko-san!?
b6b: You're joking!
b7: I've gotta protect Bon... Besides
b8: I know I'd regret it otherwise
b9a: What the...?
b9b: Ain't ya scared of Juu-nii!?
b10: Ehh Izumo-chan!? You, too!?
b11: The hell is wrong with all of ya!?

20
b1a: You'll di-
b1b: Ugh
b2a: You're in the way, Renzouu
b2b: Little kids oughta get back to the ryokan and catch some zees!!
b3a: Fuhahaha
b3b: I'm gonna die a magnificent, noble death, as a man of Myou Dha!!
b4: I don't get it...
b5: All this talk about Myou Dha and regret...
b6: I don't get it one bit
b7: ... AHHHH
b8: This is so annoyiiing!
sign: First Solitary Cell
b9: ... Oww!!
b11: Did you just say something?
b12: No, wasn't that you?

21
b1a: I didn't say anything
b1b: It must've been you
b2: Quit lying
b3a: Haah
b3b: I almost had a heart attack there
b4: It's all 'cause Koneko-san stepped on my foot...!!
b5: Sorry, Shima-san...
b6a: This poncho is amazing
b6b: But the fact that we can't see each other either is a bit of a problem
b7a: Shh
b7b: It should be just ahead
b8: Is that the door...!?
b9: Ooh~ Ooh~ Ooh~ *music note*
b10: !?

22
b1: Nehehehe! I'm "Das stärkste gefängnis"!!!
b2: But while I can't be opened from the inside without a key, I can be opened easily from the outside
b3: Now, here's a question for you!
b4: Eh
b5: What's up with that personality?
b6: A demon!?
b7: Why have I the title of "Strongest Defense"!?
b8: How 'bout you give it a go and fight me!? Nehehe
b9: ... Che
b10: Guess we gotta fight him, huh...!?

23
b1: Kaaaah
b2: ... Eh
b3: Nehehehehe! The correct answer is...

24
b1: That I can stop the movements of anyone who approaches me with hostile intentions!!
b2: That is the origin of my name!!! Neehyahyahya!
b3a: No way...!
b3b: ? Eh?
b4: Then why didn't anything happen to me...?
b5a: Because you aren't an enemy!
b5b: You're weak, and you're not carrying any weapons, either!
b6: Nehehe!
a1: Without Nii-chan
a2: I'm totally useless...
b7: ... But

25
b1: You said the door could be opened from the outside, right!?
a1: I definitely don't want Rin to die like this...!
b2a: Yes, but even if you open it
b2b: He can't get out!
b2c: Nehenehehe
b3: *gacha*
a2: Wait for me, Rin!
b4: Where the hell am I...!?
b5: Like hell I'd die...
b6: In a place like thiiiis...!!

26
b1a: Hah
b1b: Hah
b2: As if I'd die...
a1: Or maybe not...!?
b3a: You can obediently let the Order kill you...
b3b: Or, hey! You could even kill yourself
b4: Just die already...!
a2: I've always thought... That I didn't want those who saved me to have labored in vain
a3: But
a4: Wouldn't it be better
b5a: "If I unsheathe this sword now...
b5b: "I might actually hurt someone this time"
a5: If I just died...?

27
a1: Will I die without ever having done anything useful?
a2: In the end, I wasn't even able to make good with everyone...
a3: Why was I saved...?
b1: ... Old man, why was I...
b2: Tell me...!!
b3: Rin!
b4: !!

28
b1: Shiemi...
next to Shiemi's head on both sides: Hah
b2a: Rin
b2b: We've come to save you!
b3a: We heard everything from Kirigakure-sensei
b3b: Rin, we'll get you out of here and onto the battlefield!
b4: Let's get out of here asap!
b5: Stay way!
b6: !
b7: What's wrong...?
b8: I...

29
b1: I don't have any confidence that I'll be able to keep my flames in check
b2: Eh...?
b3a: I've always thought that I could overcome everything with just willpower alone
b3b: But that's just not gonna cut it anymore
b4: It might be better if I just died like this
b5: ... Wha

30
b1: What are you talking about...
b2: Don't say something like that... Ever again!!
b3: ... You wouldn't understand
b4: You don't have to
b5a: Stop it!!
b5b: Don't just smile and push me away like that!
b6: I... I want to be of strength to you, Rin...!
b7: Go home already!
b8: I'm a monster!!

31
b1: Kyaa...
b2: Someone
b3: Someone like me...
a1: I'm... Such a fool
a2: I've been so preoccupied with myself
a3: That Rin never even entered my field of vision
a4: How could I call myself his friend...!?
b4: !

32
a1: I'm sorry, Rin
b1a: You... You idiot
b1b: This is dangerous...
b2: It's okay

33
b1a: See!?
b1b: I don't have a single burn at all!
b2: Because Rin made it so
b3: So it's okay!
b4a: A-!!
b4b: A- A- Aren't you scared of me!?
b5: I'm not scared
b6: Is... Is that so
b7: Yeah!

34
b1: Uooooohh!!!!
b2: Uwah, Okumura-kun!?
b3a: !!
b3b: All of you came to save me!?
right of Izumo: Ah
left of Izumo: He moved
b4: I- I can't have you dying on me, Okumura-kun
b5: !

35
b1: Now that I know that you're not dangerous
b2: I'd like to make up with you
b3: Konekomaru...!!
b4: Let me just make things clear. I'm here only because Kirigakure-sensei ordered us to come!
b5a: Ah
b5b: Me?
b5c: I was pretty against it, so ya oughta praise me for bein' here at all!
b6: I... I don't really care about all that but thank you everyone!!
b7: Gyah!?

36
b1: Su... Suguro... -san...! (small: eek...)
b2: ... I wasn't very calm in dealing with that issue with my dad...
b3a: You were right
b3b: About the issues with my dad, that is!
b4: You'll need this if you're gonna fight, right? Take it!
b5: I-
b6: I'm sorry for hitting you, too...
b7a: I'll show you to Kongou Shinzan
b7b: After that, you can do whatever the hell you like
b7c: Cuz I'm gonna fight on my own terms
b8: ...!!
b9: Sugurou
b10: Believe in me

37
b1a: I can't change the fact that I'm the son of satan
b1b: But I'll show you that I can keep my flames in check!
b2: So believe in me!!
b3: I don't give a shit about that!!
b4: !?
b5a: ... What I can never forgive you for
b5b: Is how you always take these things wholly upon yourself...
b6: You were the one who first started treating us like strangers...!
b7: !
b8: Why dontcha tell me, how am I supposed to believe in someone like that?

38
b1: Am I the only one who thought we were friends!!?
b2a: N-
b2b: No!! That's not what I meant...!
b3a: Besides, what kinda reasoning is that!?
b3b: That's why you were pissed...!?

39
a1: Suguro...
b1: Haah that sure was novel
b2: Shima-san...
a2: I see, I understand now
a3: In that case, I...
b3: My, my, what a wait this has been
b4: Finally, the stage is set and the actors are on standby
b5: Now, let me
b6: Enjoy this battle to the fullest
b7: Ready?

40-41
b1: Our destination is Rakuhoku Kongou Shinzan!
b2: We're gonna defeat the Impure King!!!!
a1: With strong feelings in his heart... A clash!!
a2: I've gotta prove myself with the actions I take from here on out!!!!

Translation: Bakuman 139

Wed, 06 Jul 2011 21:43:23 +0000

This will be my final Bakuman translation :( Check out the news here if you haven't already. Somehow it's fitting that for my final translation of this series, the series itself is talking about "final chapter" :p Though, Eiji also says in this chapter, "see you again desu", so who knows, hahaha.

Anyway, thanks for all the support so far <3 You guys have been awesome! :glomp :squish :hug

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01
x1: 29th July, Friday. The day of the results for issue #34, where "PCP" had the center color.
x2: Unless someone stops "CROW"'s number one streak by this issue, #34, Eiji will write his next manuscript as if it were the final chapter of "CROW"
a1: Page 139 Final Chapter and Comments

b1: ...
b2: ...

a2: Intense staring...!!

b3: ...
b4: It's not like staring at your smartphone's going to make the results come any faster, you know?

screen: WJ Hattori-san
b5: !
b6: Sure doesn't look like it!

b7: Yes, this is Takagi!

02
b1: "PCP" tied for second plae
b2: Tied for second place?

a1: Second place...
a2: A tie...?

b3: What about "CROW"?

a3: ☆JC Volume 14 will be released on 4th August!! It's the start of the Nanamine Arc!!
b4a: "CROW" got 420 votes, while "PCP" and "GIRI" tied with 403 votes a piece
b4b: The early results had a difference of two votes between you, so I figured something like this would happen
b4c: "GIRI" was third in the early results, but the new elements in it must have been refreshing enough for it to take the checkered flag (TN: in case anyone doesn't know - in a race, the checkered flag is associated with the winner as he is the first to drive past that flag)

b5: ... So there was only a difference of 17 votes between us and "CROW", huh?
b6: ...!

b7: You did good. Excluding your very first chapter, this is the best showing you've had so far

03
b1: Yes, but...

b2: This means that "CROW" will...
b3a: Yeah... It'll end with a lead color three weeks from now
b3b: We've already received instructions to add the words "final chapter" to the "JUMP" cover that had been put on hold, and to the "CROW" frontispiece as well

b4: Haaaaaaaah...

b5: And so our summer ends... Don't you feel that way?
b6: It hasn't ended...! On the contrary, it's just beginning, so...

b7a: Eiji really is amazing after all
b7b: It's so cool to be able to monopolize the number one spot for so long and then end with a lead color...

b8: ... Yeah... Cool...
b9: And that makes it all the more mortifying...

04
b1: I know it's mortifying, but if "CROW" hadn't been there, you two would have been in first place!
b2: Isn't that amazing?

b3a: So if "CROW"... If Eiji hadn't been around, we'd be number one, huh...
b3b: Looking at it another way, it's precisely because Eiji was there that we were able to come this far

b4a: Yeah...
b4b: When we were in the third year of middle school, we read about him in that copy of "JUMP" we picked up in the convenience store. First runner-up, Niizuma Eiji, age 15.
b4c: When we saw that... We realized that there was someone around the same age as us who was this amazing, and who would be our rival in aiming for the top spot in "JUMP"... We decided on our own that we had to defeat him, and we weren't wrong about that

b5: And ever since then, we've been chasing after Eiji

b6: Until we get serialized, please wait for us and continue being serialized
b7: Roger! But I may have become number one by then
b8: ...

05
b1: B... But it's not like Niizuma-san's not going to be a mangaka anymore, right?
b2: That's true, but... For starters, it just feels like we've been totally defeated...
b3a: "Until we get serialized, please wait for us and continue being serialized"
b3b: That's what I said to him the first time we met...

b4a: Eiji continued to be serialized, and waited for us, and while we did get serialized, we were never able to catch up to him...
b4b: And just before we were able to catch up, "CROW" ends... And it's not like it got canceled, it ended in such a perfect manner, too
below b4: Haaaaah...
b5: Well, I think you've reached a point where you can say that you did catch up to him!
b6a: No, never mind "+ NATURAL", we weren't able to catch up with "CROW". The only time we ever defeated him was with the first chapter of "PCP"...
b6b: In the end, Eiji alone is able to write such interesting manga... Even the two of us combined are no match for just him alone...

a1: Never mind "no match"...
b7: Did you come up with something?
b8: Yeah, thanks
b9: My rival is Ashirogi Muto
b10a: There isn't any dialogue
b10b: He's telling a story using the art alone...
a2: If Eiji hadn't been there, we wouldn't even have been able to come this far as mangaka...

06
b1a: Niizuma-san's only 22, isn't he?
b1b: When you think about that, he's really amazing...
b1c: To be able to be serialized for seven years and end at number one...

b2: Yeah, amazing...

b3: It makes me want to congratulate him
b4: Eh?

b5: I want to try to have an ending like his
b6: I aspire to be like him...

b7: Indeed
b8: I really do wanna try monopolizing the number one spot for as long as he did and then ending with a lead color, too...

b9a: When someone manages to do something like that, I wanna say something like, "I underestimated you," or...
b9b: Nah, it actually really makes me wanna say "congratulations"
b10: As a fellow mangaka... As a rival...

b11: As a friend
b12: Yeah

07
x1: And so, on the 9th of August, the sample copy of issue #38 that carried the final chapter of "CROW", was printed

b1: That was the best ending ever
b2: Thank you

b3: But perhaps, being able to end like this feels a little superfluous

b4: Niizuma-sensei...
b5: Sensei?

cover: Lead color and 31 pages // The Conclusion of "CROW"!!
b6: I am honored to have been able to take charge of "CROW" to the very end
b7: Is that so

b8: And...

b9: Thank you so much for your hard work!!

08
b1: Thank you for your hard work, too
b2a: ...
b2b: It feels like he has absolutely no interest in a manga that's already over

b3a: I can't exactly tell you to have a good, long break, since "+ NATURAL" is still ongoing...
b3b: But at least you can take a little breather and slow down a little

b4a: Hm?
b4b: Has "+ NATURAL" got another new character? Cool
b5: This isn't "+ NATURAL"
b6: Eh? Then what is it?

b7a: I don't have a title for it just yet, but it's a manga where the heroes are chemical elements
b7b: Only Pt and Ag have appeared so far, though (TN: Pt = Platinum, Ag = Silver)

b8: You... You're already drawing a new series!?
b9: I'm just drawing it right now because I wouldn't be able to settle down otherwise

b10: Wait... Can I have a look!?

09
b1: Isn't this in the middle of a chapter?
b2a: Ugh, you're so noisy
b2b: I think that's about a hundred pages into the story
b3: A hundred!?
a1: Even if you take the first chapter as being fifty pages long, that means he's already drawn about four chapters worth of stuff...

a2: ... It's as good as "CROW"
a3: Interesting...!

b4a: But this thing about chemical elements becoming heroes - didn't someone write a manga like that before...?
b4b: Oh no, it was just constellations and the zodiac
b4c: Niizuma-kun, did you do some research into this?
b5: I'm not drawing these for actual serialization, so there's no need to do any research

b6: If you want something that no-one's written before, then I'd recommend a series about space cockroaches
b7a: Space cockroaches? What the hell?
b7b: What do you mean, series?
b8: I'm not too sure myself, but by jump comics standards, I'd say about 30 volumes...
b9: Ca... Can you show me whatever you have? I mean, everything I've never seen before!?

10
b1: When the heck did you draw this much!?
b2: I already told you, whenever I had free time in between drawing "CROW" and "+ NATURAL"
b3: A normal person wouldn't have had any free time, they'd have been running out of time...

b4: Of course, while I was serialized, I spent the bulk of my time on "CROW"
a1: Unbelievable... And these are all at "CROW"'s level
a2: No, even better than that...!

a3: The editor-in-chief
b5: Try your best to write your next series as soon as you can
a4: He did say that, but...

b6: ...

11
a1: I see, even if you tell Niizuma-kun to "take a break," he'd still draw manga. He always wants to be drawing
a2: Even if he remains silent, he's actually already producing more and more series...
a3: ... Rather than going about telling him what to do, it'd probably be better to give him free rein... Better not to rush him... At this rate... If it's Niizuma-kun... He'll produce something even better than "CROW"... No...

a4: He has the potential to create... The most famous manga in the history of "JUMP"
a5: That's right... "CROW" was popular, but beyond that, it was the series that monopolized the top spot in "JUMP" for twenty weeks...

b1: Yuujirou-san, this time you suddenly went silent. Anything the matter?
b2: N... No. All the manuscripts you have here aren't things you were planning to serialize, correct?
b3: Correct

a6: And now I'll prompt it out of him...

b4: Oh yeah, Niizuma-kun, is there some place you'd like to go? Anywhere in the world
b5: I want to see the Louvre, the pyramids and an aurora

b6: I... I see... Going to see all of them may be impossible, but as a well-deserved break after being serialized, and also to expand your horizons, you're entitled to a vacation to collect data
b7: OHHHHH? I can go?

12
b1: Ah, that'd be my cell phone
above Yuujirou's head: So noisy

b2: Niizuma-shishouuuu! The final chapter was captivating!!
b3: Fukuda-sensei!
b4: Fukuda...?

b5: I saw the sample copy, I noticed that I forgot to say "thank you for your hard work" in my comment on the contents page (TN: every mangaka gets to write a short comment on the contents page in every issue of JUMP)
b6: Rather than everyone writing that separately, I thought it'd be better to tell you straight

b7a: "Thank you for your hard work"?
b7b: Contents page?
b8: Yeah, most people included that in their comments

b9: Thank you for all your hard work on "CROW"! It's frustrating, but Niizuma-shishou, you had the coolest ending to a manga ever!
b10: Thanks
b11: Bye, then, I've conveyed my congratulations
b12: *pu*

13
a1: Seigi no Mikata / Takahama Shouyou / Niizuma-sensei, thanks for all your hard work on "CROW". I'll do my best with sensei as my goal. <Shouyou>
a2: Kami-sama ga Kureta / Aoki Kou / Niizuma-sensei, thanks for all your hard work on "CROW". All the best with "+ NATURAL"! <Kou>
a3: Boku ni wa Tsuujinai / Hiramaru Kazuya / Niizuma-sensei, I was super touched by the way you ended "CROW"! I'll learn from you and end my manga in a cool way, as soon as possible.
a4: PCP - Perfect Crime Party - / Ashirogi Muto

b1: Everyone's thanking me for my hard work in these contents page comments
b2: Hm? Well, there've been a lot of them lately

a5: PCP - Perfect Crime Party - / Ashirogi Muto / Niizuma-sensei, thanks for all your hard work on "CROW". Thank you for battling it out with us till the very end. <Muto>

b3a: They're talking about how even after you managed to take the top spot for ten weeks running, you still took on their challenge until right before you drew the final chapter. right?
b3b: Ashirogi-kun's all serious about it...
b3c: But the readers will be totally clueless as to what they're talking about

b4: ...
b5: Anyway, I'd better pay a visit to those who left me comments
b6: You're so polite! You don't need to go that far...

14
b1: This final chapter probably took the top spot by a huge margin... If it's number one this week as well, that'd mean a streak of twenty number ones
b2: That's probably the case... "PCP" took fourth place last week and "GIRI" was in third...
b3: Niizuma-san is way cool, huh?

b4: Eh? One of the assistants? So early?

b5: Eh!? Niizuma-san!?
b6: Huh?

b7: Hello
b8: ... Hello...
b9: ...
b10: !?

15
b1: "Thank you for battling it out with us till the very end" ...
b2: No, I should be the one saying this to you. It was thanks to you that I got all fired up and was able to write an even more interesting story
b3: That's what I came to say

b4: Bye

b5: ... That's what I thought, too
b6: Is that so...
b7: Takagi once said, "I kinda feel like from Eiji's point of view, we're just some hindrances preventing him from ending "CROW", no?" ... (@proofer: this was from chapter 137 in case you want to check against the proofread version of this line ;))
b8: ...

b9: He was wrong, wasn't he?
b10: We weren't hindering you

b11: Yes, he was entirely wrong
b12: That was

16
b1: A battle between men!
b2: Someone who doesn't understand a battle between men is boring

b3a: ...
b3b: What does he mean?

b4a: When Niizuma-san said that he'd end his manga in a cool way by monopolizing the number one spot
b4b: Fukuda-san and the two of us taunted him, saying we definitely wouldn't let him do something like that...

b5: Yes, it made me happy

b6a: Ah! It's true that if he'd just said, "please let me end my manga in a cool manner," it would have been boring... Rather, you guys couldn't have called yourselves his rivals if you'd left it as that...
b6b: Is that it?

b7a: Well, that's the gist of it
b7b: Being rivals is all about doing things in such a way as to pit our obstinacy and our prides against each other and build each other up...
b8: ...!

17
b1a: That's right
b1b: Until I came out here to Tokyo from Aomori, drawing manga was something that was fun, but...
b1c: I was always alone
b2a: But when I got serialized in "JUMP"...
b2b: I was able to meet the readers...
b2c: And more importantly, Ashirogi-sensei, my greatest rivals and also friends with whom I can compete

b3a: To have been able to come into contact with rivals... Friends... I am happy...
b3b: I'm no longer alone. That alone makes me inexplicably happy
b3c: Thank you so much

a1: ...!
b4: Niizuma-san... We were the ones who were encouraged by you
b5: ...

b6: This isn't over!
b7: !
b8: That's true

18
b1: We may have lost to "CROW"... But the battle isn't over yet

b2a: Yes
b2b: We are rivals for eternity, of destiny

b3: ...
b4: Niizuma-san, please write your next series soon
b5: Yeah
b6: I want to win against an original manga by Niizuma-san, not "+ NATURAL"
b7: !?

19
b1a: Ashirogi-sensei, you're not going to be able to win
b1b: Against the next manga I draw

b2a: !
b2b: We won't know till we try...
b3: ... Since you've put it that way, does that mean you've already decided what you're going to draw next?
b4a: Yes!
b4b: I'll share this with you, because you're Ashirogi-sensei
b4c: The next manga I'm going to draw...

b5: Won't just be the best in "JUMP" - it'll be the best manga the world has ever seen!!

b6a: Well, then, I apologize for the intrusion
b6b: See you again desu (TN: Eiji actually says this in English/katakana, and adds a "desu" [sentence ending, no real meaning] to the end of it :3)
b7: ...
a1: He's gunning for world domination!!

b8a: Amazing...
b8b: Niizuma-sensei is so cool
b9: Even so, the best manga the world has ever seen? Isn't that kinda extravagant...?
b10: Isn't it?
b11: Oh, come on, Shuujin, you were the one who first told me, "Let's become the best mangaka in Japan!"

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 159

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:36:29 +0000

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01
a1: Total number of votes: 18733 votes!
a2: Center color for the results of the 2nd character popularity poll and the upcoming anime second season

Results:
1. Nura Rikuo (Night) 3231 votes
2. Yuki Onna (Oikawa Tsurara) 2165 votes
3. Nura Rihan 1455 votes
4. Kurotabou 1358 votes
5. Kubinashi 1320 votes

a3: Act 159 The Sound of War
a4: ☆More than 9 million copies sold!! The latest volume, #17, will be out on the 4th of July!!
a5: ☆The second season of the TV Anime is about to begin!! Check out the detailed broadcast times and dates for "Nurarihyon no Mago ~Sennen Makyou~"!!
a6: A double victory for Rikuo and second place for Yuki Onna! A v-sign to thank you for your support!!

02
a1: ☆Kubinashi's in a pinch...!
a2: Saimin no Hidarime (TN: 催眠の左目 = left eye of hypnotism)
b1: I'll have you tell me
b2: The weakest link of your clan... What is it?
b3: Rihan's daughter, perhaps?
b4: Ugh...
b5: He does have a "wife", no?
b6: Ah... Ugh
b7: I...

03
b1: Don't underestimate me
b2: Damned bastard...!!
b3: Guh...
b4: Mmh... Damn you...
b5: Look into my eye!!
b6: Guh...
b7: What...!?

05
b1: ...
b2: Did Sanmoto's main body get beaten?
b3: It seems you have escaped with your life... <Kubinashi>
b4: ... Kuh...
b5: Ho- hold it right there...

06
b1: ... Did we get 'im...?
b2: ...
b3: So this is matoi...
b4: Yeah...
b5: To be honest... I wasn't sure how it'd turn out, either...
b6: But we did it... Just as I thought, your fear is amazing

07
b1: It tore a monster of that size to shreds
b2: Alright... Now all that's left to do is finishing off the small fry, huh...
b3: Oi... You look unsteady on your feet
b4: Dammit... Is this because matoi causes my human part to be possessed? Every time I use it I get giddy...
b5: !
b6: We've still got fish to fry...
b7: Oi... With your body like that...

08
b1: Secooooond!! Are you alriiight!!
b2: I was soooo worried!!
b3: !
b4: You said I was the special attack captain, didn't you!! Didn't youuuu!?
b5: That's cuz you always charge ahead!!
b6a: Guh... St... Stop it...
b6b: I'm... gonna... die at... this rate...
b7: Ah
b8: What about the rest of the ayakashi?
b9: Don't worry
b10: We've already finished most of them
b11: Is that so
b12: That's good to hear

09
b1: Eh
b2: Oi!! Stop it, you fool
b3a: Haha!! Pathetic, ain't it!?
b3b: Hear ye hear ye!! It's the triumphant return of our boooosss! Clear a path!
b4a: Oh, Kubinashi
b4b: I was just wondering where you were
b5: ... Yeah...
b6: Sorry...
b7: Alriiiight! Those of you who've still got some energy, help with the debris removal!
b8: You're sure in high spirits, Aotabou... Ohh...!? What a coincidence! The sun's just beginning to rise...
b9: That totally puts me in a victorious mood!! (small text: Even though I'm a youkai!)
b10: Whatever Ao, just put me down already

10
b1: The morning sun... Has begun to shine already
b2a: I wonder if something happened over at Fukagawa
b2b: You could see sparks even from way over here...
b3: Otome-chan!! You musn't go out!! Got it!?
b4a: Ughhhh what is that boy doing!?
b4b: Hitotsumeeee! Hihiiiii! Go find that Rihaaaaan! (brush text: bon)
next to Hitotsume and Hihi: Ehhhh
b5: Oi, oi... I didn't know we were even supposed to go out today
b6: Well, well, we ought to be leaving it to the youngins, no?
b7: But isn't it unfair? Even the First cheekily went ahead...
b8: Hm?
b8: Supreme Comman... Geh
b9: Rihan!!

11
b1: !
b2: What's this?
b3: Welcome home...
b4: Yeah
b5: I'm home
b6: !!
b7: I've... Been waiting all this while!!
b8: Woohoo, Second!
b9: That's so old

12
b1: ...
b2: Sanmoto-sama...
b3: Wh...
b4: Why...
b5: Did you die and leave me behind...?
b6: ... Kuh...
b7: Ugh...
b8: ... Don't... mess around... with me...

13
b1: What the hell are you, KUROTABOUUUU
b2: Why did you... kill him...
b3: Sanmoto-sama loved you... So why...!!
b4: Ahh... Ahhhhhh
b5a: Bah... Unforgivableeee!
b5b: Ahhhhh I'll kill you!!
b6: Uhhhh... Uhhhh... Ugh
b7: Auhhh... uhhh...
a1: Yanagidaa...
a2: Yanagidaa...

14
a1: Yanagidaa...
b1: Eh...?
b2: Ah...!?
b3: Wha...
b4: Hah...
b5: Hah...
b6: What is... this...

14
b1: Sanmoto-san... Isn't dead at all
b2: That's just
b3: The kind of Ayakashi he's become
b4a: ...
b4b: Who are you...
b5: I'm Enchou
b6: Sanmoto-san's mouth
b7: ...!? Mouth...

15
b1: Eek...
b2: Sanmoto-san indeed lost that body...
b3: That's why we've got to gather them all back once again... The fears, that is...
b4: Yanagida, you were Sanmoto-san's loyal sidekick
b5: You were an ayakashi that helped with Hyaku Monogatari, weren't you?
b6: In that case... You will become his "ear"... And continue to collect <ghost stories>
b7: The ear collects, the mouth spread... The hands produce... We will collect the <fears>

16
b1: That will become his blood
b2: His bones
b3: You, too... Will become a part of me
b4: ...
b5: Everyone... We will sink into underworld for now, and amass our strength
b6: We will spread our roots in the deep silence... And when we revive Sanmoto-san
b7: We will go forth into the world with him
b8: Come... Let us go, Yanagida...

17
x1: After that, in the streets of Edo
x2: The elder Yanagizawa Yoshiyasu and the others who had been intoxicated by the tea of the conqueror did evil things, in their bid to gather fears on their own (TN: Yanagizawa Yoshiyasu [柳沢吉保], 1658-1714, was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period and an official in the Tokugawa shogunate)
a1: Feaaaar...
a2: Fufufu
a3: You, too, are evil...
x3: However, under the management of Mito Mitsukuni-kou, the chaos about the Hyaku Monogatari incident finally died down
b1: Yo
b2: Been a while... Kurotabou...
b3: ...
b4a: Hm? Heeey
b4b: What's wrong, what's wrong...? We already exchanged sakazuki and all that, ya know?
b5: Well... He'll join us some day, I'm sure
b6: What a shy person

18
b1: ...
b2: Did everything... Really end just like that...?
b3: Yo!! Koi-san, you droppin' by today?
b4: Ohh
b5: Koi-saaan, I've got a favor to ask of you~~
b6: Well, now... Edo today's rather... Sweltering, hmm?
x1: A brief period of peace returned to Edo
a1: But it was nothing more than the beginning of a battle that would span three hundred years...

19
b1: Torii-san... Are you alright!?
b2: Hey, hey, did you really get shut in the subway!?
b3: And that you saw a youkai!? What kind of youkai was it!?

20
b1: Huh!? I just had a cold, you know? A cold!!
b2: Sorry for taking a day off school and making you worried!
b3: What the hell? So you getting involved in some paranormal events was just a rumor?
b4: Okay, okay, there's no way something like that could have happened
a1: But I'm relieved! Thank goodness!
b5: Torii...
b6: What's wrong? You told a lie back there...
a2: Even though something that terrible happened to you
b7: But... Everyone would be worried, right?
b8: If they knew the paranormal really existed... They'd panic
b9: You're such a good girl!!
b10: It's fine!! If it's here, it'd be fine!!
b11: Eek! What would be fine!?
a3: Gyaaaaah
a4: Big boobs squashing festivaaaal~ (TN: I'm serious)
b12: It's a good thing that Torii-san was able to return, isn't it?
b13: Young ma... Nura-kun
b14: Haha... That's true
a5: Haha...

21
b1: Hey hey! Is everyone well!!?
b2: We've got a whole lot of submissions today, too! A whole lot of "ghost stories"!!
b3: Shall we investigate this one!?
a1: A ghost report!
b4: Kiyotsuguuuuu!!
b5: You sure have a talent for reading the atmosphere, hmmmm!!?
b6: Eh? What? What's wrong?
b7: Ah, Torii-san, are you all better now? That's great
b8: Damn you!!
a2: You're so silly, Maki-kun
a3: What did you say!?
b9: In order to avoid danger, we have to investigate!!
b10: Because I'm getting the feeling that the ghost stories that are being talked about the most right now will turn into <reality>!
b11: And so, everyone, let us talk about the "supreme commander"!! Perhaps he will appear...
a4: Gugehhh
a5: What? Is this... Big boobs squashing festival!!?
b12: Oryaaa!
b13: For... For the time being, shall we take a break from club activities!?
b14: Ki- Kiyotsugu-kun, nice idea!!
a6: It's useless trying to stop these feelings!!
b15: Nura-kun, you're always acting like that!!

22
b1: I knew it... The ghost stories are spreading slowly but surely
b2: Kuro
b3: It is as you said
b4: Just as they did once before... These stories give birth to ayakashi, and the ayakashi that are born generate even more stories...

23
b1: And in so doing, their numbers increase and their battle potential grows as well... That's Hyaku Monogatari's strategy
b2: Yes... And even if we were to defeat them one by one, there would be no end to them
b3: We have to seek out and defeat those who birth the ayakashi and who are thus at the center of this all
b4: Their shadows were behind even Tamazuki of Shikoku and Hagoromo Gitsune of Kyoto
b5: They may pull something again, but we won't let them do as they please any longer!
b6: So, Kuro... Let's begin the search for the core members of the Hyaku Monogatari clan!! Support me!
b7: Is it really alright for me to take on such a role...? I was once of the enemy
b8: ... In addition, the Hyaku Monogatari Clan had a hand in the death of the Second, too

24
b1: But now, you've exchanged Sakazuki with the Second... And with me. You're now a member of the Nura Clan, aren't you?
b2: Kuro... I've told you this before, but I don't care what your past is like
b3: I believe in you, Kuro, just as the Second did before me... Isn't that enough?
b4: Alright! Let's go, then!
b5: ... Got it

25
a1: Did
a2: Did you hear...?

26
a1: A... About what?
a2: A... About what?
a3: Not "what", "kudan". (TN: 件 can be read as both "ken" meaning "incident" and "kudan" - you'll see the explanation soon)
a4: It seems that <kudan>... Will be born soon...
a5: Ahh, I heard about that too RT@YOKAIMANIA It seems that <kudan>... Will be born soon...
a6: Ahh... "Kudan"... You mean that youkai that can predict the future, right? The one that dies as soon as it's born?
a7: Yeah, yeah (lol)

27
a1: ｘth ◯ I heard it was born in an abandoned dairy farm in X-yama Prefecture
a2: Though it's kinda ambiguous...
a3: Serious??
a4: Apparently it's true. I heard about it, too
a5: I heard it appeared in XX prefecture
a6: If that's true then I wanna go see
a7: Me too
a8: I heard a cow gave birth to it? Its head was human, but its body was bovine... That's why it's called "kudan" (TN: the word 件 is made up of two parts - the left side means "human" [人・⺅] and the right side means "cow" [牛])
a9: It gave a prediction as soon as it was born. That prediction is the truth. No way would a prediction it gave at the cost of its own life could be false.

28
b1: Eek... It really...
b2: It... Was born...!?
b3: Uwah it... It's standing...
b4: It... It's gonna say something...!?
b5: Listen
b6: Humans
b8: !!
b9: Eh...

29
b1: This country will soon fall into ruin
b2: ... If you want to save yourselves, he who has been cursed to straddle both the realms of humans and youkai...
a1: ☆A sudden order to kill Rikuo!!
b3: The Third Head of the Nura Clan, Nura Rikuo
b4: Must be killed!

This Week and The End

Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:19:23 +0000

(I kinda wrote this a long time ago... And sorry for the melodrama, heh, I tend to be melodramatic at like 3am, which was the time I wrote this. Also, the title is reminiscent of Bakuman, no? xD)

I write this piece of news with a heavy heart as this is really not something that I want to do. Unfortunately, all good things have to come to an end. Every ending, however, is also a beginning.

I start with the beginning. I am entering a new phase of my life called "university" come this July. Seniors tell me that my course, in particular, will be hell - crazy long hours with hardly a break in between, and less holidays than the rest of the university. And that brings me to the end: this will have to be the end of the long hours I spend translating. I currently translate 4 series, and I have decided that I will drop half of them in anticipation of my busy school life to come. Hopefully, I will not need to drop more series as I go along.

The first series I am dropping will be Examurai. I've said this before so this should not come as a surprise. I've begun to lose interest in the series, thus there is really little motivation for me to translate at all. Coupled with the issue regarding university, Examurai is the first to get the axe off my translating list. Examurai 7 will be my last for the series. Turns out Examurai is ending :| Last chapter is chapter 8. So... I guess I'll continue till then, but chapter 8 may be considerably later than usual.

The second series is a series I really would rather not drop, but as the wordiest of the lot, the one that takes the longest to translate and the one that I'd need to devote time to every week, it just has to go. Yes, that's Bakuman :( This was a tough choice because I still love the series and enjoy it a great deal. It also has a very special place in my heart as it was for its section on MH that I was first modded, resulting in a great attachment to the section and by extension, to the series. Thus, it is with great reluctance that I drop this series. Bakuman 139 (week of 6th July) will be my final translation of the series.

Indeed, this means that I will continue to translate Nurarihyon no Mago and Ao no Exorcist, at least for now. Also, to clarify, I will not be stepping down from my position as global mod on the forums! You will still see me around MH, so this is certainly not goodbye :) I thank you for your support all these months I have been translating Bakuman and Examurai. Much love to MRI and Muda as well for everything <3

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On a different note - due to personal reasons and extenuating circumstances, I will have to delay the translation of Mago 159 to next weekend, while Bakuman 138 will be handled by whoever MRI sees fit in my absence :)

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Sorry everyone, but I have decided to drop Nurarihyon no Mago as well. Reason being mainly university, and the fact that my part-time job will be getting even more intensive shortly after university starts,. That's a double whammy on how much time I will have left for everything else. Thus, I've decided that a single, monthly translation (Ao no Exorcist) is more than enough. I will translate Mago up to chapter 160, simply because it's a nice number, heh. I have a lot to catch up on this week, so expect lateness and please bear with me.

Translation: Examurai 7

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:14:11 +0000

Sorry for taking so long T__T

RESERVED FOR MUDA SCANLATIONS

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01
b1: They have arrived
b2: ... At each of their posts...
b3: The Shitenmajin!!!
b4: Uoooohhh
a1: The trigger on the gunlock for the final battle has snapped!
b5: Here we go!!!

02
b1: Jigokujou!!!
a1: Towering in the moonlit night, Roppongi's Jigokujou!
a2: Act 7 Shitenmajin

03
b1: !!!
b2: Skull Soldiers!!!
b3: Why, thank you for the warm welcome!
b4: !?

05
b1: Usa!!
b2: Matsu!!
b3: Whatcha movin' like a snail for, huh!!
b4: Leave this place to us and go on ahead, Hiro-san!!
b5: There's no way I'm gonna lose!!! (TN: whenever these two speak, they use two different pronouns that both mean "I". There just aren't any English equivalents...)

06
b1: Got it, thanks!!
b2: This is...

07
kanji on door from right to left: beast, lightning, flames, water, wind
b1: A door...
b2: This could be a trap...
b3a: Everyone, be on your guards
b3b: !
s1: shuru...
b4: Kyaaaa
b5a: !!
b5b: Sora!!!
b6: Hiroo...
s2: kashan!!!
b7: Welcome to Jigokujou
b8: !?

08
b1: You must be the party from the XILE Tribe
b2: I will now explain the "rules"
b3: Rules...!?
b4: Where's Sora!!?
b5a: Please do not worry. We will not hurt her
b5b: That is, of course, if you abide by the "rules"
b6: ... What are these "rules"
b7a: Please enter by the doors labeled with each of your elements
b7b: You will have a 1-on-1 battle with your opponent beyond that door
b7c: Understood?
b8: In that case, I will be praying for your good fortune!!!

09
b1: Water...
b2: Hey, Mr Cool
b2: Wanna do something fun with me~? <3

10
b1a: I am one of the Shitenmajin
b1b: Mellow Camelia
b2a: Big sis got to play with you, didn't she? How unfair
b2b: Play with me, too <3
b3a: !
b3b: ... Sure is tough being popular
next to b3: snake lady's little sister?
b4: Well, personally, I prefer your glamorous elder sister
b5: My, that does make me jealous
s1: bachin
s2: gagon
b6a: But
b6b: When it comes to technique, I'm better, you know?
b7: I'll drive you crazy <3
b8: Exciting
s3a: gopopo
s3b: po...

11
b1: My, my
b2: You my opponent?
b3: I am one of the shitenmajin
b4: Rocky Knucklewalker
b5a: You... Smell like we do!! It shows in your brain, your muscles
b5b: That you are "battle crazed"!!!
b6: That makes me happy! And so I have a suggestion, brother!!

12
b1a: Let us use bare fist against bare fist! Let us fight and see who dies!
b1b: Let's have an "Earnest Competition Death Match"!!!
b2a: You're an "idiot" like me! It's boring to use weapons, so how 'bout we cast them aside?
b2b: Hmm?
b2c: Hmmm!!?
b3: ...
b4: Let's decide who the true "Beast King" is!!!
b5a: And don't put me on yer level
b5b: Callin' me "idiot" this, "idiot" that
b6: But
b7: I'm all fired up!!!

13
a1: A pitch black room... I can't see anything, but...
b1: It's here!!!
b2: I'm over here~
b3: !!!
b4: I am one of the shitenmajin... Vampty Sonic
b5: It must be reeeeaaal scary, huh~? Humans can't see a thiiing in the dark, can they?
b6: But for me, it's just as day~ (small: Hyahyahyahya)

14
b1: Makes you wanna pee in yer pants, no~? You wearin' yer diapers, brat...?
b2: Haah...
b3: ... You're so ill-mannered
b4: "Lightning Blade" Atsushi-sama
b5: ...
b6: It is my greatest honor to be able to meet you for the first time
b7a: I am one of the shitenmajin
b7b: Andrei Anteaterner (TN: his name is actually "arikuiina", where "arikui" is "anteater")

15
b1: The truth is... I have been yearning for a duel with you
b2: ... Why?
b3a: Because you are the only one among the XILE Tribe
b3b: From whom I can sense intelligence
b4: And so?
b5: In other words...
b6: I want to suck
b7a: Your delicious "brains"!!!
b7b: *slurp slurp*

16
b1: ... Byakuya, huh...?
b2: I've been waiting for you, XILE Tribe's Hiro of the "Blue Flames"
s1: kopopopopo...
b3: Come over and have a seat
b4: I've lately come to like black tea. And yourself?

17
b1: ... Hi... ro?
b2: Sora!!
b3: I'll save you right away!!
b4: Hiro!!
b5: You musn't come here!!!
b6: Didn't I tell you
b7: To "have a seat"?
b8: !!?
b9: Guah
b10: Don't be greedy
b11: Hiroo

18
a1: What is this... It's as if my body is plastered to the ground...
b1: ... Guh
b2: I can't... Move...
a2: He didn't have this technique 500 years ago...
b3a: Gravition Field (TN: Probably "Gravitation" but the katakana says "gravition" so...)
b3b: It makes the weight of the things around you increase hundredfold...
b3c: With the power of this guy here...
b4: !!
b5: The eighth XILE ring
b6: The "earth" ring
b7a: I wanted to imitate you guys
b7b: Rings were originally made with the life energy of a star, but the woman of this planet is truly of high quality
b7c: Thanks to that, it was completed in just 500 years
b8: So that's why... You kidnapped those courtesans
b9: So you don't need her anymore, do you!?
b10: Give Sora back to me!!!

19
b1a: Give back?
b1b: Kuh.. kukuku
b2: What's so funny!?
b3: It seems you really haven't heard at all
b4: Her real name is "Kaguya"!
b5: She's my cute little sister!!
b6: All of you have been tricked by her! In other words, you've just been dragged into a boring little scuffle between siblings!!
b7: ...
b8: I'm sorry, Hiro... I
b9a: I... Didn't want everyone to hate me, so I
b9b: ... Never could say it...
b10a: Well, pull yourself together and enjoy it
b10b: It's a show I spent 500 years putting together for your sake, after all
b11: A show... You say?

20
b1a: I am an advocate of perfection
b1b: It's the same with black tea. Tea leaves of the highest quality, the temperature of the water... The length of time of the brew... The tools used to open up the tea leaves
b2: This taste and fragrance comes about only when all these are perfect
b3: It would be too easy to just kill you... But it wouldn't be "perfect", and so I took these 500 years to prepare this
b4a: A "perfect" show
b4b: That would "perfectly" torture you
s1, s2: zaza...
b5: First, have a look at this monitor
b6: !!!

21
a1: "The First Act"
a2: The "Massacre Show" where you will watch
a3: As your most trusted comrades are killed without mercy
b1: And now...
b2: It's "showtime"!!
b3: Uooooooooooooooh

22
b1: "Shotgun"!!! (TN: kanji reads 散鉄弾 meaning "iron-scattering bullet")
b2: "Kodama Midare Zakura"!!! (TN: 木霊乱桜 meaning "Revolting Cherry Blossom Tree Spirits")
b3: Matsu
b4: Usa
b5a: I
b5b: WON!!!

23
b1a: Hm?
b1b: I got more of 'em. I had 600
b2: That so? That gotta mean I had like 700, then
b4a: Don't you try to lie to me just cuz I couldn't see!!
b4b: I'm dead tired!
b5a: Speak for yourself, dude!!
b5b: You can just lie down and take a nap if you wanna, ya know!!?
b6: Fool! I've only just begun!! I could take on another army!!!
b7: Sounds like a plan! I've only just got my blood pumpin' myself!!!
b8: !!?
b9: No, no, I was just jokin'
b10: Read the atmosphere, dammit~
b11: Gimme a break!

24
b1: Uguh
a1: "Mermaid Tail"!!!
b2: I like that your appearance was so deceptive
b3: Men who can't keep up are so boring <3
b4: These wounds... Are nothing!!
b5: A gentleman always lets the lady go first...

25
b1a: But from now on, I'm gonna be taking the lead...
b1b: !!!
b2: Guaaaah
b3a: P... Pain as sharp as an electric shock is shooting through my body...
b3b: ... "Poison"...!!!
b4a: Unlike my sister, I use something different; something that lets you taste pain and suffering sloooowly as you head towards your death
b4b: "Nerve Poison" <3
b5: How about it? <3 Am I driving you crazy?
b6: So both you sisters are poisonous girls, huh...?
s1: jiwa...
b7: Dejected
a1: "Mixer"

26
a1: "Straight"!!!
b1: Uooh
b2: Ho- Hold on
b3: This is different from what you said just now, isn't it!?
b4: Huh?
b5: Didn't you say we were going to use our "bare fists"!!!?
s1: gyuiiii...
b6: Such false accusations are cowardly, brother!!
b7a: I am indeed using what I was born with
b7b: These "bare fists"!!!
s2a: gasho
s2b: gashon
b8: You got...
s3: uiiiiin

27
b1: A problem!!?
a1: "Grenade Hook"!!!
b2: Nuoooooo
a2: Mmm... Seems like I'm...
a3: A fool after all!!!
b3: ...
a4: This sound... I feel like my head's about to explode

28
b1: Haaaaoooooh
b2: !!!
b3: Guaaaah
b4: With your senses of sight and hearing taken from you...
b5a: You're nothing more than a doll
b5b: Gotta be scary, huuuuh!? You wettin' yer paaants!?
b6: Even if... I can't see, I still have this!
b8: Oh, winds...!!!
a1: "Homing"!!! (TN: the kanji reads 導きの風 meaning "guiding wind")

29
b1: I shoulda known~ That piece of shit move is the last strand of hope you have to rely on...
a1: "Crash Wave"!!! (TN: the kanji reads 破壊超音波 meaning "ultrasonic destructive waves")
b2: !!!
b3a: The vibrations of my ultrasonic waves disperse the wind, makin' your homing techniques totally useless~
b3b: Guess your last hope's just been c r u s h e d~
b3c: All that's left for ya is to become my sandbag in a pit of despair (small text: Hyahya)
b4: ...
b5: Ohhhh

30
b1: Ohhh
a1: "Raijin"!!! (TN: Lightning blade)
a2: "Raigan"!!! (TN: 雷銃 means "lightning gun")
b2: Gyaaaah
b3: Are you really a member of the Shitenmajin?
b4a: You don't seem to have much of a backbone
b4b: I've had enough... I'll finish you off with the next one
s1: Gugyaaaaaaaaaaa
b5: Gehoh guho..oh
b6: Fuuuuh...

31
b1a: Yes... It is indeed enough...!
b1b: Hah
b2: They've certainly had enough... enough memorizing your taste, that is
b3: !?
b4: vo...
b5: vobon
b6: oyeh
b7: Vorooooooooooooooh
a1: "Ant Hill"!!!

32
b1: !!!
b2a: Ugh...
b2b: Kuh
b3a: Those "element ants" are ants that absorb and evolve into the nature of the energy it remembered within my body
b3b: Having fed on on "thunder", they're now "thunder ants"!!!
b4: !!?
b5: Guaaaaaaah
b6: Just like when you sealed "Raigou", I'll have you continuously absorb this electricity...
b7a: I will merely wait for you to grow weak, before I suck out your tasty-looking brain
b7b: *slurp slurp*!!

33
b1: Guaaaaah
b2: ...
b3: Nii-san, stop this already
b4: I wonder if you like it?
b5: It must feel wonderful, being plastered to the ground, unable to do anything but watch as your friends get killed, no?
b6a: That feeling of your own powerlessness?
b6b: That feeling of emptiness, having everything returned to nothing?
b7a: Sorrow, rage...
b7b: Despair!!!
b7c: You should thank me
b7d: For letting you experience despair upon despair

34
b1a: Next are the humans...
b1b: I'll kill all the humans on this planet, starting with those in this city, right before your very eyes...
b2: One by one, as they cry out to you, call out to you, begging you to save them
b3: And last comes the "death" of this very planet
b4a: I'll suck it dry of any and all of its life energy
b4b: That beautiful blue will turn into a sickly, deathly brown
b5: All of that will be burned into your vision...
b6: And then I'll kill you
b7a: ... How presumptuous of you!
b7b: They ain't gonna lose
b8a: You can't see the monitor?
b8b: It's merely a matter of time
b9: !!!

35
b1: You brat
b2: Ahh
b3: You're the worst brother I've ever seen
b4: Hittin' your little sister like that
b5: ... This fool is a traitor to you guys, too, no?
b6: ... Sora is
b7a: Sora is... the one who gave us the hope of protecting this planet
b7b: She's fought with us these past 500 years
b8: Our precious comrade!!!
b9: Hiro...
b10: Oh, how it reeks! Trying to pretend to be the hero of justice, now?
b11a: I've never thought of upholding justice
b11b: ... Much less becoming a hero!
b12a: This is just my own
b12b: Selfishness!!!

36
b1: You hurt something precious to me
b2: Your death ain't even!!!
b3: "Enma Mode"!!!
b4: Raaaaah
b5: Hoh...

37
b1: He escaped my "gravition field" using the buoyancy of the flames...
b2a: His synchro rate with the ring is now 120%... Not bad for a human...
b2b: However
b3: It is most unfortunate that no matter how hard you humans struggle

38
b1: All you can do before overwhelming power is lament your overwhelming powerlessness!
a1: Yo... You... Gotta be kiddin' me...
a2: He took on Enma Mode like it was nothing...
b2: Overwhelming!!!
b3: Don't be so surprised
b4: At something of this level, would you?
b5: Well then, shall we end all this with what I say next...?
b6: ...
b7: Listen up
b8: These XILE rings originally belonged to us, Majinki... They cannot be mastered by anyone other than we majinki

39
b1: Let me show you the true power of the XILE rings
b2: A power up that a synchro rate of 120% cannot even begin to compare to!!
b3: !!!
b4: This is the earth ring
b5: At 200% synchronization

40
a1: "Hajin Mode"!!! (TN: 覇神 literally means "supreme god")

41
b1: Just as an aside, the power of this mode is greater than that of the normal mode
s1: Voooon
b2: By a thousand times
b3: !!!
b4: Wha- wha- what's going on!!?
b5a: !!!
b5b: The buildings are...!!!
b6a: Farewell
b6b: Hiro of the "blue flames"!!
b7: ... che!!

44
s1: guh
a1: "Forze" (TN: kanji reads 滅, meaning destruction. Thank you Akainu for the excellent guess on what the hell the katakana was trying to say - by the way, "Furz" means "fart" in German. Hey, farts are destructive right? :derp Well, proofreader, if you've any clue what something that sounds like "forutsu/forts" could be in another language, please feel free to change! Well, thank you Akainu again for solving the mystery! Forze = Force in Italian)
a2: "Ground Zero"!!!

45
b1: Geez...
b2: Looks like the show I worked so hard to put together was all for nothing
b3: Well, whatever
b4: I can't say I didn't have fun these 500 years, XILE Tribe
b5: Hiroooooo
a1: What will be the fate of the XILE Tribe!? Next issue, the final chapter...!

Translation: Bakuman 137

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:58:51 +0000

Whooo epic multitasking. This took a long time due to said multitasking. Online meetings, editing documents, moderating the forums, translating spoilers and TOCs, helping people on IRC, feeling insecure about the future, as well as translating Bakuman. All in a ~~day's~~ few hours' work, yes.

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01
x1: Team Fukuda's fight to defeat "CROW" began in issue #26, which went on sale on the 30th of May
x2: Friday, 3rd June, the day the results for that issue come out
b1: You're in fourth, "CROW" is still first
a1: They didn't make it...
b2: !
b3: Dammit~~ It didn't change at all, huh...
b4: ...
b5a: There's no need to be so pessimistic
b5b: If you look at the number of votes alone, you got 21 more than last week
a2: Page 137 Lead Color and Center Color
b6a: There were a number of other series that also experienced an increase in votes, namely "GIRI", which also increased by 21 votes, and "Seigi no Mikata", which rose by 16 votes. Of course, for that to happen, there had to be a drop in votes for some other series
b6b: "CROW" fell by 33 votes compared to the previous week
b7a: Ah
b7b: That means the difference in votes between us and "CROW" has gone from 150 to less than a hundred, just like that
b8: ...
b9: Fukuda-san, Takahama-san and the rest are working hard too, so when we say we have a chance at first place, it kinda feels like we're depending on them, too
b10: That's not true
b11: It isn't...?

02
b1: The one that takes first place simply is the most interesting manga
b2: There's no two ways about that
b3a: That's true...
b3b: All of us in the editorial division are getting pretty restless too
b4: Restless?
b5: All of us are wondering which series will defeat "CROW" and take first place
b6: Eh...
b7: Right now it's not about whether "CROW" will or will not be beaten, but which series will be the one to beat it, that the veteran editors are all talking about. Well, placing their hopes on something is pretty big too...
b8: ...
b9: By... By the way, which series is the hot favorite among the editorial division?
b10: Right now it's...
b11: "Seigi no Mikata"
b12: Eh
b13: Seigi no Mikata

03
b1: You're in sixth, as always...
b2: ...
b3: We can do this, Miura-san...
b4: Three more chapters to the judgment reversal, and I've got the lead color pages in that issue, too
b5: I... I see! So you even considered that in your calculations!
b6: Yeah! We can do this!
b7: ... You've fallen from fifth to seventh...
b8: No... No way!! The day she calls me "Kazu-tan" is getting further out of reach...
b9a: It's okay, your sudden change in art just surprised your readers a little. You could see it as a sign of success
b9b: Once they get used to the new style, your rank will go up
b9c: I hope...
b10: I'll leave things to you, Nakai-kun, please make Hiramaru-kun's art improve further
b11: Okay
b12a: Uwaaaaah~ I can't take this anymore~
b12b: But I want to be called "Kazu-tan"~

04
b1: But "Seigi no Mikata" is in sixth this week, isn't it...
b2a: Next week will be even more interesting
b2b: I've only read the names, but the week after that this trial arc reaches its climax and the series has the lead color, too
b3: I see... A color spread just when the series reaches its climax, huh!
b4: On the contrary, if "Seigi no Mikata" fails to nail the number one spot this time, it'd be back at square one and wouldn't get a color page for a while. That's pretty rough
b5: Th... Then "P"... "PCP" should be up soon, right?
b6: No
b7: "Road Racer GIRI"
b8a: It's getting the lead color the week after "Seigi no Mikata" does
b8b: Since it's in third right now
b9: ...
a1: So "Seigi no Mikata" and "Road Racer GIRI" are both getting lead colors, huh...
a2: It's definite that both of them will stake everything on those chapters...

05
sign: Fukuda
b1a: Third again...
b1b: So "CROW"'s in first...?
b2a: Eh, it didn't change?
b2b: So the new characters and new machines had no effect?
a1: ... He's not as upset over it as I expected...
b3: The rank is the same, but votes-wise you've improved
b4: Is that so? In that case, the worst case scenario would be that we'll take first place a month from now
b5a: A month from now?
b5b: Ah, with the lead color?
b6:From the day I thought of the new machines, I started on the double-page color spread depicting GIRI straddling one of them
b7: Th... That's pretty early
b8a: Since we get informed about having the lead color a month in advance so as not to affect our schedules
b8b: I decided to make full use of the whole month to draw those color pages!
b9: O... One month is way too long...
b10: It's precisely because I spent a whole month that I'm gonna get first!
b11: I... I see...

06
b1: Lead color, huh... I'm so jealous... But "PCP" just got one for its two year anniversary
b2: I knew you'd say that, so I asked the deputy-editor-in-chief if you guys could have a color page
b3: Really!?
b4: Yeah, getting a lead color is tough, but he promised to give you two a center color sometime between now and issue #34
b5: Alright! Even a center color is something to be thankful for!
a1: ...
a2: Center color... So it all depends on my art, then...
b6: Of course, if there's a color page, it's easy to up your popularity for that week, but the most important thing is whether or not you can reach number one before that
b7: ...
b8a: The chapter with the color page is just one chapter
b8b: Let's focus on doing each and every chapter properly right now
b9: Yes, after all, even if we have a color page, if the story isn't interesting, it still won't do any good
b10: The new character Sigma's been well received, so let's continue to work on that
a3: ... We'd been counting on Sigma's appearance to do the trick... But even then we weren't able to make it...
a4: It's likely that this center color will be our biggest chance...

07
x1: The following week, Friday
b1: "PCP"'s in third
b2: It's gone up a rank from fourth!
b3: "CROW"'s in first
b4: ...
b5: "GIRI"'s in second, "Seigi no Mikata"'s in fourth
b6a: !
b6b: That's amazing...
b6c: Next week "Seigi no Mikata" gets the lead color, and the week after, "GIRI". These two may well usurp "CROW"...
b7: ...
b8: With this week's number one... Niizuma-san's achieved a streak of ten number ones with "CROW", hasn't he?
b9: That's right
b10: According to the original agreement between Niizuma-san and the editor-in-chief... "CROW" would have already been heading towards its end in another ten weeks...
b11: ... I see... When you think about it that way, it's kinda mortifying...
b12: ... Besides, I kinda feel like from Eiji's point of view, we're just some hindrances preventing him from ending "CROW", no?
b13: ...!
b14: Doesn't seem to be the case
b15: ?

08
b1: Is that so!
b2: It makes me happy that everyone's votes are increasing such that they're closing in on me
b3a: That's gotta be the way or it ain't interesting!
b3b: Thrilling!
b3c: If I can continue to maintain my streak under such circumstances, it'd be the coolest ending ever!
b4: zugyaaan
b5: dobabaa
b6: ... It's amazing that he can be so sure he's going to be able to end his manga, given the circumstances
b7: Just before I came here, Yuujirou-san told me that Niizuma-kun said that, and that he was really enthusiastic about it
b8: He said that...
b9: ...
b10: I, too, want to get the better of Niizuma-kun
b11: Let's beat him!
b12: Yes!
b13: ...

09
x1: "CROW" has managed to hold its place for eleven weeks straight, and now it is Friday, 24th June, where it looks like its streak will continue into a twelfth week
b1: ... Did "Seigi no Mikata" manage to get number one with the lead color!?
b2: Game on!!
b3: !
b4a: Second place...
b4b: Uwaaaah, so close...
b5: Sorry to say, Miura... But I guess it's gonna be "GIRI"'s lead color that beats "CROW" next week
sign: Takahama
b6: ... Is that so...
b7: You... You were really, really close
b8: ...
b9: I'm happy
b10: Eh? Happy?

10
b1: It's the first time I've even reached second place...
b2: Ah, I see...
b3: Not to mention that this isn't your first chapter. Getting second place on a series that's been serialized for over two years is amazing...
b4: There are still five more weeks till Niizuma-san draws the final chapter for "CROW", so I'm not going to give up getting the first place before that happens
b5: ?
b6a: Once I get that drama adaptation, I'll definitely show you that I can take the top spot and keep it!
b6b: I just have to do it
b7: The next one to rule that isn't a mainstream battle manga won't be an Ashirogi Muto manga, but mine
b8: Yeah! That's the way
b9: So Takahama-kun was second, huh...
b10: Yeah, he was real close, too
b11: That's good, in a way
b12: This way, the one to usurp Niizuma-shishou will be my lead color!!

11
x1: And thus came Friday, the 1st of July, the day of the results of issue #30 with "Road Racer GIRI"'s lead color
cover page: Lead Color Page | Road Racer
b1: *music notes*
b2: Here it comes! The celebratory champagne's all ready!
b3: Fukuda speaking!
b4: Second!?
b5: DAAAAMMIIIIIIIIT!!!
b6: !? Oi, Fukuda-kun...
b7: What the hell are you two doing opening them, idiots!
a1: Fukuda-kun's really upset this time...
a2: I should have known he'd wager everything on this lead color...
b8: Waah... I'm sorry...

12
a1: Fukuda-kun was already so upset, but there was a gap of 70 votes... To me, it's just as hard to give up as if the gap had been less than ten votes...
b1: He should have made the legendary racer appear here. He ended up weakening the impact of the new character he worked so hard to come up with
b2: Wha... What's up with this elitist tone of yours...? Hasn't "Bokutsuu" been stuck at sixth since forever?
b3: That's the thing. Maybe it was meaningless to have tried to make Hiramaru-kun's art better...
b4: But at this rate, no-one's going to be able to stop "CROW" from ending...
b5: ...!
b6: There are still four weeks!
b7: That's true, but...
b8: Besides, "PCP"'s got a center color in #34, maybe they'll...
b9: Both "Seigi no Mikata" and "Road Racer GIRI" weren't able to do it with lead colors, so a center color...
b10: ... It may well be difficult... Though the votes should go up as long as there's a color page...
b11: Looks like "CROW"'s already got a foot out the door, huh...
b12: I guess
b13: I'm telling you, there's still another four weeks to go! How can we editors give up?
b14: Yeah, but, you know...

13
b1: "GIRI"'s in second and "PCP"'s in third
b2: "PCP" didn't improve from last week... And even "GIRI" didn't make it, huh...
b3: ...
a1: Fukuda-san's double-page color spread was really intense and cool...
a2: And even so it didn't have any effect on the votes... Does that mean the opening page isn't more than just an opening page...?
b4: Anyway, it's been decided that "PCP" will get a center color page in #34
b5: Ohh, alright!
b6a: Wait a sec... #34...?
b6b: The results will be out right before Niizuma-san draws his final chapter, right?
b7: That's right, because it was a last minute thing, there isn't any time. The color page needs to be done by the 8th no matter what, so you have a week to do it
b8: If no one beats "CROW" before that issue, then #34 is everyone's final chance to do so, us included
b9: ...
b10a: ...
b10b: Right?
b11: ...
b12a: "GIRI"'s lead color
b12b: Was really well-drawn
on the page: Speeding to the end at top gear!!
b13: ...? Yeah, he spent a whole month on it

14
b1: "GIRI" just took second place, but even with the extra three pages of lead color, it wasn't able to usurp "CROW"...
x1: Lead Color
x2: Center Color
b2: "PCP" hasn't gotten past third place, so getting first place with just a single color page is... Tough...
b3: But no matter how much time he spends on it, I still think Saikou's color pages are more captivating than Fukuda-san's
b4: That's not it...
b5: Hm?
b6: I wonder if we can set something up using the color page... Something that can only be done in a series like "PCP"
b7: A set up that can only be used in a series like "PCP"?
b8: ?
b9: Yes
b10: Umm... Like, having something jump out at you if you look at it with 3D glasses?
b11a: That would mean that our readers would have to have 3D glasses on hand, which is kinda like foul play, no?
b11b: In the first place, can you even draw something in 3D?

15
b1: I mean, like, synchronizing the story with the color page opening...
b2: That's an interesting idea, but hard to execute
b3: But it'd be amazing if we could do something like that
b4: Yeaaaaaah
b5a: Tying the color page in with the story, huh...
b5b: It would indeed be great if you could tie it in to a "PCP"-esque trick...
b6: ...
b7: I'll think about it
b8: ...
b9a: I understand...
b9b: But you don't have a lot of time. You need to submit the color page a week from now, but please don't neglect the name for this
a1: We've only got four weeks left...
a2: At the end of these four weeks, we've got a center color
a3: We have to beat him there, worst comes to the worst...
x1: From that day forth, we both thought hard about how to effectively use the color page, but...
b10: Since it's a color page, how about drawing a rainbow and using "2 o'clock" as the code! What do you think? (TN: "rainbow" and "2 o'clock" are both "niji" in Japanese)
b11: ... Kaya-chan, I'm sorry but would you please be quiet?
x2: We couldn't think of anything viable...

16
x1: Four days later, 5th July
b1a: You don't have any more time
b1b: You have to submit the color page in three days' time. Give up on doing some special, you're better off just thinking of drawing something normal for the color page
b2a: How's this? Though I don't think it's very good...
b2b: But I thought it was at least a start...
b3: The sky is yellow? Isn't that weird?
b4: Sorry...
b5a: The opening page will be a group shot of the class, and this is a hint that's been sent from Sigma
b5b: It'd be something like, "Add that which is missing, and you'll know who is the key to this all"...
b6: And then, PCP notices that Aoi-kun isn't there (TN: Aoi also means "blue")
b7: Since blue is missing, they put a piece of blue cellophane over the picture, there'll be a scene like that in the manga itself
b8: The sky becomes green on this opening page, too
b9: And so the one who is the key is Midori-chan (TN: Midori means "green")
b10: ...

17
b1a: This won't do!
b1b: Even without this whole Aoki-kun business, it's just weird that the sky is yellow
b1c: It's the opening page, too, so it won't do if you don't have the protagonists drawn real big on it, either!!
b2: That's true, my bad...
b3a: It's only natural that if you have a color page, it'd be easier to get votes, but you should be fighting based on your stories
b3b: You'd merely be putting the cart before the horse if you keep thinking about setting something up with the color page but letting the story itself get boring, wouldn't you?
b4a: Think of a color page as nothing more than fanservice
b4b: Mashiro-kun, you have to draw a proper color opening page with the protagonists on it, and big!
b4c: Takagi-kun, you think of a story that will make Sigma look even cooler, since he's a character that you worked so hard to make popular!
b4d: Got it?
b5: ...
b6: Well, I'll leave it to you, then
b7a: Okay
b7b: Thank you
b8: Guess that didn't work...
b9: No, we're not giving up till the very end
b10: Eh
b11a: Hattori-san was initially enthusiastic about this idea, too...
b11b: I just need a day to draw a color page
b12: ...
b13: Yeah! Let's keep thinking till the very end!

18
x1: 8th July, deadline for the color page
b1: ...
books on table: The Curse of the Cross (top) | Monster Art (bottom) | Mystery Z (standing, right) | Seven Detective Mysteries (standing, left)
bottom left of CP: 9th
b2a: So it's Makoto, alone in his room, huh...
b2b: It's got a different feel from usual, making it tasteful and cool!
b2c: Yup, this is good! As one would expect from Mashiro-kun!
b3: ...
b4: The color page is fine like this, but is the story itself alright?
b5: Yes, PCP draw closer to uncovering Sigma's identity, and I'm now thinking of how to make Sigma look even cooler. I'll be done in another two or three days
b6: Well, contact me as soon as the name's done
b7a: Okay
b7b: Thanks

19
b1: ...
b2: Hattori-san didn't notice a thing!
b3: On the contrary, it'd been weird if he'd noticed anything with just that!
b4a: Including a set up in the color page opening...
b4b: Guess we made the right move choosing to focus on that...
b5: I think the set up's great, too
b6: All that's left is writing a story that brings that set up to life as much as possible
b7: Yeah
b8: Alright! This is our last chance to beat Eiji!
a1: What exactly is this set up...!?
b9: Let's put our all into writing it!!

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 158

Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:16:36 +0000

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01
a1: A record of three generations of youkai heroism
a2: And I will wear your fear
a3: ☆Will Kurotabou and Rihan be able to do <Matoi>!?
a4: Wear... My fear!?

02
a1: What is that?
b1: Where...
b2: Where am I...?

03
b1: ... Who are you...?
b2: Don't be stupid
b3: I'm Nura Rihan

04
b1: !?
b2: Nura Rihan, you say!?
b3: But you look entirely different from before!?
a1: I am... A human... Half of me, anyway...
b4a: ...
b4b: Was that the truth...?
a2: And this is...? Could I be inside his heart or something...?
b5a: Oi?
b5b: Where... Where are you going?
b6: I'm searching for it!
b7: A place fit for us...

05
b1: This here's good
b2: Here... We can exchange sakazuki with a nice backdrop
b3: ... It's beautiful...
b4: Oh? You like it?
b5: (brush text: Huh) Sakazuki!?
b6a: Wha... What are you talking about?
b6b: Why would we...
b7: Have faith!!
b8: I'll definitely... Wear your fear and defeat that guy!!
b9: Won't you fight with me?
b10: Wait, wait
b11: In the first place, what is this "wearing" thing!!

06
b1: That guy can't be defeated singlehandedly... <Matoi> is a technique where the human part of me gets possessed by an ayakashi, allowing me to become even stronger!!
b2: A benefit of being half-youkai, you could say... I wear the ayakashi like I would some clothes... That's why it's called <Matoi>! This can't be done without both sides trusting each other! (TN: Remember that Matoi is literally "demon wearing")
b3: Got it? Now, let's exchange our sakazuki
b4a: You fool! If I exchange sakazuki with you, that's equivalent to saying I'll join your hyakki yakou!
b4b: Why do I have to team up with you... Don't get carried away!
b5: Oi, oi, what are you so afraid of...? It's not like I'm gonna eat ya, ya know?
b6: What are you talking about!
b7: Hoh, so when you consider someone an enemy you flash yer weapons at 'em but when yer bein' attacked you shrink up, huh?
b8: Stop this at once! Have you already been drinking!?
a1: What is up with this man...
b9: Kurotabou...

07
b1: From the first time I saw you ~~I knew you were the one for me~~ (tn: sorry, couldn't resist xD)
b2: I... Thought you were "strong"
b3: My eyes did not deceive me... You are a "strong" ayakashi who protects children
b4: That's why I want you on my side no matter what
b5: ...
b6a: I... Want to protect Edo
b6b: Our feelings are the same... The rest, too
b7: We're willing to put our lives on the line if it's for somebody precious to us... That's the kind of guys they are
b8a: The <Nura Clan> isn't just a bluff, we're a a bunch of Robin Hoods who possess true strength...
b8b: That's how I'd brag about my own hyakki yakou

08
b1: And I want you to be a member of it...!! Kurotabou, I ask of you once again
b2: I want to carry you on my back as I fight... To protect Edo!!
b3: Accept this sakazuki!
b4: For the sake of defeating Sanmoto!!
b5: ... You want me to lend you my blades
b6: In order to protect...?

09
b1: If all I've spoken are lies... Feel free to lop off my head
b2: ... What a high-handed guy you are...
b3: These thousands of blades... Were born by the wishes of all children...
b4: If your words deviate from the truth, I will use those blades to lop off your head!
b5: I won't let you regret it

10
a1: Act 158 An Exchange of Sakazuki in an Abyss in a Foreign Land
a2: ☆What lies beyond that blinding light!?
a3: ☆More than 9 million copies sold!! The latest volume, #17, goes on sale on 4th July!!
a3: ☆TV Anime Season 2 "Nurarihyon no Mago ~ Sennen Makyou~" coming soon!! For the latest news, be sure to check out "Nura Ban" on page 362!!
b1: !?
b2: !!

11
b1: Sanmoto
b2: If you're... Getting stronger

12-13
b1: Then we just have to get even stronger than that!
b2: Ohhh
b3: Ohhh...
b4: I'm overlapping them, Kuro
b5: Meikyou
b6: Shisui

14
a1: Hyakka
a2: Ryouran (TN: Hyakka Ryouran [百火繚乱] literally means hundred fires profusion)

16-17
b1: Ohh
b2: This ain't the end!!

18
b1: Ohh...
b2: Ohhhh... Ohhh...
b3: Kuro
a1: Come!!

19
a1: A thousand blades descend from heaven!!
a2: Izutsu Ryuusei Tenge (TN: Izutsu Ryuusei Tenge [畏砲流星天下] literally means Izutsu: Meteor Descent)
a3: ☆A single, intense blow pierces straight through Sanmoto!!
a4: Next issue, the grand conclusion to the Edo arc!! And a color page and expanded 31 pages to celebrate the upcoming anime second season!!

Translation: Bakuman 136

Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:37:24 +0000

Missing color page. Also, sleepy. Why do Bakuman raws always come out at 12midnight or later? I hope I didn't make any glaring mistake this week. Meanwhile, I sleep.

EDIT: made some minor changes and added the color page translation

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Color Page
a1: ☆ There is barely any time left... They've got to beat him now!! This genius they've always been chasing!! Center color for a true outbreak of war against Eiji!!
a2: STOP THE GENIUS!!
a3: STOP THE EIJI!!
a4: ☆Second season of the TV Anime goes on air on NHK ETV this autumn!!
a5: Page 136 Extending and Countermeasures

01
b1: Interesting
b2: Never mind five weeks
b3: If anyone can beat me even once before I draw the manuscript for the final chapter, I won't end "CROW"
a1: The battle begins here!!
b4: Game on!!
Hiramaru panel: Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek

02
x1: The next day
b1a: We said we'd show him
b1b: But that ain't gonna be a walk in a park...
b2: Yeah
b3: But I wanna beat him!
b4a: Even Eiji stubbornly said that he wouldn't quit CROW if anyone bested him before he drew the final chapter, so...
b4b: Umm...
b5a: He's probably going to be number one this week
b5b: That means he's already got six weeks under his belt. Assuming the manuscript he's already submitted for next week and the one he's drawing right now both top the charts, that's eight weeks...
b5c: If he manages to continue taking the top place... That leaves twelve weeks... He'll start drawing that final chapter... About ten weeks from now... So we've got up to seven weeks to show him what we've got before he starts on it...
b6: That's so hard to understand
b7: Simply put, If we can't defeat "CROW" with the manuscript we submitted for this week's issue and the one we're drawing right now, we have to defeat it in the seven weeks after that
b8: So it's the seven weeks worth of stuff we're about to draw that make the battle, huh!
b9: Yeah!

03
b1a: EHH!?
b1b: You'll end CROW if you don't get beaten before you draw the final chapter instead of just ten consecutive weeks??
b2: Yes. Please inform the Editor-in-Chief about this change
below b1/b2: What's up with that
a1: If he doesn't manage to maintain his number one streak until he draws that last chapter, we'll end up in a situation where a manga that's supposed to end, doesn't end... Is that really okay? Well, if it doesn't end we can probably still work something out, but...
b3: ...
b4a: Umm... You mean...
b4b: You need to get consecutive number ones for 17-18 weeks, right...?
b5: Yes
b6a: That's what I declared to all of Team Fukuda
b6b: And they all said, "We'll usurp you and won't let you end 'CROW'"
b7: I've got even more motivation now. I definitely will not lose
a2: ...

04
b1: Sorry to say this, Niizuma-kun, but I'm probably going to root for Fukuda-kun and the rest
b2: Are you my enemy as well, Yuujirou-san?
b3: This has finally become a manga that could monopolize the top spot. I don't want to see it end
b4: I understand your feelings, but I will end it
a1: ...
b5a Niizuma-kun, can I...
b5b: Tell the other editors about this?
b6: What do you mean?
b7: I think if I do that, everyone in the editorial division will try to make everyone else but Niizuma-kun get the top spot, to prevent you from ending "CROW"...
b8a: Ah...
b8b: No matter what the situation is like, I couldn't possibly do that... Sorry...
b9a: Please go ahead
b9b: The entire editorial division
b9c: Enemies!!
b10: I'm burning with excitement!!
b11: Uwaah...

05
b1a: If we only have seven chapters to work with...
b1b: If we do a four-chapter arc and a three-chapter arc
b1c: We can build up excitement for the end of the arc, and get that number one...
b2: ...
b3: I don't think that'll work
b4: No?
b5: That's what we've been doing all along, and it's not like we've ever succeeded in beating "CROW", have we?
b6: True that
b7a: In that case, what should we do?
b7b: What should we do to get above "CROW"...
b8: I think we've got to make it even less mainstream
b9: Less mainstream...
b10a: "CROW" is a typical mainstream battle manga, and if you think of "PCP" as non-mainstream, that's what helps us and becomes the first factor that allows us to challenge Eiji!
b10b: In that case, we should emphasize the difference in our styles, make ours even less mainstream and use that against him!!
b10c: Since Nanamine-kun's "Yuuigi~"'s over, we don't have to worry about clashing with anyone either!
b11: ... But how do we actually make it less mainstream...?
b12: That's why I said we'd think about that now

06
b1: I'll sum things up, then
b2: Yessir
b3: Aye
b4: First...
b5a: (1) New characters!
b5b: A legendary racer who has fallen in love with GIRI
b5c: This old man wears leather riding suits even in the summer
b6a: We'll create a strong team with this old geezer at its core
b6b: A mysterious and rich sponsor, a special engineer and technical advisor, as well as trainers
b7a: The team will be coached by the old geezer and the rest of them
b7b: (2) Phantom riding technique!
b8a: And to go with it, the totally unthinkable
b8b: (3) Secret special training
b9: And the clincher is that which you will receive upon mastering the phantom riding technique...
b10: (4) New machines!!
b11: Yeahhh
b12: This'll work, sensei! It's awesome!
b13: Perfect!
b14: I know, right!?

07
b1: He wants to end "CROW"?
b2: Like I said, that's just no good, even when looking at it from the company's point of view...
b3: Oh no, I don't want to let it end, either
b4: No, I think that it's the most ideal situation for both author and manga when the author is allowed to end his manga when he wants to
b5: That's true, especially when you think of the manga as belonging to the mangaka, since he's the one who draws it
b6a: How naive!
b6b: The minute a mangaka gets himself published in a commercial magazine, the manga is no longer just his alone
b7: What are you...
b8: Nakano-san, just how much of a corporate soldier are you?
b9: It's gotten everyone up in arms
b10: "CROW" is one of our flagships, after all...
b11: Well, at times like this, should editors act in the interests of the author, or that of the company? We are salarymen first and foremost...
b12: What are you talking about!? Before you talk about stuff like "for the sake of the company"
b13: Consider that it is in even Niizuma-kun's best interests to continue "CROW"

08
b1a: I understand if a mangaka reaches his limit and can no longer think of anything to write, but if I may, "CROW" is a manga that can still be extended, a manga that has yet much life in it!
b1b: In the first place, Niizuma-kun himself is still young, so now is the best period for growth
b2a: It's not about it being for the author's sake if we let an author end his manga as and where he likes. What are editors for? We exist to draw out the potential of each mangaka to its fullest
b2b: In Niizuma-kun's case, we can certainly do that and make his manga into an even greater hit!
b3: Call this the company's interests if you like...
b4a: But if "CROW" were to end here, we'd be abandoning a great potential
b4b: And that would be a huge loss to the magazine "Shounen Jump"...
b5: Making a magazine that is even more charming! That makes even more readers happy! If we editors go back to these our roots...
b6: It becomes painfully obvious that we can't let "CROW" end!!
b7: ...

09
b1a: Exactly!! Both Niizuma-kun and "CROW" can continue to grow from here
b1b: It'd be a waste to let them end here!
b2: ...!
b3: Yuujirou, I take it that you did try to convince him not to end "CROW"?
b4: No... I didn't even try anything of that sort, since the editor-in-chief himself accepted his conditions
b5: So that means the only way to prevent it from ending is for something else to beat "CROW", huh...
b6: Yes... Niizuma-kun won't go back on his word...
b7: But it would honestly be really hard to beat "CROW" as it is right now...
b8: No, and for that reason, the one whose author manages to beat Eiji will get a prize!
b9: ...
b10: ...
a1: ... Ashirogi-kun would certainly want to beat him... Well, if it's those two...
b11: Of course, the one to claim that prize will once again be me, Yoshida
b12: No, this time it's going to be me, Miura...
b13: No, me...
a2: ... What a rare sight to see the entire editorial division uniting with the common goal of defeating "CROW"...
a3: Alright, then I, too...

10
sign: Takahama
b1: I want to beat him no matter what
b2: ...
b3: I'll show you I can do just that
b4: Eh
b5: I've always aimed to surpass Ashirogi Muto and Niizuma Eiji
b6: But the live-action drama only begins broadcasting in autumn...
b7: I have a story I've kept in view for a while, thinking I'd use it one day
b8: Eh? About what?
b9: It's a story... About the friendship of the main character, public prosecutor Akira and Hiroto, a detective
b10: Suspicion falls upon this detective Hiroto in a particular case

11
b1: Akira knows Hiroto well, and knows it can't be Hiroto who commited the crime, but he's still in a position where he has to get to the bottom of the matter
b2:Ohh
b3: On the defense side, they've got all the evidence in check, he admits to the crime and can only plead for a lighter sentence
b4: Even the lawyers gave up, huh...
b5: Even so, Akira believes in Hiroto and finally finds some falsified evidence
b6: Ohh, that's cool
b7: It's a story that depicts how Akira has to appear in court as a public prosecutor despite his troubles over the defendant being a close friend
b8: Uooh, even with just that there's lots of human drama!
b9: Everything is for the sake of this faith he has in his friend, finding holes in the case and uncovering the true culprit...
b10a: The ending will be a huge plot twist with a judgment reversal!
b10b: Alright, that's it! Let's go with this! With this, you can beat "CROW"!
b11: It's easy to just say "let's go with this"... But it's not going to be easy to find a case and evidence to suit it...
b12a: I see! That's true
b12b: Let's work hard together
b13: ... Okay

12
b1: I'm so impressed by Niizuma-kun! Ending a manga when you want to! That's it! That is how a true, professional mangaka should be!
b2: ...
b3: By the way, Yoshida-shi, as a professional mangaka, "Bokutsuu", too...
b4: Don't joke around with me!! You've barely begun on it! You're ten years too early to be even thinking of ending it!
b5a: Listen up, Hiramaru-kun, right now your mission
b5b: Is to prevent "CROW" from ending
b6a: Eh...
b6b: In other words, I have to get number one?
b7: Exactly
b8a: Isn't it obvious that that's impossible!?
b8b: Yoshida-shi, aren't you the one who always tells me, "It's a gag manga! It's impossible to get first place at all!"!?
b9: Right... It's still a gag manga...
b10: Still?
b11: From now on, we'll make "BokuTsuu" a story manga with both laughter and tears
b12: But I've been writing it with that in mind from the very beginning...
b13: Then you do know why it is that one can't consider your manga anything but a gag?
b14: No... Why is it?

13
b1: THE ART!! With characters like this, there's no way anyone would be able to call this anything but a gag!!
b2: Uwaaah, I'm late~
b3: Geppu... I'm not feeling too well~ I feel like puking
b4: Ehhhhh
b5: We'll modify your art in under five weeks, and make this a "serious negative love story manga"
b6: Bu... But you can't just change the art so easily...
b7: You have Nakai-kun, don't you? His skills in rough sketching are definite...
b8: !
b9: I don't wanna! I don't want to have to be taught anything by him! Just how depressed do you think I was when he came here to work as an assistant!
b10: You're that adamant about it?
b11: I don't wanna!
b12a: Ah
b12b: I've got an idea...
b12c: Gotta take it down
a1: Alright! Just the right dose of negativity in making him have to call Nakai-kun "sensei"
a2: And now...

14
b1: Yamahisa, how're things on your side?
b2: ?
b3a: Ah, yes
b3b: In the end, Aoki-san's manga is not one that can suddenly take the top spot in "Shounen Jump" out of nowhere
b4: Rather than take that risk, we decided to play it safe and just try to maintain our current rank
b5a: And Aoki-sensei said, "I'd really like for Hiramaru-kun to take first place"...
b5b: I see, so she said that, huh
next to Yoshida: Yeah, yeah
b6: Eh? If he does that, Hiramaru would be "Super cool and amazing"?
b7a: ?
b7b: ?
b7c: I didn't say anything of that sort, though...
b7d: Well, she did say that if she can be of any help to Hiramaru-sensei, she'd try her best to do whatever she could...
b8: I see! So Aoki-sensei said that if Hiramaru-kun manages to get first place, she'd grant a wish of his, no matter what it is, huh!

15
b1: Yoshida-shi! I'll do it! I'll get first place! I'll learn how to draw from Nakai-san, and that'll give me the negativity I need to come up with ideas
b2: Hm? I thought you said it was impossible?
b3: I said I'd do it!!
b4a: I see...
b4b: In that case, would you pass the phone to Aoki-sensei, please, Yamahisa?
b4c: I'll hand the phone to Hiramaru-kun
b5: Eh
b6a: It... It's Hiramaru...
b6b: Is it true that you said you'd grant a wish of mine if I get first place?
b7: Eh...
b8: ...
b9: Yes... If it's something I can do
b10: Ohh!!
b11: Then if I get first place, please... Please call me "Kazu-tan"!
b12: ...
b13: ... "Kazu-tan", was it...? Alright...
b14a: Kyaaa
b14b: I did it! Yoshida-shi, I did it! Let's get that number one no matter what!
b15: ...
b16: Are you sure you're okay with just that...?

16
b1a: Ohh, this is gonna work, Fukuda-kun!!
b1b: So this old man's the unbeatable, legendary racer, huh!!
b2a: Even though he's called a racer, he's an informal, reckless racer who makes any road his race course!
b2b: This new character is great! The rest of the old man's gang, too!
b3: But this chapter... Has something important for shounen manga...
b4: ...
b5: Designs for new machines!!
b6: Yeah! You understand, don't you, Yuujirou-san!!
b7: To gain some popularity, you've added some new characters that have a charm about them! That's the basis. That, plus the new machines! With this, beating "CROW" isn't just a dream!
b8: What do you mean, dream! I'll make it a reality!!

17
b1: New characters!?
b2: Yeah
b3a: A non-mainstream mainstream battle...
b3b: We've been keeping that on the back burner for ages...
b4a: To make a mainstream battle manga protagonist, we need a cool character. Using that as a base to make a non-mainstream mainstream battle manga...
b4b: I believe we need to make that character an evil hero
b5: I arrived at the exact same conclusion!
b6: !
b7a: Oh no, but that...
b7b: That's the next manga we're going to draw, isn't it? Right now we're talking about how to use "PCP" to defeat "CROW"
b8a: And that's why I'm saying that a character like that is going to appear in "PCP"!
b8b: I thought about this while drawing the chapter on the copycat criminal, but isn't a villain all about the characterization!!?
b9a: !
b9b: Indeed!
b9c: It's just that thus far we've just been using a single student, who could never be really counted as an evil character per se...

18
b1a: Not just an ordinary criminal...
b1b: How do I put this...
b1c: A character like Kaijin Nijuu Mensou (TN: 怪人二十面相 means "Mysterious Person Twenty-Faced", a fictional thief in the mystery fiction series "Shounen Tantei Dan")
b1d: Since Akechi is ultimately a detective type of character...
b2a: ...
b2b: That's good!
b2c: Let's go with that! It can be like a dry run for our next series, too!
b3a: Amazing, a mysterious character like that is good
b3b: He doesn't show his face, nor does he ever even appear, but he performs the role of an advisor when he gives PCP tips on how to improve
b4a: I've got an image in mind now! I can't be stopped!
b4b: I can get this in prose form by tomorrow!
x1: Three days later
b5a: You can't even tell if he's for or against them...
b5b: And PCP tries to find out who he is... Interesting!
b6: Alright, the name is fine like this. Let's wage war on Eiji with this new character!
b7: Yes!

19
x1: And so, we introduced the mysterious new character, Sigma, for issue #26, to be released on the 30th of May
b1: How's this for the character design?
b2: Ohh amazing!!
x2: Fukuda-san, too, had a new character and new machines
b3: Sensei, this machine design is so Toriyama-sensei, isn't it?
b4: You think so? Just kiddin'~
b5: ... "Just kiddin'"... (TN: Fukuda uses "なんちって", a common phrase used by Arale, the main character of "Dr. Slump", a manga by Toriyama Akira. Yes, the same Toriyama who did Dragon Ball)
x3: Takahama-san wrote a story about friends caught in a court case fraught with false charges
x4: Hiramaru-san improved his art
b6a: Redraw this part
b6b: The rough sketches are totally unbecoming, totally unbecoming!
b7: Yes, Nakai-sensei...
x5: And so, on the 24th of May, the sample of the issue where the war would unfold, issue #26, arrived
b8: "CROW" took the first place in both issues #24 and #25, but the decider will be this issue #26
b8: Yes
b9: Uwah, there's a new character in "GIRI", too!
b10: !

20
b1: Hi... Hiramaru-san's art has improved...
b2: Eh? EHH!? You're right...
b3: It's thanks to Yuujirou-san. It might just be my imagination, but it feels like just about every series was written with much more spirit
a1: Everyone is closing in on Eiji!!
b4: ... At the very least, those who went to Niizuma-san's place are clearly a part of this battle
b5: This is gonna work
b6: Yeah
b7: We're gonna win
next to Yoshida: Fufu...
b8: Hiramaru-kun, well done... You are someone who never works hard, but who can do it if he tries. What do you think of how your art has progressed?
b9: Everything was for the sake of "Kazu-tan"
b10: Three more chapters till the reversal of the judgement
b11: But even with this, I should be able to rise a little
b12: With this, we'll beat Eiji...
b13: Yeah

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 157

Sun, 12 Jun 2011 15:53:05 +0000

Not in the mood to do anything. I should be working, but oh wells. At least translating manga is better than rotting.

P.S.: Did this more than 24 hours ago. Forgot to post it ^^;

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01
b1: Hah
b2: Hah
a1: A record of three generations of youkai heroism
b3: Oooooh... Ooh...
b4: Damn youuu... Nura Rihaaaan...
b5: !? Ugh...!? It hurts!! My stomach... It hurts!!
b6: Mm...?
b7: Geh!!
b8: What... What is this!!
b9: Where... Am I!?
a2: ☆Sanmoto, entirely transformed...! Just where...!?
b10: Eee... What... What's going on!!?

02
a1: ☆The flash of a thousand blades!!
a2: ☆More than 9 million copies sold!! The latest volume, #17, goes on sale on 4th July!!
a3: ☆TV Anime Season 2 "Nurarihyon no Mago ~ Sennen Makyou~" on air in July! Check out the detailed broadcast schedule!! (TN: and then the rest is the schedule. Too lazy to translate, and not like anyone cares right? :p)
a4: Act 157 Those Who Were Born

03
b1: ... A... Amazing...
b2: Kurotabou really came for us...
b3: ... Hang on tight to my garments
b4: I can't promise your safety if you leave my side
b5: O...
b6: Okay!!
b7: Yo
b8: !!
b9: You...
b10a: Sorry 'bout that...
b10b: Looks like you protected those kids, huh?

04
b1: ... There should be no reason for you to thank me
b2: This is my territory... More importantly, have you returned to your senses?
b3: ... (brush: Hmph)
b4: It seems that I was somehow tricked by Sanmoto
b5: He once... Drew close to me with some words of cajolery, then tricked me with the power of that tea and manipulated me...
b6: I can't stand to think how I became a pawn to forward his ambitions... I'll never forgive him!!
b7a: The object of your hatred
b7b: That guy... What happened to him?
b8: It seemed like he melted into mush... That turned into more and more ayakashi...!?

05
b1: Rihan!! So you were here!
b2: Kubinashi...
b3a: What you said just now... Does indeed seem to be the case right now
b3b: His body melted and youkai are emerging from it non-stop!!
b4: These beings that possess no consciousness are just overflowing throughout the town, attacking people!
b5: If their numbers increase any further... We won't be able to recover the town!!
b6: Indeed terrible... We've got to fell the main body
b7: That won't be easy... Second...
b8: Kubinashi... I'll leave the townspeople to you
b9: Yeah, yeah

06
b1: You break a leg, too!
a1: Meikyou Shisui
a2: Sakura!!

07
b1: Ohhhh
b2: Did I get 'im!?

08
b1: Gyaa...
b2: Gah
b3: Looks like there's no one around...
b4: Alright! Next!!

09
a1: !!
b1: Wha... What! So there was someone!!
b2: ... That appearance...
b3: Ghost Story, Kubinashi... Correct?
b4: !!
b5: Ehhh so even you have become an ayakashi
b6: You, a thief, once known as the pitiful, chivalrous thief who chased after the lady he loved
b7: Ugh...
b8: A head floating about along Yanagi Doori... Wandering in search of the object of his hatred, a most sorrowful ghost
b9: Kuh...
b10: What...
b11: You... Your body... It's...
b12: It's name is the ghost story, Kubinashi

10
b1: It has a head, yet it is called "Kubinashi" (TN: Kubinashi literally means "no head"
b2: Seems the stories were true
b3: Hah...
b4: Hah
b5: Who are you... Bastard...
a1: Sanmoto's mouth - Enchou (TN: remember him from chapter 143?)
b6: Hey, you

11
b1: You playing around?
b2: Fefefe... Aren't you gonna finish him off...!?
a1: !!
b3: ...
b4: !?
b5: We will erase... Anyone with ties
b6: To the Nura Clan that oppose Sanmoto-sama
a2: These guys...
a3: Aren't like the ones from before...!?
b7: ...
b8: Tch... I can't quite fell him
b9: I wonder why...?

12
b1: !?
b2: Huh...!?
b3: ...
b4: What's that... The heart?

13
b1: ...
b2: Uwah!?
b3: Heeey, what's up with that!
b4: It... It looks like a katana

14
a1: Sanmoto's heart
a2: Maou no Kozuchi (TN: Maou no Kozuchi [魔王の小槌] Mallet of the Devil King)

15
b1: gahah
b2: Gefeh... Wha... That guy...
b3: He's devouring all the fears...

16
b1: !!
b2a: ... Oh
b2b: Thanks...
b3: Kurotabou
b4: ... Where are the children?
b5: I left them with that female youkai of yours
b6a: Sanmoto... He made a katana this time, huh...?
b6b: It's going to evolve even further... We have to think of a way to stop him before that happens...
b7a-b: Gehoh
b8: It'd be great if you were fighting too
b9: ...
b10: Before that... Can I ask you one thing, Nura Rihan?

17
b1: Why do you try so hard... To protect both humans and ayakashi, when you yourself are an ayakashi...?
b2: I simply cannot fathom your reason
b3a: Kurotabou...
b3b: I am... A human... Half of me, anyway...
b4: What...?
b5: I was raised in this town since I was young
b6a: My mother was a human... So I had a good number of human friends
b6b: At the same time, my father was the ruler of the darkness... I was in the care of the little ayakashi and week gods who lived with us
b7: Now that I've ascended as the Second, it's my turn to protect them...

18
b1: "Half-human"... I am he who carries the blood of both ayakashi and humans
b2: Carrying that cross... Is the "fate" of my blood
b3: Kurotabou... Join my Hyakku Hakou
b4: Exchange your sakazuki with me

19
b1: And I
b2: Will wear your fear
a1: ☆Will it appear...!? Rihan's Matoi!!

Translation: Bakuman 135

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 20:14:59 +0000

/sleepy

EDIT: sleepy = make mistakes. Mistake on page 18 fixed, my bad, sorry.

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01
b1: The only one left in my way is you, Falcon!!
a1: Page 135 Consecutive and Prevention
b2: Go!
a2: Ohh! There goes my GIRI!
b3: Alright! There it is! GIRI Hissatsu Triangle Fly Cornering!! (TN: Hissatsu means "certain kill")
sfx: ding dong
b4: That's just gotta be Yuujirou here to get the manuscript
b5: He just had to come while the anime was on TV again... And at the best part too!
b6a: Yuujirou-san, would you refrain from coming to get the manuscripts while the anime is on air...?
b6b: At least let me watch the anime in peace!
b7: Sorry
b8: I'll just wait till the episode's over, then
b9a~9c: ?
a3: What's with the disheartened afro!?

02
b1: What's up with that...?
b2: Did he get rejected or something?
b3: Nah, he gets rejected all the time and still manages to keep his spirits up
b4: Yuujirou-san, "GIRI" and "CROW" both ranked well on the early rankings this week, didn't they?
b5: Yeah, at this rate...
b6a: ... "CROW"'s probably...
b6b: Gonna take first place again...
b7: ?
b8: Why's he hanging his head at "CROW" being first?
b9: So gloomy...
a1: ...! No way
b10: Yuujirou-san, that's not a good thing for Niizuma-shishou, is it?
b11: What do you mean, not a good thing...
b12a: Ah!? Eh?
b12b: What...
b13: I knew it

03
b1: Niizuma-shishou must have brought up the thing about his right to end a manga he hates
b2a: Wha... What are you talking about!? What proof do you...
b3: Manuscripts... Where... Where are your manuscripts!
b4: Here you go
b5a: I... I'll take these then...
b5b: Listen, don't... Don't let your imagination run wild and fuel weird rumors
b6: That sure was obvious
b7: If that's true, then what manga did Niizuma-shishou say he wanted to end...?
b8: Last week, Yuujirou-san did say it was sure to be "+NATURAL", didn't he?

04
b1: ...
b2: ...
b3: ...
b4a: Miura-san
b4b: Do you even want to be at this meeting?
b5a: Eh
b5b: Yeah
b5c: I do...
b6: The rankings suddenly fell as soon as the anime ended, didn't they?
b7: Yeah... It's rare for rankings to go up when an anime ends, after all
a1: Well, even if "+NATURAL"'s rankings have been falling after the anime ended
a2: At least I've still got "Seigi no Mikata"'s drama in the pipeline...
b8: ...
b9: *music notes*
b10: Excuse me
b11: Go ahead, go ahead
b12: This is Aoki speaking
b13: I'm sorry, I'm in a meeting right now...

05
b1: I'll call again later, then...
b2: ...
b3: Never mind, if it's just business, now's fine
b4: Well... I'll put it simply
b5a: Can you come to our meeting at Fukuda-san's place?
b5b: Umm... Our so-called Team Fukuda...
b6: I mean...
b7: We think that Niizuma-san may be trying to end "+NATURAL", so...
b8: ...
b9: I understand. 6pm, was it? I'll be there
b10: ...
b11: *pi*
b12: ?

06
b1: But we still aren't sure if Niizuma-san has even been granted the right to end a manga, are we?
b2: Well, yeah
b3: ...
b4: It's definite that Niizuma-kun appeared at the editorial division on Monday and spoke to the editor-in-chief
b5: I heard as much from Yoshida-shi
b6: Because they adjourned to another room for a private discussion, even team leader Yoshida-shi is not privy to the contents of their conversation
b7: Why do you look so happy...?
b8a: In other words, only Niizuma-shishou's editor, Yuujirou, was told what's going down
b8b: With how that Yuujirou-san was acting... It's only natural to believe that Niizuma-shishou had indeed been granted the right to end a manga
b9: And that manga is "+NATURAL"...
b10: Well, that's just a guess on Yuujirou's part, so we can't be so sure about that...
b11: ...

07
b1: Oh no, it could well be "Boku nu wa Tsuujinai"!
b2: Hiramaru-san, please don't say that with such a gleeful expression!
b3: Oh no... I meant, whatever would I do if that were to happen...
b4: ...
a1: So that's why Miura-san seemed like he'd totally given up...
b5: ... I can't believe they'd give anyone the right to end a manga just because they got first place on the rankings a couple of times
b6a: But "+NATURAL" is, ultimately, still partly Niizuma-san's manga...
b6b: So "+NATURAL" is the only logical guess as to which manga it is, if he really were given that right
b7: ...
b8: It's no use sitting around here discussing this
b9: I'll go straight to Niizuma-san and ask him
b10: Eh
b11a: That's right, the fastest way is to go to Niizuma-shishou's place and ask him straight
b11b: Let's go
b12: Yeah!
b13: ...

08
b1: So it is true that you asked to be given the right to end a manga you hate!
b2: Yes
b3: !
b4: ...
s1a-b: *scratch*
a1: Could Eiji...
b5: So, did you get granted that right!?
b6: There's no way he would have been granted such a right!
b7: I did, in fact
b8: !

09
b1: Although there were some strings attached
b2: Strings!?
b3: I have to be number one for ten consecutive weeks...
b4a: In other words, I just need to secure the top spot for another five more weeks
b4b: I'll definitely be number one for the next five weeks, then I'll end it!
b5: !
a1: Ten consecutive weeks...
a2: He's the unrivaled number one in this week's early rankings, too... So in effect, he just needs another four more weeks...
b6a: More importantly, what is this manga you want to end!
b6b: Is it "Bokutsuu"!?
b6c: IS IT?
b7: It is, isn't it!?
b8: The manga I want to end is...

10
b1: "CROW"
b2a: Eh
b2b: "CROW"!?
b3: Hiramaru-san
b4: ...
a1: ... I knew it...
b5: Wa... Wasn't it supposed to be a manga you hated?
b6: I do hate it
b7: You do?
b8: ...

11
b1: I hate the fact that I can't end my manga as and when I want to
b2: !
b3: I do understand why the editorial division wouldn't let a popular manga to end, and this is a commercial magazine so that's only natural
b4a: But I decided this before I began drawing
b4b: That I'd decide when I want to end my manga, and end it when it's at the peak of it's popularity and coolness
b4c: I'm happy that it looks like that will come to pass
b5: The editor-in-chief initially told me that if possible, he'd like me to continue, but he soon saw where I was coming from
b6: ...
b7: So that's why he gave you that condition about taking first place for ten consecutive weeks...
b8: That's not entirely accurate

12
b1: I'd take the top spot for ten weeks straight, then take another ten weeks to wrap up the manga. That was the condition I myself set
a1: The end.
a2: Please look forward to Niizuma-sensei's next work
b2: And the editor-in-chief agreed to this condition
b3: ... And if you can't take the top spot for ten weeks running?
b4: ...
b5a: I won't stop
b5b: It's not cool if another manga takes the top spot instead. That's not how I envision my perfect ending
b6a: If that happens, I'll once again try to take the top spot for ten weeks straight, and will end the manga when I finally achieve that
b6b: If I can't do that, then I'll just have to keep going till I get canceled
b7a: Ending it after being the unrivaled number one...
b7b: Cancellation...
b7c: Totally poles apart
b8: ...
b9a: ... If it's not "+NATURAL" he wants to end, I'm going home
b9b: Excuse me
b10: ... She never changes, does she...

13
b1: It's really hard to wrap your finger around it, isn't it?
b2a: Should you continue the manga because it's popular?
b2b: Or should you end it as and when you want to...?
b2c: In a sense, it's up to you...
b3a: Losing "CROW" now would be a pretty big blow to "JUMP"...
b3b: The anime's still ongoing, too
b4a: If it were me, I'd consider it a waste to end a manga while it was still popular
b4b: And it's not like I don't understand when it's a case like when Ashirogi-sensei ended "Tanto" because it didn't suit them and they wanted to draw something capable of beating "CROW"...
b5: ...
b6: Niizuma-shishou, have you decided what to draw next?
b7: Nope
b8: Right now, the only thing I can think of is how to end "CROW" in the best manner possible

14
b1a: Even if it's you, Niizuma-san, there's no guarantee that your next work will be a hit
b1b: I think it's best to continue while your manga is still popular...
b2a: What are you talking about, you!
b2b: Niizuma-kun's already rolling in cash
b2c: Just let him end his manga already so he can go roll in it!
b2d: In the first place, hard work in itself is essential only for earning the wages one requires to live
b3: ?
b4: Hiramaru-san, that's not the issue at hand right now!
below b4: Geeeeez
b5: Ah, yes...
b6: Well, even if "CROW" ends, he'll still have "+NATURAL", so as long as he works hard with that...
b7a: Yes
b7b: ... However, I can't take liberties in drawing "+NATURAL", so I don't feel like it's my own work
b7c: I suppose I'll have another series, eventually
b8: !
b9: ... I'm not against you ending "CROW" as and when you think it's best to do so
b10a: But somehow, I just can't let it end like this
b10b: I won't accept it!

15
b1: I feel the same as Fukuda-san
b2: Niizuma-san, you're the author we've always aimed to beat. And while I do understand your feelings
b3: I don't want you to end it now
b4: As if I'd let you!
b5: ...
b6a: Exactly
b6b: We've worked so hard thus far, always thinking that we wanted to beat you, so before that happens, we can't have you end your manga
b7: Yeah
b8a: ... I see, if he ends "CROW" here, it'd feel like he was quitting while he was ahead, so from now on with "GIRI"...
b8b: ... That's it
b8c: If I don't want to let him end it, I just need to beat Niizuma-shishou...

16
b1: That's how it is, yes
b2: !
a1: Before he manages to take the top spot for ten weeks running, huh...
a2: He's already got six weeks under his belt, and he's already nailed this week's early rankings... He's also already submitted the next manuscript...
b3: Unfortunate as it may be, you're not going to be able to end "CROW"!
b4: 'Cause I'm gonna beat you!
b5: I won't let you

17
b1: No, we'll show you we can do it!
b2: Won't we, Saikou!?
b3: Yeah!
b4: Fukuda-san, Ashirogi-san
b5: I understand your feelings
b6: Even if I'm not against Niizuma-san having his ideal ending for his manga
b7: When it comes to wanting to beat him as one would a rival, I feel the same way
b8: Ehh?
b9a: ... Indeed
b9b: I do want to beat "CROW"...
b9c: If only "Seigi no Mikata" could get its drama adaptation a little earlier
b9d: No, I want to beat him and prevent him from ending his manga even before I get that drama. That would be the best, that'd be what I call cool!
b10: Whatever are you talking about, everyone?
b11: !?

18
b1a: You won't be able to beat "CROW", simply because it's at the very height of an arc right now
b1b: There's no way any one of you who abandoned your names and manuscripts to come here can beat me!
b2a: Indeed, that would be the most natural way for anyone to look at the situation
b2b: But look at it this way
b3: All of is here in this room now have a flame ignited within us!
b4: I accept your challenge! I won't let you end your manga in such a cool fashion!
b5: Yeah
b6: We won't let you!
a1: Eeeeek

19
b1a: Interesting
b1b: Never mind five weeks
b2: If anyone can beat me even once before I draw the manuscript for the final chapter, I won't end "CROW"
b3: !
a1: As long as we beat him...
a2: We have another eight... No, seven weeks!!
b4: Game on!!
b5: Yes!
b6: Yeah!
a3: They clash!! Willpower vs pride!!

Translation: Ao no Exorcist 25

Tue, 07 Jun 2011 17:55:06 +0000

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01
x1: In the middle of the Blue Night
b1: Pops!!!
x2: I succeeded as the head priest of the Myou Dha sect and came to know all its secrets
a1: The truth that is being told...
b2: You... You can't die!!
b3: Pops...!
b4: !?
b5: Uwah
b6: Wha...!

02
b1a: ... I am
b1b: Karura, servant of head priest of Myouou Dharani
b2: Are you the child of old man Fukaku?
b3: ...!!
b4: Show me proof of your lineage
b5a: I
b5b: I am Suguro Tatsuma...
b6: A descendant of Fukaku!
b7a: Indeed
b7b: Through your veins run the blood of Fukaku...
b8: !!
b9: Thus, from now on, I will be at your service, Suguro Tatsuma
a1: To think that every generation of head priests has employed the service of Karura... Just what---
b10: What do you seek in exchange...!!!

03
b1: What I seek is "secrecy"
b2a: My existence
b2b: What you use me for and where...
b2c: All these truths must be sealed away as "secrets"
b3: That is your reward...!?
b4: To be exact, I was born to keep a "secret"
b5: I devour trash like lies and doubt
b6: In exchange for that "secrecy"
b7: I will lend you the flames to seal away his enemy

04
b1: His enemy...!?
b2: The Impure King
b3: The corpse that has lay sleeping below this temple for a hundred and fifty years
x1: That "secret" was truly terrifying...

05
a1: That which he inherited with that body
a2: Is a fate riddled with secrets
a3: Chapter 25 The Impure King
a4:　◯Latest anime news on page 4!
a5: ◯JC #1-6 have been reprinted in large quantities!!

06
b1: The Impure King is a cancer which brings disease upon people
b2a: I will put an end to him in my generation
b2b: I will not let the next generation inherit the same fate!!
b3: I will protect everyone!
b4a: Anyone who hinders this determination of mine will not be forgiven by me
b4b: Seventeenth head priest of the Myou Dha Sect, Suguro Tatsuma!!!!
b5: Most High Priest!

07
b1a: Karura
b1b: Now is the time to lend me the power of your flames!!
b2a: That was the contract we made
b2b: I will accede to any request you make
b3: Karura...
b4a: Should I call that Suzaku? Or a Phoenix?
b4b: You have a most wonderful familiar indeed...!

08
b1: Damned demon...!
b2: I know not your objective, but the Impure King isn't as simple a matter as that!
b3: Put down the Left and Right Eyes...
b4: And scram!!!!
b5: That ain't gonna happen
b6: !!
b7: I have lived every year of life thus far for this very moment

09
b1: Karura En... (TN: En [焔] means flames)
b2: Kuh
b3: Kashoku no In!!!! (TN: Kashoku no In [火食の印] literally means "seal of eating cooked food", but can be broken down to "fire meal seal")

10
b1: !
b2: Wha... What amazing robustness...!
b3: Who knew that a human possessed by a demon would become like that
b4: ... In that case...
a1: Karura En
a2: Kafun no In!!!! (TN: Kafun no In [火粉の印] literally means "seal of fire powder")

11
b1: !!!!
b2: Gu... GUAAAAAAH
b3a: I
b3b: I can't regenerate fast enough...!
b4: So this is the power of Karura's flames...
b5: Kyaa
b6a: Mamushi!!
b6b: Hah

12
b1: In that case, it's time to use my trump card
b2: You musn't!!!
b3: !!

13
b1a: Haah
b1b: Haah
b1c: Kuh...!
b2: Mamushi! Pull yourself together1
b3a: Ah
b3b: Ah, ah...
b3c: Ah
b4: Hang on tight
b5: The Impure King has been revived...!!!!

14
b1: Juuzou, you must follow after the Most High Priest
a1: Three sets of footsteps lead here...
b2a: Goumadou...!
b2b: Just what...
b3: !!

15
b1: Wha
b2: What's going on!?
b3: !
b4a: Most High Priest!!
b4b: And Mamushi...
b5: Juuzou!!

16-17
b1: Uooh!?
b2a: Juuzou!
b2b: Be careful of the spray!
b3: !?

18
b1: Kuh...
b2-b4: Hah
b5: What is that!!
b6: Juuzou, you came at the right time
b7a: Yaozou must have been the brains behind that, thank goodness
b7b: You can leave this place to me, so bring Mamushi to the Branch Office and call for help, won't ya?
b8a: I'll contact them!!
b8b: Just what is that monster!?

19
b1a: Mamushi knows all that
b1b: She's contracted a serious illness from putting the Impure King's right eye into her body
b2: Take her to her father in my place
b3: And what about you, Most High Priest!?
b4: I'll stay and try to stop that guy
b5: Mamushi
b6a: Most
b6b: High Priest...
b7: you have to tell everyone the truth
b8: Please
b9: I understand...
b10: Most High Priest...
b11: Hurry up and go!!
b12a: We're going, Mamushi
b12b: Get on!
b13: ...!

20
b1: Most High Priest...!
b2: My secret has come to light
b3: The contract I have with the head priests of the Myou Dha sect ends today
b4: The other contract you made with me still stands, no?
b5a: At the very least, before the Impure King matures and spreads its miasma everywhere...
b5b: We have to use the "Joukafuu no In" to at least stop him...!! (TN: Joukafuu no In [浄火封の印] literally means "seal of the sealing sacred fire")
b6: You do know that "Joukafuu no In" requires a large amount of flames?

21
b1: Then we'll use "Gouha En"!! (TN: Gouha En [劫波焔] literally means "Aeon Wave Flame")
b2: Isn't "Gouha En" the one you perfected to defeat the Impure King with?
b3: If you use it now, you'll lose your chance to defeat the Impure King forever
b4: Besides, the burden on your body will be unfathomable
b5: ... We don't have a choice anymore
b6: Let's go!!

22
b1: Noumaku sanmanda bodanan
b2: Aharati kadashasa nanan...
b3: ... Hanougya nougya
b4: Gyagya gyaki gyaki...
a1: Gouha En
a2: Joukafuu no In!!!!

23
b1a, b1b, b2: Hah
b2: Alright... First, we seal its legs...
b3: !
b4a: ... Kuh
b4b: Th... This is rather bothersome... Haha
b5: That's why I warned you about it
b6: Come on... I'm not dead yet
b7: As long as I'm alive, there are any number of ways to defeat him

24
b1: Gahah
a1: Wha...!?
b2: My, my
b3: I really did a terrible thing to Houjou-kun
b4: At any rate, you are a mysterious character

25
b1: You hardly show yourself to humans
b2: People never know where you are
b3: I thought of how to best drag you out onto center stage
b4: And I thought the only way would be to revive the Impure King...!
b5a: I believed
b5b: That the Myou Dha sect would be able to seal the Impure King with Karura
b6: ?
b7: However, I devoted many years to welcome this very day
b8: My objective is you, Suguro Tatsuma

26
b1: Or perhaps it would be more accurate
b2: !!
b3: To say I was after your familiar?
b4: Tatsuma!!
b5: ...!!
b6: !!!!

27
a1: He's eating Karura...!?
a2: Just who the hell is this guy
b1: ... Ugh...
b2: ... Kuh
b3: Guooh...
b4a: Fu
b4b: Ha
b4c: Ha

28
b1: This is an even greater power than I imagined...!
a1: He forcefully made Karura possess his own body...!
a2: A human interfering with a demon...
a3: Does such a human even exist!?
b2: What's this?
a4: Impossible...!!
b3: I seem to have gotten considerably younger
b4: Is this a little freebie from attaining Karura's power?

29
b1: !
b2: ... Guh
b3a: Wrecking havoc in my stomach, hmm...?
b3b: Fufufu
b4: Looks like you can't quite settle in this vessel of mine
b5a: But
b5b: You'll get used to it
b6: With this, I am yet another step closer to my goal
b7: Thank you, Suguro Tatsuma
b8: Wa...
x1: Please
b9: Wait...
x2: Please, Okumura-kun

30
x1: I want you to use the Koumaken to defeat the Impure King
x2: I know full well that this is an unreasonable and reckless wish
x3: But if...
x4: If you

31
x1: If you can find in yourself even so tiny a heart of compassion like your father's
x2: I want to depend on that
b1: "Thank you for reading this far"
b2 "Suguro Tatsuma"
b3a: Fuh
b3b: Kuhkuhkuh...
b3c: Just as ludicrous as I expected
b4: ... However

32
b1a: I do feel bad for Suguro-kun's father
b1b: But whether or not Nii-san's flames will be effective against the Impure King is still up in the air
b2: We can't let him use the sword for something as uncertain as this
b3: Ah!?
b4a: Rin
b4b: This letter is addressed to you
b5: What do you want to do?
b6: I...
b7: Shuura-san...!! What do you think you're doing, asking something like that!?

33
b1: I want to help him
b2: ...!
b3: Nii-san! Do you understand what position you're in right now!?
b4: ... I owe my life to the old man, too...
b5a: That's why
b5b: If I can be of any help whatsoever, I want to fight!!
b6: But of course, that's ultimately my own wish!
b7: In that case, I reject that wish
b8a: Alright
b8b: I've got it

34
b1a: "Descending from yonder...
b1b: Arriving by his side"
b2: Wha...!?
b3: Shura-san, what are you doing...!!
next to Shura: Hm?
b4: If he says he's gonna fight, I can't let him till I understand the situation fully, riiiight?
b5: So I'll have him give unsheathing it a try right here, right now
b6: !?
b7: Shura-san...!!

35
b1a: You can't seriously be considering letting my brother wield the Koumaken...
b1b: When just a while ago he'd let out his flames and gone on a rampage!
b2: If anything happens this time, there's no doubt that he'll be executed!!
b3a: Umm
b3b: The vatican was already notified the moment I chanted the imprisonment spell
b4: Un!!
b5: ... Gih!!!
b6: He's already in a situation where he can be convicted and executed at any time
b7a: It's too late to be getting scared now
b7b: 'mmkay?
below b7: Let go
b8: If the Impure King has already been revived
b9: Then there's an entity far more dangerous than Rin out there

36
b1: Besides, you've seen it before, haven't you?
b2: This guy's flames have proved effective against demons
b3: It's worth a try...!
b4: Rin
b5: Try unsheathing it!

37
a1: ...!!
a2: ...!!!!
b1: Eh...
b2: ... Funh
b3: ... Kuh!?
b4: ... What's wrong?
b5: What are you doing, Nii-san...!?
b6: No... Uooooh? Gugigigi!!

38
b1: ??? I don't get it...
b2: I can't do it
b3: Ehh!?
b4: ...? What's up with that?
b5: I... I don't know! For some reason I just can't unsheathe it at all!
b6: ...
b7: In that case, I'll do it for you. Hand it over
b8: ... Jih

39
b1: I can do it on my own!
b2: It probably just got caught somewhere. That's gotta be it!
b3: Nii-san?
b4: ... I see...
b5: Rin
b6: You're scared, aren't you?
b7: Eh
b8: Well... That's a given, right?

40
b1: Just a little while ago
b2a: You finally were able to manipulate your flames properly
b2b: You were so happy

background of panel 2
b1: I DID IIIIIT!
b2a: Shura!?
b2b: I lit them! I lit them so perfectly and stylishly!!
b3: But you're different!!

b3a: And barely an hour later
b3b: You once again lost yourself, let loose your flames and went on a rampage
b4: In a blink of an eye, you were back at square one. That's how you felt, right?
b5: "If I unsheathe this sword now, what will happen to me?"
b6a: "I might forget myself again"
b6b: "I might actually hurt someone this time"

41
b1: That's...
b2: Hit the bull's eye, didn't I?
b3: You've
a1: His self-confidence, the power of his flames, all locked within that scabbard...
b4: Completely lost confidence in yourself

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 156

Sun, 05 Jun 2011 15:32:41 +0000

I'm still slow and lazy, what's new, right? :D

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01
b1: ... How many times do I have to tell you?
a1: ☆Ao vs Kuro!!
b2a: I was made for Sanmoto-sama
b2b: Sanmoto-sama is a wonderful person...!! Don't make me explain that again!!
b3: I'm tellin' ya, there's no way that can be, alright?
b4: There are... A ton of people in this world who have suffered thanks to him!!
b5: Ignorant fool!!
b6: Whaaaat? That's what you are! Korrrraaaa!!
a2: A record of three generations of youkai heroism

02
b1: ...!?
b2: What...!?
b3: Eek
b4: !?
b5: What's going on!?
b6: Beats me...
b7: Sanmoto-sama is...!?
b8: Ugh...
b9: What...!?
b10: That guy is...!?

03
a1: ☆Latest volume JC #17 goes on sale 4th July!! The Hyaku Monogatari Clan appears without delay!!
a2: Act 156 Rampage
a3: ☆Sanmoto transformed!! That frightful form...!!
a4: ☆Lots of the latest news on the TV Anime!! Check out "Nura ban" on page 322!!
b1: Oi
b2: What the hell didja do there?

04
b1: Ah...
b2: Eek
b3: The mansion's gonna collapse!!
b4: Wha... What is that...
b5: Oi, can someone get that thing away?
b6: Meat...!? Why the hell did something like that-
b7: Geh

05
b1: The meat!!
a1: The arch of Sanmoto's foot
a2: Sanmoto's gums
a3: Sanmoto's heel bone
b2: The pieces of meat... became ayakashi...!?
b3: Gah
b4: Geh
b5: It ate a youkai...!?
b6: Th... This is...!?
b7: Could this be... Sanmoto-sama's new ghost story?
b8a: Ohhh!! Ohhh!!
b8b: Just what you'd expect from Sanmoto-sama!!
b9a: Wonderful, wonderful!! That's the way
b9b: You rock!
b10: Ho...

06-07
a1: Sanmoto's duodenum (TN: for non-biology-literate people, that's part of the small intestine)
a2: Akujonokaze (TN: Akujonokaze [悪女野風], literally wicked/ugly woman, field winds; also sounds like winds of the wicked/ugly woman)
b1: St... Stinkyyyyy
b2: Gyaaaaah
b3: You idiot, I'm not...
b4: Wait, wait!!
b5: I'm the heir of the shogunal vassal Murata family!!
b6: I came here because I was invited here!! I won't stand to be treated like thi...

08
b1: No, umm
b2: Did you hear me? I'm zorry...
b3: ...
b4a: ... What the hell is up with these guys...
b4b: They're attacking both friends and foes...?
b5: Sir... Please get on my back
b6: Hmm?
b7: It'd be best if you escape from here...
b8: You guys!! Let those townspeople escape!
b9: Second...!?
b10: Hey, you guys, get yer asses over here!!
b11: Eeeeek...
b12: Ooh... Why did things become like this...

09
b1a: Oi, Sanmoto, what... In the world happened to you?
b1b: You're getting your comrades embroiled in all this, ya know...?
a1: What is it... This ominous fear...
a2: Ri... han...
a3: It is about time...

10
a1: I let loose
a2: This hatred...
b1: Oi, Sanmoto!?
b2: Where are you going? I'm over here...!
a3: He couldn't hear me...!?
b3: Oi, oi, this is bad!!
b4:He's gonna get out, you know!?
b5: There are towns over there!!
b6: Including the city of Edo!!

11
b1: ... Eh?
b2: Fa... Father? What's that?
b3: Hm?
b4: You're so noisy... What's the matter?
b5: Botoh
b6: Botoh

12
a1: Sanmoto's semicircular canals (TN: parts of the ear)
a2: Sanmoto's visceral fat
a3: Sanmoto's eyebrows
a4: Sanmoto's left pinky
a5: Sanmoto's pectoral muscles
b1: Fa...
a6: Sanmoto's right jaw
b2: Hey, Father!?
b3: Let go of my daughteeer! Let go of my daughteeer!

13
b1: Uwah
b2: A... Ayakashiii!?
b3: Waaaaaah
b4: ...!?
a1: Sanmoto-sama became an ayakashi and started attacking people...!?
a2: No way! This is entirely contrary...!!
a3: Wasn't I fighting under Sanmoto-sama
a4: For the sake of the people of this world...!?
b5: Eek... Help...
b6: Earthwooooorms!

14
b1: Uwah... Thank you... Very much...
b2: Just... Just who... Are you...?
b3: That doesn't matter, just stay in your houses!!
b4: Second...

15
b1: Oi!! Go on!!
b2: Don't let the boss die!!
b3: Yeaaaah!! I'm going too, booooss!!
a1: ...!?
a2: Why does that ayakashi... Help people!?
a3: That duty...
b4: Geez
a4: The boss' already headin' the front lines up there
a5: So I ain't got no choice... But to follow him!!

16
b1: Besides I'm the special attack captain!! (small text: Ehh!?)
b2: Kuraaaa!! Secoooond!!
a1: What exactly
a2: Am I doing!?
b3-b6: Fuh
b7: I told you, everything's going to be alright, Kayo...
b8: I'm sure... Kurotabou will come for us

17
b1: ... Kurotabou?
b2a: That's right, I heard about him... A monk who protects people from the bad guys
b2b: That's why... When you're in danger, you just needa wish for "Kurotabou" to help you...
b3a: ...
b3b: Okay
b4: There's a good girl...
b5: Eh
b6: Botoh
a1: Ri...
a2: Han...
b7: Ah...
b8: Uwah... He... Help...
b9: !? Sanmoto!!
b10: Dammit!! Shit...
b11: Aguh... kuh...
b12: Onii-chan...
b13: Fuh

18
b1: Help us, Kurotaboooooouuuuuu!!
a1: This feeling

19
a1: I remember it
a2: That's right. I
a3: Am not a youkai born
b1: Kurota... bou
b2: He really... came
a4: Of this person
a5: But of the feelings... Of the children!!
b3: You guys
a6: ☆The youkai of justice Kurotabou has been revived!!
b4: Don't leave my side...!! I'll protect you

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 155

Sat, 04 Jun 2011 11:31:25 +0000

I'm slow and lazy :|

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01
a1: A record of three generations of youkai heroism
a2a: I... I see...
a2b: That option is viable, too...!!
a3: (7) Continue the Hyaku Monogatari game
a4: Just one more to complete the game
a5: In other words, just one more... And a new youkai will be born!!
b1: Wonderful, wonderful! Why didn't I notice this earlier!!?
a6: It'd be great if one were born now
a7: An ayakashi that could turn the tables in this situation!!
b1: Kurotabou!! I'll leave you to watch my back!!
a8: Does Sanmoto have a plan to recover from this hopeless situation!?

02
b1: Hold it right there!
b2: I'm gonna make
b3: An ayakashi!!
b4: Hehehehehehehehehehe
b5: It's gonna emerge from here!
b6: Just you watch!
b7: Just what kind of ayakashi will it be!!?

03
a1: ☆A picture scroll of the three generations of Nura Clan youkai! JC #1-16 on sale to rave reviews!!
x1: Buddha
x2: Sanmoto Gorouzaemon's dream
a2: Act 155 The Hundredth Hyaku Monogatari
a3: The man who wanted to become buddha... Alas, that fate has befallen him

04
b1a: ... Good morning
b1b: You're as early as ever
b2a: Ah... Setsura-san, good morning!
b2b: I've got a lot of work backlogged over at the terakoya as well, so...
b3: Why not leave things like that to your subordinates?
b4: Oh, no

05
a1: Geez, why the hell is "The Bride of Nurarihyon"...
b1a: Eh?
b1b: Se... Setsura-san!?
b2: A stupid woman like this!?
b3a: If it were me, I'd be sitting back enjoying my position of power
b3b: Yet Otome-chan, you never do think like that, do you?
b4: Huh... Yeah...
b5: ... (small: "Yeah", she says...)
b6: Is this the "difference" between me and her!?
b7: ?
b8: Ahhhh geez... And all that Rihan knows how to do is to make this poor Otome-chan worried sick...
b9: Eh?
b10: You've got it rough too, huh...
b11: I'm amazed you're not more annoyed with your husband for always wandering about

06
b1: ...
b2: Yup...
b3: Eh?
b4: I
b5: Will simply wait
b6: I don't know what he's doing right now
a1: Do you like this town?
a2: So do I
b7: I'm sure... That he's working hard for the sake of this town
a3: We'll be together
a4: You'll be with me forever...
b8: So, until he fulfills his objectives
b9: I want to wait for him at home... Because that is my duty

07
a1: Eiiiiiii what am I saying
b1: Fufu... But
a2: I know, I know...
b2: If <Kurotabou> were around... I think he'd be able to change the world real quick
b3: What's that?
next to b3: Kuro...?
b4a: The children were talking about it
b4b: The youkai of justice, they call him
b5: He's an ayakashi that was created by children who were orphaned by wars and famines
b6: A youkai born from the earnest desire of wanting to be saved
b7: From the endless tragedy... Of political opposition... and of the farming samurai
b8: Hmm...

08
a1: Help me... Help me...
a2: Kuratabou...
a3: When will you come for me...? When will the jet black monk come to save us?
a4: That monk is strong... And tall...
a5: And wields countless weapons
a6: He'll defeat the bad guys, no matter how bad they are...!
b1: ...
b2: Indeed an ayakashi a child would think of...
next to b2: such an absurd setup
b3: It is said to be passed down in secret... As the hope of the children
b4: It would be great... If he really appeared... A youkai of justice like that...

09
b1: Move away... From there
b2: Did you forget your <homework>? I ain't got no reason to be stopped by an ayakashi like you who doesn't even know what he is, ya know!?
b3: Shut up... Speak for yourself! Why
b4: Do you pose a hindrance to that man!
b5: ... He's manipulating you, ya know?
b6: I did my research. You... Aren't an ayakashi birthed by that fatso
b7: Nonsense!!

10
b1: Boooosss!!
b2: Please go!
b3: You've gotta be the one to handle Sanmoto!!
b4a: Ohh, Ao, eh?
b4b: My bad... I'll leave that headstrong guy to you
b5: Wait!!
b6: Ohhhh no you don't! I ain't letting you pass, ya know!?

11
b1a: Yo there... Teaching a lesson to people like you lot...
b1b: Who mess around in people's territories... Is my job!!
b2: Scram... Fatso
a1: An ayakashi that can obliterate all of them!!
a2: I can do this... I can do this... I have an idea...!!
a3: I'll make it the worst, the most evil!!
a4a: An indomitable one that wouldn't even budge no matter what!!
a4b: One like the ghost story Kurotabou...

12
b1: There... There it is
b2: Kuku... In the first place, the objective of today was to play the forbidden Kaidan Hyakuman-pen and create an ultimate, super ayakashi
b3: And to take the whole of Edo by surprise with it... Kuku... With this...
a1: ... Wait a second!?
a2: Now that I think about it, Kurotabou was not originally an ayakashi birthed from <hyaku monogatari>
a3: We brought him here, controlling him with the power of the tea...
a4: <Hyaku Monogatari> allows us to reproduce large numbers of ayakashi... But they're not very strong...
a5: Are they incomplete... When created solely through my conceptions alone!?
a6: Will one birthed like this now
a7: Be of any good...!?

13
b1: That's as far as you're gonna get
b2: Eek
b3: Eeeeeek
b4a: ... Ah
b4b: Oh...
b5: Sa... Sanmoto-sama!!

14
b1: !?
a1: Wha...!?
b2: For "that body" into which was all those desires were amassed... To kill itself of its own accord... How pathetic
a2: Am... Am I...
a3: Going to die here...?
b3: *heave*
b4: Gafuh...
b5: Gu... Geh... Gih...
b6: What a pity, huh?
b7: Your ambitions end here
a4: What...? That paper is...
b8a: I... Don't wanna die...
b8b: In... A place... Like this... My ambitions...

15
b1: That's right... I just need to do this...
b2: ...?
b3: (side text: kafuh...) As if I'd let things end like this...
b4: (side text: Fuhi...) You leave me no choice... I have no choice... But this...
b5: I will... Become buddha...
a1: I will not be destroyed... Even if this body disappears
b6: !?
a2: I will obtain every fear...

16
b1: !?
a1: !?
b2: !!
a2: I despise you
a3: Nura Rihan

17
a1: The hundredth Hyaku Monogatari>
a2: There was once a great merchant
a3: Money, women, freedom... The man lacked nothing he desired
a4: Yet he wanted to obtain every fear, and become an entity akin to buddha or god
a5: However, those ambitions were unfortunately crushed by the youkai that lived by slurping up fear...
b1: Gyaa
b2: What is this?!
b3: Pieces!! Pieces of meat are...!!
a6: The man died, his heart full of hatred, turning his very own self into a ghost story...
b4: pecho
a7: And was never to be destroyed until he had destroyed the Nura Clan
b6: becha
a8: He became
a9: A youkai

18-19
a1: The name of that ayakashi was
a2: Maou Sanmoto Gorouzaemon (TN: Maou [魔王] means "devil king")
a3: Sanmoto has turned himself into a youkai, and that terror will assail Edo in the next issue!!

Translation: Bakuman 134

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:56:57 +0000

Bakuman in the middle of the week throws me off my rhythm. Not that I'm complaining about earlier releases though :3 Mago is halfway done. I'm slow, and lazy, I'm sorry.

And I swear, "CROW" is "ONE PIECE" and "+NATURAL" is "BLEACH".

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b1a: It went all the way up to third
b1b: It was the right thing to do to base the story on the copycat criminal
b1c: There are a bunch of fan letters that have arrived, all saying stuff like "I'm so relieved", and "Thank goodness"
b2a: We really do have to thank our fans
b2b: Mashiro and I were of the same opinion...
a1: Celebrate!! Shuujin is back!!
a2: Page 134 Running Solo and Slow-footedness
b3: As to what Ashirogi Muto should do for the sake of those fans
b4: We though of the exact same idea of basing a story on the copycat crimes and rejecting it
b5: I see, you two are as in sync as an author-artist combi can be, as always
b6a: But I'll say this now...
b6b: There were some views within the editorial division, that using this would be dangerous
b7: Eh?
b8a: Since the criminal who broke into the bank still hasn't been caught, he could potentially see it as a challenge
b8b: I insisted that this was a chapter that encapsulated Ashirogi-kun's feelings and determination not to lose to this incident, and that I would take responsibility if anything happened. The editorial division finally realized that they should be protecting the authors, rather than the copycat criminal
b9: Is that so...

02
b1: Also, Niizuma-san's presence was really great. When we heard that "CROW" had taken first place, we felt that we couldn't just mope around and lose to him
b2: I just knew it was to galvanize us...
b3: That's right...
b4: The fact that Niizuma-kun sees the two of you as rivals, in a good way, is something to be thankful for
b5a: Even so, Niizuma-kun's amazing
b5b: He's held the top spot for three weeks running...
b6: Up until now, he's drawn his names in a flash, but now he's changed and spends days redoing them time and time again
b7: That Niizuma-san, redoing his names again and again!?

magazine page
below CROW: Niizuma Eiji
white words: Sky Prison Arc climax!!
black words: Breaking out of the island prison!! And the shocking truth discovered by Ku-fjdlksfjdslkfj (TN: cut off... I can only read Ku, the rest is obscured)

b8: ...
b9: Haaaaaaaah
b10a: Eiji's always above us...
b10b: I WANNA BEAT HIIIIIIIM
b11: Let's work hard!
b12: No, no matter how hard we work, I get the feeling we can never match up to a mainstream battle manga...
b13a: Mainstream battle series have always done well in "Jump" so far, but that isn't definite, either
b13b: Even a gag manga like "Dr. Slump" had its time at number one

03
b1a: Yeah, but lately it's been all mainstream battles
b1b: When I first heard that "CROW" was first and "PCP" was third, I felt like we were almost there, but in reality, there're a whole 150 votes between us...
b1c: It's like we're at the limit of how non-mainstream we can be, or something...
b2: Bit by bit...
b3: Hm?
b4: Bit by bit, let's close the gap
b5: ...
b6: That's right
b7: I'm 100% recovered, too! Let's work hard!
b8: Yeah!
sign: Niizuma PTE LTD Eiji
b9: The manuscript for "CROW"
b10: The manuscript for "+NATURAL"
b11: Good work

04
b1: Yuujirou-san
b2: Yeah?
b3: What place was I?
b4: You're in first for this week, too
b5: That's the third week running, right?
b6: Yeah
b7: In that case, I'll take number one next week, too. I'll work hard
b8: Yeah
b9: ...
s1a, s1b: *scratch*
a1: It... It's alright, after all
a2: He's held the top spot for three weeks running and he hasn't said anything about his right to end a manga he hates...

05
s1a, s1b: *scratch*
b1a: Umm, Niizuma-kun...
b1b: I wonder if you could work some of your magic for "+ NATURAL", too...?
b2: I'm drawing it properly... Any problems?
s2a, s2b: *scratch*
b3: You are drawing it properly... And you haven't been skiving on anything
b4: But as soon as the anime ended, the rankings dropped
b5a: This week, it's actually in tenth place...! "CROW" in first, and "+NATURAL" in tenth...
b5b: Even though the artist for both is the same Niizuma Eiji...
b6: "+NATURAL"
b7: Has a boring story
b8a: I'm not the author, so...
b9: Well...
b8b: If you want to make it more popular, then Akina-sensei and Miura-san need to write a more interesting story
b10: Got it...
s3a, s3b: *scratch*

06
b1a: Exactly as Niizuma-kun said
b1b: The story's been boring as of late
b1c: It's just that wash, rinse, repeat cycle of beating one enemy and meeting an even stronger one
b2: Indeed, it's only got that one pattern to it
b3: You two sure are frank when you're not alone...
s1: *scratch*
b4a: If I could have the liberty to change the story, it might improve, but there's a limit to how much I can change it
b4b: Akina-sensei does have her pride
b5: That's truuue
b6a: We can't quite become the kind of telepathic combi Ashirogi-sensei are
b7b: The anime is over, too, so if she's out of ideas, then rather than dragging the story on pointlessly, it'd be better to just end it
s2: *scratch*
b8: Pl... Please don't say things like that, the volumes are still selling well
a1: ... It might be better...
a2: To just end "+NATURAL"...?
a3: Niizuma-kun has started to dislike how its been dragging on...?
s3, s4: *scratch*
a4: Haaaah... We... Well, I've still got the drama adaptation of "Seigi no Mikata"
a5: It's obvious that "+NATURAL" is already past its peak, huh? I guess there's no choice but to head towards a conclusion...

07
b1a: Haaah...
b1b: I can barely breathe when I'm alone with Nakai-san...
b1c: I bet the air's getting thinner... And the air stinks
b2: It's not like I'm Hiramaru-kun's assistant because I like it
b3: That's why I'm telling you, please stop cutting corners
b4: I've gotta cut corners or it won't match with Hiramaru-kun's drawings!
can: Fresh Oxygen (TN: LOL)
b5: ... Why is it that I address Nakai-san with a "-san" suffix but Nakai-san uses the "-kun" suffix with me?
b6: Aren't I your superior here? I get the feeling that Nakai-san is always trying to be all high and mighty...
b7: Never mind "-kun", I wanna drop the suffixes altogether
b8: Why?
b9: Because you're going out with Aoki-san, of course!
b10a: ... Nakai-san, don't tell me you still haven't given up on Aoki-san? Pl... Please stop this!
b10b: Ah
b10c: I got an idea! Let me add it!
b11: I've given up, but I'm just so jealouuuuuus! Just you try putting yourself into the shoes of someone being used by someone like that!
b12: Ooooh
b13: Well, shall I discuss that with Yoshida-shi? Though I think it's kinda impossible
b14:After all, I only got close to Aoki-san thanks to discussing with Yoshida-shi
b15: Really!?

08
sfx: ding dong
b1a: Ah
b1b: Speak of the devil, that must be Yoshida-shi
b2: *adjust*
b3: What? Make Nakai-kun popular with the girls? IMPOSSIBLE!
b4: I thought so. No matter what Yoshida-shi does, this is just too huge a task
b5: ...
a1: ...
a2: No, wait...
a3: If all goes well...
b6: Do you really want a girlfriend?
b7: Of... Of course
b8a: Mm...
b8b: In that case, first, the condition I'm setting is that you must follow the diet schedule I set for you
b9: ...!
b10: ... But, if that happens, and you stop eating as much as you do right now, you won't put as much pressure on Hiramaru-kun financially, and he won't be as negative...
b11a: Eh
b11b: Is that what you were thinking about, Yoshida-shi!?
b12: ...
b13a: However, no matter how much Nakai-kun eats, this bait... No, I'm certain food expenses are not a big factor contributing to Hiramaru-kun's negativity...
b13b: More importantly, it would be bad if he collapsed due to a disease... His skills as an assistant are almost wasted on Hiramaru-kun
b14: ...
b15: ?

09
b1: Nakai-kun, if you're 100% serious about following me...
b2: I'm a-ok with taking on the challenge of making you a super mangaka!
b3: Super mangaka...!
b4: That's right, like the Super Saiyajin of mangaka...
b5a: A first-rate mangaka of spirit, etiquette, looks, agility
b5b: Any woman would... No, we will make a mangaka that even that Aoki-sensei would turn to look at... You had the skills to begin with! This should work!!
b6: This will be a pretty tough and long project, but it's worth a shot
b7: ...
b8: Yoshidaaaa-shi! What are you talking about!! I can't have Yuri-tan looking at him, can I!?
b9a: Nakai-san should stay fat
b9b: It suits you
b9c: I won't scrimp on your pizza money
b9d: Nakai-san suits a proud person...
a1: Forgive me, Hiramaru... This, too, is a crack of my whip of love in order to continue bringing out your negativity. And if I can get Nakai to change, too, I'd be killing two birds with one stone
b10: Yo... Yoshida-shi, I'll try it out!
b11: No... No way...
b12: Alright, first, we'll start with a 10km run ever morning and every evening...

10
x1: 22nd April Friday
b1: OHHHH "CROW" IS IN FIRST FOR THE FOURTH WEEK RUNNING!!
b2: ...
b3: "CROW" is amazing...
b4: It must be because the full cast appeared for the final battle, that everyone got all fired up
b5: "PCP" is third... Without the gap between it and "CROW" closing at all... The "Road Racer GIRI" anime just started, and its just 8 votes behind...
b6: "Seigi no Mikata" in seventh... "+NATURAL" in thirteenth...
a1: Well, even if "+NATURAL"'s no good, once the drama for "Seigi no Mikata" starts...
b7: Oh right, Yuujirou-san
b8: What is it?
b9a: Ashirogi-kun want to thank Niizuma-kun
b9b: They said "CROW" getting first place really galvanized them
b10: Eh...
b11: I... Is that so! I see, so that's how it is!
b12: ?? What do you see?

11
b1a: You know, I told you about it, didn't I?
b1b: "The right to end one manga"
b2: Eh... Yeah
b3: I thought it would be bad if he was working hard because he wanted that right, but it was just for Ashirogi-kun's sake... In that case, he probably won't bring it up even if he gets first place
b4: I'm going over to Niizuma-kun's place to collect the manuscript today, so I'll relay Ashirogi-kun's gratitude
b5: Please do
b6: You're in first again this week
b7: Okay, that's good
b8: As I expected, he's the same as ever
b9: Also, Ashirogi-kun wanted me to tell you that they were galvanized by "CROW" clinching first place
b10: Ashirogi-sensei did?
b11: Yeah
b12: Whatever are you saying, Ashirogi-sensei?
b13: What? They're expressing their gratitude, their thanks...
s1a, s1b: *scratch*

12
b1, b2, b3: Huuffff
b4: I will become...
b5: Huff
b6: Hah
b7: Huff
b8: Hah
b9: I will become!! A super mangaka...!
b10a: I ran...
b10b: Around 1km...
b11, b12: hah
b13: That should be enough...
b14: Welcome

13
x1: 26th April Thursday
b1: Yuujirou-san, "CROW"'s in first again
b2a: Eh
b2b: Isn't today Thursday?
b2c: Ah, the results out already because golden week starts tomorrow, huh?
b3: Shizuka-kun in tenth and Aoki-kun in seventh, huh...
b4: "Boku ni Tsuujinai" is in fifth, alright! This is good, for now!
b5: First place for five weeks running!
b6a: Amazing...
b6b: And "Road Racer GIRI" is in third...
b6c: The effects of the anime are beginning to show
b6d: It wouldn't be weird at all if Niizuma-kun continued to take the top spot
b6e: It's here, my generation..!
b6f: I'm the editor of both the first and third place series, Hattori Yuujirou!
b6g: Just make me a section chief already!
b6h: I believe the thinking that age is a factor is just old-fashioned!
b7: He's getting way carried away...
b8: But he does have the first and third place series under his belt, so we're in no position to say anything
b9: I'm off to Fukuda-kun's place to collect the manuscript and have a meeeeting!
b10: Alright! "Seigi no Mikata" is in sixth!
b11: Miura, don't be too happy, do something about "+NATURAL"!
b12: Ah, right
a1: ... We've been overtaken by "GIRI"...
a2: "PCP" being in fourth is good, but never mind Niizuma-kun... It can't win against a series with an anime, after all...

14
b1: I always aim to live my life on the edge!!! (TN: "giri giri" means to be on the edge)
b2: OHHHHH!!
b3a: The feeling of speed is amazing!!
b3b: I'm so pumped by just the third episode of the anime
b3c: With this, the rankings and comic sales are sure to rise, rise, rise!
sfx: ding dong
b4: Yuujirou here?
b5: You're in third this week!
b6a: Ohh, the top three at last!
b6b:At this rate, getting the top spot isn't just a dream, huh!?
b7: Nah... There's quite a gap between you and "CROW"... So not really...
b8a: What are you smilin' about?
b8b: You're the editor of "CROW" as well, so even if "GIRI" overtakes it, it doesn't mean anything to you, no?
b9: That's not true at all. If "GIRI" really did clinch the top spot, I would truly be happy. A new manga overtaking a long-running, popular manga is ideal

15
b1: First place for five weeks running, huh...?
b2: I was a little worried about what was going to happen for a while, though
b3a: ?
b3b: Whaddaya mean?
b4: Ah... Well, it's okay to tell, I guess
b5a: No... That's all I'm going to say...
b5b: ...
b5c: ...
b6: EHHHH THE RIGHT TO END A MANGA HE HATES?!
b7: What a crazy idea
b8a: Of course I said it was impossible
b8b: The editor-in-chief, too, said to come talk to him again if he still felt that way after becoming Jump's true main attraction...
b9: And then? And then?What's the manga Niizuma-sensei wants to end!?
b10: I'm dyyyying to know!
b11: Oh, no, I didn't ask him about that...
b12: ... But if it was before he was serialized, then that's what, seven years ago? It could even be a manga that's already ended
b13: That's true... Now, it could even be "+NATURAL"...
b14: NATURAL!? WHY!?
b15a: Niizuma-kun said the story was boring
b15b: He can't change the story since Akina-kun is too proud, so he seems to be of the mind that she should just end the story instead of dragging it out

16
b1: Nevertheless, he couldn't possibly end his own serialization, right?
b2a: No, it could be that precisely because it's his own series, he dislikes the fact that it isn't interesting
b2b: He even said that if he thought up the story, it would be more interesting
b3: Perhaps after suffering complete defeat at the love festa, he'll want to cancel either "Kami-sama" or "Bokutsuu" (TN: this is the short name for "Boku ni Tsuujinai", kinda like "Wanpi" for "Wan Piisu/One Piece" or "Hagaren" for "Hagane no Renkinjutsushi")
b4: Don't be retarded, Niizuma-shishou's not that low
b5: Well, even if we talk about it like this, we still don't know what the definition of the "number one author in Jump" really is
b6: If you consider Niizuma-kun's contributions and comics sales up till now, he's still got a ways to go
b7: Even if, hypothetically, Niizuma-kun was the number one author now, he wouldn't need to think about such things, so he wouldn't bring it up again
b8: Eh? Then why did you talk about it?
b9: I did that precisely because i knew he wouldn't bring it up again. If he really was serious about doing it, I'd be too scared to tell anyone
b10a: In the time he's been serialized, Niizuma-kun has matured, too
b10b: Plus, I now know that he got the top spot this time to galvanize Ashirogi
b11: ...
b12: ... That does kinda sound like Niizuma-shishou, but if he could just get the top spot like that, it makes you wonder why he didn't just do it earlier
b13: I know, right?

17
b1: AMAZING! "CROW"'s been in first place for five weeks in a row!
b2: It must be because everyone's all fired up by the all-out war
b3: Haaaah... In comparison, "PCP" doesn't even have an anime...
b4: Eh, I wonder why?
b5a: ... We were told that because of its content, it's hard to find sponsors...
b5b: The bank break-in earlier pretty much sealed it
b6: ...
b7: Saikou, wanna think about it more seriously? We should try to get another series soon...
b8: ... Since Shuujin was slow in submitting the stories, I did kinda get a little faster at drawing...
b9a: Mainstream characters in a non-mainstream battle...
b9b: I tried to draw some cool, mainstream characters, but these...
b10: Let me see what you've got
b11: I said they weren't complete...
b12: That's fine
b13: Ah? This is pretty cool, no? Oh, this one too
b14: ... No, I don't want to compromise

18
x1: 9th May Monday
b1: Huh? Niizuma-kun
b2: Eh?
b3: What's wrong, Niizuma-kun? All of a sudden...
b4: I already filled in all the forms at the reception
b5: Eh? But I didn't hear about this...
b6a: I'm here to see the editor-in-chief
b6b: He gave the green light and asked me to please come up
b7: Eh!? The editor-in-chief!?

19
b1: !
a1: No... No way...
a2: After keeping the top spot for five weeks running, now he's...
a3: Eiji makes his move!! What business does he have here...!?

Translation: Bakuman 133

Thu, 26 May 2011 08:58:13 +0000

Early raws ftw! Too bad I wasn't around when the raws came out, so (comparatively) late translation ftl, sorry.

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01
b1a: chirp
b1b: chirp
a1: Dawn breaks... As he waits for his friend.
a2: Shuujin said he'd take till morning to rewrite it
a3: He'll definitely come up with something interesting
b2: ...
b3: Shuujin
b4: How's this, Saikou!?
b5: !

02-03
a1: Break through on a run --- On this steep manga path!!
a2: ☆ Right before JC #13 goes on sale!! A lead color page with a bang!!
a3: Page 133 Encouragement and Feelings
a4: ☆The second season of the TV Anime will air on NHK ETV come Autumn!!
a5: ☆The latest volume, JC #13, is slated for a 3rd June (Fri) release!!

04
b1: Hattori-san
a1: Hattori-san... For even you to come!!
b2: You were waiting for me with Mashiro?
b3a: You said you'd take till morning, and it was already so late, I thought it made more sense than going home
b3b: Mashiro-kun said you'd definitely come...
b4: Here it is
b5: ...
b6: How... How is it...!?
b7: ... You did your best

05
b1: Mashiro-kun, draw the name
b2: Roger
b3: ...
b4: Shuujin
b5: You really did your best...
b6: Guuuuuuh
b7: Kuuuuuh...
b8a: He did say he didn't sleep for three days...
b8b: Better let him catch some Z's
b9: ...

06
b1: Hattori-san... What do you think of this story?
b2: ...
b3a: To be honest, I still don't think it's his best...
b3b: You're right... He's still not at 100%, but he's almost entirely back in form compared to the past few weeks
b4a: Besides, the fun of perfect crimes is perfectly captured
b4b: If he's gotten this far, it's just a matter of time before he's fully back in form
b4c: When Takagi-kun wakes up, tell him that the next meeting will be tomorrow night
b5a: Alright
b5b: In that case, I'll call you as soon as I finish the name
b6: Thanks a lot for staying all the way into the morning
b7: You have less time than usual to draw the manuscript. All the best
b8: Yeah...
b9: Kuuuh...

07
b1: Mm
b2a: Ah!
b2b: Ah...
b2c: Oh, right!
b3: Had a good nap?
b4: I've already got the OK on the name, so I'm working on the manuscript now
b4: Can you make it in time?
b5: I'll make sure I do
b6: My bad, I took so long it ate into your drawing time
b7: The point of a two-man team is to help each other out, no?
b8: ...
b9: Well, I'll head home to think of the next story
b10a: Take the day off to rest
b10b: Hattori-san said he'd be here tomorrow night for a meeting
b11a: Got it! But we've run out of stock, so I can't waste time resting
b11b: Seeya
a1: Can't waste time resting, huh... I must say the story has gotten better, but it took so long just for him to return to this level...
a2: Will he be able to write the next one in a week...?
a3: All I can do now is believe in Shuujin, and do what I have to do... It's not like I have time to waste, either...

08
x1: The next day
b1: Sorry, I still haven't thought of anything since yesterday...
b2: Don't worry, we had a meeting scheduled earlier, so we can settle some of it then
x2: No good ideas came, and there was a meeting the next day, too
b3: And then, here's where the stairs trick comes in...
b4: Yeah, that's not too bad
a1: Not too bad, huh...
a2: Hattori-san would clearly say it was interesting if it was...
b5: This week's early rankings should be out by now, right? Can you tell us?
b6: !
b7a: "PCP" is in eleventh right now...
b7b: No worries, starting from the manuscript that you turned in yesterday, the rankings will rise again for sure
b8: Also, it's highly likely that this week...
b9: "CROW" will take number one
b10: It may only be the early rankings, but there's already a sizable margin between first and second
a3: "CROW"...!
a4: ... Eiji took first place...

09
b1: ...
b2: ...
b3: Oh, almost forgot. It's been a while since I last brought you your fanletters, but this time the number you received increased all of a sudden
b4: Increased!?
b5a: You should be thankful to have such readers
b5b: They're all telling you to work hard so as not to let that incident get the better of you
a1: ...
a2: I see... The fans were sensitive to the fact that my stories were getting dull...
a3: Just what you'd expect from Hattori-san! Excellent timing...
a4: This will serve as a form of encouragement, and in addition to Eiji's getting number one, should fire us up even more...
b6: Thank you so much...!
b7: I'll do my best to meet the expectations of the fans
x1: From then on, Shuujin became a little more optimistic, and the meeting appeared to go well
x2: But then

10
b1: Because a similar modus operandi was employed in today's XX bank vault break-in, the police believe the probability that the culprit is one and the same is...
b2a: This time, the letter left in the vault bore the name of the protagonist trio from the manga "PCP, serialized in Weekly Shounen Jump
b2b: The culprit signed off as "PCP"
letter: We were in this vault PCP
b3: !
b4: ...
b5: How horrible
b6: ...

11
b1: ...
b2: Uwah, it's really there
b3: Holy cow, at this rate...
b4: Those bastards
b5: Sensei? Aren't you gonna give Ashirogi-sensei a ring?
b6: At this point, if everyone around them gets all worked up, it'll work against them instead
b7: That's true
b8: Don't worry, Ashirogi Muto wouldn't lose to something like this
building: Shueisha
b9a: Hattori
b9b: Make sure you support Ashirogi-kun well
b9c: There's absolutely nothing for them to worry about
b10: Got it
b11: Ma... Mashiro-kun, how's Takagi-kun?
b12: Umm, the news just aired so I haven't had a chance to see him or speak to him...

12
b1a: I see... He took such great psychological damage with the last incident...
b1b: This time, he may well say something like "I don't want to do 'PCP' anymore"...
b2: !
b3: Don't want to do "PCP" anymore...
b4a: Yeah
b4b: Yeah
b5: I'll keep an eye on him discreetly
b7: *pi*
a1: ... If he really ends up in a situation where he can't write anymore... The only one who can be of strength to Shuujin is me...
b8: ... I have to write the stories...
b9: Eh
b10: At the very least, the culprit must read this manga and...
a2: Now... Now that something like this has happened, there's no way he can write again so soon...
a3: Akito-san's face was deathly pale, too...
a4: But this... Rather than saying I'll cheer him up...

13
a1: ☆ The first season of the TV Anime is being rebroadcast every Sunday, 6pm on NHK ETV!!
b1: Akito-san, let's call it a day, it's better if you do this tomorr...
b2: Leave me alone
b3: But
b4: I told you to leave me alone!
b5: ...
b6: Dammit
a2: "PCP" is in eleventh right now...
a3: "CROW" will take number one
b7: ...

14
b1: It would be accurate to call it an imitation crime inspired by a manga, correct?
a1: ... No matter how you look at it, Shuujin's taken a much bigger blow psychologically than before...
a2: This time, I can't just sit back and simply believe in him
a3: Ashirogi Muto is the two of us. I have to support him... I have to help him...
a4: But how... It would be too irresponsible if I just said a simple "all the best"...
a5: How can I save Shuujin...
a6: It's no use thinking on my own
a7: I should have a good talk with Shuujin and find out how he feels right now...
b2, b3, b5a, b5b: Dammit
b4: !
b6: Akito-san!
b7: *music notes*
b8: !

15
b1: A phone call from Mashiro...
b2: On Akito-san's cell phone...
b3: ...
b5a, b5b: tururu...
a1: He isn't picking up...
b6: The person you have called is unavailable, please call back again later...
a2: ... I knew it, he's so depressed he won't even answer a call from me...
b7: *pi*
b8: *music note*
b9: *pi*
b10: Kaya-chan...!?
b11: Kaya-chan, what's wrong?
b12: Mashiro, I'm sorry...
b13, b14, b17, b18: Dammit
b15: Akito-san isn't in a state to answer any calls right now...
b16a: Right after hearing the news, he shut himself in a room and told me to leave him alone so he could write...
b16b: Now he's just shouting "dammit", "dammit"...

16
b1: Shuujin...!
b2: Mi... Miho told me to encourage him
b3: But this is the first time I've seen Akito-san this scary, and since he told me to leave him alone, I can't even do anything...
b4: Is Akito-san okay...?
b5: Th... This is all because of that break-in, right...? Why did they have to sign off as "PCP"? PCP doesn't even do things like that...
b6: Of course not!
b7: PCP would never do someth...
b8: !
a1: PCP would never do something like that...
b9: I see!
b10: Eh?
b11a: That's it! "PCP would never do something like that"
b11b: Thank you, Kaya-chan, you just gave me an idea!
b12: Wha... What???

17
b1, b2, b3: Dammit
b4a, b4b: Hah
b5: Saikou...
b6: I... I've been thinking
b7a: About what the best course of action is now that it's come down to this...
b7b: This may be a little drastic, but...
b8a: A story where PCP defeats
b8b: A copycat criminal!
b8c: That's the plot of my story!

18
b1: !
b2: I'm writing it right now
b3: Akito-san
b4: Shuujin
b5: It's indubitable that I was down in the dumps the first time
b6: But having this done to me a second time really pissed me off!
b7: Plus, I can't forgive them for committing crimes in the name of our "PCP"!!
b8a: If I just got depressed and stayed silent, "PCP" would practically be branded a manga that promotes crime
b8b: As if I'll lose to a criminal like this!
b9a: This time, I'll let this criminal as well as our readers know just what kind of manga "PCP" is!
b9b: What kind of manga our "PCP" is!
b10: And our feelings as the creators!!
b11: Shuujin
b12a: I'll be done in a bit
b12b: All that's left is typing it out, so just wait a little while more, Saikou

19
x1: The next day
b1a: !
b1b: A story where a PCP copycat appears, huh...
b2: Yes
b3: Interesting!
b4a: I see, you're using this against him! This is a story that can only be done in "PCP"!
b4b: More importantly, Takagi-kun... This shows everyone that you've recovered and aren't going to yield to this incident!
b5: This is the best outcome
b6a: With this, the readers are sure to be happy as well
b6b: No, they'll be inspired
b7: Alright, Shuujin!
b8: Yeah!

20
b1a: I knew it, it was you, Rokuzuka-kun
b1b: You hid all the textbooks you stole from everyone in the PE store room
b1c: Hmph! Of course I'd be able to find them like this
b1d: PCP would never hide them in a place like this
b2a: Akechi...
b2b: When did you find out that it was me and not PCP?
b3: Rokuzuka-kun, you put up an advance notice, probably thinking that if that were to come true, it would be labeled as PCP's doing while you got to gloat over your copycat crime
b4a: Hmph!
b4b: I knew from the start that it wasn't PCP
b5a: PCP wouldn't just steal things from normal people
b5b: And they wouldn't make themselves a nuisance either!
b6: ...
a1: Shuujin is back... A flame ablaze in his soul!!
left of a1: Monkey see, monkey do........ [cut off]
b7a: Just as planned!
b7b: Well, Akechi probably knew from the get go that it wasn't PCP to begin with
b8: How?
b9a: If we broke the law, we'd be no different from criminals
b9b: Anyone can commit a crime, but no-one can imitate us!
x1: This time, "PCP" rose to third place. Shuujin was back, 100%

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 154

Tue, 24 May 2011 18:43:47 +0000

I'm on a roll today... Or something. Now I really need to catch up on work /o\

(again, I do mean the work I actually get paid for)

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01
b1: Timber wholesaler... Sanmoto Gorouzaemon
a1: ☆Paying a visit, as slipper as an eel!! (TN: The onomatopoeia nurari [ぬらり] is used once again as a reference to stealth as well as to the name of Nura)
a2: Act 154 Coming and Going
b2: Hmm... So this is the den of Hyaku Monogatari
a3: ☆Bangaihen "Nura Rihan no Yome" in Jump NEXT!
☆The end of the Kyoto Arc is finally here!! The latest volume, JC #16 is on sale to rave reviews!!
b3: Ugh...
b4: You... Bas... Tard...

02
b1: Uwaaaaaah
b2: Eek... The tea...!!
b3: Hmgh! What a waste... What a waste...
b4: My tea...
b5: My tea of the supreme leader!!
b6: Eeeeii!! My teaaaaa!!
b7: Get lost! Scraaaam!!

03
b1: ?
a1: Damn youuuuu
a2: You bastaaard!!
b2: Everyone!! Get him!! Get hiiiiim!!
b3: Kill that brat... And the vice-shogun along with hiiiiim!!
b4: Mm...

04
b1: Good sir... Please stand back!
b2: Oi, get out of my way!!
b3: Impudent punks
b4: Don't be so cocky!!
b5: Don't you recognize this family crest!!?
b6: You should be well aware of who this person is!! He is the former vice-shogun Mito Mitsukuni-kou!!

05
b1: Huh...!?
b2: Hahahahaha!!
b3: ...
b4: Hm?
b5: That...
b6:.. That's not even the Tokugawa clan's coat of arms!!
b7: Fu...
b8: I've always wanted... To try this at least once
b9: You bastard!!
b10: Mu... Mu...

06
b1: Uhoh
b2: So this is the venue of the Hyaku Monogatari!
b3: Wha...

07
b1: Heave hooooo
b2: Uwah
b3: Eek
b4: Re... Real youkaaaaai!?
b5: Nuuuu!?
b6: Over here too... Gooooo!!
b7: !?
b8: Ohhh
b9: These are the youkai Sanmoto-sama birthed
b10: Do... Do it!!
b11: Fnnnhhh

08
b1: Gyaaa...
b2: He... He was finished in an instant!?
b3: Eek... Run away!!
b4: !?
b5: Hold up
b6: Ah...
b7a: That expression...
b7b: You must be the merchants who got hooked on Hyaku Monogatari
b8a: Hm? So?
b8b: How do you like... Getting tortured by the very <youkai> you were using?
a1: Why are my ambitions... Being crushed by such as these...!?
b9: No... No way... Only <invited guests> may enter here...
b10: I... Am a youkai who can enter anywhere as he pleases

09
b1: Well... Just this once, I enlisted the help of a friend
b2: That's a lie, Rihan!! He's MY go buddy! (TN: Go, or Igo [囲碁], is a Japanese board game)
b3a: Hohoho!
b3b: That's right, that's right, that's exactly right!
b4: You sneaked into my castle and forcibly made me your friend!
b5: Oi, oi, that's a horrible thing to say, Old Man Mito
b6: You have no right to call me an old man, now, do you?
b7: Guhhhh...
b8: You guys!! Aren't you gonna do something!!?
b9: That's right! What about thiiiis!!
b10: !?
b11: Oi... Outside... Outside!!

10
b1: Gehhhh!! He... He's huuuge...
b2: Ohhh, how amazing! It's the giant <Ooroi the Mystery>...!! (TN: Ooroi [大櫓威] means great scull power)
b3: Alright!! Just what you'd expect from Sanmoto-sama
b4: ALRRIIIIIGHT!! We can win with this!!
b5: Go!! Go!!
b6: ... Tchh...
b7: Guah, he came in!!
b8: Ohhh!! How reckless!!

11
b1: Zuru...
b2: Eh
b3: So...
b4: E... a... sily...
b5: WAAAAH

12-13
b1: Gu...
b2: Uhhhhhh...
b3: Better start sayin' your prayers, Sanmoto Gorouzaemon
b4: I'm gonna cut you down no matter what...!!

14
b1: There are three reasons... Why I can't forgive you
b2: Number one
b3: Ughhh
b4: Noooo! I cannot die in a place like this!!
b5: Someone!! Get that guy outta here!!
b6: Protect meeeee! Someone help me get away from here!!
b7: Ah... Oi
b8: Looks like you got ignored, Rihan-sama
b9: Oi, oi, I really wanna put an end to this damn thing already
b10: Yet he won't even listen to the main character's speech...

15
b1: Hah, hah... Go!! My youkai!!
b2: Number one... You dared to change the streets of Edo
b3: You filled the streets I love with fear
b4: You made it such a boring place
b5: Hah...
b6: Hah
b7: Sa... Sanmoto-sama...
b8: O-Matsu!! O-Kiku!! O-Tsuu!! I beg you, help me to escape!! (slanted: Hah Hah)
b9: Hah...
b10: Act as a shield to protect me!!
b11: Ehh?
b12: Sanmoto-sama...
b13: It doesn't matter if you die!! Let me liiiive!!

16
b1: Eh...
b2: Kyaaaa
b3: Eek...
b4: Eek...
b5: Awawa...
b6: Haaaah haaaah Why... (black: huff huff)
b7: Hot~
b8: It's hot~
b9: Why did things turn out this waaaay!! (white: Dammit, dammiiiiiit | black: Gueh)
b10: Awawawa...
b11: What's with all these women?
b12: A monster!
b13: Number two...
b14: Sacrificing the weak
b15: I can't run... Any longer...
b16: For the sake of your own pleasure
b17: Gyaaah
b18: Oww!! Oww!!
b19: That damned braaaaat

17
b1: Eek
b2: Uwaaaaaaah (small text: When did you!)
b3: Ahh
b4: And then there's number three
b5: The ayakashi we had to exterminate were such pitiful creatures
b6: For they were created solely in the name of fun
b7: Don't you be creating a hyakki
b8: You don't even intend to be responsible for!!
b9: GYAAAAAAH

18
a1: !!
b1: You...
b2: Move aside!!
b3: O... Ohh!! Kurotabou!?
b4a: You're late, dammit!!
b4b: It's all 'cause you failed to kill him that everything became like this!!
b5: Ki... Kill... I'll definitely kill youuu!!

19
b1: Wha... What should I do, what should I do!!
b2: I'm gonna get killed at this rate!!
x1a: Sanmoto's never-say-die brain worked quickly
x1b: To conjure up some choices he had by which he could get out of the pinch he was in
a1: (1) Continue running (2) Persuade him (3) Cry and apologize (4) Keep thinking and wait for a better idea to come (5) I still haven't gotten serious yet! (6) Slim down this instant (7) Continue the Hyaku Monogatari game (8) Try eating the kettle (9) Suicide... A gracious end
b3a: Ughhhhhh what should I do!
b3b: I just needed one more... For the Hyaku Monogatari game to be complete!
b4: Just one more...
a2: One... More...!?
a3: I... I see...
a4: That option is viable, too...!!
a5: ☆Tenacious...!!
b5: ...
b6: What the hell is that guy laughing about...?

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 153

Tue, 24 May 2011 18:18:18 +0000

I need to get down to finishing some WORK. As in, the work I actually get PAID for... <.<

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01
a1: A record of three generations of youkai heroism
b1: Dear god
b2: Please heal my father of his illness...
b3: Please give us money... To buy medicine...
b4a: ... God will grant
b4b: That request of yours
b5: Eh?

02
b1: HYAAAAH
b2: Haaah!!
b3: Ah...
b4: Mmmm
b5: Ohh?
b6: Ugh...
b7: What...? Caught another woman, did you?
b8: Hehe, what's thiiiiis? What a pretty laaaadyyyy
b9a: Hey miss, we're gods, you know?
b9b: The gods who live in this temple... Hehe
b10: Hah

03
b1: Be good!
b2: Hehe, it'll be over before you know it
b3: Inject the druuuuugs! Hyahahaha
b4: Eh...?
b5: ... Eh, where did my topknot go?
b6: Eh? What just happened?
b7: !?
b8: Oi, what the hell!? Who the hell are yooouuu
b9a: ...
b9b: That's enough...

04
b1: Of your childish mischief
b2: fuh
b3: Kyaaah
b4: Mo... Monsteeeeeer!!
b5: Eek
b6: ...

05
b1: Hah
b2a: Oh
b2b: In here's not the place a human should be. Get out
b3: What... What are you...
b4: Hm
b5: Well... That's a good question
b6: The guardian deity... Of the guardian deity of this place, I guess?

06
b1: ... I'm sorry
b2: It's become like this everywhere...
b3: We can barely keep up...
b4: We've gotta do something soon or we're screwed
b5: Yet even the previous supreme commander's disappeared...
b6: What the fuck is going on!!

07
a1: ☆Jump NEXT! is selling fast, and Edo's the stage for a special bangaihen!! Hurry to the store to get your copy!!
x1: A trip through the underworld
x2: Nura Rihan
a2: Act 153 Kaidan Hyakuman-pen (TN: A Million Ghost Stories)
a3: Rihan, taking a trip alone through the underworld
a4: ☆Check out the latest info on the second season of the TV Anime and goods in "Nura Ban" on page 357!!

08
a1: Sanmoto's Mansion

09
b1: Nara-ya-sama (TN: Ya-sama [屋様] addresses someone who works somewhere [typically a store], while Nara [奈良], Yodo [淀], Zeni [銭], Takada [高田], Echigo [越後] and Daimonji [大文字] are all names of places)
b2: Yodo-ya-sama
b3: Zeni-ya-sama
b4: Takada-ya-sama
b5: Echigo-ya-sama

10
b1: Nakai-sama
b2: Kukukuku...
b3: Kawamura-sama
b4: The shogunal vassals and daimyo merchants I invited are gathering one by one
b5: Iida-sama
b6: Daimonji-ya-sama
b7: If the Hyaku Monogatari game goes well today... My ambition will be a step closer to fruition
b8: With this, I'll have everything! Money, power, everything!
b9: All that's left is... What was it again?
b10: God... Buddha
b11: Oh! That guy too
b12: Guess I've no choice but to become a god myself, no?
b13: The fears of this world... Will become my fear
b14: I'm going to thoroughly uproot... The hearts that believe in gods, buddhas and evil spirits!!

11
b1: Just a little bit more...
b2: Till the fear in the <Teakettle of the Hyakki> overflows...
b3: Kuku
a1: Today is the day I become a buddha
b4: Kuku
b5: Uku
a2: While still alive and kicking!
b6: Uku
b7: Ukuku
b8a: Mito
b8b: Mitsukuni-kou-sama (TN: Kou-sama [公様] addresses a monarch; Mito Mitsukuni is another name for Tokugawa Mitsukuni [徳川光圀], a prominent daimyo who was known for his influence in the politics of the early Edo period)
b9: !!

12
b1: Scram!
b2a: My, my!!
b2b: It is my pleasure to welcome you for your first visit here... It appears my many invitations have finally paid off!
b3: Myyy, my... There is no greater honor than this!!
b4: Mm
b5: I did consider coming befooore
b6: But today I'm here for the much-talked-about... Hyaku Monogatari!!
b7: I'm looking forward to it!
b8: Hohohoho
a1: Amazing...
b9: ...
a2: Even the vice-shogun...
b10: Kukukuku...
b11a: So cocky... Even the former vice-shogun
b11b: Will be but a pawn in my hand!!

13
b1: Now then, everyone
b2: You must already have one in your hands, no...?
b3: ...?
b4: What are these?
(panel 2: on skulls, from left to right - 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
b5: Looks like something rather terrifying...
b6: There are numbers written on it
(panel 3: on skulls, from left to right - 18, 19)
b7: Today is a special day
b8: We'll tell ghost stories one by one, and as we do so, we'll pass around these skull rosary beads... I call this "Kaidan Hyakuman-pen"
(panel 4: on skulls, from left to right - 2, 1)

14
b1: Kaidan Hyakuman-pen is a new form of Hyaku Monogatari...!!
b2: When we hit a hundred, you will obtain a fear you have never seen before
b3: Those who have come here tonight
b4: Will obtain... A special power
b5: Ohh... What an interesting idea...
b6: And as for what to look forward to after we finish a hundred of them...
b7: Tonight's tea will certainly
b8: Take on a most indescribable and exceptional taste

15
b1a: Hoho
b1b: Hoho
b2: So this is Hyaku Monogatari, huh~? Hoho, wow, it is indeed interesting, just as I had heard
b3a: Fufu... I'm honored to see you enjoying yourself
b3b: Come now, it's your turn, good sir... The rumors say you have traveled all over Japan... I do wish to hear some of your exceptional tales
b4: Hmm... That's right! I guess I ought to contribute to this tea of the supreme leader too, huh...?

16
a1: Just one more story...
a2: When I tell the last story... My fear will be complete!!
b1: Hmm...
b2: That's right... When I first heard this, I was scared to the bone...
b3a: For some reason, ghost stories were told night after night at that place...
b3b: Of all things, the ghost stories told there... Would come to life and attack people!
b4: It is said that there was a heretic who would rejoice in the self-satisfaction
b5: Of watching the innocent civilians suffering as they were attacked, as if it were the appetizer along with his sake
b6: The pleasure he experienced as he controlled others...
b7: Intoxicated him and rotted his body, a rascal even worse than a beast
b8: Mitsukuni-kou
b9: What are you saying?
b10: And that's when I thought

17
b1: What about a <phenomenon>
b2: That could exterminate those heretics?
b3: !?
b4: Eh...
b5: Wha- What the...!?

18
b1: Ah
b2: !?
b3: Ohh! Oi, someone!?
b4: Stop hiiiiiiim!!
b5: Hmm, is this...
b6: All that important?
b7: OAAAAAAHHHH

19
b1: Whoopsies, my bad
b2: My foot slipped
b3: AHHHHHHHHH
a1: ☆An exclamation!!
b4: YOOOOOUUUUU BAAAAAASTAAAARD!!! What have you doooooooone!!!

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 152

Sat, 21 May 2011 13:51:53 +0000

I am sorry this is so late, but please understand that:

a) I was overseas for a week
b) I have a life outside of manga and the internet
c) I work two jobs - now I need to catch up on work too
d) I do translate other series too - also need to catch up here
e) I also happen to be a staff on this site/forum and have other things to take care of (eg daily front page news)
f) I'm planning events as a volunteer on top of my work and everything else - also gotta catch up with these things

As it is, I already went to sleep at 5am yesterday. I am trying my best here. The more you bug me, even if you're not obnoxious about it, about when I'm going to finish translating something, the less motivation I have to finish it. Thank you to all of you who waited so patiently :)

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01
a1: ☆Volume 16 is on sale to rave reviews and full of omake pages!!
a2: Even if I play, my heart burns
a3: I cannot make a cold tone reverberate
a4: Act 152 Ripple
a5: "Nura Rihan no Yome" is published in Jump NEXT! which is now on sale!! What danger draws near to Yamabuki-sensei, who works at the Terakoya!? Check it out! (TN: Nura Rihan no Yome = The Bride of Nura Rihan)

02
b1: Kurotabou
b2: I'll ask you once more
b3: Just who is behind all this and where is he?
b4: Cuz I gotta meet this guy who's trying to do as he likes on my turf
b5: And mete out an appropriate punishment, ya know?

03
b1: Ooooi
b2: ... You listenin'...? (small text: And that was my catchphrase too...)
b3: Tch!
b4: Hey, you... You still wanna go at it!?
b5: Kuoo...
b6: I... I have... to...
b7: Kill you...!!

04
b1: Give it up! It don't matter how many times you try, I ain't feeling no fear from you
b2: No matter how strong you are...!!
b3: The crosses the two of us carry are different
b4: Your reason for existing makes you no better than a boring piece of junk
b5: ... Hah
b6: In that case, why don't you tell me yours...!?
b7: Ah?
b8: Heey, just who... Do you think this territory belongs to?

05
b1: It's a great city, it has a certain bustling busyness to it, making it lively and gay
b2: When you stand at the center of all that, it just feels so pleasant. As if you'd just get mixed into it all without even realizing it and lose yourself...
b3a: But in all things florid and gay, there also exists darkness
b3b: If someone doesn't protect it from that, things will go haywire in no time
b4: The cross I bear is that of the darkness of the entire extent of Edo---
b5: That is the reason for my existence, and my strength
b6: Kurotabou... If you truly wish to defeat me
b6: Try again when you have figured out just what you are
b7: ...
b8: Well... Despite what I said, you're different from regular junk, and I did feel fear from you
b9: From... The "depths" within you...
b10a: Perhaps
b10b: There is something within you...

06
b1: Well... When you remember it, I'll be back to test you again
b2: To see if you're fit to join my hyakki yakou, you know?
b3: ... What did you...!
b4a: Oh
b4b: You woke up?
b5: Don't joke around with me! I...
b6: I came to kill you...
a1: I'm nothing more than an assassin---
b7: Whatever, just tell me where it is
a2: No--- What!? Is that not it....!?
a3: What am I?
a4: For what reason...

07
b1: !!
b2: Nura Rihan

08
b1: We'll be having you
b2: Die here
b3: ...
b4: What...!?
b5: Wa... Wait

09
b1: What's going on!!
b2: I'll take care of Nura Rihan! Fall back!!
b3: Kurotabou-dono... There is no need for such consideration for us
b4: We are just like you, <Mysterious Assassins>... Let us consign him to oblivion together
b5: Tch...
b6: Dammit, there're too many...

10
b1: Guaaah
b2: Nura Rihan!!
b3: Did we get him?
b4a: We must report this to Sanmoto-sama
b4b: Let's return with a little souvenir

11
b1: Mm!?
b2: You're saying that this is the ponytail... Of the supreme commander of all youkai, Nura Rihan!?
b3: It's covered in blood...
b4: His blood
b5: Kuku...
b6: Good good, with this
b7: My ghost stories...
b8: Can take flight and spread throughout Edo even more~~~ (small text: Fuhahaha...)
b9: Kurotabou

12
b1: You fool... You're nothing but a disappointment!!
b2: Fail once more and I will erase you
b3: ... Yes
b4: ...
b5: Dear, dear, I apologize for making you wait, everyone
b6: Hahaha
b7: We have grown tired of waiting, Sanmoto-dono
b8: Now, now... Today is our monthly
b9: Reeeeleeeeeaaaaaseeee daaaaay~
b10: Ohh bring the <tea>
b11: We can drink it!?
b12: Come~ have as much as you like! ♡
b13: And on this day, too... We will turn Edo into a most interesting world...

13
b1: Mm... An exquisite taste... So this is what Sanmoto-sama was drinking...
b2: I feel like I'm in paradise!
x1: Fears gathered from all over Edo through ghost stories, melted into this <tea>, a taste that makes people go wild...
b3: I want it... I want it... More of it... This is the taste of a supreme leader...
b4: A taste only a man who has obtained everything can taste...
x2: Almost as if it were a drug...!! Once one is acquainted with this taste, one can no longer stop oneself. The ghost stories spread ever further due to their desire for the <tea>
b5: I want to drink more of this <tea>...!!
b6: I have to spread more ghost stories...!!
b7a: Ooh...
b7b: This is bad... It's gotten so late...
b8: Eek
b9: Ahh... Ah...
b10: This guy... He's the <Ashitori Bouzu> I've heard about (TN: 足取り坊主 - Literally "leg-grabbing boy")

14
b1a: Have you heard of the <Ashitori Bouzu>!?
b1b: I'm scared
x1: Regardless of whether there was any truth
b2a: I heard the <Kaokui> appeared over there this time (TN: 顔食い - literally "face eater")
b2b: Help me!
b2c: I heard it's really unlucky if you fall down on any day with the number 3 in the date...
x2: In the countless ghost stories birthed by Sanmoto, Edo was filled with fear and the people sent into a state of panic
b3: I heard you musn't wash your hands in the well
b4: No way...
x3: They spread just like groundless, baseless rumors... The people became more and more afraid
x4: And the number of people playing the game of Hyaku Monogatari increased as well
x5: New ghost stories spread like vermin...
x6: At small gatherings all over the land, the game of Hyaku Monogatari was played and from them, even more new ghost stories came into being
x7: All the fear from the Hyaku Monogatari game gathered about Sanmoto, and the <Tea of the Supreme Leader> was produced in large amounts and distributed to the masses
x8: The mysteries of Hyaku Monogatari thus enshrouded all of Edo

15
x1: In this age where the population was booming, it could be said that in some sense, the method used by Sanmoto was necessary
x2: Sanmoto knew that his ghost stories would spread as explosively as the population increased
x3: These numbers and the vigor with which this happened far exceeded that of the Nura Clan's...
b1: You bastard!
b2: Hey, you, you shouldn't be hanging around a place like this all alone!
b3: We're the Nura Clan! If anything happens, we've got your back...!!
b4: Eek~
b5: Dammit, there are a crap load of them here too...
next to Kubinashi's head: Hah hah
b6: No matter how many of them we take down, we'll never get them all...
b7: Hyaku Monogatari's the cause of all this... That much we do know
b8: But even so, they're everywhere

16
b1: Second, where have you gone...?
b2: Edo's a lost cause without you around
b3: Rihan...
b4: I wonder if this thunder's also because of some ayakashi
b5: That's possible! But it'll be okay!
b6: What do you mean okay!? You're the one who's always such as scaredycat!
b7: Not this time!! There are youkai who stand on the side of justice too, you know!!

17
b1: We've been pushed into quite the corner, now haven't we...
b2: Yo
b2: Yaya
b3: Whatever do we have here? I've caught myself an fine magical fish of some sort
b4: Even a place like this is brimming with youkai, you sure that's alright? (brushed text: Back you go)
b5a: Not at all...
b5b: Our subordinates have all been dispatched to search the town with a fine-toothed comb, but it's been totally ineffective
b6a: Hmph... If they're coming from ghost stories, then it's like the whole town is an ayakashi breeding ground
b6b: At this rate, even the tochigami are going to have their fear stolen by these ghost stories (TN: 土地神 - land gods)

18
b1: Geez, that damn profligate of a prodigal son! (small text: What the hell is he doing)
b2: If he doesn't put a stop to this spread of ghost stories asap, the enemy's gonna get a hyakumanki yakou for himself! (TN: 百万鬼夜行 is a play on the original hyakki yakou [百鬼夜行], so instead of a "hundred" monsters, you have a "million")
b3: ... Just what trick are you pulling here, Rihan...?
b4a: Yo, pops
b4b: Shhhh, let's not be too conspicuous now
b5: ... Huh?
b6: Hey, everyone's been real worried about you, little Koi
b7a: Naah, you know what they say, to fool your enemy you gotta fool your comrades first...
b7b: I enlisted Kappa's help and secretly did some investigating
b8: However
b9: I've finally found it
b10: The location of the source of all this!

19
b1: What...!
b2: You've found out the location of the Hyaku Monogatari headquarters!?
b3: Yeah...
b4: But the place... is a place that only <invited guests> can enter
b5: Besides, from what I saw, it looked like they were all wealthy merchants or high-ranking samurai
b6a: I see
b6b: If there's a special kekkai like that set up, it's gonna be a pain to try and enter...
b7: My point exactly... I said it before, didn't I?
b8: Hm?
b9: That someone among Pop's tea-drinking buddies... Had some connection to Hyaku Monogatari
left: ☆A secret plan!? Next issue, the counterattack begins...!!
b10: You... You don't mean him, do you!?
b11: N... No way, bringing him there would be... Hold it, hold it
b12: Nope! You're gonna do it
b13: If we can get in, I'll take over... And finish them in a heartbeat!

Translation: Bakuman 132

Fri, 20 May 2011 22:01:52 +0000

I'm baaaaaack~ XD

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01
s1a~s1b: briiing
a1: Page 132 Headstands and Reorganizing
b1: ... Akito-san didn't come to bed again...
b2a: Akito-san, good mo...
b2b: Uwah
a2: Get up there, blood!! And bring some good ideas with you!!
b3: What are you doing!?
b4: I... I can't think of any ideas...
b5: Even if I do headstands...
b6: Doing headstands helps you get ideas...!?

02
b1: Deh
s1: bam
b2a: Daaaaaammit! Why!?
b2b: When I write while thinking to myself that it doesn't matter that we're being imitated, I end up writing a crime manga instead of a shounen manga...
b3: But when I think that it's okay to do everything as I've always been doing, I just can't think of any ideas at all...
b4: Dammit! I don't have tiiiime!
b5: ...
a1: He really is bothered by the bank break-in after all...
a2: In that case, I've got to raise his spirits...
b6: Co... Come on, even the protagonist of "Lupin III" broke into banks a lot, didn't he?
b7: ... Umm, that wasn't a shounen manga
b8: Besides, unlike "PCP", it leans much more into the fantasy genre
b9a: I have to make "PCP" more real... I've got to make them do things that really could be done in real life...
b9b: Also, in "PCP", the protagonist doesn't break into banks
b10a: Ah!
b10b: Sorry
b11: ... Something within what kids can imitate... But yet wouldn't be too much of a problem even if they did imitate them... No... I can't worry about that...

03
x1: 4 hours later
b1: NOTHING'S COMIIIIIIINNNGGG
a1: Daaaaaah
b2: !
b3a: Hah
b3b: Hah
b4a: Hey, don't you have some manuscripts stocked up?
b4b: The ones you showed me when you had that challenge from Nanamine-kun
b5: !
b6: You mean these!?
b7a: "White Christmas Daisakusen"... The season's not right... (TN: The Great White Christmas Operation)
b7b: "Mai no Suiei Taikai Bikini Daisakusen"... This one's too early, too (TN: Mai's Great Swim Meet Bikini Operation)
b8a: "Uwasa no Couple Subete Tonari ni Naru Sekigae Daisakusen"... (TN: The Great Seat-Change Operation Where All Rumored Couples End up Sitting Together)
b8b: "Me no Sakkaku Daisakusen"... This one! (TN: The Great Optical Illusion Operation)
b9: But isn't this the one that was once rejected...?
b10a: Nah, I don't have time! If I work on it a little, this might be okay!
b10b: Kaya-chan, thank you!

04
b1: Regardless of the circumstances, he's got to have the next story done by now or else...
b2: Will you be okay, Shuujin...?
b3: *music note*
b4: Mashiro-kun, is the name still undone? You're pretty pressed for time now, aren't you?
b5: Sorry, Takagi still hasn't...
b6: Ah, it looks like Takagi's here
s1: huff
b7: Saikou, how's this?
s2: huff
b8: Takagi's just brought me the story in prose form
b9a: Is that so!
b9b: I'm a little worried myself, so I'll head over there too. I'll be there in 40 minutes

05
b1: ...
a1: ...
a2: I definitely can't say that this will turn out well, but we don't have time...
b2: Alright, it's good to go! Mashiro-kun, please rework it into a name
b3: O... Okay
b4: Haaaah, thank god for that...
b5: ...
b6: Are you alright? Takagi-kun... You look rather worn out...
b7a: I'm alright!
b7b: More importantly, I always had stories stocked up for two chapters ahead, but I've gone through the whole stock now
b7c: So I'm going to go home to write the next one now
b8: You sure you wanna miss the meeting?
above Shuujin's head: hah hah
b9: I have the ideas already, so I'll have you look at them once I've written them out
next to b10: slam...
b11: ...

06
b1: Hattori-san
b2: Hm?
b3: This story is something that Takagi completed from one of the ideas he originally had
b4: Oh? You mean he had a number of ideas already drafted out? In that case we've got enough to spare
b5: No we don't!
b6a: There are some that we can't do because they're out of season, but this one is one that we didn't turn into a proper story earlier because it wasn't that good
b6b: For him to use something like this despite that must mean that he had to fold under the pressure
b7a: ...
b7b: I see. I gave the green light just now, but honestly speaking, it didn't have the same quality as before
b8: ...
b9: I'm going to do my best to see how I can salvage it
b10: You're right, it seems Takagi-kun is in quite the pinch right now, so I'll leave it to you
b11: In that case, fax it over as soon as you've got the name done
b12: Got it!

07
x1: Shuujin quickly used up all the ideas he had stocked up that could be used, but even so, the result was hardly what you could call positive
b1: Draw the name asap!
b2: Got it!
x2: Accordingly, the popularity of "PCP"...
b3: ...
b4: ...
a1: "PCP" is in twelfth... It never used to go into the double-digits before, but this is the third week it's been stuck in that rut...
b5a: Yuujirou-san, "CROW" is amazing
b5b: It's improved even more from last week so there's barely a 20 vote difference between it and the first place
b6: Ah, yeah
b7: With this, he'll really become number one...
a2: If I become the most popular artist in Jump
a3: Please give me the right to end one manga I hate
a4: Well, he may not really try to go through with what he said back then, but just how serious was he...
b8: ...

08
b1: Yuujirou-san, why're you making such a face when "CROW"'s doing so well?
b2: Eh?
b3: Speak for yourself, you're the one who's always pulling a long face these days
b4: I have reason to, with the way "PCP"'s going, but it's odd to see one on you when "CROW" and "GIRI" are both doing well, right?
b5: ...
b6: ?
b7: Wanna get some coffee downstairs? Been a while since we last did
b8: ... Sure
b9: Eh...
b10: The right to end a manga he hates!? Are you serious!?
b11: Yo... You're too loud! ... Only the editor-in-chief and I know about this, so don't you breathe a word to anybody!
b12a: For some reason, Niizuma-kun's now getting real serious about taking first place...
b12b: Even so, even if he takes first place, it doesn't instantly make him Jump's number one author, but...

09
a1: ... Niizuma-kun could be thinking of giving Ashirogi Muto a wake-up call after seeing the slump its been in
a2: !
b1: I've become the most popular! "PCP"'s boring, so let me end it
a3: No...
a4: If he really feels that the current "PCP" doesn't even deserve to be read...
a5: He couldn't possibly... No, but Niizuma-kun is also a fan of Ashirogi-kun's...
a6: But something so unthinkable...
b2: So... What do you think?
b3: Eh? Ah...
b4a: No matter how much Niizuma-kun hates a manga, I don't think he would try to end it...
b4b: In the first place, even if he did become the number one artist, giving him such a right would be...
b5: T... That's true!
b6a: Guess I was reading too much into things, yeah
b6b: Seeya
a7: Which is it? Is he trying to make Ashirogi-kun write something more interesting by himself making "CROW" more interesting...? Or is he trying to earn the right to end something...?
a8: ...
a9: Am I over-thinking things...? Everyone wants to be number one, and that could be all there is to it...

10
a1: No... Never mind Niizuma-kun, I've got to think about "PCP"...
a2: The plot is obviously going downhill, and it's barely even making the deadlines...
a3: With things as they are, nothing good is going to come out of this
a4: The rankings are going to fall even more if this vicious cycle keeps up
b1: *bubu*
b2: Mashiro-kun, have you two got the next story done at last?
b3: No, we're not done yet, so can you wait till tomorrow?
b4: Yo... You're still not done? Takagi-kun still didn't get anything done today?
b5: That's not it... I read it and felt it wasn't interesting, so I rejected it
b6: Mashiro-kun rejected it!?
b7: Yes, I told him to redo it by tomorrow
b8: B... But we don't have time to do something like that at this stage, do we?
b9: The story is becoming less and less interesting. I'm sure you've noticed that as well, Hattori-san. It's showing on the rankings, too

11
b1: If we continue with boring things like this
b2: It'd be the end of "PCP"
b3a: I said as much to Takagi-kun
b3b: He agreed and left after saying that he'd redo it by tomorrow
b4: ...
b5: *pi*
a1: ... This is bad... For even Mashiro-kun to be feeling resentment over Takagi-kun's inability to come up with something good... Takagi-kun hasn't been able to write ever since that incident, and it's not as if I don't understand where he's coming from
a2: But at this rate, never mind the manga "PCP", even the combo "Ashirogi Muto" will... I've got to do something about this...
sign on door: Takagi
b6: ... Still not coming to bed?
b7: Yeah... Sorry...
a3: It's getting later and later... Normally, Saikou would have had to finish converting this into a name by now...
a4: I've got to come up with something by tomorrow...

12
b1: Hattori
b2a: What's up with "PCP"?
b2b: The manuscripts were in late, cutting the deadline real fine and the rankings lately have been...
b2c: They must be really bothered by the recent bank break-in after all, huh?
b3: In all honesty, you can't say that there's been no effect at all
b4a: I guess... They're trying to avoid having their stories turn into real crimes...
b4b: They've been at it for more than two years, why not give them a week off?
b4c: Let them have a week off, to let Takagi-kun sort out his feelings so he can write something good
b4d: At this rate, they may be able to get the manuscript done in time, and it's better than publishing something that was shakily written and not of good quality, no?
b5a: Perhaps
b5b: But when I think about how the two of them were when Mashiro-kun was hospitalized, telling them to take a break would be...
b6: ...

13
x1: The next day
b1: It's getting there...
a1: ... Getting there...
b2: What about you, Saikou?
b3: ...
b4: Please be honest
b5: It's a lot better than the one you showed me yesterday
b6: But
b7: This is nothing more than a rehashing of ideas we've used before
b8: Eh

14
b1: Adding the words "kibou o nakushi" into an advance notice letter, which is a code telling them to remove the letters "ki", "bo" and "u", is just like the battle with Akechi, when we used "ika o toriagete" as a coded instruction to remove the letters "i" and "ka" (TN: "kibou o nakushi" means to lose hope)
b2: Gathering the whole class together on the pretext of going to see the cherry blossoms together, is similar to when they tried to make the three members of PCP less conspicuous by holding a birthday party at Mai's house... There are other small parts here that are just rehashed ideas...
b3: You're right...!
b4: I totally overlooked the fact that it was similar to ideas we'd used before... I can't even remember what ideas we HAVE used...!
b5: ...
b6: But the story itself is fine
b7a: We don't have time!
b7b: As authors being published weekly, you just have to go with the best you can come up with in the limited space of a week
b8: We're pushing that limit right now, so let's go with this!
b9: ...
b10: Did you think this would fly, Shuujin?
b11: Eh

15
b1: I think this is no good
b2: Saikou!
b3: I'll wait till tomorrow morning
b4: B... But... If you wait that long, Mashiro-kun won't have enough time to draw...
b5: If Takagi can do it, then pulling three all-nighters is fine by me, too
b6: Got it! Tomorrow morning it is!
b7: Takagi-kun!
b8: I'm going home to write!
b9: I'll definitely come up with something that Mashiro will approve of!

16
b1: Takagi-kun is already at his limit...
b2: I know...
b3: Actually, I was told that it would be okay if you guys took a break for a week
b4: What are you talking about!? We won't take any breaks!
b5: !
b6a: Alternatively, you could ask Tanabe-san, who wrote the novelized versions of "PCP" for some help
b6b: I explained the situation to him, and he said he would be happy to help
b7: We can't ask for help like that
b8a: Why not...? Because you disagree with Nanamine-kun's methods?
b8b: This is entirely fair and square... Totally different from Nanamine-kun's met...
b9: That's not it!!
b10: !

17
b1: I'm hoooome...
b2: Eh, what about dinner?
b3: I don't have time for that
b4: Eh!?
b5: Saikou's waiting till morning for the story
b6: Eh... Mashiro told you to change it so you stayed up all night to do that, and it's still no good?
b7a: Hattori-san said that since we're out of time, we didn't have a choice but to go with this
b7b: But Saikou said it was no good and to redo it by morning
b8: *pachi*
b9a: ...! Hasn't Mashiro been rather cold as of late?
b9b: Akito-san's been working so hard and yet...
b10: No!
b11: He's waiting for me, and believing in me
b12: Believing that I can do it without a drop in quality
bottom: JC Bakuman Volume 13 goes on sale 3rd June (Fri)!! You've gotta get your hands on this one!!

18
b1: If we take a week off... Or enlist the help of that writer... We might be able to produce something better
b2a: But that's not what all this is about...
b2b: Even if it means my drawing time is reduced, or that we barely make the deadline by the skins of our teeth, I'll only draw a story that Takagi himself is happy with
b2c: I'll give the art my all, and I'll definitely keep to the deadline
b3a: That's what being Ashirogi Muto means
b3b: If he absolutely needs help no matter what...
b4a: In the summer of our first year in high school...
b4b: There was once where I promised Saikou that I'd definitely get a name done by the end of summer vacation...
b4c: Even back then, Saikou believed in me and waited for me
b4d: And despite that, I broke our promise and let Saikou down...
b5a: I don't want Saikou to have to feel that way ever again...
b5b: We're already professionals

19
b1: I'll help him!
b2: That's what it means to be Ashirogi Muto!
a1: Synchronizing feelings...!! Will they materialize....!?
b3a: We're the pro mangaka duo Ashirogi Muto
b3b: The artist Saikou has told me that he'd wait, even if it meant a reduction in the amount of time he has to draw
b4: I'll do this for sure! For Saikou! For Ashirogi Muto!

Gone from 11-18 May~

Mon, 09 May 2011 16:52:57 +0000

So once again I'm going overseas~

I'll be going to Hong Kong between 11-18 May. This means that I will be unable to translate Bakuman 131. MRI is getting a back-up, though, so don't worry too much about that ^^ I have yet to even do Bakuman 123 which was the previous chapter I missed due to extenuating reasons, so I leave it to your imagination whether or not I'll ever do 131 :p There's also a bangaihen to be done, I'll do that when I get back. Promise.

As for Mago 152, I am going to try my best to get it done tomorrow before I leave, but I cannot guarantee anything so it may have to come after I get back, along with 153.

AnE and Examurai are already done and new chapters are in June so no problems there. Except... AnE Phantom Train bangaihen... Umm... I did mean to do this last week but I ended up getting pretty caught up with a lot of other stuff ^^; I will do it, eventually :p

So, my to-do list for when I get back:
1. Mago 152
2. Bakuman bangaihen
3. AnE bangaihen
4. Bakuman 131 (maybe :p)

See you all, and don't wreck havoc on the forums! o/ The more you spam/troll/whatever, the less time I have to translate~ XD (not really since I have awesome co-mods but you know what I mean)

<3, Salad

Translation: Examurai 6

Mon, 09 May 2011 11:15:31 +0000

You know what? I have been losing some of my motivation for translating Examurai as of the past few chapters. It's not been anything awesome, chapters are so long, and my love for EXILE may not suffice to keep me going. When school starts for me again, I *might* consider dropping it. Just advanced notice :|

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01
x1: They were the "predators" that floated through space, searching out important stars and sucking them dry of their life energy before moving on to the next
x2: Repeating this endlessly, they lived for time eternal, the most evil race in space
left: The mystery of the majinki invasion... The secret behind Sora... The backstory behind Examurai's birth becomes clear...
x3: They were called, "Majinki"
bottom: JC "Examurai" #1 is on sale with an awesome holographic cover!!

02
a1: Examurai
a2: Act 6 Kaguya
a3: Falling from space to the earth below...

03
x1: My name is "Kaguya"
x2: The former King's daughter...
x3: The former King was unable to bear the guilt he felt because of the unpleasant customs of our race
x4: He did not move on to the next star, choosing instead the "path of destruction" for our entire race
x5a: That... May have been a decision made because of how weak the former King's heart was
x5b: But I approved of that decision
x6: Everyone else, too... There was no-one who opposed that decision
x7: ... However

04
x1: My older brother Byakuya
b1: Hyugoooo
b2a: *gohoh*
b2b: Hyuu
b2c: Your ideology is dangerous, Byakuya...
b2d: Forgive me
b2e: Hyugoo....
b3a: *gohoh*
b3b: Hyuu...
b3c: I will execute you
b4: ...
b5a: My son... Have you any last words?
b5b: Hyuu
b5c: Goo

05
b1a: I've always wanted to try sitting here
b1b: On the "throne"
x1: Brother led just four trusted friends... Into a successful coup d'état
b2a: We are the strongest race, one without rival, and the ones who ought to rule the universe
b2b: All creation exists for us, to become our nutrition!!
b3: Kaguya

06
b1: It's been 800 years since then...!!
b2: Our brethren have all acknowledged me as their king. It is about time for you to do likewise
b3: ...
b4: *glare*
b5: ... I see
b6: In that case, rot and die in that cell
b7: Oh... Almost forgot
b8: I've found my first star, the first of my spoils since becoming king, Kaguya
b9a: It's called "earth"
b9b: A beautiful blue star...!

07
x1: 2718 by the Imperial Calendar
b1a: Gee, Pinotaaa
b1b: You're still collecting junk from the ruins!?
x2: ZIPANG, the country from whence the sun rises
b2: No... No I'm not! This is for my dream...
b3: Dreeeaaam!? (small text: All that junk?)
b4a: Gyahahaha you're as disgusting as ever!
b4b: More importantly, how 'bout ya make our dream come true today, hmm? Just ¥2000'd do
s1: *dokah*
b5: Pl... Please stop it!
b6: Oi, brats! Don't you guys be pullin' such uncool tricks on these streets!
b7: !?
b8a: What didja say, you basta...
b8b: !!!
b9a: Geh
b9b: You guys are...

08
b1: The LDH Vigilante Corps!!!

09
b1: That's right! We're the Ero the Ecchi... (TN: This pun comes from how "L" is pronounced "Eru" in Japanese, which is one letter away from "ero", and "H" is "Eichi", close to "Ecchi")
b2: That ain't right! You tryin' to make us into some sick joke group!!!?
b3: Damn you, Hiro! How many times do I haveta teach ya the right pronunciation before ya remember it!!?
b4: Buuuut...
b5: Shut up!!!
b6a: Listen up!! L-D-H
b6b: Say it!
b7: L... L... D... Ecchi
b8: No!!! L-D-H!!!
b9: ... Umm, those two have gotten away...
b10: What!!?
b11: What the hell? That ain't no reason ta run away~
below b11: Boo... Boo...
b12: Guess that story about how you couldn't even count the number of gangs the LDH Vigilante Corps had crushed with two hands was just a rumour, huh? (small text: Can't help it if they just run away)
below b12: Owowow...
b13: That rumour's sooo exaggerated (small text: You only need one hand!)
b14: Thank you for saving me
b15: Oh, that's nothing!
b16: ... I'm so ashamed... All of you are orphans who put aside the fact that you have no families to patrol the streets daily for everyone's sake...
b17: Not just that, but you're all really strong, and you're all allies of justice, so unlike me...
b18: No, silly, we're no different at all!!
b19: Eh?

10
b1: Every one of us considers everyone in this town in which we were born and raised something akin to family
b2: Thinking "I want to protect them" is normal, no?
b3: The only thing that's different is that our "family" looks kinda big from the outside
b4: Pinota, you wanted to become a "esternaut", didn't you?
b5: It's "astronaut"!
b6: When I was young... I randomly found a board with things about space written on it among the ruins!!
b7a: It said that there's an area called "space" waaaaay up above the sky
b7b: Humans were already commuting to space long ago, and the people who went to space were called "astronauts"

11
b1a: And not only that!! According to this board
b1b: In space, there are creatures called aliens and one of them came to earth, and then
b1c: He joined fingers with an earthling boy, and there was this bright light and then they became friends and he brought that boy on a trip, cycling through the sky
b1d: And so I...! I've been searching the ruins for a way to get to space!!!
b2: Ohh, you sure are passionate
below b1: *kurun*
b3: Hey, Pinota! Did you know that the "L" in "LDH" stands for dream!!?
b4a: It's the "D", the "D"!!!
b4b: "Dream"!!!
b5a: "Love", "Dream", "Happiness"!!!
b6a: In other words, Pinota's dream is also something that the LDH Vigilante Corps wants to protect
b6b: So you gotta pull yourself together and proudly chase that dream!
b6c: See ya~
a1: ... That's right. I ought to look only towards space. No matter how much anyone laughs at me, I...
b7: Hm?
b8: Somehow... The sky looks weird

14
b1: NNGAHHH!!?

15
b1: ... A meteorite...? (small text: First time I'm seeing one)
b2: ... Too weird to be one
b3: It... It's a spaceship!!
b4a: There are aliens in that thing!!
b4b: They've gotta be a friendly bunch, right!? If you join fingers with them, a light will flash and you'll be able to understand each other's hearts
b4c: Ah
b5: It's coming out
s1: *bushuuuuuu...!!*
s2: *pika*
b6: I... I told you! It's finger is flashing!

16
b1: And it-
b2: You... Bastard...
s1: *mooo*
s2: *mooo*

17
s1: *MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*
b1: UOOOOOOOOOOH
b2a: Hiro!!!
b2b: ... Kuh
b3: Do it!
b4: Yeah!!
black text running across panel3: UWAAAAAAAAH
b5: Mm. This is indeed the right form the supreme ruler of the universe should take
b6: But... At the rate it's going, it'll drain the star of its energy before we can suck it dry ourselves...
b7: It's been hibernating in "sleep mode" for a really long time, so cut it some slack. Besides...

18
b1: This is practically my royal accession ceremony. All the better if it's flashy
b2a: Hurry, put out the "roots"
b2b: We're gonna wring this star dry of its life energy till not a drop remains
b3: Roger!! Put out the "roots"!!!
s1: Uiiiiii
b4a: We have grown weaker due to the foolish choice made by my predecessor. A single planet like this should cause us little trouble, but...
b4b: How long do those four plan to sleep?
b5: Byakuya-sama!!!

19
b1: Shitenmajin-sama's sleep capsule is being operated by an unknown person (TN: Shitenmajin [四天魔神] Demons of the Four Skies)
b2: They most probably can't wake up for another hundred years...
b3: Bya- Byakuya-sama will be in trouble!!!
b4: The prison...
b5: Kaguya-sama is missing!
b6: In addition, the treasure room has been broken into!
b7: That "secret treasure" of ours...
b8a: ...
b8b: Ku... Kukukuku
b9: Kuhahahahahaha
b10: Byakuya-sama!?
b11: You've gone and done it, hmm?
b12: Kaguya!!
s1: Moo
b13: Guaah
b14: Ugh...
b15: Guh

20
s1a~s1b: Geh
b1a: You earthlings are way too weak!
b1b: You're boring! Struggle more!!!
b2a: You monsters...
b2b: Zeh...
b3a: hah
b3b: Dam... Mit... Our town is... Everyone is... And yet
b3c: We're no match for him...!!
b3d: Hah
b4: DAAAAAMMMIIIIIITTTTT
b5: Time to die yet!?
text around Hiro: Ooooooohhhh
b6: Huh?
b7: "Fuu" (TN: 封 seal)

21
s1a~s1b: Mooo
b1: !!?
s2: ooooooo
b2: Wha- What's going on!!?
b3: !
b4: That's...

23
s1: *step*
b1a: A...
b1b: A girl!?
b2: It's just an impromptu kekkai
b3: So it probably won't hold out for very long
b4: You... Were the one who did that...? That power...
b5: Just who the hell are you...!?
b6a: Your ally
b6b: I don't need to give you my name, do I?
b7: You need only to answer a single question of mine

24
b1: Do you want "power"
b2: To be able to fight those things?
b3: "Power"?
b4: I've come to save you, hime-sama!!
b5: Ogre
b6a: I've been waiting for this moment for so long!
b6b: If we're going to run away, the only chance we'll have is now, while the ship is preparing to land!!! Come, we have to hurry...
b7: We will request for help from the humans of that star
b8: We will search them out, those who have within them the power to stand against Byakuya

25
b1: The seven warriors of the "XILE Tribe"!!!
a1: I... Feel some sort of power from these seven people...
s1: su...
b2: Listen up, alright?
s2: *open*...
b3: "XILE Ring"
b4: Seven rings that will bestow the wearer with a mysterious power
b5: The ring of "flames"
b6: The ring of "thunder"
b7: The ring of "water"
b8: The ring of "wood"
b9: The ring of "steel"
b10: The ring of "wind"
b11: The ring of "beasts"
b12a: However, once you put the ring on, you cannot take it off until you die
b12b: You will become the cursed warriors, the "XILE Tribe"...!!
b13: And you will bear upon your shoulders... The fate of continually fighting to protect the people of this planet... Don these rings only if you are prepared for this

26
b1: Nothing happened
b2: Supopopon
b3: EHHHHH!!?
b4: ...? I don't feel any different
b5: We- Were you even listening to me!!?
b6: If you're not prepared for it, then give it back to me this instant!!!
b7: But we can't take it off anymore, right?
b8a: ...
b8b: AHHHHHH!!!
b9: Oh my god...!!! I totally chose the wrong person... Even the ring isn't activating
b10: The- Then, prepare yourself right now!!
b11: Don't spout nonsense...
above b11: Ehhhh!?
b12: We ain't wanting to fight for anyone else
b13: We're fighting for ourselves!! (TN: Strangely, while the kanji is for "ourselves", the reading is "you")

27
b1: Sorry, lady, but we're first and foremost a band of thugs
b2: We ain't the "Christ", ya know?
b3: !!!
s1: MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
b4: The kekkai!
b5a: That hasn't changed up till now, and it ain't gonna change anytime soon, and we certainly don't have no plans to change it
b5b: We

28-29
b1: We fight for ourselves (TN: again, reading is "you")
b2: For the sake of protecting the things we wanna protect!!! (TN: again, reading is "you" instead of "we")
b3: So things like being prepared to save this planet... We don't have no outrageous ambitions like that...
b4: ...
b5: It's just that

30
b1: It looks like the thing we wanna protect
b2a: Just got a helluva lot bigger!!
b2b: We're gonna protect it just like we always have!! Our "family"!!! (TN: reading is "family" but kanji is "earth")
b3: And so, please do take care of us, Sora!
b4: ?
b5: ... Sora?
b6a: You didn't wanna say it, right? ... Your name
b6b: So I ain't gonna ask
b7: But it's way troublesome if you don't got a name... So I just gave you one

31
b1: You fell from the "sky" like an angel (TN: Sora = sky)
b2: "Sora"
b3: Sound good?
b4: And I'm... Hiro!
b5: Pleased to meet you
b6: Hiro
a1: And that was how... I met everyone---

32
sign in panel 2: Roppongi
b1: JESUS
sign: Roppongi
b2: Why didn't we realize?
b3: Now that I think about it, the reason why Roppongi over here was able to develop into such a metropolis
b4a: Was because the damage it received from stray majinki over these 500 years was extremely little...
b4b: A blind spot

33
b1: "The best place to hide a leaf is in a forest", so "The best place to hide a majinki is in a bunch of people"?
b2: But
b3: How long more you gonna make us wait, huh, Hiro!? (small text: It's already been 5 days!)
b4a: Now, now, Makidai, they do say, "slow and steady wins the race", no?
b4b: Want us to end up with an anion?
s1: mugu mugu
b5: Kakaka well, yeah
b6: But it's also said, "Speak of the devil, and he doth appear"
b7a: He-
b7b: He-
b7c: HEAVY! (small text: I... Can't take this anymore)
b8: !
b9: Uwaaaaaah
b10: Toldja

34
b1a~b1b: Zeh
b2: Sorry to keep you waiting!
b3a: Yeah we waited alright!
b3b: We waited so damn long, you owe us some sake now!!
b4: You still wanna drink?
b5a: Akira, Takahiro
b5b: Long time no see~~!!!

35
b1: Long time no see!!
b2: Yahaaaa!!! Have you been well!!?
b3a: Who are you again?
b3b: ... Ah... The damned fox, damned racoon and damned fhewoifhewkfh, correct? (TN: yep, it was censored)
b4: OI! (small text: He hasn't changed at all!!)
b5: Atsushi, damn you! I'm gonna kill you!!! (small text: whaddaya mean fhewoifhewkfh!)
b6: By the way, Hiro, if Atsushi is here, that means...
b7: You defeated "Raigou", right?
b8: THAT "Raigou"!!?
b9: I knew you could do it, Hiro-san! You're amazing!!!
b10: ...
b11a: ... Well, if you wanna talk about defeating, then yeah I did do that...
b11b: His armor, I mean...!
b12: ... Eh!?
b13: It appears that Raigou was originally modified into a weapon by Byakuya in the first place
s1: *poripori*
b14a: Th... Then its real body is still alive somewh...
b14b: Hm?
s2: Goaaaaaahh

36
s1, s2: Goah
b1: !!!
b2: "BABY RAIGOU"!!!
b3: Cu... Cute
s3, s4: Goah
b4: Everyone, please step aside
b5: !!?
b6: O- Oi, Atsushi!
b7a: Wahahaha he's gotten so close to Atsushi over these 500 years!
b7b: Though Atsushi himself kinda hates it
s5: Pariparipari
next to b8: Please let go
b8: ... He looks soooo happy
b9: Well, he is a thunder-class majinki after all

37
b1: More importantly, Makidai, did you find out the location of Jigokujou?
b2a: That's a stupid question, Hiro-san
b2b: Since he'd been waiting there for so long just now, it must mean he'd found it long ago!
b3: I didn't even search!!
b4: EHHHHHH!?
above makidai's head: Ah... Ah...
b5: yussa yussa
b6a: WHY!? WHYYYY!!?
b7: You had so much time to do so!!!
b8: Hahaha well, I did try
b9: LIAR!
b10: Have I ever lied before?
b11: You just restarted your count, didn't you!!?
b12: ...
b13: What do you mean, Makidai?
b14a: ... The sun is about to set
b14b: Look at the sky over there, Hiro
b15: The sky?
b16: !

38
b1: ... Oh... Oh... This is...!
b2: Happens every night
b3: ... That's right, I didn't even have to search for it
b4: It's already saying, "Welcome"!

39
b1: Well gee, Byakuya's pretty considerate!
b2: It's gotta be a trap!!!
b3: Indeed... However
b4: We don't care! We gonna just bash our way in there!!!
b5: ...
b6: ... I suppose. Still, be careful
b7: Brother... Byakuya has those guys with him...!!
b8: A band of four majinki that possess the power to defeat a whole army, the creme de la creme of majinki
b9: The "Shitenmajin"...!!
b10a: ... Well done for coming this far with the "hints" I dropped
b10b: With this, it appears that

40-41
b1: The ultimate stage has been set

42
b1a: We were sleeping 500 years ago, so this time!
b1b: This time we can go all out to our hearts' contents, right, Boss!!?
b1c: Right!?
b1d: RIGHT!!?
b2: But~~ Why did you purposely give the enemy hints!?
b3: I don't get it at all~
b4a: You're such a kid
b4b: Byakuya-sama has a plan <3
b5: Right, Byakuya-samaaa~n? <3
b6: It's just an act. "The fated rival", "The ultimate decider"
b7: A show has got to be dramatic
b8: Wouldn't you agree, Andrei?
b9: Certainly!
b10a: Now...
b10b: The preparations are complete

43
b1: Come quickly!
b2: XILE Tribe!
b3: Pheeeeew...

44-45
b1: Here we go intoooo
a1: Now, towards the final battle!!
b2: JIGOKUJOU!!!

Translation: Bakuman 130

Thu, 05 May 2011 21:45:22 +0000

Examurai is half-done. My manga reader crashed halfway while I was translating and I figured that was a sign to stop. Well, I'll continue whenever I can.

Now, sleep... Oh wait. Daily animanga news <.<

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01
x1: 24th January, Sunday
b1: Class reunion, huh...
a1: Going to meet some dearly missed old friends!!
a2: If it were during our third year of middle school, it wouldn't have been possible, huh...
b2: Next time we meet, let's kiss
a3: ☆JC Volume 13 goes on sale 3rd June (Fri)!!
b3: Shuujin's late... The class reunion's probably starting already...
b4: *music note*
a4: Page 130 Fever and Ashes
b5: Sorryyyyyyy!! Kaya-chan suddenly came down with a fever...
b6: It's almost 40 degrees celcius, so I'm gonna bring her to some doctor who's open on Sundays
b7a: I'll be fine! If it's just going to the doctor, I can take care of myself!
b7b: Akito-san, just go for your class reunion already!
b8a: You heard that? That's what she says, but I'm really worried
b8b: Yeah... Yeah...
b9: I said I'm fine! Just go!
b10a: I'll try my best to make it if I can
b10b: Okay, bye!

02
b1: I hope Kaya-chan's okay...
b2: Saikou!
b3: Hey!
b4: Suzuki! And Nakajima, too! Suzuki, we were even in the same class in our third year of middle school, weren't we...
b5: Haha, more importantly, Saikou, you're amazing! "PCP"'s doing awesome!
b6a: I heard about it just now and was real surprised! I can't believe you're a mangaka with "Jump"...
b6b: Where's Takagi?
b7a: He's got something urgent to do, so he'll try to drop by later if he can...
b7b: Anyway, Suzuki, try not to tell too many people about it, okay?
b8: Why not? It's fine since it's something really amazing!
b9: Ashirogi Muto-sensei is heeeeeeeereeee!
b10: Eh... Oi...
b11a: There he is!
b11b: Mashiro, gimme your autograaaaaph!
b12: Me toooo!
b13: ...

03
a1: *chatter chatter*
b1: AWESOME! You're good! Just what you'd expect from a pro!!
b2: Damn, I should have brought a sign board too!
b3: Tadah! Sign on this for me, please!
b4: Wow, you buy our comics! Thanks!
b5: My nephew loves it and is always imitating that pose with the tape measure!
b6: My little brother imitated some of the perfect crimes in "PCP" in his middle school and got scolded!
b7: ... Sorry 'bout that...
b8: Have you met "ONE PIECE"'s Oda-sensei?
b9: Well, a couple of times...
b10a: AWESOME!!!
b10b: But yeah, guess it's only natural since you're both in "Jump"...
b11: He's totally living in a different world from all of us, huh?
b12: Of course! I bet he's rolling in cash too!
b13: Not to mention he's doing something he loves! How lucky!
a1: Doing something I love... It's not really that simple, actually...
a2: And living in a different world from them...? Is that really how they view us...?

04
b1: I bet you're real popular at goukons and stuff, aren't ya, Saikou!? I mean, you're serialized in "Jump" at such a young age! (TN: A goukon is a sort of party or group date where guys get to meet girls and vice versa)
b2: ... Nah, I've never even been to a goukon...
b3: Eh!? Are you kidding me!?
b4: Why not?
b5: I heard mangaka don't go to goukon, but they go to parties and rub shoulders with celebrities!
b6: Wow!
a1: ... Somehow it seems like they've gotten the wrong idea altogether...
a2: OHH AMAZING!
a3: Just as I expected!
b7a: Hey, hey, everyone!
b7b: The moment Mashiro walked in we bombarded him with autograph requests! Let's cut him some slack and fill 'im up with some beer!
b8: Well, Imma pour some sake!
b9: Yeah, Ichiko-chan
b10: Here you go, sensei
b11a: Ah...
b11b: This is the girl Shuujin liked, Ichiko-chan
b12: ...
b13: This... This is like, kinda risque or something...
b13: Ah... I can't drink beer...
b14: What about wine or champagne?

05
b1: Guess you only drink at clubs in Ginza or Roppongi, huh? Damn, am I jealous! (TN: Ginza and Roppongi are high-class areas in Tokyo, frequented by the rich)
b2: I don't go to those kinds of places! I just can't drink alcohol
b3a: So where do you go to have fun, then?
b3b: You've got lotsa money to spend, don't you?
b4: Wah, lucky~ Let's go have fun together next time~ *music note*
b5: ... I don't play around, nor do I have the time to
b6: No way!
b7: At all?
b8: Yeah
b9: ...
b10a: Umm... I spend my weekends drawing names, which are like drafts of the manga itself
b10b: Then I work on the manuscripts till Friday
b11: Even so, now I'm able to make enough time in a week to drop by the training institute once a week, so at least things are better than they used to be
b12: ...
b13: You don't have any breaks...
b14: We... Well, I did hear that mangaka were busy people... But THIS busy?
b15a: Mashiro, we're planning to go skiing!
b15b: Whaddaya think?
b16: Nah, I... I can't afford to risk injuring my hands...
b17: Wow...
b18: His hands are covered in ink...
b19: Besides

06
b1: Besides, I don't have the time
b2: ...
b3: Ah... My bad
b4: I wanna go!
b5: Me too! I wanna snowboard!
b6: I don't mind going to ski, but since we're going with girls, let's plan one to the beach, too!
b7a: Too soon!
b7b: We've already graduated, so why not go all out and take a trip to Hawaii instead?
b8: Wah, let's! *music note*
b9: Let's time it to accommodate those who've already got jobs and leave on the night before the 3-day holiday and get back on Monday morning
b10: ...
b11: Oh, Yamashita! You're late!
b12: Sorry, sorry, I had some university parties to attend
b13: You ought to prioritize us over those!
a1: Yama-chan...
a2: He hasn't changed at all...

07
b1: Well done, Yama-chan! Heard you got an offer from KNN Telecommunications?
b2: I guess... Haha
b3: That's the No.1 company everyone wants to get employed at!
b4: Ehh, KNN? That's awesome!
a1: Wow, Yama-chan got an offer from KNN...!
a2: I knew he got into a good university since my parents were talking about it and sounded pretty envious
b5: Guess it's really the best to get a job in a stable company, huh?
b6: That settles it! Marry me, Yama-chan!
a3: ... A stable company, huh...?
b7: Manga is a scary thing... My future is nothing but darkness
b8: Five years from now... Ten years from now... I don't have a clue what'd have become of me by then...
b9: ... Even we don't have any guarantee that we'll still be serialized five years from now...
b10: Saikou
b11: Hey
b12a: Heard you went and became a mangaka
b12b: I was surprised, since you said you'd given that up when your uncle passed away
b13: Looks like you've gotten yourself a good job too, Yama-chan, congratulations!

08
b1: Gotta be tough, huh?
b2: Eh... Ahh... Well... I get the feeling I've been doing nothing but manga since I was in my third year of middle school...
b3: A sink-or-swim gamble... And you don't have a choice but to bet your whole youth on it. And even then, only one in tens of thousands can say they've made it as far as you have
b4: ...
a1: My whole youth...
a2:I had nothing but manga...
a3: I sacrificed my youth...
a4: ...
b5: Yamashita, you wanna join us for skiing?
b6: Oh, skiing? When?
b7: ...

09
b1a: Haaaah, I've drunk my fill~
b1b: Where to next? Where to next?
b2: Over here's the karaoke gang!
b3: Bowling's over here!
between b3 and b4: Ahahaha...
b4: Not going, Saikou?
below b3: Kyaaaa
right of Yama-chan: Wahahaha
b5: Yeah, sorry, I've got work...
b6: I see... That's a pity, but I guess it can't be helped if you've got work
b7a: ... I feel like we didn't really get to talk much, but, till next time, I guess...
b7b: Let's exchange cell phone numbers and email addresses
b8: Yeah

10
a1: Goukons, karaoke... Bowling, skiing...
a2: I haven't even gone skiing since that ski clinic I went for in elementary school... And I've never been to the beach either since becoming a mangaka. Overseas trips have never even so much as crossed my mind...
a3: Everyone else talks about them like it's perfectly normal to them
a4: A normal youth, a normal life...
a5: Somehow, I feel like... I'm starting to become a social misfit...
b1: SAIKOUUUU
b2: Is it over?
b3a: Yeah
b3b: They've got some afterparty going on now, but I've got the manuscript to take care of so...
b4: Ahh, dammit! Guess I'll head back, too, then...
b5: Is Kaya-chan alright?
b6a: They gave her an intravenous drip, so I think she'll be fine
b6b: Besides, she wouldn't stop bugging me to go
b7: Why not go for the afterparty, then...?
b8: I'll pass, since Saikou's not going either. And I still am kinda worried about Kaya-chan

11
b1: So, was Naoi Ichiko there?
b2: Eh... Well... She was kinda risque... And she gave off the feeling of being the type of female college student who's really used to being around guys...
b3a: Uwa... What the hell?
b3b: Could she be working some weird part time job?
b3c: I guess it was a good thing I didn't go!
b4: ...
b5: ?
b6: Saikou, aren't you gonna tell me anything else about the reunion?
b7: Eh!? Ah...
b8: Umm, everyone looked like they were having fun
b9: ... Everyone...? You mean you weren't, Saikou?
b10: It was great to meet up with Yama-chan, I really missed that guy, but...
b11: But?
b12: ...
b13: But what...?

12
b1: We're different from everyone else, aren't we... We've been doing nothing but manga since our third year at middle school, and we haven't really done much of anything fun, have we?
b2: I've never been to a goukon, nor karaoke, and I've not been to the sea or gone skiing even once since I started drawing manga...
b3: Saikou, you wanted to have fun like everyone else?
b4: ...
b5: ... No
b6: If I did that, we wouldn't have what we have now. And I think what we're doing now is fulfilling to me
b7: It's just that, it dawned on me that we were so different from everyone else
a1: I'm married to Kaya-chan, but Saikou...
b8: It's at times like this where Saikou's favorite "Ashita no Joe" truly comes alive
b9a: Yeah
b9b: When I was talking to everyone, I recalled Joe and Nori's conversation in my head
b10: ...

13
b1: "Mashiro-kun, aren't you lonely?"
b2: "Youths your age are going to the beach, to the mountains, hanging out with their lovers, singing out their youths..."
b3: ...
b4a: "It may be a little different from the kind of youth that Shuujin is talking about singing out, but I've definitely felt the feeling of a keen sense of satisfaction many times"
b4b: "Right in those ink-filled manuscripts"
b5a: "I ain't smouldering and incompletely combusted like those guys over there"
b5b: "Even if just for a moment, I'm gonna burn so bright and so red, I'll dazzle everyone"
b6: Was that it?
b7: That makes it sound like the manuscript's on fire!
b8: Haha

14
b1: "And all that'll be left is pure white ash"...
b2: ... That was cool, huh
b3: I wonder if we've been as completely combusted as that?
b4: Yeah, we've come this far doing our best and pouring our all into it, our eyes never wavering from the goal... And now we're serialized...
b5a: I see... That's right...
b5b: We're still en route to our dream
b6: We haven't beaten Eiji, and "PCP" hasn't gotten first place on the rankings since its first chapter
b7: Not to mention the anime adaptation
b8: Yeah

15
b1: I'm glad I went for the class reunion, even if only for this chance to talk things out again with Shuujin like this
b2: Really?
b3a: We are indeed only en route to our dream. We have a long way to go yet and can't enjoy ourselves like everyone else can
b3b: But we're happy
b3c: We're happy that we've got this far, embracing our dreams...
b4: We may not have gotten your standard youth experience, but we spent our youth inking in stuff! (TN: Pun, because "beta" means both "cliched/hackneyed/standard" and the parts of a manga that are colored in solid black)
b5: Haha
b6: Let's work hard from now onwards, too! Toward our dream!
b7: Yeah!

16
b1: I'm home
b2: You're early
b3: Why aren't you in bed!?
b4: I didn't think you would be back so soon, so I...
b5: Besides, I was hungry!
b6: You seem healthy...
b7a: And up next on the news
b7b: An unknown person broke into XX Branch of XX Bank and, although he took nothing, he left behind a letter...
b8: Eh!?
b9a: Th... This is straight out of "PCP", isn't it?
b9b: That's what Makoto and Minoru talked about doing before they formed PCP...
b9c: It's exactly like what they said, which was something like, "Wouldn't it be cool to get into a bank, not steal anything but leave a sticker to say we were there"
b10: The contents of the letter were but the single sentence, "I broke in"...
b11: Ah...

17
b1: In fact, there is this manga in "Shounen Jump"
b2: !
b3: It's called "PCP -Perfect Crime Party-"
b4: We break into a bank, but we don't take anything and just leave a note that says "We were here"
b4: Wouldn't that be cool!?
b5: Yeah, that would be cool
b6: Plus, we wouldn't be causing any trouble to anyone
b7: But wouldn't the reliability of the security companies plummet?
b8: Ah! You're right
b9: Besides, bank- ........ Reliability (@typesetter: ....... = cut off)
b10: And ...... Now ..... Not
b11: Perfect Crime Party, huh...
b12a: Wow! They even showed a page from "PCP"!
b12b: Is it really okay for them to do that? Did they get permission?
b13: !
b14: No... I didn't hear anything about this...
b15: You didn't...? It doesn't matter if it's TV, intellectual property rights still hold...
b16: Don't worry about unnecessary things, Kaya-chan! Like I said, just worry about your own health and go to sleep already!

18
b1: ...
b2: G... Good night...
b3a~b3b: *pi*
b4: ...
b5: A shounen manga extremely popular among children...
b6: Wherein the protagonists perform perfect crimes...
b7: *music notes*
b8: Shuujin
b9: Umm, right now on Sakura TV...
b10: Yeah, I saw it, too

19
b1: Things aren't looking too good for us, are they...
b2: ... Well, I can't help but see it as just a form of publicity for "PCP"...
b3: .... "PCP"... Will be alright, right...?
b4: Of course it will be... They only found out about the incident in the evening, and if it really was anything bad, we'd have received word from the editorial division by now
b5: No, but today's a Sunday! There's no-one at the editorial division! The whole division isn't working today...!
b6a: Ah, I see, but...
b6b: Ah, now it's on channel 16, too...
b7: According to the police, at around 4:30pm today, officers responded to a report...
screen: Imitating popular manga ....... Attention-seeking criminal?
a1: ... It'll be alright... There's nothing to worry about...
a2: An entirely unexpected TV debut!!

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 151

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:01:48 +0000

I apologize for the extreme lateness of this translation! >< You might have noticed that I was hardly posting anywhere on the forums either despite seeming to be online quite a lot, lol. Well I've been pretty busy with stuff, you'll soon see what that is ;) Though some of it is already visible but just not formally announced yet.

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01
a1: ☆The speedily approaching assassin's dagger---!!
a2: A record of three generations of youkai heroism

02
a1: ☆The latest volume, JC #16 finally goes on sale on the 2nd of May (Mon)!! This time, the omake pages are simply amazing!!
a2: ☆Kurotabou VS Rihan begins---!!
a3: Act 151 The Two who Intersect
a4: There'll be a "NuraMago" bangaihen in the issue of Jump NEXT! that goes on sale on the 30th of April (Sat)!! That person, in Edo...!?

03
a1: So his weapons are those two sets of claws, huh?
b1: <Kurotabou the Mystery>
b2: Wasn't it!?
b3: Uooo
b4: Ohhh!?

05
a1: CHAINS!?
b1: Dammi...
b2: Crap... I can't move!!

06
b1a: May you be born again
b1b: In paradise
b2: ...!!
a1: Another new weapon!?
b2: What the hell is up with this dude!?

07
b1: !!
b2: Sorry ta disappoint, but whatcha lookin' at right now's just an illusion
b3: That's
b4: My
b5: Meikyou Shisui

08
b1: *chiri*...
b2: !!
a1: Too shallow?
a2: He jumped...!!
a3: He'll be defenseless the moment he hits the ground--
a4: That's when I'll... Slice him!!

09
b1: ...
b2: Eh?
b3~b5: *chiri*
b6: Eh? Eh?
b7: Hol... Wait a- What the hell is that!?

10
b1: Owaaaaaaah
b2: Oi, oi... Is this seriously for real!?
b3: Dammit... What the hell is up with that guy...
b4: Just how many frickin' weapons does he have on him?

11
b1: It is most unfortunate for you, but you cannot escape from my Anki Kuroenbu
b2: And for how long will you be able to dance upon these endless blades...?
b3: Owowowow...
b4: Ahh, is that so?
b5a: Well, damn
b5b: Geez, here I was planning ta lure ya out cuz you were tailin' me, and then question ya good...
b6: But boy was I wrong...
b7a: My favorite kimono
b7b: Is now in tatters

12
b1: Kurotabou, was it?
b2: Since you guys are called "Hyaku Monogatari"
b3: You guys are creating new youkai, aren't you...?
b4a: And you called yerself a "mystery", didn't ya?
b4b: You're pretty strong... So what kinda youkai is this Kurotabou, huh? I'm pretty interested to know
b5: ...
b6: I know not what I am
b7: I was born from a certain someone...
b8: And I consign to oblivion anyone who poses a hindrance to him

13
b1: I am just an assassin
b2: My existence holds no other purpose...!!
b3: Is that so?
b4a: That kinda youkai's boring
b4b: I wouldn't even mind killin' 'em

14
b1: Damn...

15
a1: !?
a2: ... The atmosphere about him changed all of a sudden...!?
a3: !!
b1: What's the matter?

16
b1: Your chest's wide open, ya know?
a1: Kuh...!?
a2: ... What!?
a3: ... This guy has no openings at all!!
b2: GUOOOOOHH

17
a1: I killed him!!
a2: He couldn't possibly have defended himself against this!!
b1: What a surprise... I can't believe ya had even more of those!
a3: ... What?
b2: Well... No matter how many weapons ya have

18
b1: Ya can't get yer target, can ya?
b2: They're just
b3: Trash
b4: ... You bastard!!

19
a1: Ga...!!
b1: Toldja
a2: ☆Fearless...!!

Translation: Ao no Exorcist 24

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:48:16 +0000

[9:31pm] Mister_Death: saladesu ane has been precleaned
[9:32pm] saladesu: kk~
[9:32pm] saladesu: will translate it... soooooon XD
[9:32pm] saladesu: (hopefully)
[10:02pm] Mister_Death: no rush saladesu
[10:02pm] saladesu: :)
[10:06pm] Mister_Death: but remember the ane fans will send death threats
[10:06pm] saladesu: :(
[10:09pm] Mister_Death: damn leechers

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01-02
a1: Chapter 24 The Empty Sword
a2: Exorcise demons with your friends!!
circle: In celebration of volume 6 & "Ao no Exorcist COLOR ARCHIVE ~Animation&Comic Visual Guidebook~" going on sale!
a3: Lead Color!!!
a4: TV Anime on air to rave reviews on MBS・TBS, every Sunday 5pm!!
a5: Latest news on the anime on page 8!

03
b1: No way... So the Koumaken
b2: Was the Myou Dha sect's honzon
b3: And that was how he came into contact with Dad...
b4: The truth of the blade Kurikara comes to light...
b5: Hurry up and finish reading it!
b6: O... Okay
b7: But damn, do I have a bad feeling about all this
b8: I may not know what Suguro's dad wanted to request of me, but
b9: Nii-san...
b10: Yukio

04
b1: Just finish reading that letter
x1: Kongou Shinzan
x2: Myouou Dharani Sect Headquarters Fudoubuji (TN: Fudoubuji [不動峯寺] literally "Unmoving Summit Temple")
b2: So this is the "original" Myou Dha Sect headquarters, huh...

05
b1: Hah
b2a~b2b: Hah
b2c: Hah!
b3: Let's hurry, "Goumadou" is just a short distance from here! (TN: Goumadou [降魔堂] literally "Devil Conquering Hall/Shrine", kanji for "gouma" is the same as "kouma" in Koumaken)
b4: But... Is Goumadou really safe?
b5: This Fudoubuji was arranged such that the Goumadou is safeguarded at its very heart
b6: The Left Eye was most likely originally sealed there
b7: It's a good plan to return it to its original place, no?
b8: ...
a1: It's been a long time since I've climbed this mountain myself

06
b1a: ... Fiiive, siiix, seeeeven, eiiiight
b1b: Niiine, ten!
a1: How nostalgic...
b2: Wait up, you monkeys!!
b3: Uwah, she's here! Run away!
b4: *sniff*
b5a: *sniff*
b5b: *sniff*
b6a: Oh my
b6b: So you were in a place like this, huh, Mamushi?
b7: Your father is worried about you

07
b1a: Come on
b1b: Let's go home
b2: Houjou-kun
b3: I assume this is Goumadou?
b4: Yes
b5: Hah
b6: Hah
a1: I doubt everyone will ever forgive me...

08
b1: ... This was once a sacred place into which no-one but the head priest was allowed to enter
b2: But now
a1: For doing something like this, huh?
b3: It is completely empty after having lost both its head priest and its honzon
b4: ...!? The homa-mandala's alight...
b5: ... Yeah
b6a: There must be a hidden door or something somewhere
b6b: Let's search
b7: Alright

09
a1: Until I gather enough evidence that the Most High Priest... Suguro Tatsuma
a2: Is trustworthy...
b1: Hah
b2: Hah
a3: I will definitely...!!
a4: Koumaken
a5: A Maken that has been passed down as the honzon of the Myouou Dharani Sect, its other name is Kurikara

10
a1: Around 150 years ago
a2: A demon named "The Impure King", who brought with him an epidemic, appeared
a3: He turned all of Japan upside down
a4: The founder of Myou Dha, Fukaku, infused the fire demon, Karura into this sword (TN: Karura [伽楼羅] is an enormous, fire-breathing creature from Japanese Hindu-Buddhist mythology. It is based on the original Hindu mythical divinity Garuda)
a5: It is said that he felled the Impure King with the power of those flames

11
a1: Following this, this sword was regarded as the honzon of the Myou Dha sect generation after generation
a2: And it was made an important law that the remaining Left Eye would be kept sealed and far away from this world
x1: As if to make a mockery of all these things, he appeared before my eyes
b1a: The hell you talkin' about!! That's...
b1b: Myou Dha's honzon, ya know!!
b2: You're so noisy. Of course I know, baldy
b3: And anyway, this...

12
b1: Is just empty on the inside to begin with, isn't it?
b2: !!
b3: I ain't getting a word you're sayin'! Yer spoutin' nonsense...!
b4a: How long are ya plannin' on holdin' on ta our honzon!
b4b: Wretched enemy!
b5: Yaozou!!
s1: Hyoi
s2: Che

13
b1: !?
b2: Didja get 'im, Yaozou!?
b3: That's the way, Yaozou-san!
b4a: No, I didn't do anything...
b4b: This guy... He's already badly injured!!
b5: *cough*...
b6: Sa... Say what!?
b7: Amazing that he was able ta move around so much with an injury like this...
b8: What the hell is up with this man!?
b9a: What shall we do, Tatsuma-sama?
b9b: Shall we dump him down at the mountain pass?
b10: ...

14
b1: Ooh...
b2: You awake?
b3a: ... True Cross Order Japan Branch, Upper First Class Exorcist...
b3b: Fujimoto Shirou-kun
b3c: You're 34, which makes you younger than me, huh...?
b4: ... Where am I...?
b5: Kongou Shinzan, Fudoubuji
b6a: Ya suddenly collapsed on me...
b6b: No way could I just leave ya like that, so I brought ya here
b7a: Are you for real?
b7b: You coulda sent me rollin' down the mountain instead. You're way too kind
b8: Ah, lend me a light, won't ya?
b9: Hm?

15
b1: Mmph! Hang o...!
b2a: More importantly, Fujimoto-kun
b2b: Just how much do ya know about our honzon... About Kurikara?
b3: Why do you want Kurikara!?
b4a: Beats me
b4b: I'm just here cuz I was ordered to by my superiors
b5: Well
b6: I assume they'll be killing kids with it
b7: !?
a1: Killing...
a2: Kids!?

16
a1: He said it with such a straight face...!
b1: ... If you can move, then please leave as soon as possible
b2a: I don't care what circumstances there are
b2b: I will not care for a child-killing heretic
b3: Yeah
b4: I'll leave
b5: But you gotta hand over the Koumaken first
b6: !! Ya haven't given up on that yet!?
b7: I don't even know where exactly in this... This Fudoubuji it is, now, do I!
b8: Sounds good on paper to just obliterate each temple in turn, no?
b9: ... But gee, I don't have the time for that, you know?
b10: It'd be faster if I just asked you instead
b11: Hey, where is the sword?
a2: Thi... This man...!

17
b1: ... Kuh
b2a: Haha, what's with that?
b2b: You plan to take me on with just that tokkosho? (TN: A tokkosho [独鈷杵] is a pestle with a single sharp blade at each end)
b3a: Give it up, give it up, guh...
b3b: *cough*
b3c: *cough*
b4: ...
b5: !?
b6: Uwah
b7: Oi
b8: Hold it!!!
b9a: Where are you go-...
b9b: !!
b10: That's!

18
b1a: That's
b1b: Stop...
b2a~b4: *cough*
b5: What...
b6: Is this?
b7: Stop it!

19
b1: Uwah!?
b2: AHHH!! What did you just!
b3: Shut the hell up and stop with the farce this instant!!
b4a: Bastard...
b4b: Do ya know whatcha just did...!?
b4c: If ya stop our conversation with Buddha
b5a: Buddha will abandon us
b5b: And we won't be able to attain his power!!
b6: Then let me ask you: Did praying ever do these guys any good!?
b7: !!

20
b1: ... Hah. You're just a coward masquerading as a saint
b2: I hate people like you the most
b3a: Now is not the time for things like prayer
b3b: We need to get the toxins from the miasma out of their bodies as soon as we can
b4a: Yo...
b4b: ... You can save them...!?
b5a: Yeah
b5b: I can save them all... Probably
b6: !!
b7a: Hey! You!
b7b: Get me some radish, spring onion, valerian, calamus, rock salt and Japanese hot claw!
b7c: Ahh, and some Vaseline, beeswax or lard
b8a: Eh!?
b8b: Ah, ex- excuse me?
b9: Ya really gonna... Save them...!?
b10a: How many times do I have to say it!?
b10b: You, boil me a truckload of hot water!!

21
b1: And get me a lighter while you're at it!
x1: If he really
x2: Really saves them...
x3: Just what
x4: Have we been believing all this while?
b2: Torako...

22
b1: Tatsuma-san, I...
b2a: To...
b2b: To... DORAGOOOOOOO!!
b3a: Tatsuma-san...
b3b: I
b3c: I actually... Thought I was a goner...
b4: I really can give birth to this child after all, can't I?
b5: Of course you can!!
b6: Thank goodness
b7: I'm so thankful...!!

23
b1: ... Thank you, Fujimoto-kun
b2: When ya said you were here to take the sword, I was sure ya had ta be a bandit or something
b3: But I was wrong
b4: Huuuh!?
b5: Huh?
b6a: This and that are entirely separate matters
b6b: Hand over the sword
b7: Eh!?
b8a: I mean, I saved so many sick people!
b8b: I even taught you how to treat them!
b9: It's only natural that I'd ask for some compensation, no?
b10: Tatsuma-san?
b11: Just... Just take it easy, Torako
b12: I thought you were being a good Samaritan!
b13: I really hate people like you the most

24
b1: I'm not a good Samaritan
b2: If you won't tell me, I'll just find it myself
b3: You'll never be able to move forward if you're afraid of soiling your hands
b4: !
b5: Most High Priest...!?
b6: That's the guy
b7: Seize him!!
b8: ???

25
b1: On amiriti hatta!!
b2: What are you...!!
b3: Che
b4a: He got away
b4b: After him!!
b5: Don't let that thief get off this mountain alive!!
b6a: Most High Priest!!
b6b: What are you doing!!
b6c: That man is...
b7a: Tatsuma!!
b7b: Don't expect this mistake to go unpunished...!!

26
b1a: An exorcist from the True Cross Order, you say...!?
b1b: How couldja bring a pagan like him into the temple and allow him to cast his spells here...!!
b2: No! Most High Priest, he's a lifesaver!
b3: He saved everyone... He saved Torako!
b4: I don't care about that!!
b5: Any outsider who knows about the Koumaken and even a little of our Myou Dha sect's secrets
b6: Must die!!
b7: I bear on my shoulders the responsibility of protecting Myou Dha!!
b8: Most High Priest, what yer protecting...
b9: Are merely the "laws"...
b10: I...
b11: I'm different
b12: Tatsuma... Where are you going!

27
b1: I won't letcha get away!!
b2: He's over there!
b3a~b3c: Hah
b4: Damn, are they persistent!
b5: Now my wound's opened up again!
b6: Fujimoto-kun
b7: !
b8: Tatsuma!
b9: Take it
b10: Wha...
b11: The Koumaken...!?

28
b1a: I'll help you escape
b1b: Follow me
b2: Wa... Wait a second!
b3a: What are you trying to pull?
b3b: You sure this is okay!?
b4: It'll be fine
b5: I knew it all along, actually
b6a: ... When I was a child, I once secretly unsheathed the sword
b6b: I wanted to see Karura, you know?
b7a: Neither Karura nor any flames appeared at all... That sword was empty
b7b: I knew it all along... And yet...
b8: I've stopped worshiping an empty shell
b9: And I've finally found the resolve in me to fight

29
b1: It was all thanks to you
b2: ...
b3: I'm gonna kill some kiddies now, ya know?
b4: That's okay
b5a: You'd never kill
b5b: I know it
b6: Hmph
b7: You're really a hopelessly good guy
b8a: !! The pursuers' voices...
b8b: Run away now!!
b9: With this, we'll be even!

30
b1: Nuh-uh
b2: With this, we've made up!
b3: !!
b4a: Over there!!
b4b: That's a crazy height to jump from!
b5: He's down below! Surround him!

31
x1: The story of Fujimoto-kun and myself ends here
x2a: A few months later
x2b: The "Blue Night" happened
x3: Father died after leaving me the true "secrets" of the head priests and of Myou Dha
x4: That "secret" was truly frightening

32
b1a: So this is where it was hiding, huh...
b1b: Let's go down and take a look
b2: There's a door!
b3a: I never expected there to be a cellar like this under Goumadou
b3b~b3c: *cough*
b4: ... Give me the right eye
b5: Eh!?
b6: Bu... But you said it was dangerous to have both on your body...
b7: We're almost there
b8: Besides, I'm also worried about you
b9a: ... I'm regretting it a little
b9b: The fact that I dragged so precious a student as you into this conjecture of mine, that is...
b10: I'm thinking about your future

33
b1:Do you regret it?
b2: ...
b3: I do not
a1: Right now, the only one who can protect everyone, is me...!
b4: You really are a good kid
b5: Come now, let's open it
b6: !!
b7: This is

35
b1: The Impure King
b2: ... Eh?
b3: In the fifth year of Ansei (TN: The Ansei Era [安政] lasted from 1854 to 1860)
b4a: Your founder, Fukaku
b4b: Made a contract with the maken Kurikara which was possessed by the fire demon Karura
b5: He had fought with the Impure King before, but had never been able to put so much as a dent into him. By taking both his eyes and sealing them, he was able to suppress the Impure King.
b6: At that moment, Karura left Kurikara
b7: This is the truth behind the legends of the Myou Dha sect

36
b1: This is the secret that you of the Myou Dha sect have kept closely guarded generation after generation
b2a: ... This is the Impure King...!?
b2b: You kidding me!?
b2c: Are ya tellin' me it was here in the Goumadou all along these past 150 years!?
b3: ... Then the Right and Left eyes...
b4: That's right, in other words, we'll be returning this "Right Eye" and this "Left Eye"
b5: To this dried-up Impure King
b6: And in so doing, we will be reviving the Impure King in his original form

37
b1: Toudou-sensei
b2: Just what the hell are you?
b3: Houjou-kun
b4a: You are a precious student to me
b4b: And it pains me to hear you use such a tone on me
b4c: However, you have already served your purpose

38
b1: !!
b2: My, my!
b3a: Mo...
b3b: Most High Priest!?
b4: Mamushi...
b5: Everything's gonna be okay!
b6: I'll bring ya back ta where ya father is

39
b1: The Impure King is a cancer that brings disease to people
b2: I'll end it in this generation and will never let it be passed on to the next!
b3: I'll protect everyone!
b4: I, Suguro Tatsuma, the seventeenth Head Priest of the Myou Dha sect
b5: Will never forgive those that try to hinder this determination of mine!!!
a1: Rage... A clash!!

Translation: Nurarihyon no Mago 150

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:53:02 +0000

Actually intended to do this yesterday, but got caught up doing something else. I even had the honor of co-translating something with s-class translator njt! :gigglebunny

Uh anyway, back to Mago XD

Haha. Even my opening thingy is outdated -.- Sorry, I got caught up doing even more "other things". This being one of them: MH Golden Week Scavenger Hunt. It'd mean a lot to me so please join, okay? ;)

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01
a1: I feel like someone is calling for me
a2: A record of three generations of youkai heroism
a3: Why
b1: He got away! After him!
a4: Must I go there?
b2: Which clan was that ayakashi from!?
a5: My present self
b3: Another one who wasn't from the Nura Clan... There's been a ton of them lately
a6: ☆ Causing a din in the streets of Edo, this time's enemy is...!?
b4: Not again!?
a7: Knows
a8: Nothing

02
b1a: Te-
b1b: TENAGAA!? (TN: Tenaga [手長] is the name of the youkai with the long arms, and his name literally means "long-armed")
b2: Was it you, you bastard!?

03
a1: !?
b1: You guys are from
b2: The Nura Clan
b3: Correct?

04
top: ☾☾Second Season of the TV Anime begins in July! Follow-up reports in this magazine●
right: The dazzling darkness of Edo, the moon that illuminates the timbre of the Sami, where should I drop by tonight---? (TN: The Sami [三味] is a three-stringed guitar)
a1: Act 150 Kuratabou the Mystery
a2: Alias: Playboy Koi-san
a3: Nura Rihan
bottom: ★ Latest JC Volume 16 goes on sale 2nd May (Sun)! Enjoy it over the golden week holiday!!

05
b1: !
b2: Setsura-san? What's wrong?
a1: I caught a whiff of something festering in the breeze...
a2: What could it be?
b2: I have a bad feeling... Hm?
b3: Oh, Rihan...? Fancy coming home at this hour
b4: Second
b5: Welcome home, Second
b6: Eh?
a3: !?

06
b1a: Wai... Hold it right there, Rihan!
b1b: Otome-chan's looking mighty pale... What the hell did you make her eat!?
below b1: Otome-sama!
b2: Guess the centipede venom really got to her...
b3: VENOM!?
b4: She was so adamant about it but in the end she fainted on me...

07
b1: ...?
left: ☆ There'll be an Edo arc bangaihen in the issue of Jump NEXT! that goes on sale on the 30th of April!!
b2: Well, he does have his mother's blood flowing through his veins...
b3: Setsura-san, I'll leave her to you
b4: EH!? Eh... Ehhh~~
b5: Oh, Second
b6: Ya shoulda let us know if ya came home... We have somethi-
b7a: Yeah...
b7b: I have something to tell you about, too... Is pops around?
b8: Get the financiers together as well

08
b1: They are indeed... Ayakashi that we've never heard squat about before
b2: In other words, Second, you're telling us that you've concluded from your investigations... That they are newly birthed?
b3: In other words, I wasn't just playing around
b4: Well, I did do a little of that, too
b5a: Fuuuu, however
b5b: They're just a bunch who do nothing but inflict harm on people
b6: How repulsive
b7a: I don't like that they're amassing fear in our territory
b7b: Are they an organization?

09
b1: Yeeaaaah, it does look bad
b2a: What's the matter, First?
b2b: Do you happen to know anything?
b3: Geez... It's practically at the tip of my tongue...
a1: What was it again... Hyaku... Hyaku... Nen...
b4: No... A friend of mine was lamenting
b5: About how his stupid son was addicted to a silly game
b6: I know!
b7: Hyaku Monogatari
b8: Hyaku Monogatari?
b9: I've heard of them... It's a gathering of dilettantes and a game where humans share ghost stories
b10: The point of the game is to have a real youkai appear after the last of the hundred stories
b11: They're all newly created ghost stories... Could it be related?
b12: ...

10
b1: This is bad! This is bad!
b2: Tenaga and Ashinaga've been kiiiilled!! (TN: Ashinaga [足長] means "long-legged" and refers to the, well, long-legged youkai who was with Tenaga)
b3: What...
b4: !!
b4: Did you say?
b5: What!? Where!!
b6: ...
b7: I don't know... They've practically disappeared...
b8: ...
b9: Yo, you woken up?

11
b1: Hah
b2a: Oi
b2b: Don't push yourself
b3: So- Sorry... Umm... I...
b4: There, there
b5: You... Were working as a teacher at the Terakoya again, weren't you?
b6: Ye- Yes
b7: Staying at home too boring for you?
b8: No... It's just that I can't settle if I'm not doing something
b9: Besides... It's fun getting to meet everyone
b10: ...
b11: ... You like humans?
b12a: ... Yes...
b12b: Sorry, I know I'm an ayakashi... And that it's weird of me to say that
b13: Nah... It's okay

12
b1: I do, too
b2: I'll be back in a bit
b3: Second... If you're going out, then we'll go with you
b4: We won't let you out alone this time!
b5: Yeah, yeah, I got it, I got it...
b6: Forget it, I can't trust you! I'll make you a collar!

13
b1: ...
b2: Sorry to keep you waiting...
x1: A certain samurai residence...
b3: You're later than you said you'd be, aren't you, Sanmoto...
b4: My apologies
b5: How is the quality...?
b6: Is it as per normal?
b7: Please, sample it for yourself...
b8: Mm... Right
b9a: Mm
b9b: This is the flavor...

14
b1: A flavor
b2: I have absolutely no complaints about...
a1: Elder
a2: Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu (TN: Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu [柳沢吉保], 1658 – 1714, was a Japanese daimyo of the Edo period, who served as an official in the Tokugawa shogunate. Possibly of interest is the presence of the same "Yanagi" kanji in his name and Yanagida's)
b3: It is the flavor of a supreme leader
b4: As per normal, please present it to the higher-ups
b5: Mm... The higher-ups will certainly be pleased
b6: Please continue to keep me in favor...
b7: That man... I wonder if he will pass it on to the Shogun as instructed?

15
b1: Hmph... Once you drink it, you'll never be able to forget it...
b2: In other words... That guy's also in demand by the higher ups, no...?
b3: Nevertheless, my ambitions will not be hindered by anyone
b4: And that's why I've sent <him>...
x1: Fukagawa
b5: Oh myyy, Koi-san, it's been so long!
b6: You could drop by my shop sometimes, you know!
b7: Koi-san... You're well-known even around here...
b8: Onii-san, you look strong~
b9: M- Me?
b10: CUT IT OUT, YOU IDIOT! Aotabou, what the heck are you doing!!
b11: Aw, come on, she's sexy
b12: Oh my
b13: Onii-san, why don't you join us?
b14: No, I!

16
b1: Eh... Rihan!?
b2: Hey... Wait
b3: Please show these two in!

17
b1: Are you the one who did Tenaga and Ashinaga in...?
b2: I know you've been tailing me all this while
b3: Your target... Is me, correct?

18
b1: And so you purposely made sure you were alone...?
b2: Were you thinking of luring me out?
b3: Nura Rihan
b4: And who might you be?

19
a1: Kurotabou
b1: I am Hyaku Monogatari's <Kurotabou the Mystery>
a2: ☆A black blade attacks Rihan!!
b2: And I've come for your life

Translation: Bakuman 129

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:38:54 +0000

~~it's friday friday gotta translate bakuman on friiiiiiiiiday~~

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01
b1: Move aside!
b2: No way in hell!
b3: If we do this on the road, we'll get in people's way, so let's take it to that park over there

a1: Page 129 Youth and Destiny
a2: Hiramaru's in full power mode!!
a3: If we do it here
a4: Yuri-tan'll be able to get a good view even from her window!

b4: Now, bring it!
b5: But don't expect to win with that unwieldy, fat hunk of meat you call a body!
b6: ...

02
b1: HMPH!!
b2: Hyaa

b3: Hiramaru-san (small text: So weak...)
b4: *open* (TN: sorry, I fail at SFX. What sound does a window make when it opens?)
b5: Aokiiiii
b6: ...

03
b1: TORYAAAAAA!!

b2: No, Yuri-tan....
b3: You absolutely mustn't come out here!

b4: Hiramaru-san!
b5: Aokiii~~ I'm coming over right now, so just stay riiiiiiight theeere~~
b6: Uiii
a1: ... I think I'd better call the police after all...
b7: ...

04
b1: ...
b2: ...

b3: Saikou, your hand isn't moving
b4: Eh... Yeah
b5: Even if things weren't the way they were, we were just a little too late in going to see how Nakai-san was
b6: "A little too late" doesn't even cut it
b7: In any case, just stop thinking about Nakai-san already
a1: ...
b8: I know

b9: Anyway, are you going for the class reunion?
b10: What about you, Shuujin?
b11a: It's a Sunday, so as long as I can finish the name I can take some time off for it
b11b: It's at the pub in front of South Yakusa Station, right?
b11c: We can get there by bike, can't we?
b12a: When you think that you're meeting your second grade classmates again, it really hits home, doesn't it?
b12b: That feeling like, "Why did it take us this long to do this?"...

05
b1: When we were back in second grade, we didn't even talk to each other, huh?
b2: Yeah, and I didn't even remember that we were in the same class to begin with...
b3: You remember a girl called Naoi Ichiko?
b4: Who's that? Doesn't ring a bell...
b5: I liked her quite a bit back then, you know
b6: ... You already had someone you liked back in second grade, huh

b7a: But then she transferred away in fourth grade
b7b: I'm really looking forward to seeing what became of her, assuming she comes for this reunion

b8a: I guess I do wanna see Yama-chan, whom I was real close to back in elementary school
b8b: He went to a private middle school, so that's as far as our friendship went, somehow or another...
b8c: As you cycle through different classmates and schools, some friendships tend to just die out, you know?

b9: In that case, let's both RSVP for it
b10: Got it
b11: *music note*
b12: !
b13: Eh? It's Fukuda-san
b14: Something like, "Thanks for just now"?

06
b1: Hah
b2: Hah
b3a: Stop getting in my way!
b3b: I have business with Aoki!
b4: And I'm telling you to tell me what that is, and I'll relay the message, got it?
b5: And I'm saying it has nothing to do with you

b6: Of... Of course it does!
b7: I'm Aoki-san's tea frieeeeeeend!!!!
b8: Hyaaa

b9a: Hiramaru-san and Nakai-san are fighting!?
b9b: Didn't Nakai-san just go to some other girl's house just a few hours ago!?
b10: Fukuda-san said Aoki-san called to tell him that...
b11: ... Let's just leave it already
b12: This time it's not only about Nakai-san! Aren't you worried about Hiramaru-san and Aoki-san? I'm grabbing a cab!

b13: ... Guess I don't have a choice~ Geez~

07
b1a: You never learn, do you...?
b1b: Don't involve yourself with Aoki-san any more
b2: Hah
b3: Hah
b4: Oh, shut up
b5a: Everything's that woman's fault...
b5b: If only that woman didn't exist...

b6: ... Alright, i... If Aoki-san really did something wrong, then just let me take full responsibility for them, okay?
b7a: You don't cut it!
b7b: I ain't gonna be able to calm down till I've beaten her good!

b8: Violence is a no-no on women!
b9: It's not something a man would resort to
b10: Shut the hell uuuup!!

08
b1: ...
b2a: What's this? Can't stand already?
b2b: Hmm!?
b3: Hah
b4: Hah
b5a: Well, you shoulda tried to be more persistent
b5b: The only cool thing anyone saw outta you was when you first entered!

b6: Uhehehehe~
b7: !
b8: ...
b9: !

09
b1: What're you pulling here?
b2a: You guys again...
b2b: Persistent bastards...
b3: *kachi*
b4: I won't go down as easy as Hiramaru-san, ya know?
b5: *poki*
b6: *peki*
b7: Hold on
b8: Fukuda-san

b9: Don't interfeeeeere!

b10: !
b11a: I... I'll protect Aoki-san with my own strength... Please don't interfere
b11b: Besides, this doesn't concern you guys. This is a problem involving Nakai-san, Aoki-san and me...
b12: And no-one else!
b13: !
b14: ...

10
b1: You said something about everything being Aoki-san's fault
b2a: What did you mean!?
b2b: Spit it out!
b2c: Depending on what you say, I may spend my whole life shouldering that debt
b3: ...

b4: I had nothing but manga...
b5: I came to Tokyo when I was 19, dreaming of getting serialized. At 21, I started out as an assistant...
b6: I sacrificed my youth...
b7: I gave up playing around and forwent romance

a1: ... The very essences of youth...
b8: But that woman ruined it all!

b9: Ruined?!
b10a: In other words, Aoki-san was so charismatic... You fell in love with her...
b10b: And your own manga career went out of whack...?
b11: That just means... That Nakai-san's feelings towards manga were only worth that much, no?
b12: Wha... What did you say...

11
b1a: HOWEVER...
b1b: I understand that feeling well! I feel the same!!
b2a: No...
b2b: I might feel even worse than you do. It pains me to say it but it may well be so!
b3: !?

b4a: I hate drawing manga... I'm practically drawing manga only to earn Aoki-san's favor
b4b: If Aoki-san dumped me, I'd be unable to draw manga... That's why I understand your feelings all too well...
b5a: ...?
b5b: That... That's totally different from my story
b5c: You seem to be doing well with Aoki-san...

b6: Ah, is that so... I'm sorry...
b7: But that's what we call misplaced hatred!
b8a: Aoki-san's beauty is not a sin! And so, I will protect her with my life!
b8b: Shouldn't you be jealous of the sinful me, who was able to be promoted to Aoki-san's tea friend!?
b8c: In that case, you may inflict pain on me until you're satisfied!!
b9: ...

12
b1: Hiramaru-san, Nakai-san, both of you stop it please!
b2: !
b3: Yuri-tan
b4a: Wah
b4b: She totally shouldn't have come out!

b5: There's no reason at all for Hiramaru-san to get beaten up, is there?
b6: Oh, no, this is something between men...

b7a: If you want to beat each other up that much, then just beat me up
b7b: That ought to be Nakai-san's greatest wish as well

13
b1: Oh, no, Yuri-tan, that's... If we did that, everything I'd fought for up till now would have been...
b2: I'd thought Hiramaru-san was stronger than that
b3: Hyaaaaaa I'm sorry! But for Yuri-tan's sake, I...
b4: Hiramaru-san, be quiet for a bit, okay?

b5: Go on, hit me, please
b6: Please hit me until you're satisfied

b7: I never thought Aoki-jou had the guts to do something like that
b8:If he really hits her, then never mind mangaka, he fails even at being a human
b9: ...
b10: UOOOOHHH

14
b1: ...

b2: I... I know this hatred is misplaced...

b3a: I
b3b: Really had nothing but manga
b4: I worked my ass off for it
b5a: ...
b5b: Didn't seem like it when we were all assistants at Niizuma-shishou's place
b6: He may be drunk on alcohol, but did he get drunk on the mood as well...?
b7: ... You two...

15
b1a: When "hideout door" was serialized
b1b: I was happy
b2a: But then I lost all of that... And I have nothing left
b2b: I don't have a job... Nor do I have a girl, nor do I have friends... Not even money...
b3: I know it's my own fault... I have no other desires now... Just how should I live my life from here on out...?

b4: Nakai-san
b5: !?

b6: Why the hell is Hiramaru-san crying!?
b7a: Well, he sounded really pathetic and...
b7b: ...
b8a: Manga is a scary thing...
b8b: After being manipulated by my editor, I have found that... My future is nothing but darkness
b9: Five years from now... Ten years from now... I don't have a clue what'd have become of me by then...

16
b1: Nor do I know when I'll fall as low as to become a pathetic uncle like Nakai-san
b2: Yo... You...
b3: Nakai-san!

b4: Will you become my assistant!?
b5: !?

b6: EHHH
b7: We should be able to forge a relationship over the fact that we are both individuals enamored by Aoki-san
b8: ... I doubt it...

17
b1a: No! Nakai-san could be my destiny! (TN: Ohba-sensei on a yaoi roll these few chapters? :p)
b1b: When I think about it that way, I just can't leave things be!
b2: ...

b3: Hey, that logic's totally screwed!
b4a: Destiny...!? Is he expecting to get dumped by Aoki-san and lose his serialization?
b4b: That's the same old negative Hiramaru-san, but...

b5a: Hi... Hiramaru...
b5b: Ju... Just now, when you said "I will protect her with my life"... I thought to myself...
b6: That it might be okay to entrust Aoki to this man after all...
b7a: IS THAT SO! THANK YOU!
b7b: It may sound arrogant to say "leave it to me", but thank you!

b8a: Alriiiiight! For the time being, let's go get a drink!
b8b: Of course, they'll be on me!
b9: Yeah
b10: ...
b11: Ehh...
b12: How did this happen?
b13: A drink? Aren't they already...

18
b1: I thought you were a pretty irresponsible guy at first, but now that I got to talk to you, you're really a great guy, Hiramaru!
b2: Nakai-san, you're a worthless guy... But in that worthlessness I found humanity...!

b3: ...
b4: Nakai-san's drunk so that's why things went like that... But I really don't think he'll do a good job as Hiramaru's assistant
b5: Really? If he does a good job, "Boku ni wa Tsuujinai" would get a real power up
b6: ...

b7: Sure you're okay with that?
b8: Yes! I believe in Hiramaru-san
b9: Haaaah you know what! We've been brought on a ride by Nakai-san the whole damned day! How stupid
b10: Yeah, and in the end we were totally useless (small text: Achoo!)
b11: But it's good that things didn't get worse than they did, no? Let's head home

19
x1: The next day
b1: Hmm
b2: Some... Somehow the bed feels kinda hard...
b3: Hmm? HMMMMMMMMMM!?

b4: Wh... Why the hell are you sleeping in my bed!!
b5: ?
b6: We hit it off real well last night, didn't we?
b7a: No...
b7b: Eh?
b7c: I don't remember...
b7d: No... I only remember until the part where I asked you to be my editor...

b8: So, Hiramaru-kun, it's okay if I stay here, right? And it's okay if I collect my assistant's salary early too, right?
b9: Like hell I'd live under the same roof as you! This is the home I got for one day living with Yuri-tan...
b10: Do... Don't make me jealous by talking about Aoki-san like that! I'll wring your neck!
b11: ... G... Got it. So, how much do you need?
b12: Until I find a house, I'll need cash, living expenses and an allowance...
a1: The rain fell, and the ground... Hardened?