Hourou Musuko 34

If you visit for the first time and mistake the main door, this is the sight that greets you when you open the door.

Author's Photograph

006-1 Character Introduction (By Sasa-chan)

Nitori Shuuichi-kun
I'm often called noisy and they get mad at me a lot, but Nitori-kun is really well behaved. Ariga-kun calls him "Nitorin" though. Maybe I'll call him that too next time.

Ah, Ariga-kun is... (Sasa-chan, that comes later)
Come to think of it, "Nitorin" and "Saorin" sound similar, huh? Well, the feeling anyway.
Ah, Saorin is... (Sasa-chan, that comes later)

Bleh

Takatsuki Yoshino-san
Takatsuki-kun is my childhood friend! We've been together ever since we were small. Our house are really close, so our mom's are close friends.
Takatsuki-kun's mom is really nice, which is really different from my mom.

Chiba Saori
This is the Saorin I mentioned earlier!
Saorin has a lot of girls that don't like her very much.... It's kinda hard.
But Saorin is popular with the boys! So cool!

Ariga Makoto-kun
Ah, this is the Ariga-kun I mentioned earlier! He's everyone's friend, but he's really close to Nitori-kun.
Nitori-kun calls Makoto "Mako-chan"! That's so cute!

Sasa Kanako-san
When she breaks down and cries, she cries really wierd. Her brain gets "itchy" when she tries to think too much, but she's really really really energetic.
I'm introducing everyone this time!

006-2
[clockwise from top right]

Sarashina Chizuru-san
Shirai Momoko-san

Both of them are my classmates in junior high. Sarashina-san is as tall as Takatsuki-kun, and she's really cool. Shirai-san is always with Sarashina-san. Are they childhood friends like me and Takatsuki-san?

Suehiro Anna-san
Saito Tamaki-san

Anna-chan and Tamaki-chan are pro models! Nitori-kun's older sister is also a model, and the three of them are close friends. So cool!

Saisho Manabu-sensei
He's our homeroom teacher. Everyone, were you able to read the kanji for his name as "Saisho" at first?
I thought it read "Zeisho-sensei".
Eh? I wasn't making a pun! [An alternate reading for the kanji of Saisho-sensei's name is "first"]

Ok! Hourou Musuko Volume 5 starts now!
It's not [keep the 4 kanji containing the red X here] Hourou Musuko, but
[keep the 4 kanji containing the red circle here] Hourou Musuko! [Sasa-chan is making a pun. The first reading is "Prodigal Son". The second is "Transient Son."]
Thanks for reading!

Yuki-chan and Shi-chan
I've met them just once before. He's a good looking guy and she's a beautiful woman.
Even though they're adults, they are Nitori-kun and Takatsuki-kun's friends. Amazing, huh?

Seiya Riku-kun
He's become Nitori-kun's older sister's boyfriend! Will I ever get a boyfriend?

Nitori Maho-san
Nitori-kun's older sister. Nitori-kun's complained that she's picked on him before.
But being a big sister is hard!
Just recently, my younger brother did... (...Sasa-chan!)

7-1
Chapter 34 - The Fascinating Sarashina-san
Chapter 35 - The Fresh Class Three
Chapter 36 - The Affable Class
Chapter 37 - Beautiful Monday
Chapter 38 - Sensei Likes Mysteries
Chapter 39 - Girl's Dress Rehearsal
Chapter 40 - Door to Summer
Chapter 41- Revival

Special Contribution "Oka at Sunset" by Ishide Den

Author's comment
Afterword

7-2 Hey lady, if you don't leave the boy alone...

7-3 Oh my

7-4 Sorry!
Sorry, Shuu-kun
You're just so cute, and nostalgic, I couldn't help staring!

But yet you don't stop touching him

7-6 I suffered my fair share in this...
I'm sorry, eh?

8-1 Chapter 34
The Fascinating Sarashina-san

8-2 Yoshino-chan's the same?

8-3 ....oh really...

8-4 Have you made new friends?

8-6 You didn't give him that dress

8-7 It was the dress I bought in junior high

8-8 It's already out of date

9-2 ...have you made new friends?

9-3 Not new...

9-4 Makes me a little anxious...

9-5 Sa...
Sa...
Sa...

9-6 Here!
Sasa Kanako!

Eeeh?
What class?
What class?

Class 3!

9-7 Oh!
You're with Yoshino-chan!

No way!

9-8 Yay! Yay!

We're together again!

Yeah

9-9 You're always taking care of my son

No, I have to thank you for...

He's just a little loud mouth [In Japan, it's considered rude to compliment your own offspring. So you'll often see mothers putting down their kids in the name of politeness]

Well

Ah

9-10 Nitorin, Look! Look!
We're in the same class!

Yeah!

9-11 Our homeroom teacher...
How do you read this?

10-1 Ah, here.
Here's your name, Sa-chan

10-2 You're in class 3

Hmmm?

10-3 ...Oh

10-4 Isn't this great?
You're in the same class as Nitori-kun

10-6 Um
Congratulation on entering junior high

10-7 The bonds you entering students

Will make in the confines of our school

10-8 Will let you grow

10-9 Vigorously

11-1 You will converse with your good friends

You will encourage each other...

11-2 We will now introduce the homeroom teachers

11-3 Year 1 Class 1. Kawada Miho-sensei

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11-4 Year 1 Class 2. Yamashita Yoshinori-sensei

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11-5 Year 1 Class 3. Saisho Manabu-sensei
Huh, so you read it "Saisho"

Yeah

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11-6 Hey
Don't you think that's a girl?

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11-7 No, he's just got long hair, right?

But that's pretty neat, huh?

Sure stands out. You can say that.

11-8 Chi-chan, it's strange!

Eh, it doesn't look good?

It's just...

12-1 Even though you wore that
You've got your hair down

Eh? But...

12-2 I like it long

I just wanted to wear a boy's collar, so I wore this

12-3 But I guess I stand out too much, huh?

Is... he a guy...?

Chi-chan's a girl! A girl!

12-5 Takatsuki

13-1 What the hell am I doing...

That's girl... was amazing

13-2 I wear the clothes that

I want to wear!!

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13-5 Shff

13-7 No good!
If I wear this to school tomorrow

I'll just be imitating her

13-8 Ahhhh
Even though I'm thinking about it

I'm...
There's no way I can just do it...

13-9 I wanna be like that...

14-1 Chi-chan! You're in a skirt today!

Hey, hey

14-2 Ah, a class 3 person

Morning

M-morning!

14-3 I'm Sarashina Chizuru

Nice to meet you!

I'm Shirai Momoko

14-4 Takatsuki Yoshino...

14-5 You're tall too, huh?

14-6 You wanna join the basketball club?

14-7 Ah, 'cause I've always played basketball

Um

Have you played basketball?

14-8 Aren't you going to wear...

Like you were yesterday?

Chi--ii--chaaaan!

Ah, a boy's uniform?

14-9 I felt like a skirt today

14-10 If I feel like regular clothes tomorrow, maybe I'll wear those

14-11 Hurry! Let's get good seats!

15-1 Amazing...

She's so... amazing!

Amazing!
Amazing!
Amazing...

15-2 So cool...

15-3 Wow, pretty...

15-5 Don't just go touching me!

15-6 Ah, sorry
It's just too pretty...

15-7 Chi-chan, she's scary!

Mmm, but it was my fault. I touched her without permission

15-8 She had such nice hair

Chi-chan's hair is much prettier!

15-10 I hope this class with be ok

15-11 I mean, the teacher's already late...

Saisho-sensei is late. Self Study [board]

15-12 Yeah...

Be quiet! It's supposed to be self study!

16-1 Do you want me to put a slip cover on those?

Ah, no, it's ok

I understand

16-4 Dear Grandpa

16-5 I bought some books today, so I used the book covers you sent me

16-6 Flash

16-9 clunk

17-1 I want to try reading a book in a place like that [Some junior high schools forbid their students going to coffee-shops]

17-2 ding-a-ling

17-4 Thud

ding.. ling...

17-5 Ah...

17-6 He...

He...
Hello

17-7 What am I doing, greeting her like that?

17-8 I mean, she doesn't know me

17-9 That was embarassing...

Ah

17-10 Got it!
You're in class 3!

17-11 Sorry, I didn't realize it for a sec

S'okay

What's your name again?
Um...

17-12 Nitori Shuuichi

I'm Sarashina Chizuru
Sounds like a soba-ya, huh? [Soba-ya is a resterant that sells soba noodles]

18-1 My family actually does run a soba resteraunt
Just around that corner up there

18-2 If you don't mind, come try us sometime!

Later, Nitori-kun!

18-3 See you tomorrow!

18-4 She wore a boy's uniform to the entrance ceremony

And just came out of that stylish looking cafe by herself... Sarashina-san...

18-5 So cool!

18-6 Ah, Her! Her!

18-7 That first year?

Yeah, I remember her face

18-10 Are you the one that wore a boy's uniform to the entrance ceremony? [Anything out of line by younger students often brings reprisals from upperclassmen.]

Ah
Yeah, that's right

18-11 Wham

18-12 Mm?

What?

18-13 Owww...

19-1 Chi-chan's good at fighting!

Chi-chan, everyone's looking!

19-3 Gyaaa
What?
What's with that?

19-4 What a strange girl...

19-5 I don't understand your standards for embarrassment...

19-6 Teacher's Room [sign]

This is a problem! A teacher being late!