Sakura no Sono 3

[boke's comments is brackets like this]
[Thanks to NaweG for proofreading]

[ver 1.0 oct 16, 2009]

Page 91 Panel 1 Drunk on Flowers

93-1 I hate spring

The wind is strong

94-1 To get to our school at the top of the hill, everybody has to trudge up this slope

94-2 Morning!

Morning

94-3 Morning

Ah, it's her

94-4 Whoa, I blew it. I forgot my dictionary and had to scramble home to get it

95-2 Ah, good morning

95-3 Morning

95-4 This wind's something, huh?

That's not it

Yeah, the poor flowers are blowing away

That's not what I want to say

95-5 Well, see you after school

Ok

96-1 Kyaa

sfx: Whooosh

I hate this!

96-2 The wind blows away the late blooming cherry blossoms. It also stirs up my heart.

96-3 Ooh, my cute little...
My gentle, wonderful garden!

Good bye, my love!
Good bye, my happiness!
Good bye...

97-1 Mama!

97-2 One last look at the walls, the window...
She loved walking in this room, my dear, departed mother...

97-3 That's nice, Kurata-san. Just like that, ok?

It seems like it'd be better if you placed the chair a little better

And Nakano-san, have Anya use a softer voice, like she's calling out from far away

Ok

98-1 Hey, did you hear? Sugiyama and the other 3rd years are whoring themselves out

Whaat? Really?

98-2 Stop saying things like that, you two.
What are you going to do if you're wrong?

Just saying you're joking around won't cut it
And look, it's the middle of practice. Cut the conversation.

98-3 Ah...
Ok...

Sorry...

Ah, I'm overstepping again

98-4 This is why people avoid me. I'm always being harsh like that...

98-6 Well, it's not like I like those girls very much either...

sfx: slide

99-1 I want to check this out please

Ok

99-2 Huh?

99-3 Shimizu-san, you still haven't gone home?

What about you? Why are you still here, Sugiyama-san?

99-4 Well, I am on the Library Committee. [Italicize "am"]
I skip a lot, though.

99-5 Ok, name and class, please.

Ok

99-6 Thank you for before

99-7 I didn't think you'd be the one to stand up for me...
I thought you didn't like me. I do skip a lot, so... [italicize "do"]

100-1 Ah... no... that's...

100-2 Ok, the due day is the same day next week

Ok

100-4 Um, hey...
Sugiyama-san...

100-5 Why does everyone use polite Japanese with me?

100-6 Wha?

100-7 Um... well...
Because you're the bucho, I guess... [bucho is the club leader]

But even though I'm the bucho, we're all the same age

101-1 It bothers you?

Mmmm...

I wouldn't say that it bothers me, but...

101-2 I guess it's because you have it together

101-3 You think I come off that way?

101-4 "You're so mature, little lady"

They've said that since I was a young girl

"You're cute, little lady"

"you're pretty, little lady"

Nobody's ever called me something like that. Not even once.

102-1 I'm home

sfx; creak

102-2 Guests?

Yeah, yeah
Akira-chan from uncle Ooiso's place.

You remember him?

102-3 sshff

102-4 Akira...

Yeah, you called him "Kitty cat big brother". You really liked him, remember?
He works around here now

102-5 Why now...?

102-6 After I tried so hard not to remember

103-1 Welcome

103-2 Yuko-chan!? Whoa, you've gotten big, huh!
Remember me?

103-3 Yes...

sfx: clink

103-4 Has your... asthma gotten better?

Wha? Yeah. I'm fine now.

103-5 Pediatric asthma. It gets better when you become an adult

sfx: flick

103-6 Hmmm....

104-2 When I was in elementary school

I lived in a seaside town

I could look across the sea from my 2nd floor window

104-3 My cousin Akira, because of his asthma, would commute to school from our house when it became winter

104-4 When he had an attack, his voice,

down in his chest would sound like the rumbling of the sea, like the purring of a cat

104-5 Back then, I'd listen to that strange sound

"Akira-chan, it sounds like you have a cat in your chest"

You say the craziest things, Yuko-chan

105-1 My first love

105-2 Yuko?

105-3 What's wrong? You went straight to your room.

Mm

After Akira-chan made the effort to come over

106-1 And you used to be so close to him

106-2 I was a grade school kid then

106-3 That's right. It's been six years.

Akira-chan was a high school student.
I've gotten older too

107-1 Join the Exercise Club!

Now taking new members!

We'll take our turn. Go have some lunch.

Ah, thanks

Join the manga club!

Drama club [sign]

107-2 I wonder how many new members we'll get

107-3 I wonder how many will stick around to the end without quitting

107-4 Kurata-sempai

107-5 Do you best with "Sakura no Sono". We'll definitely come see you! [Sakura no Sono is the name of the play]

Um, can I shake your hand?

Uh...

108-1 You're totally popular!
'cause you did the handsome guy role last year

Don't joke. Popular with the girls? What's that going to do for me?

108-2 Shimizu-san, want to buy something from the vending machines?

108-3 Shimizu-san?

Eh? Ah, yeah

108-5 Shimizu-san

108-6 Hm?

109-1 Shimizu-san...
You like Kurata-san, right?

109-3 ...what do you mean by that?

109-4 What do I mean...?

109-5 Just what it sounds like...

110-1 Somehow, I just think so

110-3 Why do you think so?

Mmm...
The best I can do is just say "somehow, I just think so"...

I'm not saying you're a lesbian or anything...

110-4 Sugiyama-san, why did you come to a girl's school?

Eh?

110-5 It's more like my dad forced me
I wanted to go to a mixed school

110-6 But it's turned out ok

I mean, I don't have to worry about guys leering at me

I hear it's tough at a mixed school - when you have your period and stuff

111-1 Guys get worked up if they spot you carrying the pouch you carry your napkins in

So you have to find a way to dash to the toilet, I hear

111-2 That's right. Come to think of it, that was a pain in elementary school

111-3 Guys noticing and then teasing me

What? That's awful.

111-4 Yeah. It was awful.

I had it wrapped up in a handkerchief, but a boy yanked it out in front of everyone and yelled "Look what Shimizu's doing"!

111-5 What a brat

Yeah, a total brat

111-6 That's why I'll never forgive him

112-1 No matter what kind of adult he turns into

For me, he'll always be the the same
Waving my napkins around. Always just like that.

112-2 Come to think of it

There was a girl with big boobs who started wearing a bra. They noticed the line of her bra and totally teased her.

She ended up crying

112-3 I'll never accept the excuse that they were just kids

112-4 I'll hate them as long as I live

I'll never be able to forget that time

113-1 That right

There's no reason to forgive them

113-2 So that's why you went to a girl's school?

Yeah... I think that's got a lot to do with it.

113-3 Hey, did you know?

Huh?

113-4 The sex of these cherry trees is male

113-5 Eh

sfx: whip

113-6 Ahaha
Oh, Shimizu-san

You really do hate guys [bottom right]

Oh, stop teasing me

But it's true the cherry trees are male

114-1 So that means this school is

Surrounded by 100 males

It's a bad joke. Grotesque.

It's just like calling this place "Sakura no Sono" [Sakura no Sono mean "the cherry blossom garden"]

114-2 Back in 4th grade

My father looked at me as if looking as something different

114-3 You're sure developing early. You're still in grade school.

114-4 Kids sure grow up fast nowadays.

That's great, huh, Yuko? You're an adult now!

Instead of sekihan, cake. [sekihan is red-bean rice. It's cooked for celebratory occasions, and is traditionally cooked by girl's mothers when a girl first has her period.]

114-5 Good day

Good day

Good day

115-1 "This kid's developing fast. We'll have to keep an eye on her"

"Look, guys are going to start hitting on you. You've got the body of an adult, see?"

115-2 Back when my grandmother was still alive, there was something stiff in the tone of her voice

When she died, I was unable to cry

115-3 Hey, you guys!
This isn't good, you have to greet people properly!

You're 3rd years, right!?
You have to set an example for the 1st years, right?

115-4 Good day

Good day

Good day

Ok, good.

Shit. This is so dumb.

116-1 Ahhh, crap. How long do we have to keep doing this?

We're trapped

117-1 Her eyes... around her mouth...
She looks like him

I've known this for a while

117-2 Yuko-chan!

117-4 What's up? Going home?

Yeah...

117-5 What are you doing, Akira-chan?

Mm, business. I had to go to local publishing company.
How about tea or something? I'll buy you some cake

117-6 ...yeah

Ok. Thank you.

118-1 So you're a 3rd year in high school now. Man, I'm getting old.

118-2 It's been 6 years, huh?

118-3 Oh, so you're going to that girl's school with all the cherry trees.
Hmm...
Well, it's sure got a lot of those trees

118-4 They started with 50 at the founding of the school. Each graduating class adds one.

Whoa, that's cool

118-5 Really? Seems dumb to me...

It's getting crowded with trees... it's like it's hard to breathe

118-6 This is just like the old days...

Huh?

You've always been the kind of girl to say odd stuff like that

119-2 Akira-chan

119-3 Akira-chan, do you remember?

119-4 I should say it
I have to say it

When I was in 6th grade. You said I was "mature" for my age

I don't think I'll get a chance to ask again. Please remember...
I want to be saved...

119-5 Wha? I did?

Did I say that?

119-6 You did [bottom right]

I did? [top bubble]

Mmm...
I don't remember [bottom left]

"She's sure developed early"

"You're an early bloomer"

"Developed"
That one word was imprinted like a sin into my heart

120-1 You said it

120-2 You did

121-1 Huh, Yuko-chan?

What's wrong?
Ah what do I do now...?

Sorry, ok?
Did it bother you that much?

121-2 He didn't remember after all

122-1 Everyone must just forget

Those boys. Those men as well.

122-2 But I can't forget

Binding my budding breast with cloth. Walking slouched over without realizing it

My chest was like it was going to burst open

Was it my misery?
Was it the cruel pain of my breasts?

123-2 Huh?

123-3 How did I end up back at school...?

123-6 So pretty...

124-2 Ah

124-3 Sorry, you go on without me

Ok. What's up?

Mm, just something I remembered

124-4 Shimizu-saaan

125-1 Didn't you go home earlier?

125-2 Yeah, I did, but...

I came back

125-2 Did something happen?

125-3 Yeah...

Something...

126-1 This feels great
I feel like I could get drunk on the fragrance

126-2 This is the peak

After this, they just scatter

126-3 Sugiyama-san

Mm?

126-4 To tell the truth, I didn't really think much of you or Narusawa-san.

126-5 Yeah

I know

127-1 I was really a little jealous

You could do all the things I couldn't

127-2 But there's a big penalty for doing so

This and that...

127-3 Sugiyama-san, you seem to have changed, huh?

It was like it was... harder to deal with you

127-4 Yeah, right?

I think I've changed too

127-5 Like I can think positively about things now

I've stopped thinking people don't care about me.
And I'm trying to be nice to myself.

128-1 I see

128-2 It's true that I love Kurata-san.

She...
Doesn't seem like a girl... and how should I put it?
...doesn't seem fake. I want to be like that...

128-3 But more than anything

She looks like someone I loved

129-1 It's got to be that. I bet...

130-1 Wanna get ice cream or something on the way home?

Yeah

130-2 Oh, that's right...

What?

130-3 Hey, can you wait for me by the gate?

Sure. Forgot something?

130-4 Mmm...
Something...

130-5 Wait for me. I'll be right back.

131-1 Slide

131-6 Slide

132-1 Blown by the wind, the flower petals land on my sleeve. Reminding me of traces of you.

Sorry to make you wait

Hey, Shimizu-san, I just remembered just now

Back when we were fitting costumes, I glanced over and...
Kurata-san, she's pretty stacked, huh?

Really?
But she's got nothing on me

Ooooh