Hatsukoi Limited 3

1
Hatsukoi Limited
Chapter 3
The Everything Girl
[TN: She's interested in... everything...?!]

2
[side text: Last issue: Yamamoto-san's body is a dangerous weapon.]
[box: Year 1, Class 4, Student number 29, Yamamoto Misaki]
[sFX: twirl twirl]
[box: Her beauty and cool expression capture the hearts of any number of guys... I think, but...]
[sFX: music from earphones...?]
Arihara: Idiot! I'm tellin' ya, there's no way some other guy's little sister could be cuter than our Ayumi!!
Guy: I bet your sister has a face like a monkey, just like you!!
[sFX: argue argue argue]
Misaki: (Guys are total idiots...)
[box: ...is what it looks like she's thinking, so I'm not quite sure.]
[bottom text: Yamamoto-san is actually thinking about the K-1 game that's showing on TV tonight.]
[TN: Er, I think I've got that right... the monologue here confuses me a little, as does the note at the bottom.]

3
Meguru: Eh? You forgot to bring in the handout again?!
[box: And then there's student number 31, the class rep, Watarase Meguru. // I guess you'd call her a tsundere character. // Her face is pretty cute too, with the glasses and all, and it's not like she's not my type or anything... but...]
Meguru: [can't really tell what's going on in the top-right bubble, since it's mostly cut off, but obviously she's just lecturing him] // Listen up, okay, even if you're the one who forgot the handout, I'm the one the teacher will get angry with...
[box: Right now... // The girl I'm interested in drawing... // ...is somebody more... kind of light and airy... // ...and also surrounded by something of a mysterious essence...]

4
[TN: Dammit, she still looks far too much like Ayumi.]
[sFX: daze~]
Uemura: (Enomoto Yuu. I think her student number is 17. // She's the very image of the heroine for the story I'm thinking up! // So now I've got the basics of the heroine's design sorted out... / I just have to fill in the details...)
[box: That's right...]

5
[box: My dream is to become a manga-ka!]
[sFX: staaaaaare]
[sFX: Ah...]
[sFX: sweeeat]
Uemura: Uwahhh?!!
Yuu: Ah!
Uemura: I - I, I... // I was seen!! // And by a girl, of all people!! [aside]And the one I happened to be using as a model, too...[/aside]
[sFX: stare]

6
[sFX: worry worry - all through the background]
Uemura: I - If only I'd been drawing a male character... I mean, a picture of a girl...!! / She's gotta be thinking "oh no...! He's a pervert...! A geek...!!" / "Is that a picture of me...?! Ewww...!" and stuff like that... // I'm far too embarassed to show anybody my drawings! My friends and parents haven't even seen them!! // I'll just have to win a manga-drawing competition and drop out of school! [aside]there's nothing else I can do...![/aside]
Yuu: Hey!
Uemura: ............Huh?
Yuu: Just now... was that a picture of "Nozomi-sensei"? / You know, from "B Sword!", that one manga!
Uemura: ...Eh?
Yuu: You know, that series from "Weekly Shonen Zump", set in the Taisho period, about a dojo that gets converted into a theatre... / Huh? Don't tell me you don't know it? // Then is that an original character of yours? Wow, you're really good at drawing, aren't you, Uemura-kun!
[sFX: talk talk talk talk (etc.)]
[TN: No, it's not a typo, she says "Zump", not "Jump" - evidently it's meant to be a "parody" :p The manga could well be a parody, too, but I don't know what it would be based on.]

7
[sFX: still with the talk talk talking]
Uemura: I - I've heard that title, but I've never actually read -
Yuu: Ehhhhh?! But it's brilliant! There are so many cool swordsmen, and the battles are great!!
Uemura: (Wha...)
Yuu: Ah, "Nozomi-sensei" is the teacher at the school the main character goes to. She loves roast potatoes!
Uemura: P - potatoes?
Yuu: The series has twenty-three volumes so far, and there's a character databook too! / There's an anime, too, it has tons of really popular seiyuu...
Uemura: (What's with this deep conversation?)
[sFX: ste~~am]
[sFX: wave wave]
Yuu: ? // Uemura-kun, your eyes turned into dots... [aside]you okay?[/aside]
Uemura: (Aghhhh... Everybody's looking at me...)
[sFX: sta~~~re]
Yuu: But, you know, this is really great! // Because, I mean, I don't really have any friends who I can talk to about manga and anime and all that... now I can just talk to you about all that, right?
[TN: No, no, you can't. You can't talk to him, because that would lead to a relationship, and he can't have you, because I want you ALL FOR MYSELF. *steals Yuu*]
[box: I mean, I...]
Uemura: I - I don't know nearly as much about it as you......
[box: I'd never talked so openly about my hobby with anybody before; not even once...]

8
Yuu: Buy you know, Uemura-kun, you really are good at drawing! // I think that's really cool! // I think you could definitely become a manga-ka if you tried!
[sFX: ka-thump]

9
Trainspotters: Yuu-chan! / Check it out, it's a picture I took on Sunday down at Oogawa Railway!
Yuu: Ah! / Lessee, lessee! I love steam trains! // Ahh, it's an unstaffed station! <3
Uemura: Whew... she switched to a different topic...
Flashback!Yuu: You could definitely become a manga-ka!
[sFX: ka-thump]
Yuu: Oh, yeah, Uemura-kun!! / I'll bring the first volume of "B Sword!" in for you tomorrow, so you can read it, yeah...?
[sFX: crash]
Uemura: A - a - ahh -

10
Uemura: (What have I got myself into...?)
[Labels: trading manga // showing drawings // chatting about manga]
[in sketchbook - the top-left four all say "Enomoto Yuu" in kanji, the bottom two say "Enomoto Yuu" in kana, and the top-right one says "Yuu-chan".]
Uemura: (Ahhh... / I can't believe I'm chatting every day about manga with such a cute girl... // It's... well, like something out of a manga!)

11
Uemura: (We have the same tastes in manga... // No matter what I talk about, she always laughs and joins in... // It's like she's the only one who understands me... // Dear God,
Yuu: Here...
Uemura: I don't even care about becoming a manga-ka any more... just please, let me go out with this girl...)
[sFX: Ahh!]
Yuu: ?
Uemura: Wh - what am I thinking?!
Yuu: [aside]er, take the handout...[/aside]
[sFX: shake, shake]
Uemura: This is crazy! I was about to just abandon the dream I've had since I was in kindergarten!! // Not to mention, she really is friends with a lot of other guys... // [aside]and I never get what they're talking about...[/aside]
Yuu: No, no! Ceres is here in the asteroid belt...
Astronomer: [aside]oh, right...[/aside]

12
[sFX: clatter]
Yuu: Oh, yeah! Uemura-kun, there's something I've gotta talk to you about! // Come on, Uemura-kun!
Uemura: Huh? But...
Astronomer: Yuu-cha~n... you were still talking to me...
Yuu: ............ / Please?
[sFX: ka-thump ka-thump ka-thump]
Uemura: Wh - what's with her? / I've never seen her be so pushy... // C - could it be...?
[TN: No, it couldn't. You're an aspiring manga-ka, you should know it's never what it looks like.]
[sFX: ka-thump ka-thump ka-thump]
Uemura: (Not... a confession of love...?!)

13
[sFX: spin]
Yuu: Look! Uemura-kun!! // The top prize is ¥5,000,000! It's amazing, right?
[TN:
[sFX: ka-boo~~~~m]
Uemura: (Ah - ahh... <3)
[sFX: flap flap flap]
Uemura: (It wasn't a confession after al - ) // Ahh!!! / F - Five million yen~~~~~?!!
[TN: About £21,000, or $43,000]
[sFX: grab]
Yuu: And they publish your manga into the magazine straight away, too! / It's a really major publisher and everything! This is a huge chance for you, don't you think?!

14
Uemura: (I - It's true that I have a story all thought out right now, in secret... // And I do kind of get the urge to try submitting it, but...)
Yuu: Come on, you know you have to submit it! // I'll do anything I can to help, too! [aside]like printing, and the tones... / or the hard linework![/aside]
Uemura: If I had five million... That would be more than enough to pay for a wedding, and even a honeymoon...
[sFX: whooooooa]
Yuu: Ahh! Your eyes are burning!
Uemura: But... there's no way I could do it.
Yuu: Why?!
Uemura: No... I mean...
[sFX: whooosh]
[sFX: eheh...]
Uemura: I don't even have any of the right tools to draw any proper manga...

15
Uemura: To be honest, I wouldn't even have any idea where to get them...
Yuu: I'm pretty sure I know about all sorts of places that sell all that stuff. / Shall I take you and see?
Uemura: ...Ah... // ...Okay...

16
Uemura: (Truth is, I knew all along exactly where to buy tools for drawing manga. // There's that big stationery store in front of the station, and they're right at the back, on the right as you enter. // I was just too self-confident to ever actually do anything... // I could really have walked in there and bought them at any time.) // But who cares!! // I get to spend the day shopping with her...! // However you look at it, this is a date! A date!! [aside]yaaaay![/aside] // Ah - Enomoto-san, over here! // (She's out of uniform! She looks even cuter than I'd imagined!!)
Yuu: So, let's get the tickets!
Uemura: Huh? [aside]uh, the store's over that way...[/aside]

17
[sFX: Pshhhhh (train doors closing)]
Uemura: (Huh?)
[sFX: chug chug chug chug]
Uemura: (Huh?! // HUH?!!)
People: Pleased to meet you...! // There's a big sale on right now!
Uemura: Whoooaa...
Yuu: I've never come to a big city like this before, it's so cool...!
[sFX: spin spin]
Uemura: [aside]me either...[/aside] // (Our first date, at an otaku paradise...?!)
Yuu: Aaaahhh! This figure's from my favourite anime! / This pose is so cute too! Ahh, which one should I buy~~~?! [aside]ahh... ahh...[/aside]
Uemura: Ah! I'll buy you one of those, as a souvenir!!

18
Yuu: It's almost like some kind of festival, don't'cha think...? / With people in all sorts of costumes, and all sorts of noises and tunes floating around...
[sFX: ahhhhhh...]
Uemura: (Enomoto-san would probably look amazing in a maid outfit...)
Yuu: Hey, are you really listening to me?
Uemura: Ah, crap, now I'm seeing things!! [aside]but she totally would...[/aside] // S - sorry about that, Enomoto-san... // Ah! // Look, Enomoto-san!! It's "Nozomi-sensei"...!!!
Yuu: Ah, you're right!! Uwaaahhh, she's so cute...!

19
Guys: Hey, don't'cha think that girl would make a great Nozomi-sensei? / [aside]i mean, just look at her...[/aside]
[sFX: grin grin]
[sFX: ahh!]
Uemura: (Th - they're right!! [aside]ah... that would be incredible...[/aside])
[sFX: ka-thump]
Uemura: (Ahh... Ahhahhahhhh... <3<3<3<3<3)
[sFX: crash]
Yuu: I don't see any artists' stores... Was this not the right place...? / ...are you okay, Uemura-kun?

20
Shopperson: Thank you, come again!
Yuu: Wooow, who'd've thought they sold them so nearby?!
Uemura: Hm? Y - yeah... // It's totally surprising...!!
[sFX: wow!]
Yuu: ...Sorry about that... making you go all the way out there and everything...
Uemura: No, no! // It gave me lots of inspiration... and it was really fun, Enomoto-san!!
Yuu: You're so nice, aren't you, Uemura-kun...
[sFX: ka-thump]
[TN: I think that smile would be enough to knock me out, even without the killer line to go with it >.<]

21
Yuu: Thanks for walking me home!
[sFX: ka-thump ka-thump ka-thump]
Uemura: ...E - // Enomoto-san! // Umm... That is... // I - I really like you...
[TN: that part is almost entirely covered by the next bubble :p]
Kei: Onee-chan!
[TN: ...and there was me thinking that Yuu was the *younger* sister...]

22
Yuu: Ah, Kei-chan! I'm home!
Uemura: (Whoa, her sister's cute too...)
Kei: Honestly! Where on earth have you been off to?! // I had to let all these guys in the house because they were insisting you'd said you'd meet them, you know?!
Guys: Whaat?! // Yuu-chan's come home?!
Occultist: Welcome back, Yuu-chan!! / You promised we could look over the Nostradamus prophecies together today, right?!
Biker: No, my motorbike -
Mechanic: Idiot! She said we'd be finishing up our robot today!! [aside]the maid robot![/aside]
Oldguy: Don't forget, you said you'd give me a game of Shogi today!
Aliendude: No, no, she said we'd be decoding messages from outer space today - didn't you?!
Bigdude: That's not right, she said we could work on that weight-losing medicine -
Origamidude: Um, the origami -
Everyone: We've all been waiting for you, Yuu-chan!!!
[sFX: general chaos :p]

23
Yuu: Ah, I'm so sorry! I was just so busy with this manga competition -
Guys: [aside]Ehhhhh?![/aside]
Yuu: You can all come up to my room, and we'll all have fun, okay?!
Guys: [aside]Ahhhhh![/aside]
Kei: I'm sorry, Yuu can be so forgetful sometimes...
[sFX: tap]
[sFX: take]
Yuu: Bye, Uemura-kun! // See you tomorrow at school!
Kei: [aside]Honestly...[/aside] Onee-chan, you've been making even more friends?
[sFX: smack]
Kei: You really do have too many hobbies...
Oldguy: So, first, could we play Shogi -
Guy: No, I -
[Text: So cruel...]
[box: And starting that day, Uemura-kun...]
Uemura: If I can debut as a manga-ka, maybe I can win her attention away from all the other guys!! // Enomoto-san! I'll try my best...!!!
[sFX: scratch scratch scratch]
[box: ...so saying, he put all his effort into making the best manga he could.]
[bottom text: In next week's Hatsukoi, a middle-school tale! To be continued in "Unbalance?"!!]