My Girl 16

The 16th day: A small Mama and her uniform

Page 1
1- School Entrance Ceremony (Sign)
2- The 11th middle school batch (Sign)

Page 2
1- Sfx: Ding Dong Ding Dong
2- Congratulations, it is the third prize!
3- Here, take it! // A pair of matching pajamas with your Mama!
4- Thank you!
5- Heh…/ It’s the pajamas! // So good…
6- But I don’t have the slightest bit of luck.
7- Sfx: Sigh
8- Koharu-chan, you want to try and turn it for me?
9- Wah! It is a matching pair!

Page 3
1- It’s great!
2- All right! // Great! We got the pajamas!
3- Koharu-chan loves the bunnies…
4- Eh… // Is there any other prizes with animals on them…?
5- …

Page 4
1- Wah!
2- Tsukamoto (Sign)
3- A foot massager?
4- You got an amazing prize!
5- Yeah, I was also surprised.
6- It is all due to Koharu-chan helping me to turn!
7- Is that right?
8- Koharu-chan…
9- !

Page 5
1- Wah! // Mom, what did you guys just buy?
2- Sfx: Rip
3- Aiya! This is the kimono for her Shichi-Go-San.
4- T/L note: Shichi-Go-San is a traditional rite of passage and festival day in Japan for three and seven year-old girls and five year-old boys, held annually on November 15.
5- Kimono? Shichi-Go-San? // Isn’t still early? Koharu-chan is only 6 years old!
6- My parents would visit
7- Yuoko’s household once every month.
8- Is that so? // Then let us consider her nominal age.
9- T/L note: according to a Chinese tradition, a person is considered one year old at birth, so that he will always be one year older than his actual age
10- Sfx: Hai
11- What is it?
12- It is after all better to be faster!
13- Wah! What a cute colour it is! Ah!
14- Sfx: Hahaha
15- With just one look, I liked it already, // Our family only has a boy, that is why I am unable to experience such joy…
16- Koharu-chan, you want to come over and try this one?
17- Yeah… // Okay…
18- Here, // We will be over here changing.

Page 6
1- Hohoho! // She has been taken away by the mothers!
2- Koharu-chan…
3- Dad too. I’m sorry that we have to come over all the way even when it is the weekends.
4- It will only burden you guys right?
5- There aren’t such things.
6- Speaking of which, how things on your side lately? Have you met up with any difficulties?
7- You asked me the same questions just last month!
8- Eh? // Really?
9- Even though you are all grown up, // you are still naturally my child!
10- I wanted to look after you myself!
11- Is this coming from a parent?
12- It is just like that! // Your mom is a good example.
13- Look!
14- Here!
15- Banzai!

Page 7
1- Look at that expression of hers, // do you think that…
2- You are troubling us?
3- …
4- But it is really calls for celebration, Koharu-chan’s Shichi-Go-San… // When Youko was young, she doesn’t want to wear the Kimono because it was restraining her.
5- !
6- Aiya… Is that so…
7- Mama…
8- Didn’t wear the Kimonos during her Shichi-Go-San?
9- Yeah! That is why she wore a western outfit at that time. // I remember that it is in this album…

Page 8
1- Look, it here!
2- Where is it? Where is Mama?
3- This kid is Youko.
4- …
5- Mama… // She is this small from before?
6- Yeah! // Koharu-chan will also be like Youko and slowly grow up!
7- Just like Mama…
8- …

Page 9
1- Sfx: Step
2- Masamune-kun, help!
3- !
4- I don’t want to wear!
5- I don’t want to wear a kimono!
6- Eh…
7- Koharu-chan, // stop running around!
8- I’m begging you to wear it for once!

Page 10
1- What… // What happened, Koharu-chan?
2- This is such a rare chance, go ahead and try it!
3- I… // I don’t want to wear it…
4- Don’t say that, // just wear it once, alright…
5- Okay?
6- But Mama didn’t wear it!
7- Aah…
8- Sfx: Dash
9- That is why I don’t want to.
10- !
11- What is it with her…
12- Why?
13- She isn’t like that usually…

Page 11
1- Hohoho…
2- I still remember when Masamune-kun is at Koharu-chan’s age… // he has begin touching my camera…
3- Eh?
4- Always following behind my back, // imitating the position when I’m taking pictures…
5- Is there… // Is there such a thing?
6- This is the time she will take notice of her surroundings!
7- The boys will follow their father… // The girls will starts to be curious of things that reflect their mothers…

Page 12
1- In additional her mother has passed away,
2- It will only strengthen her yearning…
3- Then that was what it means…
4- …
5- All right…
6- At that time when she was looking at those pajamas, that was what it means…
7- To parents, the kids’ thoughts are one big complicated issue…
8- At that time, I was trying my best to impress you and kept on taking pictures@
9- Sfx: Gaze

Page 13
1- When one person isn’t living for the sake of just himself…
2- He will start to realize that he has become a parent…
3- …
4- Koharu-chan, it is about time for your shower…
5- Are you looking at Youko’s photo album?
6- Can I join in?

Page 14
1- Wah…
2- Youko did grow her hair long…
3- How cute…
4- Sfx: Aah
5- Sfx: Gaze
6- Yeah!
7- Eh…
8- This is the Mitsuba Girls Middle School entrance ceremony?
9- Eh… // Youko used to attend an all-girls school…
10- The uniform is cute! // It should suit Koharu-chan…

Page 15
1- Can I… // I wear the same thing?
2- The same clothes that Mama wore…
3- About that… // As long as you grown old enough and enter into middle school. You can then wear the same uniform!
4- Is that so…
5- That’s right, // Koharu-chan can take the entrance exam for this school.
6- I would also want take a look at the school that Youko had studied before.
7- Right…

Page 16
1- Here take this, Kazama… // Please rewrite the entire proposal!
2- Yes…!
3- Hohoho! // Just nice!
4- Sfx: Glare
5- Proposal – Kazama (booklet)
6- Then what about Sempai? What about you?
7- Sfx: Sigh
8- Sfx: Push
9- I didn’t even submit…
10- Guess it…
11- Here’s some tea…
12- Aah… Thank you for that.
13- That’s right,
14- Katagiri-san, do you know anything about Mitsuba Girls School?

Page 17
1- Yeah! I know of it.
2- I used to take its exam, but fail to qualify…
3- Huh? Is their standard that high?
4- Sfx: Hmph
5- It is more difficult to get in now…
6- I remember a few years back they merged with Shiratori Girls School, // it later became a school that move on to a higher level after having mastered the requirements of the preceding level.
7- It is because they have their own specialized tuition classes that handles the examinations…
8- Eh…
9- The school’s website…// The school’s website…
10- Sfx: Clang clang
11- The… standard deviation is only 68, the passing ratio is only 9.2? // Ugh…
12- T/L note: Passing ratio is the division of the number of people taking the exam over the number of passing candidates.
13- The entrance fee adds up to 300 000 yen?
14- There are also the facilities fees, the school fees and the donations etc…

Page 18
1- It adds up to 1 000 000 yen in just the first year…
2- Sfx: Gloom
3- In my current state, it is impossible…
4- Sfx: sigh
5- Proposal – Kazama (Booklet)
6- Not even one proposal managed to go through…
7- Sfx: Crush
8- And I even say those words to Koharu-chan so lightly…
9- Sfx: Toss
10- I need to apologize to her when I return…

Page 19
1- I’m going to off the light!
2- Okay!
3- Aah… // That’s right. Koharu-chan…
4- ?
5- !
6- Eh? // What did you put under your pillow?
7- !
8- It was that photograph…
9- Today I asked sensei regarding Mama’s school… // And she said that it is difficult to pass their entrance exam…
10- Sfx: Yawn
11- I want… // to wear the same clothes as Mama…
12- Sfx: Murmur
13- I don’t know if I could wear it…

Page 20
1- When one person isn’t living for the sake of just himself…
2- He will start to realize that he has become a parent…
1- Sfx: Clang Clang
2- Proposal – Revised (Monitor)
3- Sfx: Clang Clang Clang
4- The 16th Day: FIN

Page 21
1- It is because I’m a timid person. That is why other people would describe me as having a weird face.
2- But I really tried my best to smile…
3- Here I will lend this to you!
4- Lessons on adult feature expression (booklet)
5- Oh!
6- Under my friend’s recommendation, I decided to practice it…
7- Adjusting 30 degrees to the right…
8- The face will slowly becoming…
9- Sfx: Impact
10- …
11- …
12- T/L note: Feeling uneasy…
13- Forget about it. It doesn’t matter if my face is weird anyway…

Page 22
1- During Friday nights, I would always be in Tokyo subway listening to my friend’s rattle.
2- I don’t wish to work!
3- I want to play every day!
4- Sfx: Waa
5- Everyone is the same!
6- I don’t wish to be pushed around by some old fart!
7- Everyone is tolerating it…
8- That’s right, we can go to Kyoto!
9- Let us go vent out our stress…
10- Hey… it’s a good idea.
11- Just like the old advertisements!
12- Eh? We are going there now? // I didn’t bring my underwears!
13- Sfx: Struggle
14- Liar!
15- Let us go buy some from the convenience store.
16- I didn’t bring any money!
17- I will lend it to you!
18- I would always meet up with these predicaments…