Johnny B Goode Releaseshttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/rss2012-07-30T23:26:16+00:00/favicon.icoMangaHelpers Adminsadmin@mangahelpers.comhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/35312Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 962012-07-30T23:26:16+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 96: Fighter - Nakajima Junichi
1 Koheiji: Heheheh... // IT'S TIIIIME! THE TIME HAS COME! // TIME TO PAY MAEDA BACK! WITH SOFTBALL! // And to show Chiaki-chan my beautiful and dynamic form...
Hironari: Hei-chan, it's raining outside, so today's basketball.
2 [Cover page]
3 Teacher: Alright, do these in order! // Forward roll, then a back handspring! Once with your legs open, once with your legs closed! // Alright, next!
Girls: Ahh! Yaah! // Gah, I can't do it!
Joe: Hahaha, didn't think the girls'd be doing gymnastics! // Looks like it's worth it to come to gym sometimes, huh, Maeda-san?
Person: Hey, Maeda-kun! You guys are lined up kind of far! Line up over here!
Maeda: Why don't you line up over here?
4 Person: Okay, we have to pick teams of four before the teacher gets here. Everyone please line up by height! // Losers have to do forward jump squats, so make some effort!
Maeda: Forward jump squats!?
Joe: Hey, man... // I actually used to play a little bit of basketball in middle school. If you're on my team, you'll win.
Maeda: Wh...what? // Hey! Let me switch with you!
Person: But...I'm supposed to be here!
Maeda: I said let me switch with you! // You slide over...
Person: Huh?
Koheiji: Heheh... // Looks like he doesn't want to be on my team. // And I didn't think he saw me as a rival...
5 Maeda: Ok, you over here, and you over here...
Koheiji: Heh, it doesn't matter. I'm so much better than...
Hiroyuki: He can't hear you, Hei-chan. He's over there.
Maeda: Ok! Now we've got the best team!
Person: Hey, no fair! That's cheating, Maeda-kun!
Teacher: You better shut up and get your ash over here!
Person: Oh, the teacher's here.
Teacher: Shtop making ekshcushes! How many timesh have you shaid you had a headache?
People: What?
(T/N: Yes, he really does talk like that.)
Teacher: Now shtop lying and shtop pushing out! Or your gradesh will shuffer!
Nakajima: I...I...I'm sorry...
Teacher: Oh, you've already got teamsh? // I shupposhe I'll jusht have to get Nakajima in shomehow...
Person: Wait, Nakajima's playing!?
6 Teacher: Sho going by height you're over here... // Shlide over a little...
People: We can't have him on our team, we'll lose!
Maeda: Hey...that's... // No...our...
Teacher: You over here, and you here...
Students: *blah* *blah*
Teacher: Shlide over thish way...you here...and you...here...
7 Teacher: I think the shports committee membersh have ekshplained thingsh to you enough, but let me refresh you. The loshing team hash do to forward jump shquats. // The rulesh shay you shoot from here and you get one point. // The firsht team to get two pointsh winsh.
Koheiji: Dammit...it's cause you were like "I'M GONNA PICK ALL THE TEAMS!"
Maeda: ....
Teacher: Sho, firsht ish Maeda, Nakata, Nakajima, and Komiyama vershush... // Toguchi, Otomo, Shawamura, and Yamashita.
Joe: Sorry about the jump squats, Maeda-san. We're going to win.
Maeda: You freaking...
Koheiji: Cheh, pathetic.
8 Koheiji: Pass everything you can to me! // I've been doing this since I was six years old! // GWAH!
SFX: *scrape*
Hironari: Hei-chan!
Koheiji: Owwieee...
Maeda: Kh... // ( Dammit...I just have to get two points in... // That's all... )
9 Katsuji: No fair!
Joe: Uooh...
Katsuji: Dammit, Maeda-san!
Maeda: Hey, Nakajima, catch!
Nakajima: Oww!
Katsuji: Gyahaha! I got it!
Maeda: Gah! What the hell was that!?
Katsuji: Joe!
Joe: Yeah!
10 Joe: Come on! Come on! // Hup! // YEAH!
Katsuji: Awesome, Joe!
Yoneji: Not bad, man.
Joe: Yeah...I'm kind of a boss.
Maeda: ....
11 Girls: Kyaaah! That was awesome, Toguchi-kun! // You're so cool...
Joe: Huh...
Maeda: ( You gotta be kidding... ) // Dammit, let's go, Koheiji!
People: What!? Fuck!
Girls: You go, Nakata-kun! // Go for it, Nakata-kun!
Koheiji: Oh... // Heheh...
Maeda: WHAT THE HELL!?
12 Koheiji: Wha?
Joe: Heheh...
Koheiji: Gah!
Maeda: Joe!
Girl: Ooh! He didn't win but he still did really well, huh, Chiaki?
Chiaki: Yeah, that was really good!
Katsuji: ( This is bad...This is bad... )
Yoneji: Yo!
Joe: Wah! // What the hell! We're not playing rugby! // And I'm on your team!
Yoneji: Oh, yeah...sorry...
Katsuji: ( Nice one, Yoneji... )
Girls: Oooh! Maeda-kun!
Katsuji: Huh?
13 Maeda: UOOOOOH!
Katsuji: You...
Maeda: MOVE IT!
Katsuji: BWAH!
Maeda: Hup!
14 Maeda: YAAH!
Girls: MAEDA-KUUUUUN!
Teacher: Hey, that'sh againsht the rulesh! You have to jump from here!
Maeda: One more point! // Uooh! We'll destroy them!
Maeda: Hey! Nakajima!
Nakajima: Huh... // Oww!
15 Maeda: Fucking...ACTUALLY CATCH IT!
Nakajima: But...
Maeda: Ok, one more time!
Nakajima: Huh? // Oww....
Maeda: NAKAJIMA! // Ow...
Girls: Wow...poor Nakajima-kun... // But it's kind of funny...
Nakajima: SHIT!
16 Nakajima: I...I can't...lose...
Maeda: Nakajima! // ....
Nakajima: I've always been made fun of before...and if I lose here, I'll be made fun of even more... // I'll show them I'm a real man...I WON'T LOSE! // ( I CAN'T LOSE... )
17 Maeda: Nakajima...you...you... // Ok, Nakajima, it's your ball.
Nakajima: Huh?
Girls: You can do it, Nakajima-kun! // Over here!
Nakajima: ! // O...Okay!
Maeda: GO! Shoot, Nakajima!
Chiaki: You can do it, Nakajima-kun!
Koheiji: I...WON'T LET THIS HAPPEN!
18 Nakajima: Gh...
Girls: NAKAJIMA-KUUUN!
Nakajima: Ugh...I can't do it.
Koheiji: UOOOOH!
Nakajima: Wha?
People: AAAH! KOHEIJI!
Maeda: Wh...WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING! // It...it went in...
19 People: Yeah, Nakajima!
SFX: *thud*
Girls: Wooo! Nakajima-kun! // Aaah!
SFX: *thump* *thump* *thump*
Maeda: Aah...DAMMIT!
People: WE'LL KILL YOU! // DON'T FUCK WITH US!
Girl: He touched me...
Nakajima: GWAH!
Teacher: Don't forget you're in clash! // Shtop it! I shaid shtop it!
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/35243Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 952012-07-24T00:58:09+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 95: What Goes Around Comes Around
1 Maeda: Sh...Shimabukuro! // Wh...What are you guys doing with him!?
Joe: I knew this wasn't worth it.
Seiji: Shut up, you can't back out now, dumbass.
Joe: .....
Seiji: Hey.
Shimabukuro: .....
2 Shimabukuro: Maeda. Meet us after school.
Maeda: What!?
Joe: ....
Seiji: Heh... // There's a guy in the photo club in your class, right? // You know they wouldn't develop pictures like this in a shop. // We just need someone who's weak, someone we can just scare a little. // Hold on, someone might be up here.
Joe: ....
3 Seiji: Come on, don't tell me you're actually backing out. // We won't even have to actually do anything. // It's not gonna be dangerous at all. // If Shimabukuro and his guys beat up Maeda, Maeda's not exactly going to have much power around here, so we can make things a little better for us. // And if Wajima and the others complain, we can say we didn't know anything. // And we got Shimabukuro under our control now too. // Just develop the pictures, man.
Kazumi: Oh! It's them! // And they're... // ( They're looking at some film...and one of them's saying the other has to develop it...even though they could just go to a shop... // Oh! I know! // Those are dirty pictures! )
4 Kazumi: ( That's totally what's going on. // Ok! I just have to steal it and tell a teacher and they'll be suspended! // I can get revenge for Katsuji-kun! )
Nakajima: You want me to develop these? // I don't think it's a good idea to trust me with something so... // personal.
Joe: Just do it, ok!?
Nakajima: Ow!
Joe: And don't tell anyone. If anyone finds out, I'm going to throw you into Tokyo Bay with cement shoes, got it?
Nakajima: Oh...ok...
Kazumi: ( Ok! Now I can get them! )
5 Maeda: What the hell's going on, Joe? Huh? // What were you doing with Shimabukuro this morning? // Huh? // If you've got another freaking plan...
Joe: Shut up, we just...ran into him somewhere.
Chiaki: ....
Joe: I don't want to fight you anymore. // I don't know about them, though...
Maeda: What the hell's that supposed to mean? Huh!?
Joe: It means I don't know!
6 Chiaki: Stop it, Maeda-kun!
Joe: .....
Chiaki: Don't go with them after school. // You'll just get into another fight.
Maeda: Cheh!
Chiaki: Maeda-kun! // Toguchi-kun...
Joe: Wha...!?
Chiaki: Something's going on, right? // And you're part of it.
7 Joe: And you're NOT part of it.
Chiaki: Please tell me! I can't stand it when... // I don't want Maeda-kun to... // fight all the time.
Joe: .....
Chiaki: .....
Joe: Are you and Maeda going out?
Chiaki: Huh!? // N...no...it's not like that! Why would you...?
Joe: .....
Chiaki: Huh? We're not even...
Joe: I asked Maeda too.
8 Chiaki: What? // What did he say?
Joe: He said it's not like that too.
Chiaki: Oh...ok... // ....
Joe: ....
Chiaki: ......
Joe: ...... // Can I talk to you for a minute?
Chiaki: Ok...
9 [Sign: Darkroom]
Nakajima: ... // Wh...Why do I have to develop photos like these? // Ugh...it's nasty... // I have to give them back...
Kazumi: Hey, mister!
Nakajima: Wha...
Kazumi: Why don't you give me those negatives?
Nakajima: Wh...What are you doing? // UWAH!
Kazumi: Hey, give me those!
Nakajima: Dammit, I...I can't get beat up by a girl!
10 Kazumi: HAI-YAAA!
Nakajima: Ow!
Kazumi: Yes! <3
Nakajima: Hey! Wait! Those are... // ( I...I'm dead...I'm dead...my life is over... // And it was so short... )
Kazumi: Haha, take that! // I should know what they are before I go to the teachers... // Let's have a look! // What kind of dirty pictures are these?
11 Kazumi: .... // ( Wh... // What... // Oh my god! I've never seen one before! )
(T/N: The look on her face. My god.)
Joe: I didn't feel like doing it... // So I quit, but...
12 Chiaki: You should...talk to Maeda-kun. // Ok?
Maeda: The hell!? You freaking... // I should have known you were planning something! // You freaking...
Chiaki: Stop it, Maeda-kun!
Joe: ......
Chiaki: He said he didn't want to! // It's not his fault!
Maeda: Kh...
13 Maeda: So what's Shimabukuro's weakness?
Joe: I'm not telling you in front of a girl!
Kazumi: Maeda-kuuun! // Oh! Don't go near him! // You don't know what he'll do to Chiaki!
Maeda: Huh? // What?
Chiaki: Kazumi!
Joe: Hey...how'd you get that envelope!?
Kazumi: GYAAAH! Don't touch me, you creeper!
Joe: Creeper!?
Kazumi: Maeda-kun, look at this! Look! Look, look, look! // He was all like "I'm gonna make Nakajima develop these secret pictures!"
Maeda: Wait, what!?
14 Maeda: Wh...wh...WHAT THE FUCK!?
Chiaki: What is that?
Kazumi: NOOOO! If you look at it, you'll faint!
Maeda: I get it. // That's his weakness. // Maeda; Seiji really likes thinking of rearded ideas, huh... // But... //Pfhhahhahaha... // It looks like a little kid's...
Chiaki: What's going on, Kazumi?
Kazumi: Don't worry, Chiaki!
Maeda: Ok, I'm just going to go meet up with our friend here. // You too, Joe.
Joe: Oh...ok...
15 Chiaki: No! Don't do it! // There's going to be a lot of people there!
Maeda: Dumbass! // Who said anything about fighting them? // I don't even have to. // He's lucky his head got cut out of the picture.
Shimabukuro: There you are, Maeda. // I thought we could finally have a fair fight today but my stomach got in the way. So you can just fight them.
16 Seiji: Heheh...
Joe: Seiji...the picture was...
Seiji: Yeah? Did you get it developed?
Maeda: Before we start... // I managed to get my hands on an important picture. // Anybody want to see?
Shimabukuro: Wh...What!?
Joe: G...got his hands on!?
Maeda: He got them from you, aniki!? The hell?
Joe: No...no, he didn't... // ( Maeda... )
Maeda: So, Exhibit A...
17 Shimabukuro: Hey! Hold up!
Maeda: Oops!
Shimabukuro: No! You...
Other people: Oh... // He dropped it... // Gyahahaha! What is this!? // It looks like a little kid's... // Dumbass! // Gyahahaha! Who is this guy anyway? // Dammit, I can't see his face!
Shimabukuro: ....! // .....
Maeda: What's wrong? They can't tell who it is.
Shimabukuro: Y...you...
18 Maeda: Just tell everyone to go home.
Shimabukuro: Gh...
Maeda: Or should I tell everyone the secret identity of the hairless wonder?
Shimabukuro: Ok! Ok! I get it! // You guys can go home! // I'll take it from here!
Guys: Uh...ok...
Shimabukuro: Kh...Gh... // SEIJI, YOU LITTLE...!
Maeda: Whoa, cool down. // I'll take care of them. // And I have the negatives.
19 Shimabukuro: Uh...ugh...
Maeda: Just go home.
Seiji: Uh...
Joe/Seiji: GWAH! // GWAH!
Maeda: One more time!
Joe/Seiji: GWAH! // GWAH!
Shiimabukuro: I...it's... // IT'LL GROW BACK SOON!
END
Chapter title note: The original title is a Japanese proverb (人を呪わば穴を二つ hito wo norowaba ana wo futatsu) meaning "If you curse someone, it will rebound upon you"
Well, that's the first time I've ever seen a lack of pubic hair portrayed as a bad thing. Definitely the first time. Very silly. Very silly indeed.https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/35204Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 2012-07-19T00:34:52+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 94: Shimabukuro's Very Embarassing Secret
1 [cover page]
2 Person: Hey, did you hear? Sawamura-kun and his friends were caught smoking and got suspended!
People: No way...
Person: I heard him and that third year Wajima-san and a bunch of others all got snitched on!
People: Whoa...
Joe: ....
Person: So Ioka was all like...
Joe: ....
3 Kazumi: Hey!
Joe: WHAT!?
Kazumi: Chiaki's Maeda-kun's girlfriend! // So don't look at her that way! // Why'd you get Katsuji-kun suspended anyway!? // I hate you!
Joe: WHAT WAS THAT!?
Kazumi: Katsuji-kun told me everything! He said you and your brother got everyone suspended!
Joe: So what are you going to do about it!? Huh!?
Kazumi: GYAAAAH! // Don't hurt me!
4 Chiaki: Katsuji-kun's in trouble, huh, Kazumi?
Kazumi: Yeah, Chiaki!
Chiaki: Oh, Toguchi-kun, your hand's healed already?
Joe: ....
Kazumi: Oh, you don't know, Chiaki? // He...mmph!
Maeda: Shut up.
Chiaki: Maeda-kun!
Kazumi: MMMMM...MMMMM...
Maeda: I'm done with him, so quit your bitching.
Chiaki: Maeda-kun, were you fighting again? // Your hand's gotten worse.
Maeda: None of your business.
Joe: ....
5 Maeda: So I don't know how big you were back home. // But those guys you got suspended were good guys. // When they come back you might want to say sorry to them. // And next time you start one of your stupid plans, they'll know. // I'm hoping you at least learn a little from this.
Seiji/Joe: ....
Maeda: And if you still want a fight, go ahead. // I'll kick your asses.
Joe: .... // M...Maeda...
Maeda: Huh?
6 Joe: Uh...are you really going out with that Nanase girl?
Maeda: Wait, what!? Who told you that!?
Joe: That really loud girl.
Maeda: Like hell I would. Don't just believe anyone who spreads that kind of shit!
Joe: Okay...
Seiji: What the hell, aniki!? He's got you actually caring about that shit? // Can't believe you actually want to quit this whole thing now.
Joe: You know he's a pretty big deal around here.
Seiji: Yeah, so?
Joe: No matter what school they're from, all the guys I talk to around here are scared of him.
7 Seiji: Screw them. // I don't care about those other guys, but I'll take Maeda down no matter what it takes.
Joe: Dumbass, we couldn't even win with two against one! How can you beat him yourself? // *click*
Seiji: I don't care about winning, I just want to make him pay.
Joe: Yeah, but this is Maeda. // He's beaten up almost every boss around here. // Right after he entered Teiken he already took over. // And then there was that whole Misako thing... // And even Kyoei and Kadoebi... // The only place around here he hasn't beaten up anyone is Yonekura Commerce. // But it's not like a business school would have anyone for him to...
Seiji: ....
8 People: Well, uh, you were really late getting back, Shimabukuro-san. // Looks like your head got really fucked up.
Shimabukuro: Hmph.
Person: ...what's got you so pissed off anyway?
Shimabukuro: ....
Person: Ugh!
Shimabukuro: ( I thought it would look weird on one side so I shaved the other to match, but it didn't work... // Goddamn you, Maeda's little brother! )
Person: Oh, yeah, I heard some guys from Kyoei got in a fight with Maeda a while back...
Shimabukuro: .... // I'LL KILL HIM!
9 Seiji: Ow...
Shimabukuro: Ah!
Seiji: You piece of shit...
Shimabukuro: I...I'm so very sorry!
Seiji: Wait, what!?
Shimabukuro: I apologize for my carelessness! I'm so sorry! So very sorry!
Seiji: ...What. // Cheh! Just look where you're going, dumbass! // *spit*
Person: HEY, ASSHOLE! He was actually BOWING to you!
Seiji: Uh...
10 Person: DON'T FUCK WITH SHIMABKURO-SAN! EVEN TEIKEN'S MAEDA'S AFRAID OF HIM!
Seiji: What!? // TEIKEN'S MAEDA!?
Shimabukuro: Hey!
Person: GWAH!
Shimabukuro: Don't talk to an injured person like that!
Person: I...I'M SORRY! I'm sorry!
Seiji: Wait... // You got something against Teiken's Maeda? // Tell me about it.
Shimabukuro: Huh?
11 Shimabukuro: I got it. // So you transferred in and thought you'd stir some shit up, but he beat you up like a little bitch. // Well, you gotta fight fire with fire. // I want to help you, but I can't right now.
Seiji: Why?
Shimabukuro: If I could I'd be going over there right now, but... // It's a long story.
Seiji: Yeah?
Shimabukuro: I got a little sick and last week I had surgery on my stomach. // They told me to hold back on anything intense for a while.
Seiji: You're pretty good at bullshitting.
Shimabukuro: What do you mean bullshit!?
Seiji: I talked to some of your guys. // Wasn't it your head that got hurt?
12 Seiji: I think you're just scared of Maeda. // I really doubt you just "haven't settled things."
Shimabukuro: ARE YOU SERIOUS!? Who's afraid of that idiot?
Seiji: Ok, then tell me what you're sick with.
Shimabukuro: A...appendicitis.
Seiji: Oh, yeah?
Shimabukuro: What? What's that supposed to mean? You want me to show you the scar I got?
Seiji: You're just going to show me some two or three year old scar, huh?
Shimabukuro: The hell!? They just took the stitches out! It's fresh! Very fresh!
(T/N: He says very fresh in English.)
Seiji: You're pathetic. // Why don't I just tell everyone what a liar you are?
Shimabukuro: .....
13 Shimabukuro: Ok, then I'll show you some real proof.
Seiji: That didn't mean actually show me.
Shimabukuro: I'll show you in the bathroom.
Seiji: You go ahead. I need to get something at the register.
Shimabukuro: Okay, don't tell anyone.
Seiji: What are you going to show me?
Shimabukuro: Once you see this, you'll know I had an operation.
Seiji: Hey...hey, what are you doing!? // Stop it!
Shimabukuro: Before they operate on your appendix they have to get rid of all the hair in the way. // Just take a quick look.
Seiji: They do what to the hair?
14 Shimabukuro: HAI-YAAH! // See that? You see that? // Huh? Huh? It's no lie! // I really can't help you out, so... // I....huh? // AAAAAAAAH!
15 Seiji: Heheheh...
Shimabukuro: You...you took a picture!?
Seiji: I figured it out when you said you were going to show me something. // So I got a camera at the register.
Shimabukuro: GIVE ME THAT, YOU LITTLE SHIT!
Seiji: Whoops. // Wahaha, over here!
Shimabukuro: YOU GET THE HELL OVER HERE! // Ugh...
16 Shimabukuro: Bitch...
Seiji: Oh, yeah. You can't really run around or you'll hurt yourself.
Shimabukuro: Wh...what the hell do you want?
Seiji: Where should I start?
Joe: So this picture is Yonekura's Shimabukuro from the waist down?
Seiji: Yeah, aniki. // He's as strong as Maeda. // With him on our side, we can win.
Joe: You still want to fight Maeda?
17 Seiji: Don't worry about it. He'll be the one fighting.
Shimabukuro: What? // Don't make a sick person fight!
Seiji: Take some of your guys with you. // What, you don't want to?
Shimabukuro: Kh...
Seiji: Maeda's guys are suspended now... // And he's out one hand. Never been a better time.
Joe: We broke that fist and we still couldn't beat him. // And once those suspensions are over, Wajima and the others are going to be out for us.
Seiji: Like I said, don't worry about it. // You just have to do it in a way that won't harm us.
SFX: *Hssssh*
Seiji: You and the rest of Yonekura will take care of it, right?
Joe: What?
Shimabukuro: The hell? What gives you the right to pull that kind of shit?
18 Seiji: Or I can go develop those photos...
Shimabukuro: Right away! // ( Wh...what am I doing? // Goddamnit... )
Seiji: Heheh. If everything goes according to plan, they'll both take out each other.
Shimabukuro: ( Shit...If only I hadn't let him... // If only I hadn't... )
Kazumi: Hey, Maeda-kun!
Chiaki: You looked lonely walking to school by yourself.
Maeda: Shut up. // If only I had Neo Chavez with me...
Joe: Maeda!
Maeda: Huh? // AAH!
Shimabukuro: Yo.
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/34861Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 932012-06-17T23:53:54+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 93: Mixed Emotions
1 Maeda: *cough* // Goddamnit, that hurts... // It's cause I beat up those guys yesterday...I'm still sick...
Wajima: Maeda-san...
Maeda: Uggghhhh...
Wajima: We need some backup after school today... // Can you help us?
Maeda: Agghh...shut up...
Wajima: You know Yamazaki, from the cheer squad...the fat guy? // Some assholes from Kyoei have been really beating on him lately... // It's not a huge deal but I figured we should show them who's boss...
Maeda: Wh...what?
2-3 [Cover pages]
4 Maeda: Ugghh... // ..... // Hell no.
Wajima/Mutou: WHAT!?
Maeda: Sorry, but you guys can deal with that yourself. // I'm gonna sit this one out.
Maeda: Some of the third years...Wajima...Hamada...Mutou... // Ohashi too...
Ioka: ANYBODY ELSE!?
Maeda: Ugh...
14 Maeda: In my class there's... // Yamashita Katsuji and Sawamura Yoneji...
Katsuji: There's no way Maeda-san...
Yoneji: He wouldn't tell...he wouldn't!
Seiji: Well, Maeda-san's a boxer...so he needs his right fist... // I guess he had to talk... // But I still don't understand...
15 Wajima: .... // You get it now, Katsuji? Yoneji? That's what kind of man he is.
Yoneji/Katsuji: ....
Seiji: Ioka's wants to see all six of you. // He's probably going to suspend you. // ( Heheh...dumbasses...I'm the one who snitched on them... // Now nobody's got Maeda's back. )
Seiji: Heheh...
Mafuyu: Bullshit.
16 Joe: Well...looks like your friends will be here soon. // And haven't you forgotten something important? // Ioka really got your hand, huh? // A little chloroform so you won't wake up... // I could probably kill you now... // But I'll save that for later. // Crushing your other hand would be a little... // Easier.
Seiji: What if I came here to take care of Maeda-san?
Wajima: Yeah?
20 Wajima: He'd kill you.
Seiji: But what if I win? // That's why I've been sucking up this whole time.
Mutou: Just try it.
Seiji: Thanks.
Ohashi: Katsuji, Yoneji, come on!
Katsuji/Yoneji: Uh...uh... // .....
21 Maeda: !!
Seiji: Hey, Maeda-saaaan...Why are you so alone? // Nice to meet you. I'm Toguchi Seiji.
22 Maeda: TOGUCHI!?
Joe: Uh-huh. // And I'm his older brother. Joichiro.
Maeda: Joe...your arm's...
Joe: Oh, that? It healed just now. Just now.
Maeda: You were trying to get me the whole time...
Joe: And we did! // No matter what you tell the others, they'll just say it's excuses. // And we'll defeat you and take over Teiken. // Just as planned.
Maeda: Go ahead and try.
Seiji: Huh? // How's a boxer like you going to fight without his fists?
23 Maeda: Just try it. // Thanks to all that sleep you gave me, my head's feeling a lot better.
People: What do we do? Should we just go to Ioka? // .....
Yoneji: .....
Katsuji: What is it, Yoneji?
24 Yoneji: Something's been bothering me... // Seiji's a fighter, right?
Katsuji: Yeah? // You said the same thing yesterday... // !! // Wait up, Yoneji!
Yoneji: Seiji said Ioka got his right fist... // But... // THAT WAS HIS LEFT!
25 Katsuji: !!
Mutou: Wait, wasn't that Katsuji and Yoneji?
Wajima: Dunno.
Ohashi: Those dumbasses...why'd they go back?
Mafuyu: Who are you calling dumbasses?
Hamada: Huh? // Mafuyu!
Mafuyu: Who do you even think Maeda is? // You've been hanging out with him this long and you can't even tell? Dumbasses!
Others: WHAT!?
26 Joe: YOU...!
Maeda: UGH! // Kh...
Joe: GHO...!
27 Joe: Ugh... // He's stronger than... // You never said he could kick...
Maeda: Heheh... // you bastards... // Whoa... // Ow...
Joe: Oh!
Maeda: Ow! You bitch!
Seiji: Heheh...
Maeda: GWAAAAH! // Ow...Ah...
Joe: Hahaha...dumbass!
28 Joe: Hahaha... // Ow! // OW! THE HELL! // LET GO!
Seiji: Aniki! // B...
29 Maeda: Kh...
Katsuji/Yoneji: MAEDA-SAN!
Maeda: OOOOH!
30 Maeda: Quit bowing, dumbasses.
31 Hamada: Sorry, Maeda-san...We didn't know until Mafuyu told us... // We didn't know you were sick...
Others: Uh...we told you that...
Wajima: Where are you going, Maeda-san?
Maeda: Kyoei. // We have to take care of those guys who beat up Yamazaki, right?
Joe: Or we could be underlings too...
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/34676Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 922012-06-01T17:44:16+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 92: Brand New Rude Boys
1 Person: GWAH! // Aah...
Other person: Next one's mine, aniki.
Person: Please...please forgive me...
Other person: These punks aren't even worth talking about... // Heh. // Looks like Teiken's just...
Person: Ugh...
2 Other person: NOT WORTH SHIT!
Maeda: So? // What's the big deal about Ioka?
Wajima: Maeda-san, Since you and the others got back... // He's been getting really violent...well, he was always like that... // It's just he goes nuts over the smallest things... // You gotta do something, Maeda-san!
3 Maeda: Forget it! // He's just jealous that Masa-san and Asano got together. You're already 20 and you can't figure that one out?
Wajima: You little...! I'm telling you because he's hurt a lot of the first years already!
Mutou: Wa...Wajima-san...
Hamada: We just want to settle things here before we graduate.
Ohashi: We have to do something or we'll just look like morons.
Maeda: I said forget it, morons.
Ohashi: Why!?
Maeda: Why? // It's a pain in the ass, that's why. // I got a headache, I'm out.
Katsuji/Yoneji: Wait up, we're still smoking.
Others: .......
4 Others: .....
Mutou: It's like Maeda-san's getting soft.
Ohashi: Like that'd happen!
Hamada: He was fierce when he was a first year, but that's all gone now.
Wajima: Won't lift a fucking finger.
Yoneji: Come on! Seriously, guys, isn't that a bit much? // Maeda-san's been fighting all over Kansai already...
Katsuji: It's not like he's got anything to prove to anyone. // And you guys weren't there when he got all bloody...
Wajima: But, it's just... // ....
5 Seiji: Sorry I'm late, guys!
Wajima: Oh.
Seiji: That old man at the shop couldn't remember shit...soda cool with you guys?
Others: Yeah, sure, thanks!
Mutou: Oh, yeah, you guys were on the trip so you don't know him... // This guy came all the way from Hokkaido to be here! // He's a first year, his name's Seiji.
(T/N: Hokkaido is the northernmost island of Japan.)
Seiji: Hello. // I'll do anything you need me to do, so just ask.
Mutou: The one with the big nose is Yoneji.
Yoneji: Hey...
Mutou: And the one with the wide forehead is Katsuji.
Katsuji: Are...are you trying to start a fight?
6 Seiji: You guys have all been in so many fights, right? I have to get some practice in...
Wajima: So were you big back home?
Seiji: No, that was just for show. // I've never really been in a fight...
Yoneji: Don't worry, you'll get plenty of chances with the first years around here. // Nice to meet you, then.
Seiji: You too...
Yoneji: Hm...
Seiji: So, uh...
7 Seiji: Who controls the school, I mean, who's like the strongest guy here?
Hamada: Huh?
Wajima: That's you, Ha...
Hamada: Maeda-san. He's a second year.
Seiji: Maeda-san...
Wajima: But...
Katsuji: But nothing!
Yoneji: You can't say Maeda-san's not the strongest guy here!
Wajima: Yeah...but he hasn't been doing much lately...
Katsuji: What does that have to do with it? // He said he got a cold so he left early.
Wajima: But... // He can't just keep wimping out forever.
8 Katsuji: I can tell him you said that.
Wajima: Uh...just kidding! Just kidding!
Seiji: So, uh... // You guys don't really trust this Maeda-san much, huh?
Ohashi: Well, it's not that...
Seiji: Hmmm.... // Tell me more about him.
Yoneji: ....
Maeda: *cough* // I thought idiots never got colds... // So I must be pretty smart. // I'm going home.
(T/N: "Idiots never catch colds" is a Japanese superstition)
9 Maeda: *cough* *cough* // *cough* // *cough*
Chiaki: Are you okay? You should really get some rest...
Maeda: I'm fine. // It's just the way you look at it. If it's a cold, a cough's a big deal. // But compared to like, lung cancer or something... // *cough*
Nakajima: Shh! There's a transfer student today!
Maeda: Wait, what!?
[Name: Toguchi Joichiro]
10 Joe: I'm Toguchi Joichiro. // Everybody calls me Joe. Pleased to meet you.
Masa-san: Very well. // Everyone do your best to make friends with him!
Class: Ok!
11 Maeda: ! // ...huh?
Joe: Heh...
Maeda: *cough* *cough*
Yoneji: There's something bothering me lately... // That new guy Seiji...
Katsuji: Yeah, the first year.
Yoneji: He said he'd never been in a fight before... // But that's BS.
Katsuji: What?
Yoneji: When I shook his hand yesterday... // I could tell from his grip he knows how to fight.
12 Katsuji: Well, if he wants a fight... // But why BS like that?
Yoneji: That's what's bothering me. // He's been asking so much about Maeda-san... // Wait...someone's here.
Maeda: Who is it?
Yoneji: Oh, wait, it's just that transfer student...
Joe: Yo. You Maeda-kun?
Maeda: Yeah? // *cough* // Oh, it's Joe, right? // How do you know my name?
Joe: Sorry to bother you... // Well, even an ex-champion boxer like Hamada Tsuyoshi knows Maeda from Teiken!
Maeda: What...
(T/N: Hamada Tsuyoshi was the WBC junior welterweight champion from 1986-1987. I think Joe is confusing him with the Hamada that he just met, but I'm not sure...)
Maeda: What's with your arm?
Joe: Oh, that?
13 Joe: That's... // that....
Maeda: Uh...
Joe: Th.... // .... // That.... // *sob*
Katsuji: Wh...why the hell's he crying like that?
Joe: I...I used to be weak...I got like this so I didn't get picked on... // But I didn't want to kill anyone so I tried not to fight... // When I moved in a couple days ago, I was just walking around... // These guys just started hitting me out of nowhere...and suddenly my arm... // And nobody came to help me...and there were so many of them... // I...I can't stand it here anymore...it's scary...
Katsuji: D...don't cry, Joe!
14 Maeda: Ohhh... // I...I understand, Joe... // If I can help...tell me...
Yoneji: M...Maeda-san...
Joe: Beat them... // up for me... // There! They're over there!
Maeda: Those guys? // *cough*
Joe: They just came out of nowhere! Please help...
Maeda: Got it!
15 Random: Huh? // AGH! // Who the hell are you?
Maeda: Shut up!
Random: What the fuck are you doing?
Maeda: *cough* // oh...
Random: Dipshit!
Maeda: UGH!
16 Random: YAAH!
Maeda: Whoa...
Random: You...
Maeda: Up...
Random: UGOH!
Katsuji: That's more like it!
Yoneji: You wouldn't even know he was sick!
Joe: ....
Random: ASSHOLE!
Maeda: *cough* // Uh... // Oh...
17 Random: UOOH!
Joe: If this town's got as many wimps as it looked like this morning, this'll be easy as hell. // He's got a punch, yeah... // But one good sob story and he's crying his eyes out, just like your info said.
18 Seiji: Duh. I heard it from his own guys, it can't be wrong. // And I've got more stuff to work with now. // All his guys are starting to lose their trust in him. // That's lucky for us.
Joe: Huh?
Seiji: We just have to make it look like Maeda sold them out. // Then he'll be all alone.
Joe: I got it. // Make him look really bad in front of the others.
Seiji: All we have to do is play pretend a little bit more.
Joe: I just put this on to test Maeda's strength, but keeping it wrapped is a real bitch.
Seiji: Just wait until we're the one's controlling the whole school, aniki. It won't be too long.
19 Seiji: It might have looked easy to get that information, but I had to suck up to so many assholes for it. // And they all let their guard down.
Joe: But even if we plan, there'll be some guys who it won't work on...some of those guys would trust Maeda with their lives.
Seiji: Katsuji and Yoneji, huh? // I'll take care of that, aniki. // If worst comes to worst, we can just take out all three of them.
Joe: Maeda might have a hell of a punch... // but his boxing's not all that great...
Seiji: It's only a matter of time until we're the ones who control Teiken.
END
T/N: I'm not entirely sure if Joe is the correct spelling; I thought about Jou but that's written differently in Japanese, and the French edition calls him Joh. However, I thought that Joe was what Morita was going for, so I translated it that way. (Joe's name is written the exact same way as the Japanese title of Ashita no Joe, an older classic boxing manga.)https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/33809Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 912012-03-14T00:50:03+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 91: At The End Of The Trip...
1 Yoneji: So somehow he ended up going to the hospital in the middle of his school trip...
Katsuji: It's not even his first one, though...
Yoneji: What's weird is that the Yonekura guys said his head wasn't even that bad...
Maeda: Didn't you go to the hospital when you got your head cracked open by that middle school kid, uh... // Hiroto, right?
Katsuji: Oh, yeah, didn't they run a lot of tests and stuff on you?
Yoneji: But you got one to the head and you're pretty much the same as always, Maeda-san.
Maeda: I'm just...I... // I got a really hard head.
Someone: Oh... // Here it is.
2 SFX: *click*
Maeda: Yo...
Shimabukuro: Huh?
Maeda: Hey, what's up?
Shimabukuro: M- Maeda!
Maeda: You were alone?
Shimabukuro: Nah, one of the teachers was following me...all that trouble for me. // He brought me here.
Maeda: Gyahahaha! What did I tell you? This guy cannot tell a lie!
SFX: *tap*
Shimabukuro: Ugh!
3 Maeda: Wait...what's up with that?
Shimabukuro: N...nothing... // What the hell are you even here for anyway? // If you got nothing to say, get lost!
Maeda: Jeez, relax, man. // We owe you. // I thought I was gonna get my ass kicked just like last time... // If you weren't there, I'd have been in deep shit. // So thanks a lot, Shimabukuro.
Shimabukuro: Hmm... // That's pretty modest for you, huh, Maeda? // I'm just glad that you understand. // Why don't you try changing yourself a bit too? // Like showing me a little respect...
Maeda: ....
4 Maeda: Don't just start acting all high and mighty, dumbass!
Shimabukuro: Gh...ugh...
Maeda: What's wrong? Can't take a body blow or what? // Hey, guys, I found his weak point!
Shimabukuro: H...hey...s...stop that!
Katsuji/Yoneji: Let us do it too!
Nurse: What are you doing to him? His stomach's...
Shimabukuro: Don't tell them! // Now go away, douchebags! // Go!
Maeda: Just a little something we wanted to give you before we went back! Eat them! // See ya!
Shimabukuro: .....
5 Nurse: Didn't they know about your stomach?
Shimabukuro: Does it look like they did!? // I just came in to get my head checked and suddenly, BAM! // I need my appendix taken out right away! Why would I tell them about that!?
[Sign: Shin-Osaka Station]
Kazumi: Oh, well, looks like the trip's over. // So anything happen on the Ferris wheel, Chiaki? // Huh? Huh?
6 Kazumi: Ohh...I get it... // Did he ask you out?
Chiaki: It wasn't that...
Kazumi: What about his ex? Did she have a ponytail? // What did he tell you anyway?
Chiaki: Heheh... // He didn't really say much... // But the whole ponytail thing's not really a big deal...
Kazumi: Huh?
Chiaki: Oh...
Kazumi: Wait...that was her? // Hey...
7 Haruka: We came ta see ya off! // Together!
Chiaki: Oh!
Haruka: Good luck! // Don't lose him ta anyone! // I'm gonna keep Ryuutarou too!
Chiaki: ... // Th... // Thanks!
Kazumi: ?
8 Ryuutarou: Didn't ya come ta see Maeda?
Haruka: Not really... // Let's go, Ryuutarou.
Ryuutarou: Wh...that's the first time you've called me that...
Haruka: Heheh... // ( Goodbye, Taison. )
Hironari: Cheer up, Hei-chan!
Hiroyuki: One day, you'll get a girl who's great for you!
Koheiji: .... // Quit talking like she rejected me!
Hiroyuki: Uh....
9 Koheiji: She just gets easily embarassed when I do it like that. // I just have to change it up a little, and I've still got a chance! // Huh?
Nakajima: You guys! // You have to hurry up or... // you'll miss the train.
Koheiji: Wait a minute! Isn't Ioka keeping an eye on you or something?
Nakajima: If I don't keep tabs on everyone, who will?
Ioka: Exactly. I have the utmost confidence in Nakajima.
Asano-sensei: Please hurry up...
Masa-san: No, it's fine, I can carry my own things...
10 Ioka: HEY, GET A MOVE ON!
Nakajima: Ow!
Koheiji: WHAT THE HELL'S WITH YOU?
Katsuji: You already say goodbye to Sayuri?
Yoneji: Yeah. // I had to promise I'd always be with her.
Katsuji: I hate you...
Maeda: Huh... // it's him. // What are you doing here, aniki?
Fujio: Whoa...Taison! // I managed to get out of the house. // It didn't look like he'd let me leave.
11 Maeda: .... // But what about...
Fujio: What? The temple? That's Youkou's deal now. // Dad said we could do whatever we wanted, so I'm coming home before my ladies get too lonely! // If you really want to be a boxer, you should get out of here before dad changes his mind and goes after you or something!
Maeda: .... // .....
Announcer: The 3:44 train bound for Tokyo is now approaching platform 25. Please stand clear of the track!
12 Fujio: Heheh...suck it, dad, I'm already here!
Everyone: Oh...
Fujio: Huh? // What is it? // GWAH!
13 Fujio: D...Dad! // You were already here?
Dad: I wanted ta say some things to ya.
Maeda: .... // Wha...
Dad: Taison... // Ya leavin'?
Maeda: ( .......! )
Youkou: Nii-chan!
Maeda: ! // Youkou!
14 Maeda/Fujio: .....
Youkou: Heheh... // I ain't really gonna be a pro baseball player..., even though I wanted ta fer a while.
Maeda: Huh...
Maeda/Fujio: GAH!
15 Youkou: Don't worry about what happens here.
Maeda: Youkou, you...
Youkou: Both of ya gotta make yer own dreams come true. // I'm fine here. // I got a new dream.
16 Youkou: It's that ya become the world champion.
Maeda: !
Youkou: When ya become a pro, ya can't fight or they take away ya license. // But ya probably wanna fight a little while longer.
Maeda: You can't fight when you're a pro...?
Yoneji: ...You didn't know that?
Youkou: So wait until ya graduate high school...and then ya can be a pro. // And... // Make sure my new dream comes true.
17 Maeda: Youkou... // ....
Dad: I'll watch ya title match, Taison. // K.O. Shirai!
(T/N: He means Yoshio Shirai, the world champion of boxing...in 1952.)
Katsuji: Wow, he's old...
Maeda: Dad...
Youkou: K.O. Chavez!
(T/N: Julio Chavez, the current light welterweight world champion...in 1990, when this chapter was published.)
Maeda: .... // Got it.
18 Fujio: ....
Dad: Fujio.
Fujio: Y...Yeah!
Dad: I never really did much for ya, but... // Make sure ya take care of ya body.
Fujio: ....
Announcer: The 3:44 train on platform 25 will be leaving shortly.
Masa-san: Hey, get on!
19 Maeda: Oh...yeah. // Bye, dad.
Dad: Ok.
Youkou: Ya better... // BECOME WORLD CHAMPION!
END
Well, finally done with the Kansai arc. One of my favorite arcs in RokuBuru, although it is pretty damn long (especially if you're translating it.) But oh well, I suppose that's just translator blues. Ahahaha. Thanks everybody for reading these scans and convincing me this project is worthwhile! I'll give you new stuff as soon as I can!https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/33676Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 902012-03-04T13:38:26+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 90: Fifteen Minutes
1 Kazumi: Where's Chiaki-chan?
Katsuji: I dunno, besides wasn't she with you? // Since I was all alone, you know?
Kazumi: You don't have to say it like that! // Let's go look for her!
Katsuji: Whatever, I'm just going to go find some girls...
Kazumi: Dumbass! // You cheating bastard! Go to hell!
Katsuji: Uh...
Girls: Wait... // That's...
Katsuji: WAIT, YOU'RE...!
2 Girls: Ain't it that guy from yesterday? // Wow...he got a cute girl with 'im...
Katsuji: Hey, wait...
Kazumi: ....
Girls: Didn't know he had a girlfriend! // No wonder he didn't come with us when asked 'im.
Kazumi: Huh...
Girls: Hey, take care of ya girlfriend now! // Sorry if we interrupted ya, we're gonna go find Haruka. // So yeah, bye now!
Katsuji: Bye...
Kazumi: .... // Uh.
3 Ryuutarou: Yeah, I'm goin' now. // Maeda.
Maeda: Huh?
Ryuutarou: Since I...told her what was on my mind... // Ya gotta tell yer girl too, ah?
Maeda: Hey...
Haruka: ....
Koheiji: ....
Chiaki: ....
4 Koheiji: SHIIIIT...Ryuutarou really threw a wrench into things... // What do I do now? All my plans are... // ...I guess now I have to show what I can do!
5 Maeda: Wh...what the...what the hell are you...GET AWAY FROM HER, DUMBASS!!
Mooks: Aah! Maeda-san!
Koheiji: Let go of me, dipshit!
Chiaki: Maeda-kun...
Maeda: Chiaki, get out of here!
Koheiji: GWAH! // Aah! Ch...Chiaki-chan! // Wait for me, Chiaki-chan!
Ryuutarou: Nah, YOU wait.
Koheiji: Maeda, LET GO OF... // ...me.
6 Ryuutarou: Looks like ya been tellin' Haruka some weird-ass bullshit. // And really fuckin' shit up fer all of us.
Koheiji: Uh...it's...I was just...
Haruka: Taison. // Was that the girl ya like?
Maeda: Wh...what the...
Haruka: Ya gotta... // really take care of her.
Kazumi: Heyyyy! // Sorry!
7 Kazumi: I said I'm sorry!
Katsuji: And I said I got it! Dammit, Kazumi!
Kazumi: Mmmm... // Oh! Chiaki-chan!
Chiaki: Kazumi.
Kazumi: Where were you? I thought you got lost or something!
Chiaki: Sorry.
Yoneji: Yo, Katsuji!
Katsuji: Huh?
Yoneji: We're going to go ride on the Ferris wheel. // You guys want to come with us?
Kazumi: Yeah! Let's GOOOO!
Yoneji: It's 6 people to a car, so we need one more...
Katsuji: Oh...
8 Maeda: Oh...
Katsuji: Damn, it's crowded...
Yoneji: It's a Sunday.
Maeda: Uh, guys...
Yoneji: Yeah?
Maeda: Why don't we ride separately?
Yoneji: Why!? // It's crowded enough as it is!
9 Maeda: Fine...
Yoneji: It's no big deal to me...
Katsuji: Heheh, I get it...
Chiaki: ....
Kazumi: Whoa... // Hey, look, you can see the harbor from here!
10 Kazumi: Hey...
Katsuji: Kwaahh...
Kazumi: Jeez...
Katsuji: Uh...
Kazumi: Hey...are you still mad?
Katsuji: Not really...
Kazumi: Hey....
Katsuji: .... // ....
11 Katsuji: Kazumi!
Kazumi: Kyaah! // Stop...stop...
Katsuji: Ow... // Ugh..gh..gh
Kazumi: Don't... // DO THAT!
SFX: BAM!
Katsuji: Gwah!
Yoneji: Huh... // You hear something up there?
Sayuri: Mm...not really...
Yoneji: Whatever.
12 Chiaki: .... // Why... // did you ask if we could ride separately?
13 Maeda: It gets crowded.
Chiaki: .... // .... // I finally figured out why you like ponytails, Maeda-kun.
Maeda: ....
Chiaki: Haruka-san's a pretty girl.
Maeda: Che... // She shouldn't have listened to Koheiji's bullshit.
Chiaki: She knew what it was. // You wouldn't hurt a girl like that, Maeda-kun.
Maeda: Me transferring without telling her was hard enough for her.
Chiaki: You're so nice, Maeda-kun. // Even Haruka-san knows it.
14 Maeda: You...you talked to her!?
Chiaki: A little. // She's a strong girl. // Not like I am... // She told me what we're feeling now is important.
Maeda: We?
Chiaki: All of us... // Haruka-san... // You... // Kazumi... // Katsuji-kun, Yoneji-kun, Sayuri-san... // And me too.
Maeda: ....
Chiaki: .....
15 Maeda: You know I already chose my own dreams... // ...over a girl I loved once.
Chiaki: .... // It's ok.
Maeda: Can I... // sit next to you?
Chiaki: Uh... // Yeah, sure...
16 Chiaki: .... // *thump* *thump*
Maeda: .....
Chiaki: Just for these fifteen minutes this week... // *thump* *thump* // I wish...time would just stop.
Maeda: ....
17 Maeda: I was... // just thinking the same thing.
Chiaki: Uh...
Maeda: This is... // just as good as a ponytail.
18 Chiaki: ! // Oh...
19 Chiaki: *sob* // *cry*
Maeda: Seriously, are you crying again!?
Chiaki: It's... // *cry* // *cry*
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/33675Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 892012-03-04T13:37:28+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 89: I'll Take Care Of Her!
1 Voices: *squee* *squee*
Kazumi: Hey, let's go on that one next!
Voices: *squee* *squee*
Katsuji: Kazumiiii! // What are you so mad about, dammit!?
Kazumi: Hey, Chiaki! Let's go on the Viking boat next! Yeah, the Viking boat!
Katsuji: If you got something to say, say it!
Kazumi: ! // You don't get it, dumbass? Go find those stupid sailor suit girls or something!
Katsuji: Wait...what? // You saw that...?
2 Katsuji: You're mad about that? // Are you stupid? // THEY were the ones who started talking to us! // And we weren't even with them for long!
Kazumi: Whatever! // Let's go, Chiaki!
Katsuji: Dumbass! // Whatever, let's go, Yoneji.
Yoneji: Wh... // Sayuri! // Later, Katsuji!
Katsuji: What do you mean "Later"? Go to hell! // ( Goddamnit...where the hell did Maeda-san and Koheiji go? )
3 Ryuutarou: Portopia Land?
Haruka: Yeah, she told me Maeda-kun invited her, so she left...
Ryuutarou: Ok... // Thanks, ma'am.
Phone: *Beep-beeeep*
Ryuutarou: Maeda... // What's ya deal?
4 Kazumi: Kyahaha! That was GREAT! // It was all like shaking and I was like I'm gonna fall and... // What's wrong, Chiaki? You don't look so good. // Mm? // Still worried about Maeda-kun, huh?
Chiaki: ....
Kazumi: No worries! Exes are nothing! // He totally likes YOU, Chiaki!
Haruka: .....
Kazumi: Waiiiit...you got sick from the boat ride, huh?
Chiaki: No, I'm fine.
Kazumi: Stay right there, I'll get you some water.
Haruka: Sorry, I'll shut up now... // I just got a problem like that myself...
Chiaki: ....
6 Haruka: 'Cept mine's the other way around. // I'm the ex who showed up. // Third year of middle school, when I didn't notice, he transferred... // and now I just saw 'im again after two years... // But after two years of hearin' nothin'...I don't like him anymore. // He was some crazy good for nothin' kinda guy too.
Chiaki: He didn't tell you?
Haruka: No... // If he had I woulda gone with 'im... // He didn't want me to do somethin' crazy like that, so he didn't tell me. // He was way nicer than he had ta be... // Even if he was a moron.
7 Chiaki: ....
Haruka: But...I got someone else I like... // He ain't tellin' me anythin', but I know it when I see it.
Chiaki: Huh?
Haruka: Definitely... // What we're feelin' now's what's important.
Chiaki: .... // So... // You like him too?
8 Haruka: Heheh...none of ya business! // Maeda called me today...I don't really wanna talk ta him but I gotta finish things right... // Ya see? I got someone else I like too.
Chiaki: Uh...
Haruka: He might... // not like me...
Chiaki: Really?
Haruka: Someone he knows told me... // he hates girls like me.
Chiaki: But you haven't asked him yourself! // You have to at least try!
9 Haruka: Yeah... // Thanks. // I came to help her out, and she ended up helpin' me, huh...
Chiaki: Uh...I just...
Haruka: Sorry, I'm talkin' ta myself. // I just don't want us to give up on our guys. // Good luck!
Chiaki: .... // You too.
Maeda: Bavarian...Mo...what!?
Koheiji: I said Bavarian Mountain Railroad!
10 Maeda: Why the hell do I have to go there?
Koheiji: I'm telling you just go there and you'll see!
Maeda: Che...
Koheiji: (Heheheheheh...YES! YES! YES! // I just have to show Chiaki-chan...PERFECT!) // Alright! Now I just have to go get Chiaki-chan! Come on!
Mooks: ....
Riders: AHHH! // AAAAH!
Maeda: Huh?
11 Riders: AAAAAH! // AAAAH!
Maeda: Haru... // What the hell are you doing here?
Haruka: Ah? I thought ya wanted me ta be here, Taison.
Maeda: Ch...fucking Koheiji...where the fuck did he find out about her? // What bullshit's he up to?
12 Maeda: Did you hear it from this weird-looking guy? // With two guys following him around?
Haruka: Yeah.
Maeda: I knew it... // I don't know where they heard about you from but don't believe anything they say.
Haruka: I thought it was weird...
Koheiji: Look at them, Chiaki-chan! See! Over there! // He's trying to get back together with her!
Chiaki: .....
Haruka: Wah!
Maeda: Huh?
Riders: AAAAAH! // AAAAAH! // AAAAH!
13 Maeda: What is it?
Haruka: N...nothin'!
Koheiji: Gh...what's his problem?
Haruka: .... // Ow...
Maeda: What is it, Haru!?
Haruka: My stomach...it hurts... // Owwwww...
Maeda: Hey...hey, Haru!
Haruka: I can't...I can't stand...
Ryuutarou: Huh?
Maeda: Haru!
14 Haruka: Oww... // Just get me ta a bench or...
Ryuutarou: ( Haruka... // Maeda... )
Haruka: Ow... // IT HURTS!
Girls: Haruka! // What is it, Haruka!?
Haruka: My stomach suddenly...
Girls: Oh my god! // Somebody help! //
A...Asakawa-kun!
Ryuutarou: Ah?
15 Girls: Haruka said her stomach suddenly started hurtin'... // We gotta carry her to the nurse! // Hey, Haruka!
Ryuutarou: What da...wait...I can't.... // Carry her?
Girl: This ain't da time fer that!
Ryuutarou: Ok...yeah...
Maeda: MOVE IT!
Girls: Maeda-kun!
Maeda: She ok?
16 Haruka: Maeda-kun...
Maeda: I got ya...
Ryuutarou: Maeda... // .... // I... // I'll... // I'LL TAKE CARE OF HER!
17 Maeda: Ryuutarou...
Ryuutarou: I got this, Maeda! // I'll take care of Haruka!
Maeda: Wait...
Ryuutarou: Yo, Haruka...
Haruka: Yeah? // Teehee...
Ryuutarou: Ah?
Haruka: Nyeeeeaaah!
18 Maeda: Wait...what!?
Haruka: Eheheh...
Ryuutarou: What da...
Haruka: Thanks fer ya help...
Ryuutarou: Haruka...
Maeda: Huh?
Haruka: How long ya gonna carry me?
Ryuutarou: ... // Until...
Haruka: Ah?
19 Ryuutarou: Until ya go out with me...
Haruka: Yeah, I will. // Hehehe...
Koheiji: What the...
END
Portopia Land was in fact a real amusement park in Kobe, for anyone who cares, that opened in 1981. Sadly, it closed in 2005 and the site is now, if Japanese Wikipedia is to be believed, an IKEA store. Not only that, but Bavarian Mountain Railroad (later BMR-X) was a real ride. It started operation in 1987 and was based off Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. Speaking of which, I just realized. Morita got to spend at least a day if not more inside an amusement park so he could draw it properly. Lucky bastard. I do way too much research for this manga. So now you have to suffer too! Be back soon, so enjoy the manga! This marks the end of the volume, and one more chapter to go in this arc!https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/33061Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 882012-01-16T21:25:11+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 88: Koheiji Planning
1 Haruka: I'm leavin'.
Maeda: Wait...don't you have to meet Ryuutarou?
Haru: Yeah... // well, I guess I gotta... // but he ain't gonna spit it out... // and right now... // I don't really wanna hear what he's gonna say.
Maeda: Haru...
2 Maeda: I'm sorry.
Haruka: Why ya sayin' sorry ta me!? // Don't say yer sorry!
Maeda: H...Haru...
Haruka: Ya think I'm stupid!? // Why ya gotta say sorry now!?
Maeda: ....
Haruka: Don't...
3 Ryuutarou: Oh... // that's...
Koheiji: What...that's... // she's got a guy there...and she's crying.... // What's up with that?
4 Koheiji: Maeda...you mean the guy who went to Tokyo!? What's he doing here!? // Ohh... // WHOA, THAT'S MAEDA!!
Hironari: You mean we were talking about the same Maeda!?
Ryuutarou: ....
Haruka: I'm goin'!
Maeda: Haru!
5 Haruka: Sorry for cryin'. // Why don't we just both forget it...
Maeda: ....
Koheiji: Aw... // ...hell yeah! // This is awesome! // ( There's definitely still something going on with those two... // and if Chiaki-chan finds out...)
6 Hiroyuki/Hironari: .....
Koheiji: ( Sorry, Ryuutarou... // but I have to get them together. ) // Yo, Ryuutarou! This is getting crazy! // What are you gonna do about this?
Ryuutarou: ....
7 Koheiji: Sorry, bro...it really looks like they're going to get back together. // What an asshole, huh? Pretending he'd let you have his girl...
Hironari: ( It really doesn't look like they're going to get back together... )
Hiroyuki: ( I can't really tell him that... // He's all like "How can I get Chiaki-chan!?" Yeah...forget that.)
Ryuutarou: Move.
People: H... // Hey...
Koheiji: Shut up! And get over here!
8 Koheiji: Hey, Haruka-chan!
Haruka: Ah?
Koheiji: Don't you have somewhere to be? // I just saw you over there...you really want to be with him, don't you?
Haruka: Uh...
Koheiji: It's cool, it's cool! // We're just friends of Asakawa-kun and Maeda-kun, so we wanted to pass some things on.
Haruka: Pass some things on?
Koheiji: Asakawa-kun told me to tell you "Ya think I love ya, Haruka? Get real. I hate women like ya." So, yeah...
Haruka: !
9 Haruka: That's...what do ya...
Koheiji: Yeah, he was pretty direct about it.
Mooks: ....
Koheiji: It looks like Maeda-kun hasn't really forgotten you at all. // Tomorrow's a Sunday, and the last day of his school trip, so he's going to be at Portopia Land. // He's inviting you.
(T/N: An old amusement park in Kobe.)
Mooks: Wait, Hei-chan...
Koheiji: WILL YOU TWO JUST SHUT UP FOR A MINUTE!?
10 Maeda: Ryuutarou! // You're here...
Ryuutarou: Ain't seen you in a while, Maeda.
Maeda: Where'd you get all beat up, man?
Ryuutarou: Ya look pretty bad too.
Maeda: ....
11 Ryuutarou: Ya ran into Haru...what did ya... // Yeah, I saw ya! // Tryin' ta get back with her, ah?
Maeda: What!?
Ryuutarou: Ya selfish fuck! // Were ya thinkin' about Haru at all!?
Maeda: Wait...what are you... // GWAH!
12 Maeda: SHIT! THAT HURT! // I was fighting all yesterday, dammit!
Ryuutarou: Looks like ya changed a lot, ah?
Maeda: Huh!?
Ryuutarou: Ya left her fer two years and NOW ya wanna get back together!?
Maeda: Who told you that!?
Ryuutarou: Uh...
Maeda: Let go of me, dumbass. // Who said that!? // And why didn't you tell Haruka!?
13 Maeda: Looks like you haven't even told her how you feel yet...
Ryuutarou: Sh... // SHUT UP! What da hell's wrong with ya, forgettin' about her for so long!?
Maeda: Gh...
Ryuutarou: If ya were gonna do that, I woulda...
Maeda: Dammit!
Ryuutarou: Ow! // Ow...
Maeda: I forgot about her. // And I told you not to say that shit.
Ryuutarou: I don't fuckin' believe ya... // Ya got another girl there or somethin'?
14 Ryuutarou: Ah!?
Maeda: ..... // ..... // Is that bad?
Ryuutarou: Wh... // Ya do.... // Ya goin' out?
Maeda: Sh...shut up... // None of your business...
Ryuutarou: Heh... // AHAHAHAHA!
Maeda: What's so funny!?
15 Ryuutarou: Yer telling me to say it to her and ya haven't said anything yourself!
Maeda: Kh... // I...I...you...you...have to c-c-confess!
Ryuutarou: I gotcha, I gotcha. I was gonna do it anyway. // But you gotta do it to. // Gotta make up your mind.
Maeda: ....
Yoneji: Hey, Sayuri? // It's me.
Katsuji: KAZUMIII!
16 Yoneji: I'm leaving tomorrow... // And it's Sunday, so...you want to go to Portopia Land with me?
Katsuji: KAZUMIII!
Yoneji: Yeah? // Sweet. // Ok, tomorrow at 10.
Katsuji: Hey, Kazumiiii! // Come on, why aren't you talking to me? // Kazumi!
Kazumi: Hmph!
Chiaki: No way...
Koheiji: I really didn't want to tell you, Chiaki-chan. // I didn't think he was like K that.
17 Koheiji: But he's trying to go out with that girl that HE dumped. // I couldn't believe my own ears!
Hironari: Hey, Hei-chan!
Koheiji: What!? // You saw it too, right, guys!?
Hironari: Oh...
Hiroyuki: Yeah...
Koheiji: They were definitely trying to get back together!
Mooks: Yeah...they were...
Chiaki: ....
18 Maeda: Oh...
Chiaki: ....
Maeda: H..hey... // What did I do?
Koheiji: ( IT'S WORKING! // IT'S WORKING! )
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/32828Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 872011-12-29T04:36:33+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 87: Everyone's Feelings
1 Haruka: If ya were goin' ta Tokyo, ya shoulda told me! // Why didn't ya tell me...? // Why?
Maeda: .....
Haruka: .....
2 Haruka: Not even anyone in yer family knew were ya were, Taison. All they said was maybe Tokyo, or somethin'... // Hey, look at me! // I thought ya'd come back, so... // I went ta a school with sexy sailor suits. // And I even kept my ponytail.
Maeda: Didn't...Ryuutarou tell you anything?
Haruka: Oh, Asakawa-kun? // Nothin'.
3 Maeda: Dumbass.
Haruka: Why'd ya only tell him? // Why didn't ya tell me? // If ya told me, I might've gone with ya...
Maeda: Hey, listen to me!
Haruka: Ah? // Why couldn't I go with ya anyway?
Maeda: .....
Haruka: ..... // Don't ya mean "listen ta me?" // Why do ya have that frickin' Tokyo accent?
Maeda: Wh...what?
4 Maeda: That just happens when you live somewhere! I can't do anything about it!
Haruka: That just happens when you live somewhere! I can't do anything about it!
Maeda: You freaking...
Haruka: You freaking....
(T/N: This entire exchange is Haruka basically making fun of his accent.)
Maeda: .... // ( Gh...same old Haruka.... )
Haruka: ..... // I promised... // I'd meet
Asakawa-kun today. // Here.
Maeda: ....
5 Koheiji: Ahahahahaha! // No way... // Sorry for hitting you like that... // Now that I've calmed down, you seem like a pretty cool guy!
Ryuutarou: Thanks.
Koheiji: So you got a beef with someone called Maeda? // It's probably a coincidence, but there's this guy called Maeda who's really making me sick...
Ryuutarou: I don't hate 'im.
Koheiji: Then what's your problem?
Ryuutarou: He's... // An old friend.
6 Koheiji: Wait...didn't he steal your woman!?
Ryuutarou: Nah, she was his girl. // He always had my back anyway...
Koheiji: He did!? Then why didn't he introduce you to her hot friends or something!?
Ryuutarou: He transferred out. // And then I didn't hear anythin'.
Koheiji: So...that means she's pretty much there for the taking, now? Lucky you!
Ryuutarou: Hahaha...really? You think so? // But I dunno what Haruka... // Oh, did I tell ya her name's Haruka?
Koheiji: No way!
Ryuutarou: I still dunno what Haruka's feelin's are... // She's a strong girl but she probably still loves 'im or somethin'....
7 Koheiji: Well, I wouldn't know about that...
Ryuutarou: Well, I'm gonna go talk to 'er today... // I'm gonna tell 'er everythin'
Koheiji: Really, now? Then say you like her.
Ryuutarou: I l... // ... // lo... // GAH! What'm I supposed ta do when I can't even say that?
Koheiji: Oh, yeah, what's your name, anyway? // I'm Nakata Koheiji, "The Lonely Eagle".
8 Koheiji: Good luck, Ryuutarou! You can't be indecisive now! // If you like her, tell her!
Ryuutarou: *click* // Fh...
Maeda: JUST FUCKIN' TELL HER, DAMMIT! // Ya like her, aah?
Ryuutarou: Ya retarded? I can't just take ya girl away from ya! // Why don't ya just ask her ta go ta Tokyo with ya, Maeda?
9 Maeda: It's a long story.
Ryuutarou: If ya goin' ta Tokyo, tell her too!
Maeda: I dunno... // It'd be pretty lame ta just ask her...
Ryuutarou: SO YA THINK IT'S BETTER JUST TA NOT TELL HER AT ALL!? // YER ASS IS SO GETTIN' KICKED FER THAT!
Maeda: Heheh...talkin' about Haru always gets ya goin', aah? // I knew I could count on ya.
10 Ryuutarou: DON'T GIMME THAT SHIT! YA KNOW YA WANNA ASK HER! // AND WE'RE TALKIN' ABOUT YOU, NOT ME!
Maeda: Heheh...I knew you had the best Antonio Inoki impression around... // Yo, show me some burnin' spirit!
(T/N: Antonio Inoki was a Japanese wrestler and martial artist active during the 70s and 80s. Burning Spirit (燃える闘魂 moeru toukon) was one of his ring names.)
Ryuutarou: ...!
Maeda: .....
Ryuutarou: Gh...
11 Maeda: OF COURSE I FUCKIN' WANNA ASK HER! // I FUCKIN' WANTED HER TA GO WITH ME!
Ryuutarou: Maeda...
Maeda: But I dunno how the future's gonna turn out... // I ain't even in high school! // Ya think I can ask her when I ain't certain about me? // Ya think she'd wanna leave here for some half-assed shit like that?
Ryuutarou: .... // Heh...that ain't like ya, man. // Ya'd think yer dad was tellin' ya ta marry her. // Ain't ya too young ta talk about all that shit anyway? // Huh?
12 Ryuutarou: Maeda...
Maeda: Tell her ya like her. // And don't tell me it ain't true. I've seen the way ya look at Haru.
Ryuutarou: .... // UOOOOO! // UGH! // GH...
13 Ryuutarou: I'M GONNA FUCKIN' KILL YA!
Maeda: Yeah, come at me, bro!
(T/N: Sorry, couldn't resist!)
Ryuutarou: Hh...
Maeda: Hh... // Haru probably wouldn't mind if ya asked... // Ya should go out with her.
Ryuutarou: ..... // Ya think it'd really be ok to just take her from ya?
Maeda: ....
14 Maeda: .... // Well, if ya did...
Ryuutarou: ....
Maeda: C'mon, let's go.
Koheiji: Earth to Ryuutarou! // Ryuutarou!
Ryuutarou: Uh...
Koheiji: You're going to meet her now, aren't you? We'll go with you. // For encouragement.
Ryuutarou: Oh...yeah...
15 Kazumi: Hey! Chiaki! // You came back here? I was so worried about you!
Chiaki: Sorry.
Kazumi: Oh, you took out the ponytail! // Heheh! Still crying?
Chiaki: No...I'm not. // ....
Kazumi: Don't do that. Exes are exes! // You're with him now! Forget about her!
Chiaki: ..... // I guess so...
16 Chiaki: What happened to Katsuji-kun?
Kazumi: Oh, him? // I don't know! He went off with some girls in sailor suits or something. // But don't worry, tomorrow the trip's over! // And we're going to Portopia Land! It'll be so much fun!
Chiaki: Yeah.
Girls: Ah? You ain't goin'? Even though we showed ya round and all?
Katsuji: Sorry. // It'd be great, but we have to leave. // We've got friends looking for us.
17 Haruka: Asakawa-kun'll be comin' soon. // I got an idea what he's gonna tell me, but... // Ya don't mind, do ya, Taison?
Maeda: ....
Haruka: .... // Anyway...
18 Haruka: Any girls ya like over there?
Maeda: ! // Uh.....
Haruka: Gotcha! // It's cool. // If it happens, it happens...
Maeda: But...
Haruka: Taison.
Maeda: Ow!
19 Haruka: Heheheh... // Ya gotta tell me important stuff sooner, ya know?
Maeda: Haru...
Haruka: Oh, well, that's two years down the drain...
Maeda: Haru....
END
So many accent jokes. Hard to translate. Oy.https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/32800Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 862011-12-27T15:33:49+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 86: Indecision and Ponytails
1 [Cover page]
2 Kazumi: Kobe's like so awesome! // There's so much stuff to see! // Come on, over here, over here!
Katsuji: I'm too tired to run, dammit!
Kazumi: Cause you were FIGHTING all the time!
Katsuji: Shhh! // I just got hurt because a Buddha statue fell on me, remember?
3 Katsuji: If Ioka finds out, we're in deep shit! // You can't let someone hear!
Nakajima: Ioka-sensei! // I've got some important news...
Ioka: Huh?
Nakajima: Maeda's wounds last night were really from... // A Buddha statue falling on him.
Maeda: HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD THEM!? // Che...
4 Maeda: Dammit, guys, Nakajima almost told on us! Quit shouting!
Katsuji: It's this dumbass's fault!
Kazumi: DUMBASS!? // wHO ARE YOU CALLING A DUMBASS!?
Katsuji: You! You!
Koheiji: So, yeah...I'm like...the go-to guy about the Ijinkan, can I show you around? // They used to call me "Ijinkan go-to guy Nakata" back in the day, you know...
Chiaki: Well, uh...
Others: Come on, Chiaki! Let's go!
Chiaki: Ah, uh... // Sorry, maybe another time!
Koheiji: Chiaki...
5 Hironari: The hell was that?
Hiroyuki: You have to be smooth, man!
Koheiji: I don't want to hear it! // Why...why is Chiaki-chan with them and not me!? // Grrr...I WANT TO INTERFERE, DAMMIT! I WANT TO INTERFERE!
Hironari: So...you want to be with them.
Koheiji: Yeah...I want to go to school with her, eat with her, walk home with her... // And when bad guys try to do something to her, I want her to be like "SAVE ME, NAKATA-KUN!" and I'll be all like "HEY, YOU! GET YOUR DAMN HANDS OFF OF HER!" // DENIED! She's friends with Maeda and it's fucking pissing me off!
Hiroyuki: You didn't have to hit him...
6 Chiaki: I think I shouldn't have done that to Nakata-kun...
Maeda: Quit worrying about that dumbass! Let's go!
Chiaki: Don't pull on me!
Kazumi: WOOOOW! IT'S SO FLUFFY!
Katsuji: Uh...it says..."Please don't touch the exhibits"
Kazumi: Oops.
Chiaki: ....
Kazumi: HEY! Maeda-kun and Chiaki are holding hands!
Maeda: Wh...
7 Maeda: Waah!
Katsuji: You know, you didn't have to let go...
Yoneji: Yeah.
Maeda: IT'S NOT LIKE THAT! // I JUST FORGOT TO LET GO WHEN I FINISHED DRAGGING HER IN HERE!
Yoneji: Heheheh...
Katsuji: Then what's with the blushing...?
Chiaki: ....
8 Chiaki: It's fine, Kazumi!
Kazumi: No! Just let me do it! // I've got a good feeling about this! // Now you can really finish it! Ok?
Chiaki: But I don't think it's like that...
Kazumi: Yes, it is! // Maeda-kun totally likes you, Chiaki! // Look, I'll do this, so just sit down and turn around!
Chiaki: Okay...
Kazumi: Whoa, your hair grew really long when I wasn't looking! // See? Perfect!
9 Koheiji: LOOK WHERE YOU'RE GOING, DAMMIT!
Hironari: Just leave it, Hei-chan!
Hiroyuki: Sorry, he's just a little pissed off about something. Don't worry.
Person: .....
Hironari: Let's go, Hei-chan!
Koheiji: Keh..
Person: .....
10 Person: D... // DA HELL'S YA PROBLEM!?
Koheiji: IF YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING TO SAY TO ME, SPIT IT OUT! DON'T JUST STAND THERE!
Person: HEY! THOSE SUPPOSED TA BE FIGHTIN' WORDS, AAH!?
Koheiji: Keh...freaking bipolar... // So, you want a fight or not?
21 Haruka: Moron... // I've been waitin' for ya forever...
Kazumi: CHIAKIII! // Where'd she go!?
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/32394Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 852011-11-29T18:52:52+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 85: No Mas
1 Youkou: Ya...Ya got 'im!
Thugs: Aah! // Tatsuyoshi-san!
Yoneji: He...he did it!
Katsuji: Not meeeee....!
2 Thugs: Tatsuyoshi-san! // He got knocked da hell out! // Tatsuyoshi-san got... // He's a freakin' monster! // He...he's gonna kill us! // Let's get outta here!
Maeda: That uppercut should be kicking in right about now, huh? // A boxer can't punch like a wimp.
Tatsuyoshi: Asshole... // Don't get all happy ya won yet... // I got plenty I can still do...
5 Tatsuyoshi: I don't care if ya go to Tokyo! // Cause I'm gonna make this l'il shit's life a livin' hell!
Maeda: You little... // Huh?
Youkou: No worries, nii-chan. I told ya I'd take care o' myself from now on.
Maeda: Youkou...
6 Youkou: I AM the son of the world's strongest man after all...
Maeda: Hehe...
Tatsuyoshi: Ya fuckin' dumbass...I'm gonna tell the PTA about our l'il fight... // What's the world's strongest man gonna do about that, aah!?
Mystery: Ya can't hide behind ya dad forever, Youkou!
People: !! // He stole Shimabukuro's entrance!
7 Maeda: DAD!
8 Dad: I'm always here for ya when it gets dangerous. // I gotta follow the
way of Amitabha!
(T/N: Amitabha is a buddha, not THE BUDDHA, and the principal buddha of the Maeda family's sect. I can't really explain it any more, because Buddhism is complicated.)
Youkou: Dad!
Maeda: Wh...what the hell are you doing in a school uniform!? You're an old man!
Fujio: Wh...wait, dad!? // WHERE IS HE!?
Tatsuyoshi: Heheh... // Ya come here ta make me laugh, grampa!? // Fuckin' crazy old man...
Dad: ....
9 Dad: Tatsuyoshi, ah? // You run Kyoukutou High now!?
Tatsuyoshi: So?
Dad: Taison, sorry ta make ya listen ta ancient history...
Maeda: Wh...what? // ?
10 Dad: HA! // OOH!
Maeda: YOU'RE NOT JUMPING OFF!?
Tatsuyoshi: Whatdaya want, ya stupid old clown?
11 Dad: It's been a long time since I was there... // But Kyoukutou's always been handed down ta guys who were fair. // I had ta work my ass off for this...
Tatsuyoshi: Whatdaya... // !!
[Kyokutou High School First Leader Maeda Monson]
12 Tatsuyoshi: First leader, Maeda Monson!?
Maeda/Fujio/Youkou: No way! // You were in charge of Kyokutou!
Dad: Now ya don't wanna contradict one of ya elders, ah? // Aah!?
Tatsuyoshi: ..... // ....
13 Tatsuyoshi: .....
Maeda: !
Dad: I don't wanna see ya like this ever again.
Maeda: Uh...
Dad: And don't hate no one. // If ya got no clue what ta do, come visit me. I'm a monk. // .....
14 Tatsuyoshi: I...I apologize.
Dad: Hm.
Everyone: Uh...uh...
Dad: Hahaha... // What's with ya faces?
Maeda: You...you were a delinquent!? Seriously, Dad?!
15 Dad: Heheh. // HM!
Shimabukuro: UOH!
Dad: Ya only got one life, don't ya? // You can take ya chances if yer young. // Don't ever tie yourself down. // There are two kinds of people in this world. // Those who live fer themselves. // And those who live fer others. // Yer a good kid, Taison.
Maeda: Huh?
Dad: You too. Yer startin' ta understand people.
Youkou: Huh?
16 Dad: I tried too hard ta raise ya my way, Fujio. // Then when Taison was born, I gave him part o' my name, cause I thought he'd inherit the temple.
(T/N: The "son" in Monson and Taison is the same kanji [尊] )
Maeda: ....
Dad: But I was wrong. // I shoulda been fairer with ya. That's where I
failed.
Shimabukuro: Wait, what? // What's going on...
Dad: But I ain't gonna force ya into anything. // Taison. Youkou. You can
decide if ya wanna inherit or not.
Yoneji: Why isn't he talking to you?
Fujio: ......
17 Dad: The people who come to my temple are gonna talk, but... // Ya gotta make yer own decisions in life. // Ya gotta realise your own dreams. // Ya gotta live fer yourself. // Ah?
Maeda: Dad...
Youkou: .....
Katsuji: It's getting dark. What time is it?
Dad: 6:00.
Yoneji: Shit! We were supposed to meet everyone else already!
18 Dad: Ya gotta go ta the hospital first! // Ya can't go back ta yer inn lookin' like that.
Someone: Oh...
Katsuji: We'd get kicked out for fighting if we went back now with our faces all fucked up...
Dad: No worries, I'll tell 'em a statue fell on ya or somethin'.
Youkou: .... // I'm...goin' home.
Maeda: Youkou.
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/32058Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 842011-11-02T15:29:20+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 84: Start It Up
3 Youkou: Get 'im, nii-chan! // Ya don't need ta worry about me!
Maeda: Y...Youkou...
Person: Shut it, ya l'il...!
Youkou: Ugh!
Maeda: Youkou!
Youkou: UOOH!
Person: GWAH!
4 Youkou: We're both dad's kids, right, nii-chan? // I told ya, you don't need ta worry! I'm gonna take care of myself from now on!
Maeda: Youkou... // You...
Youkou: Nii-chan, behind ya!
Maeda: Huh...
5 Youkou: AAAAH!
Katsuji/Yoneji: Maeda-san!
Fujio: Y...you bastard!
SFX: *slip*
6 Fujio: I...I'll kill you!
Katsuji: No, it's...
Fujio: NUOOOH!
Katsuji: It's not me, I told you! Not me!
Fujio: WHERE ARE YOUUUU!?
Katsuji: Did he lose his contacts again? Seriously!?
Person: What...what da hell's this guy...
Tatsuyoshi: You got some real mouth on ya, aah!?
Youkou: ... // ....
7 Tatsuyoshi: Down after one kick. // The great Maeda from Teiken ain't got shit on me. // So, ya said ya'd take care of yourself, aah!? // Then hit me!
Youkou: ....!! // HYAAAH!
8 Tatsuyoshi: You got some real balls too, ah? // *spit* // Ready to die against a tae kwon do master?
Youkou: .... // Ah....
Tatsuyoshi: If you ain't ready, don't come at me fuckin' half-assed, dammit!
Yoneji: Aah! Youkou!
9 Tatsuyoshi: !
Youkou: Aah!
Tatsuyoshi: I didn't think ya'd have a weapon. // Tae kwon do doesn't allow weapons. // The only weapons we got are our fists an' our feet, but...
Maeda: What is it with you and tae kwon do?
10 Maeda: I'm Maeda fucking Taison! My whole body is a weapon! // And I'm going to be the champion of all six weight classes in the WBC!
(T/N: WBC = World Boxing Council)
Tatsuyoshi: Ya...ya...
Youkou: Nii-chan!
Maeda: Youkou... // Once I start something, I finish it... // No matter what it takes. // Heheh...
11 Tatsuyoshi: Don't gimme that fuckin' bullshit!
Youkou: Nii-chan?
Maeda: The...the hell was that supposed to be?
12 Maeda: My...my dad's...ro...rolling sole kick...was...ten...times stronger than that! // Hehe...
Tatsuyoshi: ....
People: Maeda-san! // Whoa... // No way...
Youkou: Nii-chan, yer a boxer! // Show 'im how ya box!
Maeda: Yeah. // I'm gonna...
13 Maeda: KILL YOU!
Tatsuyoshi: Kh...
Maeda: Wh...
Tatsuyoshi: Heh, who's gonna kill who now? // Can ya even use yer legs?
14 Tatsuyoshi: ORRAA!
Maeda: GWAH!
Youkou: Nii-chan! // I'll get somebody!
Maeda: Shut up! // Hn... // ( ...! )
Tatsuyoshi: Ah? What's that? // Looks like ya found somethin' interestin'!
15 Maeda: Heh... // Pick it up. // Ya l'il punk.
Tatsuyoshi: ....
Youkou: Pick it up, nii-chan! // Just stab 'im! // Pick it up! // Do it!
Tatsuyoshi: Hehe...ya gonna do it? // Aah!?
16 Maeda: I'm gonna bend my knees... // and pick it up off the ground... // and then... // LIKE HELL I WILL!
Tatsuyoshi: Gah!
17 Tatsuyoshi: Kwoh...
Youkou: Ya got 'im, nii-chan!
Tatsuyoshi: Ya...asshole...
Maeda: I don't know shit about tae kwon do... // but my dad's the world's strongest man, and he's really got that rolling sole kick... // HAMMERED INTO ME!
Tatsuyoshi: !!
18-19 [FACE KICK. NUFF SAID.]
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/31958Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 832011-10-23T21:44:09+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 83: Naeryo Chagi
1 Someone: What the...!? Shimabukuro!
Shimabukuro: Having trouble with these wimps? // Maybe it'll be more fun if I help you out!
Sunglasses: What's ya business with us, ah?
Maeda: Wh...what the hell are you doing here! // This has nothing to do with you!
2 Shimabukuro: Don't think I came to save you. // I just wanted to get my prey back.
Maeda: PREY!?
Shimabukuro: You seriously think I'm going to let someone who
tried to shave my head off the hook?
Youkou: Uh...
Shimabukuro: I'm the only one allowed to defeat you and your brother. // So that means I have to get rid of all these interfering bastards first. // .... // ....
3 Shimabukuro: Hrgh... // Huh!? // HYAH! // YEAH! Nobody can match
my mad safe falling skills!
Maeda: Wait...what the...WHO'D WANT TO!?
Person: Stupid little shit!
Shimabukuro: Heh!
4 Person: WAAH! // AAH! // GWAH!
Sunglasses: YA L'IL...!
Shimabukuro: Oh. // ARE YOU STUPID!? // HNNOOH!
Sunglasses: OWAA!
5 Shimabukuro: WAHAHAHAHAHAHA, you poor, stupid, fools! // I went all the way to the finals of the Tokyo Judo Championship! Unfortunately, I lost, but I'll still show you MY TRUE POWER!
Person: Oh...
Maeda: Th..that stupid...
Tatsuyoshi: ...
People: DON'T FUCK WITH US!
Shimabukuro: YEAH, FUCKING COME AT ME!
6 Person: Whoa!
People: Don't grab 'im! // He grabs ya, you're done! // GWAH!
Tatsuyoshi: Judo, ah?
Shimabukuro: NWOOH!
Person: AGH!
Maeda: (Sh... // Shimabukuro...)
Tatsuyoshi: Yo.
Shimabukuro: HUH!?
7 Shimabukuro: WHA... // GH...
Maeda: AAH!
8 Maeda: Shimabukuro!
Tatsuyoshi: Heh...
Shimabukuro: I...it's cool...he just took me by surprise and threw me off my balance. // All I have to do is grab him. // Mngh..
Maeda: Sh...Shima... // CAN YOU EVEN HEAR ME!?
Person: Tatsuyoshi-san! This guy got his gang here!
Tatsuyoshi: What?
9 People: MOVE, BITCHES!
Yoneji: Maeda-san!
Youkou: F..Fujio-nii-chan!
Fujio: Youkou!
Maeda: You guys... // WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE!?
Fujio: Just as I thought... // You haven't thrown one punch, huh, Taison?
Youkou: Huh...
10 Yoneji: What are you taking a nap for!?
Shimabukuro: Shut up! // That was a karate kick, huh? // Shit...it's a pain in the ass to grab guys who kick...
Tatsuyoshi: Karate?
Shimabukuro: But if you want to do karate, that makes my life a little easier!
Fujio: ! // Hey...you idiot! DON'T JUST RUSH IN LIKE THAT!
11 Shimabukuro: Ohsh...
12 Fujio: A NAERYO CHAGI!?
13 Everyone: SHIMABUKURO!
Fujio: That's... // not a karate kick... // THAT'S TAE KWON DO!
14 People: Ya really don't get it... // That kick is the most vicious thing in the fightin' world... // And that ain't all Tatsuyoshi-san can do. // He's done karate, kickboxin', all that shit! // But all that fightin's fucked up his teeth real bad...
Maeda: ....
Katsuji: You got some real fucking balls fighting with that stupid shit in your mouth!
Yoneji: Katsuji!
15 Katsuji: So what really happened? Did you trip on the stairs and land on your teeth?
Tatsuyoshi: If ya wanna find out, just try and punch me.
Katsuji: ASSHOLE!
People: ....
Katsuji: GAH!
Yoneji: YOU FUCKING...!
16 Maeda: Yoneji, quit it!
Yoneji: But...
Maeda: You get out of this too, aniki!
Person: RUNNIN' AWAY, AAH!?
Maeda: GH...
Youkou: Nii-chan! // Why ain't Taison-nii-chan stoppin' him? Tell me, Fujio-nii-chan! I want ta know! / Please!
Fujio: ..... // Do you really want to know?
17 Katsuji: Sorry, but I can't stand it anymore! I'm going in!
Yoneji: Me too!
Maeda: Katsuji! Yoneji!
Youkou: So...Taison's been thinkin' about me...this whole time...
Fujio: Yeah.
19 Youkou: Wh..what should I do?
Fujio: That depends on whether or not you can get stronger.
Youkou: ( Nii-chan... )
END
Translator's notes
General note: A naeryo chagi is the Tae Kwon Do term for an ax kick. Which basically means you lift your leg up and smash it onto your opponent's head or shoulder. It hurts.https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/31890Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 822011-10-18T03:14:16+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 82: Taison went to Tokyo...
1 Tatsuyoshi: He ain't comin? // Looks like he's really left ya out in the cold. // Or maybe he don't give a shit about ya, ah?
People: You got real funny hair, ya know? // What's the deal? // AHAHAHAHA!
Youkou: Nii-chan...
2 Tatsuyoshi: Well, for now these guys are gonna take care of ya...
Person: We can't kill 'im, Tatsuyoshi-san.
Youkou: !!
Person: Make sure nobody disturbs us.
Other: Ok!
Person: There's gonna be some people who're still at clubs.
Other: GWAH!
Others: !!
3 Youkou: Whoa...
4-5 [Cover page]
6 Tatsuyoshi: Maeda?
Maeda: Give me Youkou. // Dumbass.
Person: ...huh? Yer...?
Youkou: You're here, Taison-nii-chan?
Tatsuyoshi: Taison? // ! // Yer Maeda Taison!? // I knew I'd seen your face before.
Maeda: Huh? What the hell are you talking about?
7 Tatsuyoshi: Long time no see, ah!?
Maeda: You...you're Tatsuyoshi from Kaneko Middle School!
Tatsuyoshi: Maeda Taison? // I ain't heard about you fer a while. Didn't ya ran away to Tokyo!?
Person: Maeda from Matsuda, right?
Sunglasses: So ya got scared when Tatsuyoshi-san beat the crap outta ya?
Tatsuyoshi: Hm.
Youkou: You...you ran, nii-chan!?
Maeda: ....
8 Tatsuyoshi: That was cause of him too, aah!?
Youkou: Wha...
Sunglasses: This punk?
Maeda: ....
(flashback)
Maeda: GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM 'IM!
Person: Aah! It's Taison! // Taison's here!
9 Maeda: Are they seriously still after ya!?
Youkou: I didn't even do anythin'...
Maeda: Get outta here, I got this. And don't tell dad!
Youkou: Uh...uh-huh...
People: Hey, Youkou's runnin' away! // Hold up! // Get 'im!
Maeda: It's fuckin' on! // Get yer boss down here!
10 Tatsuyoshi: Maeda from Matsuda, ah? // I've always wanted to punch ya lights out.
Maeda: Tatsuyoshi from Kaneko!
Tatsuyoshi: Oh, ya heard of me? // I AM known fer finishin' what I've started. // You're too late to apologize. // Gimme one punch and I'll give ya twenty! // And Youkou can run, but next time I'm gonna get 'im.
11 People: Don'tcha get it? // Ya can go after us, but we'll still get Youkou when yer not around. // Shoulda thought that one through, ah? And all ya had to do was just shut up and watch.
(end flashback)
Maeda: ....
12 Tatsuyoshi: Ya want some more? // Aah?
Youkou: (When nii-chan fought 'im, he got taken out...him of all people... // This guy's frickin' strong // And he went ta Tokyo right after that... // Were ya really runnin' away? // Nii-chan...)
Tatsuyoshi: C'mon, let's go. // You mighta been beaten up by my guys before but this time I'm finishin' the job. // Try not ta hate me too much when ya die.
13 Tatsuyoshi: Aah!?
Youkou: Nii-chan!
14 Tatsuyoshi: The hell's ya deal!?
Maeda: Gah...
Tatsuyoshi: You ain't doin' shit! What the fuck? // Not even one fuckin' punch, just like last time!
Youkou: Not even one punch... // Why... // Why, nii-chan?
15 Fujio: What!? Youkou!?
Yoneji: Yeah, Maeda went after him too!
Katsuji: He had this I won't let you follow me face, and he told us that too! I've never seen him act like that! What do we do?
Fujio: ... // Friends above all, huh? // Get me off this fucking bell! // Ok, who's he fighting?
Katsuji: Tatsuyoshi from Kyokutou...you know him?
Fujio: TATSUYOSHI!?
16 Yoneji: Huh? What's the big deal?
Fujio: Fucking hell... // If that's the Tatsuyoshi from Kaneko Middle School, he's in deep shit. // Maeda couldn't even give him one punch...
Yoneji: How? Why?
Fujio: He told me about it... // He had to fight him once before...to save Youkou... // It was a week before he was leaving. // And I gotta say, Tatsuyoshi's a killer. He never forgets, and he'd come back from hell to finish what he started. Whatever you did to him, he'd give it to you twenty times worse. // Why do you think Taison let Tatsuyoshi beat him?
Katsuji: I don't know...
Fujio: Because he'd already decided to go to Tokyo. // He knew if he fought normally, Tatsuyoshi would take it out on Youkou...
17 Yoneji: He did that for Youkou...
Katsuji: But if he was worried about his brother, why did he leave? Did he just not like the temple or something?
Fujio: Dumbass! // He went to Tokyo because his dream was to become a boxer!
Everyone: ...
Yoneji: The trip's over in two days!
Katsuji: Maeda's...gonna come back to Tokyo with us...so...
Fujio: You see? He's taking it all on himself. // That's how Taison is.
Everyone: ...
18 [SURPRISE MAEDA'S DAD!]
Tatsuyoshi: Ya gonna do anythin' or what? // Yer the famous Maeda from Teiken, from Matsuda, and that's all ya got? Aah!?
Youkou: Taison! Nii-chan! // Why are ya lettin' him do this ta you?
19 Tatsuyoshi: I'll kill 'im! // Ah! // Who did that?
Shimabukuro: If you're actually kidnapped, you might want to tell a guy, dammit!
END
Translator's Notes
pg. 6: Maeda is a pretty common name, so you can't fault Tatsuyoshi for not knowing it's Maeda Taison.https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/31811Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 812011-10-11T18:29:39+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 81: Tatsuyoshi
1 Person: Hey, Ken-chan! // Don't run like that, you're gonna fall!
Ken: Hahaha! // C'mon, come and get me! // Wah! // Uh...sorry, mister...
2 Ken: Ow!
People: C'mon, ya don't hafta hit 'im... // He's just a kid! // Ken-chan!
Yakuza: Hey, fuckers, get outta the way! // Don't stir shit up around here, aah!? // The fuck ya doin' with that kid? Turn around and look at us! // Don't fuck with us! // YA LITTLE... // Guh...
4 [Tatsuyoshi glaring at you]
5 [Tatsuyoshi grinning at you and making you wish he was still glaring]
6 Youkou: GWAH!
Yoneji: Ma...Maeda-san!
Katsuji: Jesus Christ:
Fujio/Maeda: *hff* *hff*
Dad: Ya came home cause ya were both worried about me. // So I might forgive ya. // WAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
7 Youkou: Hai-YAAAAH!
Dad: Quit it. // First there's somethin' we gotta discuss.
Youkou: Gwah...
Maeda: Wait...so Youkou's head got shaved because he's going to inherit the temple?
Dad: He's gotta be a qualified monk fer that, ya morons. // He's in high school now, so I figured I'd shave his head so I could get 'im started on trainin' // That's why he's bald now.
8 Youkou: I knew I was gonna be shaved, but I didn't think it'd be like this... // Now girls don't like me and even kids point n' laugh at me...I gotta wear a hat whenever I leave the house... // That's why I wanted ta take revenge, Taison-nii-chan.
Maeda: .... // Haha...
Fujio: But...didn't you want to inherit?
Youkou: I got dreams too! // I... // .... // I wanna play baseball. // For the Hanshin Tigers...
9 Dad: Oh, well, we can talk about that later. // Don't go back to yer inn too late or ya friends'll get in trouble!
Katsuji: Uh...we were just...
Dad: Come back and visit when ya got free time, ok, Taison? // I'll be keepin' Fujio dangled from the temple bell as a hostage until ya do!
Fujio: You...you...
Maeda: I...I got it...
Katsuji: What are you gonna do, Maeda-san? You can't just become
a monk! // I mean, it'll suck at school without you!
Maeda: .....
Chiaki: ....
Maeda: ....
10 Fujio: Daaad...let me down, dammit! You're not gonna hang me theere...
Dad: Shut up. // Ya ran away and never came back... // Right,
Youkou?
Fujio: Huh...
Dad: I thought he was here...
Maeda: Huh...
[Sign on left: Teiken High School] [Sign on right: Yonekura Commerce High School]
Everyone: ...
11 Yoneji: The hell? Yonekura's here too!?
Youkou: (I'll shave ya... // I'll shave ya...)
SFX: *snip* *snip*
Maeda: Ch...whatever, it's not like we'll see them any time soon...
Katsuji: Huh?
Maeda: Huh? // WHY THE HELL ARE YOU HERE RIGHT NOW?
Shimabukuro: MAEDA!
Youkou: Ok, now!
12 Maeda: YOU FUCKING...!
Everyone else: Shimabukuro-san! // STOP, NOT NOW!
Maeda: Huh?
Shimabukuro: Whoa!
Youkou: WAAA...not again... // TAAAH!
Shimabukuro: Wh...what the hell is your problem?
Maeda: What the fuck are you doing here, Youkou!?
Youkou: Gwah...
13 Shimabukuro: WAIT, THAT'S YOUR LITTLE BROTHER!?
Katsuji: Yeah. // This is Maeda's little brother, who flipped out when he had his head shaved so he could inherit the family temple.
Shimabukuro: Your...your house is a temple!?
Maeda: Uh... // WHAT DID YOU TELL HIM THAT FOR!?
Katsuji: S...sorry...
Yoneji: Anyway, he looks really embarassing that way. // I'd be angry too if I had that mark on my head!
Someone: Yeah, totally! // Gyahahaha!
Shimabukuro: Anyway, you saw him give me that freaking haircut?
Huh?
Maeda: Uh...I...
14 Sunglasses: Yeah, they're definitely stayin' at this hotel. // Yeah, his name's Maeda.
Tatsuyoshi: You gonna bring 'im ta me?
Sunglasses: Nah, there's too many of 'em. // But I found a real funny l'il punk to bring ya instead, Tatsuyoshi-san.
Tatsuyoshi: Who?
Sunglasses: Maeda's l'il brother.
Tatsuyoshi: Hm... // Bring 'im ta me.
15 Receptionist: Hello, this is the Osaka Union Hotel; we're terribly sorry about making you wait. // Maeda from Teiken High School, you said? // Hold on a minute, I'll tell him he has a call.
Shimabukuro: Don't worry about it.
Receptionist: Hm?
Shimabukuro; I'm Maeda's underling. // Hello, this is Maedaaa... // And who might you be? // Hm...
Person: We're takin' care of ya li'l brother.
16 Person: Ya want him back, ya gotta come up to Kyokutou High; Tatsuyoshi-san's waitin' for ya.
Shimabukuro: What the... // How do I get there? I'm afraid I don't know.
Person: Ya take the Midosuji line ta Tennouji station. Ya know the station, right? Ya can see Tsuutenkaku from there. // If ya don't come, ya know what'll happen ta him?
Shimabukuro: Hey, just between you and me...
Person: Aah!?
Shimabukuro: Here, don't worry about it. Thank you!
Receptionist: ....
Person: .....
Shimabukuro: Jesus, that little dumbshit... // He got kicked out of the hotel and now he's trying to take his brother with him... // But if I just tell Maeda what he told me...that should be interesting.
17 Shimabukuro: Oh, there he is. // Hey, Maeda!
Maeda: Mh... // WHAT'S YOUR DEAL, DAMMIT!?
Katsuji/Yoneji: St...stop it, Maeda-san! // Let's not fight in
the middle of the hotel!
Maeda: Wh... // What do you want!?
Shimabukuro: Kh...your brother's been kidnapped.
Tatsuyoshi: Ain't he comin'?
18 Tatsuyoshi: Looks like ya brother don't give a shit about ya. // Poor bastard. // Sufferin' cause yer own family's so cold...
Youkou: ( N... // Nii-chan... )
Shimabukuro: Hahaha // Looks like you're not going to go save his stupid ass! // Of course, he did try to shave your head...
Maeda: Who's got him?
19 Shimabukuro: I think they said come to Kyokutou High or
something... // The guy was Tatsuyoshi...
Maeda: ( Kyokutou! )
Shimabukuro: GWAH! // THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!?
Katsuji: Maeda-san!
Maeda: ( Youkou! )
END
Translator's Notes
pg. 8: Youkou's referring (again) to the local Osaka baseball team.
pg. 9: In the original, Maeda's dad uses the traditional word 旅館 ryokan instead of the modern word ホテル hoteru; ryokan is usually used for a Japanese-style inn rather than a Western-style hotel.
pg. 10: You know Maeda and Chiaki are having a really deep conversation right there.
pg. 15: Shimabukuro changes his pronoun from the more prideful/arrogant ore to the humbler boku.
pg. 16: Tsuutenkaku - "Tower Reaching Heaven" - is a famous Osaka landmark, famous for its height of 103 meters, or 338 feet.https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/31705Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 802011-10-03T04:47:13+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 80: Shourinji
1 Fujio: They won't suspect me if I'm in yer room! // Stand lookout for dad, Taison. // If he finds me, I'm dead.
Maeda: Oh...ok...
Fujio: Where'd Youkou go?
SFX: *click*
Maeda: D...dunno... // He went off ta play or somethin'...
Fujio: Ya gotta watch out for 'im. // He runs ta dad for frickin' everythin'. Like his l'il stooge or somethin'.
2 Maeda: ....
Fujio: whew...
Maeda: D...does it taste good, nii-chan?
Fujio: Ya want one?
Maeda: Ok...
SFX: *flick*
Maeda: whew... // *cough *cough* // What the...?
Fujio: Hahaha, yer still too young!
Maeda: Ain't ya a delinquent if ya smoke?
Fujio: Moron. // This is the shit that's important in life. // Taison... // I'm gonna go ta Tokyo one day.
3 Maeda: Uh...
Fujio: If yer a gigolo, women'll just GIVE ya money! // It's frickin' awesome.
Maeda: W...wait, then I gotta be stuck with dad's job!
Fujio: Dontcha have Youkou? // What kinda man don't do what he wants? // I ain't gonna become like that. // You been watchin' Watanabe Jiro on TV, right? Dontcha wanna become a boxer? // He's gonna be world champion, and you could do it, too! // Youkou's got no dreams.
Maeda: C'mon...he's just a kid!
Fujio: And yer only a year older than 'im, so don't talk like that!
4 Fujio: Ya can tell by lookin' at 'im. // He's the kinda guy who's always hidin' from his own shadow and worryin' about what dad and everyone else thinks.
Maeda: ...
Fujio: Where's that cigarette ya lit?
Maeda: Dunno. // I think I dropped it... // Aah! It's burnin!
Fujio: Put it, ya moron! Ya can't let dad find out!
Maeda: Hm...
SFX: *crackle* *crackle*
Youkou: GWAAAAAHHHHH!
Maeda: Aah! Youkou!
Fujio: You were sleepin'!?
5 Youkou: My head...my head!
Maeda: It's ok, nothin' happened... // !!
Youkou: Owww! // Aah! A cigarette! // I...I'm tellin' dad!
Fujio: Youkou!
Maeda: Arghh...
Katsuji: So your dad found out?
6 Maeda: Yeah. // I was just a kid, so I only got three headbutts, but aniki got that and a piledriver.
Katsuji: Whoa...your dad's terrifying...
Maeda: Might be the strongest man in the world...
Katsuji: Are you sure he's sick?
Maeda: Not really... // Youkou definitely called me back home for revenge. // The attacking me with hair clippers thing made it pretty clear.
Yoneji: So he wants to shave you, Maeda-san?
Katsuji: Why's he suddenly freaking out now? // If he's so pissed about his hair being uneven all he has to do is shave it all off!
Maeda: Uh...
7 Maeda: He's not mad because of the bald spot, his head is shaved...
Yoneji: Why's his head shaved again?
Maeda: Don't you get it? // It's the proof that he's getting stuck with Shourinji!
Kazumi: Oh my god! Shourinji? You mean the Shaolin temple?
Katsuji: Kazumi!
Maeda: Gh...did...did she hear us?
Kazumi: Oh, I totally get it! Maeda-kun's family runs a Shaolin
martial arts dojo! // THAT'S why your dad's so strong!
Maeda: Uh...no...
Chiaki: ....
Kazumi: Why is he trying to hide it? // Isn't that SO like him?
Chiaki: Y...yeah...
Maeda: ....
8 Maeda: G...guess I couldn't hide it. // Yeah, it's true.
Katsuji: Uh...
Kazumi: I knew it!
Chiaki: Aren't you meeting your brother, Maeda-kun? It's already past two.
Maeda: Oh...oh, yeah... // He doesn't know about Youkou. // I gotta tell him that dad's alright.
Waiter person: Welcome! // Please watch your step!
Maeda: Huh?
Waiter: It's a little slippery...
9 Maeda: He said he'd be at this table... // Huh? // He left me a note? That's weird!
Note:
Taison, When I called the house, mom picked up and told me dad was sick after all. I'm leaving first. Get there quick!
- Fujio
Yoneji: What...what the!? It says he's sick after all?
Katsuji: What does that mean? Isn't this just one of Youkou's plans?
Chiaki: ....
Maeda: ....
10 Katsuji: Wh...what do we do, Maeda-san? // Th...this might just be another plan...
Yoneji: Are...are you going?
SFX: *crumple*
Katsuji/Yoneji: Maeda-san!
Chiaki: Maeda-kun!
11 Maeda: I told you guys not to come!
Kazumi: But...Chiaki and I are worried!
Maeda: You don't have to worry!
Kazumi: Ok, we won't go in. We'll just take a look at the dojo and then go. // Okay!?
Maeda: NO! // It's not what you think.
Chiaki: Uh...
Katsuji/Yoneji: Hahahaha....
Maeda: Quit laughing, dammit!
Chiaki: ....
12 Kazumi: Huh? Why'd we stop here? // This is a temple!
Katsuji: ....
Kazumi: Hey...
Maeda: ....
Kazumi: What is it, Chiaki?
Chiaki: Something's written here... // Uh...
Maeda: Shourinji.
Kazumi: Wait...
13 Kazumi: Shourinji's...
Chiaki: Your house is...
Kazumi: A TEMPLE!? // No way...
Maeda: Ch... // Oh, well. // Let's go in.
Chiaki: Oh...ok...
14 Kazumi: Wow...your own graveyard... // You don't have an archway! Or those lion-dogs!
Maeda: It's a temple, not a shrine! // Dad always said he'd die in front of the Buddha... // He should be in there... // Huh? // GAAHH!
15 Maeda: Gwah!
Katsuji: Wh...what the hell...
Maeda: He's...
Yoneji: Maeda-san!
Maeda: !! // Hgh...
Katsuji/Yoneji: Aah!
Katsuji: Who...what is he!?
16 Dad: So yer back, Taison!
Maeda: Dad!
Everyone: HUUUH? // That's his father!?
Maeda: You're not sick at all! // Why...
Fujio: T...Taison...
Maeda: Aniki!
17 Maeda: Wait, what the hell is this!?
Dad: Heheheh...
Fujio: That note... // Dad made me write it...when he caught me at the coffee shop...
Maeda: H...how did he find you there?
Fujio: It was Youkou! He's been following me around since I got here! // Both of them were planning something with that newspaper thing!
Maeda: ....
Dad: Hahaha...looks like I had ya worried about me! // Right, Taison?
18 Fujio: I told you...he's like dad's little stooge!
Maeda: We were freaking tricked...
Youkou: YA STILL DON'T GET IT!
Maeda: ! // Youkou!
Youkou: I don't wanna become a monk! // I got other dreams! // But dad was all like "Yer the only one left" and shaved my freakin' head!
Dad: Don't talk about me like that!
Youkou: I thought callin' ya back would gimme a chance, so I agreed!
19 Maeda: D...Don't take out that thing!
Katsuji: Can't we just talk!
Youkou: L... // Look at this! // I don't care if ya inherit or not, Taison-nii-chan, I'm shavin' yer head!
Maeda: Hey! // H-hol-hold-the-hold the fuck on!
Someone: Gyaah!!
END
Translator's notes
pg. 3: Watanabe Jiro was, obviously, a boxer; less obviously, WBA super flyweight champion of the world from 1982 to 1986.
pg. 7: Kazumi misunderstands Shourinji as 少林寺 instead of 尚輪寺, aka, the Shaolin monks' temple, or the temple in every kung fu movie ever made. Just to add the confusion, the chapter title (and when Maeda says it) is written in katakana, which can be read either way. Oh, joy.
pg. 12: The kanji in Shourinji - 尚輪寺 - at least the first one, are slightly archaic, literally meaning "noble ring temple". So Chiaki would have a little trouble reading it.
pg. 16: Everyone switches to calling Maeda's dad the more formal お父さま otousama instead of Maeda and Fujio's usual おやじ oyaji.https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/31577Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 792011-09-27T00:08:46+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 79: Standing In The Shadow
1 Photographer: Thank you very much, class 5! // Now please exit quickly!
Person: Ahh! I blinked!
Photographer: Next is class 6! Is the class representative here?
Person: He had to come separately since he got caught drinking.
Other: I thought he was already here!
Person: Kyahahaha!
Masa-san: Hey, Yamashita! I already told you to move down a step! This is a group picture, so don't cling to each other like it's a couples portrait!
Katsuji: WHAT THE... // Yeah, right, this coming from YOU.
Masa-san: Uh...it's...
Asano-sensei: Heheh...
2 Kazumi: Wait a minute, why ARE those two clinging to each other?
Yoneji: Wait, Koheiji, you're in class 5! // And that's the girls' section!
Koheiji: Shut up! I want a picture of me next to Chiaki-chan so I can have some good memories of this school trip!
Yoneji: Get out of here! You're all freaking lined up over there! // Look, there's... // Maeda-san! Over here! Over here!
Maeda: What?
3 [cover page]
4 Kazumi: Hey, Maeda-kun, I heard your family...
Maeda: Gah!
Kazumi: I heard your family lives in Osaka, right?
Maeda: Yeah...so what?
Kazumi: Then that whole "Father sick and dying, come home soon" thing... // aren't you going to visit him?
Maeda: Huh...?
Chiaki: ...
Kazumi: Uh, it's just...uh...
5 Maeda: I met my brother at the hotel yesterday. // He said we could meet up this afternoon for a little bit.
Yoneji: Wait...so he came here after all?
Kazumi: Hmm...
Maeda: Just for a little bit, I said!
Kazumi: What's his little brother planning again?
Chiaki: Uh, Maeda-kun...
Kazumi: Oh, yeah! You should go see Youkou-kun too!
Maeda: ... // Looks like you've been telling her every fucking thing, huh?
Katsuji: Sh...I'm so sorry!
Maeda: Well then SHUT UP, DAMMIT!
Kazumi: Hey, Chiaki, do you want to go to?
Maeda: GAH, NO! NO, YOU DON'T! // (You didn't tell her what my family does, did you?)
Katsuji: (I...I might have...)
6 Yoneji: What's with those assholes? We beat them up at Nagoya Station AND Eigamura...
Katsuji: Uh...their school's Kyokutou or something...wait, aren't they from Osaka too? // Uh, I just heard you say that, Maeda-san...
Maeda: Kyoukutou High School.
Katsuji/Yoneji: Huh? // Wait, how do you know
what's going on?
Maeda: They're just kinda famous around here; you don't want to screw with them. // I don't know, but they might be trying to find us.
7 Maeda: We gotta be careful. // We're on their territory. // This is their home base. // ....
Person: .... // Gotcha...
8 [Sign: Kyokutou Private High School]
Sunglasses: So why dontcha tell us about what happened at Eigamura?
Godai: Uhh...
9 Godai: They were gonna beat us anyway... // We didn't get near enough people...
Sunglasses: But ya can't just run away and abandon the other guys! // Can ya!?
Godai: Uhh...
Sunglasses: Ya useless punk!
Godai: Gwah!
Person: Hey, be careful...
Godai: GA...
10 Person: Aww, ya poor bastard!
People: Aah! // Ain't that...kinda...a little much...
Other: Ya don't have to fuck 'im up like that...
Sunglasses: It ain't us that need ta see ya hurtin'.
11 Sunglasses: It's nothin' personal... // But ya know what happens if we leave this guy alone and Tatsuyoshi-san gets pissed off, ah?
People: ....
Sunglasses: Maeda from Teiken, aah!? // So he's already in Osaka, is he?
Person: Tatsuyoshi-san...
Sunglasses: Yeah, he's comin' here this afternoon... // So you gotta find those fuckers... // And wipe 'em the hell out.
12 Kazumi: .... // This is the shutter, right?
Katsuji: If you don't know how to use it, just say so!
Chiaki: What does your family do, Maeda-kun? // I mean, it made Youkou-kun really angry when he had to inherit it...
13 Maeda: How much did Katsuji tell you guys?
Chiaki: Just that much. // So...what DOES your family do?
Maeda: Don't ask, moron. // I'm not telling anyone...
Person: Ch...The damn girl's in the way...
Chiaki: If Youkou-kun's mad, it has to be important...
Maeda: ... // I have another idea...
Chiaki: Huh?
Maeda: He's pissed cause of his bald spot.
14 Chiaki: Wha...
Maeda: I'm the one who made him... // look that embarassing. // But it's been 7 or 8 years since that happened... // He can't have just noticed now and freaked out...
Katsuji: WHAT THE...IF YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE IT, JUST SAY SO! // Dumbass!
Masa-san: Don't talk like that to a teacher!
Kazumi: Hey, Chiaki, can you take this picture?
Chiaki: Uh...ok...
Person: (Ok, he's finally alone...)
15
[No words]
16 Chiaki: Look out, Maeda-kun!
Maeda: !
17 Maeda: Wha? // It's... // You from Kyokutou!?
Person: Ch...
Maeda: HAIR CLIPPERS!? // WH...WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR DEAL!?
18 Person: You freakin'...
Maeda: Gh...
Person: Agh!
Maeda: Show me your face, fucker!
Person: Wha...stop...
Maeda: Huh...
Person: Ugh...
Maeda: THE HELL!? YOU!?
19 Maeda: YOUKOU!
Everyone: Wh...what the...
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/31499Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 782011-09-20T03:34:26+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 78: A Woman Who Plays Around With Men
1 Tour guide: All right, everyone, that's it for today! // Everyone try not to stay up too late! See you tomorrow!
Maeda: Hey, Masa-san! You OK?
Asano-sensei: Oh, Kondou-sensei, is there anything I can do?
Masa-san: ....
Maeda: He's just got motion sickness.
Asano-sensei: No, don't overexert yourself. // I'll take care of your things for you...
Masa-san: No...no, it's fine...
Asano-sensei: But...
Masa-san: No, really...
Asano-sensei: Ah!
2 [No words, just Asano-sensei]
3 Masa-san: Sensei! // Asano-sensei! // Pleeease forgive me! // I didn't mean to grab you there! // Sensei...
Asano-sensei: Hey...please just go away! // You're bothering me!
Masa-san: Pleeeease...
Ioka: Kondou-sensei! // What are you doing? You can't be here!
Masa-san: Wha...what are you doing here?
Ioka: I...I'm just guarding Asano-sensei from the eyes of some of our students.
Masa-san: Students aren't even allowed in here!
Ioka: There are some students who try to take after their teachers...
Masa-san: I just...
4 Asano-sensei: WOULD BOTH OF YOU PLEASE JUST GET OUT OF HERE!?
Masa-san: OK!
Asano-sensei: My god... // You!
Person: (Sh...she saw us! Let's get out of here!)
Person: (I didn't even get to look!)
Masa-san: Please hear me out, sensei!
Asano-sensei: Please stay away from me!
5 Masa-san: Don't say that...I just want to apologize...
Asano-sensei: I do not WANT you to apologize!
Maeda: What's Masa-san doing?
Asano-sensei: Hmph. // Oh, good evening, Maeda-kun.
Maeda: Huh?
Asano-sensei: You weren't with the others who came to watch me?
Maeda: I got no interest in you.
Asano-sensei: Hmm... // *click*
Maeda: It might not be my place to say it, but you should really forgive Masa-san?
Asano-sensei: Hm?
6 Maeda: He's really bowing and scraping for you.
Asano-sensei: I don't care.
Ioka: Hey, MAEDA! // Asano-sensei's off for the day! Don't bother her!
Maeda: Huh? // Like I want to...
Ioka: Ummm...taking that hot bath has done wonders for your skin, you know...
Asano-sensei: Oh, go on...
Ioka: Haha...May I get you something to drink?
Asano-sensei: Um...perhaps some Oolong tea...
Ioka: Oolong tea, of course! I'll be right back! // Excuse me! // OOLONG TEAAAAA!
Masa-san: ....
7 Masa-san: ...
Asano-sensei: How pathetic. // A man should have more bearing to him. // Phew....
Maeda: ....
Asano-sensei: I noticed that's where you really shine. // You act like a real man. // Why don't you come to my room? // It's 209 on the second floor.
Maeda: You're from a rich family, huh? // You had that really fancy car the other time...
Asano-sensei: Hm?
Maeda: You like to always get your way. // Seriously.
8 Asano-sensei: Maeda...
Maeda: Smoking in a yukata? // You gotta be classier than that.
Asano-sensei: ....
Ioka: SENSEI! I'VE GOT YOUR TEA! // The vending machines were all sold out so I had to go to Nico Nico Mart to get some! // Huh!? Sensei! // Asano-sensei!!
9 Maeda: Huh? // What the..? // What are you doing?
Fujio: I just...dropped my contacts... // Wha... // TAISON!
Maeda: What are you doing HERE, aniki!? Aren't you supposed to be in Osaka?
SFX: *scrape*
10 Fujio: Never thought you would have ended up staying here too. // Looks like they just give you guys the standard room. // Isn't that kinda cramped for four? Want to see my room?
Maeda: Wh...what the...!? You're still not going to see dad?
Fujio: What are you shaking in the corner for?
Katsuji: Uh...it's...nothing...
Maeda: ANIKI!
Fujio: I had to do it. // I met this fine woman on the train and she said that she lived in Nara, so maybe we could go out sometime.
Maeda: Well, aren't you happy. I suppose she's got money...
Fujio: She's the daughter of some big corporate mogul or something. I still haven't gone out with her.
Maeda: What about dad, dammit?
11 Fujio: Don't act all concerned, you're only here because you LOST!
Maeda: Aren't you here cause you were all fucking like "I had to do it!" anyway!?
Fujio: Well, now I don't!
Maeda: WHAT THE...!?
Asano-sensei: Maeda-kun, are you there? // Oh, my, a visitor?
Maeda: Wha...WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING HERE!?
Asano-sensei: I realized you wouldn't come so I thought I'd come to you instead.
Fujio: ....
Asano-sensei: But it looks like I'm interrupting something...
Maeda: Yeah, you are!
Fujio: ....
12 Fujio: WHO...WHO IS THAT WOMAN!?
Maeda: OWOWOWOW! THAT'S ASANO YOUKO! SHE'S OUR ART TEACHER! LET GO OF ME, YOU IDIOT!
Fujio: Asano...Youko...
Maeda: The hell...
Fujio: I'm in love...
Everyone: Uh...
Fujio: I fell in love...at first sight...
Maeda: What the...
Fujio: My... // My heart's beating so fast... // I've never felt this before... // It must be love!
13 Fujio: OUT OF MY WAY!
Everyone: Uh...
Masa-san: Gwah!
Fujio: Move it!
Masa-san: ....
Asano-sensei: ?
Fujio: Youko-san, may I...
Asano-sensei: Oh, aren't you...
Maeda: What the...he's hitting on her! // This is serious, he's a professional gigolo, he knows just what to say!
Everyone: ....
14 Katsuji: Oh...shit...
Yoneji: He's got her in the palm of his hand!
Maeda: Kh! Let her get hurt for once.
Ioka: Mh... // And who might you be!? We're only here for a school trip, please leave!
Asano-sensei: Oh, Ioka-sensei...
Fujio: What's your problem? // What Youko and I were doing is our business. // Go away.
Ioka: Yo...
15 Ioka: Don't call her Youko! That's disrespectful!
Asano-sensei: Oh, it's not a big deal, sensei! // In fact, you may call me that too. // Whatever you prefer.
Ioka: Uh...
Fujio: You're kidding, Youko...
Everyone: ....
Maeda: What a bitch. // She's having fucking FUN looking at them.
Person: ....
16 Masa-san: ...
Asano-sensei: Oh, my lighter... // Never mind, don't worry. // *scrape* // So, what should we do?
Ioka: Hm.
Asano-sensei: .... // Hmm... // I wonder which of you might be stronger...
Ioka: .....
17 Fujio: You want to see, Youko?
Ioka: I'll prove my strength to you, Yo...You...Youko...
Maeda: I am seriously gonna...
Katsuji: Maeda-san!
18 Maeda: Wha...
Fujio: Wha...
Masa-san: You really shouldn't play with other people like that. // Think when you do things!
Asano-sensei: ....
Fujio: YOU... // WHAT DID YOU JUST DO, YOU FUCKER!?
Ioka: KONDOU-SENSEI!
19 Asano-sensei: Wait! // I... // I've never had anyone do that before... // Nobody's ever really gotten angry with me... // It made me realize...
Masa-san: Wha...
Fujio/Ioka: AAH!
Asano-sensei: Kondou-sensei. // I love you...
END
Translator's Notes
General note: Ioka's speech here is much more polite and formal compared to how he usually talks to Maeda and the other students.
pg. 8: A yukata is a type of casual kimono, usually worn at summer festivals or after bathing.https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/31416Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 772011-09-12T04:43:09+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 77: Is Puchi's Mother Worried?
1 (163) Tour guide: Ok, this is the main temple of Toudaiji, where the honzon, the Buddha statue this temple is dedicated to, is installed. // Single file pleaaase! // The current structure was created when the temple was rebuilt in the Edo period, and is three times smaller than the original. // However, it's still the largest construction in the world made out of wood!
People: Gah, THERE'S the Buddha! // Whoa, it's huuuge... // AHH! WHAT THE...
2 Guide: The pillar in the northeast corner of the temple has a square hole the same size as the Buddha's nostril. // Legend has it that whoever goes in will come out blessed with health and wisdom!
Kazumi: Wait, the Buddha's nostrils are square? // Look at them, they're ROUND!
Katsuji: Looks like you could use some Buddha-nostril wisdom...
Koheiji: GWAAAAH! HELP MEEEE!
Katsuji: The hell?
Hiroyuki/Hironari: HEI-CHAN! // Why'd you think you could get into something that small?
People: *blah* *blah*
Kazumi: So those Buddha statue things are called like, honzon, right? That kinda sounds like Maeda-kun's first name...
Maeda: Uh...
Kazumi: Maeda Taison...doesn't that totally sound like a monk? // Hm?
Katsuji: ....
3 Maeda: ....
Katsuji: Dammit, Kazumi!
Kazumi: I like the name Taison though. It sounds like a strong guy's name. // Come oooon! It's not like I said anything weird! // It just sounds like a monk's...
Katsuji: YOU MIGHT WANT TO QUIT WHILE YOU'RE AHEAD!
Maeda: ......
Chiaki: Ok, open wide! // Haha, wow, you really like these don't you!?
4 Maeda: What are you doing?
Chiaki: Feeding him rice crackers. // Isn't this little guy cute?
Chiaki: Kyahaha! // That tickles! // I found him all by himself. // He must have been separated from his parents, right, Puchi?
Maeda: PUCHI!?
Chiaki: I had to give him a name! Besides, it's cute!
5 Maeda: Keh.
Chiaki: Oh, are you still mad? // That's not like you, Maeda-kun.
Maeda: You're a horrible parent.
Chiaki: It's a good name!
Maeda: You have to ask the person what THEY want to be named. // Like... // Maeda Hagler. // SH...OWWW!
Maeda: What's your problem!? / Stop chewing on me!
Chiaki: Those crackers are meant for deer!
6 Chiaki: We're going to Osaka tomorrow. // You should go see your father.
Maeda: Like hell I will.
Chiaki: But...
Maeda: Aniki's going. // I don't need to go to. I don't even have the music box.
Chiaki: Don't you miss him?
Maeda: No.
Chiaki: .... // Puchi misses his parents. // And his mother's worried about him.
Maeda: Shut up. // I'm not a freaking deer.
7 Chiaki: Ah! // Puchi! // No following. // I'm going back to where everyone else is. // Bye-bye. // What do I do? He's following me!
Maeda: He thinks you're his mom!
Shimabukuro: Wait, that's Teiken!
Person: Looks like it is.
8 Shimabukuro: So, our paths cross once again.
Person: It looks like they'll be leaving again soon...
Shimabukuro: What... // Th...that's Maeda! // Why's he carrying a goat?
Person: That's a deer.
Maeda: I'm going to leave you somewhere far away so you can't follow us, you idiot.
Katsuji: Where are you going, Maeda-san? We only have 15 minutes before the bus leaves.
Kazumi: CHIAKIII!
Chiaki: Ok... // ....
Masa-san: I'm not...I'm sick..I was sick...I'm being sick... // when I was being sick...I might be sick...I will be sick... // Ugh...
9 Chiaki: (Sorry, sensei.)
Kazumi: Huh? Chiaki's going too!
Katsuji: What the...
Masa-san: I'm not sick.
Maeda: You following me is not going to help!
Chiaki: But...
Shimabukuro: Where are they going?
Person: It'd be a real stroke of luck if you could beat him now...
Shimabukuro: And that girl following him... // Maybe... // That...that asshole... // HAS A GIRLFRIEND!?
10 Shimabukuro: And I'm the boss of Yonekura Commerce, a school that's 70% females. and I don't even... // Oh, yeah...why don't I have a girlfriend?
Person: You're not really cool enough...
Maeda: That's it! I'll make him look bad in front of his girlfriend!
Maeda: Come on, move it, Puchi! // ....... // See, it's cause you're here!
Chiaki: Only because if you did it yourself you wouldn't come back in time!
11 Chiaki: And you're abandoning him in a strange place! He looks so scared...
Maeda: Godf... // He's the kind of guy who'll live his whole life wandering around alone forever.
Chiaki: His mother's worried!
Maeda: Do you REALLY think that?
Chiaki: And he really misses her too. // Right?
Maeda: Are you talking about me, dammit!? // Because MY dad...
Chiaki: I'm talking about Puchi!
Maeda: ....
12 Person: Shimabukuro-san, we've got it all in a bucket.
Shimabukuro: Alright! // Deer crap!
Person: So what do we do with it?
Shimabukuro: Ok, first you play rocks paper scissors!
Person: Rocks paper scissors!
Person: No...no, I can't! It'll be embarassing!
Shimabukuro: No, it won't! // You stand here.
Person: Here?
Shimabukuro: Now go.
Person: Huh?
Shimabukuro: I said go!
13 Person: Ewwww, that's freaking gross!
Shimabukuro: Get it? It's simple. We lure Maeda into the danger zone and push him into the crap.
People: But who will do it!? // Wait a minute...don't we have any smart ideas...
Shimabukuro: Shut up! If we do it in front of the girl, it'll be so funny you'll be rolling on the ground.
Person: .... // I... // I'll do it!
Shimabukuro: Gwaaah! Don't touch me! // There they are.
14 Chiaki: What are you going to do with all those crackers?
Maeda: Only one thing to do. // Leave them lying around and get out of here while he's eating. // We have to be quick, we only have like 5 minutes before the bus leaves.
Shimabukuro: HAHAHAHAHAHA!
Maeda: Huh?
Shimabukuro: We meet again, Maeda!
Maeda: Ahh! Shimabukuro!
Shimabukuro: Hehe! Get over here!
Maeda: Can't you leave me alone? I don't have time for your crap, idiot!
15 Shimabukuro: Kh... // Hey! Who's that hag you got there, douchebag?
Maeda: !! // WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!?
Shimabukuro: Haha, over here!
Maeda: YOU get the fuck over here!
Chiaki: We don't have time for this!
Person: (Ok, here they come!)
Maeda: YOU FUCKING...
Chiaki: Maeda-kun!
Shimabukuro: Hahaha, come at me, bro!
16 Person: Now! // Waa!
17 Person: Gh...
Shimabukuro: Aah!
Maeda: What...what the!?
18 Chiaki: It's his mother! // She thought he was being attacked, so she came to save him!
Maeda: ....
Chiaki: I told you she was worried. // I'm glad you found your way back to her, Puchi. // Let's go, Maeda-kun.
Maeda: Ah...oh...
Shimabukuro: Hold on! Running away, jackass?
Maeda: Kh...
19 Maeda: Let go of me, fucker!
Shimabukuro: Hell no!
Maeda: That's it! // I'm going to take ALL these crackers...
SFX: *scrape* *scrape*
Maeda: AND GET THEM ALL OVER YOU!
Shimabukuro: WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!? // GWAAAAAH! OWWWW! OWW! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!? STOP BITING! // YEEEEOW! SAVE MEEEE!
Translator's Notes
General note: Nara, the city they're in, is famous throughout Japan for its deer roaming the streets and the parks. In a completely unrelated bit of trivia, the character Nara Shikamaru of Naruto's name is a pun on this. (Shikamaru = deer boy)
pg. 2 - The word honzon 本尊 means "principal object of worship at a temple (usually a buddha or bodhisattva)" I tried to make that clear through the dialog, but have a footnote anyway.
pg. 4 - The original Japanese word is senbei せんべい, but I thought rice crackers might explain the nature of the food better.
pg. 5 - "Maeda Hagler" is a reference to boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler, undisputed middleweight champion of the world from 1980 to 1987. (And yes, his first name WAS in fact Marvelous.)https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/31343Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 752011-09-06T16:46:41+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 75: Kyokutou Five-Man Raid
1 - cover
2 Katsuji: BOOOOSS! // WE GOT TROUBLE, BOOOOSS!
Maeda: What is it!? Hachi!
Katsuji: ....
Maeda: Heeeh...
3 Maeda: Nahaha, that's it, that's it! // One more time, Katsuji! One more time!
Katsuji: Again, seriously!? This is the fourth time! /// All that running got me exhausted!
Maeda: Ok, then take it from where you open the door!
Hironari: This is it? Why are WE dressed up like this?
Koheiji: That's all, Maeda? // There's no soul in it when you look over your shoulder. // Allow me to demonstrate! They used to call me Zenigata Koheiji! // Like so. // WHAT IS IT, HACHI!? // Somebody look at me...
4 Person: It's still really amazing that we're allowed to dress up like this in Eigamura!
Other person: Not like WE'RE happy...
Person: That's cause you're not putting your whole heart into it! You have to put on the wigs, you know! Try it!
Kazumi: Hey, let's all take a picture together!
Katsuji: Kazumi, you look like an idiot!
Kazumi: Chiaki's like, all disguised too!
Katsuji: It's dressed up! You say dressed up!
Kazumi: She's like SO CUTE!
Katsuji: Wh...wha...
Someone: !!
Chiaki: Hi...
5 Katsuji: WHY DIDN'T YOU PUT THAT ON!?
Kazumi: But...
Photographer: Ok, everybody, say cheese!
Everyone: YOU'RE IN THE WAY!
Chiaki: What did you want to tell me about?
Maeda: I destroyed it.
Chiaki: Hm?
6 Maeda: Your treasure.
Chiaki: Oh... // .....
Maeda: I...I'm so sorry, Chiaki! // Those guys were fighting me in the middle of the train and I...
Chiaki: ....
Maeda: I'm serious! This guy Godai stepped on it and...
Chiaki: ..... // Oh, well. Nothing we can do.
Maeda: .... // Don't be mad.
7 Chiaki: Don't worry. // I'm not.
Maeda: You...you think it was me, don't you!? // I swear to god, it was really...
Chiaki: I said I understand.
Maeda: .....
[Sign - Eigamura]
Guy: Those fuckers really here?
Other guy: Yeah, no doubt.
8 Godai: If Tatsuyoshi-san found out we got beat by guys from Tokyo... // We'd be real fucked. // We gotta take care of 'em here. // Anyway, I heard ya been here a lot before, ain't ya?
Guy: Heheh, yeah, I have.
Godai: When he was fightin' us, the button from his sleeve was tore off. // This button's tellin' me who's comin' to Kansai, so I can find out what they're doin' when. // I think it's Teiken High, and I heard they were stayin' near Eigamura fer a couple days, so it's gotta be them.
Guy: I gotcha...
Other guy: Shouldn't we be carryin' weapons or somethin'.... // Since we were all beaten up...
Godai: That's cause you were all drunk. // They're on a school trip, there's no way they'll be prepared... // If we strike first, we can bring 'em down.
9 Godai: There they are. // Search everywhere till ya find 'im.
Guy: Hey, asshole!
Nakajima: That hurts! // Well, aren't you rude!
Guy: YA WANT SOME MORE!?
Nakajima: Ouch!
Guy: Ya know those three guys who missed the train?
Nakajima: You mean Maeda and...they're over there!
Guy: Ya said he's Maeda!? Thank ya very much!
Mika: Ah!
10 Mika: (It's those guys from yesterday... // Maeda-kun's in trouble...I have to tell him...)
Guy: They ain't here... // Those three really comin' here?
Godai: HUH!?
Guy: Uh...ain't that them?
Godai: Guess they don't get how funny those clothes look on 'em! // Ya can't mistake that forehead and that nose.
11 Godai: Let's go!
Katsuji/Yoneji: You...It's you bastards!
Katsuji: Gwah!
12 Godai: Hahaha, ya strike first and ya win!
SFX: *flick*
Guy: Huh... // Oh, sh...
Katsuji: You followed us all the way here!?
Yoneji: Looks like you really do have a death wish.
13 Yoneji: Just because this sword is bamboo doesn't mean it won't hurt!
Person: Agh!
Person: F...freakin' hell...what kinda weapons they got?
Godai: I...I had no idea that they'd have freakin' swords! // Ow! // I...I'm outta here!
Person: Wait, Godai! // Ow!
Maeda: You're kidding, those guys...
Mika: Yeah! They totally came to pick another fight!
Maeda: Those...fuckers...
Chiaki: ....
14 Maeda: Ok! // Watch me, Chiaki! I'll show you who really broke the music box!
Chiaki: I...It's fine, you don't have to...
Godai: Hha...Hha... // Gotta hide here for a little while...
Maeda: !!
Godai: Didn't think they'd be that... // And that fuckin' Maeda guy's gonna fuckin' kill me...if he got a sword too I dunno what I'm gonna do... // Fuckin' moron...
Maeda: Fucking...!? // Yo!
Godai: Uh...
15 Godai: Th...the hell's this guy!? // My...my bad, I gotta be quiet... // I'm bein' followed.
Maeda: .... // Who'd you say was a fucking moron!?
Godai: The hell's ya problem! None of ya freakin' business! // Whoa...I think I've seen ya before....
Godai: Music box? Whatdaya mean "music box", grampa?
Maeda: You...you want to try and...play dumb!? // D-didn't...didn't you...
16 Maeda: Didn't you see this!?
Godai: Wh...wha...there's nothin'... // Aah! That bird!
Maeda: You're...just a m-mo-moth fl-flying into an inferno!
17 Godai: OHSHI-
Maeda: Pick it up! Let's duel!!
Godai: (I...if Tatsuyoshi-san finds out I ran away now...he's definitely gonna...) // Kh... // Yeah, I broke ya music box! Whatcha gonna do about it, shithead!?
Maeda: You hear that, Chiaki? He did it!
Chiaki: It's fine, you don't have to do that! // No!
18 Maeda: You made Chiaki...
Godai: Nuoh... // Nuoh...
Maeda: Cry!
Chiaki: !
19 Maeda: You got that, Chiaki? // It was him!
Chiaki: I told you I understood from the beginning... // But... // thank you...
END
Translation Notes - pg. 1: The guys are acting out the intro to a popular 70s samurai drama, Zenigata Heiji, based on the story of a lawman who caught crooks by throwing coins. Inspector Zenigata of Lupin III stole the name and the throwing shtick, if that sounds familiar.
- pg. 3: Eigamura, sometimes known as Toei Movie Land, is where they filmed many samurai drama in Japan from about the 50s to the 80s. Hence the various shoutouts to samurai dramas.
- pg. 5: In the original, Kazumi confuses the word 変装 hensou with 扮装 funsou.
- pg. 16: This one's a double shout out. The bird on the shoulder is a reference to the drama Toyama no Kinsan, about a magistrate who revealed his identity by showing the distinctive sakura tattoo on his left shoulder. What Maeda says is the catchphrase of the (actually still running) drama Mito Komon, about a traveling government official in disguise righting wrongs, used the main character of Mito Komon revealed his emblem. If Mito Komon sounds familiar, that's because it was part of the inspiration for the manga Shin Angyo Onshi. The actual phrase he says for "moth flying into an inferno" is a common samurai drama cliche "Tonde hi ni iru natsu no mushi", meaning "(someone will be destroyed) like a summer bug flying into a fire"https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/31335Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 762011-09-06T02:51:09+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 76: Need You Tonight
1 Maeda: So what did you do with Sayuri last night, huh?
Yoneji: Nothing, dumbass.
Maeda: You didn't even kiss her, you moron!?
Yoneji: Gah...stop it, you...
Katsuji: ..... // I'm gonna go talk to Kazumi or something...
Yoneji: Hey, you...
Maeda: Jesus, every fucking person's got some girlfriend or something...what the hell is this trip for? // Huh, Masa-san!?
Masa-san: Do...c...come...in...
Chiaki: Maeda-kun!
Maeda: Huh...
2 Chiaki: Can I...sit next to you...
Maeda: Huh?
Chiaki: Katsuji-kun took my seat so... // Can I?
Maeda: ..... // You want to sit? Well, it's a free country.
Yoneji: Whoa, that's cold...
Chiaki: ..... // If you don't want me to...that's okay...
Maeda: What are you standing for? // Huuh!? // You said you wanted sit, what are you being like that for, stupid?
Chiaki: Oww...
Kazumi: Huh? Tonight!?
Katsuji: Yeah, in our room!
3 Katsuji: Get out after they shut off the lights...
Kazumi: Hmm...how would I... // are people going to actually be there?
Katsuji: Uh...uh, yeah...
Kazumi: Ok, maybe...
Katsuji: Really?
Chiaki: Those two are so close. // Don't you think, Maeda-kun? // Aren't they?
Maeda: Huh?
Chiaki: Kazumi and Katsuji-kun are so close, aren't they?
Maeda: Yeah. // So what?
Chiaki: Fine!
Maeda: What's your problem!?
4 Chiaki: .... // But it's almost lights out!
Kazumi: It's fine, Chiaki! Don't sweat it! // You should come too! Maeda-kun's going to be there!
Chiaki: Uhhhh.... // m....m....m.... // No.
Kazumi: Awwww.... // Fine, I'll go by myself.
5 [Sign: Class 6 Group C Otomo Hiroyuki Komiyama Hironari Sawamura Yoneji Nakajima Junichi Maeda Taison Yamashita Katsuji]
Person: *Hic*
Person: Alright! Chug, chug!
Maeda: Come on, just take a little... *hic*
Yoneji: Calm down, Katsuji!
Person: *Hic*
Katsuji: M...my bad, thanks for...
Nakajima: What were you thinking? If they find us with alcohol...
Maeda: Shut it! // Nakajima, after final roll call, come to Koheiji's room with us.
Nakajima: What are you talking about, I can't...
Person: *hic*
Yoneji: Can't you at least open up the room for your friends?
Masa-san: Ok, is Group B present!?
Katsuji: Uh... / crap, he's almost here!
6 Person: Hide it! Hide it in the futons!
Person: That's gonna spill! // Put it in here! Quickly!
Katsuji: You'll give it away, Maeda-san! Your face is all red!
Maeda: Ok, I'll hide with them!
Masa-san: Is Group C present!? // You're already asleep? // What a relief...
Person: Heheh... // We're all here...
Maeda: .... // *hic*
Nakajima: Sensei, they... // GYAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!
7 Masa-san: Wha...what's wrong!?
Yoneji: No...nothing, he's just a little weird...
Maeda: *sob*
Masa-san: Ok, I'm turning off the lights now. // Just be quiet and sleep.
Person: *yawn*
SFX: *tap*
Person: ....
Katsuji: Don't freaking snitch on us!
Yoneji: You want to die or something!?
Nakajima: Gaaaah...forgive me...
Yoneji: Come on, we're gonna be going to Koheiji's room, Katsuji.
Katsuji: Oh...yeah... // Maeda-san, you can come out now.
Maeda: *sob* I...It's ok...you guys go on ahead...
8 Person: Wh...what's he crying about!?
Yoneji: It's cool, he's just like that when he drinks. // Don't make too much noise or he'll freak the fuck out. // We're going on ahead, Maeda-san!
Nakajima: My ass...my ass....
Katsuji: .... // Hold on, guys...I have to... // Bathroom!
Maeda: *sob* // *hic*
Katsuji: Ok, now! Quickly!
SFX: *click*
Kazumi: Heheh, are you doing something bad?
Katsuji: Come on!
Kazumi: 'Kay!
9 Kazumi: ! // Wait... // Where is everybody?
Katsuji: Th...they... // I said you were coming, so Maeda-san and the others wanted to leave us alone...
Kazumi: ... // I'm leaving.
Katsuji: Hey...hey, wait up!
Kazumi: You liar! // You said everyone would be there!
Katsuji: They didn't tell me they were going to leave us alone!
10 Kazumi: Liar! Liar!
Katsuji: Come on, stay with me, Kazumi! // I really wanted us to be alone just for one night... // Ok?
Nakajima: Giving it all away... ♫ // Would just be such a waaaaste... ♫ // Would just be such a waste... ♫ // Would just be such a waste...would just be such a waaaaaste... ♫ // So I won't! ♫
Person: Alright! This dude's freaking crazy!
11 Hironari: Here, have some more!
Nakajima: Thaaaanks! // Ok, the next one is "Love Letter"!
Nakajima: If it's truuuue... ♫ // Nooowwww... ♫
Person: Gyahahaha!
Koheiji: Oh, yeah, where's Maeda?
Yoneji: Wait, he's not here yet? // He like went off somewhere...
Koheiji: .... // Maeda's not... // Going to see Chiaki or anything, right?
Yoneji: Wait...what?
14 Koheiji: How dare he! I'm coming for you, Chiaki-chan!
Yoneji: Crap, Koheiji!
Hironari/Hiroyuki: Hei-chan!
People: ....
Nakajima: Cheer up, Sleeeeepy Jeaaan ♫ // Oh, what can it meaaaaan ♫
Chiaki: Uh, Maeda-kun? // He isn't here. // What's wrong?
Yoneji: That's weird...everyone except Katsuji was supposed to leave...
Chiaki: Uh... // Wait, Kazumi and Katsuji-chan are alone right now!?
Koheiji: Wh...what?
Yoneji: Oops...
15 Koheiji: What the hell does that mean!? // Didn't Katsuji say he wasn't coming because he had a headache!? // You said everyone was coming to drink so we gave you the room! // I can't believe it, THAT was your goal?
Yoneji: Uh...no...
Koheiji: Trying to fucking...trick me... // Going off and doing dirty things by himself...
Kazumi: Mm... // ah... // !
16 Kazumi: No! You can't do THAT yet!
Katsuji: What is it, Kazumi?
Kazumi: It's just...ew!
Katsuji: Idiot, they'll hear you!
Ioka: What's that!? Is someone still awake?
Katsuji: Crap! // Ioka's on patrol! // Quick, hide!
Kazumi: Ugh... // !!
17 Ioka: YOU BETTER GO TO SLEEP NOW!
SFX: *flick*
Ioka: Huh!? What's this? Why are you the only one here? // Where are the others!?
Katsuji: Uh...it's...
Kazumi: (Maeda-kun... // What are you doing here... // Hey... // wait... )
Maeda: ZZZZ...
Kazumi: (Kyaaa! Kyaa! // No way! Why...!)
Ioka: And what's all that racket!?
Nakajima: Cheer up, Sleeeeepy Jeaaan... ♫ Oh, what can it meaaaaan ♫
Ioka: Mrgh... // It's in the other room!
18 Katsuji: Whew.... // Kazumi, it's ok...
Maeda: ZZZ...
Katsuji: !!!
Kazumi: Uh...
Katsuji: Maeda-san! Kazumi! What are you doing!
Kazumi: I don't knoowww!
Yoneji: Wait, Koheiji! If we go now...!
Koheiji: Shut it!
Everyone: Wait, what the hell!?
Katsuji: Whoa!
19 Koheiji: What's going on here!?
Yoneji: We...we left Maeda-san in there!?
Kazumi: Heeey, stop!
Katsuji: I don't know!
Chiaki: ....!
Maeda: Mnyeah...
Kazumi: Uh...
Maeda: Chiaki...
Everyone: Uh...
20 Ioka: Nakajimaaaa! Have you been drinking!?
Nakajima: Oww... // Gwah!
Tour guide: Good morning, everyone! // Did you all sleep well last night? // How was your time in Kyoto? // From here, we will be going to Nara!
Chiaki: Maeda-kun!
Maeda: Huh?
21 Chiaki: Um...Katsuji-kun wanted my seat, so...
Maeda: Meh, do whatever you want.
Chiaki: Ok, I will!
Maeda: Uh...
Chiaki: Did you have a dream... // last night?
Maeda: A dream? // ....
Chiaki: Heheheh....
Nakajima: I don't know...I don't remember...
Ioka: Who else was with you? Who else!?
Nakajima: Ahh....I can't...remember ANYTHING...
END
Translator's Notes
pg. 10 - Nakajima's singing girl group Onyanko Club's famous 1985 song "Don't Make Me Take Off My Sailor Suit" Yes, you read that right.
pg. 11 - "Love Letter" was a 1989 single from the Blue Hearts. Nope, the author is not a Blue Hearts fan or anything...
pg. 14 - Here he's singing "Daydream Believer" by the Monkees. Well, he's actually singing a cover version by Japanese rock band the Timers - who had the same frontman as RC Succession - with different lyrics, so I substituted the English lyrics.https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/31099Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 742011-08-26T23:16:51+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 74: All Your Kisses Still Taste Sweet
1 Ioka: Ahem, more importantly, about your free time... // Until 8:30 you will be allowed to go anywhere you want, but don't forget to be wearing your school uniform at all times. // Be mindful at all times that you are a student of Teiken High School, and...
Koheiji: Sensei! // What happens if we come back at 8:31?
Ioka: Now each class will be allotted a time to use the baths...
Maeda: Kwahh...
Koheiji: .....
2 Maeda: Hm...oh, yeah, where's Yoneji?
Katsuji: Heheh... // He's been all giddy since this afternoon. // We're in Kyoto, man. Kyoto! // You know who else is in Kyoto?
Maeda: Who... // Oh.
Yoneji: Che! // *scrape*
3 Yoneji: ! // Sayuri!
4 Sayuri: I missed you, Yoneji-kun. // I really, really, missed you! // *cry* *cry* // You told me you got hit on the head and went to the hospital. Are you alright?
Yoneji: I felt a little weird this morning, but... // don't worry about it, I'm trying not to fight all the time now.
Sayuri: It's okay... // You look okay. // I was really worried about you.
Yoneji: I'm not THAT weak...
5 Sayuri: You shouldn't fight.
Yoneji: If you say so.
Sayuri: Sorry, Yoneji-kun...I...I really have to go...
Yoneji: Huh!? // But...we haven't even been here 10 minutes.
Sayuri: I know, but I really have to go, I'm sorry.
Yoneji: Sayuri!
Sayuri: I'm sorry! I really am! // I really wanted more time with you...
Yoneji: ...... // Is it...that important?
Sayuri: ...Yes.
6 Yoneji: ...... // Stay with me. // Five more minutes.
Sayuri: Please understand!
Yoneji: Sayuri! // Can I at least kiss you?
7 Sayuri: No!
Yoneji: Sayuri!
Sayuri: No, don't...
Yoneji: What the h-how...why... // Do you not like me anymore!?
Sayuri: That's not it... // It's just that now...
Yoneji: When you go back to the hotel...call me, I'll be at home.
Yoneji: Sayuri.
Sayuri: Sorry!
8 Hiroyuki: They've got a Hiroyuki one!
Hironari: And a Hironari!
Mika: Are you idiots seriously buying those things? Are you sure you're not girls?
Koheiji: WHYYYYYYY!? WHY DON'T THEY HAVE KOHEIJI!?
Yoneji: Shut up!
Koheiji: GWAH!
Yoneji: Your bullshit's hurting my ears. // Quit shouting! // Fucking...
Hiroyuki/Hironari: Hei-chan!
Yoneji: Huh...
9 Yoneji: (Sayuri... // What are you doing here if you have something to...) // Huh? // Who the hell's that guy?
Yoneji: (Now I get why she didn't want to kiss me. // What the hell am I to her then? // Is she just fucking with me...)
10 Guy: Oh, ya wanna go, ya l'il bastard!?
Other guy: Hey, Nemoto! We ain't got time for that shit! // Ya gotta be quick!
Nemoto: Fuck...
Yoneji: Hey, hold it!
Nemoto: Aah!?
Yoneji: I'm going to fight you.
Nemoto: The hell's ya problem?
Nemoto: Hha...hha...
Yoneji: Hha...hha...
11 Other guy #1: What happens when ya use ya strength on a guy like that first...
Other guy #2: Before Takefumi even gets here... // If ya beat him, ain't Sayuri gonna be ya girlfriend!?
Yoneji: Sa...Sayuri?
Nemoto: Shaddup! // She ain't ya girl!
Yoneji: Which Sayuri!?
Nemoto: Ain't none of ya fuckin' business!
Yoneji: Gah!
Takefumi: Nemoto!
Nemoto: !
12 Takefumi: Ya couldn't wait five minutes before ya pick a fight with the guy? // Ya pathetic bastards.
Guy: Hey, it's Takefumi!
Other guy: How bout we take care of this l'il shit fer you?
Yoneji: He's...He's the guy...
Sayuri: Don't fight, Takefumi-kun!
Takefumi: I told ya not ta follow me!
Yoneji: Sa...Sayuri!
Sayuri: Y...Yoneji-kun!
Nemoto: Ya know her, bastard!?
Yoneji: Huh!?
Takefumi: So yer Yoneji, aah?
Yoneji: Yeah, who the hell are you!?
13 Takefumi: I'm Sayuri's new boyfriend!
Sayuri: Takefumi-kun!
Yoneji: !
Nemoto: Sayuri's new boyfriend!? // Get fuckin' real, ya shit!
Takefumi: Heh, Nemoto, Yoneji, I can take ya both on! // Watch me, Sayuri! I'll show ya who's the strongest!
Yoneji: What...what the...
Takefumi: UOOOOOOO!
Sayuri: NOOOOOOO! // STOOOOP!
14 Yoneji: Gah! // You...you son of a... // Don't piss me off!
15 Sayuri: *sob* Somehow you won... // Even with your head...
Yoneji: He...heheh... // it's cause I'm strong... // I couldn't help...
16 Takefumi: You ain't worried about me...huh, Sayuri?
Sayuri: ....
Takefumi: Ya wanted me an' Nemoto ta stop fightin' that much... // And ya still liked this guy...
Sayuri: From the beginning, I always... // liked Yoneji-kun.
Takefumi: Then...why'd ya come an' stop us? // I thought ya...
Sayuri: I don't want you two fighting over me! // Both you and Nemoto-kun are my friends!
17 Takefumi: Ya never know when ya can see this guy... // Or if he got another girl somewhere...
Sayuri: I don't have to see him...I trust Yoneji-kun. // Yoneji-kun... // Are you alright?
Yoneji: Hehe...
Sayuri: Yoneji-kun!
Takefumi: Sayuri! // ....
18 Takefumi: What da hell's so great about him!?
Yoneji: I've got a curfew...
Sayuri: Are you leaving?
Yoneji: I have to...
Sayuri: I... // I know it might be selfish, but...
Yoneji: Huh?
19 Sayuri: I don't want you to leave...
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/30946Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 732011-08-16T03:35:17+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 73: The Terrace At Kiyomizu Is High
1 Ioka: Ok, is everyone here!? // Class representatives, take attendance for each
class, confirm that nobody is missing and report.
SFX: *blah* *blah*
Person: Class 3, all here!
Ioka: Ok!
SFX: *blah* *blah*
Person: Class 5, all heeere!
Ioka: Right!
Kazumi: Hey, Chiaki, they really aren't here! // They didn't get on the train!
2 Chiaki: ....
Mika: Ugh... // Hhaa... // haa... // I'm so tired...
Chiaki: Mika-chan! // Why are you carrying all that luggage?
Kazumi: Hey, that's Katsuji-kun's bag!
Mika: Hh...hh... // They said they'd catch up later... // so they told me to just
make up some excuse for them or something...
Kazumi: Huh?
Mika: What happened to Maeda-kun and the others, Nanase-kun?
Chiaki: Uh...
3 Nakajima: I don't see them here. Are you sure they didn't give us the slip? // If
Ioka-sensei caught them ditching, they would all be suspended.
Kazumi: They...they didn't...
Chiaki: Uh...they just, uh...went to... // the bathroom. // See, their suitcases
are right here. // See?
Nakajima: Hm, fine then.
Masa-san: You're kidding, Maeda...
Mika: That's what happened. // It's all my fault. Katsuji-kun and Yoneji-kun...
// *sniff* So...
Masa-san: I understand. // We'll figure something out.
4 Ioka: Hey! Class 6! Nakajima! Are you still taking attendance!?
Nakajima: Y...yes...
Masa-san: Oh, we're all right! Everyone from class 6 is here! // Everyone!
Nakajima: But... // Maeda-kun and the others...
Masa-san: Don't worry about it!
Nakajima: ... // Oh... // I see how it is. // But if something happens I don't
want to be the one who takes responsibility. // From now on, I need to be a bit
more strict...
Kazumi: Bleh! // I hate that Nakajima! // He can go to hell!
5 Maeda: What time is it?
Someone: It's already past one!
Maeda: Shit! They left us behind!
Yoneji: At two they'll definitely be at Kiyomizu Temple!
Shimabukuro: Hey, hold it!
Maeda: Shut up, I don't have time to play with you!
Someone: Shimabukuro-san!
Shimabukuro: Mm?
Someone: We apologize for our lateness, there's a taxi waiting for you.
Shimabukuro: You guys...
6 Maeda: Let go of me quick or you'll get me suspended!
Shimabukuro: Like I care!
Maeda: You little...
Shimabukuro: AAH! YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE! // ...
Girls: *snicker* *snicker*
Maeda: Adios! I'll play with you some other time!
Shimabukuro: Wait! // You said at two they'd be at Kiyomizu Temple... // Do you
even know the way?
Maeda: So? We can just get a taxi or something.
7 Shimabukuro: How naive! The sun will be down by then! There's a faster way to get
there! // Trust me, I know Kyoto like the back of my hand! // Just take the
subway all the way to Shijo Karasuma.
Person: Whoa, repeating a year has its uses I guess...
Maeda: Ok, thanks for the tip! // See ya!
Shimabukuro: Heheheh...
Person: That...was so kind of you, Shimabukuro-san, even though they caused you
such an embarrassment.
Shimabukuro: I was BSing. // It wouldn't even take 15 minutes to go to Kiyomizu
Temple in a taxi. // But... // Let's go on ahead. // Then we'll see who's
embarrassed!
8 Tour guide: Welcome, Teiken High School class 2-6! // For the next six days, I
will be acting as your tour guide. // My name's Miyamoto Megumi. Nice to meet
you!
Kazumi: Whew, looks like they haven't found out yet...
Chiaki: Relax, Kondou-sensei's on our side.
Tour guide: In Kyoto, shopkeepers don't greet customers with "Welcome", they say
"Do come in!" // Did you all know that?
(T/N: In the original, the phrases are "Irasshaimase" and "Oideyasu", set phrases
usually used when greeting a customer in a shop)
Tour guide: Let's all try saying it now! // Why don't you go first?
Masa-san: D...do...c... // come...i..in...
Students: Gyahahaha, what was that!?
Tour guide: It looks like he's just got a little motion sickness!
9 Masa-san: Uh...Na...Nakajima...I don't...feel so good... // Ugh... // You're...in
charge now...
Nakajima: Right.
Chiaki/Kazumi: ....
Maeda: Alright, we made it!
Katsuji: Kinkakuji...
Maeda: WHY ARE WE AT KINKAKUJI!? / WE SAID KIYOMIZU!
Katsuji: HE SCREWED US OVER!
10 Katsuji: Now what? I knew we should have taken a taxi!
Maeda: It might already be too late to make it in time! // Katsuji, you have the
trip guidebook, where do we go next!?
Katsuji: CRAP! // I dropped it... // and I attached it to my health insurance
card and everything...
Maeda: WHAT THE....
Shimabukuro: Hahaha, soon they'll figure out that they should have taken a taxi.
// These hills are pretty intense.
Person: Yeah...wait, why would they take a taxi? It couldn't get up there!
Shimabukuro: I wasn't talking about that, idiot! This is the only way you can
properly take in Kyoto's charm! // But we have to hurry! // Hm?
11 Shimabukuro: Look at that old woman!
Person: S...so what?
Shimabukuro: .... // Having trouble with these hills, ma'am?
Old lady: Aw... // Naw, I really don't wanna be causin' you boys any end of
trouble... // I used ta walk all these hills from beginnin' ta end...
Shimabukuro: We're just young, that's all... // Hey, what are you looking at?
Person: I found this Teiken school trip guidebook back at the station. // Maeda
must have dropped it. // They're going almost exactly the same way we are. //
Heheh...
12 Shimabukuro: Ah, here we are.
Old lady: I really gotta thank ya boys.
Person: Haaa...haaa...
Old lady: Excuse me, but what'd be yer names?
Person: We're...mmph...
Shimabukuro: Haha, I don't think we need to give our names for something that
simple. // Good luck, ma'am!
Old lady: Teiken High School, ah?
13 Shimabukuro: From what that book told us, Teiken should be here around now. // So
let's start up the plan. // We're going to embarass Maeda for the rest of his
life when he meets them here.
Person: So...how?
Shimabukuro: First we do Rocks Paper Scissors. // Rocks! Paper! Scissors! //
Shoot! // Ok, you're Maeda.
Person: I'm Maeda?
Shimabukuro: What you'll do is get naked and run around the temple ground, and
I'll be chasing you, yelling "Stop, Teiken's Maeda!" into a megaphone. Then right
before the security guards get us, we escape. // After they see that, nobody at
Teiken will be able to stand Maeda anymore.
Person: I get it...
Person: Wait...that's...
14 Person: Isn't that just going to embarass me for the rest of my life instead?
Shimabukuro: You can't just not do it. // Oh, and you should act like you're
going to jump off Kiyomizu's terrace too.
Person: Hell no! Do I have to jump!?
Shimabukuro: Quit bitching and do it! // All right. // Run as crazy as you can.
Person: *sniff* // Ok, here goes!
15 Girls: OH GOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
Shimabukuro: Wha... // They...they're...already here...!? // Those shits got the
time wrong!?
Girls: Who is that guy!? // Flasher!
Teacher: Hey, you, stop right there!
Girls: He's NAKED!
16 Ioka: What's all the racket up there?
Nakajima: Ioka-sensei, I have something to tell you. // Please don't repeat it to
anyone.
Ioka: What is it?
Nakajima: I haven't seen Maeda at all since we came here.
Ioka: What!?
Chiaki: He's wrong! // They're here!
Ioka: Nanase!
Chiaki: They just...went to buy souvenirs!
Nakajima: Haha... // Now I understand what went on at roll call. // You shouldn't
try to cover for them, you know.
Chiaki: .....
17 Maeda: How could we not find the right temple? This city's crawling with them!
Katsuji: This is gonna happen tomorrow, too...
Nakajima: Heheh, I suspected they weren't here at roll call, Nanase-kun.
Chiaki: ....
Kazumi: They're here, stupid! You just can't count or something!
Ioka: That does it, those three are suspended!
Kazumi: Aah!
Chiaki: Ah!
18 Chiaki: Maeda-kun! // Katsuji-kun! Yoneji-kun!
Maeda: We couldn't remember jack shit so we just went to the hotel. Lucky for me,
that was the one thing I remembered.
Nakajima: So you thought you'd just fuck off, huh, Maeda-kun?
Kazumi: Don't say that! Tell him you were at Kiyomizu Temple! // Tell him!
Maeda: huh...?
Chiaki: ....
Maeda: Y...yeah, we were...
Kazumi: See?
Nakajima: You're lying! Do you have proof?
Maeda: I said we were there, you little...!
Nakajima: D...don't hit me!
19 Hotel guy: Excuse me, sir, is there a Teiken High School student named Yamashita
Katsuji present?
Ioka: Huh?
Katsuji: Uh, that's me.
Hotel guy: This was delivered to us by an old woman.
Katsuji: My guidebook! And my health insurance card!
Hotel guy: You must have dropped it while having trouble climbing the hills near
Kiyomizu.
(T/N: In the original, he mentions Ninenzaka, a famous hill district in Kyoto
where Kiyomizu Temple is located.)
Maeda: Huh...
Hotel guy: This hotel seems to have been mentioned in your guidebook. // Fortunately, it was attached to your health insurance card, which mentioned your name.
Kazumi: That's what happened, Katsuji-kun?
Katsuji: Ha...haha...I guess so...
Maeda: Well, you know...
Katsuji: We went to Kiyomizu Temple...
Yoneji: Yep! Haha...
Ioka: .....
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/30886Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 722011-08-10T01:50:09+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 72: Don't Fight On The Train!
1 SFX: *squee* *squee* // *blah* *blah*
Kazumi: Hey, Chiaki! // Where are those three? // Did they get on? // Maybe Maeda just decided that he's not going to come after all...
Chiaki: That's not true! I know he's coming. // He is.
2/3- [cover page]
4 Announcer: The 9:52 train number 114 on track 17 for Osaka - // will be leaving shortly.
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet* *tweet*
Person: Yeah, we gotta get on here...
Other person: We're gonna get back to school by afternoon!
Maeda: That's right, run while you can...
5 Person: Any free seats?
Other: Nah, looks kinda full.
Birdie: *tweet*
Maeda: ....
Announcer: The doors are now closing...
SFX: *whoosh*
Maeda: Oh... // ow... // Heheh... // (If they get away now... // I might not get to see them again.)
6 Maeda: Five of them... // I better take them one by one // but how...
SFX: *rattle*
Maeda: Hm...
Cart lady: Coming throooough!
Maeda: Oh.
Cart lady: Coming throooough! // We have bentous, tea and beer, pick your pleasure!
Maeda: Heheh...
7 Person: No way, beer!? // Sweet!
Person: Free?
Other person: Gimme 20 beers, please!
Other person: Ain't it...can we really take that much?
Cart lady: It's included in the train fare.
Person: Who gave ya that?
Other: Smart thinkin', huh?
Another: C'mon, Godai, have some!
Maeda: (Drink up, drink up! // Then I can return you that favor from earlier!)
8 Katsuji: Wha...what do we do, Yoneji...
Yoneji: Maeda-san got taken out just like that...
Katsuji: Nah, there's no way they could take out Maeda-san so easily...
Yoneji: Goddamnit... we can't help him any if we're gonna leave him behind!
Masa-san: What are you guys doing? Isn't Maeda with you?
Katsuji: Masa-san...
Masa-san: Don't walk around too much. // It looks like the car behind us has some students on a trip from Yonekura Commerce.
Katsuji/Yoneji: Wha...
Masa-san: It seems like our schedules overlapped unexpectedly. // If you go there, don't cause any trouble. // And tell that to Maeda too. // Got it?
Yoneji: Yeah.
9 Yoneji: It's not an automatic door, get it together!
Mika: *sniff*
Katsuji: Don't cry, Mika.
Mika: But...
SFX: *hic*
Person: Whoa, ah'm wasted... // up! // I'm gonna go take a piss...
Godai: ....
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet* *tweet*
Person: Huh...
10 Person: Da hell? That a bird?
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet* *tweet*
Person: Huh?
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet*
Person: Y...yer...!
11 Person: Why the hell ya takin' so long in there, Hiro-san? // I gotta piss too! // hurry the fu-... // Wha...what da...
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet* *tweet*
Person: Huh?
Maeda: Hey, you have pay for what you drink! // Train beer is expensive!
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet*
Person: ugh...
Others: You...you're... // Go..Godai!
Maeda: Too bad you dumbasses can't hold your booze. // Cause I'm gonna make you pay for it either way.
12 Person: We fucked 'im up so much...how come he still...what the...
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet* *tweet* *tweet*
Maeda: I'm just better trained than you.
Birdie: *tweet*
Maeda: Huh?
Godai: Tough guy, ah?
Person: Go...Godai!
Maeda: YOU DIDN'T FREAKING DRINK!?
Godai: Keh! So that was yer plan?
Maeda: Let go of the music box.
Godai: Ah? A music box?
Maeda: I told you to get your hands off it!
13 Godai: Hm. // What if I did this?
Maeda: Oh...
Godai: OR THIS!? AAH?
Maeda: Gh... // Gah... // Give it back, you stupid bitch!
Person: Wha..whatcha talkin' about?
Godai: Guess it really is important, ah... // Ok, why dontcha let us take care of it for ya? // !
14 Godai: You Tokyo guys are really dumbshits, ah?
Maeda: Gh...
Announcer: We will soon be arriving in Nagoya.
Maeda: !!
15 Godai: Oops, my bad, my hand slipped.
Maeda: You...bastard!
Godai: Heheh, you mad? Guess people in Tokyo get pissed off pretty easy... // My foot slipped.
Maeda: Wha... // WHAT...WHAT THE FUCK AH YA THINKIN', ASSHOLE!?
Godai: Oh, a Kansai accent? // If ya can't do it, don't try, dumbshit!
16 Person: Go...Godai!
Maeda: Ya think ya hot shit just cause ya live in Osaka, aah!? // C'mon! // Let's see whatcha really got!
17 Person: Gwah!
Other: The...hell is he!?
Another person: He's strong!
Announcer: We have now arrived in Nagoya.
Person: Na...Nagoya...
Godai: Let's get outta here!
Maeda: Hold on, dammit!
Person: C'mon...open quick!
SFX: *whoosh*
People: !!!
18 Yoneji: Where do you bitches think you're going?
Maeda: You guys! // Katsuji! Yoneji!
Yoneji: What's up, Maeda-san?
Katsuji: You kept us waiting!
Maeda: Heheh...
19 Yoneji: So what are you going to do with these guys?
Maeda: You guys just had to pay for the beer, now get lost!
Godai: Wh...
Maeda: But you have to pay for what happened to the music box too...
Godai: H...
Maeda: Ah, godfreakingdammit! // What am I gonna say to Chiaki!
Yoneji: That you already sent it or something...
Katsuji: Could have happened.
Maeda: Yeah, right.
Yoneji: Oh, Masa-san told us, it looks like Yonekura's gonna be near us...
Maeda: What...
Katsuji: Shimabukuro's definitely a grade above us though.
20 Katsuji: So he wouldn't be there...
Maeda: Yeah, let's get on. // What the...it's so damn crowded...
Yoneji: I'm sitting here.
Katsuji: Can I sit here?
Maeda: Uh...is this seat taken?
Person: Um, excuse me, let me move my luggage. // Where are you headed?
Maeda: Oh, you know, Osaka, Kyoto...
21 Maeda: AAAH, SHIMABUKURO!
Shimabukuro: MAEDA!
Yoneji: Oh, crap.
SFX: *blah* *blah*
Shimabukuro: What the hell are you doing here!?
Maeda: I'm on a school trip! // What the hell are you doing here!?
Shimabukuro: I...I'm on a school trip too. // I got held up and ended up on a later train.
Maeda: Aren't you a third year!?
Shimabukuro: Shut up! I thought it'd be...nice to go on a school trip again!
Maeda: Oh...I get it...so you're repeating a year!?
Shimabukuro: You wanna fight, dammit!?
Maeda: Gyahahahaha!
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/30779Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 712011-08-04T02:16:15+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 71: Kansai Calling
1 Ioka: Okay, I realize I've said this time and time again, but... // be aware that you are students of Teiken High School, and as a group act accordingly.
Students: *blah* *blah* // *blah* *blah*
Random guy: I get it!
Ioka: In the 6 days and 5 nights we will be traveling, I hope you will not only foster a spirit of cooperation and responsibility... // but also avoid causing incidents with students of other schools. // Be cautious in all your decisions and...
Teacher: Shouldn't you leave your sword behind?
Ioka: Uh... // Uh...I...it's how I enforce my policies...
2 Asano: Perhaps it would be better to leave it, sensei.
Ioka: Uh...
Asano: It makes the students feel pressured... // And would most likely discourage any sort of independence or assertiveness...
Ioka: You heard her! // Anyone possessing wooden swords, chains, nunchaku or other types of weapons, step up and hand them over.
Random student: Who DOES that?
Maeda: What the...? They're going too?
Katsuji: Heheh, spite of how much you were grumbling about this, you still bothered to show up, Maeda-san.
Maeda: What...What did you say? // Ah, thought if I was going all the way there or something, I might as well see some old friends...
3 Katsuji: Old friends?
Yoneji: You're not worried about your dad?
Maeda: SHUT UP! // It's none of your freaking business! Now quit provoking me!
Kazumi: Isn't that Maeda? I thought he wasn't coming...
Chiaki: Looks like he is... // ...
Kazumi: Huh? Is there something you want to share with the class?
Chiaki: Huh? No, no, not at all...
Kazumi: Really? Are you sure?
Chiaki: Don't look at me like that, Kazumi! // I don't know anything!
Maeda: Quit bothering me, Chiaki, I'm not going!
4 Chiaki: Why not?
Maeda: Cause it's pissing me off, that's why!
Chiaki: So it's not because you don't want to be yelled at by your little brother? Or because you're afraid of your dad?
Maeda: Wait, how do you know that?
Chiaki: Katsuji told Kazumi and Kazumi told me...
Maeda: Goddamnit, Katsuji! You really don't know when to keep your mouth shut!
Chiaki: Well, what if your dad really is sick? What then?
Maeda: Sick? No way! Nothing would want to take on Dad!
Chiaki: Maybe an accident? // In the newspaper it said dying...
Maeda: That newspaper's just...
Chiaki: ...
5 Maeda: Youkou just... // Uh...
Chiaki: I... // When I was in kindergarten, I almost died of pneumonia... // My mother and father stayed by my bed the whole time... // Always held my hand... // And they both tried their hardest to smile for me...
Maeda: They have to do stuff like that, they're your parents!
Chiaki: So shouldn't you do something like that for your parents too?
Maeda: It's not...
Chiaki: Sorry... // he's probably not dying but...
6 Chiaki: You should still be there for him...
Maeda: .... // What's that thing?
Chiaki: It's a music box. // When I was sick, my father bought it for me. // Listening to this made me better. // *click*
Chiaki: I'm giving it to you, so you have to take care of it. // Heheh... // Now you have to go.
Maeda: !
Chiaki: And... // I really want you to to come on this trip with me, Maeda-kun.
Maeda: Wh...what?
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet*
8 Maeda: What did you just say!?
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet*
Chiaki: Uh, nothing...
Maeda: .....
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet* *tweet*
Katsuji: Maeda-san! // Maeda-san!
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet* *tweet*
Maeda: Oh...
Katsuji: What are you staring at? We're leaving!
Maeda: Oh...ok... // *click*
Koheiji: What's THIS!? A shy little boy scared to go on a trip with everyone?
9 Koheiji: Yo, Maeda!
Maeda: K...Koheiji!
Koheiji: So it's your first school trip are you gonna... // Nah, I'll be nice... // Heheh, Maeda...in these six days I'm going to have so much more fun than you... // And the stakes will be Chiaki's heart.
Maeda: Huh?
Mook: What's with the bullshit? Let's go, Hei-chan!
SFX: *plop*
Mook: Ack!
Person: Hey, whatcha think ya doin' there!?
10 Person: I got that keychain from freakin' Harajuku and ya destroyed it! // Look where ya goin', bitch! And now ya makin' funny faces...
Mika: I...I'm sorry... // I wasn't looking...
Maeda: Wait, that's Mika. // Who are those bitches?
Katsuji: I noticed them before... // From the way they talk... // They're from Kansai and it looks like they're here on a school trip. // They're from Kyokutou or something.
Yoneji: Looks like they were off by a day and stayed late.
Maeda: Hm.
11 Maeda: Yo, let her go!
Person: Huh?
Mika: Maeda-kun!
Person: Who the hell're you, jackass?
Mika: Maeda-kun!
Maeda: She's with me, so let her go.
Person: Hey! Who the hell ya think ya talkin' to?
Maeda: You, asshole!
Person: Wh... // uh...
12 Maeda: Huuh!?
Person: ...
Mika: Wow... // He's strong...
Person: Oh...ok...
Maeda: Right.
Someone: Hey! Come on, hurry up, guys!
Announcer: The 9:15 train number 126 to Hakata on Track 15 will be leaving shortly. // Visitors...
13 Mika: Thanks, Maeda-kun!
Maeda: What happened to that thing with Sanpeita?
Yoneji: Come on! You can talk later!
Announcer: The doors are now closing...
Mika: Whew, glad we made it...
Maeda: Huh? // Wha...
SFX: *whoosh*
Maeda: Ah! // ....
14 Maeda: You assholes!
Yoneji/Katsuji/Mika: .... // .... // ....
Person: Heheh, they left without ya. // Yer on a school trip? // We can show yer ass round Kansai!
Maeda: Wha...whatdaya mean waste 'im!? // With that...with that s...stupid fuckin' Kansai accent!?
Person: Talk right!
Maeda: Gah!
16 Maeda: !! // Cr...!
Person: C'mon, why don't we take ya somewhere quiet?
Maeda: Kh...
Staff: What are you doing there?
17 Yoneji: Stop the train! Now!
Staff: I can't do that...
Yoneji: Then turn it around!
Staff: I can't do that either!
Mika: Maeda-kun...
Person: The hell, he was just a fuckin' pussy!
Other person: Well, ya get five guys on him, that's what's gonna happen... // He hasn't even moved his hands, like he's protectin' his stomach... // What's he so scared of gettin' his stomach fucked up for?
Person: All those Tokyo dipshits are like that...
18 Person: C'mon... // If we don't get home, we're gonna be freakin'...
Maeda: Yo...you're okay... // Heheh, that's the important thing. // Okay...
Birdie: *tweet* *tweet*
END
I gotta say, the worst part about translating that chapter? The accents. Oh, god, the accents.https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/30738Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 702011-08-01T15:17:28+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 70: We Finally Begin To Hear About How Taison Got Here
1 [cover]
2 Maeda: Holy...! // That's AWESOME, Katsuji!! // You rock at engraving...
Katsuji: Uh...
Maeda: I was planning to just trade it in, but you did all this for me...
Katsuji: Didn't you ask me to!?
Maeda: You're going to have the best bike shop in the world, I know it...
Katsuji: We don't engrave them, we sell them!
Maeda: Thank you, Chavez, it's been a good run! // From today onwards, they will speak of the legendary NEO CHAVEZ! // Protect it for me...
Katsuji: Try to be careful this time, Maeda-san.
3 Yoneji: So you're going to take over the shop after you get out of school?
Katsuji: Yeah, pretty much.
Yoneji: Come on, you're gonna be set for life!
Katsuji: What the fuck are you talking about? You're lucky you don't have to do this! // I don't want to take over the shop, I've got so much other shit I want to do. // But my parents let me do what the hell I want so far, so now I have to do something for them too.
Maeda: ....
Yoneji: I didn't know you were deep enough to think about stuff like that!
Katsuji: Well, dad told me our shop's been passed down through the family since 1601... (T/N: He originally said Keichou 6, which is an old Japanese calendar, but I thought it would be better to just convert since he mentioned it casually.)
Yoneji: Did they even have motorcycles in 1601?
Katsuji: You're just... // ....
4 Katsuji: DAD, YOU LIED TO ME!
Yoneji: The hell's with you?
Katsuji: GWA! // Ow, what the hell was that for!?
Maeda: Shut up! // You wrote it wrong, dumbass! // What's that look like to you?
(T/N: When he wrote Maeda's name, he accidentally wrote the character the character 犬 which means dog, instead of 大 (the Tai in Taison) which means big)
Katsuji: Ah!
Maeda: Don't "Ah!" me, fix it, dammit!
Katsuji: Gyaa...forgive me!
5 Voice: Wow...that's it. // It really is.
Kazumi: His brother's name is there too. // I haven't really met a lot of other people named Taison... // Did Maeda read the newspaper yet?
Chiaki: .....
Katsuji: If you wanna bitch about it, pay me first! // Oh, you wanna fight? Bring
it, you little shit!
Kazumi: Oh, there they are. // Hey! Maeda-kun! Maeda-kun! Did you see this morning's newspaper?
Maeda: Why would I?
Kazumi: Look! Look! Over there! There! Do you see it? Do you? (T/N: Her dialog is like this in the original too, yes.)
Maeda: Huh?
6 [Text in newspaper: Fujio, Taison. Come home now. Father sick and dying.]
7 Yoneji: Wait a minute, where ARE your parents anyway?
Katsuji: Yeah! I keep thinking about asking, but I always forget cause your brother scares the crap out of me...
Maeda: Uh...uh...
Yoneji: You moved from Kansai, so your parents are still there, right?
Katsuji: Why are you and your brother the only ones here?
Maeda: That's because...
Chiaki: .... // ...
Maeda: Come here!
Katsuji: OWWWW...what the...why can't you just tell us here?!
8 Katsuji/Yoneji: WHAAAAAAAAAAT!? // Your family's...
Maeda: Shut up! People will hear you, idiots!
Yoneji: Ugh...
Katsuji: .... // I didn't know...your family's involved in that...
Maeda: Don't tell anyone!
Yoneji: I guess somebody's got to inherit it?
Maeda: It's complicated. // Aniki's always been like that... He used to drink, fuck, and gamble even back then. He said he wanted to go to Tokyo and work in a host club, so he got out as fast as he could. // After that, I was stuck inheriting. // I didn't want to either, so I followed aniki here in the summer of my third year in middle school.
(T/N: It's literally big brother, slightly less formal than nii-san, and somewhat affectionate. I thought about "bro" but I couldn't really find a proper English equivalent, so I left it in.)
9 Maeda: He's probably pissed off cause we left him behind.
Katsuji: Huh?
Maeda: Youkou. // He's the baby of the family.
Yoneji/Katsuji: NO WAAAAAAAAAAAY! YOU HAVE A LITTLE BROTHER!?
Maeda: He's starting high school next year. I guess dad forced him to accept his
inheritance and Youkou flipped the hell out. // At me and aniki.
Yoneji: So that's it...
Katsuji: That's why you and your brother live alone...
Maeda: Don't tell anyone.
Katsuji: But that "sick and dying" thing...
Maeda: I think he might be planning to take revenge or on us something when we go
back home.
10 Yoneji: Ok, so what if your dad's fine?
Maeda: That's what I'm worried about! His grip is 90 kilograms, his punch is 200, and he can do a thousand pushups on his fingertips! // Like he would really get
sick!
(T/N: 90 kg is around 198 pounds and 200 kg is around 440 pounds.)
Yoneji: ... // So you're really afraid of your dad...
Maeda: Shut up!
Katsuji: Ok, we don't know anything, but it could be serious.
Yoneji: Yeah, Maeda-san, I think if it's serious...
Fujio: What the hell are you talking about?
Maeda: I told you! // Look, he still signed it himself and he knows that we
wouldn't come back if we thought he was planning something.
Fujio: Seriously, what are you talking about?
11 Fujio: It might actually be worse than what he wrote!
Maeda: If you go back just to check, aniki...
Fujio: Why are you pushing this off on me? You're worried, you go...
Maeda: Uh, wait... // Isn't that your job, since you're older?
Fujio: Let me refresh your memory, they ran me out of there! // I'm not going
back!
Maeda: You were the one who ran out!
Fujio: Don't forget I'm the one who keeps a roof over your head, you're starting to piss me off!
Maeda: Why aren't you going?
Fujio: Why aren't YOU going!? // That's it, now I'm really fucking mad!
12 Fujio: You wanna go, Taison!? // Get ready to lose!
Katsuji/Yoneji: !!
Maeda: OOH! // BRING IT OOON!
Katsuji: Let's go!
Yoneji: Heeeh....
Maeda: Katsuji! Yoneji! Where are you going? // Give us the damn signal!
Voice: READYYYY! SET!
13 Maeda/Fujio: (I'd rather die... // than go back!)
Voice: GOOOOO!
Maeda: (What the hell is he...)
14 Fujio: Hahaha, dumbass! // In the 24 years I've lived my life, NOBODY has beaten me at arm wrestling!
Maeda: Wha.... // Nghgh...
Fujio: Hn! // Wha... // My contacts!
Maeda: WHAAT!?
15 Maeda: (Katsuji! Yoneji! Now's our chance!)
Katsuji/Yoneji: !?
Maeda: (He can't see! Push! Push!)
Fujio: Oh....WHAT THE? // HUH!? // HUH!?
Maeda/Yoneji/Katsuji: URGH!
16 Maeda: Wahahaha, take a fucking look! This is how strong I really am!
Yoneji: .....
Fujio: Gh... // Something's off...I thought I was the strongest in the world...
Maeda: Heh, looks like you're going to Osaka, aniki!
Fujio: Ngh... // Wait, Taison!
Maeda: *thump*
Fujio: I forgot I was left-handed.
Katsuji: Heheheh...
Yoneji: (Oh, crap...)
Maeda: No matter how many times you try, I'll still win.
17 Katsuji: READYYYY! SET...
Maeda: (Help me out now.)
Katsuji: (Yeah.) // GOOOO!
Maeda: UOOOOOOOOOH! // Oh. // !!!
18 Fujio: DON'T FUCK WITH ME!
Maeda: .... // GWAAH!
Fujio: I'm gonna kill all of you!
Katsuji: Gwa...
Yoneji: Geeeh...we're sorry...
Fujio: Fhn...
19 Fujio: Ah, shit.... // I can go stop by or something.
Yoneji: Ow, fuck...
Katsuji: He didn't have to hit us that hard...
Yoneji: Oh well, you would have ended up in Kansai anyway...
Katsuji: Yeah...
Maeda: Wha... // Don't say I would have gone anyway, it's not like I would always...
Yoneji: No, I meant... // You're not going on the school trip!?
Maeda: School trip!?
ENDhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/30692Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 692011-07-29T13:56:11+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 69: The Wrath of Dead or Alive
1 [Text under picture: Sawamura Yoneji, 17 years old...]
2 Person: Are you okay, Hiroto!?
Other person: It practically cut to the bone...
Ohba: Heh, it's nothing. You don't have to make such a big fucking deal out of it!
Matsumura: Sorry, I'm the reason this...
Ohba: Where the hell are those three assholes, anyway? // They made me fucking owe them something... // Who the hell was that... // jackass with the beer bottle!? // Giving me that preachy-ass bullshit when you weren't even hurt... // But that wasn't just a bluff. He could have backed that shit up.
Matsumura: No...it can't be....
Ohba: Huh?
3 Matsumura: It can't have been Teiken's Maeda...
Ohba: ! // Haha...there's no way Teiken's Maeda wouldn't have gone through with it... // You're talking out your ass, Matsumura.
Matsumura: Yeah, you're right!
Ohba: Shimabukuro-san from Yonekura High told me... // that Maeda's like... // a demon. // A cruel, brutal, inhuman monster. // With the brains of a brontosaurus. // And I heard green blood flows through his body too. // There's no way that someone like that would take care of someone else.
Other person: Yeah...yeah...that's true.
4 Matsumura: Huh... // Huh...
Ohba: It's you! // You...you were with him when... // The hell are you doing here?
Katsuji: What did you say!? // I came to check up on Yoneji, you know, the guy you fucked up, because he's in this hospital! // Oh yeah, I heard you got stabbed in the arm. // Take that, bastard.
Ohba: ....!
5 Ohba: Shut up, it's proof that I'm a leader. // How did you get that scar?
Katsuji: !
Ohba: Did you fall off the jungle gym? // Heheh...
Katsuji: I'll fucking kill you.
Matsumura: Don't get so angry, we'll deal with you next time.
Katsuji: ........
SFX: *pew* // *pew*
6 Ohba: Come on, a little more...
Someone else: You suck!
Ohba: Shut up, I've only got one hand! // Huh...
Katsuji: I've been looking for you, bitch!
Ohba: The hell you following me for? // What do you want?
Katsuji: Yoneji's freaking dead, you dumbass!
Ohba: Wha...
Katsuji: Last night he went into a coma... // And he never even woke up once! //
7 Katsuji: Well?! Aren't you gonna say something!? You killed him, fucker!
Ohba: .... // ....
Other: H...Hiroto...
Ohba: ....
Other: What's with the climbing?
Staff: Sir! Please don't do that, sir!
Ohba: (He's...dead...)
8 Ohba: He's...right here. // !! // It's him... // Is this for real...!?
9 Person: Hiroto!
Katsuji: Heheh...that'll teach him...
Yoneji: Ugh...uhhhh... // Ow, my eyes! // Close the curtains, Maeda-san!
Maeda: Y...yeah, my bad.
Yoneji: What are you crying about...
Maeda: Well, uh... // Jo...Joannna's alive....
TV: Oh...Joanna....
10 Ohba: I...I just don't know what to do!
Shimabukuro: Crying's not gonna do anything about it, Hiroto. // So you ended up killing him. // Even if they don't forgive you, you have to apologize to his family. // That's just a man's way. // Got it?
Ohba: Wait a bit, Shimabukuro-san. // I...kind of have to...go to the bathroom...
Shimabukuro: Be quick!
11 SFX: *tinkle* *tinkle*
Ohba: *cry* // *sob* // *cry*
Yoneji: I only got a suitcase... ♫ // Whoops, my bad.
Ohba: No...it's ok...
Yoneji: Sitting in my room... ♫
Ohba: .... // *squeeze* // !!!
Yoneji: So you can come... ♫ // and live with me ♫
Shimabukuro: Huh... // Oh... // It's those douchebags...
13 Maeda: Wha...?
Matsumura: I told you, Hiroto killed himself! // He's way more delicate then he looks! // When you told him that guy died...
Maeda: Wha... // Ka...Katsuji, you...told him...
Katsuji: Uh...um...
14 Maeda: I'll take responsibility. // What should I do!?
Matsumura: (Heheh...)
Shimabukuro: So he really did say that...
Matsumura: Yeah! Yeah! He did!
Shimabukuro: And you told him to go there...?
Matsumura: Yeah!
Shimabukuro: Hm, he shows up, Hiroto appears... // Then he'll probably flip a shit. Don't worry, that's the part where I sneakily ambush him. // Heheh, that should be enough reason for him to put up a fight.
15 Ohba: Uh...do you have something personal against that guy, Shimabukuro-san? // Do you know him?
Shimabukuro: Yeah. // That's Teiken's Maeda.
Everyone else: T...Teiken's... // Maeda...!?
Ohba: He's... // ...
Everyone else: We told you to quit the climbing!
Ohba: (I never should have... // started that lie)
16 Person: 7 PM at the north exit of Kichijoji Station... // Do you think it's alright? There are a lot of people around now...
Ohba: Shimabukuro-san's already here!
Matsu mura: Yeah, he should be hiding here somewhere...
Ohba: If he doesn't show up...Maeda's really gonna end up killing us all... // No matter what we do, we're still fighting the devil!
Shimabukuro: Heheh...it's about time. // Today's the day I'm gonna kick your ass, Maeda.
Person: He...He's here! // Hiroto, you gotta hide first!
Hiroto: Oh...yeah!
17 Matsumura: Well...you're all here. // You brought funeral gifts and everything...
Maeda: I'm sorry... // Please tell me...what should I do...
Matsumura: There's someone who wants to talk to you... // Hey!
Ohba: Uh...hi there...
Maeda: !!!
18 Ohba: Since I'm not really dead...
Person: Hold it, guys! Shimabukuro's not here!
Matsumura: What? I already got...
Katsuji: The hell? // You're not even dead! Are you fucking kidding me!?
(T/N: The next chapter starts a much longer arc, which I'm really looking forward to. Also if you're confused because Sakamoto's name has changed, it's because the previous scanlators were using the French version which for some reason changed his name. I checked my Japanese raws front to back and he's Shimabukuro all the way, so that's what I'll call him. One last thing for anyone who cares: the song that Yoneji sings when he's in the restroom is a real song. It's called "Rhapsody" by RC Succession, a famous Japanese rock band.) https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/30643Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 682011-07-26T00:33:41+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 68: What It Takes To Be A Great Man
1 Person: Ow! // That hurt, dammit! // Do you even look where you're going!?
Yoneji: Huh!?
Katsuji: Forget it, Yoneji, forget it! They're just middle schoolers.
Yoneji: I wasn't even going to do anything.
Katsuji: We're sorry, he didn't mean to make that face at you, just excuse him.
Person: Cheh, cowards!
Random people: Heheh, that was hardcore, Hiroto! // Those guys were like fucking shaking...
Hiroto Ohba: A leader who can't handle fucks like that is useless, you know?
Maeda: ....
2 [Title - What It Takes To Be A Great Man]
Matsumura: Yo!
Ohba: Hey, Matsumura!
Matsumura: I heard you took down Horiguchi Gakuen's boss Yaoita.
Ohba: Heheh, soon I'll control all the middle and high schools in this area.
Matsumura: Heh, don't get cocky thinking you'll control every boy and girl in every school ever.
Ohba: What was that?
Maeda: .....
Matsumura: You can talk the talk... // But if you fought a guy from Misako or Kyoei alone, then maybe I'd believe you walk the walk. // Shit, even Teiken! // But it doesn't look like they've been doing much lately.
Ohba: What was that?
3 Ohba: You wanna fight, dammit!?
Matsumura: Whoa, whoa, I don't start anything, man. // But since you're the boss of Yonekura Middle School... // you can't just dick around with third-rate opponents forever.
Ohba: Shut up, I always put my life on the line!
Maeda: Hwahh...
Matsumura: Heh...heheh... // Ok, ok. // Try starting a fight with that guy.
Ohba: Huh?
Matsumura: The guy over there with the shiny hair.
Ohba: Wait, isn't that that guy from before?
4 Matsumura: You said you put your life on the line.
Ohba: Like I'd need to. // Yo!
Yoneji: Huh?
Ohba: You wanna start something with me?
Katsuji: You're still here? // We kinda said sorry!
Yoneji: Go home and do your homework!
Ohba: Hold on, asshole!
Maeda: ......
5 Ohba: *spit*
Yoneji: I'm older than you, so don't make me waste my time on this shit! // And why don't you try not being a little bitch from now on?
Ohba: Guh...
Matsumura: Ah...
6 Maeda: Yoneji, you idiot, you've got blood dripping out your nose, so don't talk like you're the shit!
Yoneji: Shut up! // Damn, for a middle schooler he hits hard...
Katsuji: And you've got snot dripping out the other side!
Maeda: ! // Yoneji!
7 Maeda/Katsuji: Aah, Yoneji!
Matsumura: Aah // He got him!
Maeda: YOU LITTLE SHIT!
Ohba: Heh...what are you so pissed off for? // He's the one...who started the fight...
8 Ohba: Bh...
Matsumura: Damn... // he's insane...
9 Person: Crap...he's freaking dangerous! // Let's get outta here!
Ohba: You...you bastards...
Maeda: Keh... // Those guys are cold bastards, huh? One of them gets beaten down and the rest don't even fucking try to help him.
Yoneji: Hh...that hurt...
Katsuji: YONEJI!
Ohba: Nkhkh...
Maeda: Are you their leader!?
Ohba: Ugh...
10 Maeda: You're worthless. // You picked the wrong time to show how tough you are. // Now try and fucking use those rotted brains of yours to figure out why they ran.
Ohba: Kh... // Yo! // One day... // I'm gonna kill your fucking ass...
Maeda: And then you'll die too. // Because these guys will kill you. // It's called revenge.
11 Matsumura: Gwah! // Please...please let me go...
Yakuza: You stepped on my foot and you want me to let you go!?
People: Somebody...somebody call the police! // *murmur* *murmur*
Ohba: Huh... // Whoa, Matsumura... // Keh, he can take it... // Huh?
12 Maeda: So you think this is revenge for him not helping you back there!?
Ohba: Y...you!
Maeda: Be quick or the cops will get them!
Ohba: ....
Maeda: You're Hiroto or something, right? // Yoneji had to go to the freaking hospital!
Ohba: !
Maeda: Well, it wasn't too bad, but his head... // They had to have a look at it. // You could have cracked his skull! // How many stitches do you think he got? // But I guess your face got pretty screwed up too, huh? Don't think I was just being an asshole. // I had to fight for a friend...
13 Maeda: What kind of leader doesn't even help one of his own men? // Show me how tough you really are, kid!
Ohba: .... // Matsumura... // You might have told me, but... // I'm not going cause some fuck like you told me to.
Maeda: I got it, I got it.
14 Matsumura: Ohba!
Yakuza: GAH!
Matsumura: Ohba!
Ohba: Hah...hah...
Yakuza: You...you...
15 Yakuza: little fucking...!
Ohba: Wah!
Yakuza: Kh... // It's YOUR fucking fault, bastard!
Matsmura: Aah!
Ohba: MATSUMURA!
16
Ohba: GWAAAARGH! // ....
Matsumura: OHBA!
Maeda: HEY!
Yakuza: !!
17 Maeda: Dontcha ya think ya tryin a bit too hard, grampa? (T/N: He's switched to his Kansai accent)
Yakuza: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, DAMMIT!? WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU CAN DO WITH THAT!?
Maeda: I'll kill ya.
Yakuza: ....
18 Yakuza: Uh... // guh...
Maeda: ....
Yakuza: Kh... // Move it!
19 Ohba: Acting like it's all a fucking game to you!
Maeda: Heheh, you're a badass leader now, Hiroto. // Ow!
Ohba: I'll get you back for this one day! // So tell me, what's your name!?
Maeda: I'll tell you one of these days.
END
Fight scenes and more fight scenes, what else could you want? Also, Maeda makes people more awesome. This is proof.https://mangahelpers.com/t/johnny-b-goode/releases/30583Translation: Rokudenashi Blues 672011-07-22T00:24:20+00:00Johnny B Goodeadmin@mangahelpers.comChapter 67: Lunch Time Boogie - A Very Playful Afternoon
1 - [Cover page]
2 Katsuji: Ok, round 3!
Yoneji: A...are you still eating!? // *full*
Katsuji: Heh...heheh...you can quit if you want to. // I won, so that's 5000 yen!
Yoneji: Shit... // I hate you, dumbass! Always challenging me to these crazy-ass games!
Katsuji: Oh, you wanna go!? // Another ramen!
Person: Please wait.
Yoneji: Ugh...
SFX: *tap*
Person: Yes, that's 5000 yen.
Katsuji: Wahaha, taste it, bitch!
3 Yoneji: *full*
Katsuji: Ohh...I feel like I'm gonna explode, I think I ate too much.
Yoneji: Where's Maeda-san, anyway?
Katsuji: ACK! // Oh, yeah...I forgot Maeda-san...
Yoneji: Huh!?
Katsuji: The okonomiyaki at the station's south exit is half-off today, so Maeda promised he'd take me there when third period ended... // Aw...I really blew him off back there.
Yoneji: But he hasn't come to school yet today.
Katsuji: He said he wouldn't till third period... // Wh..what do I do? I think I'm gonna throw up my breakfast too...
Yoneji: He does love okonomiyaki...
4 Voice: Whew...
Voice 2: He still hasn't shown up...
Kazumi: Hey, Katsuji-kun, where were you last period?
Katsuji: Uh...wait...hold on...
Kazumi: Eheheh...
Katsuji: What is it? Don't act all weird...
Kazumi: Hehe... // What day is it today?
Katsuji: What!?
5 Katsuji: What day is it?
Yoneji: Today the okonomiyaki place...
Kazumi: Come on! // Today it's almost-not-quite the anniversary of when Katsuji-kun and I started going out. // Hmph.
Katsuji: Oh...oh, yeah...
Kazumi: Even though you were gonna be just like whatever... // Here!
Katsuji: What is it?
Kazumi: It's Kazumi-chan's specially made and planned out 1 year and a week anniversary bentou!
Katsuji: Blegh...
Kazumi: What's wrong?
Katsuji: Nah..uh...it's...nothing...haha...
Kazumi: Well, um, if you're embarassed just eat it by yourself...
Katsuji: Oh...kay...
6 Maeda: Goddamnit, fucking Katsuji... // Where the hell did he go!? // I'm starving... // Uhhh....it's like I'm gonna die... // Okonomiyaki... // !! // Oh...yeah...the other day... // YES! // I knew I'd definitely left something in there... // Lucky me! // Ahh... // This anpan's so sweet... // *nom* *nom*
7 Maeda: Mm...
Katsuji: Yo!
Maeda: G-G-GOD-F-F-D-DAMMIT, KATSUJI! WH-WH-WHERE TH-WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU!? // You...you forgot it, DIDN'T YA!?
Katsuji: No...No, I didn't!
Maeda: WHATDAYA MEAN "NO"!?
Katsuji: I...I was just... // ma... // making this for you // so you could eat... // since you've always looked out for me...
Maeda: What...what the...
8 Maeda: For me?
Katsuji: Y...yeah! // YES! I'm a genius! // I got through this without even wasting the bentou!
Maeda: Yes...I understand, Katsuji... // I'll treasure every mouthful...
Katsuji: Uh...it's ok...you don't have to cry...
Maeda: You haven't eaten yet, right?
Katsuji: I...I'm already full...
Maeda: Huh?
Katsuji: NO! No... // I meant I'm so full of gratitude...I don't need to eat right now.
Maeda: Oh...ok..
Katsuji: Ok, I got some shit to do, bye!
Maeda: OK! // ....
9
Maeda: *snap*
[Text on bentou: I LOVE YOU!]
Chiaki: Wait, you wrote that on his bentou!?
Kazumi: Mm-hm! And he's eating it all up...
Chiaki: Hey!
One of them: It's Maeda-kun.
Other one: Why's he eating his bentou all alone out here?
10 Kazumi: Hey... // That's my bag... // (Oh...Katsuji-kun gave it to him... // How could he?)
Chiaki: Hey, Kazumi! // ...
11 Kazumi: You bastard! // I can't BELIEVE you how could you do this to me!?
Katsuji: (Sh...she found out...)
Kazumi: I worked so hard and I put so much love into it and you STILL gave it
away! // You suck! // *slap*
Chiaki: Kazumi!
Katsuji: Gah! Quit it! That's not what happened! // Maeda-san was half out of his mind with hunger... // And he was all like "Gimme some food!" and he took it from me!
Kazumi: You're lying!
Katsuji: No, I'm not!
Kazumi: And you just let him do that to you!?
Katsuji: No..it's not...
12 Kazumi: SAY SOMETHING TO HIM! // YOU IDIOT!
Katsuji: Ok! // (What am I supposed to say... // Oh, god...she's freaking watching me! // I'm in deep shit... // whatever I do, I can't tell him the truth... // But it'd be weird to just start yelling at Maeda-san randomly... // If I have to...)
13 Maeda: Katsuji, you fff...if this is a joke, it's not funny! // What did he mean full of gratitude anyway? // He just said some bullshit about not being able to eat... // That freaking weirdo... // Nah, it didn't even taste that good... // And I still ate the whole damn thing. // Those eggs were definitely... // OW!
14 Katsuji: Forgive me...Maeda-san...
Kazumi: Wow...he really did something!
Maeda: Shit...I got a damn headache... // Who the hell was that coward who attacked me from behind!? // And another thing... // Why did I get sick from eating that!? // Ugh...someone put me out of my misery...
15 Maeda: Ugh... // *groan* // AH!
Katsuji: GAH!
Both: .....
Katsuji: (No way... no way he knows who hit him...) // *thump* *thump*
Maeda: (Maybe he might have...no way...done this on purpose...)
Katsuji: I just have to stay away...
Maeda: Katsuji, you asshole!
Katsuji: Eh... // *thump*
16 Maeda: You made me eat that fucking thing and now my stomach's all screwed up, didn't you? // Huh?
Katsuji: Didn't see that one coming...
Maeda: The eggs were too sweet! // The pilaf was all covered in mincemeat! That makes it taste strange, stupid! // And quit putting sweets in the middle of your bentou! // What the hell were you thinking when made it!?
Katsuji: ....
Maeda: That shit's not even human food!
Katsuji: .....! // Do...do you think you might have said too much!? Even a little bit? // I got no reason to take that shit from you, dammit!
17 Katsuji: You musta eaten something else that fucked up your stomach, you... // ! // Oh, yeah, before you ate the bentou... // You had that anpan, that's gotta be it!
Maeda: Huh?
Katsuji: Oh...there it is. // Best eaten by August 10th... // You ate it when it was practically ancient! // It's September now, dammit!
Maeda: What...no way...
18 Katsuji: That was your problem! // Don't talk shit about other people's bentous! // Even if it was overdone I should have eaten it myself! // Your tongue's fucking rotted away!
Maeda: I'm just gonna let you forget about this cause I got your back... // So don't give me that shit!
Katsuji: What do you mean let me forget? Don't bullshit me!
Maeda: You want a fight, you little bitch!?
Kazumi: Oh! // Stop it, you two!
Katsuji: Shut up! Let me go!
19
Kazumi: It's your fault, Maeda-kun! / Of course Katsuji-kun's going to do that if you take the bentou I worked so hard to make for him!
Maeda: That...!?
Katsuji: Oh...crap!
Kazumi: Aren't you mad that Katsuji-kun snuck up behind you and hit you?
Maeda: Uh... // ....
Katsuji: Haha...
Maeda: .... // YOU LITTLE PUSSY! // Fuck you!
Katsuji: I'm...I'm SORRY!
(T/N: Yes, bentous are that important. They're not like regular lunchboxes, otherwise I just would have called it a lunchbox. A bentou is a lot more elaborate and contains a lot more food, typically arranged in special patterns or shapes, sometimes even to look like anime or video game characters. Most people have their parents make a bentou for them, but in high school, it's fairly common for girls to make bentous for the boys they like. At least in anime. Consider this your Rokudenashi Blues-delivered cultural lesson of the day. Also, next chapter we get to more exciting stuff, so stay tuned for more crazy delinquents and shit! And yes, that was designed for maximum groanage)