Doubutsu no Kuni Special : Episode 0

Here goes a new journey...

Only for use by Anime-Destiny.
We're gonna scanlate this sometime soon, but I'll put up my translations ad I do them.

[Doubutsu no Kuni Episode 0 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 1:
Box: This is "Animal Country".
Where many beautiful animals live in the harshness of nature.
創刊記念特別読み切り！！
Upper Left: "Bessatsu Shonen Magazine"
In commemoration of its launch, this special one-shot!!
Box: This is
the story of the animals
that live in this "Animal Country".
Title" [orange]Raiku Makoto [blue]advent
[orange]For the new series [blue]Doubutsu no Kuni [orange]a 43 page prologue[blue]!!!
[Doubutsu no Kuni. But it's already written there]
Episode 0

Page 2-3:
[This is a big old interview which has nothing to do with the story. It's an interview with Raiku and Kobayashi Jin who writes School Rumble talking about these first two chapters of Doubutsu no Kuni and how it's in the new magazine Bessatsu Shonen Magazine]

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[This is more tons of text I don't need to translate about the Raiku Makoto Festival, with his 266 pages of one shots and specials and such. If you forgot, Aosora is alreay out and running in issue 10 of Monthly Shonen Magazine. Class Room is running in issue 11 of Jump Square which comes out 10/3 and Oyajyu~ Rider comes out September 30th on Young King Ours issue 11.]

Page 5:
Hyena: GAuUUU!!
Tiger: NYAAAA!!!
SFX: Gaoh
SFX: Jyah
弱肉強食の世界
Side: Animal Country... It's a world where the weak are eaten and the strong eat!!!
Hyena: GYAOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
SFX: Gabuuuu (bite)

Page 6:
SFX: Bari bari bari
Hyena: Bastard!! He's not letting go!!!
Even if you are a lynx...
Do you think a Hyena like me...
will get eaten!!?
SFX: Guooooo
Hyena: GOoOOOOOOO!!!
SFX: Dozuuun
Hyena: GOoOOOOOOH!!!
SFX: Dogooo
Side: yay! This is Raiku Makoto. This story is Kuro's origin story for "Doubutsu no Kuni" starting in "Shonen Magazine", but he's an extremely important
animal. Chasing his changing form is certainly the best.

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SFX: Gogiii
SFX: Gabuh gabuh gaburi biri biri gah (biting and tearing)
SFX: Puh
SFX: Karan

Page 8:
SFX: Ooooooooo
Kuro: That hurts!!
SFX: Zukin
Kuro: That mountain
probably has a place where I can rest...

Page 9:
Kuro: Damn...
The same smell and...
The same cries...
SFX: Zazazazazazazazaza
Kuro: Looks like I entered territory of guys that're the same as me...
This sorta place is a real pain...

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Madaraze: You're a lynx like us, right?
What's your name?
Kuro: I'm traveling and I'm called something else in every different place, but...
Madaraze: I don't need a big speech.
Just hurry and and say your name.
Kuro: It's "Kuro".
That's what I was called in the last place I was in.
Madaraze: All right, Kuro.
I'm the boss of this territory, "Madaraze".

Page 11: Kuro,
If you want to be in this territory, you'll have to show me, the boss, respect.

Kuro: Fn... I've got no desire to stick around a place like this.
I'll sleep here one or two nights then leave.
SFX: Dogen
Kuro: Bastard....
Lynxes: NYAAAaAAAAAAAAh!!!
SFX: Bikuh

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Madaraze: One night's the same thing.
You're not such an idiot that you want to fight all these lynxes, are you?
Kuro: .............
What do you mean by "respect"?
Go catch some prey and present me the best tasting meat of it.
Kuro: After I sleep.
Madaraze: Fine.
This territory has a place controlled by each cat.
Anywhere is fine. Just look for a nice cat that'll let you sleep on their area.
Yeah, if no cat lets you in,
and you drag that tired body of yours out of here...

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Madaraze: Outside this territory are nothing but beasts besides us lynxes.
There you'll be able to sleep forever.
Kuro: Damn...
SFX: Zah zah
Cat: This is my sleeping spot.
Other Cat: Go somewhere else.
Third Cat: Don't get your stink on here...
Kuro: ..............
Worthless....

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Kuro: If I sleep in a place like this then
I'll meet with some danger, but if I go outside this territory...
Seigo: Sleep at my place.
Kuro: .............
He sure is small, a kid cat?
Seigo: My place is cramped and dirty, but
It's enough for you to be able to sleep here.
Kuro: Show me around.
Seigo: Okay.

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Cat: That oddball, Seigo?
Doing such unnecessary things...
That oddball that eats nothing but grass...
生意気によそ者泊めてんじゃねぇぜ...
he's so conceited to give someone else shelter, ain't he...
タヌキ一匹仕留められねえ縄張りのお荷物が...
He can't catch so much as one tanuki, that dead weight of this territory...
SFX: Chichichi...
Seigo: Hey, wake up, wake up, please.
SFX: Kuccha kuccha
Seigo: Could you tell me stories about your travels?

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Seigo: I wanted to hear stories of your travels,
that's why I gave you shelter.
SFX: Kuccha kuccha
Kuro: N...
More importantly, what're you eating?
Seigo: Ah, I'm not eating it.
SFX: Mucha mucha
腫れて 塗る ひくんだ
I'm chewing up this sichuan pepper leaves so I can cover your swollen neck with it to bring the swelling down.
Kuro: UWAA! That's disgusting!!
SFX: Ubaa
Seigo: Saying it's something like "disgusting" is terrible.
I'm a cat that knows a lot about grasses...
SFX: Nichaaaa
Seigo: Hey, tell me a story about your travels.
It's the first time I've met a traveling cat. Please.
Kuro: ............
Then bring me some meat.

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Seigo: Gotcha. You're hungry, right?
Hang on a sec!!
SFX: Dah
SFX: Dosah
Seigo: .............
What's this?
Chinese matrimony vine leaves. It's a grass you can eat. It'll give you strength.
Kuro: I said go get some meat, didn't I?
SFX: Gururururururu
Seigo: I hate meat.
Kuro: You bastard!!
Are you making fun of me!!?
SFX: Kah

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Seigo: B-But..
It's delicious...
Kuro: ................
................
SFX: Mori... Mosha... moshamoshamoshamoshamosha moshamoshamosha
Kuro: .............
It's not as bad as I thought...
SFX: Morimorimorimori
Kuro: ...Okay.
I'll tell you just a little a story.
SFX: Pyon

Page 19:
Seigo: Hee... The animal called an "elephant" is that big?
I can't even imagine that "giraffe", with a neck taller than a tree.
............
So then......
Na~~~~~~...
Nanaanana~~
SFX: Pin pin
Seigo:
Na~~nana~~
Nana~~na
Na~~nanana~~
Nana~~na
Nana~~~nana~~~
Nananana~~~~
Nanah!
Nana~~~nanana~~~

Page 20:
Kuro: Hey... What is that you're doing?
Seigo: !?
Ah... You mean this?
Na~~nana~~
Nana~~nana~~~
It's a "melody".
Kuro: Melody?
Seigo: Yeah. That's what I call it.
I made it listening to your story just now.
The mighty elephant and the tall giraffe.
I leared about melody from those little guys.
Kuro: Birds!?
You can talk with birds!!?
SFX: Chichichichichi...

Page 21:
Seigo: You think so?
They're animals with a different cry from ours. I don't know what they're saying.
The cries of the birds makes a melody.
Tsuih tsuih
Chiichichichii chichiiii
Kuro: Is that so...? Hey, keep doing that.
Seigo: Eh? Okay...
Naaanana
Na~~na~~
Nanana~~
Nananana~~
Na~~nanana~~
Nana
Na~~nana
Nanana~~na
Na~~nanana~~na
Nanana~~na nana
Na~~nana~~~
Nanananana~~~~~
Nanana~~na
Nanana~~~na
Nana~~nana
Na~~~na
Nanananana~~na

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SFX: Zuzuzu zuzuzuzu...
SFX: Zuzuzuzuzu...
SFX: Dozuuuun
Kuro: This is thanks for this morning's "melody". Eat it.
Seigo: I hate meat...
Kuro: It's good, so eat it. It's my desire.
The one who'll eat the most delicious part of this meat isn't Madaraze.
It's you.

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Kuro: That's how great the "melody" was.
I'd like to hear a lot more.

Page 24:
Seigo: I-If I traveled away from here,
I'd be able to make more and different melodies...
Kuro... I have a wish...
Instead of eating this, could you bring me along with you on your travels?
I want to see the outside!!
I don't know if I'll get eaten, I know it would be a dangerous journey!!
But I want to see the outside world like what you saw!!!
I want to make lots more of the "melodies" that you liked!!!

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Kuro: Don't make light of it......
Seigo: !
Kuro: Don't make light of living on the outside!!!
SFX: Gah
Kuro: Look at my face!!!
Look at all the wounds on my muzzle!!!
SFX: Guih
Kuro: This is proof that I've eaten everything in order to live while on the outside!!!

Page 26:
Kuro: I've shoved my mouth in holes to eat mice and snakes,
I've shoved my mouth between sharp rocks to eat hidden crabs and fish,
Even if I was scratched my a beast's claws, I absolutely didn't let my fangs off the prey's throat!!!
SFX: Zakah zakah
That's what it means to live on the outside!!!
喰うものに文句をたれてる奴が生きていける世界じゃねえ！！！
It's not a world where someone who complains about what he eats can survive!!!

Page 27:
SFX: Gah gah gah
SFX: Gu...
SFX: Gahaa!!!
SFX: Dobah
Seigo: Gohoh!!!
Buhoh.
Gahah!!
Hah!!!

Page 28:
Kuro: Give it up......
The outside world isn't a place where someone soft like you can survive...

Page 29:
SFX: Hoooo hoooo hoooo hoooo
SFX: Zaaaaa
Madaraze: Seigo...
You talked about a "plant that makes your body go numb if you eat it", right...?
Seigo: That you thought to suddenly call me out was for something like that?
You mean "Shisanoou"?
Madaraze: That grass,
make Kuro eat it.

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Seigo: !!
Madaraze: That guy... The most delicious meat he was supposed to give me.
He got that, and gave it to you, Seigo...
I'll kill him!
That guy said that the shitty weaker Seigo was greater than me...
I've never known such an insult!
I won't allow him to run away!!!
WIth the Shinoou his body won't be able to move and I'll torture him to death!!!
SFX: Zah zah zah zah
Madaraze: Got it?
Don't even think of something stupid like helping Kuro.

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Madaraze: Unless a weak cat like you have a pack to protect him he can't survive.
Understand? If I expel you from the pack you'll die.
In order for you to survive in this world
you must follow the orders of this Madaraze-sama.
SFX: Tozah
Seigo: Kuro,
Wake up.

Page 32:
Seigo: Run.
Madaraze is going to try and make all his underlings kill you.
Kuro: What!!?
SFX: Bah
Cat: You fool!!!
Other Cat: That Seigo bastard, he betrayed us!!!
Kuro: !!?
Cat: You guys alert Madaraze!!
Call all of the lynxes in the territory!!!
SFX: Zah

Page 33:
Kuro: Seigo, could it be, you...
In order to save me, you betrayed your pack?
Seigo: Yes. Exactly.
I'll stop your pursuers so go!
Kuro: This guy...
What's he saying!?
Seigo!!
You're turning this entire pack's cats into your enemies!!
"You can't enter a fight you have no chances of winning"!!!
This is a "law" to survive in the realm of nature!!!
Now all you can do is die!!!
SFX: Gyaoh
Seigo: Don't worry...

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It's already hard to survive
in the world with this kind of body, anyway.
SFX: Don
SFX: Gobuh

Page 35:
Seigo: It's not that I don't like meat.
This body's been very weak since I was born, so much that I'm not able to eat meat....
For me who was given no body but this one
I've really hated this world where sharp fangs and claws were everything.
SFX: Giri giri giri
But when I learned about "melody"
This world seemed a little brighter.
When you said my "melody" was great,
I saw a great radiance in this world I hated so much.

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More than sharp claws or fangs,
I was able to obtain something much much more wonderful.
I won't let the one who gave me such a wonderful world die.
I won't let such dirty fangs and claws take that away.
SFX: Meri meri meri meri...

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Seigo: Live.
Along with my "melody"...
Madaraze: Seigo!! What stupid thing have you done!!?
SFZ: Zazazazah
Kuro: Damn!!!

Page 38:
Kuro: There are too many underlings assembled with Madaraze!!
I can't do anything but run anymore!!!
SFX: Gah zan don
"Don't fight when you have no chance of winning!!!"
I've lived protecting this absolute law.
And from here as well,
I will live with it!!!

Page 39:
SFX: Gah gah zan zakaa gakun gabuu
Seigo was an oddball!!!
If I keep running away like this I'll be saved!
I......
I.......

Page 40:
Kuro: UoOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
SFX: Dogaaa

Page 41:
Kuro: What the hell are you doing!!?
What the hell
are you doing!?
What the hell!!?

Page 42:
SFX: Zaaaaaa
Seigo: ...........
Have Madaraze's group stopped chasing us...?
Kuro: Yeah... They ran away...
Seigo: Hahah, Kuro, you're covered in blood, too.
That was stupid. You'd have been fine if you ran away...
Kuro: Not as stupid as you.......
Seigo: Do you.....
regret it?
Kuro: Yeah.......
..............
...No.......

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Kuro: I have no regrets.
I can't lie to myself.
Seigo: ...........
You're an oddball just like me.
Kuro: ...............
Is that so?
Seigo: I'm sure
you're even stranger...
Na~~nanana~~~
Nanana~~~na
Kuro: Nana~~~na~~~

Page 44:
Seigo: Nana~~~na...
Kuro: Nana~~~na na~~~nanana~~~
Seigo: ...Na..............
Kuro: Nanana~~~ nanana~~~nana
Nana~~~nana~~
Nanana~~~nana~~na

Page 45:
Box: This is Animal Country.
A country where many animals in a wild world fleetingly live with beauty.
Many tens of thousands, many hundreds of millions of animals are said to live on this beautiful planet.

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小さな命と引き返に変わり始めた獣の心...
Side: Going back for a small life was the beginning of the change in this beast's heart... Keeping the melody in his heart, what will be the new life the black cat chooses!?
地球と呼ばれる星にそっくりな青く輝く星
Box: A planet, like the one called Earth, that shines like a blue star.
But there's one difference between this "Animal Country" and Earth.
On this planet there is no species of animal called "man"...
Bottom: "Doubutsu no Kuni Episode 0"
~End~
And this story will become a magnificent original story from this prologue!!