Kokou no Hito 1

I feel like I've got higher places to go.
I'll be starting here at the bottom and making my way up.
If you want to come too, I'll meet you at the top.
But I'm heading up alone.

The Vomic of this chapter can be seen here:
http://vomic.shueisha.co.jp/kokou/
It's the first one. Click on square 1.

Raw for V1:
http://www.mediafire.com/?jgwyqmjy4yn

[Kokou no Hito 1 Translation by Kewl0210]
Cover:
Title: Kokou no Hito [Isolated/Aloof Man] 1
The Climber
Authors: Sakamoto Shinichi
Original Story: Nitta Jirou "Kokou no Hito"
Story: Nabeta Yoshio
School Building Ascension

Back Cover:
Silver Text: On the first day at his newly transferred to schools, the aloof youth Mori Buntarou is spurred by his classmate Miyamoto to claw his way up the school building. He may die with a single misstep, but with the sense of fulfillment from the moment of accomplishing the task he truly realizes the feeling of "living" he had never felt before... Buntarou has now started to accelerate towards the thrill of climbing--!!
Black Text Above Title: It's just a first meeting with the idea of climbing, but Buntarou's fate is changed--!!

Cover Flap 1: [list of stuffd in Young Jump, not important]

Cover Flap 2:
Blue Text: Based on Nabeta Yoshio's "Kokou no Hito"---
Author Text: Reading the original novel "Kokou no Hito", I myself strongly empathized and admired the human known as Katou Buntarou's way of living. Though it's the difficult subject of "mountains", I thought that, like Buntarou, I thought would forcefully, without bending my will, step by step, aim for the top.
Sakamoto Shinichi
TL Note: The name of the main character in the novel this manga is loosely based on is Katou Buntarou. He is based on a real solo mountain climber from the early 20th century.

Inside Covers:
[Same things...]

Page 1:
SFX: KAAAAN
SFX: KAAAAN
Box: Elevation 8611m
K2 Eastern Wall----
Having produced numerous deaths, rising vertically up the "Heartless Mountain"; an ice wall untrodden by mankind.
SFX: KAAAAN
Mori: Where
are you going...?

Page 2-3:
Title: Kokou no Hito [Isolated/Aloof Man] 1
The Climber
Authors: Sakamoto Shinichi
Original Story: Nitta Jirou "Kokou no Hito"
Story: Nabeta Yoshio
1st Climb School Building Ascension

Page 4:
Contents
School Building Ascension
1
Kokou no Hito
The Climber
TOC: 1st Climb School Building Ascension 1
2nd Climb Rope Partner 51
3rd Climb Climbing Shoes 79
4th Climb Image Climbing 99
5th Climb Onsite 118
6th Climb Observation! 139
7th Climb Move! 159
8th Climb Takatori Mountain 179
9th Climb Vision 199
Special Compilation Yamanoi Yasushi Interview 218
Climbing Glossary 220
Bottom: This is a work of fiction. There are no connections to actual people, groups or events.

Page 5:
横須賀北高等学校
Sign (small on side): Kanagawa Prefectural
(big): Yokosuka North High School
Ishida: Were you in any extracurricular activities in your previous school?
SFX: Kyuh kyuh
Mori: ..........

Page 6:
大学受験
Ishida: You're taking college entrance examinations, aren't you?
You need to work hard this year.
Have you decided on any future prospects?
SFX: Kyuh kyuh
Mori: ..........
SFX: Kyuh
Ishida: Mori-kun, are you listening?

Page 7:
Miyamoto: Pinch grip!!!
Guy: OW
SFX: GYUUU
Miyamoto: Kakkakkah, did you see that? My super-grip!?
Guy: Could you gimme a break?
How much have you been doing that since morning!?
Girl: Quiet already, boys!
Ishida: Short homeroom is starting---
SFX: Garah
Miyamoto: I'm gonna power up even more until next break time.
Ishida: Hurry and take your seats---
Guy: Stick to climbing mountains for using your stupid strength.
Ishida: Aah.
Today we have a new member joining us.
Please come in.

Page 8:
SFX: Kyuh
Mori: I'm Mori Buntarou.

Page 9:
Girl: Hey, hey, Yumi, that guy's totally dangerous looking, isn't he?
He's totally my type, though.
Yumi: Is-Is that so?
Girl: Hurry up and give a self-introduction---!!
Ishida: Mori-kun, hey.
Mori: Nothin' really...

Page 10:
Yumi: Eh?
Girl What's with this guy...?
SFX: Zawa
Ishida: Ah, that's enough, that's enough.
Um, a seat...
Over there.
Please sit in front of Miyamoto.
Miyamoto: Yo.
Nice to meet 'cha.
SFX: Gata gyumu gyumu
Miyamoto: Ignoring me, huh...?
SFX: Gyumu
SFX: Buchibuchibuchi

Page 11:
Guys: Hey, look! Miyamoto's goin'!
Other Guy: Puh
Yeah, doesn't look good all of a sudden.
Miyamoto: Pinch griiiip!!!
SFX: Gyumumu
Mori: ---!?
Miyamoto: Huh? You look sleepy.
Ya woke up?
SFX: Nih GIGIGI GI
Mori: ......!!

Page 12:
Mori: Annoying---
Miyamoto: !!!
Ishida: Hey, what're you two doing!!?
SFX: Gata
Miyamoto: Wha-What's with this guy?

Page 13:
Sign: Staff Room
Ishida: A-----, boy, I give up...
I got a weird one pushed onto me...
Oonishi: What is it, Ishida-sensei?
Ishida: Someone who's in my class starting today.
A transfer student Mori Buntarou. Honestly, he's trouble.
Oonishi: Is he a bad kid?
Ishida: No.
He's kind of locked in a shell... You might even say he seems to reject other people.
まるでとりつくシマもないんです
He's completely unreachable.
Next is your English class, if I'm not mistaken, Oonisi-sensei?
I implore you to be careful.
When that type snaps, you don't know what they're capable of.
Oonishi: Y-Yes, sir.

Page 14:
Girl: Wah, the bell!
Hurry, hurry!
SFX: Kaan koohn kiin koohn
Yumi: Huh? Isn't that that transfer student...
Girl: You're right.
Yumi: Mori-kuuun! The classroom's this way!
Class is gonna start really soon!
Girl: Hey... Yumi!!
SFX: Kiih
SFX: Patan
Yumi: He left...
Girl: It's fine, it's fine, c'mon, let's go!!

Page 15:
Oonishi: Mori..
Mori Buntarou...
Class: .........
Oonishi: N? What's the matter?
Is he not here?
Book: Attendance Record
Miyamoto: You can bet that guy's not coming back.
Class: !!
SFX: Gyumu gyumu
Girl: We just saw him going up the stairs to the roof---
Yumii.
Yumi: Yeah.
He just changed schools and he's already escaping...?

Page 16:
Miyamoto: Uh
Somebody: What's wrong, Miyamoto?
SFX: Gata
Miyamoto: Oh man... Suddenly my stomach... feels awful.
Fu-Fuku-chan, shoulder me to the bathroom...
Oonishi: H-Hey! Can't you get to the bathroom yourself!?
Guy: Looks like he's gonna go teach that guy lesson.
意外と粘着質だからな宮本
Other Guy: Miyamoto's pretty cohesive, ain't he...?
Yumi: I wonder if he's all right...
腰を抜かしている
Page 17:
Mori: Still 1st period, huh...
SFX: Goro
Mori: Damn...
SFX: Pashi

Page 18:
Miyamoto: BAah
Mori: UWAH!!?
SFX: Bah
Miyamoto: HYAHAHAHAHAHAH what's with that face!?
Ya can't even stand up!!!

Page 19:
Miyamoto: Off bela~~y, Fuku-chan, that's enough!
Total success~~[heart]
Mori: ?
?
Fuku: Kakakakah
Mori: ......!

Page 20:
Miyamoto: Yo.
SFX: Tann
授業フケる
For having just transferred here, seems pretty early to be blowing off class.
前のガッコじゃ相当のワル
Was your last school really crappy?
SFX: PAN PAN
Miyamoto: That ain't it.
No matter how I look at you, you seem like a truant or a shut-in... Kukuh...
Mori: You're annoying...
Miyamoto: You're the annoying one.
You're trying way too hard to make that gloomy face.
構ってほしくてたまらない
You really just want tons of attention, don't cha?

Page 21:
Miyamoto: !!
SFX: Zah
Miyamoto: Hey, hang on!!
Mori: Cut it out!!
Miyamoto: Woah
Miyamoto: Hey, hey, why so serious?
Could it be ya have some reason?
Heh.
I got it, I got it. I won't bother you anymore.
Mori: !!

Page 22:
Miyamoto: Instead
climb.
Let's see you
climb from the bottom all the way up here to the roof, like me.
Mori: I dunno what you mean.
!!
SFX: BASU

Page 23:
Miyamoto: Climb the whole way up and I won't bother you ever again, okay?
Oonishi: It is still a living object
of power and beauty among us--- [What the fuck does that mean?]
SFX: Kah

Page 24:
Oonishi: Now try and translate this...
Hm?
What's the matter?
Is there something out the window?
SFX: Karara
UO!!!

Page 25:
Oonishi: H-H-H-HEEEEEEY!
WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING OVER THERE!!?
Class: Eh?
What? What?
SFX: Gatata
Yumi: No way, Mori-kun!?
Oonishi: Mori!?
T-That's
Mori... Buntatou...?
Fuku/Miyamoto: Hey, you idiot, stop it already!!!
Fuku: You don't have a rope attached to you!!!
You wanna die!!!?
Oonishi: MIYAMOTOOOO! IS THIS YOU'RE DOING!!?
Miyamoto: This is bad.

Page 26:
Somebody: H-Hey, look.
Someone's climbing over there!!!

Page 27:
People: Seriously!?
What's that kid doing!!?
I dunno!
I heard if he falls from there he's definitely gonna die!!
SFX: ZAWA ZAWA
Fuku: Th-This is kinda bad, ain't it...?
Miyamoto: Shut up! I thought he'd climb a little
then get scared and start crying!!
SFX: Gishi
SFX: Gishi

Page 28:
Mori: Kuh...
Miyamoto: U... Uh-oh...
That guy's arms are totally at their limit......!!!
SFX: Puru purupuru
そんな力任せじゃ腕がパンプしちまう
Miyamoto: Using all your strength like that and your arms'll get exhausted!!
パイプと壁の間にハンドジャム決めろ
Find a way jam your hand between the pipe and the wall!!!
Mori: J...
Jam my hand...!?

Page 29:
Miyamoto: Like this! This!
Wedge it like this!!!
Ishida: H-Heeey what the hell are you doing!
Hurry and get down from there, pleaaaaaase!!!
Miyamoto: Stupid Ishida...!!!
Don't stick your nose in!!
Descending us much harder than climbing!!!
Mori: Down......

Page 30-31:
SFX: BAKUH

Page 32-33:
Mori: ......!!!
SFX: Gada... Gada
SFX: GATATAH GATATAH
Mori: Up.
I'm going up...
It..
It's huge...

Page 34:
Miyamoto: Hey, hurry and gimme that rope!
Fuku: R-Right!
SFX: Gata gata gata
SFX: Fuh
Yumi: KYAAAAAAH
Oonishi: Oh no!!!
SFX: GIRI
Mori: UWAaAAAAAA-------h

Page 35:
SFX: DAN
SFX: DAN
Miyamoto: !!!
SFX: Zuzu...

Page 36:
SFX: FUUUUUH
Fuku: That's pretty good! He stuck out his legs to support his body weight!
He did it without burdening his arms!!!
Oonishi: Even his flexibility...
SFX: Zuh
Fuku: !!!
SFX: Zuh
Fuku: Wah, stop it, you idiot!!
It's totally impossible! You'll never reach!

Page 37:
Mori: Kuh...
Miyamoto: It's fine, just stay right there!
I'm gonna go to the top now and pass you over a rope!!!
SFX: DAH
Mori: STAY AWAY!!!!
Annoying...
SFX: Gugugu...

Page 38-39:
Mori: Annoying
Annoying
Annoying
Annoying
Annoying
Annoying
Annoying
Annoying
ANNOYING
A----------- You're seriously annoying---!!!
Yumi: KYA-----------------H
Oonishi: H-He jumped...!!!

Page 40:
Mori: I'm...
fine by myself--------!!!!

Page 41:
SFX: GAH
SFX: BISHIIII
Mori: ......!!!
Somebody: ...He
He maid it------!!
SFX: WAAH

Page 42:
Fuku: H-He decided to lunge...!!!
Miyamoto: It... It's a coincidence, right...
SFX: Pashi
SFX: Gah
SFX: Zuh
Oonishi: A heel hook...!!!
It's no good, you need to put it farther forward!!!
Mori: Guh...
SFX: Gah
Mori: Gugugugugugugugu
SFX: Gihgigigi

Page 43:
Mori: AAH!!!
Miyamoto: M...
Mantling...!!
TL Note: Though it comes from English, the meaning here is vague. Mantling is a climbing term (to mantle) which means climbing onto a shelf with both hands.

Page 44:
SFX: DOSAH
Oonishi: ..........
People: A-AWESOME!
That guy really climbed it-------!!!
What was close-----!!!
Miyamoto: Y-You're kidding me, right?
Even I've never used that route......
Mori: HAA
HAA
HAA

Page 45:
Mori: HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA
HAA

Page 46:
Oonishi: !?
Stand up, Mori!!
SFX: GUI
Mori: !!?

Page 47:
Mori: Wha...
What are you...
!!?
SFX: BASHII

Page 48:
Oonishi: Do you know what you just did!!?
With one misstep you could've died!!!
Mori: ......!
SFX: ZAH
Oonishi: ...Did it feel good?
Mori: !?
SFX: Suh

Page 49:
Oonishi: Over there you can get closer to the sky.

Page 50:
Title: Kokou no Hito
The Climber