Bakuman 4

I did 5 before this because I had to get started for translating the anime episode.
I only got part-way through chapter 6 by the time I had to start on it, but that was in this week's Bakuman anime episode, too. So I've gotta do that before working on the chapters for next week's.

[Bakuman 4 Translation by Kewl0210]
Page 119:
Saikou: Having gotten the work place my uncle used from my my grandpa, Shuujin and I spent all night rummaging through manuscripts and names.
Shuujin: This is interesting, but why was it rejected?
Saikou: Don't plagiarize.
Shuujin: I'm don't intend on writing a gag hero manga.
Title: Page 4 Parent and Child
Saikou: How many of these boxes are there, anyhow?
The cardboard boxes had "Manuscripts" "Names" "Materials" and things clearly written on all of them, but
!?
There was one odd odd box that stood out.
Uh-oh. This's probably full of porno DVDs.

Page 120:
Saikou: Letters......?
Letter: Mashiro Nobuhiro-sama
[The address stuff is blurred out]
Saikou: These are.......
Kawaguchi: We went to different high schools, so we just exchanged letters like "Are you doing well? Let's keep working hard." without ever seeing each other's faces.
SFX: Kasa
Note: Mashiro-kun, are you doing well? I'm finally getting used to high school, too. To sum up my class, it's like that old youth drama "Tobidase Seishun", was that the name? It's got that kind of feeling in that it's really busy and a very light-hearted class. I've made lots of friends and I'm having the time of my life. Tomorrow I'm gojng to [The edges get cut off as you go on]

Page 121:
Title: Page 4 Parent and Child

Page 122:
Shuujin: What's up, Saikou?
Saikou: Uncle told me there was a person he liked whom he always corresponded with.
Shuujin: Letters? Man, that's old fashioned... So it was a long distance love relationship?
Saikou: No, they lived in the same city.
Shuujin: Huh? Let me see that.
SFX: Pasa
Shuujin: It says stuff like "I went to a THE ALFEE concert. It looks like I've becomea bit more of an active girl since middle school."......
and "I hate the rainy season, but I bought two pretty umbrellas, so I've come to like it." Looks like they only wrote about boring every day stuff. ["boring every day" is written really big.]
Saikou: I think that even though they both liked each other, they couldn't put it into words.
Shuujin: ? I don't get it.
Uncle said that he just couldn't confess until he wasn't a gambler anymore, and had become a full-fledged mangaka.
Shuujin: Oh, so that's how it was?

Page 123:
Saikou: The letters had been lined up nicely in the order they came in.
it says "Congratulations on getting an honorable mention for the Akatsuka Award" here...
Shuujin: You can really feel those two taking the steps along their lives.
Saikou: Though we felt bad about it, we were immersed in reading these letters about uncle by his correspondant, Haruno Miyuki-san. You could feel the odd relationship between them. I at least felt a bit frustrated.
Shuujin: So this is the last letter?
Saikou: Yeah.
SFX: Kasa...
Letter: I haven't said anything about it up until now, but I'm getting married next Spring. So also, this writing letters to you like this, Mashiro-kun, until the wedding day...
It might think it selfish of me, but you understand, don't you Nobuhiro-kun?
Being able to correspond for over 10 years past middle school graduation has really made me happy. Regardless of what was in the letters, if they were from you, when they got to me and I read them I was happy. You've always encouraged me, Mashiro-kun, and it's really [cut off]
[In the next panel, it's the letter with "married" in the center.]
Shuujin: Wh... What is this? She didn't even once tell him she had a boyfriend. It's too sudden, ain't it?

Page 124:
Saikou: I wonder how Uncle felt when he read this letter.
Shuujin: This being the last one means that your uncle never replied.
Saikou: When did "Chou Hero Densetsu" start serialization?
Shuujin: Uh, I'm sure it'll be in the volumes.
[The stuff on the right is all just parts of sentences so it's not gonna come out well but uh... I'll try.]
Author Comments: was really
with cigarette smoke
is this the top of a cloud?
I felt like an angel!
the phone pulled me back into reality.
like I thought, I was a mangaka~
I thought. Hahaha
Side: Compiled from issues ran in Shonen Jump 1996 Issue 20 ~ 1996 issue 30
Shuujin: 1996 issue 20... So that means it started in the Spring of '96.
The Spring two years after that letter, huh?
And it wasn't an anime for another two years.
Looks like he didn't make it in time...... But it's amazing that even after getting so discouraged, he kept it up until it became an anime. He's got guts. No, tenacity...
Kawaguchi: But the reason I was able to work so hard was because of her. Even now, the reason I'm doing manga and haven't given up is because I think she's watching from somewhere.

Page 125:
Shuujin: Hey, what's that?
Saikou: Hm?
Shuujin: Inside the box. There's still something in there.
Saikou: Oh?
Book: Yakusa City Akehi Middle School
Graduation Album
Both: AW MAAAAAN!
Shuujin: Uncle couldn't even ask for a photo or anything!
Saikou: ......
Shuujin: Just how pure-hearted was he?
Even the people in the 20's were more progressive!
SFX: DOEEEEE
Shuujin: Haruno Miyuki! Find Miyuki-chan!!
Saikou: I know, shut up, I'm looking.
SFX: Para para (pages turning)

Page 126:
Saikou: Eh?
Azuki...?
Shuujin: Ah...
It's Azuki's mom!
This is Azuki's mom!
Saikou: ..........

Page 127:
Shuujin: I knew it, it's the blood, the blood! The DNA, DNA! It's totally scary!
Even the idea of sending each other letters is just like you guys only sending emails to encourage each other! It's exactly the same!
And your alter-boy purity, Saikou, it's the same as your uncle's!
Even though she's her mom, the fact that they look this similar... DNA is damn scary!
Saikou: .......
We don't know for sure that it's Azuki's mom.
Shuujin: I'm telling you, there's no mistaking it! Let's go confirm it.
Saikou: Confirm it, how?
Shuujin: We go to Azuki's house again, and we ask her mother directly.
Saikou: EEEEH?
Shuujin: Tomorrow.... Er, well it's already today, now, Azuki has dance classes from 5 to 7 on Tuesdays. We'll go during then.
Shuujin: Heh, Azuki's learning dance? Is it because seiyuus today have to sing and dance...?
Saikou: You just ask directly Azuki what her mom's maiden name is, can't you?
Shuujin: If I did that, we wouldn't know anything but that they were mother and daughter, right?

Page 128:
Shuujin: I wanna ask about some other stuff, too.
Saikou: You're just interested for curiosity's sake, aren't you?
Phone: *Bububu*
Shuujin: Azuki?
Saikou: I told you, I don't know her number. Stop asking.
Aw, man. It's my mom.
Mom: What time do you think it is?! Please come home already!
Saikou: Got it, I'm coming home now.
Shuujin: Hey, let's go later today!
Saikou: If you wanna go, go alone.
Box: It was past 2 in the morning. There weren't even any trains running, so I walked home with Shuujin taking a little less than an hour.

Page 129:
Box: Of course, the second day of mid-terms was a total bomb, too.
My head was filled with the idea of the target of my uncle's love maybe being Azuki's mom.
It bothered me so much I couldn't get it out.
Bell: KIIIIN KOOOHN KAAAAHN GATA GATA
Saikou: I guess we'll just go to Azuki's house, then.
Shuujin: Oh.
So you want to go in and ask about the relationship between those two, huh?
Saikou: I don't, not like that.

Page 130:
Shuujin: ..........
SFX: Kacha
SFX: SHAA
Shuujin: Okay, now.
Saikou: Don't we seem kinda like stalkers?
Shuujin: It's more fun to think of it as investigators or detectives. I feel like Giovanni from Death Note!
[He doesn't say "from Death Note" but he names like the most obscure character in the whole manga, so I feel it needs that.]
SFX: PINPOOOOHN
Saikou: You didn't have any trouble pushing it today.
Shuujin: The second time is always easier.
Miyuki: Yes?
Shuujin: It's Miho-san's classmate, Takagi.
Saikou: I'm here, too. Say so----......

Page 131:
Miyuki: Sorry, Miho just stepped out. If there's something you'd like me to tell her----
Shuujin: No, today we'd like to talk to her mother.
Miyuki: ? To me?
Saikou: It's about the mangaka Kawaguchi Tarou-shi......
Miyuki: .............
Shuujin: We, Mashiro-kun and I, are aiming to become mangakas.
Saikou: .........
Miyuki: .........
Saikou: This response will tell us she really was Uncle's correspondent, I'm sure of it.
Miyuki: It sure is nice to be young. I'll serve you some tea, so come on up.
Shuujin: All right!

Page 132:
Miyuki: Come in.
Saikou: Uwah, she really does look like Azuki, and she's a real beauty. Um, if she's the same grade as Uncle, that's two younger than Dad, so she's 42......? She looks so young! That's so young for 42! Azuki'd be lucky to be like this in 28 years. But, I think I'll have her give up on the long hair rolls.
Miyuki: Sit wherever you want, I'll go get some tea.
Shuujin: Ah, okay. Excuse us.
Saikou: This is the living room where Azuki spends time in every day.
Just thinking about it makes me nervous.

Page 133:
Miyuki: Mashiro-kun, you're the son of Mashiro Nobuhiro-kun's brother, aren't you?
Saikou: Ah, yes.
Like I thought, she knew.
Miyuki: Your father was two years ahead of me in middle school. He really stood out, working so hard as captain of the judo team.-----
Saikou: Ah, yes. He's always saying "Kids these days have no guts."
Miyuki: Um, let's see, black tea, coffee...
Oolong tea, cola, orange juice, wine, beer, what would you like?
Shuujin: Ah, I'll have coffee, please.
Saikou: You're so shameless, Shuujin. And it would've been better for you to interrupt before she finished, wouldn't it?
Then I'll have coffee, too.
Miyuki: Mashiro-kun, ah,
I mean Mashiro Nobuhiro-kun, he drank black coffee when he worked hard every day. He told me all about it in his letters.
Saikou: Huh? Before we even asked, this former secretary of a president right out said that she was the correspondent of the letters.
Miyuki: Soooo, ask me anything youngsters.
SFX: Kacha

Page 134:
Shuujin: No, we already knew that you were the person Mashiro's uncle liked.
Saikou: Hey, first we have to...
Both: We're sorry! We read all of your letters, ma'am.
We're really sorry!
SFX: GABAH
Miyuki: Eh?
Oh no, I'm embarrassed.
All of them?
Shuujin: Yes.
She's blushing, she sure is
cute for her age.

Page 135:
Miyuki: Hey, I didn't write anything that embarrassing in them, right?
Right?
Shuujin: Y-Yeah!
They were unbelievably eloquent, though.
Miyuki: I see. So Mashiro-kun kept my letters, did he?
And you two read them?
But what's done is done. I forgive you.
Both: Thank you very much.
Shuujin: Um, by saying they were eloquent, I mean, in a way they were all meandering. You really liked him, didn't you?
Saikou: Hey, don't go so far.
Miyuki: Mm, yes, I did.

Page 136:
Shuujin: Then why didn't you ever write it in your letters?
Miyuki: It wasn't so much that I didn't, but that I couldn't. It was so embarrassing I didn't feel I could write it down.
And it's better for the man to be the one to confess, isn't it?
Maybe I was just waiting for us to tell each other "I like you" together.
But in the end, I couldn't wait any longer, and I found a new love and got married.
Though when Miho was 3 years old, I saw on TV that Kawaguchi Tarou-sensei's manga had become an anime,
I was surprised.
I was so happy to know that Mashiro-kun was still working so hard, too.
Then I was a bit embarrassed, but, I went to the convenience store and read "Chou Hero Densetsu".
Shuujin: Heeeeh.

Page 137:
Miyuki: And in it a hero named "Otokono Roman" appeared. When I read that, I think I cried a little.
TL Note: Otokono Roman is a pun name, meaning "Men's romanticism."
I understood that Mashiro-kun really did have these kinds of feelings.
Saikou: !
Otokono Roman.
He'd falled in love with a princess at first sight, and tried to become the greatest hero in the universe. And he dreamed of confessing to her as he invited her to his in inauguration party, and worked hard to do it. But he was an incredibly weak failure of a hero.
But when he was still weak, the princess approached him herself and confessed.
And he blurted out "Don't come to me yet, wait until I become the greatest hero in the universe! Don't just show up out of the blue, you bitch.", and he ended up getting slapped by the princess instead.
Shit: Roman

Page 138:
Shuujin: So that story was a message to you, ma'am?
Miyuki: That's how I took it.
Shuujin: Not bad, that Kawaguchi Tarou.
Miyuki: Then would it be all right if I asked something?
Shuujin: Yes. ?
Miyuki: Takagi-kun, Mashiro-kun,
which one of you is going out with Miho?
Shuujin: Neither of us yet. But if one of us does in the future, it'll be him.
Saikou: Hey!
Miyuki: I'm so glad.
Shuujin: ?

Page 139:
Miyuki: Ever since the old days, I've never been into the hard studying type.
Girls tend to like the guys who are kind of the bad boys.
SFX: ZURUUUN
Shuujin: No, it's just this, ma'am. That's just your personal preference,
but I'm popular with girls, too. By hard-ass serious ones.
(Small in Bubble): Also, I have bad eyes.
Saikou: You're taking that too seriously.
(Small on Page): Sit down.
Shuujin: Ahaha, you're right, I'm sorry.
Miyuki: Ahaha... It's all right...
Saikou: Um...
About how Uncle and you were in the same grade,
and my uncle being a mangaka, Miho-san doesn't know, right?
Miyuki: No, she doesn't know.
Saikou: Good......

Page 140:
Saikou: I'd really like it if you wouldn't tell Miho-san those things.
Miyuki: Got it. I definitely won't tell her.
You mustn't tell her either, Takagi-kun.
Shuujin: Ah, okay.
SFX: BIH
Miyuki: Takagi Akito-kun,
Mashiro Moritaka-kun,
Both: Yes?
Miyuki: Become great mangakas. I'll be here, rooting for you.
Shuujin: Okay, thank you very much!
Saikou: Yes!

Page 141:
Box: And so, we talked until just before Azuki came back.
Shuujin: I wonder if Azuki'll talk that much when she's older, too----
But was a really nice person, and an amazing beauty, wasn't she?
I can understand why your uncle fell for her.
He was a real romantic, huh? I can't believe he wrote himself as Otokono Roman.
Saikou: Men's romanticism, huh------?
......
Yeah, we becoming mangakas is a man's romanticism too.
Shuujin: Hey, we sure are blessed, aren't we?
Everyone's supporting us.
And the person your dad loved being Azuki's mom makes it like destiny.

Page 142:
Saikou: No matter what, I will make this dream a reality!
Shuujin: Not "I will", "we will"!
Saikou: I certainly am blessed.
SFX: BUN
Shuujin: "We", right?
Saikou: Azuki's mom being the one Uncle loved feels like fate, but
I think my dad and my grandpa both knew that I admired Uncle when I was in elementary school.
That's why Grandpa left me his work place like that......
And I think it's why dad didn't object to it...

Page 143:
Shuujin: Yeah, they knew this would happen... Or rather, they probably hoped.
Saikou: Dad quickly allowed me and Grandpa quickly gave me the room.
I want to marry Azuki, but becoming a mangaka isn't just about that anymore,
if I don't do this, I'm not a man...
SFX: BAH
Saikou: I won't be!
SFX: ZAH
Saikou: Starting tomorrow, no, today, I'm going to start making my drawings into manga artwork!
Shuujin: All right, and I'll take on making a name!

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Ooba Name
Obata Name
Complete!
Bakuman。vol.1
"Until it Becomes a Manuscript"
Page 4, p132-133