Yasuko and Kenji 1

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Front cover

Aruko MC MARGARET COMICS
Bessatsu Margaret

Yasuko to Kenji (Yasuko & Kenji)
1

Spine

Bessatsu Margaret

MARGARET COMICS

Yasuko to Kenji 1

Aruko

3885
Shueisha

Absolutely hilarious, hands down! The battle of the peerless siblings!!

Since the death of her parents, Oki Yasuko, a second-year high school student, has been living with her mangaka big brother Kenji, who used to be the boss of a biker gang. Bickering nonstop, their relationship is hardly harmonious.
One day in the cram school Kenji forces her to attend, Yasuko falls in love with Tsubaki Jun. But chaos ensues because of the history that Kenji and Jun's sister Erica share!

-Included works-
Yasuko to Kenji #1
Especially written for this volume, Cyborg Rabako

The most horrible, awful, self-centered ass of a big brother
VS
the romantic urchin of a little sister

MC MARGARET COMICS
Bessatsu Margaret

ON KENJI'S SHIRT, LEFT
Total Ownage

ON KENJI'S SHIRT, RIGHT
Hello and drop dead!

Front flap

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Yasuko to Kenji #1

Back flap

Comment from the author, Aruko

Hello. This is Aruko. I see liquor stores with "Aruko" written on their signboards here and there. The other day, I found a municipal pool named Aruko. Things like this give me a sense of intimacy.
-Aruko


Title page

Yasuko to Kenji 1
by Aruko


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Table of contents:

Yasuko to Kenji (1) ..... (page 3)
Cyborg Rabako ........ (page 181)


P1

SFX: slap

SFX: Slap slap

SFX: Slap slap slap
SFX: Scurry
SFX: Scurry

SFX: Sigh~~

Sign: Parent-Teacher Conferences

B1: Please excuse me.

SFX: open

p2

b1: Welcome.

SFX: shock

b2: Ah, you must be Oki-san.

small: ?!

BL1: Please have a seat.

b3: Thank you.

SFX: Slam

b4: I'm Yasuko's older brother.

b5: Thank you for taking care of my little sister.

BL2: Brother: Kenji (24)
BL3: Sister: Yasuko (17)

p3

b1: So... you're her brother.

small in bubble: Umm... Why are you here?

B2: I'm her legal guardian.

BL1: Sorry about that.

b3: Our mother and father are both dead

BL2: That's right...

BL3: Ha ha

b4: Excuse me, but what do you do for a living?

B5: I'm a mangaka.

BL4: ...he is my only family.

b6: So, Sateoki-sensei,

b7: how is my Yasuko doing?

BL5: This is because our parents died six years ago in a traffic accident.

BL6: My brother and I live together happily as friends and siblings. <3

b8: Well, she's extremely cheerful.

b9: And her studies?

B10: Terrible.

b11: WHAT?

BL7: Well, that's a lie.

p4

BL1: You idiot!

BL2: Come here. I'm going to tie you to your desk!

B1: Useless! Useless! Untalented and an idiot, too! You won't be able to become a rockin' adult if you stay this way!

b2: Owww!

b3: It's always like this.

b4: I don't need to be told that by you!

small: You're such a pig, you just walked through everyone!

b5: What did you say? What did you call your brother?

BL4: No!!!

b6: I mean, let me walk on my own!

BL5: Shh, shh

BL6: People will think I know you.

b7: You'd better prepare yourself. I'm going to make sure you study seriously.

b8: What? No!

B9: Don't give me that!

B10: This corrupt world isn't so nice you can live your life slacking off.

p5

BL1: I hate guys like that.

BL2: Noisy.

BL3: Pushy.

BL4: Brutal.

b1: ...

BL6: He really tied me up...

sign: Oki

BL7: Even though he's family...

BL8: Let me go!!!

SFX: scritch

BL9: Let me go! You devil!

SFX: clunk

SFX: clunk clunk

SFX: scritch scritch

p6

b1: Boss~

b2: You're going too far~ Poor Yasuko-san~

b3:Yeah~

SFX: roll

b4: Call me Kenken sensei when we're working.

BL1: Oki Kenji: former hoodlum and wild bunch Naked Gun's boss.
Oki Kenji: Former hoodlum and Naked Gun's boss.

Currently a mangaka known as Kenken (pen name).


b5: I-I'm sorry, Kenken-sensei.

BL2: Nickname: Mosu. Former Naked Gun chief bodyguard. Presently, Kenken's art student.

BL3: Nickname: Adidas. Former boss of Naked Gun's Kamikaze unit. Presently, same as the other guy.

BL4: Shut up and study.

SFX: thump

SFX: bang

BL6: He's always such a nuisance.

BL7: For example...

p7

BL1: ...times like this...

b1: Hey, Yasuko.

b2: scary~

BL2: Kenji in actve service

BL3: Stepping back

BL4: or this...

b3: Hey, Yasuko.

b4: Scary~

BL5: When he became a mangaka.

BL6: Stepping back

BL8: I can't even count the number of times he made me suffer through things like that.

BL9: I can even think of more

BL10: Yasuko!
BL11: Yasuko!
BL12: Yasuko!

BL13: Interfering all the time is just part of his bad nature.

SFX: chirp
SFX: chirp
SFX: Chiiiin


BL4: I'm leaving.

BL5: All right, off to school.

b5: Hey, Yasuko.

p8

b1: You've got cram school starting today.

b2: Cram school?!


BL1: bleh blehhh

B3: What's up with that? I had no idea! Don't just do things like that on your own!

b4: I'm going to karaoke with my friends today.

SFX: Splash

SFX: flush

SFX: Zip

SFX: wham

b5: What were you saying about an empty bucket?*
[*karaoke – empty (kara) orchestra (oke), oke could also mean bucket]

B6: Huh?

BL1: Late sleeper

BL2: Hey...

BL3: Hey! You didn't wash your hands!

BL4: This is what our home is like.

p9

BL1: I feel like school is a place where I can relax.

b1: Yasuko!

B2: Let's go to karaoke.

b3: I'm coming!

BL2: Pshhht, forget about cram school.

BL3: What are you going to sing?

SFX: chatter chatter

SFX: chatter chatter

SFX: chatter chatter

p10

SFX: turn

b1: It's time for cram school.

b2: N-no!

sfx: ?!

p11

b1: Go study!

BL1: Tyrant!!

small talk by Kenji: See you

BL2: What are they talking about? I have no clue what this stuff is.

BL3: You think I'm going to get smarter just by going to cram school?!

BL4: Cheapskate

SFX: Scratch scratch scratch scratch scratch

b2: I'm going to get a lecture when I get home.


p12

BL1: Oh.

BL2: He's reading manga.

SFX: Ha ha ha

p13:

SFX: thump

sign on street? “A” Cram School

tag on back of shirt? Lecturer



BL1: Hey!

B1: Um!!

p14:

b1: I'm sorry about before. Because of me he found out you were reading manga and got mad at you.

b2: Ah...

b3: No problem.

SFX: Kyun...

b4: Bye.

BL1: W-wait!

SFX: twist

SFX: crash

BL2: Uwah...


p15

b1: ...Are you OK?

BL1: Ah ha ha

b2: I'm fine! I trip a lot!

B3: Really? Is it like one person sumo-wrestling?*
[*In Sumo wrestling you're trying to trip the other person]

B4: You're weird.

b5: Here.

p16

BL1: Wah.

b1:Thanks.

sfx:kyun

b2: No problem.

b3: Wow, you go to N-High?

BL2: That's a boys' school, right?

b4:You must be smart.

b5: Not really.

b6: Ah, I'm a 2nd year at K-High, Oki Yasuko.

BL3: Same year as you.

p17

b1: I'm Tsubaki.

b2: Tsubaki Jun

BL1: Jun-sama.

BL2: So your reading manga in class didn't mean anything, I guess

BL3: Yeah, it doesn't matter. I can listen while I read.

BL4: Seriously? That's amazing!!

b3: Well, I've got to go that way.

b4: You don't take the train?

B5: Nope, I walk.

b6: All right...

Sfx: dejected

BL5: I wanted to talk to him longer.

b7: Bye.

p18

b1: See you tomorrow at cram school.

BL1: “See you tomorrow.”

SFX: clang clang [need translation for this sfx]

SFX: clang clang

BL2: Tsubaki-kun... I...

BL3: get the feeling we're going to be in love.

p19

b1: You look like you're slacking.

SFX: Unsightly

b2: You're relaxed. That's proof.

b3: What the hell is this?

BL1: The lid from a soy sauce bottle

b4: Why is this fried with the tempura?

B5: Huh? I must have accidentally put that in.

b6: WAKE UP!!

SFX: BANG

b7: Hot!

SFX: Splash

B8: Do idiots live bracing themselves in their own idiotic way? [I guess to get the meaning I would say something like “Do idiots live in their own world?”]

B9: If you're this careless, you could get accidentally die tomorrow!

BL2: You klutz!

BL3: Shut up with all the “idiot idiot” stuff.

b10: Fine. If you don't like it, I'll eat it all myself!

BL3: Don't talk back.

b11: Is that the way brats today spew out words?


B12: Don't say “spew words.”

BL4: Don't say brat, either.

p20

b1: So, how was cram school?

BL1: Huh?

B2: What's this all of a sudden?

B3: I asked you how it was.

b4: It--

b5: It was...

b6: It was fine! I won't try to skip anymore!

BL2: Oh, I'd better prepare for class!

BL2: That was close.

p21

BL1: If I told him I met someone cool at cram school who makes my heart beat fast
If I had told him I met some cool guy at cram school who makes my heart race--

BL2: A brat being head over heels in love!

BL3: Don't lose sight of reality and just play around!

BL4: What a pain...

...

BL5: I wonder if he's ever been in love.

BL6: LOVE

b1: Gross!

B2: I can't imagine that.

BL7: I'm going to sleep.


p22

b1: Wh-what? Yasuko, you started cram school?

BL1: So that's what happened yesterday.

B2: Yep.

b3: You seem cheerful about it, Miss I-Hate-Studying!

BL1: That's because...

BL2: I've fallen in love.

Author's note: (Gomaisatsu)
How are you all doing? This is Aruko, I'm doing good. Thank you to everybody who picked up this book!! I'm really grateful. Anyway, this the way I usually write these messages to all of you. Without fail alone and writing very small. Right now it's 3 in the morning. And nobody's home. Waaaaaah. Aruko the Night King. And every time the thought that “What if nobody will even read this...” crosses my mind I fall "fyuu" into a pit of emptiness.
SFX: Fyuu
Arrow: Empty hole
Until page 63


p23

b1: All right. Now this question.

b2: You, tell me the answer.

BL1: I want to get closer to him.

b3: You with the pigtails, by the window!

b4: Hey! Stand up!

BL2: If we become friends maybe he'll talk to me...

SFX: thump

b5: He's looking at me. (heart)

b1: HEY! I'M TALKING TO YOU! YOU!

SFX: startle

B2: Me?!

B3: What?!

B4: Where?!

P24

b1: The answer.

BL1: Tsubaki-kun.

Small talk in corner of 3rd panel: Yes, very good

BL2: You really are awesome.

b2: Hm?

B3: Thanks for earlier!

Giving me the answer, I mean.

b4: Huh?

Oh.

b5: Don't worry about it.

b6: Um.

BL3: Umm umm

b7 As thanks, can I treat you to something?!

b8: Do you want to go get some tea with me?!

p25

b1: Huh? No, that's OK.

b2: Bye.

BL1: W-wait!

SFX: trip

SFX: grab

B3: ...You fell again.

p26

b1: Wahh

I'm sorry!!

BL1: I'm sorry~~~

BL2: Sorry!

BL3: Sorry!

b2: Hah

b3: You're really weird!

b4: Bye-bye.

SFX: squeeze

p27

BL1: Tsubaki-kun,

BL2: I like you!

SFX: apply

SFX: braid

B1: Eek! When did you get here?!

Small talk (on his head) Hurry up and move

B2: Brats like you shouldn't try to look all fashionable. (It's too early in the morning.)

SFX: Embarrassed

b3: Everything you say is irritating.

b4: It's normal. I'm leaving.

b5: You'd better go to cram school after classes finish.

b6: I told you I'd go.

BL3: So obedient...

p28

BL1: I want to hurry up and see Tsubaki-kun, so there's no choice.

b1: From now on, students who get red marks on the quizzes will have to stay late and do make up work.

b2: You're going to have to work hard so you don't get red marks.

BL2: Totally got a red mark.

b3: Huh? Only me?

B4: So I have to do this whole thing?

B5: That's ridiculous.

p29

b1: It's lame to have to stay after for cram school, isn't it?

b2: Yeah!

Ah ha ha ha.

BL1: I'm so uncool.

SFX: slide

b3: I'll help.

b4: You probably won't be able to finish it by yourself.

p30

BL1: Tsubaki-kun...

b1: So the answer is “A”?

b2: Is it?

B3 Don't ask me. I just explained it!

Small bubble: You weren't listening!

BL2: He's so kind.

Small bubble: What about this?

Small bubble: Like I said-

BL3: He's totally different from HIM.

Sfx: scratch

b3: Late...

p31

b1: I'm pretty sure Mosu will be here soon.

SFX: irritated

b2: What is that Yasuko doing? Cram school should have been over awhile ago.

BL1: Oh, that's who he meant.

b3: Thank you, Tsubaki-kun!

BL2: You saved me.

b4: You're welcome.

b5: As-- As thanks--

b6: I said it's OK.

b7: Ah, I'm hungry! Hungry... Yeah, that's it!

SFX: Please.
SFX: Please.

SFX: Please.

b8: All right...

Do you want to go get something to eat?

P32

BL1: YES~!

BL2: I'd like a Big Mac, fries, and a coke. And also a teriyaki burger. Ah, and the L-set, and...

BL3: You can't eat all that.

BL4:On top of that...

SFX: munch munch

BL5: this is kind of...

BL6: Ha ha

b1: You've got food on your face.

p33

BL1: ...like a date.

BL2: When I'm with Tsubaki-kun, I enjoy myself so much, I forget about everything else.

b1: Ahh~ Yasuko-san,

so you're on a date.

p34

Sign: Oki

b1: I'm sorry I'm late.

SFX: irritated

b2: What's up with the boss?

BL1: I haven't even had dinner yet.

B3: Yasuko's late getting home.

b4: Next on the news--

b5: A high school girl was kidnapped by an unknown assailant...

b5: The following day, her body was discovered--

Television: illegible


BL1: WHAT THE HELL IS THAT BRAT DOING?

SFX: gnaw gnaw


P35

b1: Ha ha ha.

Boss, you're worrying too much.

b2: Yasuko-san is just on a date.

(I happened to see her on the way here.)

SFX: snap

b3: What did you just say?

SFX: sunset

b4: Uh-oh.

BL1: I totally lost track of time.

Phone: [All the lines say “him' or "that jerk'. At the bottom the note outside says “that jerk” is Kenji]

BL2: roar

p36

SFX: faint

BL1: Hey.

BL2: Hey.

b1: He's going to kill me.

b2: If you keep swaying like that, you're going to fall again.

BL3: Grrr~~

BL4: Grrr~

BL5: Grrr~~~~

?!

?

p37:

SFX: dash

b1: I'm sorry, Tsubaki-kun. Don't ask anything. Just run!

B2: Hun?!

BL1: She can't run away from me.

BL1: Spirit of Hitomi Kinue*!

*First Japanese woman runner to win an Olympic medal

BL2: Give me your speed!

sfx: zoom

P38

SFX: zoom

SFX: zoom

SFX: trip

SFX: SPLAT

BL1: Uwah

b1: Hey...

SFX: turn

b2: I'm sorry! Are you all right?!

P39

b1: ....I'm fine but.....
I'm fine, but...

b2: you don't look so good.

SFX: Huh?

BL1: What?

BL2: Boss, what are you doing?

BL3: Huh?!

BL4: Please come with us.

BL5: Let me go.

BL6: Ahh, You're bleeding.

BL7: What were you doing...?

BL8: Let go of me!

BL9: Stop it!

SFX: phew

b3: Do you want to stop by my house?

Since it's right by here.

b4: You can't ride the train looking like that.

b5: Eh? (heart)

BL7: Tsubaki-kun's house?

P40

Sign: Tsubaki Flowers~

b1: Tsubaki Flowers? So it's a flower shop.

That's so cool!

B2: What's cool about that?

B3: This way.

b4: Ah, yes.

BL1: Is this OK? It's already night time.

b5: Thank you for allowing me to come into your house.

b6: I'm home~

p41

SFX: Hmm?

Apron: Tsubaki Flowers

BL1: Wow!

b1: This is my sister.

b2: So pretty! Like a model.

b3: I'm his sister Erika.

BL2: Thank you (heart)

BL3: She's so tall.

b4: What's this? You've got a girlfriend?

B5: She's not my girlfriend.

BL4: Oh, come on <3

b5: You never told me!

P42

b1: Aw, shut up. (sweat drop)

b2: Have you eaten dinner yet?

B3: If you have, would you like some tea?

BL1: It must be so great...

for siblings to get along like this.

b4: Forget the tea. Have you looked at her?

BL2: She's injured.

b5: Oh, my!
What happened!? I'm so sorry I didn't notice.

BL3: Terrible, terrible! Where's the first aid kit?

b6: Wow, you have such a great relationship with your sister.

b7: Isn't it normal?

BL4: She's... she's so kind.

SFX: Stare

BL5: It's nice here. Completely different from my home.

BL6: I'd so much rather have this kind sister than my brutal brother who won't even allow me to have company over.

p43

BL1: I was thinking about making croquettes for dinner tonight.

BL2: That sounds great! Why don't we make them together?

BL3: Ah...

BL4: How great!

BL5: This is delicious, Yasuko.

BL5: That would be so nice...

BL6: Heh heh heh

b1: There, all done.

b2: I was so surprised that Jun brought a girl home.

b3: Oh, thank you so much! I'm sorry I didn't thank you earlier.

b4: I'm Oki Yasuko. I go to the same cram school as Tsubaki-kun.

b5: Oki?

P44

b1: Do you have a brother by any chance, Yasuko-chan?

B2: Ah, yes.

I do.

b3: Where did he go to middle school?

B4: How old is he?

What's his name?!

sfx: huff huff huff

BL1: What's gotten into you all of a sudden?

SFX: Rumble rumble rumble THUD!

SFX: Crash

?!

SFX: bang

p45

BL1: Wha--

BL2: what is he doing?!!

b1: What are those hoodlums doing...

in front of the store?

BL3: Oh, no. Oh, no.

b2: I'll go call the police.

BL4: WHAT?

p46

b1: It's dangerous, so you'd better go inside.

BL2: Boss, please don't make a scene.

BL3: Oh, no.

BL4: Oh, no.

b2: YA-
SU-
KO.

b3: Huh?

BL1: No!!!

b4: I'm pretty sure he just said Yasuko.

BL2: He'll totally hate me if he finds out a guy like that is my brother.

b5: Are you listening to what your brother is saying, you idiot?!

b6: Brother?!

BL3: No~~~

b7: I know you like to dawdle on your way home, but you've been wandering around all this time without even contacting me!

SFX: Ba [??]
[It describes her sudden appearance. I think it’s better to just put the explanation near the sfx.]

p47

BL1: Erika-san?!

B1: It's been a long time, hasn't it,

b2: Oki Kenji?

p48

BL1: Huh?

BL2: It's been a long time?!

BL3: What?!

SFX: rumble rumble

SFX: rumble rumble

BL4: They know each other?!

SFX: rumble rumble rumble rumble