Billy Bat 52

*Only for use by MS & M-U.

tl by molokidan

1)
side: Blowin' in the wind, a hard rain is gonna fall, but don't cry, soon I'll be free!
1: Ohhh, beaten by the hard, hard rain,
2: my hair -- is always a mess
3: Ohhhhh, just how much do you have to comb your hair
4: Ohhhh, my friend, to keep it from becoming a mess like mine?
5: Well?

2)
1: What do you mean 'well?'
2: Great new song, eh?
3: Ohhhh, heavy, heavy~
4: Well, it's sure not a new Bob Dylan song, that's for sure.
5: The Dylan popularity at the Newport Folk Festival in the summer was really something!!
6: And he even sung in front of 20,000 people at the Washington March!!
7: Something's on the verge of changing!!
8: Something!!
9: Hey, Jackie!!
10: I need to hurry up and do my own record debut, just like Bob Dylan...

3)
1: You and I are gonna stand side by side on the jacket cover!!
2: Awww, gimme a break!!
3: New York - 1963 --

Chapter 52 - Something There Is About You...

4)
1: The couple in that picture and close to each other because it's wintertime!!
2: push
3: No, it's because they're lovers!!
4: Well I'm not your lover anymore.
5: Then why did you call me out?
6: Give me back my money.
7: Huh?
8: Don't play dumb. I lent you a hundred dollars!!
9: Hmmmm...
10: You said you needed $100 to record your demo tape for your audition, so I lent it to you!!
11: Audition...demo...?
12: You'd better not say you don't know what I'm talking about!!

5)
1: Look, I even have an IOU!
2: With your signature on it!
3: Jackie...
4: It's true that we may have split up.
5: But back then, we were sweet lovers together...
6: Give me back my money!
7: Don't tell me...
8: you really wanna take something like that from me...?
9: Humans have written IOUs since long, long ago!

6)
1: It was smart of humans to start leaving real records.
2: Because humans always lie!
3: Ahhhh, Jackie...you're gonna become a great historian, you know that?
4: And I want to buy some books for my education! So give me back my money!!
5: Well, the only thing you're gonna get by turning out my pockets now is a handful of lint.
6: Something's about to change, huh?!
7: You're the one who needs to change more than anyone!!

7)
1: Bob Dylan is the amazing one, here! Just what have you done?!
2: You know, you're just like my dad!!
3: Dad...?
4: He would never stop talking about how great we Japanese-Americans were, when he never did anything at all!
5: And about how Daniel Inouye was the first Japanese-American member of the House of Representatives!
6: And how The Great Togo was the first Japanese-American wrestling star!
7: Ohh...and how this area is full of buildings made by some Japanese-American named Mitsuru Yamazaki...

8)
1: and how he's gonna build the biggest building in the world.
2: He said that Rockefeller's gonna have the Japanese build two twin skyscrapers that pierce the sky!!
3: They're gonna be called the World Trade Center...

9)
1: Kya kya kya...!!
2: Huh?

10)
1: What was that weird laugh just now?
2: Nothing, nothing!
3: I was just agreeing that the Japanese really are something.
4: again...
5: Again? What do you mean again?

11)
1: Anyway...
2: Other people don't matter. The important thing is to do something yourself.
3: And I need books for my college research!!
4: You'd better bring $100 the next time we meet...
5: Ohh...speaking of books...
6: This!
7: This was that old book you were looking for, right?

12)
1: Wow, Billy Bat!!
2: and it's not the Chuck Culkin version...
2: It's the one Kevin Yamagata drew!!
3: Thank you! Good job finding this!
4: Now maybe we could forget about that debt...
5: OK, I'll extend the time you have to pay up.
6: My dad said the Chuck version was a fake, and that this is the real Billy Bat.
7: He's probably just being partial to it because a Japanese-American drew it.
8: I mean, look.

13)
1: This Billy Bat looks like such a shyster!
2: The newer Billy Bat is so much cuter.

14)
1: And this isn't a story for children...
2: It would have never gotten so popular if it continued like this.
3: ...now isn't the time to be reading a comic book, though.
4: I need to write my ancient religion history report...
5: Haaaa

15)
1: Oh no.
2: It looked like it just jumped out of the pages!
3: I must be tired. Because of that stupid ex-boyfriend...

16)
1: Ahhh, what did I ever see in him...
2: I mean...
3: That's it, wise guy! Time to knock some sense inta ya!!
4: Nooo, please, have mercy!
5: Shuddap! You aren't gettin' any pity from me!
6: Now cough it up!!
7: Forgive me!!
8: You don't know when ta quit, do ya?!

17)
1: My, my.
2: What happened?
3: He checked out.
4: Guess we've got no choice but to run him over then.
5: Yup, just as planned.
6: Hey, hold on a second.
7: Huh?
8: Hey may still be breathing, so pour some water on him.
9: Ooooh! chatter chatter
10: See, just as I thought.
11: Now come on. If you cough it up, we'll spare you.
12: Where are the land certificates for the National Railroad?

18)
1: Wah...as the National Railroad President, I, Shimoyama, can sell the rights to the railroad neither to you OR America!!
2: The land belongs to the people!
3: Heh-heh.
4: Wonder how much longer you can last?
5: Ahh...!!
6: What was that...a dream in Japanese...? Who's Shimoyama...?

19)
1: It's because I read the old Billy Bat...
2: I really don't like that character...

20)
1: Oh no, I must really be pooped.
2: I'm going to change into my pajamas and go to sleep...
3: I'll wake up early in the morning tomorrow and write the report...
4: Yo.

21)
1-6: haa
7: Just calm down there, sis.
8: And let's talk about the scroll.

22)
1: Hey, wait!! Don't faint!!
2: I want to talk to you about Kanbei's scroll!!
3: Hey!!
4: C'mon!!
5: Hey!!
6: Hey
7(2b): chirp chirp
8: Hey, Jackie!!
9: wake up!! How can you sleep like that?!

23)
1: Ooh...
2: Ooooh...
3: Oowww.
4: Don't be so loud.
5: I just got home from working all night, don't you call me loud!!
6: I saw a creepy Japanese dream...
7: And don't call Japanese creepy!!
8: We have inherited the distinguished blood of the Momochi line!!
9: Be proud!!

24)
1: OK, OK, I get it. Good job on your taxi service.
2: Hmph...just hurry up and eat your breakfast so you can go to school!!
3: Ahhh...what a weird dream that was...
4: The cola...
5: What...is this a map of...?
side: Did her dream chronicle the true details of the Shimoyama Incident?! And what's with the map stain?! What is Billy trying to tell her?!

Next: March 3.