PAGE 1 1.1.1 Miss Christine, this is where you will live from now on: // Desdemona's Select Seminary for Young Ladies (Actual title: Desdemona's boarding school for girl; however, the name is seen, in English, on the plaques on this page and page 4) 1.2.1 Ms. Desdemona is the headmistress. // The students are girls from good families, from age eight up to fifteen. 1.2.2 Here, you will learn things necessary for a lady, such as refinement and education.
PAGE 2-3 Corset ni TSUBASA #1 // Encounter
PAGE 4 1.1 A different world is waiting when I pass through this gate! 2.1 A livelihood completely different from the life on that island of blue skies and blue ocean… (Awkward, sorry!) 3.1 (Sign thingy): Southern England, White Island 3.2 (First speech bubble): Is this really farewell, Chris? 3.2. Yeah. With father gone, the house belongs to relatives. 3.3. I don't have the rights to inherit his property (lit: to succeed to his fortune)
PAGE 5 1.1. A boarding school in Yorkshire--it's too far away. 2.1 Yeah. Tonight's mass // will be the last time I'll get to hear your soprano, Ceddy. 2.2 I'm sorry… I wanted to always protect you, Ceddy, but… 2.3 (SFX): sniff 2.4 Chris… 4.1 Please take care of Chapeau. ("Hat" in French, but she's not calling him "Hat," so…) 4.2 Okay… Okay! // I'll treasure him. I'll get strong like you, so that I can protect Chapeau. 5.1 I'll… send lots of letters. 5.2 Yeah. I will, too. // I love you, Chris.
PAGE 6 1.1 Chris… 1.2 At mass tonight, I won't sing for God… // I'll be singing for you, Chris… 3.1 Good-bye. 3.2 Goodbye, angelic Cedric (Lit: Cedric, who looks like an angel)… // Goodbye, heavenly singing voice… 4.1 Goodbye, church with an angel… 4.2 Goodbye…
PAGE 7 1.1 Cream-color bricked 1.2 house… 2.1 Goodbye, 2.2 father's car, with the engine that sometimes wouldn't start…. 3.1 Goodbye… Mother and Father's…. 4.1 gravesites.
PAGE 8 1.1 Christine! Christiiiine! // Where did she go?! Even though we still have to prepare for tomorrow! 1.2 You?! Do you not know where you went?! 1.3 Um, pardon… 2.1 ! 3.1 Christine! // Come down here now! 4.1 Wearing those boys' clothes again…! 5.1 Just what kind of education did my elder brother give her?! // It's just what you'd expect from the daughter of some woman from God knows where! 5.2 Honestly… He must've suffered a lot of worry. 5.3 Hey, who's going to take that girl to the boarding school? I'd rather not. // And the maid can't take her… SFX: BATAN (bang/slam)
PAGE 9 1.1 Hm? 1.2 Don't worry about it, ma'am. 2.1 I'll go by myself. 2.2 As soon as I stuff my mementos of Mother and Father into my bag, I'll leave this place. 3.1 She really is a charmless child. // And she never showed a single tear.
PAGE 10 SFX: zawa zawa (this is general noise or chatter) 2.1 Miss Christine, thanks for the hard work (As in, it must've been hard for you to come on your own) // We'll be staying in London tonight. (Lit: Tonight, we'll be staying here in London for one night.) Panel 2 SFX: shuu (steam) 3.1 A carriage from my office will be picking us up. // Please stay here will I look for it. PANEL 3 SFX: ko ko / ka (horse clopping noises, I'm guessing) 4.1 Thank you, Mr. Haversham (She identifies him as "Lawyer Mr. Haversham" or "Mr. Haversham the lawyer), // for taking on such a bothersome duty.
PAGE 11 1.1 Miss Christine, // that's… 2.1 It's okay, Mr. Haversham. // I won't worry you by saying that I want to go back to that house. 3.1 …… 3.2 That girl ought to be showing us gratitude // for not throwing her out into an orphanage.
PAGE 12 3.1 It's almost time for evening mass. 4.1 Once I enter boarding school, I won't be able to hear Ceddy's voice any more… 4.2 That angelic voice… 5.1 Bound for Portsmouth! // Departing!
PAGE 13 2.1 Cedric! 3.1 SFX: GA (THUD) 4.1 !! 5.1 I'm so sorry! That's my luggage. // Are you alright? Are you hurt?! 5.2 I'm fine. // I'm a sportsman, like my father. 5.3 It's just like playing rugby.
PAGE 14 1.1 I am sorry that I can't help more. (More literally: I am sorry. There are various things I want to do.) 2 SFX: kara (usually "clatter" which may be too strong here; the creak/roll of the wheelchair)
PAGE 15 3.1 I… I am // sorry, as well…
PAGE 16 1.1 You seem a bit sad. 1.2 I do? 2.1 Yes. // You look like you want to cry, but are trying your hardest. 3.1 Pardon me.
PAGE 17 1.1 To apologize for making you fall. 2.1 Ummm…. now // that my father passed away, I'm going to a boarding school. 2.2 I was like a free bird there, // but now, I'm like a dog tied to a leash. 3.1 I'm disappointed. 3.2 (Float): Why am I….
PAGE 18 1.1 (Float): To this person I'm just meeting… 1.2 But the thing I'm most disappointed with is myself. 1.3 Being free to go to the place I love, being free to live in my own house, and so many other things, // I can't do on my own… If my father were here, he wouldn't be able to forgive me. 2.1 My will and conviction have no influence // on the structure of everyone else's society. 3.1 Is that so. 3.2 I can't walk just because I wish to walk.
PAGE 19 1.1 The bird, too. // It can't fly just because it wishes to fly. 3.1 ?
PAGE 20 2.1 A bird flying has nothing to do with its will or conviction. // They possess the mechanism necessary to fly: wings. 2.2 Mechanism? 3.1 Yes. 4.1 They have the wisdom to read the winds, // and a tail that adjusts their altitude… 5.1 They create both propulsive power and dynamic lift by flapping their flight feathers at a forward angle of five degrees, // and so, // each single feather functions to regulate wind pressure.
PAGE 21 1.1 (Float) Dynamic lift…? 1.2 Ah, sorry! 1.3 That was complex. 2.1 Birds can't fly well when they're young, either. // They practice so that they can fly. 2.2 And falcons must have the wisdom to hide them so that they aren't captured. 3.1 They wait, patiently, for a break in the weather, // whether that be darkness, or heavy rain, or stormy days, 4.1 so they don't miss the moment. 4.2 Stormy days…
PAGE 22 1.1 Don't worry. When time the is right, you will definitely fly. // Don't give up. 2.1 Are you… a bird expert? 3.1 SFX: chuckle (heh) 3.2 No, Lady Sparrow. (Lit: Lady "Dickeybird," or "Lady Small Bird," or "Lady Songbird." Somehow, Chikadee or Sparrow reads as more natural to me.) 4.1 Miss! 4.2 Miss Christine! 5.1 Ah, Miss Christine! // I thought you had strayed off. 5.2 Mr. Haversham! // I was just talking to this mysterious…
PAGE 23 3.1 Could it be… 4.1 Did he fly away? Mister… Bird? 4.2 Mr. Haversham. 5.1 What kind of place is Yorkshire? Won't you tell me? 5.2 I'm going to a school for girls there, after all… // Maybe I'll be able to make some good friends?
PAGE 24 3.1 Welcome, Christine. 3.2 I am Ms. Desdemona, this school's proprietor.
PAGE 25 1.1 It's nice to meet you. 2.1 My, my. What a refined young lady. 2.2 She's also very bright, Ms. Desdemona. 2.3 Aah, I could tell from looking at her face. 4.1 (SFX): rustle rustle 5.1 …… 5.2 Then, I'll show you around the school right away.
PAGE 26 1.1 Today's lessons have already concluded. 2.1 SFX: kacha (click) 2.2 In this room, music, painting, and dance lessons, amongst others, are held. 4.1 ANd here, French and History… // We have invited instructors specializing in mathematics and chemistry. 4.2 And this
PAGE 27 1.1 is the senior students' room. 2.1 Ah, this is wonderful! // Isn't it lovely, Miss Christine? (Lit: Isn't it good) 3.1 What do you think? 3.2 (upper left) She didn't seem nervous or sad, but she didn't seem happy, either. 3.3 Lower right):(SFX: Hmmm…) "Which" do you think the new girl will be? 3.4 (lower left): No matter which it is, she'll know the reality soon enough, too.
PAGE 28 1.1 That Desdemona's act is just for show. 2.1 Miss Christine, // up until now, your education was given to you by your father, freely (as in, in an unrestricted manner), // so you might find school life to be strict... 3.1 But, with study, you will become a fine lady, // and you'll surely be able to return home during your holidays. 3.2 Mr. Haversham. 4.1 Thank you saying that. // But please don't lie to me just to cheer me up. 5.1 Miss Christine, 5.2 you really are a bright girl…
PAGE 29 2.1 (SFX): gachari (clack, click) 3.1 Christine… 3.2 The maid will show you to your room. 5.1 SFX: turn 5.2 !
PAGE 30 1.1 …… 1.2 A different person? 1.3 It seemed like a magical, rapid change… 2.1 This is the underclassmen's room. 2.2 SFX: don (thud, bam)
PAGE 31 1.1 Your dinner will be brought up tonight. Please be awake at seven tomorrow. 1.2 Well, then. (Lit: Then; sort of a casual good-bye) 1. SFX: batan (thud, sound of the door shutting) 3.1 …… 3.2 SFX: creak 4.1 "This is the senior students' room." 4.2 Hmmm. // Ms. Desmona… Didn't exactly lie. 5.1 Well, I don't think I've joined an honest school. 6 SFX: gata gata (rattle) 6.1 Heh! // It's a very nice room.
PAGE 32 1.1 I'm free to go into the garden whenever I want!
PAGE 33 2 SFX: whisper whisper… 3.1 Who said that you could speak?! 3 SFX: snap 4.1 Everyone, this is the new student, Christine Langton. // She is not yet familiar with the rules of this school -- do you understand? 4.2 No one is to speak to her without my permission.
PAGE 34 1.1 Now, // into your classrooms! It's time to start the lessons. 2.1 Christine. // You are not to go in that room. 2.2 Huh? But, yesterday… 3.1 Only upperclassmen taking a special course are in that room. 3.2 Special… course? 4.1 Priscilla, 4.2 Jessica, 4.3 Annie. 4.4 Those three girls are the students taking the special course.
PAGE 35 1.1 From here on out, you should endeavor // to being promoted into the special course. (This is supposed to sound kind of menacing, but I can't quite get it there.) 1.2 Christine. 2.1 Cedric…… I may have… 3.1 I might've come to a prison instead of a school by mistake. 3.2 At Desemona's Select Seminary for Young Ladies, there is a witch who wields a lash. // Other than the three students in the special course, the students are not allowed to freely interact.
PAGE 36 1.1 Outings are limited to once a week: going to church on Sundays, // and a mass where I can't hear your voice is very boring. 1 SFX: shuffle… (Lit: in succession) 3.1 The school's lessons are also on horrible subjects. // The special students are the only ones who get to take classes taught by instructors with specialized knowledge. 4.1 It really is high time that I get a reply from Ceddy… 4.2 Today, I had to review multiplication tables that I learned long ago. 5.1 Ceddy, // if I stay here, it seems I might turn into an idiot.
PAGE 37 1.1 What's that? // You want to use the library freely? 2.1 You don't need that, Christine. 2.2 You are receiving education appropriate to someone of your age and position. 3.2 Ms. Desdemona, you're the one // who believes that. 4.1 And I'm not the only one. // Everyone is bored and unsatisfied with the lessons. 4.2 Even without anyone saying it, I can tell.
PAGE 38 1 SFX: Ah! 2 SFX: hyu (whizz) 3 SFX: (whip) 5.1 A splendid suggestion, Christine. 5.2 From you, who still doesn't understand
PAGE 39 1.1 (float) Huh…? 2.1 the rules of this school. 2.2 …….This is…… // These cinders… 3.1 Ceddy's writing! 5 SFX: ga (general impact sound) 5.1 Please stop that uselessness. It's already burned up. // I only did what was inevitable.
PAGE 40 1.1 You're horrible! // You can't just open other people's letters and burn them! 1.2 The daughter of a good family, exchanging letters with a boy-- // It's slovenly. 2.1 …… 2.2 Don't tell me, 2.3 the letters that I sent to Cedric were also… 2.4 Well, you already know the answer, don't you.
PAGE 41 1.1 Letters written to anyone other than family // are not sent, but thrown out. 2.1 If you wish to correspond with that boy in the future, // please send it through your family… your aunt and uncle. 3.1 Don't call those people my family! // And Mr. Haversham, the lawyer, is going to make a lawsuit against your actions! 3.2 And just how do you plan to make this lawsuit? (To "carry out" this lawsuit? Ah, legal terminology…) 4.1 I'll leave here, // and go to his office in London!
PAGE 42 2.1 !! 2.2 (float) The key for the outside gate! 2.3 Someone! Seize this violent girl! 3.1 Take her to the contemplation room! (Reflection room, introspection chamber, whatever you want to call it.)
PAGE 43 1 SFX: BAM 2 SFX: DAN (thud, wham) 3 SFX: thud // wham 3.1 Why, she's // terrified. 3.2 As expected… 4 SFX: wham/bam 4.1 What's more, no one knows who your real father is, do they.
PAGE 44 1.1 I… I only have one father! // My father is the one who raised me. 2.1 My father always called me his "precious daughter!" 2.2 I won't forgive you for trampling his words underfoot! 3 SFX: Haa… (pant) 4.1 ……
PAGE 45 3.1 Don't worry... 3.2 Don't give up…
PAGE 46 1.1 They wait in darkness, in downpours, in story days, // patiently, for a break in the weather… (Match this to the same topic Mr. Bird was talking about) 1.2 The falcons must have the intelligence to hide…… (Again, match.) 3.1 Mister Bird… 3.2 Is now… that story time?
PAGE 47 1.1 My wings are still young… 1.2 They don't have the intelligence to read the wind… 1.3 It's alright. You will fly, // one day, // when the time is right. (This is worded a little differently from before--rearranged and such--so don't stress about matching.) 2.1 First, 3.1 light…!
PAGE 48 2 SFX: kachi kachi kachi (ka-chink ka-chink) 3 SFX: kachi (chink/clink) 4.1 The tools I used when camping with my father... 4 SFX: pa (flash/light) 4.2 Thank goodness I always carry them… 5.1 Ahh… 5.2 You've got a nice thing! (More naturally, "What a good thing to have!" maybe? Literally, "She's having a good thing, huh?")
PAGE 49 1.1 Ahh, it's a little fire, but it's so warm! 1.2 We won't 1.3 ?! 1.4 ?! 2.1 We won't get cold in the autumn nights any more! 2.2 Y… Yeah… // Um… 3.1 There are people other than me in the contemplation room? (match to page 42) 3.2 Hee hee, I've been here for three days. 4.1 Three days?!
PAGE 50 1.1 I'm Fiona. 1.2 I'm Emily. 1.3 Welcome to Miss Desemona's Select Seminary for Young Girls. 2.1 AKA (Also known as), // Desemona's Prison. 2.2 (tiny thing on the bottom right): #1 "Encounter" / End