Bakuman 4

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Box: After my Grandfather gave me the key to my Mangaka uncle’s studio, Shujin and I stayed the entire night looking through Name’s and manuscripts.

-This is interesting… I wonder why was it was rejected?
-Don't copy it.
-I don’t plan on writing Gag Hero Manga anyway.
-Page 4: Parent and Child

-There are tons of rejected Names here.
-All of the boxes had labels affixed, saying "Manuscripts", "Names", "supplies", ect.

-Except for one box, which was strangely unmarked.
-Crap, this better not be porn DVD’s.

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-Letters…?

-This is…
-We went to different high schools so we never saw each other, but we kept exchanging letters saying "How are you?" and "Hang in there!"

-How are you, Mashiro?
I've finally adjusted to high school. My class is pretty similar to that old drama, what was it again..? "Fly high, youth"? My classmates are pretty noisy, but really cheerful...

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Page 4: Parent and Child.

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-What’s wrong, Saiko?
-My uncle was always writing to the person he loved.
-Writing? How old-fashioned… so they had a long distance relationship?
-Nope, they lived in the same town.

-Really? Show me.

-“I went and saw “The Alfee’s” concert. It seems like I’ve become a more outgoing girl then when I was in Junior High School…”
-“I used to hate the rainy season, but since I bought 2 pretty umbrella’s I’ve started like it.” Hey, isn’t this just useless crap?

-Even though they both liked each other they never said it.
-I don’t get it.

-My uncle felt like he couldn’t tell her how he felt until he became a proper Manga-ka.
-So it was that, huh.

123:
-The letters were all arranged by date.
-“Congratulations on the Akatsuka Award”…So it must've been then...
-It’s amazing how much you can tell about their lives.
-Even though it felt like an invasion of privacy, we kept reading the letters sent between my Uncle and Miyuki Haruno. As we read, even I started to feel frustrated by their weird relationship.

-That’s the last letter.
-Yeah.

-Forgive me for not telling you until now, but I’m getting married in spring next year. That’s why I won’t be able to keep writing to you like this after the wedding day…
I know you might think I’m being selfish, but you understand, right?
I think exchanging letters with you over the last ten years or so has made me so happy. No matter what you wrote, I was always so glad to receive a letter from you.

-telling you
Married
won’t

-Wh…What the hell? She never once said she had a boyfriend! It’s too sudden!

124:
-I wonder what my Uncle felt when he read this letter…
-If this is the last one, that must mean your Uncle stopped writing replies
-When did [Superhero Legend] start?
-Um, it’ll be in the comics…

-H7 issue #20 was the spring of 1995...

-The spring two years before the letter...
-The anime started 2 years after that.

-So he didn’t make it…but I'm surprised he kept going. He must've had guts, or what you'd call "persistence" at least.

-She's the reason I was able to work so hard, and it was because I felt like she was out there, watching me, that I kept drawing.

125:
-Hey…what’s that?
-Hm?

-There’s still something inside the box.
-Yeah?

Book: Tanikusa Public Junior High
Photo Album
-Holy craaap!

-Your Uncle didn’t even ask her for a photo!
-Just how naïve was he?
-Even people 100 years ago were more progressive!!

-Miyuki Haruno!
Look for Miyuki-chan!!
-I know, shuttup already. I’m searching for it now.

126:
-Huh?
-Azuki…?

-Ah…

- Azuki’s mother!
- It’s Azuki’s mother!

127:
-It’s in your blood, like I thought! Your blood! It’s friggin’ scary, that DNA…DNA stuff!!
-You’re both encouraging each other through letters and e-mail!
-You’re just like your incredibly naïve uncle.
And she looks so much like her mother! DNA is friggin’ scary.

-You say that but we still don’t know that it’s her mother for sure.
-I’m certain, but let’s make sure anyway.
-how do we “make sure”?

-We’ll go to Azuki’s house again and ask her mother.
-Huh!?

-Tomorrow...or later today, I guess... Azuki has dancing lessons from five to seven o'clock on Wednesdays.
-Amazing...Azuki's taking dance lessons as well? Do voice actors have to be able to sing and dance these days too?
-Why don't you just ask Azuki her mother's maiden name?
-But then we'll just know if they're related.

128:
-Besides, there’s more you want to ask her, right?
-You’re just as curious about it yourself.

-*beep* *beep* *beep*

-Is it Azuki?

-I don’t know her number, remember!
-Crap, it’s my parents.

-What time do you think it is!? Come home this instant!

-Got it. I’ll come home now.

-C’mon, let’s go today!
-I can’t. You just go by yourself.
-There are no trains at 2am, so Shujin and I walked home for an hour.

129:
-Naturally I completely failed the second day of the test.

-It kept running through my mind… what if Azuki’s mother really was the girl my uncle was in love with?
-Why was I feeling so uncertained?

-We might as well go to Akizuki’s house.
-Okay!
-Just like I thought, you just want to ask about the two of them, right?
-That’s not it.

130:
-Alright, now!
-Doesn’t this seem kind of stalkerish?
-It’s like being detectives doing detective work. I feel kinda like Giovanni.
-You didn’t have any trouble pushing it today.
-Second time’s the charm.

-Yes?
-I’m Miho-san’s classmate, Takagi.
-Mention me too-…

131:
-Sorry, but Miho isn’t home right now. If you have a message-
-No, today I want to chat with you.

-Me?
-It’s about the Mangaka, Taro Kawaguchi…

-We… Mashiro-kun and I want to be Mangaka’s in the future.

-There’s no doubt she’s the one, judging from her reaction.

-How nice to be so young! Come on in and have some tea.
-We did it!

132:
-Come in.
-Wow! She’s looks just like Miho after all! She’s amazingly pretty. Um, if she’s the same age as my uncle, who was 2 years younger than my dad, so….she’s 42? She looks so young for 42!
It wouldn’t be too bad if Azuki looked like this after 28 years. Though she should stop wearing ringlets at 42.

-Sit wherever you like. I’ll go get some tea.
-Oh, thanks, please excuse us.
-So this is the living room Azuki is in everyday.
-Thinking about it makes me nervous.

133:
-You’re the son of Nobuhiro Mashiro’s brother, right?
-Uh, yes.
-So she does know him.

-When I was in junior high school, your father was two years above me. He was pretty active in the Judo Club though, so everyone knew him.
-Ah, yes, he’s always saying that “kids these days have no guts.”
-Let’s see, we have black tea and coffee…

-as well as oolong tea, cola, orange juice, wine and beer. What would you like?
-Oh, coffee for me!
-Shujin's so shameless. But maybe I should choose something too.

-Then I’ll have a coffee as well.
-Oh, Mashiro-kun,
-Nobuhiro Mashiro used to write that he always drank his coffee black in his letters.

-Hmm, so you brought up the letters before we could ask, Mrs. Former-Secretary-to-the-Company-President.

-There we go. Feel free to ask me anything, boys.

134:
-Well, we know Mashiro’s uncle was in love with you.

-Hey, first we gotta…

-I’m sorry we read all of your letters!
-What?

-We’re sorry!

-Oh my, how embarrassing!
-You read all of them?
-Yes.

-She’s blushing at her age?
-How cute!

135:
-Did I write anything embarrassing in them?
-Did I?
-Ah, no. All your letters were unbelievably innocent.

-So he saved all my letters..
-and you read them.

-Well, it can't be helped. I forgive you.
-Thank you very much.

-I know your letters where innocent and never mentioned it,
but did you love him?
-Hey, you can't ask her that!

-Yes, it's true. I loved him.

136:
-Then why didn't you tell him?

-I just...couldn't. It was too embarrassing, and I felt like I shouldn't.
-Besides, shouldn't men be the ones to say it first?

-I think we were both waiting for each other to say it.
-And in the end, I grew tired of waiting, so I found a new love and got married.

-But when Miho was 3 years old, I turned on the TV and discovered his manga had been turned into an anime.
-I was so surprised!

-But in a way I was still so happy to know he was working hard.
-After that, even though it was embarrassing, I started reading "superhero legend" in the aisle at the supermarket.
-Wow.

137:
-I cried when I read one story he wrote, called Masculine Fantasy.
-It made me realize that this was how Mashiro must have felt.

-"Masculine Fantasy"
Masculine Fantasy fell in love at first sight with a Princess. But since he was a weak, no-good hero, he dreamed of the day he'd be the best hero in the universe and could confess his love to the Princess at his inaugural party.
-But even while he was still a no-good hero, the Princess came and confessed to him.
-"Dammit! You shouldn't have come! Wait 'till I'm the best hero in the universe, and not before then, bitch!" he babbled, so the princess slapped him.

138:
-So that was a message for you?
-That was the impression I got.

-Pretty good, Taro Kawaguchi.

-Well then, may I ask you something?
-Yes?

-Takagi-kun and Mashiro-kun,
-Which one of you is going out with Miho?

-Nah, neither of us. But if anyone’s going to be going out with her, it’ll be him!
-Hey!

-That’s good.

139:
-Smart guys were never my type.
-Girls tend to like bad boys better.

-Well, that’s just your own personal tastes.
I’m actually really popular with all the serious girls.
Text: I’m a bad boy at heart.
-What are you getting all irritated about?
Text: Sit down!

-Ahaha. Is that right? Sorry.
-It’s okay…

-Um…

-Does Miho-san know that you and my Uncle attended school together,
Or that he was a mangaka?
-No, she doesn’t know.

-Thank Goodness…

140:
-Please don’t ever tell Miho-san that.
-I get it. I won’t tell her.
You can’t tell her either, Takagi-kun.
-Uh, yeah.

-Akito Takagi-kun, Moritaka Mashiro-kun,
-Yes?
-I hope you both become great Mangaka’s! I’ll also be barracking for you.
-Yes! Thank you!
-Yes!


141:
-In the end, we stayed and talked with her until just before Azuki came home.
-I guess she’ll be that chatty when she’s older too…
-But she'll be nice and beautiful too!

-Yeah, I get why your uncle fell in love with her.
-I guess he was a romantic just like Masculine Fantasy.

-Masculine fantasy, huh…
-Yeah, us becoming Mangaka's are like Masculine Fantasty.

-Hey, we’re really blessed, right?
-Everyone’s barracking for us, after all.
-Doesn’t it seem like fate that Azuki’s mother is the girl your uncle fell in love with?

142:
-I’m going to make my dream come true!
-It’s not “I” but “we”!

-Certainly, I’m blessed.

-“We” are.
-And it feels like fate that it was Azuki’s mother who my Uncle fell in love with.
-But now I think I understand why everyone looked up to him like that.
-I did wonder why my Grandpa kept his studio like it was…
-And why dad wasn’t against me becoming a Mangaka…

143:
-Yeah, maybe they knew that…no, they could have wanted it to happen!
-Dad immediately forgave me, and Grandpa straightaway handed me the studio.

-I want to marry Azuki but that’s not the only reason I want to become a Mangaka.
-If I don’t do this, I won’t be a man…
-I’m won’t be a man!

-From tomorrow…No, today, I’m going to start drawing manga!
-Alright! I’ll get started on a Name too!!