Uchuu Kyoudai 1

Uchuu Kyoudai
Chapter 01 – Little brother Hibito and big brother Mutta

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Uchuu Kyoudai v01 c01
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Uchuu Kyoudai
KOYAMA Chuuya


Page 01
BOX: October 28th 1993, “Agony of Doha”
*TL NOTE: Agony of Doha is when Japan, despite all odds, failed to qualify for the World Cup due to a last-minute goal.

BOX: When everyone in Japan exhausted their energy on heavy sighs that cause used // the national CO2 level to have an astonishing 2% jump,

BOX: at that same moment as some old geezer’s beer-stinking sigh in his living room---- #if “at that same moment” is awkward, go with “along with”,

BOX: I, was born. #if possible, try to put some space between I and was for emphasis on I.
B1: Gyaaaa // bwaaa #is this ok for baby cries?


Page 02
BOX1: Three years later, September 17th 1996,
BOX2: Nomo achieved a no-hit no-run at the Major League---- // On this glorious day…..

BOX: When some teenage girl was all high and excited,
{ Beijing }
{ Berlin }
BOX: singing PUFFY’s song that debuted on that year….

B1: A~ll those white pandas~~
BOX: Her father said quietly:

B1: White….panda!?

BOX: At that same moment, little brother, was born. #same for little brother as before.
B1: Waaa
B2: Bwaaa


Page 03
BOX: Then on July 9th, 2006.
{ Age 9 }
{ Age 12 }

BOX: At the final match of German World Cup,
BOX: Zidane’s head butt exploded.

BOX: While everyone in the world were paying attention to Zidane,

BOX: us brothers were….


Page 04
<< #1 >> Little brother Hibito and big brother Mutta.


Page 05
BOX: July 9th, 2006
B1: I’ll investigate further than last time!
B2: Roger!

BOX: Naturally, a big brother

B1: Step

B1: ka-cha
BOX: must be moving ahead of his younger brother.
B2: Wiiiiiing


Page 06
B1: July 9th, 22:01
B2: Under the thicket of bamboo shoot new town, there’s a Japanese tree frog.

B1: Kwa
B2: Kwa

B1: Kwa
B2: Kwa
BOX: That is the duty of an older brother.

B1: 22:03, next field river mid-stream

< Chura >
< Chura >
< Chura >

B1: Shine
B2: !?


Page 07
B1: Mutt-chan, come here, quick!
B2: Aah?

B1: Wha~~~~~~t?

B1: You’re too slow, geez
B2: Waaah!?
< lift >

B1: Wai…t // Hibito, hey.
B2: Let me go….!

B1: …..
B2: Wow // wow

B1: What is that!?
B2: I don’t know!


Page 08
[no text ]


Page 09
B1: Wiiiiiiiiiiing

B1: Ohh!?
B2: What!!


Page 10
B1: Wha- // wha-

B1: ……!!


Page 11
B1: To….

B1: To the….moon?


Page 12
BOX: Year 2025. Houston, Texas.

B1: Next year spring, we will travel to the moon.

B1: As you all know, we have already finished transporting all the necessary materials required for us to stay at the moon for a long time.
B2: Flash
B3: Flash

{ CES – Crew Exploration System. Mission name for operations that tries to install a space base on the moon surface. }


Page 13
B1: Our mission is something like a rehearsal for realizing the immigration to Mars.
B2: With moon as the stage, we will construct a living environment and practice long term inhabitance.

B1: I see.

B1: But there seems to be stories that say you’re actually going there to look for UFO.

B1: The one who’s going to make this his first flight seems to be familiar with this, right?

B1: …..

< turn >


Page 14
B1: Oh…….maybe
B2: he’s talking about me?

B1: Uh-hum // Um~~~~ Please don’t be worried.
B2: Bzzzz
B3: I will focus on the mission at the moon.
B4: Bzzzzz
B5: Excuse me, please don’t grab the mike.

B1: It is true that I said “I’ve seen a UFO” while I was on TV, but // that’s just a childhood story.

B1: I don’t know if that really was a UFO, but


Page 15
B1: it is true that it became a inspiration that brought me here.

B1: …..
B2: Cough
B3: Then Namba Hibito-san….

B1: how do you feel about becoming “Japan’s first person” to land on the moon?

B1: For Japanese people, moon has been a very special thing for a very long time.
B2: I am honored to no end that I’m going there representing my own country.
B3: However….

B1: It is unfortunate that the person
B2: who should’ve stepped on the moon before me is not here.


Page 16
BOX: Japan #no need to TS leave it as it is.

B1: That’s all your belongings, right!

B1: Take that man to the station.
B2: Yes sir!

B1: …..
B2: Pff……
B3: How ironic.


Page 17
B1: To get sent off with the car that I design…… // and even earned a prize.

B1: Namba-senpai…. I really don’t know what to say…..
B2: Don’t bother. Getting fired is a pretty common agony.

B1: I’m quite used to agonies.
B2: It’s fate of a “Agony of Doha born” #if this doesn’t sound like it’s referring to someone born at that time, change of “one born during Agony of Doha”

B1: ……
B2: He’s saying it again…..

B1: Slam

B1: I’ll just say one last thing
B2: before I leave.
< rollllll >


Page 18
B1: Never ever follow my example…..
B2: of headbutting on your boss.

B1: ….

B1: We’re going.

{ May 15th, 2025. }
{ I, Namba Mutta, }


Page 19
BOX: cheerfully retired from the automobile development company.

BOX: Again the boss who bad mounted my brother, I ,

BOX: did it.

BOX: Of course it was an immediate exit.

BOX: I got kicked out from the company residence and they forced me back home.

B1: Unemployed, huh….. // fufufufufu…..
B2: “Unemployed”! // Hahahahahaha


Page 20
B1: ……
< ta-kan ta-kan >

B1: Let’s cry once I get back.
< ta-kan ta-kaun >

BOX: 3 weeks later -----

B1: Doo doo doo ga gang
B2: Cling clang
B3: Munch munch

B1: Step
B2: Bam

B1: ….
< munch munch >
B2: Doo doo doo
B3: Slang // Gyaa
BOX: Steven Seagal’s movie is peacefully running in the background…… “Table of Silence”.


Page 21
BOX1: Even my mother who was all excited when I got back,
BOX2: is now at this tension.

BOX1: Even the strawberry desert,
BOX2: is two less for mine alone.

< cling >
B1: Alright.

B1: I’ll start looking for a job properly from tomorrow.
B2: So…. you know, like strawberries……

< thud >


Page 22
B1: Zugagagagaga
B2: Oh // he died.
B3: …..
BOX: We’re a one silent family.

B1: squeeze

B1: tight

B1: I’ll be gone.
FLAG: FIGHT.

{ KD Auto Company }
{ Yoshioka Automobiles }

{ Car Design Yamamoto }

{ Blah~blah Company }

{ Blah~ blah }

{ Bla- }


Page 23
< flash >

BOX: Thanks to Mr.Great that I headbutted,
BOX: my bad reputation has spread to the bosses of all sorts of companies.
B1: scratch

BOX: Looks like I can no longer go back to the automobile industry.
B1: You know, …… I don’t care anymore….


Page 24
{ Mutt-chan }
{ I, just… }

{ …..! }

B1: …..


Page 25
B1: Mwargh
BOX: Naturally, a big brother

B1: phew……
BOX: must be moving ahead of his younger brother.

B1: However…. No matter what I do, I just fall behind,
B2: and the one moving ahead is always the younger brother Hibito.


Page 26
{ What….. }

{ What in the world…. }
{ did I want to do till now… }


Page 27
B1: What does that mean?
B2: Mutt-chan’s back there?

B1: That’s it! He got fired for headbutting! // It’s funny, right?
B2: Whaat!?

B1: Oops…! This was supposed to be a secred!
B2: He told me “Don’t tell Hibito”. // My bad!

B1: …. // Is that so.
B2: Then Mutt-chan must be job hunting right now.
B3: That’s right. Go cheer for him.

B1: …..


Page 28
B1: Mother…. help me a bit
B2: for Mutt-chan’s sake.

B1: Mutta~~~~? // Dinn~~~~er

< turn >


Page 29
B1: Mouri-san…..

BOX: At that time, Mouri-san

BOX: placed his hands on our shoulders.
BOX: As if he was sending us strength…..

BOX: At that time, us brothers,
BOX: must’ve thought the exact same thing.


Page 30
BOX: That I too will go
BOX: to the space that this person has been.


Page 31
B1: Mouri-san…. // Hibito did it.
B2: He will go to the moon.

{ On the other hand, I’m… }
{ a goner. }

B1: How do you do.


Page 31
B1: Rustle rustle
B2: thud

B1: Rustle // rustle
B2: Where did I put it….?

B1: Thud

= MESSAGE =
How are you Mutt-chan. You quit your job, huh. I heard from mom. If you still haven’t decided on a new workplace,
=======

B1: Ah…..
B2: Is it this?

=Message=
July 9th, 2006.
Take a look at the tape Mutt-chan’s been recording on that day.

Hibito
=========


Page 32
B1: This is it!

B1: Tap // tap
B2: Year 2006…..

B1: July 9th.
B2: Tap

B1: The tape I’ve been recording on that day.
B2: I haven’t particularly paid any close attention to it.


Page 33
BOX: Apparently Hibito took great care on the tape that he recorded on that day
BOX: and still keeps it as if it’s a good luck charm.

{ Why this tape right now…..? }

B1: Wiiiiiiiiing

B1: Japanese Tree frog.
B2: Kwa kwa

B1: Kwa
B2: Kwa
B3: Pffff….

B1: You’re too slow, geez.
B2: Waaaah!?
B3: Wai….t Hibito, hey!
B4: Let me go……!


Page 34
B1: Wow wow

B1: Right here, a UFO…..

B1: BZzzzzzzz
B2: !?

B1: Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

B1: Wha…..What is this noise!?
{ This sort of sound, back then there… }


Page 35
B1: !!
< Piiiiiiiiiiiiiiii >

B1: ……
B2: Ohh…..h

B1: For real….!?

< Piiiiiiiiiiiii >
B1: Zzzz


Page 36
B1: Bzzzzzzz
B2: ……!

B1: Zzz…..zzz……
B2: Zz… wha wha…..

B1: To…..
B2: To the…...moon?

B1: …………….
B1: Mutt-chan, I just……
B2: Somehow or other

B1: Somehow or other,
B2: I’ll grow up to be an astronaut in the future,

B1: and go to the moon. I just got that feeling.
B2: …..!


Page 37
B1: He…. He said it ahead of me!

B1: What’s Mutt-chan going to do?
B2: Eh, me?

B1: I……
B2: I’ll~~~~~…..

B1: I’ll…..
B2: What did I say------?

B1: Step
B2: Step……..


Page 38
B1: If you’re going to the moon,
B2: then this big bro will of course be a step ahead of you.

B1: I’ll go to Mars.


Page 39
B1: Then, it’s a promise.

B1: Y….
B2: Yeah, it’s a promise.


Page 40
B1: We will both become astronauts together…..

B1: Click

B1: ……

B1: Promise…..

{ The thing Hibito wanted me to hear…. }
{ is this----- }


Page 41
{ Are you telling me to }
{ fulfill this promise….? }

{ Hibito….. }


Page 42
{ 1 month later---- }

B1: Ten thousand!? You’re kidding me!

B1: It was only for 10 or so minutes that I went to buy this lunchbox!
B2: Just cause of that, I have to pay a penalty of 10 thousand? What kind of calculation is that!

B1: Don’t stay silent and say something! You! Shaggy hair!

B1: No, um…. // it’s ¥15,000* ….. #emphasis on 5.
B2: Shut up!
*TL Note: ¥15,000 = $191.

B1: ….Pfff
B2: How ironic.


Page 43
B1: Violating car is also…..
B2: MY DESIGN.

{ Poor thing…. }
{ My ghost, “ # - 6 ” }

B1: ¥15,000, wha…..t
B2: How many lunchboxes can I buy!?

B1: Ar----gh…..
B2: Better look for another job again.

B1: I want go home quick---- And keep on reading the book I left off.
B2: Although I know that it’s a wish that cannot come true.


Page 44
{ Like the good old times, }
{ I want to sink into the fantasy of space. }

BOX: August 10th, 2025
BOX: Some geezer got mad for parking violation, and started thinking
B1: Ha
B2: Ha

BOX: “It can’t be helped…. I guess I’ll eat the inside of this box as if it’s a rich lunchbox that costs ¥15,000… “
BOX: Around that time,

BOX: A certain letter
BOX: arrived at my house.


Page 45
B1: …..

B1: JAXA*……!?
TAG: Namba Mutta
*NOTE: JAXA(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) - Independent Administrative Institution on Aerospace Research and Development

B1: Why’s JAXA send me a something….
B2: rustle

B1: ……

B1: I’m the one who sent it (the resume).


Page 46
{ “New Astronaut”…. }
{ “Selection Test”…. }

{ Huh….? }
B1: ……

{ You have passed the paper selection }

B1: Hi-……Hibito….
BOX: At that moment, I…..


Page 47
BOX: don’t remember exactly what kind of face I made,

BOX: but I was probably,
BOX: with maximum wrinkly-ness,

BOX: either crying,
BOX: or maybe laughing.

<< #1 >> END


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