I Am A Hero 1

NEW SERIES, START!! (like i need more of these right now -_-;)
It sure don't look it, but some of these small lines are deceivingly difficult to translate. Don't mind my random japanese in there.

But psycho manga is SOOOO EDUCATIONAL!
And the art kicks arse. serious arse.

00 mag cover
blue: I heard the sound of something break.
red: Hanazawa Kengo / New Serialization / I am a Hero
small, below that: Hanazawa Kengo's new focus-- / A "distorted" world, where ordinary and extraordinary, mediocrity and madness intersect. / This story is one like never before!!!!

(i don't care about the rest.)

01
left vertical (sideways): The world's absurdity is past the critical point...

02
tiny red: 人生までもが
The point where life itself...

03
tiny red: ただの茶番となり果て・・・
...becomes nothing more than a mere farce

04-05
(sideways)
・・・あらゆる絶叫よりもくるおしく、あらゆる静寂よりも静まりかえった、夢遊病者たちの乱舞が始まる
...more maddening than any shriek, but quieter than the deepest silence, the crazed dance of the sleepwalker begins.

below "I am a HERO" is 'Chapter 1' on the lower left. I don't think Kengo HANAZAWA is meant to be the title :P so, title-less?

very tiny white below is a message that boys on the run will have a movie adaption coming (another manga by this author)

06
祝福なき祝祭の世界(?)
left vertical: 1 year after the conclusion of "Boys on the Run," Hanazawa Kengo projects a world of unholy revelry...that starts now.

7-10 no text (protagonist's shirt says "Hysteric NEET")

11
-...check.

-...check.

12

13
-...Yum
-...Yum

14
-...oh, it's Sunday...

-Ho. (t/n - like a grunt?)
tv: Nursing home fire, 12 dead (t/n - the last part is cut off)

15
-I...

news: ...apologies, that headline should read "Dog attack," not "Dog attacked" Continuing the story---
tv headline: Dog attacked, Critical condition
-can't stand lady announcers.

16
-Eh!?
-Why's that??
-Aren't they, like, the kinda girls everybody wants to date at least once??

-...you curious, Yashima?
-Tell me, Tell me!!

-Self protection? Ah...
-Hmm...giant earthquake

17
-Erm, where to begin...For starters, the youth of our society are rotten. Only those cool "Miss Campus" chicks have any redeeming value.
(t/n - miss campus is exactly what it sounds like, some kinda pageant run by universities. big in japan? they're good looking and supposedly very smart too, so double hitter)
-So, y'know..um...
-Like, say she's reporting live on the air about some pro baseball player or young kid from a rich family getting married--the type that only thinks about cheating all the time--and a giant earthquake occurs.
-Do you really expect that kinda "me-first" personality to remain calm and continue reporting without abandoning her professional duty?

-Not a chance. She's sure to run around in circles, screaming her head off in the process. Sigh......
-I think flight attendants are far superior for risking their lives in the line of duty.

-Being an announcer should have nothing to do with selling your youth. They should be forced to live like regular people for about 10 years,
-Only once physically and mentally matured--somewhere well over 30--should they be given the right to stand before the camera
screen: End of Programming (t/n - is that what late night tv says?)

18
-Well, I don't happen to particularly care for flight attendants or tv announcers
-but...
-should one come up to me and say, "Hold me!" then...I suppose I wouldn't mind granting her wish

-Man, you're serious!!
-Yep, sure am. In fact...

tv: Testing Signal

-I prefer women with high scholastic achi---ah...

19
3 small sfx bubbles - pi (pushing the button)

20
-Radio...

-...dio Late Night edition
-ooh.
-Next, we have the news.

21
-Last night, just after 10 p.m...a local nursing home...
-...caught fire. 13 were unable to flee in time...
-...According to facility personnel...an 84-year-old male inside took...

-...oh no.
-Here it comes.

22

23
-Bastarrrd---!

-Just had to bring up scary stories while I'm working, eh!?
-You stay on topic!
-Don't go talkin' about anything but lady announcers!!

24
-Aaand for our next song, we have...
-Yamasaki Hako's "Curse". (t/n - real song (click).)
-Cong Cong, Cong Cong...driving in the nails~

-The tatami crackles down below~

-fuu (exhaling sfx)
-fuu

25
-...3 AM.

-Namu Amida Butsu
(t/n - (taken from answers.com) The Japanese pronunciation of the ‘six-character form’ of the nembutsu, or oral invocation of the Buddha Amitābha. The phrase means ‘Hail to Amitābha Buddha’, and is chanted or recited by Japanese Pure Land Buddhists in order to gain rebirth into the Pure Land after death. See also Nien-fo.)

-Namu Amida Butsu! Namu Amida Butsu!
-Namu Horen Gekyo!

-...guess I'll go down to the convenience store

26
-Namu Amida Butsu!
-Namu Amida Butsu!
-Grandma, today I pray for you! (t/n - unclear who.)
-Namu Horen Gekyo!

27
-...it hasn't even been
-one minute...!

28
-Can't even hear the sound of a single car...
-...fuuu

-But I live right next to an expressway...time must have stopped!
-fuu

-fuuu
-fuguu (t/n - if you have better exhaling sounds, swap away)

29
-...Tekko.
-Must be sleeping. Got that job, after all...
(phone: home / mom / <> tekko (cut off)

-...no...
-can't run from this!

30
-...I got it,
-I got it!

31
tribute to various mangas. left is homunculus, middle "kuma no puutaro" = winnie the pooh-taro, right: Saruman
(t/n - ah, saruman! did you know it's commercially available in english? aka "Even a monkey can draw", it's a parody of all those how-to-draw manga books, as well as a satire of the manga industry. And this years before bakuman...sadly, its cliches are still true today. Be warned, it parodies hentai too so may be age-inappropriate. http://www.amazon.com/Even-Monkey-Draw-Manga-Vol/dp/1569318638)

-What'cha doin'?

-Making a magic circle.

-Nakagawa Isami-sensei's manga takes me to a place far from my fears
-Wow! What a distinctive interpretation!!
(book is "winnie the pooh-taro")

32
-Textbooks are the same
生真面目でどことなくユーモアもあり、無機質。これも恐怖から遠い。
-Honestly speaking, for some reason I find humor in them, even though it doesn't belong in 'em. These, too, take me far from my fears.

-And my graduation album.
-Middle school, high school were both crap, but elementary school! The hopes and dreams I had then give me strength.

-Evenly spreading them out
-will protect me for the time being
-...now to bring out my trump card.

33, 34

35
-You ain't laying a finger in here...

36,37

38
-Mm-hm.

-It'll be fine
-It'll be fine

-...because...

39-40
-I am a hero.

41
book: Field trip memories

42
(same, cut off)

43
-tv: 4/27 (mon)

-a-one...a-two...
-Goo~d morning! (t/n - there's a pun here, methinks. Late night tv with adult programming. ohayo is said as opayo, oppai = boobs)

44
-Good...morning.

45
-..and good night.

left vertical (in panel) - As this city awakens, one man finally lays to rest...and thus, our story begins.

leftmost: "I AM A HERO" CHAPTER 1/END