O/A 5

[This chapter has already been scanlated by Maigo. This is just the original translation.]

O/A
Chapter 5


p.01
Chapter 5: O/A (tentative)
*[subject to change, temporary, provisional]
Radio: How about we go start going to a song now, then.
SFX: Vroooom [rumble]

Radio: Even within my album, this is my favorite song.

Radio: “Hoshizora no Shita de Kimi wo Matsu”*
*[I wait for you under the starry sky]


p.02
Chapter 5: O/A (tentative)


p.03

Harumi: Pfewww*
*[She’s going puu~, kind of like fuu~, which is basically phew~]

Intercom: Okay. You’ve done pretty well so far.
Intercom: Can you still go on?
Harumi: O...of course I can.


p.04
Kusaka: We’ve received a lot of faxes for the show.
Taki: And their contents?
[Alt: What did they say?]

Kusaka: Nearly all of them are cheering Yutaka-chan on.
Kusaka: Everyone’s saying they were looking forward to this broadcast.

Top of fax: Yut-[aka-chan?]
Bold on fax: Please do your best!!
P.S I went to your concert in May
[Ah, forget the name...]

Taki: The show is proceeding well... And there is support from the listeners...
Taki: Okay.
Taki: But, that’s not quite enough...

If the idol (star role) doesn’t come...
Taki: You heard that, right Harumi-chan?
Taki: Listeners nationwide are seeking Yutaka-chan’s voice.
Yutaka: Y – yes!


p.05

Yutaka-san——


p.06
Everyone is waiting.
SFX: honk hooonk

That’s why, until you come,

Yutaka: Hey! We’re not moving at all!
Driver: The taxi congestion is very bad around this time...

I will defend your place, Yutaka-chan.

Radio: ...There we have it,* “Hoshizora no Shita de Kimi wo Matsu.”
*[That was]


p.07
Harumi: Well then, there were tons of faxes sent to the studio.

Harumi: I will be reading some of those now.

Harumi: Ah~~, radio name Deepthroat-san,
Can you hear this?
[Alt: Is this reaching you(r ears)?]
Harumi: “Good evening!! I am thrilled to hear your voice again.”

There are so many people cheering you on, Yutaka-san.
Harumi: “I will be looking forward to your activities as an idol from......”


p.08
Harumi: Ah......
But,

“I’m fed up with this......”

What if –
Directors: ?
No one’s voice is reaching Yutaka-san?

Would I only be driving her further up a wall......!?
Harumi: Ah......
Um......

Ueda: She’s suddenly started to snag on her words.
Ueda: Perhaps she can’t keep up her earlier enthusiasm for a long period of time...

p.09
Taki: Tsuda-kun,
Taki: Help her out as the scriptwriter.

Tsuda: I understand.*
*[I got it.]

Ueda: We’ll just have her read the faxes for now, so guide her through that.
SFX [white]: nod
Ueda: We’ll put in another song in five minutes.


p.10
Radio: Uh...... Th – the next fax?
Yes...
Radio: Ah!
Radio: *Rustle, rustle [papers falling]

SFX: clack [open]
Tsuka: !
Yutaka!

Yutaka: Now that we’ve come this far, it’s faster if I got off!!
Yutaka: I’m running there!!
[Alt: I’m gonna run there!!]

Tsuka: Hey, wait!
SFX: run


p.11
SFX: bang

SFX: fwip [jump]

Ah, geez

SFX: tap [land/step]
Driver: Hey!

I wonder why I’m trying so desperately.
I was feeling so down just now.


p.12
Is it for that Harumi girl?
Sign: Next fax!

For my fans?

I don’t know———— however!!

Radio: Uhhhhh... m, I think it’s time for another song.

Radio: This is also from my album, and...

Security: There’s an awful lot of songs since then.


p.13
SFX: Daaaaash
Security: !!

Security: H –

Security: Hey, who are you!?
Security: You can’t go in without a pass!!

I don’t know......
However......
Yutaka: Who......?


p.14
Yutaka: I am Horiuchi Yutaka,
I have to be there.

For my own sake!!!
Yutaka: An idol!!!

Security: Wha...
Security: Whaaa!!?


p.15
SFX: run
Security: Hey, stop!!

Tsuka: Sorry, passing through!!
Security: What are you people?
[Alt: What’s up with you people?]
SFX: scurry

Sign: Studio 6

Tsuda: Have you calmed down?
Harumi: .........
Tsuda: You just have to talk like you were at the beginning.
Harumi: Yes......

Tsuda: At this rate, it doesn’t seem she’ll be able to talk properly after the song ends...
What to do......

SFX: slam!!


p.16

SFX: pant, pant
Kusaka?: Yutaka-chan!!!

Kusaka: She really came......
SFX: stomp x 3

Yutaka: ......You’re not going to say anything?


p.17
Yutaka: I tried to abandon this show, you know.

SFX: pant, pant

Taki: ............
Taki: Well,

Taki: It’s all right, just hurry and go in.
Taki: She’s feeling lonely.

From the beginning,
This is the place you belong.


p.18
Harumi: !!!

Harumi: Yutaka-san!!!


p.19

Harumi: Oh!
Come over to this seat quick———

Yutaka: It’s all right, stay there.

SFX: plop
SFX: creak


p.20-21

This picture...
Ueda?: The song is ending.
Ueda?: 3
2
Ueda?: 1———


p.22-23
Yutaka: .........Um,
I know this is sudden, but......
Yutaka: I would like to promise something to all of the listeners.

Yutaka: I do now know how long the office turmoil will drag on,

Yutaka: So I can’t say when,
But,

Yutaka: I promise you.
I will definitely return.
Yutaka: Before all of you,
Yutaka: On the stage, once again————


p.24
Yutaka: Also......
Also... what was it?

Things I wanted to say...... Things I needed to say....... Until I got here,
I thought I had a lot to say.
[Alt: Until coming here, I thought there were a lot of things I wanted to say...... Things I needed to say......]

But the words aren’t coming out......

Intercom: ............
Ueda: .........It’s been ten seconds.


p.25
Harumi: I will also continue this radio show.
Yutaka: !!

Harumi: Talks and corners,
Events and presents –

Harumi: Let’s do lots of fun things,
Okay?


p.26

Yutaka: Th-
Harumi: That’s right!!

Harumi: Atsu-atsu oden bukkake is also really fun!! [Atsu-atsu sort of means really hot, oden is a Japanese dish (with soup), and bukkake is (quickly) pouring something over you. I dunno how I can make this better. Hot oden dunking? Ouch.]
SFX: slip

Intercom: ...Whoopsie?


p.27
Yutaka: Eh~,
Yutaka: Um......
Yutaka: Scratch that.
Yutaka: No oden.
Harumi: Huuuuuh!!?

SFX: write (with marker) [squeak squeak]
Sign: Why is that?
Yutaka: Obviously!!
Yutaka: Something else, like...

Harumi: Hmm~~
SFX: write (with marker) [squeak]
Sign: A more idol-like proposal!

Harumi: Then how about this!!?
Harumi: Atsu-atsu soy milk bukkake!!!
Why is the atsu-atsu bukkake part still there!!!?
[Alt: Why are you so fixated on the atsu-atsu bukkake!!!?]


p.28
SFX: write (with marker) [squeak squeak] x 3
Intercom: Hmmm, but playing with food may not be so good.
Intercom: Oh, broadcasting while relaxing in a lotion bath might...
Intercom: N – no, you can’t really tell on the radio.
Intercom: Putting a live eel in my underwear –
Intercom: That might make a mess in the studio…
Intercom: Getting completely naked and doing a rodeoman– [cut off]
Intercom: *Smack!!
Kusaka: She’s completely weird.

Yutaka: We shouldn’t do something so radica——

SFX: squirt
Yutaka: Urgh
Harumi: !!?

Yutaka: Oh......


p.29
Taki: She was hit by a car!?
Tsuka: It didn’t seem very serious...

Harumi: Ahh... Blood......
Yutaka: .........
SFX: gush
Harumi: There’s...... blood......

Forgot name: Blood?

Harumi: Ah,
Harumi: Ah,
Aah......


p.30
Harumi: A ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!
Harumi: It’s that day for me!!!

It’s that day for me~
It’s that day for me~
It’s that day for m – [cut off]

<~~~Echo

Ueda: What an awful* broadcast...
*[this is close, but I can’t come up with a direct translation. You could just go with filthy I guess >.>]
Kasuka: What an awful broadcast...


p.31
Taki: *chuckle [Fu fu]

Taki: Really......

Taki: What an awful broadcast.


p.32
Horiuchi Yutaka
Frustrated!?
On public airwaves, “It’s that day for me”

Ueda?: ...Are you serious?

Taki: Of course.

Taki: From now on, “Horiuchi Yutaka Aurora Plan” will always consist of two people
Taki: And proceed in a new direction.


p.33
Taki: I was convinced by the last broadcast.
SFX: write (with marker) [squeak squeak]
Taki: This show becomes interesting because there are two people.

Taki: The idol, Horiuchi Yutaka......
Taki: And the comedian, Tanaka Harumi.

Taki: Born through the two of them talking,
Taki: Existing only through the radio –
A new “personality.”

Taki: We will tentatively name that after the show’s title –


p.34
Taki: As “Aurora”............
Personality
Aurora
SFX: squeak

SFX: squeak x 4
Taki: Two people with the same voice in one role.
With this system,
Taki: We will build up a shining, new image of an idol within the late-night radio.

Taki: And that——
IS THIS!!!
SFX: BANG!!


p.35
SFX: click

SFX: lights
Kusaka: Cell phone, cell phone.........

Kusaka: There is it!

Kusaka: I knew I forgot it here (in the conference room).

Kusaka: Oh, no.
No one bothered to erase it?
Kusaka: ............


p.36
Kusaka: Two people in one role...
SFX: hair falling...
Kusaka: She* comes up with the stupidest things...
*[subject unmentioned]

Plan– [cut off]
Operation Aurora
Kusaka: I wonder how this is going to go........
Yu – [cut off on left, above. Probably followed by “ta”]
Ha – [cut off on left, below]
Chapter 5: End


p.37
O/A


p.38
Afterword
Broadcast room

Shiho: “Afterword broadcast room” corner~~~!!
Shiho mutter [white]: Yaaay
SFX: honk honk
Miharu: .....
Miharu: Hey,

Shiho: This section is for revealing the inside story on the production of “O/A”~
Shiho mutter: wooo
Miharu: Hello~

Shiho: What?
Miharu: Who... ...are we?

Shiho: Tsk, tsk... What was that? What was it that happens all too often in adolescence?
Shiho mutter: Oh dear
Shiho: Is this what they call an identity crisis?
Miharu: No!!
Miharu: All of our readers wouldn’t know anything about us since we started this corner out of the blue!!

Miharu: Geez...
We are characters based on the piece created as an alternative to “O/A”
Miharu: When “O/A” seemed like it was about to be dropped in the planning stages.
Paper: Scrapped
Shiho: In a nutshell, it’s reusing characters from a scrapped piece.
Shiho


p.39
Miharu: They say the editor* went white as a sheet at the time.
*[I’m assuming that’s what it is, as it actually says tantou-san, which is “the one in charge”]
Author mutter: I can’t write it.
Ed.: No waay
Ed.
Shiho: It was already at the point where the serialization’s first issue was already chosen, but “I can’t write the name” he goes...
What's more, a sci-fi was apparently written instead.

Shiho: Whoops, we’re out of time. We’ll see you in volume 2!!
Shiho mutter: Bye bye~
Miharu: You’re kidding!?
We’ve barely explained anything!

Miharu: Couldn’t we get more pages?
Shiho: We~ll, it’s not like we can’t get more no matter what,
Shiho mutter: Hrrrrm

Shiho: But they said the profit margin is better if we keep the page count down to around this much...
Shiho mutter: For publishing reasons
Miharu: That’s awful!!
It’s horrible how realistic* that kind of story is!!
*[cynical]


p.40
The next volume of “O/A” is——
Presented by two people in one role.
Yutaka: Fu, fu, fu, fu...
Harumi: Uu~~~~ [kind of like grr but less aggressive... is there anything like that?]
Sparks fly(?) in the live broadcast!


p.41
Miho: Oh, how stupid you look!!!
[Alt: what a silly sight!!!]
And then—
Rival (Kaieda) attacks!

Taki?: The content is almost –
Furthermore—
Taki?: The same......?
A premonition of an incident*!?
*[trouble]
Look forward to volume 2!
O/A