Mangahelpers Translationshttps://mangahelpers.com/translators/rss2009-07-25T19:00:14+00:00/favicon.icoMangaHelpers Adminsadmin@mangahelpers.comhttps://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/14458[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 13 by cnet1282009-07-25T19:00:14+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.com1 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 13: Curse [Insert text: A sinister shadow closes in on Rinne...?! A new incident unfolds!!]
2 [Side text: As the three good friends walk home together, Miho-chan tells of a sinister accident. A new spiritual issue unfolds on the way home from school?!] Miho: I heard a second-year boy got in an accident around here recently, you know. Sakura: Oh? Miho: Uh-huh... he was on the way to see his girlfriend, riding a motorbike. // But he crashed into a telephone pole... Rika: Did he die, then...? Sakura: .........
3 Sakura: (I wonder... if that's him.) Reiji: Nnnnhh~~ Sakura: (Hm...? // A bat...?)
4 Sakura: (Huh...? What...?! // A bat-person...?)
5 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: His grandmother is a Shinigami, his grandfather human. This penniless first-year high-schooler guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara. // Mamiya Sakura: Wandered into the next world as a child, but made it back. She has been able to see ghosts ever since.] BatGuy: You can't stay here like this, you know. Reiji: Hmmm~? / Really~~? BatGuy: You'll curse for me, right?! / Yeah?! Reiji: Hmmm~~~? / Yeah, sure... BatGuy: It's a promise, then! [Writing: CERS] Sakura: ("Curse"...?) [Writing: CERSE]
6 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokumon: One of the Black Cat Tribe, sworn to support Shinigami in their work. Contracted to Rinne.] Sakura: (Did he just... spell "curse" wrong?!) Miho: What're you looking at, Sakura-chan? Sakura: Nothing... // (What was that...? // I've never seen anything like it...) Students: Morning~! // Hey~ [Text: Please help me. I have been cursed.]
7 [Text: Three days ago, my boyfriend had a motorcycle accident.] Rinne: (It's from a second-year girl...?) [Text: I will explain in detail on the school roof...] Sakura: Morning, Rokudou-kun! Rinne: Mamiya Sakura. Sakura: Is that a request? Rinne: It looks like it, but... // This spelling... [Letter: Plese help me. I have been cersed. Three days ago, my boyfrend had a motorsycle acsident.]
8 Tomoya: Ah... here they are, Minami. Suzu: Are you the ones... / ...who sent this letter? Sakura: Huh...? // You were sent a letter calling you up here as well? Tomoya: Oh, I'm just accompanying her. Suzu: How odd... it's the same handwriting. // But that's strange... // It's my boyfriend who got in an accident... Sakura: (Huh...? // Then this girl is...)
9 Sakura: (That boy's...?! // !)
10 Reiji: Down... you... go...! Sakura: That scrawl on his forehead... [Writing: CERSE] Sakura: It's the ghost from the telephone pole! Tomoya: What's wrong, Minami?! Rinne: Tch...
11 Suzu: Hi-yaaaahhh! Reiji: Unghhh!! // I won't forget this~~~~! Tomoya: Are you all right, Minami?! Suzu: It felt like something was strangling me... Tomoya: Ahh! // There are finger-marks on your neck!! Suzu: I threw it off without thinking, but... / This is scary! Tomoya: If you weren't in the wrestling club, you could have been in real danger...! Sakura: The wrestling club...? Wow!
12 [Text: Minami Suzu, Class 2-2 // Tadano Tomoya, her classmate] [TN: "Tadano Tomoya" strikes me as a bit of a pun... "Tada no tomo ya" can mean "just a friend".] [Box: Relationship to the ghost] [Box: Ghost: Todorou Reiji] [Labels: Lovers // Best friends // Classmates] Suzu: Reiji is wandering the earth as a ghost?! // But that's impossible... Reiji is... Rinne: He's still alive, isn't he. Sakura: What?! Suzu: Three days ago, Reiji got in an accident on his way to meet me... [Sign: Local General Hospital]
13 Suzu: His motorcycle was out of fuel, so he was walking it along the street... // ...when he happened to trip and smash his head on a telephone pole... // It must have been a nasty blow, because he hasn't opened his eyes since... Sakura: (No doubt about it... it's the same guy!)
14 Rinne: Of course he won't wake up. // Not until we return his vengeful spirit to his body... Tomoya: Vengeful spirit?! Suzu: But why would...?! Sakura: Rokudou-kun... there's something I ought to tell you. / I saw a boy who looked like a bat, and he... Rinne: A bat?! Sakura: (Hm...?!) [SFX: vrrrm vrrrm vrrrm] Tomoya: What's that?! [SFX: vrrrm] Rinne: (That's a spiritual sound... // Why are the two of them hearing it?!)
16 Reiji: You started going out while I was stuck in hospital, didn't you! // I know all about it! Tomoya/Suzu: Huh?! Sakura: Is that true?! Tomoya/Suzu: No, no, no. Reiji: Don't try to fool me! / I'll curse you both!! Rinne: Get back in here. Reiji: Wha - ?!
17 Rinne: ! Sakura: Eh...? // A cash card...?! // Ah - the guy from back then...!
18 Rinne: ...So this is your doing. // How distasteful. BatGuy: Then why not try and stop me? // Rinne-kun... Sakura: (Eh...? // They know each other?!) [Side text: A man who holds some kind of connection with Rinne. Who is this strange bat-person?!]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/14457[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 12 by cnet1282009-07-25T18:55:46+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.comGuidelines For Using My Translations
1 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 12: Something Lost [Insert text: O songstress unable to pass on... / What regret is tying you down?]
2 [Side text: The ghost of a songstress... she wants to pass on, but has forgotten her own regret, and spends her days aimlessly wandering the swimming pool. And her troublemaking is on the rise...?!] Girls: Did you hear about the Songstress of the Pool? // This time, a second-year girl got pulled under the water! // I heard it happened to one of the Swimming Club members, as well! Sakura: (Utagawa Misora-san... // She still hasn't managed to pass on...) Teacher: ...Why are so many of you staying out of the pool, hm?
3 Teacher: Now, I know there are some funny rumours going around... // But let me make this clear! // There are no ghosts in this pool! [SFX: SPLISH / SPLASH / SPLOOSH] Girls: Aaaahhhhh!! Sakura: (Misora-san?! // Wow... she's certainly working hard at this...)
4 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: His grandmother is a Shinigami, his grandfather human. This penniless first-year high-schooler guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara. // Mamiya Sakura: Wandered into the next world as a child, but made it back. She has been able to see ghosts ever since.] Rinne: She's angry because they're in her way. Sakura: Rokudou-kun... Misora: A~nd release. Rinne: Allow me to explain what I have found through my observations of Utagawa Misora. Misora: Have you worked it out?! / The reason why I can't pass on?! Rinne: Spirit Utagawa Misora. // I believe you are searching for something!
5 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokumon: One of the Black Cat Tribe, sworn to support Shinigami in their work. Contracted to Rinne.] Misora: Huh...? // Searching...? / Me...? Rinne: Whenever you're not singing... // ...you seem to swim about the bottom of the pool as though looking for something. Sakura: Ohh~? / So whatever she's looking for might be what's tying her down to this world? Rinne: I'd say so. / If she finds it, she can pass on. Rika: Sakura-chan has a habit of talking to herself sometimes, doesn't she... [Text: When wearing the Yomi no Haori, Rinne cannot be seen by ordinary people.] Misora: So tell me... / What is this thing I'm searching for? Rinne: Who knows. Misora: Well, that's no good! / You useless fool. Rinne: Tch.
6 Sakura: Utagawa Misora-san... // ...had an important rehearsal coming up after school on the day she died, right? // If she was missing the rehearsal where they were going to decide on a part leader... // ...it must have been something pretty important she lost. Rinne: Indeed. And despite that... Flashback!Misora: I don't remember anything of that sort... // ...and I can't say I want to, either. Rokumon: Rinne-sama, I've bought it! / A ready-to-assemble Soumatou kit! Sakura: Rokumon-chan. Rinne: Using a Soumatou is our only option.
7 Sakura: A Soumatou...? // As in, that thing where people's whole lives flash before their eyes just before they die...? [TN: A "soumatou" is a traditional type of revolving lantern, designed to throw moving shadows on the walls around. The "life flashing before your eyes" phenomenon is known as the "Soumatou Phenomenon" in Japanese, and it's more well-known than the actual soumatou itself.] Rinne: That's right. If we connect this up to the spirit, it should show even forgotten memories. Rokumon: And they just happened to be going cheap in a wagon sale today! Sakura: Only 30 yen?! Wow! [Box: Meanwhile, the teachers had gathered at the pool...] Exorcist: I shall now begin the exorcism. Satou: Do you suppose these ghost rumours are true~? Exorcist: Let us present an offering of snacks. Misora: !
8 Misora: Wh... What is this? // Stop it... Sakura: ! // Oh, no! Rinne: Tch...
9 Rinne: ! Teachers: Th... This is...! // The snack offerings... Rinne: The teachers are in the way! / Rokumon. Rokumon: Leave it to me, Rinne-sama! // GET OUT OF THE POOL~~~~~~!! Teachers: D - Demon cat~~~!! Rinne: Whew, that should clear up the rumours about the pool... Sakura: Somehow I doubt that. Rinne: Spirit Utagawa Misora.
10 Rinne: Have you remembered anything? Misora: I don't know... Rinne: At this rate, you're going to turn into an evil spirit... // I want you to let me help you recover your lost memories. Misora: ...You can do that?
11 Sakura: Something's coming out of the Soumatou...? Rinne: It should settle into a projection of her memories from life. // (Even if the memories are unpleasant enough for her to suppress them... // She has to remember...)
12 Sakura: (It's kind of... like a movie...) Projection!Guys: Utagawa-san, would you go out with me? // No, with me! Projection!Misora: Oh, my. // Ohohohohoho... Projection!Girls: Oh, Misora... you're so popular! // I'm so jealous! Projection!Gury: Utagawa-san, you're the best! // So beautiful, so smart, so athletic... // And such a lovely singing voice!
13 Rokumon: Is it going to show anything other than all these comments on how wonderful she is...? Projection: [aside]You're so cute, Misora! // You're the best, Misora! // Go Misora![/aside] Sakura: None of this seems particularly "unpleasant"... Misora: Hmmm? / What's going on now? Rokumon: I... It broke... Sakura: Well, if you will buy such cheap goods... // Still, you really were... // ...pretty popular, huh, Misora-san. Misora: Well, yes... / I didn't feel like mentioning it, since it would seem a little self-absorbed...
14 Misora: But I suppose my memories revealed it all! / [aside]ohohohohohohohohohohohohohohohoho[/aside] Sakura: Hm?! Rinne: ! // (I've got it!! This is her regret!) Sakura: Rokudou-kun! Rinne: (She really did want to sing in front of everyone after all... // But she couldn't do it!)
15 Misora: Ahhh... / The memories are flooding back... // That day... I... Flashback!Guys: So I hear they're going to be choosing a part leader at choir rehearsals today? // Can we come along and watch? Misora: Hohoho... but of course. Misora: (...I lost something very important... // And as I was searching for it... // ...I ran out of breath, and...) Rinne: Spirit Utagawa Misora.
16 Rinne: Take this... Misora: What's this? // Th... This is...!
17 Misora: Ahhh... A perfect fit... Sakura: She was searching for her false tooth... // So the reason the offerings drove her mad... // ...was because they all looked so bad for her teeth...
18 Misora: Thank goodness... With this... // I will be able to sing in front of everyone...! [Text: And so Utagawa Misora, Songstress of the Pool... // ...passed on to the next world, singing all the while.] Misora: [aside]yuure-i-ho~~~[/aside] [Text: Her voice could be heard throughout the whole school.] Students: Wh - What's that?! // Did you hear that voice? // It sounded... out of this world... Sakura: Oh... so you took out a loan to buy that false tooth. Rinne: The insurance was no use... [Side text: The proud songstress disappears into the clouds... along with her expensive false tooth...]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/14456[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 11 by cnet1282009-07-25T18:54:36+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.com1 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 11: Songstress of the Pool [Insert text: A new chapter begins! // A sound echoes from the water's depths. / Is this devilish voice luring innocents to Hell?!]
2 [Side text: The nasty rainy season, filled with worries that offerings might go stale, is over... // ...and in its place, a season ripe for ghost stories arrives!] Teacher: Independent practice, everybody! [Text: The season of swimming pools has arrived.] Rika: Sakura-chan, can you help me with my practice~? Sakura: Sure, Rika-chan.
3 [Text: The mysterious voice...] Voice: yu~~~~~ re~~~~~ [Text: ...echoed from beneath the pool surface.] Sakura: Hm? Rika: What's wrong, Sakura-chan? Sakura: I thought I heard... a voice... Rika: A voice? [Text: It sounded as though it was crying out...] Voice: yu~~~~~ re~~~~~ Sakura: (A spirit's voice...?) Rika: Aahhh!! Sakura: (Rika-chan?!)
4 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: His grandmother is a Shinigami, his grandfather human. This penniless first-year high-schooler guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara. // Mamiya Sakura: Wandered into the next world as a child, but made it back. She has been able to see ghosts ever since.] Sakura: ! Misora: You... // ...can see me? [SFX: nod nod] Misora: I see... / In that case...
5 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokumon: One of the Black Cat Tribe, sworn to support Shinigami in their work. Contracted to Rinne.] Misora: Come back here... // ...during lunch break. Rika: But it's true! // Somebody was pulling on my leg from under the water!! Miho: Rika-chan... that could be... / ...the Songstress of the Pool. Sakura: (Songstress of the Pool?) Rika: What's that, Miho-chan? Miho: A ghost story that's been passed down in this school. / I heard it from my older sister...
6 Miho: Apparently over ten years ago, the most beautiful girl in the school at the time died. // She was the star of the school choir... // ...and at the time she was rehearsing hard for an upcoming contest... // ...but one day, she didn't show up for rehearsals after her sixth-period swimming class... // ...and they found her lying drowned at the bottom of the pool. // Ever since then, whenever the swimming season comes around... // ...people start hearing a spoo~~ky voice singing from beneath the water... / ...or being pulled under from below the surface... Rika: Stop that~~~~~~~~~! Sakura: (I guess that must have been her... she was pretty beautiful.)
7 Sakura: ...So that's the deal... // Please, Rokudou-kun! Could you come along with me? Rinne: You've got an appointment... / ...with that ghost who's been singing every night? Sakura: You know her? Rinne: Well, she gets pretty noisy. / And besides... // Rika left a request at the instrument shelter. // It must have really scared her, being pulled under the water like that. She's usually so stingy, but this time... // ...she left a whole 300 yen! Sakura: That's enough, huh?
8 Sakura: Eh? // You want to pass on as soon as possible?! Misora: That's right. // I'm bored of being in this pool all the time... Sakura: That's great! // This should make things easier. Rinne: Let's hear what your regret is. Misora: Regret?
9 Rinne: If you want to pass on but can't, that means you have some kind of regret tying you to this world. // My job is to help you eliminate that regret. Misora: Hmph... I don't remember anything of that sort... // ...and I can't say I want to, either. Sakura: Huh?! // Um... / You were in the choir, right? Misora: That's right. // Utagawa Misora, Class 3-3. // I was the most beautiful girl in the school, and a wonderful singer.
10 Misora: And for me, that day... // ...was a very important one. Sakura: ("That day"... // The day she died...) Misora: During the rehearsal that was to take place after swimming class... // ...we were going to decide the soprano part leader. Sakura: (But she died there in the pool... // ...and never made it to that rehearsal...) Rokumon: Sounds like a pretty simple case to me! Sakura: Rokumon-chan... Rinne: Simple? Rokumon: Well, yes. // No need for you to even get your hands dirty, Rinne-sama!
11 Rokumon: Attention, all students! // Please assemble in the gymnasium at once! // If you don't, then you will be cursed~~! // Right! Now let's put the Yomi no Haori on you and get you out of this pool! [Text: When turned inside-out, Rinne's Yomi no Haori causes ghosts to take physical form.]
12 Misora: (I'm out of the pool...!) Sakura: She seems kind of happy... Rinne: ...... Rokumon: Well, shall we go, then? Misora: Go where? Rokumon: You want to sing for everyone, right?! // The whole school is waiting for you over in the gym! [Banner: A Recital by Utagawa Misora] Misora: What?
14 Misora: You've got it completely wrong, you fool! // Don't do such unnecessary things! // I just want to pass on! That's all! // If you don't let me, I'll pull the whole school down to the bottom of this pool!! Sakura: Is she becoming corrupted into an evil spirit...? Rinne: Tch... // Spirit Utagawa Doremi. Misora: The name is Misora.
15 Rinne: You like singing, do you not? // I hear you singing every night. Misora: I do. // I sing here every night. Sakura: (Huh... // She likes singing, but...) // I guess that's not her regret. Flashback!Misora: I don't remember anything of that sort... // ...and I can't say I want to, either. Sakura: That's what she says, but... / ...do you think she's hiding something from us? Rinne: No... // I suspect she really has forgotten. / It happens sometimes.
16 Rinne: Even if it is the very thing preventing them from passing on... // ...if a memory is unpleasant enough... // ...spirits can often forget about it altogether. Sakura: (An unpleasant memory...) Flashback!Rinne: It's the job of a Shinigami to work out what that memory was and help the spirit to remember. Sakura: (That girl... why did she end up drowning in the pool, anyway...? // What exactly happened...? // Come to think of it, that voice I heard in the pool... // It sounded...
17 Flashback!Voice: yu~~~~~ re~~~~~ / yu~~~~~ re~~~~~ Sakura: (It sounded... as though it was crying out... // "Yuurei"... "Ghost"?! // Don't tell me... Utagawa Misora-san was pulled to the bottom of the pool by yet another ghost...?!) Imaginary!Misora: [aside]aaghh~! ghoooost~~~![aside] Imaginary!Ghost: [aside]hihihi[/aside] Sakura: (That would certainly be a nasty memory!!) Rokumon: She's yodelling like crazy again, huh... Misora: Yuure-i yuure-i yuure-i-ho~~~♪ Rinne: Does she have to be so noisy about it? [Box: It was just a song from her choir days.] Rokumon: Rinne-sama? Rinne: Let's go.
18 Rinne: (If we keep a close eye on Utagawa Misora for long enough...) Misora: Yuure-i-hi~~~ yo-hoho~~~i Rinne: (We're sure to catch her reliving the moments leading up to her death. // That should give us some kind of clue as to the nature of the regret tying her down. // What exactly happened in that pool?!) Misora: What are you looking at? Rinne: No, no... / Please, carry on as you were. Rokumon: Does this girl really want to pass on...? [Side text: Misora-senpai, the most beautiful girl in the school, and a wonderful singer. What kind of regret could this proud songstress possibly have?!!]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/13695[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 10 by cnet1282009-07-01T14:40:20+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.comGuidelines For Using My Translations
1 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 10: Reunion [Insert text: The mirror reflects the shocking truth!]
2 [Side text: Through the power of the expensive Ungaikyou, Himekawa-senpai's past life is finally revealed! But now, tears are falling from her eyes...?!] Warrior: Why, she is crying! / What is the meaning of this?! Rokumon: Let's see... what's this phenomenon...?
3 Rokumon: Oh! Looks like Himekawa Kaori-san is resonating with the Ungaikyou. Sakura: You mean she's remembering her past life? Warrior: Could it be... // ...that these are her tears of regret at being unable to be wed to me in her previous life?! Imaginary!Princess: No... killed before we could even be wed...?! Sakura: (One five seven three...? // Oh, of course, the year 1573... // That's probably around when the fallen warrior died...) // !
4 Rinne: What's all this? Sakura: It looks like... the ocean at night. Warrior: She was grieving my death by the ocean at night?!! Imaginary!Princess: No... killed before (etc. etc.)...?! [TN: No, I'm not being lazy, it actually says that =p] Sakura: Ah - I think I see someone there! Ungaikyou: Zoooooooom... // ...IN!
5 Warrior: Princess...
6 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: His grandmother is a Shinigami, his grandfather human. This penniless first-year high-schooler guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara. // Mamiya Sakura: Wandered into the next world as a child, but made it back. She has been able to see ghosts ever since.] [Box: Sea turtles cry when they lay their eggs.] Rinne: This is no princess... // It's a turtle. Warrior: There must be some mistake... Himekawa: Why am I a turtle?!! Ungaikyou: There is no mistake. // When that fallen warrior was alive, this young lady was a sea turtle. [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokumon: One of the Black Cat Tribe, sworn to support Shinigami in their work. Contracted to Rinne.]
7 Warrior: I know! / The princess had a birthmark shaped like a petal on her right-hand wrist! // If you have the same birthmark... Sakura: Nope. Rinne: Sorry to disappoint, but I think this clears away any doubt. Rokumon: Good thing we bought this mirror, right, Rinne-sama?! // After all, this particular Ungaikyou... / ...is the latest model, able to synchronise with the Wheel of Samsara and monitor visuals of every reincarnation that has passed through it! [Labels: Monitor // Transmission // Data] Sakura: Wow... // Hm?
8 Sakura: (It's gone up...) // What's this number here? Rokumon: Why... / ...that's the transmission fee, of course! Rinne: (There's a charge for the transmission?! // Nobody told me this!!) // Stop it. Now. Sakura: (Huh... Rokudou-kun didn't know about this system...) Rinne: At any rate...
9 Rinne: We have at least proven that Himekawa Kaori is not the reincarnation of your Princess. Sakura: Wow... the mood got heavy... Warrior: Princess... Sakura: But then... // What's going to happen to him now? Rinne: Now that we have proven that he has the wrong person... // ...it seems unlikely that he will bother Client Himekawa Kaori's dreams any further. // However... // This fallen warrior has been waiting for hundreds of years since becoming a spirit... // ...for his Princess to be reborn into this world.
10 Rinne: Those hundreds of years of feelings are tying him firmly down to this world... / ...and preventing him from passing on. Sakura: But then... Rinne: Until he meets his Princess' real reincarnation in this world... // ...he may be doomed to wander this way forever. Sakura: But that's terrible... // We don't know how many years it might take... // What's the matter, Rokumon-chan? Rokumon: I just remembered! // You said the Princess has a birthmark like a petal on her wrist, right? // I'll just go and check!
11 Everyone: (Wha...?) Rinne: You think you might know who she is?! Rokumon: I can't shake the feeling I've seen her somewhere... Satou: Oh, my. // Little cat! // Over here!
12 Sakura: (Satou-sensei from the infirmary!) Satou: There's a nice kitty. Himekawa: Sensei, the reincarnation of the Princess? Warrior: ...I really don't know about that... Rinne: No, no, I'm seeing a resemblance. Sakura: Let's check it out, Rokudou-kun! Ungaikyou: [aside]hohohoho![/aside] // Warning - walking about results in an additional charge being appended to the meter! Rinne: (Not him!)
13 Sakura: Satou-sensei! Satou: Oh, Mamiya-sa... Sakura: Ah! // It looks like some kind of ancient mansion... Warrior: (Please let it not be her... Please let it not be her...!) Rinne: (Let it be her... let it be her!) Ungaikyou: Zoooooooom... // IN!
14 [Box: Carp / A freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae family. Possesses two small "beards". Kept for eating or ornamentation.] Sakura: A carp. Warrior: All right! Rinne: No! // Wait, she doesn't have a petal birthmark at all... [TN: Check these things before you blow all your cash on the mirror XD] Satou: What's all this? Suzuki: You guys are still here? Sakura: Suzuki-sensei from gym class...
15 Suzuki: Oh? What is it, little guy? Rokumon: [aside]mew~ mew~ mew~![/aside] Sakura: (A birthmark like a petal...) Rinne: I - It couldn't be... Ungaikyou: Zooooooom... // ...IN! Suzuki: Hm?
16 Everyone: (Suzuki-sensei...) Sakura: (She's actually prettier than in the picture...) Everyone: (...is the reincarnation of the Princess...)
17 Suzuki: Hmm...? // Have I... met you somewhere before...? Warrior: No... // I think you have the wrong man. [Box: And the warrior passed on without further ado. // It seems he had something of a revelation. // As for the client, Himekawa Kaori...] Rinne: This is difficult to say, but about the extra fees... Himekawa: I'm not paying. / More importantly...
18 Himekawa: If you tell anyone about my past life... / I'll tell the whole school that your little exorcist gig is fake as fake can be. Rinne: I won't say a thing. Sakura: Here, Rokudou-kun... // I made you lunch. Rokudou-kun: L - Lunch...? Sakura: Well, it's not going to be easy for you, paying off that Ungaikyou, is it? Rinne: No... Sakura: I guess I'll bring lunch for you occasionally. Rokumon: Sakura-sama is a nice person! Rinne: A casket of treasures... [Box: Contents of the Casket of Treasures / Boiled egg / Sausage / Parsley] [Side text: The mission may have landed Rinne deep in the red, but Sakura's kindness is priceless!]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/13694[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 9 by cnet1282009-07-01T14:38:43+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.comGuidelines For Using My Translations
1 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 9: The Dish of Vows [Insert text: Even in the afterlife, it's money that makes the world go round... / Or is it?!]
2 [Side text: This time, Rinne is dealing with an ancient ghost with romantic regrets... A fallen warrior in love?!] Sakura: Senpai! // Himekawa Kaori-senpai! Himekawa: Oh, hello. / You're... Mamiya Sakura-san from the first year, yes? [Box: Second-year Himekawa Kaori-san (17) has been haunted by a fallen warrior who offers her sake in her dreams each night.] Himekawa: You think you can solve it?! / Is that true, Mamiya-san? Sakura: Yes. / It's just that... Satou: Oh... Himekawa-san!
3 Satou: Are you all right? You seemed in a bad way yesterday... Himekawa: Oh... Satou-sensei from the informary. Sakura: Oh? // Rokumon-chan... Satou: Oh, you know this cat, Mamiya-san? Himekawa: It's so cute...! Sakuya: You got some milk, huh? Good for you. Suzuki: My, isn't he the popular one. // Fancy some sardines? Sakura: Suzuki-sensei from gym class! Satou: Well, when he walks up to you so cutely... Suzuki: I know... charming, isn't he! Himekawa: (The cat has taken over the conversation...) Sakura: (You sure know how to get on in the world, Rokumon-chan...)
4 Himekawa: This is... the club building that's going to be knocked down? Sakura: There's somebody inside I'd like you to meet. Rinne: You're late, Mamiya Sakura. Warrior: Princess!
5 Sakura: Wait, Senpai! Rinne: Client Himekawa Kaori. // This situation cannot be resolved without your cooperation. Himekawa: And you are...? Rinne: Let's just say... I'm someone who's here to help you work out your problem. Himeko: ...No, you're Rokudou Rinne-kun from Class 1-4, aren't you. / That red hair, and everybody knows about that red tracksuit... Sakura: (Even the second-years...) Rinne: First of all, I would like you to talk things over with this fallen warrior spirit.
6 Warrior: Princess... / Do you not remember me? // You and I were promised to be wed. Flashback!Warrior: Once this war is over and done with, we can hold our ceremony of vows. Flashback!Princess: Please, take care... Warrior: I promised that I would return safely. // But... // The next thing I knew... // ...I found myself standing in some kind of queue. Flashback!Shinigami: Everybody in a nice straight line! / This way to the next world! [Banner: Soldiers of the Miyoshi Army]
7 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: His grandmother is a Shinigami, his grandfather human. This penniless first-year high-schooler guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara. // Mamiya Sakura: Wandered into the next world as a child, but made it back. She has been able to see ghosts ever since.] Flashback!Warrior: (The next world...? // Am I... dead?! // But I cannot leave this world... // She is waiting for me...) Warrior: I broke away from the line of souls, and headed back to my homeland. // I know not how much time it took... // But by the time I made it home... // ...there was no sign of her anywhere. Rinne: ...And so you were unable to meet her again for hundreds of years. Sakura: Poor guy... Himekawa: Ehm... // What exactly is all this about?
8 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokumon: One of the Black Cat Tribe, sworn to support Shinigami in their work. Contracted to Rinne.] Warrior: Princess, I have been waiting all this time... / ...for the day when you might be reincarnated into this world. Himekawa: Reincarnated...?! / Me...?! Rinne: And this is where things get difficult. / Client Himekawa Kaori. // Are you willing to grant the wish of this fallen warrior's spirit? Himekawa: Wish...? Warrior: Princess... it need only be temporary. // But I wish to hold the ceremony of vows with you.
9 Himekawa: Ceremony... of vows...? // You mean... a wedding? Warrior: All that you need do is partake from this dish of vows. Rinne: This is the regret tying the fallen warrior's spirit to this world. // Do as he asks, and he should pass on. Himekawa: That's all it will take...? Warrior: With that done, I will have no more regrets. Sakura: (Huh... Things seem to be going pretty well, all things considered.) Flashback!Rinne: Cases like this are the worst kind. Sakura: (And after Rinne got me all worried, as well...)
10 Himekawa: Very well, then. / I do feel sorry for him. // And it is very romantic... Rinne: We will serve as your witnesses. Sakura: Huh? Me too? // (I see... So this is part of a Shinigami's job, too... // Helping people out like this... // It's nice that things ended well for you, Fallen Warrior-san.)
11 Rinne: (Thank goodness... it's going well. // Please let him just pass on now...) Himekawa: Ehm... // When will you be passing on?
12 Rinne: Is she really the one you were looking for? Warrior: Oh, absolutely! // Take a look at this! // I have not once let this portrait of my love leave my side! Sakura: A different person... Himekawa: How terrible... Warrior: Isn't she the spitting image?! // Princess... let us be bound together in the next world! Himekawa: Huh?
13 Warrior: We have exchanged the vows... we are man and wife! Himekawa: Hey - ! Sakura: Rokudou-kun, what's going on here?!! Rinne: Tch...! // I really thought we might be able to settle things peacefully, as well...!
14 Sakura: Rokudou-kun?! Rinne: I thought something like this might happen! Don't worry! Sakura: How terrible... // I can't believe that warrior was lying to us... Rokumon: He wasn't lying. That's why things turned out so badly. Sakura: Rokumon-chan... Rokumon: Over the hundred years he was searching, his mental image of her grew more and more beautiful...
15 Rokumon: That fallen warrior spirit really believes that Himekawa Kaori-san is his Princess! Himekawa: Whaaaaa~?! Sakura: Uh, seriously, though... Warrior: Princess! The next world is just moments away! Himekawa: Noooooooo! Rinne: Ugh... / I suppose I have no choice but to use this!!
17 Warrior: Open up! // Open up already!! Rinne: Even if you were to go to the next world like this... // ...you would not be able to pass on. Sakura: Are you sure about this, Rokumon-chan? / Just taking Rokudou-kun's wallet like that... Rokumon: It's for his own sake! [Box: Afterlife Festival] Rokumon: We'd like to buy a mirror~!
18 Sakura: A mirror? Merchant: Pick any one you like! Rokumon: It's called an "Ungaikyou". It reflects a person's form in their previous life. [TN: An "Ungaikyou" (literally "mirror beyond the clouds") is a type of demon from Japanese mythology. Specifically, a demon created from a "Shoumakyou" ("demon-illuminating mirror"), an artifact said to reveal demons' true forms, or reveal the demons within people.] Sakura: Oh, so we're going to use is on Himekawa-senpai? Rokumon: It should be helpful when it comes to convincing that warrior. // But please be careful, Sakura-sama. // The moment you touch one, that seals your purchase, and you can't go back on it. Sakura: Oh...? Rinne: So...
19 Rinne: You bought the most expensive one... Rokumon: It was Sakura-sama who picked it out! Sakura: That's not fair, Rokumon-chan! Himekawa: I want to go home... Ungaikyou: [aside]hohoho![/aside] // Feel free to gaze within! Rinne: ...If you would do the honours. Himekawa: I just have to look in here? Rinne: Now you can find out once and for all... / ...whether this is really your "Princess". Himekawa: ...... Rinne: (?!) Sakura: Tears?! [Side text: Tears pour from Himekawa-senpai's eyes! What tragedy lies hidden in her past life? Next issue, the shocking resolution!!]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/13329[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 8 by cnet1282009-06-17T17:15:06+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.comGuidelines For Using My Translations
1 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 8: Afraid to Sleep [Insert text: This time's opponent is kind of dangerous?! // A new incident breaks out!]
2 [Side text: Rinne's contracted black cat, Rokumon. Disguised as a kitten, he charms a certain tracksuit-teacher... but what is this presence?!] Satou: My, how cute. // Where did that cat come from, Suzuki-sensei? Suzuki: Ah, Satou-sensei from the infirmary. // Well, I've seen him around a lot lately...... // ...and I just can't help but feed the poor little guy.
3 Suzuki: Hm?! // What's wrong? Rokumon: !
4 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: His grandmother is a Shinigami, his grandfather human. This penniless first-year high-schooler guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara. // Mamiya Sakura: Wandered into the next world as a child, but made it back. She has been able to see ghosts ever since.] Rokumon: Rinne-sama... / You let that thing go on purpose, didn't you! // Are you sure that's okay?! Rinne: Listen up, Rokumon. // I'm no volunteer worker. // A thing like that... // Unless I'm requested to deal with it specifically... / ...I'm too scared to get involved.
5 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokumon: One of the Black Cat Tribe, sworn to support Shinigami in their work. Contracted to Rinne. // Tamako: Rinne's grandmother. The Shinigami who helped Sakura out when she wandered into the next world as a child.] Satou: Your teeth hurt? [Box: I, Mamiya Sakura, first witnessed this apparition...] [Sign: Infirmary] Satou: Well then, I'll give you something for the pain, / but you should have a dentist check it out as well. Rika: Are you sure there's no other way?! Sakura: Of course not. [Box: ...when I was accompanying Rika-chan to the school infirmary.] Sakura: (Hm...? // What's that sound?! // It's getting closer... // It stopped...?)
6 Sakura: (A... // A fallen warrior!) Himekawa?: Nnnnhh... Unnnhh...
7 Satou: There's a second-year girl resting in there... // Perhaps she's in pain? // Are you all right, Himekawa-san? Warrior: Drink up now, Princess. Sakura: ?!
8 Satou: Himekawa-san... Himekawa: Ah! Sakura: (It vanished...) Himekawa: Ahh... // That dream again... Sakura: Ehm... are you all right? / What do you mean, 'again'? Himekawa: Well, you may not believe this, but... // Recently, I keep having the same dream every night, of a fallen warrior offering me sake... // It makes me scared to sleep... Sakura: I see... Rika: Um... Senpai... Himekawa: "Legendary Instrument Shelter"? Rika: If you've got spiritual problems... // ...then making a request at the Instrument Shelter is your best bet.
9 Rika: You just have to place a letter stating your request in here, along with a monetary offering and a gift to the spirits. Himekawa: Monetary offering? Rika: Just a little change will do! Rinne: Mamiya Sakura. Sakura: (Rokudou-kun...) Rinne: A little change will not do. Make her leave a whole note. Sakura: Wha~t?! / Why? Rinne: Also, during the rainy season, I'm a little worried about food poisoning, so get her to leave a canned gift. Sakura: Tell her that yourself! Rika: What's wrong, Sakura-chan? [Box: When wearing the Yomi no Haori, Rokudou Rinne cannot be seen by ordinary people.]
10 [Text: Himekawa Kaori, Class 2-1. // I have been having frightening dreams since last month... // ...ever since I went to Kyoto on a school field trip. // He appears by my bedside at the ryokan...] Flashback!Warrior: Drink up now, Princess. [Text: I have it every single night; it's driving me crazy... // Even since I came back to Kyoto, the dreams haven't stopped...] Rinne: (So it latched on to her in Kyoto, and she brought it back here. / The ghost fell for a passing stranger...)
11 Rinne: (Still... // If it has some kind of unfinished business from its previous life... // The 1000-yen monetary offering... // Even this huge sum of money may not be enough...) Himekawa: I'm sleepy... / ...but I'm scared to sleep... // So sleepy...
12 Rinne: The fallen warrior appears when the client, Himekawa Kaori, falls asleep. / When he does, we capture him... [Note: When wearing the Yomi no Haori, Rokudou Rinne becomes ethereal.] Rinne: ...and interrogate him thoroughly... // ...to find out why he is haunting her. Himekawa: Good. // That'll keep me awake.
13 Rinne: Bonk. // That should do it. Rokumon: Friendly, aren't you. Warrior: Pri~~ncess...
14 Warrior: Hm? Rinne: Tell me who you are. // What is your business with Himekawa Kaori? Warrior: There's a man... // ...at the Princess's bedside... Rinne: Eh...? Warrior: Princess, how could you~?! Rokumon: There he goes... Rinne: Wait!!
15 Warrior: I see... I see now. / So you were unwilling to accept my sake... // ...because you had another man... Rokumon: I think he's getting the wrong idea. Rinne: Tch... // There's nothing for it. [Bubble: The Yomi no Haori is a useful reversible item; when turned inside-out, it causes ghosts to take physical form.]
16 Sakura: Hm? Kids: Wh... Whoa... // Check out those arrows... Sakura: Rokudou-kun and the warrior... // In the middle of town? Rinne: Not good... we're drawing a crowd. / Rokumon. Kids: [aside]gotta snap this![/aside] Rokumon: Yes, Rinne-sama!
17 Rokumon: BE CUUUUUURSED~~~!! Kids: D - DEMON CAT~~~~~~~~!! Rinne: Hm. // That should leave their memories of the warrior a little scrambled. Sakura: Rokudou-kun... / You working? Rokumon: Sakura-sama! Rinne: Mamiya Sakura... Warrior: Ahhh... // This is truly terrible... // I became a ghost and lingered in this world... // ...all so that I might see the Princess again...
18 Warrior: And finally, my wish was granted... // I found the reincarnation of the Princess...... Sakura: (Reincarnation!) // That's kind of romantic... Rinne: You have no idea. // Cases like this are the worst kind. // They can be very... troublesome. [Side text: Why does the romantic warrior's regret have Rinne so worried?! Next issue, Rinne takes the cover and colour pages!!]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/13146[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 7 by cnet1282009-06-11T11:57:16+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.comGuidelines For Using My Translations
1 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 7: Contract Cat [Insert text: A ball of fire. / A demon cat. // A mysterious kitten. // And now Rinne too appears in the club building?!]
2 [Side text: His grandmother, a Shinigami. His grandfather, a man reborn as a mackerel. This penniless boy is living in the school club building, by the light of a candle in a mackerel can...] Sakura: So the ball of fire in the clubhouse... // ...was a candle...? // So, Rokudou-kun... // What are you doing in here? Rinne: Nothing. / Just living here. Sakura: Living... in the club building? / Are you allowed to do that? Rinne: You think I care about that? / It's free, that's what matters.
3 Rokumon: Poor, poor Rinne-sama. / Evicted from your rented house when your grandfather died... Rinne: I wasn't evicted, I left. // I'm not wasting money on rent. // You should go home, Rokumon. // I'm fine here on my own. // Ever since I decided to live in this world, I've been entirely prepared to... Sakura: Ohh~? So you're called Rokumon-chan, are you? Rokumon: Yes, Sakura-ojousama! Rinne: Try listening. Rokumon: I'm not going home. / Tamako-sama's orders. Rinne: Granny's...?
4 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: His grandmother is a Shinigami, his grandfather human. This penniless first-year high-schooler guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara. // Mamiya Sakura: She was spirited away as a child, and has been able to see ghosts ever since.] Sakura: (So Rokudou-kun's grandmother... // ...is called Tamako-san...) Rokumon: Well, that's the deal. // So here's the employment contract... // Just sign your name and stamp where it says "Employer". / A thumbprint'll do fine. Rinne: Wait. // You're already in a contract with Granny, aren't you? Sakura: A contract? Rokumon: Oh, we black cats have existed in partnership with the Shinigami since ancient times. / Once we form a contract...
5 Rokumon: Ill omens, curses, threats, and of course helping eliminate evil spirits... [Labels: Black Cat // Evil Spirit // Shinigami] Rokumon: We black cats support our Shinigami contractors in all sorts of ways. Sakura: Erm, and you would be... Rokumon: The cool cat up there at the top of the page, of course! Rinne: ...It's a real stretch, but I guess we can go with that.
6 Rokumon: But Tamako-sama told me herself! Flashback!Tamako: Rokumon, you must use your incredible abilities to help Rinne out. Rinne: It's a real stretch, but I guess we can go with that. // Anyway. / I'm not forming a contract with you. // I'm not in any position to support you. // Ow.
7 Rokumon: Now if I put this hair in here... // E~~vil~~~curse~~~~ Rinne: Shut up. Rokumon: Sign~~~the~~~con~~~tract~~~
8 Rinne: Beat it. Sakura: Ah~~~, I kind of feel sorry for him. Rinne: Mamiya Sakura, you should head home as well. Sakura: ...I came here through some kind of spirit path, / so I don't have my wallet or any shoes. Rinne: ...Back when Grandfather was alive, I remember seeing an anime about a careless housewife like that... Sakura: Hey... are you really not going to employ the little guy? Rinne: No. / You heard what he said - he's here on Granny's orders.
9 Rinne: I'm sure that old woman... // ...is just trying to keep me tied down to the Shinigami world. Sakura: Oh... Flashback!Tamako: Come and live with me, why don't you? // You're my one and only grandson... Rinne: Sorry for all the trouble. Sakura: Thanks. / See you tomorrow. Rinne: Bye. Sakura: (Rokudou-kun...) // I wonder if he's lonely... / Living in that abandoned club building all by himself... Rokumon: Of course he is.
10 Sakura: ...Oh, hello. / Back, are you? Rokumon: Yes, Sakura-ojousama! // I truly do feel very sorry for Rinne-sama. Sakura: Mm... / He told me his grandfather died. Rokumon: Indeed. And so... / Tamako-sama, his grandmother, is no longer permitted to continue living in this world. Sakura: She's what? Rokumon: It seems that Tamako-sama had sworn that she would live in the human world... / ...for only as long as Rinne-sama's human grandfather was still alive. // And Tamako-sama made one other... // ...important deal in the Shinigami world.
11 Flashback!DeathPriest: Do you swear that in exchange for extending this human man's life for fifty years... / ...you will perform ten times the usual Shinigami duties? Flashback!Tamako: I do~~~~! Flashback!DeathPriest: And in the case that you do not meet this target... / ...do you accept that we will have your children and grandchildren perform the work until is it completely met? Flashback!Tamako: Sure~~~! Rokumon: ...She didn't meet the target. Sakura: Whaaaaat?! / But then... // Rokudou-kun is working to pay off the debt his grandmother worked up?! Rokumon: Pretty much.
12 Rokumon: But Rinne-sama, with the human blood he carries, is not a full Shinigami. // As such, in order to perform these duties... // He has no choice but to rely on various tools that an ordinary Shinigami would not need. // And those tools don't exactly come cheap. Sakura: So that's... // ...why he's always short on money... Rokumon: That's why I want to use my power as a black cat to help Rinne-sama in his duties! Rinne: (Ugh, he's made a mess of this place...)
13 Rinne: Hm? // An envelope... [Envelope: To Rokumon / From Tamako!♡] Rinne: Rokumon must have left it behind... // ......... Students: A demon cat~~? Miho: It was really there! Rika: Sakura-chan, you saw it too, right?! Sakura: Yup. Over here.
14 Flashback!Sakura: So you just want me to bring everyone from my class? Flashback!Rokumon: This is for Rinne-sama's sake. Rokumon: Heheheh... // Here come the puny sacrifices... // If I kill a few students off, make a real bloodbath of it... // ...the student body will plummet into the depths of terror!
15 Rokumon: Rinne-sama's instrument shelter will get big business! // And what's more... // I can get all the contract money I - Rinne: Hey. Rokumon: Rinne-sama! Rinne: Sorry... I read this. [Letter:] Dear Rokumon-chan Notice of Dismissal Sorry, you're fired. I believe there's an opening at Rinne's place, why don't you try there~? From Tamako~♡ [/Letter] Rinne: I'm sorry, Rokumon. // You were really relying on me to help you out... // And I failed to do anything. Rokumon: ...Aw, come on... // You don't have to apologise and everything...
16 Rokumon: I'll go home. / I'm sorry I bothered you. Rinne: Rokumon... Rokumon: To make up for causing you all this trouble... / Or at least as a parting gift... // I'll just go slaughter some students~~~.
17 Rinne: Wait! // That's called causing more trouble - Miho: Hm? // What's... that noise...? Sakura: It sounded like something falling... // Ah!
18 Miho/Rika: So cu~~~~~te!! Students: ...And? What happened to the demon cat?? Miho: You think he was abandoned~? Rika: He's so friendly~~~! Sakura: ...I think he's just unconscious. [Box: After a little talking things over... // Rokudou-kun and Rokumon-chan formed a low-wage contract. Rokumon: This place is like heaven~~~! / I just have to sit in a box and pretend to be a kitten, and people give me food! Rinne: I guess you can handle your own living costs, then. [Side text: Score one useful minion(?) Next issue, a new spiritual incident breaks out!!]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/13145[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 6 by cnet1282009-06-11T11:56:14+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.comGuidelines For Using My Translations
1 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 6: Mystery of the Club Building [Insert text: His grandmother is a Shinigami. // But Rinne is a human... or something like that?]
2 [Side text: Leaving Granny behind, Rinne and Sakura return from the afterlife. Is it time for the truth about Rinne to be revealed?!] Rinne: I'm a human... // ...or something like that... Sakura: What's that supposed to mean, though, Rokudou-kun? // I thought you were a Shinigami? Rinne: It all happened fifty years ago. Sakura: Fifty years... Rinne: Apparently it was around the time Tokyo Tower was built.
3 Rinne: My grandmother (the Shinigami)... // ...came to collect a certain man, as part of her work. // He was a young, sick man, with only one minute left to live. Flashback!Granny: My, what a fine man! Rinne: ...Apparently he was totally her type. Flashback!Grandfather: You must be the Shinigami... [Label: Dying] Flashback!Grandfather: You're beautiful... // I'm glad that I was able to meet such a beautiful woman, here at the end... / It won't be long before I die, and I daresay I'll be reborn as a bug or a lizard or something, but... Flashback!Granny: A mackerel, actually.
4 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: Sakura's classmate. A "shinigami" who guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara? Swathed in mystery. // Mamiya Sakura: She was spirited away as a child, and has been able to see ghosts ever since.] Flashback!Grandfather: A mackerel... // [aside]*sigh*~~[/aside] // They're delicious boiled in miso... Rinne: His lonely smile touched her very heart... // ...and Granny fell in love. // That man, destined to be a mackerel... / ...was my grandfather. Sakura: Your grandfather was human... Rinne: And so of course Granny pulled a few strings here and there... / ...not all of them exactly legal...
5 Rinne: ...extended my grandfather's life for another fifty years... // ...and the two lived a happy life together. // Grandfather finally made his was to the Wheel of Samsara this Spring. // I daresay he's migrating on the Kuroshio Current about now. Sakura: I... see... // (His grandfather passed away...) // What about your father and mother? Rinne: I don't know. // I always lived with my grandfather. Sakura: (Huh...)
6 Sakura: (Should I not have asked a thing like that, I wonder...? // So Rokudou-kun... is living all by himself now...? // I guess that's why he's so poor. // I don't get the feeling Shinigami work pays all that well. // ...Come to think of it... // Why does Rokudou-kun, with his human ancestry... // ...have to do Shinigami work in the first place...?) // Ah... // Hello? // Oh, Miho-chan. [TN: SHE HAS A NAME!] Miho: Sakura-chan, listen! // Something really scary just happened!
7 Miho: I'd forgotten something at school, so I went back after hours to get it. // And just when I was walking past that club building that they're going to be tearing down soon... // I saw something inside the window, where nobody ought to be... // It was a ball of fire, I know it! // I was scared, so I ran straight back home, but now I can't stop thinking about it... // I have to go back and investigate! / So please... could you go there with me tomorrow?! Sakura: I guess...
8 Rika: Miho-chan, are you sure you really saw it...? Miho: I saw what I saw! Rika: Why don't you try the instrument shelter, then? Sakura: (I don't know about that... // There it is... the club building. // It certainly is an old place, but... // Huh...?! // Something's coming?!)
9 Sakura: ...... // (There really was something here... And it's huge...) Miho/Rika: Aaaaghhhhhhh!! Sakura: Huh?! // (They can... see it too?!)
10 Miho/Rika: A DEMON CAT~~~~!! Sakura: (...Yep, they see it.) // Rokudou-kun...
11 Sakura: (...And off he goes.) Miho: I'm really sorry, Sakura-chan! Just leaving you there like that...! Sakura: Oh, Miho-chan. / No, no, I'm okay. // (...Still... / What exactly was that demon cat...?) // If Miho-chan and Rika-chan could see it too... // ...then it's not some kind of spirit?
12 Sakura: Hm? // A kitten... // How cute...! // ...Oh, it's hurt. // I'll fix you up, little fella. // Let's go to my place.
13 Sakura: There you go - some milk and some food. // Eat up! Mother: Sakura~! I need some help in the kitchen~! Sakura: Coming~! // You just stay put, okay? Cat: ......
14 Sakura: Kitty-ca~t! / Did you eat your food? // Ah... // Watch out! // If you fall from that heightl, you'll...! // !
15 Sakura: Huh...? / The window disappeared...?! // (Where am I...?!) // Ah... // Wait!
16 Sakura: Wait up~~~~~! // (Hm?! // Did he just get a little bigger?!) // !
17 Sakura: Huh...? / The club building...? // (The ball of fire...?) Rinne: So it was you. / Stop messing about already! Cat: Owww!! / But... // I was only doing it for you, Rinne-sama!
18 Cat: See? / I got you some tasty food and everything! Rinne: Wha... / Where did you get stuff like... // Mamiya Sakura... // What are you doing here...? Sakura: I think that's my line. // Let's have an explanation, now, shall we? [Side text: In the spot where the ball of fire and demon cat appeared... sit Rinne and the kitten?! Next issue, the kitten's identity is revealed!!]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/12740[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 5 by cnet1282009-05-29T17:49:31+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.comGuidelines For Using My Translations
1 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 5: O-ne-e-sa-n [Insert text: In a mysterious land, / where an enormous red wheel turn in the sky, // she met a mysterious woman. // Mamiya Sakura. / Memories of younger days...]
2 [Side text: Separated from Rinne, Sakura became lost in the afterlife. Now, she recalls the events of that day in her youth...] Flashback!Grandmother: Don't forget, Sakura, you mustn't go wandering off in the mountains alone! Flashback!Sakura: Okay, Granny! Sakura: (That's right... // That day, I was visiting my grandmother's house... // ...when I found it standing at the entrance to the mountain path.) Flashback!Sakura: Ah...
3 Flashback!Sakura: It's a bunny-rabbit! Sakura: (Beckoned by a rabbit wearing a T-shirt I didn't really understand...) [Tshirt: YOROSHIKU] [TN: The T-shirt reads "yoroshiku", a polite phrase meaning something like "pleased to meet you" or "pleased to be working with you", only with an unusual spelling phonetically using the characters for "night", "exposed", "death" and "pain". Apparently it's a pun that was once popular among delinquents. I'm no expert on the education of Japanese children, but I doubt a little kid could get the pun, or even recognise all the characters. ~~] Sakura: (...I wandered into the mountains. / And then...)
4 Flashback!Sakura: Ahh - a festival?! // Yaaay! Flashback!Granny: You must leave. // This is no place for a child like you... Sakura: (That's right... // That lady showed me the way back home. // But that's strange... // For some reason, I can't remember her face... / Well, it was a long time ago. Oh, well.) GuidePerson: Everybody, form a straight line!
5 OldWoman: Hello there, young lady. Sakura: Hello? OldWoman: You are rather young, aren't you? // Do you really have no regrets to hold you back? OldMan1: Mm, that's right. / We're all done and satisfied with our lives... OldMan2: We sure are~! Sakura: (Huh... Now that I think about it... // All the others here are old people... // And they all look so satisfied.) OldMan1: At your age... // ...are you sure you have no ties to hold you down? Sakura: (It all seems kind of fun.) // It's okay! // I get the feeling everything's just fine!
6 Rinne: Mamiya Sakura! Flashback!Granny: It looks like she's wandered into the All-Done Entrance. // The place people pass through when they have lived their lives to the full, and died with no regrets. // This Sakura girl is getting caught up in their mood of satisfaction; she'll be heading straight for the Wheel of Samsara. GuidePerson: That's right! / No rushing now, just nicely up the steps! // Have a nice next life! Sakura: Thank you!
7 Sakura: (Ahh... // These steps go all the way up to the Wheel of Samsara...)
8 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: Sakura's classmate. A "shinigami" who guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara? Swathed in mystery.] Sakura: (Hm...? Then does that mean... // ...I'm going to be reborn as something else...? // Huh... I see...) Flashback!OldWoman: Do you really have no regrets? Sakura: (Regrets... hm...) // Mmmmm... // I guess not...! [Box: Mamiya Sakura is completely caught up in the satisfied mood of all the others.] Rinne: Mamiya Sakura~~!
9 [Side text: Character Profiles // Mamiya Sakura: She was spirited away as a child, and has been able to see ghosts ever since.] Sakura: Hm...? Rinne: Mamiya Sakura~~~! Sakura: That voice is... // Rokudou-kun... // Ah... // (Back then... // I must... have torn off his sleeve... // I broke the haori that was so special to poor Rokudou-kun... // That was bad of me...)
10 Sakura: (I wish I could have apologised...) // ! // Aahhh!
11 Rinne: Mamiya Sakura!
12 Sakura: Rokudou... kun... Rinne: Do you have any idea what you just did, Mamiya Sakura? // You were about to die just now! Sakura: ...... // (He came to bring me back...) // Th... Thank you... Granny: Dear me... that was a nasty little situation. / If you had reached the Wheel, then there would have been no saving you. // At any rate... // ...why did you come along in the first place? Rinne: Hey! Stop eating my food! Sakura: Well, ah... I...
13 Sakura: I just remembered... // I came here once before... / ...back when I was a child... Granny: Beckoned by a rabbit? Sakura: That's right. // A rabbit wearing some kind of strange T-shirt... Granny: That was a Damashigami. Sakura: A Damashigami...? Granny: You write it like this. [TN: The kanji are "Fall", "Demon", "Death" and "God". But all together, "Damashigami" sounds like "Trickster God".] Sakura: Wow... that's complicated.
14 Rinne: Damashigami are spirits that lure even people who are still alive into the world of the dead, just for the sake of increasing their quota... // A nasty kind of Shinigami. Sakura: That was a Shinigami...? Granny: But you managed to return, yes? Sakura: That's right... somebody helped me find my way home. // I can't really remember her very well... // But I remember she had bright white hair, and a black kimono... // Oh, and I think there was a blue flower ornament in her hair. // Oh, that's right... // She was wearing a haori just like Rokudou-kun's as well! Rinne: Huh... Granny: (I see... / The girl from back then...)
15 Sakura: She was a really... / ...friendly oba-san... Granny: Are you sure you don't mean O - ne - e - sa - n?! Sakura: Owowowowowowowowowowow... // Wait... // The oba-san from back then! Granny: O - ne - e - sa - n! Sakura: Tell me, please! / Ever since then... // ...I've been able to see ghosts.
16 Sakura: I'm used to it now... / But it bothers me, not knowing why it happened... // Is it because I wandered into this world that time...? Granny: No, that can't be it. // As long as you didn't eat or drink anything from this world, / you shouldn't develop the ability to see ghosts. Sakura: I did, though. // I remember that perfectly. Flashback!Sakura: I want some candy~! Flashback!Granny: All right, I'll buy some for you. Granny: Now that you mention it, I may have done that... Rinne: I apologise for my grandmother. Sakura: No, no... / At least I know the reason now.
17 Granny: Rinne... are you going back, then? Rinne: I told you, didn't I? // I can't live my life on this side. Sakura: Hey, Rokudou-kun... / Why is it that you don't live with your grandmother? Rinne: It's because... // ...she's a Shinigami.
18 Sakura: (Huh...?) // B... But... / Surely you're a Shinigami as... Rinne: I'm a human... // ...or something like that... Sakura: Huh...?! // (What's he talking about?!) [TN: Ehm... are we talking human-Shinigami relations? =p I mean, if his grandmother's a Shinigami, that makes him at least a quarter Shinigami... one wonders about the rest.] [Side text: The o-ne-e-sa-n who saved Sakura was a Shinigami. But her grandson, Rinne, is something like a Shinigami, something like a human...??]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/12473[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 4 by cnet1282009-05-20T12:22:08+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.comGuidelines For Using My Translations
1 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 4: A Familiar Woman [Insert text: That place with the red wheel turning in the sky...?!]
2 [Side text: A white-haired, skull-faced woman appears, and a countdown to death suddenly begins! How terrifying... what on Earth is going on?!] SkullWoman: Right. / Well, then... // You will die within the next three days. // There is only one way for you to avoid your fate! // You must make an offering at the legendary instrument shelter. // Dun-dun-du~~~n!
3 SkullWoman: Ah! Sakura: A dream...? // (What an odd dream... // And that place... // With the red wheel in the sky...)
4 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: Sakura's classmate. A "shinigami" who guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara? Swathed in mystery. // Mamiya Sakura: She was spirited away as a child, and has been able to see ghosts ever since.] Sakura: (That was... the world where Rokudou-kun took me before.) Rika: Listen...! / I had this really scary dream! // There was this woman... like a skeleton... // She said I was going to die within three days... Friend: Huh? That dream... // I had it too... Students: So did I. // She said to make an offering to the instrument shelter... // Me too, me too! Sakura: (The whole class had the same dream...?!)
5 Sakura: (Could it be...) Students: Here it is - the legendary instrument shelter. // Does a banana work as an offering...? // That's freaky... // They're disappearing even as we put them in... Sakura: (I knew it... Rokudou-kun...)
6 Sakura: Oi. Rinne: Get off me, Mamiya Sakura. / I'm busy. Rika: Oh - Sakura-chan. Friend: Are you here to make an offering?! Sakura: Don't be fooled by that nonsense, guys! Rika: Did Sakura-chan just...? Friend: She just walked by in an incredibly odd way. [Box: When wearing the Yomi no Haori, Rokudou Rinne cannot be seen by ordinary people.] Rinne: Dream? // What are you talking about?
7 Sakura: Oh, don't play dumb with me. // I can't believe you... threatening everyone in their dreams, trying to rustle up offerings... Rinne: Unfounded accusations. / Why would I do a thing like that? Sakura: Well, who else could it have... // !
8 Sakura: (H... Huh...? // This woman...?) Granny: Gue~~~~ss who! Rinne: ...Granny. Sakura: (Huh...? // "Gra...) Granny: I thought I told you...
9 Granny: ...to stop calling me that~~~~! Rinne: Owwwwwwwww! Sakura: (The woman from the dream this morning...? // But... // I feel like I've met her somewhere before that...) Rinne: Stop that! You're hurting me, damn it! Granny: And to think I came because I was worried about you... // Rinne, you're having a little trouble getting by, aren't you? // Come and live with me, why don't you? Rinne: I can't do that. // Just leave me alone. Granny: But you're my one and only grandson...
10 Sakura: ("Grandson"...? // This woman is Rokudou-kun's grandmother...?) // So young... Granny: Hm?! / What was that?! Sakura: No, I... was just thinking you were rather young... Granny: Oh...! // Hohohohohohohohohohohoho... you really think so~? // ...Wait, you can see me~~?!! Rinne: That's Mamiya Sakura. She's a little strange. // More importantly, all this about threatening my classmates in their dreams... // Was that you, Granny?!
11 Granny: Stop calling me that. Rinne: Owwwwwww! Granny: Well, of course it was me. // I thought you might appreciate a little help, that's all. Rinne: Nobody asked you to help! Granny: Oh... / Well, in that case... // The~re we go! / My, how tasty-looking. Rinne: What are you doing? Granny: Confiscating there, of course! // They're my spoils, after all. Rinne: Wait! / At least leave a little...!
12 Sakura: Rokudou-kun, wait...! Rinne: !
13 Rinne: What are you doing, Mamiya Sakura?! // Don't follow me! // This is a place forbidden to living human beings! Sakura: But I've... / ...been here before. // I don't know when if was... / ...but before I ever met you... // I've been here once, a long time ago... Rinne: ?!
15 Sakura: Whe~~~~w... // I thought I was a goner... // ...Still, this isn't exactly great... // Where... is this place? // It looks... like some kind of festival... Stallkeeper: Fancy some afterlife souvenirs~~~? [TN: "Meido no miyage"? *flashbacks to Haruhi-chan OP* Apparently "meido no miyage" ("afterlife souvenirs") is a set phrase, referring to the kind of memories that allow you to die happy. The idea being that memories are the one "souvenir" you can take with you to the afterlife. Obviously this is playing on that, since they're selling, er, actual souvenirs... in the afterlife ~_~]
16 Granny: What~?! / You brought that girl along with you? Rinne: We got separated... Granny: Oh, you are hopeless... // I'll find out where she is for you, so you go and pick her up, all right? // ...... // This isn't too good... Rinne: Where is she?! // That girl... // It looks like she's wandered into the All-Done Entrance.
17 Rinne: The All-Done Entrance?! Granny: That's right... // The place people pass through... // ...when they have lived their lives to the full, and died with no regrets. / It's just that once you're there... // ...you tend to get caught up in the mood of satisfaction, and head straight for the Wheel of Samsara without thinking about it... Sakura: Ahhhh, this is nice... Ferryman: You're rather young... are you sure about this? Granny: She's already crossing the Sanzu River. [TN: Japanese Buddhist tradition, similar to the Greek River Styx; as you'd expect, it's the path to the underworld.] Rinne: You mustn't, Mamiya Sakura! // To go there... is to die!
18 Sakura: Ah... // (Is that... the Wheel of Samsara...? // It looks like a great big red Ferris wheel...) // ...Huh? // (I feel like... I've done this before, a long time ago...) [Side text: Sakura's got herself caught up in afterlife sightseeing, but what's this déjà vu?! Next issue, Sakura's childhood memories are revived!]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/12384[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 3 by cnet1282009-05-17T03:20:40+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.comGuidelines For Using My Translations
1 Rika: Sakura-chan, sorry about yesterday! Friend: Running off without you like that... Rika: Were you okay? Sakura: Oh... / Don't worry about me. Rika: But that instrument shelter legend... / In the end, it didn't even work! Friend: Yeah, you just dropped your phone, after all... Sakura: (Wait... she wants the phone that keeps getting calls from a ghost back?) Rika: Do you think Rokudou-kun was just making the whole thing up? Sakura: (Rokudou-kun...)
2 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 3: Behind the Gym at Four [Insert text: A florid Shinigami... / ...or something like that?] Sakura: (Hm?! // What's with all the flowers?!)
3 [SFX: ding-do~~~~~ng] Rinne: I guess... it's about time. Students: He makes artificial flowers on the side. // Wow... I've never actually seen it first-hand. Sakura: (Ah...) Friend: Shall we go, Sakura-chan? Sakura: Sorry - I can't... // You're going to meet the ghost, right? Rinne: Mamiya Sakura... / Are you going to come with me?
4 Sakura: I am. // 'Cause it bothers me. Rinne: Well, you know what to do when the time comes. Sakura: Money as usual, huh... Friend: Huh~~~?! Sakura-chan... Rika: Since when is she so friendly with Rokudou-kun...? Suzuki: ...Hm? / Rokudou...? Rika: Ah... / Suzuki-sensei from gym class... Suzuki: Huh... // He wears that thing to lessons, as well...? Friend: Yes... Rika: Come to think of it, there was that one time when the class tutor... Teacher: Rokudou... where's your uniform...? Rinne: Tch... Teacher: Huh?! / Did he just... "tch" at me...? Friend: He just didn't know what to say... Rika: Yeah...
5 Suzuki: I see... // (I guess his family really must be short on...) Sakura: (This is the place... // ...where the phone-call ghost had his accident...)
6 Rinne: Here goes. Ghost: Get your ass down behind the gym at four! / Don't be late! Sakura: (Without ever making it past this point... // He's repeating the same cycle, every day.) Rinne: That's why we have to help him make it past this point. Sakura: With that... / "Yomi no... Haori"?
7 Rinne: Indeed. The Yomi no Haori has the power to make the body of whoever wears it ethereal. // But if you flip it over... Ghost: ?! Sakura: Ahh...
8 Rinne: It can give ghosts physical form instead. / A handy reversible item. Sakura: Huh...?! People: Aaaaahhhhh~~! Something appeared out of nowhere!! Rinne: This is the easiest way to move a spirit having trouble moving from the place where it died. / And it's free, to boot. Sakura: That is handy. Rinne: Well, then... // Shall we get going?
9 Ghost: Hm? / Going where?! Rinne: ...... // To behind the gym. Ghost: Why? Rinne: ...You were going to meet someone here at four o'clock, right? Ghost: ...I was? Sakura: ...The shock of the accident seems to be affecting his memory... Rinne: ......
10 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: Sakura's classmate. A "shinigami" who guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara? Swathed in mystery. // Mamiya Sakura: She was spirited away as a child, and has been able to see ghosts ever since.] Rinne: (What a pain...) // If we can't get him to meet the person he was supposed to be meeting here, and fulfil his objective... // ...then we can't sever his ties to the material world... // And what's more, it's been about seven years since this guy became a ghost. / Without any leads... Sakura: Wha~~t?! He's been a ghost for seven years?! Suzuki: Ah - there you are! / Hey~~! Rokudou~! Sakura: Suzuki-sensei from gym class... Rinne: Tch... / Mamiya Sakura, get the Haori off the ghost. We don't want him being seen. Sakura: Er, plenty of people saw him on the way here... Suzuki: Could I have a moment? Rinne: ...I'm kind of busy right now. Suzuki: You don't have a school gym tracksuit, right? // So I just thought... / ...if you like...
11 Suzuki: It's second-hand... // ...but you can have this tracksuit top. Sakura: (Oh...) Suzuki: ...Something wrong? // I guess you don't want a second-hand tracksuit, huh? Rinne: No, I... // Th... // Thank you very much...
12 Sakura: (Hm...? // He actually seems awfully happy...) Suzuki: Then you'll take it?! Rinne: If this is a dream, let me stay asleep... Suzuki: Hahah... / The truth is, this tracksuit... Sakura: Hm? Suzuki: It actually belonged to a classmate of mine... / ...back when I was a student at this school. // He passed away in an accident... Sakura: Um... are you starting to remember something? Ghost: Hmmmmm... // Hmmmmmmm... Sakura: (He's definitely reacting to that tracksuit...)
13 Sakura: Um... // Sensei, why do you have that tracksuit...? Suzuki: Oh... / Well, that day, I accidentally took his tracksuit top home instead of mine... // His name was Suzuki as well, you see. // And later that day, I got this nasty phone call... Flashback!Ghost: Get your ass down behind the gym at four! / Don't be late! Suzuki: So I was going to meet up with him at four, and give his tracksuit back... // But before I could meet him, he got in an accident... // I've been keeping the tracksuit safe for him ever since... // But I thought that giving it to Rokudou would be putting it to a better use... // Huh...?! Suzuki-kun?! Ghost: ...... // That's right. // I... noticed on my way home that I had the wrong tracksuit top...
14 Ghost: My beloved tracksuit top, on which the girl I liked had embroidered a message for me... gone... [Box: inside] [Message: Good luck, Suzuki!♥] Rinne: ...I don't see any message on here... Sakura: Look - you're covering it up with your finger! // There! // That settles it. Suzuki: It's true...! I never noticed that... Sakura: Isn't that great, Rokudou-kun? // All this guy needed... // ...was to get this tracksuit top back!
15 Rinne: Do we really know that?! Sakura: ...What else could it be? // Don't tell me... // You actually wanted this tracksuit? // Wait, so this black tracksuit... / It isn't like a Shinigami uniform or something...? Rinne: Oh, come on. That's just stupid. Sakura: I see... / (He really is just...) Rinne: But I guess if handing it over is going to sever this ghost's ties to the material world... // Then that's fine by me. // Sensei... you give it to him yourself... Suzuki: What's wrong, Rokudou?! You're crying tears of blood! Sakura: (He really doesn't want to...) Suzuki: Suzuki-kun...
16 Suzuki: I'm sorry I took it by mistake... / Here, this is yours... Ghost: Yeah... // It's my... // ...tracksuit...
17 Suzuki: Suzuki-kun...? Sakura: It looks like he passed on... // Huh... / So there are ghosts who will just pass on for free... Rinne: It wasn't free! Sakura: Oh... // (So the tracksuit was the payment...) Suzuki: So Suzuki-kun was never able to pass on, all this time... / That's why I got that phone call... Sakura: Huh?! // Sensei... what's that about a phone call...? Suzuki: Well... / The day after Suzuki-kun passed away, I got a call on my mobile phone... Flashback!Ghost: Get your ass down behind the gym at four! / Don't be late!
18 Sakura: Erm...... / And then...? Suzuki: Well, of course...! / It creeped me out, so I cancelled my contract right away! Sakura: Huh... // (And so what had happened, was that the phone number had passed from customer to customer... // ...until finally Rika ended up with it.) Rika: Ah! My mobile phone! / So you picked it up for me...! Sakura: Mm, well. // I don't think you'll be getting them any more. / Those phone calls...
19 [Box: And it didn't take long after that...] Rika: Well, it really does work! [Box: ...before the whole school had heard about the instrument shelter legend.] Girl: So the monetary offering can just be one-yen coins? Rika: Uh-huh, it looks like that was fine! Sakura: Rika-chan, that's a little... // (Hm? // Where's Rokudou-kun...?) Students: So this is the legendary instrument shelter... // Hm? There's some kind of sign next to it... // "If you skimp on the monetary offering, you will be cursed - The Shinigami"...? [Side text: It looks like Rinne may have a few issues of his own... but at any rate, thanks to their excellent teamwork(?), this incident is solved!]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/11956[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 2 by cnet1282009-05-02T18:09:47+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.comGuidelines For Using My Translations
1 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 2: Legend of the Instrument Shelter [Insert text: Rokudou-kun, classroom next-door neighbour. Just who are you, really...?]
2 [Insert text: Everyone's curious about this new mystery classmate?!] Teacher: Girls - three laps of the grounds. // Boys - flexibility exercises. Students: Oka~y! Friend: Hey - Sakura-chan! Sakura: Hm? Friend: Have you talked to Rokudou-kun yet? Sakura: No, not really... Friend: But you're sitting right next to him! / He's a bit weird, isn't he?
3 Teacher: Hm? // Hey - Rokudou. // Why have you got a different tracksuit to everyone else? Rinne: It's the one I wore in middle-school. Girl: From middle-school, huh? Friend: He wears that thing to lessons, too... Teacher: Your middle-school tracksuit? // Have you not bought the designated school tracksuit yet, then?
4 [Side text: Character Profiles // Rokudou Rinne: Sakura's classmate. A "shinigami" who guides souls that can't pass on to the Wheel of Samsara? Swathed in mystery. // Mamiya Sakura: She was spirited away as a child, and has been able to see ghosts ever since.] Rinne: If I spent my money on a thing like that... / I'd plummet into hell. Teacher: Hm? / Are your family poor...? Rinne: I'd plummet into hell. Teacher: R - Right. Okay. / Sorry about that, Rokudou. Rinne: No problem. Don't mention it again. Sakura: (My classmate. // The boy who sits next to me in class, Rokudou Rinne-kun...)
5 Flashback!Rinne: I take those who have regrets tying them to the material world... // ...and lead them to the Wheel of Samsara so that they can pass on. // I guess you'd call me... // ...something like a Shinigami... Sakura: (...or so he says. // I wish he would tell me more about that place... // ...but it's not easy finding an opportunity to talk to him...)
6 Friend: Oh - Rika-chan, is that a new mobile? / How cute! Rika: I just got it last week. / But the thing is... Sakura: Wrong numbers? Rika: Every single day. / The phone rings after school at the exact same time. / It's starting to get kind of annoying... Sakura: What are they like? Rika: It's some guy I don't know, and he just says... Flashback!Caller: Get your ass down behind the gym at four! / Don't be late!
7 Sakura: (Huh? // What's this...? // I'm getting a strange feeling from this phone...) [Box: A few days later] Rika: There's something weird going on! // This is really creeping me out now! Friend: Hm? Is this about your phone again? Rika: I tried blocking the number, but the calls keep coming... // So I tried to call the guy back, to complain about the whole thing, but... Flashback!Phone: The number you have called is not currently in use. Rika: And then... // Yesterday, at the time when I usually get the calls...
8 Rika: I turned off my phone in advance. / But even then... Flashback!Caller: Get your ass down behind the gym at four! / Don't be late! Friend: ...You still got the call? Rika: It's scary! Sakura: (...And she answered it...?) Friend: Could it be a ghost or something...? Rika Don't say that~! Rokudou: If it's ghost troubles you're having... // I know something you might want to try. / It could help. Friend: Huh...? Sakura: Rokudou-kun...
9 Flashback!Rokudou: Behind the school lies a lone, unused instrument shelter. // If you write your problem down in a letter... Sakura: (It's just like the Youkai Pos***x from Ki**rou...) Flashback!Rokudou: ...place it into the shelter... // ...and make sure to include a monetary offering and a gift to the spirits, your problem will be solved. // This is a legend passed down in our school. Friend: A legend, huh... Sakura: Had you heard of it? Friend: My sister went to this school before me... / But this is the first I've heard of this 'legend'. Sakura: Rika-chan, are you actually going to do it? Rika: Well, what else am I supposed to do?! / There's nothing else left to try! Sakura: (Sure there is... / You could try changing your phone number, or...)
10 Friend: There it is. Rika: Please, let this work... Sakura: (Hm?! // Rokudou-kun...)
11 Rika: The box opened up all by itself...! Friend: And the letter and sandwich are gone?! Rika/Friend: Aaaaaaghh~~~~! Too scary~~~~~~!! Sakura: Huh? // Oh... // (Couldn't either of them see him...?) // Ah... // Looks like... Rika-chan dropped her phone...
12 [Label: Yakisoba-pan] [TN: ...Why do I suddenly have a craving for yakisoba-pan?] Rinne: Itadakimasu... Sakura: Ah - there you are! // Rokudou-kun! Rinne: ...... Sakura: Don't ignore me. Rinne: Why can you see me, anyway? // There's something odd about you, Mamiya Sakura. Sakura: Look, okay...
13 Sakura: Surely I'm the one who should be calling you odd! / Why do you go around turning visible and invisible all the time?! // Stop eating that thing already! // Hm?! // Come to think of it... // You're always wearing this flashy old robe whenever the weird stuff happens... Rinne: Hands off! This is a top-quality item! // It's called the Yomi no Haori. [TN: "Hell Robe"] Rinne: It's a treasured item, with the power... / ...to make the body of whoever wears it ethereal; the same as a ghost. [TN: To continue the "reverse-Bleach" theme, I guess we have our "reverse-gigai"...] Sakura: (The same as a ghost...? // So that's why the others couldn't see him...)
14 Sakura: I see. // So because I can see ghosts, only I was able to see you. / I guess that makes sense. // More importantly, what do you think you're playing at? Rinne: "More importantly"?! Sakura: That legend about the instrument shelter! // You made the whole thing up, didn't you?! Rinne: And if I did? // It's how I get by. Sakura: So... // You really are a shinigami? Rinne: Something like that. Sakura: What's that even supposed to mean?! // !!
15 Rinne: ...That phone... / It belongs to the client, Rika, yes? Sakura: Y - Yeah. Flashback!Rika: Every single day, the phone rings after school at the exact same time. // It's some guy I don't know... Rinne: It has a spiritual aura about it. Sakura: Huh...? / Then... // The person who's been making all those calls... // ...really was a ghost? Rinne: Yeah... // (I feel it. // The presence of a spirit with lingering ties to this world, unable to pass on...) Rika: Hello...?
16 Rika: My name's Rika. // I guess this must be somebody who picked up my phone? // Ehe!♡ // Sorry to trouble you, but could you bring it to Class 1-4's room... Rinne: U~RA~ME~SHI~YA~~~~ [TN: "Urameshiya" is the stereotypical creepy thing that ghosts say ~~ I believe last time it came up in a manga, I linked to this cute comedy skit about it. Well, this time I found a subbed version, so I'll link it again XD] Rika: Aaaahhhh~~!! Rinne: That should put her off trying to get it back for the moment. Sakura: Th - That's terrible... Caller: Get your ass down behind the gym at four! // Don't be late!
17 Rinne: Behind the gym... / ...at four... // Nobody's coming. Sakura: Mm... / You know, come to think of it... // What's to say the ghost is even from this school at all...? / I mean, Rika-chan said she didn't know him or anything... Rinne: Yeah... he was probably trying to call out somebody completely different. // I think all we can say for sure is... // Whoever the ghost was originally trying to call, / he never got to meet them behind the gym at four. Sakura: He probably... died before he got the chance, huh.
18 Sakura: Where do you think he's calling from? Rinne: Easiest way to find out is to ask him. Sakura: Huh?! // A string-telephone? Rinne: Give me the telephone number of the client, Rika. Sakura: Oh... / Sure.
19 Rinne: Thanks. / You can go now. Sakura: Huh? // What are you going to do? Rinne: I must track down this spirit, sever his ties to this world, // and lead him to the Wheel of Samsara. Sakura: (The Wheel of Samsara... that place...) // Um... / Isn't there anything I can... Rinne: Obviously you can see ghosts... // ...but you have no experience fighting them or exorcising them, have you? Sakura: Well, I suppose that's true, but...
20 Rinne: From here on out... // ...this is my job. Sakura: (The job... of a Shinigami...) Rinne: ...... / Mamiya Sakura... Sakura: Hm...? Rinne: You wouldn't happen... to have a ten-yen coin, would you? // The charge for the string-telephone call... Sakura: (There's a charge...?)
21 Friend: It's got to be because your monetary offering to the spirits wasn't big enough! // [aside]you've been cursed![/aside] Rika: Wha~~t?! I left plenty! / All the one-yen coins in my purse... Rinne: (The thing tying this phone-call ghost to this world is the phone number of our client, Rika.) Sakura: Erm... where are we? Rinne: The Spiritual Path. / A place beyond time and space, connected to the spirits. // It's time to make the call.
22 Rinne: Hey... it's me! Caller: You?! // Get your ass down behind the gym at four! Rinne: What do you want?! Caller: Hu~~h?! Don't you play dumb with me!!
23 Rinne: Keep putting in the ten-yen coins! / If we lose the connection, we're not going to make it! Sakura: Sure... Caller: You'd better be there! / Don't be late! Sakura: (That boy... // That's the phone-call ghost?!)
24 Sakura: (Ahh... // And that's why... he never made it to their meeting behind the gym...) // He was wearing our school's uniform... / He must have been a student here. Rinne: Yeah. / Tomorrow at four, we'll bring him here.
25 Sakura: Can't you get him to pass on right away? Rinne: First he has to meet with the person he was trying to reach... / ...so that his ties to this world can be severed... // We'll handle it tomorrow. // See you. Sakura: Yeah... see you tomorrow... // (I can see ghosts... // ...but I have no experience fighting them or exorcising them. // And yet... // This guy's having me help him.) // I guess I should bring plenty of change again tomorrow... [TN: About the "having me help him" line... I'm not sure whether to interpret it as "letting me help him" or "making me help him", so I went for a neutral medium. If it was a pure causative, I would definitely have gone for "letting", but I'm not sure whether the causative-passive can work like that >< (And since this is cynical Sakura we're talking about, I could see her saying either ~~)] [Side text: Sakura has been swept along completely by Rinne's pace... // Next issue, colour pages and the front cover!!] [Bottom text: To be continued in Issue 24 (on sale Wednesday 13th May)]https://mangahelpers.com/t/cnet128/releases/11696[English] [Translation] Kyoukai no Rinne 1 by cnet1282009-04-22T08:55:05+00:00cnet128admin@mangahelpers.com[TN: Yeah, I know it's getting official English translations right after the Japanese release. I don't care. I'm not missing out on doing Rumiko Takahashi's new series >_< I may not have read any of her series to completion, but Rumiko Takahashi was like the one who introduced me to manga, for godssakes.]
2 [Insert text: Takahashi Rumiko's new series begins!] Sakura: Aahhh! / What is that?!
3-4 Kyoukai no Rinne Chapter 1: Mystery Classmate [TN: The title literally means "Boundary Rinne". "Rinne" is a word referring to the cycle of death and resurrection.] [Circle (by title): A forty-page chapter with colour pages!!] [Circle (top-right): The curtain opens on the new Rumic World you've all been waiting for!!] [Top: TAKAHASHI RUMIKO'S NEW SERIES!] [Insert text: When, surpassing an impassable boundary... // ...this boy and Sakura meet... / The wheels of Destiny begin to turn... // ...and a new story begins...!!]
5 Sakura: Look! It's turning up in the sky! / Is it a Ferris wheel?! // Can I go on it?! / Well, Oba-chan?! Woman: If you got on there, you could never come back. // Now, I think you can find your own way home from here. // Just follow the path straight. Sakura: Oba-chan...? // Oba-chan, where are you~?! // Oba-cha~n!
6 Sakura: Ah! / Oba-cha... Woman: I - think - you - mean... / "Onee-chan", yes? Sakura: Owowowowow... Woman: By the way, / you should forget everything you've seen here. / Or should I say, you will. Sakura: Owowowowow... [Box: Somehow I thought when I entered high school...] Sakura: *sigh*... [Box: ...something would finally change.]
7 [Box: But in the end...] Ghost: Hey there~~! // G'morning~~~! // Mamiya Sakura-sa~~n! Sakura: He's still here... // Hup...! Ghost: G'morning~~! Sakura: Could you please stop talking to me?
8 [Box: When I was little... // There was an incident where I was "spirited away". // Not that I remember any of it. // I wandered into the mountains behind my grandmother's house in the country...] Flashback!Men: Are you all right?! / You're not hurt, are you?! Flashback!Sakura: My head hurts for some reason... [Box: ...and I was missing for a whole week.] Sakura: (And that was the start of it all... // I've been able to see ghosts and stuff ever since...) Teacher: I'll take attendance now~!
9 Friend: Hey - Mamiya-san. Sakura: Hm? Friend: He's still not here, huh? The guy next to you. Sakura: You're right... Friend: What do you think's up with him? // It's May already, and he still hasn't shown... Sakura: (I've never even seen the guy in the seat next to me.) Teacher: Rokudou... / Rokudou Rinne! [TN: Well, that's a meaningful name if ever I've heard one. ~~ "Rinne", of course, is the cycle of resurrection in Buddhism, and "Rokudou" refers to the "six paths of resurrection" that comprise it. I daresay most manga readers are familiar with them at this point, through the likes of Naruto or Reborn, but for anyone who isn't, Wikipedia has the info.] Sakura: Ah...
10 Sakura: ...Looks like he's finally arrived. Friend: Huh? Sakura: (Huh... So this is Rokudou-kun. // ...I wonder what's up with that weird outfit of his...? // And his hair... it's bright red...)
11 Teacher: Rokudou's still absent, I see... // Ah well, then... Sakura: (Huh?!) Classmates: He's probably just refusing to come to school, right? // I doubt he'll ever show. Friend: Mamiya-san... / What was that about him arriving...? Sakura: Ahh...? // (I see... // If nobody else can se him, then... // This must be...)
12 Sakura: (A ghost... // Wait... // What's he doing...? // Crap... he spotted me looking...) Rinne: ...... Sakura: (Gah... // What's all this? // ...Dog food...?)
13-14 Teacher: Well then, everybody open your textbooks... Sakura: (Whoa... // What's this thing...? // Let's see... // A quivery thing with big eyes... // Of course! A Chihuahua!)
15 Rinne: Dog known as Chihuatarou. / Don't you think that's enough for your walk? Sakura: (He spoke...) Rinne: It's time to abandon your regrets in this world... // ...and hop nicely into the flow of the Wheel like a good boy. // Come on. [SFX: MUNCH] Rinne: ......... // Don't worry... there's nothing to be afraid of.
16 Sakura: (He... // He got eaten...) [SFX: ding-do~~ng] Friend: Hey, just something I noticed, Mamiya-san... Sakura: Just "Sakura" is fine... Friend: Sakura-chan, then... you get this look like you're staring off at something sometimes. What's with that? / A habit? Sakura: Uh-huh... / I think it's incurable...
17 Sakura: Anyway, see you. Friend: See you tomorrow! [Box: I thought something would change once I entered high school. // Like somehow as I grew up... // ...I'd stop seeing all these weird things...] Sakura: But... // I don't think I've seen anything quite like that before. Ghost: Mamiya Sakura-sa~n! // He~y! Sakura: Not again... // Hup! Ghost: Let's walk together~! Sakura: Persistent, aren't you...?
18 Rinne: Ah... Sakura: Ah! // (That ghost from the classroom... // ...and the Chihuahua... // It's smaller now... // They don't look much like ghosts, but...) Sakura: Hup!
19 Rinne: Wahh! Sakura: (Huh...?! / A human?) // I - I'm very sorry. / I thought you were someone else. Rinne: Hey. // Back there... // You were watching, right? Sakura: Huh...?! // You mean...
20 Sakura: You really are... // ...that guy who was in the classroom... Rinne: Who... // ...exactly are you? Sakura: Well...... // I kind of feel like that should be my line... Ghost: Yeah, what exactly is your relationship with Sakura-san? Sakura: Oh... / You're still here.
21 Rinne: A suicide ghost... / You ought to cut your ties to this world soon as well, or your spirit will be corrupted. // If you feel like passing on, I'd be happy to help you out. Sakura: (This guy can see ghosts as well...) Ghost: Whaaaat~? Corrupted~? / That doesn't sound good... Rinne: Do you have any money on you? Sakura: Huh? Rinne: Well, the fare for this guy is separate... / But this time I'm going to be sending little Chihuatarou along with him, so I could do with, say... // 50 yen. Sakura: Not that I get what's going on or anything, but... wow. / That's cheap.
22 Ghost: I see... so you have lingering ties to this world as well... // I guess we're pals! // (Back when I was alive, I spent every waking hour studying for exams... // ...and I'd never even had a conversation with a girl. // That's why I wanted to make friends with a girl more than anything...) Flashback!Ghost: G'morning! // G'morning! Ghost: (...so I kept trying to talk to them. // But not one of them gave a single response. // Until one day, my luck finally changed.) Flashback!Ghost: G'morning! Flashback!Sakura: Good morning!
23 Ghost: Mamiya Sakura-san... / You're the only one who was ever nice enough to talk to me! // It was just a mistake... I thought you were a normal person... Ghost: You're the only one who ever understood me! / Maybe if I ask, you'd even go out with me...? // No, you're interested in me. I know you are. // [aside]one day "good morning", the next "I love you"![/aside] Rinne: ...What do we do with him? Sakura: Hmmmmmm... // You were saying something about sending this guy on for 50 yen before, right? // Then please, take it. Ghost: No, no... / That's fine... Sakura: Huh...?
24 Ghost: I think I might be okay just the way I am. // If I passed on, I wouldn't be able to see you any more... Sakura: Um... // They mixed together. Rinne: That's not good... he's become corrupted. Sakura: Right... Ghost: Would you go out with me, please? Sakura: Sorry, but no. Rinne: Just give up and pass on, okay? // Don't worry. // There's nothing to be afraid of.
25 Ghost: I... // I WAS REJECTED~~~~~!! Sakura: Aaaahhhh~!
26 Sakura: ! Rinne: Sorry, but could you come with me?! [TN: Incidentally, the phrasing he uses could just as easily mean "could you go out with me?". I doubt that's helping matters ~~] Sakura: Huh...?
27-28 Sakura: !
29 Sakura: (Wh... what's that thing?! // A red wheel... // ...turning in the sky?!)
30 Sakura: I - / I'm flying?! // Where is this place?! // What are you?! Ghost: WAAAAAAIIIIT! Sakura: Aaaaahhhhh~! It's following us~~~~!
31 Rinne: The thing that was tying him down to the real world was his attachment to you. // Bringing you over to this side was the only way to lure him away. // Anyway... // I'm not sure how to say this, but... // Could you please lend me 500 yen?! // For this guy's fare. Sakura: Huh...? // (Wasn't it 50 yen before...?) // Why the rise? Rinne: It's the price for a corrupted soul. // They cost ten times the fare they were originally worth.
32 Rinne: But I guess that's not possible... / It's a large sum, after all! Sakura: No... / No, no, no... // I'll pay up, I'll pay up! // Here, just take this! Shop: Thank you, come again~!
33 [Label: Five Hundred Yen] [TN: It's probably worth noting that "yen" can also mean "circle", so that could be read as "Five Hundred Circle". Oh, and "yen" is written with an old-fashioned kanji.]
34 Rinne: Dog known as Chihuatarou, and boy tied down by love. // I hereby sever both of your ties from your former lives. Ghost: "Boy tied down by love"?! // Don't call me weird names~~!!
35-36 Rinne: Kasha Retsudan! [TN: "Flaming Chariot Enforced Severing". According to Buddhist teaching, a flaming chariot ("Kasha") carries the souls of sinners to Hell.]
37 Ghost: Aaahhhh~ Dog: [aside]Ruahh~[/aside] Sakura: Ahh... // That was kind of underwhelming. Rinne: Now then, off the two of you go. Just hop onto the Wheel of Samsara. [TN: "Samsara" being a translation of "Rinne"] Ghost: Ahhh... Sakura: (Samsara...) Ghost: Seems kind of... // ...lonely...
38 Rinne: There are girls on there too. Ghost: Oh. / Ah. / Really? // Bye~! Sakura: (I... // I've been here before. // I'm sure I have.) Rinne: This is a place forbidden to the living. // It may have been an emergency... / But still, I must apologise for getting you involved. Sakura: Just who... / ...are you...?
39 Rinne: Me...? / I take those who have regrets tying them to the material world... // ...and lead them to the Wheel of Samsara so that they can pass on. // I guess you'd call me... // ...something like a Shinigami... [TN: This really is Rumiko Takahashi-style reverse-Bleach, isn't it?]
40 Sakura: ("Something like"...?) Rinne: You must forget. // Everything that you have seen here... / Or should I say, you will. Sakura: (After that, everything went kind of blank... // And next thing I knew, I was eating dinner at my house.) // Mmmm, I love tonkatsu~!
41 Sakura: (But as for that mysterious world...) // Morning~! // (I remember it all. // And that boy had disappeared, leaving many mysteries behind him.) Friend: Sakura-chan! He showed up! / Rokudou-kun, the boy who sits next to you! Sakura: Huh...? Classmates: Red hair, huh...? / Really deep red, too... Sakura: Ah! The Shinigami! Rine: The hypnosis failed?! Classmate: Why's he in a tracksuit...? [Side text: The mystery boy turned out be be her next-door classmate. Is Sakura's high-school life about to get a lot more complicated?! More colour pages next week!!] [Bottom text: To be continued in Issue 23, on sale Saturday 2nd May]