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[English] [Translation] O/A 11 by umeboshi110

2011-07-17T17:13:51+00:00

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

O/A
Chapter 11
Ghost & Busters

p.01
Man: Did you know?
Apparently the spinning tables in Chinese restaurants originated in Japan.
Man2: ...Really.

Man: Really... Hey, you listening?
Man2: I am.
Man2: Ya know,
Since you said spinning tables, I thought you were talking about DJ’s for a second.

Chapter 11 Ghost & Busters

Man2: “Spin a plate”— that’s the same for both of them.
.........Oh,
Man2: There’s some customers.

p.02-03
Chapter 11
Ghost & Busters

p.04
Chapter 11 Ghost & Busters
Chapter 12 U-05 not surfacing
Chapter 13 Gimme Shelter
Chapter 14 Halo
Chapter 15 A Moon Brighter than a Sun
[I should confirm these chapter titles with the actual content of the chapters...]

p.05
*[Sign says Daitourou]
Yutaka: Well sure

Yutaka: I did say I’d do an interesting radio show.
Yutaka: Yeah, sure I did!!

Yutaka: That doesn’t mean you can say anything you want!!!
Harumi: Ahaha
Yutaka: What’re you laughing for!!

p.06
Yutaka: Why does it go from talking about the ways I relax
Harumi mutter: It won’t flush....
Yutaka: To [ b]the biggest number two[ /b] so far!!?
Harumi: Yutaka-san, talking about [ b]number two[ /b] at a restaurant is...

Yutaka: You put that on the airwaves and delivered it to the entire country!!
Waitress mutter: It’s shuumai~
Harumi: I wasn’t thinking and got carried away...

Tsuka: ............

Tsuka: Whatever the case may be,
Tsuka: I’m glad the two of them made up.

p.07
There will still be a lot of hardships before Yutaka can make a comeback as an idol.

She has allies that she can believe in.
I want this girl to know that.

An ally who will support her even when her heart seems it will break...

Not only having the same voice, but as a friend.

p.08

SFX: glance
Tsuka: !!
Tsuka: ——Whoa... Who’s that guy...?

Paper: “I’m embarrassed because they’re panties”

p.09
Man: It’s Arakawa.

Phone: About the customers in the restaurant. They aren’t particularly suspicious.
Man: Do they seem to have any connection with the restaurant?
Phone: No, not at this time.

Phone: It’s just that I feel like I’ve seen one of them somewhere, but...
I can’t remember.
Man: Copy that.

Man: Go ahead and resume the surveillance.
Man: ——Oh,

Man: New customers.

p.10

Welcome~ [mid-right text]

Hama: Ah~ I’m hungry.
Sue: Huh?
Sue: It’s Harumi.
*[These two girls speak in Oosaka-ben]

Harumi: Hmmw?

Harumi: Ah, hello!!
Harumi: Thanks for all your hard work!!
Sue: Oh~ you don’t have to do that sort of thing.

Sue: What a coincidence. You eating too, Harumi?
Harumi: Y...yes.

p.11
Hama: We come to this restaurant pretty often.
Hama: ——Wait,

Hama: Aaah
Hama: Wha, no way!
Hama: Are you perhaps Horiuchi Yutaka!!!?
Yutaka: Y-yes.

Sue?: Woooow~ it’s really her~!!!
Sue?: I listen to you on the radio~
Why’re you with Harumi!?

p.12
Sue: Really, part-time on the show, huh.

Sue: Oh yeah, you were saying something like that before.
But still, you two must be close to be able to go out to eat together.
Harumi: Ehehe

Yutaka: This is bad...
Yutaka: If we talk together by accident they’ll find out our voices are the same...
For now, you answer anything they say.
Yutaka: I’ll stay quiet.
Harumi: Got it.

Yutaka: We’ll make up a reason and leave at a good time...
Sue: Say, Harumi.
Harumi: Yes!?

Sue: Yutaka-chan doesn’t know about us, does she?
Introduce us to her.
Harumi: Y-yeah.
Yutaka: .........

p.13
Harumi: The standup duo, “Rorschach”
These are Hamao-san, or Hama-chan,
Harumi: And Suiyoubi-san, or Sue-san.
Hama/Sue: Nice to meet you.

Hama: What? Your voice got nasally all of a sudden.
Hama: You have a cold?
Harumi: Y...yes I do. Ahaha

Sue: Well, someone from Tokyo wouldn’t know about us.
Hama: Yeah, our acting style isn’t suited for TV.
Yutaka: My aaaaarm

p.14
Hama: Well, nice to meet you, Harumi and company.
Harumi: She’s saying nice to meet you.
Hama: Why’re you translating that?
SFX: smile
Yutaka: Idiot.

Hama: We’ve been checking Yutaka-chan out on the radio.
Hama?: That listening rate survey week one was amazing.

Hama: We’ll lose face if an idol talks like a comedian like that~
Sue: That’s so true~

Tsuka: Excuse me,
Tsuka: You said you weren’t suited for TV... what kind of jokes do you two do?

Sue: Hmm~ let’s see.

Hama: Since this is a nice opportunity, why don’t we do one?
Tsuka: Huh?

p.15
Girls: Short skit
Girls: Field hospital part two

Hama: AAAAUGH my intestines fell out of my stomach! I’m gonna dieeeee!!
SFX: roll x2
Sue: Calm down!! It’s okay.
So it’s this!!

Tsuka: Um... sorry,
Tsuka: We’ve seen this.
Girls: You’re kidding!?

Girls: Where!?
Tsuka: At the live act before...
Girls: Oh, it’s different from that!!
Her intestines...

p.16
Man: What was that about intestines?
Man: ......Well, whatever.

Man2: What did he say?
Man: I don’t really get it.

Man: Hey, stay in the car. If we’re found out—
Man2: Yeah, once I’m done smoking this.

Man2: Phew.........
Maybe I should quit smoking too.
Man: You probably won’t last two days again.
Look.

p.17
Man: They’re standing in front and looking into the restaurant...
Man2: Are they customers?
Man: I don’t know.

Man: Seems like they found something.
Man: Is it someone inside...?

Man: They’re going inside.
Man2: New customers are going in. It’s another group of two.

Miho: Kyahaha hahaha

p.18
Miho: Kyaha
Welcome~
Miho: What a dirty place!!!

Yutaka: Kaieda

Tsuka: Miho!!

Yutaka: Why’re you here?
Miho: Just by coincidence.
I was looking for a place to eat around this neighborhood...

Miho: And I saw you from outside, so I came in!
Yutaka: Why does she seem to appear without a regard for our circumstances?

p.19
Tsuka: Long time no see,
President Kandori.

Kandori: Ahh, long time no see, Ootsuka-san.

Hama: Kandori?
Sue: He’s the president of Kaieda’s agency, Kami-Pro.

Kandori: You say that, but you’re a president yourself, are you not?
Tsuka: Um...
Tsuka: Well......
Kandori: Even if you only have one performer, a president is a president!! Hahahahaha

SFX: Gah ha ha ha
SFX: twitch x2
Yutaka: Tsuka-chan’s pissed off. That’s rare.

Kandori: Since we’re here, why don’t we join together?

p.20-21
[something seems off about this double-page though]

SFX: Fufu...

What’s with this malicious situation...!!?

p.22
Hama: Wow~ to be able to sit with two contemporary idols...
Hama: What a perk for us, right, Harumi?
Harumi: Y-yeah.

Yutaka: It’s become even worse.
SFX: whisper x3
Harumi: Yes...
Yutaka: They won’t be talking with you anyways, so I’ll answer them.
You stay quiet this time.

Yutaka: Let’s look for a good chance and finish up quickly.
Harumi: Got it.

p.23
Kandori: Then the white guy said:
“Both of them are yellow in Othello”
You see!

SFX: Gah ha ha ha ha
Tsuka mutter: Fufu
Yutaka mutter: Haha
Harumi mutter: Hehe

Girl: Mr. president, that’s no good.
Girl: That joke’s not funny at all.
Kandori: Whaa!?
SFX: sick and tired

Miho: You’re rather quiet today,
Miho: Horiuchi Yutaka-san.

Yutaka: Really? I’m the same as usual.

p.24
Yutaka: That’s right, I haven’t thanked you.
Miho: Thanked?
Yutaka: For the video message.

Miho: Ahh, that.

Miho: I just said what I thought.
Miho: As for me,
Miho: I’m relieved that it went back to being a ridiculous show.

Yutaka: ............

Miho: ............
Miho: It’s just that——

p.25
Miho: There’s something that feels odd.........
Miho: Are you [ b]really saying everything[ /b] in that show?

Harumi/Yutaka: !!

Miho: You understand
Miho: What I’m saying...?

p.26
Radio: —Really, that hugeness
How should I put it?

Radio: The way it was nestled in the toilet bowl was just like a battleship waiting for its launching ceremony.
Radio: Defending and attacking is the iron*......... that’s right, just like IRON!!**
Gah
*[This is the first line of the Japanese national war song, Warship March]
**[the last part in bigger font]

Radio: Ahem......... ......So, like I said, I feel very healthy these days.
Radio: For breakfast, I usually have toast and yoghurt, and also coffee......

p.27
Miho: ...............?

SFX: Beep

Radio: I feel very healthy these days.
Radio: For breakfast, I usually have toast and yoghurt, and also coffee...

SFX: Beep
Radio: ......usually have toast and yoghurt,

Radio: And also coffee...

p.28
Tsuka: Accent?

I hadn’t noticed......

Miho: I’m knowledgeable on these things.
Ms. Manager from Tochigi.
Coffee
The accent comes before
Tsuka: !

Tsuka: Yutaka is from Hokkaido, and......
Miho: Right.
That’s why it felt odd.
Miho: There’s no accent during the excited talks.

p.29
Miho: The change was notable in this week’s and last week’s broadcasts.
Tsuka: Since Harumi-chan left and came back again...

Miho: This is what I thought about this oddity—

Miho: One is that there’s a script beforehand.
If you speak just by reading lines, accents don’t come out as much.
Miho: You understand?

Miho: Or—

p.30
Miho: Horiuchi Yutaka is occasionally possessed by a ghost......
One from Tokyo.
Miho: ——Or something.

Miho: Just kidding <3

Miho: Kyahaha hahahaha haha
Yutaka: Ahahaha haha haha
Girls: ?

p.31
Miho: Haaaa~

Miho: How stupid.
SFX: keh
Yutaka: You’re the stupid one.
Yutaka: How serious is she about it?

Yutaka: We should get going soon.
Yutaka: Right, Tsuka-chan?

Tsuka: Y-yeah.
Miho: Hey, you there.
I remember you being introduced as the show’s writer.

Miho: Just for reference, can I ask you
Miho: What can be done to make a radio show interesting?

p.32
Yutaka: Talk about things like that with the staff at your own place.
Yutaka: Let’s go, Harumi [mad cut off]
Miho: Stay out of it.
I’m asking [ b]her.[ /b]

If she speaks here—

Even this idiot would notice.

Harumi!!

p.33
Yutaka: Ah......
Uh......

SFX: bang!!

p.34
Man: We’re from public safety!!
Man: We will search this restaurant for charges of involvement with the drug and weapon smuggling organization, “Mokujinkai”!!

Man: All of you, stay where you are!!
Yutaka: Huh?

p.35
SFX: flip

Waitress: Watcha doin?*
Waitress: Manager not do anything bad!
*[She has a stereotypical Chinese accent]

p.36
Black box: Police raid!!
Mafia from mainland Asia
Some connections with entertainment industry?
H-san
K-san
“We just happened to be there” [partially cut off]

Yutaka: We’re on it~
Paper: “What’s wrong with panties?”
Yutaka: And it looks like I and her are friends.
Chapter 11 End

SFX: sneeze

[English] [Translation] O/A 10 by umeboshi110

2011-06-10T22:20:03+00:00

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

O/A
Chapter 10
24 Hours

p.01
1: Good work~
2: Thanks for your hard work~

Taki: Phewww~
SFX: Chara cha cha cha~

Taki: ............
Chapter 10 24 Hours
Taki: ...Hello.
Chapter 10 24 Hours

p.02
Chapter 10 24 Hours

p.03

Yama: What’s wrong?
Drink up.

Taki: I’ve got a motorcycle.
Yama: Same as always......
You still riding the GSX1100S Katana?
Box: Yamato Broadcasting Producer Yamanaka

Taki: I’m getting too old to rev it up.
Taki: I’m using the GSX-R600 now.
Yama: I guess it’s a difference of how much.

Yama: How’s Ace these days?

p.04
Taki: Mmm~~~
Taki: Nothing in particular.

Taki: Oolong tea.
Yama: Inside that “Mmm~~~”

Yama: It’s Horiuchi Yutaka... right?

Taki: .........

Yama: Mha, thought so.
Yama: It was quite sensational when it started out.
Yama: I’d like to do a broadcast like that at our place, too.

p.05
Yama: It’s just, recently...
Taki: .........

Taki: Geez......
Taki: I wonder why everyone can’t just be honest with each other.

Taki: If you can be honest with how it’s “interesting,”
Taki: At the very least, you wouldn’t be miserable yourself...

Yama: That part of you is also the same as always...
Taki: Oolong tea.
Yama: Leaving that aside,
I was asked to deliver a message. Can I give your e-mail address?

Taki: E-mail address? To whom?
Yama: Well, it’s indirectly...

p.06

Kusaka: It’s already been a month...

Kusaka: Since Harumi-chan stopped coming.

Tsuda: She’s not even coming to her original radio assistant job, right?
Kusaka: Yeah.
SFX: Fizz
Kusaka: They said they got word from her comedian senpai that “she’ll be away for a while for training.”

p.07
Tsuda: I’m worried...

Kusaka: About which one?
Tsuda: Both...
Especially Harumi.

Tsuda: She’s not even answering her calls...
Kusaka: If you’re so worried......

Kusaka: You should just go out with her.

Tsuda: H-
How did it lead to that!?
Kusaka: I’m joking~

p.08
Anon-san tayuu (Sat)
Aurora wasn’t too good this week either.
I might not listen to it next week.
Anon-san tayuu (Sat)
It’s all according to the writer’s script anyway.
Anon-san tayuu (Sat)
Boring

SFX: Tch

Anon-san tayuu (Sat)
It’s boring as hell.
The show’s staff and people who’re listening to it are idiots

Yutaka: ............

Studi [cut off]
(20XX.X.X) At Kyoto
[can’t really tell what the one of the left is]

Image014

p.09

Tsuki: Oh, that’s a photo of when we went to Kyoto that time.

Yutaka: He-hey, don’t suddenly stand behind me!!
Tsuki: The bath’s free.
I reheated the water, so why don’t you hurry up and go in?

Yutaka: A-all right, I got it!!

p.10
Tsuka: Geez......
Tsuka: If she wants to see her, she should be honest with herself and go see her......
Right?

Yutaka: Fuaaaa~~
Yutaka: It’s great to take a nice, long bath by yourself.
Yutaka mutter: Though there’s not much space

Yutaka: Her place didn’t have a bath, so it was always the public bath......

p.11
Yutaka: I wonder how......
Yutaka: The goldfish are doing.

Why...

Yutaka: I wonder why I got so serious.

SFX: Knock knock

p.12
Tsuka: Yutaka
Tsuka: You have a video message.

Yutaka: Video message?
Tsuka: Right, from Taki-san.

Tsuka: Make sure not to drop it in the water~

Yutaka mutter: Hm? Oh, like this.
Phone: Is this thing already taking it?
Phone: Go ahead.

Phone: Hello~~~!!!
Obaka-san.
Phone: Or kaba-san?
It doesn’t matter which.

p.13
Kaieda Miho!!?
Phone: You’re getting too close!
Phone: Oh, is that so?

Phone: We~ll we~ll, you seem to be doing you show boringly~
I listened to your recent broadcast.
Phone: Well, when I first listened to it, it was much too ridiculous that I turned it off, you
Know!!!

Phone: Kyahahaha hahahahaha
Yutaka: ............!!

Phone: But—

p.14
Phone: A ridiculous show
Phone: Is much better than a boring one.

Phone: You understand?
Aurora wasn’t too good this [cut off these lines appropriately]
I might not listen
An
It’s all according
Tayuu
Borin

Phone: Seems you had the numbers for a period of time,
But if they listen to your recent broadcasts,
Don’t you think many would think it’s boring as hell?
Phone: If you say it’s okay like that now, well that’s that.
I’ll be happy with that too.

p.15
Phone: Well,
Phone: It just goes to show that a poor, debt-riddled idol will have a poor heart as well!!
Phone: Kyahahaha hahahaha
Phone: You’re too close!

SFX: Kyahaha hahaha
HACK
Cough cough
Ahi
Phone: Oh geez....

p.16

Harumi: I wonder why I said something like that......

Harumi: Oh...... It’s almost time for my newspaper delivery job.
It’s a little early, but I’ll go out.

SFX: Click
...Shut

p.17
SFX: click
SFX: pat, pat, pat

Harumi: I’m going.

Harumi: Alright, with that I’m......... done.

p.18

Harumi: The sun’s started to rise earlier.

Harumi: Oh!!

Harumi: Did I turn off my alarm!?

Harumi: If it rings, It’ll wake up Yutaka-ch——
Harumi: Ah.........

p.19
Harumi: ............

Yutaka: There! It’s her!!
Taki: Huh?

p.20

Yutaka: What kind of way to stop was that!!
Harumi: .....
Taki: Ahaha
Sorry, just out’a habit.

p.21
Taki: Anyway, c’mon.

Harumi: Yu...Yutaka-san...

Harumi: Uh......
Harumi: Um...

Harumi: Yutaka-san,
Harumi: I’m sor—
Yutaka: You see, I—

p.22-23
Yutaka: Am fine with being called boring myself.
Harumi: .........?

Yutaka: But......
I know the faces of people who listen to my show with interest.

Yutaka: I know the amount of letters we get every week.

Yutaka: I know the faces of those who are involved with the show.

Yutaka: Having all of that called boring
Yutaka: Pisses me off.
Pisses me off!!
Yutaka: Really pisses me off!!!

p.24

I found out...
The reason why I got serious.

Yutaka: This week is special. The listening rate survey period............
Yutaka: Tonight’s broadcast...... I’ll prove with the numbers.

I know

That this girl is actually “funny.”
Yutaka: But I don’t know how to make this show funny by myself.
So,

p.25
Yutaka: Come with me.
Yutaka: Please.

p.26

Harumi: How could you, Yutaka-san.
Yutaka: !

Harumi: You appear out of nowhere and say what you want.

Harumi: There’s no chance for me to apologize......

p.27
Harumi: Yutaka-saaan!!!
Harumi: I’m sorry!!

Harumi: I’m sorry.
Yutaka: That’s enough!!

SFX: Beep

p.28
SFX: Vvvv~ vvvv~

Tsuda: Hello?
Tsuda: Oh, Taki-san.
Good morning.

Tsuda: I was going to take a nap, though...
Tsuda: Yes, I’m the only one at the station right now.
Ueda-san and Kusaka have already left.
Tsuda: ......Yes.
———Huh? Right now?

Tsuda: Gathering at a family restaurant.........?
Is it the usual place near Shiba Park?
Tsuda: A meeting——
About today’s OA?

p.29

Guy: Whoa!

Guy: What is it?

SFX: Pfah

p.30
Yutaka: At any rate, a plan that’s funny!!
We’re going to show off to Kaieda with overwhelming numbers!!
Harumi: Then how about the Atsu Atsu Oden I mentioned before?
Yutaka: Like I said, you can’t see that over the radio!!

Waitress: Excuse me~, your order...?
Yutaka: Jambalaya!!
Harumi: Meat spaghetti!!
Tsuda: Hello.
Waitress: I’m sorry, it’s only the morning menu right now...
Taki: Ah~~ you’re here.

p.31
Tsuda: Harumi-chan!
Harumi: Um.........
Harumi: I’m sorry for making you call me so many times...
Yutaka: Corn soup!!

Tsuda: Just go out with her
Tsuda: ....

Harumi: ............?
Harumi: Is something the matter?

Tsuda: Oh......

Tsuda: No
Yutaka: Mixed grill!
Tsuda: N-nothing...
I’m glad you came again.
Harumi: Ehehe
Taki mutter: Hmm

p.32

Taki: I’m off to the day show then.
The rest is up to you.
Tsuda: Okay.
Tsuda: She’s tough.

p.33

SFX: Vvvv~ vvvv~
Tsuda: Oh!

Tsuda: ......Yes,
Tsuda: Hel—

Phone: HHEEEYYYY!!!
Phone: How long are you going to take!!
Taki

Tsuda: Huh......!! Oh shoot—
Tsuda: I was asleep...!!
Phone: There’s no time until we’re on-air!!
Just hurry over here!!

p.34
Tsuda: Whoa......! There’s been 30 calls since this afternoon.
Yutaka: Why didn’t anyone wake up!!
Harumi: No one had enough sleep last night, huh.

Yutaka?: Hurry, hurry!
Tsuda?: Let’s go in from the back.

Radio: Onto the next news item...

Guard: Cup ramen on a Friday night...
Guard: Maybe I should get an early shift, too......

SFX: BFF!!

p.35
Guard: Hey, you there!!

Guard: ———What,
You again?
Yutaka: Oh, good evening.

Tsuda: Here, this is the pass.
Yutaka: Hurry~~
Guard: Oh what, so there’s someone from the station.

Guard: You’re making such a huge fuss. What in the world
Guard: Is going to start?

Yutaka: ...............
What’s going to start?
Yutaka: That’s obvious.

p.36
Yutaka: Operation Aurora!!!
Chapter 10 End

p.37
[none]

p.38
Afterword
Broadcast Room (2)

Shiho: “Afterword Broadcast Room” corner~!!
SFX: honk~
Miharu: These pages are a corner in which we divulge the backstories of “O/A.”

Shiho: This time we’ll answer the feedback and suggestions
Shiho: From those who read “O/A” volume 1, which is already released~
Let’s start right away———

Shiho: “What the heck is ‘Operation Aurora,’ I can’t understand what it means at all”
Shiho: ......
Miharu: .....

SFX: toss
Miharu: Heyyyy!!!

p.39
Shiho: But if we tried to answer this, we’ll only come up with blatantly frank words....
Miharu: That reaction just now was also plenty frank!

Miharu: There’s also feedback about the cover.
It says because Yutaka’s holding a guitar, this person thought it was something about a band like a certain anime.

Shiho: To tell the truth, he liked this anime so he drew a guitar, but....
Actually, the cover was originally supposed to be a different picture, and this was a rough one drawn for the Young Ace cover.
Miharu: Having headphones on is a vestige of that. Because of this, it turned into a getup that you can’t tell whether it’s a concert or a recording...

Shiho: Incidentally, the art that was originally planned to be used as the cover became the opening for chapter 8.
Miharu: This kind of seems like a reflection session and is lacking in interestingness....
How about a topic that feels more backstage story-ish?

p.40
Shiho: Hmmm... How about the story where he got a chance to talk with W-san,
The scenario writer of some famous late night radio program, but he chickened out and ran away?
Miharu: Chicken episodes of the author like that aren’t interesting....

Shiho: There’s also——
Shiho: Volume (1)
Miharu: Waaaaaah
Shiho: Release was [blocked like crazy]
Miharu: Waaaah waaaah

SFX: crack
SFX: wham
SFX: splat

Miharu: Uuuum

Miharu: Now, we only have a few pages left.
Miharu: We couldn’t even introduce ourselves last volume, so I’d like to part after presenting our design sheets.
Alright then, let’s meet in volume 3~
Shiho: Ah... maga...mi [dunno what this is]

p.41
・Name: Miharu
・Half
・Hobby is gathering LP’s
・Name: Shiho
・Has a younger brother
・Broadcasting committee member

Cat: ....

Cat: What about me?
Shiho/Miharu: Who’re you!!
To be continued

Those who helped me
Sunabe Tooru, Sunabe Osamu
Editor
Kimura Kazunori

[English] [Translation] O/A 9 by umeboshi110

2011-04-01T18:47:56+00:00

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

O/A
Chapter 9

p.01
Chapter 9 Welcome to the Hamburger Hill!
SFX: Clink... x2

Harumi: Thanks for your hard work~
Worker: Yeah
Good work~

SFX: Pant x3

p.02
Chapter 9 Welcome to the Hamburger Hill!

p.03
SFX: Click....
Bang

SFX: Zzz~ x2

SFX: Zzz x2

p.04
Harumi: ........
Harumi: ........

SFX: murmur x3

Yutaka: .........?
Harumi: Oh......
Harumi: I woke you up.

Yutaka: Fwaa...... [yawn :/]
......That’s fine.
Did you go to work?
Yutaka: Yes.

p.05
Yutaka: What are you muttering for?
Harumi: Huh?
Harumi: Eh heh heh......

Harumi: I was writing a joke diagram.
Yutaka: Joke diagram?

Harumi: I’m going to doing a standup routine.
Harumi: What I’m writing now are jokes for the performance.
It’s just a small event with the comedians from our agency, but...

Harumi: I’ve never properly made them laugh in these chances...
So I thought, this time......
Yutaka: Hmmm...
Now that I think about it......

p.06
This girl is wannabe entertainer,
Yutaka: So you were in an agency, huh.
Harumi: Pretty much...
And she is someone walking down that path......

Yutaka: M’kay, I’ll go to sleep again.
Harumi: I’m sorry, I’ll keep quiet.
Yutaka: I’m fine, really.

Yutaka: ———...Hm? Then what did I think of her until now
As I was staying here......?

p.07
SFX: Mutter x2

p.08

Tsuka: It’s my first time at a live standup performance.
Although I’ve been with comedians at variety TV shows...

Tsuka: Can’t wait for Harumi-chan’s time to shine, right?
Yutaka: It—
It’s not like I came to cheer her on or anything!! [tsundere~ \o/]

Yutaka: Inspecting, it’s inspecting!!
Yutaka: It would be a problem if she used me for her jokes!
Tsuka: Fufu......

p.09
MC: Nautilus Rookie Live, today’s first act is
MC: The duo currently with the most momentum
“Rorschach”~~~~!!

Yutaka: You know them?
Tsuka: No......
I’ve heard that this agency has a lot of female comedians with variety acts......*
*[Non-storytelling acts]

Yutaka: Oh~ I wonder why.
I’m getting really nervous.

Yutaka: But I don’t even care whether that girl trips or slips on the stage......
SFX [white]: chara cha cha chaa~~ chaa~~
SFX [black]: clap, clap, clap

p.10
Girls: Short skit
Girls: Field Hospital

Girl: !

1: AAAAUGH!! MY ARRRM~!!!
2: Doc, doc!! Over here, hurry!!

1: My arm’s gone~~!!
2: I’ve given you morphine!!
The treatment’s done, too! It’s okay.

1: Doc...... Am, am I going to die?
2: It’s okay! It’ll be okay!

p.11
2: If you’re lucky there could be a chance you won’t die!!
1: Whaaaaa!!?

1: Isn’t that where you say “you’ll definitely be all right”!?
2: Even if you tell me that...

2: It would suck if I say something arbitrary and later the survivors put me on trial.
2: And you see,
There’s no insurance on this treatment at all.
1: You dope!!

1: Why the hell would there be insurance for a field hospital!!?
Tsuka: Variety act, eh?
Yutaka: Variety act.

p.12
SFX: ahahahaha

Guy: Hey, Harumi.
Harumi: Oh
Guy: Relax your shoulders.

Guy: They’re warming up the audience this much.
Just relax and go for it.
Harumi: Okay......

SFX: thump x4

p.13
Yutaka: Really.
Why do I have to be getting so nervous?
Yutaka: Makes me sick...
MC: Next up, our second act!! Jersey girl who grew up in the old town,

MC: Lone comedian, Tanaka Harumi~~!
Yutaka: Here she is......

Yutaka: Whoa
She’s all stiff......!!

p.14
Harumi: He~llo~
I’m Tadakaarumi~~
Don’t mess up your own name!!!

Yutaka: S – sorry, I’m fleeing for a bit.
Tsuka: Yutaka

Tsuka: You can’t. Keep watching her.
Yutaka: Noooo~!!
Harumi: Um~~ uh~~

Harumi: I went on vacation last month————
To South America.
Harumi: No, no, it’s South America, but it’s surprisingly close.

p.15
Harumi: I live in Tabata in Tokyo,

[Tabata][[Nishi-Nippori][Nippori]
[Narita][Buenos Aires]
Harumi: Four stations!!

Harumi: ————Wait, I rode on a plane in betwee~~~~n!!
Harumi mutter: The skyliner too!!

SFX: silence...

Yutaka mutter: ebb tide~~*
*[Yutaka is digging for clams at the beach]

Harumi: Doko sa itta~*
Doko sa itta~*
*[Where’d you go]
Harumi: Docosahexaenoic a~ci~d
Whoa......!!

Harumi: Uh, um~~ the other day~~
Yutaka: This is torture...

p.16
Box: Five minutes later
Harumi: ...............

Yutaka: I’m...... at my limit......!!
SFX: pant, pant
Tsuka: Endure it! You have to endure it!!

Yutaka mutter: The seawater!!
SFX: flop flop

I can’t even hear any sarcastic laughter anymore...

What should I do, what should I do...
I have to make them laugh......

p.17
All or nothing......
A quick gag with everything on the line...

Yutaka: That face...
Oh no, stop!!

Harumi: Mmm~~~
Harumi: Lake Titicaca!!!*
*[Marvelously, the pun works in English as well.]

Yutaka mutter: The ocean~~
Yutaka mutter: The ocean’s gone~~!

p.18

Harumi: Ah~~
Harumi: So you came all the way to see me~

Harumi: Ahahaha, how embarrassing~~~

Harumi: ———So, how was I...?

Yutaka: No matter how anyone looks at it...
Yutaka: Complete failure.

p.19
Yutaka: Why do you choke on your standup jokes when you talk so fluently on the radio?
Harumi: Well~ on the radio I feel I’m simply borrowing your voice, Yutaka-san.

Harumi: The atmospheres between the stage and the radio are different, too.........
Harumi: I guess it’s no good if you get worried about the reactions of those watching you.

Harumi: But I think there was no helping it this time.
Harumi: My jokes kept failing, too.

Harumi: I was told by my senpai that you can’t do anything about failed jokes so you shouldn’t panic.

SFX: sluuuurp

Harumi: I’ll make even better jokes for my next chance———

p.20
SFX: BANG!!

Yutaka: I don’t like it.

Yutaka: What I don’t like is that frivolous attitude of yours!!
Yutaka: You crushed one of your chances today.
Are you being so carefree even though you understand that!?

Harumi: I—

Harumi: I know that~
Yutaka: Nooope!! You don’t get it.

p.21
Yutaka: It’s not like you’re looking down on comedy or making fun of the viewers.
Yutaka: But,

Yutaka: Have you made the resolution to make a living with your routines!?

Yutaka: Don’t be covering up your failure with your frivolousness!!

Yutaka: It pisses me off......
Yutaka: When I see a performer without enough greed or ambition...

Yutaka: Don’t you want to be acknowledged by people!?

p.22
Harumi: I know that already!!

Harumi: I want to be acknowledged, too! I want to sell!
But......
Harumi: I get anxious, wondering if it’s okay like this...
There are times I can’t tell if the routines I’m doing are funny or not!!

Harumi: It’s not like everyone is like you,
Harumi: Yutaka-san, with confidence in the talents they were born with!!

p.23
Bystander: Whoa!

Bystander: What’s going on?

SFX: Pfah [there I go with making up random stuff again]

p.24
Yutaka: You said you’re not confident of your talents
Then you should make up for it in your routines with resourcefulness!
What the heck was that Nippori, Narita, Buenos Aires!?
Yutaka: Don’t make jokes on the premise that everyone has the stations in the city memorized!!
Harumi: The places don’t really matter for that!! As long as the tempo and how the words sound are funny!!

Yutaka: And what the heck was that docosahexaenoic a~ci~d!?
Harumi: It’s the so-called bridge between jokes!! It’s standard for comedy!!

Yutaka: Then make it something with less meaning!!
Yutaka: You’re furthering your fails because you’re awkwardly including puns!!

p.25
Yutaka: There’s no way you can do something funny without thinking from the viewpoint of the audience!!
Harumi: Yu... Yutaka-san,

Harumi: You can’t even make the radio show interesting without me!!

p.26

Yutaka: .........Oh.
So that’s what you were thinking...
Harumi: Ah......

p.27

Yutaka: I... understand it clearly.

p.28

Taki: Harumi-chan’s not coming?

Intercom: What is this about?

Yutaka: No ifs and buts about it.
Yutaka: If she doesn’t come, it means she has no intention of speaking.
I’ll talk by myself from today.

Yutaka: “Aurora” was my show to begin with.
Yutaka: Are there any problems?

p.29
Tsuka: They seem to have had a fight about the routine.
Tsuka: She’s staying over at my place right now............

Taki: Yutaka-chan,
I won’t accept that.
Intercom: ..................

Taki: ......Seriously...
SFX: crumple, crumple
Ueda: What’ll we do, Taki-san?

Ueda: I don’t see what we can do other than start the show today with just Yutaka-chan...

Taki: Have you contacted Harumi-chan?
Tsuda: I’ve called her, but she’s not answering.
Taki: Call her as many times as it takes until she answers.

p.30
Taki: “Aurora” won’t appear if it’s not the two of you......

SFX: Vrr~~
SFX: Vrr~~
Harumi: ............

p.31
1: Whaddya think of “Aurora Plan” these days?
2: What do I think... nothing especially.

3: Like it kinda got normal or something.
4: Well, I feel there haven’t been any dirty jokes these past few weeks.

5: I sort of think it’s fine to just listen to recordings these days as well.
6: Yeah, it doesn’t have the feeling of exhilaration when you’re listening to it.

p.32
Radio: That was your host Horiuchi Yutaka. We’ll see you again next w—
SFX: Bip

Chapter 9 End

[English] [Translation] O/A 8 by umeboshi110

2011-03-22T08:14:26+00:00

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

O/A
Chapter 8

p.1
Chapter 8 A Certain Old Capital’s Symmetry

p.2
(O/A)

p.3

Harumi: The two letters that were delivered to the “Kaba-Tora-Uma” corner—
They have the same content though the senders are different; what does this spell for us?
Harumi: That was the sad, inadvertent tale of two young girls.

-Harumi 10 years old

-At the zoo
Harumi: That’s not it! Wrong video!
SFX: Hahaha

p.4
Taki: Y and S-ko were best friends since elementary school.
Taki: They had even talked about staying friends forever.

To think these two would fall in love with the same boy.

Taki: The object of their love was their classmate H-kun.
Taki: He was an athlete and a handsome boy, popular amongst the girls.

p.5
Taki: Each had realized that her best friend had feelings for K-kun,

Taki: But, not being able to confide their feelings, they pretended not to know anything to each other.

Taki: They did not want to hurt their best friend, but their feelings for K-kun only grew stronger.

Taki: Caught between love and friendship, both their hearts wavered like ne’er before.

However, they were maidens loving a short-lived love.

p.6
Taki: Valentine’s Day, both of them confessed to K-kun without the notice of the other.

Most unhappily, their loves were not to blossom...

Taki: Yet, rather than the pain of a broken heart, the fact that she tried to gain an edge over her best friend
Taki: And confessed to K-kun gave way to a large guilt being harbored by each girl’s heart.

p.7
Taki: The two became unable to face each other,
And in that fashion S-ko transferred away.
Taki: So that’s about what you get when you crosscheck the two letters.
Yutaka: About what you get...

Yutaka: In other words... the two who sent the letter were best friends and they both liked the same boy, K-kun,
Yutaka: But they both assumed their best friend didn’t know they both liked the same person.

Yutaka: Then they tried to get a head start on each other and confessed,
Yutaka: Which didn’t go well. They became separated while harboring guilt...

Yutaka: So it means the letter writers took the same actions
And have the same traumas as each other, right?
Taki: That’s what it comes down to.

p.8
Taki: So about that...... Tsuda-kun.
Tsuda: Yes.

Tsuda: We’d like to bring these two together on the show.
Yutaka: !

Tsuda: Under the theme of “Friendship renewed, starting with the letters sent to the corner!”
Tsuda: On the show, we will broadcast the audio of when they meet up.

Yutaka: Are we going to tell them we got both of their letters?
Taki: No, we’re going to have them suddenly see each other on the spot.

p.9
Taki: That way’s more interesting and has more of a surprise-factor.
Yutaka: Interesting, you say...

Tsuda: We have already contacted both parties,
Yutaka: .........
Tsuda: Outwardly as part of a special corner for “kaba-tora-uma” where Yutaka-chan will hear from the listeners directly.

Ueda: This’ll be the first outdoors job for the show.
Taki: You’re right.

Taki: The staff will be Ueda-kun and one more.
Taki: Who’s free on the off-day next week?

Tsuda: I have a noon show.
Kusaka: Me too.
Taki: Hmm...

p.10
Yutaka: ME ME MEEE~
Yutaka: I’ll go!!
Taki: Yeah

Taki: Let’s have Harumi-chan go as the AD.
Harumi: Yay!
Yutaka: Wha~~

Yutaka: Don’t ever speak in front of people when you’re with me.
Harumi: Roger that.
Taki: Fufu...

Taki: It’s dubbed
Taki: Go for those two, go~!! Special!!
Yutaka mutter: The heck is that

p.11
Harumi: Hey, look at that! Fuji-san, it’s Fuji-san!
Yutaka: Be quiet!! I’ll switch with you.

Yutaka: Geez.

Tsuka: It’s been a while since last time we travelled for a job.
Yutaka: It’s just a day trip, though...

p.12
Yutaka: .........But still,
Yutaka: I wonder if it’ll be okay forcing them together like this.

Harumi: I think it’ll be okay.
Harumi: They listened to the same thing on the radio and even sent similar letters.

Harumi: There must be something that’s connecting them.
Harumi: There’s also the lyrics to one of your songs,

Harumi: “The courage is an instant”
Harumi: “The friendship a lifetime”
Harumi: “The love of you two is no problem”*———... huh?
*[she says “mou man tai” which I believe means no problem in Chinese... this came up in Hitogatana too, remember? O.o]
Yutaka: You don’t even really remember it!

p.13
Announce: Kyoto———
Announce: Kyoto———

Harumi: Kyoto!!*
*[Kyoto is the former capital of Japan]
Harumi: I haven’t been here since the field trip in middle school~~!!
Yutaka: Awfully excited, aren’tcha...

Ueda: If our recording goes well, let’s eat something befitting Kyoto on our way back.
Harumi: Really? Yaaay!!
Yutaka: It’s better if you don’t count on it...

p.14

Yotsuba: Uh,
Excuse me......

Yotsuba: I’m sorry, are you Horiuchi Yutaka...
Yutaka: That’s right,
Yutaka: Are you Nakai Yotsuba-san?
Yotsuba: Y- yes!!

Yotsuba: EEEEEEK!! It’s the real Yutaka-san~!!
Yutaka: Shh
Yutaka: You’re too loud!!

p.15
Keihan
Sanjou Station*
*[real place http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanj%C5%8D_Station_(Kyoto)]

Ueda: It’s already time.
Harumi: Oh, is it that girl?

Ueda: Could you be Takaya Saeko-san?
Saeko: Huh—
Saeko: Oh, yes, I am. Are you the people from Radio Ace?

Ueda: I’m the director, Ueda. Nice to meet you.
This is Harumi-chan from AD.
Harumi: .....
Ueda: Thank you for coming here today.
Saeko: Not at all.

p.16
Yutaka: U~~m

Yutaka: We continue on to bump into each other at the Sanjou Oohashi Bridge...
Yutaka: Let’s just talk while walking for now.
Yotsuba: Y- yes.

Keihan
Sanjou Station

Ueda: Yutaka-chan’s at a café over there.
Saeko: Ah, okay.

Saeko: Are you going around to different listeners like this for the special?
Ueda: Oh, uh, that’s right.

p.17
Yotsuba: But to think I’d really be able to meet with Yutaka-san...
Yutaka: Ahaha, I’m glad.
SFX: stab
Yutaka: My heart hurts...

Harumi mutter: I feel there was an old game with a scene like this

p.18
SFX: bump (encounter)
Yotsuba/Saeko: Hm?
Harumi mutter: Success!
Yutaka mutter: Don’t do a peace sign

Saeko: Yocchan...
Yotsuba: Saeko...

p.19
All: ............
Yutaka: Y-
You see,

Yutaka: Actually, we got letters from you at the same time!

Yutaka: And it seems you’re both misunderstanding each other!

Yutaka: So...

Yutaka: We thought you could talk it over...

p.20
Yutaka: !?

Girls: I caaaaan’t!!!

Yutaka: Wa-wa-waait!!

p.21
Yutaka: Uuugh!

Yutaka: Harumi,
Catch that girl.
Harumi: Huh, oh, yes!
Yutaka mutter: Hold this for me
Yutaka: Hurry!!

Ueda: .........
Recorder
Tsuka: .........

Ueda?: What should we do......
Tsuka?: What to do, indeed...

Yutaka: I’m telling you to wait!!
Yotsuba: I caaaaan’t!!

p.22
Yotsuba: Why was Saeko there!!!?
Yutaka: I said it was a misunderstanding!! Listen to what I have to say!!
Yotsuba: Nooo~ I can’t see her~

Yutaka: Hey—

Yutaka: No waay!!!
Yutaka: Nng.....

Yutaka: Don’t look down on idols!!!
Yutaka: Nng.....

p.23

SFX: huff
SFX: huff
Saeko: .........

Yocchan......

SFX: Eek!
Harumi: I have gotcha~~!!

Saeko: You chased after me!?
Harumi: You can’t speak!!
Seako: Let go!

Saeko: Hey! Please say something—
Harumi: I mustn’t speak...
Saeko: Noooo~ this person’s kind of scary~!!

p.24
SFX: huff
Yutaka: Stop right there!!
SFX: huff
Yotsuba: I don’t want to!! Also, that

Yotsuba: Was horrible of you, Yutaka-san
Yotsuba: You called me out saying you have something to talk about, and then...

Yotsuba: This is fraud~!!

Yutaka: Like I said, listen to—

Yutaka: Gotcha!!

p.25
Dude: Alright~
Dude: Stay right there, stay right there...

SFX: snap

SFX: snap

Dude: Hm?
SFX: flap flap

p.26
Yutaka: *pant... pant...
Yutaka: The Kamo River’s shallower than I thought.........

Yutaka: Are you okay? Are you hurt?
Yutaka: We have to go up and dry our clothes.........

Yutaka: After that we can meet that girl and talk—
Yotsuba: I can’t.

Yotsuba: I betrayed her, you know.
The friend that I thought was most precious to me...
Yotsuba: Saeko must have thought that way about me, too...

p.27
Yotsuba: How... how is...
Yotsuba: Someone like me supposed to face her...

Yutaka: .........
Yutaka: Then it’s okay if you never see her for the rest of your life?

Yutaka: Well, whatever you do,
Yutaka mutter: I’m not good with these things
Yutaka: Since she’s your precious friend, regardless of misunderstandings,
Yutaka: Isn’t it much duller to never meet her again like this?

p.28
Yutaka: The courage is an instant
The friendship a lifetime!!
Yutaka: It’s a waste if you two don’t stay together!!
——They say.

Yotsuba: *giggle
Aren’t those the lyrics to your “Watashi no Partner”*, Yutaka-san?
*[My Partner]
Yutaka: She knew!!

Yotsuba: You’re a funny person, just like on the radio, Yutaka-san.
Yutaka: L- let’s hurry and get up! We’ll catch a cold!!

p.29
SFX: Do~~~ng
Ueda: They’re late...

Ueda: Both of them... I wonder where they went off to.
SFX: Do~ng
Saeko: I knew it...

Saeko: She doesn’t want see me after all!
Ueda: These girls are generally pessimistic.

Yotsuba: Saeko......

Was drying clothes

p.30
Ueda: ————And that’s how it is.

Ueda: There was no need for you to worry about each other.

Yotsuba: Saeko...
Saeko: Yocchan...

Girls: I’m sorry!!

p.31

Ueda: We had some confusion, but I guess the plan’s a success.
Yutaka: Yep...

Yotsuba: I... still have something I couldn’t tell you, Saeko.
Saeko: !

Saeko: ......Actually, me too.........
Yotsuba: ......

Saeko: You see...
Saeko: Um......

p.32
Yotsuba: I was the one who stole Katori-kun’s gym clothes when we were second years!!!
SFX: sniff~ x2

Saeko: Me too, I mixed my saliva into the chocolate I gave to Katori-kun!!!
SFX: nnn~

Yotsuba: Saeko!!
Saeko: Yocchan!!

p.33
Harumi: All’s well that ends well.
Yutaka: It’s not well!
Yutaka mutter: It’s repulsive!

Yutaka: Uh oh

Tsuka: Uh oh

Ueda: Uh oh

Harumi: Uh oh

Girls: ......... .........
Yotsuba: That person’s voice......
Yutaka: Uuuum
Yutaka: Uhhhh... you see... yeah, hahaha

p.34
Yutaka: You guys should first apologize to K-kun.
Yotsuba: Wha......
Yutaka: OKAY?
Yotsuba?: Y- yes...

Yutaka: By food befitting Kyoto......
It doesn’t [ i]have[ i] to be Gyoza no Gyokusho*
*[I think this (餃子の玉将) is a spoof on Gyoza no Ohsho (餃子の王将, gyouza no oushou), a well known Kyoto-based ramen and gyoza restaurant in Japan.]
Harumi: I like it, so it’s fine with me~
Ueda: Since Taki-san would if we spent any more of our budget on it.

[English] [Translation] O/A 7 by umeboshi110

2011-02-13T13:26:58+00:00

[This chapter has already been scanlated by Maigo.]

O/A
Chapter 7

p.1
Chapter 7 Goldfish Swim Surprisingly Fast
Radio: That was “Cat & Fish” with Ensho Tachibana-san~
Radio: Well then,

Yutaka: We will be starting a new corner for the show from next week.
Yutaka: I would like to garner support from all of you~~
The theme is———

p.2
Chapter 7 Goldfish Swim Surprisingly Fast

p.3
Yutaka: Hmmmm,
Yutaka: It’s getting pretty clean.
Harumi: What are you saying?

Harumi: There are still this many boxes.
Yutaka: I meant compared to before.

Yutaka: All right, let’s get this all cleaned up by today.
Harumi: Yeah~

p.4
Yutaka: ............
Harumi: ............

Yutaka: Huh!? It’s evening already!?
Harumi: No way!!

Yutaka: My goodness, we didn’t get anything cleaned today, either!!
Because you started reading manga!
Harumi: You’re the one who started it with that book!!

SFX: rustle
Yutaka: Hey! I told you to tell me when you open a box......

Harumi: Yutaka-san, what’s this?
Yutaka: Oh, that’s a vase.

p.5
Harumi: It looks like it could also be a fishbowl.

Harumi mutter: Unyo~n
Harumi: This is a good chance to keep some goldfi——
Yutaka: No.
Yutaka mutter: I don’t need these.

Harumi: That was a rather quick response.
Yutaka: ......

Yutaka: I don’t have good memories of goldfish.

Harumi: What do you mean by that?
Yutaka: Not telling.

p.6
SFX: Flop
Harumi: That’s a huge amount...

Taki: “New Corner (tentative) looking for your past boneheaded traumas,”
Taki: “Bad memories rooted in your heart such as an insignificant* beginning snowballing into a huge problem.”
*[humble/petty/trivial/etc.]

Taki: “We’ll let Yutaka-chan determine their trauma levels!”
———Is what we’re going for.

p.7
Taki: So please choose the letters you will read in the show from here.
The two of you.
SFX: point
Yutaka: I knew it......!

Yutaka: Wai—
Taki: I will have you responsibly read what you chose
So that the content of what you pick won’t be biased.

Yutaka: That smells like sophism......!!
Yutaka mutter: This is probably just because it seems more interesting again.
Harumi: Umm~~
What should we do with something like this?

Harumi: Radio name “Deepthroat” san,
Harumi: “This is about when I was the vice-commander of a submarine.”
“The commander, under orders, tried to enforce the firing a nuclear missile at an enemy country, to which I said “You are wrong”...”

Yutaka: That’s got to be a lie.
Taki: It’s better if we keep it to actual experiences.

p.8
Taki: Let’s see......
Taki: If we could, it’d be great if we had experiences from Yutaka-chan herself.

Taki: Don’t you have anything?
Yutaka: Even if you ask me that...

Harumi: Oh,

Harumi: That reminds me, how about that thing about the goldfi—
Harumi: !!
SFX: WHOMP!!

Taki: What was that about goldfish?
Harumi mutter: The face again...
Yutaka: It’s nothing.

p.9

Yutaka: Reading this all this is so tiring...!!
Yutaka: There ones with [ i]really[ /i] heavy content mixed in, too.
Harumi: Yes, there are...

Yutaka: But I wonder if there’s any meaning to putting levels on people’s traumas.
SFX: creak
Yutaka: Only that person can understand his emotional scars and the weight he carries.

Harumi: There isn’t any real meaning.
Yutaka: Huh?
Harumi: I think things like that are just performances to heat up the corner.

Harumi: I can understand since I had submitted to these kinds of corners on the radio myself.

p.10
Harumi: Just by having it read on the radio, the people who submitted———
Uh-uh.

Harumi: Just submitting will lift off a little of the weight on their chests.*
*[Lit: relieve them a little from the heaviness in their hearts]

Harumi: If you have something, it might be good if you tried to talk about it, Yutaka-san.

Yutaka: ............

p.11

Radio: Now then, let’s move onwards to our rumored new corner!!

Radio: Titled,

Yutaka?: Kaba-Tora-Uma* Cor~~~ner~~~!!
*[Kaba-Tora-Uma = Hippo-Tiger-Horse, and tiger-horse is a homonym of “trauma.”]
Harumi: Yaaaay
Yutaka: Hippo.........
SFX: Cha~charah cha cha~

p.12
Yutaka: This corner is one in which we will announce the listener-san’s [ i]bitter[ /i] memories,
Yutaka: And I, Horiuchi Yutaka, and the staff will judge them with three levels and determine the king of the week.

Yutaka: If the trauma level is Tiger it is three points, Hippo it is two points, Horse it is one point.
Yutaka: We will rate them by raising plates with animals drawn on them.
Yutaka mutter: Even though you can’t see it on the radio.

Yutaka: The judges will be ①me ②setup-san ③director-san.
Yutaka: You will vie for the top with the total points from all of us.

Ueda: Okay, switch with Harumi-chan.

p.13
Harumi: Let’s go to our first one right away then.
Harumi: Radio name “Fugashiumai”* san.
*[Fugashi is a type of snack, and umai means delicious/yummy]
I’ve had a splendidly obese body since I was young.

Of course lunch time was the most enjoyable part of school for me.
I had seconds of what was served nearly every day.

Egg drop soup, sandwich, and fried chikuwa
Were served that day.

I love all of them.
I go for seconds before everyone could finish saying “itadaki masu.”*
*[Literally “I will receive it,” something you say before eating in Japan so it means something along the lines of “let’s eat.”]

I was aiming for the fried chikuwa.

Then...
H: Hey, stop it!!

p.14
That was my best friend H-kun.

H-kun and I were best friends with nothing to hide from each other.
Us two were also at the center of the boys.

At first I thought that H-kun stopped me because he wanted to eat the fried chikuwa too.
“Yutaka”: It’s first come, first served~
H: I’m telling you to stop. Quit it already!!
However, he relentlessly hounds me, who simply wanted to obtain seconds.

We become hostile towards each other and the classroom’s atmosphere becomes dangerous.
H: XXXX
“Yutaka”: XXXX

I finally snapped——
“Yutaka”: Shut up!!
It doesn’t have anything to do with you!!

p.15
H: I’m worried about your body!!
H-kun says that he was worried about my body.
I was bewildered by this unexpected response.

“Yutaka”: Sh– shut up!!
SFX: bam

I ate the fried chikuwa, but I don’t remember its taste.
For a while afterwards we were harsh on each other.

p.16
I made up with H-kun since then,
Signs: [above]Kama age* [below] Chikuwa
*[When referring to noodles, kama age is boiled udon with warm dipping sauce]
But even now I feel strange when I see fried chikuwa at udon* shops.
*[Japanese thick noodles]
Harumi: .........So,

Harumi: I think H-kun’s line that “I’m worried about your body” was good,
Harumi: But it gripped me how a fight led to the thing with fried chikuwa.

Harumi: Now, the ratings are——

Harumi: Hippo.
Harumi: Hippo.
Harumi: Horse.
Harumi The total comes out to, um... 5 points~
SFX: parara rappappa~~~

p.17
Yutaka: We’ll go on to the second one.
Yutaka: Penname Watarai Keiji-san.*
*[Author’s name]

I think there are people who have experience with this.
When I was young, it was popular to straddle and slide down the handrails of the stairs at my kindergarten.

We called it the “monorail,”
But of course it was dangerous so the teacher forbid it.

One day,
I did the “monorail” when the teacher wasn’t looking.

However———

p.18
SFX: grasp
I couldn’t get out.

My leg had gotten stuck between the railing and the wall and I could not get out anymore.
“Yutaka”: Aha... Ahaha....
I laughed at the time for some reason.
I was probably trying to escape from the fear and anxiety by laughing.

Shortly the teacher came over and tried to lift my body but I just couldn’t get out.
“Yutaka” mutter: Byaaaa
I started wailing.

They tried things like rubbing soap on my leg, but it just wouldn’t budge.
“Yutaka” mutter: Byaaaa
Teacher mutter: I’m sorry.
My parents* were contacted and came running over.
*[FYI it’s likely only one parent, but it doesn’t sound right in English. Silly Japanese vagueness.]

By the time I had started to think I would either be like this for the rest of my life or we would have to cut off my leg,
“Yutaka” mutter: Uuu~
I heard the sirens.

p.19
The ambulance and rescue team arrived.

The rescue team broke the railing and rescued me with no trouble.
SFX: crack
SFX: Pop

Although even I could tell that the leg that was stuck didn’t have any serious injuries,
Rescue: Can you walk?
There was also the guilt from this becoming such a huge fiasco,
SFX: quiver, quiver
“Yutaka”: Aaaau?
So I must have thought it wouldn’t be good to walk perfectly fine in that situation despite being a child.
I had become like a newborn fawn.

In the end I was sent to the hospital in an ambulance.
Apparently there were rumors even in the kindergarten in the neighboring town that “at the ** kindergarten yesterday, there was a big accident that the rescue team came to.”

p.20
Yutaka: “To this day I feel remorseful for having troubled so many people.”
Yutaka: Now, the ratings are——

Yutaka: Horse,
Harumi mutter: That was stupid.
Yutaka: Horse,
Ueda mutter: It’s stupid.
Yutaka: Hippo.
Yutaka: A total of 4 points......
Uh~~~~~~

Yutaka mutter: I thought it was good, though...
Harumi: ...Now then——

p.21
Harumi: Let’s see~
Before we go on to the next one,
Harumi: How about an experience from me, Horiuchi Yutaka?

Yutaka: Wai......!!

Yutaka: What are you doing on your own!?
SFX: squeak, squeak
Yutaka: I don’t have any———

Sign: About the goldfish
[goldfish is in bigger font]

p.22
Taki: Just say it.
Yutaka: !

Taki: You might feel a bit better, you know?

SFX: smile

Geez———
Yutaka: ...This is about when I was in elementary school——

p.23
When I was 9, I went to the local festival with my grandma.
I was a granny’s girl.
[D’AWWWW]

p.24
Yutaka: Grandma, can I keep this goldfish~?

Grandma: Hmmm~, let’s see.

Grandma: If you can take good care of it, Yuu-chan.
Yutaka: Uh huh.

Grandma: The “Funa Oji-san”* comes to kids who don’t take good care of them,
*[Crusian carp man]
And kidnap them to the bottom of the lake.
Yutaka mutter: Ah~~
SFX: Gyo gyo gyo*
*[fish sound]
SFX: tremble x 3

p.25
Yutaka: I’ll take good care of it!!
Grandma: Really?

Grandma: Then I’ll ask you mother for you.
Yutaka: Mhm!

Grandma: Yuu-chan, do you want to anything to eat?
Yutaka: Uuum~
Yutaka: Oh!

p.26
Yutaka: I want to eat cotton candy!
Sign [ right]: Yakisoba*
*[Fried noodles]
Sign [black]: Cotton candy
Grandma: Oh! It’s dangerous if you run!

p.27
SFX: FSHH
Yutaka: Ever since then......

Yutaka: I have been unable to eat fried fish......
SFX: Cry~~

p.28
Radio: Well then, see you next week~~
Radio: Good bye~~~

Yutaka: Phew~ I’m tired.
Yutaka: I’m hungry.
Harumi: Ahaha
Harumi: Would you like to stop by the udon shop below on the way back?

Yutaka: Udon? Sounds good.
Yutaka: Let’s see,
Put on chikuwa tempura... put on shrimp tempura... also squid leg tempura, garland chrysanthemum...

Yutaka: 4 might be too much.
Yutaka: 2 is enough,
Hm–
———ph.

Intercom: You get along pretty well.
Yutaka: Stop it.

p.29
Taki: Oh, you’re not?
Taki: It’s almost as if you two were always there.

Intercom: It’s a fun fishbowl to watch.
Yutaka: What does that mean?
Intercom: You’ve never heard of it?

Taki: Fishbowl is jargon for the radio broadcast booth*.

p.30
Harumi: It’s perfect, just like I thought.

Yutaka: They’ll quickly be constrained when they get bigger.
Harumi: Let’s choose their names.

Harumi: How about this black one is Yutaka,

Harumi: And this red one is Harumi?

Yutaka: I don’t want that.
Harumi: You don’t want it to be your own name?

p.31
Yutaka: It’ll be even sadder when they die.

Harumi: .........

Harumi: Even when Harumi dies?

Yutaka: That’s right.

Yutaka: Only if it’s goldfish.
Harumi: Urgh~~~~

p.32

Tsuda: Hmmmmm
Tsuda: It looks like categorizing the submissions’ll take until morning.

SFX: flap

Tsuda: ............

p.33
Tsuda: If I remember.........

SFX: rustle, rustle
Taki: Good work~

Tsuda: This is it.

Tsuda: ......Just as I thought.
Taki: ?

Tsuda: Please take a look at this.
Taki: What? A fan letter for me?
Tsuda: As if that would [ i]ever[ /i] happen.

Taki mutter: It was just a little joke...
Taki: Hmm, let’s see.

p.34
Taki: This is......
Taki: The senders are different, but these two entries–

Taki: Their content is almost–
Taki: The same......?
Chapter 7 END

[English] [Translation] O/A 6 by umeboshi110

2010-12-28T22:08:57+00:00

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

O/A
Chapter 6

p.1
Taki: “Two people in one role”———

Taki: With this setup,
Taki: We will build up a shining new image of an idol.
Chapter 6: Hippo and Radio and ——— [three blanks]

Taki: And that——
Operation Aurora
Taki: Is this!!

p.2-3
Chapter 6:
Hippo and Radio and ———

p.4
Chapter 6: Hippo and Radio and ———
Chapter 7: Goldfish Swim Surprisingly Fast
Chapter 8: A Certain Ancient City’s Symmetry
Chapter 9: Welcome to the Hamburger Hill!
Chapter 10: 24 Hours
[Translations of chapter titles subject to change depending on content of chapter, notably ch.8 and ch.10]

p.5
Announcer: This year’s Best Newcomer* for the JFK Music Awards goes to———
*[Newcomer’s Award, rookie of the year award?]

Announcer: Horiuchi Yutaka!!!
Announcer: Congradulations!!

SFX: open!
Yutaka: Huh?

p.6
Voices: *Whisper
Voices: *Whisper
Voices: *Whisper
Voices: *Whisper

Voices: For an idol to not be able to make ends meet due to debt......
Voices: There was something going on between her and the office’s president............

Voices: She is only about superficial cuteness after all...
Yutaka: ...N...no......

Yutaka: No,
——Why!!?
Yutaka: Why do I have to go through this!!?

p.7
Voice: It’s because you have hair there...... [even putting the “there” there is stretching the translation a bit, but I felt it could clarify a bit]

Yutaka: Huh?

Voice: To have hair down there even though you’re an idol...
Voice: A letdown...
Voice: I won’t forgive you for leaving it like that...

Voice: Jungle.........*
*[she’s actually saying “Amazon”]
Voice: Jun~gle~
Voice: Jun~gle~
Yutaka: Nooooo

p.8

Yutaka: Urgh~~
SFX: zzz x 2

SFX:
Yutaka: Jungle...
Yutaka mutter: ugh~

SFX: Flushhh

Yutaka mutter: ugh~
Yutaka mutter: ugh~

p.9

SFX: glint

Yutaka: U...gh...
SFX: snuggle x 2

SFX: Shave

SFX: whomp

Yutaka: Don’t try to pull something like a yobai.*
*[Like, approaching someone at night for sex.
LOL http://www.japanfortheuninvited.com/articles/yobai-night-crawling.html]
SFX: driiip

p.10
SFX: chirp, chirp

Yutaka: I really thought I was gonna to be raped there.
Harumi: You seemed very restless, Yutaka-san,
So I thought you weren’t comfortable sleeping –

Harumi: And tried to make it a bit breezier between your legs.
Yutaka: You must be retarded!!

Harumi: Like shaving away your chastity?*
*[originally a pun with teimou, shaving, and teisou, chastity]
Yutaka: That’s not funny! Not at all!!
Box: Yutaka-san vacated the large apartment she was in.

p.11
Box: Ultimately, while shouldering a staggering amount of debt,
SFX: Thump
Harumi: Whoops,
Box: Yutaka-san started her idol activities again.

Box: Who knows how long it will taker for her to pay it all off.
Harumi: Yutaka-san~~
Harumi: Can’t you do anything about these boxes?

Harumi: The apartment floor’s going to fall through~~
SFX: gargle
Yutaka: There’s no other choice.
Yutaka: My stuff won’t all fit into Tsuka-chan’s room.

Yutaka: There’s no more space to sleep there, even.
That’s why I’m here.
SFX: spit
Tsuka: It won’t fit any more~!!
Harumi mutter: Ootsuka-san...
Harumi: I feel bad for her............

SFX: Knock, knock
Yutaka: Speak of the devil———

p.12
Tsuka: Look, look,
Tsuka: My new card’s finished.
Box: Ootsuka-san, the manager......

Box: Became a president herself and established “Lincoln” professional entertainment.
Yutaka: It says president.
Harumi: Wow~
Tsuka: There’s only Yutaka and me, though.
Box: Though she decided to keep supporting Yutaka-san...

Yutaka mutter: No~
SFX [black]: roll
Box: Yutaka-san was rolling around saying “I don’t want to do anything other than work for idols.”
Yutaka mutter: I don’t wanna~
SFX [black]: roll

Tsuka: Well,
People just don’t grow up right away, do they.
Box: Ootsuka-san’s pain can be felt.

p.13
Tsuka: I’ve brought news of a job today.
Yutaka: !? What kind?

Tsuka: Guess what, a request for a commercial shooting!
Yutaka: Really!?

Harumi: That’s great!!
Yutaka-san!

Harumi: That’s amazing to get a commercial right after returning!!
Yutaka: Eh...... heheh, [fu......fufu, there’s slight indication of nervousness or hesitation or something.]
Yutaka: Of course, obviously!!!

Tsuka: They wanted to film as soon as possible.
Yutaka: Of course there’s no problem with that!!
Bring it on!!

p.14
Yutaka: It’s a hippo!!
Tsuka: Yeah......

Yutaka: It doesn’t matter who’s in it if it’s like this......
Tsuka: They demanded someone who could sing and dance.

Yutaka: It annoys me how oddly realistic the costume’s made.
Note: The ears on the sides move independently.
Yutaka mutter: The gimmick...
Staff: We’ll be going on to the filming now.

Staff: Alright, ready—
——Action!!

p.15
Its fragrance reaches ahead 5 miles,

Smiles, smiles,
Everybody smiles,

Ru~ ruru~~ Ru~ ruru~~ [localized with la~ dida~~ or something]

Smile curry, prepared with smile
Hippo mark, from Kabayou Foods.

Staff: That’s good!!
Yutaka: This has nothing to do with dancing...

Miho: Kyahahahahahahahahaha
SFX: twitch, twitch

p.16
Miho: You look like an idiot!!!
SFX: Kya ha ha ha ha ha

MiHO: Cuz you’re a hippo!!!*
*[She uses “baka” above, and then “kaba,” which means hippo]

Yutaka?: Kaieda...
Tsuka?: Miho!!?

p.17
Yutaka: Why are [ i]you[ i] here?
Miho: I just happened to be filming nearby,

Miho: And I heard there was a singing and dancing(?) hippo here!!
SFX: giggle, giggle
Miho: Kyahahahahahahahahaha
Yutaka: ...............

Yutaka: So you just came to laugh at me.

Miho: I’d like you to call it encouragement.
Miho: You seemed to be criticized a lot recently.
I thought I wouldn’t mind being the one to defend you.
Miho: Cuz you’re a hippo!!

Miho: Well, that looks like it wasn’t needed.
SFX: Hmph
Miho: I’m relieved you seem fairly energetic.

p.18
Miho: I’ll be filming on location at Okinawa from tomorrow, so this week’s radio will be a recording.
SFX: pulls in
Miho: I’ll be listening to your show at the hotel.

Miho: Well, do yourself a favor, break a leg and sweat some blood.
Miho: Cuz you’re a hippo!!
※ Hippos secrete red sweat
Yutaka: She likes it now, doesn’t she...

Yutaka: Tsuka-chan......
Tsuka: ?
Yutaka: I’ll definitely make sure to climb up...... and then—

I’ll brush that girl’s teeth with a mop......!!
Yutaka mutter: brush~ brush~
Miho mutter: Ababa ba ba
Cuz you’re a hippo——!!?

p.19
Yutaka: I’m tired...

Harumi: Welcome back.

Harumi: How was it? Your work.
Yutaka: Hippo.*
*[kaba]

Harumi: Cover?*
*[kabaa]
Harumi: Are you going to sing a famous song?
Yutaka: I don’t even have the strength to correct you now......

Yutaka: Having a staring contest with a light bulb? What’s wrong?

Harumi: The light bulb in the bathroom burnt out,
Harumi: So when I asked for a “long-lasting one” at the electronic store,

Harumi: It cost 3900 yen.*
*[~$46.5 (12/17/10)]
Yutaka: wat

p.20
Yutaka: Isn’t this an LED bulb?

Harumi: Elleedee——...
Yutaka: Sure, they seem to be longer lasting and cheaper to use, but......

Yutaka: Looking at the cost of incandescent lamps, it’ll take several years to break even.
Harumi: Urgh...

Yutaka: Are you planning on living here that long?
SFX: clap
Harumi: B– but......
Since the electric bill’s lower it’s...... It’s green!!

Yutaka: Green is a form of luxury!!
Yutaka: It’s ridiculous to talk about green when we’re in a state
Where we can’t eat tomorrow if we don’t work today!!
Harumi: Er~~~

Yutaka: Goodness.
SFX: Siiiigh
Yutaka: You’re lacking in a little something called common sense.
[Possibly: “You’ve got a few screws loose.” However, “common sense” might be desirable considering all that follows. Actually, the word is “joushiki” and can refer to general/common knowledge, which puts me in a pickle since that’s what the story’s about.]
SFX: Pu~~

p.21
Harumi: Like you should be talking, Yutaka-san!!
Yutaka: WHAT!?
How am I lacking in common sense!!?

Harumi: Like you use other people’s rooms like you own the place;
Most of all,
The one thang ah can’t stand is, [there isn’t actually an accent (although there’s slur/slang), but it seemed appropriate. This might also be some sort of reference.]
A hairy idol!!
Harumi: You have hair there even though you’re an idol!!

Yutaka: Wh... what does the hair have anything to do with this?
Harumi: You should also measure the “greenness” of body hair!!

Harumi: Even I shave down there.
SFX: Ah
Hem!!
Yutaka: You’re kidding!!
Yutaka mutter: Seriously?

Harumi: I’m not lying,
See!
SFX: stomp, stomp
Yutaka: You don’t have to show it!!

p.22
Miho: Haa...
Miho: An...
Miho: Haa,

Miho: Ah......
Miho: Nng...

Miho: Aah—
Miho: R...right there—

Miho: Aaaaah
Miho: That’s amazing~~~ [This line was supposed to be more massage-oriented, but I couldn’t come up with anything]

p.23
Masseuse: Thank you~

Miho: Aah, that felt great.
Miho: Massages should be a given for filming on location.

Miho: It’s already started.
Miho: There we go.

Miho: I’ll listen to you just like I promised,
Miho: Hippo-girl.
Radio: We’ve prepared a corner this week!

p.24
Radio: Quiz!!
Horiuchi Yutaka’s common sense!!!

Yutaka: We~~~ll, this project was suddenly prepared due to [ i]a certain member of the staff[ i]
Yutaka: Questioning the common sense of idol Horiuchi Yutaka.
Yutaka: ............

p.25
Yutaka: How did things end up like this...
Harumi mutter: Ehehe...

Yutaka: Why!?

Yutaka: We don’t need a stand-in now that I’m here.
Why a live broadcast with two people again......
Taki: It’s not a stand-in.
You will [ i]do Horiuchi Yutaka with two people.[ i] [ew, that doesn’t sound right. “You two will act as HY.”?]

Yutaka: Why'!!?
Taki: Why?
The answer’s as plain as day.

p.26
Taki: That’s obviously
Taki: Because it’s more interesting that way!!

Taki: Of course be sure the listeners don’t find out.
Loser: Forceful again......

Taki: Outwardly Harumi-chan will always be in front of the mic as a part of the staff.

Tsuda: I suppose I won’t have anything to do again.

Yutaka: So you’re letting Harumi talk as well!?
Yutaka: No way, she might say something weird about me ag——

p.27
SFX: crush
Taki: If you won’t do it together, you’ve no choice other than to step down.

Yutaka: Wha—
Taki: This is a show that basically stays afloat on listener ratings...
Since there are sponsors.

It’s our job as staff to let them hear anything more interesting. [bottom]

Taki: From what I hear, the only regular work you have is the radio here at Ace.
Taki: I wonder who won’t be able to eat!!
Yutaka: Urgh, she must’ve talked about last night...

If Yutaka-chan snags on her words, you can talk without missing a beat.
Yutaka mutter: Hey!!

Yutaka: Ugh...... For me to be blackmailed...
[I can’t believe I got/was blackmailed]
Yutaka: I will start answering the common knowledge questions that will be read.
Well then, the first question——

p.28
Radio: What Apollo number was the first to land mankind on the moon?
Yutaka: 11!
SFX: Ding~ [the “correct” bell]

Radio: The three powers of the separation of powers are the legislative, executive, and?
Yutaka: Judicial!
SFX: Ding~

Radio: In episode 24 of the TV series Evangelion, how long did it take until Kaworu-kun was crushed by Unit 01 after he said his last line?
Yutaka: 65 seconds!!
SFX: Ding~

p.29
Loser: She’s answering them normally.
Taki: Hmm......

Taki: It’s boring.

Taki: Well, it’s fine.
Taki: There’s no way Harumi-chan can stay quiet like this.

Yutaka: It may be cute for an idol to make mistakes,
Yutaka: But now I have to answer quickly to not create any chances...

Radio: What is the katakana name of the campaign to lighten clothing worn during the summer?
Yutaka: U~~~~m,
I know this, too.........
Yutaka mutter: What was it....

SFX: SHINE~

p.30
Yutaka: Cool Biz—
Harumi: PAIPAN!!!*
*[Harumi used this earlier, meaning shaved “down there”]

SFX: Pfft

SFX: Bzzzt
SFX: whack
Yutaka: Idiot~!!!

Radio: Yutaka-chan, the sound’s in it, the sound~~~!!
Mutter: The whack

p.31
Yutaka: U~~~~m,
Yutaka: Just like that,
If I answer wrong, I will get smacked by a slapping machine.
Harumi: Huh~~~!?

Miho: She really puts her body on the line for just a quiz...

Sign: I can’t “boke”* then!
*[boke is to comically act stupid/make a mistake, as in part of boke/tsukkomi]
Yutaka: I don’t need any boke answers.

Radio: Fukui prefecture, Nara prefecture, and Kyoto, which of these is not adjacent to the sea?
Yutaka: Geez...
Yutaka: Kyoto!

SFX: Bzzzt
Yutaka: Huwha?

p.32
SFX: smack
Yutaka: ABEH

Yutaka: What was that for!!?
Sign: Since those were the rules!?

Yutaka: You little...!!

Loser: They’re starting to go fight.
Taki: This is good, this is good.

Radio: Who is the current prime minister?
Yutaka: Tanaka Kakuei!!
SFX: Bzzzt

p.33
Harumi: Hebu
SFX: spa~nk

Yutaka: Owwww,
It wasn’t Kakuei?
Yutaka mutter: Makiko?
SFX: sting
Harumi: That was on purpose, on purpose~

Yutaka: Fu, fu, fu, fu...

Harumi: Grrrr~

p.34
Radio: What did the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, say after returning to Earth?
Yutaka: “I’m sorry for being born”!!
SFX: smack!!

Radio: Where will the 2012 Summer Olympics be held?
SFX: smack!!
Harumi: Tama-Plaza!!*
*[wiki available]

Radio: Pinkara Kyoudai!!*
*[Shiro Miya + Gorou Miya]
SFX: smack!
Radio: Zapped!!*
[The movie Zapped! (1982)]
SFX: smack!
Radio: Buri daikon!!*
*[A Japanese dish with daikon and Japanese amberjack/yellowtail]
SFX: smack
Tsuka: Ah~~~ It’s messed up again.........
Tsuka mutter: It’s FUBAR. [Hoover??]

p.35
Radio: Guuuh, geez, a song, a song!!
Radio: Akai Chiri-san’s cover song, “Tokoro de ne.”*
*[By the way]

Miho: ............ ...What is this...

Miho: How moronic.
Let’s just go to sleep......
Miho: ............

p.36
SFX: open
Miho Oh!
Cover song!!?

SFX: get up!!
Cuz you’re a hippo!!?*
*[kabaa/kaba thing again]
Chapter 6: End

[English] [Translation] O/A 5 by umeboshi110

2010-12-23T04:16:21+00:00

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

O/A
Chapter 5

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

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

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

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

p.03

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

p.05

Yutaka-san——

p.06
Everyone is waiting.
SFX: honk hooonk

That’s why, until you come,

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

I will defend your place, Yutaka-chan.

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

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

Harumi: I will be reading some of those now.

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

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

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

“I’m fed up with this......”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

SFX: clack [open]
Tsuka: !
Yutaka!

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

Tsuka: Hey, wait!
SFX: run

p.11
SFX: bang

SFX: fwip [jump]

Ah, geez

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

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

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

For my fans?

I don’t know———— however!!

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

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

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

p.13
SFX: Daaaaash
Security: !!

Security: H –

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Sign: Studio 6

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

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

SFX: slam!!

p.16

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

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

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

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

SFX: pant, pant

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

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

From the beginning,
This is the place you belong.

p.18
Harumi: !!!

Harumi: Yutaka-san!!!

p.19

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

Yutaka: It’s all right, stay there.

SFX: plop
SFX: creak

p.20-21

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

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

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

Yutaka: So I can’t say when,
But,

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

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

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

But the words aren’t coming out......

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

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

Harumi: Talks and corners,
Events and presents –

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

p.26

Yutaka: Th-
Harumi: That’s right!!

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

Intercom: ...Whoopsie?

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

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

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

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

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

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

SFX: squirt
Yutaka: Urgh
Harumi: !!?

Yutaka: Oh......

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

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

Forgot name: Blood?

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

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

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

<~~~Echo

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

p.31
Taki: *chuckle [Fu fu]

Taki: Really......

Taki: What an awful broadcast.

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

Ueda?: ...Are you serious?

Taki: Of course.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

p.35
SFX: click

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

Kusaka: There is it!

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

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

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

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

p.37
O/A

p.38
Afterword
Broadcast room

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[English] [Translation] O/A 4 by umeboshi110

2010-11-15T19:27:54+00:00

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

O/A
Chapter 4
“Beautiful Dreamer”

p.01
Chapter 4: Beautiful Dreamer
Right now, for me,

There is someone
who I want to smile more than anyone.

So, that’s why,

For that person,
I will speak!!

p.02
Chapter 4: Beautiful Dreamer

p.03
Harumi: Let’s go, Yutaka-san!!
Harumi: To the second radio broadcast tonight!!

Harumi: I’m sure everyone must want to hear your voice,
Harumi: So please!

p.04
Yutaka: .........
Yutaka: ...I don’t want to.

Yutaka: That producer’s also probably given up on me already.

Yutaka: No one would enjoy it even if I spoke.

Harumi: No way...

Harumi: You are an idol*,
*[idol in bold or italics]
Harumi: That can’t –
SFX: Twitch

p.05
SFX: stop/pause
Harumi: !!

An idol riddled with debt
Yutaka: I’m fed up with it.
and stained by gossip, is just...

Yutaka: Just let me be...

p.06

Ueda: I’m against this.

Ueda: Although circumstances made her inclusion in the first one an unavoidable emergency measure.........
Ueda: It’s different this time.
Ueda: We’re having her talk in order to wait for Yutaka-chan, who may not even come.

Ueda: This will even go against the duty that you were telling Yutaka-chan about.
Taki: Oh, well then, as director you can just oppose this more strongly, you know?

Ueda: Like you would listen even if I did.
Ueda mutter: I’m just saying even though I know.
Taki: You do get it, don’t you.

p.07
Taki: Well, this really is ridiculous.
I’ve been thinking since then.

An idol and an entertainer... Their standings and their personalities are different;
Two people with the same voice.

And they came across each other in the radio station that day.
If these two meeting was not a coincidence,

p.08
I may just be trying to find the reason for it.
Ueda: 10 minutes to go.

p.09
SFX: bang!!
Tsuka: There you are!

Tsuka: pant, pant
Tsuka: Yutaka!

Yutaka: .........

Tsuka: Geez, you’re making me worry again,
Tsuka: I looked all over for you!!

Tsuka: You didn’t even call!!

p.10
Yutaka: ............
Yutaka: ......How’d you find me/this place?*
*[alt. How’d you know? if it doesn’t fit or something.]

Tsuka: Harumi-chan told me through Taki-san.
Tsuka: She wanted me to bring you to tonight’s broadcast for sure.

Yutaka: .........
Tsuka: I... won’t tell you to go against your will.*
*[alt. I... won’t force you to go.]
Tsuka: But,

Tsuka: You aren’t planning to quit being an idol like this, are you!?

p.11
Yutaka: I’m not an idol anymore.

Yutaka: I’m worthless now that I’m not an idol.........

Tsuka: .........
Tsuka: You are an idol.

p.12
Yutaka: ......I’m not.

Tsuka: You are an idol.

Yutaka: Liar.

Tsuka: You are an idol.

Tsuka: As long as there are people who place their dreams in you,
Tsuka: You are an idol.

p.13
Yutaka: ...Dreams......?

When we first met at the office,

I saw a glimmering star in you.
SFX: chew x 2
Yutaka: Nice to meet you.
I felt my purpose was to watch over this girl until she reaches the top.

p.14
Tsuka: Yutaka,

Tsuka: Not a day has gone by that I haven’t dreamed of you singing under the dome.*
*[Tokyo Dome, most likely. Place for big events.]

p.15

Sign: Yamato Broadcasting

Glasses: I wonder what they’re planning on doing for today over at Ace.
Chubby: You mean for Horiuchi Yutaka? I don’t suppose she’d be able to go on radio...

SFX: slurp
Glasses: But I haven’t heard anything about them switching programs.

Miho: This is no fun!!
Glasses/Chubby: !

p.16
Miho: There’s no fun in quitting......
SFX: squeak x 2
Miho: It can only be called perfect when I, Kaieda Miho, win in all the numbers including the listener ratings.*
*[I’m not sure if there’s a suitable term, but it’s the percent of people that listened to it]

Miho: My victory, that is!!
Miho: You understand?

p.17
SFX [big, black]: thud
Miho: Gyani!!
SFX: smack
Glasses/Chubby: !!

Miho: Pigyaaaa!!
Chubby: Are you alright!?
Glasses: She’s such a handful...

T-Mom: Takamasa-kun,

T-Mom: I brought your midnight snack.

Taka: Sure.

p.18
Mom: Good night~

SFX: thump
SFX: thump

Yutaka: The dome......

p.19
Tsuka: Yep,
Tsuka: That is my dream.

Yutaka: But......
SFX: click
SFX [underneath]: static

Display [above the AM]: alarm
Radio: The midnight announcement, brought to you by Radio Ace.*
*[actually something like Radio Ace informs you that it is midnight >.>]
Radio: Beep,
Radio: Beep,

Radio: Bleep~ [or toot~ or whatever, if you can imagine -_-;;]

p.20
Radio: “Horiuchi Yutaka Aurora Plan!!”

Harumi: *inhale/*breathe in~

p.21
Harumi: Oh, good evening~!!!

p.22
Taki: ......Y–

Taki: You idiot!! Are you trying to destroy our listeners’ ears!!?
Ueda: Thank God we had a limiter. [or maybe “it was capped” or something]
Yutaka: Ahah, ahahahahaha

Harumi: Uuuh, once again, good evening everyone.
Radio: I’m Horiuchi Yutaka~

p.23
Radio: I’m really sorry for breaking out in such a huge voice.

Radio: Um, there was a lot that happened,
Radio: So there may be a lot of people who wondered what would happen to this program.

Tsuka: Harumi-chan...

Radio: But as you can see,* I’m sitting in front of the mic this week as well!
*[it’s a figure of speech, obviously >.>]
Taka: It started!!

p.24
Harumi: That said,
Harumi: I, myself, feel that talking here again is like a dream.

Harumi: Since I was little, grownups have told me that I seemed to be dreaming even while I was awake.
Harumi: Now, it’s a bit abrupt, but I suppose I will talk a little about dreams.

Harumi: I say dreams, but there are all different kinds of them.
Harumi: Dreams you see when sleeping, your future dreams,
Harumi: There must be girls out there who dream of becoming comedians.
Harumi: There was a saying,
Harumi: Something like dreams won’t betray something, or something—— [1]
Harumi: *cough, *cough

Harumi: Uuum~, dreams and time will anti-galaxy......*
*[she’s mixing it up, with uragiru (betray) sounding like ura ginga (nonsensical “reverse” galaxy). I guess you could leave a note and change it to “dreams will be trees with time......” or something to that effect.]
Harumi: mumble, mumble
Taki: Hey, hey,
Taki mutter: Just give it up [in a “don’t push yourself” kind of way]

Harumi: We idols are said to be tasked with bestowing dreams to people.

p.25
Radio: Dreams are not things we bestow.
Radio: We all work to envision it – that’s what a dream is.
Radio: By dreaming together with everyone,
Radio: we idols are able to shine.

[What’s that face for, Harumi...]
Harumi: An idol is just a single person, too.

p.26
Radio: We get tired.
Radio: We go to the bathroom.

Radio: We grow hair.

SFX: sluggish
Tsuka: There she goes again...

Yutaka: Heh,

SFX: stand
Yutaka: Seriously......

p.27
Tsuka: Yutaka......

Radio: Houston we have a problem, a hairy situation ......... [2]

SFX: dash

p.28
Tsuka: Yutaka!
SFX: run x 3

SFX: pant
Tsuka: What’s the matter, suddenly running out like that?
SFX: pant
Yutaka: .........

Yutaka: *inhales/*breathes in

Yutaka: I have to tell her directly
Yutaka: to stop with the dirty jokes.*
*[Literally “lower jokes,” or nether region (+ ass) jokes. Kinda like sexual innuendo, but that doesn’t imply comedic purpose.]

p.29

Yutaka: I’m going.

p.30
SFX: slam
Yutaka: Abo! [yeah, I’ve given up on these XD]

SFX: roll
SFX: crash
Tsuka: Yutakaaaaa!!?

p.31
SFX: dash
Tsuka: A, are you alive!?

Yutaka: *snicker [fufu]

Yutaka: An idol is just one person...
SFX: rustle x 2
Yutaka: heheheheheh
Yutaka: eheheheheheh

SFX: emerge
Yutaka: Of course we bleed too!!!
Yutaka: Right!!!?

p.32
Yutaka: This is getting fun!!!
Tsuka: ......
SFX: ha ha ha ha ha

Yutaka: Wait,

Yutaka: This isn’t the time to be laughing. I have to get to the station quickly.
Yutaka: I need a taxi......
Tsuka: Yutaka,
Tsuka: Get on!!

Yutaka: Huh?

Tsuka: We hired this.
Tsuka: I called one before coming here.
Tsuka: You need it, right?
Driver: Uh, um, your injuries –

p.33
Yutaka: ...Tsuka-chan
SFX: vroom [sorta. I can’t think of something more suitable]

Driver: Is it really okay not to go to the hospital?
Yutaka: Nevermind that,
Yutaka: Floor it to Radio Ace!!!

p.34
Yutaka: That’s right, the radio!!
SFX: Static [a real onomatopoeia might better here]

Radio: Which reminds me, I found a frayed hair stuck between stuck between the pages of a book before, you see,
Yutaka: How long are you going to draw out the hair topic!!!?
Driver: Huh? This voice...?
Driver: What’s going on?
Yutaka: Ooooh, just hurry it up!!!
Chapter 4: End

~~notes~~
[1] Probably trying to say dreams will not betray time, as in dreams will not betray your time. I believe it’s from song “Yakusoku no basho” by Chemistry (or perhaps a very similar phrase from Galaxy Express 999). Here’s one interpretation, for the inquisitive:
http://rxma.spaces.live.com/blog/ (look for Yakusoku no Basho)
Something I randomly found:
http://www.animenation.net/blog/2008/12/30/singer-wins-lawsuit-against-leiji-matsumoto/

[2] I’ve localized it here (hey, don’t look at me like that >.<), but she literally says pretty hairy (a lot of hair all over), cat ash all over. Just something one might spout, and it could be used as a sarcastic phrase in a rant or something to mean “oh, good for you” or “well, isn’t that great.”

[English] [Translation] O/A 3 by umeboshi110

2010-11-05T20:18:25+00:00

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

O/A
Chapter 3

p.01
SFX [big white one]: boom, boom [drums]
SFX: tsun-chaka-chan-chan tsuka-chan-chan [traditional music]
Harumi: There we go.
SFX: bow
Chapter 3: By that you mean

p.02
Chapter 3: By that you mean*
Harumi: Ah~, there is a tale called "Mouse Hole" in Rakugo.**
Harumi: I shall present it as an example to tell the story this time.***
*[Apparently an “edokko” (person from Edo, old name for Tokyo) phrase often used in Rakugo, I’m not an expert so I’m not sure of the exact translation]
**[Traditional Japanese one-man comedic storytelling in the style she is doing now]
***[She’s speaking in a formal, at times slightly outdated language throughout this section. Feel free to archaize a bit as you wish.]

p.03
SFX: tap
Harumi : Takejirou, who is staying at the house of his elder brother with whom he met for the first time in 10 years, wakes up to the sound of a fire alert.
Harumi: "Isn't the fire in the direction of Mikagawa Hamaguri-cho, where my store is?"
Harumi: Bad premonitions often strike true.
Harumi: Fire that came in through a mouse hole completely burned down his store's storehouse, which constituted all his possessions.

Harumi: Takejirou, having lost all his assets, though he begs from his brother, is tactfully brushed aside.
Harumi: Furthermore the 20 ryou* he gained from selling his daughter to the brothels was stolen by a pickpocket.
Harumi: Losing the will to live on, Takejirou finally decided to hang himself from a nearby willow.
*[Old Japanese money; those oddly shaped gold coins, koban, are worth one ryou each.]

p.04
Harumi: Now then,
Harumi: Changing the subject, Horiuchi Yutaka discovered that the president of the office she is affiliated with had skipped town.

Harumi: It could have been better if it ended there.
Harumi: Asking around, she learns that from before this company could not make ends meet and was plagued by large amounts of debt.

Harumi: That president, who ran off with their money, well, being an unexpectedly low bastard,
Harumi: had made Yutaka sign to be the company’s co-signer when making her contract, it turns out.

Harumi: In the end, Horiuchi Yutaka was suddenly forced to shoulder a massive debt.
Harumi: The unexpected uphill battle of life is exactly what this is.

p.05
Harumi: With the punch line that "the dream was the weariness of the warehouse"* the tale of "Mouse Hole" comes to a close.
Harumi: This is about the warehouse that was burned down and five viscera of people.
*[This seems to be a pun on “dreams are the exhaustion of the five viscera (gozou, which refers to the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys),” as opposed to warehouse (dozou)]

Harumi: Yes, the misfortune that struck Takejirou was all but a dream.
Harumi: Takejirou spent his days always worrying that fire would come in from the mouse hole in the storehouse.
Harumi: This tale tells us that our daily anxieties make us see bad dreams, does it not.

Harumi: If the misfortune that Yutaka-san saw was to be a dream,
Harumi: How saved she would have been.

p.06
TV : Horiuchi Yutaka-san has just emerged from her home!!
TV : Horiuchi-saaaan,
TV : Were you previously aware of the office's debt?

TV : What about those rumors that you were in a relationship with the former president?
SFX: flash
TV : I don’t know!!
TV : Please let us through!!
SFX: flash

TV : What are you planning on doing about TV appearances from now –
TV : We do not know yet!!
Ueda: How awful...

p.07
Ueda: It’s got to be true that Yutaka-chan didn't know about her office's debt.
Ueda: The thing about being in a relationship must have all been made up.

SFX: click
Taki: ...That's what it's like.

Taki [top]: When it comes to the fall of an entertainer... especially for a popular idol,
Taki: they’d even dig up completely unfounded rumors to turn it into a huge scandal.

Taki: "It's their own fault for leaving an opening to be hit."
Taki: This is a great target for the people who think like that.

Taki: She’ll have to put her entertainment activities on hold for a while.

p.08
Ueda: Taki-san, then the second broadcast* of "Aurora plan"...
*[I’m not sure if you call them episodes or something]
Taki: Well, it's probably not even possible at this point.

Taki: At worst, she might even retire as an idol.
Sign [top]: Masokichi*
*[do-M (masochist) + kichi]
SFX: Welcome~
Sign [bottom R]: Ido Store** Meat Buns
**[Hard to read]
Ueda: ............

Taki: "Horiuchi Yutaka Aurora Plan"
Taki: *blow
Taki: It even suffered from accidents on the first one.

Taki: A miraculous switch-in with Harumi-chan who had the same voice.
Taki: I thought that was funny as well......

Taki: And just like its name,
Taki: It seems to be ending as a mirage......

p.09
TV (reporter): Horiuchi-san has since disappeared from the press...

SFX: squeeze...
Harmi: ............

Harumi: Yutaka-san......

p.10
I wonder where she is right now...

SFX: vroom
Yutaka: Phew......

Bus stop sign: [cut off]mori Station
Yutaka: To think it'd be so much of a hassle to sneak around without being noticed.
Yutaka: What I have on me is limited so I can't just blindly take the taxi.

p.11
Pole: Shinagawa Aquarium Entrance -->
Yutaka: ...But really,
Yutaka: Why’d I come to a place like this...

Yutaka: Well, it just may be perfect to hide out in...
Phone: Vrrrrr

Yutaka: Tsuka-chan...... — can wait...
Incoming
Tsuka-chan
(090, rest censored)
Yutaka: Even with the office gone, I can go work someplace else...

Yutaka: ............

[slightly cut off]ower (OFF)

Yutaka: One adult.
Shinagawa Aquar[cut off]
Reception: OK.

p.12

Yutaka: Oh,
Yutaka: Oh,

Yutaka: Ooh...
Yutaka: What a......

Yutaka: New sensation.........!!
Sign: Doctor Fish

SFX: whisper whisper
Yutaka: Oh!

Yutaka: What the heck am I doing......
SFX: splish

p.13

Sign: Dolphin Show[partly cut off]

Performer: How accurate can the dolphin’s jump be?
Performer: Let’s have it go through this ring.

Performer: There!!
SFX: [...meh, whatever, use your own imagination, mine’s too lacking]

p.14
SFX: Splaaash

Clap x 3

I wonder what went wrong. [can be substituted with “what I did wrong,” I couldn’t figure out which was better XD]

I sang, I danced,
I acted lovable.

It was all good if everyone liked it.
Dolphin: Gulp
......That’s what I thought.

Was that so wrong...? [also can be substituted with “not good enough...?” or “not right...?”
Why do I have to go through all of this......?

p.15
I don’t get it......

SFX: plop, plop

p.16

Harumi: Hmmmm,

Harumi: Maybe a liter of milk was too much for one packet of almond jelly after all.
Harumi mutter: It won’t harden...
SFX: knock knock

Harumi: Yes~...
Harumi: !!

Harumi: Yutaka-sa—
Yutaka: ............
SFX [top L]: Bang!!
Yutaka: Ack!

p.17

Harumi: That’s all I have to wear...

Harumi: For you to come to this crappy room more than once,
Harumi: Even though it’s not really a place I can show to guests.........
Yutaka: Aren’t you going to ask why I came here...?

Harumi: ............

Harumi: See, look at this!
Harumi: The floor board’s peeled off this much~ [just in case, note that these two lines are in bold]
SFX: CrackCrackCrackCrack

p.18
Yutaka: I... Don’t have any friends...

Harumi: Oh, oh yeah!

Harumi: Yutaka-san, let’s go to the public bath now.
Harumi: This place doesn’t have a bath...
Harumi: You’ll definitely feel refreshed, inside and out!

Sign: Suzu no Yu

p.19
Yutaka: I can wash my back myself!!

Harumi: That’s okay, that’s okay!
Harumi: Yutaka-san, you really do have such nice skin~

Yutaka: N, not really, this is normal.
Harumi: .........!!

SFX: ?
Yutaka: Wh...what?

p.20
Harumi: Yutaka-san.
Yutaka: ?
Harumi: I have lost respect for you...

SFX: Slide

SFX: Rummage, rummage

SFX: Sliide

SFX: Step, step
Yutaka: ?
Yutaka: ?

SFX: Brandish [I dunno, she’s just holding it up]
Yutaka: !!

p.21
Harumi: Use this right away to shave down –
SFX: Whomp!

Yutaka: What are you doing all of a sudden!!!
Harumi: For an idol!! To leave an evil lawn like that unchecked is disillusioning!!
Old man mutter: That’s the same voice
Man mutter: Is someone screaming to herself?

Harumi: In the dreamy territory of an idol, a Galant... for there to be a Galant-esque object,
SFX: (tremble with) rage
Harumi: or perhaps even the Lancer Evolution!!?
Yutaka: I don’t get those comparisons!!
Yutaka: You’ll get in trouble with ○bishi Motors!!!

SFX: Slide
Manager: Be quiet in there.

Yutaka/Harumi: Yes.

p.22
Yutaka: The water’s awfully hot...
Harumi: Is it?

Yutaka: 46°C...*
*[About 114.8° F]
Harumi: The old town’s bathhouses are all like this.

SFX: Slooooow
Yutaka mutter: Ah...
Harumi: Don’t push me!! You better not push me!!
Harumi: !!
SFX: Thump

SFX: Wham!!
Yutaka: Aaaglub

Yutaka: Why you!!
Harumi mutter: I’ve always wanted to do that....!!

SFX: Sliide
Yutaka: Well, it feels fine once you get in.
Harumi: Yes, you’re right.

p.23
Yutaka: Oh yeah... I went to the aquarium during the day, didn’t I...
Yutaka: Now it feels like that was at least a full day ago.

Yutaka: Lately, each day feels...
Yutaka: really long...

Yutaka: .........

Manager: You make a din in the bath, then you go and get lightheaded.........
Yutaka: gasp
Yutaka: gasp
SFX: Vrrrrr
Harumi: I’m sorry, I’m sorry!!
Harumi: Please let this slide!!

Friend: Yutaka-chan,
Friend: Yutaka-chan,

p.24
Friend: Yutaka-chan!

SFX: sneak... sneak...

Friend: Yutaka-chan, thank you!!
Yutaka: That’s okay!!

Yutaka: When you’re in trouble call me again.
Yutaka: I’ll do something about it!

p.25
Friend: Yutaka-chan,
Friend: Yutaka-chan,

Yutaka: What?
Yutaka: What’s wrong?
SFX: run x 3
Friend: Come with me for a bit!

Yutaka: C’mon, tell me!
SFX: run x 2
Friend: Just come...

p.26
Friend: Yutaka-chan did it. [YOU MFING PIECE OF]

p.27
I had thought that it was okay if those around me were happy.

Kyaa
Kyaa

If others wished it of me,
I had thought that that could be where I belonged.

p.28

Yutaka: N......
Yutaka: Huh?
Harumi: Oh, did you wake up?
Harumi: You got dizzy and then fell asleep while you were resting.

Yutaka: The rain...... stopped...
Harumi: Yes. I left our umbrellas and stuff. We can go back to get them.

Yutaka: ............

p.29
SFX: ding, ding
Yutaka: ............I wonder if I was just dizzy. [potential suicidal thoughts?]

SFX: ding x 3
Harumi: ............?

Yutaka: Outwardly, I tried not to make any enemies...
Yutaka: But I didn’t make any allies, either...
SFX: Badum x 2 [train onomatopoeia -.-]
Train: Not in service
Yutaka: Even so, I flippantly thought that it would be okay if I was popular...

p.30
Yutaka: What should I do...

p.31 [Just saying I think this should be a double page]
Sign: (CAUTION) Caution crossing
Yutaka: I have no place to belong to anymore......

p.32
SFX: Badum x 2

p.33
Sign: Conference Room #6
Harumi: I beg of you!!

Ueda: ...Even if you say that...

Ueda: We’re already planning on broadcasting a different program...
Ueda: And besides, if the all-important Yutaka-chan isn’t here,

Harumi: Yutaka-san will come!!

p.34
Harumi: Yutaka-san will definitely come!!
Harumi: So please,

Harumi: For tonight’s broadcast......
Harumi: please let me speak first!!

Chapter 3: End